Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 29 November 1894 — Page 3

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Half^ Million Dollars Loss on Bicycles.

STARTED BY ENAMELING FLUID.

Location of the Fire Three 31 lies From the City and Hi iJej u-. mi-m, t" TV.rir

Chagrin, found Nothing But Tlvl""t* From Which to Take Water —Other BUzei.

TOLEDO, NOV. 29.—The extensive bicycle factory of the Lazier Manufacturing company, said to be the second largest of its kind in the world, located on Central avenue in this city, was completely destroyed by fire between 6:80 and 7 o'clock last evening. The last of the 500 employes, who are now thrown out of work, with no prospect of early resumption, had left the mammoth structure but a short time befo'-r the alarm for tho £re was sent in. The factory is nearly three miles from the center of the city, so that when the first of the fire apparatus arrived OH the scene, tho flames had control of the ''iiiMiiig.

Ail but three of the 11 fire companies responded to the alarm only to find to their chagrin that there were but hydrants from which to take water. The two streams were wholly inadequate to cope with the blaze and half an hour after the alarm was given the factory wus almost a complete ruin. The tire started in the "assembling" room of the factory and was caused by he explosion of a large ink of ouamcliug fluid. The loss is about $600,000, with insurance of $o00,000.

The destruction of the factory comes at the time of its busiest- seasou. The company had, it is said, 25.000 wheels under way for next year's tra-k. The general offices of the concern arc in Cleveland, consequently it- can not be learned here what the prospects are for the restoration of the plant.

The insurance is divided among all the agencies represented here and the individual amounts can not be learned.

Fir« in a Mine.

SPRING VAUJCY, Ills., Nov. 29.—Fire Tuesday night destroyed the top works gjpid casing of mine No. 1 of the Spring Valley Coal company, and the caving ill ayouud the. i^outli lias so choked up the shaft, that the 1.000 miners will be idle for sometime pending repairs. Five hundred men were in the mine and for a time there was great excitement, but were all gotten out safely through the ©s'cat)^ shuft. Loss, $O0,000 insurance. #$0,000.

Town W'ipetl Out.

BnoiLN'tSHAM, Ala., Nov. 29.—Tho toWn of Oak'iran, Walker co.vnty, was almost wiped but by fire yesterday. Mastodon's drugstore, Davis Company, dry goods tho poFtolfice, Appling & Eustis' cotton warenousj and a number of residences were destroyed. Loss, $25,000 half insured.

THANKSGIVING AT WASHINGTON.

§^1ow,Aj-e President, Family and Cabinet .',f•)•!... _l.c Hay. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The president and Mrs. Cleveland and the children spent Thanksgiving day quietly in the seclusion of their country home at

Woodley. There were no guests, a* the president was in no mood for entertaining.

Secretary and Airs. Gresham dined quietly at the Arlington. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle had quite 4 distinguished party at dinner at their residence, including Postmaster U-eueral and Mrs. Bissell, Attorney General and Jfrs. Gluey and Private Secretary and Mrs. Thurber.

Secretary and Miss Herbert, who have been on a visit to Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., reached here in ample time.to eat their Thanksgiving dinner at thdir home.

Secretary and Mrs. Lamont. Eire in New York city. Mrs. Lamont spent Thanksgiving day with friends in JSlmira, N. Y., and the secretary was en tiie train between New York and Wariliingtofi most of the day.

Secveiuti-y and Mrs. Smith took Thanksgiving dinner at home and had as guests a number of Georgia friends, including a large number of children.

IRON AND STEEL.

Belief That Next Year Will Check the Policy of l'rofiliess Operation. CLEVKLAND, NOV. 20. The Iron ^rado Review this.week says: One element ot uncertainty in the figuring for '95 in iron and steel is eliminated by the continuance of the steel rail agreement. At th-r«! pi onuses vo a fair volume of buying by railroads able to float bonds inquiries from some of them are already in. '1 he action of the Bteel rail makers will give support to otlier parts of the market, reinforcing jri&iitifacfilrefs in ihe belie? ih.it '95 will give a check to the policy of prolitle&f d^etatioh that ha'S pref aliied so loiig. Thp siijjnce of the coke operators the Cornells vide region about theories of their product after Jan. 1 is getting mdre oppressive.

The general desire to know about the probitle status of Bossenler pig early in the y«:vr is evidjneed in the number of consumers' told middlemen who are •ouijding tlip market. While there are ruiiioi'.^ of transactions it turns out that there is little buying in the i-'ittsburg, ,"Vall6y and WfieeMifjl dish-idts

BANDIES TRAPPED.

vl'wo Posse# Hemming in a Notorious (Jang ill Kul'iirn. WICHITA., Kan., Nov. —Word was brought into Kingfisher,

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courier from Taloga, in the Cheyenne country, that the band of outlaws who attempted to rob the \Ve!!s-Fargo express at Canadian City last week and who killed Sherili' Tom McGee spent bunday Mght near Taioga, and that a -posse of de.puiy marshals was close on their track and was gradually driving them down the (-an.id.an river into a .trap set by another posse of olme.s sent out by .Marsiial Ivlatisen from iil liono. 'llie outlaws identified as having taken part in the attack en the Canadian City express office are Bill Dooian, the famous outlaw chiol'lain ijid.-u Jack, Bill

Amurson, a Jjorsetinef sent to the peni.tentiary for the ."liirder of a sheriff. and Jim S. tan lev—ail me.i on whose head® -big reward* are placed.

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INTERNAL REVENUE.

Annual Report uf Commissioner Joseph S» Miller. WASHINGTON, NOV. 29.—The annual report of Joseph S. Miller, the commissioner of internal revenue, shows the total receipts from ail souroes for the fiscal year ending June 30,1894, to have beeu -if), a decrease for the

liic loiiovv ing table shows the receipts li'Oj t'.ie several reuroes during the last fiscal year and tne increase or ..- -. ... .j the year nest preceding:

Spirits $85,259,252, decrease |9,461,008 tobacco $28,617,898, decrease $3,271,818 for. li^uc-rs ^1,41-1,7^8, decrease $1,134,195.

Oleomargarine $1,723,479, increase $52,886 banks and bankers $2.36, no change miscellaneous $147,108,149, decrease $13,836,539.

The quantities of spirits, etc., on which tax was paid during the last fiscal year with t. in'j-'o'u'o or decrease as compared with tiie fiscal year 1893, are givtn follows: "Spirits distilled from apples, peaches and grapes i, deevcaso 250,988 distilled from othyr materials 87,346,884 ga'.lon.s, decrease 10,111,514 fermented liquoi ,884,788 barrelb, decrease 1,219,534. Number of cigars, cheroot: and ciga. etr.os v. gr, i^ig o» er t-hiee poauds per .1,000 4,060,917,4o3, decrease 747,279,681 cigarettes weighing not over three pounds per 1,000 3,183,578,760, increase 6,881,060. Cigarettes weighing o\ or 11 uee pounds per 1,000 208,870, increase 2*^,870. Snutf 1,627,092 poarids, increase 2 -5,802 chewing and smoking tobacco 235,451,805 pounds, decrease ]0,0-17.94^ ol-.oi3iar^r.r 2ie 66,427,'J00 pound:-, xiteii,oou,i25.

Of t-he r.-eet :l:s IM ncis is at the head of tno list with 5(130,942,233, Kentucky next with $24,808,636, New York next with $18,922,111, Ohio with $12,-154,398, Pennsylvania $12,151,106. The cost of collecting the internal revenue during the itiSu jeur was ^8,9io,904, or 2.70 per cent of the collections. The total number of Chinese registration certificates applied for under the act of Nov. 3, 1893, was 106,811, at a cost up to June 30, 1S94, of $42,899. The estimated expenses of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, are given as $4,859,870. The report shows the work of the bureau is in excellent condition both in the office of the commissioner and in the field 2,729 violations of isternal revenue laws have been reported by the bureau agents during the yfear 682 persons were arrested property to the value of $246,191 was reported for seizure, and $40,271 for assessment for unpaid taxes and penalties,

Of the 1,016 illicit stills seized. 90S were destroyed and 108 removed, an increase for the year of 210. In each of the Georgia and the Fii'th North Carolina districts, 231 stills were destroyed. The actual number and class of special taxpayers in the United States on June .30, 1894, is given as fellows: Retail liquor dealerB, 215,419 rectifiers, 1,494 wholesale liquor dealers, 4,565 manufacturers of stills, 26 brewers, 1,805 retail dealers in malt liquors, 12,618 wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 5,518 manufacturers of oleomargarine, 21 retail dealers in oleomargarine, 7,400 wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, 271.

Total, 249,137, which is a decrease for the fiscal year of 1,456. The number oi distilleries operated during the year was 5.148. Of this number 1,511 were for grain, 12 for molasses and 3,595 for fruit. The qrar.tity of grain used for Che production of spirits during the year was 19,716,818 bushels, a decrease for the year of 9,313,591 bushels. The yield of spirits from each bushel of giain was -1.42 gallons as against 4.24 gai.ions for 1892, and 4.35 for 1N93. The report shows the number of cattle fed at grtin distilleries during the year was 62,123, hogs 25,554.

The, kinds and quantities of spirits produced and deposited in distilling warehouses during the year is shown in gallons as follows: Bourbon whisky, 15,5i8,849 rye whisky, %,026,544 alcohol, 10,510,070 rum, 1,864,595 gin, 1.287.977 high wines. 126,560 pare, nentrai or co.ogue spirits, 35,877,115 iniscellaiie ns, j4,-184,880. The amounts oi thu leauujg iviuuo oi spirits witndi'awn from warehouses during the year are given hi gallons as follows: Burbon whisky, 20,782,978 rye,. 9,513,038 aicohoi, J0,084,820 cologne spirits, 31,474,tii.^coiianeous, 13,4*4,280. fotal, 87,087.018. The amount of distilled spirits withdrawn for export during the year, 1894, was 6,114,417 gallons as against 3762,23i exported ift 1?$3. The amount of spirits in \Valeliouses dn June 30, 1894, was 137,993,078.

During the fiscal year ended June 80. 1894, 6,849 licenses were issued to domestic sugar producers intending to claim bounty on their product, apd $12,i00,20?s net, after deducting refundmen is, were disbursed by this office iu payment of approved bounty claims. 2 he a a 8 1892, and .tune 80, lt98, $7,342,077 alid $9,875,180 respectively wqre disbursed.as bounty on sugar, making with last year's bounty a total disbursement of $28,817,417 exclusive of administrative expenses incurred in executing the bounty law.

THREIT TRAMPS MANGLED."

An Kiigincer Discovers the litiiiains of Human Bodies on His Locomotive. ELMIUA, Cal., Nov. 29.—Three tramps were killed on the railroad tr,aqk near here early Wednesday. Another man wafc probably fatally hurt. When freight train No. 8 arrived at the depot the engineer discovered remnants of human bodies on his locomotive, and aii investigation soon prove that the train had run over four tramps who were supposed to have fallen asleep while warming themselves on a heap of smouldering emb« is lying oil the! track in the outskirts of town. Three of them were inscantly killed, and their bodies were mangled in a horn hie manner. The only survivor is a muliatto 17 years of age, who gives all information that can be obtained as to the identity of his companions. He is John Briscoe of Davenport, la. Johnnie or Vernnie Irvin aiso of Davemtori was his companion. Tiie other victims, who were also mere buys, we.'e unknown to .Briscoe. The aittuMiiiis .lurgeun .'.ays that -Kriscoe wili probably not recover. The whole bodv is badly 'orms '.i, both legs are broken aim one arm was completely corn ..»\iy.

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JVi KM I'llis, Nov. -9.—!!ev. Kobert. Leo Harris, known ail over tho UnUea states a:- *'T!iiJ Cowboy Evangelist,died at iliuA!. j'-Mi.. Consumption was the cai.su his death.

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KOLB'S WAR.

Deiyito P«H»(nl Talk, Warlike Preparations Continue to Go On. aaMONTGOMBRY, Ala., Nov. 29.—Notwithstanding the authorities here dis

claim any alarm over the contemplated notions of Kolb and his threat to be aworn in as governor on Saturday, there are warlike preparations going on in the city. Two loads of sabers have been sent around to police headquarters and guns are being brightened up in the military armories. Not only this, but the military of the state have been "invited" to be present at the state's expense to attend the inaugural ceremonies, and there are other indications that the authorities are expecting trouble with Kolb and his orowd.

The Kolbite members of the legislature are sullen and silent. They are noncommittal and all'eet to know nothing of Kolb's intentions. Kolb was in the city Tuesday and reiterated his purpose to ba sworn in as governor and to denounce the incoming governor as a fraud and usumer. Ho said: "ii ilj-oxe m\\ u'ouoio, I wiil not be responsible for ir. I will adopt only pcace«bie meaas to f-.ccure my rights."

Honoring Governor Oali"..

I\lo.\TGOMERv, Ala., Nov. 29.—Captain C. H. Davis, commander of the cruiser Ivholigomer .*, aceo npanicd by a number ot officers of the steamer, has arrived, and they arc being royally entertained in Alabama's capital city. Nearly all the militia companies of the state are coming to honor the com-mander-in-chief, Covernor-elect Oates, and participate iu his inauguration, which takes place on Saturday.

BOMB IN A iviiNE.

11. Exploded With Terrible Effect, but Xo One Wait KUled. BRAZIL, Ind.. Nov. 29.—A partly successful attempt was made last night to blow up the new No. 1 shaft of the Brazil Block Coal company, just north of the city. A number of men were at work down the shaft and several in the rear of ihe engine ro6m whd'n there was a defoaning report, and 4 sheet of flames sh«t from between the boiler walls. The occupants were thrown to the ground by the shock, bat recovered in time to escape before the flames reached them.

The engine house and boiler rooms were consumed, but the fireproof paint protected the shaft house ui&il the fire department arriVed. The flames in the engine room cat off the cige in the mine, bat tke men down theire escaped by the ladder, b$t had the flames gotten in the shaft house they would Mve been roasted

After the fire, the basket, in which the crude Dome nad been placed, \Vas found between the boiler walls. The company offers A reward for the capture of the perpetrators. The loss is $2,500.

NICARAGUAN TROU3LES.

The Incident Causes Increased Activity at the Brooklyn Navyyard. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The news of the trouble at Bluefields had the effect of increasing activity at the navyyard in Brooklyn. The officials there seem very reticent. They said they knew nothing about the government's intentions. Tiie San Francisco is at the •yai«la Rid tho o'liecrs i-re instructed to have ber ready for sea by Dec. 15. The time has been shortened by 10 days, and the great cruiser must be in fighting trim by Dec. 5. It was originally intended to send her to Europe to relieve the Chicago, but it was hinted at the yard that her destination has been changed.

The Cincinnati wiu reaay in about 10 days and the Catin will be ready to go any place within a week.

PORT ARTHUR MAS3ACRE.

Later Report* Confirm the Story—What

the Japs Want.

CHE-FOO, NOV. 20.—The United States cruiser Baltimore has returned here from Port Arthur. The later accounts of the fight at that place states tliat tht* Japanese lost onlj 40 killed and 100 wounded. The Chinese losses were 2,000. This account confirms the story of the massacre. The Japanese officers were unable to restrain their men, who were furious at Che sight of their mutilated comradcsj. Only one defending battery was used. The guns of the other batteries were deserted. It is stated that the Japanese have refused to accept £40,000,QOp aud that they want £50,000-000 indemnity anil all me expense of the war.

Dangers of Politics.

TOLEDO, O., NOV. 29.—Treasurer Wesley Barney of Defiance county, who was found short: in his accounts for the third time recently, Tuesday handed in his resignation to the commissioners, and his bondsmen placed $6,500 in the uouaui.y t,u cover cue iloi+oieucy. Vv nen Barney accepted tiie office he owned a splendid fat-m and was quite Well-to-do. He leaves the office a penniless and discredited man.

THE MARKETS.

Review of the Crruiii and Cattle Markets For November 88.

Pittsburg.

Cattle—Prime to gopd, $3-U0@4 30 good butchers', (3 70@3 90 rough fat, $2 50@ 3 00 fair light sheers, $Jf 2o@3 50 buljs, st&gft afa'd covfe, gbed feeders,

4 55 cyimqoii Yorkers, $4 SSOftj* 40 pigs, 14 10@4 25 roughs, $3 00@4 00. Sheep— J'lxtra, 75$a 00 good, fc'i U0@p 50: fair, oOcftzitl 0U yearlings, 00(^3 70 veal calves,

$1 5 7 5 in on $1 5U(£3 u: lambs $4 JS

Cincinnati.

Wheat 53c. Corn 40@44£c. Cattle—Select butellers, $4 15(&4. 35 fair 10 good, §3 25@4 10 collirnoii, $S 00^ 00. Hogs—Selected and prime butchers, *4 50 (£4'05 packing, $4 40w,4 55 common to rough, £4 0M4 l!5. blietp $1 00(^2 75. ljainbs—$2 00(till 50.

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LIFE PRtSONSRS PARDONED. Afte* Serrin| 18 Tears For Murrler the GOTWUSI Tbinlfa They Are Xxinocetit.

AUSTIN, NOV. 29.—Governor Hogg lias pardoned B. A. Krebbg and James Prestofi, snvihg li/e sentences in the pen^teatiary. TKe'y were first conaemned to be hanged, but their sentence was commuted to life imprieoniuent and they have been in prison 18 years. The governor in his report of the case says

I it is the strangest, most novel and

peculiar he ever heard of or considered. The men were convicted of the murder of a man named England, his wife, son and little daughter in Montague county, I Aug. 26, 1876.

The governor, after careful cwiis id oration of all the facts, says it is his belief that- Krebbs and Preston are innocent and that the real criminals are John Musick and Taylor, who left the country a short time after the Engiands were murdered and their whereabouts aro unknown.

Preston and Krebbs, the pardoned men, are over 70 years old now aud are in feeble health:

An effort will now be made to bring Musick and Bill Taylor to justice.

Wliisre the Money AVent.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23.—D. W. Howe, attorney fbr appellants in the Iron Hali case before tiie supreme court, yesterd^j flied_a distni^sal of the case. Attpjruey Howe soya aipong otlier things tlk,t wiieh the receiver was appointed the order wSs undoubtedly solvent and thejre wa^ ho gTouiid whatever for makiUg the receiyer permaijeut th«lt in escapirig Charybdls they: liave been dbyouired trf in the two years thkt have elapsed a niiic larger part b| the iunds has been dissipated in attorneys' fees find espouses of receivership in tnis and othei:. stuces than was over spent by their o^ers.

Kreibbs, so the evidence shows, was

arrested for tdie crime and was carried before Mrs. England, who lived two days after being shot, and she recognized him as one ox the men who had committed the deed. Her daughter, too, before dying, said Krebbs did the shooting. It was this evidence, the governor says, that led to the conviction of the men. A son of the Englands, who saw the murderers when they first rode up and escaped, ^-fiilod that they were Bill Taylor, an escaped convict, and one John Musick, a neighbor of the Engiands, who had a grudge against them.

CHINA SUES FOR PEACE. I

Her Proposal Will Be Submitted Through United States Ministers. WASHINGTON, NOV. 20.—China has succumbed to the inevitable aud has sued for peace, and her proposal will be presented to Japan through the United States ministers at Pekin and Tokio, thus promising a termination of the war as the result in part, at least, of

the exercise of the good offices of the United States. It if not possible at this time to learn tiie terms of China's proposition as handed to Minister Deuby, but it is probably that it prpvidos for bi^t two concession*—a rnpney indemnity and a relinquishment of suzerainty ovor Corea.

It is improbable that the first tender will be acceptable to Japan, as- such overtures rarely are, but this proposition will open the way to a counter offer of terms by Japan through Minister Dun, and the negotiations, if successful and if theyT0II9W the usual course, will lead first to a tjruce under proper guarantee, or a preliminary agreement to cease hostilities And finally to the signature of a definite treaty of peace. just how this proposition was brought about is not yet known. It is probable, however, that as the matter is in the hands of the American ministers in China and Japan, the visit of Mr. Detriug, commissioner of maritime customs at Tien-Tsin, Japan, can not be directly connected with the peace negotiations as has been supposed.

THE iNO! .4.

ConnuiMsioner Browniuj i-f«nds Their Kiglits in Utah. WASHINGTON, NOV. 29. Secretary Smith has received the telegram from Governor Wirt of Utah mentioned in dispatches of Tuesday evening concerning, the southern Ute Indians fighting settlers in San Juan county. The secretary referred the telegram to the war department with the suggestion-that General ^cCooJt be notified of the alarm. Secretary Smith does not reqj|e$t troops as asked for by the governor. It is learned at the Indian oliice tliat abpu^ three years ago there WAS an agreement wjtk the Indians which was n$v$: reofci4ei by congress and it was a precision that the. Utes could visit the Sau. Tuan country every year. They have b^en doing so and have now been t\V moiichs in. that country. Commissioner Browning says that, the lands are pjliblic and the Ihdiaug have as much right there as white people.

Town Destroyed by Fire. -J

TOLEBO, Nov. 26.—iSletatuOra, a vijlage ili (!he Northeast corner of Fulton county, was almost completely destroyed by fl*e T^sdiiy nig'ht. It brbke out in TredWay's di-y ^ood^ store, and, faimpd by the strohg g^le, btiiriled the entire business section, embracing seven stores, the Methodist church and several dwellings and barns

Pauper ITound Jluidercd,

lNpi4NAPOLis..Nov, 20.—John CaiToll, aged 37 yearp, au iflwat^ of the Marion county poor asylum. Mras found dead Wednesday morning under a ti-ee not far from, the institution. The indications ars that Carroll was murdered as his body was covered with blood and his head \y aij bruised in several.p acea. There is

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Captain John W"ard ba? resigned bofcu 1 his positions iii the New York ball. club. Georgp QaVi^, thirtl ijasomjiu, has bees

signed to manage and captain the team for the comihg season. Ward intends practicing law with a Wall street firm of lawyers.

IliiOliograpIier I O M1.

CITY OF Mi-ixiC'o, Nov. 29.—Joaquin Garcia icaaiialcete, the noted Mexican bibliographer, is dead. He has recently beeu engaged in compiling a. dictionary of the MtiSican language.

Bf.ilroad OiifrisUs Change.

BAI.II^OHK, Nov. ~0.—E. St. John, general manager of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific lias been elefctod vice president of the Seaboard Air Line to succeed MajoV John C. Winder, resigned.

THE COOK GANG AGAIN

Hold Up a Store and Take Everything in Siglit.

JIM FRENCH THE LEADER.

Every 0"cnp:»r of M-IP,n1)u- Turnod Into a .Stuluo aiid 31 ute and MOTIONLESS Till tin J..-.-caped—An Interesting i*"iglt Promised

Soon. SOUTH McALE-iTKk, I. T., NOV. 29.— Throe robbers, heavily armed, and headed by Jim French of the Cook gang, at Checotah, at 7:'-20 last night held up and robbed a store full of men, aud alter taking all the small cash in sight and coolly helping themselves to blankets, tobacco, ere., drove away.

The robbery occurred at the general Btoro of t-ti-e Brothers, une 01' the robbers st'iil OH jrmrd 'while French ana others entered. The eler..\«j and customers present-, Jiuinloriii.7, nine people, were arranged in a line. French demanded of the cashier that he open thu safe. Luckily it. hnd a t-i'neloek on 21 Freuoii tiiea helped himself to what loose cash he could lind, *'55, and in extremely cool and deliberate manner selected what biankots, tobacco, groceries, etc,, he cared for.

French said ''0 would shoot tiie llr.it mail that mo\\ and his word vas sui'licient to turn the.cofr:uied,.uii:e into statues.

Having secured ail in sight they wanted, the bandits, with -1 second admonition to the inmates of the store not to follow, mounted their horses and rode rapidly away in a southerly direction.

A hold-up is expected at Bond, a fewmiles from here. The news was received at Muskogee in time to put 22 guards on the southbound train. United States Judge Stuart aud Marshal McAl'lester are also aboard, and have given positive orders to shoot till the last man falls. If the train is held up there promises to be a fight.

IN TEXAS.

Two Masked Men Hold Up a Southern 1'iicilic Train at Elka. AUSTIN, NOV. 29.—About a half mile east of Elka, two masked men climbed over the engine tank of the Southern Pacific road and ordered the engineer to stop the train. The engineer did as or- I dered. When the train came to a full stop the robbers ordered the engineer and fireman to get out of the cab. They ordered the fireman to go back and cut the train behind the express car. Tho 1 robbers fired sevural snots. When the fireinan went to the express car he only cut the liose and ran to the coaches. The robbers boarded the engine and tried to pull out, but could not. They then left the engine and nothing more was seen of them. Bloodhounds have been telegraphed for and will be here in a few hours. Officers think they have a olow.

THE SILVER CONFERENCE.

Members of tiie ItimotHlie I.engne Not. in Accord on All Ma-tlern. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29.—The silver conference, which is being held here undeu the auspices of the American Bimetallic league, continued its sessions behind closed doors. The committee appointed to prepare a declaration of principles and outline a plan of action could not at first agree. Ail were united on free silver at a ratio of 10 to 1, bat the difference of opinion between the members of the committee, it is said, was with regard to other matters. General Warner, chairman of the committee, presented the majority report, but Judges Cole and Miller had separate resolutions which they wanted incorporated in the filial report. All papers were referred to the conference and the discussion lasted for several hours.

Later General Warner gave out the resolutions adapted by the conference. lie refused to talk of what had been done in the meeting declaring that the resolutions contained everything. Theseresolutions, after, reciting that the fall in prices V,JS ae TO tiie conspiracy OI the money power to demonetize silver, 1 denouncing the issuance of bonds to maintain the government credit, the proposed delegating to banking institution of the right to issue paper currency, calls npou the supporters of free silver to subordinate everything to the election of men pledged to the coinage of Silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and provides for the appointment of a committee Of live to take charge of the forma- I tion of silver leagued in every city and town in the entire country.

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Two Women Fatally Hurt in Jumping Froui Windows. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Two women were dangerously, and one fatally hurt, Wednesday by jumping from the third, story of a-disreputable house kept by Nellie La Rue. on Thirteenth street, during a lire. The names of tiie women are: Flora Hi-ostoh) aged 24, spine fractured and in. bad sl^ipe generally Mmiity Moor6, aged about Sp^baoji probably broken, and Belle Addison, aged about o0, fractured sk^ll and broken coil'ar bone. She will probably dip. SeVera}. oth^r inflates Were more or less hixrjt by jumping, Thd dam ago by the lire is about $j,Q0O.

To Hit K:nbuliuedk

LONDON, NOV. 29.—A dispatch, to The Stali'dai'd front Berlin says thai the body of Princess Bismarck will be embalmed, but at Prince Bismarck.'s express desire there will bo no autopsy: A burial place wili be prepared in tiie park, at Varain,, where, it is stated, a laniiJy mausoleuul will bfe efected. Princo Bismarck has decided' tliat only relatives, the family servants and school children shall attend the fuiieial.

Op|ioso». tiie Card l'a.

MEMPHIS, NOV. 29.—John Leviugworth was Wednesday indicted by the Federal grand jury for failing to pay the tax

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fered for sale. This is the jirst iudiefcmerit under the larllx act.

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HUKON, S. 1)., NOV. 29.—Judge Isaac I Howe, late Populist candidate lor governov, died at. his home in Kediield ytstoerdav atter ueyrly a mouth ol sickness,' induced- by overwork during the campaigu.

LIFE WAS A BURDEN.

STARTLING ROLL OF SUICIDES OJ* MODERN ROYALTY.

The L.ate Czar Clainx- fUat Self JicstrUC* Hon »•. 7 rM-.-iiKi raw. Ii a l^iood-^Iany ti-i-n ritt-il.

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feature of the nuilruly to which tho lata czar succumbed was the constant dread on the part ol is famiiv ard n}n,.si',!\ns tbafc ll- 1"^:jit .'.v i. iujivoi L.iO fi'tJ(jTit'llt parnxyr-TiiH of c.pnny and despair tlcif. marked the progress of liis painful liiscase, for they wore awaro that tho emperor entertained pi:i ulii.r ltfeas oil the subject of suicide. A duoply rolisiioiirf and devout t'inisiian, he always stoutly a?sei'led that tln'r was not sin^lo word in (in: ivhole I J•I'.i'. f: ii.-.-i i"u OI (iollCSiS to tint «.f Kevhifiot) "f.i.:' hr taken .ply :•.(!)•...sie :i. iiO fiurther attcled that, us s«-if des ruction was i! il!liu-. :i i. .its, if i!.- I'l.-ui iivcii cuiitr,". Lo Ui\ ue law it would us.-1::-.'liiy lu.vs! br:cJ! oed by in iii'.' la's: pl.-.ce una a.. a iator peri-.:! !iy C.'hrist Ooctfines it?, 1 iii-se. ii'.-.aii'' i.'uii 1 i.e. ti. from which i.o was suli'eiing was irienr.-'.ijle, aud that lite extension of his life could only tend to priihmg in a corrcFj'omling degree his own if.ti.Icrahic soiierinsrs. l.liu terrible strain to whim the mental nod physical strength of those nearest aud dearest to him v. su!)jin:ted and the disor^aniza*. tion of the government entailed by tho absence of any hand i»cl 1 •.. must be confessed that lie had much to tempt, liim ii 1 0 put hnnseif out of his misery.

Nor would his suicide have been altogether witliout precedent in the annals of modern royalty. There are at least a dozen members of reign in.".r families who ^lre officially ,'uimi 11 Lo

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selvcs, while :.'o or SO mo-e ere known to have taken their own lives, although their death has been attributed to natural causes. It was impossible, however, to put forward any such plea as tho latter in the case of King Louis oi Bavaria, who eight years ago, driven to desperation by the action of his relatives and ministers in placing him under restraint on the core of insanity, drowned himself in Lake Starheinberg, dragging with him inru a watery grave the elderly phys'ei-m hit rusted with the medical charge of tho sovereign.

Another monarch whose dc:-»h is likewise recognized by his government to have been self indicted was the late Sultan Ab-dul-Aziz of Turkey, who, having secured possession of a pair of those daggerlike and concave blailed scissors that are to be found in every Levantine bazaar, literally larded himself with thrusts, no less than 27 wounds being ound 011 his body. Sogreat was tho shock whi-'h this tragedy created upon the mind of his favorite nephew and successor, Sultan JMurad, that he lost his reason wiu.i.i I luce months after ascending the throne a'"l had to be deposed and placed under res ..taint.

Although tit first- th'.:ro was a disposition .. on the part of the authorities to deny that the Austrian crown prime committed suicide, yet 'Kmpe.ror Fiane:.-. .JoM.'ph himself insisted lhat no concealment should be made of the fact, rightly judging that any attempt at se rvcy v.'onl-.l Mcioly give ri.~e to storl.'.-' evn moiyi n.ii-if tho true circumstances of tho tragedy. As in the cast of King Louis of Bavaria, tho self destruction of Cnnvn Prince uudolph was preceded by murder, the victim in is case being his inamurata, tho Baroness Marie Yef/.ora. *i\ aiiothcr royal suicide which it wa9-. impossible to conceal was that of Princ» Gaeian of Ban bor., ?--.^lhrr ot the exking of Naples and son-in-law of old Queen Isabella of Spain. Married to the latter'S, eltlest daughter, that. P»inoess Isabella who ha.- jilaycd so conspicuous a part in the history of Spain during the last 2ft years, he developed within a couple of« years alter his marriage the dreadful dis-. ease of epilepsy, which is more or less' hereditary in his branch of tho family. It, was during a tit that he cut his throat with a razor in the presence of his wife? while staj ing at Geneva for tho sake of his health.

Finally there was the suicide in the Tuileries palace of that Bonaparte prince, a nephew of Napoleon III, who used to go by the name of Count Canunerata, an#" who blew his brait.s out c.wimr to his inahilil to pay iiabiiit.es incurred at thecard table, and which his relatives had re- t-: fused to assist him to settle. Xor shoultT I omit mention of tho sui,'ide of tho stepfather of Queen .Marguerite of Italy, the second husband of the dowager Duchess of Genoa, lie bore the name of the Marquis RapoHo. had been Ir.r 1 !'.a'i-L"rlain: during the lifetime.of her lirst husband, the younger brothey.of King Victor Emmanuel, aixl marriid her it couple of yeuirs after the duke's death and just a few weeks prior to the birth of Queen Marguerite's stepbrother, who would otherwise have 1 illegal::--*"

Besides these odlciully admitted cases of self destruction 0:1 the ]art of royalty there tire many others which aro more or less known in court, and oliioial circles,! though perhaps hidden to the ordinary public. Thus Queen Victoria's- youngest-' son, Princo Leopold, duke of Albany,: is.-' known to have inflicted such frightful wounds upon himself with a pair, of scissors in a lit of epilepsy which preceded his sudden death—he was at the club at Cannes thrco hours previouslv—that ii is not certain whether his demise was due to tho injury or to the diseaso.

Duke liugeno of Wurttemberg, whoso* wife, a Russian grand duchess, is a sister of Queen Olga of Greece, is known to have shot himself through the heart in order to. avoid the disgraceful consequences of a terrible scandal in which he had become involved ai Dusscldorf, and the same story is current, at Brussels and Paris with regard to the otherwise unaccountably sudden demise of the late Prince Baldwin of Flanders, nephew and heir to the throno of King Leopold of Belgium. Czar Nicholas is popularly believed lo have poisoned himself in despair au tin: roverics sustained, by his troops in the Crimean war, and the demise of his eldef brother and predecessor, Alexander I, is likewise attributed to self administered poison.

Many other ciisos mijhfc be cited. Tho only wonder is that they are not more numerous than they really urn, i'or when one takes into n...,.iwv us. «ou 1 .hi many dread 1 ul ailments to which modern royalty is subject, cancer bejor hen dita'y in the reigning JUKK-CS ot Prussia, husjjia, Holland and Saxony, epilepsy and insanity in those of'Austria, Bavaria, -pain, IV \ugal-.. and England, with a taint of that In liblo disease known as the king's evil polluting the blood in every royal and imperial vein, it is surprising that, they should not, ono ami all :*ok relief from such a lieritago of' woe in death by their own hands.

GlilUliOl''. WEST,