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They think they will turn up some place before long, but do not think it likely that the head will ever be found. They think the murderer had either burned or buried it. This would hardly be done, however, unless the identity of the murdered man would easily lead to the identity of tip* murderer. No surgical skill was employed In dismembering the body. On the breast of the trunk a large piece of the flesh had been hacked away. This may have been done to prevent identification by means of tattoo marks. Tne murder was possibly done on board of a vessel, but if this was the case one portion of the body would hardly have been placed on land and the other in the water. MURDER AT A CHI RCH. Two Texinn Killed and Another Mortally Wonnded Yesterday. PLEASANT VALLEY, Tex.. June 27. Augustus A. Garrison and Frank Jones were killed and Tom Jones mortally wounded in a bloody fight which took place In the Methodist churchyard this morning. Garrison killed Frank Jones and was then shot by Tom. a broth'er of Frank. Before dying he mortally wounded Tom Jones. A young lady had been wronged by Frank Jones, and Garrison determined to avenge the wrong. MORE TROOPS NEEDED. Sixty Thousand Additional Asked by Weyler to Pacify Cuba. CHICAGO, June 27.—A special to the Chronicle from Jacksonville, says: “Weyler, while at Cienfuegoes, made request for 20.000 more colonial volunteers, with the intention of starting an active campaign. He has also demanded from Spain 40,000 additional troops to reach Cuba by Sept. 1. The rainy season will be drawing to a close at this time, and this goes to prove the assertion that he will make the effort of his life to conquer the insurgents. The announcement that Gomez would begin active operations has been verified. It is officially stated to-day that a Spanish column has had an engagement with rebels under Stolongo on the Stolongo ranch near Jaguay Grande, province of Matanzas. The insurgents are alleged to have been dispersed with the loss of fifteen killed and on* wounded. The Spanish had a corporal wounded. It is known that the “engagement” was simply an attack made by the troops upon the defenseless pacificos on the ranch, and that the fifteen persons reported to have been killed in battle were brutally massacred. FIRE IN HER HOLD. Thrilling' Experience of Crew and Passenger* of the City of Rome. NEW YORK. June 27.—The Anchor line steamer City of Rome arrived to-day from Glasgow and Movllle, after a thrilling ex perience with fire on board ship. Captain Hugh Young reports that the steamer sailed on June 19. with 56 saloon, 90 secondcabin and 150 steerage passengers, and a cargo of general merchandise. On Saturday, at 2:30 p. rr> , in latitude 41:28, longitude 63:29, the bridge officer detected smoke issuing from No. 4 hold, immediately forward of the bridge. Dense volumes of smoke soon began to ascend. The firealarm was quickly sounded and the crew beat to quarters. Meanwhile an officer was detailed to notify the passengers, who were calmly sitting or promenading the decks. In a few minutes hose was stretched along the deck from the engine room to the hold, where the fire was then raging. Steam and water were turned into the burning compartment, and at 5 p. m. the lire was under control. Further precautions were then taken to prevent a possible outbreak and spread ot the tire to the adjoining compartment. Another detachment of the crew was ordered to stand by in case of emergency, and streams of water were kept constantly pouring into the burning compartments and on to the main deck in the immediate vicinity of the fire. The cargo in the burning hold consisted chiefly of jute goods ana will probably be a total loss. The (jause of the lire is supposed to have been spontaneous combustion. The amount of damage cannot be ascertained until the steamer's hatches are taken off and the cargo discharged. At one time the passengers were requested to get their hand baggage and be prepared to leave the ship, but there was no jamic among them. Many of the statelooms were flooded. Shipwreck and Suffering. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—The details of the recent loss of the Philadelphiabound British sugar-laden bark Traveler, Captain Christie, at Port Mathurin, Rodriguez island, and the death from Java fever cf ten members of the crew, including Captain Christie, have just been received at this port from Mauritius and bring to light one of the most thrilling eases of shipwreck and suffering in the annals of shipping. Two of the sailors, driven to desperation by witnessing the sufferings of their shipmates, committed suicide by leaping overboard, preferring death in this wav rather than from the ravages of the fever, which they felt was sure to overtake them. One by one the men died off, until the mate end second mate were the only officers spared, and the former finally succumbed to the dreaded disease. Captain Christie, the commander, and seven men h'ad died, and their bodies had been cast over the ship's side. For nearly two weeks she drifted to the northward and eastward of Rodriguez island and ran into Port Mathurin. An effort was made to get medical aid from the shore. That night the wind rose, and the following sunrise the vessel drove on the onlying reefs and became; a total loss. She afterwards entirely disappeared. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, June 27.—Arrived: Island from Copenhagen; City of Rome, from Glasgow. . SOUTHAMPTON. June 27,-Sailed: Columbia, from Hamburg, for New York. Ql LENSTOWN, June 27.—Sailed: Etruria, from Liverpool, for New York. HAVRFJ, June 27.—Arrived: La Champagne, from New York.

HERO W ITH WOODEN LEGS. Ilnoeil Hh Fire Down n Mountain and Saved Three Lives. Richmond (Va.) Special. Not far away from the Virginia line lives a two-thirds youth, for, unfortunately, both of his lower limbs are artificial, who has to his credit an act of heroism which should make him a loved lad as long as the memory of those who know him lasts His name is "Tim” Olin, and his home is ‘ way up In the mountains, thirty-five miles from everywhere, as a book agent once paid of that part of the country. This boy h< ard that forest fires wore sweeping everything that would burn before them along the Virginia side of the mountains. One afternoon he climbed through the snow to the top of the mountain, one of the steepe t of the Cumberland, and took a view of the fire-swept country below him. He was surprised to find the fire so fierce, and, as he watched. Tim saw that the red tongues vare creeping on toward a little log cabin In which lived two old and helpless women, the Ober sisters, and their blind and crippled brother, who is one of the oldest mei over on the other side. The lad realized that the house was a long way' from any othar farmhouse and knew that the people in the humble cot would find themselves powerless if they were left in the cabin until the fire got to their home. Without thinking of how' much .suffering It meant for his aching limbs, Tim started down the rugged hillside on his perilous Journey of heroism. He had a race with the fire, and twice fell from exhaustion and almost despaired of saving the old folks But his indomitable courage never flagged and he kept going. He reached the o;d homestead just as the prairie fire was attacking the old frame crib. He hurried Into the house and informed the old and thoroughly frightened women of their danJ r. It only' took him a few minutes to hitch the horse to the slid and the old man was helped on to this. The four drove on tc shelter at the nearest neighbor s, leaving the fire to do its worst. The home of the old people was partly burned during the night, but the boy had got some of the neighbors to go and fight the fire, and they v < re able to stive most of the contents of the house. ietor HittcllfTc Sfill in (liiongo. CJfK'AGO, June 27. —Edward J. Ratcliffe, t: actor, has not yet started for New ' irk. he is wanted by the police for an alleged attack on his wife. Detective MeConville, of New Vork, who came here to take the actor back with him, has not y*-t induced him to go wit hout requisition papers. Th'e detective saJd to-night he expected to receive *the necessary papers in & day or two. A Famous I'ucer Dead. NAPOLEON. 0., June 27.—Johnny, the world's famous and only lone pacer, broke r’s neck to-day. He was turned loose to graze, and while running caught in a wire fence and was thrown on his head, break*nK ids neck. He was valued at $15,000. and Was owned by W. H. Barnes, of Sioux City, I*.

REVENGE OF A PEDDLER —■ 1 ♦ HE RETALIATES ON MERCHANTS AVJIO MADE HIM PAY *75. Mr. Gilmore Closes Muncle Stores on Sunday' and Forces that Town to Be Good One Day u Week ut Least. Special to the Inoianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., June 27.—This w'as probably the “tightest” town in the State today, and it was even a hard matter to purchase a qfgar or glass of soda water. The Merchants' Protective Association, organized recently, caused the arrest of several men who made their livelihood by peddling, in order to force them to take out a city license of $75. One of the arrested men was Charles Gilmore, who in turn paid his fine and took out a license. Gilmore then announced that he would not only force all other peddlers to toe the mark, but that all other violators of State laws or city ordinances would be prosecuted on the least provocation. Last week he caused several arrests of merchants who placed goods on the sidewalks as an advertisement, and he issued a card of warning in the newspapers for the benefit of those who have been transacting business on the first day of the week. Asa result the meat merchants yesterday notified patrons that the shops would be closed today, and they were. Several druggists, cigar stores, bicycle shops and novelty stores that have heretofore been open were closed, and the saloons likewise observed Mr. Gilmore’s order. The city officials are not pleased with the peddler’s method of revenge, but they cannot give assurance that arrests will not be made if warrants are issued. The Kirby House cigar store, Andrews’s drug store and Campbell’s drug store kept open, while Hinkley alone sold soda water. The bicycle stores being closed, there was increased business for the livery stables and street cars. Many threats are being made against Mr. Gilmore, but the church people are lauding him and “the committee of one hundred” will probably keep up the pace he has set. In the future Muneie will be good, one day in each week, at least. PROPOSED ELECTRIC ROADS. Farmers and Others May Build and liaise Money- on Credit Checks. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., June 27.—A project is now on foot in Wayne county and this city for the construction of an electric line to run from Richmond through Webster, Economy and Losantville to Muneie, having Losantville as the objective point for the first division. This place is on the 1., B. & W. Railroad, about twenty miles northwest of here. The plan of operation proposed is th co-operative one, the line to be the property of the people and not run in the interests of capitalists. To all those who assist in giving a subsidy credit checks will be issued, to be redeemed in traffic and transportation. A survey for a steam road was made through this section some years ago. Some of the most prominent farmers of the county are interested in the movement and it is believed that it will be a go. The local Labor Exchange is taking an interest and will assist in the work. , It is also reported that the right of way for an electric line is being surveyed between this city and Greenville, 0., by way of Bethel, Ind. The line being surveyed takes a northwesterly course from Dayton, 0., to Greenville, a westerly one to Bethel and then south to this city. Rival County Superintendents. Spectal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 27.—Two county examinations for teachers were held yesterday, one by Harvey W. Curry, who insists that his successor as county superintendent has not been duly elected, and the other by Charles F. Grosjean, who says he was elected on June 7. About a half dozen persons took the examination under Curry and about thirty under Grosjean. They occupied the same room in the State Normal building. Grosjean had the official list of questions and Curry used some prepared by himself. The County Commissioners will to-mor-row issue instructions to township trustees that they will not recognize reports of teachers employed by Curry since June 7. Curry has brought suit in the Superior Court, which will be tried on July 3, in which he asks for an order restraining Grosjean from acting as county superintendent and which raises all the questions involved in the election on June 7, on which occasion the Board of Township Trustees was evenly divided, politically. The Democrats intended to prevent an election by dividing their vote and thus avoiding a tie, in which event the Republican county auditor would have a vote. The Republicans organized the board, however. by counting a quorum and elected Grosjean.

Mancie Labor Day Celebration, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., June 27.—Two hundred or more members of the State Labor day celebration committee met in Muncie this evening and made reports that show that the celebration here Sept. 6 will be the greatest in the history' of the organization. Thousands of strangers will be here. A half-rate or better will be secured on the railroads. Committees wore appointed to discourage the idea of celebrating the day in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, as sp'ecial trains will be run from these cities to Muncie. The committee adjourned to meet the eve of the celvbration here and select the next place of m’eeting. Muncie's Population. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., June 27. —The enumeration for the new city' directory was completed last night, and the footings show the city to have 25,527 people, a gain of 3.212 since the last directory was published, less than two years ago. There is an increase of 3.330 whites, but the colored people number but 831, a falling off of eightyeight. While collecting data for the book, tlie number of residents in each family is taken. This gives the actual figures, and is quite gratifying, as none placed an estimate of over 25.000. When natural gas was developed in this vicinity, nine years ago, Muncie had less than 7,000 people. (Ti*e of Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journa,. HUNTINGBURG, Ind., June 27.—The headless body of the woman found yesterday' on the railroad near this city has been identified and the remains have been temporially interred. A note found on the bcdy shows that the woman deliberately committed suicide. The note reads: "Please bury me just as 1 am in these clothes. I have not a friend or relative in the world and do not care to live.” The woman is not known in Evansville, and did not reside at Second and Pine streets, as she stated. Purses for Trotters and Pacers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., June 27.—The following are the races and purses arranged for July 1, 2 and 3 at the Driving Park in this city. The track is in excellent condition and the meeting bids fair to be one of the most successful ones ever held in the State: Three-minute class, trot, $250; 2:27 class, pace, $300; '2:27 class, trot, *3OO ; 2:35 class, *3OO ; 2:22 ciass, pace, $300; free-for-all trot, S3OU; 2:18 class, trot, S3OO ; 2:20 class, trot, S3OO ; 2:40 class, pace, $250; free-for-all pace, $300; one mile and repeat, $l5O. Increase In Wngn Granted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., June 27.—Last week the stteet-raiiway men made a demand for an increase in wages, and at a conference last night Secretary' George F. McCulloch granted the request. The men asked 14 cents increase on the day s work, but compromised cn 10 cents, making their wages $1.50 per day, and a contract lor one year was signed. Mr. McCulloch is chairman of the Republican State central committee, and Is popular with his men. Fire Divorcee and No Wcildingn. Special to the Indianapolis Jouiyal. MUNCIE, Ind., June 27.—Last evening Judge Koons granted five divorces, and there was not a single marriage license issued. The heads of the disrupted fuini-

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He? were: Charles P. Carter, James Rummell who (married a girl agfd sixteen). Beniamin Heilman. John B. Mann and John Dwyer. Intoxication is the principal cause given for the troubles. His Third Set of Teeth. Special to the Inuianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., June 27.—Ralph Keelor. aged ten, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keelor, Is undergoing a rare experience. When eighteen months old he lost his first teeth and his second set when he was still small. For the last seven years he has had but six teeth. A third set is just now making its appearance. Local dentists are much interested in the case on account of its rarity. Dentils in the State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., June 27.—Mary Thornburg, who has conducted a boarding house in Muneie for several years, died suddenly last night of heaxt disease. Mrs. Patrick Murphy got out of bed and lit the gas yesterday morning, went back to bed and was dead five minutes later of heart disease. Fly-Wheel Burst*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY,' Ind., June 27.—A flywheel ten feet in diameter, which drives the heavy machinery in the pulp department of the Hartford City paper mills, burst last night, demolishing the roof and tearing a large hole in the stone wall. Pieces of the wheel w*ere found buried two feet in tlie ground. 150 feet on either side of the mill. No one was injured. Bible Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., June 27.—The Bible conference in progress at Earlham College Is proving quite a success, both in point of work and attendance. It will continue until Thursday evening of this week. To-day the pulpits of the three Friends’ churches were filled by visiting ministers. Indiana Notes. Mrs. Nancy Thompson, aged fifty-five, of Hillsdale, is dead from lockjaw. She fell from a cherry tree ten days ago, breaking her left leg. She was thought to be improving, but Thursday tetanus set in. She was a widow. The Rev. Theodore Henkle, a graduate of Concordia College, St. Louis, was installed as pastor of the new English Lutheran Church at Terre Haute Sunday evening. The Rev. Dr. Sommers, of St. Louis, preached the installation sermon. John Briggs, formerly of New Albany, was killed Saturday night in Chicago, where he had been employed for the past four years as switchman in the Rock Island yards. He was forty-one years old and leaves a wife. The remains will be taken to New Albany for interment. The second suit for SIO,OOO damages has been filed at Terre Haute against Dr. Pence for malpractice. As in the case of Mrs. Stunkard. of Clay county, it is alleged that he gave medicine which caused death while prescribing for tapeworm. The suit just filed is by the administrator of the estate of Mrs. Eliza Reinacke, who died in great agony a few weeks ago in Terre Haute. MR. SHERMAN ON TRUSTS SECRETARY OF STATE THINKS THEY SHOILD BE RESTRAINED. The Important Question Before the Country To-Day—No Currency Legislation This Session. NEW YORK, June 28.—Secretary of State John Sherman, who arrived in New' York last night, is quoted in an interview in this morning’s World as saying: “The matter f trusts is altogether the most important question of the day. A combination of persons engaged in a common business would seem on its face to be a fair enough matter, but in reality such combinations prevent healthful competition and control output and prices. The present national trust law (the Sherman law) is not strong enough. I framed it myself, and the Senate commit-' tee on judiciary made changes in it which materially weakened its effect. I favor making unlawful In the most direct manner all combinations in restraint of trade. They put all industries in the control of a few men. The people have a right to open competition in all industries and trades. "Restraint of trusts can be made effective when we can get the proper kind of law. The Supreme Court has lipheld the present trust law, but has pointed out its defects. I think that those defects can and will be remedied. The trust people say the effect of their combinations is to lower prices of the products wheh they control. I do not believe it. The tendency to control the output and put up prices must naturally come with the control of any important industry or trade. “When a man makes his money on a fair basis of trade no man envies him or has a right to. When he makes a fortune with the trusts which shut out competition or restrain trade he is denounced, and this has been done by all people and at all times. It is unfair competition and unfair combination that have roused up this cry against trusts. "The currency question cannot be decided at this session of Congress. Nobody is ready to decide it. The Eastern States are prettv thoroughly in favor of the gold standard. The South seems to be s-cwly coming around to the same view. But the Western States, which are heavily in debt, want a cheaper currency, and, *of course, are advocating silver. Whether it will be settled in time to take it out of the way as an issue for the next presidential campaign or not I cannot tell. I am no prophet.”

THE NEW HARMONY COLONY. Debs May Have Derived Inspiration front Owen’s Experiment. Washington Special to New York Tribune. A man from the Wabash country' said to a correspondent of the Tribune to-day r : “I am inclined to think that Eugene Debs, who is ambitious now to establish a model community, gets some suggestions from an old experiment on the Wabash with w'hich Robert Dale Owen was prominently identified. Dtbs is a native of Terre Haute, and not far away is the old town of New Harmony, settled y'ears ago by a party of English people operating under the influence of the Owen family. The name of the plan suggests the object the settlers had in view. Their aspiration was harmony' after a plan, and the plan was the pleasant intermingling of all the residents, without regards to means or occupation. The cobbler, the carpenter, the locksmith, the mason, the merchant, the farmer, the doctor and the minister were all to meet on equal terms, and strive .together to keep the moral and religious tone of the communitv high and pure. Some clever people were attracted there, and for some years the life of the village was enjoyable on the lines drawn. It was not at all austure. There were out door parties in pleasant weather and indoor parties in winter, and everybody' so disposed attended and was made welcome. The horse fair In the autumn. where there w'ere speed rings, became the fashion for a hundred miles around, and, lasting a week, it always drew a large crowd. A company of clever actors made their home there during the summer vacation. They would begin the season in the autumn wdth a week’s engagement at the Town Hall, and then start on a circuit which extended over southern Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and into Tennessee. They presented such plays as ‘The Child of the Regiment.’ The French Spy’ and ‘The Pearl of Savoy’ in a highly creditable manner, and they were great favorites wherever they went. After the tour, which lasted until well into the spring, they would put back into that quiet retreat and spend the summer fishing and hunting.” "Did the settlement fail of its object?” "Not that. The settlement changed to suit the compelling surrounding conditions. The country filled up, and life, all about was ordered on the old lines. This, of course, in time told on New Harmony. But the -good effects of the first settlement are still to be observed there. It is still a small town, but a well conducted, orderly, industrious community. Many descendants of the first settlers are found there. The Owen blood, which was highly imaginative and experimental in the days of the famous Robert, and his still more famous son, Robert Dale, has now sobered down, and flows in the veins of some practical men who make good lawyers and judges and doctors, and live contentedly in everyday fashion. Yes, I’m inclined to think that Debs has been thinking about New Harmony, and wants to play a part somewhat similar to that of the Owens.” Satisfaction. Washington Post. We are pleased to learn that General Miles has made a mighty impression onghe English. We feel as ir we were getting some action on our money.

MARGARET 0. OLIPHANT DEATH OF THE NOTED AUTHOR WAS DUE TO CANCER. Her End a Belief from Long-Endured Fain—Her High Rank, in EnS tflish Literature. LONDON, June 17.—The death of Mrs. Margaret O. Oliphant, which took place Friday night, was due to cancer. She had suffered greatly for many months, and her death, recognized as unavoidable, came to her as a welcome relief from pain. Mrs. Oliphant was one of the most prolific and versatile authors of modern times, and her name is known wherever the English language is read. Her novels have been a recognized feature of the best English literature for many years, and, despite all the changes in standards of taste, they have succeeded in keeping an undiminished popularity. While it is upon them that her lame chiefly rests, she has also written books both along historical and biographical lines which have given her the highest standing in each of these sph*ses of literary activity. Mrs. Oliphant’s reputation as a writer is not merely a matter of the latter part of her life. Ever since her first novel was published, when she was twenty-one, she has had a place in the hearts of a very large class of readers. She had special skill in delineating characters and scenes of the Scotch life with which she was best acquainted, and she was able to make the persons she portrayed stand before the reader in all the reality of life. She was less successful in the construction of plots, but even on this side otten accomplished most satisfactory results. She was an exceedingly rapid writer, turning out with great regularity after she began to write a three-volume novel every year. She published over forty works of fiction, in addition to the numerous biographical and historical works. It would be very hard to find her equal in this respect, considering the high and even standard of style which she maintained. Mrs. Unphant was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, in Midlothian, in 1*26, her maiden name being Margaret Oliphant Wilson. Her early attempt at writing ror the immediate pleasure oi her own circle of friends met with so much approbation that her nrst novel, called "Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside,” was given to the publisher. With this work her long career of activity was entered upon. Most ol’ her novels were stories of daily life, or were chosen from historical scenes. They were all noted for the exceeding purity of their tone, as she steadily and consistently refused to have anything to do with the criminal sides of life, whether amongithe higher or the lower classes of society. | , * _... , . In some of her iaufct novels Mrs. Oliphant gave freer reign to art underlying mysticism which could be found in germ even in her earlier work. "A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen” is a fantastic story of a happy spirit content to roam in her new world. "Old Lady Mary” is a speculative study of a spirit filled with repentance for a wrong done while on earth. The grieving was so strong that the spirit finally came back to earth to repair the evil as well as possible, but found there that it could not enter into communication with beings still in life. Os course, a clearly defined moral is involved in the tale. Neither of these works is equal in fascination to the “Beleaguered City,” a tale of the invasion of an old French town by the countless souls of all its departed citizens, and the expulsion of the living. If Mrs. Oliphant is and remains more widely known to the general public through her novels, it is not. at all improbable that she will receive a higher permanent place in literature from her biographical writings. Indeed, she manifested here a very peculiar power. The same spirit of character portrayal which had been the strongest element in her novels seemed to appear with even greater effect when the subjects she had before h#- were real *ouls, which had formerly lived, and labored. where religions fervor rose high and strong did she find herself at home. Ihe bi* ographies of Saint Francis of Assisi and of Count Charles de Montalembert are particularly noteworthy and have been hold up bv critics as striking examples of sympathetic penetration and delineation of character Other biographical works she has published are "Tne Makers of Florence, "Thomas Chalmers and Laurence Oliwork Mrs. Oliphant’s greatest production is "The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries. In this work she seemed to be at her very best The narrative flows smoothly and quickly, the inter, st is wholly sustained, and the people seem contemporaneous with the reader. Her latest work of this class “The Victorian Age of English Literature ” i*? enuallv clear, suggestive and admirable. In addition to these works Mrs. Oliphant edited Blackwood’s "Foreign Classics for English Readers, and herself conti lbuted the volumes on Dante and Cervantes. One of her very latest works was A volume on Rome, published by Macmillan in uniform style with her “Makers of Venice. All in ali Mrs. Oliphant was one of the freshest, purest and simplest spirits in recent English literature. _ Congressman Cooke’* Funeral. CHICAGO, June 27.—The funeral services over the remains of the late Congressman Edward Dean Cooke were held to-day at the residence of Wilson H. ' Cooke, a brother of the dead representative. A large number of friends, including the congressional delegation, attended the services. Rev. Frank D. Sheets, pastor of. the Ljworth Methodist Episcopal Church, of Edgewater, conducted the religious portion of the services. This was followed by the rituals of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities. The interment at Rosehill Cemetery.

Pro-f. Uevolson Wood. NEW YORK, June 27.—Devolson Wood, professor of mechanical engineering and technology at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J., died in that city last night, aged sixty-five. He was connected with the Stevens Institute for twenty-live years, l.e was an authority on mechanical engineering and the author of a number of books on that science. Paralysis of the heart caused d£ath. His body will be taken to Ann Arbor, Mich., for interment. Earl of Sefton Dead. LONDON, June 27.—William Philip Molyneux, fourth Earl of Sefton, is dead. He was a Knlgjit of the Garter. He was born in Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, Oct. 14, 1835. Since 1858 he had been lord lieutenant of Lancashire. The family estates are about 20,000 acres. He is succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, the Viscount Molyneux, now in his thirty-first year. Eintl D. Nuesdat. NEW YORK, June 27.—Emil D. Nuesdat, senior member of the firm of Nuesdat & Cos., formerly one of the most important flour commission houses on the Produce Exchange, died suddenly last night, aged fifty years. The firm, which handled flour from'Milwaukee and Superior, Wis„ failed last April. Wilbur H. Lnnsit. BOSTON, June 27.—Wilbur H. Lansit, one of the most promising cattle painters of this country, died at his residence, in Dorchester last night, aged forty-two. He had pursued his studies in Venice, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. MILLINERS’ SUPERSTITIONS. Queer Notions Possessed by Women In This Trade. Springfield Republican. The superstitions and prejudices of milliners are so strongly ingrained as to be quite interesting, though- only noticeably manifested by those in the lower ranks of the trade. Cultivation always teaches the suppression of natural emotions. There used to be a little shop in New York, on Canal street, which I passed every morning on my way to business., It w r as always open and the* window arranged at that early hour, and one day there happened to be on view a bonnet that caught my eye. I thought I would ask the price, and, if it should prove satisfactory, would coll in the evening and make the purchase. I was met by a very agreeable woman, who insisted on my trying on the object of interest; it turned out to be all that I desired, and the price w*us within my limit, so I said I would take it on my return journey that night, if it had not been sold in the meantime, and prepared to go on my way. But that she would not hear of: “What want to pay?” asked she. "Why,” I said, I have not the money with me, I only carry a dollar or two. generally.” "Well, how much have you?” she insisted. On turning out my purse only about half the price was produced. “You shall have 4t for that,” she said; "I’ll make it up before the day is

over.” and by one or two remarks exchanged. while she was placing the bonnet in a box for me, I discovered she was fully convinced .that if she had let me, the first customer of the day. go out unserved, she would have had no luck for the next twenty-four hours. Another time I was in the neighborhood of Division street, and remembering the tales told of that classic locality.' where, fifty years ago, New York bought its bonnets, I turned into the street, thinking to stroll quietly along and make observations. Almost immediately 1 felt a touch on my arm, and saw beside me a smiling votary of the yearly bath, who pointed with a jeweled finger to a window like a flower bed: “Come and look inside, lady. We have everything what you like; we will surely please you, lady, if you come inside.’’ I made excuse and walked on. until, attracted hy a peculiar green and gold sign, with a shamrock leaf in the corner, and pausing for half a second, a little sandy-haired, alert person skipped out from behind her showcase, and. with a persuasively racy voice and accent, invited me to honor her shop with a visit. I said no; I did not want to purchase, and would not trouble her for nothing, and drew her attention to a well-dressed woman who was looking In at her window. "Arrah, no.’’’ she cried, with a toss of her head. “I’ll hansell me with a straight-eyed lady. If she,” indicating the other, “wants a hat, she can come later, and not on a Monday morning.” As I turned away, the woman in question faced me, and I saw she squinted fearfully. The Irish, by the way, make particularly good millinery saleswomen. They do not dwell so much on the beauties of their wares as on those of their customers, and will change cold gray eyes into forget-me-not blue and dull brown' ones to golden hazel to bring the desired purchaser into harmonious relationship with the vended article, mentioning especially the excellent quality of the materials used, but, in speaking of the customer, dwelling particularly on her exquisite becomingness to everything—including the one hat or bonnet which seems to please her best. Milliners generally treat crippled or otherwise deformed people with a gentle politeness that is totally lacking In the cordial warmth and interest of their manners to others, a kind of fearful deference, w f hich has its origin in the ancient (and modern) dread of the “evil eye.” They deny it usually. but I heard one acknowledge, on being urged, that “no one likes being overlooked if it can be avoided.” Did you ever see a bonnet priced at sl3? No, and you won’t get any milliner to accept that sum of money, even if her price is only $12.50. SCIENTIFIC^BURGLARS. Stole Electricity to Open a Safe, lmt Current AYus* Cut Off Too Soon. CLEVELAND, 0., June 27.—Burglars resorted to a novel scheme to open a bank safe at Cfyagrin Falls, this county, last night. They entered tho bank of Rogers <& Son some time early in the evening. They had previously attached a wire to the trolley line of the electric railway. The wire was run through an alley, over a transom and to the safe. Another wire attached to the rail of the street car track was brought into the bank. At the, ends of these wires were carbon points. With these carbons an attempt was made with the arc light thus formed to melt the knob of the combination. The experiment worked all right, and the knob had been nearly melted away 'when the current was shut off shortly after midnight. The burglars then gave up the task. The job was planned scientifically. The thieves had even gone to the trouble of placing a little pile of sand under the knob for the molten metal to,fall on. and thus avoid setting fire to the floor. There is no clue to the burglars. SOVEREIGN ON DEBS. He Does Not Approve the Co-Operative Commonwealth Scheme. NEW YORK, June 27.—General Master Workman James R. Sovereign has written for the Journal of the Knights of Labor an article severely criticising the scheme of Eugene V. Debs to organize a co-operative colony. The criticism is headed “Debs on the Wrong Track,” and after praising the founder of the American Railway Union for his work in the past, refers to the colony plan as “A half-baked scheme of European state socialism.” The writer scores Debs for “making a piteous appeal to John D. Rockefeller for a dole of charity,” and declares that such a course shows “Debs Is losing his grip on himself. Labor will win its way,” says Sovereign, “but never by the aid or charity of Rockefeller.” He blames Debs, too, for leaving his post when workingmen are about to place plutocrats on trial, and letting his part of the case against modern "Shylocks ’ go by default. Mr. Sovereign asserts that the people will soon make laws to regulate wealth, and to the objection that plutocrats may bribe the courts, points to Judge Lynch. Denounced l>y Socialist*. DETROIT, June 27.—About two hundred Detroit Socialists met this afternoon and denounced Eugene V. Debs’s movement for an independent community in Washington. The scheme was characterized by all the speakers as the old communistic theory and impossible of achievement.

THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. Her Majesty’* Special Fondness for the Lund of Burns. Boston Transcript. -rtie Queen’s love for the land of Bruce and Burns Is well known. Soon after her marriage with Prince Albert she visited the country north of the border. While driving through the streets on this occasion a dense crowd surrounded her carriage, and some of the nobles in her suite, becoming alarmed, suggested the advisability of a guard; but the Queen dismissed the suggestion as unnecessary because, said she, “she knew the people.” It is said that her Majesty has never been attended by a guard, so speaking, while traveling in Scotland. During this visit she was the guest of the great Duke of Buccleuch—the intimate friend of Sir Walter Soft—at Dalkeith Palace. The duke had ar, elaborate menu made up on white satin, which he brought to the Queen for her inspection. “I suppose,” she said, “you are going to have a large party—l suppose it’s all very fine.” “But does it suit your Majesty?” asked the duke. The Queen replied that it suited her all right, except that there was nothing on it she liked to eat and asked the duke to get her a little boiled mutton and a piece of apple pie. In passing up the aisle in the Dalkeith Episcopal Church, the Duchess of Baccleuch, who was leading the Queen to the family pew, swept a man’s hat, which had been set down in the aisle, away with her train. She kept on her way, but the Queen, who came immediately behind her, stopped, picked up the hat, and put it back in its place again* , She was driving with the duchess one morning when a miner, in his working clothes and with grimy hands and face, rushed up to the carriage and asked: “Which o’ vou leddies is the Queen?” The duchess told him that the lady sitting beside her was the Queen The miner turned and said, Tespectfully enough, but without the least diffidence or deference: "Eh, mem, but w ; ud ye let me shak yer hand And the Queen shook hands with him, and afterwards pulled off her gloves and told the uncouth Scotchman to hand them to his wife. The gloves are now preserved in a neat case which the miner made for the purpose, and many a pilgrimage is made to the humble home to see “the Queen’s gloves.” It is one of the greatest pleasures in Queen Victoria’s life to go from door to door among the poor of the Scottish Highlands. She came upon an old woman one day busily preparing a meal over a fire of smoky peat. “What are you doing?” “Makin’ kail.” “Make a plate for me,” said the Queen, and she took her dinner that day in the old Highland hut. The Queen supplied a certain old woman near Balmoral with underclothing. Meeting her one sharp autumn afternoon, her Majesty noticed that the woman was shivering from apparent insufficient covering. The Queen asked her if she did not wear the garments she sent to her. and found out that her northern subject was keeping the clothing to be buried in. The Queen s< nt her at once to put the clothing on, assuring her that she would immediately send her another suit, which she could keep for the morbid occasion referred to. Queen Victoria is very fond of the scenery of Scotland, and she is no less fond of its poetrv. While visiting the Marquis of Breadlabane at Taymouth Castle, near Aberfeldy. she stood gazing enraptured at the scene, and after drinking in all its beauties, turned to a companion and said: “It has pleased me to behold heaven’s beauties in many places of the world, but this is the finest I have ever looked upon.” It was of this locality that Burns wrote when he sang: “The braes ascend like lofty wa’s— The foaming stream, deep roaring, fa's Q'erhung wl’ fragrant spreading shaws— The birks o’ Aberfeldy.” Reason Enough. Chicago Record. “Queen Victoria always looks so solemn.” “You'd look solemn, too, if you had had the Prince of Wales for a son all these years.’.*

THE GREAT LENS MAKER GENII S OF THE LATE AI.VIN CLARK SLOW TO BE RECOGNIZED. His Work Revealed to Astronomers Many of tlie Secrets of the Heavens, unit .Made His Name Famous. Henry Haynie, in Boston Herald. The late Mr. Alvan Clark, who had so long and usefully cultivated the sublime science which treats of celestial bodies, once said to the present writer that he never looked toward the stellar worlds without feeling his heart palpitate with emotion as he contemplated the marvels of the universe. "We boast our knowledge," said Mr. Clark, "and certainly there is a wonderful amount of intelligence in the world, still, is it not remarkable, when you think of it, that we know some neighbor globe much better than we know our own. We can stand thero on my lawn and see Mars or Venus, but we cannot see earth.” And it may be added that, as we gaze above and around us, hardly daring to think of the moving swarms of suns which are but centers of remoter celestial systems, we begin to realize that the limits of the universe are, indeed, unthinkable. This, so he told me, was one of the ''hief reasons why Mr. Clark was so devoted to his work of telescope making, for he wanted to master as much as possible of that immensity. He was far from satisfied with what he had accomplished in this direction, however. Said he: “Many of the clustered or scattered stars in yonder skies are so far away from us that even this new glass made for the Chicago University will only be able to show them as a mass of light, so faint that the separate stars will hardly be distinguished. In other words, this distance is such that they are beyond not only our power of estimation, but it is utterly hopeless to attempt to determine how far away they are, even, as I say. with this achromatic objective which we have completed for Mr. Yerkes.” Apropos, it might naturally be supposed that the brightest stars are those nearest the earth, but that would be an error. The brightest star (not planet) in the heavens is Sirius, but Sirius is by no means the nearest neighbor of the solar System. The star Arcturus, one of the three or four most beautiful stars visible in our northern skies, is not one of the stars comparatively near to the earth. In fact, Arcturus is so far away that astronomers will probably never learn what the distance of its remoteness actually amounts to. So far as telescopes can show, the star which lies closest to the earth fs one not seen in the northern hemisphere, though it is familiar to residents in southern latitudes. This star is the brightest gem in the constellation of the Centaur; it is spoken of as A'pha Centauri, and its distance from us has measured by Professor Elkin of Yale University with all the accuracy which modern science permits.

INTERSTELLAR DISTANCE. “But if you stated that distance in miles your readers would riot understand,” exclaimed Mr. Clark, “and you had better tell them how great it is in some other way. Well, suppose we make use of the electric telegraph for this purpose. The maximum speed, under the most favorable circumstances, of a message along the wire is 180,000 miles in a second. If it were possible to stretch a wire from the earth to the nearest bright star, and another to a faint telescopic star, and still another all the way from earth to one of the more distant stars, why of course we could, at that rate of speed, send a message there in next to no time.” “Now let us see about that,” remarked Dr. Campbell, a wonderful mathematician, who was one of our little party, and he soon produced a mass of figures. And what he showed was this; That it would take a telegraphic message, moving at the maximum rate of speed, that is to say, 180,000 miles in a second, no fewer than eight minutes to pass from the earth to the sun; that it would taJke four years of time for a similar dispatch to reach Alpha Centauri; that if, on the day when Queen Victoria was born, nearly eighty years ago, this news had been thus telegraphed up to one of those thousands of twinkling points which delight our eyes, that message, flashing along with a velocity which would carry it more than seven times round the earth in the interval between two ticks of a watch, would not yet be half way on its journey. Why, over us are thousands of stars so remote that if the glad tidings of the first Christmas at Bethlehem had been disseminated through God’s kingdom by the swiftest electric current ever known, that message would not yet have been received by them, and there are many suns which this great lens made by Mr. Alvan Clark will reveal to astronomers that are far beyond the most remote ones hitherto visible through good telescopes. “Now, minute as those stars and clusters appear to us,” said this master maker of refracting objectives, “and distant though they be, theYe is nothing that we know of to prevent our supposing each of them to be the center of a group of planets as extensive as our own and each planet to be as full of inhabitants as is the earth. The question of the number of worlds in the universe of the Almighty is still insoluble, but we do know that all those we see have proper motion. To all appearances Orion and the pielades are still exactly as Enos and Seth saw them many thousand years ago, but modern astronomy and telescopes, with the magic aid of mathematics, have shown that these stars are in motion; and there are some up yonder so far away from us that it would take infinite eons of time for any change to be noticed in the aspect of the constellation of which they form a part in our astronomy; no, not even with this Yerkes glass, thus far the largest and most powerful ever made.” THE YERKES DISC. Then he told me the story of that lens and its cost in round numbers. While in a certain sense the disc in question is the most wonderful piece of human workmanship of its kind that has ever been produced, yet as property it cost no more than $65,000 to $75,000. It is pretty certain, however, that the successors to the genius whom we have just lost would hardly guarantee to reproduce its equal for twice that latter sum. Alvan C. Clark completed it without any serious accident, but when he was preparing in like manner a lens for the Lick telescope, one thirty-six inches in diameter and constructed at a cost of $53.u00, there were no fewer than nineteen failures, involving a delay of more than three years In caj-rying out the contract. It was then believed that none larger or more powerful could be ever •made, but the Yerkes glass proves the contrary. as it is forty inches in diameter, and 1 believe they are making a fifty-inch lens at Pittsburg. Physical astronomy depends wholly on instrunc* nts, by the aid of mathematics, and it should be a proud satisfaction to our people to know that two of the most powerful telescopes in existence are in America. These are the one on Mount Hamilton, in California, the other on Lake Geneva, some forty miles from Chicago And it seems strangely anomalous that the metropolis of the West, a city of commercial din, tense financial activities, and remarkable railway noises should be so deeply Interested in a science that Is so profound as astronomical science. But then Chicago always was one of the world's greatest wonders. Only a few months back I had my last “interview” with Mr. Clark, ana we conversed not only about the universe but as to the possibilities of human efforts to vanquish night. It was the third time I had gone to his house and factory at Cambridgeport, and on each of these occasions he gave me fresh details of how the great lens was completed. It was evident that Mr. Clark had his own opinions as to the future possibilities in the construction of great telescopes, and indeed he expressed himself pretty freely in that respect, but a good deal of what he told me does not coincide with the preconceived ideas of most persons. For instance, a great deal has been said and written regarding the grtat telescopes of the future, and Mr. Clark declared that nearly every important discovery in the true visual line has been made with the largest telescope In use at the time. When the Clarks had made the two fifteen-inch glasses in 15415 one for Harvard, the other for Pulkova, Russia—lt was supposed that the limit in size had been reached, and so It had during ten years, when one of eighteen and one-half Inches was prepared. But as soon as the companion to Sirius had been discovered with this latter glass, at once there seemed to be a desire for something larger, and a bigger one was made in England. Then came, first the twenty-ix-inch J?ns made by the Clarks for the United States naval observatory at Washington and next ono of the same sixe made by

them for the University of Virginia. After that a thirty-inch telescope for the Russia observatory was const meted, and now we have this forty-inch objective which Mr. Clark had fortunately completed and delivered before he passed from earth. BELIEVER IN BIG TELESCOPES. Mr. Clark told me that he had always been a believer in large telescopes fur special work. He had had much experience with them, and it wijs from to-ting such Instruments that he became convinced that larger ones are needed to ni.iko original discoveries, such as satellites to planets and faint companions to bright stars, in fact, to any stars, as well as tor studying nebulae. He held that for astrophysical work they are vastly superior to smaller gtasses. "The trouble tnat < arly opticians experienced in procuring good discs of glass seems to have passed aw.iy, ’ said he, “and we arc now a ole to procure discs of almost any size, the only obstacle being tiie time required to muKe them and the money to pay for them.” It was then i asked Mr. Clark what ho thought of the future possibilities in the construction of still larger telescopes, and here is his reply: “it is my idea that tin s of the future will not be reflectors, but refractors. T dodiot underestimate the value of the great discoveries made with lellet ting telescopes, nor do i say anything against those who make and work them; but my experience has convinced me that the reiiector is extremely sensitive to any changes either of temperature or air currents or more particularly to tlexture. it is true the refractor is also affected by these same changes, but it is by no means so injurious to the definition.” It came out in this conversation that good discs of any size, both crown and Hint, may now be procured, notably from M. Mantois, of the Rue Lebrun. Paris—these Yerkes glasses were cast by him and all that Is required is a skillful optician to prepare them. “He must be an artist. ' remarked Mr. Clark, “an artist as to light and shade, and in color also, the last of the very best correction of the chromatic aberration. As in the light and shade we search for and locate the spherical aberration, so we work among the different colors for the chromatic corrections. This is a difficult task, and its difficulty increases with the size of the disc.” Mr. Clark declared that personally he did not believe this work could ever be accomplished by machinery. It was true, he admitted, that some of the rough work and first polishing might be done by machinery, and, indeed, his men had thus polished all their large surfaces in a preliminary way. but the fine grinding and smoothing will always have to l>e ch* e with human hands. It is after the first machine polishing is done, and when the glass appears to be finished, that what Mr. Clark called the artistic work begins. It is not necessary to restate here the views expressed by that master workman as to the requirements for making large lenses, both crown and flint, but T vifi say that he next expressed what he thought of a greater telescope. He said that he not .only believed it would be a refra-ctor, bin that its size would progressively increase. “It will be mounted equatorially, and be provided with the best driving clock that can be devised. 1 am in favor of the iong polar axis, known as the English plan, for such an instrument, and l'or several reasons, the main one l>< ing that of stability. The style of plan which Americans have generally adopted in the case of my large telescopes is not as stable as it ought to be.” THE NEW ASTRONOMY. As for the benefits to be obtained from these great glasses of the future Mr. Clark thought that much would depend on the localities in which they were placed. Even when used under ordinary circumstances a great telescope will produce great results, but those results will be ever so much greater If it is used under the best possible conditions. The increase in size of this Yerkes refractor is a fact, and with it will come large acquisition to our present stock of knowdedge. The new astronomy, as well as the old, demands more power, and yet size and preparation are not the only requisites of greater telescopes. There are civil engineers, as well as opticians, to be consulted, for the construction of a building in which a telescdpe is to be placed Is second In importance only to that of the instrument itself.” This ended our conversation at that time, and I saw Mr. Clark no more, though he promised to tell me of the practical workings of the immense lens after the telescope had been placed in the observatory on Lake Geneva. He had not had time to send for me since his return, when death struck him suddenly down, and another famous man, a genius, was lost to Massachusetts. Asa maker of large lens he stood alone, while as a maker of other telescopic glasses he was equal to any man in Europe. Nevertheless, and during several years, he worked without receiving the slightest recognition or encouragement from any official, scientific or educational quarter. It mav be said that he worked in entire obscurity. Even during recent times, when his house had been admitted by the highest scientific authorities in the world to be at the very head and front of all lens makers, he received but scant recognition in his own country, and from our much-boasted government none whatever. Had he been a Frenchman or an Englishman or a German or other foreigner his native land would have been as proud or him as Great Britain is of Newton, as the French Republic is of all her many servants. , .. . Just a few words now on the question of the future application of the optic to the drawing of stars near to us. For it must be remembered that to increase the size of an object or to draw it nearer is the same thing. Thus, a glass which increases a thing four times if directed at an inscription 100 yards distant, shows it as if it were at twenty-five yards. Add, and this Is the result of experience, that the normal enlargement applicable to astronomical glasses Is two times per millimetre of the diameter of the objective lens. Thus, an objective of 0.24 (24 centimetres) gives a normal enlargement of 4SO times; an objective of 0.80 (80 centimetres) gives it 1.600 times; an objective of 1 meter gives at 2,000 times, and so on. , , ... Therefore, this new' Yerkes lens, with its objective of 1.60. normally enlarges or, what Is the same thing, draws near Vm times. Before this latest example of skilh-a workmanship ar.d scientific direction was prepared, the best instruments could, when aimed at the moon, which is 240.000 miles awav, bring that satellite as near as though it were onlv 120 miles distant. Even better than that was done where the atmosphere w’as pure and perfectly calm, the enlargement of 2 000 being increased to 3,000 times. Consequently, if. with actual instruments, astronomers could, under certain circumstances count on enlargements of 3.000 times there is no doubt whatever but that they rnav. under similar circumstances at - tain an enlargement of at least 4,000 times with this Chicago lens, the normal of whb h is only 3.000. The distance. 240.000, being divided bv 4.000. gives up 60, and that is the number of miles from Lake Geneva to the moon via the new telescope. With the aid of photography, using ’.he ingenious process invented at the Prague observatory, which enlarges ten tim <>r more, we shall be able to see binary landscapes onlv six or seven miles away, ir we can do that with the moon, perhaps w* shall soon know something definite about those canals on Mars, or the constitution of the rings round Saturn, and maybe we shall soon be able to solve the problem of Jupiter's satellites.

Drotvned indtr a Borne. CINCINNATI, June 27.-This evening George Lowensteln, Robert Geith nnd 1-d • ward King rowed a skiff from Cincinnati to Newport, Ky , and struck the up-stream end of a coal barge in landing. The s’:iff was swamped under the barge, and Rowenstein and Keith were drowned under the barge. King grasped a rope and saved himself. A Woman in the Cone. Chicago Dispatch. The Bacchante is still in a box in the basement of the New York Metropolitan Museum. As usual—a woman in the “ease.” I ———— T I, /TX NATIONAL Tube Works W rought-iroD Pi pe for Gas, wf Steam and Water. E 3K" boiler Tube*. Cast and Make* B'iUl '"A able Iron Fittings (black and fcjjg ip-'-.VjNgh. ... galvanized). Valve- st. p cEgift, tr f&j&k Cock*. Knglne Trimming. ESSM,, 1 1 wg Steam Clauses, Pl(>e Tongs, It;, M{ I W l’llie Cutters, vises, Sere'S KGft ©.Si Plates and Dies, Wrenches, Steam Traps, Pumps, KiubM y?§ eu Sinks, Hose. Belting. Bat>In bit Metal. Solder, white an I pj r *s Colored Wiping Waste, and Ir‘4 saci all other Supplies u*ed in \ I eHCS connection with Gas. Steam tula S-J and Water. Natural Gal Supplies a specialty. Steam* ■m3 na heating Apparatus tor Puh ' Uc Building*. Store-rooms, Mills, Shop*. Factories. l-auu-drlea, Lumber Dry-Houses, etc. Cut aud Thread to order any Ue Wrought-lroa tw eJ| pipe, from h inch to 1* Inches diameter. 1 UiGHT A JILLSOM, y) & PJtHKSYLVAMA St