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military governor of western Cuba. A formal announcement is dally expected from Washington, though It may be delayed until the time cornea for a change of flags. Gen. Wade’s three months of official residence here have given him a firm grasp of the Bituation. He has been a student of social and civil conditions, as well as of military necessities and knows precisely what he would do if invested with the authority. General Greene will be governor of the city of Havana. He has already virtually taken hold, as he is having some of the streets cleaned and is devising measure s for the sanitation and policing of the city. Senor Fernando do Castro, the Spanish civil governor, is accepting General Greene’s suggestions and aiding in the preliminary measures to he adopted. The proclamation of Marquis De Kstehan, the alcalde of Havana, Issued on the advice of Gen. Greene, with regard to throwing refuse in streets is commented on favorably by the press. The preparation for a change of flags is thus being brought about by degrees and the transition will not be abrupt. Already the evacuation of the province of Havana is complete, except for the troops stationed in the city. Os these there are 12.000. General Castellanos doe’s rot lix a date for their withdrawal earlier than Jan. J. but they probably will retire to Cienfuegos before Christmas. The behavior of General Castellanos, so far .as the Americans are concerned, is most agreeable. He paid an official visit to the United States evacuation commissioners to-duy, returning the visit officially paid to him. Admiral Sampson’s departure waits oi: the arrival of General Butler from the United States next week, as it is thought best to have fwo commissioners here. Secretary Long has instructed Admiral Sampson to leave whenever it suits his convenience in this respect. General Castellanos received a eable order yesterday to draw on Paris for $1,500,000 with which to pay his troops. To-day being the feast of the Immaculate conception, the American war vessels in the harbor dressed ship, displaying Spanish flags. The United States transport Minnewaska, which - left Savannah on iSiesday with Gen. Davis and staff and the Two-hundred-and-•econd New York Regiment, bound for Marianao, has not yet arrived. ♦ DISTI RIIAM ra AT HAVANA. ■tatne Placarded with Words “Bon \'oyflge”—Tlirlhy Spaniards. HAVANA, Dec. 7, via Key West, Dec. 8. ~The statue of Isabel la Catalica, which stands in the middle of Central Park, In this city, wa found this morning holding a valise In one hand and a steamer rug In the other. An immense placard was slung across the back of the statue with the words, “Bon voyage,” inscribed on it. Several disturbances occurred here yesterday afternoon between a number of Spaniards and Cubans, but luckily there was no serious consequence. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the day mentioned several Cuban officers, who were walking down Obispo street, asked each other In tones rather louder than necessary, when the Spaniards were finally to leave Cuba, and commented on what they called the latter’s want of shame In parading the streets in their uniforms. A couple of Spanish officers, who chanced to pass, overheard the conversation of the Cubans and one of the Spaniards approached and slapped the face of a member of the Cuban party. Blows were exchanged, but the fighters were soon arrested and taken to the military governor’s ptflace, where they were subsequently discharged. A repetition of this Incident occurred in the evening, when a Spanish officer, in Central Park, tore a Panama hat oft a Cuban’s head and cut It into pieces with his sword. The offender was arrested and General Arolas, fearing further trouble, distributed a force of soldiers In the park and its vicinity. No other disturbances occurred, however. Serious problems confront the last days of Spain’s sovereignty In Cuba. One of the most delicate and most difficult of solution is the question of return bonds given by civil officials and employes on ceasing to hold office. Many of these are cash bonds, furnished years ago, the refunding of which now become imperative. All such moneys having been appropriated and spent, the government Is unable to meet these obligations or to fulfill the guarantees. The settlement of the arrears of pay due the mobilized and irregular troops offered a brilliant opportunity for masterly financier'll on the part of Uie military intendent. with money In hand for a full settlement of all pay due to the troops the quartermaster general devised an Ingenious plan. Paying the men off in notes payable In Madrid, he offered, through trusted ugents, to discount such notes at 20 or 30 per cent, for cash. As practically every one of the irregular and mobilized troops will remain on the Island, the men eagerly embraced this opportunity to have their notes cashed and a handsome profit therefore accrued to the astute originator of the scheme. The first mortgages held by the Spanish Bank on municipal property here amount to 86,000,000. Propositions for the acquisition of these mortgages have been made by London, New York and Berlin bankers. Although the mortgaged property represents a most solid Investment, the Spanish Bank appears ready to transfer the title to the foreign corporations, through a lack of confidence In the stability of the future government. THE SANTIAGO DISTURBANCE. Captain Castillo Objected to Going to Jail, and Offered Ills Card, Instead. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Dec. 8.-The Cubans here are greatly excited over yesterday’s proceedings, resulting from the commemoration of the death of Antonio Maeeo, particularly at the fact that bullets reached the camp of the Fifth immunes, which proves that the shots were not fired by the Cubans who fired volleys in the air from the public square here. It now seems that th 6 bullets which struck the tents of the Immunes came from a different party of insurgents, near the trocha, who were also celebrating. Regarding the action of the three drunken Cubans who entered the Spanish Club and smashed chandeliers and furniture the Cubans say they deeply deplore the outrage and do not think It fair to look on it as a race act. The San Carlos Club intends to hold a meeting and to tender an apology to the Spanish Club. The police are blamed for not making any arrests. Colonel Beacom, the American acting military commander here, accompanied by the chief-of police personally arrested Juan Castillo this morning. He Is a captain In the Cuban army and was the man who led bis two negro companions into tho club. Castillo, who is well connected, objected to go to jail and offered his card instead. Col. Beacom, however, was obdurate. There has been groat rejoicing to-day In connection with the fete of Purisima Concepcion. Yesterday’s mourning emblems ■were exchanged for glorious decorations in the cathedral and sorrowful music gave Way to joyous. Abbe Bernardo preached an eloquent sermon to a congregation that crowded the cathedral. In Inspiring words he called upon all Cubans to rejoice at the termination of four hundred years of cruelty. extortion and misery, and to show their gratitude to the United States for the happy consummation. He eulogized General wood, governor of tho military department of Santiago, saying that he rejoiced to hear that General Wood's name had been sent to the United States Senate with a recommendation that he be raised to the rank of major general. "And 1 can only hope.” •aid the preacher, “that General Wood’s name will be sent a week later with a recommendation that ho be arpohitcd a lieutenant general and made gover .or general of the Island of Cuba during tho American military occupation.” The Independencia, an enterprising local sheet, published five hundred words of telegraphic resume of President McKinley’s message to Congress, which is the topic of conversation at all clubs and o! oer centers of Interest. With the exception of the extremists—the party advocating the immediate freedom of Cubu and the establishment forthwith of a Cuban government—all factions are apparently well satisfied with the promises of the message regarding the Island. No addltloinal arrest* have been made In connection with tho outrage at the Spanish Club. Juan Castillo has been released on bl* own recognizance. The Cubans disavow •11 connection with his act. and Ihere is talk of expelling him from the San Carlos Club. Block System for Havana Police. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—Former Chief of Police John McCullugh, who left for Havana to-lay to advise General Greene In regard to the establishment 6f a police force In the Cuban capital, will recommend tho establishment of the block system. “The aystem is both simple and practical,” said he lust night. "It consists In having a policeman stationed permanently in substations in the streets within four or five blocks of one another. Ail the substations should be connected with the precinct stations and headquarters by an Independent telephone ytjxn.”

OUR FINANCIAL NEEDS SPEECH BY lOWA'S GOVERNOR TO r ROCHESTER’S BUSINESS MEN. • ♦ An Appeal for Sound-Money Lcrlm!*tion—V Plan for Maintaining the Gold Standard. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. B.—The eleventh annual banquet of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce was held to-night in the mirror room of Powers’s art gallery, nearly five hundred guests being present. Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, of lowa, responded to the toast, “The Financial Need of To-day.” He said, in part: “The whole question of the future financial policy of tills government remains unsettled. We have recently experienced a nonpartisan panic, and we experienced it in a nonpartisan degree. That this shall not be repeated, either in the near or the distant future, demands the best judgment and the most heroic action of every patriotic citizen. Greenbacks were resorted to amid much doubt and with serious misgivings, and legal-tender notes were intended to serve a temporary purpose only, and were of doubtful validity even under these conditions. I do not urge that they shall be retired, hut I do insist that the future financial policy of this government shall be made certain and definite, and that our currency system shall he placed for once beyond the reach of sudden and unexpected political agitation. “Gold is needed in domestic commerce, and it is absolutely indispensable in foreign commerce. We should have therefore some place where the merchant can exchange paper currency at par for gold. In the absence of such a revision he will be compelled to procure his gold where he obtained It In the sixties, at the counter of the gold broker. It follows that we must have a paper currency convertible, exchangeable on demand at par for gold, and the burden of maintaining this exchangeability must be made to rest, either on the government, or upon those institutions most directly interested and Intimately connected with both domestic and foreign commerce, the banks. There are just three places for the merchant to look for gold. First to the banks, second to the government, third to the gold broker. * • • “Foreign banks to-day, rather than furnish gold for shipment to America, prefer to hold it and pay interest therefor. But if the governments of Europe were furnishing the gold of commerce, and did their currency afford the opportunity, it is fair to presume that the government exchequers would he sucked as dry as was the treasury of tho United States in 1893 and following years. Make it incumbent upon tho hanks in consideration of their banking franchises, to hold the gold in this country or furnish it for shipment, and they will succeed or perish in the attempt. “Let no one quote me as advocating the Issuance of bonds with which to retire tho greenbacks. This suggestion has had its origin among those who oppose each and every measure of currency reform and all legislation seeking to establish and make permanent the gold standard. So far as I know not a friend of currency reform urges anything of the kind, and no proposed legislation seeks any such relief. It is for the express purpose of avoiding the future Issuance of bonds under any circumstances, and the entailment of woes innumerable upon all classes, and especially upon the laborer and the producer, that the friends of sound money, with what power they have, urge and insist that something shall be done to avert a repetition of recent experiences. “Both the scope and details of such legislation as may be necessary to accomplish this must be left with that wise and patriotic body of men, the Congress of the United States. There is patriotism enough, there Is courage plenty, there is wisdom sufficient in that body of experienced men to solve these currency questions. and place our financial affairs in such a condition to invite the idre money from the banks, where it now lies dormant. "The fullness of time has come for great things. There Is a relentless struggle now on between the nations for commercial supremacy. To-day, when the merchants of Mexico purchase in Brazil, they make settlement in pounds sterling and with a draft on England. This condition prevails generally in foreign commerce. Why? Because for a century there has been no question that such a draft would be paid in gold, and that this would not be dependent upon the political complexion of the British Parliament. This has made the Bank of England in all commercial time the almost universal depository of trade balances, to the incalculable advantage of that country. Give our merchants a monetary system as safely constructed as that which sustains their foreign competitors, and they will write the prices current of this round earth in United States dollars, and our commercial centers shall become the clearing houses of the world.” , Dr. David J. Hill, assistant secretary of state, spoke on “The Greater America.’* In concluding ho said: “A giant’s task now confronts the American people, but their history gives the assurance that they will not tremble before it. In the din of war and the strife of nations, in the busy marts of trade and among the distant islands of the sea, dwells an unseen force slowly shaping the destinies of the world. It speaks alike in nature, in the human soul and in the long drama of history. Witness a nation rising to the full splendor of its responsibilities, and you will see there written in letters of shining light the august and imperative law of universal development The concluding speech was by Prof. Benjamin I. Wheeler, of Cornell University, on “Self-government vs. Imperialism.” KOKOMO MAN CHOSEN. S. E. Nicholson Elected Secretary of the Anti-Saloon League. CLEVELAND, 0.. Dec. B.—The Antisaloon League elected the following officers to-day: President, H. M. Hiram Price, Washington, D. C.: vice president, Rev. Luther B. Wilson, Washington, D. C.; second vice president, Archbishop Ireland, St. Paul; third vice president, John D. Long. Massachusetts: fourth vice president, Bishop B. W. Arnett, Ohio; fifth vice president, Rev. John Q. A. Henry, Illinois; sixth vice president. Judge Charles A. Pollock, North Dakota; seventh vice president, T. S. Burroughs. D. D., Indiana; superintendent, Rev. 11. H. Russell. D. D., Ohio; treasurer. Wm. c. Lilly. Pennsylvania. The election produced a division between the Eastern and Western delegates. The national secretary, since the formation of the league, has been James L. Erwin, of Washington. D. C. Howard H. Russell, of Delaware, 0., the national superintendent, asked to have chosen a. secretary located nearer to him, and S. E. Nicholson, of Kokomo, Ind., was nominated. On the ballot Nicholson defeated Erwin by a vote of 57 to 30. New bylaws were adopted giving additional power to the national superintendent and providing a superintendent council, composed of the three members of the executive committee located nearest to him. The Western delegates sought to have the national headquarters removed from Washington and. given anew location by the executive committee. but this proposition was voted down. This evening the convention elosed with a devotional meeting and addresses. Hebrew UonsTregntlon*. RICHMOND. Va„ Dec. B.—The Hebrew congregations in session lieTe to-day adopted the following report from the committee on civil and religious rights: "We urge the Importance of making every effort towards the enactment of a treaty between the United States government and that of Russia similar to that existing between England and Russia, whereby the rights of American citizens of Jewish birth shall receive equal recognition with those of all others.” It was decided that tho next meeting he held in Cincinnati. The executive committee unanimously elected Mr. Julius Friedberg. of Cincinnati, president for the ensuing two years; Mr. Samuel Wooiner, of Peoria, vice president; Mr. Lewis Kohn, of Cincinnati, treasurer; Mr. Lipman Levy, secretary, and Mr. David Levy, assistant secretary. Twelve More Steel Vessel*. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. B.—Ship-building companies of the great lakes that build steel vessels already have under contract for next season twelve steel vessels, eight of which are modern freight carriers, two passenger boats, one an oil-tank barge and ono a largo tug. These vessels "ill foot up in value a little more than 12,000,00 ft. The combined capacity of the eight freight carriers will he about 59,000 net tons. Transports to lie Sent to Manila. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8.-Preparations are now being made by Lieutenant Colonel Long, depot quartermaster, to dispatch a fleet of transports to the Philippines, From Washington, D. C., the information has been received to the effect that shortly several regiments of regular troops will be sent to Manila for the purpose of relieving the volunteer forces now there. VlKllunce Committee lk*tlel BAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 8 -Several mysterious fires and an. attempt to poison the water used by railroud section men has caused much excitement in the little town

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of Delmar, twenty miles north of here. A vlgllanete committee has been organized, and William Bennett, proprietor of a hotel, which was burned on Tuesday, has l>een ordered to leave town within forty-eight hours. Mr. Bennett refuses to do so and defies any ono to lay a hand on him. He goes about the streets armed with a Winchester and serious trouble is feared. Bennett was not in Delmar when the hotel was destroyed. CASHIER STEELE ON TRIAL Charged with Aiding: the i<atc W. 31. gingerly to Loot a Bank. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. B.—The trial of William Steele, the cashier of the wrecked Chestnut-street National Bank, who is charged with aiding the late William M. Singerly In the looting of the bank, was commenced in the United States District Court to-day. District Attorney Beck in his opening speech was very severe in his comments on Mr. Singerly's management of the bank. Bank Examiner Hart testified that Mr. Singerly had for several years been Indebted to the bank to the extent of between 1700,000 and SBOO,OOO, which indebtedness made the institution insolvent. The fact that. Mr. Singerly owed the bank so much money was, however, concealed by manipulation of the figures of the bank’s books. SENT FATHER TO PRISON • ♦ ISAAC PENNINGTON, VICTIM OF PROSECUTION BY DAUGHTER. The Girl Took Revenge Because Her Father Squandered the Estate Left by Her 3lother. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Dec. B.—lsaac Pennington, the Sims township farmer who was on trial yesterday for embezzling S7OO of his daughter’s money, was sentenced to a year In the Michigan City Prison to-day. The defendant is forty-six years old and has been one of tho most highly respected farmers in the county. Pennington’s daughter pushed the case and was the most Important witness. Pennington has many friends in and about Herbst and Swayzee who are willing to stand by him. His oldest son will have charge of his business during his father’s absence. Judge Paulus showed signs of weakness while he pronounced the words that sent the defendant to prison. Pennington expressed a desire to get away from Grant county as soon as possible and Sheriff Bradford took him to Michigan City this afternoon. Three Men A**ault Mr*. Aker*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. B.—Late tonight three men, partly under the influence of liquor, were arrested for attempted assault on Mrs. Sallie Akers, a widow, and for almost killing the woman and one child. She is a poor woman, living on the outskirts of town. The men entered her home early in the evening and had a desperate struggle with her. She and the girl were beaten in a horrible manner. Her little boy ran out and gave warning. The men escaped, but were caught near midnight. Ghastly Find in a Box Car. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Dec. B.—A man. whose name Is thought to bo Thomas H. Seeds, of Chicago, from a memorandum book found in his clothe®, was found dead to-day in an Air-line box car. Coroner Starr returned a verdict of death from exposure. The man had been dead for several days. Ephraim Dollins I* Missing. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. B.—Ephraim DolUns, a prominent farmer, took a load of stock to Indianapolis last week, and, after disposing of It, disappeared. He is thought to have had considerable money with him when he left here. His friends are greatly worried. Wrong Man Charged with Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Dec. B.—Joseph Smith, arrested last night on a, charge of killing John King, at Minonk, HI,, was released to-day, after he had threatened to Institute habeas corpus proceedings. Tho officers were convinced they had the wrong man. To Bore for Oil nt Etna Green. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., Dec. B.—A company with SIO,OOO capital stock will bore for oil at Etna Green, Kosciusko county. Indiana Obituary. WABASH, Ind., Doc. B.—Benjamin Lower, aged seventy, a resident of Wabash for forty years, died last night, after an illness of a month, of paralysis. He was a soldier in the civil wax. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon, with military and Odd Fellows’ honors. SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. B.~Charles Pottsmith, aged twenty-four, butter marker at the Miller creamery at Dudleytown, yesterday evening accidentally fell Into an open well and was killed. He was a member of Tampico Lodge, I. O. O. F. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Dec. B.—Harry M. Gilmore, son of City Treasurer John Gilmore, died this morning after a brief illness of rheumatism and pneumonia. He was twenty-three years old. Indiunn. Note*. Charles Tyner, near Wabash, yesterday, had his left arm chewed to a pulp by a corn shredder. Ho was feeding the machine, the teeth of which caught his hand and slowly dragged in his arm. Amputation near the shoulder was necessary. Catherine Heintz has filed a $20,000 damage suit against Marion for injuries from a fail on the sidewalk in October, 1897. She was a traveling saleswoman from Fort Wayne and was confined to her bed for eight months before she could be taken homo. Ray Thornburg, aged twenty, son of Oliver Thornburg, a wealthy farmer, two and a half miles south of Di blin, while operating a feed-cutting machine yesterday accidently caught his arm in the knives and it was cut off at the elbow. Ho may not survive. The Johnson County Fair Association held its annual meting yesterday. The treasurer’s report showed the association out of debt and with money on hand. S. W. Dungan was re-elected president; F. N. Whitesides, vice president; W. S. Young, secretary; Samuel Harris, treasurer, and W. L. Dunlap, general superintendent. Milo Meredith, editor, and Ben Kinerk, business manager of the Wabash Times, were arrested yesterday o . an affidavit by John T. Hiler. charging them with criminal libel. The case was called before a magistrate and dismissed when it was found that the prosecuting witness had not made the legal demand for a retraction. Hiler then formally asked for a retraction, which the Times people refused, and new affidavits will be prepared. BANKRUPTCY LAW UPHELD. State Court* Have No Jurisdiction in Insolvency Case*. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 8.-Judge Seaman upholds the federal bankrupt law and declares in an opinion tiled to-day that it divests the state courts entirely of jurisdiction in insolvency cases. Judge Sutherland, of the Superior Court, held a few days ago that he had exclusive jurisdiction of insolvency proceedings commenced before him prior to the commencement of proceedings in the federal courts. Judge Seaman declares that the state courts are absolutely without jurisdiction in such matters. Highest Wage* Ever Paid. DULUTH, Minn., Dec. B.—The Chandler mine, at Ely, has announced a 10 per cent, advance in wage*, bringing the schedule buck to the scale of 1892, the highest ever paid in the lake regions. The increase is caused by the great demand for men from the copper and iron ranges. Score* of Pool Player*. SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Dec. 8,--In to-day’s games In the championship pool tournament. Payton defeated Hopp by a score of 125 to St; Stewart defeated Boone 126 to 46. The evening games resulted: Clearwater, 125; l>e dro, 64. Eby, 136; Payton, US.

ONLY THREE MILES APART ♦ MILLER AND WALLER LEADING IN THE GREAT BICYCLE RACE. Former Had Covered 1,473 3111c* at 2 a. in. and the Latter 1,170 Change* in Position. • ♦- NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The erratic “Dutchman,” Waller, was the leader in the sixday bike race at the Garden at 7 o’clock to-day. Waller took the front place shortly after 2 o’clock, from Miller, and passed the I, mile mark a few minutes after 4:30. At 3 o’clock Miller was third in the race, Bierce having rushed by him. At 7 o'clock Pierce was still getting away from Miller and gaining on Waller, while tho latter slept. At 8 o'clock Pierce was once more at the top of the string. At that time he appeared fresh. Albert climbed away up the list of riders at 4 o'clock, going up to second place. Shortly before 6 o’clock ho left the track and lost some of his advantage. Waller dozed for a moment about 4 o’clock, awoke with a start, wobbled and grabbed Frederick, who was riding at his side. Both fell in a heap and their wheels were broken. Hale fell asleep and dropped from his wheel. He lay for a moment and then awoke with a start. Jumping up, he rubbed his eyes and remounted. At 8 o’clock Pierce was thirty-seven miles behind the best record, made by Miller last year. “Teddy” Hale, the veteran rider, left the track about 1 o’clock p. m. It was said by “Tony” Johnson, iris trainer, shortly afterward, that Hale was disheartened and was reluctant about going on the track again. Hale then had 1,157 miles to his credit. “Teddy” Edwards later had a talk with Hale and finally induced him to make another effort. Plasters were put on the Irishman’s hands and he again mounted, riding after the others at a good pace. He seemed strong - enough to ride many miles yet. The four leaders struggled continuously for the lead. With the exception of Forster and Waller the riders are husbanding their strength and make few lengthy spurts. Pierce rides a steady pace, omy seldom increasing his speed when pushed by his opponents. Waller had several brushes with Miller, who was trying to get back to the lead during the afternoon and the garden rang with cheers. Waller, however, managed to hold his man and keep the lead. Pierce held his steady clip, that appeared to be at the rate of between sixteen and eighteen miles an hour. This afternoon Arthur Gardner, of Chicago, paced by a petroleum motor cycle, rode a mile in 2:09 and two miles in 4:21. Nat Butler, pf Boston caught Tom Cooper, of Detroit, in ten and a half laps in a pursuit race. Time, 2:21. Shortly after 6 o’clock Miller left the track. Waller fell from his wheel half an hour later, completely overcome by drowsiness. He was taken from the track, but he returned within an hour. Meanwhile Miller had gained nearly ten miles on him, the latter returning just ten minutes after Waller had been led out. At 8 o’clock Waller was but six laps ahead of Miller. Between 7 and 8 o’clock Pierce and Miller were about ten miles apart. In the same hour Albert lost considerably. The announcement, was made to-night that Miller will marry Miss Genevieve Hanson in tho garden at 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Miss Hanson having received a telegram from her mother, in Chicago, consenting to the marriage. In accordance with the fixed principles of the managers of the six-day race the prices of admission were doubled to-night, when it was apparent that the crowd of spectators would be great, but notwithstanding this the garden was packed. Waller left the track a few minutes after midnight. He appeared demoralized and his last few laps were ridden unsteadily as if he were almost blind. Miller at once increased his pace as Waller left the track and at 12:30 a. m. passed Waller’s score. At 1 o’clock Friday morning Miller was almost ten miles ahead. At that hour his score was 1,473 miles 9 laps; Waller’s. 1.463 miles 2 laps, and Fierce, 1,455 miles 2 laps. Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning the announcement was made that Moneehan had withdrawn from the contest permanently. He wag acting undex instructions from the corps of meeUcgl examiners, who had pronounced him unfit for further efforts. Not long afterwards the withdrawal of Pilkington *or similar reasons was announced. Kinz and Clstac both left tho track about 1:50 o’clock, and a few minutes later their withdrawal from the contest was bulletined. Waller returned to the track at 1:30 a. m. At first he rode wildly, but after some minutes grew steady and began to pile up the miles. He was trying hard to cut down the gains made by Miller during his absence. The scores of the fifteen leaders at 2 a. m. Riders. Milos. Laps. Miller 1,473 Waller 1,470 Pierce 1,400 7 Albert 1,425 7 Stevens 1,355 8 Gimm 1,341 6 Lawson 1,331 4 Aronson 1,301 2 Nawn 1,293 7 Hale 1,261 3 Forster 1,234 Scliineer 1,223 Joyeux 1,131 5 Turville 1,125 9 Julius 1,001 7 TO CONTROL RACING. The National Cycle Association Orgnnlzed by Trade Owners, NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The National Cycle Racing Association was organized at a meeting of track owners and managers in this city to-day. It is the aim of the association to control bicycle racing, professional and amateur, in all of the States east of the Mississippi river except Louisiana. An alliance will be made with the Western Cycling Association, tho California Association of Cycling Clubs and the Southern Cycling Association. Those present at the meeting were delegates from the American Racing Cyclists’ Union; Manhattan Beach track; J. D. iasley, of Washington; J. H. Collingwood, of Providence; A. G. Batchelder, N. Salisbury, representing the Ambrose Park track, of Brooklyn; F. W. J. Cochran, Walton, Mass.; J. W. Murray, Belleville, N. J., and O. D. Bloemcke, Vallsburg. N. J. The Quill Club and Harlem and Kings county wheelmen were also represented. A committee was appointed to prepare a constitution and by-laws. These officers wero elected: President. C. A. Johnson, of Buffalo; vice presidents, O. D. Bloemcke, of Vailsburg, N. J., and F. House, of Harlem, wheelmen: chairman of board of control, A. G. Batchelder. of New York; chairman of District A, embracing all of New England, R. F. Kelsey, of Hartford. Conn.; chairman of District B, embracing New York and New Jersey, W. Wilson, of Buffalo: chairman of District C. embracing the Middle States, J. F. Dasley; chairman of District D, embracing the Southern States. G. Cahl, of Jacksonville, Fla.; chairman of District E, embracing the Northwestern States, Charles P. Root, of Chicago. Tom Cooper, of Detroit, was elected a member of the board, representing an interest of the American Racing Cyclists’ Union. Another meeting will be held in this city on Jan. 4. TROTTING DECISIONS 3lany Ruling:* by the Board of Review —A Iloosicr’* Appeal Denied. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The Board of Review of tho National Trotting Association continued its sessions to-day. A. W. Liekert, of Indiana, appeared in an appeal frem the decision of the judges who presided at tho meet in Carrolltown, Pa., on Sept. 22 last, in which they awarded a race to Morela, owned by John N. Patchen, of Patchenvilie, Va. Lickcrt, who drove Sir Alcantra in this race, claimed to have been fouled in first heat. He won in the second and third and was fouled again in the fourth heat, he claimed. The judges, he alleged, were not in the stand at the time he was fouled, having sought shelter, he said, owing to a storm. The board of review' held a two hours' executive session to-night, after which the following decisions were announced: The application of W. C. Crane, of Erie, Pa., for the return of penalty Imposed at Columbus, (>., denied: Clarece Ware, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., suspended until the recording fee in connection with the entering Tuckahoe in a recent contest is paid; W. F. LemJrum, charged with ringing the horse Bill,’ Mack under the name of Restaurunt Boy at the New Brunswick meet, in October last, expelled. with Driver McPherson; John Hannon, jr., of Johnstown. Pa., charged with racing Hornet, who was afterwards identified as Judge Holt, at Cleveland, last October, expelled with the alleged owner, J. C. Pender; W. H. Covell. of New Jersey, suspended until all the unlawful winnings

of Annie St. Clair are refunded: V. F. |4oberts, Worcester, Mass., expelled because of violations of the rule in racing Robert Roy; application of E. W. Bowdon, of Hartford. Conn., for reinstatement, having been expelled for ringing the pacer Jane Bruce, denied; applications of R. R. Ryerson, of Goshen, N. Y., F. R. Haydon and L D. Brokaw, of Brooklyn, for reinstatement, denied; applications for reinstatement of J. W. Tomkins, of Sing-Sing, and C. G. Lee, of Bridgeport, Conn., granted. Wm. R. Hudson, of Providence. R. 1.. and J. 11. Collingwood. of Hills Grove, R. 1., who appealed from the decision of the judges in a contested heat, were directed to distribute the money awarded to Grey Fern. Appeal of A. W. Liekart. of Indiana, denied. Decision of the judges in the cases of J. Whelpley, of White Plains, N. Y., in a contest decided under the auspices of the Bridgeport Driving Association, sustained; case of W. Tameny, of New Platz, N. Y., in a plea against the decision imposing a line of SIOO, decided against Tameny; J. 11. Bronson, of New Haven. Conn., released from suspension; application of Mr. Strong, of New York, for release of himself and the mare Cube, suspended at Fleetwood Park, in November last, denied: application of D. E. Thompson, of Blairsvme, Pa., suspended with Sir Alcantara, at Syracuse, in October last, denied; application of G. W. Roxberry, of West Philadelphia, Pa., accused of using improper language, for removal of expulsion, denied. M’COY AND SHARKEY TO FIOHT. Th© “Gentleman Kid” anl tlie Sailor “Png” Sign Articles. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—Articles of agreement for a twenty-round boxing contest between Tom Sharkey and Kid. McCoy, to take place at the Lenox Athletic Club, this city, on Jan. 10, were signed to-day by both principals. The men are to box for a purse of $20,000 and 50 per cent, of all receipts exceeding $40,000. Tim Hurst was mutually chosen as referee. In order that the fight may not result in a fiasco like the Sharkey-Corbett affair the articles provide that the interference of any of the fighters’ seconds or their invasion of the ring will not stop the contest. Any second or outsider who tries to enter the ring during the contest will be immediately placed under arrest. The men will box under Queensberry rules, with the exception that they will not be permitted to hit in clinches or breakaways. After the match had been made Sharkey held a friendly conference with Jim Corbett, w r ho wished him luck in the fight and announced his intention of going to the Pacific coast to fight Jeffries. Corbett afterward sent a dispatch to his brother in California, saying: "I will take on Jeffries. Matcli me to meet him in February.” Ryan Ambitions. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. S.—Tommy Ryan says he will meet Bob Fitzsimmons at 154 pounds, weigh in at the ringside, and that he will post to-morrow a certified check for $2,500 to meet Fitzsimmons within three months at the Monarch Athletic Club for 60 per cent, of the gross receipts. OBITUARY. Lieut. Charles I). Kennedy, n Powder Works* Manager. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. S.—Lieut. Charles D. Kennedy, whose death is announced from an explosion at the works of the Judson Powder Company, at Berkley, Cal., of which company he was manager, was well known in this city. He was born in, New Bedford in 1862. Graduating from service of cadet on the United States revenue cutter Salmon P. Chase, he was commissioned a third lieutenant. He was appointed to the United States revenue cutter Dexter, and in ISB4, for signal bravery on the occasion of the wreck of the City of Columbus, off Gayhead, was awarded the silver medal of the Massachusetts Humane Society. Later he was ordered to the Pacific coast and distinguished himself in the Arctic service of United States steamers Bear, Rush and Corwin. In 1888, after receiving his commission as second lieutenant, he resigned from the service to accept the position in which he lost his life. He leaves a mother, brothers and sister in New Bedford, and a brother in this city. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The annual convention of the American Ethical Union is in session at Milwaukee. The American Tobacco Company has voted to sell its plug tobacco business to the Continental Tobacco Company. Don Rafael Iglesias, president of Costa Rica, and his party, visited West Point yesterday and inspected the battalion of cadets. The Nebraska Supreme Court has granted a rehearing in the Broatch-Moore Omaha mayoralty contest. The former decision was adverse to Mayor Moore. The North German Lloyd steamer Saale, from Bremen and Southampton, brought 700,000 francs in gold, consigned to the Notional City Bank, New York. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: “The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, it is announced, has paid its floating debt of $1,300,000 to Russell Sage.” The stamer Hartford, of the Hartford and New York Transportation Company, was sold yesterday to the United States government. The steamer was built in 1832 and is a fast double-screw iron boat. The stockholders of the Boston National Bank have voted to liquidate. The bank was organized in 1853 and has never passed a dividend. Its affairs are so clean that the liquidating bank advances a million dollars to reimburse its stockholders. Lieut. William L. Murphy, of the Twentyfourth United States Infantry, and Miss Pauline Whiting Lowe, of Omaha, were married yesterday and later left Omaha for Fort Douglass. The bride is the daughter of the late Gen. William G. Lowe. The Supreme Court of Illinois has denied a motion for a rehearing in the case of Gundling vs. Chicago. The ruling sustains the validity of the Chicago cigarette ordinance. Grundling was convicted of selling cigarettes without paying ssoy annual license. Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, has refused to honor Governor Tanner’s requisition for Madame Winlake, who is in the Toledo jail, charged with getting $30,000 worth of silks and line millinery from Edson, Keith & Cos., Gage Bros, and other Chicago firms under false pretenses. Cornell’s newly-elected football captain, Dan A. Reed, resigned from the position yesterday. Ii is probable he will not return to the university next fall. His successor will soon be chosen by the team, and E. R. Sweetland, right tackle, is spoken of as tho most likely candidate. Judge Ball, of tho Superior Court, Chicago, has appointed F. B. Gansberger receiver for the Canadlan-Ameriean and Building Association, with authority to wind up tho affairs of the organization. Tho association has been involved in litigation for about a year. Tho Baltimore & Northern Electric Railway Company, backed by a syndicate of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore capitalists, yesterday purchased the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company, Twelve million six hundred thousand dollars are involved in the transaction, William A. L. Burden, class of 1900. who has played left guard on this year's eleven, lias been elected captain of the Harvard ’varsity football team for next year. He is twenty-one years old, weighs ISO pounds, and is six feet one Inch in height. He is a son of I. T. Burden, of New’ York. A letter from Honolulu to ex-Attorney General E. E. Dawes, of Kansas, announces the death of his son. Private Raymond Dawes, of Company C, Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, of typhoid fever, in Honolulu hospital Nov. 21. Dawes had received a discharge and was expected home for Christmas. Christian Scientist Convicted. CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. B.—Thomas McDowell recently died of typhoid fever, while under the care of Harriet O. Evans, a Christian Scientist. She was tried for practicing medicine without a certificate, and tho jurv brought in a verdict to-night of guilty. The attorneys for the faith-cure defendant at once gave notice of appeal from tlie Police Court. Pottery Trust Perfected. EAST LIVERPOOL, 0., Dec. S.—lt was announced here to-day that the Pottery Trust has completed its organization under the laws of New Jersey, with $20,000,000 of capital stock. The options of the American Potteries Company on the Bast Liverpool plants expire Jan. 1. and the combine is expected to have ail of them. Rev. Dr. Stuart Dodge Appointed. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The Rev. Dr. Stuart Dodge, a brother of W. E. Dodge, has been appointed president of the Horne Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church to succeed the late Dr. John Hall. Mr. Dodge formerly was a missionary to Syria, but for some time has been a member of the Home Mission Board.

WAR ON A POLYGAMIST ■ ■ ♦ WOMEN WILL TRY TO KEEP ROBERTS OPT OF CONGRESS. Missionary Societies Will Lead th© Movement—Meeting* to Be Held Throughout the Country. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The Herald to-mor-row will say: Efforts to prevent Brigham 11. Roberts, representative-elect from Utah, from taking his seat in the Fifty-sixth Congress. because he is a polygamist and advocates that doctrine of the Mormon Church, is to have the organized support of hundreds of thousands of women in the United States. Tho initial woman's movement is to take organized form in this city at a meeting of tho Presbyterian Woman s Board of Home Missions, on Dec. 20. There are a hundred thousand members of the Presbyterian Home Mission Society 'hlone in the United States. The home mission societies of the Congregational and Baptist churches are preparing to make a similar campaign against Roberts, and the women’s societies of other denominations are becoming interested in the fight. It is intended that all shall co-operate. The Congregational Home Missionary Society will take the matter up at a meeting to be held at the St. Denis Hotel in January. This movement is not to be confined to missionary societies, but it is to be started through them as a convenient way of arousing interest over the entire country. The women are to give information regarding the Roberts case and the supposed danger of the revival of polygamy, and to unite in obtaining personal letters to representatives in all districts throughout the country, protesting against the seating of an avowed polygamist. Rev. William K. Campbell, who has spent twelve years in Utah among the Mormons, is in New York, taking an active part in the fight against polygamy. He, with unother speaker, who has lived among the Mormons, will probably address the coming meetings. Mr. Campbell will dwell especially on the revival of polygamy in Utah. He says the Presbytery of Utah is in touch with only seventy of the 310 postoffices in Utah. Reports received from these show two thousand cases of polygamy and that one thousand polygamist children have been born since Utah was admitted to statehood in 1895. In the women’s fight against Roberts it is to be urged that if he is seated the Mormon Church will grant dispensations to many men to take more wives. Missionaries who have been studying the Utah situation say that many polygamists are now making arrangements to that end. Mrs. Darwin R. James, president of the Woman’s Board of Home Missions, will preside at the meeting on Dec. 20, in the Presbyterian building. SHE WAS TIRED OF LIFE. Woman Murders Her Daughter, R ounds a Doctor and Kills Herself. DETROIT, Dec. B.—When Frank Brooks, of No. 1657 Russell street, this city, came home from work to-night he found in one bedroom his wife shot dead and in another his nine-year-old daughter, also dead. In a note that he found from his wife she stated that she was tired of life and was going to heaven and take her little daughter with her, from w’hich it is supposed she committed the murder and then killed herself. Dr. Oliver S. Bell, of No. 1051 Russell street, was also shot by Mrs. Brooks. He called in the middle of the afternoon and presented his biil, at her request, he says. She received him cordially and after seating him went into a side room, as he supposed to get some money. The next thing he heard was a pistol shot, and simultaneously he felt the bullet strike his head. He rushed out, the woman continuing to fire at him. After getting his w’ound dressed ho went to his mother’s home in Windsor, Ontario, across the river. When seen there to-night and asked why he did not report the affair to the police he said he had no wish to mix the police in it. Dr. Bell says that when he entered the house Mrs. Brooks seemed perfectly rational, and he was unable to account for her terrible deed.

REDUCING THE WEIGHT OF CARS. Experiments Made on the New Haven and Illinois Central Rallrouds. Cassiei-’s Magazine. Two of the largest and best equipped railways systems in the United States are devoting serious attention to the problem of reducing the dead weight of their standard passenger coaches. The New York, New Haven <fc Hartford, one of these systems, which practically controls all the railways east of New York and south of Boston, has been giving effect to the impressions made on its president, C. P. Clark, during his visit to England two years ago. Mr. Clark said, after his return, that w T hat struck him most favorably about British railways was the lightness of the passenger rolling stock as compared with that in the United States. Apparently in accordance with his suggestion, E. E. Pratt, superintendent of buildings on the New Haven Railroad, designed a model passenger coach with wrought iron fittings instead of cast iron, with lighter scantlings and with lighter floors. This car was put into service in November, 1886, and, up to Jan. 1 last, had run 59,881 miles. Compared with the coach of the old pattern which it most nearly replaced, it weighed about 52,000 pounds, as against 59,500, and it is expected that this w'eight will be further reduced by 250 pounds when the new coach gets aluminium fittings for the seats—a purpose for which that metal seems w'ell adapted—instead of the iron frames used at present. But if the new coach shows itself by actual service to have no drawbacks, it will replace not only the standard New Haven one of 59.500 pounds, but also numerous others of a larger type weighing 65,000 pounds. This would mean a decrease in weight of more than 20 per cent, on the present heavier coaches, and 12Mi per cent, on the lighter coaches. In other words, five of the new coaches could be hauled with the same coal consumption as four of the old ones in the former case, and eight instead of seven in the latter. On the Illinois Central system, under the direction of Mr. Renshaw, superintendent of motive power, the process of turning out lighter passenger coaches has been developed on a larger scale, and perhaps in a more practical way, for some years past. Most of the old coaches on that system have from one to three tons of old rails placed beneath the floor of the coach, which wore put there to check horizontal swaying by lowering the center of gravity and consequently to make them smoother riding vehicles for the public. Every time one of these old coaches comes into the shop for a thorough repair Mr. Renshaw remove.; this dead weight of old rails. For tw’o or three years past he has also substituted wrought iron for cast iron fittings in all the new coaches built under his direction. What is more, he finds that the saving in metal more than covers the additional cost of labor involved in making wrought iron fittings. Probably the time is approaching when we shall see mild steel everywhere employed for car fittings, as we see it today employed in all ship construction. As the relative tensile strength of cast iron, wrought .ron and steel are, respectively, 25,0 W pounds, 50,000 pounds and 80.000 pounds per square inch, this would mean a reduction of more than two-thirds the weight of cast iron and nearly one-third the weight of wrought iron. The truth is that the vast improvement in the permanent way of the leading railways in the United States during tho last ten years has rendered superfiuous many of the adventitious aids once necessary for smooth riding. One has only to open Poor's Manuals for 1888 and 1898 to find many of the roads catalogued in 18S8 as using rails from s xty to sixty-five pounds to the yard now credited with rails of from ninety to one hundred pounds. This change permits of the use of lighter and more liexible springs, of the abandonment of dead weight not necessary to keep the car steady on the superior track and of the use of lighter scantlings, because the wear and tear of the car from jolting is not so great. Parlor and sleeping cars running, as they do, over roads good and bad will not be able to take advantage of these facts until the small and impoverished roads ne able to bring up their permanent way to the same level of excellence sus those which are prosperous. Yet 100,000 pounds for a modern seventy-two-foot sleeping car is a monstrous weight. A Woman Wlo Takes t are of Ilerself. New York Special. Henry James tried to flirt with a strong woman, who is engaged in one of the museupia to do a juggling act with big cannon balls, und as a result was a complainant to-day in the Yorkvilie Police Court, charging the woman with assault. Mile. Suzeinetta is a tall, muscular English woman, who has been performing in this city for a week. She raises, so the management says, a 278-pound cannon ball with her teeth and tosses into the air thirty-pound ana fortypound cannon bulla, which she catches as a

boy would a baseball. James was one of the spectators at all of her performances, and was attracted by the strong woman. When she bowed and smiled at the audience after performing each feat James fancied that the smile was especially directed at him, and he smiled back. When the audience was dismissed and the strong woman donned her street clothes and left the building James followed her down the street for a distance, and, stepping up to her, said: “I wish to talk to you for a moment. Will you take n walk with me?” “Mind your own business, sir.” she responded, as she walked on. ’’l want to tell you how much I admire you,” the man continued, as he walked beside her. She stopped, her right hand shot out, landing on hts left eye, and the man sprawled on his back on the sidewalk. The strong woman passed on and the dazed man hastened to the Yorkvllle Police Court and obtained a summons for the object of his admiration. His left eye was closed and blackened when he appeared in court to-day and made Ms complaint ‘*Did you assault this man?” asked Magistrate Meade. ”1 struck him a light blow,’ because he angered me.” answered the woman. ”1 didn’t want to hurt him, so I did not exert myself.” "fc.’hake hands.” said the magistrate, as h© stood up and held out his hand. “That is what we have long been looking for—a woman wrho can take care of herself on th® streets.” The complaint was dismissed. ROMAN WEALTH AND WASTE.’ Pearl* Dissolved in Wine and a Relay; of Dinners for Mure Antony. E. H. House is contributing to St. Nicholas a series of articles on “Bright Sides in History.” In the December number the author tells this story of ancient extravagance: “The pearl which Cleopatra drank to Aip tony’s health was valued at nearly S4OO, so at one mouthtul she disposed of as much as the cost of Caligula’s supper. 1 suppose that was the most valuable pearl we have any knowledge of; though Julius Caesar owned one worth which he gave to the mother of Brutus—the same Brutus who afterward helped to kill Caesar. Pearl 9 seem to have held out particular temptations to people who took pleasure in wasteful follies, perhaps because no other jewel could be so easily swallowed. “Cleopatra’s prank was not the first of it® kind. The same absurdity had been committed by a silly fellow’ In Rome named Aesop—not your favorite fable-telier, for he lived centuries earlier, and was a very wise man. Tho Roman Aesop was the son of a rich actor, and, just to make himself talked about, he took a pearl from the eardrop of Caecilia, the wife of the tyrant Sylla, and, according to writers of that age, drank it in vinegar. I believe that the possibility of dissolving this kind of gem is disputed by many modern authorities, but the ancient® appear to have had no doubt on the subject, for the instances recorded by them were numerous, and were attested by men of scientific understanding. A Japanese naturalist, who has studied pearls minutely, states that he has found them of such various quality and structure that the existence of specimens which might be melted does not seem to him inconceivable. But whether Aesop liquefied his pearl or not, the performance certainly cost him a sum equivalent to slo,ooo quite enough, though nothing in comparison with what Cleopatra squandered. Hers was the wildest piece of extravagance that I can recall. “It was the fashion to be extravagant then. Mark Antony was not far behind the Jggyptian queen in that respect, though hi® fancy was not for beverages flavored by trinkets. Substantial food was more in his line. A visitor who once went into the kitchen of his palace in Alexandria saw eight wild boars roasting at the same time, and thought there must he an immense number of guests expected: but the cook told him only twelve persons would dine that day. the reason of the extensive preparation was that no one could say exactly when Antony would go to the table. But whenever he gave the signal, the meat must be just in proper condition at that moment. So it was the rule to get ready a series of dinners, overlapping each other, you might say, at Intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes. Only one could be eaten, and the rest were wasted; but the waste did not matter. Antony was never kept waiting, and that, in his opinion, w’as the thing to be considered. HIS HEART’S SAC SEWED L’P. Hare Operation on a Santiago Hero W ho Was Stabbed. Buffalo Dispatch in New York Press. A soldier of the “Fighting Thirteenth,” which was to the fore in the attacking party at Santiago, has this week undergone an operation that pales all his army experiences. He has hod the pericardium, that is to say, the sace that contains the heart, sewed up. Only five such feats have been, accomplished in the history of surgery, but Dr. Meyer, of tho Fitch Hospital, appear® to have performed tho work successfully. Two privates of the regiment were making the rounds of the slums. They were just full enough of whisky to get into a fight over a woman, and the big one, Fred Uhrandt, planted his fist into little Dant’a face. Dant was defenseless in the hands of a man so much the stronger, and lie drew his pocket knife. The small man was a good master of the weapon, and Uhrandt went to the hospital with a gash over hi® heart. The knife had cut a curved slit In the heart sac an inch long, and th© only way of getting to it was through the gash made in the wall of the thorax. This latter hole was larger, but so small that it had to be enlarged considerably. When the surgeon was able to peer into the heart cavity he found the sac full of blood and the action of the heart much Impaired, but he soon got his needle in positibn. Tlien it was discovered that the heart, in beating, waa thrust against the wound and would strike the point of the needle if it was used at that part of the beat, so the sewing was done between beats, necessarily a slow proceeding. Before the hole was finally closed the blood was wiped out, and the patient, though much exhausted by the long ordeal, was, apparently, in a hopeful condition. If Inflammation does not set in he will live.

Horror® of Expansion. Chicago Tribune. “Well,” remarked Rivers, “the family of the American eagle may be growing larger, but the noble bird will have to do Its own hatching more exclusively than ever hereafter.” “Why?” demanded Brooks. “Because the sun never sets on American soil now.” , "Shucks!” exclaimed Brooks. Don t you suppose our naval commanders are able to look out for the after hatch?” And they continued to scowl at each other and mutter threats. Overcome by Git*. CHICAGO, Dec. B.—While attempting to make a coupling on a gas main at Fortyfirst street and Vincennes avenue to-day four men were overcome by escaping gas. William Armstrong and James Sharpies® died almost Instantly, Thomas Hayes recovered several hours later and James Casey was only slightly overcome. A Natural Result. Philadelphia North American. “I feel bad, very bad,” said the shark. “Well, I told you what would happen If you swallowed that small boy,” replied tho whale. “He's probably satisfying hi® curiosity as to what’s inside.” Clone Vote in South Dakota. PIERRE, S. D., Dec. B.—The official count on Governor was completed to-day. The totals are: Lee. fusion, 37,319; Phillips, Rep., 36,949; Lewis, Pro., 891. The vote from several counties was protested on the irregularity of returns. Hopeful. Kansas City Journal. Proof of the defeat of Senator William Metallic Stewart may eome along In time to afford the country a delightful Christmas present. NATIONAL pfj. Tube Works Wrought-lron Pipe for Gas, Ift 1 Steam and Water, 1 f jHi Boiler Tubes, Cast and ’Wi Malleable Iron Fittings Sfk’iV.Vv VV (black and galvanized). i ' ' y) Valves. Stop Cocks, KnVykA fine Trimming, Steam ® >■ ey\ \im Gaugvs, Pipe Tongs. i’lpa r£, m [ ’SaJ Cutters, Vises, Bcresr Jsffj Plates und rite* Wrenches, if:,?. B St-'um Traps, Pumps, Pi! H Kitchen Sinks. Hose. Beltjy L nl itßabbit Metal, Solder, 3 R'igl White and Coloied Wiping pjef RgA Waste, and all other Supn’ I ', lF?i3 plies used In connection ffeyj with Gas. Steam and |L<i Water. Natural Gas Supl|j>g nla specialty. Steam ■a Heating Apparatus for \ Public liulliiinKß, Store- | - room®, ?!Uls. Shops, Factories Laundries. Lumber Pry Houses, etc. Cut and KVI Thiead to order any sise Wrought-Iron pipe, from iSj Vj inca to 12 inches dhm|i KNIGHT & JiUSON, M 121 to 127 1} 6 PENNSYLVANIA ST*