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VOL. II. NO. 110

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Spring Styles

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The Best Qualities, The Latest Styles, The Best Kitting Suits,

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ONE ARREST MADE.

Anson B. Strong Charged With Murdering the Stones.

ALL CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

He Has Served Two Terms in the Ohio Penitentiary For Ilorse Stealing, Being Convicted Both Times on Stone's Evidence—Ira Stillson, One of the Victims,

Regains Consciousness.

AKRON, O., March 81.—Excitement over the killing at Tallmadge Saturday night of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Stone, and the serious injury to their two daughters and their hired man, is growing more intense every hour. Anson B. Strong was arrested yesterday afternoon at Ravenna, Portage county, and charged with the crime. The evidence on which the charge is based is largely circumstantial. Thirteen years ago Strong was sent to the penitentiary for horse stealing, his conviction being secured by the testimony of Stone. Several years later, after his release from prison, he was arrested again for the same cjflfcne, and again convicted on the testimony of Stone. He gained his liberty the second time about three weeks ago. He was suspected of the murder of Stone and his wife.

When taken into custody yesterday Strong said he was at the home of his sister in Ravenna all of Saturday night and that he had gone to church Sunday morning. A search of the sister's house, however, resulted in the discovery of a suit of clothes and an overcoat, which had been placed by a stove to dry. There were no blood stains on the clothing, but Strong's sister said she had washed the garments in an outhouse early yesterday morning. In one of Strong's pockets was found a railroad ticket from Ravenna to Kent, the latter place being within two miles of the scene of Saturday night's tragedy. The ticket was purchased last Saturday.

Strong was brought here at 6 o'clock yesterday evening and placed in jail. The news of the arrest soon spread and a big crowd assembled. There was no disorder, but Mayor Harper decided to prevent an outbreak by ordering Battery A, of the light artillery, to assemble at its armory and await developments.

Stillson Regains Consciousness.

KENT, O., March 31.—Ira Stillson, Stone's hired man, became conscious yesterday and was told of the crime. He says he remembers nothing about it, save as a horrible dream.'

Bloodhounds were sent for and were put on the trail of the murderer. The heavy rain, however, had obliterated the trial and the dogs went at fiiult.

Two of Stone's daughters came to Kent yesterday and selected caskets for their parents.

WAR IN MEXICO.

Battle Fought Between Government Troops and Yaqui Indians.

HERMOSILLO, Mex., March 31.—Official advices have reached here of a battle between a detachment of government troops, under command of Captain Ayala, and a large force of Yaqui Indians. The engagement occurred in the mountains near one of the Tndinn villages and resulted in a victory for the government troops. Twenty In dians were killed and a number wounded.

Plans are being made for the concentration of a large force of troops in the Indian country, and it is believed that after a vigorous campaign the rebellious Indians will be conquered.

Poorest Catch For Years.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 31.—The sealing steamer New Foundland has arrived here with a catch equal to 30,000 seals. She reports that the Labrador has taken 16,000, the Walrus 12,000, the Leopard 8,000 and the Kite 10,000 seals. The Vanguard, Greenland and Panther hope for some success. The Neptune and the Audora are without any seals. The Esquimaux, Terra Nova, Diana, Ranger, Windsor and Algerine have not been spoken. This is the worst opening for the fishery many years. The New Foundland was only twothirds full, but had to make port because she was leaking badly.

Clyde River on a Boom.

LYONS, N. Y., March 81.—The Clyde river is higher than at any time since 1865. It commenced rising Sunday and is now about 15 feet above its normal level, and is still rising. The Standard Oil company's plant on Depew avenue is submerged. Several bridges along the Ganargua creek, the Clyde and Canandaigua outlet, have been swept away and it is thought that many dams are gone. Water from Canandaigua outlet covers the flats to a depth of several feet. Much damage has been done all along the streams.

Protecting Passengers.

WASHINGTON, March 31. Senator Davis from the judiciary committee, has reported favorably to the senate the bill making it unlawful to shoot at or through any railway locomotive or car, or shoot at any person therein. The bill has particular application to the Indian -Territory, and imposes severe penalties on those who violate its provisions. There is now on the statute books a general law on this subieot applicable to the other portions of the Union.

Thomas Seajr Dead.

GREENSBORO, Ala., March 81-—Ex-Governor Thomas Seay, who has been ill at his home here for two weeks with la grippe, died at 1:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Few men in Alabama were more highly esteemed than Governor Seay.' He was prominent in public life for over a quarter of a century and was always foremost in everything looking to the welfare and advancement of his state ptOQnntry,

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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

Subcommittee Decide How the Tickets of Admission Will Be Given Out.

ST. LOUIS, March 81.—The following members of the subcommittee of the Republican national committee met at the Southern hotel yesterday for the purpose o^ transacting business in connection with the Republican national convention to be held here in June: Hon. James S. Clarkson of Iowa, Hon. Joseph H. Manley of Maine, Colonel William H. Hahn of Ohio, ex-Governor Joseph W. Fifer of Illinois, Senator Thomas Carter of Montana, General Powell Clayton of Arkansas, John M. E wing of Wisconsin, proxy for Senator Payne and Colonel R. C. Kerens of Missouri.

The subcommittee decided that the Jl 'stribution of press tickets to the convention will be made by the press committee appointed by the citizens' committee of St. Louis. All applications for press tickets should be directed to Mr. T. E. Byrnes, sergeant-at-arms, Minneapolis. All applications for seats to be distributed to distinguished guests throughout the country should also be made to Mr. Byrnes at Minneapolis. Each delegate will receive three tickets, including his own, and the people from each state and territory desiring admission to the convention will have to apply outside of the tickets heretofore spoken of, to the delegates to the convention from their respective states for tickets. The tickets for members of the G. A. R. will be given to the national council of administration and distributed by their direction. All tickets to the convention will be issued on Monday, June 15, by the sergeant-at-arms at the convention building. The contract for engraving the tickets for the convention was awarded to Woodward & Tiernan Printing company of St. Louis.

GAMBLED IN WHEAT.

Missouri Man Disappears With Thousands of Other People's Money.

KANSAS CITY, March 81.—Warren B. Sexton, general manager of the defunct Sexton Security company, has disappeared. He left a letter addressed to his brother, Edward P. Sexton, vice president of the company, stating that several thousand dollars of the company's funds, which he had taken, had been lost in wheat gambling. He took with him a large sum of money that he had collected for different persons for whom he acted as rental agent. The actual amount of his defalcation is not known.

Five years ago Sexton invested $18,000 of his mother's money in the investment company. The company made a great ?plu

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HOTEL PORTER'S CRIME.

He Locked His Wife in a Room and Shot Her, Then Killed Himself.

KANSAS CITY, March 31.—Harry Hill, aged-28 years, a hotel porter, shot and killed his wife, aged 21, yesterday afternoon, and then committed suicide. Hill had warned his wife against keeping company with a certain woman who he said was disreputable.

He met the two together yesterday afternoon. Taking his wife to their home nearby, he locked the door behind her and deliberately shot her in the jaw, causing instant a nt'i. Go then shot himself in the tci .k». be fell he fired another shot at the woman. He died in 20 minutes. The couple came to this city from Carrollton, Mo.

TRAGEDY AT A FUNERAL A Sheriff Shot, Twenty-Seven Bullets Pat Into His Body.

ANTLERS, I. T., March 81.—At a funeral at Cedar Church, 10 miles east of here, Isaac Reuben shot and killed Sheriff Campson Battiest of Cedar county.

Both are full-blooded Ohoctawfl. Reuben claims that Battiest fired two •hots at him with a pistol, he then shot out the sheriff's brains with his Winchester, dismounted from his horse and put eight more bullets into the prostrate body. Immediately he took the dead sheriff's revolver and kept on firing and reloading till he had put 27 bullets into the corpse. Reuben has not yet been arrested.

Fire in Chicago.

CHICAGO, March 81.—Fire yesterday afternoon completely destroyed the interior of the 4-story and basement brick building at 338-344 Wabash avenue. The loss is estimated at about $72,000. About $15,000 is on the building and the rest is divided between the different tenants. The heaviest losers were the Davis Sewing Machine company, $30,000 Oxford Merchandise company, $10,000 Walker estate, owner of buildings, $15,000 Lascelles & Schroeder, stained glass, $14,700. None of the other tenants lost over $3,000.

Well Known Temperance Worker Dead.

CLEVELAND, March 31.—Miss F. Jennie Duty, formerly general secretary of the National Nonpartisan W. C. T. U., and widely known throughout the country as a temperance worker, died at her home in this city yesterday. Miss Duty had been ailing for a year as the result of a paralvtic stroke. Three months ago she suffered an attack of la grippe, from which she never recovered. The deceased was 45 years of age.

End of a Seven Weeks' Strike.

NEW YORK, March 81.—The 500 lithographers in this city, who struck seven weeks ago, are jubilant over the notification that tliey may return to work, pending the decision of the committee on arbitration. It is said thqt little or no concessions have been gained by. the strikers. The comihittee,on arbitration

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and it handled vast quantities of other people's money. He failed February last with $100,000 liabilities and practically no assets. An examination of the books shows crooked entries made by Sexton to cover up his shortages.

It is believed Sexton is in California. He leaves a wife. His parents are prominent people of Detroit.

__ parts of Allegheny are flooded but no will meet, when it is' ej^ted 'the diT jjwwfci*J!^nage is looked for, unless the •fcjwejibe, SW»Jij«\t^It is now

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Will Soon Be Resumed in the Senate.

PEFFER'S BOND INQUIRY BILL.

A Vote Will .Be Asked For as Soon as Possible—Several Bills Passed by the Senate. The House Puts in the Bay Considering the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill.

Proceedings of Congress.

WASHINGTON, March 31.—The senate is to have a revival of financial and bond discussion as a result of an animated debate shortly before the session closed yesterday. Mr. Peffer's resolution for the appointment of a special committee of five senators to investigate recent bond issues had been relegated to the calendar owing to the opposition of Mr. Hill, but it was reached in the regular order yesterday. Again Mr. Hill sought to have the resolution go over, but he was met by energetic protests not only from Mr. Peffer, but also from Mr. Wolcott and Mr. Teller. The latter gave notice that further delays would not be resisted, and Mr. Peffer followed with notice that he would move to proceed with this bond inquiry resolution as soon as Mr. George concludes a speech on the Duj^it case. This promises to bring a test vote unless dilatory tactics postpone the measure.

Among the bills passed yesterday were those appropriating $2,000,000 for a public building at Indianapolis settling the long-pending accounts between the United States and Arkansas, and amending the act authorizing the Interoceanic Railway company to construct a railroad in the Indian Territory.

At 5:15 o'clock the senate went into executive session and then adjourned.

House Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, March 31.—The house took up the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, and disposed of 15 of the 100 pages before adjournment. During the general debate Mr. Cannon, the present head of the appropriation committee, and his predecessor, Mr. Sayers of Texas, interchanged opinions as to present and past appropriations. Mr. Cannon, in the course of his remarks, expressed the opinion that the appropriations for this session could not fall below $506,000,000. The action of the committee in appropriating for contract work only until March, 1897, was attacked, but Mr. Cannon justified it on the ground that the same thing had been done last year in the case of the fortifications bill. But few amendments were added to the bill yesterday. Eight amendments to increase the salaries of lighthouse superintendents from $1,600 to $1,800 were adopted.

RODERICK B. SEYMOUR DEAD.

He Was Justice of the Second District Court of New Jersey.

NEW YORK, March 31.—Roderick B. Seymour, recently appointed justice of the Second district court of Jersey City, died last night of pneumonia. Justice Seymour was born in 1843 in Newark, O. He was an alumnus of Columbia college. He enlisted as a private in the Twenty-second New York volunteers in 1862. In 1864 he formed Company A of the Thirty-seventh New Jersey volunteers and commanded this company under Butler and Grant.

After the war he began the practice of law in Jersey City. In 1871 he was appointed police justice, and in 1882 to the finance board. He was in the assembly in 1885. He served as a member of the Republican state committee from 1885 until his death. Justice Seymour was a Mason and a past master of the Enterprise Lodge F. and A M. He leaves a widow and a son and daughter.

AN INSANE MAN'S DEED.

A Farmer Kills His Wife and Child and Then Himself.

ROGERS, Ark., March 31.—Pulaski Duckworth, a farmer, living five miles from here, killed his wife with an ax by hitting her on the head and with the same instrument struck his 5-year-old daughter a blow on the head that will cause her death. He then cut his throat with a pocketknife. The family consisted of father, mother and two children.

Duckworth was a prosperous farmer and had four brothers, all prominent here in business circles. Temporary insanity is assigned as the cause leading him to murder his family and then end his own life. It is said that he had talked about doing this. Many hundreds of people visited the horrible scene and viewed the dead and dying.

SAVED BY HIS CHILD.

A Six-Year-Old Girl Prevents Her Father From Committing Suicide.

HAZLETON, PaM March 31.—Grove A. Sprague was prevented from committing suicide by his 6-year-old daughter, Mabel. Sprague has been the victim of a series of misfortunes. His latest affliction, blindness, is responsible for the attempt at self-destruction.

While his family was away he attempted to hang himself with a towel to a bedpost. His little daughter, Mabel, discovered him and ran to the street, screaming wildly for help. Several men arrived in time to save his life. Sprague stated that^ ho realized that he was but a burden to himself and family and that if he was out of the way his wife would be better able to care for their children. ..

Rivers Booming at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, March 81.—Both rivers at this point are booming, caused by the rains and melting snow in the mountains. Already three feet of water covers the Pittsburg an^L Western tracks, and some cellars in the low

21 feet in the Allegheny and a# leec the Monongahela.

Recovering the-Bodies.

WELLINGTON, N. Z., March 31.— Thirty-two bodies have been recoveret from the nunc at Br miner ton, in whicil an explosion of firedamp occurred a feys days ago.

NEW GOVERNOR FOR ARIZONA*

The President Has Appointed Benjamin Franklin to That Position.

WASHINGTON, March 31.—The pr dent yesterday sent to the senate nomination of Benjamin J. Franklin Arizona to be governor of that stato*

The term of the present governpr, C. Hughes, would not have expired til April 1, 1897. The appointment Mr. Franklin is, no doubt, the xesult a bitter factional fight that br going on in the state, in which char, and counter charges have been n' ous. Whether the present nomina€fcnr| is due to the resignation of Governor! Hughes or to a removal can not learned, as officials .at the White Hong* and interior department refused todffe--cuss the subject.

The date upon which the new gW* ernor will qualify is not apparent, bjjtw it is taken for granted that he will afff sume office as soon as he is confirnujl by the senate. The new appointor served two terms in the house 01 regw* sentatives, as member from Kansgff^ City. Later under the former Cleveland administration he was consul Jz Hang-Kow, China, and upon his Upturn settled in Arizona, and recently? became a candidate for governor.

There May Be Trouble.

PHCENIX,

T., March 31.—News o£:

the selection of B. J. Franklin to ba governor of Arizona was received iai this city with the greatest enthusiasm, There is likely to be serious trouble afe the governor's office. Secretary of

State Bruce has received a telegram from Washington advising him of the removal of Hughes. Upon the strengths of this, it is alleged, he proposes to occupy the executive offices. Relying on tenure of office act. Governor Hugheswill refuse to surrender possession until his successor is confirmed by tlieJ senate.

CHICAGO'S TRUNK MYSTERY.

The Dead liody Now Thought to Be Tliafc of Oliver l'ike of Stericooin, Wash.

CHICAGO, March 31.—Almost conclusive proof has been adduced that the body of the man found in the box recently bought for unclaimed freight byAustin speculators is that of Oliver Pike of Sterlcoom, Wash., and the o-iurder mystery is in a fair way to becoming. solved.

Two persons who had known-.^ intimately since childhood and were ai-*" most constantly with him up to tho» time of his departure for Washington have identified the remains and after amost exhaustive scrutiny pronounce tbs body that of their friend and relative, If this question of the truss found on the body is answered satisfactorily tho

deputy coroner will offer 110 further objections to the burial of the body by tho relatives and will take tho proof as, ample.

Fire in a Hotel.

One Killed and Five Injured.

CHICAGO, March 31.—By a collision between a car on the Evanston electric line and a heavy express wagon yestei-

day, near Homan avenue, one man,\ James E. Gengler, was instantly killed and five persons were injured. The injured are: James E. Michaels, fi and arm wrenched Miss Berths face bruised and cut by brokij C. A. Pritchard, motorman, wrenched and face cut Geori slight bruises, and Horace slight b. cases.

Gold Reserve's Highest Point.

WASHINGTON, March 81.—The goM&' reserve as officially reported yesterday," was $128,711,956, the.highest point yetreached during the present administration. The total amount of gold so far received 011 account of the last bond sale is $106,159,071, of which $95,393.3® is for principal, $10,166,964 for premium and $148,757 for interest, which leavesapproximately $5,000,000 yet to bo paid under the conditions of Secretary Car--lisle's circular.

Is Without Money.

DEXTER, Mo., March 81.—Judge R.W. Thompson, probate judge of Stoddard county, who so mysteriously disappeared from Cairo a few days agogjias & notified liis friends here that he l& ln Paducali, Ky., without money. He had $1,200 when lie disappeared, and it is- f_ presumed he was robbed.

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MOBILE, March 31.—Fire broke out in the Battle House, the leading hotel of -f" this city, at 5:20 yesterday morning., The flames were checked before seriousdamage resulted. Fifty guests wera^ panic-stricken, and Constantino Dr -, Liverati, a Greek, representing Rallj. Brothers, cotton buyers of New York and London, received fatal injuries by falling from the fifth story. He was attempting to reach an adjoining building, there being no fire escape on thB Battle House front. The fire was causedl. by a defective flue. Liverati died at.3' o'clock yesterday.

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PARIS, March 31.—M. Berthelot, minister of foreign affairs, has resigned because he felt that tho policy of his col-

leagues in the ministry was contrary to* the public welfare.

Indications. t'i

Fair weather, followed by increasing:: cloudiness at night light variable winds,, becoming southeasterly.

Vessel Boiler Explodes^

Moss POINT, Miss., March 81.—The boiler of the tugboat Isabell exploded yesterday, completely wrecking the vessel. Captain Fritz Lienband hadfiiffright leg broken and received'other Injuries. Samuel Taylor, engineer, 'ceived several bruises, and Fireman "Giles Brown was severely if nbt fatally ^Maided.

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