Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1899.

breach of contract was not a compensating advantage In h!s eyes'. If a trades union was strong and well organized enough to get the terms from lis employer, the law could not get anything more for It. If It was not strong enough to dictate terms or reasonable arbitration, then the law would not be likely to help it. The boycott, Mr. Gomptrs declared, was not a legal but an Inherent right, which hai been exercised under varying names from time immemorial. He considered it a useful and legitimate weapon of labor. Mr. Gompers was preceded during the forenoon by O. E. Clark, chief of the Order of Railway Conductors His testimony was largely confined to the discussion of suspension or blacklisting, both of which ho faH were on the wane In his branch of the service. The general condition of railway men.

he said, had steadily Improve! In the past j congenial working condltiona. This he cre-d-Ited largely to the fact that the railway organizations wero strong and active. He believed thorough organization and a large defense fund the surest safeguard against strikes. Iovrnnw May Import Miners. DES MOINES, la.. April A committee presented Governor Shaw to-day with the petition of 1,00 leading citizens and labor leaders asking him to stop the Importation of negro miners to take the places of the strikers in the coal mines here. The Governor told the committee he sympathized with the opposition of importation?, but said any interference by him would be strictly in violation of tho Constitution of the State and Nation. Stamp 3II1I Idle. CALUMET, Mich.. April lS.-Thrce hundred employes of the Tamarack and Osceola stamp mills are idle, as the result of the strike which began yesterday. These two companies raided their wages 10 per cent., hut did not make a universal increase of 30 per cent, as did the other companies. The mills are closed down to-day. WKf Inrrenned JO Per Cent. DES MOINES, la., April lS.-The Des Moines City Railway Company to-day announced an increase of 10 per cent, in tho wages of all employe?, to take effect May 1. About 200 men are affected. Itetter business Is the reason for the advance. COMMITTEE JIT WORK. Republican Congressmen Exchange VIerr on the Monetary Question. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., April lS.-Six liours were devoted by the Republican caucus monetary committee to-day to consideration of monetary legislation. There will bo morning and afternoon session?, and, if occasion demands, night sessions will be held. To-day's two sessions were marked by a general exchange of opinion rather than any attempt to discuss given propositions. The next few days will be occupied by discussion intended to define the attitude of tho members on the establishment cf the golds standard, the retirement of greenbacks, etc. The committee is receiving numerous requests for special hearings, and the general Interest In the subject of monetary reform i3 indicated by the largn number of plans that have been submitted Ijy experts of more or less prominence. It Is not expected that the committee will finish Its labors for a fortnight at least. Bryan Also nt Atlantic City. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April IS. Hon. Wm. Jl" Bryan arrived here this evening. He came to visit Chairman Jones, of the national Democratic committee, who is here recuperating his health. Chairman Jones is slowly Improving. This evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, Mr. I?ryan held a public reception in the Seaside Hotel. He will return to New York to-morrow. Banker Martlndale Arrested. EMPOHIA, Kan., April IS. William Martlndale. vice president of the defunct First Rational Bank, was placed under nominal arrest to-day on charges made in connection with the failure of that institution. Martlndale's bond was placed at 53,000. When the First National failed last fall Charles Cress, its president, a promlaent Hereford breeder, committed suicide. He left a confession in which he exonerated Martlndale and others connnected with the bank. Say They Are Ansesied Too High. DE3 MOINES. Ia.. April IS. Representatives of the Iowa life Insurance companies told the Board of Equalization to-day that If taxed as they have been assessed they would be driven out of the State. The State law requires Insurance companies to pay local taxes on all their assets, represented by securities deposited with the State auditor. They will right the matter In the courts. FAIR WEATHER TO-DAY. Fresh Westerly Winds, Becoming: Variable Showers To-Morrovr. WASHINGTON. April 13, 8 p. m. Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio Showers Wednesday with cooler in northern and eastern portions; brisk southwesterly winds, becoming variable; Thursday, warmer and. cloudy. For Indiana and Illinois Wednesday, fair; fresh westerly winds, becoming variable; probably showers Thursday. Weather Conditions ami General Forecast The Northwest storm has advanced to Lake Superior, diminishing in strength. A disturbance has developed over the middle Rocky mountain region and a third disturbance is central over the Florida penlneula. Showers have occurred In the western lake region, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and from the extreme upper Missouri valley tver the northern Rocky mountain and North Pacific coast district. In Florida, Georgia and South Carolina heavy rain has fallen. Showers are likely to occur Wednesday and possibly continue through Thursxiay In tho Atlantic coast districts and an area of cloudiness and rain is likely to extend over the Western States and the MLs6lsslppl valley during Wednesday and Wednesday night. Signals for northeasterly Sales are displayed from Hatteras to Jacksonville. Along the middle Atlantic and New England coasts the winds will be fresh and Incre-uslru? from the southeast. The display of wind singnals on the great lakes will not be resumed until the breaking up of ice opens navigation. This may not occur before April 25. Local Observation on Tuesday. liar. Ther. R.1I. Wind. Weather. Pre. T a.m. 23.92 i Z ScAith. Clou.ly. 0.00 T p.m. 29.S4 6') tt West. Lt. rain. .34 Maximum temperature, 63; minimum temperature. U. Comiwrative statement of temperature and precipitation April is: Temp. Pre. Normal .13 Mean M .Zi Ife-purture from normal ............... 2 liU'ture sine April 1 8 1.47 Dejiarture since Jan. I tr.S LS3 l'lus. C. K. It. WAPPENHANS, I.x-al Forecast Ortlcial. Yeterdaya Stations. Atlanta, Ga. , lllsmarck. N. D , Jtuflalo. X. Y. ....... Calgary. N. W. T.., Cairo. Ill , Cheyenne, Wy Chicago. Ill Concordia, Kan. .... Davenport. Ia , Ies Moines, la 4 Galveston. Tex. .... Tempe ralurrn. Mxx. 7. Min. M p. m. 5 4J M 3S ft) 2 r; r - M 70 ?A 1 IO 71 41 - w 7 t :, 64 'S :.h w 22 4S 4H 64 4S 74 4 a 5S 41 72 41 M e;; m 74 41 30 :a 3S n; o; 4; 'A ', s W M Helena, Mont Jacksonville. Fla. . Kansas City, Mo... Little Hock. Ark.... Marquette. Mich. .. Memphis. Tmn. ... Nashville, Tenn. ... 7i ' t m 7 7; cs ft) 7St :. t c; 7 72 ft New Origan, ui New York. N. North Platte. Oklahoma, u. Y N'fb. T 4 4; T 24 Omarn, Neb Pittsburg. Pa. . iu Apidle, N. W. I Lipid City, S. D... fcalt Ike City. Ft Ft. fui. Mo fit. Paul. Mlrwi Eprlr.grkM III Fpringrteld. Mo. ... Vicksburg. Miss. ... Washington. D. C. qnrjtfviti, O 24 ah.... 41 ....... 42 4 50 M 4 .. 3

SflXTON AND MRS. GEORGE

TIIHIR RELATIONS AS SHOWS DV DEPOSITION'S READ IN COURT. Pnsed an Man and Wife nt Several P laces Wlille the Woman Wn Seeking Her Divorce. CANTON", O.. April IS. The defence In tho trial of Mrs. George spent the first half of the day In reading depositions regarding her trip to South Lhikota to get a divorce from Sample C. George, her life while there anJ tho visits Saxton paid to her. The remainder of the day was occupied in examining witnesses on matters connected directly with the homicide, and In answer to the testimony Introduced on the part of the State. The attorneys for the defense now talk of finishing their testimony thi week, but say if they do so they will not call on the one hundred or more witnesses subpoenaed. Objections were made to some of the matter in the depositions read to-day, and there was a great deal of controversy. The depositions, summarized, are as follows: Charles M. Scaly testified that during the winter of 11 and 1802 Mrs. George stopped at his hotel In Canton, S. D., and that Saxton came there for a week. They were on friendly terms and were often seen together. R. K. Itodolp testified to having represented Sample C. Georpre In the divorce case of Mrs. George in Canton, "s. D. T. H. Helgerson, assistant cashier of the Lincoln County Bank, of Canton. S. D., said he had seen no checks or drafts In which Mrs. George's and Saxton's names appeared, but Cashier Oscar K. Brown remembered of cashing about $ 150 worth. Claude Treat, of Canton, S. D., testified that the manner of Saxton and Mrs. George while they were in that town seemed very "sweet and affectionate." Itobert Hunter and T. V. Ronayur, of Sioux City, testified that Saxton and Mrs. (ieorge registered as man and wife at the Uooge House, Sioux City, Ia., in lSfi2, and occupied the same room. They traced the fignature which was afterward cut out of the register. Charles K. Judd. of Canton, S. D., al?o testified to Saxton and Mrs. George stopping at Sioux City, Ia., a3 man and wife. Leslie M. Foote, clerk of the Harland House, at Inwood, Ia.. testified that Mrs. George had plenty of money during her sojourn at the hotel and that Saxton showed her marked attention. He had cashed some of the checks from Saxton to Mrs. George. Mrs. Mary L. Woole testified to Mrs. George making silk nightshirts for Saxton while stopping at the hotel. Under objection of the State, the court excluded the testimony of Hunter on the traced signature of Saxton in the Sioux City hotel in which he and Mrs. CJeorRe registered as man and wife. The court ruled that a tracing is not competent evidence on a signature. It was 11 o'clock when the first witness was called, In tho person of Charles F. Stokey. observer of rainfall In Canton for the government. He testified to 71-lOOths inch on the day of the tragedy, but had no exact record at the hour of 6 o'clock. He was not allowed to tell as to how the trees were as to foliage on the night of the murder. The judge said evidence must be limited to the trees in question. The admirsion of what Itussei Hogan, the missing boy witness, would testify to it present was then offered. Mrs. Cora Cripe testified to hearing the shots fired, and, from the fact that she was getting sunper, fixed the time at 5:40. She also said the night was dark and misty. Joseph Eckroat, keeper of tno grocery opposite the Althouse home, told, in answer to the defense, that he went from the supper" table to the sidewalk after hearing the 6hots. He saw a crowd at the Althouse eteps, but lt was too dark to recognize any of them. In cross-examination it developed that he is blind in one eye. He also told of only a single lamp in the back of his store, and that he saw no light on the steps. Joseph Schmidt, a thirteen-year-old boy living near the Althouso residence, told of hearing the shots and of calling the patrol wagon, and that he could not tell who the dead man was until matches were lighted by some of those nearby. John Berger. a boarder at tho Schmidt house, was one of the first to reach the body. He said that it was pretty dark and that there were still many leaves on the trees and that ho did not recognize Saxton's body until matches were lighted, but this was largely on account of the face being turned downward. He said it was rot raining at the time and it lud not rained much because when he walked through the vacant lota looking for tho assassin he did not get any mud on his shoes or clothing, but did get weeds and burs on them. Joseph Kckroat was called for a few additional cross questions, and Jacob Dippish took the stand, telling substantially the same as Berger had related. August Boron, Kekroat's son-in-law and a clerk In the grocery stole, said he could not recognize people across the street the night of the shooting, and that only a small hand lamp was burning in the grocery store. He also testified to rore or less obstruction of the view of the scei.e from the window from which his mother-in-law claims to have seen and ldei. lifted Mrs. George on account of the trees, but in cross examination he said how much could be seen depended on how far the observer leaned out of the window. Mrs. Francis Bederman testified that there was seme mud in the vicinity on the night of the tragedy, sufficient to cling to the soles of shoes, and that the body could not be recognized until light was thrown upon it. She, too. said the face was nearly all concealed. Charles Iluth and his wife testified to the street car which wr.s detained by a Valley train the night of the murder, the one on which Mrs. George is said to have gone to Hazlett avenue, did not cross the tracks until three or four minutes after six. The State's evidence was that the car had reached Hazlett avenue about 5:j0. HELD CAPTIVE. (Concluded from Tlrwt Page.) pure and strong, and can be sold at a price that is far below that at which any other intoxicating drink can be produced. The wi;4e venders take this alcohol of commerce and dilute it, perhaps add a cheap flavoring, maybe an Innocent coloring element, and sell it under any name they see fit to bestow on lt. Any one familiar with the old bottle trade can tell about it by giving the various prices of labeled and not labeled bottles. A Scotch whisky bottle with a. perfect label is a very different article of trade from one of the same kind without a label. " 'Now, are we expected to sweep alcohol from the list of manufactures In order to prevent a few ill-controlled men from getting drunk? These men want alcohol, and in this form they can get it stronger and cheaper than thy get it in beer, and so they elect to take it. The natives take it, but in moderation and with discretion, and we have no trouble with them on account of lt whatever. The police are instructed to endeavor to suppress the sale of these strong alcoholic drinks to our soldiers, and persons found selling them to American soldiers have their permits revoked. There are occasionally shops that get fruit alcohol and put it in on sale as a beverage. This material is apt to produce a very delirious or confused condition. Wherever such shops are found the police are to withdraw the licenses from the places. If commanders will be careful to report the places where men have obtained the drink which produces the effect mentioned, it shall bo the effort of this office to take such measures as will prevent a recurrence. It has occurred to me that local commanders might do much themselves to control their men. A plan which commends itself to me would be somewhat as follows: Observe the shops in their vlnclnlty where thttr men get alcohol and where they loaf. Declare in orders that such snops designating them distinctly are off 'bounds of liberty and by arresting and punishing these uncontrolled men for nonconformity much of the evil might be dissipated. But this is a matter for consideration of commanders, and ia only given as a suggestion that might lead to a better condition of things. " HAS FAITH IX LAWTOX, Gen. Shnfter Tralnon the Indian Fighter linn at IllKlit to C'rltlftae. CHICAGO. April IS. Major Gen. Shafter passed through Chicago to-day en route to his brother's home in Sycamore Hills. He was much Improved in health. Dlscussingthe Philippine war, he said: "If General Iawton states that one hundred thousand men are needed in the Philippines In order to effectually end hostilities and bring the natives to terms, I fhould say that undoubtedly an army of such projortlons is required. We. of the army, have supreme contMenre in General Iawton's Judgment and It is his practice to underestimate rather than to exatrgerate when passing on exisltlng circumstances." "I don't know Otisnever saw him," the general added. "I think Lawlon had a right to criticise the tactics of the commanding general if he believed them to to unwise. The Fil

ipino la a suspicious fellow, just like the Cuban. He can't see the good intention of this government and he never will until we subjugate him with powder and ball. I have said before that it may be necessary to kill half the population of the Islands in order that the remaining half may be lifted from their semi-barbarity to the civilization we are ready to give them. And let me teH you,' General Shafter concluded impressively, "that I do not believe our tests In Cuba are over by any means." KAPKCTS A CIIAXGK.

The AdmlnUtrntlon Hopes Filipinos "Will See- the Kvll of Their Ways. WASHINGTON. April IS. The question of calling for volunteers under the army reorganization bill for service in the Philippines was not discussed at the Cabinet meeting to-day. The administration seems to be awaiting developments before deciding this question. The administration's views of the situation were thus expressed by a Cabinet officer after the session to-day: "Certainly, if the Filipinos continue to resist as they have done, more troops will be necessary, but wo anticipate a decided change in the situation shortly. There are two things, in my opinion, which will bring it about first, the Filipinos must realize soon, if they do not already, that fighting the Americans is a very different proposition from fighting Spaniards; they must see that we are aggressive and determined, and that to stand out much longer will entail a useless sacrifice in the end. Second, they must be already beginning to appreciate the difference between our methods and those of the Spaniards, whose yoke has been thrown off. Our treatment of the prisoners cannot but have Impressed them, and soon they will realize that we have no intention of crushing them and saddling them with a lot of blood-sucking officials. Our purpose is to bring order out of chaos, to establish good government, with the widest measure of pelf-government by the natives, and when this is more fully realized I believe the Influence of the leaders, who are ambitious lor their personal aggrandizement, will fall away, and that the natives will readily acquiesce In our control." West Virginian Heady to Fnllst. WASHINGTON", April IS. Senator-elect Scott, of West Virginia, called cn the President to-day, accompanied by Major C. D. Eliot, of the Second West Virginia Volunteers, to assure him that West Virginia was prepared to furnish her share of the troops for service In the Philippines, in case it was decided to call for volunteers to replace those who desire to be mustered out. He told the President that West Virginia would furnish a regiment in ten days whenever called for.Tfce Buffalo nt Snez. SUEZ, April 18. The United States cruiser Buffalo, bearing a. number of officers and men from Admiral Dewey's fleet, whose time had expired, arrived here to-day from Manila cn route for New York. DESPERADO REPULSED. Attempted to Hob n Hank nnd Wounded a Cushler, but Got Nothing. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., April lS.-About 3 o'clock this afternoon a stranger entered the State's Savings Hank while Cashier Brown was alone, and, presenting a revolver, ordered Brown to turn over the bank's money. Instead of complying Brown picked up a stool and prepared to strike the robber. The stranger tired several shots, one of them striking the cashier in the arm, but not inflicting u dangerous wound.' Brown backed away and finally succeeded in closing the doors of tho vault. B. F. Sergeant, a merchant next door, was attracted by the shooting, but a shot from the robber's revolver compelled him to retreat. Sergeant called for the police and the robber ran, disappearing without securing any money. Police are searching for him, but at this hour he has iiot been apprehended. His identity is unknown. DISSATISFIED INDIANS. S.OOO Quit the Territory nnd Establish a. Colony In Mexico. GUTHRIE. O. T., April IS.-Five thousand Indians, dissatisfied with conditions existing in the reservations of the Indian Territory, have left in a body for Mexico to establish a union reservation on a large tract near Guadalajara. The emigrants belong to the Cherokee. Creek and Delaware tribes. They are said to have a capital of Ji25,0U0. TELEGRAPHICBREVIT1ES. The Pope received In audience yesterday the Right Rev. John P. Donahue, bishop of Wheeling. W. Va. The Minnesota Legislature, by a party vote of to 9, tabled Governor 1-ind's message urging tho recall from the Philippines of the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers. James McCreary. of New York, has sent orders to Lexington, Ky., to send thirty yearlings to England May 1. They are now at the McGrathiana stock farm, near Lexington. M. J. Grogan, one of the oldest conductors on th Lake Shore, was found dead on the tracks Monday night shortly before his train was to leave Toledo. 'Murder Is suspected. The annual session of the National Academy of National Sciences was opened in Washington yesterday. A number of addresses were delivered devoted to business matters. The condition of United States Senator O. H. Piatt, who has been ill with grip and threatened pneumonia at the home of his son in Meriden. Conn., was greatly improved yesterday. The American Kennel Club's bench show, under the auspices of the Cincinnati Dog Owners' ITotectlve Association, opened at Cincinnati yesterday with over 700 entries and over 50o dogs. Jacob Llppman. a representative of the Ohio Suspender Company, was arrested In the Grand Pacific Hotel at Chicago yesterday on charges of embezzlement preferred by his employers. "Bob" Black, colored, was hanged at Mayfield. Ky., yesterday for criminally assaulting Terney Bailey, aged eleven years, Jan. 12, He spoke for fifty minutes from the gallows about his career. An influential group of the Yale corporation Is said, authoritatively, to be favorable to the selection of President D. C. Oilman, Johns Hopkins " University, as successor to President Timothy Dwight. Governor Tanner to-day signed the bill appropriating $2oO,000 to pay the Illinois volunteers from the time they assembled at Springfield until they were mustered into thd service of the United States Senator Henrv M. Teller and Congressman John F. Shafroth have issued addresses to the voters of Colorado and adjoining States denying that the silver Republican party is disintegrating. At Moontown, Mo., Frank Yeager yesterday killed with an ax a man namel Howell, nhot Mrs. Yeager three limes and then cut his own throat. Yeag?r and his wife will probably die. Yeager was Jealous of Howell. The Common Pleas judges, of Cleveland, at a special meeting yesterday, passed by a unanimous vote a resolution asking Judge F. H Dellenbaugh to retire from the bench until his disbarment case is decided by the Supreme Court. Governor Stephens, of Missouri, returned the Farris Insurance bill to the State Senate yesterday, having signed lt. This measure makes the anti-trust law apply to Kansas City and St. Louis and will practically destroy the boards of fire underwriters in both cities. It will become a law In ninety days. At the request of the Mississippi levee board. Governor Mclaurln yesterday ordered one hundred convicts from the state penitentiary at once to Issaquena county, to work on the line of levees in that county, which are reported in a very low condition and unable to stand prospective high water. The Michigan Senate has passed a bill placing building and loan associations that do no business In the State under the supervision of the swx-retary of state. Kxaminers similar to bank examiners are provided for, and at least one, and if necessary, two examinations will be made of each association each year. The horribly mutilated remains of Miss Adelaide Tucker, a well-to-do aged woman who lived aJone on Ivx)kout Mountain, was found yesterday m her residence. It Is supposed that two tramps, who were seen about the house several days ago, committed the murder for the purpose of robbery, as the woman Is said to have had considerable money in her peses ion. In deference to the wishes of the relatives of the late Bishop Wattersnn. his remains will be Interred at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Columbus. O. A bust of marble, however, will be placed In the crypt at St. Joseph's Cathedral. The body will lie in state in the cathedral from this afternoon until Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, when the funeral will -take place. Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, will conduct the service.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Iteanlt of the Balloting In Illinoli Townn and Vllluste. CIITCAGO, April 1?. Town and village elections were held throughout Illinois today. In nearly all cases the Issues were purely local. At Pana the miners' strike embittered the campaign and a double provost guard was detailed from the militia, on duty there to keep order. There were several arrests for illegal voting but no violence occurred. A. B. Corman, Democrat, was elected mayor on a platform favoring union labor and opposing the Importation of negro miners. . At Peoria Henry W. Lynch, Republican, was elected mayor, but the other offices will be filled by Democrats. The Republicans of Mattoon elected all their ticket except mayor, for which office Dr. C. B. Fry, Democrat, was chosen. Arwin E. Price was re-elected mayor of Elgin by 1,0) majority. Republicans of Bloomingrton elected their entire ticket headed by Lewis B. Thomas for mayor. Ex-Attorney General Moloney. Democrat, headed the successful ticket at Ottawa. The Democrats were also victorious at Decatur, Carmi, Seneca, Streator, Freeport. Nonpartisan tickets were elected at Cairo, Aurora, Harrington and Monmouth. Vj. W. Brown, Republican, was elected for a third term as mayor of Rockford. Fairbank, Republican, for mayor, and a. Republican Council were chosen at Jacksonville. Kankakee. Litchfield. Danville. Centralla. Champaign, Taylorsville and Tuscola went Republican. The Democrats carried Shelbyvilie, Effingham, Lincoln. JOL.IKT, III., April IS. John B. Mount, the Democratic nominee fcr mayor, was elected to-day over Col. Fred Bennett, late commander of the Third Illinois Regiment. by a majority of 750. Mr. Mount carried through with him the rest of his party's ticket and also four out of seven aldermen. Colonel Bennett was a gold Democrat, but received the Republican nomination. Democrats Won at vr Haven. NEW HAVEN, Conn.. April IS. At the regular city election held here to-day Cornelius T. Driscoll, the Democratic nominee for mayor, defeated Frederick B. Farnsworth, Republican, the present Incumbent, by a n ajority of 1,250. The entire city Democratic ticket was also elected by majorities varying from 1.300 to 1.500. The Board of Aldermen will have a Democratic majority of 9 and the Common Council will have a Democratic majority of 5. More than 1.0 ) otes were cast by the Socialists. To-day's vote was a heavy one. ELEVEN LIVES LOST. Fifth I np: Schooner Eltra "Wrecked and Only Three of the Crew Saved. NANTUCKET, Mass.. April IS. The fishing schooner Eliza, of Beverly, Captain Hopkins w-hich sailed from Hyanes yesterday for lishins grounds, struck on Rose pr.d Crown shoals during the night and eleven of the crew of fourteen men were lost. The three survivors reached Siasconset in the schooner's dory to-day. They report that the schooner Is a total loss. Following are the names of the lost men: Captain Martin H. Hopkins, Seth Hopkins, Emerson Hopkins, Oscar Hopkins, Lorenzo Smith. John Smith. Herbert Smith. Kinsman Smith, Moses Bethel, John Mathewson and James IMathewson. Movement of Steamers. NEW YORK, April lS.-Arrived: Georgic, fiom IJverpool; Maasdam, from Rotterdam; Kensington, from Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, April 18,-Arrlved: Carintbia, from Boston. MURDEROUS ALDERMAN. Springfield Politician Fatally Stabs t Man Over the Heart. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April lS.-James McLaughlin was fatally stabbed about 5 o'clock this evening by Alderman Thomas White, a prominent contractor ami local politician and a candidate for representative in 1SD4. White was standing on tho sidewalk, when McLaughlin passed by and struck White in the stomach. White remonstrated and McLaughlin advanced toward him saying: "I'll giv you a knocker this time." White had an open pocketknife in his hand, with which he had been whittling, and with this he stabbed McLaughlin over the heart. White has not been arrested. McLaughlin killed a negro once. ISLAND OF KUSAIE One of the Caroline Which Germany Would Like for a Coaling Station. SAN FRANCISCO, April IS. A letter has been received from a resident of the Island of Kusaie, or Strong island, as it Is sometimes called, of the Caroline group, telling of the reported desire of Germany to buy the island for a coaling station. The writer suggests that the United States has some rights In the matter through the early occupation of tho island by American missionaries, who civilized tho place, and the act of Captain Crozier, an American, who took formal possession of the place in 1S04. The Island is surrounded by a reef and has three deep water land-locked harbors. Ohituury. DENVER. Col., Arril IS. Captain J. L. H. Hall, inspector of marble for the new mint building, died here to-day after a lingering illness. Captain Hall served with distinction through the civil war. He built, near Washington, the first dynamite factory ever erected in this country and was subsequently badly crippled by an explosion of the product. He served as Inspector of pensions for Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico for a number of years. SALT LAKE. Utah, April IS. Lieut. Col. Cash Ilsley, formerlv in command of the Ninth Cavalry, at Fort Duchesne, Utah, died in this city yesterday. He was recently appointed post commander at Fort Riley, Kan., but was retired last week. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. April IS. Judge J. H. Cooke, ex-justlce of the State Supreme Court. ex-Confederate veteran, and for many years leading lawyer of Kast Tennessee, died here to-day in the eighty-first year of his age. Loen ly Flre. GOTHENBURG, Neb., April 18.-Mrs. A. Anderson, who was so badly burned in the prairie fire yesterday, died to-nlp:ht in terrible agony. The lire is still raging north and east of this place. Gust Lindstedt lost his granary and eorn crib, containing 500 bushels of corn and 1,SX) bushels of wheat, with no insurance. A number of cattle wero burned to death and the loss in live stock in the section devastated will be heavy. ST. THOMAS. D. W. I.. April 18. A fire destroyed CA houses at Ia l'ointe-a-Pitre. Island of Guadeloupe, on Monday night. Mr. GriggM at Atlanta. ATLANTA, Ga.. April IS. Attorney General John W. Griggs. Mr. Cooper, his private secretary, Major Strong, chief of the special agents of the department, and Conpressman Livinfrton, of Oeorgia. arrived In Atlanta to-day. The attorney general comes to select a site for the new federal prison to b- Icej.ted here. At 9 o'clock a committee of thj City Council, headed by Mayor Woodward, called on Mr. Griggs and escorted him from his j.rlvate car to the Kimball House for breakfast, after which carriages were called arid the party driven to the various localities thcught to be suitable for the prison. Hnptlst May Anniversary. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. April IS. Local Baptists are making extensive preparations for the reception of tho people who are exacted next month to attend the annual meetings of national Baptist societies. The celebration this year is the golden Jubilee, for lt is fifty years in July since the work of the Baptists was begun on this coast. The meetings will open on the 24th of next month, continuing until the first of June. Many of the leaders of the denomination will Ih? here and it will be the first reunion of the Baptism west of Denver. From Boston alone a delegation of 500 Is expected. Wewtern rnaneiiRer Association. CHICAGO. April .-Reorganization of the Western Passenger Association is now said to le assured. The recent decision of the executive officers of th interested roads to co-operate In an endeavor to prevent demoralization of freight rate and to work In harmony with the Intcrstate-commerc Commission has had its effect on some of the passenger men who were holding back on the reorganization plan, and most of tfcem have changed their attitude. Assurances have already been received, lt is said.

in sufficient numbers to make the reorganization a success. All of the lines in Western territory may not become members, but a sufficient number to make a strong organization will do so. STEEL HOOP TRUST.

Organization Perfected with a Capltal Stock of $.KMHH,H0. CHICAGO, April IS. The organization of the American Steel Hoop Company has been perfected by the election of the following officers and directors: President, C. S. Guthrie: first vice president, C. A. Painter: treasurer, F. S. Wheeler; secretary, F. I. Clark; directors, S. G. Guthrie, C. A. Painter, George E. Painter, Veryl Preston. W. K. Taylor, R. M. Gilbert, W. T. Graham, F. S. Wheeler. D. G. Reed. W. E. Rees, Henry Wick, J. II. Moore, W. If. Moore. W. B. Leeds and J. J. Treacy. The company has a. cap!tal stock of J33,00v),OA divided into $H,000,oro 7 per cent, preferred and $19,0W.0OO common. Tho plants that have been taken over by the American Steel Hoop Company are the following: J. Painter & Sons Co., Isabella Furnace Co., Wm. Clark, Sons & Co., Lindsay & McCutcheon, of Pittsburg, Union works, of the National Steel Company of Youngstown, O., tho Monessen Steel Co., of Monessen, Pa., the P. L. Kimberly Co., of Sharon, Pa., the Portage Iron Co., of Duncanville, Pa., and the Pomeroy Iron and Steel Co. The National Steel Company furnishes steel to the tin-plate and hoop companies, which take about 56 per cent, of its output. ? 15,000,000 11 rue "Combine." DiiTROIT, April IS. A meeting will soon be held at Atlantic City, N. J., at which one of the largest combinations known will be formed In tho drug- trade. It will be capitalized at from J15,im,0U0 to $2D,0O0.o0, and will be composed of New York, Baltimore. Detroit. Cnicago, Philadelphia and Indianapolis concerns. CAMPBELL EXONERATED. Lavryer Wrongfully Indicted liy the Xew York Grand Jury for Larceny. NEW YORK, April 18. By a decision of Judge Blanchard, in tho Court of General Sessions, on Monday, and made public lato Monday evening and confirmed again today by a statement from District Attorney Gardner, Lawyer T. C. Campbell was completely vindicated on a charge of grand larceny and an indictment for that offense against him was dismissed. Campbell was Indicted in November for grand larceny. The complainants were Teresa and Georglana Fennelly, orphans, of this city. They accused Campbell of holding money belonging to the Fennelly estate. Campbell at that time claimed that politics and spite were back of the indictment. Campbell pressed his case continually and finally Justice Blanchard ordered the district attorney to either prpsecute or dismiss the case. The case was finally placed on trial before Justice Blanchard last Thursday. All of Campbell's papers were exhibited in court and he was able to account for every dollar. Justice Blanchard declared that the indictment had been an outrageous proceeding, and another case illustrative of the use of the grand jury for the use of private ends. He ordered the indictment dismissed. DOCTOR PUNISHED. Fined $50 and Sent to Jnll for Spitting: in n. lawyer's Face. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April IS. Dr. N. B. Jenkins, a practicing physician, this afternoon attacked a lawyer of ah opposing side of a lawsuit in the Circuit Courtroom and spit in his face. The assault was provoked by remarks made about Jenkins in the speech of the lawyer, Gen. J. C. J. Williams. After offering the indignity to General Williams Dr. Jenkins fled and was subsequently brought before the court. Judge Sneed fined hjm &0 and sent him to jail until to-morrow morning. Both the doctor and lawyer are leaders in their professions. OFFERS TO GIVE $1,750,000. Andrew Carnettle Propones n CJeneroun Donation to rittnburg. PITTSBURG, April 18. Andrew Carnegie has promised to give I,73,0(M to cover the cost of the proposed additions to the art, science and library departments of the Carnegie Library at the entrance to Schenley Park. His offer was made public today at the regular annual meeting of the board of trustees of Carneglo Library. This amount Is over double the cost of the present building and the suggested additions contemplate the extension of the building eastwardly almost to McWhinney street. THREE PEOPLE SUFFOCATED. Supposed to Have Upset u. Lamp While Under Influence of Liquor. CHICAGO, April lS.-At 1 o'clock this morning three people were smothered to death by smoke in a small two-story frame building, at No. 642 Milwaukee avenue. The dead are Mary Twohy, forty-five years of age; Charles Monaghan, forty years of age; Hamilton, a man forty years of age, first name unknown. The three people had been drinking together and it i3 thought one of them upset a kerosene lamp. YOUNG MEN POISONED. Pnt Too 3Iueh Alleged Lemon Extract in Their Ginger Ale. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 1S.-A Fergus Falls, Minn., special to the Tribune says that a party of young men at Dalton put lemon extract into the ginger ale they were drinking and as a result Duffy Rlordan and Martin Dahl are dead, while several others were made seriously sick. A two-ounce bottle of lemon extract was put into each bottle of ginger ale. A Happy Kansas- Town. Baltimore Sun. The town of Beattie. in the State of Kansas, should be, and probably is, the most beatitudinous of all towns. In it the sweet influence of woman is supreme and petticoat government Is fully established. The same thing may be said in a general way of other towns. But in other towns woman rules through masculine agents, and by them the government is corrupted. In Beattie, however, lovely woman has grasped the reins of government in her own small but firm band and men are shoved aside without ceremonj', as they should be when they get in the way. Tho mayor of Beattie is a woman and four of the five counctJmen are of the same persuasion. The minority is composed of one poor man. Unless that man has been hardened by the Harveyized process he is doubtle&s made to feel his Inferiority at every meeting of the board. Wo can imagine tho scorn with which his propositions are received by tho majority, unless. Indeed, he is a singlo man and some of the majority are spinsters. The meetings of the mayor and Council are converted into afternoon teas, where conversation is unconhned and where even Mr. Two Tongues, of Talkative alley, would find himself outdone. And while all this is going on the town is governed like Utopia. The streets are swept and dusted every morning. Rum is not permitted to ruin any happy home. Cloves and salted peanuts and coffee grains aro rot tolerated, tea is the official beverage, and husbands are subjected to a proper and wholesome restraint. Other towns in Kansas have had petticoat government and the most serious scandal and charge of corruption ever made was some years ago. one relating to an unauthorized use of public property for private purpose. It seems that one of the Council ladies was accused of heating her curling tongs with gas which belonged to the city. The charge was never satisfactorily pioved. but it caused great excitement, and another Council lady, who had fluffy hair which did not require heated tongs, was especially conspicuous in the prosecution. It Is to be hoped that not even a charge or suspicion of such a malfeasance as this will ever trouble the town of Beattie, but that j-hip of state, so to speak, may sail placidly and prosperously over a summer ca of love, joy, peace. long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance and virtue. Hud Complexions .Need Champlin's Liquid Pearl, 50c, A lovely, harmless beautifier. No equal

UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS.

The Many Carlos That Publishers Headers encounter. New York Mail and Exprers. There 13 at present in this city a visitor from the South who has come to submit to our publishers a most remarkable manuscript. Its length is not Its only peculiarity, though It consists of 1.200 pages; it Is rather its wildly adventurous quality that distinguishes it among its Innumerable fellows. It is an autobiography, and the author has had the original idea of reproducing by means of photography his hairbreadth escapes and deeds of derring-do. To obtain these pictures he has reconstituted the situation in which he was the leading actor by the aid of "supers." Nay, more. In at least one Instance he has in duced his erstwhilo antagonist to go though their encounter before the camera. Thus cie of his one hundred photographs represents him in the very act of shooting the ear off a gentleman of color who wanted to kill him. but upon whom he "had got the drop." Another represents him clinging to a railway trestle, with a train passing over his head. In fact, the manuscript seems to prove anew that fact Is stranger than fiction. On the whole, however, the publishers manuscript readers have been taught by experience that fiction is much wierder than fact; nay, more, that fact itself can assume the strangest disguises. It can be misinterpreted and tortured into unrecognizable forms by certain classes of mind. as Professor Flsko recently pointed out in the Atlantic Monthly in his paper on "Some Cranks and Their Crotchets" as seen in their works in tho "'eccentric" department of the library of Harvard University. But the queer products that get themselves published are as nothing compared to the writings that go the eternal rounds of the publishing houses, declined "with thanks" by ono after the other, but confidently sent in again at stated intervals much "improved" and with "much new material." The reminiscence of a "publisher's reader" have never yet been written, but what has been said aswve gives some idea of tho range of experience of these much-abused martyrs of literature. Their experiences are many and varied and their lot Is hard; they are tho only men who know a world of letters which the public never sees the dreary desert of the great unpublished. In this mysterious, undiscovered country live novelists, poets and historians, essayists and economists, social reformers and philosophers, who have solved the mystery of life. The "reader" dwells among them, unknown, and despised in his anonymity for his denseness, prejudice and inability to recognize true merit when it is forced under his eyes. Fiction predominates, of coarse, and short stories aro many. A great proportion of this is of an indifferent quality, good enough to deserve a reading, rarely good enough to deserve publication. These are the writers that narrowly miss success, and their case is a hard one. So the manuscripts are returned, sometimes with voluminous suggestions, if they be worth them, which rarelv bear fruit; the author has submitted his best, and fails to profit by advice because his limitations prevent it. Out of sipht Is out of mind, however. The reader follows the career of these "possibilitie.V and occasionally meets them again in paper and muslin, coming from other houses than his own. Then begins u. close watch over their career, for there is a chance that here is one of the fabled masterpieces that are misjudged one of the "hits" that win a fortune for publisher and author. Generally, however, the public confirms the Judgment of the . original reader. Many tales are current of the successful books that went the rounds of the publishers for many weary months before one of them, wiser than all the others, recognized their merits and accepted them. These tales are mostly pure fancy. If a book be really good. It may slip one reader's notice perhaps even that of two but the third will be sure to discover it. The chances are, however, that the first one will pounce upon it with alacrity. The tale that has been oftenest told of late years is that of a very successful popular novel that was also turned into a popular play. It was refused by all the leading publishers, according to the story. In reality it was recommended for publication by the first reader to whom it was submitted a very well-known literary woman who. however, suggested certain relatively unimportant excisions. To these the author refused to consent, and he resolved to make the venture himself, encouraged, perhaps, by the reader's most favorable report. Manuscripts that show even a grain of promise are most carefully considered nowadays, but the majority are without even a glimmer of merit. Tales of New York society by young women living In Ohio are common as rose leaves in Vallambrosa; refutations of Herbert Spencer are written by scores: medical, theological and astronomical romances are ground out wherever ink and paper are plenty, and the sum total of wasted energy, the pitiful record of tastes mistaken for talents, is depressing to behold. Most of these aspirants have not the faintest Inkling of the fact that writing is an art. They know nothing of construction, they are blind and deaf to the color and sound and value of words, they are unaware of the technique of writing, which to them is simply using a pen to put down words in a more or less grammatical sequence. They read the masters blindly, unaware of the labor involved, without appreciation of the touches that go to make a successful book; they never learn to write, because they have never learned to read. To use an expressive bit of current slang, they believe that successful books Just "happen." Of late years the average merit of American manuscripts has undoubtedly increased, but even now the amount of chaff is out of all proportion to the corn. In all the other arts an apprenticeship Is accepted as a natural prelude to original work; only the tyro of letters believes himself let us say herself, for the women are in the majorityfully equipped at the start. Sir Walter Besant's suggestion of schools of literture is the natural outcome of a profound knowledge of this state of affairs, but the true school of the successful writers of the present and the past should suffice to-day. It Is more easily accessible than xhe masterpieces of sculpture and painting; it lies as close at hand as the great tp'asury of music; it may be kept on the solitary shelf of a hall bedroom only, tho student must teach himself how to read. There are numerous little manuals, mostly published by literary bureaus, which claim to teach the art of writing. Some of them incidentally recommend analytical reading, but most content themselves with trivial Information about "writing on one side of the paper only," inclosing stamps for the return of manuscripts (a most necessary precaution), and other supertluous hints of the kind. They will never make ta writer of the person whom nature intended for another sphere, and they will be of but slight assistance to him who has the gift. Talent will find the way, for that is part of its very leing. How much education can do. however, for people whose talents follow different roads, is demonstrated by the facility wherewith nowadays men of all callings and professions can write about them and write well. AVI I EX COAL. OIL WAS SEW. Lamps In Kentucky Cost $5 nnd Oil $1 a. Gallon. Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger. "Seeing so much in the newspapers recently about the Standard Oil Trust." said an old citizen. Temlntls me that coal oil and coal-oil lamps were a scarce article about thirty-five years ago. I very distinctly remember the first coal-oil lamps "offered for sale In Owensboro. About thirty-five years ago a man came down the Ohio river from Pittsburg on a little boat which he had loaded with coal oil and lamps. I llvd In the Masonville country at the time, but 1 was in Owensboro on the day the boat arrived here and I bought one of the lamp. 1 paid 5 for it, and the man filled lt with oil free. Such a lamp to-day retails at abrat 40 cents. The man didn't have any oil to sell, but only carried enough to fill the lamps he sold. The lamps sold well, and quite a number of families out in my nitjh borhood came to Owensboro and bought them. Of course, the lamps were not ued regularly, but were placed in the bes; room, and were lighted only on Sunday evenlnsrs. or upon other occasions when company was present; the lamp was not lighted for cm. pany unless it happened to be a preavher or some other prson whose presence caVtd for more formality than a visit I rem some of the immediate neighbors. "In course of time the oil burned out of the lamps which the people purchased Irom the man on the little boat. He was gone, and the merchants of Owensboro were handling neither lamps nor oil. and the nearett point oil could be had was from the Canni Coal-oil Company, then operating a pVi.it at Cloverport. 1 rode a mule from ia.j:ivibe to Cloverport to buy a couple of gallop, it oil. I had a couple of gallon ;t'gs, one in each end of a meal bag thrown across ibe mule's back. I paid Si a gallon for the oil. Coal oil was not reflned in th jk days as it is now, and it contained all of those 1 'rhly inflammable properties ,whlcu tender it a

.VATIOXAU Tube Works Wroaght'lroa ploe lor Gaj Steam and Water, Bcllr Tube. Ct n4 Mal.VaMe iren Fitting (black and galvanized). Valves, Stop Cock. ta fine Trimninjc. Stam e;aujfr. ljpe Tonc, t'lj Cotter?. Vis. Screir Plates ani Die Wr-nohe. Ftam Trill's. lumj. Kitchen Stnkf. Hot. Initio sr. llal.Mt Mttal. Solder. Whit- anJ Colore.! Wiping Waste, and all other Supr.:iM Lcd in connection tth Gum. Steam and Wat.T. Natural iiaa Supr, lies a ;clJltr. ttam featir.f Aptaratui for lub;ie RiiilJincs. Storeroom. Mills, stiorm. Factories Laundries, Lumber Iry Ilouaes. etc. Cut and Thread to order any sli YVrourht-lrtn ripe, frcra inch to 12 inches diameter. KNIGHT & JILISOX. in to irr 6. PENNSYLVANIA ST. dangerous explosive. There was a caution label on every lamp, which wji-.ied yru net to move the lamp after lt wis l:ghtd. as it was dangerous to do to. I Know vime peopl In Da vices county to-lay vine w 11 rot r' mit the moving about of a WcV.cd ccal oil lamp in their houses, r.ever having o::giown the fears instilled in lh.m the ct'Mnn labels on the firt lamps fold ta th" Laiiej-s county people. There are also a fev reopi in Lavie?9 county who da not us coal-cll lamps, but cling to the old-t.n'O tallow candle, because they are afraid of coal oil.' WILL IGNORE THE LAW. San Kranclnco ewimprra 'Will "Sot l'e Msnnturrn t Articles. SAN FRANCISCO. April IS. The new?iaper signature law which goes into effect tomorrow will be ignored by many pajers in the State, including all the San Francisco dailies. The law provides that all article. published In newspapers, and which reflect on any person's character or tend to hold him up to ridicule or contempt, and thosi reflecting on the memory of the dead, shall be sUrned by tha writer. The penalty for a violation of this law is a tine of U."9 for earh offense. The newspaper publishers hold that the law is unconstitutional, and will fight it in the courts. A Ill'S 1 1 FOR lU'ItOFlL Thousand- of I'eoplc Will Spend the? Summer Abroad. Philadelphia Telegraph. The indications arc that all the transatlantic steamship companies will this summer break their tourist records. The spring; bookings have not been so heavy for a number of years past, and it Invariably follows that a good summer follows a heavy spring 'vodus. On some of the large steamships everything is booked right up to June 1, vhen the summer rates go on. The amount cf business in sight Js not only encouraging to the steamship people, but lt Is a decided surprise. They supposed that this would btj en off summer in the European travel on account of the French exposition in VM. But, to the contrary. th. resular travelers to flurope seem to be going this summer, because they wai;t to remain at home next season and avoid the rush. Of course, thero is a. large number of people who are holding back this summer in order to gx to Paris next year, but this is balanced to the down Fide in favor of the steamship companies by the people who arc taking advantage of the cheap rates. They ore afraid that the rates will be very high next year. In fact, the secret of the cut rates this season is that the steamship companies had to do something to offset a pro!able holdback for the Paris exposition. The reduction seems to have fully offset any possible stagnation. The cut rates do not extend to the highest class of steamships. The steamship companies seem to have figured a cut In the upper class unnecessary. The cheaper passenger steamships have been cut on oil lines, especially the Inside rooms. The very desirable rooms, though, on many of tho ten-day steamships are very little cheaper than formerly. Taking the whole country, and figuring out a comparison between the foreign traveling in 1S97 and this coming season, It it estimated that there is an increase- of C3 per cent. Norway and Russia are both attracting travelers. Russia seems to be favored because so much has been said and written of the country during the past three years, and the Americans arc going to Norway for a novelty. I3DITING A HOOK OF I.IiTTnitS. " Great IJibnr Involved in Copying, Ite vlftlntc and l'rouf Iteadlng. New York Evening Tost. The controversy which Is going on over the love letters of the IJrownlngs led a publisher to comment on the manner In which such volumes of letters and memorials aro prepared by the editors. "Take, for instance, the three thick volumes of 'Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis,' edited by Charles Eliot Norton," he said, "which contain some 1.M largo pages of printed matter. "Most people think that Mr. Norton copie-d from tho manuscripts the 373.0"") words of those orations and addresses, corrected tho proofs, made the index, and spent a month in resting from his labors, lie did no such thing. Neither did he send the original manuscripts to the printers and correct the proofs and make the index. "The manuscripts were so precious to the members of Mr. Curtis's famUy that they wero not trusted to any printer. Mr. Norton employe! a student of Harvard University to copy on a. typewriter every one of the 273,000 words. The manuscripts were kept with all proper care in lrof. Norton's house In Cambridge. The part which the editor took in the preparation was to decide on emendations and suppressions. The coyplst found statements in which errors of fact were made; he referred a proposed charge to Mr. Norton, and the professor ruled on tho proposal. All the proof-reading was done by the student. When the llnal proofs, correct and ready for binding, were put into tho hands of the editor's assistant, the hardest part of the work remained the compilation of an index. "Indices are made, rarely by authors, frequently by editors, more frequently by professional or semi-profession il index-makers. The authors and even the editors are apt to make poor work of their attempt. "An index, to be complete, should be a sign-board to the contents of a lvik. It should contain, not only every proper name, but every sulxlivislon under subjects discussed. Tho indexing of proper names is ea?y, but of opinions is not so simple. The maker of a good index has to be thoroughly acquainted with the tock he Is working on, with its arrangement and Its subject matter. "The man who made the Index for the 'Orations and Address-es' put the book on a rack beside his typewriter, read it page by pajre, and wrote, as he came to them, all the titles which he Judged worthy of the Index. He left a space afUr each separate t;tle, and, when ho had read the 37j.) words for the fourth of fifth time, he cut the pages of typewritten titles into slips, one title to a slip. They filled a large fi.ur sack. The alphabetical arrangement of the titles took many days. It was done on a rack ten feet long, studded at Intervals with spikes markfd on th top with the letters of the alphabet. After all had lK-en sorted, the piles of slips were pasted then to new sheets for the printer. The index to that book covers forty to fifty pages, doublceolumn. In very mll tyi. "The editor usually does little of the laborious work In preparing a volume for the press. In some cases, however, the editorial or critical labor is great, especially In the case of letters. The collection and rrangement of tho Utters 1 really lator. but not exactlj' the same kind of Iator a copying 1,500 pages, or making a io-page index." Drpurtnre of the Cmlier ChlmRO, NEW YORK. April R-The United States cruiser Chicago started on her lonir voyage to-day. She is und-r command of Ue.ir Admiral Howison. She Is bound for South Africa, by way of t ho Azores, (jlhraltar and the Suez canal. She will trtably 1k Mt Ielagoa on July 4 and Is due to arrive at Capt Town about July2."i. After tourhlng at other points, she will go to Rio Janeiro where she will arrive In the latter part of August. From Itln Janeiro nhe will go tn the liarbadoes where the will remain alotit two weeks and Is expected to reach New York again in the first week tn Octobr. A Good Work l lnUhed. WASHINGTON. April 1-Th affairs nf the ladies committee in charge of the battle ship Maine relief fund wete 'closed at a meeting to-day. when it was reported ?Vm) had !cen received and distributed among dependent families. Of this over $10, m came from naval otlliers t'nd seamen. l)oulilrdn Condition. Washington PLst. Mr. Doubleday was able to take a drive, through Central Park the other day. He was accompanied by. Mr. IxJpiiiig.