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the board of directors of the Trust Company. The deed unreservedly conveys all the property of the company to the assign eea Mr. Singorly's statement comes as the result of a conference of the directors of the defunct concerns held to-day. and It Is gen- • rally believed that the hope of an eventual settlement on a 100-per-cent, basis will be realized. A statement will be issued within a day or two showing the exact condition of the companies’ aflairs. The only other embarrassment thus far resulting from the crash was the assignment to-day of the Philadelphia Binding and Mailing Company, a small organization incorporated in Maine. The bank examiner and his assistants spent the greater part of the day going over the books of the tw’o companies, but decline to make any statement. It Is said the bank had about 1,800 deposit accounts and the trust company 3,200. State Banking Commissioner Gilkeson and Attorney General McCormick were engaged to-day Inquiring into the condition of the State’s deposit in the bank and looking after the interests of dejjositors In the trust company, which is Incorporated under the state laws. Rumors concerning the Trust and Life Insurance Company, of which ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison is president, are entirely unfounded. Clarence E. Cook, secretary and treasurer of the company, stated today that the company had had a small deposit In the Chestnut-street National Bank, but that it had prepared Itself for the emergency and anticipated no trouble. Mr. Sirgerly Is a director and a large stockholder In the security company. When the news of the closing of the Chestnut-street National Bank reached Elkton. Md., yesterday afternoon It had a disturbing effect on the depositors in the Second National Bank of Elkton, of which Mr. Singerly is vice president and a heavy stockholder. The bank opened Its doors as usual this morning for business and a steady stream of depositors filed in, anxious to withdraw their accounts. The officials of the bank had anticipated a run and made preparations for it. The depositors were assured by President William T. Warburton and Cashier Isaac 1). Davis that the institution was solvent and fully abio to meet all Its outstanding obligations. Asa result many depositors decided to retain their funds in the bank. It is feared the financial failure of Mr. Singerly will close his paper mills near Elkton. Brokerage House Closed. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The World this morning says: The banking and brokerage house of T. E. Ward & Cos., at Nos. 31 and 33 Broadway, was closed by the sheriff yesterday afternoon on attachment of the Supreme Court, issued on the complaint of H. C. Morse Squyer, of Auburn, N. Y., for a claim of 35,576.96, alleged to be deposited with the firm. The firm did a general brokerage business in stocks, bonds and other securities, and when Deputy Sheriff Levy made the seizure the customers who were in the offices at the time asked for their money, but it was too late. An attachment was also served on the Western National Bank, Sixth National Bank and Wells. Fargo. & Co.’s Bank for moneys deposited there to the credit of the firm, and also against the firm’s up-town branch office, at No. 1270 Broadway. Mr. Ward, who lives at 251 West Nine-ty-third street, said the concern would resume business In a few days. T. E. Ward & Cos. failed a few months ago for 3100,000, but settled with their creditors. Hardware E*tnhli*hment Clewed. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 24—The wholesale hardware establishment of Bradford Kennedy, Sons & McGuire was closed by the sheriff to-day on judgments by compromise amounting to 340,626. The largest judgment is in favor of the New York State Banking Company, for 332,046. The liabilities of the firm are estimated at from $85,000 to 3100,000, and the assets at 3130,000. A RAILROAD AND ITS WORKMEN. What the Illinois Central Is Doing for Those In Its Employ. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. The Illinois Central Railroad Company has done more fer its employes than any other similar corporation in our country, exoept, posssibly, the New York Centra], in the way of giving the workers fair play and a share in that property’s prosperity, which the workers labor to promote. Some years ago the Illinois Central perfected and put in operation a plan whereby the subordinate officers, mechanics and laborers on the line could acquire- shares of the company’s stock. Pursuant to this scheme, several hundred of the men have become owners of shares, are voters at stockholders’ meetings, draw their dividends and many of them are adding to their hoards. The stock pays regularly 5 per cent. It is an “investment” stock, and steadily sells around 102. This plan of inducing the men to become interested in the property has worked extremely well, has improved the general morale and promises to solve forever the matter of strikes on that road. Now the directory has put into force a regulation giving suspended employes a better show, and to prevent hasty discharges. No man may now be discharged without investigation of his case by a board of Inquiry, a majority of such board being made up of officers not connected Hith the department in which the man is employed, and the action of the board must be approved by the general superintendent before any action can be taken. In the matter of suspensions the management has Inaugurated what is called “bnoa suspension.” The party loses no time. There is no real suspension. The man goes along. And then if he does any act of heroism or does something that he ought to be commended for the marks that are against him are offset by the good marks that are credited to him. So that a man may at the end of the year have done several bad things and a great many good things, and come out without any demerits against him. This is an elaborate system of reform in railway service, that might well be adopted in part, at least, in the government civil service. It is well known that the Illinois Central has the best set of railway operatives to be found in all the territory between the Mississippi river and the Appalachian range, and we have here given the main reasons why this is so. The company, to start with, pays the most liberal wages, and this policy attracts good men from lines that pay less. Then the company encourages thrift among the employes, by various devices, one of which we have briefly noted. Finally, a man with good intentions, when employed on the Illinois Central is very sxire of absolute fair play; no brutal foreman can abuse a laborer or other subordinate with impunity. He-knows his treatment of the men under him will be searchingly investigated, and this prompts him to be patient and just. If all these methods combined did not give the road a superior force, then human nature would be a hopeless thing, indeed; but. in fact, it has just the effect the wise head of the great corporation desires and expects. PHOTOGRAPHING THOUGHT. Young Mr. Edison I’nwUe In Disclosing His l'lnn*. New York Tribune. If Thomas A. Edison, jr., has really undertaken to photograph thought it is a great pity that he did not conceal the fact from the newspaper reporters. The announcement of such attempts as have recently been imputed to him is calculated both to injure the young man’s reputation among scientific people and to mislead a credulous and already too much befooled public. Two years or more ago a Frenchman named Baraduc tried something of this sort and achieved an ephemeral but unfortunate notoriety there! y. Almost simultaneously a photographer In England, one Rogers, told a more plausible, though equally impossible, story. He pretended to have copied, with an ordinary camera, an impression retained on the retina of his own eye forty-five minutes after looking intently at a coin. He was supposed to have set in a dark room, facing his instrument, and to have kept his thoughts concentrated on the coin during this interval. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford, jr.. University, was moved thereupon to satirize these undertakings in the pages of the Popular Science Monthly. His task was performed so cleverly that there would amain no occasion for further remark if his article had only been read as extensively as could be desired. It would seem, however, that there yet exists some uncertainty in many people’s minds as to the possibility of doing what Baraduc and young Edison propose. The vital questie it should be remembered, is not one o;. methods or apparatus. It relates to the nature of thought. Is this phenomenon a material or an immaterial thing? Thought is accon.Dankd by chemical changes in the substance of the brain; It is more or less localized In that organ, too. now occurring in one group of cells and now in another. Moreover, it Is provoked by external stimuli, touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. Nevertheless, thought is still believed by the philosophers to be an intangible, immaterial product, no more susceptible of producing an image on a photographic plate thun the attraction of gravitation or a moral impulse. And If the philosophers are correct one might ad well try to depict In tills manner one’s conviction that a given act of Congress is unconstitutional, or his understanding of the binomial theorem, as an Image excited in his imagination by showing him a postage stamp. It does not follow because a man is an expert in physiology that he understands mathematics. A mastery of political economy does not qualify one to elucidate nice questions in theology. And it is not safe to assume that one who knows several things about electricity, and whose father knows a good deal more, is an accomplished psychologist.

HOUSE BLOWN TO ATOMS MRS. KELLY THAWED OUT DYNAMITE UNDER HER COOK STOVE. ♦ Gn* Belt Trolley Rond Brings Its First Loud of Farmers Into Anderson—State New*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 24.—Two workmen engaged in getting out rock to be crushed near this city for use on gravel roads sent some frozen dynamite to the house of a Mrs. Kelley to be thawed out. The man placed it under a cook stove and warned Mrs. Kelley to be careful and not let it get too warm, as it was dangerous stuff. She thought he said to keep it hot; so, after he left, she replenished the fire and soon had the stove as hot as could be. She was engaged in washing and was on the outside of the house at work, when all at once the dynamite let go with a fearful explosion. The cook stove and contents of the room were badly wrecked, and a cat and dog that were in the room were killed. The house took fire and was destroyed. Had the woman been in the room she would have been blown to atoms. Sad Scene* in Rn*hville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Dec, 24.—The awful railway crossing accident at Griffin’s Station last night caused a feeling of sorrow to overspread the preparations for Christmas in this city. The young couple are co well known here that their terrible fate was the sole theme on the streets. Miss Ida Florence Brooks, twenty years old, who was instantly killed, is the daughter of the late William M. Brooks, county commissionerelect, who was killed in the C., H. & D. yards at Indianapolis by a Panhandle engine one year ago, on the eve of taking his office. William Pearsey, aged twenty-two, her escort, is a graduate of the Rushville High School, class ’97, and has been reading law in ex-Congressman Watson’s office all summer. He has been unconscious since the accident and is sinking. He is at Dr. J. C. Sexton’s sanitarium, where he was taken after the accident. The young people were returning from a Christmas entertainment at Ben Davis Creek Church and were wholly unconscious of the danger when they drove on the track in front of the C., H. & D. fast train. Little Sympathy for Beeler. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24.—The article published in Tuesday’s Journal concerning the Beeler case from Brooklyn, reciting that the officers of the court here were very sorry when he had been convicted, was a misrepresentation of the facts. The court officers think a just verdict was rendered and that he should serve his time. The officials here have been importuned in hLs behalf and have refused to have anything to do in the effort for his release. His offense was not simply buying two chickens that had been unknowingly to him stolen, but that he was convicted of having some small boys do the stealing and then he bought the stolen articles of them for a very small sum. At the time of Beeler’s arrest all the best citizens were anxious for the man’s conviction. Sympathy for his family has caused the present feeling in his behalf. Farmer* on Gan-Belt Trolley. Special to- the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 24.—Farmers living north of this city along the line of the new gas belt electric railway, which was opened as far as Alexandria to-day, were greatly pleased with the new service, and came In to do their shopping the same as people In the suburbs. While the crowd in the city was very large, the number of rigs was only about half what has heretofore been needed to bring in the country people. The merchants all did a great business, and felt the effects of the new service. Many also came down from Alexandria, although they had to walk to the city limits to catch the train, the track not being completed yet in the city. It will be connected up next week. Ml** Steven* Demi In Muncle Hospital. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 24. -A woman giving the name of Miss Clara Stevens, aged twenty-four, died at the City Hospital this evening. She came here from St. Louis a month ago, claiming to be the wife of Richard Wood, of Cincinnati. She claimed her parents resided in New Mexico and that she had a brother in Texas. She stated that Wood was a news agent on trains and that she was married to him, but he disclaimed her. She was a small woman with brown hair, fair complexion and rather pretty. She refused to teil the story of her life. Electric Line to Watrasec, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 24.—A franchise was granted to the Goshen, Elkhart & Southern Railroad Company to-day for an electric light between Goshen and Elkhart and between Goshen and New Paris, Waterford and Lake Wawasee, The company is officered and backed by such men as W. H. Holcomb and Herbert Holcomb, of Chicago; H. K. Judson. N. J. Aldrich and F. G. Mills, of Aurora. 111., and promises to be a bona tide enterprise. The road, by the terms of the franchise, must be built within a year. Gone to Texan for a Husband. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 24.—Miss Dora Eostes, youngest daughter of Dr. R. A. Eastes, left for Pacos City, Tex., yesterday, and on her arrival there she will at once be married to Mr. Albion Davis, a former resident of Brook, Newton county, this State. He has been a teacher in the city schools at Pacos City, and is now superintendent. The couple met six year ago, in the normal school, at Danville. The bride has been a teacher here for some time. They will go to Los Angeles, Cal., to reside. Wholewale Grocery Mobbed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind., Dec. 24.—During the past year many robberies have been perpetrated on the wholesale grocery house of Mocllering Brothers & Millard. Among the stolen articles were barrels of sugar, sacks of coffee and rice and boxes of tobacco. Today the police arrested James Coling, tor many years shipping clerk, and Drivers Henry Hunt and John Aukenbruch. After being under arrest several hours, Hunt this evening confessed, implicating all the men arrested. The Blake Golden Wedding. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Dec. 24.-Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Blake celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary yesterday in the home they have resided the past quarter of a century. The event was participated in by the children and grandchildren of the venerable couple. Among those present were: Dr. Islington and family, of Huntington county; Samuel Blake and wife of Albany; John, Henry and Ezekiel Blake and their families, of this city. Dudley Fonlke I* Confident. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 24.—William Dudley Foulke announced to-day that he and Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, and Richard H. Dana, of Boston, who constitute the special committee of the National Civilservice Reform League, appointed to combat the attack in Congress on the civilservice, would go to Washington in January to work against the repeal or crippling of the law. lie is confident nothing will be done to seriously effect the law. Murder at n Christum* Parts'. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind., Dec. 24.—Horn u- Tlslow was murdered to-night while attending a Christmas tree affair at Brevoort’s schoolhouse, four miles south of the city. Tislow had been drinking and raised a row with some woman, when an unknown assailant slipped up behind him and cut his throat from ear to ear. He lived but a short while. He was twenty-eight years old and married, but he and his wife had separated. Flgliteen Wedding;* In One Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24. 1 ’Squire John H. Huuse, of this city, has In

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the last twenty-four hours performed eighteen marriage ceremonies. The majority of the contracting parties were from Kentucky. Tt has been noticed that during the ho. days there are mere eloping .oup.es married litre than at any other time of the year. Several couples were married by other magistrates during the day. Drilled for Oil and Found Gaa. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MATTHEWS. Ind., Dec. 24.—The test well drilled lri on the Robert J. Carlens farm, adjoining Matthews, has proved a complete failure as far as oil is concerned, but it is a monster gasser. the largest ever drilled near Matthews This will be quite a disappointment to a great many oil operators, as they expected anew field would be opened. It was drilled in one hundred feet in the sand. Closing; the Wayne Hotel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 24.—This morning the Wayne Hotel was virtually closed. Host McKinnie put the register away and refused to enter any more transient guests. He will keep the hotel open a few days, so that the regular boarders may find other apartments. His lease does not expire until February, but he is anxious to dispose of the furniture and get out of the house before that date. Police Prevent it Boxing Match. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 24.—The police notified the proprietors of the Maisie Grov e Athletic Club that participants In the twentyround boxing contest between Jack Lyons, of Philadelphia, and Tommy Cavanaugh, of Buffalo, booked for 11 o’clock to-night, would be arrested, and the fight did not come off. Such exhibitions have been going on and were simply slugging matches. Clo*e Call for Mr. Ilntfkin. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 24.—Early this morning a robber entered the home of John Buff kin, and an exciting encounter occurred. Mr. Buffkin jumped out of bed and pursued the man out of the house. The robber fired five shots, four of them striking within the house and one passing through Mr. Buffkin's undershirt, grazing the skin. The robber made his escape. Oldest Man in County Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24.—Janies McDaniel, the oldest man in Morgan county, died at his home, in Baker township, Thursday night, aged ninety-five years. Mr. McDaniel did not know his age, but thought he was one hundred and four years old. He was born in North Carolina, but resided at his home, south of this city, almost all his life. Club AgralnMt Civil Service, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 24.—The Howard County Republican Club was reorganized last night, with Fennimore Cooper president; Charles De Haven, vice president; Lacy Turpin, secretary; E. A. Simmons, treasurer. A resolution favoring the repeal or modification of the civil-service law was passed. Ebenezer Church Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. IU’SHVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24.-The old Methodist Church at Ebenezer, one of the oldest in the county, took fire last night during a Christmas-tree entertainment and was reduced to ashes. The people escaped without any one being injured. Loss, $2,000, with insurance of 3800. Richmond Man Held a* a Suspect. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 24.—T0-day at noon Patrolman Gill arrested a colored man at the ferry dock, on suspicion of his being William S. Strathers, wanted for murder in Dayton, O. At the police station the man gave his name as Alexander Jones, of Richmond, Ind. He will be held until the Dayton officials can be heard from. Indinnn Note*. Officer Welty, of Kokomo, has received a letter from Herr Dobblemann, of Rotterdam. wanting to purchase a pair of bloodhounds for use of the authorities there. Dr. T. C. Donnell, of Franklin, has been appointed by the commissioner of pensions as a specialist in examination of diseases of the respiratory organs ana of the eye and ear. Cases for spinal examination throughout that section will be sent to him. He has had seven years experience as a member of the Franklin examining hoard, but is not now a member of tnat organization. OBITUARY. Mi** Herbert’* Remain* Interred. MONTGOMERY, Ala,, Dec. 24.-Hon. H. A, Herbert and his son-in-law, Mr. Benjamin Micou, and Mrs. Micou reached here this morning at 1 o’clock in a private car. They brought the remains of Miss Herbert for interment here. A largo number of relatives arid friends were waiting at the station for the arrival of the train. The casket was in a private car, and was covered with beautiful floral emblems. The remains were taken to the residence of Mr. R. G. Banks, and were interred In the family burying ground at 11 o’clock. Miss Herbert spent the early part of her life in this city, and. was especially beloved and admired, Jeremiah H. Mahoney. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.—State Senator Jeremiah H. Mahoney died last night from the effects of a cancerous growth In bis throat. He was born in Buffalo. N. Y., where he was once city superintendent of streets. He was prominent in San Francisco politics. WOULD-BE ROBBERS FOILED. Attempt to Burn a Department Store Filled with Shopper*. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Two men made a bold attempt, shortly after noon to-day, to fire the large department store of A. M. Rothschild & Cos., while the place was crowded with Christmas shoppers, their object evidently being to make a raid during the excitement on the deposit bank conducted by the firm for its employes and others, in which there was about $20,000. One of the men touched a match to a parcel saturated with kerosene and threw it in a telephone booth a few yards from the entrance to the bank. His companion stood near the door of the bank, but was unable to make an entrance because the cashier carefully locked the door behind her when she joined other employes ot the store in extinguishing the fire, which did very little damage. The culprits quickly mingled with the crowd after the fire was out and have not been caught. Noterloun IJlack llm-glur Arrested. ST. LOUIS. Dec. 24.—After a vigil of two years detectives have arrested here Thomas Lood, a self-confessed negro burglar, who has operated in nearly every large city of the \\ est and South and even now is wanted in Memphis, Tenn., where a sentence of fourteen years hangs over his head. The crimes for which Hood was wanted here are three, which he confessed were perpetrated about two years ago. Barry 'Will Fight No More. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—1n a letter received to-day from Jimmy Barry, who recently deflated Walter Croot in England, Croot dying in a short time after the fight, Barry announces that he will fight no more. The letter was written before Barry was released from custody, and he says, no matter what the result of the court proceedings would be. he would never engage in another ring contest. Killed by a Policeman. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A coroner's jury to-day found that James Kennedy came to his death on Nov. 28 last, through a blow from a club in the hands of Policeman Henry Woodley. The jury expressed no opinion as to whither the clubbing was justifiable or not. The policeman was committed in default of sl>/,000 ball. Kennedy was reported to have been killed in a street brawl. British Gold Coming;. NEW YORK. Deo. 24.—Heldelbach, FJokelheimer & Cos. announce that they have $500,000 in gold leaving London to-morrow cons.gned to them. The steamship Lucania, sailing for Europe to-morrow, will take 635.000 ounces of silver ami 23.1X10 Mexican dollars. 'Hie Normandie will take 160,000 ounces of silver. Attach! in Oil. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Dec. 24.—A large oil painting of John P. Altgeld was hung today in the reception room at the Statehouse. among the portraits of other former Governors of Illinois. The picture is in a frame of black walnut, handsomely carved All other picture* in the room have gold frames.

KILLED BY AN ENGINE MARSHALL NEWELL, WELL-KNOWN FOOTBALL PLAYER, MANGLED. Ran Down in the Freight Yard* of the Boston A Albany Rond at Springfield—Other Casualties. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 24.—Marshall Newell, the well-known Harvard football player, for the past year employed in this city as assistant division superintendent of the Poston & Albany Railroad, was Instantly killed in the freight yards here to-night at 6:30 o’clock. How the accident occurred is not known, but it is supposed that he was walking along the track toward his office, with his coat collar turned up to protect himself from the severe wind, when he was struck by a switch engine or a yard engine. He was horribly bruised and mangled and It was with some difficulty that his features could be recognized. The body had remained unnoticed for ovei an hour before found by two trainmen. Mr. Newell was born in Great Barrington, the son of Samuel Newell, a prominent lawyer of that town. Young Newell was unusually athletic tend in his younger days was one of the greatest football tackles the world ever produced. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1894. He leaves a mother, a sister and two brothers. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Acetylene Work* Wrecked and Two People Killed. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A succession of explosions at the United States Acetylene Liquifying Company, in Jersey City, today, caused the loss of two lives and $20,003 damages to the works. The dead are; Thomas Fowler, the assistant engineer, and Max Grim. There were only three other employes in the building at the time of the accident and they received greater or less injuries. Their names are Fred Burr, Fritz Epzol and Charles White. J. Leek, who was working half a block away, was badly injured by a piece of the boiler. A fragment of the boiler tore the roof from a trolley car some distance away. It is said that the first explosion was due to the boilers bursting, and as the fire spread to the various, acid tanks there w T as a succession of deafening reports. Near-by buildings, as well as the central railroad of New Jersey trestle, caught fire, but the losses were not serious in these instances. The machinery of the local electric lighting company was affected by the jar, causing the electric lights in various buildings to go out Max Grim’s body was blown through a window' and torn to pieces. The body of Assistant Engineer Fowler was found in the ruins of the wrecked building. Mangled at a Crossing. WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 24.-Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mcßride, of Stanton, were killed and their daughter Carrie, aged six years, fatally injured this morning at the Stanton crossing of the Philadelphia, Wilmington C Baltimore Railroad, five miles below this city. They started to cross the railroad tracks just as the Washington and New Yoik express, due here at 2:55 o'clock, reached the station. The locomotive plunged into the vehicle with dreadful effect. Mrs. Mcßride was instantly killed and her husband was so terribly injured that he died in a few minutes later. The little girl will die from the effects of her injuries. Ron Down by n Trnln. PITTSBURG, Dec. 24.—William Royce, aged twenty-two, of Utica, N. Y., w r as struck and instantly killed by an express train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Linden Station last night. He attempted to cross the track, and did not see the train owing to a sharp curve in the road, until it was upon hint. He was just finishing up his day’s work, and intended going home today to spend Christmas with his widowed mother. His body will be shipped home. Brnkenuui Killed and Other* Injured. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A drill engine and a train of flat cars on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, collided in Communipaw to-day. Brakeman Collis Haydock was killed. Fireman John Higgins was fatally injured and Engineer William Martagh was so badly scalded that flesh came off with his clothing in great strips. BRAVE WOMAN REWARDED. Medal Presented to Mrs. Reid for Steering a Ship Into Port. HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 24.—The closing chapter in the celebrated case of the ship T. F. Oakes, of which Captain E. W. Reed, of this city, was the commanding officer, brings with it honor to Mrs. Reed, who, when her husband w*as ill, together with the largest part of the crew, steered the vessel safely Into port, there to meet charges of mistreatment which thp crew preferred against her and her husband and of which they both were honorably acquitted after a legal fight that lasted ten weeks. Reed has just received the following letter: “Lloyds of London have bestowed Lloyd’s medal for meritorious service on Mrs. Reed as an honorary acknowledgement of her extraordinary exertion on the occasion of the disablement by sickness of the crew of the United States ship T. F. Oakes, on a voyage from China to New York, July 4, 1896. March 21, 1897. By order of Committee of Lloyds. “H. M. HOSIER, Secretary.” Unknown Vessel Wrecked. HALIFAX. N. S.. Dec. 24.-The government steamer Newfleld returned to-night from the visit to Sable island and brings advices of a disaster to an unknown vessel, wreckage from which drifted ashore there during the first week of December. The officials at the island believe that the vessel was a bark or ship of about five hundred tons, but nothing was found that gave a clew to her identity or the nature of her cargo. No boats were found among the wreckage, which all drifted ashore at the east end of the island. On Nov. 9 a large barkentine was seen to run on the northwest bar, where she hetd fast in the sand for two hours and then drifted away. A strong gale was blowing at the time and the sea was so high that it was impossible to launch a lifeboat and go to the vessel. The barki ntine was partially dismantled, having lost her foretopmast and headgear, and was evidently in a bad condition. Nothing more was seen of her after she got off the bar. Towboat Goe* Over a Dam. PITTSBURG, Dec. 24.—The towboat Hotspur went over the dam at Lock No. 4, on the Monongahela river, about 10:30 this morning, and was completely wrecked. The crew of eleven men, including John Klein, the father of the captain and owner, were thrown into the river and were rescued with difficulty. All suffered from the intense cold and it is feared Klein will die from the exposure. The boat was valued at $5,000. RELIEF FOR KLONDIKERS. A Juneau Man Tell* How It Can Be Given. Washington Post. Mr. J. F. Mahoney, of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Ebbitt. He has been in Alaska many years, though still a young man. and knows nearly every part of the Territory. He is a business partner of the noted Jack Dalton, who, with Lieutenant Glare, first discovered and rode over the Chilkat pass in 1887. Mr. Mahoney left Dawson City last September, and will go back as early next season as practicable, for he has a number of valuable claims in that region. "1 am glad to see Congress coming to the aid of the unfortunate people up on the Klondike,” said Mr. Mahoney, "because they will undoubtedly need help liefore the winter is over. It isn’t an easy thing getting in supplies to them, but it can be done even in dead of winter. 1 have come over the Chilkat pass myself in winter. The most feasible method to employ is to establish posts, say at a distance of twenty-five miles apart, beginning at thelihead of either the Chilcoot or Chiloat pass* and take the focal In on sleds drawn by horses. Dogs might answer, but they require a tremendous amount of feeding, and the right breed of dogs isn’t always easy to get. Ponies from northern Montana can stand the climate, and as I have used them for the last six years in tills game sort of business along the Alsec

river, where I have estabiishd posts. I know that they are competent to do the required work. “The reindeer scheme I regard as entirely Impracticable. It sounds very plausible, but It is about as visionary as one of Colonel Sellers’s enterprises. Over the Dyea or Chilcoot pass there is no moss for the reindeer at all and but little over the Chilcat pass. The horse is the most available beast of burden, as any man who has had any experience in A'askan matters will declare. “As regards the men up on the Klondike, those who are out on the mi tes are in better shape than those In Dawson. The miners, for the most part, have fairly good log huts, and they have been more provident In the way of storing rations for the winter. In the town there are more tents than huts and the food supply is shorter. I think it safe to say that the pinch of hunger will come to a good many unless the government gets in its charity work very speedily. It is going to cost a lot of money to transport a comparatively small amount of rations, but the very conditions of the case make transportation a costly matter. “The rush next season to the Yukon valley will be something unprecedented in the history of the world. I think the vast majority will go by steamer to the mouth of the Yukon, and thence up the river, but a great number will go over the passes. My belief is that the gold supply has hardly been touched. In the rush for the Klondike some of the richest diggings in the world have been run over. In the Circle City country placers of untold value exist, and next season there will be thousands of operators in that territory which was abandoned in the mad light to get to the other camps. By next year or, at farthest, the year after. Alaska will be producing more gold than is now produced in all the United States.” TO MEET ENGLiSH ATHLETES. Pennsylvania University Will Send a Track Team to Cambridge. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 24.—The first intimation of what will be the greatest athletic event of 1898 was given out to-day by Alvin C. Kraenslein, who is attending the University of Pennsylvania, and came to Milwaukee to spend the Christmas. He gives out the information that the University of Pennsylvania will send a track team to England to meet Cambridge University in a dual track contest to be held in London next year. The two universities have been corresponding for some time, ana everything has been arranged except the details. Pennsylvania has never been represented in athletic contests in England before. The Pennsylvania team will be a strong one, made up irom a number of the prominent winners in the intercollegiate championship teams of this year. The make-up of the Pennsylvania team will be as follows: Captain, James Winsor, broad jump; Tewkesbury and Caldwell, sprints; Hoffman, 440-yard dash; Grant, miie run; Lane, half-mile run; Kraensiein, hurdle and high and broad jump; Fellerman, mile walk; McCracken, throwing weights. Kraenslein was the star performer this year in hurdles, and is holder of Americah championships, and in the high and broad jumps Captain Winsor carried off the honors. Murphy will handle the team. Sew Running Records. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.—E. W. Purser’s aged bay gelding Buckwa, by BuckraWewa, lowered the world's record for a mile and a half at the Oakland truck this afterroon, winning under a pull by six lengths in 2:3214- The former record for the distance vas held by Lamplighter. Buckwa carried 103 pounds and was ridden by W. Martin. Mason & Co.’s three-year-old chesinut co.t teaivado, by Salvudor-Oranesta, established anew record for a mile and oneeighth. traversing the distance in 1:32%. He carried 107 pounds and was ridden by W. Taylor. FIVt PEuPLt POibONED. Four Children Killed by a Mother, Who Then Ended Her Own Life. PARK RIVER, N. D., Dec. 2!.—The wife of Jacob Peyer, living near this place, today poisoned her four little children with strychnine and then took poison herself. All are dead. Mrs. Peyer had quarreled with her husbar.d and had several times threatened to kill her children and herself. QUEER OL1) PROF. MOMMSEN. Likes Good Dinners, Rends and Remembers All Sorts of Things. London Telegraph. Mommsen is not at all a gourmand, but as a fine taste, even in the matter of food, is always to be appreciated, 1 may say that he is rather a gourmet, and is not oblivious of the food he is eating. I remember his telling me once that he had not enjoyed his evening because he had so much difficulty in suppressing his desire to tell the lady of the house what a mistake she made in not givii g her guests the leaves of the artichokes, as well as the fronds. I rather think that the enjoyment of a dinner, or criticism of it. when he is out, is part of the thoroughness of Mommsen’s character, for I have noticed that at home he eats very plainly, and would, indeed, sometimes not eat at all if his family were not always on the outlook, and coaxed him to do so; but if he is out to dine, he pays attention to the business on hand. At the first dinner at which I met him he asked me several things about modern English writings, and I noticed that he was a great admirer of Bryon; in fact, I believe he opened the conversation with a quotation from “Don Juan.” and asked me for the context. Subsequent conversations with him have put me into a state of astonishment; his reading is so vast and his memory the most wonderful. He not only remembers the things read in his youth, or quite lately, but all things, from whatever time; he seems capable of pointing his memory, as it were, at anything which has come across the path of his brain. Nobody wants telling that he is an incessant worker, and as such rises very early in the morning. Until quite lately he w r as up at 5 o’clock ready to work on a cup of cold coffee put ready for him over night. Tn his personal requirements he is the most modest of men. and by no means a house tyrant. At 8 he comes down to breakfast with his wife and five daughters still at home, and he likes everybody to be there. One young lady who was staying in the house was not infrequently not “tip to time.” This neglect did not escape his notice. “It is a pity you can’t serve your year in the army.” he remarked; "you would learn the difference betweeri 8 and 8:30.” He can he very cutting in his remarks sometimes, but they are always temnered to the shorn lamb, though the full-grown sheep must weather the storm as best he can. The Berliners, who dearly love their little jokes, tell many a story of his absentmindedness, and he has even been credited with not having recognized his own little son and with having asked him his name preparatory to requesting him not to make quite so much noise in the public tram car in which he was going to town from his home in Charlottenhurg; and it is authentic that he put his first baby into the wastepaper basket one day and covered it up because it cried. He is, all the same, most devoted to children, and has had plenty of opportunity for indulging in this taste, as he has still twelve living children, and a younger generation is rising. About 8 o'clock in the evening he comes downstairs to join the family circle, often carrying a vase of flowers or a single bud, which he places before him. taking it up from time to time to admire and smell. He doves flowers, and knows all about their individualities and fragrance. During the evening with his family he works, but at the same time he attends to all that is going on around him. taking part, a’.so, in the genera! conversation. His recreation consists in reading fiction, and invariably he interests himself In all, even the minor, characters of the books, scrutinizing them with the utmost zest. Mommsen’s rule in all things is: “Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with ail thy might.” Tlie Christum* Budget. Philadelphia North American. “I want *25 to spend for Christmas gifts. Dick ” said Mrs. Bellefieid to her husband. “I wish to ask one question.” replied Mr. Bellefieid. as he produced his pocketbook. •*A dozen if you like, dear.” “One will suffice?” ••Can you guarantee that the expenditures will be within the estimates, or will ft be necessary to pass a general deficiency bill early in January?” Our 1,800,000 Immortals. Louisville Courier-Journal. And now it is Charles Dudley Warner who proposes that we shall have a literary tribunal in this country similar to the French Academy. Mr. Warner nods. He ought to know that we already have such an institution, over in Indiana, and that about seven-tenths of the entire population of the State are members. Really Found Them. Pittsburg Chronicle. Nansen's search for the American dollar was more successful than his hunt for the north pole. Medical men say rheumatism is the forerunner of heart disease. Hood’s SarsaparMln cures rheumatism by its action on the blood

MRS. BOOTH NO BETTER ■ ® HER CONDITION LAST NIGHT STILL REPORTED AS CRITICAL. ■ ♦ ■ Statement* Regarding the Cnnie of Her Illnenf*— Persecuted by Members of the Salvation Army. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—There was no perceptible change in the condition of Mrs. Ballington Booth. She is still critically ill at the Presbyterian Hospital, in this city. No persons are allowed to see Mrs. Booth at the hospital except her husband and secretary. From the nature of her illness it is necessary to restrict her nourishment, in order to remove the blood clots that have gathered around her heart, fche is not allowed to partake of any food except five ounces of liquid each day. She is rapidly growing weaker as a result, and the turning point will come in a few days. If she survives—and of this there is great doubt—it will be months before she is able to leave the hospital. Ballington Booth and the entire staff at tho headquarters of the Volunteers are prostrated by Mrs. Booth’s Illness. They are in constant communication with the hospital, and watch for every change in her condition. Her husband is allowed to remain with her for a few minutes once each day, but even then he is not allowed to discuss artairs of the Volunteers with her. Mrs. Booth’s illness dates back to a short time after the separation of herself and her husband from the Salvation Army. She often complained to the commander about that time of a severe pain in the region ol the heart. This was at first attributed to a miid attack of neuralgia of the muscles of the heart, but, as the pain became serious, she consulted the surgeons at the Presoyterian Hospital, and then learned of tne serious character of the trouble. Those who know tho inside history of the disagreement which caused the separation of Ballington Loeih and nis wire item t he caivation Army are now freer than ever in tneir criticisms of the army. It is a mtle more than two years since tho friction arose in the Salvation Army which eiidtd in the estrangement of Ballington Booth from his relatives. In January, 1a96, the war became open, and General Loouh ordered his son and daughter-in-law from America. In February of the same year Baamgton Booth and his wife withdrew fram the Salvation Army and organized the Volunteers. How hitter the war between the two organizations became later was to.d by an omcer of prominence in the Volunteers. “I dislike,” he said, ”to discuss these matters, but the attacks on us have been so bitter that I now think it time to speak. Not satisfied with the ordinary rivalry which was bound to arise from our breaking away from the Salvation Army and starting a stricily American institution, methods were adopted which were almost maneious. Take one instance, for example. Mrs. Booth, when she spoke in Chicago at a large meeting, was interrupted by a number of members of the Salvation Army, who were led by an officer h.gn in autnority. The interruptions were so violent that sne was compelled tu rebuae the people making the disturbance. After the meeting was over these people went on the stage and attacked Mrs. Booth personally. This was reported in a letter to Salvation Army headquarters, but the officers not only refused to reprimand those who were in the disturbance, but even went so far as to promote tne officer who had led the disturbers. "On top ot this, every mail has brought to Mrs. Booth anonymous letters, some of the most virulent nature, telling her that she w r as responsible for estranging her husband from his family and that she had shortened the life of General Booth, the commander-m-chief of the Salvation Army, by her actions. These letters and the other attacks have had their effect on Mrs. Booth, and we now see the result. In addition to these letters, other methods were taken to injure her. Captain Turner, who is with us in most active work, but w-ho, with forty-nine other girls, was imported by the feaivation Army shortly after Commander and Mrs. Booth left it, was warned against Mrs. Booth by the matron of the Saivation Army Training School, In London.” When Commander Ballington Booth spoke of his wife’s condition to-day his eyes were tilled with tears and he could hardly control his emotion. “1 can only see her every other day,” he said. “The physicians insist upon quiet. They are subjecting her to a treatment that Involves the least possible amount of nourishment in order to reduce the tension upon the heart’s action and to remove the clot of blood that forms in the artery. Yet her mind, even when wandering, is constantly on her work and upon her cruel treatment. The other night she thought, in her semi-deli-rium. that she saw one of the sisters of the Salvation Army, who was once her friend, approaching and beckoning to her, and that the sister had a frown upon her face. It disturbed her greatly. And then she constantly worries about her work among the poor boys she has been caring for. “‘Oh, mv boys, my boys,’ she keeps crying out. ’Who will take care of my boys when I am lying here?’ “I know now where the wrench started that did all this. It was over in that Fourteenth-street building which the Salvation Army is now enjoying. For three nights she did not sleep. Then the attacks came upon her. I have in my safe a mass of manuscript that will show the world how cruelly she has been treated by the officers of the Salvation Army, by whose side she had worked for years. Should her illness result fatally I surely will make it all public. The trouble began months ago, with pains about her heart. She kept constantly presing her hand to her side. I urged her to get medical advice, but she treated it lightly. And then one day, about a week ago, she swooned upon the sofa~ “I am constantly getting letters and telegrams of inquiry. People cannot understand how a person so young as Mrs. Boom —she Is only twenty-nine—can have aneurism of the heart. I know what is the cause of it. But for her wishes to the contrary I would have made the cause known before now It is the cruelty and malice of members high in rank in the Saivat on Army that are responsible for it. Should the Hines shave a fatal end it is they who will be responsible for it.” „ ~ That is what Ballington Booth said. Here is an extract from the diagnosis of Drs. McCosh and Thompson, who are in attendance upon Mrs. Booth: Mrs. Booth is suffering from an aneurism of the heart, caused by a sudden deep grief or a very severe shock.” This diagnosis was not obtairted from the physicians themselves, but from Commander Ballington Booth, who, in giving it to the Dispatch correspondent, dictated it and designated the quotation correct as above given. Reduced to a compact statement, all this means that Mrs. Ttiilineton Booth, whom so many Americans have come to regard with affection for her pure, self-sacrificing devotion to the unfortunate, is In peril of Her life fiom a broken heart, and that her husband says her heart has been broken by shameful usage at tho hands of those prominent in the Salvation Army. , . . One of the most serious charges against Salvation Army officers is now being invesattorney of a countv in N w York. According to the volunteers the circumstances which caused this investigation are as follows: Commander Booth was to address a meeting of the nost in th*s town and on the same evening to meet the ministers of the town. Prior to the day of the meeting the commander received a letter from the minister of the leading church of the town telling him that it would not be advisable for him to visit the town, and warning him not to do so This letter created some suspicion, and was turned over to the captain of the post of the Volunteers in the town. On Investigation the latter found that it had been written by a member of the Salvation ister was Wally one of the most avtive supporters of the VoM’rteers. DREYFUS IN HIS CAGE. Hi* Ilautl Prl*on Wan Formerly a Leper Settlement. Cayenne. French Guiana, Letter in New York Herald. So much excitement has been raised in this colony of Cayenne and outside by the recent agitation in regard to the incarceration of former Captain Dreyfus that it is now almost treasonable to mention his name in this locality. The little coasting steamers and colonial clippers which occasionally called at the Safety islands In order to discharge provisions have now been Warned off, and no vessel whatsoever is allowed to approach these Islands nearer than a distance of fifteen cables. The Safety isles are three in number—the lie Rovale. a mile in length, situated in 5 degres, 16 minutes, 10 seconds north latitude. 54 degrees. £2 minutes. 30 seconds east longitude; He St. Joseph and lie du Dlabie. They are seven miles out In the Atlantic, off the mouth of the Korron river, and twenty-seven miles north-northeast of the town of Cayenne. On Sept 13. 1199. the English frigates Un’ty and Amphitrlte seized the Islands, took the t*rWon prisoners and curried

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They are separated from each other by a communication with Cayenne and safe anchorage. Their climate Is salubrious. They are now oniy used as a penal settlement, and the worst kinds of criminals are incarcerated there, where they cannot get away from their doom. On St. Joseph the governor of Cayenne haa a summer residence, though he has no lack of residences on the mainland itself. Besides the governor’s residence on St. Joseph a very strong prison is being built for the dynamitards and other Socialists, who are specially kept together on this island. Among others the notorious Meunier haa his abode here. The convicts on these islands do not consist of French subjects alone. Most of the nations of the earth are represented by orimina. s. The lie du Diable, standing seaward of the lie Royale, the headquarters of the penitentary administration of the Safety islands, w’as formerly a leper settlement. When Dreyfus was condemned to life imprisonment in a strong place the Devil’s island was the only spot which it was thought w’ould hold him with any degree of security’. The lepers were therefore removed and a residence constructed for him. This residence is somewhat in the nature of a cage, the innermost depths of which can be viewed through a glass from the headquarters on the lie Royale. Almost all the vegetation has been cleared off the island, so that every point of it may be commanded. A battery of Hotchkiss guns is permanently dressed ready for action against any attempt at a rescue of tho prisoner. On the first alarm of such an attempt the orders are that Dreyfus is to bo shot. About a year ago a report gained ground of Dreyfus’s escape. Thousands of pounds were spent in telegrams to ascertain if the report was true or incorrect, and the then Governor w r as recalled. Since then every day at stated hours the prisoner is obliged to appear outside his cage, and his existence is announced by telegraph to Paris. None of his guards, who are frequently changed, is permitted to hold any conversation with him. Dreyfus is allowed to pay a convict to act as his cook. He gets many newspapers and books, but all his correspondence passes through the hands of the administration. Prisoners of Dreyfus’s class are usually allowed to have their wives with them, but in his case this privilege was refused, although Mme. Dreyfus offered to build the necessary habitation at her own expense, and to be no charge to the government. The authorities were afraid that her presence might cause them a further increase of trouble and anxiety. Dreyfus has fattened since he has been a prisoner. He reads and writes much, sitting outside his cage, where he can be seen on all sides. His guards watch him night and day, never letting him out of their sight. All the stories of a substitute having been provided for h ! m. and that the real Dreyfus is not in custody, are utterly absurd und fabulous. Since the French, in deference to representations of the Australian government and for other causes, have given up sending convicts to New Cal- donia, Cayenne is the principal French penal colony. The escape from the mainland Is comparatively easy, though immense hardships have to be endured In order to reach either Brazil or the Guianas. Convicts caught in Dutch Guiana are Invariably sent hack to where they came from. The British colonies also refuse them an asylum. From the Safety Islands the escape Is exceedingly difficult, as the w’aters around them are Infested with sharks. One of these sharks, the biggest and boldest, is well known as the "harbor master.” Deceased convicts are taken out in a boat, fitted out with a plank on a. lever. When the lever is released the piank turns and the body on It pitches Into the water. The tolling of the death knell is a signal for the sharks to appear, and the body hardly reaches'the w ater before the sharks begin to struggle for it. The boat has to be rapidly pulled away in order to avoid an accident from the commotion caused by the sharks in their struggles to get at the corpse. Notwithstanding these dangers, however, convicts do get away from the Safety isles. Only a few months ago, at 11 o’clock in the morning, six convicts seized a whaleboat and took flight, after having had time to provision her with water and food. This happened at an hour when convicts are not supposed to be at large, and when the guarding of them is at its easiest. The fugitives, amid a show’er of rifle and revolver shots, succeeded in getting away, passing under the stern of a schooner moored in the harbor in so doing. While the steam launch was being prepared for pursuit, the schooner’s services were requisitioned, but the fugitives promptly made for the coast, w'here the water was shallow and where their pursuers could not follow them. Telegraphic notices of the escape were rapidly sent around, but the fugitives succeeded in landing, and the only satisfaction the authorities had was to retake the abandoned whaleboat. One of the convicts was a notorious assassin. Another Emile** Chain. Chicago Journal. “Why do the politicians give that fellow money?” “He has Influence in certain labor circles.” "But how does ruch a chap get influence?” “With the money tho politicians giv® him.” \Vle Dispensation. Washington Star. “I wonder what the reason of a man’s natural aversion to chopping is.” he remarked. as his wife, with a frown, inspected some purehas* s he had made for her. “It is a wise provision of nature.” she answered with a sigh. “It prevents a great deal of good money from being wasted.” i* • s A Ilulitklnvii llero Get* Dimmer*, CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Jeremiah J. Ry.in, ore of the survivors of the charge at Balaklava. was awarded s>l 000 damages ag ilnst the city of Chicago to-day. Pvan "ric’ured his knee cap by a fall caused by a defective sidewalk. Politician* Fla lit u Duel. PAINTBVJLLE. Ky.. Dec. 24,-Grata Arnett and Green Patrick, both politicians, fought with revolvers here to-day. The duel was the outcome of an old grudge. Eight shots were exchanged, and Arnett was dangerously wounded. No t'omimrlaou. Kansas City Journal. The Dingley law deficit is Insignificant compared to the deficit Santa Claus is causing this week.