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in*, 140.000; J. B. Perkins, on Wilshlre building, $30,000; H. R. Rouse, on Century building, $3.(00. The losses of scores of tenants, especially in the Power and Blackstone buildings, the latter of which was occupied by lawyers with costly libraries, will tie very heavy. About 75 per cent, of the losses are covered by insurance. Lieutenant McFt ' ters. of the lire department, fell through the floor in one of the buildings and was badly though not fatally hurt. The fire was got under control about 9 o’clock, though a dozen engines are still at work on It, and will probably continue all night, L. A. W. WILL INVESTIGATE. Mr. Mott Will Hold nn Inquest on tbc Six-Day liteyclc Race. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.~Albert Mott, chairman of the L. A. W. racing board, has issued the following special bulletin: "A hearing relating to matters connected with the six-day race at Madison-square Garden will be held in the Grand Union Hotel in New York at 11 o’clock on the morning of Dec. 25. The hearing will be private, and witnesses are assured that their testimony will be treated as confidentally as has been the custom of past racing boards and is with this. The board cannot, like a court, compel the attendance of witnesses, and those who will give evidence are jromlsed that the board will not blockade all its channels of information for the future by departing from the usual course. This should be apparent to every prospective witness. All persons who have any evidence of facts which they know- of their own knowledge are appealed to to present themselves and give them to the board. The Investigation has been proceeding for some time end much documentary evidence is in possession of the members of the board for the district and the chairman, and the identity of all who are concerned is believed to be known, it would, therefore, be best for the interests of those concerned that they should attend and testify.’' Bald May Be Held to His Contract. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Eddie Bald, of Buffalo, may be forced to ride James Michael, of Wales, in their match at oiie mile on Jan. 8 next. Bald has been ill at a Broadway hotel, but he is now on the mend, and within a few days is expected to be on his wheel again, Michael and his manager, David Schaefer, have just arrived in this city, and when informed that the friends of Bald have called off the match with the Welshman Schaefer was indignant. "There must be two parties to that agreement," lie said, "and unless Bald can show a doctor’s certificate that he is unfit for racing on Jan. 8 we will hold him to his contract, in the event of his neither having such a certificate nor coming to the scratch for the race we will forward a copy of our contract to Chairman Mott, of the racing board, and let him deal with the case." Schaefer pointed out that Bald has a fortnight within which to recover his speed. Michael, he said, had a nasty fall in Saratoga on Wednesday, .and, as a result, had trouble with his stomach all day, but on that account would not withdraw from his match with Chase. Anion Mny Purchase St. Loals Browns ET. LOUIS, Dec. 23.—Telegrams received here from New York to-night indicate that Captain Anson, of Chicago, is negotiating for the purchase of the St. Louis Baseball Club and franchise. B. S. Muskenfus, President Von der Ahe’s secretary, showed a letter last night concealing the signature, but believed to have been written by Anson, asking for a statement of the financial condition of the St. Louis club and an estimate of the cost of buying the club, free of incumbrances. It is thought Anson, or A. G. Spalding, who has backed him in his baseball ventures, may visit this city this week and investigate the Browns. I Indoor Cyclintw Challenged. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 23.-Henry Kansaska, a professional cyclist of this city, to-day issued a challenge to the world to race any distance from one to three miles on an indoor track for a purse of SSOO to SI,OOO. The conditions of the challenge are that each rider is to furnish his own pacemakers. Kansaska prefers tp go against Michael, the Welsh wonder, but failing in this is willing to take on any of the speedy ones. Kansaska hold the world's indoor paced record for a mile at 1:58 2-5. ’ Btlllardlst Ives to Visit Europe. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Frank C. Ives, the ex-champion billiardist, expects to go to Europe soon to give exhibitions in London and Paris. Ives has been trying to arrange a game with Slosson since the recent tournament, and his inability to bring about such a contest caused his determination to visit the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Byrne Sailers a Relapse. NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—President C. H. Byrne, of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, suffered a relapse this afternoon, and became unconscious. lie remained unconscious tor several hours, and to-night his condition Wits considered very critical.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. James A. Nolan, a lawyer of Topeka. Kan., who escaped from the Kansas Siato Insane Asylum about two months ago, has been arrested In Buffalo. The First Artillery of the United States army, encamped In Chickamauga Park since the beginning of the yellow-fever epidemic in New Orleans, has received orders to return to New Orleans. Rev. R. W. Beatty Jenkins, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Louisville, Ky., has announced ht3 acceptance of a cail to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit. The reduced postage rate between Canada and Great Britain will not come in force on Jan. 1, as arranged. It was deferred at the instigation of the imperial authorities so that the reduction, whatever it will be, may be made reciprocal. The midwinter continental poultry and pet-stock show opened at Kansas City, Mo., yesterday, with prize entries from a dozen States and from Canada. The entries are numbered by the hundreds and the many well-known fanciers present pronounce the show one of the finest ever held. Mrs. Mary Pounch, fifty-five years old, was accidentally shot and kilted by her son James, aged twenty-seven, at her home in Bozrahville, Conn., yesterday. The you'ng man was taking a shotgun down from a peg on the wall, when it was accidentally discharged. The woman’s ante-mortem statement exonerated her son. Amazon Hernandez, a wood chopper, of San Jose, Cal., was in the habit of carrying giant-powder cartridges in his pockets, as he frequently used them for blasting tree stumps. Wednesday he tripped and fell, a knife in his pocket struck a cap and nine explosions followed in quick succession. Hernandez was terribly mangled and will die. George Maurice Curtis, of New York, who claims to be the proprietor of fourteen designs of religious pictures known to Roman Cathodes as “The Stations of the Cross,” has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court at New York against the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. He claims that the Paulist missionaries are selling copies of his pictures, and asks that they De enjoined from infringement on his copyrights. UusineNN of the "Soo” Canals. 3AUL.T STE. MARIE’, Mich., Dec 23. The year 1897 shows an increase over all previous years of nearly 2,000,000 tons in freight traffic through the United States and Canadian “Soo” canuls, 18,218.400 tons having been carried through this year. The number of vessel pussages this year shows a decrease of 1.447 from last year, but there was an increase in registered tonnage of 370,500. indicating a decided increase in the size of lake vessels. The number of passengers carried through in 1897 was 40,200, an increase of 8 150 over last year. Colorado Libeled. DENVER. Col., Dec. 23.—Governor Adams and Secretary Shute, of the State Board of Horticulture, are about to make a demand ui>on Secretary of Agrculture Wilson that a certain bulletin recently sent out by the Department of J’omology be withdrawn. The officials mentioned declare that tiie bulletin not only libels Colorado, but that it contains absurdities that the department should be ashamed of. Colorado U credited in the bulletin with a small range of capabilities in fruit-raising. stroker Hathaway Out of Prison. POSTON, Dec. 23.—Welcome H. Hathaway, the Fall River cotton broker, who was convicted in 1893 of making false entries and of other irregularities in his accounts, was released from the state’s prison to-day. Mr. Hathaway was sentenced to serve seven years, and had spent about four years in prison. The plea for his pardon was made on the ground that he was not as guilty as hLs conduct in connection with the transaction for which i*e was convicted indicated. TO CLUE A COLD IX ONE DAY Take Laxative Uromo Quinine Tablets. AH dnizgSsia refund money it it falls tc cure. 25c. Toe genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. *

ANOTHER BUNCO GAME LAFAYETTE MAN CONDUCTED A WHOLESALE SWINDLING SCHEME. * Rnshrtlle People Delighted Over Gas Well In New Territory-Shoot-ing Affray at Brasil. ~~ r ' ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 23.—For some time advertisements have been appearing in newspapers of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky announcing that the Lafayette Grocery Supply Company, in order to introduce itself, would send prepaid to any one sending in $1 a box containing fifteen pounds of coffee sugar, several pounds of roasted coffee, laundry and toilet soap, etc., to the value of $3. Recently the local mails have been ladened with letters addressed to this concern. The letters have been delivered to Tulllns R. Pyle, of West Lafayette, who has hitherto borne a good reputation, but when complaints as to nondelivery of the goods began to arrive the postoffice authorities made an investigation, resulting late last night in the arrest of Pyle, who was committed to jail by United States Commissioner Severson in default of SI,OOO bond on the charge of fraudulent use of the mails. Pyle claims to have been acting as the agent for other parties, but these have not been discovered. It is reported that the "company” did not even pay its advertising bills. In Memory of A. B. Campbell. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE. Ind., Dec. 23.—1n the Circuit Court to-day resolutions of respect for A. B. Campbell, who committed suicide by taking morphine Monday night at Chicago, were read and by order of the court spread of record. Court adjourned yesterday afternoon for the funeral of Campbell, who has been a member of the Rushville bar since 1866 and was prosecuting attorney for four years. The burial was in East Hill beside the remains of his wife and son. Pallbearers from the bar and G. A. R. carried the casket. During the services the Rev. J. H. Mae Neill, after appropriate remarks, read the letter which Campbell wrote before he died. Mrs. Campbell was a sister of George Bliss, of Indianapolis, and William Bliss, of this city. Suicide of an Ex-Office Holder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 23.—At 4 o’clock this morning John H. Thomas died from the effects of five grains of morphine, sell'administered, Last night Thomas had some words with his family and left home, saying he would not again return. About 1 o’clock this morning he returned, to the house, woke his wife and three children and required them to get out of bed and follow him to the kitchen. There he told them that life had been a disappointment to him, and took the poison which ended ills life. Thomas was forty-five years old and had been out of employment since last spring, when he served as a deputy assessor. Mitchell District Doctors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WEST BADEN, Ind., Dec. 23.—The midwinter meeting of the Mitchell District Medical Society will be held here Dec. 27, 28 and 29. It will be the most interesting meeting of this well-known society in several years, as over one hundred of the leading medical men of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois are on the programme to deliver addresses and read papers. The following from Indianapolis are on the programme and will be present Drs. T. B. Eastman. L. H. Dunning. Wm. B. Fletcher, William N. Wishard. William V. Morgan, John F. Barnhill and Simon P. Sherer.

Receiver Ask $20,000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 23.—Receiver and General Manager Rcbison, of the Fort Wayne Consolidated Street-railway Company, filed his report to-day and asked to be discharged as receiver and asked an allowance of $20,000 for services. He will retire as general manager and will be succeeded by A. L. Scott, of Cleveland, who takes charge of the property to-night. Since the appointing of the receiver one year ago last September the receipts have been $195.000. Expenditures. $178,000. leaving a profit of $17,000. The company has thirty miles of track. Fatally Wounded in a Fight. Special to the Indlpnapolls Journal. PETERSBURG. Ind., Dec. 23.—Early,this morning a bloody encounter took place near Cato, this county, in which Henry Ward was shot and fatally wounded. Young Ward accused Blair of cutting his harness. They decided to fight it out, and Ward was apparently getting the best of it, when young Blair drew a revolver and placing it against Ward’s shoulders, fired. Doctors were summoned at once and pronounced it a fatal wound. Peddler Smith a Bnd Shot. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 23.—An exciting affray occurred here this afternoon. John Smith, an oil peddler, went to the office of Harry Joseph, proprietor of the Central oil and tank line, and without a word of warning tired five shots at him. One bullet inflicted a flesh wound in his groin. It is claimed the shooting was the result of Joseph asking Smith to pay him a bill which he claimed was due. Threw Out the Republican. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Dec. 23.—This whole week has been consumed in the trial of the county superintendency case, which was given the jury at 7:30 Wednesday evening. To-day the jury returned a verdict in favor of Peter Phlliippi, Democrat, and in their finding said that John L. House, Republican, had usurped the office and was not entitled to it. House will take an appeal. Richland Poultry Show. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Dec. 23.—The exhibition of the Richland Poultry and Pet Stock Association will be held at Newtown on the four last days of this month. Though this is the first meeting of the association, it is intended to make it. a permanent affair. W. H. Wright is president and Charles E. McClure is secretary. Gas Well in a New Field. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 23.—A monster gas well was struck this afternoon at Raleigh, in a hitherto unknown field. The well sends up a forty-foot blaze and its light can be seen for miles to-night. This well is six miles east of the Center township field, which supplies Rushville and Connersville. Be ford Insurance Company Sued. Associated Press Dispatch. SHOALS, Ind., Dec. 23.—An application was made to-day by Mrs. Lina Tow for a receiver for the Indiana Farmers’ Insurance Company’’ of Bedford and was set for a hearing at Washington, Ind., Dec. 27. The application is made on a complaint charging failure to pay a loss. Grand Patriarch McCoy 111. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Dec. 23.—J. T. McCoy, grand patriarch of the I. O. O. F.. Indiana, is lying sick with rheumatism of the heart at his aesidenee in this city. Indiana Obituary. WILKINSON, Ind.. Dee. 23.—Jacob A. McDaniel died of paralysis at his home, north of this place, last evening. He was sixty-five years old and leave® a wife and several grown children. He was among the largest land owners in Brown township. The funeral will take place at Warrington Christian Church Sunday morning, under the auspices of the Masons. KOKOMO. Ind., Dec 23.—Joseph Hayes, a pioneer resident and merchant of this city, died suddenly of heart trouble this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes were ing to take a morning truin to spend the holidays with relatives in Ohio, when he was fatally stricken. He was sixty-five years old. A wife and ten children surv've ANDERSON. Ind., Dec. ' .-Miss Cora Fleming, aged nineteen, dr tighter of Mr. and Mrs. James Fleming, and and at her home in this city last night of consumption. She was one of the best-known young women in the city. GREKNCASTLE, Ind., Dec. 23.—Benjamin Sechman, of Fillmore, died to-day aft-

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era long Illness. He was in his ninetieth year and one of the oldest citizens of Putnam county. Indiana Notes. Dr. Richard Moulton, of Chicago University. last night completed a course of university extension lectures at Richmond. The Lieb block, one of Anderson's threestory business and office blocks, was transferred by the Liebs to W. E. Decker & Sons yesterday for $35,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Hatchett was burned to death near Vincennes this week. Her clothing caught fire and she rushed into the yard and burned to death. A neighbor found her charied remains. The jury in the suit of Mrs, Charles Woody for $20,000 against Bedford for injuries received by a fall on the sidewalk, disagreed at 3 o’clock yesierday. It had been out since 10 o’clock Wednesday night. Miss Ethel Arnold, of Greencastle, a graduate of Dc- Pauw and daughter of Frank Arnold, editor of the Greencastle Star-Press, has been elected to the vacancy in the Covington High School, occasioned by the resignation of Miss Pauline Miller. Guy Ackerman filed suit in the Brazil court for $15,000, William Deal for $5,000, and Asbury Rummel for $5,000, against the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, for injuries received in the wreck of the miners’ train near Coal Bluff last month. Prof. B. B. Custer, of Wayne county, is said to be the most experienced dancing master in Indiana. He has been in the business fifty-six years and his graduates and pupils in Indiana alone number 65,443. He has composed many waltzes and other musical selections. HEAVY SEAS SHIPPED. Steamer Kenmington Washed by Hrge Waves and a Passenger In Jared. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The Red Star line steamer Kensington, which arrived here today from Antwerp, had a very severe passage. Water from huge waves that washed the decks entered the ship’s hold and a numler of trunks belonging to passengers were smashed to pieces. The arm of a passenger was broken. The officers of the boat were very reticent as to the details of the trip, and merely stated that very rough weather had been encountered. Quick Trip from the Orient. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.—The steamer China, which arrived this morning from the Orient, via Honolulu, made the quickest trip on record, not only between Yokohama, and Honolulu, but between Honolulu and San Francisco. The ship was detained nineteen hours and thirty-six minutes at Honolulu, and from Yokohama to this port, including this delay, she made the trip in fourteen days, twelve hours and eighteen minutes, fihe passage from the islands was mads in five days, seven hours and fortyone minutes. At one period of the voyage 18.85 knots were averaged for four hours. All previous records of the speedy liner were beaten by one day, one hour and forty minutes. A Gnnitont in a Cyclone. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The Navy Department has received a report from Commander F. M. Symonds, of the gunboat Marietta, describing the experience of the vessel in a cyclone during he" trip from Sitka, Alaska, to San Francisco. The commander says the seas were very heavy and one came aboard smashing some of the brass stanchions. The vessel was then brought up into the wind and hove to attached to a sea anchor or drag. In this position she took the big seas handsomely, shipping nothing more tnan spray over her bows. Altogether the commander expresses the greatest admiration for the Marietta's qualities. Accidents Caused by Fog;. LONDON, Dec. 23.—Heavy fogs prevail in the district of London, over the Bristol channel, the Mersey, the Clyde and the Tyne. There have been numerous shipping accidents and much inconvenience has been caused to train traffic, by delays and stoppages. It is feared that several lives have been lost. Revenne Cutter Launched. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 23.—1n a blinding snowstorm the revenue cutter Onondaga was launched this afternoon at the yard of the Globe Iron Works Company. The steamer was christened by Miss Louisa Augusta Allen. Many government officials witnessed the launching. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Arrived: Kensington. from Antwerp: Rotterdam, from Rotterdam: Nomandic, from Liverpool; Manitoba, from London. Sailed: Edam, for Amsterdam. ROTTERDAM. Dee. 23.—Arrived: Spaarndam. from New York. Sailed: Veendam, for New York. BREMEN. Dec., 23.—Arrived: Trave, from New York, via Southampton. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23.—Arrived: Werkendam, from New York. LI V ERPOOL, Dec. 23.—Arrived: Rhynland, from Philadelphia. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 23.—Sailed: Germanic, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—Sailed: Switzerland, for Antwerp. LONDON, U>ec. 23.—Arrived: Mobile, from New York. NAPLES, Dec. 23.—Arrived: Patria, from New York.

KAY NOT QUIT WORK. Cotton Mill Operatives May Accept the Proposed Reduction. FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 23—The conference of the operatives’ committee, which waited on the manufacturers to-night, lasted two hours. The discussion went into the details of the mills’ situation and brought out varying opinions. While it is understood that the general sentiment is for a strike, the method of making the strike operative is not agreed upon. The delegates who took the most active part in the discussion to-night declined to talk. It is believed that the influence of the more conservative operatives has had effect on the committee, and it is not unlikely that a proposition to postpone a strike will be made. Miners* Wages Advanced. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 23.—The Coronna Coal Company and the Virginia and Alabama Coal Company, employing about 1,200 coal miners in Walker county, to-day announced that on Jan. 1 they will advance wages from 60 to 70 cents per ton. The increased demand for coal and need of more labor is the cause of the advance. Other operators are expected to follow suit. Call for Miners* Convention. COLUMBUS, 0.. Dec. 23.—A call was Issued to-dav for the ninth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America, to meet in Columbus Jan. 11, 1898. STEEL RAILS AND SPEED. The Great Advantages to American Railroads of Bessemer’s Process. New York Times. ' v Abram S. Hewitt’s recent public declaration that. Betsemer’s improved processes of making steel had saved to the railroads of this country millions upon millions of dollars finds prompt and unqualified corroboration from railioad men. One of the great advantages that the steel rail has conferred upon the railroads everywhere is an increased speed of train, with a proportionate decrease of risk. Laid ori a well-m&de and solid roadbed, the best steel rails enable powerful locomotives to draw heavytrains safely at a rate of speed that would have been considered dangerous two or three decades ago. Were it not for the steel rails laid all the way between New York and Chicago, the New York Central would not now be sending its daily tiier from one place to the other in twenty-four hours, and the Pennsylvania Railroad would not be experimenting with a twenty-hour train between the same points. The first Bessemer steel rails used in the United States were put down in 1865, and there has been a wonderful change in the cost of such rails since then. In the spring of 1865 the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a small quanaity of Bessemer steel rails for $2% a ton. A year or two later a considerable quantity of the same kind of rails was imported by the same company at a cost of $lB6 a ton. Since then the number of miles of steel rails laid in each successive yeaV has steadily increased, until now nearly all the renewals on important roads are made with steel. , , „ . The cost of steel rails gradually diminished to $25 a ton in ’.894, and since then the price under pressure of hard times and competition, has on different occasions been below S2O. The manufacture of steel rails In America was begun in 1865. and at the beginning of 1894 there were forty-three Bessemer steel mills In the United States. The annual domestic production of steel rails has steadily increased. With the demand for greater speed on the rallroaos there lias come a gradual increase

In the size and weight of the rails.’The first railroads in this country had rails that weighed 28 pounds to the lineal yard. Soon the weight of the rails was increased to 35 pounds to the yard, then to 41*4 pounds, next to 45 pounds, and afterward, in succession, to 60 pounds. 75 pounds, 80 and 85 pounds, ar.d 90 and 100 pounds. SPAIN SEEKING SYMPATHY. Preparing: to Make Friendly Overtures to the United States. MADRID, Dec. 23.—The manner in which the American press has condemned the execution of Lieut. Col. Ruiz has awakmed in Spain sentiments of sympathy, tending favorably to modify the relations between the two countries. The ministers and statesmen consider the moment propitious for arriving at an accord between Spain and the United States, which would speedily put an end to the war in Cuba. They hope ihat the Washington government will loyally adhere to the promises of President McKinley’s message, making it understood, as did General Grant, that only censure and the rigorous application of law muse be expected by those conspiring on American territory against a friendly nation. They consider that the Cuban reception of the autonomy scheme and the concessions made by Senor Palma impose an imperative duty to do everything possible to prevent bloodshed and destruction of property in Cuba. Blanco's “Tool” Known. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—At the Cuban Junto to-day official confirmation was given to a sitory that General Blanco has sent to this city from Cuba a man whose mission is to join one of the filibustering expeditions to the east coast of Cuba and secure the assassination of General Gomez. "Yes, we know all about Blanco’s emissary,” said a representative of the Junto to-day. "We know the steamship he is on, and we know his mime. He 'is not likely to join any of our expeditions.” Sicking Crosby’s Effects. HAVANA, Dee. 23.—Rafael Madrigal, Amercan consul at Sancti Spiritus, left there on Saturday last for the camp of General Maximo Gomez. He goes to obtain the money and effects left by C. E. Crosby, the late correspondent of the Chicago Record, who was kiiled last March during an engagement near Arroyo Blanco. General Gomez promised at the time to deliver Mr. Crosby’s belongings to Consul General Fitzhugh Lee or to his representatives. Hot Firing: Near Havana. HAVANA, Dec. 23. —Hot firing can be heard late this afternoon from the vicinity of Pino Railway Station, two miles out of the city, in the direction of Cambute. It is supposed that the forces of General Parrado are engaged. LONDON, Dec. 23.—A. dispatch received here from Havana late this evening says that the flames of a large sugar plantation ignited by the insurgents are plainly visible from the city.

“MRS. FLEMING” MISSING. Woman Who Was Acquitted of Poisoning; May Have Perished. NEW YORK, Dec. 23,-When Mary Alice Almont Livingston, known to the world as “Mrs. Fleming,” who was tried and acquitted of poisoning her mother, vanished from the sight of all who had known her to brave the terrors of the Klondike, her last words to her sister Florence, in whose care she left her younger children, were: "I leave my little ones and all that remains of my fortune in your hands, if I don’t come back again you’ll know what to do.” Three short letters were all that told the rest of her story. The last was from Dawson City, and contained these lines: “All the money I took with me has been swallowed up. Send me help. I am in peril.” A few days ago came a dispatch telling the story of a slightly built, delicate little woman, with sharp features and black eyes, who had been recognized as Mrs. Fleming, and who with only her son and one follower had moved out of the city into the heart of the mining camps. Nearly four months have her sister and friends waited for word, and now they begin to fear she is dead. "I dread the spring and the news that it will bring,” said Florence Bliss. "If she were safe it is certain that I should have received some tidings of her.” With Mrs. Fleming when she started on her journey were a Mr. and Mrs. Rothay and a man known as Jack Long on the way to St. Michael’s. Trouble arose in the party and from that time Mrs. Fleming and her son were left to themselves. VERDICT IN*UNIQUE CASE. Marriage Set Aside Four Years After Death of One of the Parties. CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—The Illinois Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the Orchardson-Merrick marriage annulment case, affirming the decree of nullification granted by the lower court and giving the property to the relatives of Mrs. Merrick. The case is unique in that the marriage is set aside after one of the contracting parties has been dead almost four years. In 1893 Charles Orchardson, an artist and at one time Socialistic candidate for mayor of Chicago against the late Carter Harrison, was married to Mrs. Merrick, of Quincy, 111. Mrs. Merrick, who was over eighty yeais old, was the possessor of property worth something like SIOO,OOO. Orchardson, who was sixty years old. met Mrs. Merrick at a spiritualistic seance in Quincy, conducted by Vera Ava, better known as Odelia Dis de Bar, and with her help, it is alleged, prevailed on the aged Mrs. Merrick to marry him and make a will leaving her property to him. Mrs. Merrick died within a year. Shortly after her # death Mrs. Merrick’s relatives brought suit to have the marriage set aside. The case has been in the courts for over three years. Among the litigants were George Turner, of Michigan, and J. Coffleld, of Denver. Col. S. H. H. CLARK ILL Noted Railway Manager Unable to Leave His Private Car. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 23.-S. H. H. Clark, one of the receivers of the Union Pacific Railroad, and also vice president of the International & Great Northern & Texas Pacific Railroad, arrived here yesterday morning. Before he codld leave his private car and go to the hotel, where apartments had been engaged for him, he was taken ill and has not been able since to leave the car. Mr. Clark has been in poor health for some time, and came here in the hope of spending a few days and then going to a ranen south of here, where he was to spend the winter. If his condition does not improve within the next few days he will be taken back to his home, in Omaha. An Ex-Cashier Pardoned. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.—William E. Burr, jr., ex-cashier of the St. Louis National Bank, now serving a sentence of five years at the Jefferson City State Penitentiary for the embezzlement of $29,000, has been pardoned by President McKinley. Ihe pardon. It is said, was issued on the recommendation of Attorney General McKenna, who received petitions of clemency from Natl m l Rep jbil an commuue.i.an Kerens, tne two Democratic senators and other influential people of the State. To Prevent Collection of Taxes. CLEVELAND, Dee. 23.-Bills of complaint were filed this afternoon in the United States Circuit Court by the Commercial National Bank, the First National Bank, the Mercantile National Bank, the Cleveland National Bank, the National City Bank and the National Bank of Commerce, ah versus R. S. Hubbard, as treasurer of Cuyahoga county, to prevent the collection of the Increase in taxation assessment on the bank shares as ordered recently by the state auditor. Kidnaper Sentenced. ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Albert S. Warner, a lawyer, to-day pleaded guilty to assisting in the kidnaping of Johnny Conway, and was sentenced to Clinton prison for a term of fifteen years at hard labor. Blake and Hardy, his fellow-con-spiritors, are serving terms of fourteen years and six months at the same place for the same crime. Two Children Killed by Hoff*. TIFF CITY, Mo., Dec. 23. Two little children of George Coakley, a farmer living near here, climbed into a pig sty to-day to catch one of the pigs. The children were set upon by a number of hogs. The hogs kh.ed both children. The children had been left alone at home while their mother went on an errand to a neighbor’s house.

DEATH OF C. E. GREENE TRUSTEE AM) PROMINENT IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY : .'FAIRS. ♦- Died of Heart Failure Soon After Making: a Speech—Lady Millais, Widow of the Noted Artist, Dead. PRINCETON’. N. J., Dec. 23.-Charles E. Greene, one of the most prominent of the trustees of Princeton University, died suddenly here to-day of heart failure. He had come from Fortress Monroe to attend a of the board of trustees. Cn his arrival he was apparently in good health, but complained ot fatigue., He participated in the regular business of the m eting and made the closing speech of the day, about noon. After that time he complained of illness, and was taken to the residence of Professor William Libbey. At 5 o'eiock in the afternoon heart failure developed and he died instantly. Mr. Greene has been very prominent in the affairs of the university. In addition to being a member of the board of trustees he was chairman of the finance committee and represented the estate of Charles Greene at Princeton, which estate has contributed about $1,500,000 to Princeton University. Mr. Greene had entire charge of the John C. Greene School' of Science, founded by his uncle, John C. Greene. He was also trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary and president of the board of trustees of the Lawrenceville Preparatory School, which was also founded by John C. Greene. By profession Mr. Greene was a lawyer, practicing in Trenton, the place of his residence. He was graduated from Princeton in the class of 1860 and was about sixty years of age. His father was Chancellor Henry Greene, of New Jersey. LADY MILLAIS. Woman Who Deserted John Konkin for Love of a Great Artist. LONDON. Dec. 23.—Lady Millais, widow of Sir John Millais, the iate president of the Royal Academy, is dead. Lady Millais married the famous artist in 1855. She was the divorced wife of John Ruskin, the.noted writer. She separated from ( Ruskin for reasons that to her appeared sufficient and bestowed her person and affections on Millais, her husband's friend and companion. Not long afterward there was a quiet divorce and the lady became Mrs. Millais, with all the sanction of church and law. To most friendships conduct like that of Mrs. Ruskin and Millais w'ould have been a fatal blow, but Mr. Ruskin admitted the sufficiency of the cause with almost unexampled candor and attended the wedding of the couple and maintained his friendship with Millais till tne latter’s death. Ex-Congressman John Patton. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—Ex-Congress-mcn John Patton, of Curwensviile, Pa., died in this city to-night after a long illness. Mr. Patton was seventy-four years of age. He was president of the First National Bank of Curwensviile and later of a private bank which succeeded that institution. He was a delegate to the national convention of the Whig party at Ba'timore which nominated General Scott for '.he presidency, and a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Lincoln. In chat year, 1860, he was elected a member of the Thir-ty-seventh Congress from the Twentyfourth district of Pennsylvania. He was re-elected in 1886. He leaves two daughters and five sons, among the latter being cxL’nited States Senator John Patton, jr!, of Grand Rapids, Mich. George Croker. NEW YORK, Dec. 23. George Croker, brother of Richard Croker, died at midnight to-night at the residence of Dr. William T. Jenkins, on Staten island. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which Mr. Croker died, nothing definite could be learned as to the cause of death and details connected therewith. It was said, however, by an inmate of Dr. Jenkins's office that Mr. Croker was brought to Staten island to-night in a r-oach from New York. He was very ill tnen, and Dr. Jenkius immediately summoned a physician of Stapleton to assist him. Before the physician reached the invalid’s bedside, however, death ensued. It is supposed the cause of death was heart failure and it is siaid the deceased has been ill for some time. * W. W. Andrew*. CLEVELAND. 0., Dec. 23.—W. W. Andrews, an attorney, and the head of one of the most distinguished families in the Wtstern Reserve, was found dead in his chair in his office, in the Society for Savings building, this afternoon. He had been afflicted with heart disease. Mr. Andrew's was six-ty-one years old, and was born in Cleveland. He was the son of the late Judge Sherlock J. Andrews, one of the most distinguished jurists of Ohio in his day.

Col. James* Monroe Toxver. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The death is announced of Col. James Monroe Tower, once a well-known promoter, and uncle of Charlemagne Tower, United States minister to Austria. Death was due to apoplexy. Mr. Tov,er was born near Utica in 1823. He came to this city in 1860. Julius C. Pomerene, COSHOCTON, 0.. Dec. 23.—Judge Julius C. Pomerene, of the Fifth judicial circuit of Ohio, was stricken with paralysis while at breakfast at his home here this morning, death resulting shortly before noon. His age was sixty-two. A wife, two sons and a daughter survive. Will in m Denley, Brewer. WAUKEGAN, 111., Dec. 23.—William Besley, the famous brewer of ale and porter, died here to-day as the result of a fracture of the hip caused by a fall about a month ago. Mr. Besley was ninety years old and a native of Berkshire, England. Bunker Letvl Hall. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 23.—Lewis Hall, president and founder of the Lochmere National Bark, died at his home, in this city, to-day, aged eighty years. He was well known in the lumber trades. Wllllum .Tost. BERLIN, Dec. 23.—The National Zeitung to-day announced that Wilhelm Jost, the expiorer, died recently in Austria. A FOOLISH SC HEME. Oinu.hu Exposition Wants Special Coins and Special Stumps. Washington Special in Chicago Post. The managers of the Transmississippl Exposition, which is to be held at Omaha during the summer of 1898, are making all their preparations with the view of having it rank next in size and importance to the Columbian world's fair of 1893. Among their most ambitious projects are the issue of a set of postage'stamps in honor of the exposition and the minting of a souvenir coin of some sort. The postage-stamp Idea was referred to Third Assistant Postmaster General Merritt, who wrote a commendatory report for the postmaster general. General Gary laid this report before the President and Cabinet, which in turn approved of it, and orders were given that Mr. Merritt’s recommendations should be put in force. The postmaster general is now inviting suggestions from all persons who are conversant with the history of immigration and progress in the country west of the Mississippi river, and out of the mass of hints already received and to be received later he hopes to select a series of designs at once appropriate and artistic. Thus far the suggestions which have attracted his notice most favorably have been a picture of the old-fashioned rope ferry used so long as a means of conveyance across the upper Mississippi; another showing the Rock Island bridge, the first structure of its kind thrown across the river anywhere; a reproduction in miniature of the painting by Lcutze ii the House wing of the Capitol. portraying allegorically the westward trend of empire, and various hunting and cattle-herding scenes familiar in the West. New ideas from any source and in any form will be welcomed, and may be sent to the third assistant postmaster general at the department in this city. The designs when selected will be used with onlv five denominations of stamps. These will be the 1 cent. 2 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and $1 stamps. The ones and twos are the stamps in common use in domestic postage; the .'.-cent stamp is the unit of foreign postage; the 10-eent stamp is in genera! use for registry purposee. as it combines the 8eent reg'stry fee with the 2-cent unit of domestic postage. The dollar stamp is. of course, much less frequently used. It Is. however, the commonest of the stamps of

very high denomination. If It does nothing else, it will sell well to collectors, who, as a rule, will desire a full set of this Issue of stamps. Probably the demands of collectors alone will considerably more than pay for the entire expense of the souvenir Issue. More than 55,000 $1 stamps of the Columbian series were issued between December. 1802, and April, 1804. But with the Columolan Issue several disadvantageous conditions had to be considered. Sixteen denominations were issued, running from 1 cent to $5. This largely increased the cost to collectors, and to that extent put off a good many who would otherwise have liked to Invest. Moreover. the country was then on the brink of a financial panic, and stamp collectors were feeling poor, like everyone else. The colors of the souvenir stamps have not yet been selected, but they will be different from those of the correspoifding denominations of ordinary stamps. When asked this morning whether they w'ould not run afoul of the regulations adopted by the International Postai Congress, General Merritt answered that as the rule adopted by the congress was not to go into effect until Jan. 1. 181*2, this issue, being confined to that year for a special purpose, would not be affected by It. The souvenir coin idea will not be very w’elcome to the Treasury Department and probably will not be pressed. The experience of the government with the issue, of a special coin in commemoration of' the world s fair was not conducive to a desire for further experiments in that line. The Philadelphia mint, however, will prepare the medal for the Omaha and the designers are now awaiting sketches or descriptions from the managers of the exposition, on which to go to w'ork. FOUGHT - TWENTY RuUNDS. Whistler mid Bernstein Pummel Each Other for Twenty Rounds. NEW YORK, Dee. 23. For the third time in their ring career Billy Whistler, of Philadelphia, and Joe Bernstein, of New York, met* to-night at the Green Point Sporting Club. Their first meeting was in South Brooklyn, when, after fifteen hard rounds, Whistler got the decision. They met again for ten rounds at the Broadway Athletic Club, and fought a draw. Both boys agreed to-night that if each was on his feet at the end of the twentieth round the bout should be declared a draw'. They fought at catch weights, and Whistler proved to be the better, but, owing to the stipulation, the referee had no alternative, and decided the mill a draw, as both were on their feet and able to go along for several rounds more. I'ngillst Perry Acquitted. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—The jury In the case of Samuel C. Perry, a local pugilist, charged with manslaughter in causing tin death of Edward J. Gibbons during a boxing bout last March, to-day rendered a verdict of not guilty. The men were to box for $25. and after the third round, when Perry’s nose was bleeding, the bout was stopped by the referee. Gibbons went to his room ana became ill. He died later in a hospital. The doctors held that his death was due to hemorrhages. After the verdict had been rendered Judge Pennypacker said the defendant was fortunate in not being charged with murder in the second degree, as it was shown that death resulted from an action that was contemplated in advance. Iloxlng: Bouts at Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—The principal affair In the bouts at the Chicago Athletic Club to-night was a six-round contest between Otto Sieloff and Jack Lewis. It was declared a draw after six hot rounds. Leslie Pierce, of Philadelphia, was given the decision over Charles Byrne, of Cincinnati. Byrne injured one of his hands, and w T as unable to continue the fight. George Kerwin, of Chicago, defeated Mike Butler, of New York, the bout being stopped in the second round to save the Eastern man. Peter Boy'le and Johnny Van Heest went six rounds, the decision being a draw.

PLOTTING AGAINST STEIN. Enemies of the Georgia Editor Want llinf to Leave Atlunta. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 23.—There was a peculiar development in the Stein-Johnson-O'Neill trouble yesterday. O’Neill and Johnson are members of the Capital City Club, which has been viciously attacked in Stein’s paper from time to time. At 10 o’clock in the morning the Southern messenger service was called upon by Harry C. Stockdell, the leading clubman of the city, to deliver a number of sealed letters. These letters invited the recipients to meet at his office at the hour of noon and incidentally stated that the purpose in view was the elimination of Stein from Atlanta by such means as might be agreed upn. The letters were carefully read, with the result that when Mr. Stockdell onened his office door for the entrance of his guests only five men appeared. One newspaper man was present, out an adjournment took place without reaching business. The incident indicates that there is a large sentiment which, if not favorable to Stein, is at least neutral, and will not permit itself to be worked against him. There is much curiosity awaiting the next issue of Stein’s paper on to-morrow evening in which it is hinted the lid will be taken off the town. LINCOLN’S ELASTIC PARDON. Let Out a Friend for All He Had Done “and All That He Ever Will Do.” Washington Post. Senator Mills has anew story about Lincoln. It was told to him by a son of John L. Helm, of Kentucky, who lives in Corsicana. “Old John L. Helm.” said the senator, “was a famous character in Kentucky. He was, if I remember rightly, a Governor of the State, but at any rate his position was a most prominent one. When the civil war came on Helm was a rabid secessionist. He could not praise the South too highly and could not heap enough abuse upon the North. He was too old to go into the war with his sons, and remained at home, doing all he could to help the Confederate cause and harass the Yankees who invaded the State. Finally he became so obstreperous that the federal genera* who was in command near Helm's home put him in prison. The old man’s age, the high position which he occupied in the State, his wide connection. and especially his inability to do any actual harm, were all pleaded in his extenuation. and he was released. Instead of profiting by the warning the old man became more persistent than ever in his course. Once more he was clapp and into jail. This happened two or three times, and finally, while, he was still locked up, the matter was brought to the attention of the federal authorities. Even President Lincoln was appealed to and asked to commit the ardent Southerner to an indefinite confinement in order that he might be curbed. “Lincoln listened to the statement of the case with more than usual interest. Then he leaned back and began to speak with a smile upon his face. ’You are talking about old man John Helm? Well, did you know that I used to live, when I was a boy, in Helm’s town? He was kind to me. He seemed to like me as a boy. and he never lost an opportunity to help me. He seemed to thick.’ said Lincoln, with another of his almost pathetic smiles, ’that I would probably make somethiug of a man. Why, when I went out to Illinois, poor and unknown, that man gave me the money to pay my way and keep me until I got a start. John Helm? Oh. yes, I know him. And I know what I owe to him. I think I can fix his ease.’ “And then,’’ said Senator Mills, “Lincoln went to a desk and wrote a few words. The bit of writing is treasured in the Helm household to this day. This is what the President wrote: “ I hereby pardon John L. Helm, of Kentucky, for all that he has ever done against the United States and all that he will ever do. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.’ ” Wants the Coroner’s Oilier Abolished. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The December grand jurv of Kings county handed to Judge Hurd in the County Court. Brook lyn, to-day. a recommendation that the office of coroner be abolished, because of the facts that the office w'as of no practical effect in ferreting out crime; that the methods in vogue in that office were open to the most severe censure; the manner of conducting the business was inefficient and the powers of the coroners were delegated to subordinates, whose chief functions seemed to be to collect fees incident to the office for their chief. Two Wicked Rarlier*. CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—A barber with pawn tickets in his possession, representing jewelry. clothing etc., aggregating in value SB,OOO, was arrested to-day. The prisoner. William Hart, is charged with conducting a “fence.” Another barber. William Johnson, of Niles. Mich., is under arrest as an accomplice. Hart’s wife is also under arrest. Home (or Mason*. BURLINGTON. N. J., Dec. 23,-The Masonic Grand Lodge of New Jersey has purchased a magnificent property in this countv for a state home, not only for Masons, hut for Manons’ widows and orphans as well. The Masons of New Jersey for years

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have been working to this end, and the Grand Lodge will take title to the property on Dec. 30. The cost was $22,000. The house is completely furnished, and also has its own gas and water plants. The building was erected by a Cincinnati millionaire, and cost, with its furnishings, $150,000. MONTGOMERY’S MURDER Commander Stockton’s Account of the H tiling: of an American Sailor, NEWPORT, R. 1., Dec. 23.—Commander C. H. Stockton, U. S. N,, who commanded the Yorktown at the time when two sailors, Frank Epps, of New York, and Seaman Montgomery, attached to the Asiatic fleet, were killed by Japanese at Nagasaki, ha* just returned to his home here. Commander Stockton said to-night that Montgomery was a landsman on the Yorktown. He was one of the berth deck cooks and had been restricted to the ship on account of drunkenness. Commander Stockton from memory then recited the incidents of Montgomery’s death, as follows: Last August Montgomery, in company with a marine, left the Yorktown without permission while the ship was in tne harbor of Nagasaki, Japan. The men swam to the shore. Two days later Montgomery’s body was found by Japanese boatmen in the water and it was taken to the police station. Communder Stockton was notified and a chief petty officer ashore to Identity the iiody, accompanied by the surgeon of the ship. rinding marks of violence on the body Commander Stockton ordered a board of officers to hold an inquest. From investigation of the case and from all the evidence obtainable the officer* came to the conclusion thut Montgomery had died, not from drowning, but from violence at the hands oi some person cr persons unknown. commander Siockton reported the rase to the United States consul at Nagaskai. to the police authorities on shore and to the Navy Department through the admiral of the Asiatic station, and also held an interview with the chief of police of the district and disabused his mind of the idea that Montgomery had died from occidental drowning. The evidence given by the marine who accompanied Montgomery showed that the latter had not drunk to excess and was seen about 11 p. m. of tne day of the alleged murder with a roll of Japanese bank notes wrapped in canvas in his hand, and he was displaying his money to his shipmates. No trace of Montgomery’s murderers was found up to the time the Yorktown left Nagasaki, cn Sept. 15 last, the vessel then being under orders to sail for home. Montgomery’s body was found in a shallow tart of the harbor and the circumstantial evidence showed that he was knocked on the head and thrown overboard. Skeptical I and Scornful. Philadelphia# Press. It goes without saying that scientific tnen shake their heads over young Edison’* cluim that he has photographed “thought.' and it also is in the eternal fitness of thing* *hat the voung poseur should not be ready to show his results. That a “thought’' could be photographed could only occur to thos* whose sole idea of the brain is gained through a confused conception of the action of the sense of sight. To come down to broad Issues the thought photography Issue is pure humbug, and If young Mr. Edison does not know this he must be callow indeed.