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oeriencing a period of extreme stringency. The local resources, he added, were unable to supply the demands of trade. The scarcity. he explained, was due to the banks remitting their capital home and keeping as Httle as possible in India. This policy was adopted before the legislation of 1893. and was not in consequence of that legislation. But while they were advancing towards. the attainment of a 16J rupee, this success militated against the transfer of sterling capital to India in exch nge. The banks must operate on commercial principles and no blame was attached to them. Sir James Westland denied the allegations that the government was holding money in order to starve commerce and force up exchanges. but the recent demands on the government had been so heavy that it has Va on obliged to ask the secretary of state to intermit the drawings. The amount on hand was ample to assure the convertibility of th* Indian notes. Therefore, there was no risk from a currency point of view. BOMBAY. Jan. 14.—The commercial situation has a mote favorable aspect, with the prospect that the stringency in money will gradually relax and accommodation become available. The stringency is largely due to the locking up of capita! in silver under the idea that the mints would be reopened. It is also due, in part, to the exodus of merchants because of the famine. Although the bank rate is 12 per cent., loans are only obtainable at from 15 to 18 per cent. There is a balance in the treasury of ab ut 10 crores of rupees, while the currency rotes in circulation represent crores, against which exists a reserve of 15 crores. A Fa men* Yachtswoman Weila. LONDON. Jan. 14.—Lady Ernestine Brudnell Bruce, eldest daughter -of the Marquis of Ails bury, and Master Mariner Harry Brady Hunt, of Limerick, have just been united in marriage at Liverpool. They met at a nautical schopl in Liverpool, where the lady, who Is a famous yacht woman, was studying to obtain a Board of Trade yachtmaster’s certificate. The board, however. declined to giant it. Hunt was also an apprentice and mate, studying for a *rtificate. He has since been appointed master of a sailing vessel. The marriage was celebrated in the quietest manner possible. It Is said that Master Mariner Hunt’s wife intends to accompany him on the ship. Juiihii t.rowing lneus>. LONDON, Jan. 15.—A special dispatch from Shanghai says it is reported there that the French demands as to Hai-Nan have created uneasiness in Japan. Admiral Yang Yu has been ordered to assume personal command of the Wo-Sung forts. Lu Kun Ylsh is establishing a sort of conscription in certain districts of Yang-Tee. Wu-Hu and Tao-Tal and has proclaimed all able-bodied men liable to service. Lu Yung is reported to b* raising large forces in Kwang-Tung. white he is also intrusted with the command of the southern squadron. It is rumored that Japan will send a squadron south on account of the French threatening Hai-Nan. Russia Threaten* Turkey . CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 14,-The Sultan granted an audience to-day to M, ZinoviefC, the Russian ambassador, who. it is asserted, made an important communication with reference to the candidature of Prince George of Greece for the governorship of Crete. M Zlnovleff declared that unless the Sultan withdrew his objections to Prince George Russia would pnqiose the annexation of Crete to Greece. Tod Sion ne Returning to Anierfcif'. LONDON, Jan. 14.—The Cunard line steamer Campania, which sails for New York f-om Liverpool to-morrow, will take among her passengers Tod Sloane, the American jockey. He says he is going to Cincinnati to ask Mr. Fleischmann to release him, so as to be able to ride in England. Mrs. Ratcllffe No. 1 Coming. LONDON, Jan. 14.—The American line Bteamefi St. Louis, leaving Southampton for New York, to-morrow, wdll take among her passengers the reputed English wife of Edward J. Ratcliffe, the actor. Cable Note*. The French Cabinet will nominate Gen. Jamont to succeed General Saussier as commander-in-chief of the French army. The local chess club of Vienna has announced that the International Masters’ Chess Tournament will be held in that city during the months of June and July. There will be sixteen prizes in all, to the value of 20,000 kroners. The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Viliers, member Sf the British Parliament for South Wolverhampton, and known as the "father of the House of Commons,” having sat continuously in the House since ISJ3, is believed to be dying. It is an Indication of friendliness between France and Cermany that the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor has just been conferred on Count Von Munster, the German ambassador at Paris, on the occasion of the ratification of the Franc.vGerman Niger convention.

FUSION OF SILVERITES. Proponed Combination of tin* Parties \ That Supported Hrynn. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—As a result of conferences held within the last few days between the Fiver leaders of various par- - ties it is understood Chairman Jones, of the Democratic national committee, Chairman Butler, of the- Populist national committee, and Chairman Town©, of the Silver National Republican committee, will issue a joint manifesto the early part of next week with a view of securing common action by the three organizations in the political contest of ISIS. The draft of the document is now in the course of preparation. It will appeal to ad those interested in the cause of silver to work in union and to avoid rival organizations by whit h their common strength will be dissipated. The talks among the silver men continued to-day, but they did not take the shape of a formal conference. Chairman Towne had returned from the contest at Columbus, where he assisted in the opposition to Mr. Hanna. He was about the House of Representatives talking with Representative Bland and other silver exponents. The feeling developed was generally In favor of common action among all the silver elements. Messrs. Jones. Butler and Towne will confer further during the next few days, and the address will then he made public. On the ISth Inst, the American Bimetallic Union, of which General Warner, of Ohio, is president, holds its meeting here, and this Is expected to give further cohesion to the joint silver movement. Populists to Take n Referendum Vote, ST. LOUIS. Jan. 14.—The Populists concluded their work in this city to-day by giving out the details for setting in motion their novel plan of taking a referendum vote of the rank and file of their party. The questions submitted are: “What date is your choice for holding a national conference for the nomination of presidential candidates. Monday. Juiv 4. l&iS: Friday. May 26. ISWi, ->r Thursday, Feb. T 2. 1900?’’ The ballots are similar to the Australian ticket and will Ik- polled by the local committees and Populist press. Milton Para, of Texas, chairman of the national organisation committee, and George F. Washburn of Massachusetts, numbers of the national executive committee, were among the lust to leave the city. Both arc- highly pleased with the prospect of a unification of their party and a prospective settlement of the clamor for anew party. A majority of the national committee have expressed tnem selves in favor of an early conference for adjusting their differences and outlining a policy for ISO". The leaders of the middle-of-the-road element expressed themselves to-day as desirous that the work of reorganization be conducted strictly within the party so as to merit the approval of the national committee. Kutoinlied Bluer* Released. ANACONDA. Mont., Jan. 14.—At noon to-day. after forty hours of imprisonment and anxiety, four of the five men who were in the tunnel near this city that caved in pear its entrance as the result of a dynamite explosion, crawled through a hastily constructed exit into the light of day. An improvised tunnel had been driven through the debris that closed the entrance to the LUnnel itself. Jack McLeod, one of the live men imprisoned, hail diet! several hours before from the effects of the powder fumes, which troubled all of them for about twelve hours. CMI-NIniUK true in Michigan. SAGINAW, Mich., Jan. 14.—Excitement >vtr the coal mining prospects in this legion is growing dally. Agents for big Eastern concerns are here securing leases on ail the land they can get hold of. Several thousand acres have been leased withit a few days. Coni in live-foot veins la icing found in all parte of Saginaw county ilmost dally. Penn*) Ivuniu and Vnndnlla Short Line* Vlll sell Home Seekers' tickets to all points ten. 17 and IS at one fare plus $2 for the outeJ trip. W. W. RICHARDSON. D. t. A.

REPUBLICAN LEAGUERS FORMAL CALL BY PRESIDENT HIGGINS FOR LAFAYETTE MEET. 1 Vigo County Xmlitor’s Expose of County Commissioners’ Selienie of Letting Contracts. ♦ J Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 14. -President A. M. Higgins, of the Indiana Republican League, has Issued the following cail lor the annual convention: "The annual convention of the Indiana Republican League will be held in Lafayette on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 13. Reduced ates will be made on all railroads in Iniana. good going on the 11th and returng on the 13th. The business session of the ague will be held in the opera house at at 2 p. m.. at which there will be the annual election of officers of the league.” The principal address will be made at 8 p. m. by the Hon. D. D. Woodmansee, expresident of the National League of Republican Clubs. The guests are invited to bring their ladies. Each club enrolled with the league during the last campaign, or which has been started since the last campaign, will bte entitled to send a delegate, and the proportion of delegates to each ccunty in the State may be had by consulting the county manager or by addressing the secretary of the league. The address says: “The Indiana Republican League enters on the year 1898 with a confidence bora not only of a victory in which the league participated with honor, but arising from that prosperity which was promised, pledged and now appears. Asa league, we are not to plan battles, but to fight them, and it is to prepare ourselves for the struggle in 1898 that we meet at Lafayette. The work of the league is never done; the finished success of one campaign merely leads us on to battle again. The league has for its ambition in 1898 the election of a United States senator and congressmen, a state legislature ami state and county officials who will be true to the principles of the grand old Republican party.” COMMISSIONERS REBUKED. 1 igo County Auditor File* a Sensational Protest at Terre Haute. Sj>ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Jan. 14.—County Auditor Soules has caused a sensation by filing with the Board of County Commissioners a formal protest against their action in letting contracts. The auditor and the commissioners are Republicans, and this fact adds to the situation. In this protest he says: "The manner ami method of letting bridge contiacts is unjustifiable and without the shadow of an excuse. Contracts involving thousands of dollars are let to private parties and without bond or any chance to know whether the price is reasonable. This method, you know, has met with the condemnation of myself and other county officials. Some of the members of this board have said privately, and a majority, if not all, have promised, that it would be discontinued. but it has not and is not. The name of every member of the board was, and is now. signed to a contract of this very kind involving the expenditure of thousands of dollars, and this was done no later than last Friday. But this is not all. Asa matter of fact, these contracts are let weeks or months before the auditor, as clerk of the board, has any knowledge of it. In fact, the bridges are nearly completed oeiore the contract is spread on record. Ido not propose to stand under the odium of unytning wrong. “I give you fair warning that nothing but the mandate of a court oi competent jurisdiction will get a warrant for the payment of any bridge contracts not now on record and I wiJl resent to the utmost any a.tempt to carry on this business in this way. The county expenses have been steadily increasing. The county indebtedness has increased $40,000 in eighteen months, and this in the face of a high tax rate and an unusually large collection of both delinquent and current taxes.” The secret awarding of a contract to the Massillon Bridge Company a few days ago was the last straw'. E. N. Gray, an agent of the company, has been here for several days and two of the three commissioners have been holding secret conferences with him at his room in the hotel, wnere they let contracts to his company. This company has had about ail the unusually large amount of money that has been expended for that purpose for a year or more.

•Walter Bnlutt** Serious Condition. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 14.- Walter Malott, a prominent young man of this vicinity, son of Clay Aftlott, is in a serious condition at the home of his father from a wound caused by stepping on a nail. The* nail penetrated the hollow of the foot and entered the full length. The physician attending him has grave fears that lockjaw may result. He has had to be kept under the influence of opiates ever since the accident, whicli happened Wednesday, and has grown alarmingly worse during the past tw nty-four hours. He is related to the Malotts of Indianapolis. North Vernon Commercial Clnli, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH VERNON, Ind., Jan. 14. The business men of tjiis city to the. number of fifty met at the city hall last night and organized a commercial elub. the purpose of which is to further the general interests of the city and aid in the establishment of small Manufacturing plants here in the future. Free light, free water and reasonable financial aid will be extended to worthy plants established in this city. The officers of the new club are: President, Volney C. Meloy; secretary. Edward Williams; treasurer, F. X. Gattwallis. *I,OOO Verdict for Malpractice. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL. Ind., Jan. 14.—The suit for SIO,OOO damage lileJi against Dr. Frederick Nussel by Mrs. Thomas Brockney. which has been on trial for the past two days, closed this morning with a verdict for $1,000.' About a year ago Mrs. Brockney fell on the sidewalk and broke her thigh bone. Dr. Nussel w r as called and pronounced the injury a sprain. He treated her for five weeks, when Dr. J. F. Smith was summoned and declared the thigh bone broken. Mrs. Brockney’s foot Is turned almost completely around and she is a confirmed cripple. Janie* Taylor’s Anniversary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 14.—James Taylor celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday to-day with his two sons, Tucker W. Taylor, of this city, and Dr. James H. Taylo., of Indianapolis. The doctor’s visit was oocarioned by his father’s feeble condition. Mr fay lor has been a resident of Greencastle for nearly half a century and was one of the leading merchants of this place for forty years. rit> was prominent among others lit promoting the interests of Asbury (now D© Pauw) University in its early days. R unwell Harrison .Not Involved. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Jan. 14.—The directors of the National State Bank of this city made the following statement to-day regarding the report that the troubles of ex-Cashier Donaghoe were brought about through transactions with Russell B. Harrison. of the Terre Haute Street-railway Company: "The directors of the National State Bank authorize the statement that the causes teading to the dismissal of Mr. Donaghoe in no wise involved business dealings with .sir. Russell B. Harrison or his road.’* Windfall Tlilef Caught. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 14.—T0-day James Smith, alias Frank Parker, of near Windfall, sold a load of clover seed to a Kokomo dealer that had been stolen from Morton McKay. Smith, after getting a fifty-dollar check cashed, disappeared. The horses and wagon were also stolen. Farmer McKay gave chase and this afternoon captured the thief near the Howard-Tiptou county Hue and landed him in jail. The money and rig were recovered. Killed by Sudden Emotion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 14.—Mrs. Elizabeth Burdan, aged seventy-six, died suddenly

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last evening. She was apparently well until h r son Edward handed her a letter from his sister. She evidently surmised that there was bad news in the letter, and as soon as she opened the epistle, before reading a word, the shock caused a rupture of a blood vessel and blood spurted from her nose and mouth. Her son caught her in his arms and she died without uttering a word. Indian Mounds for a Park.. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 14.—A movement looking towards converting the Indian mounds into a state park was put on foot to-day by Anderson papers, and an effort will be made to enlist the attention qf the people of the State. The idea is to arouse interest which will result in the grounds being placed in the hands of the State and conducted a state park, the same as the old Tipppecanoe battle ground, north of Lafayette. The mounds lie east of this city. NYindfail Horsetliieve*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Ind., Jan. H.-Thieves broke into the barn of Montgomery McKay, a farmer, living three miles northeast of this place, Wednesday night, and stole about twelve bushels of clover seed belonging to Mr. McKay. Last night they stole Farmer Frank Kennedy’s rig while he was in town attending his lodge meeting. The horse stolen was a sorrel mare, medium size, with white stripe in forehead. The rig was a two-seated surrey. I nknuwn Fireman Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH VERNON, Ind., Jan. 14.—An unfknown man, twenty years old, supposed to be a fireman, from Tiffin, 0., attempted to board a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway in this city this morning, and, falling between the cars, was dragged a distance of two hundred feet and crushed to death. Narrow Escape for George Hass. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 14.—George Bass, who conducts the McCammon House barber shop, had words with Charles Lancaster. a barber employed by him. Lancaster drew a revolver and fired at Bass, the bullet just grazing his cheek. Lancaster has been arrested. Hied of a Colt's KickSpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 14.—This morning Mr. John Sparks, a farmer residing seven miles northeast of the city, was kicked in the abdomen by a colt and so seriously injured that he died in thirty minutes. He was sixty-eight years old and leaves two children. Marion Mayoralty Primary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Jan. 14.—The Republican primary election for the nomination of city officers to-day resulted as follows. Mayor, W. L. Golding; cleik. C. G. Robbins; treasurer, John E. Clark; marshal, Joseph Smith. The total vote was 2,183. Shideler Not a Candidate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Jan. 14.-The Hon. Geo. A. H. Shideler, who represented Grant county in the last Legislature, announces in the local papers to-day that he will not be a candidate for re-election. He could have been renominated for the asking. I Plate-Glass Strike Ended. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELVYOOD, Ind., Jan. 14.—The plate-glass strike by employes refusing to work under the “piece” system has ended. The big plant here will resume Feb. 1, after an idleness of five weeks. The men will work under the "piece” system. Suicide of an Octogenarian. Special to the Indianapous Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 14.-William Groscurth, a farmer near this city, committed suicide by hanging to-day. He was eighty years old, and his wife forty. Domestic trouble is given as the cause. Indiana Obituary. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 14. Daniel B. Crawford, aged ninety, died this morning at his home in this city. He was born in Hartford county, Maryland, Nov. 16, 1807. In 1835 he settled a short distance north of this city. He followed farming for fifteen years, and then engaged in the dry goods business, which he followed successfully for forty-six years. Five children survive him— John V. Crawford. Mrs. J. M. Williams and Mrs. Joseph C. Ratliff, of this city; Mrs. Frederick Kramer, of Indiana Mineral Springs, and Mrs. E. A. Vorhees, of Keokuk, la. Mrs. Joseph Peltz, aged seventy-three, died this morning of fatty degeneration of the heart. She was the mother of John E. Peltz. a well-known business man. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 14. Peter Smueker, aged sixty-three, one of the pioneers of this city, died there this morning. He was born in Newark. O. On New Year’s day, while returning home, lie fell on the icy pavement and broke his leg at the hip. Inflammation in the w’oumled member caused his death. Mr. Smueker served in the war in Company I, Second Ohio Cavalry. He leaves a wife and one daughter. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.—Mrs. Harriet Shafter. wife of Brigadier General William R. Shafter, commanding the Department of California, died at her home at Fort Mason to-day after a short illness. She was strieken by paralysis after leaving an entertainment at the Century Club on Wednesday last and never recovered consciousness. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 14.—James Hazard, one of the best-known citizens of St. Louis county, died at his home in Clayton this afternoon. Rheumatism was primarily the cause of his death. Some years ago he was the head of the firm of Hazard & Wilson, which for many years practically controlled the coal business in this city. ROCHESTER. Ind., Jan. 14.-John Montgomery, aged ninety-six, one of the oldest citizens in northern Indiana, died here today.

Indiana Note*. The Randall Hotel, one of the largest in Evansville, is to be sold for debt. The business will be continued. A. A. Holmes, who was appointed postmaster at Sullivan this week, is editor of the Sullivan Union. Mr. Holmes succeeds William Binks in March. On Monday next Judge Fox. of Wayne county, will take the bench in the Jay Circuit Court to take action on the petition for the drainage of the Salamoniu river. At the annual meeting of the State Bank of Sheridan the directors elected John H. Cox president, Thomas L. Harris vice president. Dr. J. W. Parr second vice president and Orlando A. Cox cashier. A. O. H. to Meet on Neutral Ground. TRENTON, N. J.. Jan. 14.-Right Rev. Bishop McFali, who acted as arbitrator in the proceedings looking to a reunion of the two wings of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the United States, has fixed Trenton. June -7. the place and time for the holding of the national convention of the reunited organizations. This is in accordance with the understanding that this matter should be left to the bishop for determination. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of America had, before the arbitration, fixed on Boston as the place for holding its national convention, and the board of Erin wing had named Brooklyn as its place of meeting. Friends of*the two cities were anxious that they should be favor and by having the joint convention held in their locality. but Bishop McFali, after consideration, reacted the conclusion that a neutral ground should be selected, and he therefore named Trenton as the convention city. Love Liiiikliw at Pa renin I Objection* CLEVELAND. 0.. Jan. 14.—Thg romantic marriage in this city of Vernon Van Norman to Miss Maud Thieme on Jan. 1 has just been brought to iiuht. The home of both is San Diego. Cal., where they are well known. Van Norman paid attention to Miss Thieme until his father, who is a wealthy physician of San Diego, objected and threatened to disinherit him. The young man later came here to study medicine. During the holidays Miss Thieme came East to visit relatives and the wedding follow* and. They are spending their honeymoon in Minneapolis, Minn. Cornell Rower* Indignant. ITHACA. N. V.. Jan. 14.—The refusal of Yale to grant Cornell’s request contained in the latter’s acceptance of Yale’s challenge has been tin- chief topic of conversation at Ithaca to-day. The students in general are Indifferent, but some of them, while saying little, have given signs of indignation, which practically represents the feeling at Cornell on the boat-race question, as far as meeting with Yale is concerned. Many Cheek* Stolen. NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—The banks of this city were notified to-day that a targe number of checks had teen stolen from tetter boxes in Detroit, Buffalo, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Toledo, Cleveland, Kansas City and Milwaukee, by an organized gang of thieves. Some of the checks have been raised and altered by means of acids. In several instances the thieves have been s ucc3asful in getting the checks cashed.

IN FINANCIAL STRAITS. Kentucky Trust Company of Louisville May Assign To-Day. LOUISVILLE, ky„ Jan. H.-Presid* nt H. D. Ormsby. of the Kentucky Trust Company, will make his report of the affairs of the company to the board of trustees tomorrow, and it is predicted that not only w’ill the report show' the company is in financial straits, but that the president will recommend that an assignment be made at once, so that all of the creditors of the concern will be treated alike. That the company has not made an assignment .before this has been a matter of considerable discussion among bankers and business men generally. The assignment was foreshadowed this morning, however, when President Ormsby gave his orders to employes of the company that no money should be paid out to any one and no money received, unless it was in payment of money due the company. Asa consequence, every one calling for the money they had on deposit was informed of the orders, and that the company would not pay anything until it was learned how matters stood. When asked this afternoon if the company w'ould continue in business Mr. Ormsby said that it would not. and could not continue. He also added that there was no hope of paying out dol;ar for dollar. Further than this he refused to commit himself. However. It is clear from this that the company is heavily involve!, and that President Ormsby will probably recommend either that an assignment be made or that a receiver be appointed to take charge of the company and to close its business. Mr. Ormsby stated that, so far as he had examined, there was no theft on the part of William Reinecke, the missing vice president and managpr of the company. The principal wrongdoing of the missing man secerned to be that he took the money of the company as loans to himself without first getting the consent of the board of trustees. All of the investments he made turned out badly, and. as a consequence, the assets of the company were rather poor. A statement of the company’s liabilities and assets could not be obtained, owing to the chaotic condition in which Mr. Reinecke left the institution’s affairs. The whereabouts of the former vice president are unknown. Other Business Troubles. NEW YORK. Jan. 14.-Justice Cohen, of the Supreme Court, has appointed Arthur S. Pope temporary receiver of the Hoffman Machine Company, a West Virginia corporation, in a suit brought by stockholders for a dissolution of the corporation. The company was incorporated in 1895. It has a factory in this city. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—George W. Palmer and Edward L. Langford were to-day appointed receivers of the Brooklyn & Brightton Beach Railroad Company cri petition of the Central Trust Company. The receivers ere appointed to foreclose a mortgage and the bond was fixed at SIOO,OOO. PORT HOPE, Ont.. Jan. 14.—The Midland Trust Company, of this place, assigned yesterday. It is thought the laibilities will be very heavy. The deposits are over $150,000. The assets of the company Consist largely of farmers’ notes and mortgages.

WAR SHIP DISABLED. One of the German Vessels En Route to China Damaged. LONDON. Jan. 14.—The British steamer Dunera, from Southampton on Dec. 29 for Bombay, reports having seen a German war ship in a disabled condition. The Dunera was at the Island of Perim. at entrance of the Red sea, when the dispatch was sent to London. The German war ships Deutschland and Gefion, under the command of Prince Henry of Prussia, are now on their way to China. They w'ere last heard from at Port Said, where they arrived Jan. 5 last. The Coal King and Crew Safe. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jail. 14.—After drifting aimlessly at sea for two w’eeks, the barge Coal King. Captain Nelson, was towed into port this afternoon by the tug C. W. Moi-sc. The Coal King left Boston on Dec. 31 in tow of the tug L. Luckenbaeh. On the night of Jan. 1 her hawser snapped, Owitig to the darkness, the barge’s signal of distress was not seen by those on the tug, which, with two other barges in tow', proceeded on her course. The men on board suffered no inconvenience, being plentifully supplied with food. Movements of Steamers. MOVILLE, Jan. 14. Arrived: Anchoria, from New' York for Glasgow. Sailed: Ethiopia, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 14. Arrived: Pennland. from Phalidalphia. Sailed: Nomandic, for New York. NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—Arrived: Wei kendam. from Amsterdam; Britannic, from Liverpool. LONDON. Jan. 14.—Arrived: Mississippi, from New York. BOULOGNE, Jan. 11.-Saited: Rotterdam, for New York. NAPLES, Jan. 14.—Sailed: Ems, for New York. KURTZ WILL*NOT RESIGN. W ill Hold His Position a* Member of the National Committee. COLUMBUS, 0.. Jan 14.—C. L. Kurtz, leader of the “combine” in the fight against Senator Hanna, is quoted in an interview as saying, in reply to the threat to remove him from the Republican national committee: "I was elected by the Ohio delegation, and no one else has the power to remove mo. Mr. H. M. Doughtery is loud in his accusations against me. He calls me a traitor. I remember that live years ago Mr. Doughtery w T as elected to the Legislature as a Foraker man and then voted for Sherman.” Mr. Doughtery. in an interview to-night, denied that he hau promised to vote for Mr. Foraker five years ago. He says that he voted for the so-called Foraker candidate for speaker of the House at that time, but that he was not pledged to Foraker. Aimed at Relief Associations. I>ES MOINES, la., Jan. 14.—Representative Cook, of Montgomery county, introduced in the House to-day the Temple amendment, over wdiich the principal fight of the last session took place. The amendment aims at relief associations of railroads, and provides that no contract between the company and employes shall operate to waive the right of an employe to claim damages for injuries. Woman Suffrage Amendment. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 14.—A concurrent resolution was introduced in the Assembly to-day proposing a woman's suffrage amendment to the State Constitution. ATTACK ON MANDALAY FORT. A Crazy Priest’s Mad Project to Overthrow British Rule in Burmah. The following account of the attack on the fort at Mandalay gives the first details of the reason of an uprising which created a good deal of interest when the lews was cabled from Burmah. It appears in a letter from an English officer which appeared in a recent issue of the St. James Gazette: "The morning of the 12th of October was a memorable one here, as we were in something like a small state of siege. Fancy getting a telegram from your cook to know what he was to do. as he was detained at the fort gate and not allowed to enter with the day’s provisions: How this came about you may like to know. It was the time of the festival of Thadingyoot, the end of the Buddhist lent. A half-mad phoongyee took advantage of the religious excitement to declare that the time had come for restoring the Burmese kingdom, and that he was going to seize the throne of Theebuw. His following consisted of about twenty of the rascality of Mandalay armed with only native swords, and a spear or two, and with these he proposed to make himself master of a fort garrisoned by 1,000 British troops besides a couple of regiments of native infantry. It is true he had persuaded his men that they would be invisible and invulnerable, and that by waving his yellow robe in front of them all bullets fired at them would be turned to water. The police of the quarter from which he started got scent of what was un foot, but contented themselves with sending a warning to other police guards through a telephone which was out of order. At any rate, the gang reached the south gate of the fort without interruption. Here they came across a private of the Royal Scots, who was taking a walk with a woman, and at once attacked the defenseless pair. Just inside the gate is a. guardhouse, where three Burman policemen were on duty, but these immediately took to their heels. The woman rushed up to this for shelter, while the soldier ran to a neighboring house, where the niujor of the Fourth Burmans was sitting at dinner with his wife and sis-

ter. for help. Major Hobble ran nut and found the Burman? had followed the soldier and were coming towards the house. Meanwhile Mrs. Debbie had brought down the major's revolvers, and with these he kept the Burma ns at hay till he was joined by one or two officers and some servants. In the end the phoongyee and three others were shot dead, some half dozen others wounded, and all who remained ran away. The whole thing was over in about half an hour: and meanwhile I. sitting alone, heard the bring, thought it was the festivities ar.t went on quietly with my dinner. By this time the alarm had been given, troops were turned out. patrols of mounted infantry scoured the place and several of the men were caught in or near the fort. Since then all the rest have been captured and are awaiting their trial for ‘waging war against the Queen,’ and two of them for murder, for the soldier, who was badly gashed hesides having his hand cut off. died within the week. 'Hie woman who was with him made a marvelous recovery and is almost well. The whole affair has been the talk of the place, and people hardly know which to wonder at most, the incapacity of the police or the ignorant gullibility of the Burmans who could believe the preposterous assertions of the phoongyee. Even now they say that many of the Burmans will not believe that he is killed, but that some other man was substituted for him, and that he will reappear some day.” RYAN WOULD NOT FIGHT. •‘Kid*' McCoy Hail No Chance to l’tiinincl the Australia a. DAYTON. 0., Jan. 14. An effort was made to-night to pull off the rnueh-tulked-of four-round contest between “Kid” McCoy and Australian Jimmy Ryan. Both men had on their fighting costumes arid the “Kid” was in his corner of the ring when a wrangi in Ryan’s dressing room stopped the whole business. Ryan was to receive $125 if he stayed four rounds 6r half that sum if he was Knocked out. Manager Frank Kelley insisted that the $62.50 which Ryan was to receive, win or lose, should be turned over. Homer Selby, the “Kid’s” brother, said that the money was ready, but that Ryan should first give evidence of his good faith. The chief of police entered and put at end to further proceedings. “Kid” McCoy refereed the twenty-round contest between George Campbell, of Toledo. 0., and Larry McDonald, of Washington. D. C. Up to.the third round Campbell was the favorite. In the fifth round, after a lively mix-up, McDonald delivered the blow which made a clean knock-out. They fought at catch weights. McDonald weighing 148 pounds and Campbell 155. I'ognrtj It nil iel and Held Out. CHILLJCOTHE, 0., Jan. 14.—A twentyround contest took place here to-night between James Fogarty and George Haynes. Both were in good shape, and honors were even until the seventh round, when Haynes had Fogarty almost out. The gong saved Fogarty again in the eighth, but he rallied afterwards and held out, making the fight a draw. TvicKty-ltonnd Fight. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Jan. 14.-AI the Auditorium to-night there was a twentyround fight between Jimmy Conley, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Jack Bingham, of Huntington, for $250 a side and a percentage of the gate money. It was a fast and furious fight. Referee Pat Gavin, of Wheeling, declared it a draw. James O’Leary, of Cincinnati, challenged the winner. Ah Easy Victim for “Kid” McCoy. BALTIMORE, Jan. 14.—Manager A1 Herford, of the Eureka Athletic Club, has hung up a purse of $1,600 for a. go between “Kid” McCoy and Charles Goff, the middle weight, the winner to take 60 per cent, of the receipts. "Billy” Madden, Goff’s manager, has accepted for Goff and there is little doubt of McCoy’s acceptance. GEN. CLAY’S WIFE IN PERIL Dora’s Brother Fires Two Shots at Her w-ijh Murderous Intent. VALLEY VIEW, Ky., Jan. 14.—Gen. Cassius M. Clay’s young wife Dora barely escaped death this morning at the hands of her brother, Clell Richardson, at whose house she has been boarding ever since she left the general two months awo. Richardson fired two shots at her with a large pistol at a distance of twenty paces and then fired a shot at Mrs. John Bryant, his mother-in-law, who was witli Mrs. Clay. The young wife ran to the home of her sister, Mrs. Kelly, where she is stopping to-night. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between Clell Richardson and his brother-in-law. Will Bryant, the former claiming that Bryant was paying too much attention to General Clay’s wife. When Mrs. Bryant arid Mrs. Clay expostulated with him Clell grew angry and drove the women from the house. Immediately after they had left he secured his revolver and, going to the door, opened'fire on them. Richardson is a desperate character, and so far the officers have made no attempt to arrest him. dell's brothers. John and Tom, are guarding the women folks to-night and swear they will kill Clell if he attempts to molest them, as he has threatened to do.

OBITUARY Rev. C. H. Dodson, Author of ‘‘Alice iu Wonderland.” LONDON. Jan. 14.-The Rev. C. H. Dodson, whose nom de plum was Lewis Carroll, the author of ‘‘Alice iu Wonderland,” is dead. Other Dentil*. NEW YORK. Jan. 14. Lazarus Straus, the father of Nathan Straus, president of the health department, died of old age to night. Mr. Straus was born in 1809 in Atterberg, Bavaria. In 1854 he came to this country with his wife, a daughter and two sons. For a time he lived in Georgia, but in 1865 came to New Y'ork and engaged in the crockery business. Several years ugo his firm was absorbed by the firm of R. H. Macy & Cos., since which time Mr. Straus has not been actively engaged in business. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 14.—Rev. E. A. Ramsey, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and one of the best-known divines in the South, died to-day, aged forty-six. ROME. Jan. 14.—Senator Tabarrini, president of the council of state, is dead. JEALOUS PRINTER’S CRIME. Louis A Held Fatally Wounds Hi* Sweetheart ami Kill* Himself. CINCINNATI, Jan. 14.—Louis Alfeld, a compositor at the Enquirer office, to-day shot his sweetheart, Minnie Paehner, at her home on Bremen street, inflicting a fatal wound, and then shot and killed himself. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. They had had a brief quarrel just before the shooting. Bloody Fight in a "Blind Tiger.” BARBOURSVILLE. Ky.. Jan. 14.—News reached here this morning of a bloody light in a “blind tiger” Wednesday on Sandyfork, Leslie county, in which Robert Caldwell. Smith Helton. John Williams and Toni Wilson, all colored, were killed, and Will Burgas mortally wounded. Whisky was the cause of the tight, all of those engaged being drunk. Seven Men Injured. BALTIMORE. Jan. 14.—The walls of two new houses, being erected on Twenty-sec-ond street, near the York road, fell in this afternoon and seven men were injured, two prqbably fatally. Following is a list of the injured: Lorenzo Carter, R. J. Warner. Thomas Burns, William Adams, William N. Montague, William A. Forsythe, William A. Widencr. Asked I * i*I.OOO, hut Took Ml, 500. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Alonzo J. Whitman, formerly mayor of Duluth, and a state senator* of Minnnesota. has compromised his suit against the Columbia National Bank of this city for SIOO,OUO damages for false imprisonment. It is understood that the bank paid Mr. Whitman $1,500 in consideration of the abandonment of his suit. Gold Flowing' (o Aevv York. NEW YORK, Jan. H.—Money Is flowing to this center from the West and from Canada, that from the latter being in the shape of gold. During the last ten days the Canadian Bank of Commerce has received $250.000 in gold from Canada and the Rank of Montreal $400,W0 in gold.

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FELL 147 FEET. Unknown .Man Tumbles from WuhliiiiKton Oridgc and Soon Died. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—An unknown man threw himself or accidentally fell from a parapet on the Washington bridge over the Harlem river at One-hundred-and-eigh-ty-first street to-day. The distance from the point where lie fell to the water Is 147 feet, which is twelve feet further than the distance traveled by the Brooklyn-bridge jumpers. The man was fished out by two laborers who saw him fall. It was thought he would live, as he appeared to he only suffering from a wound over the right eye, apparently caused by striking the river bottom. but he died a few hours later at a hospital. Dll. WITHROW OX HAMLET. Well-Known Minister Preaches on the Theology of Slink*|ienr(*. Boston Journal. Taking Hamlet for his text, the Rev. .7. L. Withrow, D. D., of Chicago, preached on “Shakspeare and the Bible; Hamlet’s Dream and His Perchance” at the Parkstreet Church last evening, and he came to the conclusion that the great dramatist w r as a devout believer in the old evangelical faith. Dr. Withrow’s sermon was listened to attentively by a large congregation. He began by saying that one must be a blind reader who does not discover religious sayings and sentiments in Shakspeare’s writing. Hamlet is a perplexing personality. Sometimes he appears a noble, and at other times a feeble fellow'. After he had engaged a band of strolling actors tp depict in the King’s presence how his father had been killed, he began to reproach himself. Then he displayed a tempest of feeling when his mother gave her hand in marriage to him who had murdered his father, and this is followed by an outburst of affection for Ophelia. Shakspeare was just as biblical as any theologian of the seventeenth century. He teaches that "it Is appointed men once to die. and then the judgment.” The first lesson we draw is that the future state of existence is self-assertive in the human heart. You may be bewildered, and soliloquize, like Hamlet. “To be. or not to be.” but the human breast says there Is a future life. Science has no data on the subject. Men who discredit a future existence are apt to think of a. reunion In their last hours. Criminals express the hope of meeting someone they love or hate. There is an instinctive and intuitive feeling that there is an undiscovered country. Nothing less than conscience can make men afraid of something we know not of. When the moral law is in high authority, the number of suicides is reduced to a minimum. When there is a flippant regard for the future, then suicides are numerous. The noblest ininds always have a steadfast regard for realities. Hamlet was of a noble mind. Ophelia revealed this under her fervent fancy when she said: ‘‘Oh. what a noble mind is he.” Shakspeare, if he knew anything, krtew the Bible. He must have sat up nights reading it. for his mind was saturated with it. There are thousands of scriptural sentiments in his works. In no line do we find an expression of the liberalism of to-day. Shakspearc’s belief was of the most evangelistic. old-fashioned faith. He would like to have taught suicide— ’’ a conesummation devoutly to be wished”—but he didn’t. The second lesson is that whatever ills we may here endure, there mav be worse beyond; and the third, the deeds done will make the experince of the world to come. That is not the preacher’s teaching, hut that of the great poet-dramatist. AM people who have ever held any faith regarding a future aJso associated retribution and blessedness. So did Shakspeare. His description of the hereafter is more shocking than the Holv Scripture: “In that sleep of death what dreams may come.” What are dreams? They are results caused by what has occurred. Dreams are punishments for what has been donevawake. You know what it is to be let out of your mind when you dream. If you just have that all of th<* time in the future, you don’t need any lake of tire. Disagreements as to what the future is do not disapprove of its reality, but rather confirm that there is one. The old-fash-ioned book will not seriously mislead one Take it as it is. Losses by Fire. ELAND JUNCTION. Wls.. Jan. 14.—The lumber mill of the fngersolll Land and Lumber Company burned to-day; loss. $70,000. The company is a Henry Sherry corporation. and the mill had not been run since Mr. Sherry made an assignment. It is thought the fire was of incendiary origin, probably the work of tramps. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—1n a fire which occurred to-day at Thomas Roberts's hotel in West street, and which did $15,000 damage, Leslie Stanley and his wife were suffocated by smoke. Yellow Fever Victims, NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—According trt letters received in this city from Jamaica tin* latest victims of yellow fever in that city are Major Slater, of the Royal Engineers, who died in camp, after an illness of two days, and Captain E. R. White, of the harbor tug Atlas. A number of cases are reported at Up Park Camp, where the military are stationed and where, it is stated, a death occurs nearly every two days. The troops will go under canvas while the barracks are being disinfected. DrnKKcd to Dentil. HARRISBURG. Fa., Jan. 14.-Col. Edwin K. Meyers, former state printer, was found

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