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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1893.

JUDGE ALVEY NAMED

aski:d to taki: a iiacc ox tiik v e xu z i i: l a x to m m i s s i o .. He la Xow Chief Jut-tire of the United StateM Court of Appeal in the District of Columbia. INDIANAPOLIS P0ST0FFICE Gitnunv imjiaxa c oc;hcssii; MAY YKT DEFCAT THE HILL Unless Finnnrlal Debate Arise the Senate Win Take n Holldu Populists to Explain. HAGER5TOWX, Md., Dec. C3.-Rlchard II. Alvey. Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals In the District of Columbia, has been appointed by Preslient Cleveland to become a member of the Venezuelan commission. The request was made on Thursday last In Washington. The proposition took Judge Alvey by surprise, and he beged for time to consider the matter before committing himself. This the President granted, and Judge Alvey now has the matter under consideration. He is at his home In Hagerstown, and will be here until his court meets, on the first Monday In January. To-night Judge Alvey said that he had not yet fully made up his mind whether or not he would accept. Many Important cases would come up before the District Court of Appeals at the January term, and because of his heavy Judicial duties, and for other good reasons, he hesitated about Immediately accepting the President's offer. He is heatiiy In ac'Qrd, however, with the President's views, and feels under obligations to further Mr. Cleveland's policy. The Venezuela Question. LONDON, Dec. 30. The Chronicle publishes a mass of matter on the Venezuelan affair, including maps in possession of the Colonial Office, extracts from the American papers which have arrived by mail and an article by Frederic Harrison declaring that the Venezuelan claim is on all fours with a Spanish claim to Gibraltar. "If the United States can persuade Venezuela to submit to a bona fide boundary settlement." the writer continues, "and to drop her swagger about Charles V and Philip II, of Spain, and can enforce an award when, it is made, the question could be nettled In a month. The Brussels delegate of the Venezuelan government. Velos Goiticoa, recently visited The Hague and exhausted every channel without success in support of the Venezuelan claim. Five years ago the British vice consul at Culdad Bolivar, examined the Spanish records and proved the British aspect of the case completely.' Venezuela Programme. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Gen. Targe Uslar, special commissioner to the United States from Venezuela, Is here with his family. General Uslar, who is commander cf one of the five army corps of Venezuela, was appointed a commissioner to come to the United States and watch the negotiations with Great Britain regarding the boundary dispute. President Cresno, General Uslar says, will, as soon as President Cleveland announces the Venezuelan commission, appoint a commission of five of the moat representative citizens of the Pouth American republic to come to the United States and convey to President Cleveland, to Congress and to the country, the thanks and annrprlatlnn for tho enrnl will shown by the United States government in Its announcement of the intention to fearlessly enforce the Monroe doctrine. This commission has not yet been appointed though the gentlemen who will serve on It have been notified. Smnllcy I HeriKlnjr. LONDON. Dec. 30. The New York correspondent of the Times, while he reafflrms'his previous convictions that there Is no longer any feeling for war with kngiand at present In the Unlnted States, nays that there lies a real danger for the future. He attributes this partly to the personal character of the President or that quality of It "which his friends call firmness, and his enemies, stubbornness." The dispatch alsu enlarges at considerable length on the evidence brought out by the recent Venezuelan incident of the existence of hostility towards Great Britain in the United States, lie urge the Importance of celerity in effecting a compromise of the questions in dispute, quoting the text, "Agree with thine adversary quickly while he ia In the way.' Ot'R XEW POSTOFFICE. Indiana. Representatives Will All Have to Hustle to Get It. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. The recent suggestion In these dispatches that the multiplicity of bills for public buildings in Indiana would seriously threaten the passage of the Indianapolis public btilding bill is bearing fruit. Representative Royse, of the Thirteenth district, states that he does not expect to press his bill for an additional appropriation for the public building at South Bend. It must be evident to every one that in a Congress where economy of appropriations will be the watchword, all these bills that have already been Introduced, are inexpedient. They are, as a matter of fact, utterly without prospect of passage and serve only to create the Impression that Indiana Is bent on getting everything in sight. It is in order now for the other members to publicly abandon their bills and all unite on the Indianapolis bill. There is a belief here that it would be wise to brlmr the subcommittee of the public buildings and grounds committee to Indianapolis. A half hour's object lesson from personal observation would do more good than countless hours of rhetoric in Washington. The Senate Desire n Holiday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. The programme in the Senate Monday Is to perfect the reorganization of the committees, listen to a speech by Senator Lodge on the Monroe doctrine, refer the bond bill to the finance committee anl then adjourn until Thursday, unless the House can be prevailed on to adjourn until the following Monday. In case of a session Thursday, In all probability there will be a slim attendance, with another adjournment until Monday, the 6th of January. The adjournment is almost certain unless a financial debate should be unexpectedly sprung. Some of the members of the finance committee have expressed the hope that the revenue bill might be- reforted in some shape by Thursday, and If t should more or less talk in the Senate wo'i'd occur The organization of the committees will proceed through the adoption of a resolution for the appointment of the list which Senator Mitchell will offer, embracing the tfweptibl'ran and Populist assignments as made by the Republican caucus, and the Democratic assignments as made by the Democratic caucus. It is not known yet whether an aye and no vote will be demanded. If such a demand be made. It is presumed that the Populists will either vote with the Republicans or refrain from Voting altogether. Senator Allen will explain the position cf the Populists with regard to organization when the question comes up. TIIK LL.AXO KSTACADO. Tlie "Stnked Plains" of Texas Said to lie a Mlnnomrr. Ct. Louis Globe-Democrat. "It Is time that the name 'Staked Plains. af applied to the Llarw Ksta.radj. ai stricken from the nrap of Norta America." sai l GeoI.git Robert T. Ilii. ' t is a v. holly ridiculous monomer. One explanation given for the use of this term is that earlv travelers set vp stakes to m.vk thrlr roads over these then conslderci wat rle?s wastes. Another U that the designation al-l.ji-p to the tarf-l.k" stem of tne yucca plants. wh!ch resemble stakej proj.ci.ng above the grourd. Put neither cf thee exCla.r.atlar.3 explain, because tha yucca doej

r.ot grow on the Llano Estacado, and no wool for stake coull have been procured on tho absolutely treeless desert by travelers. Certainly they could not have carried stakes with them. "But there is no use In such a d'scusflon. because th s:lutlon of the problem Is perfectly simple and obvious. The name 'Staked Plains' is an erroneous translation of IJano Kstacado, which means a palisade or wall. The Spanish term alljds t? the precipitous cliffs by which thli vas. plateau Is upheld, as it were, on every side, except at the southeast corner. The geological formation may be compared to a book lying on a table. The whole of this plain the largest in the United State? Is as smooth as the surface of the ocean in a deal calm, its level unorcken by trees or bushes, but carpeted with a rich growth of grass. "I'p to within seventeen years of the present time the Llano KatacaJo. or Stockaded Plain, was supposed to be utterly waterleys. After seasons of rainfall there are occasional pond.i or lakes of water hell In depressions here anl there, but these are apt to evaporate in a few days. Running vvater is the only stream in the desert. It suddenly breaks out of the ground, ripples over pebbly bottoms for a distance of ten miles, and then mysteriously disappears, like many other rivers west of the Pecos river. The trouble is that, though the annual rainfall is fair In quantity, the soil is porous as a sponge anJ swallows the water. The latter percolates downward until, at a considerable depth, it is stopped by an impervious stratum. "Thanks to this stratum, the IJano Estacalo is underlaid actually by a sheet of underground water, the most remarkable In the United States. Thus, in the midst of the plateau, more than one thousanl wells have been dug successfully. From these wells unlimited supplies of the precious fluid are pumped up by means of windmills, making practicable the pasturing of thousands o! cattle. Water is struck in this way throughout the entire extent of the mesa, which thus has become a great grazing region. "At present 9.30O people live on the Llano. Three million acres of the northwest corner of it were transferred some time ago to certain parties as a moJe of paying them for Qulldlng'a new Statehouse at Austin. Tills was, by far, the largest grant of land made to any corporation in recent years, and there was a big howl about It. Wise Judges to-day, however, are of the opinion that the State got the better end of the bargain. Inasmuch as the land is worthless for farming purposes." PHEPARINGr FOR AVAR

INDICATIONS POIXT TO AX OUT11REAK IX TUB TRANSVAAL. Qaentlon Supplanting Excitement In London Over Venezuela Episode German Hostility. JOHANNESBERG, Dec 29. The political situation here Is acute on account of the struggle of foreigners in the Transvaal to obtain equal political rights with the Boers. There are persistent rumors of a secret arming of the miners and warlike preparations, on account of which women and children are leaving. General Joubert, commander-in-chief of the Transvaal forces, has' been summoned to Pretoria from Natal. The Americans and Germans are siding with the Transvaal government-in the controversy over conceding rights to foreigners. England Ilaa 31 ore Trouble. LONDON, Dec. 30. The Times this morning publishes long dispatches from Cape Town. Paris and Berlin bearing on the Transvaal question, wheh seems to be displacing the Venezuelan question in the public Interest. The Paris dispatch quotes the Debats as saying: "The London Times seems to be avenging itself on the Boers for the moderate tone it was obliged to adopt towards Uncle Sam." The Debats then proceeds to argue on the danger to French Interest of allowing England to seize the Transvaal. A dispatch to the Times from The Hague says that Holland's attitude on the question is apparently one of indifference. The Berlin dispatch says: "The action of the Uitlanders in the Transvaal has given rise to an unusually violent explosion of anti-English feeling In the. German press." The National Zeitung is quoted as follows: "Germany. Portugal and possibly France cannot allow the lioer republic to become the exclusive prey of England, and especially cf such a dangerous personage as Mr. Cecil Rhodes." The 'limes dispatch then continues: "The Kolnlrche Zeitung and other papers express similar sentiments. It canno be de..ieJ that the relations between the English and German governments are in no way cordial and a widespread feeling of animosity against England exists in Germany." The Times also nas a column article explanatory of the Transvaal trouble, which says: "Equality of representation with taxation, language, law, responsibility cf th administration to the Legislature and the removal of the redgious disabilities, are among the chief of the Uitlanders demands, while they deslie ta maintain tepub.ican Institutions." An editorial in the Times complains that the French and German press are criticising England without properly grasping the history or geography of the question. The Times believes that no desperate remeiy, such as arn appeal to force, will be required. "Some reasonable concessions," it continues, "even though not all that the Uitlanders might rightfully claim, might avail to postpone a conflict.' The Cinr Surprised. LONDON, Dec. 30. The Berlin corre spondent of the Standard says: "I have excellent reason to state that the reports of an agreement between Russia and the United States about Venezuela are unfounded. On the contrar the Czar was painfully surprised at President Cleveland's message and any war involving England would be unwelcome to the Russian court on the approach of the coronation." Worse than the Monroe Doctrine. LONDON. Dec 30. The Chronicle says: "Lord Dunraven's failure to Incriminate Defender's owner, or crew is complete. He may now In cold blood reflect that he 'has done more to breed bad blood between the two nations than President .Cleveland and Secretary Olney combined." Italy Fears Continental Treachery. LONDON. Dec. CO. The Rome correspondent of the Times hears that a FrancoRussian project to send 40,000 Kerdan rifles and 2.000.000 cartridges to Abyssinia has been discussed in high offlclal clrcels In Russia. Cable- Xotes. It Is reported that the Chilian Senate Saturday n!ght approved the Chill-Bolivia treaty. A serious wreck is reported at Cork from off Skibbcreen, but a heavy fog prevails and no details have been learned. The Order of Crusaders has .forwarded through Hon. Neal Dow. Mother Stewart and Miss Frances WMlard a New Year's greeting from the temperance workers or America to these of Lonion, with the hope that war will be averted. The proiosed meeting of the American Society in London, fcr tne purpose cf an expression cf a hope for an amicable settlemeat of existing differences between England and the United States, has bfen abandoned in view of the Improved tltuatbn. At Vienna Emperor Francis Joseph gave an audience yesterday of nearly an hour to the German Chancellor, Prirce V'cn Hohenlohe. Afterward a banquet wa given in the Chancellors honor at the palace. Chancellor Von Hohenlohe was seated at the Emperor's right hand. OMtnnry. CLEVELAND. O., Dec. 29. Charles II. Bulkley, president of the park and boulevard commission of this city, died to-day, aged fifty-three years. He was prominently Identified with the business interests of the city, being part owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and was for a time president of the Union Club. Mr. Bulkley had been in 111 health for some time. SCRANTON. Pa.. Dec. 29. Rev. Kenneth A. Campbell, a Canadian Catholic priest of considerable repute, who three years ago a""nioned eccelslastlcal work on account of 111 health and came here to reside, died of bronchitis to-day. The body will be taken to Arlllia. Ontario, where, in Father Campbell celebrated his silver Jubilee. Ilonndnry-l.lne War. NEW YORK. Dec. SO. A special to the World from Oaxaca. Mexico, says: A pitched battle occurred Wednesday between the Inhabitants of the town of Huitzl and San Juan Del Kstado. as the outgrowth of the bitter feeling that hs existed for some time between those places concerning their boundary line. Four persons were killed and twenty injured, many of the latter seriously. The State troops were ordered to the scene of rioting and made many arrest.

THE TOURISTS' REST

KOKOMO IIOILEH FACTORY 3IADE INTO A HOTEL FOR. TRAMPS. Sad Accidental Death of Sherman EnNtmnn, n Yonnic llualneaa 31an of Anderson. Special to. the Indianapolis Journal. KOKQMO, Ind., Dec. 29. In the nothern suburbs m this city stands an abandoned boiler factory building, that for several months past has been in possession of tramps. The structure is converted into a hotel for the accommodation of the traveling tramp public, a furnace being provided in the corner of the edifice for cooking, benches for tables and straw cots for sleeping quarters. . More than forty of these tourists have been quartered over night at one time In this place, which has earned the title of "The Tourists' Rest." They have a regularly Installed cook and housekeeper, a growler rusher, foragers and . beggars, and It Is, in short, a veritable paradise for the "Weary Watkinses" and "Dusty Rhodeses." Every night daring stormy weather the building is full of them. Occasionally they get into a general fight over the distribution of eatables and cots. The police do not molest them as long as they behave themselves, being less expense to the city this way than to keep them over night in Jail. YOl'XG EASTMAN'S DEATH. 3Ianjrlcd Under nn Electric Car at Anderson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. Dec. 19. Sherman Eastman, a widely-known young business man of this city, was Instantly killed in this city last night a few minutes before 9 o'clock. Mr. Eastman for the past four years has been connected with the Indiana Box Company, of this city, whose lirgi plant Is operated in North Anderson, where he resides. A year previous to his coming to Anderson he married Miss Alice Myrtle Bailey, of Union City. Mr. Eastman was on the electric car that reaches the p-bl c square at 9 o'clock, and as the motor and a trailer reached Eighth street he arose tj leave the car. Conductor llolman lay.or reached for the bell cord, but Mr. Eastman remarked that he could alight without that, as the car was runn.ng at reduced speed. The street was filled with flush and ice. and as his feet struck the brick pavement they slipped and he fell between the cars. It was done so quickly that tho?e on the cars did not realize that a fellow-being had been crushed to death. Tne wheels passed over his right shoulder, crushing the bones of the chest and br:aking the right arm at the elbow. The skull was fractured and neck broken. The sad news was conveyed to hl3 young wife bv a sister who was cn the street when the accident occurred. His brother, Charles Eastman, is the secretary of the North Anderson Window-glass Company, and his parents reside In Union City, .where the remains have been taken for Internment. Mr. Eastman was a young man of rare business qualifications and of h ga moral character. . Sold the John Brown Relies. Wabash Plain Dealer. James Eldildge, of Hartford, Conn., wants the John Brown relics which Dan Llzer, of this county, possesses, and he wants them bad. . i Mr. Eldridge several months ago learned, through the Plain Dealer, that Mr. L zer had the handcuffs and sword worn by thefamous abolitionist and he Immediately opened up a correspondence with Mr. Llzer, who at first was loth to part with the relics. After some dickering, Mr. Llzer put a pr.ee of J61 upon the relics, never dreaming that it would be accepted by the Easterner. But the Connecticut man was keen and to-day sent a check for the amount, on a Hartford bank, to Mayer James E. Mcrienry, with instructions to turn the check over to Mr. Llzer, receive the relic? and send the same to him by express. Mr. Llzer was in town this morning and was sen by tre Mayor. He was disposed to go back on tlv proposition, but wjs finally persuaded to make the deal, and next week the relics will be brought to the city and shipped Ea3t and Mr. Llzer will obta n his $31. Liven with n Hole In III LanjcN. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. Dec. 29. One of the remarkable cases that has come to public notice in this county Is that of Joseph Revellee, of Milton, who in February last was shot by James McSlpples, also of that place. The two men had a quarrel, and the latter shot the former, the ball piercing one of the lungs. It was claimed that Revellee could not recover, and for several days his death was expected, and. although the injured lung became hardened and his heart was pushed out of place and he could take no sustenance In consequence, he finally began to improve and is now said to be on the road to certain recovery. McSlpples has never been tried for his act. but the authorities were awaiting for the outcome of Revellee's injury, and McSlpples has been in jail ever since the shooting occurred. Henry's (inn Belt Eleetrle Ilond.. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ' ANDERSON, Ind.. Dec. .-Congressman Charles L. Henry will arrive In Anderson to-morrow, and it is thought will announce the final plans of the electric street railway concerning the proposed Interurban railway. The bids for the grading of the line to Alexandria were received and opened by Mr. Henry a few days ago, and during his stay here they will be made public, as well as the further Intention of the company concerning the construction of the equipment. It Is the firm belief of Andersonlans and those along the proposed line that the line will be In operation in a few months. Murderer Walter Paroled. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VI LLK. Ind..- Dec. 29. Probably the happiest person in JeffersonviUe to-day was William Walters, whose parole arrived this morning. During nine years' Imprisonment he was not once reprimanded, and his behavior caused the prison officials to recommend his parole. Walters was also an especial favorite of the newspaper fraternity, his position in the office of the prison giving him an opportunity of being very useful to them. His crime was the killing of a man in a quarrel while intoxicated, for which he was sentenced for twenty-one years. An Eoonomlcnl Ilonrd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 29.-The County Commissioners will, meet In special session to-morrow to award the contract for stationery supplies for Madison county for the ensuing year. The new Republican Boar J of Commissioners rescinded the contract tnade with Curford by the retiring Democratic board and advertised for bids, as the contract had been made with Burford secretly. The bids were received a few days ago, and the county auditor states that the act of the Republican beard will save the county more than $1,500 a year on that item alone. For Six Cellulose Factories. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCKPORT. Ind.. Dec. 29. Lands have been leased in Spencer county on which to erect six cellulose factories, one of which is to be on Corn island, famous for Its production of corn. Cellulose 13 a substance made from the pith of corn stalks, and is used for interlining war ships. The substance, when placed in punctures of the hull cf a ship immediately expards and stops the leak. The farmers of the county are Jubilant over the matter, and anticipate a profitable sale of their corn stalks. Jniuen Lavellen Condition. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., D?c. CD.-The wife and child of James Lavelle, ex-audltor of Daviess county, confimd in the Prison South on the charge of ar?or, are here to visit him. brought by the report of Lavelle's serious lllntss. Th's morning Lavelle seemed better, but Dr. Kurtner, the hosoltal, steward, state that he is suHrln? from angina pfctrris. At any time he may become suddenly worse and expire. Cny Painter Demise. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FARMLAND. Ind.. Dec. 29. Guy Painter, aged nineteen, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewi E Painter, died last niht of consumption. The funeral will be held at the Christian Church to-morrow, with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Indlnna Note. ' William Blessing, a former merchant of Kokorao, was found la dying condition by.

the roadside Saturday.. He was taken to a hospital, but died soon after. Heart disease Is given as the cause of death. A slx-hun-dred-dollar mortgage that he carried In his pocket cannct be found. Jacob R. Bruner, capitalist, of Wabash, remembered each cf his four children handsomely on Christmas day. To-eieh. Mr-. Charles McLain. of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Will Thompson, of Vaba?h. George Bruner. of Kokomo, and Mis Minnie Bruner. of Wabash, he gave $l,0u0 in cash as a Christmas present. WAS TEMrEST-TOSSED.

La Xormandle Ileaehe Port After Trnvrnlng Terrible Sean. NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The French liner La Normand.'e arrived at her dock only a few hours late, although for. four days she had been tempest-tossed, and on Thursday the seas ran particularly high, the windblew what old-fashioned mariners used to call "great guns" and the barometer dropped to 27.5. Purser Davy reported that, notwithstanding the wind and high seas, there had been no accident or accidents worthy of mention. There were thirty-four Mloon passengers, including Mr. and Mrs. Krafts, of Philadelphia, and M. and Mme. Michel. It was denied that Louise Michel, the famous Communist, was among the passengers. Three-Manted Schooner llarnlnn. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.-CapUln Scott, of the British steamship Muriel, which arrived at Pier 30 South wharves to-day from Demerara, reports passing an unknown three-masted schooner Dec. 28 in latitude 37:48, longitude 74:36, burning furiously. "We first sighted the wreck," said Captain Scott, "at 4:30 o'clock in the morning and two hours later got within hailing distance, but saw no signs of life about. There were no marks visible by which she could be identified. The craft was laden with lumber and ' had been burning long. Her fore and mizzen masts were standing. Storm foresail was Bet and the topmasts were gone." Captain Scott thinks the vessel was set on fire after having been abandoner by her crew. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-Arrlved: La Normandie, from Havre; Chateau Lafitte, from Bordeaux; Prussia, from Hamburg. SOUTHAMPTON. Dec. 23. Arrived: Kensington, from New York. HAVRE, Dec- 23.-Arrlved: La Champagne, from New York. ROBBED AND HANGED FATE OF FOUR AMERICAN CITIZENS IN BOLIVIA LAST WEEK. All the Result of n Fight During a Game of Cards with the Acting Mayor of Chnqalsaca. NEW YORK. Dec.' 30. A "special to the World from La Pai,, Bolivia, says: Four American citizens, Charles Joiner, George Miner, Alfred rfoard and Thomas Caldwell, arrived at Chuqulsaca last week after a five' weeks journey from Brazil, where they had been Working for ; years and had amassed considerable fortunes, which they . k -, were taking home. They remained several days, spending money , freely and gambling extensively. : On Tuesday . Miner . accused Pepe Gonzalez, the acting Mapror of Chuqulsaca, of having cheated them with marked cards, and offered to prove 'the assertion. Gonzalez drew a pistol, but was knocked down by Joiner, and a general .fight followed, in which thirty persons threw themselves on the f riendless Americans.' Finally the police arrested the Americans, letting the natives go free. The Americans were taken to a filthy Jail, left two nights' and orre day without food, and then, . aft er' tho, semblance, of a trial. In which ;theynwre. accused of being spies and were not allowed to send a message to the Americans-consul, they were sentenced to death. The eentence was carried Into execution Thursday noon publicly. Their horses and other property have disappeared, but it is known that Gonzales has distributed them. among his friends and the police. - Chuqulsaca or Sucre is a place of twelve thousand Inhabitants and was the capital of Bolivia untiLlSGD. GRIFFO-EV ERHARDT MATCHED. Joe Vcndlsr Arranges for a Fight for $4,0m In Mexico. -NEW YORK, Dee S.-Young Griffo and Jack Everhardt have.' been matched by Joe Vendig to fight for a purse of $4,0(KM3,000 to go to the: winner and'Jl.OCO to the loser. Then men are . to weigh in at 131 pounds. They are to fight on Feb.-13, In Mexico. IMIlsbnry ."Draws' Another. ST. PETERSBURG,' Dec. 19. Yesterday play in the International .chess tournament was resumed, when ,Stelnltz (black) beat Tschigcrin in an Evans gambit after sixty moves. To-day the results were a3 follow: Steinitz (white) ani Pillsbury drew a Petroff defense after thirty-five moves. Lasker (black) beat Tsehigorln: in a Glusso piano alter forty-rive moves. The score to date: ( Players. Won. Lost. Plllbury 5 2 Lasker 4'f Steinitz 3 4 Tscnlscrin 1 5i Will Flarht In Three Counties. , LYONS, N. Y., Dec. 20.-A fight for a purse .raised by sporting men In western New York will occur Monday night between Billy Woods, of Denver, and Thomas Brennan, "The Omaha Kid." The battle, which will be to a finish, London prize rinj rules, it Is said, will be fought within ten miles of Lyons, at a point where Wayne county is met by Ontario and Seneca counties. This place is chosen by the promoters of the affair because no Interference by officials is anticipated. The ring, it is understood, wi'l be pitched so as to be partly In each of the three, counties, thus necessitating concerted action by the sheriffs. Cyellst Sanger Secretly Married. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Dec. 23.-Walter C. Sanger, the well-known professional bicycle riser, and Miss Katherine Kotzenberg, of Chicago, were s?cretly married on Friday night by the Rev. Father -McGlll. They -were on their way to the rlvtr to s'ate with friends, when '. they quietly s'lp-ed away, were married, and later joined the skating party. I ate that night tney announced the wedding to their parents, who, though they expectel the martlage, were surprised that they shouli have married without their knowledge. Tennis Champions Defeated. NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-Harry Boakea. Instructor of raquets at the Chicago Athletic Association, and Tom Pettit, Instructor at the Boston Ahletic Association, to-day defeated B. S. de Garmandia, the amateur raquet champion, and George Standing, the professional champion. In the last of the Christmas series, by a score of four sets to two. The score: 15-3, 6-13, 15-12; 15-1, 7-15, 1-17. Episcopal Golden Jahllee. DUBUQUE. Ia.. Dec. 29. The golden Jubilee of the Episcopal Church of Dubuque was celebrated to-day with Imposing ceremonies. Among those present were Bishop Perry, of Davenport; venerable 11. R. J. Hoyt. D. D.. archdeacon of Davenport; venerable Irving McEIroy, archdeacon of Waverly, and Rev. Brooks, of Detroit, Mich, first paster of the church there. Wasting n Gold Reserve. Harper's Bazar. . . . "You are worth your weight in gold to me. darling!" he murmured. "Then d go heme early, George, dear,, she replied, wearily. "I've lest ten pour.d3 since we became enrageJ Just silting uo laie w'th vox We can't afford such extravagance." ' . The best ani purest is sought by all. Be sure to order Hurler's Cocoa and Chocolates from your grocer. .

A HARP00T LETTER

GIVES STOnY OF MASSACRE AND IllRM.XG OF GIRLS' COLLEGE. London Standard Correspondent Intimates a Secret Treaty Between Russia and Turkey. AMESBURY. Mass.. Dec. 29. Rev. H. A. Santaklan, until three months ago pastor of the Second Church, at ' Harpoot. Armenia, has Just returned to this city, and to-day gave a correspondent the contents of a letter from Harpoot in relation to the massacre at Marsovan on Nov. 15, which states that . several hundreds were killed, the girls' college burned, ten houses plundered and a number of Armenian stores burned. At the present time there are no schools ' or churches In the town, which contains one thousand Armenian families, Mr. Santaklan graduated from the Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary In 18S9. and has passed the time since In Armenia. He says: . ' "I do not think the present Red' Cross movement will be a success unless backed up by the United States government. The trouble has been brewing since 1S82, and it was only last year that the Turks made an attempt to burn the missionary buildings at Harpoot." SSBSSSSSSBSBSSSBSSBSSSBSS RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Need Re No Surprise Should A Secret Treaty He Announced. LONDON, Dec. 9.-The correspondent of the Standard at Constantinople says: "It will be needless to be surprised at any day at the discovery of a secret treaty between Russia and Turkey. A - Russian syndicate, strongly supported by the embassy, has offered to replenish the Turkish treasury In return for the concession of a petro;eum monopoly." A dispatch to the Times from Constantinople says: 'The latest advices from Zeitoun are that the insurgents have been reinforced by 500 men from Gum a'nd have occupied new positions. Accordingly tha dragomans of the powers went to the Porte and offered to negotiate for a capitulation." The Daily News's Constantinople correspondent says: "In response to Unliej States Minister Terrell's request to Consul Jewitt, at Sivas, that he should go to Marsovan, Mr. Jewitt has wired that it -a impossible to leave, as another outbreak is threatening." The Graphic publishes a letter from Lord Rosebery to a correspondent, commenting on England's inaction in Armenia, in which he says: "I cannot believe that It means Insincerity or incapacity on the part of a powerful government. They mu3t have encountered obstacles of which we are Ignorant. Perhaps they had to weigh the hideous alternative of abandoning the Armen ans or of facing a European war. Therefore. I must hear their case before Judging them." A Constantinop e letter la the Times summarizes ani tabulates from consular and other sources the Armenian missacres in the last two months. There are many places from which there are no details yet, but where known the total is 18 killed. Turkish statistics give the kill d In' the towns at 20,000, with 2.G00 villages destroyei, and the number of ki'led In them u kn wn. It is estimated that there are 425,000 starving. . Request of Minister Terrlll. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29.-At the request of the United States minister, Hon. A. W. Terrlll, the Sultan has ordered that regular trops replace the reserve soldiers who are guarding the missionaries In the exposed parts of the empire. . ' BRAZIL'S COMING CAPITAL. The Place That Han Been Selected as the Center of Federal Authority. New York Sun. The day is coming when Rio de Janeiro will be the New York, and no longer the Washington; of Brazil. The capital of the republic is to be removed to the very heart of the union, on the lofty central plat.au of Goyaz, hundreds of miles from the insalubrious littoral, and difficult of acc.ss for foreign enemies. When the railroad is completed to tr.e propos d capital it will take eighteen .hours to reach it from Rio, and all travelers will be delighted with the change from the ttblir.g heat of the seaboard to a region where the air is as balmy as on the Mediterranean coan of France in winter. Many years ago this project was broached, and, if It had beei carried cut, p;haps Emperor Dom Pedro would not have been dethroned so ea-ily. On the seaboard he was deposed, and he was sent i to exl:e long before a large part of the country heard the news. If the seat of government had been far in the interior, D m Ptd-o's friends might have regained their wits and come to the rescue before he was a prisoner on the sea. The young republic culled a leaf from our own history, and a clause was inserted in the new constitution authorizing the removal of the capital from Rio: so. in 1891. the Brazilian Congress voted the funds necessary to send a commission of twentytwo members to look for a favorable site for the federal district on the central plateau of Goyaz. Senhcr Luis Cruls, director of the observatory of Rio de- Janeiro, was at the head of the commission, and its studies and surveys occupied about a year. It is only this year that the voluminous report has been issued, although the action and recommendations of the commission were approved previously. The report Is a fine product of . the press and artist, and doubtless has coat the taxpayers a good round sum, but they can hardly fail to be impressed favorably with the sumptuous maps and photogravures which give a clear idea of the topographic features and the picturesque aspects of the region, still a virgin waste, which Is destined to be the center of Brazilian political life. Almost due northwest of Rio and a little east of the town of Goyaz is the region that has been selected for the future "District of Columbia" of Brazil. The work of the commission having been approved by Congress, the matter is ended as far as locating the federal district Is concerned. On the slopes and at the foot of a long, low ridge of mountains Senhor Cruls anl his assistants marked out a parallelogram containing 14.4C9 square kilometers. The district, therefore, will be very much larger than our District of Columbia, and very different, in shape, for, while It extends many miles along the mountains, the tract is only about seven miles in width. THE .MONROE DOCTRINE. An EniclUhman Tells Ills Countrymen Some Unpnlntnble Fnets. Goldwin Smith, in Saturday Review.The Monroe doctrine seems to have been of Jate the theme of active discussion in the British press, and to have been treated by different Journals in different ways. Some Journals seem to have treated it as an agsresslon, others as a fanfaronade, and others again as a hypothesis which they might safely concede in dealing with the Venezuelan question. By . this time Englishmen must all know pretty well what the Monroe doctrine really is. They must be aware that there are, In fact, two doc trines comprised in the same message of President Monroe, cognate, yet distinct from each other, and directed as warnings to different powers. To Russia Is directed the warning that the American continent is no longer ta bo regarded as a field of European colonization. To the Holy Alliance, which was Inclined to meidle with the new-born republicanism of South America, Is directed the warning that no European power can be allowed to interfere with the political self-development of American communities. In intimating that Interference with the political freedom of the South American republics will be regarded as an unfriendly act by the United States, Monroe manifestly claimed for his republic a tutelary power. On the other hand, there is nothing In the message that can be construed as a pretension to territorial aggrandizement on the part of the United States. Whether the Monroe doctrine, thus stated. Is a part of International law seems not a very practical question. International law Is a law without a legislature, without a DOliceman and without a Juage. Its highest court of anneal Is the cannon. The Monroe doctrine will be law if America is strong enough to emorce It. Louis Napoleon did not regard it as law, hut he nevertheless had to accept It and retire from Mexico. In this respect It seems to stand on much the Fame footing as the European protectorate of Turkey, the guaranteed independence of Belgium, the other understandings respect ed in diplomacy, wnicn rest, not on universal law, but on the readiness of the parties interested to fight for their enforce ment. it is, however, not with the Monroe doctrine as formulated In the 4 famous message that Englishmen are now in contact. and. If Mr. Chamberlain pursues hi "dream" of imperial confederation, may be

one day brought Into collision, so much as with the Monroe sentiment. The Monroe sentiment imports that the new world shall be free from interference on the part of the old world; that It shall be allowed to follow its own destinies and to work out its own civilization; that it shall not be made the field or the highway of Eurojxan war, but shall be left without molestation to dedicate Itself to peaceful industry and the Improvement of the human lot. There is in this, at all events, nothing of vulgar ambition or rapacity. Of mere territorial . aggrandizement I have never in thirty years of intercourse detected the slightest desire in the American breast. The Americans refused San Domingo., they refused St. Thomas, and they would very likely have refused Alaska If they could have done It without offending Russia, who had been their riend in the civil war. The land hunger, economical or political, fled with slavery. But the Monroe sentiment as to the Independence of the continent has always seemed to me to be strong, and strong I believe it would be found by any cne who shouli venture to defy It. It showed its force in the fixed resolution to eject Louis Napoleon and his Latin empire from Mexico, while the Americans have .never betrayed any disposition to annex Mexico themselves, easy as the acquisition would probably be. Nothing seems to be more certain than that Canada, if she were Independent and chose so to remain, might rest In perfect security by the side of her mighty neighbor. Opinion In the United States is evenly divided as to the expediency of admitting her to the Union. If she Is the object of any hostile feelirir on the part of Americans it is not .as an independent territory, but as the outpost and the centering wedge of European Interference with the American continent. In that aspect she Is always being presented to the Americans by the strongly British party here. BIG ZINC TRUST.

All Smelters, Except Fonr, to Me Under One Management. ST. LOUIS. Dec. 29. The' biggest deal in the history of zinc mining in Missouri will be closed by Jan. 1. It will unite all the zinc smelters of the country, except four. under one management, practically, and tho result will be, the promoters claim, better prices for zinc In all branches, and a genrai revival et th industry. The monev ni?.tivri to ohnnt tfoo.iioo. which 1 t" be .furnished by New York and Connecticut capitalists, ine cieai was ruj;necicu vj x v Mnhnrt nresldent of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company, which controls a b g zinc smelter at Pittsburg. Kan. The new company will control all tne zinc smeiien in what Is known as tne soutnwest .Missouri district, embracing the ztnc-produclrg tprritnrv in Ml:sMirl and Kansas. Two smelters in Indiana will come la also. THE ARMENIAN SIASSACnES. Abdul Hamld and the Knrds Not the Only Illamable People. Harper's Weekly. At the present crisis In Turkey it Is well to call to mind the situation Immediately preceding It. As soon as the Berlin treaty was signed, the Armenians looked anxiously for the promised reforms, while the Turks realized with Increasing clearness that these same reforms Involved most serious dangers to their own government. The delay in the enforcement of the treaty emboldened the Turks and disheartened the Armenians. Another disturbing element was the presence in the empire of men, chiefly Russian-Armenians, who preached everywhere the policy of Insurrection as the only means of forcing the powers to act. The extent to which they succeeded in stirring actual revolution has been grossly exaggerated by the Turkish government, but they certainly did much to create a general feeling of uneasiness wtiich made the tension between Turks and Armenians almost unendurable, and threatened to result at any moment In open conflict. In the recent work of Mr. Weeks, "From the Black Sea through Persia and India," this state of affairs is alluded to in the first part of the volume, and at the moment when Mr. Child and Mr. Weeks set out on their Journey through Armenia the political atmosphere seemed heavy with the gathering storm. They were detained in the city of Erzerum by the discovery of an error in thoir dragoman's passport. The fact that this dragoman was an Armenian from Constantinople furnished the Vail with a sufficient pretext for refusing his signature, and It was only by a successful piece of diplomacy that the two travelers finally obtained a new passport for him. Erzerum being a fortified stronghold within a short distance of both the Persian and the Russian boundaries, all strangers at that moment were regarded with suspicion, particularly as the Turkish authorities were then on the lookout for parties engaged In smuggling arms across the frontier. In a recent conversation Mr. Weeks referred to these matters, and spoke of the state of fear and anxiety which prevailed among the Armenians or , Erzerum. The travelers had made the acquaintance of a young man belonging to a prominent Armenian family of that city during the Journey from Treb!zond. Upon arrival at Erzerum they were - Invited to. his father's home, and were shown with great mystery and secrecy one or two old books In their native tongue, treating of the antiquities of the citv, and illustrated with rude wood cuts. Even these books were proscribed by the Turkish government, and were kept hidden away, to be shown only to those in whom thev had confidence. Many more incidents of a Fimllar character were cited. But in this, as In every question in which the wilv Moslem play3 a part, there are manv phases, and experience teaches the diplomat to put his faith In neither princes nor In their subjects, to believe nothing but what his eyes have seen, and that with reservation; for the astute Mussulman has more than once proved himself a match for Frankish diplomacy. When the whole truth Is known, many vears hence, it will appear that not merely Abdul Hamid and his Kurdish allies on the one hand, and the Armenian revolutionists on the other, but the proudest nations of Christendom had a share in- the responsibility for a series of massacres unsurpassed In the world's history. A HIGH-PRICED MONARCH. Emperor William Is Exiravflgant and Unable to Pay Ills Debts. Philadelphia Tress. Of all the monarchs of Europe the most extravagant Is Emperor William. In .order to find a parallel for the deluge of debt and pressing liabilities by which, he is overwhelmed it is necesfarv to go back ts the reign of King George IV f England. Until now the Hohenzollerns have been renowned for their excessive thrift. Their economy tired to be a household word throughout Europe, and much speculation prevails as to whence Emperor William derives this extraordinary tendency to excessive and reckless expenditure, he being the only scion of his house who can be described as guilty In this particular. The question is timely In view of. the official announcement to the effect that the Emperor and Empress intend tl)e winter season of 1833-9G to surpass in splendor and magnificence all those that have gone before, and this in spite of the fact that never at any time since his accession to the throne have his financial difficulties been of such an acute nature as at the present mcmcn. His recklessness is perhaps attributable to his Immunity 'from any legal process on the part of his creditors. Neither the Kaiser nor any member of his immediate family that is. princes and princeeses of the royal house of Prussia can be sued for debt In any court of law. Berlin tradesmen are practically compelled to fulfill the crders which they receive from the master of the royal household and from the members of the royal family under penalty of being boycotted by the court, the aristocracy and in fact by every one who has any social aspirations at Berlin, the alternative of refusing ta purvey the reigning family meaning nothing else than ruin. Yet they have no means of collecting payment bv process of law, any tradesman's claim against royalty being referred to the minister and grand master of the royal household, from whose decision there is no legal appeal. This condition, of affairs is the more Inexcusable seeing that the Falary or civil list, which the Kaiser receives from the national exchequer every year, amounts to do? upon $j,(K0.090, added to which the Emperor lives in palacc3 built by the people and Is exempt from disagreeable attentions on the part of the tax collector. His civil list is more than double that received from the crown by his father and grandfather, and in addition thereto be has at his disposal the control of the private fortune and vast estates of the royal house of Prussia, which represents a fortune of some $30,0U0,Oja This property belonging to the Junior branch of the Hohenzollerns for the reigning house of Prussia is only the Junior branch of the family of which Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Is the head consists partly In money loaned on mortgage In London and New York, while the remainder Is In the shape of German real estate, valuable horse-breedr.ig establishments, manufactories, mints, etc. Finally, It must be remembered that the nation has provided the Emperor with three yachts, one of which Is a floating palace, and a couple of railroad trains., one of them a palace on wheels. So there is little excuse tor the Kaiser's being In debt. Emperor William receives his salary quarterly In advance. 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UUU TOBACCO No Nerves Quaking No Heart Palpitating No Dyspeptic Aching in a number of strong boxes and carriedi to the royal mall wagon, waiting at the door between a troop of mounted gendarmes. After the load has been placed In the vehicle the Ministers of Flnanc of the empire and of the kingdom place the respective seals of their offices upon tha door and accompany the Minister of the Royal Household in his carriage to the palace, the mall wagon with its escort of gendarmes following 'Immediately behind. Not until the money la actually deposited in the vaults of Emperor William's Berlin palace does the Minister of the Household! sign the receipts, w hich 'are made out la the name of "Wilhelm Rex" and "Wllhelra Imperatur" respectively. Onehalf of th sum Is derived from the treasury of the kingdom of Prussia and the other from tho treasury of the German empire. Two days afterward, the court functionaries receive their pay, but although the Emperor receives his salary in advance not one of the employes Is similarly favored, eo that the Emperor is-practically always three months behind in the pay list of his house-hold. The only exception which th9 Emperor makes is in favor of hit consort, whose personal allowance of C50,00(i per annum 'is paid to her quarterly and in advance. At no great court In Europe are .the salaries paid so low and infinitesimal as at that of Berlin. The so-called great dignitaries have to satisfy themselves with a. pittance of C.0O0 a year, while the minister -himself receives but J3.000. This is not so surprising when the enormous number of people who figure on the pay roll Is taken into consideration. Fcr instance, there are no less than five hundred housemaids, and 1,800 liveried footmen. Every servant, high and low. Is entitled to a pension after working in the royal household for twenty years. Over and beyond the civil lilt received by the Emperor from the treasury of the empire and that of the kingdom he draws from the war department full salary for the different ' military commands he assumes. As commander-in-chief of the army he is continually appointing himself colo-nel-in-chief of this or that regiment, which has thereupon the right to style itself the "Leib." or body regiment of his Majesty. Whenever one reads in the gazette that he has thus honored a regiment in tha army one may take it for granted that it entails an addition to his income in then shape of a colonel's pay and allowances. Inasmuch as at the present moment h holds the colonelcy of some fifty different regiments it will readily be seen that constitute no Inconsiderable addition .C Ms Income, all the more as the colonelcies carry with them forage allowances for some two hundred horses. - Out of his civil list the Emperor Is expected to pay the allowances of the various members of his family. But this la not a heavy drain on his purse. For hl brother. Prince Henry, and his brother-in-law. Prince Frederick Leopold, have each Inherited Immense private fortunes and are practlcallv Independent of any allowance, while tb only other princes of his hoivse. Prince Albert of Brunswick, the crazv Prince Alexarder and the eccentrio vet talented Prince Oeorge. all three elderly men. are exceedingly wealthy. Indeed. tvey flm-re anor the richest princes of the blood In Europe. COST OP- K ALAND'S AVARS. f What the British Have Paid for Their FlfflitlnKT of Two Centuries. New York Sun. In the wars of the present and of tho previous century Ergland has expended. S3.O0O.O0O.O00. Almost incessantly since 170U England has been iro?ecutlng war and paying the cost of It. either In alliance with other European nations or against barbarous or semi-clvillzed nations slnglo hariut-d. . The first of the wars In which England engaged In the eighteenth century was against the French, Eng'and having as Its allies Holland, Prussia, Hanover and Portugal. It culminated In the treaty of Utrecht in 1713 after an expenditure (relatively much larger in those days) of ttQO.OW.COO. The English war against the Canadian colonists, who were favorable to the French, but who were without aiequato resources o withstand the power of the English, followed at a cost of J.W.Of'O.Oi'O. and then fallowed the war against the American patriot coln!5ts south of the Canadian border line the revolutionary war. The rest to England of the revolutionary war !s given in the official figure of the English War Offlce at SiO.Ot0.0(X. The closing years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth century were years of strife and war In which England took an active part, but never single handed. Her first alliance was with Russia. Prussia. Sardinia. Portugal; Italy and the minor German states against France. That was In 1733. The next alliance, six years later, included the m countries, with Turkey, Naples, the Barbary states and Austria In addition as allies of England. The combination of European nations of which England was a part In 115 included England, Russia, Austria. Sweden and Naples. . In 10& ISnglarui and Austria combined against France, and In 1813 all the great powers of Europe and most of the minor ones combined against rf Napoleon in what was known afterward as "the seventh coalition." While these wars were in progress In Europe England carried on other wars, particularly against the United States (the war of 1812), and In India, and during this period, beginning In 1793 and closing in 1815. the total sum expended by England for war and naval purposes was ROjO,W),(W). Fuch was the debt of England at the cloe of th last war with the United States, but It has been greatly reduced since. The Crimean war. in which England engaged against Russia with France. Turkey and Sardinia. as Us allies, cost England 'rJ.OvO.Ouo, and subsequent wars and encounters in India, in southern Africa, where the Hoers proved. a sturdy foe. In Egypt and e.sewhere have entailed considerable cost upon the English treasury, but very much less than the expense of flshtlng with civilized soldiers In well-equipped armies. The present debt of Knslanl. exclusive of the debt of KnKland's dependencies, which . is H0X,Cv),C"' Is $3.SU0Xiu.000. BJtfgest Strnm Car Ferry. . MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Dec. 29. Superintendent Martin, of. the Flint & Pere Marquette line, said to-night that his company has let a contract for the building of the largest steam car. ferry in the worll. The new ferry will not be reajy until next October, and will ply between Manitowoc and Luddington. The steamer will cost fJOOn), will have three screws, and will carry thirty cars. Eength of the steamer between perpendiculars will be 331 feet, and over-all length SO feet. . NATIONAL Tube Works Wrought-Irci Pipe fcr Gia Steim and Wi'.cf. Jto: W Tubei. Cat and 1U!1 title Irott Kiainc( bbvx aid rur sui). VajTP. Mtos Cocks. Lntftae "Trim minx. Mnir Cauts'ea, I'll Torrv I'll Cutttrs, Vbv nt Plates sua V'jm, Wrn Mtam Trmi. I-kiutm. Kit b en MnKs ll . lw-Uirp.Pat-bit Metal Soiur. WUu sa4 CVlorr.1 VYlj.inn VVt. an ail otber .supplies iiaA ta roQU-'lu wall as. Mr-am ail Water. Natural Urns Ku'jl?ts a sjwci:ty. Steamhfatinc AMratuj for I'uV lle ll.UUlmf. Mor-roins, lillSf.o.a'-orie. laun lirirs. Lumber l)rjr-Houe4, etc. Cut atJvl Thread to order stir s Wroucbl-lron 111. friu H' inch to 11 lnhe thametc-r. EIGHT A JILLS03, :Sand 11

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