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ances have been encouraged by the municipal authorities. Generally the Bohemian Jews have suffered most.--Humor of u Bloody Flglit. VIENNA, Dec. 2.—A report Is current tonight. though as yet unconfirmed, that a mob at Prague attacked the soldiers and a sanguinary encounter ensued. According to this rumor the troops fired four volleys, killing twenty-five rioters outright and wounding many. LIFE-SAVhRS DROWNED. Ten Lost During a Storm That Is Sweeping British Waters. LONDON, Dec. 2.—Fierce storms again broke out over the coasts of England last night and the scenes recorded during the early part of the week are recurring. Heavy hail, snow anil rainstorms accompanied the gales. The Dover and Calais channel service is temporarily suspended end several vessels ;tre reported to have been wrecked on the Goodwin sands. The number of wrecks off the Norfolk coast and the fury of the storm on the Kentish seaboard are unexampled. Heavy snows have fallen in several parts of France. The volunteer lifeboat belonging to Margate capsized this morning off Nayland rock. Os the fourteen men comprising her -crew, ten were drowned. The lifeboat, when the accident occurred, was on her way to rescue the crow of the Persian Empire, which had been in collision with another steamer. The lifeboat was about two miles off shore when she was overturned. Neither of the colliding vessels was seriously damaged. A special dispatch says that the captain and four men, who were in the missing boat of the Welsh steamer Labarrouere of Cardiff. w'hieh foundered off .Trevos head last week as the result of a collision with an unidentified vessel, were picked up by a French steamer and have been landed at Algiers. Last Saturday several of her crew reached Cardiff, after having been In an oj>en boat for twenty-four hours, and reported that the captain’s boat has capsized. But early this week a French steamer signaled to a porl in the Bristol channel that she. had picked up a boat containing member. 1 -* of the crew of a vessel that had foundered in the channel on Thursday night last week, and it was immediately inferred that these were the missing members of the crew of the Labarrouere. Lake Steamer Burned. HARRISVILLE, Mich., Dec. 2.-The steamer Egyptian, bound from Cleveland to Milwaukee with a cargo of coal, burned to the water’s edge in Lake Huron last night, off Sturgeon point. The crew was saved. The vessel was owned by Nelson S. Shtple, of Detroit. She was of 1.205 net tons and was 232 feet long by twenty-six feet beam. She was built in 1873 and was for several years a money-maker. Movement* of Steamer*. BROWHBAD, Dec. 2—1:5,1 a. m.—Passed: Lucanla, from New York, for Queenstown and Liverpool. COPENHAGEN. Dec. 2—Arrived: Thingvalla, from New York. QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 2.-Sailed: Teutonic, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.—Sailed: Nelderland, for Antwerp. GENOA, Dec. 2.—Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm 11, for New York. LONDON. Dec. 2.—Arrived: Manitoba, from New York. HAMBURG. Dec. 2.—Arrived: Palatia, from New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.--Arrived: Germany, from Liverpool. LONDON. Dec. 2.—Sailed: Massachusetts, for New York. CHERBOURG, Dec. I.—Sailed: Trave, for New York.

ADVANCEJN WAGES. Iron ami Steel Workers, (innrrymen anti Ore Miner* Made Ilappy, PITTSBURG, Dee. 2.—Yesterday was the day on which the advance made by iron and steel companies which promised their men “McKinley wages” went into effect. All the day hands at Jones & Laughlin’s .Jtiad their wages advanced 10 per cent. From 1,800 to 2,000 men arc rejoicing. Men employed in other departments expect a ralso also. The Mahoning Iron and Steel Company, whose works aro at New Castle nnd Youngstown, also advanced wages 10 per cent, yesterday. About 1,000 men shared In the prosperity. The largest pay in five years will be distributee! at Moorehead & Co.’s Sharp3burg mills Saturday. About SII,OOO will be paid out to 450 men. The puddlers have been working triple turn and earning $4.28 per day. For the first time in many years every blast furnace in the Pittsburg district is in operation. Many Idle Garment Workers. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—The number of unemployed garment workers in this city continues to increase and there are many applicants for relief and work. It Is expected that before the new year 12,000 or 15,000 garment workers will be idle. Mr. Meyer Schoenfeld, the leader of the operatives, will start In a few days on a tour which will include Syracuse, Utica, Rochester, Buffalo. Montreal. Toronto. Baltimore, Philadelphia and other clothing centers, where he will endeavor to further the movement for the abolition of the contract system in 1898. ITtlou of Washhouse Employes. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 2.-The washhouse operatives employed in the tin-plate mills dipping terne plates Into the vats, have formed a trades union and will make application for admission to the American Federation of Labor at its coming meeting In Nashville. There are about two thousand washhouse men employeed in the different factories in tho country, ami it is claimed that a large number in Pittsburg, the Ohio ■valley. Wheeling and Indiana districts have joined the new organization. Enjoying Prosperity. CINCINNATI. 0.. Dec. 2.-For the tirst time In six years the Mitchell & Tranter rolling mills in Lexington, Ky., are running a double force of over four hundred men. The Licking rolling mills triple, with lour hundred men. The Overman & Schrader cordage works have put on a double force of three hundred men. Voluntary Increase of Wages. SHARON, Pa., Dec. 2.—Seven hundred fclast furnace employes at Sharon and Sharpsvllle have been given an advance in wages of 10 and 20 per cent. The advance was made without any solicitation on the part of the me:'. Every furnace in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, it is claimed, has advanced wages. PATRIOTIC LILIAN BELL Defends America from Britts!! Detractors Who Loathe Tliln Country. Ladles’ Homo Journal. I have "fought, bled and died” for home and country more times than I can count since 1 have been here. I ought to come homo with honorable scars and the rank of field marshal, tit least. I never knew how many objectionable features America presented to Englishmen until I became their guest and broke bread at their tables. I cannot eat very much at tljeir dinner parties—l am too busy thinking how to parry their attacks on my America, and especially my t'hlrago and my West generally. The English adore Americans, but they loathe America, and I. for one. will not accept a divided allegiance. “la>ve me, love my dug.” is my motto. I go home from their dinners us hungry as a wolf, but covered with Victorian crosses. I am puzzleil to know' if they really hate Chicago more than any other spot on earth, or if they simply love to hear me light for it. or if their manners need improving. I may myself complain of the horrors of our filthy streets, or of the way we tear up whole blocks at once there in London they only mend a teaspoonful of pavement at a time), or of our beastly winds which tear your soul from your body, but I hope never to sink so low as to permit a let of foreigners to do it. For even us a Parisian loves his Palis, and as a New York- r loves Ills London, so do I love my Chicago. Train Itulilier* Bullied. BAN ANTON.’O. Tex., Dec. 2.—Advices wore received here this morning of an attempt to hold up anil rob a passenger train on tie- Mexican National road near Monterey, Mexico, by nine masked and wellarmed Mexicans. The passengers made resistance and the outlaws were unsuccessful. They are being pursued by soldiers, and If captured will be shot. TO Cl RE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo yulnlne Tablets. All druggists refund money If it falls to cure. 25c. The genuine has I. li. Q. on each tablet.

BANK ROBBERS FAILED —a TWO MILFORD MEN, BOUND AND GAGGED, AS SILENT WITNESSES. 1 Flatteners anti Cutter* Permitted to Withdraw from Window-Glass-Workers’ Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MILFORD, Ind., Dec. 2.—Five burglars attempted to rob the bank of Miles & Rigbee at 2 o’clock this morning. While Night Watch Stefller was making his rounds he was stopped by the robbers, who held a revolver to his head and forced him to follow them. He was taken inside of the bank and bound and gagged within fifteen feet of the safe. Dr. Black, returning from a night call, was waiting at the hotel to be let in by the night watch, when he was discovered by one of the robbers’ outposts, and he too was taken to the bank and bound and gagged by the side of the night watch. The burglars tried to blow the safe, hut failed. They drilled on the right and left sides of the door without gaining an entrance. Finally they were forced to give up the job and departed, leaving Dr. Black and Watchman Stiffler bound and gagged. On leaving the robbers said: “Miles can keep his money.” The watches and money of Black and Stiffler were left untouched. Bloodhounds have been put on the trail, but there is no clew to the robbers. ♦ GLASS WORKERS DIVIDE. Cotters anil Flatteners Permitted to At 11 lid raw from Association. PITTSBURG, Dec. 2.—lt is given on the authority of John A. Keeley, a member of the wage committee of the glass flatteners, that the vote on the proposition to permit the cutters and flatteners to withdraw’ from the National Window' Glass Workers’ Association Is favorable to the withdrawal. There will now be two organizations of window' glass workers, and a settlement of the strike can be made more easily. A general resumption is expected by the first of the year. Petition for Co-Opernlive Plant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., Dec. 2.—The Greenfield preceptory of the Window Glass Workers’ Association has passed a resolution calling on L. A. 300 to grant the local lodge permission to build two tanks here of a capacity of forty-eight blowers. It is also asked that if a wage settlement is not reached with the manufactors by Dec. 15 all blowers and gatherers except those employed at independent or co-operative companies will stop work on May 1, 1898. I’opnllst* Hnd Enough of Fusion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 2.—The Populist party of Monroe county has taken strong grounds against fusion. At a convention here to-day It passed resolutions unanimously against further action with any other political party. Populists are strong in this vicinity and in the last campaign Indorsed a part of the Democratic ticket with the understanding that two Populists were to go on the county ticket. The resolution declares that “we, the true Populists. have been betrayed, ensnared and handicapped by the so-called reformed Democratic party and realize as never before that the mission of a reformer is to reform and lead the people to higher and nobler and grander civilization, and believe that this condition can never be realized by fusion with any party whose only ambition Is the lust for the spoils of office.” Mrs. Heath’s Change of Venue. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SLLLIVAN, Ind., Dec. 2.-The trial of Mrs. Grant Heath for murdering her husband has been changed from the Green county Circuit Court to this county. The case will be tried in January. Mr. and Mrs. Heath were a young married couple and resided on a farm. They had a young hired hand, and the charge is the crime was committed because of her love for the young man. Heath died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. His body was exhumed and a postmortem examination showed the stomach contained arsenic. The young hand was arrested as an accomplice in the crime, but was discharged In a short time as no evidence could be found against him. Mrs. Heath is now confined in the jail at Bloomfield and will not be brought here until just before the trial.

A Good Republican Record. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR. Ind., Dee. 2.—At a meeting of the City Council to-night City Treasurer Thomas J. Clark submitted his monthly report. showing a balance of $10,445.17 in the treasury. The present Republican city government has paid off bonds amounting to $14,500; has put in brick streets, added a large number of street lights and lire plugs; has put in stone foot crossings and extension to the city sewer and paid off every cent of bonds which were payable at the option of the city. The bonded indebtedness of the city is $25,000, not one dollar of which can be paid off before 1901. The city is in a healthy financial condition and the tax levy has been placed at 90 cents on the SIOO. 'Washington Is Xot “Terrorized.” Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Ind., Dec. 2.—A dispatch from Terre Haute, printed in Indianapolis, stating that the negro coal miners were terrorizing citizens here by stopping women on the streets, displaying fire arms, etc., is highly colored, and there is scarcely any trutli in it. Such reports are not pleasing to Washington citizens and they are incensed at them. It is true a woman was stopped the other night, by a supposed negro, but many claim the negro was none other than a white man blacked, in order to prejudice citizens against the negro miners. A Fill I urc with Method in 11. Spatial to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO. Ind., Dec. 2.—8. M. Sergerman, w-ho came here from Chicago, and opened the Boston shoe store, closed his doors to-day. It was soon discovered that the stock had mysteriously disappeared, excepting a few shoes in show windows. The stock of Max Morris, who made an assignment to Mrs. Sergerman. yesterday, was shipped to Chicago last night by Sergerman, who did business under tli name of M. Cohen. Creditors are after both stocks and w-ill try to get possession in Chicago. Freeman W ill Be Postmaster. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Dec. 2.—lt is announced that there is no doubt that Perry J. Freeman, Representative Henry U. Johnson’s law partner and campaign manager, will be the next postmaster of this city. His appointment is expected on the reassembling of Congress. Joseph L. Smith is announced as the probable deputy, the only office U£t for the postmaster to till. Postmaster John G. Schwegman is contemplating a trip to the Klondike. His term will expire in February. Sterling; Remedy Company Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ATTICA, Ind., Dec. 2.—Fire was discovered in the mammoth Sterling Remedy Company's establishment at noon to-day, the flames originating in the packing department. where thousands of boxes of cascarets were awaiting shipment. The building was practically gutted. Manager 11. L. Kramer estimates the loss at $lO ott; insurance. $5,000, as follows; Three thousa id dollars in Home Company and $2,000 in German American, of New York. “Gents* *’ Furnishing; Store Falls. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec-. 2.—The Manhattan, a “gents’ ” furnishing store, owned by Max Morris, of St. Louis. Mo., was closed late last night. Morris making an assignment to Mrs. Anna Sergerman, of this city. The liabilities are about $4,500 and assets something less. Tax Ferret Contractu Void. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RENSSELAER. Ind., Dec. 2.—At Fowler yesterday afternoon Judge Thompson decided that the contract made by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county with Fleener & Carnahan, tax ferreters, whereiu

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the board allowed the ferreters 50 per cent, of all they discovered, was fraudulent in its inception and contrary to law and public policy and void, and granted an injunction restraining the board from paying anything for services of the ferreters. Killed Under n Gravel Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 2.—Frank C. Whittington, who resides in the western part of this county, was run over and instantly killed by a gravel train near Walesboro, four miles south of this city, this afternoon. Whittington was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as a laborer at the Walesboro gravel pit and while attempting to board a gravel train fell beneath the wheels. Snlelde of u Jilted Farmer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 2.—Frederick Kleiber, aged thirty, a prominent young farmer, residing near Bennettsville, committed suicide early this morning because he had been jilted by his sweetheart, a. Miss Shafer, of St. Joe. He placed the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger with his toe. His brains were scattered on the floor. Ex-Mnli Carrier Carroll la Trouble. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec, 2.—Tom Carroll, a former mail carrier of Indianapolis, has been placed under SOOO to answer to the charge of secur ng signatures to a bond tinder false pretenses. He left between two days the latter part of July, going to South Dakota, where he was located and brought back to answer to several charges. Elwood Elks ns Minstrels. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWWOD, Ind., Dec. 2.—The Elwood Lodge of Elks gave its first annual minstrel show' at the opera house to-night, performing to a packed house. Visiting Elks were present from Indianapolis, Kokomo, Anderson, Marion and other Indiana cities, and were banqueted after the show. The parade in the afternoon was a feature of the entertainment. AVliat Crnmpaclser Favors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 2.—Congressman Crumpaeker and family left for Washington to-day. Mr. Crumpaeker is opposed to civil service, and will support an anti-civil-service bill. He thinks it hardly probable that the Indiana delegation will be a unit on currency reform. He is also in fa\’or of a bankruptcy bill. Receiver for Glass Works. Special to the Indianai>olis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 2.—J. J. Netterville was to-day appointed receiver for the Madison Glass Company, and took < harge of their plants at Alexandria. The receiver was appointed on the application of James Hutchinson, who filed labor claims. A statement of assets and liabilities has not been made. Elwood Strike Still On. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Dec. 2.—The polishers at the plate-glass factory are still out and state that they cannot afford to accede to the company’s latest requirements, asking them to w'ork by the piece. No conference has yet been held here and the men are waiting for the company to rescind its order. Owens Has Friends at Court. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 2.—The Red Men are taking a hand in the prosecution of Alexander Ow’ens, who killed Grave-digger Alexander Law’rence at the si 3 c of a grave in the cemetery this week. The public is mucli surprised at the action of the authorities in fixing a low bond for Owens. Great News Item from Madison. Special to the Indiana-olis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Dec. 2.—Capt. Paul Thomas to-day purchased a hundred dozen rabbits on the Kentucky river, for shipment to Indianapolis, by rail, to-morrow. Took Four Ounces of Laudanum. Special to the Indianawolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Dec. 2.—Edward Hughes, unmarried, committed suicide last night bytaking four ounces of laudanum. No reason is known for the deed. Indiana Obituury. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Dec. 2.-Miss Dollio Robinson, u well-knoyvn young woman living south of town, died to-day of consumption after being ill for two years. She was twenty-six years old and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Robinson. Thomas H. Seany, a carpenter, died of typhoid lever to-day after six months’ illness. He leaves a wife and four children. GREENSBURG, Ind.. Dec. 2.—The wife of Rev. James B. Lathrop died this morning after an illness lasting nearly a year. She leaves a husband and four children. Mrs. Judge Gavin, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. John Shannon, of Alexandria, are daughters. Indiana Notes. The Central Poultry Association will hold Its annual exhibition at Thorntown, Dec. 20 to 24. Capt. W. R. Myers, ex-secretary of state, has entered a partnership with Sparks L. Brooks, a young lawyer, at Anderson. "Buck” Stanley has just closed a series of lectures on temperance at Hynsdale, Morgan county, and succeeded in getting 132 signers to the pledge. Dr. A. C. Farr, one of the best known citizens of Monroe county, was seriausly injured yesterday by being thrown from a buggy in a runaway. His leg was broken and he was kicked in the stomach by the horse. There have been added to the museum at Earlham College six cases of fine shells, gathered from the Ohio, Mississippi and other rivers, including the rivers of the New England States. It required two months to get the shells properly classified. O. E. Kennedy has brought a $5,000 damage suit in the Morgan Circuit Court against Robert McKown, a wealthy farmer, near Danville, Ind. Mr. Kennedy says his health has been permanently impaired by being struck with a cane in the hands of Mr. McKown.

Left an E.stute Worth $12,000,000. BALTIMORE, Dec. 2.—Proof of the registration in a Probate Court in England of the will of the late William Louis Winans, formerly a resident of Maryland, was tiled to-day in the Orphans’ Court with a copy of the will. The gross value of the personal estate is given at £2,522.005 and the net value at £2,403.387, about $12,000,000. The entire estate is left to Mr.Winans’s sons, who are made executors. An annuity of £5,000 is left to Mrs. Maria Ann, Winans’s widow, and an annuity of £IO.OOO is given to Louis William Winans, her son, to be used in providing a suitable residence for his mother. Wisconsin’s Insurance Law. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 2.—lnsurance Commissioner Fricke to-day gave his decision regarding the auxiliary agencies of insurance companies in Wisconsin. Accordng to the decision all agencies now issuing policies are doing so illegally by reason of the additional names of agencies and underwriting associations which appear on the policies issued by the agencies. Insurance men say that the decision will not break up the auxiliary agencies, but that the policies will be made in conformity with the law. Shooter Pnrninlee Defeats Elliott. OMAHA, Neb., Dee. 2.—J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, ex-ohampion win** shot of America, was defeated in a one-hundred-bird shoot by Frank Parmalee. of Omaha. The conditions were one hundred live birds, for MOO a side. American Association rules, thirty yards rise, fifty yards boundary, live unknown traps. Snow fell through the whole of the match, making the shooting extremely difficult. Score: Parmalee, 97; Elliott, 91. A Gift for Italy’s Queen. BALTIMORE. Dec. 2.—Miss Virginia McTavish, of this city, will, in a few days, start to Rome, taking with her Editions de Luxe of the works of Cardinal Gibbons to be presented on New Year’s day to Queen Marguerita of Italy. The volume are “The Ambassador of Christ,” “The Faith of Our Fathers” and "Our Christian Heritage.” All are handsomely bound in red morocco and inclosed in cases of red satin, lined with red silk. Caught with Decoy Letters. PITTSBURG, Dec. 2.-C. W. Merritt, of Mansfield. 0., was arrested this morning for robbing the mails. Merritt was employed as a railway postal clerk on the Fort Wayne Railroad between Crestline and Pittsburg. For a long time the P'jstotfiee officials had been troubled with complaints of money being stolen from letters. Two decoy letters with money were found In his pockets when arrested.

POISONED HER HUSBAND * MRS. BEHRENS TO SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE IN PRISON. —♦ Murder Committed for the Pnrpo*e of Securing- Life lasnrancc—Forget! Letters and n Thumb Mark. DAVENPORT, Ta., Dec. 2.—The second trial of Mrs. Christine Behrens for poisoning her husband last July has resulted in a verdict of murder in the first degree, the jury fixing the penalty at imprisonment at hard labor for life. The verdict was returned after the jury had been out twentysix hours. Henry Bendt, of Rock Island, 111., Mrs. Behrens’s partner in crime, is in jail here, and will be tried next week. Claus Behrens, a hard-working factory fireman, after eigtiteen years of married life, was deserted Dec. 15, 189*5, by his wife Christine, who went to Rock Island, 111., to live with Henry Bendt. Otto Bendt, a son of Henry Bendt, had been courting Behrens’s daughter, and while their love affairs were in progress an intimacy grew up between Bendt and Mrs. Behrens. Behrens changed his $2,000 insurance policy after his wife left him from her favor to their daughters. Occasionally he visited his wife at Bondt’s and pleaded with her to come back to her home. July 7, 1897, she consented on the condition that he at onco transfer back into her name the insurance policy. The new policy, dated July 10, was in their hands a couple of days later. July 15 Mrs. Behrens wrote a letter, filled with endearing terms, to Bendt, appointing a meeting on the bridge between Davenport and Rock Island for Saturday afternoon. She could not wait, but went to Bondi’s home Thursday r ight. They had a leng talk and he hitched up and drove part way home with her. Saturday they met upon the bridge, spent part of the afternoon together, Bendt parting company with her near her home. That nigbt Claus Behrens died in horrible agony, and an autopsy revealed parls green in his stomach. At the ecroner’s inquest, evidently badly scared, Bendt gave up Mrs. Behrens’s last letter to him. Both were arrested. A week after Behrens’s death, lying upon the washstand by the head of the bed where he died, was found a short lead-pencil note, in German, saying: "The W’ork is too hard for me. I have done myself. Paris green.” The police found the note, locked It up, and said nothing. Another week passed and Mrs. Behrens, turning wrong side out a pair of her husband’s pants which she had brought to the jail that she might wash them and lay them reverently away, found a longer letter, written in ink, from her husband, pinned in the inside of one leg of the trousers. Like the other, its effect was that her husband committed suicide. Public opinion pronounced both letters forgeries, but upon the second letter was a thumb print that Dr. P. Radenhausen, a teacher in the Davenport High School, after Behrens’s body wa3 disinterred, testified was indentical with the markings on his thumb. Thus Mrs. Behrens’s life through two trials lias really hung upon this thumb print, the only mark of genuineness upon the letters upon which the theory of suicide was based. 1 ANNA NIGGL’S DEED. NYoninn Asphyxiates Two of Her Children nnd Tries to Kill Herself. PHILADELPHIA, Dec.. 2.-Anna Niggl, a young married woman, to-night murdered her two youtiger children by illuminating gas and at the same time attempted suicide by the same means. The murdered children were Frank, aged two years, and Harvey, aged six months. Mrs. Niggl lived in a small-two story house at No. 738 Jackson street, with her John Niggl, who is a picture-frame gilder. When he returned from his work, 8:30 o’clock last night, he wg, unable to get into the house. Forcing an entrance he went up stairs, and, detecting the odor of gas from the bath room, forced the door. In the bath-tub lay the unconscious forms of his wife and the two children. The latter were lying on two pillows and the gas in the room was turned on full head. The police were notified and signs of life were found in all three. They were hurriedly removed to St. Agnes’s Hospital, but the children died on the way. Mrs. Niggl was alive when the institution was reached, but at a late hour her condition was critical. There seems to be no reason for the woman’s action. She left two letters, written in German, and these are In the coroner’s possession. Her married life was apparently happy, and her husband says that when he left her this morning she was in the best of spirits. Her remaining child, John, aged six years, had been sent by her to a neighbor’s house to spend the evening.

LUETGERT JURY SCANDAL. Alleged Friend of the Sausage Maker Under Suspicion. CHICAGOI Dec. 2.—One of the four men selected to act as jurors in the Luetgert case is under suspicion. Reports have come to Mr. Deneen which imply that the man secured his position in the interests of the defense and has for years been a friend of the sausage maker. To-night Mr. Deneen had two of Inspector Schaak’s most trusted men assigned to him and he placed the investigation in their hands. A report is expected to-morrow morning and it may result in the discharge of the juror and subsequent proceedings against him. The day after the four veniremen were accepted as jurors, an acquaintance of the state’s attorney happened to be in the courtroom and. seeing the man in question sitting in the jury box, asked if he had been chosen. "He told me,” said Mr. Deneen, "that this man had known Luetgert for twenty years, and in fact was his friend. My informant stated that the juror had frequently talked about the case when it was formerly on trial, and had expressed the opinion that Luetgert was not guilty. This opinion was strong, he said, and the man thought that the prosecution of the defendant was little short of an outrage.” No additional jurors were secured to-day. TRAGEDY OX THE STREET. Doctor Killed anil His Brother Mortally Wounded. NASHVILLE. Ark., Dec. 2.—Details of tr terrible street duel at Horatio, in which one man was killed outright and another fatally wounded, reached here to-day. The dead man is Dr. Smith, a prominent practicing physician of that place, and the man fatally wounded is J. J. Smith, a prominent business man of Horatio and a brother of the dead doctor. The killing was done by W. W. Millwee, also of Horatio, one of the wealthiest men in the town and a man noted for his fearlessness and bravery. The tragedy was the culmination of a feud of long standing and owing to the prominence of tho parties it is believed that the feud will bo continued by some of their numerous friends and adherents and that more blood will be shed before the affair is linally settled. Millwee and Dr. Smith met in front of the Locke Hotel. Both men quickly drew their weapons and opened lire almost simultaneously. Several shots were exchanged. Smith receiving a wound in the left arm at Millwee’s first fire. He continued the battle, how-ever, and only gave up when he sank to the ground dead, w ith a bullet through his heart. J. J. Smith camo to his brother's assistance just as the fatal bullet was fired and drew his own pistol to tire on Millwee. His weapon snapped. however, and Millwee turned his attention to the brother and sent a bullet into his head. There is much excitement over the terrible affair. THUEE-COHXKRED DUEL. Bloody Flglst fop Love of u Girl Near an Arkansas Church. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 2.—A threecornered duel took place at a country church near Huntsville, Madison county, last night. Seth Lowe, William Phillips and John Howard, three farmers, were in love with the same girl. Miss Irene Pruitt. Miss Pruit went to prayer meeting with Phillips last night and they met the two other young men. The girl went into the building while the men walked a short distance away to discuss the situation. Howard and Lowe jumped on Phillips, who pulled a revolver upd shot Howard through

the body. Before Phillips could cock the pistol a second time Lowe paralyzed him with a bullet through the small of the back. Phillips shot Lowe from the ground, however. wounding him dangerously in the left shoulder. The tight created a panic in church. It is said all three men ure fatally injured. A PARRICIDE’S CONFESSIO-V. William Kern Says Delilali Fnlls Assisted in Killing Ills Father. ' WATERLOO, la., Dec. 2.—William Kern has made a confession, implicating his sweetheart, Delilah Falls, in the murder of Jerome Kern, and has confessed himself to have been her willing dupe and accomplice. He says he loved her. He had no particular enmity against his father. Save that his father objected to his attachment to Miss Falls, they had no disagreement and lived in harmony beneath the same roof. Such was the strength of his fascination for the woman who tempted him, however, that when she unfolded to him the details of a plot to slay both his parents, take possession of their little property, and get married, he consented to assist in the slaughter. A plot was laid to lure Jeromo Kern into the timber and then make aw. ly with him. The murder of the mother was to be accomplished at a later date. On the morning of the murder the elder Kern was induced to leave the house. Deliiah Falls lay in wait for him, and after engaging the unsuspecting man in conversation llrcd the fatal shot. According to young Kern’s confession the two then saturated the clothing of the dead man with oil and set it on Me, the object being to conceal the manner in which he died. He alleges that the oil can and the revolver were buried by the Falls woman in the woods. Kern was made to confess through the work of detectives, who induced a young man to haunt him in the guise of the ghost of the murdered father. The ghost worked on the young man’s i erve to such an extent that he finally weakened. A BOOTS CONFESSION. Blanflier Has iu Atlanta When Ilurrant Committed His Murders. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 2.—Joseph E. Blanther, better known as Arthur D. Forbes, who was manager and proprietor of the Southern Purchasing Agency in Atlanta, and who recently committed suicide in a county jail in Texas, was in Atlanta on the day when the murder of Miss Blanche Lamont and Miss Minnie Williams occurred in San Francisco. The statement is made by persons in Atlanta who knew Forbes well, and who had business dealings with him. and to support their statements the books and records which were in Forbes’s office here have been consulted, and it is shown that between April 1 and April 14, 1895, the time of the two murders in San Francisco, Forbes was here and doing business with Kelly Bros. & Cos. and other firms. If these statements be true, and there appears no reason to doubt the proofs submitted. Forbes, alias Blanther, could r.ot have possibly been the murderer of the two young girls, and the declaration made in a written confession admitting that he killed the young women is false. Mrs. Blanther, the widow of the suicide, has been exerting every energy and effort to show that her husband was the real murderer, and that Theodore Durrant, now undei 1 sentence of death for the crime, is an innocent man. Mrs. Blanther, who was deceived by her husband, is doubtless sincere in what she says, but her whole course of action is based on the alleged written confession, which, it is said, was found upon the person of Blanther when he committed suicide in the Texas jail. Tried to Machete His Family. MILFORD, Del., Dec. 2.—Salvage Bilderback, a charcoal burner, who about a year ago moved from New Jersey to Duglestown, a Maryland village near the Delaware line, attempted to kill his family last Monday evening. Bilderback returned to his cabin about 10 o’clock and said to his wife: ‘‘l have just learned to use the kind of sword that the Cubans use. Now, I want all of you to stand up.” In order to humor him she and the children arose, when he tied their hands with u piece of cord, which lie fastened to the rafters. Obtaining a corn knife which was in an adjoining room, lie commenced cutting his family, inflicting some dreadful wounds. Before he could complete his work his son came back. Bilderback. becoming alarmed, seized liis army musket, ran outdoors and fled to the woods. The son summoned a physician and notified the neighbors. A posse was quickly organized and search for the assailant was begun, but as yet Bilderback has not been found. The villagers threaten to lynch him if he is found. The condition of Mrs. Bilderback and the children is serious. Three People IlnlehereiL BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dee. 2.—Near Warrens, ten miles from Greensboro, last night, John Singley, a wealthy farmer, was called from his house by a negro named Bill Scott for the alleged purpose of catching a horse. Singley was struck on tho head and his throat cut. The negro then went into the house, where he killed Airs. Singley, cutting her head almost off, and later killed Dallas Singley, a ten-year-old son. Scott then robbed the house of S7OO. Mr. Singley is still alive, but cannot live. He was able to tell the story: A posse is searching for the negro, and if caught he will be lynched. Hanged in Prison. HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 3.—Guiseppe Fuda, convicted of the murder of his wife in East Norwalk Feb. 17 last, was hanged at the state’s prison at Wethersfield at 12:22 this morning. The so-called automatic gallows w r as used for the fourth time and very successfully. Although Euda weakened for a few seconds before tho trap was sprung, necessitating the attending officers holding him up, when jerked into the air his neck w’as broken and it was less than nine minutes when the attending physicians pronounced life extinct. Guldeusuppe’s Remains. NEW YORK, Dee. 2.—The remains of William Guldensuppe, the murdered bath rubber, were removed to-night from the morgue to an undertaking establishment. Interment will take place to-morrow in tho Lutheran Cemetery. The remains will be followed to the grave by a number of Guldensuppe’s relatives and friends and a delegation from the Bath Rubbers’ Society. Killed His Wife and Drank Poison. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 2.—Albert Krueger, a butcher, living at No. 567 Sixteenth avenue, shot-and killed his wife Hannah today, and after the crime took a drink of carbolic acid, dying later at the Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Krueger was forty-five years of age. and as a widow with ten children was married to Krueger two years ago. Domestic trouble was the cause of the tragedy. Suspected of Poisoning Two People. LAINGSBURGH, Mich., Dec. I.—Air. and Mrs. Roehm were to-day arrested on suspicion of having murdered by opium poisoning John Hartman and wife, who died about four weeks apart. Mrs. Hartman died Monday, and at the inquest to-day physicians swore that the well on their farm was poisoned. No motive is assigned for tho deed. Farmers Ambushed. iCHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 2.—While Frank Sherman and his son Cecil, prominent farmers, were walking along a country road near Mouse Creek, Tenn., last night they were lired on from ambush by unknown parties. Air. Sherman was killed instantly and his son was dangerously wounded. No cause is known for the tragedy.

The Farm a Training; School. Southern States Farm Magazine. If anyone will take the trouble to inquire into the early life of the most prominent business men of the South he will find, with scarcely an exception, that those who have been tho most successful started life without fortune, surrounded by the conservative anil healthful influences of the country; laboring upon the farm in summer and attending school in winter; taught in early life how hard It is to make a dollar and how easy it is to spend it; cultivating habits of systematic industry; accepting the labor of life as one of ts duties, to be performed with promptness, vigor and cheerfulness. There are barefooted boys who to-day follow the plow', clad in coarse garments and living on the plainest food, who will in twenty-five years be the leaders in the business world and the presidents of our great railways and the directors of the policies of this government. Such boys are having their hardships in early life, to be followed by great achievements and triumphs and wealth and honor In later life. They ar going through a severe training, but time will demonstrate it3 wisdom.

IN BEHALF OF CUBANS TEN PROPOSITIONS SUBMITTED TO PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. Recognition of Belligerency Urged In Order to Htuiteu Independence— General Pnndo Not Killed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Alr. Berkeley Balch, secretary of the Cuban League, appeared to-day before President AlcKinley anti presented the following argument in behalf of the Cuban insurgents: ‘‘Air. President—We appear before you in the name of those who nave died for the cause of freedom in the Island of Cuba, and for those who are still ready to give their lives to-day, or to-morrow, for that cause. Also representing, as we claim, a majority of the people of the United States, who believe m that cause, and demand that their wishes shall now be translated into efficient action by their chosen representatives. Thanks to the power, honor and patriotism of tho American press, the people to-day know f the essential facts of the C üban situation. We submit to you therefore these ten propositions for your consideration: ’’First, the three wars in Cuba within this century are proof of a genuine movement for the extension of democratic principles and the attainment of liberty from a tyrannical, corrupt and alien government. ‘‘Second, without the indirect aid given by this government to Spam the patriots would be farther advanced in their struggle. “Third, Spain has lost Cuba as far as the present population Is concerned. If, however. she is permitted to continue the cruel work of exterminating noncombatants, she nviv possibly reconquer and repopulate the island. r ourth—lf with our passive aid she unfortunately succeeds in doing this, when another generation comes the revolution will surely begin again. The governing classes in Spain of all parties have regarded Cuba for three hundred years as an orange to be squeezed. They are unable to consider it otherwise, and no amount of diplomatic efiort on our part is likely to change their point of view. The otlier classes are ignorant. Spain has held all her colonies with an iron hand until forced to let go. The war ol liberation in Venezuela lasted fifteen years, and during the last five years of the struggle no quarter was given by either side. “Fifth—Autonomy is a foolish dream. It Is evident that neither side understands it, wishes it or can administer it. Spain clearly offers it to amuse this government and to gain t'ime. “Sixth—A majority of the people of this country desire to see a free and independent Cuban republic. An opposing factor of great force is the money power. It is a fair conclusion to urge, that a majority of our people believe that the assistance of our government till now has been given to Spain and withheld from the republic, on account of the influence that emanates from great financial interests, usually afraid of patriotic aggressive movement. “Seventh—Our people have hoped for favorable action for Cuba from the prest t administration, and have patiently waited to give the administration time for consideration of the wise road to this end. That patience is now exhausted. "Eighth—Very few Cubans, and still fewer people in this country desire immediate annexation, but, independence is clearly due to Cuban valor and sacrifices. “Ninth—lt is of supreme importance to our future defense that Cuba should be in tho possession of a friendly power. This Spain has never been, and probably can never be. "Tenth—The friendship of the republic of Cuba is .worth vastly more to us than that of Spain’, for reasons of business and defense. It is our duty and self-interest to recognize the belligerency, and logically following this, the independence of ' the republic, and to conclude with a defensive and offensive alliance. If this is not compatible with a continued friendship with Spain, so much the worse for Spain. If Spain attacks us we can take care of our own. “Out of the experience of our work and from the study of over twenty years, this league asserts that these ten propositions are true and that their right understanding leads to the only action which will solve the problem. And now, Air. President, in behalf of those we represent, we thank you for this opportunity to present their views. We hope for such action on your part as will bring a correct solution. We desire to state that this league and cur sympathizers have ‘enlisted for the war.’ or until such time as the republic of Cuba shall become a fact in history.” The President said he would give the argument careful consideration.

FIGHTING IN CUBA. Report of General I’amlo’n Death Not Confirmed at Havana. HAVANA, Dec. 2.—The report cabled to New York that General Pando, who was placed in charge of military operations In Cuba by General Blanco, had been killed in an engagement with insurgents in Santa Clara province has not been confirmed. The rumor says he was shot in battle with a force of insurgents while on the march from Sagua la Grande, on the northern coast of Santa Clara, to Trinidad, on the southern coast of the same province, where he was to take a ship and go to Manzanillo, in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. Officials at the palace declare that the story must be thoroughly confirmed before they will believe it. They say the last reports from General Pando were that he would be in or on his way to Manzanillo by this time. General Pando’s plan was to march right through the heart of the territory which General Gomez’s force is declared to have controlled. Communication with the forces in the field has not been regular, and until further direct news from General Pando’s aimy is received the Havana authorities will be in a state of great anxiety. In the engagement which took place yesterday in the province of Pinar del Rio between the insurgents under General Ducassi and the Spanish troops under General Bernal, the former, according to the ofiicial Spanish report, lost over one hundred men killed. Several of the Spaniards were wounded by explosive bombs thrown by the insurgents. The Spanish forces at Jatibonico del Norte, province of Santa Clara, have been engaged with insurgents under Gonzales. The latter, the official report says, lost nineteen men killed, and the troops had one officer killed and fourteen men wotinded. It is announced from the palace to-day that forty prisoners, have been released at Manzanillo, and that fifty prisoners at Sancti Spiritis have been pardoned. Advices received here to-day from Manzanillo contain further particulars of the capture of Guisa by the insurgent generals Rabi anil Salvador Rios. The insurgents were well supplied with artillery and destroyed several blockhouses with its fire, capturing the place after ninety of the Spanish soldiers composing its garrison of ISO men had been killed or wounded. The Spanish commander and his second in command were among the killed. ♦ RETURN OF THE DAUNTLESS. Noted Filibuster Reported to lluve Landed u Cargo in Cul>u. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 2.-The filibustering steamer Dauntless arrived at port at 2 o’clock this afternoon, after having successfully landed another expedition In Cuba. The Dauntless left here Nov. 19 for Savannah, with the schooner Jennie Thomas in tow. The schooner was towed to Savannah, after which the Dauntless left port and had not been heard from until her arrival here to-day. It was reported that the schooner carried a cargo of arms and ammunition from Thomasport and that the transfer was made en route to Savannah. Senor Sotous, the Spanish vice consul, stated yesterday that lie, was satisfied that such was not the case, and an indignant denial of such an accusation comes from Capt. Young, the master of the schooner, at Savannah. The Dauntless is reported to have landed a large cargo, included in which was a twelve-pound Hotchkiss gun. A large quantity of quinine was also landed for the insurgents. The steamer returned with scarcely any coal left and high out of the water. She was promptly boarded by nn officer from the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, but nothing was found. MADRID, Dec. 2.—Senor De Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, has cabled the government denying that the Dauntless has gone to Cuba. SaKiiita Review* the Situation. MADRID, Dec. 2.—The Queen Regent presided at the Cabinet council to-day. Signor Sagasta, the premier, reviewed 'the general eituiUJon. He said that the military opera-

“SOUS troubled roe for a long time. Thej wera large and painful. I tried many eo-cailed remedies, but nothing helped me. I vai completely cured when, by recommendation of my druggist, I used <p> Ajcr’s Sarsaparilla.” W. N. RICHARDSON. Eureka. Fla. tions in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, showed it to be an important center of rebellion, although General Weyler had declared the district pacified. General Bernal, the prrmier said, had been ordered not to relax hfo energy in pursuing the insurgents. With reference to the insurrection in the Philippine islands. Senor Sagasta reported that, this was not entirely suppressed. as was at one time assumed, but Captain General Primo Rivera had informed the government that negotiations for the submission of, the insurgents there were in progress. The Carlist question, he said, merited the attention of the government, but it was not thought the Carlists would make rash movements. The premier then explained the relations hetween the United States and Spain at their present stage, asserting that the American government “now appears to be well disposed toward Spain.” Planters NVnnt to Export Tobacco. HAVANA, Dec. 2.—A delegation from tho city of Pinar del Rio. consisting of the mayor of that place and two hundred merchants, planters and agriculturists of all political parties, called on Senor Jose Canalejas, the special commissioner of Spain, to-day, and represented to him the necessity for the exportation of leaf tobacco, of which, they added, there were 60.000 bales in warehouses. The delegation requested the commissioner to use his influence with Captain General Blanco to bring about such exportation. Senor Canalejas promised that he would mako proper representations to the government on the subject. Mmlrld’n Military Scandal. MADRID, Dec. 2.—The military scandal which has been attracting much attention here, has led El Liberal to express the belief that in consequence the captain general of Aladrid will probably resign. The scandal referred to was the alleged too rapid promotion of an officer of the Madrid garrison, whojse name is not given. The chief officers of the garrison becamo offended at this and refused to receive him. The incident is said to coincide with a royal decree ordering a cavalry colonel of this garrison to be transferred to the reserves. Gen. Panilo Not Dead. MADRID, Dec. 2.—The government has received an official dispatch from Havana which states that General Pando, who was placed in charge of the military operations in the island by Captain General Blanco, reached Ciego de Avila, on the MoronJucaro trocha on Tuesday, after an engagement with the insurgents, in which tho latter lost nineteen killed and the Spaniards fifteen. This dispatch allays tho fears that had arisen from the report that General Pando had been killed. Loaweii by Fire. PROVIDENCE, .R. 1.. Dec. 2.~Fire, smoke and water did $125,000 damage, to-day in the furniture establishment of Flint <fc Cos., occupying a four-story building in this city. Samuel Berg, twenty years old, a tailor, was suffocated, his dead body being found after the fire was extinguished. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—F’ire destroyed tho Homo for Aged and Infirm Colored Women on Indiana avenue, to-day. Several of tho almost helpless inmates were nearly suffocated by smolte before they were rescued by the police. HUNTINGTON, W. Va.. Dec. 2.—Tho clothing, shoe and queensware store of A. E. Cox burned this morning. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $20,000. ■ ♦> - Indian* Hunting Again. CRAIG. Col.. Dec. 2.—E. B. Thompson, who lives in the western part of Routt county, near the scene of the recent fight between TJtes and game wardens, has arrived with information that the Indians were again invading that section. Residents of Brown’s Park also report having seen Indians, and say that they are killing game. Made False Entries. BAY CITY, Mich., Dec. 2.—Charles B. AlcCloy, former bookkeeper of the Second National Bank of this city, to-day pleaded guilty to the charge of making false entries. He was sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for six years. AlcCloy, after his crime, fled to Australia, but later returned and surrendered hims If at San Francisco. Senator Hunnn Better. CLEVFILAND, 0., Dec. 2.—The condition of Senator Hanna has much improved and he will depart for Washington Saturday or Sunday. The Hanna household has been In close telegraphic communication all day with the members of the McKinley family at Canton, regarding the illness of the President’s mother. • Big Cargo of Corn. BALTIMORE, Dec. 2.—The British steamer Siberia. Captain Davis, sailed for Hull to-day with 253,301 bushels of corn. This is the largest cargo of corn shipped from this port, and probably thfc largest ever shipped from the United States. CbleuKo’M Horse Show IHd Not Pay. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—An official statement of the accounts of the horse show recently held in Chicago shows a deficit of $31,000. The amount is much larger than was generally supposed.

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