Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1894 — Page 2

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THE INDIANArOLTS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1891.

Carnot assured his visitors that France nl- ( ways loved order and liberty and laws. Her

desire, ho added, was peace and International concord. Hnmhcrt to III LeKinlnlorsi. ROME. Jan. 1. King Humbert, In replying to tho New Year's greetings of the Italian Senators and deputies, after referring to financial affairs, alluded to the riots In Sicily. He said that he sympathized with th Sicilians :md was convince I that their conditit n could be alleviated by wise mcrisurert of legislation. He added that he believol that the prospects were good for a. j .ireful st'ite of affairs in Kuropc, and that th's would cr.ablo him and them to give considerable attention to internal imcbtions. 311:1,1.0 AVoiMinn. He r Said to llnve Ueon Injured hy a Mi ell. MONTEVIDEO. Jan. 1. It U reported In this city that the Ilrazilian rebel. Admiral Mello, has leii seriously wounded, and will s ou come here in order to have his Injuries attended to. It is surmised that a fragment of a, shdl must have struck him when the Aquldaban, was escaping from tho harbor of Uio. and had to run the gauntlet of the loyal forts at the entrance. .MlquePw olieine Partly Ahnntloucd. LONDON. Jan. 2. A dispatch to the News from Berlin says: As a result of the conferences of the Emrx-ror with Chancellor Vtii Caprivi. Dr. Miquel. Minister of Fira T.ce3, and General Schellenrtorf, Minister of War, Miguel's tinanclal reform scheme has beei partly abandoned. Dr. Miquel has ten induel to postpone the reorganization of the matrlcular contribution system, tr.d, in conseiiu?nce, 4,CX"J.i marks less will have to be raided. This will enable the Kovernrnent to modify the proposed taxes, reducing those on tobacco and wine. Tl'U arrangement is of great im;ortance, Gi it releases Chancellor Von Caprivi lro:n his d'.JMcult position la regard to the Conservatives. Stoned the Kcutoheon, GENOA, Jan. 1. A few men, to-day, apparently excited by the Aigues-Mortea verdict at Angouleme, France, on Saturday, where a numl-er of French workmen wero acquitted of the killing, in September last, of over a score of Italian workmen during a riot, gathered in front of the French consulate and stoned the escutcheon over the door. The police dispersed the crowd and arrested two of the ring leaders. The formal regrets of the municipal authorities at Hie occurrence were conveyed to tne French consul. Converts to Itoinnnlsm. LONDON, Jan. 1. Three more Anglican clergymen have joined the Church of Home, making fourteen Anglican ministers who have become Kornan Catholics since tho famous Lincoln case. Cable Notes. M. De Ciers. the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is seriously ill, the result of a bad chill. Professor Marshall, of Owens College, Manchester, fell from a precipice at Scawtell mountain, in Cumberland, Sunday, and was killed. The government leaders and the leaders of the opposition have arrived at a comprorrine arrangement by which the British purish council's bill "will be passed by Jan. U. Twelve more of tho mutineers In the Camcroons have been captured, and the mutiny Is now at an end. It is alleged that the harshness of Lieutenant Haring, who commanded the force, was the cause of the cutbreak. VOTED ON PROHIBITION. Big: Cities of Ontario Want Liquor, but tho Country Is Against It. MONTREAL, Jan. 1. A plebiscite on the question of prohibition was taken in con nection with the annual municipal elections throughout the Province of Ontario to-day. The returns up to midnight were not complete, but reports so far show a majority for prohibition in nearly every county heard from, with the exception of the large counties, where the prohibition party also showed great strength. For in stance, in Ottawa, tne ingusn section gave a majority for prohibition, whereas the French section did the reverse. The prohibition party made a splendid fight. whereas the liquor interests nau no organ ization to speak of outside the cities and largest towns. TELEGRAPHIC IIHEVITXES. Sheriff Scott and posse, who are after Chris Evans and IM Morrell. the California bandits, are still unheard from. The official Inquiry into the cause of the Louisville and yeitersonville bridge disaster will begin at Luic-villc next Monday mornlivj. President Andrews, of Brown University, ?as received a call from Chicago UniverAty. He has not yet decided whether or not Tie will accept. The ore output of Lake county, Colorado, for 1S03 la figured at $8,57D,13i. an increase of 5US.770 over 1SD2. The total output of Jeodville from l$?J to liUJ, inclusive, is ji&v William Sullivan, John Prettaboir, James Coffee, Sylvester Powers, Howard Davison and Walter linger are locked up at St. Louis, charged with highway robbery. They neld up a dozen persons Sunday night. The chemical laboratory presented to Chi cago University by S. A. Kento, of Chicago. was formally dedicated yesterday. Many teachers of science were present, the principal addresses being by Dr. I'rescott, of Michigan University, ana 1'roressor itemgen, of Johns Hopkins. lSu.nlnen Umlmrrnns nents. WILMINGTON. Del., Jan. t The Kent Iron and Hardware Company, of this city, is in the hands of the sheriff. Tne affairs of the company have been placed in charge of President Mode, as agent of the sheriff. The embarrassment was caused by the mismanagement and shortage of William S. Haines, ex-treasurer and secretary. Three years aso it was discovered that he was J 10,000 short in his accounts. He promfnod to make good the shortage, hut failed. Tne company was incorporated in 1375 with $150,000 capital. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Jan. L George W. Chatterton, dealer in Jewelry and musical Instruments, assigned to-day. Liabilities, $00,000; assets about the same. The house was established in 1S3S, and was one of the largest in central Illinois. Collided vritli n. Freight. POTTSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 2. A passenger train on the Lehigh Valley collided with a freight train on the Pennsylvania road this afternoon, near Brick Mountain Station, on the Broad mountain, seriously Injuring three trainmen on the passenger train and slightly Injuring several of the possengera. The engineer and lircman of the Lehigh Valley train were badly hurt, as was also conduc tor Walter lSutler. Traffic -was delayed for Ive hours. Dr. Howard. Clowe III Arjrnment. JACKSON, Tenn.. Jan. 1. Rev. Dr. Howard closed his arsrument this niornlnpr. havlnz consumed thirteen hours and a half In fileading In his own behalf. District Atorney Hawkins becan speaking Immediate ly on the close or nr. Howard s speech, and he will consume the remainder of to-day's session. The ease will be Riven to the jury to-morrow. The court room was crowded and the arguments were given the closest attention. Disastrous Holler Explosion. IIIGGINSON, Ark., Jan. 1. The boiler of the locomotive pulling the through freight for St. Louis exploded near here early this morning. The train consisted of thirty-five cars, fourteen of which were loaded with cattle. About twenty cars were wrecked and a great number of cattle killed. Head brakeman Itoss was instantly killed, the tlreman fatally and the engineer seriously injured. Hint to Motorraen. DENVER, Col., Jan- 1. Two men attempted to hold u: an electric car on the Eighth-avenue line last night. One of them smashed the headlight and then made a dash for the motorman, who drew a revolver and llred at him. The motorman quld;ly turned on the full current and both robbers wen left lehlnd. There were only jour passengers in the car. Ore that Any $.".IOO Per Ton. CRIPPLE CREEIC. Col.. Jan. 1. Ore which assays J4.SW to $.".600 per ton was found here to-day in the Free Coinage mine In a cross-cutting from the bottom of a shaft 173 feet in depth. The Free Coinage Is located east of the liurns, on Lull ruour.ta.in. The Pearly Substance Of ths teeth Is brittle. Sozodont, composed exclusively of hygienic vegetable elements, and containing no solvent, is the, only article which, whllo whitening enamel, fcreserrea its towc&u&x,

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Governor McKinley Advises Ohioans to Practice Economy. OTerrall Takes the Oath of Oflicc in Virginia ami Eulogizes His State for Its Democracy. CO LI 7M EL'S, O., Jan. l.-The Ohio Legis lature convened to-day. Governor McKinley, In his message, said: "Your honorable lvdy meets at a time when the State Ls suffering from prolonged industrial depression, for widen, unhappily, there appears no Immediate prospect ot re lief. The people will demand that their, representatives shall practice economy in public expenditures, which necessity en forces upon them in their private expenditures. A short session and but little legislation would Ik? appreciate! at a. time like tl'." Real estate and other tangible property. he nA s. now pays the large fhare oi taxes. while other varieties oi property wr.icn are lnLir trir lo either wholly escape or bear a disproportionate share. He suggests that "the Tax Coinmirsion. whicn was appointed to. and which did make a report recently upon the Mibjeci ot" tax revision, be con tinued for such time as it may do ueemeu wise. It is a bipartisan body. Its report shows that the burden is very uneoually distrlbuted, and incline to the view that corporation. js a class do not bear the fair share." The Governor cautions against tax legislation being so framed as to confiscate capital or drive It out of the State. Xovr York IifKislntlve Nominations. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 1. The Republic ans and Democrats, at their caucuses tonight, nominated candidates for legislative officers. Representative Schoepflin, in the Republican Assembly caucus, made a speech denouncing methods that had been adopted by Republicans in tho contest for the clerkship, saying it was tor similar methods in State politics that the people voted down the Democrats In the November elections. Tho Democrats nominated Sulscr for Speaker of the Assembly and Jacob A. Cantor for President pro tern, of the Senate. The Republicans nominated George Malby for Speaker and Senator Saxtuii for President pro tern. O'FHUK ALL'S 1 A KGVUI C. Virginia's Xew Governor Apotheo sizes the Old Dominion. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 1. Hon. Charles O'Fcrrall was Inaugurated Governor of Vir ginia, to-day, with great pomp and ceremony. The local milltarj't consisting of in fantry, cavalry and artillery, with visiting soldiery from various sections of the State, repaired to the Exchange Hotel, where the Governor-elect was stopping, and, in tri umphant procession, escorted him through the principal streets, which were thronged with people, to the- State Capitol, where he was sworn Into office. Governor O'Ferrall delivered a long inaugural address. In a panegyric on Virginia, he declared "She has never swerved from the lighted way of the Constitution; the song of the siren has never tempted her, the tongue of flattery has never seduced her, the voice. of the hyena has never frightened her. the menace of tyranny has never terrified her, the howlIngs of the wolf have never disturbed her, the threats of malice have never alarmed her. i'irm and Immovable, she has stood In all the years that have run their circles since she gave her pledge to be true to fu idamental law of this land." Coming down to practical questions of the day, he declared that the questions of taxation, of education. of railroads, the oysters and fisheries. Im migration, volunteer soldiery and disabled confederates should receive his careful at tention. Concluding, he complimented the administration of his predecessor, Governor McKlnney. SEW ntOIIIKITIOX PARTY. Six Men and Six Women, All "Leader, Meet nnd Confer. PITTSBURG, Pa,, Jan. 1. A conference of the leaders of the proposed new national Prohibition party was held at No. 130 Fourth avenue, to-day. There were twelve people present, about half of them being- women. The meeting was merely a business one to arrange for the dissemination of prohibition ideas throughout the country. It was decided to raise $3,550 and spend It In the Interest of the new party. Organizers are to be employed and set to work at oncei It was decide I to meet every Monday from now until March 14, when the national con ference will also be held here. The leaders of the new party ftgure out that there are W0.03 voters in the Democratic party who are prohibitionists at heart and there are as many more in the Republican party. The Populists, they claim, have ICO.OOO prohibitionists in their ranks and the idea of the new party leaders Is to unite all those under the banner of the new national party. LEAVELLIXG DKXOl'XCED. Mrs. Lease Snjn the Governor Recognized "Rnts. TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. L Mrs. Mary E. Lease to-day sent the following telegram to the State Federation of Labor in session at Leavenworth: "I desire to Join my voice with yours and tender time and money in denouncing the executive power that has recognized 'rats and scoundrels and ignored the labor organizations. The principles of the People's party are eternal and unr.-ssaillng. Through them we will triumph, but the crowd betraying the trust and cause of the people will pass out of sight by the laboring vote. "MARY E. LEASE. "President Board of State Trustees." . Mrs. Lease to-day employed Judge Doster to assist Eugene Hagan in prosecuting her suit against the Governor. The first blow in the courts will be struck by Messrs. Hagan and Doster to-morrow morning, when they apply to the Supreme Court for an Injunction preventing J. YV Freeborn from attempting to take Mrs. lease's place on the board. The proceeding would have been Instituted to-day but for the fact that New Year's day is a legal holiday. Mrs. Iease leaves to-morrow mornirij for Ola the to attend the meeting of the ooard. This meeting was to have been held at WInfield, but the plao vrta changed by order of Mrs. Lease. The matter was afterward brought to the attention of Governor Lewelling. The Governor immediately telegraphed to the members that Mrs. Lease was no longer connected with the board, and Instructed them to pay no attention to her orders. Mrs. Lease last night, however, stated there would be a full meeting at Olathe tomorrow. THE "PALACE OF POVERTY." K. of L. Property Alortgraqred and Ilcadquarters to Bo Removed. Philadelphia Special to Tittsburg Dispatch. The "Palace of Poverty" has been mortgaged. The names James R. Sovereign, general master workman of the Knights of Labor, and Michael J. Bishop, Jonathan V. Hayes, Thomas V. McGuire, Henry R. Martin and James M. Kenney, trustees of the property of the order, appeared at the foot of an instrument recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, Wednesday, pledging the brown stone palace at SU Uroad street to the GIrard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Company as security for a loan of T20.000. There was considerable surprise to-day In Knights of Labor circles when the news of this action on the part of the executive officers and bo anl became known. For some time prior to the recent convention It has been tho Idea of the rank and file of the order that the palace purchased by Terence V. Powderly was too luxurious, too commodious, too costly and badly situated for the purposes of the order. It was generally understood that the recent convention authorized the Rale of the property and the removal of the headquarters to another locality. Hence the mortgaging Instead of the sale of the property provoked considerable comment among members who were not cognizant of the reasons and purposes of their leaders. J. M.' Kinney, of the executive board, was asked the meaning of this unexpected move on the part of the executive board. "Ye.V raid he. "we've mortgaged the property for $20,000. It is to the Girard Life Insurance. Annuity and Trust Company. It is a bona fide mortgage, and not made merely to test our legal status as trustees of tho property. Of course, the fact that an institution like the Girard accept our signatures upon such an Instrument e-tabllsheo a title trusteeship beyond a doub t. Yes. we propose, to move the headquarters. Where, we have not finally decided, although, we all favor one place, in

spite of very flattering inducement to go elsewhere. Maybe some other member of the Itoard will tell you the place we have practically decided upon." At this point Thomas U. ' McGuire came up, and catching the subject of the conversation, explained: "We intend and still prciose to pell the Hroaxl-street property. It Ia a bad time to dispose of property now, and we lon't propose to sell until we can get our price. $7(UM. In the meantime, however, we propose to go right ahead and move our headquarters. The Hroad-street mansion is, and always has been, too big for us. The two upper stories have never boen usel. It Is not in a business locality or a business-like building. The new administration means business. " cm rent the house for enough money to pay the taxes and the interest on the nv) mortgage. A.s fooji as possible the headquarters will be moved. "We want to be at the legislative center of tb? country. Therefore we shall g) to Washington, I. C. We want to be where we e in watch, and, if possible, checkmate the moves of Congress which are inimical to the laboring people of the land. Py leIng right on the spot we shall get better and prompter information of the moves and proposed moves of Congress detrimental to the interests of workingmen, and at the same time save the expense of sending the committees there whenever any big labor legislation Is proposed. "Yes, we shall purchase a new headquarters there. It will be a business-like building for the business purposes of a business order. There will le no fringe pn it. No, the $20,0uo will not le used in the purchase of the new headquarters. That will be bought out of the per capita tav. The $20.000 will be. used or partly used In the pur

chase of a perfecting press. As soon as we get to Washington we shall enlarge tho Journal of the Knights of Tbor anl keep the laboring classes of this country posted In advance of all proposed legislation against their interests. In addition to this w? shall Issue thousands of leaflets, sending them broadcast all over the country whenever Congress contemplates some treachery to our people. "You see, at Washington, we shall be able to watch and scrutinize closely every move of the people's servant there, both in Congress and the committee rooms, and the business departments of the government. When further encroachments on the liberties of the people are in preparation we shall send warnings broadcast over the land. We shall be In a position to alarm and arouse the people when their liberties are threatened, and with the growth of our order, even at the present rate, will soon be aide to dictate legislation favorable to oppressed an'' down-trodden labor." BW FIRE AT BOSTON Globe Theater Destroyed and Other Buildings Ablaze. Hanlon's "Superba" Company Heavy Losers Wardrobes, Scenery, Etc, Licked Up hy the Flames. BOSTON, Jan. 2.-2:13 a. m. The new year began In this city with a destructive and at one time very dangerous blaze in the Globe Theater, on Washington street, owned by .John Stetson, and at present occupied by the Hanlons' "Suporba" company, which Is playing an engagement here. The elegant playhouse is completely gutted and the property of the Hanlons ruined. Every engine that can possibly be spared is being used to try and protect adjacent property. At this hour the large sixstory building just erected by the Harvard College trustees has caught and every effort Is being made to save it. It looks as If the entire block on the Harrison avenue extension would be swallowed up. During the progress of the fir in the theater several explosions occurred which proved to be the powder and cartridges owned by the Hanlon Company, who were playing there. It is stated that every particle of the wardrobes of the company has been lost The Inmates of the houses on Essex street and Hay ward place are preparing to leave in caso the conflagration extends. The efforts of the f.remen on this street were heroic and every line of hose that could be obtained was brought into play, with partial success. On the Essex-street side adjoining the theater are valuable blocks of buildings which are occupied by large business concerns. The streets of the city are In darkness and the electric errs have ceased to run owing to the current being turned off. The heaven3 are Illuminated with the blaze, which can be seen for miles around. Sparks from the Are traveled with the wind two and three blocks away, and a most careful watch Is being kept by a cordon of police. The first alarm of the fire was given at 1:13 a, m., and was quickly followed by a second and third alarm. When Chief Webber saw how the fird was gaining, he had a fourth alarm turned In. It is thought the fire started in the coat room of the theater by some one throwing a lighted cigarette on the floor, and that it smoldered until It broke out Into a blaze. It Is estimated that the loss on the theater will be In the nelgborhood of &SCO.0OO, and that of the Hanlon "Suberba" Company will be In the vicinity of $40,000 as it was not able to save any of its valuable scenery. It 13 Impossible at the time of going to press to estimate what the loss to the other buildings will amount to, as the fire Is still raging and there Is no telling where It will stop. OBITUARY. Rev. Tavlil II. Cheney, 1). I)., n Noted RuptlNt Divine. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 1. Rev. David B. Cheney, D. D., one of the best known min isters of the Baptist Church In America, died to-day in Chicago, aged seventy-three years, and the remains were shipped to this city for burial. He was one of the oldest members of the lard of the American Bap tist Missionary Union, and prominent in nearly all the leading Baptist educational Institutions. He served pastorates in Phila delphia, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and, in imj. was tne only Protestant min ister who stood his post during the cholera scourge in tni3 city. Other Deaths. SLATER. Mo.. Jan. 1. Judee Oeorr- T? Rhoades. the first county judge of this county, died to-day, aged ninety years. LONDON, Jan. 1. Mullen, the. well-known jockey, is dead. He recently received severe injune3 wnne nunnng. Games for Winter Evening. Punnlnsr charades are an amusinir vrfntion on the ordinary charade. They are played by having the party divide, and one or more members come In and act a "word cr phrase in a punning rense. For example. a girl in a Quaker-hued dress or clo'k en ters, seats herself on the music stool and consumes a bon bon. The lucky guesser in terprets this as ingratiate (in-irrev-she-alr . Or two young fellows in hats and coats meet, slap each other on the shoulder and exclaim: 4,IIow dV do. Doc?" "W'hw howare you, Doc?" This represents a paradox (pair o does). "Metaphysician and "inviolate" are other good words." In illustrated proverbs each member of the circle belngr provided with a long strip of paper and a pencil, makes a sketch repre senting nis iaea or an illustration ror some well-known proverb. This is then passed to his right-hand neighbor, who writes under it the provern that he thinks indicated, io!ds down the Kneet and proceeds to illustrate the same proverb himself. When each sheet has made the rounds of the company they are opened and the various drawings and maxims compared with the original. Suppose that A, having in mind the proverb, "Might makes right," sketches the baby, knuckles in eyes, and his naughty elder brothers making off with his toy. II takes this to mean "While the cat's away the mice will play," writes that legend icordIngly, and illustrates it by the traditional small boy enjoying the freedom of th Jamcloset. C Interprets this as "Stolen bread is sweetest." and indulges his pen in a pair of imaginary lovers evading the eyes of duennas; which D in turn translates as "Birds of a feather flock together," a saying which he then proceeds to elucidate in accordance with his own fancy. Of course no skill with the pencil is needed in making such drawingsthe wors? they are the hotteror at least the lunnier. Trifling prizes for the most and the least successful competitors (to be determined by taking votes) t.dd to the merriment caused by such games as this. Not So Vasrne After All. Atlanta Constitution. There seems to be a vague idea that Democratic Congressmen have v.o opinions of their own, and that it is the duty of every selfish element and Interest to back them up in a corner and proceed to "educate" them. And this idea, vague as It Is, Menu to have some bxsLs.

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Caldwell Refuses to Enter on Rec ord All of Jenkins's Order. Northern Pacific Employes May Order a Strike, but They 3iust Not Interfere with the Company. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 1. Apropos to the threatened strike, which was to have taken place to-day on the Northern Pacific, and the recent order of Judge Jenkins, at Milwaukee, enjoining the strike and the subsequent order of Judge Caldwell, at St. Paul, the following will be of deep public Interest: The general administration of the receivership of the Northern Pacllic rail road devolves on the United States Circuit Court at Milwaukee, Wis. That court Is called the primary jurisdiction, the receivers having first been appointed and the property turned over to them under the orders of that court. But it was necessary that the United States Court in the other States through which the road run3 should confirm for this district the action of the Milwaukee court. This was lone by filing a bill and procur ing ancillary receiverships In each State. All orders of the court of primary jurisdiction requiring to be enforced in other States are usually entered as of course, when presented to those courts. But a gentleman in this city, from St. Paul, says the United States Circuit Court In that city refused to enter that part of the order of the Milwaukee court enjoining the oflicers of the labor organization from ordering a strike on the road or the em ployes from striking on account of a reduction of their wages, but did enter so much of the order as enjoined the em ployes, in case they struck, from Interfer ing with the property or the men employed to take their places. When Judge Caldwell was appealed to for Information on this point he declined to say a word more than that the writ Issued by the two courts will disclose the difference between them. To a reporter who asked Judge Caldwell if there was any danger of a strike on any of the roads in his circuit In the hand3 of receivers, he answered that there was not, so far as he knew. Upon being asked what ne wo.iia uo if a strike was threatened on account of a reduction of wages on any of tne roads for which he had appointed re ceivers, he replied: "If receivers should apply for leave to reduce the existing scale of wages, before acting upon tneir petition 1 would require them to give nctice of the application to the ollicers or representatives of the several labor organizations to be affected by the proposed change of time and place of hearing and would also require them to grant such officers or representatives leave of absence and furnish them transportation to the place of hearing and I would hear both sides In person or by attorneys If iney wanted attorneys to appear for them. The employes on a road in the hands of a receiver are employes of the court, and as much In its service as the receivers them selves, and as much entitled to be heard upon any proposed order of the court which would affect the whole body of employes. ir, alter a tun Hearing and consideration, I found that it was necesscry. equitable and just to reduce the scale of wages, I would give the employes ample time to determine whether they would accept or reject the scale. If they rejected It they would not be enjoined from quitting the service of tno court, either singly or in a body, in other words, I would not enjoin them from striking, but if they mad their election to strike 1 would mako It plain to them that they must not, after quitting the service of the court, interfere with the property or the operation of the road or the men em ployed to take their places." Northern Pacific Employes. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. l.The confer ences between the Northern Pacific grievance committees and the general manager aj)d general superintendent were resumed to-day, the engineers closing their state ment, to a part of which tie managers agreed. Receiver Oakes will be kept fully advised as to the arguments of the men, and then, after consultation with his coreceivers, It will be decided whether or not the receivers shall join with the men in requesting the court to alter the terms of the order which went Into effect to-day relative to wages and schedules. The firemen will present their views to-morrow, and tho conductors will follow, Grand Chief Clark having arrived to-day. Sarjrent and Chirk nt Chnttnnoogn. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 1. Chiefs Sar gent, of the railway firemen, and F. A. Clark, of the railway conductors, had sev eral conferences with President Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway, and a final conference to-night. As a result the stau quo will remain until Feb. L and then another conference will be held. Cut lO Per Cent. LOWELL, Mass., Jan. 1. A ten-per-cent. reduction was announced to-day in the Lowell Manufacturing Company, affecting 2,000 employes. The woolen weavers of this city are greatly excited over the carnet mills cut down of 10 per cent, as they ;ear il may occur in otner mills. A SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENT. Economist Ilertzka Will See Ills IdeitN Tried Down In Africa. The Outlook. A dispatch from London last week stated tnat a party of twenty persons, of different nationalities, would sail for East Af rica In January, to start a colony upon tho plan outlined by the Austrian economist Hertzka In his economic romance, "Freeland." L.ach emigrant, says the dispatch. has subscribed $150, and the general public nas sunscnoea a considerable sum In ad dition, to set the colony In working order. The assurance that Ilertzka's ''social anticipation" is to be put to trial In this wav will, no doubt, renew public Interest in the volume in which, four years ago. he set forth his ideals. The fundamental Mea of his co-operative commonwealth Is expressed In the name of his book. "Freeland." The land Is to be free. The public is to own it and receive in rental from the various cultivators and occupiers whatever its value may be. The creed of "Progress and Poverty" is, therefore, the basis of the new commonwealth. But Hertzka goes further than Henry George in the extent to which he would carry collective ownership. He would have the public fur nish the capital for enterprises of every sort. He stops short of being a Socialist In that he would have each Industry self-controlling. He would not have wagjs equalized except as universal education tended to equalize 'them: he would have each group of producers arrange the salaries and wages" of their own managers ana workmen. All pay msnts would be made in labor-checks. which would be the only money used In the commonwealth. Provision for the future and for foreign commerce would be made by the accumulation of the commodities to be used or exchanged. Such arc the main outlines of Ilertzka's ideal, which these colonists promise to attempt to make real. HU volume elaborates thl3 fireneral scheme wdth a wealth of minor suggestions which adds greatly to the attractiveness of the book, but also adds to the diffi culty of carrying into execution the plan ;et forth. The chief weakness of the clan. however, is not Us complexity, but the fact that Professor Hertzka has failed to furnish an ideal so inspiring as to lead coioniztft to make the sacrlttces necessary for Its realization. We expect from the now colony the same record of mishap and failure as has atterSed all other socialistic colonies not held togetrer by a sense of brotherhood oasea upon a reiiirlous creed dominating the entire llvc of their adherents. Nevertheless, the feet that even a small colony Is being drawn from Kurore to Africa to attempt to realize Hertzka s Ideal is signmcant or- the direction which the aspirations of msn are nowtaking. Arretted for Striking? nn ArfrcKM. DENVKR. Col.. Jan. 1. Manager Sackett, of the People's Theater, was arrested tonight nn a warrant that charged him with assaulting Minnie Alt. a Chicago actress, who has been the leading lady at the Peopled Theater for three weeks. She was engaged for eiht weeks, but after one week Manager Sackett gave her two weeks' notice, her work being unsatisfactory. The two weeks expired Saturday, and she says the manager refused to give her her fare East, a3 he contracted to do. To-night she went to the theater to talk the matter over with him, and she declares he struck her. Stronff Lanenagt. Life, Hobbs What a confounded cheat Thompson is. DobbJi Cheat. Why. that fellow can't eyea play a fair gama ot solitaire.

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A MYSTERY UNSOLVED The Weird and Half-Forgotten Story of Grafin Kielmansegge. Thirty Years with a Hangman's Ropo Around Her Xeck A Strange Tale Matching That of the Iron 3fa9k. Frovidence Journal. Circumstances have of late renewed Inter est In the celebrated story of the "Man In the Iron Mask." No les3 strange and still nearer to our own day Is the story of the life which went out in Germany In the spring of 1SC3. A weird and sombre tale It Is, and little known, and, perhaps, for that reason, some portions of it may be worth the retelling. The river Weisseritz runs through the pretty little valley of Plauensche Grund, within easy walking distance of Dresden. At one end of the valley, on marshy ground, its garden walls running close to the river and even along its front, there stood at the time mentioned a house of remarkable as pect and still more remarkable associations. It was of dingy ochre color, with roof of murky red. For thirty years no ray of light had entered it Heavy black shutters, elab orately barred, closed every window. Black, too, were the bars, the doors, the moldings and the cornices, and black, also, were the high walls about the grounds, although they had been allowed to be overgrown with a wild tangle of brambles and creeping vines. The garden had grown to a forest of oaks and other trees and underbrush. The whole aspect of the place, indeed, was one of long neglect and desertion. The villagers told queer tales of its haunted chambers, of course, but these were no more incredible than the stories of simple fact which they were able to narrate. For sounds of life were heard within the grounds of the Plauen Palais, and through a small door in the wall between the gardon and grounds to an adjacent restaurant it was seen that the house was guarded by men of repelling mien, who patrolled tho grounds by night while numerous nercelooking hounds hung about the doors and made their home In the lower passageway. In the unner iloor of thU gruesome struc ture an old woman lived alone and had lived for thirty years. Even In her old age (the Grafin Klelmansegge was eighty-six when she died) she preserved the remnants of a once dazzling beauty, but her face was hard and the eyes bright, restless, unpleasantly acute, though speaking of a mind still alert and faculties unimpaired. She wore the white muslin cap of 'old age, with voluminous frill In front, and her dress of black and gray loosely wrapped her form and completely concealed its proportions. Regularly once a week the door of her room opened quietly and a man wdth face securelv masked entered unbidden. He bowed "low before her and without speaking a wrord advanced close to her chair, lightly moved the wrappings about her neck, looked a moment and .then bowing low again silently withdrew. What he saw was a hangman's rope fastened around her neck, its ends carefully concealed within her dress, and the man was the public execu tioner from Dresden. HER SECRET UNKNOWN. This Is the mystery of the Grafin Klelman segge. Whether the noose and the executioner were a self-imposed penance, inflicted in the vain hope of atoning for some crime committed long ago, or whether in refine ment of cruelty she had been constrained by her judges thus to live on bearing the badge of infamy can only be surmised. Nor can we tell with certainty what the crime thus terribly punished was. But whatever the explanation, the picture thus presented to the mind of a brilliant woman, doomed to eternal night, with the clutch of the gibbet about her neck, sleeping or waking, an ignominious death always before her eyes. and the murmur of a ribald throng In her ears, is one from which the stoutest heart must shrink In terror. Whatever Ingenuity of deviltry conceived this punishment, its eitect must have been to impose upon its wretched victim a thiand deaths. Tne room in which she lived was bare and cheerless. No daylight had penetrated to it since she entered it in 1S22. Its furniture was poor and meager. But piles of manuscript, written in French, were scattered about, and on the table near which she sat, and upon which she gazed long and passionately, were two miniatures, beautifully painted upon Ivory and richly framed. The one revealed the delicate features of Napoleon Ponaparte, as he was at the height of his glory; the other was that of his young child, the Ill-fated King of Home, and a lock of his fair, bright hair was carefully braided into its back. She was wont, so it is said, to gaze on these pictures and to repeat over and over again to herself the words, "Etoile de ma vie." And whatever the secret of the Grafin Klelmansegge may be, it is Inextricably Interwoven with the Jlfe of the man of Wagram, of Austerlitz and of Waterloo. There is much that is unknown about her, but this is surely known, that Napoleon had been not only the "star of her life," but Us bane. A woman, like him, of restless energy, vaulting ambition, of resistless passions, strong in intellect and unscrupulous, she had conceived for him an overmastering passion, and lived only in him and for him. She was born In 1777 of a landed family, and, as has oeen said, was gifted in youth With extraordinary beauty and equally remarkable intellectual attributes. At nineteen she was married to a young man of her own rank, and it is believed that to him she bore a son. Within two years she was a widow. There Is a story current, at least In her later years, that the young Graf ate of a cherry cake which she herself had prepared for him, and immediately after cnea. At any rate his death occurred In the summer of 1800 and a few years later she was the wife of Count Klelmansegge. A silent woman, of elegant bearing and. almost conventual severity in dress, who suddenly appeared in the Plauen Palais during the ap;ed Grafln's last Illness and quietly watched by her bedside, was poularly supposed to have been the offspring of this second marriage. or the no...i few years we know little, save that she plunged headlong Into a life of extravagant pleasure.. Her ambition was limitless, and to gratify it she even sold the estntes bequeathed her by her father. She appears then, conspicuous even amid the brilliancy of the court at St. Cloud, dizzllng: alike in beauty, in talents, in Jewels and attire. The miniatures which she worshiped in the uncanny room In the . Plauensche Grund were given to her then. There was a peculiar kinship between her nature and the intellectual moral unncrupulousness and magnificent audacity of Napoleon Bonaparte. How far he ws rally fasclnatfnl with her can never be told, but she seems to have yielded to nn Infatuation for him which never lessened till her life's close. , It drove from her heart all other thoughts, stifled even the mother love for her own children, if she had ever felt it, and her whole subsequent life was a lament and a tear l'or him. Even in her dying hours her only talk with the neglected daughter who came to her help is said to have been of the man who had been in his grave for nearly forty years. The inevitable soon came, and not long Deiore me lime oi me iaieiui Jtusslan lnasiop. a. divorce separated her from the Count Klelmansegge. RESEMBLED NAPOLEON. At this time a baby boy made his appearance upon he: ancestral estate in Dresden; he remained upon it when it was sold by her; he still stayed on when It passed Into still other hands. His lot was always that of a menial; he was absolved from military service aj incapable; he was discharged by a cooper to whom he had been apprenticed because he was incapable of learning a trade; the cwners of the estate employed him as a servant and messenger, and that he could do. His resemblance to the Grafin K lei man -&egge was striking, and she sent him a few th?Jers each year to eke out his scant resources. But he bore a yet more striking likeness. His face was the counterpart of the great Emperor, and though he had been named Ileinrich he called himself Napoleon Bonaparte. Indeed, in 1S32, just after the coup d'etat, the Saxon embassador sent

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Prices Gallerv, 13c; Balcony. 25c: Dress circle, !0c; nrcheRsta, 73c; orchestra. Circle, $1. Matinee: 2.'c mu vOc. Nte -A copy of Mr. Gardner's new fonic, "Apple tttosKoms'ftconii an on piece to "The Lilacs' wl.l b given to each lady attemun The We lnes ay maMnea ENGLISH'S i Jilxtra Latterok. RHEA AS "JOSEPHINE." Thursday and Friday, Jan. 4 and ", and as the "QU I. N OK S I I K 13 A Saturday matinee and t veutnr PMCEs-Orchestra circle. $ l r0; orchestra snddrert circle, el: balcony. Sue; pulU-ry. 2jc Matinre crches.r circle, 75c; rrmainder lower tioor, 5ov., ba.cony, 2jc seat now m Hug- . All this 'week, matinees every day, tne fatuous WILBUR 0PERAC07 Matinee to day and to-night, 'INDIAN A." Popular Prices 10c, 20c 30c. Next week-DK. CAKVfcli In 'THE SCOUT. empire HE ATE K Corner Wabash and Del. 8U Matinee at 2. 10c, 15c, 25c. Telephone 1703. To-nirht at 8 15c. 23c, 60O ROSE HILT. ENGLISH FOLLY CO Bill posting and ditributin; f r t!xU theater Is done by the Empire Bill Posting Cj. Xexi week UEILLV fc WOODS' BIO SHOW. - WROEGOT-IRON PIPE FOB GciSyStcamaml Ya(er Boirer Tubes, Cat and Malleable Iron Flttmjrs (black and gal vau I z ed, V Ives. Stop rock. Euk4.u TrimniinK'. Steam Ciaugea, IMe Tuiigs. Pipe Cuttera. Vises, Screw Plates and Dies, Wrenches, Steam Traps, Pumps, Kitchen Mnks, llone, Beltinx, lUbl.it Metal Soller. White and Colored Wip. lnc Vat and all other ui- : phes ne I lu connect ou with ja. 81 earn and Water. Nitutal Gas snpplie a specia'ty. Meain-heatlnj? App.irat h Ut Public Bmldim;s.bto:e-rio:i, Mills, Shops. Fact-rffK l.aunrtries, Lumlrr Prv-houe etc. Cut and Thread to order any sire WjojjiM irrn Pip, from hi Inch to li inches diameter. Knight & Jillson, 75 and 77 S. PENNSYLVANIA. ST. him money to come to Paris an l proMt-Uia a claim there as a son of Napoleon 1. He was not unkindly received by the man who afterward, became Napoleon III, nor was his claim altogether repudiated. It Is aid that the fact of his paternity was even sus-. pected by Parisians who chanced to reo him upon the stroet, and that one gentleman thus meeting him secured him an introduction to the Minister Monty, through whom he was- permitted to visit the tomb of Napoleon I. The last scene of worldly activity for tho Grafin Klelmansep-ge opened in 1830. Tho Intense devotion which she had concentrated upon Napoleon during his life, after hl3 death turned not to the Ignorant boy at Dresden, but to the Idolized son of Maria Theresa, the young Duke of Ueichstadt. She was accused of conspiring with a. considerable party in France to have him brought from Vienna and placed upon the throne of his father. She, inde?d. had reached Vienna before the plot was discovered, and she was taken back to Dresden under military escort. She never again left it, Tne unhappy youth soon died, and henceforth her life for thirty years was spent in the randlt lighted room in the Plauensche GrunJ. with her memories and her two m'.nlatures. Once only is she known to have left tho Plauen Palais. A few months before her death, clad in her familiar gray gown, ajul white cap, she was driven Into Dresden In. an old wcrnout drosky, to hf gallery of fashtonahle photographer. "When I am pone you will reap a rich harvest from my picture." she told him after the sitting. Pe r whatever her real importance may or troy not have been, she at least estimated sufficiently high her value as a woman, of mystery. The piles of .manuscript which littered her room were written by herself, and they tell the full story of her life. It may be they have nothing- to reveal which la not personal to the writer. It mar bo that the mystery of her life and her strange atonement are in reality not mvstery at all, and that all that Is worth telling about her ha already been made known. Of that we may not be sure until another twenty years have passed and the full half century Is reached during which the seals of her manuscript were to remain unbroken. But even If no more remains b hind, the pictures which that uncanny nvm and its strange occupant call up are of a character to thrill the Imagination and tingle the nerves with something very near akin to horror. Clvlnnil nn n I'rleml of Temperance. New York Pres. "I hear the tempcrr.nco pcon! are great c'-mirers of President Cleveland " "Are they?" "Yes, and they're thinking of calling a meeting and passing a resolution roi-g that they are." is ' to?" yU 5:nCW What th- rotatlca ''Yes: it is to be something !lkc t'-.u Resolve, that the thanks of a;: rindV of temperance are herebv tenderer to Crov-r Cleveland for the aid he has jrlvi tSS Srn byv, ilnsin about an Industrial cont Jn 0nnfui m;ther Mways keeps Salv. tlon OU handy, for cuU and brulSei,

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