Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1895 — Page 2

'JHE 3KDLAKAP0LIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1895.

tn the treason cases Is so clear ho cannot dispute the (puilt of the American citizens charged with the crime, but has raised om questions as to the Jurisdiction of the nllltary court to entertain these charges. A number of sentences were commuted to-day. Among them were those of Robert Vilcox, .V, T. Seward, W. II. Rlckard find Charles T. Gullck. They were the four leading plotters. Kach man Is sentenced to ferve thirty-five years and to pay a fine of $10,000. These four men were originally sentenced to death, but the verdict of the court was changed to imprisonment by President Dole. Tht3 means that no capital punishment will be inflicted on the leaders of the rebellion. It appears that the President has been opposed to execution, and his feelings were shared by members of the Cabinet, The other sentences are: James Walker, thirty years and $0,000 fine; carl Wldeman, thirty years; William 'Greig, twenty years; Louis Marshall, twenty years. The last two were fined, $10,000 each. James C. Lane was given five years and fined $3,000. Samuel Nowleln . and Henry Bertleman, two of the prominent Jeader3, have been allowed their liberty. They gave, valuable evidence for the government, without which convictions in many ases could not have been secured. Capt. Davis has been sentenced to ten years and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000. He is the man who landed the arms for the rebels. Although the ex-Queen's sentence has not been made public, the correspondent was informed this morning by a Cabinet officer that she has been" sentenced to ferve five years in prison and to pay a line of $5,000. It is understood that the sentence will not be changed by the President. Within the last few days a number of prisoners have been released from custody. Among the number is Charles Clark, who gave the information that afterwards resulted In the discovery of 'the arms and ammunition at sthe ex-Queen's residence. On the 22d Inst, twenty-one rebels were sentenced. These sentences are uniform. The men are each to serve five years at hard laoor. A fine imposed on each man by the commission was remitted by President Dole on advice and consent of the Cabinet. The punishment fixed was the minimum under the statutes. On the 19th Inst, a rumor was going the rounds to the effect that the government was about to ask for British protection. Minister Willis's attitude was tne reason : Klven for this n&dleaLstep. 11 was stated that the representative of the United States had made unreasonable demands when he called on Minister Hatch, the day previous. A government official was seen in regard to the matter and he stated that there was absolutely no truth in the rumor. He said Minister Willis had made no demands. He had simply made a request in regard to some political prisoners who claim the protection of the United States. David Kawanouakou, who was a prince under the monarchy, was arrested on the 20th on a charge of treason. He was afterwards released. .'...- Judge W. W. Dixon, who was a Representative in Congress from Montana in the last United States Congress, is in Honolulu. ; The government was Informed that he was pent here by Chairman McCreary. of the House foreign relations committee to make an investigation and report. When interviewed by the correspondent he denied the report and stated that he came to this country merely for r pleasure trip. The military court is still sitting. V. V. Ashford, who lis serving a sentence of five years for misprision, will probably be allowed to pay a tflne ot $5,000 and depart from the country. Doctors agree that if he Is kept in jail he will die. His health is very poor. . ; The commutation of the death sentences of the court-marial to life imprisonment Is accepted by conservative people in the community as the best final disposition ot the matter. It is believed 'that if there is quiet for some time the prisoners now under sentence will be released. The exQueen nas yet in her power to do some good among the natives, tout it is feared' her natural disposition will prevent her from fully accepting the situation. She may, however, do so, and if she does she will not suffer any hardships at the hands of the government. Her confinement will be at present in the executive building, which was her former palace. She will occupy one of the large rooms formerly used by her. GREATEST IN THE COUNTRY. "

Aator, Lennox and Tllden Trust Libraries to Be Consolidated. V NEW YORK. March 2.-The Evening Post ' says: "The final disposition of the Tilden trust fund has been decided on , and the plan for making use of the $2,000,000 which is how in the hands cjf the trustees has been Informally adopted. Final action will be taken in a short time by the.. governing boards of the Ast or, i Lennox and Tilden trust libraries and New Yorkwill then have a public library which will he greater than any other in this -country. The plan provides for the consolidation of the three libraries and the private library of the late Samuel J. Tilden into one great organization, containing more than 450,000 bound volumes, an Immense collection of valuable pamphlets, manuscripts and paintings and property and endowments amounting to over $8,000,000. The whole property, .which consists of $2,000,000 each from the Astor library and the Tilden trust and $4,000,000 from the Lennox library will b subject to the control of the board of . twenty-one trustees, and the institution will be known as the "Public Library of the City of New York, Astor, Lennox and Tilden foundation." Fight -with Robbers. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., March 2. Superintendent M. J. O'Brien, of the Southern division of the Southern Express Company, lias received a telegram from Southwest City, Mo., stating that a posse of detectives, who have been after two train robbers who held up the Southern Express train at Livingston, Ala., Dec. 31, and whom the posse Iiave chased through Mississippi, Arkansas -find Missouri, found them this morning about 10 o'clock. They offered resistance, and a battle ensued. One of the robbers was shot down and the other escaped. The posse has gone In pursuit, and will catch him before night. A number of Chattanooga people are in the posse. Five Victims of Worthlen Cement. .NEW YORK. March 2. The fall of the building in course of construction in Orchard street yesterday is found to have been more destructive of life than was supposed. To-day. three .corpses were removed fronj the ruins, making the casualTies live Kiuea ana eigni seriously injured. The bodies recovered to-day are those of John Marie, Joseph Crescentix and Joseph . Marr, all of whom were employed on tne building. The names of the other victims are: John Wllsch. - who was dead when taken from the ruins soon after the collapse of the building and Frank- Thornton who died last night soon after reaching the hospital. - , Negro Probably Lynched. - AUGUSTA, Oa., March 2. Charles Robertwon, the negro who murdered Miss Lawrence at Allendale, 8. C, a week ago, was caught aiear Savannah yesterday evening by a posse of citizens and brought to Allendale list night. The sheriff, having heard of ihe murderer's capture, met the train at the railway station, but the posse jumped rff the train before it stopped and hurried he prisoner into the dense woods. One of he party remained on the train and told the sheriff, when, asked for the ' prisoner, that "he had gone to hell." Robertson was presumably lynched by the citizens' posse. Suffocated In a Bath Room, SAN. FRANCISCO, March 2. Miss Grace Anata Benjamin, a beautiful young lady of about twenty years, died from being miffocated In a bath room. The bath room Is small and hot water is obtained by means of a gas burner under a large brass boiler In the center of the room. The attending physicians explained to the coroner that the bath room was so small and the power of the burner so great that the oxygen In th air was quickly . burned out and Miss Benjamin fainted. Locomotive Holler Explodes. ' BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. March 2. The boiler of a locomotive on the Central railroad of Georgia exploded - while the train was near Weems, Ala., at 5 o'clock this morning. Engineer F. A. MeGuire and fireman William Reeves weie instantly killed. The locomotive and three cars were totally demolished, nothing being left of the former but the wheels. No cause for the explosion Is known. ; . , Three Girls Drowned. SEROENT, Ky., March 2. News has reached here to the effect that three young ladies Misses Hettle and Mamie Logan and Linda Fields were drowr.ed while skating on Pound river. In Buchanan county, Va. They broke through the ice In sixteen feet of water and sunk before aid could reach them. - Their bodies were recovered. Distinguished Arrivals. NEW YORK. March 2. Among the passengers trrlving by the steamer New York from Southampton to-day were Howard Gould. Judge George Hillyer. Lieut. Wm. A. Holbrook. Samuel I Clemens . (Mark Twain). Gen. G. J. Kchoeffel, Alfred T. Gay wd Thomas T. Wilson. Bookkeeping at Yale. NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Marcn 2.-The faculty have decided to establish a course of bookkeeping in the Yale Law School, and nave engaged an expert accountant as instructor. This is an entirely new feature la law school instruction

OSCAR WILDE ANGRY

CAUSES THE ARREST OP THE MAIU Q.UIS OP dlEESSUEIlRY. , lit; Charges the Titled Sport frith a Libel The Marquis Taken to a. Police Court. LONDON, March 2. The - Marquis of Queensberry was remanded on ball at the Marlborough-s'treet Police Court to-day, charged with libeling Oscar Wilde. It appears that the Marquis left with a porter at the Albemarle Club a card on which was written an offensive remark referring to Oscar Wilde. A lawyer, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Wilde, said that the latter who was on affectionate terms with his wife and child, had been the object of a system of the most cruel persecution at the hands of the Marqui3 of Queensberry during the last ten months. The lawyer added that, owing to the situation of affairs in the family of the Marquis of Queensberry, Mr. Wilde was most unwilling to take steps towards criminally prosecuting the Marquis. But he had been so fearfully persecuted that matters had now reached a climax, and he was obliged, in self protection, to take action against the Marquis. Oscar Wilde and his wife are "both members of the Albemarle Club, and on Feb. 28, it appears, one c the hall porters handed Mr. Wilde a card, which the Marquis of Queensberry had lert for him. Written on this card were three most offensive and indecent words, implying that Mr. Wilde was addicted to unnatural vices. This card had been lying in the club ten days before Mr. Wilde received it. - Counsel for Mr. Wilde added that after a couple of witnesses had been heard he would ask that the case be adjourned for a week, when the whole matter would be gone Into as Mr. Wilde did not propose to rest the case simply on the question of the libel referred to. He proposed to go into other eases which had occurred before and after they had been investigated counsel would ask the magistrate to commit the Marquis' of Queensberry to prison. The hall porter then testified to receiving the card and an inspector of police deposed to having arrested the Marquis at 9 o'clock this morning. . in Carter's Hotel, Dover street. The inspector said that when he read the warrant to the Marquis, the latter replied that he thought that in such cases proceedings were generally taken by summons. But he- ''supposed it was all right," and asked the Inspector to tell him the date when the card was left at the Albemarle Club. When the police officer informed him that It was on Feb. IS, the Marquis said he had been wanting to find Mr. Wilde for nine or ten days. f The inspector then escorted the Marquis to the police station. Sir George Lewis. Q. C, the well-known lawyer, appeared for the Marquis of Queensberry. He said that he ventured to say, that when the circumstances in the case were more fullv known the magistrate would find that the Marquis had acted under feelings of great Indignation. , Magistrate Mr. Newton here interposed saying: "We cannot go into that now." Continuing, Sir George Lewis said that he did not wish the case to be adjourned without it being known that there was nothing in the case against the honor of the Marquis of Queensberry. Thereupon, Mr. Newton remarked: "You mean to say that you have a complete answer to the charge?" Counsel for the Marquis replied: "I want my client released on his own recognizance in 1,000." .. . To this request the magistrate said that he would want a surety in faOO in addition. and flftpr a merrhant 1Sfca Ynn - - . . .... v v t ijoci uri.au ITZ surety for the Marquis the case was adjourned, v 1 , Throughout the court proceedings the Marquis was perfectly composed and when counsel for Mr. Wilde remarked that the second word written on the card was illegible, the Marquis coolly explained what the word was. : ' ' m - LONDON" GOSSIP. Influenza Still Causing Havoc Anions Prominent Men Personal. LONDON, March 2. The influenza epidemic Is still causing havoc among the prominent men in and out of Parliament. The . disease has spread with greater rapidity than any of the previous four epidemics of influenza. Lord Rosebery, who is among the distinguished sufferers, was improving yesterday evening, but the recovery of the Conservative leader in the House of Commons, Mr. A. J. Balfour, is slow. Of the other notable patients. Lord Dunraven w-as able to leave his house yesterday, and It may be said that he has already completely recovered. Queen Victoria has reciived from the Chinese embassador a beautiful satin scroll, worked with gold and Bllver, and bearing Chinese characters. This scroll was sent to her Majesty by the dowager Empress of China In acknowledgment of Queen Victoria's gift to the dowager Empress on the occasion of the latter's birthday. Largely influenced by the Prince of Wales, the English Kennel Club has made aAruV5 that no dog born after, March SI, 1835, can win a prize at any show held under the Kennel Club rules if its ears are cropped. - Prince Henry of Battenburg's yacht. Sheila, has been refitted at Cowes. and will leave that place on Monday next for : the Mediterranean in order to take part in the regattas there. Mr. Foxhall Keene. of New York, has just registered his racing colors here. They are wnite wnn Diue spots. The will of the late Edward Salomon, the composer, provides that his personal estate, valued at 100, be given to his widow. Hall Calne's novel, "The Manxman," has been withdrawn from circulation in the Ealing Public Library on the ground that it is not suitable for general reading, and Grant Allen's "The Woman Who Did" Is not allowed to be exposed for sale on the railway book stalls of Ireland.. Joseph Tasker, the young spendthrift, whose suits against Streeter & Co., the Bond-street jewelers. on the ground of overcharges to the amount of $85,000. have amused all London, is a son of Countess Tasker, who got her title from the Pope. Tasker married a daughter of the Queen's butcher at Windsor. i Johannes Brahms, the German composer, has accepted membership in the Royal Academy of Bologna. Address by the Pooer ROME, March 2.' The Pope to-day gave a reception in honor of the seventeenth anniversary of his coronation. Cardinals and many of the nobles were in attendance. Addressing the members of the Sacred College, he said: "Tho heavenly spirit has borne us towards the Eastern churches. We desire that these churches may again flourish by reason of their union with the see of St. Peter. While their elements of faith, their devotion to the Christian life will prove of advantage to the West, the whole church will experience from them a vigor which will not be without an effect uvon the brethren of other religions." The Pope expressed the conviction that the church would ultimately triumph over political hindrances, which have a tendency to prevent the union of the churches of the East and West. He exhorted his hearers to pray for this cause, the day of the realization of which would be one of the most memorable for the church, giving to ail nations a new religious life. The Pope is In good health and did not appear fatigued by the reception. - Many Russian Students Injured ST. PETERSBURG, March 2. It is asserted that besides the twenty men who ?vere badly injured and placed under arrest during the recent student riots fifty others are still under treatment at the hospitals. Most of thwm are terribly disfigured by the wounds inflicted by the police, who were commanded by the governor of St. Petersburg. Sixteen hundred students held a noisy meeting yesterday, and called upon Rector Nikitine to resign. The rector prom ised to accede, but exhorttd them to be calm and retire in small groups, since any large assemblage would be dispersed with out loss ot time oy tne t ossacKs, j nc riotiner was renewed at the Philological In stitute to-day, in consequence of which the Cossacks cleared the streets. Cheers for King Oscar. STOCKHOLM, March 2. The members ot the two chambers of Parliament, the officers of the array and navy, the state officials and an immense crowd of ladies, carrying bouquets of flowers so arranged as to display the national colors, met King Oscar at the railroad station here to-day on his return from Norway in order to indicate their approval of the conduct of the Kins during the political crisis. The call of the president of the first chamber for cheers for the King met with an enthusiastic response. Victory for llraslllan Rebels. RIO DE JANEIRO. March 2.-The Insurgents In the province of Itlo Grande do Sul

have defeated a detachment of government troops and have captured General Sampaio, commander of the garrison of Santa Ana. ;

Cable Notes. A valuable painting, representing Pallas (Athens), by Botticelli, and dated 1480, has been discovered in the apartments occupied by the Duke of Alosa, nephew of the King of Italy, in the Pitti palace at Florence. An American named Newin has Just died at Muralta. near Locarno, Switzerland. As Newin was a Protestant the communal council, at the instance of the local Catholic priest, ordered the church bells not to be rung at the funeral. The friends of Newin made an appeal to the government, which decided to compel the communal council to countermand its order. ISMAIL PASHA "DEAD ONCE KHEDIVE OF EGYPT, BIT FORCED TO ABDICATE. Death of John Stuart Blackle, the Noted English Author, Historian and Scholar. . '. CAIRO, March 2. Ismail Pasha, ex-Viceroy and Khedive of Egypt. i3 dead, the news being received from Constantinople. Ismail Pasha was announced to be dying Dec. 29 last, and the announcement was repeated several times since, but this is the first official announcement of his death. ' The dead Pasha was the ex-Khedive of Egypt, a grandson of the celebrated Mehemet All, was born In Cairo in 1830, and succeeded his brother, Said Pasha, Jan. 18, 18G3. Ismail was educated in Paris, and on his return to Egypt, in 1849, opposed the policy of Abbas Pasha, the then Viceroy or Khedive. In 1S64 Ismail had much trouble with M. Da Lesseps in relation to the Suez canal, and the difficulties had to be arranged by Emperor Napoleon. From thi3 on the Pasha took great interest in the undertaking, and when near the completion, in 1869, he visited many of the capitals of Europe to secure the attendance of royalty at the opening. On this journey the Khedive, by his air , of sovereignty, greatly offended the Sultan, but the quarrel was amicably settled. The great event of his reign as Viceroy was the attempt to Europeanize Egypt, which resulted in Egypt acquiring a national debt of 80,000,000. Greatly embarrassed for funds, the Khedive sold his stock in the - Suez canal to the British government for 4.000.000. Finally, becoming aware s of the hopeless state of his finances, he applied to the British government for a financier to come to Egypt ' and straighten out his affairs. The measures proposed and arranged by the shrewd English resulted in the Khedive being rendered powerless, his great estates being taken from him for his creditors and a ministry appointed with English representatives that practically made Ismail a nonentity. Naturally . revo lutionary schemes resulted, but the English ana rTench worked on the Sultan until one fine day in 1879 the Khedive found himself shorn of his authority. He had to abdicate in favor of his son. Prince Tewfik. Ismail left the country, but was not permitted to land at Constantinople and took up his residence at Naples. In 1886 Ismail brought a claim against Egypt for 5,000,000 pounds, which he alleged was the value of his private property of which he had been robbed and his counsel, who was an Englishman, succeeded in recovering the greater part of the claim. John Stuart Blackle. LONDON, March 2. Prof. John Stuart Blackle, the well knovn author, historian and scholar. Is dead at the age of eightysix years. - Among students Professor Blackle is well recommended for his opposition to the moral philosophy of John Stuart Mill, his criticism of historian Grote in his estimate of the Greek sophists, and of Prof. Max Mueller for his allegorical interpretation of ancient myths. Professor Blackle was born at Glasgow, in 1809. He early devoted himself to the study of languages, history and philosophy, and was for a long time professor of Greek lu Edinburgh University. His first of his many published works was a metrical translation of Goethe's "Faust," in 1834. In 1841 h took the Latin professorship at Aberdeen:; His metrical translation of Aeschylus led to his appointment to the Greek chair atr Edinburgh in 1852. He became a profound Greek student and in 1866 published a translation of the Iliad in ballad measure. He was also author of the "Homer" article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His most popular work was "Self Culture," a small volume of pratical advice to young men' Issued in 1874. It had a remarkable sale in England, India, America and Europe. Other publications were a volume of Greek translations in 1852; in 1857, "Songs of Ancient Greece;" in the following year, "A Treatise on Beauty," in 18d0, "Lyrical Poems in English and Latin;" "Notes and Dissertations;" in 1839, a volume of student songs entitled "Musa Burschieosa;" in 1870, in proof of his sympathy with the fatherland in her struggle with France, a volume of "War Songs of the Germans;" in 1871, "Four Phases of Morals;" in 1872, "Lays of the Highlands and Islands;" in 1874, "Horae Hellenicae;" in 1876, "Songs of Religion and Life;" in 1881, the new edition of "Faust," and in 1882, "Altavona." Since that time much of his work has been confined to Scottish works. His life of Burns came in 1887, and in 1889 "A Song of Lewes," being a series of historical ballads on persons of representative men from Abraham to Wellington and Nelson. Grand Duke Alexis MlchaelovKz. SAN REMO, Italy, March 2. Grand Duke Alexh Michaelovitz is dead. The deceased should not be confounded with the Grand Duke Alexis, of Rusia, the uncle of Czar Nicholas II. of Russia. The dead man was only a second cousin of the Czar, and but little Is known of him. What His Fame Rests On. Washington Letter. The number of young men in the next House is extraordinarily large. There are also a good many sound business men and men of wealth. Among the conspicuous examples of the eccentricity of the sovereign people when they go to the polls out of humor, was the election of Milford W. Howard, a Populist from Alabama, whose only claim to distinction is that he wrote "If Christ Came to Congress." He first appeared in Washington as an office-seeker, and failing in that. ' with ready adaptation to circumstances and not hampered by too strong a sense of fitness and propriety, he collected and strung together all the scandals of Washington history, a few true and many imaginary, and published them as a novel of Washington life. It is said that in doing thishe not only made some money, but settled some old scores. He will probably not have a very wide circle of intimates in Congress, but he will have an opportunity to observe more closely the social evils of congressional life. The Mexican Rallnuy "Wreck. CITY OF MEXICO. March 2. The Mexican government has commenced i rigid examination of the trainmen and officials of the Interoceantc railroad in an attempt to fix the culpability for the railway disaster on the parties to blame. The engineer, brakemen and conductor on the ill-fated train were examined, and fuller reports of the disaster are expected. The engineer was Join Neufe and the conductor J. H. Steele, both Americans.. The Jefe Polijieo, of Tenango. with some mounted rurales, had the bodies of the dead laid out on the bnk for identification on the arrival of the relief train, and refused to permit them to b? brought to the city, taking complete official examination of the scene of the wreck. Stock Yards Boycotted. ST. LOUIS, March 2. The carpenters' district, council has declared a boycott on the product of the Union Stock Tar Is Company, and its action has been indorsed by the trades and labor union of -St. Louis. It is claimed by the carpenters' council that the company is working its men ten hours a day for about one-half the union scale. Three Men Blown to Pieces. ADELPHI, O.. March 2. The boiler in the sawmill of John McGroom, twelve miles from " here. expiied this morning with terrific force. Thr:.e men Snider, Brown snd McBriie wr-i- blown to pieces. Schmidt's skull was crushed. McGroom's legs were broken, and Augberg was badiy hurt. : - Captain Doherty Xot Convicted. NEW Y(lRK, Slirc'ii 2. The jury in the case of exl'olice Oar tain Doherty. accused of accept ink "pmUvHon" money from the keeper of a disorderly house, has reported a disagreernent. ' v. Movement..'! of Steamers. NEW YORK. Mh 2. Arrived: Adriatic, from Liverpool: Net.' Ywrk, from Southampton; Colorado, fro.Ti Iluii,

A TENNESSEE CHIME

II. C. EVANS MAKES A PLAIN STATE3IENT TO THE PEOPLE How -the Legislature, at the Instance of Turney, Conspired to Hob Him of the Governorship. NASHVILLE. Tenn., March 2. Hon. H. C. Evans made public to-day a four-column address to the people of the State in which he reviews the history of the gubernatorial question step by step and the history of the investigations in each county so far had. explaining his position again. He insists that virtually his case has been emasculated by the rules adopted by the investigating committee .and to which rules the committee has restricted him and his attorney. He claims that the verdict of the people was expressed at the polls and that there was no doubt of his election. That later the entire machinery of the State government was put in operation apparently for reversing and setting aside the will of the people. He then refers to the delay in announcing the returns and the delay of the. Legislature In opening and canvassing the returns filed with the Speaker of the Senate, claiming that the Constitution fixes a date for the announcement of the result, and that the resoluion adopted by the Legislature in reference to thismatter was unconstitutional. He also claims that the Legislature kindly framed a contest law to meet the wishes of Governor Turney as to a contest, although there was no contest law on the statute books and the people had always acquiesced ia the result .as shown by the official returns. He claims this contest law was officially approved by Governor Turney fifteen days after his term of office had expired by constitutional limit. He then sets . out the proceedings of the joint convention in opening the returns, the filing of his protest as to the unconstitutionality of the proceedings, the objections to the vote of the counties made by Evans and Turney. and his taking the oath of office after the last county had been called and its vote announced loing so upon advice of attorneys that the law and the Constitution had been complied with as to opening and publishing the returns, they showing he had a plurality of the vpt-s cast. , Mr. Evans then reviews the petition of Turney and his own answer, the bill of particulars filed by Turney and his own answer, and the appointment of the committee of investigation. As to the committee he charges that, instead of proceeding to take evidence upon the charges made by contestant and contestee, deliberately proceeded to legislate, make judicial rulings and decisions by which his pleadings and charges were emasculated and the most serious charges eliminated, to which his attorneys filed exceptions. , He charges that the majority of the committee decided what should be investigated and what passed over until "now nothing remains in the case except the application of a strictly technical rule in Republican counties." In conclusion he says ho wants the people to know he Is not responsible for this farce; that he finds he is engaged in an unequal . contest; that the entire power of the State government is arrayed against him. except the militia, which has not yet been called out, and that he is the first legally elected Governor of Tennessee or any other State accorded the privilege of being a contestee while the defeated candidate is allowed to hold over and usurp the functions of office In accordance with a so-called law passed at his (Turney' s) request. Finally, he Fays: "I beg leave to remind you that neither my counsel nor myself have done anything from the beginning, and will not to the ending, that will in any way ' bring Bhame upon the food name of the good people of Tennessee, have made the fight believing in the right and justice of our cause, strictly within the limits of the law and the Constitution, and I trust that hereafter when the partisan clouds of political hatred and Injustice have cleared away you may approve my course and become convinced that I made a creditable defense of the people of the State." The address was made public in this city this afternoon and excited but little comment. CAISE TO-REJOICE. ' ; Minnesota House Is Glad Congress Is About to Adjourn. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 2. By unanimous vote to-day the House refused to investigate the distribution of the world's fair appropriation, after warm discussion. In which it was positively stated that members were weary of charges of all sorts, unsupported by knowledge of fraud. The debate clearly, showed the probable action on the tiroposed investigation and possible impeachment of Governor Clough and Bank Examiner Kehyon. i' i, - . In the House . to-day Representative Downs introduced, and the House adopted by unanimous vote, resolutions stating "that the Fifty-third Congress would cease to exist Monday; that the people have during this Congress been subjected to untold domestic misery, financial distress and political disgrace; that American patriots are invited to celebrate the hour of deliverance, thereby declaring they have determined that never again will they trust the business affairs of this great Nation to Democratic hands." Mose Gunst Can Stay In Office. SAN FRANCISCO, March 2. Judge Sanderson to-day decided that Mose Gunst, the well-known' sporting man, whose appointment by Governor Markham as police commissioner of San Francisco started a wave of reform and investigation over the entire State, can continue in office, in spite of Gov. Budd's attempts to displace him. and the Governor had no power to remove a, member of the police commission, though he can appoint one in case of vacancies. Ballots for Senators. DOVER, Del., March 2. One ballot was taken for United States Senator to-day. It resulted as fo)Iows: Higgins, 6; Addicks, C; Massey. 4; Bayard, 4; Wolcott, 6. BOISE, Ida., March 2. The senatorial ballot to-day was as follows: Shoup, 19; Sweet, 18; Claggett, 14. THE POPE ASD THE BICYCLE. His Holiness Criticised for Objecting to the Popular Wheel. New York Advertiser. It would be pleasant to agree .with so eminent a personare as the Pope, but we find ourselves occasionally unable to do it. The Sovereign Pontiff thought enough of the bicycle to appoint a commission to consider the propriety of priests riding the same, but he ha3 taken advantage of his ecclesiastical prerogative and rejects the report, which was favorable to the practice, and decides that it would not be becoming In priests, to bestride the universal wheel. Specifically his Holiness sets forth that tht3 would allow priests to carry the viaticum to the sick on a safety and that such a performance "would be contrary to the dignity of religion." With all deference to the holy office, we do not think the point is well taken, and for several reasons. A priest after becoming a reasonably expert wheelman could reach a sick man much sooner on a bicycle than on foot, and even sooner than if he rode on horseback or drove In a vehicle. The question of dignity should not, it seems to up, enter into the consideration of means to reach at the quickest possible moment the sick and dying with the last sacred offices of the church. " The Father of Christianity did not lower the dignity of religion when he went about upon an ass healing the sick and doing good. And man cannot be vehleled in anything that is less suggestive of dignity than a solemn donkey. The Pope should give tais bicycle question a second thought. We really believe the wheel is a good thing and should be pushed along in ecclesiastical circles. Paper as an Insulator. Boston Transcript. For many purposes paper, next to wire, is an excellent insulation, and it has, of late, come extensively into use In telephonic and other cables. But it is not generally known that such an insulation has been tried under water. This is, however, the fact, and one such cable is now doing excellent work. Of course, the cable is lead-covered and otherwise protected, but it depends for Its insultation, electrically, on thin spirals of paper around each stranded interior. The laying of such a cablo might, a few years ago, have been considered little short of suicidal, but experience has demonstrated the perfect practicability of the scheme, in considering the laying of such cables in such situations the fact is important that a 100-pair, paper-insulated, lead-covered cable can be bought for 50 cents a foot, while the rubber-insulated cabla would probably cost not less than $3 per foot; while, figured on v - of -i e'trical effectiveness, the price would be fifty or a hundred to one in favor of tho paper cable other con-

derations left out It will thus be seen that even if It be admitted that the paper cable Is risky under water, Its cheapness is such that one can afford apparently to throw It away when it has developed serious defects and to put in a new one BIG FIRE AT TOftONTO

OXTARIO'S CAPITAL AGAIN' LOSES HEAVILY BY FLAMES. Disastrous Blase Early This Morning Properly Worth T.V,000 DestroyedOther Fires. TORONTO, Ont., March 3.-2 a. m. Toronto has been visited by its third disastrous fire within a month. The Globe office was destroyed on the 6th of February, the Osgoociby building was destroyed on the 10th of the same month, and now Simpson's immense dry goods establishment, six stories high, only recently erected, is a mass of ruins. The fire started a few minutes before 1 o'clock in Wanless's Jewelry store and quickly communicated with Simpson's dry goods store and the fire is now across the street. AH efforts of the firemen are futile and it cannot be ascertained what the damages will be, or where the fire will end. - 2:30 a. m. The fire at 'this hour is still spreading. Knox Presbyterian Church on Queen street and Jameson's clothing store are burned. Loss exceeds $750,000. f Heavy Loss at Sallna. SALINA, Kan., March 2.-11:45 p. m. A fire is raging in the business portion, of this city. Already four of the finest brick blocks are in ruins, and although the firemen are fighting heroically, it looks as though all. of the west side of Santa Fe avenue, from the Ober block north to Iron, avenue, will go up in flames. - Fire started at 9:30 o'clock in the basement of the Ober block, a fine three-story structure. The fire has consumed the Ober block, the Greer block, the Masonic Temple, and is now in the Grand Central Hotel, where a desperate effort is being made to check it. The loss so far is over $300,000. At 10:30 aid was asked of Topeka, but transportation could not be obtained at that place, and Salina firemen settled down to fight the flames alone. Other Fires. ALTON, 111., March 2. The President mills, at Bethalto, several miles east of here, burned to-day. They were owned by D. K. Kauffamann, of St. Louis, and valuqd at $150,000. The property is a total loss. The tire originated from an explosion produced by spontaneous combustion in the dust room. The mills had a capacity of 1,500 barrels daily. CHICAGO, March 2. The Globe molding works, Henry and Brown streets, were destroyed by fire to-day.- Loss, $100,000. The building stood among a large number, of cottages, many if which narrowly escaped destruction. : AKRON, O., March 2. The works of the Akron China Company were destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock this morning. Loss on buildings and machinery Is $50,000; on stock, $12,000; insurance, $15,000. CONGRESS IS DYING. (Concluded from First Page.) ing submarine communication with Hawaii, Mr. Morgan said that meant that Congress was to pass a law to accomplish this purpose. If, inquired Mr. Morgan the government had the constitutional ppwer (and I find all . the constitutional seats vacated to-night) to spend government money making a survey for the cable, why should it not lay the cable? Why could it not do so now? In the course of his argument he questioned whether any citizen of Hawaii might be Induced "to wear the toga which some men in the Senate disgraces." Recess Taken at 3 a. m. WASHINGTON, March 3.-3:20 a. m. The naval bill has not passed the Senate. The sundry civil bill, with the Tennessee exposition, the monetary conference, Nicaragua canal and some other amendments, is still in conference. The diplomatic and consular bill is in- conference, with a disagreement on the Hawaiian cable item. The Indian "bill is also in conference, with three amendments pending No conference has yet been held on the deficiency bill. A joint resolution was adopted for the settlement of a claim due by the government to the State of West Virginia. The partial agreement of the conferees on the sundry civil bill was reported, the agreements confirmed and the disagreements sent back to conference. At 3 a. m., on motion of Mr. Gorman, the Senate took a recess until 2 p. m. to-day. ' t . WORK OF THE HOUSE. Many Bills Passed with, a IlnNn General Sickles Reproves Reed. 1 WASHINGTON, March 2. The House, figuratively speaking, rolled up its sleeves to-day and entered on the work of the last legislative day of this session. It requires a steady eye and swift and accurate judgment to pilot matters legislative through the home stretch, and the Speaker, who is as much of an autocrat in the closing hours of a dying Congress as the Czar -of Russia, held a tight rein. It was to be an all-day and all-night session, and the galleries were thronged, especially In the evening, when the scene was truly a brilliant one. In the An . . C. ,1 I ' ' tlons to pass bills by unanimous consent and under suspension of the rules, and several were passed, among them one to reimburse officers and sailors of the navy who had lost personal property in wrecked vessels; to grant the Fort Hayes military reservation (comprising 6,000 acres) to the State of Kansas for the establishment of a western branch of the State Agricultural College of Kansas, and to reimburse Washington and Lee University of Virginia ta the extent of $17,000 ( for injuries sustained by it during the war. An attempt to pay members salaries withheld for absenteeism failed by a few votes, although it carried on a rising vote by an overwhelming majority. At the night session the conference report on th sundry civil bill, which contained the Senae provisions for the purchase of the Blaine site, the payment of the sur bounty, the purchase of a printing office 6lte, etc., had the right of way. Mr. Sayres, chairman fcf the appropriationa committee, was at the helm, and although the debate on the sugar bounty was af times almost riotous, he held the tiller firm, and long after midnight, in the presence of crowded gaHeries, the debate went on. . A drizzling rain was falling outside and the flags on the Capitol flapped limply against their poles when the "House entered on Its last legislative day. Tomorrow (Sunday) Is a dies non in legislation, and when Speaker Crisp's gavel dropped at noon there was the prospect of a forty-eight-hour session ahead. Fully two hundred members were on the floor. The chaplain, the Rev. Br. Bagby, in his prayer, referring to the dying Congress, invoked the divine blessing on its work.. ONE EVERY HALF MINUTE. About twenty-five Senate bills-and resolutions were laid before the House and most of them favorably acted on. Among them was the Senate bill to grant to the State of Kansas the Fort Hayes military reservation (comprising 6,000 acres) for the establishment of a Western branch of the State Agricultural College. Pension bills favorably acted on at last night's session were passed at the rate of one every half minute. ' Requests for unanimous consent rained in, but met with objections in almost every instance. Finally, Mr. Tucker was recognized to pass a bill under suspension of the rules appropriating $17,000. for Washington and Lee University (to reimburse it for injuries sustained during the war.) After some debate, in which Messrs. Dolliver, Hltt and Powers argued the justice of the claim, Mr. Reed protested against considering the bill on sentimental grounds instead of the grounds of reason and wisdom. "Whoever provokes war." said he, "must take the consequences even of lawlessness which destroys institutions of learning." General Sicklen, under whose directions he repairs to Washington and Lee Univer1 sity were made, while he was in command ! of the Department of the Carolinas after the war, took Issue with Mr. Reed. "War was war," said he. "Its cruelties are numerous. Everything must b sacrificed to attain the ends sought. But when the war Is

over we may rightfully go back to the proclamation of Lincoln, which breathed the hrnfldprt fhrlstlan nvmnnthv ' 1 hnmsnt. '

tarianism, and fulfill the implied promise ! that institutions of learning and religion should be held sacred." A round of applause greeted General Sickles's appeal. The bill was passed without division.The general deficiency bill was sent to conference. Messrs. Breckinridge. Savers and Cannon were appointed conferees on the part of the House. Mr. Hatch rtesented the conference report of the agricultural bill, showing a full agreement on all disputed points. The report was agreed to. THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. On motion of Mr. Bland, a resolution was adopted, designating the Secretary of the Treasury, superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, and the director of the mint ' as a commission to investigate and report to the next Congress the advisability of the adoption of the decimal system. Mr. Latimer was recognized to move the passage, under suspension of the rules, of a bill to pay Newberry College, S. C $150.000 for Injuries received by It during the war. Mr. Bartlett demanded a second. A second was offered, but after some debate the bill was defeated on a rising vote. Mr. Wise then offered a resolution directing the Sergeant-at-arms to pay to meii.bers the amount of their salaries withheld on account of absence. Under an oil statute discovered early in the first session of this Congress, members were required to certify to their presence in the House and their salaries for such days as they were absent for other reasons than sickness of themselves or families were withheld. Mr. Dearmond demanded a second, which was ordered 145 to 45. . Mr. Wise said he would , not have offered the resolution if the law had been fairly executed. Deductions had been made from the salaries of but a few members. Ihe vast majority had refused to certify their absence under a law that had been in force for twenty years. - 1 Mr. Dearmond. In opposition to the resolution, called attention of members to the fact that the House had already decided by a yea and nay vote that Section 40 of the Revised Statutes was In force. He taunted members with trying to backslide. "It is much in fashion," said he, sarcastically, "during the closing hours of a dying Congress to make ample provision for its members by its members." Mr. Bynum and Mr. Boatner opposed the resolution. The result of the vote was 148 to 64, fourteen answering "present," but not voting. The Speaker decided that two-thirds of those present had not voted for the resolution, and declared it lost. Mr. Holman presented the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill, showing a partial agreement. The report was agreed to and the bill sent to further conference. At 6 o'clock the House took a recess until 8 o'clock. . .. . THE NIGHT SESSION. At S o'clock, when the House reconvened, the galleries' were crowded with visitors, and the scene on the floor .was an animated one. Mr. Sayers, chairman of the committee on appropriations, . presented the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bills. In explanation of the report Mr. Sayers said the Senate had added $3,972,000 to the bill as it passed the House. Of this amount the Senate had receded from $1,661,391 and the House agreed to $2,473.000, leaving about $5,800,000 still in dispute. Among the provisions to which the House refused to yield were the Senate provision for the retirement of the revenue marine officers, the appropriation of $150,000 for the purchase of the site of the Blaine residence, the $o,000,00i) ' for the sugar bounties, $125,000 for the Tennessee exposition, the Senate provision for the investigation and survey of the Nicaragua canal route, $121,00) for the purchase of additional ground for the printing office site, and the Senate amendment providing for a b.metallic conference. The report was agreed to. Mr. Sayers then asked the House to further insist on Its disagreement to the amendments specified. After some little skirmishing this action was taken in the case of the amendment for the purchase of the Blaine site. The amendment relating to the retirement of the revenue marine officers was the occasion of a characteristic speech from Champ Clark, of Missouri, who defeated bills for a similar purpose on two previous occasions. He insisted that to retire the officers of the revenue cutter service would be the first step In the direction of establishing a civil pension list.- Mr. Mallory made an earnest plea In favor of agreement to the amendment. It was finally decided that the House should Insist on its disagreement to that portion of the amendment relating to the retirement of revenue marine officers and agree to the provisions for a revenue cutter for service on the Pacific coast, to cost $200,000. . The House receded from its disagreement to the amendment for the payment of $125,000 to the victims of the Ford Theater disaster. The great contest came on the Senate amendment appropriating $o,000,000 for the payment of the sugar bounties for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. Mr. Robertson moved that the House recede from Its disagreement to, this amendment. Mr. Beckner argued the justice of the proposition to pay the sugar bounty for this year, on the ground that the government should keep faith with the sugar planters who had planted their crop with the government's promise of a bounty in view. Mr. Grout supported Mr. Robertson's motion in the interest of the maple sugar producers of New England. Mr. Dockery interrupted the discussion of the bounty provision to present the conference report on the legislative appropriation" bill (a full agreement), and, without debate, it was agreed to. TARSNEY AGAINST BOUNTIES. Mr. Tarsney opposed the paymeit of the sugar bounty. He denied that there was an equity in the claim. They had the notice of the Democratic platform of 1892 that the bounty was to be repealed, and on Feb. 2, 1892, the House, by an, overwhelming vote, gave notice that the bounty was to go. Mr. Tarsney reviewed the fight made by the Sugar Trust in the Senate. For five months It had held up the tariff bill, and had finally forced an ad valorem duty of 40 per cent, on raw and a .differential on refined sugar. "And yet," he said, "they talk about equity. Let them give back the 40 per cent, which is to continue indefinitely before they plead the equity of their claim." Mr. Boatner rehearsed the history of the bounty, which by law was to continue for fifteen years, and indignantly declared that the failure of Congress to vote the bounty, at least for this year, meant repudiation. Mr. Williams, in, opposition, Insisted that the payment was no better than a donation, to which merchants who held goods on which the tariff was reduced by the act of 1894 were as much entitled as the sugar planters. - Mr. Outhwaite spoke of the bounty as a bribe to win Louisiana from her ancient political alliance. At this point the conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was reported and adopted. The Senate had added amendments amounting to $750,354. of which $387,808 was dropped in conference, so that the bill carried $5,745,643. : Proceeding,' Mr. Outhwaite said, amid a burst of Republican applause, that if the sugar bounty was to be paid the wool growers should be paid an indemnity for the loss of the tariff on wool and the manufacturers for the reductions on their products. Mr. Wilson, in support of the payment of the bounty, said it was extremely unfortunate that this question came before the House as an independent proposition instead of being made one of the legitimate compromises of the tariff law. He was not willing to have his vote, on this question KJ 0n record without an explanation. To no one, he said, was a bounty more repugnant than to him. But a bounty having been given by the act of 1890. wrongly as he believed, and certainly against the wishes of the sugar-oroducing State, it became the duty of Congress to deal . with things as they were found. Therefore, when the tariff bill was first reported to the House It contained a provision to repeal that bounty gradually. In the spirit of justice and equity, dealing with a great industry, the ways and means committee believed the bo ity should not be stricken down at a sinale blow, and to-day. dealing with it in the same spirit in which the tariff was framed, he usd believe the sugar growers were entitled to at least a proportion of the sugar bounty they had earned In 1893-94 under the then existing law. Mr. Cannon of Illinois taunt d the Democrats who arose and declared their unalterable opposition to a bounty to build up an industry, and who to-night were ready to vote for a bounty that was an empty gratuity. He should never vote for it. . "Would you not pay your debts if you were going out of business?" asked Mr. "I would." replied Mr. Cannon, "but I should have no preferred creditors. I should pay the tin manufacturers of Pittsburg, the wool growers of Ohio and all the others affected by the new tariff law as well as the sugar growers." Turning to his Republican friends Mr. Cannon appealed to them to let the Democrats of Louisiana reap the consequences of their own folly. Mr. Hendrlx made a vicious attack on the bounty proposition, in the course of which he made several personal thrusts at Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means committee. He referred to the Scotchman who wrote to Sir Robert Peel that hi (Peel's) principles were right, but for heav- . en's sake not to apply them to his red , herring. "So here comes the gentleman i from West Virginia, the great champion of I tariff reform," said he Ironically, "after u

trip to Mexico and a trip to Europe, with Cabinet portfolio under one arm and a little red herring under the other." (Laughter and applause.) SUGAR BOUNTY CARRIED. After further debate, the motion to recede? from the disagreement on the sugar bounty amendment was carried 133 to 121 as follows: Yeas Adams of Pennsylvania, Alderwon, Aldrlch. Baker of New Hampshire, Bartholdt, Bartlett, Breckner. Berry. Bingham, Blair, Boatner, Bowers of California, Breckinridge, Brlckner. Broderlck, Bromwell. Bynum, Cadmus, Caminetti, Campbell, Caruth, Catchlngs, Chlckering. Chltds, Clarke of Alabama. Cobb of Missouri, Coffin, Covert. Curtis. Dalzell. Daniels. DeVey, De Forest, Denson, Donovan, Draper, Dunn, Durborow. English of California, Lrdman, Everett. Fielder. Fletcher. Forman, Gardner, Geary. Geissenhuiner, Goldzier Gorman, Gresham. Griffin of Michigan, Griffin of Wisconsin, Grout, Grow, Hager, Hainer. Haynes. Harmer, Harris, liartman, Haugen. Helner, Hermann. Hicks. Hooker of Mississippi, Hooker of New York. Krebbs, Iapham, Lefever, Loud. Masuire, Mallory. Marshall, MeAIeer, McCulloch, McDowell, McGann, McKaig, McKeighan. Meiklejohn, Mercer, Meyer, Money, Morse, Mutchler, Newlands, Northway. Ogden, O'Neill of Missouri, Page, Patterson. Pence, Pendleton of West Virginia. PerkinH, Phillips. Plgott, Powers, Price, Quigg, Randall, lteyburn, Jtichards of Ohio. Robertson of Louisiana, Rusk. Russell of Connecticut, Ryan, Sohermerhorn, Sibley, Simpson, Sorners, Sorg, Sperry, Stallings, Stevens, C. W. Stone, W. A. Stone, Stone of. Kentucky, Straus. Strong, Talbotti Tracy, Turpin,- Tyler, Van Voorhis. Wadsworth. Wanrer". Washington.

Weaver, White, Whillng. Wilson of West irginla, Wolverton. Wright 133. Nays Alexander. Arnold. Babcock. Bald win, Bankhead, Barnes, Barwlg, Belden, Bell of Colorado. Bell of Texas. Beltzhoover, Black. Boen. Bower of North 'Carolina.! Branch, Bretz, Brookshlre. Bryan, Cabanis. , Cannon of California. Cannon of Illinois. Clancy, Clarke of Missouri, Cockrell.Coffeen, uooper or Indiana. Cooper of Wisconsin, Cornish, Cousins. Cox, Crawford, Curtis of Kansas. De Armond. Dinsdey. Dinsmore. Dockery, Dolliver, Doollttle, English of New jersey, r lthtan. Urady. Grosvenor. Hall or Minnesota, Hall of Missouri, Hare, Harrison, Hatch. Hayes. Heard, Henderson of lowa. Henderson of North Carolina. Hen drlx. Henry. Hltt. Holman, Hopkins of Illi nois, Hudson, HulioK. Hull. Hunter. Johnson of North Dakota, Jones, Jorden, Kem, Klefer, Kyle," 'Lane. Lawson. Leyton, Les ter, JUitue, iocKwooa, Louaensiager, iucas, Magner, Marsh, McCleary. McCreary, MnDearraond, McMillin. McNarny. Montgom ery, Moon, Moore, Moses, O'Neill of Massa chusetts, Outhwaite, Paschal, Payne, Pearson, Pendleton, of Texas, Pickler. Ray, Reed, Rellly, Richardson of Michigan, Richardson of Tennessee, Ritchie, Bobbins. Sayers, Settle, Shell, , Sherman. Snodgrass, Springer. Stephenson, btockdale, Swanson. Talbert, Tarsney, Tate, Taylor of Indiana, Terry, Turner of Georgia. Turner of Virginia, Tucker, Walker, Warner, Waugh, Wedock. Wells. Wheeler of Illinois. Wil liams of Illinois. Woomer Total. 124.. While Mr. - Grosvenor was sneaking In favor of the appropriation for the Tennessee exposition, Mr. Van Voorhis Inquired, "Who was elected Governor of Tennessee?" Mr. Grosvenor said the people of Tennessee would soon -tire of the . ring that controlled the State and rid .themselves of it, and the contemptible scoundrel who bossed It. . Mr. Snodgrass, of .Tennessee, . was one of those who opposed the amendment, contending that there was no constitutional authority for aid to a State enterprise. The amendment to appropriate $150,000 for the Tennessee exposition was disagreed to H3 to 78. Mr. Sayers then moved under a suspension or the rules to disagree to the remaining Senate amendment and to agree to a further conference. Mr. Cannon sought to except the amendment providing for an investigation and survey of the route of the Nicaragua canal. His motion to that effect was agreed to 102 to 78 and then Mr. Sayres's motion was carried and the sundry civil bill, at 2 a. m., was sent to further conference. . THE COFFIN SUDDENLY OPENED. A Depot Agent Was Nearly Frightened to Death at the Outcome. , Atlanta Constitution. . "Talk about being scared to death why, gentlemen, you don't know your A, B, C's until you have served in the railroad business on the frontier as I had to do when I was quite a boy." The speaker was a man beyond the border lines of middle age, with Iron gray hair, a strong, rugged face, which showed by Its lines that he had seen the service of a hard life in some forsaken region of this mortal vineyard. ' "When I was a young man," he resumed, , "I was depot agent for a road that ran out into the wilds of Texas. The country was not well settled, and I had. rather a lonesome time of It out there. 1 never knew any minute that I would not be attacked the next, and train wrecking was a frequent occurrence on the line. "One night I was sitting in the little depot by the lonely railroad track Iveeplnjr track of the trains over the wires,, when something happened , that I will not forget till I die. There was in the depot a corHn that had been brought there on the-midnight train, strange to say, unattended by any one. It was addressed to some party In the neighborhood, who. according to my presumption, had been detained by swollen streams from coming to the station after it that night, so .1 had the ghastly casket placed in the depot to await the man who called for it. It was a rainy night, and as there was but one room to the depot I had the corpse for a companion that night, and had about made up my mind ta make the best of the situation until morjUng. It was about 3 o'clock, and I was i lickln.r away with my telegraph key, when f heard a noise in the direction of the coffin Turning with a shudder I was crazed with; fright to see the lid of the coffin burst and a live corpse pop his head up with a pistol in his hand and start toward me. "What did I do? Why. I broke thraugh the back door and left the fellow In the depot. I don't think I stopped running until I was a mile in the woods. As soon as I recovered I went back and waked the only two citizens of the place, and we went to the depot. Of course the' robber had taken all the money I had and fled." ' TISSUE PAPER SKIRTS. Figures on Theatrical PosIcts Given a ' Striking Addition. Boston Transcript. .. The managers of the Palace Theater have made a wild break for propriety, and the dlrectlcm which It has taken has gtven, a great deal of amusement to people who are In the habit of studying theatrical posters. The company appearing at the theater this week is one one which is called ""The London Gaiety Girls." It has a large poster on which the girls are depicted in various scenes, and In all of them, Phofking to fay, they wear -tights. The girls must be London girls, because the poster says so, but the posters themselves arc printed In Cincinnati, where apparently public opinion is less rigorous with regard to things of this kind than it is here. When the managers of the Palace Theater saw the posters they shook their heads. There was no doubt that it was a striking one, but then' there was the shadow of the Watch and Ward Society hanging over them. Something must be done about it. It was finally determined to put skirts on the girls; soa number of tissue paper skirts were purchased and sent to the bill posters, with a sample showing how they should be put on. The rcnult was that when the girls appeared to public view on the fences, each of ihem wbs decorated with a skirt, the like of which has never been seen in real life. The skirts are nearly all alike, and th?y lit about as well as do the gloves which the undertakers mutes war at funerals; that Is to say. not at all. All the skirts are too n)all for the figures on which they are supposed to go. and, in consequence, they look much more like a Masonic apron, or the pouch which a Scotchman wears with his national dresa, thana skirt. Feminine Amenities. Washington Post. Everybody knows the woman who says society is nuch a bore. Few of us know her Intimately, for in point of fact she does not go about much. I ran across her at a friend's house the other day, and marked her languid air. The hostess was Indiscreet enough to refer to it, and even the tea cups shuddered with horror at the woman s reply. "Yes," said she, "paying calls Js so tiresore." "Oh!" responded the hostess, "but think how much more tiresome It is to receive them." And the tea cups scored one for the hostess. . . A Poser for ... II I m. Brooklyn, Life. He I have always said that I never would marry a girl who was stupid. She But how are you going to know? Old Traveling -Man Retires. Mr, S. B. Wilson resigned his position as traveling salesman for the firm of M. O'Connor & Co.. Friday, after thirty years of active service on the road for that firm and Its predecessors. The firm ami employes presented Mr. Wilson with a gold-headed cane. a . . . a . . . . . . . .. lit-1 lieu MimiTii io uicjcie. A bicycle which had been left ptanding In front of Hay & WUlita's bicyclo store, on Pennsylvania street, last n Ik lit. was ridden off by some person other than the owner. It was a Rambler, and the police are look Irue for It