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this city from Captain Shaw, by way of Cepe Town, which tells his mishaps and adventures. The Gienhuntley, with a general cargo, sailed from New York for Preem&ntle, Australia, on March 3L The voyage was uneventful until the early days of June, when the bark ran into a terrific stcrm, which so buffeted her that on June 4 Captain Shaw and his crew had to abandon her and take to their boats. For several days they rowed, and then landed on Tristan d'Acunha. KID M’COY’S TACTICS. Humors thnt He Has Derided to Go flight at the Sailor. NEW YORK, Jan. B.—lt is a matter of great interest to the sporting fraternity at present to figure out the ring tactics of Sharkey and McCoy in their coming contest. There can be no doubt as to the sailor’s intentions. He means to follow his usual method, one which has won him his present fame and ducats. It will be slap, bang from the start, and by the frequency of his swings and the force behind them he means to ruin the effectiveness of all McCoy’s science and shiftiness. “One punch in the jaw will do tlie trick,” says Sharkey. A urcislcn on points or a carefully laid out scheme to overcome his opponent by strategy or generalship has never stalked about in the sailor’s camp. He will try to beat out a victory by sledge hammer blows, and for teat < nd he is willing to take the stinging jibs of his slim opponent. Rut what of this Kid McCoy and his plans? Will he use Fabian tactics and elude those rushes like the toreador does the bull or will he decide to face him, meet him at his own game and rely upon his well-known shiftiness to escape fatal consequences? There are rumors that McCoy has decided not to be tiptoed by his friend Tom. He wall deliver his straight blows and glide under the swings into a clinch? Why not? He has six inches of good reach to his credit, and someone has told him that a straight line i- shorter than a circle, and, therefore, quicker to travel. It is aid of McCoy that he never formulates his fighting plans before he enters the ling, but waits until he has faced his opponent and studio! his peculiarities. His mind i> then unclogged by prearranged rchemes end he can proceed as the circumstances warrant. So it has been in all of the Kid’s lights hitherto, hut perhaps the big game will force him to hunt differently tiiis time. It is just as well to study the habits of the grizzly when you intend to follow him to his lair, and as McCoy puts it himself, ’’Sharkey is a hard proposition.” Khoxvnlter Lo*e* Again. NEW YORK, Jan. B. Showaiter and Janowski contested the eleventh game of their match at the Manhattan Chess Club to-day and after twenty-six moves Showaiter resigned. The latter opened with a queen's gambit, in the course of which he got the better position, he allowed bis adversary to get on even terms. Eater on the Parisian took the-attack into bis hands and by rather ingenious play won a pawn after twenty-four moves. Showaiter might have prolonged the fight by selecting a better move for his twenty-fifth turn. As it was, however. Janowski was enabled to win the girnie two motes later. The score of the* match now is: Janowski 5, Showaiter 2. drawn 4. Tho twelfth game will be played on Tuesday.

Cincinnati Bowler* Win. CINCINNATI, Jan. B.—A series of nine bowling games played at Clifton Heights here to-day for SIOO a side between teams of two. representing Detroit and Cincinnati. resulted in Cincinnati winning five games and the match. The score: Detroit—3s9. 337, 340, 329, 327, 405, 336, 379, Still. Total. 3.184. Cincinnati—324, 343, 404 , 354 , 317, 372, 391, 333, 370. Total. 3,208. Cincinnati was represented by Kellermaeker and Kern, Detroit by Metninger and Silver. Omitting fractions, the averages are: Cincinnati, 356; Detroit, 354. I'Hlshtiry Wins Twenty-Four Haines. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. B.—At the Deutscher Club to-day Harry N. Pillsbury, chess champion of the United States, performed the remarkable feat of playing twenty-five games of chess simultaneously and coming out victorious in all but one. He was also successful in an exhibition of "blindfold.” playing against half a dozen well-known local players. Half-Mile Skating Record. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. B.—John C. Johnson, the cyclist skater, broke the professional half-mile skating record at Lexington Park to-day, covering the distance in 1:18 2-5. The atempt was made under unfavorable conditions. He was paced the first 300 yards. The unofficial time for the first quarter was 38 3-5 seconds. • Watts Steel Works to Resume. MTDDLESBOROUGH. Ky., Jan. 8.-C. P. Perrin has floated bonds for $300,000 on the Watts steel plant and the plant resumes at once. This is the largest basic steel works in the South and employs 700 workmen. It was built in 1893 at a cost of $750,000. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY. Threatening Weather, with Eight Rain or Snow, ProiniMed. WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Weather Conditions and General Forecast—The pressure continues high on the Middle Atlantic Coast and a second high pressure area of considerable magnitude has developed in Manitoba. It has grown warmer from the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast; colder in the Reel River of the North valley, and the temperature lias remained nearly stationary elsewhere, including the Pacific coast. Eight snow has fallen in the lake regions; light rain in the middle Mississippi valley and on the extreme North Pacific coast. Eight snow may be expected in the lake regions; light rain in the middle Mississippi valley and Red River of the South Valleys and west gulf States, and threatening weather elsewhere. It w ill grow warmer in northern New England and the South Atlantic States, and colder in the lake regions. Eight easterly winds and moderate temperature will be experienced on the Middle and South Atlantic coast. FORECAST FOR MONDAY. For Ohio—Threatening weather, with light rain, turning into snow and colder on the lakes; brisk to higher southwesterly winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Threatening weather; light rain or snow' in central and southern portions, colder in*northern portion; variable w inds. Sunday’s l.ocal Observations. Bht. Ther. R.II. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 30.;;) 26 67 South. Pt. cldy. .ts> 7p. m.. 30.25 36 78 S'west. Cloudy. .00 Maximum temperature, 39; minimum temperature. 20. Following Is a comparative statement of the temperature anJ precipitation Jan. 8: Temp. Pre. Normal 2 i .03 Mean 30 .00 Departure from normal *3 —,>t* Departure from Jan. 1 —lB *BO •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperature*. Stations. ■' Min. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta, Ga 46 40 Bismarck. N. D 2 0 Buffalo, N. V 36 36 Calgary, N. W. T 30 4 Cairo, lil 30 44 40 Cheyenne, Wyo i2 36 22 Chicago. 11l 10 36 32 Cincinnati, 0 18 36 36 Concordia, Kan 22 Davenport. Ia 12 36 28 Des Moines. la 20 32 24 Galveston. Tex 56 56 Helena. Mont 34 32 Jacksonville. Fla 58 52 Kansas City, Mo 32 40 38 Little Rock. Ark 30 52 48 Marquette, Mich 8 C Memphis, Term 30 80 48 Nashville. Tenn 28 SO 44 New Orleans, Ea 54 52 New York 32 32 North Platte, Neb 8 42 24 Oklahoma, O. T 36 46 46 Omaha, Neb 22 32 26 Pittsburg, Pa 18 40 38 Qu’Appelle. N. W. T —l2 —l4 Rapid City. 8. D 10 38 26 Salt Lake city, Utah 28 30 28 St. lands. Mo 30 40 36 St. Paul Minn 8 4 Springfield, 111,, 22 38 34 Springfield, Mo 34 40 38 Vicksburg, Miss 34 56 52 Washington, D. C 42 36 —Below zero.

TRUNK MYSTERY GROWS SO CLEW TO IDENTITY OF THE BODY SHIPPED TO EVANSVILLE. ♦ Window-Glass Workers Snspect Fraud in Decision of Arbitrators at Pittsburg; Last Week. ♦ EVANSVILLE. Ind„ Jan. 8.-The Investigations to-day failed to throw any light on the mystery surrounding the dismembered body found at the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad freight house. It is known that the remains came from St. Louis nearly two weeks ago, supposedly from the Marion Simms Medical College, but officers here failed to get confirmation of the fact from the college people. The railroad officials have also begun an investigation to find who shipped the box. A telegram from St. Louis to-night that on Dec. 22, William Jobson, a prominent contractor of that city disappeared from his home and his relatives have since contended that he was murdered and robbed. They are r.ow trying to connect the disappearance ox Jcbson with the finding of the mangled body at this point. Jobson was forty years old, six feet tall, hair and eyes light, and sandy moustache. The body here is so badly mutilated that it is impossible to form an. Idea of how it appeared during life. BURN’S CHARGES FRAUD. Decision of Arbitrators a Surprise to Members of L. A. 300. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. B.—The decision of the arbitrators at Pittsburg in the L. A. 300 verbal wage agreement dispute is not satisfactory to the glass workers. The board held that no verbal agreement had existed between the manufacturers and workers’ wage committee. President Simon Burns, in a dispatch to Ralph Potts, a member of the workers' committee, stated: "Decision against us. Corruption.” The board of arbitration consisted of W. J. Holland and O. D. Thompson, of Pittsburg, and Prosecutor W. F. Edwards, of Anderson. The latter, who was chosen by the workers, has filed a minority report of great length, holding that all the testimony had proven the existence of a verbal agreement promising the advance, as the workers contended. The amount of money involved in the dispute, would average $lO per pot to the month. Over two thousand pots are in operation. and the length of the fire is six months, thus $120,000 hinged on the result of the arbitrators’ decision. The arbitrators will receive $2,200 for their services, Messrs. Thompson and Edwards each receiving SBSO and Dr. Holland SSOO. The vote on the third ballot for officers of L. A. 300 has been counted, and F. B. Youreson, of Jeannette, won out as assistant secretary, and Joseph G. Mayers, of Jeannette, for a place on the executive board. A fourth ballot has been ordered for member of Western wage committee.

Marl Bed* in Northern Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WATERLOO, Ind., Jan. B.—The fact that the northeast corner of Indiana is rich with marl beds is no longer questioned, and capitalists have options on several hundred acres of land around what is known as Little Turkey lake, just across the Steuben county line, nine miles northwest of Waterloo. As soon as an option can be secured from an estate bordering on the lake permanent steps will then be taken to build a cement factory. In Steuben county alone there Is known to exist about two thousand acres of marl of the best quality. At Silver lake there are 500 acres of marl land which is now worthless, so far as vegetation is concerned, and will be until the. marl is utilized in the manufacture of cement. About Crooked lake and Little and Big Turkey lakes there are rich beds of marl, vrhich have been tested and found to be of excellent quality. Across the Michigan State line, in Branch county, three cement factories have already started. It is also believed that there Is some marl In De Kalb county, but not in sufficient quantities to cause any investments in options. There are a number of marl beds in Lagrange county, which are also being investigated. Alleged Absconder Surrender*. Special to this Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, ind.. Jan. B.—A stranger, giving his name as H. T. Springer, of Yorklynn, Del., walked into the city marshal’s office to-day and gave himself up, saying he was wanted for absconding with $290 belonging to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. He explained that he was station agent at that place and, getting hard up, ran away with the company’s money. He said he had become tired and wornout dodging the authorities. Marshal Robertson wired the Yorklynn officers, hut has received no reply. Robertson Denies. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind., Jan. B.—Marshal Robertson went to Shoals to-day and arrested Clarence Webb, who is wanted here on the charge of forgery. Some time ago, it is alleged, Webb purchased some merchandise of J. C. Cohen and gave an order on John Broyles, a well-known Lawrence county farmer. When tno order was presented lor payment Mr. Broyles pronounced it a forgery. Webb left the county and yesterday was located at Shoals. He denies the charge. Rev. Father Ilanr Seriously 111, Special to the Indlanaitolls Journal. TERRE HAU t’E, Ind., Jan. B.—Father Baur, a Catholic priest of Rockville, is seriously ill at St. Anthony’s Hospital of grip and pneumonia, caused by his exposure the night of the big tire. When the firemen were carried down with the falling floors of Ford & Overstreet’s store Father Baur went down into the cellar with the rescuers because lie had been told that among the pinioned men there were Catholics. He gave them absolution and assisted in the work of rescue, w’hich continued for several days. lloosici- Soldier’* Funeral. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. B.—The funeral services of Walter Snively, who died on a transport returning from Santiago to Montauk Point, were held this afternoon. Capt. Biegler’s Company B, of the late One-hun-dred-and-fifty-ninth Indiana, attended in a body. Snively enlisted in the Twelfth Regular Infantry. The regiment was then stationed ut Fort Niobrara, Neb., but went to Cuba and was in the fight on July 3. Snively was taken with fever on the transport and diet! before the boat arrived at Montauk. Trolley Line Receiver Suit. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. B.—W. H. Stevens, of Detroit, the principal bondholder of the Kokomo City Street-railway Company, tiled a suit for receiver in the Circuit Court here Saturday. Os the $70,000 bonds of the company, Mr. Stevens holds all except $1,509, and he asks judgment of $30,000 for unpaid interest on the bonds. This action is taken by Mr. Stevens to get rid of the nominal indebtedness and to provide for the sale of new bonds amounting to $70,0u0. Bunker C barged with Libel. Social to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND. Ind., Jan 8,-John C. Armfield, a prominent stone contraetjr of this city, has brought suit aga nst Daniel Wilt, of the Bank of Redksy, asking $1 590 tt images for libei. Armileld makes the allegation thnt Wilt sent a letter which was derogatory to his character and contained malicious statements. Mr*. Hannah Schneider Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. B.—Mrs. Hannah Schneider, aged sixty-seven, died yesterday afternoon of liver trouble. She was one of the best-known German women in southern Indiana. Her first husband, Rev. Sauer, was pastor of what is known as Sauer’s Church for forty years. A son and two daughters survive. A Doable Misfortune. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. B.—Henry Chalfant, of this city, to-day received the dead body of his son Owen from Chicago, where he was killed in a railroad yard. Mr. Clialfant has also received word that his young-

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est brother is at the point of death in Columbus, 0., from the result of a boiler accident. Forty-Five Year* an Editor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. B.—E. Zimmerman, editor and publisher of the daily and weekly Messenger, to-day celebrated his forty-fifth year in the printing business. He has edited papers at Fort Wayne, Columbia City and Sandusky, 0., and is recognized as one of the best editors in the State. YVreck at Crawfordavllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAW FORDS VILLE, Ind., Jan. B.—The north-bound fast freight on the Vandalia was wrecked here at an early hour this morning by a misplaced switch. The engine and fifteen cars were damaged. No one was injured. Indiana Note*. The degree team of Woodward Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Richmond, will compete in the prize drill to be given at the national gathering of the order in Detroit next year. Will Swain, son of the Wayne county Republican county chairman, Charles G. Swain, some time ago appointed a mail carrier in one of the Southern army camps, has been assigned to the camp at Anniston, Ala. Among the horses that have been consigned for John S. Lackey's sale at Cambridge City are Rosemond, 2:15*4; Cliffmont, 2:14*4: Julia M.. 2:29%1 Clay Fullerton, 2:1%; Ella H., 2:19E; B. & B„ 2:29*4: Estelle, 2:19 l /4; Dick 11., 2 23*4; Centric Wilkes, 2:27, UNITED MINE WORKERS. Teuth Annual Convention Opens at Pittsburg To-Day. PITTSBURG, Jan. B.—Everything Is in readiness for the tenth annua! convention of the United Mine Workers, which convenes here to-morrow. Os the more than 500 delegates expected 3(XJ have arrived, including 130 Illinois delegates, who came in this evening on a special Baltimore & Ohio train. The first business to be transacted to-morrow will be the election of officers, over which a bitter fight is expected. What is termed the administration slate, which will probably go through notwithstanding the big minority opposition, is as follows: President, John Mitchell, of Illinois; vice president, T. W. Davis, Pennsylvania; sec-retary-treasurer, W. C. Pearce, Indiana; executive board, W. R. Farley, Alabama; George W. Purcell, Indiana; Fred Dilcher, Ohio; James Boston, Illinois; Edward McKay and Benjamin James, Pennsylvania. Delegates to the American Federation of Labor, W. C. Pearce, John Mitchell, J. M. Hunter and William Warner. At an Illinois caucus to-night all local differences were adjusted and resolutions were passed agreeing to stand by the administration. In spite of the probable success of the slate given above, District President Patrick Dolan has been persuaded by his friends to stand for the national presidency. Shovel and Dredge Engineer*. CHICAGO, Jan. B.—The annual convention of the Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of America closed to-day after a three-day session. Delegates were present from all parts of the United States and Canada. The secretary's report showed the organization in a flourishing condition, the members having increased 50 per cent, the past year. Resolutions were adopted urging Congress to pass the Nicaragua canal bill, and also that a law should be passed making eight hours a day’s work on said canal. Resolutions were also passed urging Congress to pass the river and harbor bill at the present session of Congress. Congress was also urged to create a labor commission of three union men to see that laws in the interest of working men were enforced on all government work. The following officers were elected: President, Charles Rees. Chicago; first vice president, John Miller, Chicago; second vice president, Joseph Maheux, Farnham, Quebec; third vice president. William Lucas, Toledo; fourth vice president, R. McClure, Murphysboro. 111.; treasurer, P. J. O’Connell, Moline, 111.; financial secretary. D. P. Maher, Geneseo, 111.; secretary. T. J. Dolan, Chicago: board of directors, J. E. Barns, Chicago; William Cush. Philadelphia; G. E. Kennedy, Hannibal, Mo.; James Casey, Sault Ste. Marie; O. W. Vandagrift, Bannack, Mont.

PARIS WAR CRY. (fonelnded from Flr*t Pago.) Jaures, editor of the Socialist Petite Republique. Many were injured and the police made a number of arrests. The wreaths intended for the tomb were trampled on. Einbn**y for AuHtrinn Court. LONDON, Jan. 9.—The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, referring to the report that the United States and the Aus-tro-Hungarian governments have been considering the elevation of their respective legations to the rank of embassies, asserts that this course has been definitely agreed upon. The Ameer in 111 Health. BOMBAY, Jan. B.—Dr. Clements, who for some time has been attached to the military service of the Amee" of Afghanistan, in the capacity of veterinary surgeon, has just arrived here from Cabul, the Afghan capital. He says that the Ameer is in ill health and cannot be expected to live long. British Steamer Ashore. PORT SAID, Jan. B.—ln a gale here the light on the breakwater was carried off, and it is impossible to lend assistance to the British steamer Golden Cross, from Batoum, which is ashore at the entrance to the canal. Hev. Barton’s designation. BOSTON, Jan. B. Rev-W. E. Barton read his resignation as pastor of Shnwmut Church to-night to accept a call from the First Congregational Church at Oak Park, Chicago. Dr. Barton telegraphed to the Chicago congregation this morning that he would' accept their call, but an hour or two afterward sent a second telegram announcing a change in the situation. The second telegram reached the church people too late to prevent their having read the first one. Later in the day he decided, in order to be morally just to the Chicago church, that he would read his resignation at the evening service, which he did. The prudential committee recommends that the church decline to accept the resignation. W ill Nut Fight Federal Steel. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Jan B.—President N. Baxter, of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company, stated to-night that the published report from Cincinnati that the American Steel Wire Company had secured working control of his company and w’ould use it in a tight against the Federal Steel Company could be only an idle report; that no such deal had been made with his knowledge. President Baxter further said that no such deal as the one reported could have been made without his knowledge. Head Burned Off in Lime Kiln. NEW YORK, Jan. B.—As John Ferris, watchman at a lime kiln in Williamsburg, was making his early rounds to-day he noticed a man who appeared to be sleeping at the edge of the kiln. Stepping closer to get a better view, Ferris was horrified to see that the man had no head, it having been burned off completely. He had wandered to the kiln to get warm and the gas arising from the furnace overcame him. He probably was dead before the fire reached his head. The man was unidentified. ‘‘Joe’’ YVhseler is Chicago’* Guest. CHICAGO, Jan B.—Mai. Gen. Joe Wheeler arrived in Chicago to-day. He will be a guest of tht Knights Templars at their annual charity ball to be given at the Auditorium to-morrow night. Rear Admiral Schley, who was expected to be present, telegraphed from Washington to-day that he would be unable to attend on account of the dinner to be given Tuesday to the Cuban evacuation commission by President McKinley. Three School Children Killed. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 8.-A heavy windstorm swept over the remote section of Scott county on Friday. At Boles a schoolhouse was blown down and three pupils were killed. Another was fatally hurt and a dozen or more sustained more or less serious injuries. The killed were the children of Joe Liwrence. Mr. Frost and Mrs. Rutledge. So far as known here no other lives were lost. Armour’* Gift to Princeton. PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 8.-It was announced to-day that George A. Armour, of the class of ’77, has given $10,060 to Princeton University to found a classical department in the university library. For the next three years he will give $2,760 annually for the further support of the department. Mr. Armour came to Princeton from Chicago four years ago.

HOTEL RICHELIEU FIRE THREE LINES LOST AND FIVE PEOPLE HURT AT PITTSBt RG. Robert Thompson a Kalamazoo Commercial Traveler, Become* a Hero, Saving Six Live*. ♦ PITTSBURG. Pa.. Jan. B.—A fire, which broke out in the Hotel Richelieu at 3:15 o'clock this morning, resulted in a property loss of about $15,000, and three lives were lost, while five people were badly hurt. Tiie dead: AMOS S. LANDIS, Grapeville, Pa. GEORGE A. WATERS. Camden. N. J. MRS. KATHERINE BOYLE. Pittsburg. The three victims were guests of the hotel and all were suffocated by the dense sntoke. The injured: DR. ROBT. BLACKSLEY. of Plymouth, Pa., fracture of vertebrae, caused by falling from third-floor window; will die. HENRY P4INTER, Grapeville. Pa., small blood vessels of lungs ruptured by inhaling smoke; will recover. JOHN L. MILLS, proprietor of the hotel, fare and body badly burned. MISS MILLS, his daughter, cut by glass while breaking through the window to escape. WILLIAM GARRETTSON, Clearfield, Pa., delegate to miners’ national convention, painfully burned about back and hips. The fire originated on the second floor from an explosion of gas and within a few moments the building was a mass of flames and blinding smoke. The noise of the explosion awakened most of the guests, about twenty in number, and a panic ensued. Robert N. Thompson, of Kalamazoo, Mich., a salesman for the Cadillac Lumber Company, was the means of saving at least six lives. In the first moments after the explosion he rushed into the hallway of the second floor and stumbled over the unconscious form of a woman, whom he dragged into the reception room. Five others, three men and two women, who had been turned back from the stairway by the flames, were shrieking and fighting for some exit. Thompson forced them all into the big room and locked the door. Knowing that it meant death to go into the hall, he fought the desperate men back until the arrival of the firemen, when all w r ere rescued. The hotel is completely gutted. OBITUARY. Col. Richard C\ Parsons, Ex-Consul at Rio Janeiro. CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. B— Col. Richard C. Parsons died this morning, aged seventytwo years. Colonel Parsons had long been a distinguished citizen of Cleveland. Asa young man he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and speaker of that body. Eater he was appointed by President Lincoln as consul at Rio Janeiro. Subsequently he was marshal of the United States Supreme Court. He served one term in Congress and was instrumental in inaugurating the harbor improvements at this port. For a time he was editor of the Cleveland Herald. At the time of his death Colonel Parsons was referee in the bankruptcy court. Deceased was a fine orator and a writer of force.

Prince** Tetna of Taliita islands. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. —The French mail boat Tropic Bird brings the news from Tahiti of the death at Papette of Princess Tetua Marama, hereditary princess of the islands. She was the daughter of the Princess Ariiochan, whose authority extended over the island of Morea and a number of districts in Tahiti. Princess Tetua was adopted by Queen Pomare, and when she grew up she became a great power in the Southern seas. At an early age she married John Brander, a Scotchman, by whom she had nine children. Brander was the head of the greatest commercial house in the islands. After his death she married George Darsie, also a Scotchman. She was very popular, and all the Southern islands are in mourning at her decease. U'ol. A*n \V. Dickinson. EASTON. Pa., Jan. B.—Col. Asa W. Dickinson, of Hackensack. N. J., died to-day at the home of his mother, Mrs. Jacob Hay, in this city. Colonel Dickinson was prominently identified with financial affairs, and during the Harrison administration was the collector of the port of New Jersey. He was a member of the staff of Governor Verts, of New Jersey. Alexander Bradford Upshur. NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Alexander Bradford Upshur is dead at his home in this city, aged forty-eight. He was a native of Holly Springs, Miss., had been connected, with the Nashville American, w r as appointed, commissioner of Indian affairs in ISB9 by Secretary Lamar and was afterward Calvin S. Brice's political and business manager in Ohio. \ HOll. Reuben Goodrich. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Jan. B.—Hon. Reuben Goodrich died here to-day, aged seventy-nine. In addition to having been prominent in State politics, he was appointed by Lincoln receiver of the United States land office. He was removed by President Johnson, but was reappointed by President Grant, when he served eight years. Mr*. George C. kinsman. DECATUR, 111., Jan. B.—Private telegrams to-day announce the death of Mrs. George C. Kinsman, wife of superintendent of telegraph of the Wabash Railroad at Bermuda. The body will be brought to New York on Jan. 14 and lie buried at Monroe, Mich. Mrs. Kinsman left here for a pleasure trip to Bermuda two weeks ago. Frederick sUhrr*. CLEVELAND, 0., Jai. B.—Frederick Silberg, one of the most famous Knights of Pythias in the country, died at his home here to-day. Silberg was six feet five inches tall and weighed 310 pounds. He was one of the axmen knowm as ' The Big Five,” and he had for years led the parade at the national encampment. YVilliain Kndicott. Aged 1(M). BEVERLY, Mass., Jan. B.—William Endicott, aged 100 years, died to-day. He was an eyewitness of the engagement between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon, June 1. 1813, and was of the sixth generation from Governor Endicott, of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Ex-Con gr ess man Stock dale. SUMMIT, Miss., Jan. B.—Ex-Congressman Thomas R. Stockdale, formerly judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi and a prominent Confederate officer, died to-day, aged seventy-one years Mis* Sophia Dallas. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. B.—Miss Sophia Dallas, daughter of George M. Dallas, who was Vice President of the United States under President Polk, is dead in her seventysixth year. GERMANY WANTS VAVAO. Will Seize a Friendly Island on a Slender Pretext. MELBOURNE, Jan. 9.—A dispatch from Auckland, X. Z., says advices have been received from Tonga, the seat of the government of the Tonga, or Friendly islands, that the German consul has arrived there from the Samoan islands and has given notice that Germany will seize Vavno. the most fertile of the group, unless the Tcngan government pays the private debts which the natives owe a German company. The government repudiates responsibility for the giving of credit to the natives, contrary to law, and the King s appealing to England, America and France. A KEELY MYSTERY. Racer Thing* ( nder the Floor Where the Motor Stood. Philadelphia Press. It was through mere accident that Robert Williams, of 1736 Gratz street, broke through the worn flooring of the laboratory of the late John W. Keely, at 1422 North Twentieth street, yesterday morning, and it is through this accident that the mystery of the Keely motor, one of the greatest mysteries of modern times, may oe solved. Underneath the floor, carefully buried and cona p.etely concealed in the ground, a castiron sphere was found. The sphere was four feet in diameter. It rested on a firm stone fundation. The sphere was hollow, and on its upper surface were protruding brans connections that were evidently joined at one time to delicate brass pipes that run

beneath the floor and led to different parts of the building where the remfcrfcabie inventor secretly conducted experiments that made his name known throughout the world. Keely's motor, the machine that has puzzled scientists for a decade, stood almost immediately above the buried sphefe. Whether or not the sphere had anything to do with the operation of the Keely motor is a matter for conjecture. The presence of the sphere under the building, completely covered by the floor and inaccessible, is past explanation. Mechanics who saw the curious contrivance yesterday say that the sphere has no known use in mechanical arts. They say that under working conditions it is capable of generating and imparting energy to machinery. Why it should lie hidden in the earth is a secret that only the dead im enter knew. Since T. B. Kinrade, the Boston scientist, assumed charge of the so-called motor, on which Mr. Keely spent thousands of dollars and to which he devoted his entire life, the prison-like laboratory of the dead inventor has stood just as Mr. Keely left it. It is a two-story brick building on Twentieth street, above Master. The front of the building is without windows, and the whole aim of the builder seems to have been secercy. There are no means of communication with the outside world excepting a large door at the front that is double-locked and barred. A short time ago the new company that has been organized to further the development of the motor began to remove the effects of the inventor to another part of the city. The motor, the machinery and tools were taken away and nothing was left. Yesterday the owner of ihe building, Daniel Dorey, of 1716 Spring Garden, put men at work cleaning out the building in anticipation of new tenants. Among the men at work was Robert Williams. In the main room, in which the strange motor had been kept, Mr. Williams noticed a break in the flooring. Trying it with his foot, the boards gave way, and his foot struck a metallic surface. He called in w’onder to the other men. The floor was ripped up enough to expose the ground below. By brushing aside the dust the men discovered a huge convex surface of iron. One of the men struck it with his hammer, and a most curious thing happened. From different parts of the room sounded weird thrills and noises. Again the iron beneath the floor was struck, and again the same peculiar echoes were heard. All efforts to locate the origin of the sounds were in vain. The room was almost dark, and the men. fearing an explosion or some deeplaid scheme of the inventor to protect his secret, left the uncanny place and locked the door. Williams’s curiosity was aroused, however, and he returned later in the day. He tore up the floor, and with pick and spade dug until the mysterious object was completely unearthed. The sphere had no visible connection with water mains or gas pipes. It weighed at least two tons and could not be moved. A foundation had been made for it, but in placing it in position the inventor had allowed it to settle slightly sideways. The massive iron bulb had then been covered, the entire excavation being tilled with earth. The owner of the building admits that a machine has been found concealed under the building. He refuses, however, to say anything further, except that in due time he will permit an investigation to be made of the premises. The floor of the workroom contains a number of trapdoors which are fitted to their'places so tightly that they can be lifted only with a chisel. There is no cellar under the workroom, and the purpose of the traps is a mystery. Another curious fact concerning the interior of the laboratory is that the floor of a small addition to the workroom, which was built in latter years by the inventor, is raised three feet above the main floor of the building, thus leaving a hidden space, the contents and uses of which are not known.

DISABLED STEAMER TOWED IN. Two HritlNh Cruft lteneli St. John’s* After a Hard Fight. ST. JOHN’S N. F., Jan. B.—The British steamer Anglian, sixteen days out from London, for Boston, arrived here to-day towing the British steamer Hestia, twenty-four days out from Glasgow, for Baltimore. The Hestia encountered heavy weather crossing the Atlantic, and on last Sunday her tail shaft broke. Shortly afterwards the Anglian came alongside, stood by her for three days and nights and then took her in tow, reaching this port after four days. The Hestia was constantly swept by heavy seas and her upper works were almost battered to pieces. When the steamers anchored in the harbor to-day a severe gale was blowing. The Hestia drifted ashore on the south side of the harbor, striking stern on, in which position she still lies. The Anglian endeavored to tow her off, but she also struck, though after hard work she got off. The gale is still raging, accompanied by a blinding snowstorm. It is feared shipping in the harbor may suffer severely during the night. Two Overdue Steamers Arrive. HALIFAX, N. S., Jan. B.—The overdue Furness line steamers Manchester Trader and Damara reached port to-day, the former arriving here and the latter at St. Johns, N. F. A brief cable from St. Johns says the Damara had terrific weather, being twentythree days out from Liverpool, but suffered no material damage, and all on board well. The Manchester Trader was nineteen days out. She reports the most terrific weather ever encountered. She sailed from the other side for Halifax Dec. 19. The first heavy weather was Dec. 26. On the 29th a break in the machinery occurred and the steamer was hove to for four hours. The Cunarder Aurania, was signaled and offered assistance which was declined. The 28th. 29th and 30th witnessed the heaviest weather of the voyage. The velocity of the wind was nearly 100 miles an hour. Tremendous seas broke over the steamer, smashing ventilators and rendering the wheelhouse uninhabitable. Small hand-stearing geer was located forward The ship rolled heavily and the smashing of the sea put the steering gear out of order twice. Vessels Given l p for Lost. BOSTON, Jan. B.—The owners of the Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Captain Horace Coombs, now 120 days out, on a voyage from Newport News to Para, Brazil, have abandoned all hope of the vessel, although they still believe there is a chance that the crew may have been rescued by some ship bound either to the Pacific or to some remote quarter of the globe. The underwriters who hold policies on the vessel also believe she is lost. The Mary Gibbs carried eight men and a cargo of 650 tons of codl. The owners and underwriters have given up the schooners Howard H. Hanscom, from Philadelphia Nov. 23 for Providence; Ida H. Mathis, from Philadelphia Nov. 25 for Newburyport; James B. Puce, from Philadelphia Nov. 25 for this port, and William O. Snow, from Newport News Nov. 21 for Salem. These vessels were all coal laden and carried crews of seven or eight men each. It is believed that all of them foundered in the terrible gale of Nov. 27, and that their crews were all lost. Movements* of Steamers*. NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Arrived: Umbria and Nomadic, from Liverpool; Britannic, from Marseilles. LIZARD, Jan. 9, 5:15 a. m.—Passed: La Normandie, from N?w York, for Havre. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. B.—Sailed: Belgenland, for Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, Jan. B.—Arrived: Cevic, frem New York. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. B.—Sailed: Servia, for New York. It Died. Baltimore Life. The old gentleman with the bland and childlike smile read with apparent relish the beautiful, soap-painted sign on the mirror which wished everybody the compliments of the season. The barber glanced at him interestedly. “Your hair dyed, sir?’’ The childlike smile reached out and covered new' territory on the old gentleman’s face. “Yes—it died some time ago.” Contrary to all established precedent the barber allowed his customer to get out of the chair without any reference to the political situation. The Skeptical Fogg. Boston Transcript. Mrs. Fogg—Mr. Selah preached a beutiful sermon this forenoon. So helpful, too! He said we should make our calling and election sure. Mr. Foggs—Election sure! What does he know' about politics anyway? You never can be sure now that they have the Australian ballot.” \\ hat Muggins Wanted. Chicago Record. “Muggins called up his first wife at the seance last night, and what do you think he said to her?” “Goodness knows.” "He told her he wished she w'ould give his second wife her recipe for mincemeat.” A Model of Propriety. Chicago Record. Jack—Miss I’ppton is the most circumspect young lady I ever met. Tom—How so? Jack—She refused to accompany me on the piano the other evening without her chaperou.

A LUCKY BALDWIN STORY HOW THE GREAT HORSEMAN WAS ♦•TOUCHED” BY A CLEVER RUSE. * Backed a Stranger’* Opinion of Hi* Horse and Won $12,000 Without Knowing It Was a Joke. Washington Post. “Lucky Baldwin, two and a half millions of whose Midas-made gold went up in the flames of the gaudy, garish Baldwin Hotel, in San Francisco, used to race a pretty good string of thoroughbreds on the Chicago tracks,” said a correspondent from the city by the unsalted sea the other day, after the conflagration. “He didn't have any use for the New York tracks. He swore that the New York handicappers topweighted his horses out of pure deviltry, just because they thought that he. Lucky, didn’t want the purses or stakes, but that he was in the racing business for hygienic reasons: and he finally declined to race any of his high-class runners on the Eastern tracks. “Lucky was a good deal of a character around Chicago during the racing season. While he was close-fisted to the point of parsimony in a good many respects, in others he was an aged Jubilee Juggins in improvidence, and as reckless in throwing away money as any Coal Oil Johnnie. He had a failing for burning up money on his horses. No matter in what company they were entered, nor how far they were outclassed at weights and distance. Lucky would bet on ’em to win, anyhow. He had good ones in his stable, but, then, there were other good stables, too. and Lucky’s horses couldn’t always slip into soft spots. But Lucky figured it that each and every one of his nags was a world-beater, and he’d bet on them whether the price was 1 to 100 on or 100 to 1 against. “At that Lucky Baldwin w r as always a pretty smooth old proposition, and if there was any one particular in which he was more noted in Chicago than in others, it was what 1 might call his absolute untouchable ness. Lucky had a reputation as a man who positively would not surrender to a touch, no matter how scientifically the same was engineered, that was the heartbreak of the brigade of well-dressed touchers wtio inhabited the hotels of Chicago during the racing seasons. The racing reporter of my paper was telling us one night about Lucky’s adamantine countenance when he was listening to the carefully-re-hearsed tales of touchers, when one of his listeners—a new reporter on the paper, a man from the coast—chimed in. ’What you say about Baldwin being the hardest of living propositions w hen it comes to a touch is quite true,’ said he. ‘He’s got the same reputation on the coast. Now, I don’t know Luck Baldwin personally. I never happened to run across him when I was in San Francisco, for when [ was out there he was spending most of his time hero in the East with his string of runners. But I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll 'bet you SSO to $25 that, to-morrow' afternoon at the race track. I’ll successfully touch Lucky Baidw'in for S2OO, rendering him an equivalent that shall be wortn only $1 in return. Am I on?’ “ ’That's what you are,’ said the racing reporter. ‘That's like getting SSJ in a letter for me. You’re a good thing. But you don't know what you're feoing to stack up against.’

“ 'All right,’ said the new reporter, 'l'll go out to the track with you, and you can see me make the touch.’ “The next afternoon the racing reporter and the new' man went out to the track together. The new man was got up in a pretty hefty style—long, tan coat, top hat. patent leather top boots, field glasses, etc., racing togs from top to bottom. On the third finger of his left hand he wore a ring—a big sparkler in middle and a bluestone on either side of it. It w’as phony goods, the ring. “ ‘Where did you get that bum ring?* asked the racing reporter of the man with whom he had bet. The man who was going to successfully touch Lucky Baldwin smiled. “ ‘Bought it on Clark street this morning for 75 cents,’ he said. “When the two men reached the track the racing reporter went into the press box to attend to his work, and the man who was going to dig s2<o out of Lucky Baldwin made for the betting ring. Two races were run off before the racing reporter saw' his colleague on the paper again. Then the latter turned up in the press box and plucked the lacing reporter by the arm. “ ‘Come on down into the betting ri”g.’ said he, 'and lose that $25.’ “The racing reporter followed the r man. Now, in the race that was abou: o be run off one of Baldwin’s horses was entered. The bookmakers didn't figure that Baldwin’s horse had a chance in the world to win. and so they laid 20 to 1 against the nag. The man who was going to touch Lucky dragged the racing reporter over within seeing distance of Baldwin, who stood chewing an unlighted cigar on an outside circle of bettors. ” ‘Here goes,’ said the new' reporter, and he rushed over to where Mr. Baldwin stood. “ Sir.’ said he. stopping directly in front of the Western Croesus. 'I don’t know who you are, nor whether you are in funds or not, but I know’ that I am not. 'l've just lost $2,000 betting on the favorite in the last race and that tapped me for to-day. I haven’t time to get back to my bank before the next race, and 1 have a chance to win my money back and a good deal more by playing Mr. Baldwin’s horse in this race to win. Lucky's horse simply can't lose this race, and he’s 20 to 1 in the betting. This ring,’ pulling the same from his finger hurriedly, ’is worth SSOO, and it is a good deal more valuable to me on account of its associations. Let me have $2X> on it until alter this race. 1 want to put the money on Baldwin’s horse, and Baldwin's horse can’t lose. In the remote possibility that Baldwin's horse does lose the race. I ll redeem the ring to-night upon my return to the city. “That was a star play. The reporter from San Francisco knew Ducky’s weakness when it came to his horses. Moreover, his make-up was great and he had a very persuasive con manner. Lucky sized him up carefully, chewing on his tireless cigar. “ ‘no you think Baldwin’s got such a cinch with his horse?’ Lucky asked after a minute’s pause. , .. “ ‘Baldwin’s horse will walk in, said the newspaper man. . . “Lucky r* ached into his trousers pocket, dug out a big wad of hundreds, peeled two of them off, and handed them to the newspaper man. taking the ring in return without more than glancing at the bit of jewelry. The newspaper man thanked him profusely and returned in triumph to the racing reporter, w'ho saw the whole thing. 1 e racing reporter, with a woebegone countenance. handed out the s2o he had lost. “Baldwin walked over to the bookies as soon as be had delivered up the S2OO in exchange for the phony ring and In five minutes he had spread enough money around on his hors* to win the race to knock the price down to 5 to 1. A lot of bi* bettors noted this, and suspecting that there was to be something doing on Baldwin's horse, plunged on the nag themselves, and the horse went to the post second choice in the race Baldwin’s horse won the race galloping by six lengths, and Lucky cleaned up $12,000. “Directly after the race the two newspaper men hunted up Lucky in order to return the S2OO and make an explanation. The newspaper man who had made the touch told the story to Lucky, and the latter grinned good-humoredly. “ ‘Here’s your two hundred,’ said the newspaper man. handing over the mills. •I’ll take back the bum ring.’ “Baldwin handed him back the ring, grinning. " 'You can keep the two hundred,’ he said. ‘Your hot einchy talk about my horse gave me nerve to bet enough on him to win a dozen thousand, and you can call the S2OO your rak* off. if you like. But I’ll say this for you: You’re good.’ ” BERNHARDT ON VESUVIUS. A Globe Trotter Hear* of Her Footprint* tn tlie Lava. New York Sun. The globe trotter has just returned from Vesuvius himself, where he heard that Sarah Bernhardt had followed on foot the path up which a donkey had carried him. He was pained but not surprised to learn that the great actress, having ventured t db near the crater, had had her eyebrows singed and suffered the loss of a curl. “1 don’t wonder that Sarah was scorched.” he remarked. “The stuff that is boiling down there in the crater Is just about nine times as hot as boiling water. It has been shown to have a temperature of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, and nobody can say that it deen’t develop much greater heat. Sarah would certainly have been desiccated If she hud peered over the edge of that crater much longer. “She’s no ordinary sort of woman or she would have done what ninety-nine in a hundred do when the guide warns them to go no farther. She says that when she was forty or fifty steps from the crater edge the guide told her to stop. He tells all tourists the same thing and scares them stiff with terrible stories of what has happened to rush

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persons who ventured too near the crater, lie begins with the sad tale of the Brazilian boy w'ho Wits bending over the edge of the crater one day in 1886 trying to see bottom when he lost his balance and fell in; then lie dishes up the story of the poor Frenchman who was driven mad by the awesome surroundings and jumped into the cavity, and if these incidents don’t suffice to make the visitor wish he was back in Naples or New’ York he has other horrors to relate. “But Sarah certainly risked a good deal more than her eyebrows when she looked over into that crater. Vesuvius is usually very well behaved, but she’s not to be trusted. Sometimes she gives ample warning that there s going to be an eruption, and sometimes she utterly fails to give anybody a minute’s time to get out of the 'neighborhood. Suppose the old mountain had begun to fire thirty or forty-ton rocks in.o the air while Sarah was looking over the edge. It would have been the greatest tragedy she ever took part in. and she would have been a part of the eruption herself. "Satah seems to have had no thought of danger or discomfort. She was simply inspired by the wonderful surroundings. With curl consumed and smoking eyebrows, sho says: 'I felt in my innermost being the grandeur of the earth and the littleness of man when face to face with the forces of nature.’ That isn’t the way the top of Vesuvius impresses most people, and it shows Bernhardt rising superior to even the forces of nature. In the first place the ordinary sightseer doesn’t think but positively knows that it .-nu lls horribly up there near tli)* crater. The mountain always smokes, and it is the most, evil-smelling sraokt imaginable. Sulphur fumes choke you an* very likely you are enveloped in a bitter, stinging cloud till some kindly breeze drives it away. You are like a woman on her first sea voyage, who imagines that a good, fair wind is a howling tempest. The guide, after scaring you half to death with his yarns, reassures you with the remark that the volcano is perfectly quiescent now. You don’t believe him, for you suddenly hear an unearthly bellow, followed by a long, rumbling roar, and you expect that the mountain, wild with internal agony, is going to tear things to pieces in just about a minute. Your knees are trembling with excitement. T hey had been trembling earlier with fatigue, for even with the aid of stumbling ponies over the jagged sweep of lava, and the railroad ride part of the way, the ascent is a warm and liresome affair. And, whilo you are gasping for breath, wiping your smarting eyes and trying in vain to see something, the guide faces you about and starts y’ou down the hill. You have ‘done’ Vesuvius, and y r ou won t think it necessary to repeat the feat. “But perhaps I’ll go up again. Sarah says that her feet left prints in the lava, and if the tracks solidify they may give Vesuvius a new’ phase of Interest till she covers them up with a fresh lava flow. It's safe to say the actress didn’t suffer from cold feet while making footprints in the lava. 1 walked over lava myself that was as hot as a kitchen stove and gave a blistering heat to the air, and I didn’t leave any footprints either. Bernhardt may if she likes it, but I’d rather be excused.” THE BICYCLE 111 SIN ESS. Now on n Steady Itn*i. with Doom Du)n Gone Forever. Philadelphia Inquirer. "The boom days of the bicycle business, when traveling salesmen got as much as SB,OOO and expenses a year, have gone forever, and it has now reached the era of hard pan where the public gets value received for Its money and the manufacturers know ’where they are at,’ ” said Mr. S. C. Ludlow, a very intelligent representative of the “bike” trad*?. “As good a wheel can now be had for $25 as would have cost SIOO four years ago, and SSO will get the most durable and serviceable in the market, though a higher price is named for a special make, just as we pay a little extra for a certain kind of hat or shoe that may have a shade more of style or elegance. Trie moderate-priced machine of to-day is what is known as the ‘assembled wheel,’ from the tael that the various parts—tubings, forks, handle bars, hubs, cranks, pedals, tires, saddles and the like are turned out by separate factories which make nothing else but these parts. My house, for instance, makes a specialty of saddles, the profits on which have fallen just as tlie* profits on the complete wheel have shrunk. A saddle that a tew years ago cost 35 cents to make brought $1.50; now a better one. costing 40 cents, is sold at wholesale for only 50 cents. This is an illustration of what a decline has taken place since the beginning of the downward movement only a year or so ago. “But after all, the business is on a much healthier basis, now that the department stores have had their dose, and prices have dropped to a level that will be maintained permanently. The United States is making about 500,000 wheels a year, and 25 per cent, of the output goes to foreign countries. Our bicycles arc still in great demand in Europe, because they are as light and elegant as the foreign-made are clumsy and heavy. Os late, the strongest demand for American wheels has come from Norway and Sweden. “It is ofti n said that the use of the bicycle is on the wane, but the statement is not to be accepted absolutely. A good many rich people may have quit riding because the novelty has worn away. Then, too. the wealthy like high-priced articles, and when they paid SIOO for a wheel they appreciated it the more because that figure was prohibitory to the great mass of people. To offset this decline there has been a largely-in-creased use of the wheel for business purposes, while the reduced prices have made thousands of new buyers.”

THIS IS lIETTIOR. One MiiK tviiinii \envspaper \w Accepts Expansion. Harper's Weekly. There are many ways in which time may be better spent than in speech-making and resolution-offering over the abstract or general question of expansion. As to these islands, we shall have a duty when they are really ours which we cannot have until then, no matter what the expansionists may have said to the contrary. We must provide a good and stable government for them. Wo must send to govern them the best administrative officers we can find, men such as General Wood has shown himself to he at Santiago, and General laid low is likely to prove at Havana. We cannot send such men as our Presidents have been wont to appoint as Governors of Territories, nor can we every four years replace with new and untried men those who have gained experience and, what Is of the utmost importance, the confidence of the natives. We must have a colonial service, and the colonial governor must not only he a wise and judicious man, but he must not be hampered by Congress, or by politicians with a pull. He must have a wide discretion, something that harmonizes much better with arbitrary than with democratic power, because it is more essential to a power that governs than to a servant of a self-governing i>eople. His subordinates must be trained members of an established service, and absolutely protected against the wiles and whims of politicians. These last must learn that they cannot extend their spoils system to the colonies, because, while we can stand the eccentricities of the heeler in office at home, subject races need something better, and foreign powers are likely to resent what we may tolerate. In a word, spoils politics in distant lands, and on w’hat we may call touchy frontiers, simply add to the dangers of war which wiil be present for years to come in the part of the world in which we are expanding. ii is to tasks such as this that Congress should devote itself after the treaty shall be ratified, instead of to idle talk about surrendering what has become our own, for the tasks are pressing and practical, but the idea of surrender is a hopeless fantasy. DtvlriendM Cotton Mill*. * FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. B—A list of dividends paid by the local mills during the past year shows an average of 2.22 per cent, on a capital of 123,493,00 ft. The year of 1888 was a hard one, notwithstanding the reduction in wages in the first of the year and th curtailment later. The present outlook is brig lit. Hrlce’s Estate. Kansas City Journal. It develops that Calvin Brice's estate amounts to $7,000,0CX), instead of JtiOO.tXX), as reported. The latter figure probably represents the value as recorded on the assessment rolls.