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eight-page book, containing a lire-like portrait of the President, the names and positions of the guests at the tables, the names of all the marshals, the dinner menu, the toasts to which the guests were To respond, the musical programme, and an ode to the President, written by Sam \V;ilter Foss to the music of "America,” and which was sung by the audience after the President concluded his speech. At the President’s plate the menu was satin bound, with an elaborate hand-painted cover. President McKinley sat at the front of the platform, and among those at his table were Bishop Mallalieu, Mayor Quincy of Boston, Secretary Long, Secretary Alger, Governor Wolcott. Secretary Gage, Postmaster General Smith, Secretary Bliss, Governor Rollins, of New Hampshire, and ex-Mayor Strong, of New York. The invocation was pronounced by Bishop Mallalieu. There was great enthusiasm when the dinner had been concluded and some of the tables removed to make way for chairs. President Plunkett Introduced Governor Wolcott, and then Mayor Quincy, who made brief addresses, welcoming the President. M'KINLKY’9 ADDRESS. Event* of a Year Reviewed and..the I'll i 11 1* | I nets (iaention Discussed. McKinley was then Introduced a. > spoke as follows: “Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen—The years go quickly. It seems not so long, but it is, in fact, six years since it was my honor to be a guest of the Home Market Club. Much has happened in the intervening time. Issues which were then engaging us have been settled or put aside for larger and more absorbing ones. Domestic conditions have improved and are generally satisfactory. We have made progress in industry and have realized the prosperity for which we have been striving. We had four long years of adversity, which taught us some leasons which will never be unlearned and which will be valuable in guiding our future action. We have not only beer, successful in our financial and business affairs, but have been successful in a war with a foreign power which added great glory to American arms and anew chapter to American history. "I do not know why, in the year 1893, this Republic has unexpectedly had placed before it mighty problems which it must face and meet. They have come and are here, and they could not be kept away. Many who were impatient for the conflict a year ago, apparently heedless of its larger results, were the first to cry out against the far-reaching consequences of their own act. Those of us who dreaded war most and whose every effort was directed to prevent it had fears of new and grave problems which might follow its inauguration. The evolution of events which no man could control has brought these problems upon us. Certain it is that they have not come through any fault on our own part, but as a high obligation, .and wo meet them with clear conscience and unselfish purpose, and with good heart resolve to undertake their •olution. "War was declared in April, 1898, with practical unanimity by the Congress, and once upon us, was sustained by like unanimity among the people. There had been many who had tried to avert it. as, on the other hand, there were many who would have precipitated it at an early date. In its prosecution and conclusion the great majority of our countrymen of every section believed they were fighting in a just cause, and at home or ou sea or in the field they had part in its glorious triumphs. It was the war of an undivided nation. Every great act in its progress, from Manila to Santiago, from Guam to Porto Rico, met universal and hearty commendation. The protocol commanded the practically unanimous approval of the American people. It was welcomed by every lover of peace beneath the flag. A GREAT TRUST. "The Philippines, like Cuba and Porto Rico, were intrusted to our hands by the war, and to that great trust, under the providence of God and in the name of human progress and civilization, we are committed. It is a trust we have not sought; it is a trust from which we will not flinch. The American people will hold up the hands of their servants at home, to whom they commit Its execution, while Dewey and Otis and the brave men whom they command w’ill have the support of the country in upholding our flag where it now floats, the symbol and assurance of liberty and justice. “What nation was ever able to write an accurate programme of the war upon which It was entering, much less decree, in advance the scope of its results? Congress can declare war, but a higher power decrees Us bounds and fixes its relations and responsibilities. The President can direct the movements of soldiers on the field and fleets upon the sea, but he cannot foresee the close of euch' movements or prescribe their limits. He cannot anticipate or avoid the consequences, but he must meet them. No accurate map of nations engaged in war can be traced until the war is over, nor can the measure of responsibility be fixed until the last gun is fired and the verdict embodied In the stipulations of peuce. "Wo hear no complaint of the relations created by the war between this government and the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. There are some, however, who regard the Philippines as in a different relation, but, whatever variety of views there may be on this phase of the question, there is universal agreement that the Philippines shall not be turned back to Spain. No true American consents to that. Even if unwilling to accept them ourselves, it would have been a weak evasion of manly duty to require Spain to transfer them to some other power or powers and thus shirk our own responsibility. Even if we had had, as we did not have, the power to compel such a transfer, it could not have been made without the most serious international complications. Such a course could not be thought of. And yet had we refused to accept the cession of them we should have had no Jaower over them, even for their own good, we could not discharge the responsibilities upon us until these islands became ours either by conquest or treaty. There was but one alternative, and that was either Spain or the United States in the Philippines. “The other suggestions—first, that they should be tossed into the arena of contention for the strife of nations; or. second, be left to the anarchy and chaos or no protectorate at all, were too shameful to be considered. The treaty gave them to the Jnltcd States. Could we have required less land done our duty? Could we, after freeing the Filipinos from the domination of ' Spain, have loft them without government end without power to protect life and property or to perform tho international obligations essential to an independent state? Could we have left them In a state of anarchy and justified ourselves in our own consciences or before the tribunal of mankind? Could we have done that in the sight us God and man? OUR CONCERN NOT FOR EMPIRE. "Our concern was not for territory or trade or empire, but for the people whose Interests and destiny, without our willing It, had been put in our hands. It was with this feeling that from the first day to the last not one word or line went from the executive in Washington to our military and naval commanders at Manila or to our peace commissioners at Paris that did not put as the sole purpose to be kept in mind, first, after the success of our arms and tho maintenance of our own honor, the welfare and happiness and the rights of the inhabitants of the Philippine islands. “Did we need their consent to perform a great act for humanity? We had it in every aspiration of their minds, in every hope of their hearts. Was it necessary to ask their consent to capture Manila, the capital of {heir islands? Did we ask their consent to Iberate them from sjpiuiisn sovereignty or to enter Manila bay and destroy tho Spanish sea powerdheref * We did not ask these; We were obeying a higher moral obligation Which rested on us and which did not renuire anybody’s consent. We were doing our duty by them with the consent of our own consciences and with the approval of civilisation, as God gave us the light to see our duty. Every present obligation has been met and fulfilled in the expulsion of Spanish sovereignty from their islands, and while the war that destroyed it was in progress We could not ask their views. Nor can wo bow ask their consent. Indeed, can any one tell me in what form it could be marshaled and ascertained until peace and order, so necessary to a reign of reason, shall be secured and established? A reign of terror is pot the kind of rule under which right action end deliberate judgment is possible. It is not a good time to be liberal or to submit Important questions concerning liberty and government to the liberated while they are engaged in shooting down their rescuers. "We have now ended the war with Spain. The treaty has been ratified by more than two-thirds of the Senate of the United States and by the judgment of nine-tenths ©f lis people. No nation was ever more fortunate in war or more honorable in negotiations in peace. Spain la now eliminated from the problem. It remains to ask what we shall do now. I do not Intrude on the duties of Congress or seek to anticipate ©r forestall its action. I only say tliat the treaty of peace, honorably secured, having been ratified by the United States and, as we confidently expect, shortly to be ratified Sn Spain. Congress will have the power and, am sure, the purpose to do what in good morals Is right arid just and humane for these peoples in distant seas. "It is sometimes hard to determine what Is best to do, and the best thing to do is too often limes the hardest. The prophet of evil would do nothing because lie flinches at sacrifice and effort, and to do nothing is easiest and involves the least cost. On thote who have things to do there rests a responsibility which is not on those who navo no obligation as doers. "If the doubters were In a majority there would, it Is true* be so labor, no orifice,

no anxiety and no burden raised or carried; no contribution from our ease and purse and comfort to the welfare of others, or even to the extension of our resources to the welfare of ourselves. There would be ease, but alas! there would be nothing done. COME WITHOUT SEEKING. “But grave problems come in the life of a nation, however much men may seek to avoid them. They come without our seeking, why we don’t know’, and it is not always given us to know; but the generation on which they are forced cannot avoid the responsibility of honestly striving for their solution. We may not know precisely how to solve them, but we can make an honest effort to that end, and if made In conscience, justice and honor it will not be in vain. “The future of the Philippine islands is now in the hands of the American people. Until the treaty was ratified or rejected the executive department of this government could only preserve the peace and protect life and property. That treaty now commits the free and enfranchised Filipinos to the guiding hand and the liberalizing infhiences, the generous sympathies, the uplifting education, not of their American masters, but of their American emancipators. No one can tell to-day what is best for them or for us. I know no one .at this hour who is wise enough or sufficiently informed to determine what form of government will best subserve their interests and our interests, their and our well-being. "If we knew everything by intuition—and I sometimes think there are those who believe that if we do not, they do—we should not need information; but unfortunately most of us are not in that liappy state. The whole subject is now with Congress, and Congress is the voice, the conscience and the judgment of the American people. Upon their judgment and conscience can we not rely? I believe in them, I trust them. I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people. “Until Congress shall direct otherwise, it will be the duty of the executive to possess and hold the Philippines, giving to the people thereof peace and order and beneficent government, affording them every opportunity to prosecute their lawful pursuits, encouraging them in thrift and industry, making them feel and know that we are their friends, not their enemies; that their good is our aim; that their welfare is our welfare, but that neither thedr aspirations nor ours can be realized until our authority is acknowledged and unquestioned. "That the inhabitants of the Philippines will be benefited by this Republic is my unshaken belief; that they will have a kindlier government under our guidance, and that they will be aided in every possible way to be self-respecting and self-governing people, Is as true as that the American people love liberty and have an abiding faith in their own government and In their own institutions. No imperial designs lurk in the American mind. They are alien to American sentiment, thought and purpose. Our priceless principles undergo no change under a tropical sun. They are wrought in every one of its sacred folds and are inextinguishable in their shining stars. They go with tho fiat, “ ‘Why read ye not the changeless, truth; The free can conquer but to save?’ "If we can benefit these remote peoples, who will object? If in the years of the future they are established in government under law and liberty, who will regret our perils arid sacrifices? Who will not rejoice in our heroism and humanity? Always perils, and always after them safety; always darkness and clouds, but always shining through them the light and sunshine; always cost and sacrifice, but always after them tho fruition of liberty, education and civilization. “I have no light or knowledge not common to my countrymen. Ido not prophesy. The present is all-absorbing to me, but 1 cannot bound my vision by the blood-stained trenches around Manila, where every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is anguish to my heart, but by the broad range of future years, when that group of islands, under tho impulse of the year just past, shall have become the gems and glories of these tropical seas, a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities, a people redeemed from savage indolence and habits, devoted to the arts of peace, in touch with the commerce and trade of all nations, enjoying the blessings of freedom, of civil and religious liberty, of education and of homes, and whose children and children’s children shall for, ages hence bless the American Republic because it emancipated and redeemed their fatherland and set them in the pathway of the world’s best civilization.”

OTHER ADDRESSES. Remark* of Postmaster General Smith —Tribute to the President. Postmaster General Smith, the next speaker, began with a eulogy of the President and then entered on a summary of the work accomplished by the administration in the revision of the tariff, the restoration of business confidence and the reuniting of the North and South. He continued: "Whatever the doubts and differences of this hour, I see the darkened peoples who are liberated from oppression looking back to the administration of William McKinley and blessing it for the humanity and freedom which go with American rule, while our own people, with faith confirmed by fruits, will honor that administration as dating anew epoch in advancement and development of the Republic. Lincoln emancipated 4,000,000 of beings; McKinley has lifted 10,000,000 Into new light and freedom, and the devoted President who, of all American leaders, is most like Lincoln in his moral attributes and his popular sympathy is keeping touch with the popular heart as he fulfills his lofty mission of taking the flag of American liberty where Lincoln has left it pure and stainless and carrying it forward to wider sway and influence in the world.” Secretary Long** Speech. Secretary of the Navy John D. Long was next introduced. He received an ovation second only to that of the President. Ho was cheered to the echo, and even President McKinley rose and waved his napkin in salute with the audience. Someone in the balcony called for three cheers for "Dewey’s friend." Mr. Long said: "There is one disadvantage which attaches to a man who is pre-eminently good—everybody else is glad ofjn chance to give him a rap. It is the same with Massachusetts—everybody in other States admires and reveres her, and yet, with the instinct of human nature, takes especial delight in finding some slightest spot upon her glorious disc. Last week in Washington the thermometer ran lower than ever before in the memory of its oldest inhabitant. Some depraved but ingenious person discovered that Just at that time a railroad excursion from Boston had brought to the national capital five carloads of your best citizens—mostly female, as usual. Asa Massachusetts man 1 have been on the defensive ever since at the White House. 1 hove, therefore, brought the l*resldent on at this time—and, of course, the rest of the Cabinet insisted on coming, too—to prove that if there is a spot on the face of the earth where hearts are warm, where hospitality is unbounded, and where the head of the Nation and his departmental staff are welcome, it is in this hub of the universe. I am sure they will now go back convinced of that fact. ”1 made an express stipulation that the rest of the Cabinet should not attempt to make speeches, with the exception of the postmaster general, who is our orator par excellence. You have now heard tho President and the postmaster general utter their statement of our relations to our new foreign possessions. What can I add? The treaty of peace with Spain, thank heaven, has been ratified. And while, unfortunately, the delay In its ratification may bo accountable for the recent bloodshed at Manila, the discussions which preceded it have not been without their value in an honest presentation of ail phases of the situation and in holding tho country to the highest ideals of national duty and honor. CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS. "It is certainly cause for congratulation that the extreme Imperialists who resisted the treaty have been signally overthrown. By resisting its ratification they have been insisting upon the extremest imperialism and have out-Heroded Herod. They not only would have prolonged the war with Spain, but would have taken out of the hands of the people and put into the hands of ode man, the President, absolute authority over Hie Philippines, limited only to the indefinite scoi>e of what is called the war power, wielded by a purely military arm holding a naked sword. Think of that for imperialism. It is a great credit to the President that, like those two other modest candidates, Julius Caesar and George Washington, he has refused this offer ’of a kingly crown.’ On the contrary, the good old democratic plan has been adopted of putting the disposition of these islands into the hands of the American people, who will duly express their will through their representatives in Congress assembled. I have no doubt that the President is delighted to have the elephant off his hands and on theirs. It is a very cold day when he gets left. "As an outside observer, I have been struck with t'te various methods in which this subject of the Philippines has been discussed. One of these methods may be styled us the oratorical declamatory. On the ono hand this method has found expression in saying that the duty of the American eagle is to hold on to everything on which it puts its claws, reminding one of Abraham Lincoln's story of the modest farmer, who said that all tha lands he

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wanted to own was what adjoined his farm. Under this head also comes the stirring cry, which never fails to captivate the popular ear, that wherever the flag has once been let loose, there it must always float. Ail of which sounds well, but needs a second thought. On the other hand is the equally extravagant talk about the greed of conquest and the reduction of the Filipino to the wretched condition of vassalage and slavery. Those who indulge in this exuberance of rhetoric forget our war with Spain and that we have simply transferred to the United States, as the result of our victory in that war, the sovereignty which Spain had over the Philippines, that this transfer was incidentally very much in the Interest of the islanders—more, many think, than in our own; and that it relieved them from a yoke under which they groaned, giving them the fairest promise on which their eyes ever opened—a promise which the American people will redeem. MUST NOT RETREAT. "The second method of discussion may be called the judicial deliberate. But on the other hand is the view held, I think, by the great majority of our people, that we cannot thus easily, having once put our hands to the plough, look back, and that events not within our control have brought us to our responsibilities, which we cannot disregard and let alone, but which we must face and meet. The matter is one of great moment. I most heartily wish it had never confronted us. I wish the world would kindly let up for a while and not move so fast. But 1 think it is a mistake to say that it is beyond the ability of the American people to deal with a problem which other nations have successfully dealt with, or that it is a harder problem than many problems which are upon us already. “There are those who regard every new crisis as what they call ‘the beginning of the end.’ But this phrase is like the foolish nurse’s cry of ‘ghost’ to a child. It is a poor philosophy that peers hopelessly into the future only to learn how far bff is the day, not of ruin and dissolution, for that will never come, but of transition to some new form of civilization, some new form of national life, some new arrangement of national boundaries, all of which are necessary accompaniments of the enlarging and advancing progress of mankind. Meantime, our duty is to meet the responsibility that is upon us. “For one, I trust with all my heart that the result of our new relations with the Philippines may be to aid them to the acquirement of the comforts, happiness and benefactions of our civilization; to educate them to their political elevation and to help them to the establishment of their own selfgovernment and their own free existence. Meantime our association with them, if that association has by the force of events become a trust upon us, may well be accompanied with benefit to them and benefit to us. There will be work in It for the philanthropist, the scho.ar and the humanitarian. There will be opportunities for the outlet of our own enterprise and trade and commerce. The imagination kindles as it recognizes what those islands of the East may yet become. "Why doubt and repine, when the time of doubting and repining is inexorably past, when doubting and repining can do no good? Why shall not the United States, now that these lands and tribes have been intrusted to its disposition, enter upon the trust thus Imposed upon it with the determination that, as it began by freeing them from the yoke of oppression, it will go on and Insure them still larger blessings of liberty and civilization, and will so bear itself toward them that in securing their welfare it shall also promote Its own, and, as always happens when men or nations co-operate in the spirit of justice and good will, the reward shall come to both in their mutual increase. Is not that the statesmanship of the great Master, who limited not His mission or that of His disciples to his own chosen people, but proclaimed that His gospel should be preached in all the world unto all nations—that greatest statesman of all time, Jesus Christ?’’ Dead at the Banquet Table. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 16.—During the banquet of the Home Market Club to-night F. H. Taft, of Whitingsvjlle, fell forward in his chair, and when carried into an anteroom was found to have expired. THE MISSING STEAMERS. A Passenger Thinks the Bnigaria Foundered—The Pavonia. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The Daily Mall publishes the following dispatch from Ponta del Gada: "John Hill, one of the rescued passengers of the Hamburg-American Bulgaria, In an interview describing the dangers attending the rescue by the Weehawken, says: ‘The stewardess refused to leave so long as any of the women remained. Two other steamers were standing by, but offered no assistance. The chief engineer was heard to say that the Bulgaria could last only another four hours. There was no confusion and excellent discipline prevailed. I saved myself by jumping into the Weehaken boat, the chief officer having announced that any man who wished to save his life might jump. In my opinion the Bulgaria foundered on the night of Feb. 5.’ ” QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 16.—The Norwegian bark Smart, Captain Aasen, which arrived here to-day from South American ports, reports that she passed on Feb. 7 the spot where the Cunard line steamer Pavonia was spoken on Feb. 6, in a disabled condition. It was then blowing a gale from the west-southwest, and the captain of the Smart says that if the Pavonia was capable of using her canvas she could easily make the Irish coast, otherwise, in his opinion, the strong currents probably drifted her southward.

Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Sailed: Georglc, for Liverpool; Bremerhaven, for Antwerp; Kensington, for Afitwerp. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16.—Arrived: Waesland, from Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 16.—Sailed: Britannic, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 16.—Arrived: Majestic, from New York. OBIfIJARY. Lncicn M. Cliipley, a. AVeli-Knoxvn Financier of St. Lonis. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 16.—Lucien M. Chipley, aged fifty-five years, for years one of the best-known financiers of St. Louis, is dead from cancer of the liver. His eon Dean recently died of fever contracted while In the army at Chickamauga and this sorrow so weighed on the father's mind as to rapidly hasten his own death. Mr. Chipley was one of the most potent factors in the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad and was an authority on questions of finance. Other Deaths. SAN MATEO. Cal., Feb. IC.—Rev. Alfred Leo Brewer, a prominent Episcopal clergyman and founder of St. Matthew's School for Boys, died near here to-day of pneumonia. He was a native of Connecticut, sixty-seven years of age and leaves a widow and four children. NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 16.—Captain J. Pinckney Smith, formerly agent of the Southern Associated Press in this city and one of the owners of the Daily States, died last night of la grippe, contracted in St. Louis. LONDON, Feb. 16.—Henry Jones, aged sixty-right, one of the best-known authorities on whist and other card games, is dead. He was known as “Cavendish,” and was editor of the card department of the Field. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Edwas Simon Hayden, inventor of Hayden process of electrolysis for separating precious metals from copper, is dead in this city, aged fortyseven years. AHEAD OF THE RECORD. Over 1,230 Miles Ridden by Cycler Gimm In Seventy Honrs. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 16.-Fo!lowing is the score of the six-day bicycle race at the seventieth hour, the previous record, made by Miller in 1897 at Madison-square Garden, being 1,133 miles, 1,541 yards: Miles. Laps. Gimm 1.239 1 Miller 1,21s 2 Fredericks 1.170 1 Aaronson 1,167 2 Pierce 1,122 3 Hale 1,109 6 Albert 1,105 7 Nawn 1,103 -t Barnaby 1,073 6 Pilkington I.WI 7 Lawson 1,009 7 Ashinge* 965 1 Julius 913 4 Judge and Wife Asphyxiated. BELLEFONTAINK, 0., Feb 16.-Judge Thomas Mittenberger was found dead in bed this morning and his wife in an unconscious condition from which she cannot recover. Escaping gas from ft broken fixture was the cause.

ADAMS CASE INQUEST FURTHER FRUITLESS EFFORTS TO PROBE THE POISONING MYSTERY. ♦ Testimony of Mr. nnd Mrs Hovey, Drs. Weston and Potter, and Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre. NEW YORK, Feb. IC.—Several witnesses were examined to-day at the inquest over the poisoning of Mrs. Adams, but no sensational testimony was elicited. Mrs. Bertha May Hovey, wife of the witness examined yesterday, was first placed on the stand to-day. The questions of the assistant district attorney brought out the facts that Cornish had separated from his wife and that Mrs. Rogers was living apart from her husband. When Mrs. Hovey reached the Adams flats she was admitted by a policeman. She met Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre there. Mrs. Rogers seemed heartbroken. Sho told witness that Mrs. Adams had taken bromo-seltzer, but never mentioned poison, nor did she sa.y that her mother was the victim of a diabolical plot. The fact that Cornish had given the bromo-seltzer to her mother was not spoken of by Mrs. Rogers. "When was the first time you discovered that Mrs. Adam3 had been poisoned?’’ was asked. "1 don’t know. I didn’t discover it; I read it in the newspapers,” was the reply. Mrs. Hovey said she remained in the Adams house until Saturday, Dec. 31, the day of the funeral, when she went with Mrs. Rogers to Hartford, where the body was buried (Mrs. Adams died on Wednesday, Dec. 28.) Witness said she had talked with Cornish about Mrs. Adams’s death, but she could not remember that Cornish said to her: "What a fool lam that I should have received that bottle and given some of the contents to Mrs. Adams.” Coroner’s Physician Weston next took the stand. Dr. Weston testified that he performed an autopsy cn Mrs. Adams’s body. Ho at first formed the impression that Mrs. Adams came to her death through taking cyanide of potassium from the odor of the bottle and from his diagnosis at the autopsy. Subsequently a chemical analysis showed that death w r as due to cyanide of mercury. The bottle was wrapped in a piece of brown paper such as lawyers use for their notes. The bottle was three-quarters full w'hen he saw it. The policeman gave it to him and said he had got it from Dr. Hitchcock. Witness talked with Hovey on arriving at the flat and Hovey told him about the case. He smelled the contents of the bottle and told Hovey he thought it contained cyanide of potassium. No ono else was present at the time, but a little later he saw Mrs. Rogers and asked about Mrs. Adams’s age, etc., so as to fill out his report. He told Mrs. Rogers that her mother had died of poison and that he would make an autopsy ou the following day. . Witness was asked whether anybody could have smelled the substance in the bottle without putting it to the nose. He answered that he thought the odor could have been detected, although it would not have been so marked. The cork in the bottle protruded about three-eighths of an inch. Witness asked where the box was in which tho bottle came through the mail and was told it had been thrown away at the Knickerbocker clubhouse. Cornish was not at the flat when witness was there. Witness did not see the glass from wdiich the poison was taken, although Hovey told him it was somewhere about the fiat. He could not recall having said anything about who might have sent the bottle. He was under the Impression that something was said about the probability of a mistake having been made in the preparation of the bromo-seltzer. Frederick Hovey was recalled to the stand when Dr. Weston finished, and Mr. Osborne asked him: "How soon after your conversation with Dr. Weston did you see Cornish?” “Next morning.” "Dr. Weston told you the woman had been poisoned?” "I have Just heard him say so.” “You told us yesterday that it was three days later when you first heard of poison.” "Y'es.” "Dr. Weston said he told you, and Dr. Hitchcock says the same,” "I don’t recall it.” "You say all these circumstances formed a small impression on your mind?” “Yes.” "Will you kindly tell the jury why, after tho doctors had told you it was poison and you had seen one person fall down and die and another claim (and Mr. Osborne put a strong emphasis on the word) to be ill, it did not form a great impression?” Hovey replied: "We all supposed it was an accident.”

"You said yesterday that you examined with .the greatest possible care the package that contained the poison bottle, the wrapper, seal and wax, and expressed an opinion that it was done so well that it would take an expert to discover that It was not the original package. Then you swore there was no wrapper.” "I was mistaken.” "Is it not true that there were two bottles. one with a wrapper, one without?” "Not that I remember. I did not eee them anyhow.” "Did not Cornish show you a bottle with a wrapper?” "No. I was perfectly willing to make my statements here and have corrected the incorrect statement I made.” That concluded the examination of Mr. I-Tovey, and Mr. Osborne called E. Stiles Potter, who was called by Cornish to assist Dr. Hitchcock at what proved to be Mrs. Adams’s deathbed. Dr. Potter said that when he arrived at the Adams flat Mrs. Adams was dead. There were present Dr. Hitchcock, Mr. Cornish, Mr. Hovey and Mrs. Rogers. The last named told him that upon her advice Mr. Cornish had given her mother a dose of bromo-seltzer. Mrs. Rogers was crying and hysterical. Mrs. Rogers expressed a desire to have the matter kept from the papers. She suggested to Dr. Hitchcock and witness to delay the notification of the coroner until she had an opportunity to see Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre, as ho already had charge of her affairs. As witness left the room there was a remark made by Mrs. Rogers to Cornish to the effect: "You know the reason why.” It was said in an undertone and not intended for v-Ytness to hear. Cornish told witness how Mrs. Adams had taken the bromo-seltzer, and how she had been taken sick a couple of minutes later. Cornish further stated that when he mixed it it did not effervesce as it usually does, and after Mrs. Adams had taken her dose he mixed a small dose for himself to she if it really tasted bitter, as Mrs. Adams had said it did. The dose. Cornish said, made him very sick. Witness said there were two glasses standing on the table. "Was there something in each glass?” “Yes, I am very positive about this fact. I am sure there was a solution in each glass.” Witness said that the bottle was supposed to hold only two regular doses of a teaspoonful each dose. About one>-elghth of the contents had been taken out when he saw it. Witness heard Dr. Hitchcock say that a diabolical crime had been committed. He thought Cornish and Hovey were both present at the time. Witness said that he had asked Cornish who could have sent him the bottle, and Cornish said he knew of no one. Cornish said that he had been watching addresses to see who spelled “forty” with a “u.” It was spelled in this way on the package rereived by Cornish. Ho had not found the word spelled with a “u” up to that time. Witness told Cornish that he thought Mrs. Adams's death was caused by cyanide of potassium. Witness did not see any sign of sickness on the part of Cornish: he was not called on to treat him. Cornish had not vomited in his presence, and his impression is that he was not sick. Dr. Hitchcock had complained of having been made sick by tasting the contents of the bottle. He did not know what became of the two glasses. It occurred to him after he left the house that thev should have taken the glasses away, but then it was too late. Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre was next called to the stand. Hia testimony was not important. He told of Harry Cornish’s visit to him on the day Mrs. Adams died. After lie had heard Cornish’s statement ho told him it was necessary to inform the district attorney of a death under such suspicious circumstances; that it looked like murder. Precinct Detective William F. Maher, who was detailed on the case, also gave some unimportant testimony. George A. Salmon, athletic director at Cutler's school for boys, said that the enmity •which existed between Cornish and Barnet was common talk among the members of the club, and it was common talk that Cornish had accused Barnet of improper relations with a woman. Witness said he had talked with Cornish about Molineux, but that he could not remember what was said during those talks. From the remarks Cornish made Mr. Salmon judged he thought he and Barnet “were in the same box.” At the conclusion of Salmon's exariiination an adjournment was taken until to-morrow. The Evening World says: Assistant District Attorney Osborne wnen asked this afternoon if he intended to call Mrs Molineux as a witness in the Adams inquest to-day made this important announcement: "Mrs. Molineux has got so far in the background in thia poison case that I can’t find a person who would be Interested In hex

testimony outside of the newspaper men. Os course, I may call her toward the end of the case.” M. FAURE DEAD. (Concluded from First Pace.) ous, but on finding that his patient did not revive, he decided to inject caffeine. Tho President was apparently aware of the seriousness of the attack, for he murmured: "Je me sens partir. Je suis perdu, blen perdu” (I feel my senses failing me. I am gone, all gone) and he expressed a desire to see his wife and children. When Madame Faure and Madame Lucie Faure entered the room the President exclaimed: ‘’Je suis bien souffrant; je suis perdu” (I am suffering greatly; I am lost.) At 8 o’clock when the doctor had acquainted M. Le Gall with his worst fears the latter informed M. Dupuy, who announced his intention to come to the Elysee, but on M. Le Gall observing that his presence might needlessly alarm Madame Faure, who was not aware of the gravity of the situation, the premier said he would remain at the Ministry of the Interior in readiness to come at any moment. At the same time he summoned the members of the Cabinet. Meanwhile M. Faure remained on the sofa, repeating that he had no illusions as to the issue of the seizure. His wife came to him and he bad. l her an affectionate farewell. It was a touching scene. He thanked her for the affection and devotion she had constantly shown him and then bade farewell to his daughters, the'doctors and his personal attendants, thanking all for their care and devotion and asking them to pardon any hasty words he might ever have uttered. M. Faure lost consciousness about 9:30 o’clock, a few minutes before he died. On the reiterated requests of Mme. Faure and Mile Lucie, Commandant Moreau went for a priest. Ho met an abbe in the street and begged him to come to the Elysee. The priest readily complied and administered the sacrament. Until a late hour the crowd remained in front of the Elysee. On the boulevards the greatest emotion was displayed. All street vendors ceased their sales and hurried off to await the special editions of the papers giving details. Many of the papers are already out at this hour (I o’clock Friday morning) with brief details of the death. Parisians heard the news as they were leaving the places of amusement, but were utterly incredulous at first, so sudden and unexpected was the calamity. All the streets in tho vicinity of the Elysee have been tilling up for several hours with private carriages, whose occupants wait anxiously for further information. At 12:30 o’clock an order was issued that no one should te admitted to the palace. M. Fame’s body has not been removed from the study, where be signed so many decrees and law’s. Thus, it may be said, he literally died in the harness. In the lutle room known to all who ever received an audience of him. furnished and decorated in the style of Louis XVI, he now sleeps his last sleep on a brass bedstead in the circular end of the room facing the window. His countenance is as serene as if in slumber. He is dressed in a waits slii;t ar,d bis hands are crossed over his breast. On each side of the bed sits a nun. Aiesdiu es Le Gall and Blondel and the officers of iue military household are in attendance. On a chair to the right of the bed a.e the bat and gloves he wore last. Very painful it was to witness the distress of Mme. Faure and the children. Only with the greatest difficulty could she be induced.’to leave the death chamber, and even then she insisted on remaining in M. Le Gall’s room, apart from the children, in order to give free vent to her grief. Mme. Lucie Faure, Mme. Berge, the other daughter, and M. Berge are in the secretary general’s bureau.

M. FAI RE'S CAREER. Poor Boy Who Received the Greatest Honor Hi* Country C'onld Bestow. Francois Felix Faure, sixth President of the third Republic of France, was born Jan. 99, 1841, in Paris, and was the son of a cabinet makeT. He was educated at a private commercial school and was then sent to England for two years to learn the language and to become acquainted with English methods of business. On his return to France he went to Amboise and mastered the business of a currier. When quite young he married the daughter of M. Belluot, an attorney at Amboise. Almost immediately afterward he settled at Havre as a commission merchant, and he soon became a leading ship owner. The better to fit himself for the discharge of his new public duties, he practiced public speaking by lecturing on history in an evening class for adults. M. Faure became President of the Havre Chamber of Commerce, and during the Franco-Prussian war held the office of deputy mayor of the city. In these troublous times he was also captain of the mobiles of the Seine-Jnferieure, in which capacity he took part in the skirmishes near Havre, being recommended by Admiral Mouchcy for the Legion of Honor. He greatly distinguished himself by the promptness with which, at the head of volunteer firemen, organized by himself, he extinguished the conflagrations started at Havre by the Communards. In doing this he w’as slightly wounded by a shell. During the war Gambetta sent him to Engiand to buy arms for the franctlreurs and mobiles. He was deprived of his deputy mayoralty by the Broglie Cabinet in 1874, but he compensated himself for the loss of office by devoting increased attention to provident, educational and charitable institutions. In August, 1881, he offered himself as a Republican candidate for Parliament in the Third district of Havre, and was elected. He was appointed under secretary of state for the colonies in the Gambetta administration formed in November ofifcat year, and held the same office in the ministries of M. Jules Ferry (1883), M. Bris'son (ISSS), and M. Tlrard (1887.) In May, 1891, he became minister of marine in M. Dupuy's Cabinet, and was appointed vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, a position to which he w’as several times re-elected. Naturally his business position made him an authority on shipping, commercial and colonial questions, and during these years he compiled a valuable wrork on "The Comparative Budgets of European States.” On the retirement of M. Cassimir-Perier, who resigned the presidency Jan. 16, 1895, M. Faure was chosen President by 430 votes, as against 361 given to Henri Brisson, the election taking place Jan. 17, 1895. All w’ho came in contact with him have described him as extremely winning in character, as well as in appearance. His presence was finer than that of any of his predecessors in the presidency of the third Republic. Black eyebrows and mustache contrasted with snowy, closely cut hair; his features were finely shaped, the figure tall and well knit, the eyes W’ell set and serious. In 1897 M. Faure went to St. Petersburg to return the visit of Emperor Nicholas, and while there the definite announcement of the treaty of alliance between France and Russia was made. He filled many important public offices, hut in the midst of almost general corruption he passed unscathed. EDITOR DISFIGURED. Murderous Assault Growing Out of the Mine Troubles at Pniin. PANA, 111., Feb. 16.—Editor William S. Childress, of the Beacon Light, and correspondent of St. Louis and Chicago papers*, was assaulted to-day by Wesley Pope, a union miner. Childress, through bis paper, had repeatedly bitterly assailed union miners during their recent strike and this led to the murderous assault to-day. The editor's injuries are very serious, and even if he does survive, he will be disfigured for life. Childress, having advocated the side of the negroes and operators, it is feared that more trouble may follow’. Captain Couch has placed all the military in Pana on provost duty. Cheaper Telephone Rates. CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—1 tis generally believed to-day that Mayor Harrison will sign the franchise granted last night to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company to operate a plant in Chicago. One feature of the new franchise that meets with the hearty approval of the public in general is the fact that all slot machines are to be abolished, as provision is made for the rental to druggists and others of public telephones at $125 a year. Business telephones are to be furnished subscribers at $75 and residences at SSO per annum, with no limit to the number of calls allowed the subscriber. Brooke’s Death List. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16-Gen. Brooke today cabled the following death lint from Havana: Private Charles Campbell. Company G. Fifth Volunteers, j>eriionUis. from wound in abdomen at Santiago Feb. 16; Private George Garr, Company E, Twentythird Kansas, dysentery, at Huvana, Feb. 14; Private Patrick J. Smith, Company R, Eighth Infantry, malarial fever, at Havana, Feb. 11. Representative Bland, of Missouri. lo?day introduced a resolution providing that the government should take immediate steps to care for the graves of the Confederate dead in accordance with the suggestion of President McKinley.

CAUTIONED BY BRITAIN SULTAN OF OMAN WARNED NOT TO FAVOR OTHER NATIONS. If He Cede* a. Coaling: Station to France Hi* Snl*ldy ’Will Be Cut Off—R e sign a t toil of Senor Rios. ♦ —.- BOMBAY. Feb. 16.—The Persian gulf mall steamer, which has just arrived here, brings news that a British ultimatum was presented to the Sultan of Oman on Saturday. owing to his having leased to France a coaling station on the coast of Oman, which is a semi-independent state in southeast of Arabia. Oman is considered to be under British protection, as the Sultan has been receiving a subsidy from Great Britain. LONDON, Feb. 16.—1n the House of Commons to-day, replying to a question on the subject, the Right Hon. William St. John Brodrick, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, said that, so far as her Majesty’s government knew, the Sultan of Oman had not ceded, nor was he about to cede, to France a coaling station or harbor on the coast of Oman. Inquiry made in official circles shows that the under secretary of state for foreign affairs appears to have been juggling with w r ords in the House of Commons yesterday. Asa matter of fact, the Sultan of Oman allowed France to establish a coaling station on his coast a month ago, although, perhaps, there has been no lease and no cession of territory. The officials here also say the word "ultimatum” in the dispatch from Bombay to-day, referring to Oman, is "too strong.” It is understood that the British "note” informed the Sultan that "if he favored other nations the British subsidy of £B,OOO ($40,000) w’ould be stopped.” BRITAIN’S FOOD SUPPLY In Little Danger of Being Cut Off In Event of War. LONDON, Feb. 16.—The president of the Board of Trade, Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, speaking in the Houso of Commons to-day on the amendment proposed by Henry Seton Karr, Conservative member for St. Helens, to the address to the Queen in reply to the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament relative to the dependence of Great Britain on foreign imports for food supply and the danger therefrom in the event of war, said her Majesty’s government had fully inquired into tho existing conditions and did not believe that the fears expressed in some quarters w’ere justified. The government, however, would be glad if some arrangement could be made by which a larger supply of food from the colonies might be received. If, however, anything in the nature of protection was necessary in order to obtain this desired end, he feared that it was not likely to be fulfilled. Mr. Ritchie added that if a foreign power attempted to prevent the transshipment of grain in time of war. or declared it contraband of war, it would arouse the hostility of the United States and possibly of others. As 50 to GO per cent, of the grain exports of the United States entered Great Britain, it was not to be supposed for a moment that the United States would “remain quiescent if our enemy declared grain to be contraband of war.” Therefore, according to Mr. Ritchie, there was no chance of starvation as long as grain can be introduced as freely in war time as in peace. The system of bounties upon home grain, he added, was not wffthin the range of practical politics. Mr. Ritchie then dwelt upon the practical difficulties in the way of the establishment of a system of marine insurance or national granaries, saying if the navy w’ere kept sufficiently strong to protect the trade routes and prevent a blockade of the British coast, there was not the remotest danger of starvation, though, possibly, there might be temporary high prices. Mr. Seton Kar’s amendment was negatived without division.

SENOR RIOS RESIGNS. Surrenders Presidency of tbe Spanish Senate—Naval Courts-Martial. MADRID, Feb. 16.—Senor Montero Rios, who w’as president of the Spanish peace commission, has resigned the presidency of the Senate, ow’ing to the popular outcry against his defense of the commission. All the surviving captains of Spanish war ships destroyed in the naval battles off Santiago de Cuba and in Manila bay by American fleets will be court-martialed. The British steamer Bothnia, Captain Warr (chartered by the Spanish government for use as a transport), w’hich sailed from Clenfuegos via St. Michael’s on Feb. C with repatriated troops on board, arrived at Barcelona yesterday. Mrs. Pemberton’* Appeal Allowed. LONDON, Feb. 16.—The Appeal Court today allow’ed the appeal of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Pemberton, an American woman, belonging to Florida, who claims to bo the widow of A. R. Pemiberton and who sued for the payment of a jointure of £2OO yearly out of the Pemberton estates in Cambridgeshire, which claims were resisted. The court held that the decree of the foreign court must not bo impeached on the ground of alleged irregularity and declared the plaintiff to be entitled to the jointure. Scenes at an Irish Election. LONDONDERRY, Feb. 16.—Polling proceeded to-day in this city in the election of a member of Parliament to succeed Edmund E. F. Knox, anti-Parnellite, who resigned his seat last year. The candidates W’ere Count Arthur Moore, Nationalist, and Mr. E. llerdman, Unionist. Grdat excitement prevailed and ghastly scenes were witnessed, both sides polling decrepit, almost dying men, who had to be carried to the booths. Prominent Jurist Killed. PARIS, Feb. 16.—Maltro Garconnet, dean of the faculty of law of Paris, was killed yesterday evening through slipping on the icy steps of the railroad station at Foignios, s village twelve miles north of Avesnes, in the department of the north. He married last Saturday and was on his honeymoon trip. Tlie Trial Revision Hill. PARIS, Feb. 16.—The Senate recently appointed a special committee to consider the government's trial revision bill. It reported to-day, showing five of its members favorable to the measure and four opposed to it. Meat Inspection Bill Passed. BERLIN, Feb. 16.—The Bundesrath today passed the meat inspection bill. Th3 proceedings in the Bundesrath were private. The bill, which is in draft form, will now go to the Reichstag. ANOTHER RIDER. (Concluded from First Page.) tlons were restored In the various new possessions of the United States. "We offer,” said Mr. Cockrell in conclusion, "everything in reason, everything that will enable the President to establish order. Everything for the establishment of order and protection to life and property is in the bill which I offer.” ♦ RIDER IN THE SENATE. Mr. Morgan Take* Canal nill on River and Hxirbor Measure. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.—Senator Morgan has offered the Nicaragua car al bill as an amendment to the river and harbor bill and had it referred to the committee on commerce, now- considering that measure. The bill is substantially the Hepburn bill offered in the House, with some modifica-

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He Indicated such determined opposition as to create the impression that if the amendment should be added he would defeat the entire river and harbor bill. In view of this attitude on the part of the Louisiana senator the committee deferred final action on the amendment, but the indications now are that it will not be added to the bill. MR. BLACKSTONE’S REPORT. Earning:* and Operation? Expense* of the Chicago & Alton Road. CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—The annual report of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company for the year ending Dec. 31, 1898, was issued today. The contention over the sale of the road makes this report of greater interest than those Issued in previous years. President Blackstone takes the occasion to discuss the present condition of the road and gives the reasons for the slight decrease in the net earnings. Following is a detailed statement for 1898, compared with 1897: Earnings from all sources $6,286,563 Operating expenses 3,869,796 Net receipts 2,416,772 Decrease in gross receipts 387,036 Decrease in operating expenses 283,880 Decrease in net receipts 103,156 The expenses for labor and personal services were $2,269,481, against $2,406,043. Gross receipts from traffic compared with 1897 were as follows: Increase. Decrease. Passenger traffic $50,513 Freight traffic $455,796 Mail traffic 3,619 Miscellaneous 14,627 The total decrease Is $387,086. In commenting on tho report President Blackstone says: “It will be seen that, while increased receipts have been realized from the transportation of passengers and mails and from miscellaneous sources, tho receipts from the transportation of freight, compared with 1897, were reduced $455,796, and, comparing such receipts in 1898 with those of 1896, we find a reduction of $485,016. 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