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Ing in and about New York harbor, including the city and county of New* York, Ihe city of Brooklyn and tho county of Rings*, the county of Richmond and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for tne government thereof.” The territory thus indicated. whose exact boundaries are given in the body of the act, will, after Jan. 1, IS9,\ be known as the city of New York. The city thus constituted is divided Into five boroughs. The borough or Manhattan comprises that portion of the present city of New York known as Manhattan island. Governor's island, Bedloe’s island, Ellis island, the Oyster islands, Blackwell's island, Randall’s island and Ward’s island. The borough of the Bronx takes in all of that portion of the city of New York lying north and east of the borough of Manhattan, between the Hudson and East rivers, or Kong Island sound, and including the several islands belonging to the present municipal corporation of New York not included in the borough of Manhattan. The borough of Brooklyn consists of the present city of Brooklyn. The borough of Queens comprises that portion of Queens county to be included in the city of New York. The borough of Richmond comprises that territory known as Richmond county or Staten island. The new city will come into being and its new officers will take office on Jan. 1, 185)8. The first election of officers for the consolidated City will be held on Nov. 2, 1897. AREA AND POPULATION. The area of this new municipality will bo about 359 square miles. Its population will be 3,360.000. It will contain 1,200 miles of streets, exclusive of common roads, and 700 miles of sewers. Its annual tax levy will be between $55,000,000 and $65,000,000. It will contain about 167,000 buildings, of which 130,000 are used for residential purposes, and its daily consumption of water will be about 350,000,000 gallons. This mighty community, larger than most States of the Union, is to be self-governing In ail local affairs. It is to have its own legislature, executive and judiciary. The legislature will consist of two houses, known as the Council and Board of Aldermen, and together styled the Municipal Assembly of the city of New York. The Council will contain twenty-nine members. The i resident of the Council will be elected on a general ticket every four years, and will act as mayor during the mayor’s abs< nce or disability, possessing all his powers except those of removal or appointment. His Urm of office is lour years and the salary $5,000 a year. The remaining twenty-eight members of the Council are to be elected by districts, as follows: Five Council districts tire formed out of the present city of New York, three out of Brooklyn, one of the county of Richmond and one of that portion of Queens county Included in the consolidation act. Each of the New York and Brooklyn Council districts Is entitled to three councilmen, and Richmond and Queens to two councilmen each. The term of office of the members of Council is four years, and the salary $1,500 a year. They elect a city clerk, whose term of office Is six years and salary $7,000 a year. There will be sixty aldermen, one to be elected from each assembly district of the city of New York and Brooklyn, one from Long Island City and Newtown, one from Jamaica, Flushing and part of Hempstead and one from those parts of the First and Second assembly districts of Westchester county Included In the borough of the Bronx. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. Each head of an administrative department of the city is entitled to a seat In the Board of Aldermen, and required, whenever practicable, to attend the meetings of the board. These executive officers have the right to participate in the discussions of tho board, but not the right to vote. If an administrative department is composed of more than one member, the president or presiding officer of the department is designated as the nu mber entitled to sit in the Board of Aldermen. Every ex-mayor of .the city of New York, as constituted by the act of consolidation, is, so long as he remains a resident of the city, to be entitled to sit in the Council and to participate in Its discussions, but will riot be permitted to vote. It is expressly provided that "no ordinance or resolution providing for or contemplating tho alienation or disposition of any property of this city, the granting of franchise, terminating the lease of any property or franchise belonging to the city, or the making of any specific improvements, or the appropriation or expenditure of public moneys, or authorizing the in- . ourring of any expense, or the taxing or ■Bisessing of property in the city, shall pass pthe Council or Board of Aldermen at the *ame session at which It was first offered, unless by unanimous consent; and the same shall not be finally passed or adopted by the municipal assembly until at least five days after an abstract cf its provisions shall have been published.” No member of the municipal assembly shall, during the term for which he is elected, bo eligible or do appointed to any other office under the city, nor shall any member of this assembly, while such, be a contractor with or an employe of the city, or of either branch of the assembly in any capacity whatever. This local legislature is invested by the charter with far more power than the old Board of Aldermen enjoyed. It will legislate on a host of matters hitherto dealt with by the State Legislature at Albany. It is authorized to construct, establish and maintain, or to acquire by purchase or con1, damnation and maintain, in all parts of the %eity additional water works to supply the city or any part thereof and Its Inhabitants with water. It may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height of buildings erected In the city. It is authorized to grant streetrailway and ferry franchises, to provide by ordinance for the establishment of markets, the acquisition of parks, boulevards and driveways, the building of bridges, the construction of dock, wharves and piers, and for these and other public improvements it may create loans and authorize the issue of bonds, subject, however, to the approval of a majority of the members <xf the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.

BOROUGH GOVERNMENT. The boroughs will individually bear a relation to the whole city similar to that of the various States to the United States. Each will have it own president, chosen in the November election by the electors of each borough, respectively. The term of office is four years. The salary of the presidents of the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn Is $5,000 a year, and of Queens and Richmond $3,000 a year. A president of a borough may be removed by the mayor on charges, subject to the approval of the Governor of the State. The most important part of the functions of these borough presidents is to convene and preside over the meetings of the various local boards of the borough. There will be a local Board of Public Improvements in each of the twenty-two Senate districts or parts thereof comprised in the territory consolidated into the city of New York. Each local board will consist of the president of the borough wherein the district is situated, by virtue of his office, anu of each member of the Municipal who is a resident of such local improvement district, by virtue of his office and during his term of office. The jurisdiction of each local board Is confined to the district for which it is constituted, and to those subjects or matters the costs and expenses whereof are in whole or in part a charge on the people or property of the district or a part thereof, except where jurisdiction over such matters is given to some other branch of the local administration. Subject to this exception, and aiiy other restrictions provided by the act. a local board la to have power in all cases where the cost of an improvement Is to be met in whole or m part by assessments upon the property benefited, to recommend that proceedings be initiated to open, close, extena, widen, grade, pave, regrade, repave and repair the streets, avenues and public places, and to construct luteral sewers within the district: to Hag or reliag, curb or recurb the sidewalks, auto relay crosswalks on such streets and avenues; to set or reset street lamps; and to provide signs designating the names of streets. A local beard is, further to have power to hear complaints of nuisances in streets or avenues, or against disorderly houses, drinking saloons, gambling houses, or other matters or things concerning the peace, comfort, order and good government respecting any neighborhood within the district, or concerning the condition of the poor within the district, and to pass such resolutions concerning the same as may not be inconsistent with the powers of the Municipal Assembly or of the administrative departments of the city. Every resolution of tbe local boards must be submitted to the mayor for his approval. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. The general executive administration of the city will be In the hands of a number of departments, whose heads are to be appointed by the mayor, as follows: The president of the Board of Public Improvements. \ Thu Corporation Counsel. The Police Board, consisting of four commissioners. The Board of Public Charities, consisting of three commissioners. The commissioner of the Department of Correction. The lire commissioner. The Board of Health, consisting of two health comm.'itsioners, with the president pf

the Police Board end the health officer of tho port as ex oflicto members. The Park Board, consisting of three commissioners of parks. The Board of Buildings, consisting of three commissioners of buildings. The Board of Taxes and Assessments, consisting of the president, so designated when appointed, and three commissioners, one of whom shall be learned in the law. The Board of Education, members of which at lirst shall be the chairmen of the School Boards of the various boroughs, ex officio, and four members of the School Board of the Borough of Manhattan, three members of the School Board of the Borough of Brooklyn, and one member of the School Board of the Borough of the Bronx, to be elected annually to serve as such members of the Board of Education by the School Boards of the boroughs named. The Board of Docks, consisting of three commissioners of the docks — The chamberlain. w The commissioner of water supply. The commissioner of street cleaning. The commissioner of sewers. The commissioner of public buildings. The commissioner of bridges. The Board of Assessors, of five members. There are to be other officials, which might be enumerated in the same category, all to be appointed by the mayor. Two great boards wili exercise supreme control of the general administration of the city and all its boroughs. One oi these is the Board of Public Improvements, which will consist of a president, the mayor, the corporation counsel, the controller, the commissioner of water supply, the commissioner of highways, the commissioner of street cleaning, the commisioner of sewers, the commissioner of public buiictr ings, lighting and supplies, the commissioner of bridges and the presidents of the several boroughs, by virture of their respective offices. The mayor, the corporation counsel, the controller and the residents of the several boroughs are not to be counted as members of the board for the purpose of ascertaining if a quorum be present. No president of a borough is to have a voice in the Board of Public Improvements except upon matters _ e3 f‘ clusively to the borough of which he is president. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Except as otherwise provided, any public work or improvement within the cognizance and control of any one or more of the departments under the charge of the commissioners who are of the Board of Public Improvements that may be the subject of contract must be first duly authorized and approved by resolution of the Board of Public Improvements and an ordinance or resolution of the Municipal Assembly. When a public work or improvement has been duly authorized by the joint action of the legislative body and of the executive board then, but not until then, shall it be lawful for the proper department to proceed in the execution thereof, but each commissioner in his own department is to retain control of the details of any such work or improvement. The other great executive board is the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, composed of the mayor, the controller, the corporation counsel, the president of the Council and the president of the Department of taxes and assessments. Its duty is to make tne annual budget of the amounts required to pay the expenses of conducting tne public business of the city. The Municipal Assembly, unlike the present Board of Aldermen, may reduce the amounts hxed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but may not increase such amounts nor insert any new items. The mayor has the power of vetoing tne resolutions fixing such reductions, and unless such veto is overidden by a live-sixths vote of the Municipal Assembly the amount fixed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment will stand as part of the budget. From the foregoing it is evident that the mayor, who is to be elected by the people for a term of four years, will have almost absolute control of the executive department of the city government. He is not only a member of each of the two great executive boards; he himself appoints ail the other members except the controller, the president of the Council and the presidents of the boroughs. Os the fifteen members of the Board of Public Improvements he is one and he appoints eight more. Os the five of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment ho is one and he appoints two more. He thus controls nine-fifteenths of the one and three-fifths of the other. He appoints these members on his own r.uthority, without need of confirmation by any other body, and he has the absolute power of removing any of them, with or without stated cause, at any time during the first six months of his term. Nor is that all. He is to appoint in the same way a great number of other officers, executive and judicial, all constituting such a roll of patronage as is scarcely to be found elsewhere. THE MAYOR’S PATRONAGE. Here is a list of the officers to be appointed by the mayor of New York on or after Jan. 1, 1898: Term SalTitle of Officer. Years, ary. Corporation counsel 4 $15,030 Chamberlain 4 12,000 President Board Public Imp 6 8,000 Commissioner of water supply ... 6 7,500 Commissioner of highways 6 7,500 Commissioner of street cleaning, 6 7,500 Commissioner of sewers 6 7,500 Commissioner of public buildings, lighting and supplies 6 7,500 Commissioner of bridges 6 7,500 Three commissioners of parks.... 6 6,000 •Six art commissioners mre commissioner 6 7,500 President Board of Taxes and Assesments : 6 8,000 Four commissioners of taxes and B assessments 4 7,000 •Five assessors for local infprovements 3,000 Two commissioners of charities.. 6 7,500 One commissioner of charities ... 6 2,50 u One commissioner of correction.. 6 7,a90 President Board of Health 6 7,50 j Two health commissioners 6 6,000 Two commissioners of buildings. 6 * 7,000 One commissioner of buildings .. 6 3,500 President of Dock Board 6 6,000 Two commissioners of docks .... 6 5,000 Four police commissioners 4 5,000 •Commissioner of jurors for Manhattan and the Bronx •Two commissioners of accounts. .. 5,000 Chief bureau municipal statistics 4 3,500 •Three to six commissioners of statistics •••••••• ••••••••••••••••• •• • •••• •Three civil-service com’sioners ••Twenty-one members of School Board, Manhattan and Bronx.. 3 ••Forty-five members of School Board for Brooklyn 3 ..... ••Nine members of School Board for Richmond ••••••• * ••Nine members of School Board for Queens 3 •••Marshals •••••• < •Inspectors and sealers of weights ana measures —Municipal Court. — Two justices for Brooklyn 2 6,009 Three justices for Queens 2 5,095 Two justices for Richmond 2 0,000 —Boards of City Magistrates.— Twelve magistrates in Manhattan and the Bronx 10 6,000 Six magistrates in Brooklyn 10 6,090 Three magistrates in Queens 10 5,000 Two magistrates in Richmond ... 10 5,000 —Courts of Special Sessions.— , Five justices, First division 10 9,000 Five justices, Second division .... 10 6,000

•Indefinite. **No salary. ***Not fixed. Nor is even that all. To these officers, appointed by the mayor, is given the power of appointing their own subordinates, subject to civil-service rules. The personal composition of almost the entire city government will therefore depend on the man who is chosen mayor by the people on Nov. 2. In the words of one of the authors of the charter, the power and patronage of the next mayor of New York will be so great “that it is no exaggeration to say that he will, in these particulars, be a dignitarv second only in importance to the President of the United States. In addition to his original power of appointment of their heads, the mayor will have supervisory control over the various departments. He may direct the police in the enforcement of the laws, and in time of tumult or riot he may demand the assistance of the state militia located within the city. In addition to his purely executive functions, he has an enlarged veto power on the acts of the Municipal Assembly, as well as over those of the subordinate local boards. Nor should it be forgotten that under the amended constitution the mayor of New York exercises a qualified veto power over legislation relating to this city. The Legislature, if in session, may pass the act objected to in spite of the mayor's veto, and the Governor has a like power to disregard it. but it is nevertheless a substantial addition to the importance of the executive head of the Greater New Yofk that any objections of his to proposed legislation will be sure of respectful consideration at Albany. The city’s accounts will be in the hands of a department independent of the mayor, and for purposes of honest audit, and effective criticism generally of the details of the huge expenditure of the enlarged city, it is manifestly essential that a man of enlarged experience, resolute character and unblemished integrity should be elected to the office of controller. But all other problems to be solv*d at the forthcoming election are of secondary importance beside that of making a wise choice for mayor. TO MAKE VOIK WIFE LOVE YOU Buy '‘Garland” Stoves and Range*.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1897.

WOMAN’S HEAD CLUBBED HALLOWE'EN MASQUERADER ASSAULTED BY A WAGON MAKER, Who Claims to Have First Been Attacked by His Victim—Mysterious Affair Near Elwood. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., Oct. 31.—Mrs. Web Gaylcr, while out with a party of Hallowe'en masqueraders last night, was assaulted by George Maddix, a wagon maker, who struck her with a club. Her scalp was badly cut, and it is believed her skull is fractured. Maddix was arrested. He claims that the woman first assaulted him with a club. He was covered with blood and had a frightful gash in his head. Maddix was released on furnishing a bond, but this morning Mrs. Gaylor’s condition became more alarming and her assailant was placed in jail to await developments. WABASH COLLEGE NOTES. Students Preparing for the Oratorical Contest—New Apparatus. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAW FORDS VILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.—Considerable interest is now being manifested in the subject of oratory. Men from the three upper classes are writing orations, to be pronounced early in December in the class primaries. From each class, as a result of the primaries, two men will be chosen to speak in Center Church a week later. The winner in the final will represent the college in the state oratorical contest. Wabash will strive hard for a better place this year than she has recently been winning. Dr. Bodine, of the department of zoology, has just received a “minot” microtome, an instrument—as the name indicates for making very thin cuttings for microscopic examination. It is a very line and accurate apparatus, cutting sections to the thinness of one five-thousandth of a millimeter. The professor considers his equipment as fine as any in the State. Prof. Thomas has recently added to the biological laboratory an autoclay for sterilizing under high pressure; also a Pasteur filter, and an additional apparatus tor tiie study of piant histology. He is expecting a centretuge for the centrifugal analysis of blood, sputum and the liKe. in these departments each student now has a separate locker with combination, lock. Prof. Thomas’s manual of histology is being used this year in Harvard. So large is the class in chemistry, under Prof. Emery, that additional desk room had to be provided. , Asa result of the honor scholarship examination, Carson S. Duncan was awarded the classical scholarship and Cline L. Davidson the scientific. Under the management of Carrol Ragan, the college now has a brass band of fourteen pieces. ~ . The Glee Club, under the direction of Prof. Meek, is rehearsing faithfully. He has selected a quartet consisting of Dumont Peck, first tenor; Claude Shaver, second tenor; Karl Parks, first bass, and Joseph Bartholomew, second bass. John H. Mitchell, ’9B, was initiated by the Phi Delta Theta Friday evening. On the same evening Kenneth Duncan - was initiated by Beta Theta Pi.

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. Former and Family Repeatedly Attacked by Unknown Persons. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind,, Oct. 31.—Charles Waymire and family, residing two miles northeast of Elwood, are being persecuted in a strange manner. Friday night an unknown person was stealing a valuable herse, when discovered by the hired man. Later in the night the family was awakened by loud pounding on the doors, and all of the members rushed downstairs. One door was found partially opened and when an attempt was made to close it someone outside resisted. It took the combined strength of all the family to close the door. Having no firearms, the family was not prepared for a vigorous defense and had to remain up the rest of the night. At intervals the pounding would be renewed, and then the house v ould be showered with rocks. Saturday Mr. Waymire and his two sons were driven from a cornfield by a shower of bowlders that came from an unknown source, and Saturday evening some man attempted to assault one of the gins as she was milking a cow in the barnyard. Officers visited the place, but did not find trace of any one. Last night the house was assailed and a number of shots were fired. Having* been reinforced by arnied neighbors, the family drove the assailants & way, one of them being badly wounded by a bullet from a pistol. Three different times during Um night was it necessary to charge on the attacking party. The neighborhood and city are greatly excited over this mysterlnus affair, and a large, well-armed vigilance committee is searching tor the assailants. State X. M. C. A. Meet* This AVeek. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.-The twen-ty-eighth annual convention of the Indiana Y. M. G. A. will convene In this city next Thursday morning and continue through Sunday night. Governor Mount will preside at the meeting Thursday night and M. J. Carpenter, president of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, at the Saturday night session. B. K. Hamilton, of New York, railroad secretary, and E. M. Cook, of Toronto, Ont., will also be present. The lowa quartet will have charge of the special music and a large chorus choir will furnish music ax the evening sessions. C. W. McGuire, auditor of the Louisville, Evansville & St Louis road, is in charge of the credentials. Among the prominent speakers are Rev. J. Cummings Smith, of Indianapolis - Dr. G. S. Burroughs, president of Wabash College; Dr. William Bryan, Indiana University; W. A. Kling, state secretary of Ohio; T. J. Kirkpatrick, Springfield, O.; E. L. Shuey, Dayton, 0., and Frank W. Ober, Chicago. Culver’s Football Team. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CULVER. Ind.. Oct. 31.-Culver Military Academy numbers among Its students some of the best football players In the State. They have been scored against only once this season, and then tho score stood 24 to 4 in their favor. The Culver cadets have been well trained and play football on military principles. Here are some of their victories this fall: With Warsaw, 28 to 0; with Niles. Mich., 28 to 0; with Fort Wayne, 50 to 0. The cadets are much lighter than any team they have played against, but their science wins. On Saturday the I ort Wayne High School eleven, full of confidence and determination, came to Culver to break the record, but were beaten 50 to 0 The cadets kept them, however, for an evening's entertainment, giving a hop in their honor, and a most enjoyable time was had. A Discourteous Ex-Postmn#ter. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CLINTON, Ind., Oct. 31. William H. Bonner took charge of the postoffice here to-night, L. O. Bishop having been removed. Mr. Bonner had purchased new fixtures, but they failed to arrive. When he proposed to Mr. Bishop to pay him for the use of his room and fixtures until the furniture arrived, which will be some time to-morrow, the retiring officer flatly refused and demanded that the office be removed at once, and the transfer was made. The mail is piled alphabetically on barrels set about the room, and the postmaster will get along until the new fixtures arrive. Public feeling is strong against the retiring postmaster for his inexcusable refusal to accommodate his successor, who was in no way responsible for his dismissal. Fisli Plentiful in Madison County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, ind.. Oct. 31.—The Madison county prize fishing contest, which has been open all summer and fall, closed last night. It proves beyond all Questioning that there are plenty of big game fish in Madison county streams. Charles Plesslnger, of this city, took the bass prize, a fine rod and line, his catch tipping the beam at three and a fifth pounds. James Wilhoit, also of this city, took the first carp prize. He landed one that weighed ten pounds. An old colored lady caught a fifteen-pound carp. It was weighed, but she did not enter It in the contest. A number of seven, eight and nine pounders were caught. Fish are getting very plenty in Madison county streams, and if the strawboard plants do

not indulge in too much dumping they will soon be well stocked again. Gray’ii Assailant to Be Put or Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 31.—0n Wednesday and Thursday of this week therg will come to trial in the Circuit Court the cases of William and Thomas Knox, colored, of Cambridge City. The former is to answer to the serious charge of assault and battery on John E. Gray, Pennsylvania ticket agent at Cambridge City, with intent to commit murder, robbery and larceny. The latter is held only on a 'minor charge. The trials are looked forward to with great interest, as some developments are expected regarding the gang that is supposed to have been operating around Cambridge City. Insane Man Talks from a Pulpit. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 31.—A social given by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church last evening had a sensational scene which was not on the bills. A well-dressed stranger entered and, after eating his supper, went to the pulpit and began delivering a tirade against the ladies for converting the house of God into a bazaar and a supper room. He quoted the Bible with a readiness which bespoke thorough knowledge. He became worked up to a frenzy and it was soon evident to all that he was insane. An officer was called and he was taken from the pulpit to jail. He is not known here. Shot by Hit* Landlord. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., Oct. 31— Robert Lana, a renter on Thomas Good’s farm, seven miles south of this city, fell out with his landlord over the division of the corn crop late yesterday evening, and in the fight that followed Good was shot twice, one bullet taking effect in the abdomen. The doctors say that Good cannot live. Lane came to this city and surrendered to the officers, claiming his act was in selfdefense. Change at White’s Institute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 31.—There is to be a change in the management of White’s Normal Labor Institute, at Wabash, which is under the control of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hockett, present superintendent and matron, have decided to resign, and they will be succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. Levi Binford, of this city, who will leave for Wabash next Wednesday. New County Chairman. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind. Oct. 31—The Republican township committeemen met in this city yesterday and selected Louis F. Tracy, of Whiteland, to succeed W. T. Pritchard as county chairman. Mr. Pritchard recently began his duties as postmaster of Franklin, and resigned the chairmanship. Mr. Tracy has been a prominent worker in several campaigns in this “county, and is said to be thoroughly qualified for the position.

930,000 Fire at Fort Branch. PRINCETON, Ind., Oct. 31—Boys celebrating Hallowe’en at Fort Branch, this county, started fire which destroyed Odd Fellows’ Hall, the Fort Branch Times office, six business houses and several dwellings. Total loss, $30,C00. In the course of the fire thirty pounds of dynamite exploded in Wolters’s hardware store, causing much damage to surrounding property. Weddings ut El^vood. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD,' Ind., Oct. 31—Wedding bells have bene ringing merrily in Elwood. Last evening John Downs and Miss Cora Noble, prominent young people, were married. Today, the ceremony was performed that joined Calina Richland and Miss Grade Iluntsinger. Indiana Notes. Mrs. Edw r ard Shane was badly burned at Evansville Saturday night, the result of a lamp explosion. George Conrad, colored, of Richmond, who is attending Oberlin University, has been chosen president of the Cadmean Society. The president, secretary and State Board of the Travelers’ Protective Association will meet in Richmond next Saturday to dispose of business matters. Wash Pence, of Anderson, is preparing to go to the Klondike to erigage in anew business. Horses sell at from SSOO to $1,500 in that country, and he proposes to establish a permanent trade via the Yukon water route. A church reunion w T as held by North Anderson Methodists yesterday, the occasion being the reopening of their church. It has been worked over thoroughly and is practically anew edifice. The four old pastors were present. They are Revs. Baily, Lacy, Dorwin and Retts. Chesterfield Christians have purchased the old church in that place and yesterday dedicated it. It has been thoroughly overhauled and is virtually new - . An Orthodox church has never been successful in the village, it being the great spiritualistic center of tho State. The Spiritualists’ camp grounds are located just east of the village. The congregation of the Third M. E. Church, Richmond, yesterday celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their organization and the fourth aniversary of the dedication of the new church. Rev. N. Gillam, superannuated, preached in the morning; Rev. George H. Hill made an address in the afternoon, and there was a combined league -and church service in the evening. TENNYSON AND AMERICA. Extracts from His New Blogrraphy Show Him to Have Been Friendly. The Critic. It has been often asserted that Tennyson hated Americans, but those of us who have had the privilege of personal acquaintance with him know this to be false. He wrote to Dr. Van Dyke in 1889—“ The report (which you quote) that I dislike Americans is wholly without foundation, though it is true that I have protested against the manner in which some of the American publishers have pilfered my work.” In a letter to ‘‘an unknown correspondent” in this country, who had sent him a poem, he wrote: “I thank you for your poem. * * • The feeling of American brotherhood which it bespeaks cannot but be welcome to an Englishman.” He himself expressed the same feeling in not a few of his poems. When he received an album of his own verses copied by some young pupils in a Brooklyn public school; he wrote to them thus: “Such kindly memorials as yours make me hope that, though the national bond between England and America was broken, the natural one of blood and language may bind us closer and closer from century to century.” And when the Critic printed a number in celebration of Lowell’s seventieth birthday, he wrote to the editors : ‘‘l thank you for asking me to be among the numberless number of those who greet Mr. Lowell on his seventieth birthday. I wish that I had seen more of him while ho was among us. All blessings upon him and upon his country.” He was a careful student of our history and institutions. In a letter to Mr. Bosworth Smith, at the time when the disestablishment of the English Church was being discussed, he said: “As to any vital changes in our Constitution T could wish that some of our prominent politicians w r ho look to America as their ideal might horrow from her an equivalent to that conservatively restrictive provision under the fifth article of her Constitution, requiring a vote of three-fourths of the States for the ratification of any change. I believe it would be a great safeguanl in these days of ignorant ar.d reckless theorists.” He w r rote to Walt Whitman in 1887: “The coming year should give new life to every American who has breathed a breath of that soul which inspired the great founder of the American Constitution, whose work you are to celebrate. Truly the • mother country, pondering on this, may feel that, how much soever the daughter owes to her, she. the mother, nas. nevertheless, something to learn from the daughter. Especially T would pote the care taken to guard a noble constitution from rash and unwise innovators.” He was sometimes greatly annoyed by the impudence of American tourists who intruded Into h*s grounds at Farrfngford and even flattened their noses against his windows: but when a crank suddenly appeared a.t Aldworth in June. 1991. saying that he had w’orked his way over the Atlantic in a cattle shio in order to recite “Maud” to its author, the poet, out of pity for the man. endured the infliction of the recitation and paid his passage back to this country. Mnhlhaospr Tolil a Fulry Tale. CLEVELAND. 0.. Oct. 31. The news about the attempted suicide of Samuel Mulhauser at Honolulu Is received here with incredulity, and much more so the stories told in connection with it. He is a son of the late Sanuel Mulhauser, a wealthy woolen mill c wrier. He was a clerk in the Insolvency Court of this county, was not a major* arid was never connected with the district attorney’s office. He went to the Hawaiian islands for iris

health, and his stories about his political mission are set down by his friends and his brother as newspaper fiction or a practical joke or hallucination on his part. SIMPLE SMOKE CONSUMER. Invention TTiat Will Revolutionize the System of Heating by Coal. BERLIN, Oct. 31. The firm of Kuhut & Deissler, of this city, has patented a simple smoke consumer, consisting of a fire-clay plate to be inserted in the furnace, which is said to effect complete combustion of smoke and to average a saving of 20 per cent, in fuel. An ordinary fireman is able to replace it. Its cost is 400 marks. Experts declare that it will revolutionize the system of heating by coal. It is reported from Kiel that thorough tests of the invention have been made at the navy yards there, with the result that the government has ordered the application of the smoke consumer to all the boilers in use in the na\y, and is negotiating with the inventors for the sole right to use it on steamers. Lieutenant Niblack, naval attache of the l nit'd States embassy, has sent a special Washington recommending the adoption of the invention in the United States navy. The naval attache of the Chinese embassy has sent a similar recommendation to Peking. the kitten and the bear. Puns Frightened Bruin Up a Tree und Kept Him There. 11. Nicholas. Chris. Burns, the veteran first sergeant of ■*.ioop D, had a kitten which, during the summer camping of the troop at the Lower Geyser Basm, made her home with the sergeant s tent. Here, curled up on a pair of army blankets, she defied the world in general. and dogs in partl-eular. When the latter approached, she w'ouid elevate every bristle on her brave little back, her eyes would glow like live coals and her tail would swell up threateningly. If dogs approached too near, she would hiss, and exploit the usual signs of hostility, until the intruders had vanished from her neighboriiOOCl. One day, when the camp was bathed in sunshine, and every soldier in camp felt lazy, an inquisitive black bear came down the mountain-side, and, whether because he was in search of adventure or because attracteu by a savory smell from the cook’s fire, bigan to walk about among the white tents of the cavalry command. Suddenly the kitten caught sight of him. Dogs by the score she had seen, but this particular “dog” w r as the largest and the hairiest dog she had ever seen. But she did not hesitate. It was enough for her that an enemy had invaded her special domain. Hissing forth her spite, while her little body quivered with iage, she darted forth at the bear. The onslaught was sudden, and one glance was enough for Bruin. With a snort of fear. Bruin made for the nearest tree, a short distance away, and did not pause until lie was safely perched among the upper branches. Meanwhile, the kitten stalked proudly about on the ground beneath, keeping close guard over her huge captive, her back still curved into a bow, and her hair still bristling with righteous indignation, while her tail would new and then give a significant little wave, as if to say, “That’s the way I settle impertinent bears.” The soldiers, who meanwhile had poured forth from their tents, could scarcely believe their eyes; but there was the bear in the tree and the kitten below, and there were those who had seen the affair from beginning to end. And perhaps the strangest part of it all was that the bear would not stir from his safe position In the branches until the kitten had been persuaded to leave her huge enemy a clear means of retreat. Then he slid shamefacedly down from his perch, and ambled hastily off towards the mountain.

Hlh Graphic Tale. Chicago Post. They hadn’t met since the old college days, ten years before and of course the beneaict insisted that the bachelor should come home to dinner with him. “Married the year after I left college,” he said, “and I have the nicest fiittle home and the finest lot of youngsters that you ever saw. I want you to come out and see now nicely I’m fixed. I tell you a man aoGsn t know what life is until he’s married. ' “No?” “\\ ell, I should say not.” And so it happened that the bachelor went with the benedict, and met the latter’s wife and played with his children, and made nimself generally useful and popular until they were all seated at the dinner table. It was over the coffee and cigars, after the benedict’s wife had left the table, that the benedict finally suggested: “PrAty comfortably fixed, ain’t I, old man? Children, why don’t you go into the ether room?” “Very nicely, Indeed,” answered the bachelor, replying to the first question and ignoring the second. “Oh, there’s nothing like home life,” went on the benedict. “Willie, stop trying to climb on Mr. Brown’s knee! He wants to smoke. Do you know, old mat, 1 laugh when I think of my foolish idea that I knew in those old days what happiness was! Why, a man doesn’t begin to live until Maggie, put that nutpick back on the table. You’ll jab it in your eye the first thing you know. Yes, sir; I actually have to laugh when I think of it. Our idea of contentment in those days was to get a pipe and a book and a bottle of Scotch and lock the door and lie down and Would you mind moving your coffee cup a little farther back on the table, old man? Tommie’s trying to reach it. and my wife would raise my scalp if I should let him break one of her very best cups. That’s it. Thank you. As I was saying we didn’t know what ease and contentment was in those days. No single man does. A man has to have a big armchair and his slippers all ready for him, and everything sort of restful and quiet before Now, don’t cry, Mabel. If you didn’t want to get hurt, why did you grab the end of my cigar? Tommie; take her to mother. There, Willie, I told you you’d stick that nutpick into your hand if you didn’t look out. Run into the other room and ask your mother to put a bandage on it. Let’s see, where was I, old man? Oh, yes, I remember now. I was about to say that there’s nothing homelike about a bachelor’s quarters ” ... “No,” interrupted the bachelor with considerable emphasis; "there Isn’t.” The benedict couldn’t quite see the reason for such an emphatic assertion, but he wisely changed the subject, just the same. Lomie* by Fire. ATLANTA, Oct. 31.—The Georgia cotton oil mill was destroyed by fire this morning at 3 o’clock. Everything, with the exception of a few smaller buildings, was burned to the ground. The loss Is estimated at $117.000 —$49,000 on stock and the rest on building. Insurance about $78,000. LONDON, Oct. 31—The extensive warehouses and stables of Carter, Peterson & Cos limited, the well-known carriers railway agents, forwaiding and shipping agents in Goswell road, London, were destroyed by fire this morning. LUDLOW, Pa., Oct. 31.—The large tannery of John G. Curtis, together with a large quantity of bark, was burned this afternoon. The loss will not be less than $150,000. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 31.—Fire in the business section of Warren early this morning did $75,000 damages. The Town Hall was partly burned and several blocks destroyed. Sermon to the W. C. T. IT. BUFFALO. Oct. 31.—Music Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity this afternoon when Rev. Frances E. Townsley. of Michigan, delieverd the annual sermon to the delegates to the national convention of the W. C. T. U. The meeting opened with scripture reading by Miss Mary A. Blood, of Illinois, and a prayer by John G. Wooley, of Illinois. Mrs. Townsley’s sermon was a most impressive one, and w*as listened to in rapt attention by the large audience present. At its conclusion solos were sung by women. Chief Bluejacket Dead. WICHITA. Kan.. Oct. 31.—Charles Bluejacket. the head chief of the Shawnee Indian tribe, died last night in the village of Bluejacket, I. TANARUS., after a long and eventful life. He was over eighty years old and the last chief of his tribe. He has been the foremost diplomat of his nation in treating with the whites and was universally esteemed. Four Men Killed. NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Word has been received at Perth Amboy. N. J., of the killing of four residents of that place in an accident in Ehrenfeldt, in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. The dead men are Joseph Totyl, George Azare, Joseph Bartfoi and Andrew Klein. An engine struck a wagon in which they were riding. Junket Marred by Death. BUFFALO, N. Y„ Oct. 31.—The county Democracy of Chicago stopped off In Buffalo on its way home from New York this afternoon, paraded up and down Main street, serenaded the local Democratic newspaper office and Mayor Harrison made a speech to a big crowd that had assembled. The purty left for Chicago at 7:10 this evening. Prior to coming to Buffalo the Chi-

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cagoanet spent several hours at Niagara Falls. While at that place one of the party, William O’Connell, was taken ill and had to be removed to the Niagara Falls Hospital. where he died at midnight. He was forty-one years old and leaves a widow and one son. He was a liquor dealer. Hemorrhage of the stomach was given as the cause of death. He Stopped a Lynching. Washington Post "I didn’t catch his name, but his title was “Judge.” He was down at the Postofflce Department the other morning, and he was unmistakably a person of importance. He w*as telling, as I came in, how he stopped a lynching somewhere in the South. The man who was to be lynched, he said, was confined in the county jail under guard, but the sheriff doubted his ability to protect him. The judge mounted his horse and rode out to meet the mob. “Hello, boys,” he said, as he met the vanguard. “What you going to do?” ‘Going to string him up,” somebody yelled. The judge smiled. His smile broadened. He seemed to attempt to conceal his mirth, and then he burst into a laugh. The mob stopped, surprised. “Well, boys,” said the judge, still chuckling, “go on. The jail’s just around the corner, and it’s guarded by old Confederate soldiers. You know how well they shoot, and they’ll fire just as soon as you turn that corner. I should say that thirty, or say twenty-five, of you will be killed. But there’s one man among you w*ho won’t be killed, for he won’t turn the corner. He’s been doing a heap of talking, too, about this lynching. He’s been mighty worked up about it. His name is and he’s an undertaker. He’s stirred up this lynching sentiment. He’s terribly excited, but he won’t be shot.” Here the judge laughed again. “Jones is a good fellow, boys. That prisoner in the jail will be hanged decently by the sheriff If you let him alone, but Jones is mighty worked up about it. He’s afraid to wait. Time’s precious to Jones and business is dull.” The judge turned his horse. “Well, good night, boys,” he said. “If you want to go on around the corner and help out Jones’s business scheme, go on. It’s kind of you, but you’re a lot of blanked fools.” And there was no lynching.

Lady Tennyson. Hamilton W. Mabie, in November Atlantic. In 1830, on a path in a wood at Somersby, Tennyson came unexpectedly upon a slender, beautiful girl of seventeen, and impulsively said to her, “Are you a dryad or an oread wandering here?” Six years later he met Emily Seilwood again, on the occasion of the marriage of his brother Charles to her youngest sister. The friendship ripened into love, but for lack of means the marriage did not take place until June, 1850, the month in which "In Memoriam” was published. The cake and dresses came too late, and the wedding was so quiet that Tennyson declared it was the nicest wedding he ever attended. Os his wife he said many years later: “The peace of God came into my life before the altar w T hen I wedded her.” Os this marriage the son writes: “It was she who became my father’s adviser in literary matters. ‘I am proud of her intellect,’ he wrote. With her he always discussed what he was working at; she transcribed his poems; to her, and to none else, he referred for a final criticism before publishing. She. with her ‘tender, spiritual nature,’ and instinctive nobility of thought, was always by his side, a ready, cheerful, courageous, wise and sympathetic counselor. It was she who shielded his sensitive spirit from the annoyances and trials of life, answering (for example) the innumerable letters addressed to him from all parts of the world. By her quiet sense of humor, by her selfish devotion, by ‘her faith as clear as the heights of the June-blue heaven,’ she helped him also to the utmost in the hours of his depression and his sorrow; and to her he wrote two of the most beautiful of his shorter lyrics, ‘Dear, Near and True,' and the dedicatory lines which prefaced his last volume, ‘The Death of Oenone.’ ” Tennyson’s Tale of Abernathy and Ale Pall Mall Gazette. This is a story of Dr. Abernethy which Tennyson used to teli. A fanner went to the great doctor complaining of discomfort in the head, weight and pain. The doctor said: “What quantity of ale do you take?” “Oh, I taakes my yaale pretty well.” Abernethy (with great patience and gentleness): “Now, then, to begin the day—breakfast, what time?” “Oh, at haafe-past 7.” “Ale then. How much?” “I taakes my quart.” “Luncheon?” “At 11 o’clock I gets another snack.” “Ale then?” ‘Oh, yes; my pint and a haafe.” “Dinner?” “ITaafe-past 1.” ‘ Any ale then?” “Yees, yees; another quart then.” “Tea?” “My tea is at haafe-past 5.” “Ale then?” “Noa, noa.” “Supper?” “Noine o’clock.” “Ale then?” “Yees, yees; I taakes my fill then. I goes asleep afterwards.” Like a lion aroused, Abernethy was up, opened the street door, shoved the farmer out and shouted out: "Go home, sir, and let me never see your face again; go home, drink your ale and be damned.” The farmer rushed out aghast, Abernethy pursuing him down the street with shouts of "Go home, sir, and be damned!” Fnnernl of Gen. Engene Robinson. DETROIT, Oct. 31.—The largest and most imposing funeral cortege seen in Detroit since the burial of Senator Zachariah Chandler in 1879 followed the body oL the late Gen. Eugene Robinson to the grave this afternoon. All the commanderies of Knights Temp.ar in the city, the G. A. R. posts and the Fourth Regiment, Michigan National Guard, were in line. Knights Templar from Windsor and Ann Arbor also marched in procession. General Robinson was perhaps the best known Knight Templar in Michigan. The body was interred at Elmwood Cemetery. Escape of a Murderer. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Oct. 31. Joseph Carozzo, an Italian, was shot and killed late last night during a quarrel at Horsham, about four miles from this city. James Wheeler, colored, of Philadelphia, charged with the crime, was located in Philadelphia to-day. Two detectives went to a second-floor room to arrest him. He knocked them down and jumped from the window to the street. Two other detectives attempted to capture Wheeler, but he broke away and escaped, under fire, from the detectives. No Right to Submerged Lands. CHICAGO Oct. 30.—Corporation Counsel Thornton has rendered an opinion holding that the Illinois Central Railroad has •no right to the submerged land it is filling in at the foot of Twenty-sixth and Twentyseventh streets, covering an area of about seven acres. He holds that since the submerged lands are held in trust by the State for the people, it has no authority to permit them to be filled except for the benefit of the whole people. The case will probably be taken into court. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Arrived: Spaarodam. from Rotterdam; Allianca, from Colon. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 31.-S?illod: Campania, from Liverpool, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Oct. 31.—Arrived: Britannic and Umbria, from New York. MOVILLE. Oct. 31.—Sailed: Ethiopia, from Glasgow, for New York. Ilia Deal in Oil IVellu. BRADFORD. Pa.. Oct. 31.-The South Pennsylvania Oil Company has closed a deal for the purchase of the oil property of the Devonian, Emery & Mason Oil Companies in the Bradford field. The deal included 20.000 acres of land and 450 producing w*ells. The consideration was $1,400,<W0 in cash. Engineer Foyle’s Roily Recovered. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 31.—The body of John Foyie, engineer of the New York Central train wrecked at Garrison’s last Sunday, was to-day brought up with grappling irons from the big hole made by the engine when it blunged into the mud at the bottom of the Hudson. Farmer Shot by a Marshal. VERSAILLES, Ky.. 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