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COILTT OF TREASON.

Pretoria Prisoners Plead in the Johannesburg Court.

SENTENCE NOT YET PASSED.

Two Hours' Speech Made by Counsel in Behalf of tlie Prisoners—John Hays Hammond Too 111 to Appear in Court, hut His Counsel Acts For Him—Their

Defense. PRETORIA,

April 28.—The trial was

resumed yesterday of the members of the National Reform committee of Johannesburg. John Hays Hammond, the American mining engineer, pleaded guilty of high treason, following the example of the other leaders of the reform committee. Mr. Hammond was prevented by illness from being present at the time the other leaders made their plea.

In view of the plea of guilty entered by the defendants in the trial of the National Reform committee of Johannesburg for complicity in the Jameson raid, there was nothing in the way of cross-examination to elicit testimony on the question of the ultimate responsibility for that ill-starred movement. But counsel for the defense read a statement which was signed by Messrs. John Hays Hammond, Lionel Phillips, George Farrar and Colonel Francis Rhodes, the leaders of the reform committee who have pleaded guilty of high treason.

This statement reviews the recent history of the futile agitation for the redress of alleged uitlander grievances in the Transvaal. The statement admits that in fact of the rumors current that the Boers were going to attack Johannesburg, the signers had asked Dr. Jameson to come, but that they deplored the mistake he had made in coming when there was urgent need for his presence. They maintained that their action throughout the crisis had not been hostile to the republic, its officials having been protected and life and property having been generally preserved.

They Bent officers on Dec. 27, the statement says, to forbid the movement on Dr. Jameson's part.

In addition to this signed statement telegrams were handed in which had passed between Mr. Beit of the Chaptered South Africa company and Dr. Jameson, Colonel Francis "Rhodes and others ., but not Hon. Cecil Rhodes, the then premier of Gape Colony.

Following the presentation of these documents' counsel made.a speech of two hcrars' duration vl& befcalf of. the defense, concluding follows:. ,. 1 "If the: edge': of the swond is to be used it will caTUStfeternalmisery in-the republic but should the flat side be employed, it will usher in peace and good Will.": .. .* Vi:

The trial was then adjourned. Judgment in the case will be delivered within a few days.

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NJSW YORK,. April £$.-!-Tlie firm of Charles & Flint* & Company yesterday received-information that their fourmasted steel sailing slup, Charles R. Flint, the •nlyinierchant vessel/ flying the flag of Nicaragua was burned off the coast of Brazil

Later Charles R. Flint & Company purchased the wreck and made repairs costing $50,000. The government refused to grant an American register, however, as the firm had spent only one half and not two-thirds of the cost of the vessel as required by law. Flint & Company then took out a register in Nicaragua.

Details of the burning of the Flint have not been received and probably will not be until the arrival of the captain and crew. The ship was commanded by Captain Charles Flower and carried a crew of 31 men. She had a cargo of case oil, valued at $100,000, consigned to Shanghai.

The cable received by the owners announced that the ship had caught fire, that there had been an explosion, and that the crew had abandoned her and had been safely landed in Pernambuco.

The Charles R. Flint was built in Glasgow in 1889. She was a doubledecked steel ship with four masts, registering 2,415 tons.

Convicts Escape.

NASHVILLE, April 28.—Semtime Sunday night 15 convicts escaped from the stockade at the new penitentiary grounds, nine white and six colored, and no recaptures have been made. They were of a number who are engaged in the construction of anew prison and by means of tools they had secreted, opened the doors and fled. Vigilant search has been made all day for them without results. The flight was not discover^ until after morning.

Awarded Damages at Last.

FRANKFORT, Ky., April 28.—The jury in the circuit court yesterday afternoon returned a verdict against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company for $12,000 in favor of Miss Christine McEwan, who was shot by a drunken negro on a Louisville and Nashville excursion train returning from Louisville in August, 1891. This shooting led to the passage of the separate coach law in this state.

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was the second time within nine months that the ship had been on fire. The Flint was once the English ship Cairnehill, and after arriving here with jute from Calcutta last August she caught fire at one of the Brooklyn stores.

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Xavigation Open. v,

April 38 —The icebridge at

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out. Navigation to Montreal will now commence.

American Drops Dead in Canada. HAMILTON*, Out., April 28.—Allen

Aldrick, a traveler for a Pittsburg house, suddenly dropped dead in a grocery store yesterday afternoon.

JACK THE RIPPER.

He Was Probably Electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison Yesterday. SING SING, April 28.—Carl Feigen-

baum, alias Anton Lahn, who murdered Mrs. Johanna Hoffman in New York on Sept. 1, 1894, was executed by electricity in the state penitentiary here yesterday. Feigenbaum protested his innocence to the last. Before going to the death chamber he made a will bequeathing to a sister in Germany property which he claimed to own in Cincinnati and New York. The electrocution was performed without a hitch, and the subject was pronounced dead two and a half minutes after he was ushered into the room. "I believe that Carl Feigenbaum, whom you have just seen put to death in the electric chair can easily be connected with the Jack the Ripper murders in White Chapel, London."

This statement was made by his counsel, William S. Lawton. Before speaking the lawyer explained that he revealed tho secret of the deed because he felt it to his duty to science and to the law. 1 sawyer Lawton then began the recital of a story on which, he said, he based his belief that Feigenbaum had been guilty perhaps of a dozen butcheries. "One night I stayed with him for over two hours," he said, "and he told me that for years he had been the victim of a malady, a disease that periodically preyed upon him, and which forced him. in spite of himself, to satisfy an incarnate love he had for women by murdering and mutilating them. I was so startled at the moment that I did not know what to do. Then the Jack the Ripper butcheries occurred to me and I began to search Feigenbaum's record. I learned that he was in Wisconsin at the time the country was startled by the news of the murder and mutilation of women there. Then I communicated with London and discovered that Feigenbaum was also there when BO many fallen women fell victims to the knife of some mysterious assassin. I questioned Feigenbaum closely and found that he could converse .with intelligence on surgery and dissection, but When asked if he knew anything about these1 subjects he would feign an ignorance that was unnatural/' 1

Other points advanoed by Lawyer Lawton were: First, that the knife with which he killed Mrs. Hoffman was found to have'on it old bloodstains. .Again, Feigenbaum was known to harre used many aliases, but. only in. different towns. As a matter of fact, his real ham* is Karl Zahn, and he never would explain why he changed'it. f'The -iuan vrm deVil,"^oonokided Mr. Lawton. "His motive for the crime was his frightful desire Xer mutv latioa."

F»ilBU$Ttifci'Na STEAWEIIR •,I 1 '1 .i' 1 'i Tht Btrivaili Arms u4 Ammoaction at 4*c^i«ivllle, Florid*. jApxsoimiJJi,. Ifla,* April. SS.rr^Bhe steamship Bermuda arrived in port 6 o'clock last night and anchored in midstream directly Opposite the Clyde dock. Tugs having a covered barge in tow loaded with arms and ammunition at once put out for the steamer. The barge was taken to the far side of the steamer and oonoeale^ from, view from the city. Hoisting machinery was at once set to work unloading boxes from the barge to the Bermuda. This was completed About 11 o'clock.

Six large boats, capable oC holding 50 men, which arrived a short time ago from New York, were also put aboard the Bermuda. In the meantime the Cubans in the city took about 50 foreign Cubans to the docks, where they were transported in naphtha launches and row boats to the steamer. Many others are reported to have been on board when the Bermuda arrived. The Bermuda will sail ostensibly for Bermuda.

PATIENCE AND TACT.

Essential Things Necessary to Settle the Venezuelan Affair. LONDON, April 28.—The first lord of

the treasury, Mr. A. J. Balfour, replying to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the Liberal leader, said in the house of commons yesterday that arrangements for a condition of arbitration with respect to Venezuela and other questions, are matters which the United States and Great Britain had in view during the recent negotiations. Mr. Balfour added that the last communication from the United States arrived on Friday last and was now under consideration.

Continuing, Mr. Balfour said that the government would deal with both the general question of arbitration and also with the special question connected with Venezuela, and it was confidently hoped that by patience and tact on both sides a peaceful and satisfactory solution of the matter would be attained.

Approach of a Peacemaker. LONDON, April 28.—The Rome corre

spondent of The Chronicle says: "It is rumored that the nuncio at Madrid has approached the premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo, with a view of inducing Spain to accept the mediation of the United States on the Cuban question. The nuncio lias had several interviews with Mr. Taylor, United States minister at Madrid." ... ssjg

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WARREN, O., April 28.—A terrible boiler explosion occurred in a sawmill at, Greene, this county, yesterday. The boiler let go and E. Stockwell, Charles Manes, George Fink and Charles Walcott were injured, the two former fatally. A portion of the boiler was blown 40 rods, and the mill completely wreck. The cause is Unknown.

... Probably Exaggerated.

LONDON, April 26.—An Athene diepatch to The Times says: "Another conflict has occurred in the Hagion Va-

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sileon, district or urete. it is alleged that 20 Rusk were killed and 30 wounded. This is probably exaggerated."

Population of Paris.

PARIS, April 28.—The census of Paris np to March 30 shows the French capital to have a population of 2,511,455, an increase of 87,250, chiefly outside of the fortifications.

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BUENOS AYRES, April 28.—Both Argentina and Chili has signed the

fixing the boundary between

heir frontiers. The full details of the agreement have not been given out.

MISSIONARY KNAPP SAFE.

B« lias Been Surrendered to the United States Consul at Alexandretta. CONSTANTINOPLE.. April 28.—The Rev.

George P. Knapp, the American missionary who has been expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish authorities, without trial, on the chargc of having incited Armenian to rebel against Turkish rule, wis surrendered to tho United States consul at Alexandretta on Saturday last. ...

Details of the affair, which reached tiere yesterday show that the step was not taken untila United States warship bad been telegraphed for.

What Is Known In Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 28.—There is no danger that tho proper interest of Missionary Knapp, who is supposed to be now at Alexandretta^ in the nominal custody of the United States consular agent will be orerlooked by the government. According to the program mutually agreed upon by United States Minister Terrell before he left donstantinoole and the. uorte, Mr. Knapp

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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

Naval Bill Considered in tlie Senate and. Pension Matters in the House. WASHINGTON, April 28.—The naval

appropriation bill was before tho senatethroughout tlie day. An amendment offered by Mr. Chandler, making it unlawful for retired naval officers to enter tho service of contractors furnishing armor, etc., to the government, occasioned an animated debate, which gradually broadened into a discussion of the entire subject of armor plate. Mr. Tillman was among tho most active in support of the amendment* speaking of the efforts to cheat and rob the government and the tendency of millionaire contractors to "thrust their hapdft into the pockets of Uncle Sam." Mr: ©handler and Mr. Hale supported the aihendment, and Mr. Gray and Mr. Gorman opposed it. The amendment was not. disposed of when the senate ad jo nrnedr.

Yesterday was District of Colombia* lay in the house, and the general' pendon bill was sidetracked under an arrangement to give the district thi firsfc.: two hours. Several district bills were passed. Then the Pickler pensioh bill was taken up and under the five minute rule was discussed until the hour of ad-v