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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1895,

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In the Islands off "the coast of Yucatan, whore deposits of guano were located end claimed by American citizens. Mexico having proved ownership to the Islands, the United States recojrnlzed the claim of Mexico and wl l'drew her claim."' The Gil Blaz (newspaper) of to-day says It was Guatemala's ambition to fret Mexico Into war. Preparations were pushed so vigorously up to a short time ago by this ocuntry that Guatemala was forced to delist by, lack of funds for arming and equipping troops to push against the forces mobilized by Mexico on th southern fron- . tier. The action of Guatemala in refusing to pay further Interest on Its, foreign debt proved a swift boomerang on Itself when It tried to raise the necessary amount to replntsh military stcies. Having nj other alternative Guatemala has completely broken down and will do anything In future to guard peace with) Mexico. , . President Diaz this afternoon is receiving the congratulations of many friends. There is general rejoicing at the honorable settlement of the Guatemala affair, most honorable for Mexico and very creditable to both Minister Marlscal and the Guatemalan envoy, De Leon. Term of the Agreement. WASHINGTON. April 2. From unofficial advices reaching Washington the general terms of the agreement , signed yesterday by which war between Mexico and Guatemala was averted are substantially known. Mexico's demands were in the form of an ultimatum sent by Secretary Marlscal, on Nov. 27, embracing the following points: TTirst Mexico asks satisfaction for iris -Juries-received by the invasion ; of her territory and for the vexations of which foreigners and Mexicans cutting wood in the forests of Agua Azul, Egypto, San Nicholas and 'San Pedro and the Mexican residents of Ayutla have been the object, v Second Mexico also demands a pecuniary indemnity for the damages sustained. , Third Mexico also demands Indemnity for the expenses of the mobilization of her forces and of situating authorities and em- . ployes in suitable places for public security on the frontier. ' Fourth Mexico asks that the labors of the boundary commission. In accordance with the treaty of 1882, be speedily . concluded, said treaty not being open to discussion. It is understood that $2,000,000 was the amount of the indemnity demanded by Mexico. Also that she insisted on Guatemala's dismissing her Surveyor-general who had taken part in locating the boundary line. On Jan. 12, Guatemala answered the ultimatum. It was pacific in tone, but did not concede Mexico's right to the territory designated In. the ultimatum, nor to the 'right of the affixed cash indemnity. The final negotiations are a compromise between the ultimatum and reply. It is believed that Mexico has agreed to arbitrate the amount of cash indemnity, instead of exacting the two million dollars first claimed. Senor Romero, the Mexican minister, has been kept advised of the negotiations, but neither ne nor Senor Arriaga, the Guatemalan minister, are yet in a position to make public the exact terms on which-war was averted. President Diaz has announced that the terms would be communicated to Congress later. The peace agreement is regarded as of far reaching importance to ' the Central American States, which has expected for the last six months to be plunged into a bloody struggle. The Mexican army and navy have been preparing for the conflict and calculations have been made as to where the troops would be landed in Guatemala. The Mexican army numbers 34,833 on a peace footing, with 165,000 available on a war footing. The Guatemala army numbers 3,000 on a peace footing. The agreement now effected puts an end to the active war preparations. . , , Another Term" for Dins. TABASCO. Mex., April 2. The first notable movement In the republic relating to the proposition to re-elect President Diaz has taken form with the "Club Liberal Tabasqueno," of this city and State. The club unqualifiedly h-.dorses General Diaz for re-election in 1896 and a resolution to that effect is being numerously s'gned in many quarters.. It is pretty well understood that Diaz is willing to complete the century In the executive chair. DROWNED IN FLORIDA.

W. Zelgrler, n. Prominent BrooUIyu 'Man, Said to Have Lost III Life. BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 2. A report reached here this evening that William Zeigler, well known throughout this country, , had' been drowned from his yacht, Robinson Crusoe, while on a crulso off Florida. Mr. Zeigler, in company with Wm. H. Flagler, of Standard. Oil fame, left for Florida on March. 16 last. Judge Gaynor, of this city, had been invited to make one .of the party, but owing to his having to appear before the Friday investigating committee was unable to go. The particulars received here in regard to the reported accident were . very meagre, and efforts made to confirm the report, both in this city and in New York, where Mr. JSeigler had resided for E-ame time, were without avail. The report, however, was generally credited. , William Zeigler was born at Muscatine, la., about fifty-two years ago. He organized the Royal Raking Powder Company with a capital of $00,000. Some years later a dispute arose amongst the partners in regard to his interest in the organization. The case was taken to the courts and Zeigler was sustained In his contention as to hia share. He afterwards sold his share to the other members of the company for $4,000,000. He invested largely in real estate in this city, and later organized the Cream Baking Powder Company of - New Jersey and also the Price Baking Powder 1 Company of Chicago.. For a time he was largely interested in politics in this city, and in 1S91 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn. He refused, however, to accept the nomination, and Henry A. Meyer was subst'.tuted, he being defeated by David A. Boody. Shortly before that , time a scheme had been floated whereby it was intended to dispose of the Long island water supply system to the ctty of Brooklyn for $1,250,000. The present Judge Gaynor at once placed himself In opposition to this, and induced Zeigler to act as the principal in bringing the matter to an investigation. They were successful in this fight, and the system was finally disposed of for $480,000. Mr. Zeigler was an owner in the Brooklyn Kagle, holding a considerable amount of stock in that paper. He was a widower, and had no children. It was stated here to-night that John J. Wells, who had lived for many years at the Mansion House, Brooklyn, had also accompanied Mr. Zeigler and Mr. Flagler on their trip to Florida. --' OBITUARY. D. M. Stone, Ex-Editor of the Xen Yrk Journal of Commerce. NEW YORK, April 2. David M. Stone, who for forty-four years wus editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, died tonight at his home in Brooklyn. His death resulted from a complication of heart troubles, after an illness of about a month. , David Marvin Stone was born in Oxford, Conn., Dec. 3, 1817. In December, 1S49. he became commervlal editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, and in 1861 succeeded William B. Prime as editor in chief, which position he held until a year or two ago, when. he retired. He was president of the New York Associated Press for twentyfive years. In his younger days he wrote for magazines. Several of his published works have passt.-d through a number of editions. Mr. Stone's opinions on commercial and other matters in his famous "Answers, to Correspondents" were regarded as an authority by merchants throughout the country and it was chiefly through these that he gained a world-wide reputation. Other Deaths. CLEVELAND. O.. April 2. Dr. Isaac N. Hlmes, a prominent physician and the dean of the medical department of Western Reserve University, died last night of heart disease, aged sixty-one. Dr. Hlmes was also well known in New York and Ran Francisco, having practiced in both cities. LIVERPOOL. April - 2. William Steenstrand, the cotton king, who exploited the fcreat corner in cotton in ISaO, , which caused such a sensation and which resulted in his losing Jo.0C0,t03. is dead: UumineNM Trouble. CINCINNATI. O.. April 2. George C. Miller's Sons, one of the oldest carriage manufactories of the city, assigned to-day to Howard S. Miller, the treasurer. The immediate cause is the suspension of the Commercial Bank, which carried a large amount of the firm's paper. Tho assets and liabilities are about equal between $20,000 and $30,000. PINE BLUFF. Ark., April 2. Mrs. Annie Hicks, wife of thelate J. F. Hicks, has asked for a receiver for the Arkansns and Trxas Consolidated Ice and Coal Company. The property involved amounts to $200,000. The refusal of the present administrator to make a settlement is ,the grounds alleged. OjSVVBGO, N. Y April 2. The plant of the Oswego electric street rllwav wjis placed in the hanrts of F. A. Kmerlek. as receiver to-day. The outstanding obllatlonu amount to SUj.OOO. Oswego panic Imvo offered $110,000 for tb plant.

SILLY STORY DENIED

SECRETARY OF STATE GltESHAM DOES 3TOT IXTEXD TO RESIGN. Xot the Least Probability of tbe Judge , , Stepping Oat of Office I'ntll Mr. Cleveland Goes. WASHINGTON. April 2. A vigorous denial is entered in administration circles of the story that Secretary Gresham is about to resign. The Secretary himself will not be interviewed on the subject, not caring, It 13 explained, to dignify the report by a denial. It is a fact that the Secretary has been in ill health for some time past and his recent attack of neuralgia of the stomach, which was much more serious than was generally understood at the time, has left him much debilitated and in need of rest. This he has been unable to secure in Washington owing to the frequency with which delicate and embarrassing diplomatic questions have been forced on him of late and it is now probable that he will yield to the solicitations of his family and friends so far as to take a short leave of absence and go to his farm in Indiana and perhaps stop for a time in Chicago. K is assumed here that the report of his intention to go West shortly was the foundation for the story of his intention to resign from the Cabinet. Later in the day it was possible to secure a most positive denial of the story that the Secretary intends to resign, the authority being a Cabinet' officer whose relations with the Secretary are of such a nature, as to make him perfectly competent to mako this denial. It is al30 learned that Secretary Gresham has just made arrangements for the extension of another year of his lease of . the rooms in the Arlington now occupied by him, which may eertalaly be taken as an evidence of his intention to remain in Washington. AX INCREASE OK $18,317,105. March Trcaunry Statement of the Public Debt-New Bond Issued. WASHINGTON, April 2. The monthly treasury Statement of the public debt shows that on March 30 1895, the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $908,730,045, an increase for the month of $18,317,105. The amount of the new four-per-cent. bonds issued during the month was $28,807,900. Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest-bearing debt, $713,851,960, an increase during the month of $28,808,100; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity. $1,770,250, a decrease during the month of $9,000; debt bearing no interest, $381,787,366, a decrease during the month of $762,270; total debt. $1,664,591,749, of which $567,944,442 are certificates and treasury notes, offset by an . equal amount of cash in the treasury. The treasury cash is classified as follows: Gold. $139,486,496; silver. $510,259,879; paper, $131,267,047; general account, disbursing officers' balance, etc.. $15.224.160; total, $797,237,589, against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $609,320,328. leaving a cash balance of $187,917,261, of which $90,643,307 is gold reserve. To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash ; balance, $186,594,109; gold reserve, $00,379,211. DoukIhhk Memorial Meeting:. WASHINGTON, April 2. A largely attended memorial service in honor of the late Frederick Douglass was held to-night in the Fifteenth-street Presbyterian Church. The representative colored people of the city and a number of white admirers of Mr. Douglass were in the audience. Among the speakers were Governor PInchback, Hon. John B. Lynch, Hon. John S. Durham, Rev. Ruch R. Slppon, Rev. William A. Credltt and Rev. Alex. Crummell, Robert H.' Terrell and Dr. Charles B. Purvis. The latter, in the course of his remarks, referred to what he termed the sorry exhibition of race prejuaice recently made by Governor O'Ferrall, of Virginia. Resolutions were adopted expressing the loss that America and the negro race has suffered in Douglass's death, "whose story of his own sorrows and sufferings did much, towards winning for the millions of bondsmen in America the sympathy of Christendom; whose voice, pen and personal influence were always enlisted in the cause of the oppressed and the lessons of whose public career will be an inspiration to the present and future- generations of the American negroes." - Father Stephen Honored by the Pope. WASHINGTON, April 2. The Pope has conferred on the Rev. Joseph A. Stephan, of Washington, the rank of private chamberlain to the Pope, with the title of Mons. Stephan. The announcement was made by Mgr. Satolll at a dinner given by him today in honor of the feast day of St. Francis de Paul, after whom the delegate is named. Many of ' the local clergy were present, among them being Dr. Stephan, and the event was made notable by the conferring of the new rank and title from the Pope. It is in recognition of the long service of Father Stephan as a missionary among the Indians, and particularly his services in Washington of late years in behalf, of Catholic Indian school. The honor from the Pope was a complete surprise to him. The office of private chamberlain to the Pope is of much importance at Rome, an the chamberlains are the immediate attendants of the Pope, and receive all visitors seeking an audience. The title of monsignor carries with it the wearing of the purple as an outward mark of dignity. - The Cabinet Meeting. WASHINGTON, April 2. There were only four members of the Cabinet at the White House .to-day to attend the regular Tues day meeting. They were Secretaries Gresham, Lamont and Herbert and Postmastergeneral Bissell. It was expected that the Cabinet would select the members of the Nicaraguan canal commission, but the subjet was not considered at the meeting. Not one of the three commissioners ha3 yet been selected. Secretary Herbert has r commended the , appointment of civil engineer Endicott as the naval representative, but Secretary Lamont has not presented the name of an army officer and no determination has yet been reached as to the civilian me.mber. It is said at the White House that the appointments will prcbably be made during this week, as there is need for naste, in view of the fact that the commission will have to visit Nicaragua, make extensive examinations of the condi-. tion of the existing works and then prepare a report, all before November next. Patents Awarded Intlianians. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, ' April 2. Patents have been awarded to the following residents of Indiana: Edward T. A. Akass, Indianapolis, extension grille fret work; David E. Brentlanger, assignor of one-half to J. R. West, Gas City, measuring device; Malcolm Dickerson, assignor of one-half to J. F. Curtice, Fort Wayne, electrical transformer; Ad? Harris, Indianapolis, hair straightener; Frederick A. Hetherington, Indianapolis, assignor t W. Schmidt, Chicago, dough dividing machine; John H. Hoober, Kentland, cultivator; William Huberts, Lafayette, tile ditching machine; Jacob C. Hunsinger and W. Ensminger, assignors of ortethlrd to F. H. Batt, Laurel, poultry crate; John T. Smith. Kokomo, depurator; George Southard, Indianapolis, envelope; Frank Stanley, Liberty, pneumatic straw-stacker; John H. Welch, Fort Wayne, self-measuring oil pump. Jamaica's Tariff Inclionged. WASHINGTON. April 2.-0. O. Eckford. United States consul at Kingston. Jamaica, has notified the State Department of the defeat by the Lesislatlve Council of the island of a bill ' designed to increase materially the customs duties on many articles Imported from the United States. In a message to the Legislative Council the Governor had suggested that the withdrawal of the United States from the reciprocity treaty, made in. pursuance of the McKinley law, left the island free to restore to its tariff some of the sources of revenue abandoned under that arrangement. The colonial secretary then introduced, cn March 12, a bill in line with the Governor's message and it is this bill that has been now defeated. Consul Eckford says he thinks it improbable that a like measure will be brought up again in this session. ' Pension Derision Affirmed. WASHINGTON, April 2. Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the Interior Department, has affirmed the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions in the case of Angellne Coney, widow of John G. Coney. The application was made under the act of June 27, 1890, which provided for the pensioning of any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days in the army or navy and waa honorably discharged. Coney served as an engineer on a vessel in the

M.'ssissfppi Marine Brigade. The Secretary holds that a discharge by the commander of that brigade does not constitute an honorable discharge as contemplated in the act. i Michigan Postmaster Removed. IRONWOOD,' Mich., April 2. Frank A. Healy, postmaster of Ironwood, has been ordered removed by President Cleveland. Healy says he knows nothing officially about his removal but thinks it is the result of his , connection with the State officers' salary amendment frauds. Healy was chairman of the Gogebic county election canvassers and he altered the Gogebic county sheets in the Attorney-general's office at Lansing, supposing, as he afterwards swore, that it was his duty to correct" them. Warner Good land has been appointed postmaster to succeed Healy. Diamond Cutter Reet Released. WASHINGTON, April 2.-The hearing in the case of Franz "Von Reet, of Antwerp, the diamond cutter who was recently refused a landing by . the immigration authorities at New York on the ground that he was a contract laborer, was continued to-day by Assistant Secretary Hamlin and Commissioner Stump. Dr. Uilo, of New York, appeared for the government and Francis P. James, of Cincinnati, for Mr. Von Reet. Late this afternoon Commissioner Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, ordered the discharge of Von Reet. Promotions in the Engineer Corp. WASHINGTON, April 2. The recent .retirement of Col. George H. Elliott, corps of engineers, has resulted In the following promotions in the corps of engineers: Lieut. Col. John M. Wilson, to be colonel; Major E. H. Ernst, to be lieutenant colonel; Capt. Richard L. Hoxie, to be major: First Lieutenant W. C. Langfitt, to be captain; Second Lieutenant Robert McGregor, to be first lieutenant; Additional Second Lieutenant Jay J. Elliott, to be second lieutenant. Libel Caise Hearing Postponed. NEW YORK, April 2. The argument In an application for the removal to Washington of the case of Charles A. Dana and William Laffan was to have been heard to-day by Judge Brown In the United States District Court. Both Dana and. Laffan are under Indictment for criminal libel against Frank B. Noyes, of the Washington Star. The hearings, however, by consent of counsel on both sides, were adjourned until next Friday. The matter did not come in court.

' Honealc Indicted Again. WASHINGTON!, April 2. Captain Howgate has been indicted again for. alleged frauds on the government during the time he was disbursing officer of the signal service. The new indictments are three in number. One alleges forgery of a $4,000 account with the American Union Telegraph Company, Oct. 27, 1879; another charges embezzlement, and the third falsification of accounts. The Cleveland nt Woodier. WASHINGTON, April 2. In spite of the rain - Mrs. Cleveland and children started for Woodley, the President's summer home, this afternoon. President Cleveland followed them later in the day. He will remain there until the time of his departure for Gray Gables and will transact most all executive business there. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, April 2. Drs. Conrad Heuser, E. C. Paterson and Frank E. Deal have been appointed pension examining surgeons at Brookvllle, Ind. The postofflces at Austin, Emporia and Steele, Ind., will be made domestic money order offices on April 8. Linton will be made an international office on the same date. F. A. Slater was to-day appointed post-? master at Sparta, Dearborn county, vice Frederick Slater, resigned. The President has pardoned James B. Brackett, sentenced in Georgia to eighteen months' imprisonment and $200 fine for Illicit distilling, expressly and solely on the solicitation of the judge and district attorney. The National Fencibles, the crack military organization of this city, have decided to go to Memphis, Tenn., and accept the challenge from the famous Chickasaw Guards to drill for the Galveston semicentennial championship cup, now in the Fencible's possession. The drill takes place between May 11 and 21. The Postmaster-general has notified the St. Louis postmaster to withhold all mall from the St. Louis Mutual Bond Investment Company, the Guaranty Investment Company and the American Mutual Benefit Society, which are conducted as 'lottery enterprises. LEFT ITS MARK IN THE ASHES. Remarkable Story Regarding the Body of a. Burned Man. SANTA FE, N. M., April 2. Jesus Vilprendo and Fellcano Chavez have been found guilty of murder in the first degree. Jan. 2 they were caught by Thomas Martinez in the act of stealing and killing his father's cattle In South Santa Fe county. They invited Martinez into a corral, where they ' shot him, placed the body across a fire and burned it, nothing remaining but a few bones and one foot, incased in a -rubber shoe. Martinez had a faithful dog that played an important part in the discovery of the murderers. During the trial a young man named Angel, in his testimony, said that he saw distinctly the outlines of the murdered man's form lying in the ashes. The form seemed impalpable, but perfectly distinct and in bold relief. When cross-questioned . the young man could not be shaken in his description of this singular phenomenon. His testimony was most dramatic and caused a profound sensation of awe and wonder in the court room. EXPLOSION IN A MINE.. Giant Powder Causes n Cave-In and Injury to Five Men. PRESCOTT, A. T., April 2.-One hundred pounds of giant powder exploded in the Ohio mine of the Mescal Mining and Milling Company late this afternoon. The mine is located nine miles from Prescott, and the particulars are very meagre, as the courier left Immediately after the explosion occurred to secure medical aid for the five men who were working in the drift where the powder was stored. Three men had been rescued, seriously injured, James Newlin, the foreman of the mine, being the most seriously hurt. The explosion caused a cave-in of one hundred or more tons of rock, and whether the other two men were killed and buried beneath the debris or in the drift behind the cave-in of the rock could not be determined when the messenger left. The miners set to work immediately to remove the rock from the drift to reach the imprisoned or buried men. RAILWAY COLLISION. Accident on the Maine Central One Man Killed and Others Injured. BANGOR. Me.. April 2. A serious accident occurred on the Maine Central railroad near Veazie, four miles from here, this morning. The Aroostook express, which left here at 6:40, and the Pullman train from St. John, due here at 6 o'clock, collided. Fireman Ward, of the express, was killed. The Injured include C. F. Palmer and F. Woodbury, of Bangor, postal clerks, who were both severely hurt by being pinned In the wreckage. Baggagemaster Eben Shaw jumped and was badly injured,- and Henry Appleton, of Bangor, a passenger on the Aroostook train had a leg broken by jumping. The postal and baggage cars were wrecked and several other cars were badly damaged. The Pullman train was late. Motor Cars In Collision. CAMDEN, N. J.. April 2. A serious collision occurred this afternoon between trolley car No. 7 and car No. 56, of the Camden, Gloucester City and Woodbury trolley line, on the bridge that spans Nevrton creek, just below Camden. The injured are E. M. Pierce, arm broken, face cut and leg badly bruised; W. M. Brimm. face cut and arm broken: M. L. William3, bruised about the body; unknown woman, badly bruised about the body. Frank Anderson, motorman car No. 56; Thomas Dunn, conductor of car No. 56: Ephraim Welsh, motorman car No. 7: Peter Carter, conductor car No. 7, are all severely injured. i Death for Train Robbers. . JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. April 2. Gov. ( Stone to-day approved a House bill under which train robbing is made a capital offense, should the Jury decide to inflict so serious a punishment. The penalty ranges from hanging to imprisonment in the penitentiary.

BIG BONE SPEINGS.KY.,

SWEPT BY A SWIRLIXG STORM OF GREAT FURY YESTERDAY. Houses Wrecked. Farm Wagons carried Two Miles, and a. IVumber of People Injured. ERLANGER, Ky., April 2. A tornado ( swept across Boone county last night. Several houses were unroofed and the roads blockaded by fallen trees. The worst effects were at Blgr Bone Springs, near Walton. The tornado wrecked the big summer hotel and the building occupied by the Odd Fellows at Big Bone Springs. The hotel was a large frame structure, containing eighty rooms, and situated on the summit of a hill. It is owned by 'Squire C. A. McLaughlin, of Covington, and iri the summer Is filled with visitors. 'Squire McLaughlin lives in the building, and he and his family are the only occupants in the winter season. No lives are reported lost. In the afternoon there was a heavy rain with gusts of wind. Later "a cloud burst on the village of Hamilton. It tore down the river signal station and blew a dozen hogsheads of tobacco into the river. After passing1 Hamilton the storm swept up a valley toward Big Bone, gaining force as it moved. Just before it struck Big Bone it blew down two log cabins occupied by colored families, and here the only casualty occurred. A colored boy nine years old, Sammy Southgate, was struck by a falling log and had his leg broken. Less damage than first reported was done the big summer hotel at Big Bone Springs. One wing was completely demolished and another was unroofed, but the central wing still stands. The bath house and spring house were also unroofed. A big two-story frame building in the heart of the village of Big Bone was occupied as ' a Methodist Church and Odd Fellows' hall. The Odd Fellows used the upper story. The storm lifted the upper half of the building into the air and then dropped it, a mass of debris, fifty feet away. Several horses and cattle were killed at Big Bone ob the farm of Mr. George, three miles from Big Bone. The barn was damaged and the buggy shed demolished, together with a "carriage, two buggies and other farm vehicles. A big farm wagon was blown off the farm and was found to-day ink a field almost two miles away. The storm also completely destroyed Mr. Stevenson's apiary, which was the largest apiary in the State. On the Bristol farm, adjoining the . Stevenson place, a big barn used as a tobacco storehouse was wrecked and two men who were packing tobacco were bruised by flying timbers. They were blown out of the wreck into a gully which runs alongside the barn. The storm finally spent its fury on the village of Lewlsburg and the eastern part of the town of Union, Ky. Only one house of the ten in Lewisburg was left standing. This is a solid old log structure occupied by the family of the toll-gate keeper who is named Wittson. Several big trees at the back of the house were blown down and one almost struck the house. A dinner party was in progress when the storm came along and the guests all took to the cellar. A little cottage which stands on a knoll about 200 yards from Gunpowder creek and about two miles from Lewisburg was utterly demolished. The members of the family were away visiting and did not know that the house had been wrecked until they returned to find it in ruins. The storm cloud did not touch earth again until it reached the Mount Zion school and church on the Lexington pike. Nothing is left of this structure but the foundations. The destruction of a magnificent grove of beech trees near Dixon waa complete. . . NOT DUE TO ANTI-TOXIN. Bacteriologist Part Investigates the Cause oi itllss Valentine's Death. NEW YORK, April 2, W. H. Park, M. D., assistant director of the hospital bacteriological laboratory of the Board of Health of this city, has given out the following statement as to the death of Bertha M. Valentine, of Brlilyn, which was supposed at first to havef been caused by an injection of antl-tbxin: Tri'! view" of Hlie sudden death which recently occurred in Brooklyn after the administration of Behring's diphtheria antitoxin, I obtained from Messrs. Schulzeberg & Koechl, the American agents for the remedy, two vials of the anti-toxin from the same lot as that which was employed by Dr. Kortrlght in the case alluded to. I have submitted both vials to thorough tests by injecting excessive doses into guinea pig3 and rabbits without producing in the animals any deleterious effects whatever. Specimens from both vials were also submitted to bacteriological tests and were found to be absolutely free from living germs of any kind. This result, taken together with the fact that the New York city Board of Health has employed the same make of anti-toxin in a considerable number of cases, with only the best of results, leads me to express the opinion that the unfortunate results which followed its administration in the case referred to cannot be attributed in any way to the anti-toxin which was employed." STRIKE NEARING AN END. Flint Glass Worker Likely- to Return to Work Soon. PITTSBURG, April 2. The strike of the flint-glass workers against the United States Glass Company, which has been on for nearly twenty months, seems to be nearing an end. With the resignation of Ralph Bagely from the presidency of the company and the election of D. C. Ripley to the position, the policy of the concern towards organized labor has changed. A meeting of the directors of the company will be held on Thursday and the glassworkers feel confident that it is with a view to ending the strike. On this point President Ripley refuses - to talk, but he does say that the relations between the company and the American Flint-glass Workers' Union are closer now than at any time since the beginning of the strike. The United States Glass Company comprises factories all over the country and controls the flint glass trade. Sovereign and Povrderly Confer. PHILADELPHIA, April 2. General Master Workman Sovereign, his predecessor in office, T. V. Powderly, and a number of other prominent members of the Knights of Labor, arrived in town to-day and held conferences in the afternoon and evening. The meeting was to discusa a series of suits to be begun to-morrow in the Common Pleas courts of this city. Of these the most Important is Mr. Powderly s suit against the organization to recover $4,500, alleged to be due him for services. This case has engendered much bitterness- and counter suits will be brought in consequence. In some of these Powderly will be defendant.; Suits by A. W. Wright and John Devlin, ex-member of the executive board, against the order, are also booked. It is expected that the litigation will for the first time throw the secret affairs of the order into publicity. Boiler Makers' Strike Over. CLEVELAND. O.. April 2. It is probable that the boiler makers' strike, which has been on several weeks past in thi3 city, will be amicably settled within a few days. A conference has been held between a. committee of the strikers and General Manager Wallace, of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company, and a settlement arrived at. It is understood the strikers at that yard will return to work to-morrow. This action will likely result in a settlement of the strike at the Globe ship yards and other plants where the men are out. Wages Restored. LAWRENCE, Mass., April 2. The wage3 of employes in the mills owned and operated by ex-Congressman Mose3 T. Stevens and sons have been restored to the schedule prevailing previous to the reduction made of 10 to 15 per cent., in March, 1834. These mills represent the most extensive woolen manufacturing business in the country. Aid Wanted for Miners. PITTSBURG. April 2. The Miners District ' Assembly met here to-day and decided to issue a call to the public for aid for the striking miners. Rents Not Increased. PITTSBURG, Pa.. April 2. Superintendent Lynch, of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, to-night denied reports sent out from Connllsville during the day that the rent on company houses for miners' had been increased. He says there was nothing to

base such a rumor upon, and declares that no trouble is expected. ' THE STOEY OF ISMAIL

HIS TYRAXXY AXD HIS FALL, AFTER WASTING MILLIONS OX FANCIES. With Limitless Powers, Ills Schemes All Ended in Failure, and He Died in Exile, Far from Egypt. London Spectator. It would be difficult to imagine a greater position than that which Ismail Pasha, grandson of Mehemet Ali and hereditary ruler of Egypt, occupied in 1839. He was not yet forty, and though he possessed neither the statecraft of his grandfather, the Albanian tobacconist's son, who so nearly rebuilt the Caliphate on the ruin of the house of Othman, nor the genius for battle of hi3 terrible father, Ibrahim, he had made for himself as conspicuous a position in the Mussulman world. A man of daring, with some large ideas, and absolutely unscrupulous, he haa gained a repute among all Ottomans and Arabs which revived the splendid traditions of the only Caliph still known to Europeans, the magnificent, willful, and murderous Haroun al Raschid. Egypt, owing to its wealth and its history, .looms large in the imagination of the East, and Ismail had made himself as much master in Egypt as any slaveholder of the Southern States was ever master on hi3 own estate. Owing partly to his descent, but chiefly, as we believe, to a just comprehension of his inner and perfect callousness, he W33 regarded by his people with a slavish awe, Which, during his reign, was never broken by the most momentary opposition. His Pashas dreaded him as one who could enrich them with a word or with a woru send them to die of ennui or of coffee in the deserts of upper Egypt; his soldiers obeyed him, though they were expended in thousands on profitless expeditions in the Soudan, and his people bore the most tremendous stretches of authority without even a thought of resistance. When, during the American cotton famine, he trebled their taxation; when he took over for himself, at nearly nominal rates, one-fifth of the land of Egypt, and when he issued the frightful order that the Suez canal should be completed by forced labor, and.it is believed killed out more than 100,003 peasants by overwork and oppression, he was equally obeyed without resistance an- even without murmuring. He was probably, indeed, in their eyes, a second Solomon or Haroun al Raschid, too splendid, too potent, and too wise for human energy to oppose. Instructed in all the learning of a French lycee, full of projects to increase his own "glory" and that of his country, he had surounded himself, like Haroun, with men of - intellectual ability, though it was ability of a different kind. Where Haroun built mosques he built theaters; where Haroun created gardens he established experimental farms, and instead of Haroun's astrologers, poeta and makers of romance, he surrounded himself with engineers, antiquarians and ministers to the Parisian kind of pleasure. MILLIONS OF MONEY. He seemed, too, to have obtained the purse of Fortunatus. Immensely rich while the price of cotton lasted, he had learned the secret of European State debts, and in thirteen years borrowed and spent a hundred millions sterling. He spent, too, royally. It is probable that he had no more conception of what money meant than the Emperor Jehangeer of India, .who expended a year's revenue of his empire on a tomb for a favorite wife, or than Mr. Tasker, when he agreed to give 90,000 for three or four reputedly famous diamonds. At all events, he never allowed a consideration of expense to stand in the way of his will, and the stories told of his lavlshness to favorites,! to advisers, to foreign courts, and to an endless tribe of flatterers, scribes and agents in procuring European pleasures are almost Incredible. We remember hearing forty years ago of payments for machines to refine sugar to the extent of 200,000 which were never used; he bought hi3 rank as Khedive, and a firman granting succession to his sons, instead of his brothers, by an expenditure in bribes of 900,000; and he might have torn up the accounts of his opera house as Louis XIV tore up the accounts of Versailles, in very shame at his own extravagance. He was probably pillaged by every man whom he employed, from his Mofetish. or Chancellor of the Exchequer, who stole three millions, to the smallest agent in Paris who forwarded a set of mirrors fora dancing troupe, and he never grumbled at a demand. His profusion excited, among men who knew nothing of stock exchanges, admiration such as was felt three thousand years before for Solomon, and when he invited the kings of the world to be present at the opening of the Suez canal he seemed to all Mohammedans the greatest, or at least the most splendid, ruler of their faith. Whether he intended to use this impression, and calling the Arabs to arms to strike for the Caliph's throne, will never now be known, but it is certain that Constantinople thought he did, and regarded him with a furious jealousv that never siepi, wnicn even nis magnificent bribes were powerless to allay, and which years after induced the Sultan to keep him a State prisoner, and to refuse him permission even to die upon the soil of E?ypt. It was a wonderful position, but Ismail was unequal to it. He was s willful, so devoted to his own glory, so lacking 'n steady policy, that he failed ultimately in everything he undertook, except perhaps the great avenue of sycamores stretching from Cairo to the Pyramids. He meant to sway the rulers of Constantinople and he hardly even created a party there. He meant to enlist Euiope in his favor and never found there a single trustworthy ally. He meant to rule the Nile valley and made such deadly enemies of the Soudanese that after his deposition his southern empire disappeared like a dream, and but for the English once again, as in the days of the Pharohs. the "Ethopians" would have conquered Egypt. He meant to build a great throne for Ibrahim, the son he loved, and he was succeeded by Tewfik. the son born of an Egyptian girl, whom he persistently hated and despised. WHY HE FAILED. Even his effort to build a grand capital did not succeed. He found Cairo of wood and left it only stucco. It was, in fact, impossible for him to build, for he would never wait. The Pharaohs must have wasted trasure beyond counting on their buildings, but they built as men who would live forever, and even tropical nature has been powerless to destroy their structures. Ismail, on the contrary, when he wanted a building, wanted it in a week. He wished, for instance, for a European quarter, and he gave valuable sites to any one who would build, and even granted great sums as rewards for building, but he gave these sums in proportion to th shortness of the time employed on the structures, tho highest rewards being offered for the houses built within three months. Nor did he excite any true loyalty among his people. The Ottoman clan has clun? fiercely for nine hundred years to its hereditary lords, nor has there ever been an occasion when the Sultan's summons to battle was not answered by a rising of hundreds of thousands of brave men; and even the half-caste Arabs of Morocco will, when the hour arrives, which must come soon, die in heaps around the descendant of Fatlma; but when at last Europe, wearied out. decided that Ismail must go, not a blow was struck for him. He had alienated the Arabs alike of Arabia and of the vally of the upper Nile; he had not organized his own Arabs of the delta, and he had planted distrust of himself among his nearest and most confidential pashas. That he should squeeze his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sadyk, who had heaped up, millions, was all fair and in accordance with the ways of Asia, but that he should lure him, his own foster brother, to death by driving him with soft words and familiar laughter in his own carriage to a place of confinement, then sending him to upper Egypt, then announcing that he had died of drinking, and then selling the furniture of his palace at auction this was a repetition of the murder of the Barmecide, which still stains even in the Arab mind the repute of Haron al Raschid. It is probable, too. that Ismail's own nerve "had failed. Had he refused to obey the decree of deposition, repudiated his debts and defied the world, it Is doubtful if IOurope would have clung together, or if the Sultan would have run the tremendous risk of declaring war, and seeing his vassal appeal to the sleepless Arab hope of restoring the Arab Caliphate and breaking the leaden yoke of the detested Ottoman. We know what he could have done, for we know what Arabl did do. Ism.ill hid not the nerve far the effort; or, perhaps, it is true tint he waa deceived by his own vanity and his contempt for his .fellah hop., thought himself indispensable, and expected after a year ot foreign travel to regain his throne. At all events, when the supreme hour arrived, Ismail failed, made bargains k for his fortune and. not for his throne.and disappeared from the fcene of his splendor like a dismissed clerk, never to return.

Highest of all in Leavening Power. -Latest U. S. Covt Renor

LOADED WITH DIGNITY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF C03IMONS A POLITICAL' NONENTITY Bat His OHIcc Gives Opportunity for Abundance .of Pomposity and Parade Some of His Functions. London Letter in New Y'ork World. Not even when Lord Rosebery succeeded Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister a position perhaps more potent than any other, office on earth, unless it is the presidency of the United States was there so much excitement in the political world here as now over the new Speaker of the- House of Commons, an almost purely honorary posl- ! tlon. The British ' Speaker does not. as with the Speaker of the American House of Representatives, appoint committees, nor has he the least control, directly or indirectly, over legislation. Yet the discussion over a successor to Speaker Peel fills the newspapers daily, is almost as much talked of at the clubs as would be the accession of Albert Edward to the throne, and apparently interests the "common people" more than any political event since the last general election. The functions of the Speaker are twofold, and are clearly defined. In the chair he is expected to act with judicial impartiality and with the firmness and sense of responsibility begotten of the knowledge that the majority will enforce his Judgment to any point necessary. The Speaker can rebuke a member and order him to desist from speaking if his conduct 13 unruly, but if the member defies his authority he cannot be removed from the House even for the sitting, without a vote being taken. Should such a vote result in a majority against the Speaker he would instantly resignbut no such case has arisen in the present century. In order to maintain his influence over the House it is essential that he should not ho the instrument of the maiority nor of f the minority either, but he must reconcile as satisfactorily as may De tne nguis oi me one with the necessary domination of tho other. He is the representative of. the House of Commons oxi all State occasions. Immediately on his election, and wnen the Queen formally approves of the choice of her "faithful Commons," he proceeds to the bar of the House of Lords to demand the reaffirmation by that house of the privileges of the lower house. His position, in its way, possesses a greater prestige and dignity than that of any judge of the land, not excepting the Lord Chancellor, because the Speaker represents the business end of the legislature. GIVES SWELL STAG PARTIrS. Then there is the social side of the position. He is provided with a palatial mansion, furnished and fully equipped for entertaining on a large scale, within the Palace of Westminster, where he resides during his term of office. In addition to a series of levees, which the members of the House attend without invitation, he gives a parliamentary dinner every Wednesday during the session, to which all members are in turn bidden or were until recent years. - The first dinner is given to the Ministers, the next to the leaders of the opposition, and so on down through the whole gamut of the 670 members. These are bachelor entertainments exclusively, and no one is ever invited except members of the House, the Speaker's chaplain and secretary. The last dinner of ail is given to the clerks of the House. , The first break in this time-honored custom under which each member of the House attended the levees and one of the dinners occurred in 1881, when the first Irish party under Parnell came into violent collision wih the then speaker. Parnell and his colleagues formally decided to decline the usual invitation to dine with Mr. Speaker, and as it is pretty well known that the Irish members, or many, of them, have neither the will nor the means to acquire a court suit such as is de rigueur at these functions, the Invitation has never been repeated though they have been on the most amicable terms with Mr. Peel since the introduction of Gladstone's first homerule bill. Amusing stories are still current how, before the rupture, the late Mr. Blggar was wont to hire a court suit on these occasions, come down from his lodglnga to the House on the top of a street car, and alight opposite the gate of Palace Yard, much to the amazement of hia fellow-passengers, who on one occasion mistook him for the Speaker himself, owing to his attire. . . . The labor members have followed the example of the Irishmen and do not attend the dinners, simply because of the compulsory rule about the dress, but the Speaker has instituted a couple of undress levees for their special behalf-though even these the Irish members do not attend. To the exercise ox this species of paternal despotism over the House and the discharge of these hospitable functions towards his collf agues the duties of the Speaker are confined. He has not a particle of political influence: he is unable to make or unmake the reputation or position of any member; his patronage Is confined to a few inconsiderable offices about the House; he has absolutely no share whatever in determining what legislation shall be brought forward or in moulding public opinion, and yet the position has been invested with so much historic dignity that the Speaker is. in reality, as well as in title, "the first commoner in England." It was predicted that the introduction of the closure would alter the character of t"ie Speakership, and make its incumbent a mere party hack. But Mr. Peel's experience has disproved that vaticination. A sentiment of self-preservation, or self-glorification, if you like, operates to preserve the glamor of the position untainted. In honoring the Speaker members are in a way obliquely complimenting themselves, and the surest and piort unfailing appeal of a Speaker in a difficult position is to implore the House "in its own interest" to Bupport the Chair. A good deal of ceremonial formality still surrounds the office. The Speakf-r when in the chair wears court dres a full-bottomed wig and a sword. His full-dress robes are the same as those of the Master of the Rolls, with which high and ancient judicial office the Speakership was for a long time associated. LOTS OF FUSS WHEN HE MOVE3. The taking of the chair each day is made the occasion of a slight, but not unimpressive pageant. A procession is formed in the Speaker's residence, and this procession passes through a series of lengthy corridors to the members' lobby, through which it enters the House. First comes two attendants in court uniform; they are followed by the sergeant-at-arms, bearing the mace tho emblem of royal authority; after the mace comes the Speaker, with his three-cornered hat in his hand and his train borne by another attendant, and finally come the Speaker's chaplain Archdeacon Farrar, one of the most eminent of English divines and hi3 secretary, the direct heir to an earldom. As the procesHon approaches the policemen cry out: "Way lor Mr. Speaker!" and when he enters the lobby, where members and strangers are around, the inspector of police roars out In stentorian tones: "Hats off, strangers!" Then when Black Rod the emissary of the House of Iords comes to summon the Speaker end the Commons to attend at the bar of the upper house for some formal purpose, -the Speaker gives another, example of hi3 independent authority. When Black Rod usually some doddering oil swell who wants the C1.000 a year attached to , the post is seen approaching the lobby, the Speaker orders the doors of the chamber to be closed, and Black Rod is not admitted until he has humbly knocked th-ee times on the panel with hl wand. This is to show that he is admitted by grace, not by riht. Then he walks up the fioor. delivers his summons and retires backward, bowing three timfs to the Houre and tho, Speaker. When he has got betow the bar. the Speaker eondeseendinKly Join him. and, escorted by the mace, they walk together to the bar of the Lords, followed by such members as csre to f.o Tho mace, us ha3 been said, is the emblem of royal authority In the House, and the sergeant-at-arms, the custodian of it, is not appointed by the House, but by the Queen. At the close of a session the mace is carefully removed by the sergeant to St. James's Palace, where it is deposited

until it is wanted for the opening of the new session. Mr. Peel, tho retiring speaker, was a man to whom the observance of all these formalities came in a natural way. Whenever he had to represent the House ha was always one of the most striking figures, even In a horde of state officials. Ho is a man of considerable ability, has a clear and rlecldd Judgment, possesses the sagacity of expressing himself in rounded sentences and with a perfection of elocution which is in itself Impressive. He took loFsons hi elocution when he first occupied the chafx. He i tall and rpare In figure, his face is pale and his expression somewhat melancholy. He has rarf ly been seen to smile in the chair, and he looked uneasy when the House was inclined to give itself up to unrestrained merriment. Yet he had a certain dry, acrid humor that was not Ineffective and had the appearance of being unintentional. He fired up quickly, but never lost control of himself and never failed, to impress, his superior will upon any member, however mutinously inclined. If a man has any tendency to strength of will it Is certain to be fostered -by the speakership, and as Mr. Peel had the House under absolute command hH loss is likely to be felt for some time. When the House is sitting he is always in the chair, and even when it la in committee he can never leave the building, because In case of any breach of order necessitating the suspension of a member, or of the sudden conclusion of the business of the committee, he will be called, in the one case to invite the judgment of the House, in the other to proceed with the other business. So the tedium of the position is considerable. Tho salary is 5,000 a year, the same as that of the Prime Minister, but a house and every requisite, except food and servants, are found at the public expense. rPcOIUBLY A DEFAULTER.

Developments FollotvluK the Suicide of Judge Hale, of Maine. FOXCROFT. Me.. April 2. Hon. Elias J. Hale, judge of probate for Piscataqul county, who committed suicide by shooting on Thursday last, is now thought to have been a defaulter to tho amount of $75,000. Judge Hale has been town trustee for thirty years. Since his death holders of notes in sums all the way from $1,000 to $10,000 havo been presenting claims and it appears that he had hired these sums at different times In the town's name, but the town books contain no records of such transaction. The town officers are now engaged, in investigating the accounts of the late trustee. Tho last town reports showed an outstanding loan of $8,841, but notes already found make the amount from $60,0t to $70,000 and they are still coming in. It is not known what was done with the money. He has lived well, supporting the appearance of wealth, with little visible property. His home in Foxcroft is in hia. wife's name, but he owned some real estate in this and adjoining towns. Judge Hale was universally respected and esteemed and bore a spotless reputation. He was not required to give bond as a trustee. SHOT BY A BOY. Ex-Snealcer of the Pennsylvania House Wounded While ou a. Train. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 2.-John E. Faunce, who was Speaker of the Pennsylvania . House of Representatives In 1SS3, was shot and seriously wounded this afternoon while riding through West Collingwood on a Reading express train. The bullet, which was fired through a car window, burled itself In his neck. John Richardson, Gilbert Hubert and Robert Swain, aged respectively fourteen, fifteen and sixteen years, were on an embankment next to the railroad track shooting birds with an air gun. When the train approached, Richardson had his gun at his shoulder, and. according to the story told by him in jail to-night, the bank of earth on which he was standing gavo way as the train passed. his arm was jolted and the weapon was discharged. While the wound is painful, it is not considered dangerous. CAPTAIN SHOT BY A SAILOR. British Bark Forced to Return, to the Port of New York. NEW YORK, April 2. The British bark J. H. Marsters, Captain McNeil, which, sailed from this port March 23, for Demerara, returned to port this afternoon, Capt. McNeil having been shot by one of hia sailors on the night of March 29. The vessel's crew consisted of nine men, and also the captain's wife. On March 29, the vessel being then about sixty miles east of Montauk, Captain McNeil came on deck to observe the state of the weather, when seaman Holzheur blazed away at him. A wound under the right eye is the most serious, but it is hoped that the bullet can be extracted. Holzheur was immediately put in irons. He. is twenty-nine years cf age and a native of Germany. He appears to be demented. He is in charge) . of the police. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, April 2. Arrived: Berlin, from Southampton; Furnessia, from Glasgow. j MOVILLE, April 2. Arrived: Oregon, from Portland, via Halifax, for Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN, Aprils. Arrived: Majestic, from New York. BOSTON, April 2. Arrived: Pavonla, from Liverpool. CITY NEWS NOTES. Dr; O. S. Runnels will address the Homeopathic Medical Society at the Denison to-night. The Meridian W. C. T. U. will meet this afternoon at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Leek, No. 901 North Capitol avenue. Several prominent Republicans will deliver short addresses at the meeting of the South Side Republican Club this evening. The Wonjen's Business and Social Union of Roberts Park Church will have its semimonthly fewing bee this morning In the church parlors. A business meeting of the uixth section of the Free . Kindergarten Society will be held at the residence of Mrs. J. II. Baldwin, at 10 o'clock this morning. "Babe" Miller was arrested on a warrant last night, charging him with fpctlt larceny. He is alleerd tr have slolea some article from a railroad. Doubtful. Kansas City Journal. It 13 believed in some quarters that If Greham were a Cabinet officer instead of a cierk the State Department would develop some Americanism. Its This Way. " We repair your watch and keep It In good order for one year for $2. - J. C. SIPE, Si North Meridian, street. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Award. National Ma Wwti TOGM-IRON PIPE, FOB Gas, Stcamand Water T!olr Tubes, Cat and Matlfbl Iron FUtiuK lUclc iul (KlrtBliril!, V Ivra, Stop rocks, Kiikius Trlminluif. Httiu OiuiKflA, 'luitfrft, lips Cutiera, Vlm-a. Ti W Plaits anrt men. Wn-uuhcs, Stt'um Trpa, pumpa. Kite ten Sinks, H. Jielliti. lUKt.lt Mrfcu. l. lc-r. Wulte and clrt wip. In WuaU', ami ull other su,. illce met in coiiuAfiioa uti Mil. Steunt smt VVtr. Nu ll'kl U4 SlipiK ipprlj ji-. hf-aiii.heatirif; Avinrt fv.f Public Bu.MiUKK.MorriKvu., MUM, SliO'M, Kucrori .. I.vijrtria. l.umtx-r Ir -linnn eta. Ctil niKl Thritl to m-tlff any kue Wi luiii irou ff from Hi liu-a to 14 ii.ctS Uiaiueti-r. Knight & Jillson, 75 fctul 77 a PEXXSyLYAXIA ft

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