Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1897 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1897.

ft VICTIM OF ft WOMAN

JOHV fXCHAY, IXXOCEXT, PAUDOXED AHEIl ELEVEN YEARS IN PRISON. Ill Dnuchlpr Snenr They AVere Forced to Hear Fnlnc "Witness Against Their Father. Yesterday was practically the last day of Governor Matthews's term In office, and during1 the day he afftxed his signature to two pardons, twoparo!es nnd two commutations. The story connected with the pardon of John Ungray is of more than parsing intert;t. He was sixty-nine years old last October, and has spent the last eleven years of his life in the Michigan City Penitentiary on account of his plea of puilty to the charge of assaulting two of his daughters. His daughters were aged, respectively, thirteen and nine years. They are now grown, and the eldest, Sarah, is married to a man by tho name of Green, living near Mishav.aka. At the time of the conviction of Ungray he lived with his two daughters, three sons and housekeeper on a, farm In St. Joseph county. When the charge was brought aain-st Ungray he had a preliminary hearing before a justice of the peace, and his eldest daughter testilied that he had assaulted her and her sister and had threatened to kill them if they ever told it. At the hearing of the case in the Circuit Court Ungray pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court, but Judge Daniel Noyes had no mercy for a man who stood self-confessed guilty of such a crime ami fixed the punishment at twenty years. Kecontly the two girls havo made afild.ivit to the effect that the testimony at the tim of their father's convicion vas wholly f.d-e and without foundation. They tay that the housekeeper, Cornelia Geyer. caused tho charge to be made, a. id secured their father's conviction in the hope of getting possession of his proinrty. The girls tay that she told them if they would testify as she told them she would get them many nicn things which they wanttd, and if they refused she would whip them. She th-n drilled them on what they should say, and even went so far as to instruct th m to identify a knife which they were to say their father threatened to vise in cutting their throats if they told of ids imaginary crime. The atlid.vits set forth that, owing to thvir youth, the girls did not nallze what v. grave thing they were doing, and, in mortal dread of Cornelia Geyer, consented to do her bidding. An atlidavit by Ungray sets forth that about the time the charge was brought against him he had suffered an injury that made him physically and mentally vik; that in his condition he was not prepared to make the right kind of a tight hi xhe case, and that, when his daughter's tftitiinony was given before the justice of the peace and he realized the same testimony would be given in the Circuit Court, he lost all hope of establishing ins innocence, and concluded to plead guilty and get as li ght a sentence as possible. The application fov th pardon was signed by th trial JudKV, prosecuting attorney, several jurors, all tie county ollicers and hundreds of citizens of prominence. Letters in behalf of Ungray ere received from Clem Stud baker, J. V. French and others. Ungray was unconditionally pardoned. Th other pardon was extended to Taylor Robbins. a Lafayette boy who was found guilty of pettit larceny and sesit up for three years. He was seventeen 'years eld at the time of his conviction, arwl has served all but four months of the -entire sentence, allowing him all his good time. He stole about worth of jewelrj. and his only defense was that the poverty of his mother had tempted him to do something to help her. The Governor said a pardon this short time before tho boy's term had expired would not In any way defeat the cause of justice and would have a good ef:'ct upon the young ma 3. THE SILLS IiKOTHERfj. In October. three brothea-s. David. AUert and Joseph Sills, were fund guilty in the Shelby Circuit Court of implication in the death of their brother-Pj-law, which occurred in Falrland. The Uaree brothers and their trothcr-in-Iaw met in the street, and in a drunken tight which foliowetl as the result of an old fumiry feud the l-troth-cr-in-Iaw was killed by being hit with a btone. David Sills, who it jis thought threw the stone, was sentenced Uor life, Alb rt Sill.- wa:; given twenty yx-jrs and Joseph fcJills fourteen years. J osier, h was paroled by the Governor and the sntcnc-s of the oth r two were reducedl to :nine years soiid. The other parole was gn tnted to George H. Sinders. of Clay count j . He was convicted of rr.anslaugater. growing out of the death of David Cahill, and given two yars In the Prison South. On the night of Dec. 7. W. Sinders and thri of his brothers, a cousin and one otheft man went to r. saloon in Hawesvllle. a mall town In the southern, part of Clay county. There they met a crowd, of which 'Stephen Cahill was a member. Greetings Art re exchanged, and tlun tho Sinders crowd, bought some whisky, and. as it was a quart shop, had to go outside to drink. While they were driaktng the father of Stephen Cahill came along, and one of thi Sinders crowd invited him to drink. Ui refused. They insisted. Finally the Cahill crowd inside rushed out and drew knives and attacked the Sinders crowd, slashing right and left. Stephen Cahill attacked George Sinders ami cut a long gash in his neck. Then Sinders picked up a oluh and struck Cahill on the head. When vlje tight was over all In the Siaders crowd were cut anil bleeding, whll 3 the opposing faction did not seein to le hurt. Tiir; days later, however. Cahill died. It was for this that George H. Sinders wast conviened In March, Is!;, and sentenced fof two years. TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES. Udnard Znlner Arrested In Connection with Ltidivisr t'ntte. Yesterday afternoon Robert Williams, a witness in the caso against Pawnbroker C. G. Ludwig. who is charged with receiving stolen goods n large quantity, went to tho polico station, and complained that a young man by the name of Edward Zaihad tried to intuc? him to leave the city. He also said trit Zaiser was working upon John O'Brien, another witness, who is, himself, under bocul, charged with the theft of Dr. Theodore Wagner's bicycle, one of the wheels found at I aid wig's residence. Zaiser was arrested at 7 o'clock last night. He admitted that he had tried to induce the witnesses to leave the city, and had offered them money if they would go. He gave the name of a oung attorney who, he said, had given him the money and for whom he worked in the interest of Ludwig. Ludwig is the pawnbroker at LI North Meridian struct, whose store and residence was recently starched by tho detectives. At the house were found twentyone bicycles, seven or eight of which have teon identilied as having been stolen and claimed by their owners. In the case of the Wagner wheel, a description of it had been furnished Ludwig by the detectives and he had been warned to notify the police in case it should be offered to him for tale or as a pledge. Afterward it was found among the wheels at Ludwig's home. Morton Club Entertainment. The O. P. Morton Club has arranged a course of entertainments and lectures to be triven in tho club's hall, on Shelby street, during the winter and spring. The course comprises five lectures and two concerts. The programme is as follows: Jan. 20 "Lee's Surrender," Colonel Z. A. Smith. Feb. 12 Concert. Feb. 2b" Washington." John T. Griffiths. March "A Job and a Dollar a Day," x-Judge James M. Winters. March tt-" Bon a parte." Rev. L. H. Davis. April I Concert. April 21 "The Mule in Politics," Georgo C. Calvert. Tickets for the full course will be sold for $1. and vil! admit si lady with the holder. Next Friday night the club will give a concert, which, however, is not a part of tho regular course. Still Pursuing Ills Wife. Ida Mays, colored, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of malicious trespass. The complaint was made by lsaae McFerron. colored, who lives on Elizabeth street- They are the people who figured in an alleged poisoning case recently. McFerron notified the police that she had put rough on rats in some ftVar In his kitchen, and an analysis of the Hour showed that it contained arsenic. The woman was in the workhouse at tho time McFerron mado the charge. She was released recently, but tho ladled did not think enourh of McFerron's

charge to arrest her. A few days before ?ho was sent to the workhouse somebody entered McFerron's house and broke up some dishes and furniture. McFerron charges this to the woman and for this has had her arrested.

DIED FROM THE SHOCK. Otto Koster Operated On for n Splnnl Trouble. Otto Koster, aged twenty-seven years, of IKS North Senate avenue, died at St. Vincent Hospital yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, as the result of a surgical operation. He went there three days ago to be operated upon for the removal of a bony substance which had formed near the spiral column and which was pressing against It in such a way as to injure the spinal cord and which would ultimately have impaired his mind. He had been suffering for nino months and finally reached the point where it was agreed that if he lived it would be necessary that the operation be performed, which in itself was considered a dangerous thing and might result fatally. Dr. Albert E. Sterne performed the operation and Koster was removed to his room. He lived but a short time, his constitution not being able to stand the shock. Koster was a brother of Rudolph Koster, a local violinist. BOARD CAN FIND HIM COL. HITTER'S RESPECTS TO MAYOR AND BOARD OF "WORKS. IVot Retracting Any of III Ftternnces on the AVine-Itoom Evil In Thl City. Mayor Taggart and Colonel Ell F. Hitter have com together with a great clash on a question of public morals. Colonel Hitter said some things in his speech Friday night at Roberts Park Church regarding the wineroom evil of Indianapolis. The mayor didn't like the tone of Colonel Hitter's remarks and took occasion to say some pretty harsh thingS of their author in one of the evening papers yesterday. Hut the mayor's wrath has so far failed to frighten the doughty colonel. The latter refuses to be specific in the case he mentioned where a detective saw young girls drunk in a wineroom of this city and a brace or policemen gazing abstractedly on the seen, but he gives the Impression of a man with a great deal of information up his sleeve. Neither does Colonel Hitter appear downcast at the prospect of his being called before the Hoard of Public Safety to substantiate his charges, but scents the fray from afar with a teeming relish and lifts up his head for the fray. Though unwilling to talk much, he Is evidently satisfied that he has a clear case and plenty of evidence for any court in which he may be called upon for It. Said he, last night: "I don't care to say . anything further than I have already been quoted as saying in an evening paper just at this time, but I will have something to say soon. I see it intimated that the Hoard of Public Safety may ask me to appear before them. If they do I will go, and they know where to find me." The colonel says that the mode of ope rating, these wlnerooms is an open secret to any who care to know it. and that some measurts must be taken to put a stop to the business. A POLICY "WHACK -VP. Allegation Mnde ly Richard Sellnra, nn Exp reft man. Richard Sellars. an expressman at 120 Massachusetts avenue, told a Journal reporter last night an unusual story. It is well known among those who have occasion to know such things that for a long time a number of enterprising gamblers have been separating a part of the colored population, and some of their white brethren in this city from a part of their earnings. The device is a lottery scheme, the drawings. for which are supposed to take place In Covington and Louisville. Sellars says there Is no game at all. The whole thing is simply a scheme of certain gentlemen to transfer other people's money from the other jeoples pockets into their own garments. They divide the money among themselves, and issue tables of the drawings to suit themselves without ever a shadow of a lottery wheel. Once In a while they pay one of their patrons a little money to keej up the joke and nvke business good. All this. Sellars says, and then he makes th- sensational charge that some one in authority is interested in this infamous scheme. He says he knows this, because one of the gentlemen who kindly consented to rob some of the colored population in the manner described, told him so. He doesn't charge that any one in authority in the municipal government turns tho policy wheel himself, or that he has any idea whatever of the relative importance of the magic numbers I. 11. 41 but. he says the collector told him they had to "whack up" in order to do business In the city. Agricultural Society Ofilceri. The Marion County Agricultural and Horticultural Society held Us regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon In Room 12 at tho Statehouse. Three addresses were made during the afternoon. Mrs. J. G. Kingsbury read a paper on "A Trip Through Yellowstone Park," which she illustrated with a number of specimens collected in the National Park. Frank P. Johnson read a paper on "Economical Milk Production." and J. J. W. Hillingsley spoke on "The Preparation and Selling of Milk in the City Market." Officers were elected as follows: President. C. C. Richards; secretary. Miss Lucretia Hohart: treasurer. Miss Ida F. Richardson; general superintendent, I. N. Cotton. From Fists to Stone. William Mcllugh and Charles Gibson, employed in tho cellar at Klngan & Co.'s packing house, had a dispute yesterday morning over somo work. At noon, when they had an hour for lunch, they went outside to settle the difficulty by a fist tight. Stones were lying about, and the men began throwing them at each other, and the result was that a call was sent to the police station, and Patrolman Ware made the run on his bicycle and arrested the two men. Old Lemon Homestead Destroyed. It Is supposed that incendiaries caused tho destruction of the old Lemon homestead, on the Mlllersvllle pike, yesterday morning. The loss was between J2,00 and ?:?,VH). The blaze started in the summer kitchen, in which there has been 110 fire for several months. Charles Shackeford was the occupant of the place, and Mrs. Mary Hutchins, of 409 North Alabama street, the owner. The place was on a knoll overlooking Fall creek. Cutts with n. Hatchet. Irvln Hlrch and Walter Cutts, aged seventeen and nineteen years, respectively, quarreled yesterday over a pipe of smoking tobacco in Cutts's restaurant at North Indianapolis. They went out in the street together to light It out. and Cutts seized a hatchet and cut at Hlrch with it. People Interfered and turned the bellgerents over to Patrolman Hauser. who sent them to the police station charged with assault and battery. Looking for John Kerr. J. H. Detweiler. of Germantown, Pa., has written to Superintendent Colbert asking for Information concerning the whereabouts of John Kerr, who left Germantown seven or eight years ago. The letter states that the man may now bo going under the name of Snyder. His father died rocently and left him an estate which Detweiler is administrator for. Condition nt Prison Soutli. Warden Her:, of the Prison South, having felt aggrieved at the report made by Secretary Hurty of the Hoard of Health, complaining of conditions at the prison, Dr llurty states that his report had reference only to conditions at the time of his visit in April. Since that time improvements have been made. The Pa vrn broker Ordinance. The 'Mayor has signed the pawnbrokers ordinance and It will bo in effect In two weeks. Ludwig. the pawnbroker under arrest for receiving stoen property, has quit the business .

THE SCHOOL REVENUES

THE APPORTIONMENT FOR EACH COUNTY IN THE STATE. Number of School Children nn Shown by the Return Over J?913,000 to He DiMtrlhuted. Superintendent of Public Instruction Geetlng has finished the work of apportioning the common-school revenue among the counties of the State. The total amount apportioned is $913,803.33, somewhat less than that of last year, and giving a per capita allowance of $1.23. Helow is a table of the apportionment, showing the enumeration of children In each county, the amount of school revenue ready for apportionment in each county and the source from which I, is derived, the total amount of school revenue for distribution and the distributive shares thereof apportioned to each county: No. of School Ain't ApChlldren. Tax. portioned. Adams 7,511 J5.ST8.C6 $0.SsS.75 Allen 23.000.00 26.6S0.00 Bartholomew .... 7,67$ 8.958.56 9,597.50 Benton 4,018 0,213.13 5.060.00 Blackford 4,973 3,525.31 6.218.75 Boone 8.043 8,344.95 10,033.75 Brown 3,474 1.05.2S 4.342.50 Carroll 6,24-J 6,237.70 7.MJ7.50 Cass 10,31S 10.7C9.40 12.997.50 Clark 9,403 6.C91.11 11,701.23 Clay 11.511 6.001.41 14.3S8.75 Clinton S,4l9 9,075.35 10,511.25 Crawford 5.074 1.29G.95 6.342.50 Daviess 9.997 G.tCi.OS 12.496.23 Dearborn 7,22 1 4,302.31 9,030.00 Decatur 5.921 6.2SJ.66 7,401.25 De Kalb ...4 6.833 6.3:15.27 8.541. Delaware 12,361 10,902.27 15.451.25 Dubois 7.273 2.821.97 9,098.75 Elkhart 12.233 10.769.S0 15.291.25 Fayette .1,520 4,742.43 4.412.50 Floyd 8.405 5,807.43 1U.61S.75 Fountain 6,215 C.1S3.35 7.70S.75 Franklin 5.?,64 4.291.03 6.955.00 Fulton 5.50S 5,708.90 6,885.00 Gibson 9,220 7,721.80 11.525.00 Grant 13,298 11.252.47 16,747.50 Greene 8,b44 5,052.59 11,055.00 Hamilton 8,968 8,509.62 11.210.00 Hancock S.l.'O 6.915.73 7.437.50 Harrison 7.178 3.331.46 8.972.50 Hendricks 6.358 7.S9S.4G 7,947.50 Henry 7.3T6 9.226.53 9,195.00 Howard 8,560 7,673,07 10,700.00 Huntington 8.720 7,730.11 10,914.30 Jackson 8.191 5.42.46 10.233.75 Jasper 4,560 4.258.91 5.700.00 Jay 8.C99 5.9S7.38 10,873.75 Jelferson 7,417 5.350.31 9.271.23 Jennings 5.175 2,951.04 6.468.75 Johnson C.80 6X09.60 7.2.78.75 b.111.43 12.790.Ck) Knox 10.222 Kosciusko 8,746 Lagrange 4,800 IcllvO t,tT Iaporte 11.974 Lawrence 6,721 Madison 17,919 Marion 42.272 Marshall 8.2U3 Martin 4,913 Miami 8,276 Monroe 6 ,270 S.S53.91 10.922.50 5.320.66 6.0O0.00 9,465.53 12.071.25 11.701.83 14.967.50 4.399.S3 S.4'01.25 13.833.51 22.398.75 65,518.16 52.M0.00 7.193.67 10.253.75 1.961.81 6,148.75 8,059.03 10.359.20 4.150.03 7,Vb'.50 Montgomery 8,423 10,756.67 10.532.50 Morgan 5,891 5.281.01 7.363.73 Newton 3.145 4.142.S2 3.i'95.60 Noble 6.6S0 7.012.42 8,350.00 Ohio 1.522 981.36 1.302.50 Orange 5:392 2.269.13 6.741.00 Owen 4.951 3,490.53 6.18.75 Parke 6,276 6.5i2.26 7,845.00 Perry 6,454 1,707.07 8,067.50 Pike 6.711 2.H06.66 8.3SX.75 Porter 5.872 8,332.80 7,340.00 Posey 7.043 5.3S0.91. 8.K03.73 Pulaski ' 4.621 3.13S.40 5.780.00 Putnam 6.608 8.725.4 4 8,200.00 Randolph 8.5",0 9,095.41 10,712.50 IUpley 6.56S 3.372.64 8.210.00 Rush 5.273 8.585.S9 6.634.15 Scott 3.07S 1.524.43 3.847.50 Shelby 7.951 9.44S.U 9.942.50 Spencer 7,440 3.6SS.41 9.3O0.00 Starke 3.214 2.33.13 4.142.50 St. Joseph 14.798 W.S47.3S 18,4.7.50 Steuben 4.373 4.242.01 5.4iS.73 Sullivan 7.789 7,23;.75 9,7:J6.23 Switzerland 3,767 2.272.97 4.70S.75 Tippecanoe 11.492 12.950.51 14.365.00 Tipton 6,151 5.1VS.V7 7.68.73 Union 1,75a 2.881.33 2.198.75 Vanderburg 20.761 16.6vs.42 25,953.00 Vermillion 4.507 4.132.9i" 5.633.75 Vigo 16.221 15.971.22 20.276.25 Wabash S.5:3 9..VI3.79 10,741.25 Warren 3.531 4.012.72 4,167.50 Warrick 7.709 3.431.62 9.63S.25 Washington 6.430 4.317.92 8.037.30 Wavne 30,741 13.549.01 13,426.25 Weils 7.435 6.013.63 9.293.75 White .. r.;;.3i 7.166.25 6,902.50 22,370.18 Whitley 5,o22 o,ZjiM Balance in State Treasury Totals 733,726 $675,213.13 5335,233.53 Summary. Amount collected from counties $9dS,600.59 Amount in treasury from all other sources 19.632.91 Total on hand J95.3 2!3.:3 Amount apportioned 915.f56J.35 Balance now remaining in treasury 22.370.1 S Total as above , 5938,233. 53 Per capita $1.25 Amounts have been added to the shares of four counties on account of corrections In their reports of enumeration, as follows: Huntington. $11.20; Miami. 5H.20; Newton, $64.35. and Hush, $12.90, and deducted from Allen. $14.30. WENT TO DIG A GRAVE. lint M r. Meyer I'orRot to Return n Horse nnd Ilugsy. Charles Hartley, living in Tuxedo Park, on East Washington street, made the acfpuaintance of a man giving the name of Charles Meyers last Monday. On Tuesday Meyers called on Hartley and borrowed his horse and buggy, saying he wanted to drive out in the country and dig a grave for a friend. Hartly'loaned him the horse and buggy and then after a reasonable length of time concluded mat ne nad oeen robbed. He notllled the police and telegrams were sent to surrounding towns. Yesterday Meyeis was arrested at Greenwood and is now in jail at Franklin. Finally CuuKht Ryan. On the night of Jan. 1 George Ryan, 601 South Meridian street, went home intoxicated and abused his wife, winding up with a vicious assault, in which he stabbed her five timts in the back with a table fork. It was the hrst night the two bicycle men were on duty at the police station, and, though a telephone call brought one of them to the house in haste, Ryan had made his escape. The woman was taken to St. Vincent Hospital, where she lingered along in a serious condition and finally began to Improve, until yesterday she was pronounced out of danger. The police have been watching for Ryan ever since. It was believed he would attempt to see his wife, and Patrolmen Koons and Leet have been stationed about the hospital almost constantly ever since she was taken to the hospital. Yesterday a brother of Rvan called and the police followed him to the Union, Station, where he met the man they were after. Ryan was sent to the police station, charged with assault and battery, with intent to kill. Ryan and his wife came here from Richmond six weeks ago. Mrs. Ryan says he attempted to kill her there and was arretted for it. but that a prlt: got him out of the trouble. Since they came here she says he has attempted to take her life twice, once before having choked her into Insensibility. She says she fears he will kill her yet. Jealousy, she says, is tho causo of the trouble. Searched Lonoro Van House. Yesterday afternoon a search warrant was secured and Detective Kinney and Patrolman Mackessy searched the house occupied by Lenora Van, at 2 Wilcox street, where It was suspected some stole-n goods would be found. Clyde Sylvester, a neighbor, made the affidavit, and in the house thero was found some dishes which he identified as those stolen from his house recently.. The Van woman is the daughter of the woman r-cently convicted and sent to the workhouse for stealing a package of goods from Wasson's store. Poultry Show Clones. The annual show of the Indiana State Poultry and the Indiana Slate Pigeon Associations closed last night at Tomllnson Hall. It U pronounced by all those interested as being by far the most successful and the best show ever given by the associations. Ttie attendance was the best ever had and there were more exhibits and of a higher order than ever before. The associations

paid out more money In prizes, and yet made a neat sum in net proflt. SHOT BY A POSTMASTER.

Seth T. I'oreiinan Fatally Wounded by George K. Lauder. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.. Jan. 9. George K. Landers, the postmaster at Newberry, a' suburb of this city, late this afternoon shot and fatally Injured Seth T. Foresman, one of the most prominent men of WUllamsport. Landers has teen drinking heavily for several weeks and during the past three weeks his bondsmen have made good a shortage in his accounts of $390. Mr. Foresman was one of his bondsmen, and to-day went to Newberry's postoffice to urge Landers to resign. An argument followed and Foresman remarked: "You had better get out of the omce at once." Landers drew a re volver and shot Foresman In tho stomach. The latter cannot recover. Landers was ar rested and lodged In jail. In a statement he said that the shooting was accidental, and that it was his intention to commit suicide. Foresman says that the revolver was aimed at his heart. WEDDED TO A GAMBLER CAUSE OF THE TROUBLES OF COUXTESS AND COU.NT PAPPEXIIEIM. Latter AVutes Money and His American Wife Is Forced to Puy Ills Debts Out of Her Small Income. (Copyright, 1SS7. by the Associated Tress.) BERLIN, Jan. 9. The statement made in a New York neswpaper that Count Pappenhelm has instituted divorce proceedings against his wife, formerly Miss Mary Wheeler, of Philadelphia, a daughter of the late millionaire iron manufacturer of that city, Charles Wheeler, is unfounded. The count has not commenced such a suit nor does he intend to begin proceedings for a divorce against his wife. The friends of both parties, it is stated, still confidently expect a reconciliation. The wife's entire fortune, it is added, was only 560,000, and It is asserted that she has never made Count Pappejihelm an allowance. The latter Is pronounced to be a nice, kind-hearted fellow, very fond of his wife, and it Is further stated that he has always treated her well. But, being a gambler anil continually In debt, his wife frequently helped him. Their Income was practically confined to the Interest on her fortune, and they lived chiefly on his impoverished estate in the Bavarian Alps. Since their separation, three year ago, Count Pappenhelm has neither asked nor receiwd a cent from his wife. Recently, in BerPtn, he expressed to a friend the hope of a. speedy reconciliation with the countess. Emperor William, on Tuesday, held a council of war at which General Von Goss-. ler, the minister of war, and General? Blumenthal, Walderseo and WInterfled wero present. His Maesty supplemented his recent address to th generals on New Year's day by directing attention to the reorganization of the German artillery. -After pointing out tho similar movement in France, his Majesty askdi for thp opinions of those present. The exact decision of the council is variously given. From Vienna it is announced that the same question is being discussed by the Austrian military authorities. Hut milltary writers in the Gerjnan press, especially in the Liberal orpritis. urge the government to await some definite action upon the part of France befctni committing the German army to a specific type of field, gun. Emperor William's dnciing decree has caused general comment In the German press during the past wtek, and It is the general opinion of 'the'ne wspapers that the decree does not go far enctigh. The famous Leipsic University proXes.r. Carl Binding, criticises tiie decree in a-. historical article In the Deutsche Juristen eltung. He denounces dueling as a relic of barbarism, and says: "He who, after seducing a man's wife and destroying' a happy union, crowns his infamy by putting a bullet int Ms victim's heart Is a murderer. Whereat Hps the honor of such a mjn? To a guillotine with him, and not hcjnorable confinement in a fortress." Dr. Neumann, the bacteriologist, has discovered and perfected a iiw serum for the treatment of tuberculosis;. This serum Is obtained from the blood of goats after the latter have been treatcl for months in a special manner. The M rum Is entirely harmless and does not produce fever nor physical disturbances. The old mines found ne;ur Albeurcth, Bavaria, which until 1679 yielded considerable gold, have been subj(:ted to an official examination, which shous that they are still very productive. A test gave an ounce of the fine gold 5i three hundred weights of ore. The itxiien will be reopened and worked on a. lag3 scale. Two new measures h.ivo been promulgated with tho view of .The. Germanlzation of tho Prussian Poles, (fcil of them prohibits all Polish recruljs from talking Polish within the barracks or during actual service. ( Prince Regent Albrecht. of Brunswick, is dangerously 111. Ho 3? suffering from Influenza and his life in In jeopardy. According to the military budget, which will be presented to tho Reichstag on its reconvening, the police strength of the German army for the coining year will be 23.0S8 officers. 78.217 noncommissioned officers and 472,229 privates. As a New Year's gift, the Berlin Artists Society, of which Trlnce Bismarck has been an honorary member sir:e his eightieth birthday, will present him with a costly diploma, which is a unique masterpiece of industrial art. The centerpiece is an iron plate with verses engraved upon It and surrounded by bronze ornaments. It is framed In carved wood, decoraled wirJi trefoil and cak leaves, which figure in the Berlin arms. The upper part of the frame Is adorned with the arms of the society and the Berlin bear, surmounted by an antique sword and shield, with the German eagle encircled by a green Serpent. A device representing St. George and the dragon is carved on the lower part of the frame. The Vorwaerts, during the course of an article highly praising the arbitration agreement between Great Britain and the United States, says: "After these two countries, which jointly represent a larger power than all the military countries together, have agreed to subraft their differences to a court of arbitration, which will render war Impossible, may we net hope that the military countries will also some day come to their senses or be brought to them? The officials of the United States embassy here have amassed an enormous amount of statistical, sciftntific and expert proof of the frequency of the adulteration of German wines and beers imported to the United States. A portion of the documents will be sent to Washington, and copies will be submitted to the Foreign Office here In support of the contention of Americans that Germany Is as great a sinner in food exports as the United States. The Agrarian press just now uses a very aggressive tone against the United States. In the last issue of Its official correspondence appeared 'the remark: "The Yankee in his arrogance and hatred of Germany, knows hardly any bounds. The United States sought many occasions during the hist few years to quarrel with -Germany. The unjustifiable . differentiation against German sugar and salt and the levying of tonnage fees upon German shipping speak eloquently in this respect. If this could happen under President Cleveland, how much more may be expected under ileKlnley? Yet we are expected to bend our necks to them." The exports to the United States during the lost quarter of 1595 show u general decrease compared with those of 15, except in sugar, which shows a big Increase. The cx-Emnress Augusta received the United States embassador, Mr. Edwin F. Uhl, In audience on Monday last. Charged with Poisoning Ilia Wife. RATA VI A, N. Y.. Jan. D.IIoward Benham has been arrested cn a charge of havIns poisoned hia wife with prussic acid.

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Satin and. Gros Grain Brocades, In pink, nile, maize, sky blue, we sold all season as a leader for $1.35 31 on da y only, t)7c Satin Brocades, In nile, maize, rnk, lavender, sky blue; our 00c quality Monduy or.ly, Mc Satin Brocades, in black only, splendid quality, largo designs; the. correct styles for skirts; real value $1.25 .Monday only. H-lc Moire Velour Brocades, in black, made of pure silk and mohair,' the newest creation for fashionable costumes; actual value, $2 Monday only, Sl.rtS GLOVES Mocha Gauntlet Gloves. "in tan. red. brown and drab; tho kind we sold at 52Reduced to $1.35 Glaco Gauntlet Glows, in red. tan and black; the kind we sold at 51.50 Reduced to $1.1 Jouvin Heal Kid Glace Gloves, in black and colors, all sizesSpecial for Monday only, Evening slra3es Suedes, in 10 and 20button length S,Ifci.nI or 31nday, $1.34, 421 and MUSLIN UNDERWEAR Tremendous reductions on all our highclass Muslin Underwear. GOWNS made of the very best materials, in :ambric ami Nainsook, trimmed with the choicest of embroidery; the regular prices were 5t.25, 53. 3 and $5.25 Monti ay special, tf 1.SS UNDEHSICIRTSI made of the very Inst materials and trimmed with the very choicest of trimming; they were W, 5S.G0 and 7.2i 31onday sneclol, i.OS MILLINERY Clearance To clean up our stock of Trimmed Millinery we have reduced every hat and bonnet to about 'one-third, and some as low as one-fifth the former price. Cloak Clearance Sale Every garment in our stock reduced to a price th:it Vl suit the slimmest purse. 1P'IhLe Win, .'iTnvriivivr t c niiivi. Development of n Nov Habit AVhicli Is Rupidly Spreading1. Pe Arson's Weekly. A new kind of patient can shortly be 1 .oked for at the gold cure establishment, Vhe victim of tho strychnine habit. We have liad the cocaine liend. the morphine liend, the slave of tho hasheesh drug and the wretched mortals whom only a regular diet of opium could keep alive. The strangest victim to drugs of an excessively stimulating nature, however, is the strychnine liend. Strychnine Is known to medical science as a deadly poison, but when under medical direction it acts as a powerful touic, greatly stimulating the heart's action. So powerful is it in its operation that only the most infinitesimal proportion is allowed In a tonic prescription. Yet it has been seized upon by the physical wrecks of civilization as a means of stimulating the lllckering spark of life, and a strychnine "jag" can be added to the hilarious moments that nerve-smashing drugs afford. Tho discovery of the strychnine fiend was made by a religious worker in a large city, whose mission takes him nightly into the society of women to whom excitement of some kind is essential to the forgetfulness of life's dark side. This missionary recently found early one morning the form of a welldressed woman prostrate on the pavement. She was taken to one of the institutions in connection with which the missionary worked, and a doctor sent for. It was cleurl' a case of "jag" of some kind or other. The usual remedies were applied; hist the deathlike pallor of five patient's far?o and the queer action of the heart alarmed the doctor, and he ordered her o'iothlng to be searched to obtain a clew to guide him In his efforts to bring her to consciousness. In the woman's pocket was found a small bottle containing a few pellets, which, upon investigation, proved to contain enough strychnine to kill an elephant. The woman was suffering from an overdose of strychnine, and tho drug had done its work well. It was with the greatest difficulty that her life was saved, and for days following this she cried pitifully for the deadly tonic that was withheld from her. From her own statement, and the doctor and those present believed it, she had begun by taking a very small portion of strychnine, and. as the ciaving for the drug Increased, had added to her daily dose until she found she could take with impunity a quantity sufficient to kill ten people who were unused to poison. A reporter who visited the chemists' shops In the district gathered some additional particulars regarding the new "dope." One chemist stated that the poison book in which entries are made of all deadly drugs sold showed a steady incroas? in the amount of strychnine consumed. "It Is quite evident that the ew stimulant is paining in favor," said th.s druggist, "and the recklessness of the 'fiends' is sure to result In some fatality unless druggists decline to sell strychnine altogether. Those addicted to its use buy it in pellets, and the dose they take is regulated by themselves. The seasoned hands are able to take an enormous quantity without doing anv more than quickening the beating of their dying hearts and stimulating their jaded nerves, but those to whom the drug Is a new thing are likely to kill themselves with a comparatively small quantity. "I have on my books the names of women who are shining ornaments of society who sent to me for strychnine pellets with the stereotyped assertion that they are wanted to ill a dying cat. The women who send for the poison are without doubt victims of the strychnine habit. Then I shall show you the names of men who ne regular customers for strychnine. In their case the poison is taken to counteract the evil effects of tobacco smoking. A person can derive some benefit from taking strychnine, as the stimulating action of the one poison counteracts the sedative effects of the other. In these cases the poison may be taken with some benefit, under mrdical direction, but with the ordinary 'fiend," who merely takes It for the pleasurable sensation it produces, the after effect is bound to be disastrous." ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION. It Should ne Employed "When the liend In Wounded by Cuu.thot. New York Telegram. Victor Uorsley, the great London surgeon, who has performed over one thousand operations upon the brain for the relief of epilepsy, has lately contributed a most Interesting paper to the Royal Institute cf Great Britain upon the destructive effects of gunshot wounds of the brain. His problem has been to determine the effects of a cylindrical bullet with a conical head upon brain tissue when this bullet flies through the air ten or fifteen times faster than an express train. The reason why a bullet behaves quite differently when It is forcing its way through solids of different kinds was shown In 1S4. when Hyguier made some remarkable but little known researches on the effects of bullets on soft tissues. Contrast the penetration of a fiat, tlrin bone with the effect produced on a more or less plastic solid like the brain. A striking difference presents itself, for. whereas the bone !s simply penetrated, the brain Is thrown aside in every direction. Hyguier made observations on certain dead organs, such as the lungs and the liver, and suggested as the reason why there was no such lateral disturbances that the tissues contained water in large quantity and that the f-n-ergv of the moving proiectlle btinr imparted to the particles of water, caused their dispersion in every direction. Kocher. in 1S74 and L7. was the first one who thoroughly dealt with this question in the manner shadowed forth by Hyguier, and he proved in a series of interesting experiments, which Dr. Kramer and Victor Horsley have fully confirmed, that the effect Is merely hydrodynamie. Two tin canisters are taken of precisely the same size and strength and are filled with equal quantities of lint: but in the one case the lint is drv. in the other saturated with water. When a bullet of moderate velocltv Is fired through these canisters it simply perforates the dry one. but causes the wet one to burst explosively. It is further shown by these erpcrfmonts that the effect of a perforation of a skull filled with water by a bullet Is to cause the bursting of the suturesAs these experiments of Kocher had all been upon dead substances. Dr. Uorsley conceived the idea of trying them upon a living dog. The dog was placed under ether, and its femoral artery connected with a registering apparatus, which recorded the heart beats and blood pressure. The movements of res

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piration were also traced oy the Instrument of Marey. When a bullet of low velocity (six hundred feet to the second) was fired Into the dog's skull there was only a trilling disturbance of respiration, but when It was fired point blank into the cranial cavity It caused complete arrest of the respiration and only a slight fall of tho central blood pressure. These observations prove beyond a doubt that death is not due to arrest of the heart and syncope, for the heart went on beating, although the respiration was completely stopped. Furthermore, when Dr. Horsley quickly performed artificial respiration the dog recovered from the otherwise fatal arrest of breathing. These experiments suggest very strongly that the police and persons who are trained in giving the first aid to the wounded should be taught that when a gunshot wound of the brain occurs the proper thing to do Is to employ artificial respiration, rather than the giving of stimulants. When this artificial respiration has been properly carried cut and the breathing process has revived there is still another condition to be overcome, and this condition is due to the fact that th i bullet, having in its passage cut the various blood vessels, blood is poured out within the skull. To treat such hemorrhage only ordinary surgical measures are requisite, but these will be impossible if the activity of the respiratory center has not previously leen restored in the manner already indicated. Overran by Cietle. Golden Rule. Many a rural town is utterly swamped, so far as sociability is concerned, by the endless number cf soc'ot'.es and lodges and chapters, and so on almost to infinity, that have Hooded It. And It is true that some churches have literally been organized to death. Some of us have a fellow-feeling for the poor brother who expressed himself thus: "We asked an old colored preacher the other day how his church was getting on. and his answer was. 'Mighty poor, brudder, mighty poor. We ventured to ask the trouble, and he replied: 'De 'cietie-. 'cieties. Dey is jist drawin' all de fatness an marrow"out-en de body an' bones oh de blessed Lawd's body. We can't Jo nufiin' widout de 'ciety. Par is de Lincom 'C'ety. wld Sister Jones an Brudder Brown to run it. Sis r Williams mus' march in front ob de Daughters of Rebecca. Den dar is de Dorcases, de Marthas, de Daughters ob Ham, an' de Liberian Ladies.' 'Well, you have the brethren to heln In the church?' we suggested. 'No, sah; dar am de Masons, de Odd Feilers, de Sons ob Ham. an' de Oklahoma Promise Land Pilgrims. Why. brudder, by de time de brudders an' sisters pays all de dues an' 'tends all de met tin's, dar Is nufiin left for Mt. Pisgah Church, but jist de cob; de corn has all been shelled off an' frowed to dese speckled chickens." Dr. Xicoll on American Ncwiipapcr. Harper's Weekly. Dr. NIcoll, who came to this country with Mr. Barrie, read the American newspapers while he was here, and audaciously admits that he liked them. He ha? contessed to the Westminster Budget that in bis opinion no American institution is more misunderstood abroad than the press. He thinks our newspapers less sensational than they seem to bo. and says, very truly, that you may look in vain in them for such matUr as the divorce reports which the most proper English papers publish. Undoubtedly we Americans like the newspapers We have better, on the whole, than any others in the market, but we are. so continually advised that our passion for them Is guilty, that while we satisfy it with prodigality we seldom attempt to justify or oven to excuse it, so that to hear our journals praised by a visitor excites emotions of considerable novelty. After all, a liking for newspapers Is. like a liking for one's fellow-creatures, apt to concentrate itself on individuals. If Dr. NIcoll had been Impolitic enough to fay which American papers he liked his comments would have gained in Interest all that they lost in discretion. 66 PP Breaks up That hanof on. Kvery one has a kind word for tSevent3,-sevenf,, Dr. Humphreys' precious cure for Colds, La Grippe, Influenza, Catarrh, Coughs, Sore Throat. Clapp Bros., druggists. Vicksburg, Mi:?., write for new supply of "77," and mention one case in which "the whole fanrly were cured of the Grippe with one vial." Mrs. Fredericks, Brooklyn. N. V.. writes: "My husband has just had a very bad Cold. I got '77 for him, and it cured him right away." Geo. Y. nichl, Mt. Wlnans. Md.: "Your '77' had great sales here last winter." C. S. Dascom, Southampton, N. Y.: "Your new Grippe medicine Is a marvcL It has just carried us through severe Colds, or, A3 most would say, the Grippe." '77" Knocks Out the Grip Dr. Humphreys' Homeopathic Manual of Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed Free. A small bottle of pleasant pellets. nt the vest pocket. Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt of cents or five for Jl. Humphreys Med. Co., Cor. William and John streets. New Yorlc

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