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tlons as he may deem proper, the replies to be well within a definite scheme to be outlined later. 4. REV EM E CUTTER SERVICE. Chief Shoemaker’* Annual Report of the Work of Hl* Vessel*. WASHINGTON. Dee. 2i.—Captain C. F. Shoemaker, chief of the revenue-cutter service, in his annual report says that of the thirty-seven vessels ,n the service two years ago there were nineteen old wooden hulls, fourteen of iron, three of steel and one of iron, wooden sheathed. Continuing, he says: “It is asserted that no class of seamen has been compelled to go to sea since the general introduction of steam motive power for marine purposes in such a type of water craft as, for the most part, comprise the list given. As conditions now obtain, aid must continue until the old vessels are replaced with better ones, when one of them is ordered on a cruise of six weeks’ or two months’ duration it becomes necessary to load far beyond the danger point, so that when it puts to sea the decks are fairly awash. This has been the case for many years, and, with the old type of vessels comprised in the list given, i the case to-day. And vjt, handicapped as it has always been, in the manner shown, the service has never in its history failed to promptly respond and to efficiently meet every call that has been made upon it, but with what difficulties it has had to contend or what dangers it has encountered in the discharge of its enormous work none but those immediately associated with it can possibly know. “No one of competent ju lgir*nt will be found who will say that the vessels of the service have at any time within twenty years been calculated for or fit to perform the duty done in them. The measure of success obtained has been wholly due to the indefatigable labors of the personnel which fills the; commissioned ranks of the service and the faithful, trained and disciplined crews. Within three years Congress authorized the building of seven new vessels, four of Vhieh already have been completed and are in all particulars swift, modern vessels and in every way suited to the service.” Authority is a-sked for the construction of five cruisers to take the place of some of the old wooden vessels now almost past repairing. “The usual active patrol of the sea, gulf, and lake coast has been maintained during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, and in ihe performance of duty the vessels have boarded and examined 18,549 vessels of the merchant marine, and reported to proper authority for various violations of law. 036 of them, incurring penalties in the sum of $149.007. Eighty-eight vessels in actual distress, with 623 persons on board, were assisted, the value of the vessels and cargoes amounting to $1,217,213. The vessels of the service have cruised during the year 1,368 miles in aid of the life-saving establishment. From July 1, 1896, to Oct. 1, 1897, seventy lives have been saved. “The enforcement of the neutrality laws.” the report says, “made necessary by many attempts to send illegal expeditions from our coast to Cuba, in the interest of the insurgents, lias compelled vigilant cruising by the cutter service, not only in Florida waters, but elsewhere.” A statement is presented showing the character of the services rendered by the revenue cutters in this connection since the beginning of the present insurrection in Cuba in 1895 to the present. The combined period of service was 129 months, during which the vessels cruised 73,768 miles. Seven vessels were captured, with 150 persons on board, two filibustering expeditions were broken up and thirteen suspected vessels were detained in port or kept under surveillance. The Arctic relief expedition is referred to, and Captain Shoemaker says: “No greater undertaking, one fraught with more hardships and peril to the participants, marks the career of any national service, and come •uccess or come failure it must redound to *he high praise of its personnel and to the honor and glory of the Nation, while the steady readiness of the revenue cutter service to meet every demand made upon it has already been emphasizes! in the speedy preparation and departure of this expedition.”

FRENCH RETALIATION. Effect of the Increased Duty on American Hogs and Product*. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. The action of the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday In passing a government bill increasing the duties on hogs, hog products, lard, etc., is regu v led as retaliatory in effect against the United States. For some time negotiations have been proceeding between France and this country towurd making a reciprocity arrangement. They came to a stop recently when the authorities here asked as a condition of such an agreement that France would raise its restrictions against American cattle and meat products. The French ambassador, M. Patenotre, communicated with j*is government, but no reply was given. He was soon after directed to return to Paris, where he is now in conference with the French authorities. No word has been received as to the purpose of France since the ambassador left, but the action in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday when the raise of duties on certain meat products was put through by the premier. M. Mellne, leads to the conclusion that the French policy will not be toward abolishing the reatr.ctions, but toward increasing their stringency. The figures of the Foreign Bureau c. the Agricultural Department show tha the American shipments to France on ti one article of lard reached 31,773,342 pounds last year. It is not thought the bill was expressly aimed against the United States, as it covers some products which are not shipped from this country to France. In the particulars mentioned, however, its effect is to further restrict the American meat trade. In view of this action little hope is entertained that France will grant the condition on which a reciprocity agreement between the two countrie. depends. It was announced in the Chamber of Deputies, in behalf of the government, that a supplementary bill would be presented to restrict the introduction of adu terated hog products. It is the understanding here that this bill will operate particularly against such lards going from this country sS contain cottonv ?ed oil. CATTLE QUARANTINE. Order Issued Iy Secretary Wilson to Prevent Spread of Fever. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has issued a circular to railroads and transportation companies notifying them that a contagious and infectious disease known as splenetic, or southern fever, exists umpng cattle in the region south of a line beginning at the northwest corner of California, thence east, south and southeasterly along the boundary of California, southerly along the western line of Arizona, thence along the southern boundaries of Arizona and New Mexico, northerly to Colorado, along the southern border of Colorado and Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee to Virginia and along the northern boundary of Virginia to the Atlantic ocean. From Jan. 15 to Nov. 15 c," each vmr no cattle are to be from smith of this line to any portion of the United States north of the line, except by rail or boat for immediate slaughter. In the course of transportation they shall be fed and watered separately from other cattle, and on reaching their destination, before slaughter, shall bo isolated. Cars carrying such cattle shall be placarded. All cars, boats, pens, etc., In which these cattle have been shall be disinfected. Notice Is also given that cattle infected with Southern cattle, tick disseminate Texas fever, and when originating outside the district mentioned shall be considered and treated as infectious cattle. The above Is the general quarantine line fixed by the Agricultural Department, but by special orders Secretary Wilson has accepted the quarantine lines for California, Texas, Oklahoma. Tennessee. Virginia and North Carolina tlxed by those States, and they are adopted by the department for the period beginning Jan. 15, 1898, and ending Nov. 15. 1898. Those lines in each instance except certain territory inclosed in the general order. * ■■■ - MONEY IS TOO PLENTIFUL. $11,0041,000 In National Rank Notes Retired In Twenty Days. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Mr. Coffin, the acting controller of the currency, to-day called attention to the fact thut the retirement of national bank notes during the tirst twenty days of this month reached the sum Os $3,000,600. This Is said to be the first time during the last ten years that the voluntary retirements have reached this amount in any one month. Under the national bank act the United States treasurer is not allowed to receive tor the retirement of circulation more than $3,000,000 in any one month, and hence all deposits to retire notes during the last ten days of this month must be refused. This exceptional condition, Mr. Collin says, Is due to the prevailing low rate© of interest arising from a superabundance of money for investment, which has advanced the price of United States bonds. Mr. Coffin expressed the Opinion thut the law should be amiuniuliu

this particular, as It Interferes with the elasticity of the currency and the natural laws of trade. Bryan Will Go to China. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Senators who have seen President McKinley regarding the appointment of Charles Page Bryan as minister to China find that the President has no present intention of reconsidering the appointment. Some suggestions have been made that Mr. Bryan he sent to some other mission and a more trained diplomat sent to China, but they have not met with indorsement at the White House. One suggestion was that Mr. Bryan be sent to Greece and Mr. Woodville Rockhill. who has had long experience in China, and v.ho is now in Athens, should be given the Chinese mission. The President made it clear, however, that he preferred Mr. Bryan for the place, ami was not contemplating any change In the selections he had made for foreign missions. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Dec. 21.—The Legislature to-day adopted a joint resolution indorsing the selection of Col. Charles Page Bryan as minister to China. .Japan’* New Cruisers. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—'The Japanese legation has been informed that the two cruisers which Japan is having built in this country’ are so well along toward completion that they will both be launched within the next few weeks. The cruiser at the Cramps' shipyard, at Philadelphia, has been christened the Kasagi-Kan and the launching has been set for Jan 20. Minister Hoshi and the staff of the legation will attend the launching, and a number of guests will be invited to participate in the ceremony. The cruiser at the Union iron works, at San Francisco, pas been named the Chitoz. The launching will occur some time in February, but the .exact day has not been net. The cruisers are alike in all respects, having a tonnage of about five thousand each, and the contracts call for a speed of twenty-two knots an hour. Xow Indiana Postmaster*. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-sfindiana fourthclass postmasters were appointed to-day as follows: Ackerly, Crawford county, W. W. Ackerly, vice J. M. Froman, removed; Curtisville. Tipton county, John R. Dunlap. vice J. B. Colvin, jr„ removed; De Pauw, Harrison county. Allen VV. Hancock, vice S. T. Briscoe, removed; Echo, Wells county, C. F. Graft, vice F. J. Weriing, resigned; Ora. Stark county, Samuel Oberlin. vice William A. Trueax, removed; Reelsville, Putnam county. Mrs. J. A, Counts, vice A. B. Fox, removed. Not Affected by the Dingley Law. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—United States Consul Weber, at Nuremberg, Germany, in a report to the State Department says it is interesting to note how little the trade of that city with the United States has been affected by the new tariff. In spite of the large shipments made in anticipation of the passage of the Dingley act, the trade has gone on increasing, mainly in hops, bronze powders, pencils and beer. The consul says the December quarter will show an extraordinary’ increase. 1 Indianian Misses n Plum. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—1 t is announced to-day that the commercial agency at Orillia, Canada, which appointment it was thought would go to an Indiana Republican, had been otherwise disposed of. It has gone to W. R. Soule, of Maine, in response to the demand of the united delegation from that State. Mark Hanna En Route Home. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Senatc$r Hanna left Washington over the Pennsylvania Railroad for Ohio to-night. “I shall spend the holiday’s in the quietude of my home in Cleveland, after which I shall establish headquarters at Columbus and remain there until the question of my successor is disposed of,” he said this afternoon.

General Notes. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—T0-day’s statement of the condition oft the treasuryshows: Available cash balance, $237,572,611; gold reserve, $159,808,975. Gen. Horace Porter, ambassador of the United States to France, in an informal communication to this government, expresses gratification at the result of his negotiations with the French government relative to the duty on cotton seed oil. A proposition was made to levy on that oil what would have amounted to a prohibitive duty, but after some discussion it was defeated in the Chamber of Deputies. Assistant Secretary Howell has rendered a decision in a custofns case in which he holds that common goat hair is entitled to free entry under the new tariff law. This decision overrules that of the appraiser of customs at New York, who held that it Was dutiable under Paragraphs 348 and 350, as assimilating to the hair of the Angora goat. Charles E. Stubbs started from Denver tonight for Europe as a special envoy’ of this government appointed by Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural Department to encourage the use of the American horse in the cavalries of Europe. Reserve agents have been approved for Indiana banks as follows: For the Franklin National Bank. Franklin, the Western National Bank, New York; for the Merchants’ National Hank, New Albany, Hanover National Bank, New York; for the Second National Bank. New Albany, First National Bank. Louisville. The following appointments were made to-day for Indiana in the assistant custodian and janitor service: J. J. Conklin, laborer, Fort Wayne, postoffice, $540; Wm. H. Fuuntelroy, laborer. Evansville, postoffice. $540; John T. Young, foreman, Fort Wayne, posloffiee. $720. At Logansport, Ind., the lease with John E. Barnes for postoffice headquarters has been renewed for five years, from Dec. 5, SI,OOO per annum, to include complete equipment. heat, light, etc., premises to be renovated. necessary furniture put in and claim for rent of cellar withdrawn. Temporary clerks have been allowed at Indianapolis, Ind.; SSO for extra help during the current quarter. At Muncle, Ind.. one clerk, from Dec. 21 to Jan. 10, at SSOO per annum. ENTICED FROM SCHOOL. Two Children Kidnaped by a My sterious Woman in Black. SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Dec. 21.—A mysterious woman in black and wearing a heavy dark veil yesterday’ afternoon enticed from school George Alfred Preston and Hattie May Preston, brother and sister, aged, respectively’, eleven and nine y-ears, and children of Gecrge Preston, of this city. They were hurried away in a closed carriage, which started in a northerly’ direction, supposedly for Ply’mouth, where a train could be taken. The police and sheriff are investigating the case. Business Embarrassment*. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The plant of the Banner Brewing Company, Wilcox avenue and Rockwell street, was closed to-day on a confession of judgment for $7,350 Ir. favor of William L. Tibbs. The company was organized about two years ago with a capital stock of $59,000. The recent cut in prices by the larger breweries is said to be the cause of the failure. BRISTOL, Tenn.. Dec. 21.—An alleged swindle was revealed at Greenville. Tenn., to-day, when George Bitner, wholesale poultry’ dealer, made an assignment and caught numerous creditors to a total of $25,000. For the past month he had bought heavily and given in payment for purchases what are said to be worthless checks. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.-The controller of the currency has received information of the failure of the First National Bank of Pembina. N. D. The-bank has a capital of $50,000, and. according to its last statement, had deposits aggregating $95,000. Bank Examiner Anheiser has been placed in charge. BELLA IRE. 0.. Dec. 21.-Morgan * Garell. one of the oldest and largest firms in this county’, made an assignment this afternoon to Attorney John A. Gallagher. The liabilities and assets have not yet been made known. LONDON. Dec. 21.-A special dispatch from Melbourne. Australia, says C. H. James has failed for £830,000 ($4,250 000.) The cause of his troubles is said to be the bursting of the land boom. Itobison Testifies Against Shipherd. CLEVELAND. 0., Dec. 21.~The trial of Broker J. J. Shipherd on the charge of embezzlement was resumed to-day before Justice Bauder. Frank De Hass Robison was on the witness stand all day. The most important testimony’ given by him was his emphatic declaration that he had not given Mr. Shipherd authority to hypothecate his $303,000 of Fort Wayne street-railway bonds. TO Cl RE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it falls to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet,

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897.

GOOD DAY FOR WRECKS SECOND FATAL COLLISION ON THE C. A* E. I. WITHIN A MEEK. * Big Four Train In a Ditch "Near Coal Hiuff—Sadie t'rnlkshnnk* Acquitted —Mob After Watt Decker. a CLINTON, Ind., Dec. 21—The second death-dealing wreck on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois within a week occurred at Cayuga, twenty-two miles north of this city, at 5 o’clock this evening, when the Chicago and Nashville express dashed into a north-bound freight standing on a switch. The two engines, baggage and freight cars were piled into a heap, while two engineers were killed, a fireman crushed and several others badly hurt. It is thought there is another man under the wreck. In the forlorn hope of rescuing him the citizens of the little town of Cayuga are now at work removing the debris. The dead are: S. E. HOBSON, of Danville. 111., engineer. H. E. HORTON, of Chicago, engineer. The injured were: E. B. HORTON, fireman, broken leg and badly’ bruised. H. W. KELLOGG, air brakes inspector, head badly cut. Engineer Hobson was in charge and had Engineer Horton in the cab learning the road, to take the place there of the engineer killed in last week’s wreck. There were many’ passengers oh the train, and all received a severe shaking up. Several had cuts and bruises, but none was seriously injured. When the accident took place the freight train was about to pull out and the switch had been thrown, the switchman saw’ the passenger coming at full speed, lost his head and failed to reverse the switch, letting the heavy passenger train run on the side track and smash into the freight. Engineer W. J. Gleason and his fireman on the freight train both jumped and saved themselves, E. B. Horton, the passenger fireman, who escaped with a broken leg and some bruises, was found beneath the wrecked smokirg car and it required axes and the hardest w’ork to chop the wreck from about him in .ime to save his lify. The scene of the wreck is as bad, if not worse, than the wreck at Clinton last Thursday’, in which three men lost their lives. Fnlnl Wreck Near Coni Blnff. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 21.—A west-bound freight train on the Big Four jumped the track near Coal Bluff this morning, ditching nine cars, killing one man and injuring four others who were in one of the cars stealing a ride. That portion of the train that w’as wrecked went down a steep bank. The dead: ROBERT A. THOMPSON, Winchester, Ind. 'the injured are: JOHN HARDIMORE, Winchester, Ind., fractured skull, crushed shouider, will probably’ die. A. R. HUTCHISON, Robbin’s Station, Pa., internal injuries. STLVI-N TELNET, Robbin’s Station, Pa., internal injuries. Deputy Coroner Overton brought Thompson’s remains to this city and will hold an inquest to-morrow\ The injured were taken to Coal Bluff and given medical attention. The wrecked cars were piled on the men at the bottom of the ditch and had to be cut away before the victims could be rescued.

Engineer Case Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 21.—Arthur Case, an engineer on the Lake Shore Railroad, was killed to-day at Chesterton. He stepped from his engine and was struck by the limited express. He lived at Elkhart. A. B. CAMPBELL’S SUICIDE. Unique Letter Left by the Former Resident of Rushvllle. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Alexander B. Campbell. of Rushville, Ind., committed suicide in Kuhn’s Hotel, 165 Clark street, early last evening by swallowing morphine, who had registered at the hotel on Dec 14 from Santa Monica, Cal. In a long letter addressed to the Coroner he told his reasons for ending hia existence. Driven to despair, he wrote, by the thought that his friends believed i m insane because he considered himself able to communicate with the spirit of his dead wife, Lizzie, and infant son, Bliss, he had determined to end his lit e and be united with them in death. The story of his insanity, Campbell wrote, followed him to other cities where he attempted to establish himself in business and caused his failure and, although the authorities had found him of sound mind, he did not desire to live longer. He had attempted to commit suicide in Los Angeles, Cal., some time ago. Yesterday he took enough of the drug to make death sure. The letter w’hich Campbell left is as follows: “Dec. 19, 1897.—1, Alexander B. Campbell, makq this statement of the cause of my death to release the Coroner of the necessity of an inquest and also to let my friends know the motive that led me to take my life. My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. This purpose was fully formed when I left Rushville, Ind., and came to this city. "The reason I take my life Is because I want to go to my’ wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I cannot be satisfied in any business and cannot be without their companionship. I have never been able to devote myseif to business since my wife died, and after Bliss was killed I lost all interest in life. In Los Angeles, Cal., I tried to commit suicide, but did not take enough of the drug. 1 then went home to Rushville, but found no comfort there. My friends regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. .1 have lived with her spirit guiding me every day, and she is with me now as I write this letter and helps me to do as I am now doing. "I wii! be with her before another day goes by, and I die with pleasure. lam glad to go with my wife and baby boy. I have not one single doubt or fear about my future life with them. I believe in God and immortality. Now, if I go among strangers, the story of my insanity soon follows, and I do not care to live such a life when I can in a few hours go to my wife and boy. "What few’ things 1 have left in my’ room may be sent by express to my brother, George W. Campbell, Rushville, Ind., and he is the proper person to notify of my death. I do not w T ant any funeral services over my body, and where I am buried is of no concern to me whatever. I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, the merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my’ heart before him for what I am going to do. Next to God, I worship my wife and boy and will soon be witli them and with my father and mother, who art. waiting for my coming. A. B. CAMPBELL,” S ADIE CRUIKSHANKS FREE. Terre Haute Jury Says Slie Did Nut Murder Her Husband. Slietial to the Indianapolis Journal. * TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 21.—The jury in the Cruikshanks murder case brought in a verdict at 11 o'clock to-night acquitting Mrs. Sadie Cruikshanks. She was accused of murdering her husband a? year ago, when it was given out he had committed suicide. The defense made a strong fight at the last and worked on the sympathy of the jury’. One of the witnesses for the defense was Mrs. Wise, who has a restaurant in Indianapolis. She was called to impeach Grace Mitchell, who testified that Airs. Cruikshanks confessed to her that she had shot her husband at the time he was supposed to have committed suicide a year ago. Grace Mitchell moved to Indianapolis several months ago and Mrs. Wise testified that Grace, the Mitchell woman, had been in her restaurant several times, and that she ordered meals sent to “a friend,” who was in jail. Mrs. Wise’s restaurant is on East Washington street. The chief witness for the defense was Cullom Cruikshanks, th ten-year-old son of Mrs. Cruikshanks, and Edna, the fourteen-year-old daughter. The boy said he had heard his father threaten to kill his mother, and that on one occasion he had taken a tevolver from his father, who was under the influence of liquor. The daughter testified that her father was frequently drunk and threatened not only to kill her mother, but himself also. Mrs. Cooprider, the mother of

Mrs Cruikshanks. came from Clay CPy to testify that her son-in-law was a very bad man when under the influence of liquor, but when he was sober he was a good husband. Mrs. Caroline Weller, of Anderson, a sister of Cruikshanks, testified that her brother frequently said he would commit suicide. Misses Love and Mayrae Cruikshanks. of Chicago, sisters of the dead man, testified to their brother’s drinking habits and melancholy disposition. —4 GREEN SLAUGHTER’S TRIAL. Man Who Attempted to Murder George Slaughter Recently. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 21.—The case of Green Slaughter for the attempted murder of George W. Slaughter, two months ago, has been on trial since Monday. Green Slaughter went to the woods where George Slaughter and a young man named Holsapple were building a fence and after a quarrel he fired a load of shot at George Slaughter, who at the time was supposed to be mortally’ wounded. Green then drew a revolver and fired four or five shots out of that weapon at the men. Young Hclsapple also.received a part of the load from the shotgun. Green Slaughter at the time claimed that he had started squirrel hunting and had been attacked by the men when he attempted to pass near w’here they were at work. He left the gun and it was picked up by a neighbor, who found the gun had been loaded with brass wire cut into bits and several other kinds of material. When the surgeons began to pick the particles from the flesh of George Slaughter there was great fear that his wounds would prove fatal owing to the poisonous nature of the wire. When Sheriff Dobbins undertook to take the prisoner from the jail to the courthouse several deputies were necessary to help. He had to be dragged from his cell. The shooting was the result of an old feud, the parties all being refitted. Green accused George of circulating false reports about his (Green’s) wife. An attempt will be made by the defense to show that Green is insane. A large number of witnesses are in attendance and the trial is creating great interest among friends of both sides.

A LYNCHING PARTY. Armed Men Still Searching; for Watt Decker, the Desperado. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 21.—Wat$ Decker, the sixteen-year-old desperado who shot Marshall Murphy, of Patoka, this county, last night, while under arrest for forgery’, is yet at large. For twenty-four hours armed bodies of men have hunted him, but they cannot find the young criminal. Bloodhounds have been tried on his trail, but without success. Marshall Murphy is gradually sinking and the citizens of Patoka swear young Decker cannot live. Had he been captured to-day lynching would have surely been his fate. It is thought Decker escaped on a horse, as a farmer named Johnson reported the loss of a horse today. Decker’s career has been one of crime since babyhood. Petty thieving and dare-devil burglaries have been his vocation since he left the cradle. A rew’ard has been offered for his arrest. Legney of Greentrood Road. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENWOOD, Ind., pec. 21.—A number of citizens who gave their notes for the construction of the Indianapolis & Greenwood Electric Railroad, were in conference here last night with a view of resisting payment of the paper, on the ground that the company has failed to complete the road in compliance with the terms set forth in the notes. About $15,000 is represented in these notes, which, have matured, but are nonnegotiabie. It is said that the road will be in operation by the Ist of next June. Newspaper Sold at Auction. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 21.—The entire plant of the Republican News Company was sold at public auction by’ the receiver, J. W. Morgan, at 2 o’clock this afternoon, Sidney E. Haigh, one of the former owners, making the only bid—s3,6oo. The total indebtedness of the paper amounts to about $9,000. Mr. Haigh will not take possession for the next day or two. He announces that he will continue the Republican as heretofore. Albert Greek’* Fatal Fall. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 21,-Albert F. Greek, a wealthy stockman of Francisco, this county, was killed last night by falling from a Louisville & St. Louis Air-line train while it was standing on a trestle sixty feet high. The train had stopped and Greek walked out of the car and fell off. It is supposed he did not know the train was on a trestle. His back was broken by the fall. He leaves a wife and six children. District Meeting; of Doctors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Dec. 21.—The Delaware District Medical Society f convened here to-day under the auspices of the Blackford County Medical Society. Dr. B. S. Hunt, of Winchester, presided, and Dr. Bayard Holmes, of Chicago, made the principal address. There was a banquet at the Hotel Ingram this afternoon. The attendance w r as large. The next meeting will be held at Winchester in June. Grace Crowell’s Death Unavenged. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 21.—The celebrated case against ex-Sheriff Stoddard and Lydia Walgamot was dismissed this morning in open court by Prosecutor Heard. The case was tried twice, the jury disagreeing each time, and cost the county nearly $4,000. They were indicted on the charge of consoiracy in causing the death of Grace Crowell, of Logansport. The girl’s death goes unavenged.

Jotlge Miller I liable to Preside. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Judge John D. Miller, of Greensburg, came up yesterday after a long period of sickness and convened the December term of court. This afternoon he found his judicial labors too hard on him and was again forced to tempo rily vacate the bench. Judge W. H. Martin, of this city, w’as appointed until Judge Miller again feels able to resume his duties. Jones Know* What Happened. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 21.—Last week Stephen Jackaon brought a SIO,OOO suit against a neighbor named Riggs, charging him witty alienating his wife’s affections. They met in a church choir. To-day John •Jones, the woman’s brother, brought a $lO,600 action against Jackson, her husband, charging him with alienating Mrs. Jones’s affections. One AKninKt the Railroad. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. 21.—Judge Willard New, in the Vernon Circuit Court, yesterday dissolved the injunction suit of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad against the city of Seymour. The suit was brought to enjoin the city from putting down brick streets along the company’s right of way. Injuries Result Fatally. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 21.—George Adrian, aged seventeen, an employe of the national order blank establishment, this city, was caught in a line shaft to-day and received fatal injuries, one arm being torn off at the shoulder, one leg crushed to a pulp and his skull fractured. He died to-night. Indiana Notes. Levi D. Parr, an evangelist, from Kansas, is holding a series of meetings in the Quaker Church at New London. Enoch Fairchild, one of he best-known pioneers of Jay county, died at his home east of Bryant, last evening, at an advanced age. Rev. W. M. Wiles, of Martinsville, has been chosen pastor of the Morristown Christian Church, to succeed E. L. Frazier, now’ of Irvington. Buck Stanley closed a series of temperance meetings at Brooklyn Monday night with 250 pledge signers. A lodge of Good Templars was organized, with thirty-two charter members. The Jay County Fair Society has elected the following directors: Elijah Lyons. William Newton, J. G. Crowell, John Schrauck, Enoch Ware. John Geiger, W. P. Gilpin, Isaac Premer, George Bergman, John Detamore, L, T. Ray, W. M. Haynes, J. P. Nixon, L. L. Gilpin and William Green. The will of the late Susan M. Gregg was probated at Richmond yesterday. She left an estate valued at $30,000 and the major portion of it goes to her nieeea. Mrs. Harry I. Miller, or Terre Haute, and Nora Kibbey, of Phoenix, Ariz. St. Paul's Episcopal Church and St. Stephen's Hospital, in that city, are both remembered, the former with $7<X) and the latter with $lO3. The executors of the will are H. 1. Miller, of Terre Haute; John D. Parker, of Chicago, and Lewis D. Stubbs, of Richmond*

RICHER THAN KLONDIKE - NEW GOLD FIELD ON A TRIBUTARY OF THE STICK*3EN RIVER. * Party of Californian* on the Way to the Promised Land—Soldier* for the Miner** Relief Train. _ I.OS ANGELES. Cal.. Dec. 21.—J. E. Perrins, until recently president of the New England Whip Company, started from this city to-day with a party of fifteen others for anew gold field in the Northwest Territory. The new field is said to extend over fifteen miles along a tributary of the Stiekeen river and to be richer than the Klondike country. In one of his letters to parties here concerning the discoveries, Mr. Dawson, after whom Dawson City was named, states that the region gives every indication of an abundance of gold, but that it is even more inaccessible than the Klondike, there being but one way to get in, and that extremely dangerous. The winters are more severe than on the Yukon, and of longer duration. Tho nearest trading post or point of communication with the outside world is several hundred miles distant. Those who left this morning have been quietly preparing for the trip for several months, keeping everything secret, as they wished to get in before the excitement caused a rush. The party will leave San Francisco to-morrow for Victoria, B. C. By steamer from there they go to Fort Wrangel and thence overland by the Stiekeen river to their objective point. Their information regarding the new company has come direct from Messrs. Ogilvie and Dawson, the former a Canadian official who a year ago made a survey of portions of the Northwest Territory. Acting on instructions of these gentlemen, Mr. Perrins had limited his party to sixteen. Messrs. Ogilvie and Dawson will join the party at Victoria. To Guard tlie Relief Train. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., Dec. 21.—Major J. 1., Rusceker, Fourth Cavalry, who leaves here on Dec. 23 for Dyea on a. preliminary investigation, will be accompanied by Lieut. L. P. Field, Fourteenth Infantry. They will be followed later on by Captain E. B. Eldridge, Assistant Surgeon F. N. Kemp, and fifty enlisted men of Company H, of the Fourteenth Infantry, who will take charge of the relief stores and take them over the trail to the suffering Yukon miners. Lieutenant Field will also lorm one of the party. The company will leave here as soon as their supplies are ready for shipment. Rn*li to Alaska Regan. TACOMA, Wasji., Dec. 21.—Steamer Corona sailed to-day for Skaguay and Dyea and way ports. She was compelled to refuse freight and second-class passengers because of lack of accommodations. ..The Corona will carry to the north, .two huodrea passengers, 50 per cent, ofi whom fire prospective miners, and eight hundred tons of general merchandise.

OBITUARY. Bert Alward, a Prominent Football Player and Coach. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—Bert Alward, one of the most prominent college athletes in the country, and widley known as a football player and coach, died to-day of typhoid fever, after a short illness. Mr. Alward entered withr' the class of ’9l. He was a membdr of both the football and baseball teams of ’9O, and especially distinguished himself as a tackle. He was a member of the Chicago Athletic Association, the Union and Calumet clubs and the Chicago Golf Club, and had an invincible reputation both as a golf and tennis player, Mr. Alward was in charge of the bureau of concessions of the world’s Columbian! exposition. He was thirty-two years old, and leaves a widow and one child. Funeral of AYllllum Terri**. LONDON, Dec. 21.—The funeral of William Terriss, the actor, who was stabbed to death on Thursday last, outside the Adelphi Theater, by a “super” named Prince, took place to-day at Brompton Cemetery. About 50,000 people were present. The principal mourners were the two sons of the deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Hicks (the latter Elialine Terriss, daughter of the murdered man), the Messrs. Gatti, Sir Henry Irving. Charles Wyndham and George Grossmith. The Horal tributes were very numerous, including wreaths from Lord Rosebery, the Rothschilds, Mme. De Navarro (Mary Anderson), Lady Harris, Sir Edward Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft, Sir Henry Irving, Pinero, Mr. and Mrs. Kendall. Mrs. Langtry, Arthur Bourcheir, E. S. Willard, John Hare. George Alexander and other theatrical notabilities. The funeral procession was composed of over one hundred carriages. At the cemetery about fifty thousand people assembled. All the leading theatrical people of London were present. It was the most remarkable demonstration of sympathy in recent years. Mr*. Charlea R. Miller. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The death yesterday of Mrs. Charles R. Miller, of Canton. a cousin of the President, was a sad blow to both the President and Mrs. McKinley, with whom Mrs. Miller was a great favorite. It was the first intention of President McKinley to go to Canton to attend the funeral, but owing to a pressure of public duties he was compelled to forego the trip. George Gardner. GRAND RAPIDS, Wis., Dec. 21.-George Gardner, one of the most prominent attorneys of the State and a member of the law firm of Gardner & Taylor, died last night of heart failure. He was leading counsel for the state in the Lord <& Emery murder trial at Wausau, where he completed his address to the jury on Saturday last, just previous to returning to his home in this city. Prince** Hohenlolie. BERLIN, Dec. 21.—Princess Hohenlohe, wife of the imperial chancellor, died this morning of inflammation of the lungs. She was born Feb. 16, 1829, was formerly Princess Marie Von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berle-burg. She was married on Feb. 16, 1847, to Prince Von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst.

Sewer Pipe Trust Probable. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 21.—The sewer pipe manufacturers east of the Mississippi river have virtually reached an agreement. Their last meeting in this city, when they tried to form a big corporation to take in all, broke up in anger, with threats of future trouble between the two factions. A meeting was held yesterday in Pittsburg, and though no action was taken, owing to poor attendance, the advocates of the big corporation withdrew from their position and agreed to the formation of a pool with a central selling agency. Another meeting will be held in Pittsburg after the holidays and it is believed that then this plan will be carried into effect. Would-be Robber Shot. REDDING. Cal., Dec. 21.—Two masked men attempted to rob the Southern Pacific Company’s station at Koswick to-night, but they were driven off by Station Agent Schuckraan, -who shot one of the robbers. Sehuckman resides in the depot and was in his room when the robbers entered the waiting room, covering with pistols two men who were sitting there. Sehuckman entered and after an exchange of shots the robbers retreated. One was found in a dying condition a short distance from the depot and died soon afterward. The other made his escape. The robbers secured nothing. Movement* of Steamers. QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 21. 10:35 p. m.-Ar-rived: Teutonic, from New York, and proceeded for Liverpool. LIZARD, Dec. 22. 1 a. m.-Pass’d: St. Louis, from New York, for Southampton. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Sailed: Saale, for Bremen; Cevic, for Liverpool. ANTWERP, Dec. 21.—Arrived: Southwark, from New York. New l'urk'M Xotetl Sick People. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Mrs. Ballington Booth, who Is in the Presbyterian Hospital, suffering with heart trouble, was to-night said to be in a serious condition. Charles H. Byrne, president of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, was to-night reported as being somewhat better. Mr*. H. Atsop Borrow* Muat Wait. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—1n the matter of the petition of H. Alsop Borrowe for

an order to compel the executors of the estate of Austin Corbin, her father, to pay her two legacies out of the estate, the surrogate of Suffolk county rendered a decision today in the negative. The legacies are one of fdo.OOO for the purchase of a house and another of *7,500. The executors reported that the most of Mr. Corbin’s estate consisted of bonds, on which it is impossible at the present time to realise anything like the full value. WHAT TO GIVE YOUR WIFE. Hint* to the Hu*ltnnd Who Ha* Waited Till the Eleventh Hour. New York Times. A little of life’s lost romance, a little of the poetry and mystery of our vanished childhood, something to redeem us from the bondage of the commonplace—this is what we all want at Christmas time, and it is only the beautifui and the superfluous that can answer such longings. If we should accuse John of giving his wife an unsatisfactory present he would in all probability retort that he “gave Mary exactly what she asked for.” Os course he did. Mary has been needing a rug for the parlor for six years past. She has to borrow spoons from her mother and chairs from her next-door neighbor every time John entertains his club. She knows John would remark on the “useless expense” if she bought these things and had the hills sent to him, and so, like the self-sacrificing woman she is, she stifles her personal longings and surrenders her Christmas rights in order to give her home its necessary appointments; and John never dreams that the rugs he walks over, the spoons that everybody uses, and the chair that stands in the parlor are not the very gifts his wife wanted. As for John’s wife, she thanks John dutifully and tries to forget the jew’eledjtairpin or the copy of Stevenson’s poems or the topaz ring she wants as earnestly and pathetically as she used to want dolls and candy in her far-off childhood. If John selects his wife’s present without asking her advice he is likely to go just as wide of the mark in his zeal for giving something useful. I once knew a man who gave his wife a case of scissors on Christmas morning. He bestowed it with the air of one who knows the proper thing to do and who always does it, and the poor little wife accepted it with the resignation born of a long experience with this mans ways. If she had been a different sort of woman, she would have thrown it at John’s head and had a good cry. A case of scissors! There was a large pair for cutting out the spring and fall sewing, a small pair for cutting the three or four hundred buttonholes she worked every season in the children’s clothes, a still smaller pair for embroidery— a lid she never embroidered—and, lastly, a pair of nail scissors. In purpose and in suggestion the gift was the very essence of the commonplace. John’s wife took out the largest pair and tried them on a piece of cloth. Oh. joy, they would not cut. She examined the others. They were as dull as a small boy’s jacknife. She went to John and explained the case With an air of deep regret, and John berated the merchant who had sold them to him, and took them back, promising to get “something else.” The days went by, as the novelists say; winter melted into spring, spring slipped into summer, but the “something else”- never made its appearance. And this is how a useful present spoiled one woman’s Christmas. I knew another John who gave his wife a silver sugar spoon with his own monogram engraved on it, and I believe he really thought he was doing, a very handsome, generous, delicate thing in presenting his wife with a piece of family silver marked with somebody else’s name. What his wife thought will probably remain forever a mystery. Then, there was once a man who gave his wife on Christmas day a shawl of the variety known as beaver—a great, heavy, stiff, brown beaver shawl such as a market woman wears When she goes around on cold, frosty mornings with her wagonload of vegetables. The wife was a tiny woman, and when she put the thing on and looked in the mirror she likened herself to a very small squaw in a huge Indian blanket. John benevolently explained that he knew- she needed a warm wrap to throw around her when she went out at night to the opera house for a concert or a lecture. The brown beaver shawl, you see, was his idea of an opera cloak. This woman was small, but she had the courage of her convictions, and, without stopping to consider John’s feelings or the extra expense, she went dow r n town and exchanged the hideous thing for a cream white India Chueana, softer than silk, and suggestive of hammocks and moon-lighted porches and all the Oriental beauty and luxury of the land from w-hich it came.

‘if you must give me a shawl, John,” she explained, ’’this is the kind to give.” And John looked crestfallen, and thought in his heart that women were very hard to please. There are two simple rules which John ought to memorize before he goes out to buy fcis wife a Christmas gift. First: Get something that is simply beautiful or that combines both beauty and utility. Second: Get something that is for her personal use alone, not something that the whole family will share with her. Then sit down and consider what your wife's individual tastes are. Ten to one you have not the vaguest idea of the things she really likes, for it is a singular tact that the longer the average man lives with his wife the less he really know’s about her. Call up a mental image of her as she was in the days of her girlhood. She was fond of delicate perfumes then. Suppose you buy her three or four long, slender bottles of Farina cologne—cologne, mind you, not some coarse perfume. She used to wear pretty slippers with bewildering bows on them. Go to her closet now and look at those cheap, dingy, slipshod things. Then go out and buy a pair that will be a fitting tribute to your wife’s foot. While you are about it get six pairs of silk stockings and a pair of silver-mount-ed garters. She probably likes silver toilet articles. Suppose you strew her dressing table on Christmas eve with such things as a* si ver-mounted comb, a nail file,- a shoe buttoner, a pretty stickpin or two, a hatpin. a belt buckle, a silver-mounted cologne bottle. Remember that there is no law, social or political, state or national, to prevent you from giving your wife more than one Chrsßinas gift. You have probably been forgetting her birthdays for the last ten. fifteen or twenty years. Suppose you atone for your neglect this Christmas. Then you might get a pretty etching to hang on the wall of her room, or an opal ring for her hard-working fingers. For mercy's sake, don’t make a mistake and get her a thimble: I said an opal ring, not a gold thirnble, or a silver one, either. You might “throw in” a box of fine candy and be sure to see that the children do not eat it all up before she has a chance to look at It. And whatever you do. don’t forget a bunch of violets and a tiny crystal bowl to put them in. After you have bought the merely beautiful and superfluous, there will be no harm in giving her the useful along with it. If the house needs rugs or silver or china, get something of this sort, too, and "Mary” will have no disappointment in her cup of Christmas memories this year. Then, if your soul still yearns after the useful, remember that you have always with you that piteous class to whom the necessaries of life are luxuries. On these you may bestow the useful present and be sure of only grateful appreciation in return. "Siny,” said a Southern matron, "w'hat would you like to have for a Christmas gift?’’ ’ Siny rolled her eyes upward und pondered for a moment. She was the washerwoman and the long-suffering mother of eight or ten “trilling” children. -“Well. Mis' Mag,” she drawled, “I believe I’d like to have an old shirt to patch with.” So poor that she did not have material to patch her children’s clothes with. So poor that an old shirt was a boon to be desired at Christmas time! Think of that. O women, whose desires are centered on diamonds and pearls, and cut glass und rare china and do not fail to give the useful present where it rightfully belongs. A blanket shawl, a piece of unbleached domestic, a dark calico dress, or a dozen yards of flannel will be as lovely in the eyes of your laundress or charwoman as all the bric-a-brac and treasures of art that wealth pours at the feet of the rich. The Protected Boston inti. Eugene Wambaugh. in Atlantic Monthly. An imaginary Bostonian, on rising in the morning, finds his whole toilet, his breakfast and breakfast service under government supervision. Nor do this average Bostonian and his family escape from public control upon rising from the table. The children are by law compelled to go to school; and though there is an option to attend a private school the. city gratuitously furnishes a school and school books. As so-r the father himself when he reaches his door, he finds that public servants are girdling his trees with burlaps. and searching his premises for traces of the gypsy moth. Without stopping tc reflect that he has not been asked to permit these public servants to go upon his property, he steps out upon a sidewalk con structed in accordance with public require ments, crosses a street paved and watered and swept br pvbltc, and enters a street

car whose route, speed and fare are regulated by the public. Reaching the center of the city, he ascends to his office by an elevator subject to public Inspection, and reads the mall that las been Drought to him from all parts of the United States by public servants. If the dimness of his office may cause him to regret that sunlight appears to be outside public protection, he may be answered that by recent provision* the height of buildings is regulated and tmmalicious construction of high fences is prohibited. If now he leaves his office and goes to some store or factory in which he owns an interest, he finds that for female employees chairs must be provided, that children must not bo employed in certain kinds of work, that dangerous machinery must be fenced, that fire escapes must be furnished, and probably that the goods produced or sold must be marked or packed In n certain way. or must reach a certain standard. Indeed, whatever this man’s business may be, it is almost certain that In one way or another the public's hand comes between him and his employes, or between him and his customer. NEW SOCIETY FAD~ Tlie “Four Ilandretl** of Murray Hill to Hold a Baby Show. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Here’s an event in babydom, the like of which has never been paralleled. All of the chubby-fisted, dimpled little darlings of Murray Hill’s "four hundred” are to be brought together in a competition for baby beauty. Infant scions of such Knickerbocker houses as those of Pell, Camman, Graham, Sands, Aidee, Carey, Schroeder and Dinsmore wil be wrapped in soft silks and laces and coddled and petted by the soft hands of Murray Hill's mothers and sisters. Mrs. Fitzgerald has tendered her mansion at the southeast corner of Lexington avenue and Thirty-fifth street for a theater for the occasion. Jan 5 is the momentous day of the show. THE ELECTRIC CAB. London Cab Horse Making Way for tlie New Motor Carriage. London Mail. When the electric cab first made its appearance In the streets of London the ordinary Jehu exhausted the sarcastic resources of his extensive vocabulary in ridiculing the new-comer. But though only a few months have passed since cabby jeeringly invited the drivers of the motor-car to “take that mangle ’ome,” or suggested that they should - be careful not to “bust the bellows,” the situation has undergone a striking change. “We have hundreds of cabmen on our books who are anxious to take our electric cabs,” said an official of the company when interrogated on the subject; “in fact, we can’t get the cabs made fast enough to meet the demand.” There are now twenty-two electric cabs on the streets of the metropolis, and, according to the official statement, the average takings daily are sufficient to leave a handsome profit per cab to the company after the driver's remuneration has been provided for. Os dourse, the expenses are much lower than In the case of the ordinary cab, since there are no horses to be fed, stabled and doctored, or replaced in the case of disablement or death. The driver of the motor cab needs no technical knowledge in order to handle his steed. Before he is allowed to take a vehicle out. however, he has four hours’ tuition inside the works at Lambeth on a cab specially provided for the purpose, and certainly a man of ordinary intelligence would find it difficult to make a mistake, so simple are the arrangements. If he wants to go ahead he pushes a lever forward, whiie if he wishes to stop suddenly he has simply to put his foot oi a brake which interrupts the electric current and brings the mechanism to a standstill. In order to go backwards he must pull his lever towards him, and sis steering gear is so arranged that he has only to turn the wheel in the direction he wishes to go. When the cab is duly charged it will perform a journey of fifty' miles: then it has to come back to the works in order that the cells may be taken out and new ones put in their place. In a gallery at Lambeth are arranged about sixty lots of cells, each lot of which is sufficient to drive a cab, and however mucii the Amalgamated Society of Cabhorses may condemn these silent steeds, they go their way oblivious of the great change they may be destined to make in the appearance, of London’s streets. Little mishaps will occur even in the best regulated vehicles, and when an electric cab gave out at Greenwich some time back, in consequence of the exhaustion of the cells, there was jov in the hearts of the cabbies who beheld the stoppage, and no doubt secret exultation reigned in the breast of tho horse whose services were requisitioned on that occasion. But mishaps of any kind have, according to the officials, been remarkably few, and there is an increasing demand ‘for the cabs, not only by the general public, but by private hirers, one gentleman, for Instance, having recently asked for no few’er than sixteen to take a party of friends to and from a dinner party at one of the big restaurants. Undoubtedly the ordinary cabby who has stood us in such good stead for so long is now taking kindly to the innovation. Hundreds have registered their names at tho headquarters in Lambeth, and are patiently awaiting their turn for a motor cab, while hundreds of others would gladly exchange their flesh and blood steeds for mechanical ones to-morrow if they had the chance. The next batch of electric cabs put on the streets will contain several important improvements, Including an arrangement which will put an end to the slight vibration felt bv the fare when the vehicle starts on its Journey. Indiana’s Galaxy. Chicago Post. The triumph of the redoubtable “Kid” McCoy in the presence of a most select New York assemb'age, including a clergyman and other representatives of the highest walks, has cai’ed public attention to the great Commonwealth of Indiana, Chicago’s most precious environment. Mr. McCoy, whatever his other name may be. wi'l now proudly take his place at the side of this wonderful State’s most distinguished sons. Indiana has done much for the close of tha century. It boasts in James Whitcomb Riley the master of dialect verse. We do not recall the exact number of dialects, but it must be at least a dozen. It claims the Honorable Benjamin Harrison, equally at home in statesmanship, law and the obligations of a married man. It po'nts to Gen, Lew Wallace, who is to literature what Gowdy is to diplomacy. It whimpers the name of Posey county and the echoes take it up and thunder it through the lands. Tt speaks of Eagle lake, that notable resort of a thousand poets, whose verse* breathe patriotism, love and Indiana. And now it presents in Mr. McCoy a gentleman who stands ready to lick any man of hi* weight in the world, a gentleman who has leaped at one bound to fame and to the affections of his fellow-citizens. There will be a merry Christmas indeed along the Ohio river, where the Wabash winds its peaceful way and where the waters of Lake Michigan lap the sacred soil. Bryan Dined l>y Dias. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21— Mr. Bryan called on all the Cabinet ministers this morning, and this evening, with Mrs. Brayn, was entertained at dinner by President and Mrs. Diaz at their city residence. The Bryan party leaves for Vera Cruz in the morning anil will return via Pueblo to this city Saturday night, when they will go to Guadalajara and thence home. Miguel Macedo, one of the leading lawyers of this city, has been elected mayor for the ensuing year. A Shrewd Fa rent. 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