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*ng among (ho wreckage. It was frozen to a plank and was much disfigured. ♦ IS SEW ENGLAND. All Braarhe* of UnidneiM at Bouton In a. State of Paralysis. BOSTON, Feb. I.—A northwest snow Btorm which set in yesterday and raged until this afternoon completely paralyzed all branches of business, and street car and steam railroad traffic, and for a time shut otY the city' from communication by wire with all pla*ies outside the limits of Boston. The storm was the mosi severe this city has experienced in twenty-five years, and caused the loss of several Jives, Inside doing a money damage of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Between 1 and 5 o’clock this morning a foot of heavy wet snow clung to the poles and wires, and, aided by a wind blowing it the rate of fifty miles an hour, prostrated ail telephone and telegraph lines out of tho city. More thun half the electric lights of tho city went out, and in suburban towns the fire alarm service was crippled. In Newark, broken wires falling across others started fire in the electric room of the elegant residence of Charles J. Travelli, the wealthy Pittsburg steel manufacturer, and in two hours nothing remained of tho bous ■ but ashes. Mr. Travelli’s family' escaped in their night clothes without saving anything. Tho loss amounts to about SIOO,<X. Last night the big three-masted schooner Charles T. Briggs, of Bath. Me., coal laden, was dashed to pieces on the Nahant coast, and it is believed her crew of eight men perished. The body of one of the crew has been recovered. In the business district here it was nearly noon when tho employes reached their places of employment, all suburban trolley lines having been abandoned at midnight, and the steam rail roods being unable to run more thap two or three suburban trains during the forenoon. All through trains from New York and west, as well as those frovn the east were from four to six hours late, and many did not get in until late in the afternoon. The Boston & Albany road started two express trains for New York during the forenoon, but it was 2 o’clock before they wore able to proceed beyond Natick. ten miles from the city. The tracks were not only blockaded with snow, but masses of broken poles and wires scattered over the road were encountered at many points. To-night the few trains moving are running without a telegraph service. The city and suburbs arc covered with broken poles and tangled wires. Many horses were killed In the streets by stepping upon the ends of telephone wires which had fallen across the trolley wires. To-night the situation assumed such a dangerous aspect that Mayor Quincy ordered that none of the electric lights be turned on except in districts where the wires are under ground. It will require weeks to restore the telephone and telegraphic service. Not a single telegraph wire out of Boston was in operation all day, and the telephone wires were in almost as bod condition. This afternoon a telephone service as far as Worcester was established. The wholesale and most of the business districts of tho city were deserted all day. The Stock Exchange was lifeless and transactions were very limited. Shipping hi the harbor was damaged greatly and it is feared that many disasters to coast snipping will be reported when telegraphic communication is restored. The center of the storm appeared to be in the vicinity of New Bedford, and tho brunt of it fell on Boston and territory within a radius of fifteen or twenty miles. From meagre information received from the middle and western parts of the State, the Btorm there was less severe. Here, about twenty Inches of snow fell. Trains Behind Time. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. I.—The snow and windstorm of last night and to-day was one of the most severe experienced in this section since the big blizzard. All trains are behind time, and several casualties are reported, but none of any gravity. The storm was severly felt throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Two Reading Railroad freight trains collided near Tamaqua, demolishing both engines and injuring t lie fireman, brakemeri and conductor. Traffic was delayed seven hours. A dispatch from Stroudsburg says that communication between that place and other towns near by has been cut off. At Tobyhanna the gale was so violent that the ire-cutting industry hail to lie suspended, throwing five hundred hands out of work. The storm is very severe up the Delaware valley. Snow Hlinded the KiiKlueem. BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. I.—The mail train south from this city, over the Rutland Railroad, was stalled this morning a short distance helow' Shelbournc. Two engines loaded with men were sent out to puli the train out. The snow blinded the engineers and they ran Into the rear end of ihe stalled train. Fred Dubue was thrown between the engine and tender and so badly crushed that he died in a few hours. Traffic on the Rutland road was completely suspended. The Central Vermont trains are running several hours late. Electric lines are unable to operate. The amount of smfv varies-from ten to tw'enty-four inches. The country highways are completely blocked. The snow is six feet deep in the mountains.

In Newfoundland. ST. JOHN'S* N. F., Feb. I.—A blizzard is racing here to-day. A large number of men have been driven off on an ice floe in Trinity bay, and it is feared there will be a repetition of tho disaster of seven years ago, when forty people perished. The thermometer shows twenty degrees below zero, and the void is so terrible that some loss of life must result. The government is dispatching a rescue steamer to the endangered men. An unidentified steamer, believed to be the Jamaica. Captain Peterson, from New York. Jan. 25, J'or St. John’s with a general cargo, is visible in an ice floe off Ferryland, tiUrty miles south of this port. Site is flying distress signals, and it is feared that she has been seriously injured. Fnetorie* Crippled. LOWELL, Mass., Feb. I.—Two thousand men were employed by the city and the street-railway company to-day to clear the snow from the streets. The mills and other large establishments where women are employed were crippled by the absence of many of the female employes, though none of the mills were compelled to shut down, except the Merrimack, which employs more than two thousand hands, ami the United States Bunting Company, which employs 1.50.5. Cloggings of the turbine wheels by snow made it impossible to start up the machinery it the Merrimack. Difficulty of the same kind was experienced in other mills, but they were all able to run during the day. Wave* Urea king Over Picnic Hack*. CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Reports from various towns in Michigan, northern Wisconsin and northern Indiana tell of a severe blizzard raging in that section of the country. The wind is blowing a gale and huge drifts are being piled in the highways. AH trains are more or less delayed and in some towns street-railway traffic has been entirely suspended. The report from Marquette, Mich., states that the storm on the lake is fearful, and that waves are breaking completely over Picnic rocks, something that they have not done in years. I’lutted u Mali I In a Drift. LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. I.—The storm has paralyzed business and traffic. Street car lines are tied up and communication with other towns is almost suspended. All the mills are seriously affected by the storm. Many of the operatives are out, anl some of the mills arc. not running at all. The forty passengers on the 9:40 train out of BOfcton passed the night, stuck fust in a snow drift between I allardvule and Lowell without food, and did not reach this city until late this afternoon. Burled I ndt-r Snowdrift*. WATER VILLK. Me.. Feb. I.—Small house* have been buried by twent.wfoot drift* of snow. The Ivockwood cotton mills have been closed, the operatives being uu-

able to reach the factory. There has been no train over ihe Maine Central Railroad for hours. The Mercury Dropping: In Onturlo. TORONTO, Ont.. Feb. I.—Tho thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero to-day, with tho prospect of going lower to-night. Reports from most places in the provinces show that the mercury fell from 15 to 25 below. Strong winds have been drifting the snow to such an extent as to interfere with railway traffic. Worst Ever Known. PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Feb. I.—The . torm here to-day was one of the w'orst ever known. Telegraph and telephone wires are all down and the city is overwhelmed by three feet of snow, which has blown into immense drifts. Trains are blocked in all directions. Blizzard In Virginia. RICHMOND. Va., Feb. I.—At midnight the thermometer was down to 20, with the prospects of a still more decided fall. Southwest Virginia reports a blizzard blowing, and Newport News a forty-mile gale. No damage is reported from any point. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY. Fair Weather, Increasing Cloudiness and Light Flurries of Snow. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m. Feb. 2—Fair weather, increasing cloudiness and light flurries of snow on Wednesday. General Conditions Yesterday—High barometric pressure continues over the country except near the northern Atlantic coast. The temperature fell nearly everywhere except in Kansas. Nebraska and Missouri, where it rose slightly. Fair weather prevailed except near the New England coast and near the upper lakes, where snow fell. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—For OhioThreatening weather, with light snow on the lakes; slowly rising temperature; fresh w’esterly winds, diminishing. For Indiana find Illinois—Threatening weather, with light snow and probably warmer in northern portions; westerly winds. i/ocnl Observations Tuesday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 30.42 3 SO N’west. Cloudy. .00 7p. m.. 60.42 17 00 N’west. Clear. .00 Maximum temperature, 18; minimum temperature, 5. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Feb. 1; Temp. Pre. Normal 27 .12 Mean 12 .00 Departure from normal —ls —.12 Departure since Feb. 1 —ls —.12 Departture since Jan. 1 *155 *1.83 •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperatures. Stations. 7. a.m Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta, Ga 22 28 24 Bismarck, N. D 2 10 0 Buffalo 8 10 2 Calgary, N. W. T 8 4 Cairo, 111 h> 24 24 Cheyenne, Wyo 18 42 30 Chicago —4 10 4 Cincinnati 10 20 16 Concordia, Kan 8 10 8 Davenport. Ia —6 10 8 Des Moines, la —6 14 12 Dodge City. Kan 16 36 34 Galveston. Tex 46 54 50 Helena, Mont 16 20 2 Jacksonville, Fla 38 48 40 Kansas City 8 24 4 Little Rock, Ark 24 36 32 Minnedosa, Man—l 2 Memphis 24 32 28 Marquette, Mich 6 8 8 Nashville 16 24 22 New Orleans 40 50 46 New York 20 22 12 North Platte, Neb 12 36 30 Oklahoma City 20 42 36 Omaha 8 24 22 Pittsburg 6 34 10 Qu’Appelle, N. W. T —4 —4 —lO Rapid City, S. D 16 24 14 Salt Lake City 18 24 28 St. Louis 10 20 20 St. Paul —2 18 16 Springfield, 111 2 16 16 Springfield, -Mo 10 30 28 Vicksburg, Miss 34 12 38 Washington, D. C. 14 18 16 —Below zero.

MAIL STEAMER SUNK. The G'lmunel Rnecit Wrecked mid Twenty-Two Live* Lost. LONDON, Feb. I.—The mail steamer Channel Queen, running between Plymouth and the Island of Jersey, struck on the rocks off Guernsey island this morning during a fog and sank. There were sixty-five persons aboard, and all were saved, it is believed, except twenty-two. The Channel Queen's engines were reversed when the rocks were seen, but it was then too late. As soon as she struck the boats were lowered. The first boatload reached land and sought help of the fishermen, who made gallant rescues, although the he ivy soa prevented their boat from approaching the wreck. The survivors had to be dragged by ropes through the sea to the rescuing boats. The captain was the last to leave the wreck. The chief engineer, three stokers and eighteen passengers, including fourteen onion sellers, were drowned. Tho passengers were in their cabins when tho sea swamped the vessel. The rescued passengers lost everything, even their clothing. Later—Three of the persons reported drowned have since been found among the rescued, reducing ihe total loss to nineteen. A Heavy Sea ShipxKMl. ANTWERP, Feb* I.—The American line steamer Berlin, which arrived here Jan. 51, after a passage of ten days from -Vow York, reports encountering very boisterous weather. A heavy sea was shipped, which stove in the door of the saloon of the secondclass cabin and filled it with water. It smashed the skylight over one of the coal bunkers, through which tho water pound in. A boat was also broken by the force of the sea. Large Tank Ship. CHESTER, Pa., Feb. I.—Roach's shipyard In this city to-day concluded a contract to build for the Standard Oil Company t lie largest tank steamship ever constructed in this country. The ship will bo 564 feet in length. 48 feet beam and 23 feet deep, and will be built to carry oil in bulk. Movement* of Steamer*. NEW YORK, Feb. I.—Arrived: Georgic, from Uverpool; Hekla, from Copenhagen; Kensington, from Antwerp. Sailed: Nomadic, for Liverpool. LIZARD. Feb. I.—Passed: St. Louis, from New York, for Southampton. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. I.—Arrived: Pennland, from Liverpool. BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.-Sailed: Scotia, for Hamburg. Business Embarrassments. CHICAGO, Feb. I.—A bill has been filed in the Superior Court by the Novelty Iron Company, of Canton, O. against the American Boiler Company, of Chicago, asking that the latter company be restrained from dissipating its assets. The bill charges that the American Boiler Company, of which the Novelty Iron Company is a creditor, was deliberately wrecked. Recently the assets of the American Boiler Company, which the bill avers were worth $150,(K0, were sold for $78,631 to the Kellogg, Mackay Cameron Company, composed of old employes of t*o boiler company. The Kellogg, Mackay & Cameron Company has begun business as the successor of the old American Boiler Company, and the court is asked to decree the transaction void. CHICAGO, appointed a receiver for the Vance & Jones Company, a shoe manufacturing concern at West Pullman, on the application of Arthur G. Jones and William H. Huntington. The legal trouble surrounding the corporation arises from differences between the interested parties of the corporation, and t lap court Is asked to allow the receiver to conduct the business of the concern until these differences ea.n l>e adjusted. Tile concern is in good shape financially. KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Feb. 1.-A decree was entered In the Federal Court to-day in the consolidated eases of the State Trust Company and the Electric Corporation vs. tho Lafollette Coal and Iron Company. The amount is for over sl,6oo,u(K>. The Electric Corporation and American Loan and Trust Company urn the principal creditors. TO CUKE \ COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Hromo (Juintne Tubletn.. All druggists refund money if It fails to Cure. 25c. The genuine baa L. it. O. on each tablet.

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MRS. LUETGERT AGAIN ♦ JACOB LITHARDT SAVS HE KNOWS WHERE THE WOMAN IS, ♦- And Will Produce Her on Payment of $20,000 Uenard—The Man Thought to Be Insane. ♦ CHICAGO, Feb. I.—A man giving the name of Jacob Luthardt called at the central police station this afternoon and announced himself as entirely prepared to accept the s2o,ood* reward which Police Inspector Michael Schaak has offered for the production of Mrs. Louisa Luetgert, alive. The man said he had seen Mrs. Luetgert within forty-eight hours and could produce her within the same space of time. He told a straightforward story and although subjected to a close examination by Captain Coileran, of the central station, insisted on the accuracy of his story. He was shown three hundred pictures and from them selected that of Mrs. Luetgert without trouble. He said he could produce the woman at any time and would do so immediately if he was assured of the payment of the $20,000. Jle said Mrs. Luetgert was within a short distance of Chicago and with some friends of hers. According to Luthardt’s story Sirs. Luetgert is insane but has lucid intervals. He was given a letter to Inspector Schaak and that official not only agreed to make good the $21,000 he had originally offered, but promised to give Luthardt S3OO additional for every day that was saved in the trial by the production of Airs. Luetgert. “The trial will last about one week longer and will cost the State about $3,000 more,” said tho inspector. You bring the woman into court and I will personally pay you $23,000. I will also guarantee that you get a total sum of $25,000, as I know others who will put up a little besides my $23,000. Now bring her in.” Luthardt sat still a moment and then with the remark “Well, 1 must be going,” he left the station. Chief of Police Kipley’s private secretary, James Markham, says the man is insane. He says lie lias called at the chief’s office several times for an interview with the chief. Each time ho refused to state his business, but said he had very important business to transact with the chief. The trial of Adolph L. Luetgert for the murder of his wife came to end to-day as fur as taking testimony is concerned. Assistant Slate s Attorney Mc-Ewen at once started in on his closing address to the jury, it is expected that arguments of counsel will take up a week. Negro Murderer Lynelied. BRAMWELL, W. Va., Feb. I.—An unknown negro, who was refused the privilege of walking through the tunnel on the Norfolk & Western Railroad near here last night, shot Harry Draper, the watchman, killing him instantly. A posse soon formed and captured the negro, later placing him in jail. At midnight fifty men look the prisoner from the jail and lynched him, after which his body was riddled with bullets up. More than fifty shots were fired. The body was allowed to hang in the open air all night, and it was frozen stiff this morning. It is now reported that in spite of the fact that the lynching occurred in a blinding snow it was witnessed by half as many women as men, who cheered on their liege lords, and who, after the negro’s body had been shot into shreds, crowded about the mangled remains. Bailey, it is said, has killed three men during his life. Draper was prominently known, and belonged to the Masonic order as well as several other secret societies. Bloody Duel la the Street. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 1. —A desperate encounter occurred on the streets of Opelika to-day between W. J. Siddell, clerk of the Circuit Courf:, and D. F. Carden, a prominent business man of that # place. The contest over tho Opelika postoffice led to the difficulty. Siddell attacked Carden with a pocket knife, wounding him badly’in the head. Carden then drew a 48-calibre revolver and fired four shots, one of which penetrated Siddeil’s back, completely paralyzing him. Siddell will die. Carden is in jail. Both are among the leading citizens of eastern Alabama and the tragedy may lead to further bloodshed, as both have many friends, who are aroused over the affair. He Pin lined a. Triple Tragedy. CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Charles Relnolds, a laborer, lias been arrested for planning a triple tragedy. Discouraged over the arrest of his wife for larceny, he put a bottle of carbolic acid and a note in a basket of food for her. The acid was intercepted by the police. The note overlooked by them told the woman to drink the acid at a certain hour, as at that time he would cut tho baby’s throat and then his own. Mrs. Reynolds told the guards. Policemen hurrying to Reynolds’s home arrested him Instanter. He is in half-crazed Condition. The baby, unharmed, was given to the Humane Society. Suspected of Murder. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. I.—Charles D. Etue has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Miss Emma Schumacher, who was shot and killed by one of two men who robbed her store last December. Etue is the son of I. IX Etue, formerly publisher of a local stock paper. Four years ago he was tried for killing Anton Sehuh in a quarrel over a woman. His father, who was well to do, spent his fortune fighting the case, which ended in acquittal.

MAY ACCEPT RELIEF. Strikers Who Receive Aid Will Not Be Debarred from Noting. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. I.—The leaders of the cotton mill strike were informed to-day that those who applied for aid to the overseers of the poor would be debarred from voting at the next election, and as a result applicants were few in number. Mayor Ashley, when questioned regarding the matter, requested City Solicitor Desmond to give a legal opinion. Mr. Desmond stated that persons applying for aid did not forfeit their right to vote. There is no change in the situation Here. Wages Increased 1© Per Cent. ASHLAND, Wis., Feb. I.—The CarnegieOliver Mining Company, operating four of the largest iron mines on the Gogebic range and employing 1.500 men, to-day announced an increase of 10 per cent, in the wages of all their employes. Frofn expressions of other mine owners, it is probable an increase in wages will shortly be made by other companies. Ex-Striker* to He Given Work. PEORIA, 111., Feb. I.—lnformation has reached headquarters of the railroad brotherhoods in this city that the chairman of the board of directors of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road has sent circulars to former employes, who were engaged In the Strike of 1894. inviting them to resume their positions. Xnn Poisoned. MONTREAL, Feb. I.—The death by poisoning of Sister Ste. Brigite, a nun in the Ursuiine convent at Three Rivers, has just been reported. Tho convent physician sent two prescriptions to the convent pharmacy, which was in charge <>f Sister Ste. Ursule. One prescription called for suphate of strychnine. Through some unexplained error both prescriptions were made up of that deadly drug. Shortly after Sister Ste. Brigite was given her medicine she was attacked by spasms and died. •‘A Mission of Peace.” CARTHAGENA, Spam, Feb. L—Prior to tho sailing of the first-Aass armored cruiser Vizcaya for the United States, the admiral made a speech to the crew, during which he said: “You are charged with a mission of peace.” Tills anonuncement was greeted with cheering, and the other ships in the harbor and the crowds of people on the quay cheered for Spain. Saddle 'Hor*e* in Request. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Feb. 1.-At the annual meeting of the National Saddle Horse

Breeders’ Association members were present from Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois, and all reported art unprecedented demand for gaited saddle horses from all over the country. President John B. Castlemun. of Louisville, stated that he is in daily receipt of inquiries from the East for Kentucky saddle horses, and advised breeders to match up pairs of combined saddle and harness horses to meet the increasing demand at advancing prices. IN FAVOR OF CARRIERS. Decision by Judge Svvaine Against the FoatoHico Department. NEW ORLEANS,Feb. I.—-Judge Swalne, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth circuit, to-day decided the letter carrier case involving the question of pay for overtime due to Charles J.Langston, a letter carrier of Anniston, Alu. The opinion of the lower court Was modified, but the main issue in favor of the carriers was confirmed. Judge Swaine eliminated the judgment for compensation for the halfhour “swings.” in which the letter carriers were not actually employed at work about the postoffice. The whole amount in the base involved less than SIOO, but the decision has an important bearing on others dependent on it amounting to many thousands of dollars. REV. DR.HALL’STROUBLES FEW FOES IN' THE CONGREGATION OF THE NOTED PREACHER. A Small Number, However, Seems Determined to Prolong a Row Over t. Local Missionary. NEW YORK, Feb. I.—The congregational committee of the Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. John Hall is pastor, met last night at the home of Chairman Robert Bonner. It was decided to call upon Dr. Hall to-day and ask him to appoint a moderator to preside at the meeting of the congregation Wednesday night, when the committee, which was appointed to induce Dr. Hull to reconsider his resignation, will make its report. Rev. Dr. Duffield, who acted as moderator at the meeting of the congregation last Wednesday evening, has said that he cannot be present Wednesday night. The members of the committee will meet again at 4 p. m. Wednesday to draw tip their report. Besides reciting that Dr. Hall has withdrawn his resignation, the committee will say that it is the sense of the congregation that Dr. Hall shall not set a time in the future when he will sever his relations with the church. Mr. Bonner, who furnished the foregoing facts concerning the meting of the committee, said the congregation loves Dr. Hull and hopes that nothing but deatli would sever his relations with the church. Mr. Bonner admitted that members of the session are in oposition to Dr. Hall to the exte,nf tllat wish him to set a time limit within which he would offer his resignation as pastor. He feared they would be greatly displeased at the recommendation which Rill be made Wednesday evening, that Dr. Hall remain. Mr. Bonner, when asked concerning the announcement that several members of the session would withdraw if Dr. Hall did not practically renew his resignation and fix a time when he would retire, said: “Undoubtedly, two or three of the members of the session will resign, but I do not think the dissatisfaction will be as serious as reports make it." All the other members of the congregational committee who attended this evening s meeting decline to make a statement. Not ono of the members of the session who were seen to-day would admit that he intends to resign, but neither wmuld he deny such an intention. Silas B. Brownell, the stated clerk of the session, declined to define tho position of the session. “Have you heard of any of the members expressing an intention of leaving the church?” he was asked. “If they intend to resign, you can speculate about as well as J, can,” replied Mr. Brownell, who Is a lawyer. “Do you Intend to resign if Dr. Hall stays?” “i have not so expressed myself,” was the reply. Malcolm Graham, another .member of the session, declined to discuss the matter. Alexander Maitland, a third member of the session, said he had nothing to say. Being asked, “Is it true that members of the session intend to resign and to leave the church?” he replied: “I cfcnnot say anything now. I am sorry I can give you no information.” A member of the congregation, who does nut desire his name to be used, said that among the members of the cnurch who would probably leave is Morris K. Jessup, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who took an active part in the prosecution of Rev. Mr. Warszawiak, besides several of his friends. This informant said that at least thirty members would secede. Rev. Max who has charge of the American mission to the Hebrews, in the absence in Great Britain of Mr. Warszawiak. declared to-night that the trouble over Warszawiak had harrowed itse"’ down to a contest between two of the most powerful men in the Presbyterian Church—Dr. Hall and Dr. Schauffler—the latter head of the city missions. He had been told by members of dissensions in the church, and was satisfied that some members would resign. 9 No More Sorghum Sugar lu Kan sum. FORT SCOTT, Kan., Feb. I.—The death knell of the once promising sorghum sugar industry in Kansas, on which the government spent almost $250.00*1 in experiments, w_as sounded here to-day when the last piece of sugar machinery In Kansas was sold to Nebraska men for shipment to that State. The machine was from the Parkinson factory here, and cost $104,000. It sold for $9,000. This was the first station established by t4ae government, and was the survivor of all others. The industry in Kansas gradually collapsed after the government removed the bounty on sugar.

Skirmish in Santa Clara. HAVANA, Feb. I.—A skirmish between Spaniards and insurgents has taken place, it is anonunced, at the central plantation of Oonstancia, province of Santa Clara. The Spanish version of the affair is that sugar cane cutters, assisted by a military force from Encrucijada, defeated the insurgents. killed two of the latter and compelled tho enemy to retire, but it is admitted that the commander of the Spanish soldiers was wounded, that the chief of the guerrella force, ten privates and five laborers were killed and that four were wounded. V llr.vnnite's* Decision. COVINGTON. Ky., Feb. I.—Judge Tarvin, who was one of the candidates for elector at large in Kentucky on tho Bryan ticket in 1886. to-day handed down a decision, in which ho refuesed to grant an injunction to the gas company against the city, and in which he took occasion to state that such injunctions should not be granted indiscriminately before the merits of the cases are heard. While the labor question was not involved, yet the decision was interpreted by some as an attack from the bench on government by injunction. Fatal Explosion. MARINETTE. Wis., Feb. I.—Tho threestory brick building of the Park paper mills was wrecked by an explosion of a digester to-night. One man. Peter Borst, was instantly killed. Samuel Steffins. is buried in the ruins and is probably dead. Louis Lefebre was fatally injured by falling debris. The explosion and collapse of the plant shook the city. All Quiet at Havana. WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—Consul General Lee cabled tin State Department yesterday evening from Havana that all was quiet in the city. He says that Aranguren was burled last Friday and that the remains of Colonel Ruiz, which arrived in Havana yesterday, were also buried in the same cemetery. Provision* tor ilte Destitute. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. I.—The Grocers* and Importers’ Exchange to-day made its third and final shipment of provisions to the poor of Cuba. This shipment makes an aggregate of 130,o)o pounds of food supplies sent to Cuba by the exchange in the past three weeks. Dentil >f Mrs. Armour. CHARLESTON, S. C.. Feb. 1.-Mrs. Armour, the mother of A. V. Armour, of New York, now cruising here on his yacht, died to-night. She has been ill for some time and came South to recuperate. Bank* Consolidated. NEW YORK. Feb. I.—The consolidation of the Tradesmen National Bunk and the Clinton Bank was announced to-Uy-

KLONDIKERS IN NEED SITIAUOX IN THE GOLD DIGGINGS REVIEWED BY CAPTAIN RAY. Ninny People Penniless, Without Food and Unable to Find Work of Any Description. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-General Merriam, under instructions from acting Secretary Meikeljohn, oi the War Department, yesterday opened at Seattle the dispatches from Captain Ray, the special representative of the War Department in the Klondike, and forwarded an abstract of them to the department by telegraph. Acting Secretary Meikeljohn was so much Impressed with the statement wired that he submitted the dispatch at once to Secretary Alger, who is convalescing at his home from a long illness, and, after consultation between these officials, the paper was sent over to the White House, where it formed the subject of consideration by the Cabinet meeting to-day. It is said at the department that the report of Captain Ray fu.ly Justifies all that has been done by Secretary Alger and Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn under the authority conferred by Congress to relieve the situation in the Klondike. The report of Captain Ray is particularly acceptable in view of tlie conflicting statements as to conditions in the gold fields that have been made by persons coming out this winter, for it is not doubted that he had a broader field of observation than the others who have made reports, and with the thoroughness and caution as to exact statements that form the guiding principles of all army officers when called on to make reports in the line of duty, this report is taken as establishing the fact for all official purposes. The state of affairs in the Klondike, as thus revealed, is worse than was suspected at the War Department and indeed so large is the task that remains to be executed in order to insure the safety of life and property on the American side of the line alone, that the department officials have concluded to advise Congress as to the facts and place on the legislative branch the duty of devising ways and means to meet the exigencies of the case. The abstract of Captain Ray’s report, as telegraphed by Major Robinson from Seattle, is as follows: “Complying with your telegram of today, five letters and two packages from Captain P. H. Ray, addressed to you, in the hands of Special Courier E. H. Wells, were intercepted by me. In substance they are as follows: The latest bear date of Nov. 2 and 3 and refer to action and attempted robbery of caches, recommend that the United States government take steps to effectually check immigration to the interior of Alaska of all persons not fully supplied to last two years. They give as reason that there is no way to earn a living and that no placer discoveries have been made within the la it eight months, either iri Alaska or the Northwest Territory. There is no employment for any large number of people in any capacity, ail values are speculative. There is no fixed standard for labor. There is not now or likely to l>e within twelve months adequate or efficient means of supplying people now in Alaska or the Nortuwest Territory. Capt. Ray is of opinion that about 7 per cent, of all the people who have entered during the past year have earned their living and hundreds are now scattered along the river destitute of food, clothing and money. People coming in have not had the faintest conception what to do to earn a living, and after spending their money they become dazed and helpless. He states the rush will be great the next year and any step that will prevent people from coming, in their ignorance, will be an act of charity. “In view of recent developments and knowledge that the lawless are banding together along the river for the purpose of robbery, Capt. Ray renews the suggestion for the government placing on the river small, light draught steamers, with high power, armed and used to patrol river, and the placing of detachments as the movement of people demands. “A courier was sent with dispatches by 4 p. m. train to-day t© report to Genera! Merriam. Captain Ray also recommends preliminary survey by "Cook's inlet to the interior for all American roads.” New Hook on Alnsku. WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—The best of the mass of information relative to Alaska and the mineral wealth of that country which has been accumulated in the archives of the government is about to see the light through the medium of a book entitled, “Alaska; Its History, Climate, Resources and Wonderful Gold Fields,” the author of which is Maj. Henry O. S. Heistand, assistant adjutant general of the United States army, now stationed in Washington. Major Heistand, w T hue an officer of the line of the army, made an exhaustive series of exploring trips through Alaska, and especially along the Yukon, which drains the gold regions, so that he has supplemented the official records with much matter of personal experience. Novel Menus of Locomotion. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. I.—A party of thirty-four, from Stamford, Conn., has arrived here and purchased the schooner Moonlight, on which its members will sail next Thursday for the mouth of Copper river. They have with them a 'snow sled with a twenty-horse-power engine. The sled weighs about seven tons, and is propelled by a stern wheel fitted with spokes to catch in the ice, with paddles for snow. New Gold Field. WINNIPEG. Feb. I.— News has reached Regina that the first party of persons bound for the Yukon by the Prince Albert route have found gold in large quantities in the Hay, Buffalo and other rivers running into Great Slave lake, seven hundred miles from Prince Albert. The news comes through Bishop Pascal, and is considered reliable. Arrival of Reindeer. NEW YORK, Feb. i.—The Thingvalla line steamer Hekla, which arrrived to-day from Copenhagen, Christiania, Christiansand and Shields, brought thirty-five reindeer for the Klondike. The original shipment was forty-two animals, of which seven died on the passage. Dogs for the Klondike. WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—United States Consul Dudley, at Vancouver, reports the arrival there, Jan. It), of a carload of 100 trained Newfoundland dogs for use in carrying freight in the Klondike.

OBITUARY. Ilev. Joeteitk Carson, D. 11., Vice ProioNt of Dublin University. DUBLIN, Feb. L—Rev. Jos. ('arson. D. D., vice provost of the University of Dublin since 1889, is dead. Dr. Carson took his degree of B. A. at Dublin University in 183a and from 1837 to iB6O held the rank of tutor, from 1811 to 1853 he was assistant professor of Hebrew, and from 1878 to 1880 he was Erasmus Smith professor of Hebrew. He retired from tins chair to become Auditor of the university, a position he held until he was appointed vice provost. Mrs. August si Tilghnivn. NEW YORK, Feb. I.—Mrs. Augusta Tilghman, widow of General Lloyd Tilghman, died to-day in this city, aged eighty years. General Tilghman, who came from a well-known Maryland family, served through the Mexican war, was assistant engineer of the Panama Railroad, chief engineer of several Western railroads, joined the Confederate army and was killed at the battle of Baker's Creek, Miss., in 1863. Prof. F. W. Hawn. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 1.-Prof. F. W. Hawn, aged ninety, was found dead in bed to-day. Hawn was one of the incorporators of Leavenworth. He aided in the survey of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway and helped survey and platted much of Kansas. Invitation from Brynn't Home. Albert J. Beveridge has been invited to ndiintfa Oie Young Men’s Rentjblie.au Club

of Lincoln. Npb., at Its annual banquet Feb. 11. A telegram was received by Mr. Beveridge yesterday from the president of the Club. It was stated that this is the most important Republican event in Nebraska this year. Mr. Beveridge’s engagement at New' Y’ork will prevent him from accepting the invitation. WAR ON SLOT MACHINES. Nearly Two Hundred Owners of Alleged Gambling Device* Indicted. LOUISVILLE, Kv„ Feb. I.—The Jefferson county grand jury, this afternoon, returned indictments against 186 saloon keepers and others who have slot machines in their places of business. The indictments charge a misdemeanor —that of suffering gaming on the premises. Several feiony indictments have been returned, however, to make a test of the law on the point. THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL —4 HIGHEST COURT OF THE lv. OF I*. AT THE DENISON TO-DAY. Important Questions to He Disposed of —Local Interest in tlie German Ritual Case. The midwinter sitting of the Supreme Tribunal of the Knights of Pythias will assemble at the Denison Hotel to-day to consider legal questions affecting the order. The Supreme Tribunal is the court of last resort in the order. Most of the supreme tribunes arrived last night, and others will come to-day. In attendance on this sitting of the Supreme Tribunal are Chief Tribune Georgo E. Seay, of Dallas, Tex.; Associate Tribunes John H. Alexander, of Leesburg, Va.; Benjamin T. Chase, of Portland, Me.; Frank H. Clafk, of Cheyenne. Wyo., and Ed A. Graham, of Montgomery, Ala., together with the recorder, W. I>. Kennedy, of Chicago, 111. There are also in attendance, in connection with cases coining before the Supreme Tribunal, P. T. Colgrove, supreme chancellor, of Hastings, Mich.; Henry Wellenvoss, of Louisville, Ivy.; James C. De la Mare, of New Y'ork city, N. Y.; S. A. Dickson, of Dayton, O.; E. C. Pocicy, of Hamilton, O.; William Ladew, of New York city, N. Y. ; William Beatty, of Toledo, O.; R. L. C. White, of Nashville, Tenn., and John T. Sutphen, of Middletown, O. *Dr. A. G. Servoss, grand chancellor, of Havana, 111., also signified his intention of being present at thu sitting. Recorder Kennedy last night mentioned the cases that are to be considered at the sitting. There are five ready to be heard and two others that will come up later. The most important case is that of Henry Wellenvoss against R. L. C. White, supreme keeper of records and seals. This is a case arising out of the famout German ritual controversy, and is about the last shred left of it. Henry Wellenvoss, of Louisville, Ky., a past grand chancellor of that State, was one of the leaders in connection with the holding of the famous meeting of German Pythians which was held in Indianapolis in 1893, and which meeting was of a very rebellious character. As the result, complaint was made against him in the Supremo Lodge at the session in Washington, D. C., in 1894. A commissioner was appointed to take the testimony in the matter, and Hon. Howard Douglas, of Cincinnati, a past grand chancellor, was appointed. The outgrowth of the hearing of the case was that the Supreme Lodge, at the convention held in Cleveland. 0., in 1896, ordered the name of Mr. Wellenvoss to be stricken from the roster of the Supreme Lodge. Subsequently to that Mr. Wellenvoss brought his case before the Supreme Tribunal by application for a mandamus requiring the supreme keeper of records and seal, R. L. C. White, of Nashv.Me, Tenn.. to reinstate his name upon the roster of the Supreme Lodge, and owing to some cause tire case was laid over at the last sitting and continued until, this. , Another case is that of James Ward against the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, against w r hich an appeal Is made on behalf of certain members of u lodge who objected to the majority of the lodge moving from a certain place to a neighboring village in E;hode Island. The minority remained behind, holding onto the properties and books of the lodge. The Grand I-iodge of Rhode Island recognized the majority, who had moved to the other place of meeting, and refused to recognize the appellants as the proper holders of the charter of the lodge. The case of H. C. Kanski against Alonzo Bedell is a very important one, and is really brought in order to test the question as to whether or not lodges have a right to provide for the payment of funeral benefits to a member in the case of the death of his wife. The case. arose In New York. A lodge provided by its by-laws for the payment of such The committee of the Grand Lodge, havink charge of the subject, struck out the provision. An appeal was taken to the Grand Tribunal of New York, which sustained the position of the committee, holding that, under the laws of the Grand Lodge of Nfew York, lodges could not so provide, nor could they expend the trust funds of a lodge for that purpose. The appeal brings up the whole question as to the power and authority of a lodge to expenu its trust funds in a'manner other than specifically provided. Tfhere are a good maiy points that will be decided by this case, some of considerable importance. "E. C. Pociev against Lone Star Lodge, No. 39, of Ohio,” is the title of another case of some Importance. The plaintiff in this case having been suspended by Lone Star Lodge for alleged offenses against the order appeals to the Supreme Tribunal to set aside the verdict. There is but little law involved in the case, except in so far as certain actions of the grand chancellor of Ohio are concerned, which may possibly be reviewed. In the case of Emma C. Sparhawk against Elm Grove Lodge, No. 501, K. of P., of Ohio, the plaintiff is the widow of a deceased member, who appeals against the action of the lodge for failure to pay the full amount of funeral benefit, the lodge alleging that owing to the fact of the member having died badly in arrears his widow was not entitled to the maximum amount and paid her only the minimum. There is an important construction of law involved in this case, as to the meaning of the words “good standing.” The defendants have filed a motion asking the case to be remanded to the Grand Tribunal of Ohio. There are two other eases In which appeals have been filed, but which will not be ready for hearing at this term. One is that of J. T. Kdgeworlhy vs. Criterion Lodge, No. 235, of Solomon, Kan., and involves’ onlv a question of local difficulty. The other is a very important one, being the appeal of Red Cross Lodge, No. 43. vs. H. M Panworth, grand chancellor of Florida. In this case the lodge appeals from the action of the grand chancellor in his suspending the charter of the lodge for violation of the laws of the Supreme Lodge, in that they expended the trust funds of tile lodge for the payment of the expenses of a ball and entertainment given at a public resort in Tampa. Fla., the grand chancellor having forbidden them doing so, and ordering the money paid back to the treasury of the lodge. The lodge refused and entirely failed to obey the orders of the grand chancellor, and he ordered their suspension. The lodge appealed. The case has created quite a good deal of interest, especially in Tampa, where the members of the lodge are prominent socially and in Pythian circles.

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OLD JOURNALIST DEAD JOSEPH T. LONG PASSES AWAY AT DEACONESS HOSPITAL. Formerly n Worker on Indianapolis Newspapers—An Interesting Sketch of His Career. Joseph Theodore Long died last night at 8:30 o'clock at the Protestant Deaconess’* Hospital, of apoplexy. Nearly everybody in the city of Indianapolis seems to have known Joe Long as lie was familiarly called, but few appear to know anything about him. For many years he was a character about town. He frequently was to be seen of late years In the Dension Hotel lobby, and doctors' row, along Ohio street, was another of his favorite haunts. No man ever loved to sit down and talk more than he did. He would discourse by the hour. The word discourse Is the proper term, for Joe Long’s talk* were not of the trivial,, commonplace kind, but rather of the sort that a college professor or one who takes a pride In book knowledge might give. He seemed to have command of all the knoweldge under the sun, and was very choice In his words. Rather than use a term that did not express the exact shade of his meaning he would often pause in a middle of a sentence as If in argument with himself as to which of several words was the one ha wished to use. His friends called him a walking encyclopedia, and when anyone had an argument on scientific or mathematic subjects they would carry their dispute to Joe Long, who would settla It out of hand. Nothing so illustrates his character as the fact that he disdained the use of the English language in keeping hia note books or diaries, whatever they were, and almost the only effects which his landlady now has to remember him by is a set of these books written in Greek. But, notwithstanding all his learning, his life was largely a failure. He not only left no property behind him, but no loved ones to mourn his loss. Perhaps a few of ids many acquaint nces will drop a tear for memory’s sake, but the great majority will simply note his death and have only a momentary feeling of regret. He was a genial man and everyone liked him that met him, but it is doubtful if lie had a single confidential friend in the world. Hence It is difficult to gather much about his past life. and only a glimpse here and there can be given. He was born in Putnam county, on a farm, fifty-seven years ago. His father was a Prussian and Joseph was the oldest of six children, four boys and two girls. Or.e of his brothers is dead, another Is living In Missouri and the other is in Emporia. Kan. His sisters live in Edinburg, 111. His father made up his mind to give Joseph a fine education, and sent him to the old Asbury University, now De Pauw. Although he never graduated from that institution, he became addicted to books. His mother died when he was thirteen years of age, of the same, disease that he at last succumbed to, apoplexy. The loss of hts mother was a great blow to him, and lie is said never to have recovered from it. While* in college, however, he experienced an affair of the heart which seems also to have affected his life. He has often said in late years that he made the greatest mistake of nis life In not marryiug. “I couldn’t marry the one I wished,” he has said to some of his friends, “but, then. I do not think I could take care of a wife, anyway." After leaving college he entered the ninety days’ service in the civil war. and from that time to this he has resided in Indianapolis. At the close of the war he became an active leader among the young Republicans, and was known as one of the brightest young men In the city. It was at this time that ha became city editor of the Journal. Among those who worked under him while ho served in this capacity was “Gid” Thompson, of the News. From the time he left the Journal his life is largely unknown. When his father died ho was left very littla property, the other children gutting the bulk of the estate. His father had expended so much in educating him that he considered Joseph as having already had his share, but this division of the estate caused the young man to become estranged from his brothers and sisters. His father had thought he had done his part In educating him and in turning him loose upon tha world. But he was wholly without practical knowledge, and oftentimes he was in sore straits. Once a government appointment was obtained for him as lumber inspector in Utah, but when he found he would have to leave the city he would not take It. Another time he seems to have been engaged as a revenue inspector. Terry Cullen, of the Denison Hotel, remembers when he held this position, for he then made his headquarters in the Grand Hotel lobby. Several times after being city editor of the Journal he was re-employed on the paper, but only for short periods An instance oi is peculiarity of character is shown by the reason which he gave for throwing up his last position on the Journal. He was in very indigent circumstances when he was made a copyholder in the proofroom with a salary of sl2 a week. At the end of two weeks he resigned, saying that he W'as not given sufficient time at midnight to eat his lunch. The time allotted for the purpose was twenty minutes. For the last few years he has canvassed for a dictionary and wrote insurance. He was also often called upon to make translations. He had no bad habit3, except that of staying up the larger part of the night and sleeping in the day. He believed thoroughly in the necessity of eight hours’ sleep and •good food. For the last four years he has lived with Mrs. Emma Bergener, No. 38 West Vermont street. He had told her once that if anything happened to him to notify his niece, who is Mrs. Charles Bridges, of Asli street. Mrs. Bridges has taken charge of the remains and will bury them to-day at Htilesville, beside the grave of his mother.

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