Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 358, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1899 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1899.

It was his first Christmas gift and that no gift received by him since that time had ever afforded h!m more pleasure. One of the stage decorations was a lare portrait of President McKlnley. Senator llanna said that McKlnley had started In life a poor boy. as poor as any of those present, and that it was the privilege of any lad, no matter how poor to aspire to the presidency. NEW' STEAMER'S FIRST TRIP.

The North German Lloyd Liner Arrives at IVevr York NEW YORK. Dec. 23. The new twin screw steamer Rhein, the last addition to the North German Lloyd fleet of steamers, arrived at her pier to-day from Bremen with thirty-five cabin and 532 steerage passengers ard a full cargo of general merchandise. The Itheln was built by Blohm & Voss. of Hamburg. She is 10.QCA tons gross, and 6.C03 tons register, has four pole masts and has accommodations for 350 cabin and over one thousand steerage passengers. Norwegian Dark Wrecked. ' NEW YORK. Dec. S.-The Outer Bridge steamer Trinidad, from Bermuda, brought Into port to-night twelve seamen who were saved from the wreck of the Norwegian bark Autocrat, bound from Brunswick. Ga., to King's Lynn. The crew was rescued after several days of hardship and hunger by the British steamer Cayo Mono, and taken Into Bermuda on Dec. 17. The Autocrat was a bark of 75 tons, built at Shelbourne, N. S., In 1S70. Her commander, who arrived with his crew on the Trinidad, was Captain Mbrethsen. He was part owner, and had navigated the vessel for more than ten years. She ran into a gale Dec 12. and was pounded to pieces by the heavy seas. Small Steamer Founder. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., Dec. 23. The small steamer Laura Marion, of Groveland, foundered on Newburyport bar to-night, and it is thought all on board were drowned. The missing are: Capt. Frank ". Sargent, her owner; Luther Johnson, engineer; Capt. William J. rettingill, the master. Wreckage of the craft has come ashore. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Dec 23. Arrived: St. Paul, from Southampton; Campania, from Liverpool; La Bret ague, from Havre; Graf Waldersee. from Ha'mburg. etc. Sailed: Patricia, for Hamburg; Etruria. for LIvrpool; Manitou, for London; Island, for Copenhagen. CHERBOURG. Dec. 23,-Sailed: St. Louis, from Southampton, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Dec. 23. Arrived: Lucanla. from New York. HAVRE, Dec. 21. Sailed: La Normandie, for New York. ANTWERP. Dec. 23. Sailed: Noordland, for New York. BANK SCANDAL. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Just offsets the shrinkage of $66,Om).X0 in deposits. The clearing-house statement today shows an increase in reserve of $3,EX000 for tho week, bringing the surplus reserve of the banks In excess of legal requirements to substantially $11,000,000. I cannot see. looking at it from the outside, where the panic conditions are justified by the facts of tne case." The secretary was asked whether his talk with Messrs. Morgan and Stillman foreshadowed any further action on the part of the treasury, Mr. Gage said: "No. not at all." "Do you propose to accept any more United States bonds and extend the time for so doing?" "No,1 1 do not. The option closes to-day." ' SIDPOEXAS ISSUED. Grand Jury to Investigate Brooklyn Transit Matters. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. -William F. Sheehan, counsel for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, to-day made the following statement: "Talbcrt J. Taylor, the son-in-law of James R. Keene, wa3 served to-day with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury on Wednesday next. The appearance is probably in connection with the rumors that have been in circulation concerning the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Tho subpoena was served by a clerk from my ofllce." It was stated later in Wall-street circles that another representative of the firm of Taylor & Co. . had also been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury for the same reasons that have prompted that body to subpoena Mr. Keene's son-in-law. The firm of Taylor & Co. is composed of Talbert J. Taylor and Foxhall Keene, James R. Keene and son. Two Danka to Unite. PROVIDENCE. It. I., Dec. 23.-Arrange-ments fcr the absorption of the Third National Dank of this city by the Industrial Trust Company were practically completed to-day. The bank directors and some of the stockholders have already disposed of their holding to the company. A meeting of stockholders to vote on the question of liquidation has been called for Jan.-20. The Industrial Trust Company is the second largest banKing institution in the State, -with deposits of about $3,000,000. The Third National Bank was organized in ISoG as the Marine Bank and became a national bank under its present name In J $65. It has a capital stock of $300,000 and deposits of about half a million. Itnn Is Abont Over. PORTLAND, Me., Dec. 23. The run on the Portland Savings Bank, which began jestcrday, contfnued to-day in a mild form, a few out-of-town depositors having decided to draw out their savings. Otherwise the situation was much quieter. The bank received JoO.000 in bills from Boston to-day, and with this amount it was believed all demands could be met. The affairs of the bank are in good condition, and It is expected that the excitement will soon subtide. General Mendoza Kilted. CARACAS. Dec. 23. It is announced hero that Gen. Luciano Mendoza, commander-in-chief of the government troops operating against the revolutionary leader Hernandez, has been killed by Celestlno Perez as a result of a private quarrel. HOLIDAY WEATHER. Fair To-Day and on Christmas Throughout Indiana. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. 8 p. m.-Forc-cast for Sunday and Monday: Ohio Rain followed by fair on Sunday. Monday fair and cooler; fresh westerly winds. Indiana and Illinois Fair on Sunday and Monday; fresh westerly winds. Local Observations on Saturday. Bar. Ther. R.IL Wind. Pre. Weather. 7 a. in Zd.9i SS 75 S'east. 0.01 Lt. rain. 7 p. m 23.71 S 93 North. 0.15 Lt. rain. Maximum temperature, 2$; minimum temperature. 35. Following, la a comparative statement of the mean . temperature and total precipitation Dec 23: ... - Temp. pre. Normal 35 0.10 Mean 3 o.H Ixrartur l O.fri lrture since Dec 1 15 o.tl Departure since Jan. 1 174 5.30 Plus. C. F. It. WAPPENIIAXS, Local Forecast OfflclaL Yesterday's Temperatures. Ftatlons. . Chica.ro. Ill MJa. . . . 2$ .... 28 .... 34 .... 34 2S .... 32 .... .... 34 Mar. 7 1 .44 '42 50 42 li 4 44 44 4 49 M $t 54 V 12 34 44 44 - 44 it m. 40 3S 28 40 4$ 2 43 42 42 42 4' 4S IA 44 34 30 44 40 40 a Cairo. Ill Cheyenne. Wyo Cincinnati. Concordia. Kan Davenncrt. la Moines. Ia Kansas City, Mo LlttlA Rock. Ark 11 Z 42 24 32 3) 3) Marquette. Mich Nashville. Tenn .... Nnrth Platte. Neb... OkLahom. O. T Omaha. Neb Jnttshurtr. Pa Rapid City. 8. D Fait Lake City. Utah. tt. Louie. - Mo.... KprinjTflel.l. ill -;rinKnld. tlo ... Vickalurg. 5 .... 24 s 35 J .... 13

D. L. MOODY'S FUNERAL

EXERCISES TO BE HELD AT EAST NOIITIIFICLD OX TUESDAY. 3Iany Blessases of Condolence Received by the Late Evangelist's Family Services at Xevr York. EAST NORTH FIELD, Mass.. Dec. 23.Ylelding to pressure brought to bear by friends, the family of D. L. Moody to-day decided to defer the funeral of Mr. Moody until Tuesday afternoon instead of holding Monday, as at first they intended to. Some of the details were arranged during thU forenoon, and it wasr made known later that the family had Consented that public services should be held In the Congregational Church at 2:30 o'clock. The body will lie In state at the church during the morning. Rev. C. J. Schoneld, pastor of the church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. R. A. Torey, of Chicago, and addresses will be made by men who have been associated with Mr. Moody In his work. Messages of condolence, which began to come in yesterday, were received In increased numbers to-day. Upwards of one hundred telegrams from all parts of the United States, with several cablegrams, have been received up to li o'clock. Rev. F. M. Meyer, of London, who has been a prominent speaker at Northfleld, and who. with 3Ir. Moody, held meetings in several of the large cities of the country last fall, cabled from England, and among the messages from this country were those from Commander Booth-Tucker. Mr. and Mrs. John Wanamaker, Louis Klopsch. of the Christian Herald, and George K. Studd. of Los Angeles. Cal. Several relatives and close friends of the family arrived here during the forenoon. The trustees of the Northfleld Seminary met to-day and set apart a spot at Round Top as the burial place of Mr. Moody.. The grae will be on school property, but it is very near to the Moody home. Owing to the large number of friends who are expected to attend the funeral, the Northfleld, the hotel which is used for the accommodation of those who attend tho institution annually, will be opened and, if found necessary, other arrangements will be made to care for those who come to the funeral. The selection of pallbearers and other details will be attended to on Monday. Donble Memorial Service. NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-Friends and admirers of the late Dwight L. Moody, in this city and in Philadelphia, are arranging to hold a memorial service in these two cities at the same hour as the funeral service to be held at Northfleld Tuesday afternoon, and a committee, which met informally today, is at work bringing the matter to the attention of the members of evangelical churches, in order to make the services here show the feeling of New York people for the dead revivalist. Dr. MacArthur and the Rev. F. R. Morse, of Calvary Baptist Church. Mr. Charles L. Harrell, a former student at Northfleld, and Dr. D. D. Yarnell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., are arranging the plans. They communicated to-day with a large number of other pastors of all denominations in the city, and the responses received showed a general desire to honor the memory of Moody. It is proposed to hold services as similar to those at Northfleld as possible, and at exactly the same hour, in one of the great churches. A large number of ministers and laymen will be asked to speak. Music and choir singing, as well as congregational singing of gospel hymns, will be the chief feature of the services. As there are a large number of graduates of Moody's school in Philadelphia and many other admirers of the dead evangelist there, it was decided to suggest the holding of services there also, or, in case this should not be done, to extend a general Invitation to Philadelphia people to attend the services here. VIENNA CHESS TOURNEY. Schlechter in the Lead -with Three and a Half Games. VIENNA. Dec. 23. The fifth round of the Kollsch Memorial Chess Tournament was concluded to-night, resulting as follows: Poplel and Zinkl adjourned in an even position; Prock lost to Wolf; Brody and Albln adjourned in an even position; Maroczy and Alapin adjourned in favor of the former; Schwartz lost to Kortie, and Schlechter and Marco drew. Appended are the scores for the competitors up to date: . Won. Lost. Alapin 2 2 Alblr 2U Brody , 3 1 Kortie 2 2 Marco 3 Maroczy 2 1 Poplel 2 2 Prock 0 5 Schlechter 3 1H Schwartz 2b Wolf 3 2 Zinkl 2 2 Pope Leo Disregards Advice. ROME, Dec. 23. On the occasion of the ceremony of opening of the holy door of St. Peter's to-morrow, the Pope has decided to give the papal blessing on the altar of confession. The Pontiff's officers urged him to renounce the idea as endangering his health, but the Pontiff replied: "Let It be danger, I will fall In the breach and have the satisfaction of having fulfilled my duty to the last asa Catholic and sovereign Pontiff towards God." Only Ten People Killed. ROME, Dec. 23. It now appears that the disaster at Amalfl, on the Gulf of Salerno, yesterday afternoon caused by the rock on which stood the Capuccini Hotel, sliding bodily into the sea, was not so extensive as at first supposed. Only ten persons were killed. Reward for Kane Yn "Wei. PEKING, Dec. 23. An imperial edict Just Issued offers especial rewards for the capturo of the Cantonese reformer, Kang Yu Wei, dead or alive. As Kang Yu Wei is in Ho.ig Kong, this is regarded as an incitement to commit murder in a British colony. IVIncate 'ow Sirdar CAIRO. Dec. 23. Colonel Wlngate has succeeded General Kitchener as sirdar and Governor General of the Soudan. Cable Notes. Sir Thomas Lipton's plans for 1901 are progressing. He is confident nis next boat will be much faster than tl.e Shamrock. The Czar will present Prince George of Greece with a splendid yacht as a New Year's gift. The vessel has been specially built at Sebastopol and is Intended as a souvenir of Prince George's saving of the life of the Czar in Japan, while they were on a tour around the world, a number of years ago. The Late Captain Halllday'a Estate. CAIRO, 111., Dec. 23. The inventory of the estate of the late Capt. W. P. Halllduy has been filed. The estate is valued at J1.201.S33, of which $437,243 is in real estate and J714.5SD In personal property. His property Includes extensive coal interests at Hallidayboro, in .Jackson county, and at St. John's. In Percy county. Illinois; two large plantations in Chico county. Arkansas; large holdings of farm lands In Pulasul and Alexander county, Illinois, and in Mississippi county, Missouri, and Ballard county, Kentucky, besides a large amount of stocks, bonds, etc., and his extensive interests In this city. The entire estate will be kept intact for five years. SSSSSSSBBBBBBBBSiiSBBBBBBBBI8BMSSBBSBBBSSMBBBBHBBBSSSS Illot Over a Small Dor CLEVELAND. Dec 23. A riot call was pent In from lower Euclid avenue, in the vicinity of the big department stores, late this afternoon. Detective Charles Kelso arrested a boy for some trivial offense. Several thousand - Christmas .shoppers quickly cathcred around tho detectlvo and

his prisoner, and demanded that the boy be released.--This "Kelso refused to do, and drew his revolver, which, however, he did not use. He was being roughly handled when a patrol wagon, loaded with officers, arrived. The police used their clubs right and left and dispersed the crowd. SALE RATIFIED.

E., T. II. & C. Stockholders' Will Day Outstanding Shares. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec 23.-At a meeting of the stockholedrs of the Evansvllle, Terre Haute & Crawfordsvllle Company to-day the action of the directors In selling the property to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois was ratified, and lt was decided to offer $10 a share for preferred stock and $2.bo for common for all that is outstanding. Nearly all the stock had been owned by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois people. The road is thai part of the main line of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois from here to Danville, 111. The B. fc O. Bays a Road. BALTIMORE, Dec. 23. An Important railroad deal, which was pending for some time, was concluded yesterday at the Carrolton Hotel, when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company purchased for cash the Monongahela River Railroad. Possession of the new property will pass in April next. The road is said to have cost $2,000,000 ten years ago, and the price paid is reported to have been $6,000,000. Ex-Senator Johnson, of Camden, and his assistants, who owned the railroad, made the sale. The effect of the deal is to turn over to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad the transportation business in this territory, and to divorce this interest from the business of coal mining. The railroad runs from Fairmont to Clarksburg, and unites the line of the Baltimore & Ohio system running to Chicago. It is built along the face of the ninefoot Pittsburg coal vein, and through its connection at either end secures exceptional facilities for reaching the markets of the East and the West. To Combat High Freight Rates. CHICAGO, Dec. 23. To combat the late move of the railroads by which commodity rates were abolished and classifications changed and in such a manner, it is alleged, that an advance in freight rates of from 10 to 50 per cent, has been forced upon shippers, an effort is being made here to effect a combination of interests affected. A circular in which the foregoing is set forth for the attention of local merchants was issued to-day by Henry R. Post. Mr. Post declares that the only way for shippers to secure protection against excessive freight tariffs, in tho making of which, he declares, the men who pay lt are not consulted, is to form a national body, with state and local branches working through the state assemblies and the national Congress. Reform In the matter of adjusting claims for damages and the tracing strayed merchandise, Mr. Post declares, arc much needed. May Avert Rate "Wars. CLEVELAND, Dec. 23. An Important decision has been arrived at regarding railroad freight rates which will, lt is believed, remove a potent cause of rate wars during the last twelve years. The agreement reached is that no lines of the Western and Central Freight Association on east or westbound business shall have, in the division of through rates, for its share more than the rates from the local points to the shipping gateways amount to. 0BITUAKY. Dor inn ii Drldseman Eaton. Former Civil-Service Com mis si on or. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Dorman Bridgeman Eaton died to-day at his home in this city, aged sixty-seven years. Death followed an attack of nervous prostration, from which he had suffered for about a month. The body will be taken to Montpelier, Vt., for burial. Mr. Eaton was born in Vermont. After graduating in the university of that State, in the year ISIS, he studied law at Harvard, and received his diploma in due time. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1S50, and began practice in New York city, as member in a copartnership which included the late Judge William Kent. While giving due attention to his profession. In which he was prosperous, Mr. Eaton Interested himself In public affairs. Among other useful work he prepared the principal health laws and the sanitary code for New York, and a code of laws for the District of Columbia, His interest in civll-servlce reform dates back many years. He was for several years chairman of the Union League Club's committee on political reform. During a three years tour in Europe between 1S70 and 1S73, he made particular observations of the civil service of various countries. After his return President Grant appointed him a member of the Civil-service Commission then in existence, and he held that position until the commission expired through the failure of Congress to make appropriations for its support. In 1877, at President Hayes's request, he visited England again to secure material for an historical report upon the British civil service. The work was printed by order of Congress. When the present civil-service law was approved In January, 18S3, Mr. Eaton was at once appointed by President Arthur, and served until Nov. 1, 13S5, when his resignation was accepted by President Cleveland, having been tendered July 27, preceding. He since has been a public speaker of considerable prominence, and edited the sevenin edition of Kent's Commentaries. New York Charter Revision. NEW YORK, Dec, 23,-rGovernor Roosevelt to-day announced his Intention to appoint a committee on revision of the charter. None of those who served on the original charter commission will be appointed on the commission of revision. The conference at which this decision was reached was held to-day at the home of Governor Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson. The Governor breakfasted there with Senator Piatt, Benjamin F. Odell, chairman of the Republican state pommittee. J. Harson Rhoades.' Nicholas Murray Butler. Francis V. Greene, F. W. Nolls, Dr. Albert Shaw and Capt. Norton Goddard. A New American Prima Donna. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Miss Susan Strong, the American prima donna, appeared for the first time in this country as Elsa in Wagner's always pleasant opera, "Lohengrin." to-night at the Metropolitan Opera House, and she scored a charming success. Her voice was in perfect condition, clear and exquisitely handled. Herr Muhlmann played an excellent Friedrlch, and M. Dippel's Lohengrin was as fine as usual, although he was suffering from a cold. Mme. Schumann-Helnk and Mr. Prlngle supported Miss Strong also. The staging of the opera was magnificent. Mr. Peur conducted the music. Xonunlonlst's Fatal Shot. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec 23. Robert Hoard, colored, for whose shooting Ed Jackley, a nonunion linotype operator, is under arrest, died to-day from the effects of the wound, and Jackley probably will be held for murder. Jackley, with four other nonunion men. was being surrounded by a crowd of union hodcarriers, among them Hoard, who was shot by one of the five printers. Jackley. who was arrested, charged with the shooting, ha'd previously been assaulted by union sympathizers, the result of lllfeellng over the printers strike, which has been on for several weeks. Bryan to Invade Trustdom. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Regarding the arrangements for William J. Bryan's proposed trip to New Jersey and New York. Congressman William Daly 'fcaid to-day: "Colonel Bryan has arranged to meet the Democratic leaders in Washington next month, and the Itinerary will be mapped out. I have agreed to accompany Mr. Bryan on his trip through Now Jersey. I understand his topic will be 'Imperialism and Trusts and that he is to speak In Camden Trenton and Jersey City before going to New York. He will reach New Jersey probably before February."

WORK OF COAST SURVEY

311X11 CHARTING ACCOMPLISHED IX THE PAST SEASON.. Portions of the Coast of Porto Rico and Alaska Accurately Surveyed Boundary Lines. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The annual report of the coast and geodetic survey for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S99, has Just been submitted to Congress. The report says: "In Cuba. Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska the development of the varied resources is being rapidly pushed by business enterprises of this country, and at the solicitation of those interested in commercial steamers and others this bureau began last year the work of accurately charting the coasts of these regions. A vessel of the coast survey was seht to Porto Rico and during the season successfully charted about sixty miles of the coast. Including the harbor of Jobos, which was shown to be a safe refuge for vesesls of any draft. Charts covering this work have ueen issued and several parties are now arranging the work begun last year so that in the near future, instead of depending on the doubtful and inaccurate Spanish charts, the coast of this valuable island will be as well known as our own Atlantic seaboard. "The work in Alaska was divided among several parties and extended from the head of the Lynn canal and Porcuplno gold district to the delta of the Yukon and the soon to bo famous gold fields of Capo Nome. It was largely tne result of these topographic surveys in the region about the Lynn canal and Porcupine district that enabled the international arbitration committee to arrive at a decision of a provisional boundary between Alaska and Canada at these disputed points. Mr. O. H. Tittman, assistant superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, has been designated by the United States government to officially mark the lino of the provisional boundary, as settled by the modus vlvendl of Oct. 20. "The enormous increase of vessels plying to Alaskan ports has made necessary the Immediate survey of a coast line of 10,000 miles in extent and the publication of many new charts. The many dangers of this coast, including the prevalence of fog, 'have caused the loss of a large number of vessels In the last few years, a fact that calls for expeditious work and the survey has exhausted every effort during the past season to meet this unexpected demand as rapidly and as fully as possible, and probably in no single year in the history of tho service has moro important work been performed than was accomplished at the mouth of tho Yukon, Golovln bay, Port Safety and Cape Nome. The coming season will doubtless see whole fleets of vessels from every Western port rushing toward the modern Golconda. It is estimated that no less than 35,000 persons will reach this desolate coast next summer in the rush for gold. The entire front of the Yukon delta has been mapped, as well as Cape Nome, which will, to a large degree, lessen the dangers to be encountered and prevent many disasters incident to an unknown coast. Port Safety, a long bay with a narrow Inlet making a safe refuge for storm-tossed vessels, was discovered about twelve miles cast of Cape Nome. Colovln bay was also found to be navigable for ocean-going vessels. The vital importance of this work will be fully appreciated during next season. "Other work performed by the survey during the year was the resurvey of San Francisco bay, Chesapeake bay. portions of the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Inland and boundary lines between California and Nevada from Lake Tahoe to the Colorado river was-completed. This comprises a distance of 400 miles, extending over the White mountains, through Death valley and the great American desert. Several trlangulatlon, precise leveling and magnetic parties were engaged in work In different parts of the United States. The Issue of charts has been increased over 50 per cent., about 60,000 being published. Notice to mariners, giving in detail any change in lights or buoys and calling attention to any new dangers that have arisen are published monthlj' and tend, in a measure, to overcome many of the difficulties of coast navigation." FEW BODIES IDENTIFIED. Victims of 3Iatne to Be Burled In Arlington This Week. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. It is said aUthe Navy Department that only about two dozen of the bodies of the victims of the Maine explosion were Identified beyond question when they were buried In the Colon Cemetery, at Havana. In response to its offer to transport to the homes of the victims' relatives the remains of such as might be claimed the department has so far received about ten applications. With good weather the Texas, bringing the remains, should arrive at Hampton Roads some time to-morrow night or during Christmas day, and it is believed the caskets can be delivered at Arlington Cemetery next Tuesday. There they will be placed In open hospital tents, under a guard of marines from the Washington barracks, until Thursday at 11 o'clock, when the funeral ceremonies will take place, in the presence of President McKlnley, the members of the Cabinet and a number of other distinguished persons, to the accompaniment of the full Marine Band and two companies of blue jackets and a battalion of marines, under General Heywood. GEN. BROOKE QUITS CUBA. Receives a Salute as the Steamer Leaves Havana for Tampa. HAVANA, Dec. 23. Three of the custom house appraisers arrested on charges, of fraud havf been set at liberty conditionally by order of Collector Bliss. Six others, charged with receiving bribes and of fraudulent practices, are now held at the disposition of the" court. Collector Bliss believes he has sufficient evidence to warrant the steps he is taking, and expresses the opinion that within the next few days all the guilty persons will be lodged In jail. General Brooke left at noon for Florida, receiving a major general's salute as the steamer left the harbor. A squadron of the Seventh Cavalry and two batteries of artillery escorted the retiring governor general to the wharf. All the ceremonies were purely military. The entire consular body made an official call upon Governor General Wood this morning. Gen. Maximo Gomez has assured General Wood that he will co-operate with him in obtaining a successful administration and In preparing Cuba for Independence. Typhoid .Epidemic at Cape Nome. DEADWOOD, S. D.. Dec. 23.-John Leedy, who has just returned from Cape Nome, states there were 1,500 cases of typhoid fever there when he left. He met a number of men returning from the Siberian gold fields across the strait from Cape Nome. The miners had remarkably rich specimens of gold ore,wh!ch they said came from places where large quantities could be found. A number of Cape Nome miners were planning to go into the new district as soon as they could get permits from the Russian government. Suicide of an Alleged Embessler. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Dec. 2i A. W. Peterson, who disappeared from Yankton. S. D., after having, it is said. embezzled money from tho county treasury there, committed suicide by jumping into the Mississippi river here. His body was found to-day. Woman Guilty of Manslaughter. NEW YORK, Dec-23. The jury at Somervljle. N. J., to-day found Mrs. Flngerhut guilty of manslaughter, but recom

mended her to the mercy of the court. The prisoner broke down and cried hysterically when the verdict was announced. The husband of the woman and her son, who were accused of being accessories to the murder, were acquitted. The woman was charged with having killed hsr landlord. Paul Roecht, while he was attempting to evict her.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Two Elevated Road Trains and Two Suburbans Collide. CHICAGO. Dec. 23. A rear-end collision occurred to-day between two trains of the South Side Elevated heavily laden with passengers bound downtown to make Christmas purchases. The accident is attributed to the dense fog which hung over the city this morning. The second train was running at a high rate of speed, and the second car was badly telescoped and narrowly missed falling from the elevated structure. One passenger was injured and several were severely shaken up. A Chicago & Northwestern suburban train and the second section of an eastbound Omaha passenger train collided at West Fortieth street to-day. The suburban coaches were bauiy damaged, but only one passenger was hurt and he not seriously. Collision on the Big: Four. CINCINNATI, Dec. 23.-The' Southwestern limited on the Big Four ran into an accommodation train on the Big Four at Sharon near this city, badly damaging the engine and one baggage car. No one was hurt. The engineer and fireman jumped. The castbound express Southwestern limited was delayed some time but the accommodation came on Into Cincinnati without delay. The accommodation was taking the siding but failed to get in far enough to clear tho main line. Woman Crushed to Death. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 23.-A rear end collision occurred to-night near Bardstown between a freight train and the Springfield accommodation train on tho Louisville & Nashville Railway. On tho latter were about a dozen passengers, all of whom escaped with slight injuries except Mrs. J. M. Carothers, of Bardstown, who was caught between to seats and crushed to death. Mr. Cushiuan's Stories. Washington Post. Representative Allen, of Mississippi, must look to his laurels. There is a new humorist in Congress. The discovery is Cushman, of Washington, whose wit is keen, whose sense of the ridiculous is acute, and who tells a good story In delighttul fashion. Cushman Is tall and lank, of the Abe Lincoln style of architecture, with legs so thin that he himself says he has often been arrested for being without visible means of support. Another quaint expression is that he was onco so poverty-stricken that he sewed buckshot In his summer coat to make It heavy enough for winter wear. He bubbles over with original sayings, and he utters them in a spontaneous, unconscious way that adds to their effectiveness. Mr. Cushman is put down in the Congressional Directory as a congressman at large, his State being without definite congressional districts. This reminds him of a story. He was once approaching a town where he was billed to make a speech, and stopped at a house on the outskirts of the town to get a drink of water. He met the farmer's wife at the well. "What Is the political sentiment around here?" asked Cushman. "I dunno," said the woman. "I don't go to political meetings. They say there Is a congressman at large, and I think the safest thing for me to do is to stay at home!" Aids to Dressmakinsr. Philadelphia Record. Have you seen the latest? The semi-made skirt? When a woman can buy a bodice lining all cut, stitched together and boned and a semi-made skirt, as she can, the modiste may as well hide her diminished head in silence. This latest idea in skirts, called the semi-made skirt, as told above, is tailor-cut and tailor-stitched, all put together ready to be finished around the bottom and hung on a band over a drop skirt lining. The skirt can be had in the fashionable gray, tan, black or dark blue; are cut after the very newest and most proper model, and can be had in several sizes, so they can be adapted to any figure. Could convenience further go? They are comparatively reasonable in price, too. Contract Labor Law Violations. PITTSBURG, Dec. 23. Terence V. Powderly, commissioner of immigration, was in Pittsburg to-day and held a consultation with Immigrant Inspector Robert D. Layton, of this district, on business connected with the department. Mr. Powderly said the alien contract labor law is being violated, and the Inspectors all over the country are looking for evidence against the violators. He says an unusually large number of foreigners who arrive in New York havo tickets for Pittsburg. Ulg Judgment for Delayed Transit. PAOLA, Kan.. Dec. 23. In the District Court here to-day the grain firm of W. 11. Harris & Co., of Kansas City, was awarded a Judgment for $46,827 against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway for failure to deliver a quarter of a million bushels of corn in Mexico on specific time. The grain was shipped to Mexico in 1892 during the food famine in that country, and because of delay in transit the complainants set up that they lost considerable money. Life Sentence for a Lyncher. PALESTINE, Tex., Dec 23. The jury in the case of Ed Cain, charged with conspiracy in connection with the mob that lynched the three Humphreys on the night of May 23, in Henderson county, returned a verdict of guilty to-day. Cain's punishment was fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The case against the other alleged members of the mob was adjourned until Wednesday. Doer War In South Carolina. CHARLESTON, S. C, Dec. 23. Matthew Gleason, Irish, and Alec Logan, English, engaged in an argument to-night over the war in South Africa. "Logan went home, got a shotgun, and returned to the scene of the dispute. Gleason having left, he shot and killed another young man of Irish descent, Mike Hogan, who had been In no way connected with the dispute. The men had been drinking. Xo Deductions on Rank Stock. CLEVELAND. O., Dec. 23. Judge Taft, in the United States Circuit Court to-day decided that stock in national banks must be listed for taxation at its full value, disallowing the customary deductions to the amount of the indebtness of the holders. The suit was a test case on behalf of fifteen national banks of Cleveland. It will be carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. Double Shooting? Affray. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 23. George Petway. a well-known man about town, was shot and killed to-night In Wagonner's Hotel by Constable John Irwin. A few minutes later Irwin fell and expired almost instantly from a pistol wound inflicted by Petway. The tragedy is the outcome of former trouble between the two men. Poisoned by Cheap Candy. FINDLAY, O., Dec. 23. The family of J. Flvecoat, consisting of himself, his wife and two daughters, is at death's door as tne result of eating cheap Christmas candy. Physicians worked with the four all last night, but there is small hope of their recovery. It is thought the coloring on the candy poisoned them. Dondsmen Mulcted 23 1107. CHICAGO, Dec 23.-A verdict for $231,267.38 against the bondsmen of Charles Warren Spalding, in favor of the University of Illinois, was returned to-day. The sum sued for was &S.7G3, the amount of university funds in the Globe Savings Bank, of which Spalding was president at the time of its failure. He Was. Puck. Photographer That expression is too business-like! Try and look as if you were about to be married! Isaacstein Vy. holy Echraoke, I an!

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. George McFadden and Jack Dally fought twenty rounds to a draw in the I elican Athletic Club. Brooklyn, last night. A serious coal famine Is threatened j In Chicago on Jan. 1. because fhetoff of the coal teamers and teamsters to agree on wages. , The Wcstlnghouse directorate at Pittsburg declared the regular Hvidend of . per cent., and an extra dividend of 5 per cent., both payable Jan. 10. Tod Sloan, the American jockey, and E. C. Bald, the professional bicycle rider, arrived at New York yesterday aboard the American liner from Liverpool. The Supreme Court of Illinois holds that the sale of patent medicines in any store not conducted by a registered Pj"; cist. is a violation of the state rharmac net Anna Bowers, who killed Murt Rickey at Kingfisher. O. T.. last March, as the alleged author of stories affecting her reputation, was yesterday found guilty or manslaughter in the first degree. The Washington Supreme Court has refused to permit tho extradition of Y. o. Armstrong, at the request of the Iowa authorities, on the ground that his onense is not stated In the application. The grand Jury at Lansing. Mich., which has. for weeks, been probing ; into the ' alleged fraudulent acts of the fetate Military Board, adjourned yesterday until Tuesday afternoon, without having returned any indictments. The San Francisco Examiner says it Is the intention of the Crocker Estate Company to erect a modern fire-proof famii hotel, to cost about 11.000.000. at Van Ness avenue and Sutter street, in San Francisco. One of the most interesting events announced for Christmas in Cincinnati is a chess and checker tournament. The great feature of the chess tournament will be a match between the celebrated chess masters, Showalter and Pillsbury. A national association of accountants and bookkeepers has been formed at Detroit with the following officers: President, II. P Sanger, Detroit; vice president, J. J. Sutton, Richmond. Va.; secretary. W. W. Thome, Detroit; treasurer, E. II. Beach, Detroit. Anthonv Petrow Schulten, alias A. F. Klutchlnikl. who last February robbed a private bank of Wllno Keidnay, Russia, and fled to Montana, where he was recently arrested, was yesterday shipped to Copenhagen. He said he intended to commit suicide at sea, Johnny and Lester Reiff are visiting their brother, Elmer Relff, in Topeka, Kan. They are under contract to ride for Richard Croker next year at $15,000 apiece. They will go abroad In February. A. Bailej. the South African diamond king, has second call. The famous Jockeys were born and reared in Wichita. A new national fraternal and benevolent order the Knights of the White Crosshas just been organized with headquarters in Columbus, O. Ifs objects are stated to be the care of the sick and to bury the dead. Adjt. II. A. Axllne has been elected supreme commander and W. II. Villers, of Columbus, supreme secretary and organizer. The Supreme Court of Ohio has dismissed the ouster suit brought against the National Biscuit Company by Attorney General Monnett. The suit was In quo warranto, under the anti-trust laws of the State. It Is understood that the Columbus Biscuit Company was the instigator of the suit, but that matters have been reconciled. Litigation was begun which may result In taking from the Chicago Art Institute the celebrated "Munger collection" of pictures, which were bequeathed to the institute on the death of Alber. A. Munger. Mrs. Cornelia Thomas, a . dn. alleges that Mr. Munger was menially incapable when the will was drawn. The estate amounts to $2,600,000. distributed among relatives and charitable institutions. Mrs. Thomas was given $50,000, but, should the will be broken, could claim $200,000. OLDKST MASONIC LODGE. Interesting: History of a Norfolk, Va., Fraternal Orfranlzntlon. Correspondence Baltimore Sun. To Norfolk belongs the distinction of having the oldest Masonic lodge in the Unwed States. This organization, known as Norfolk Lodge, No. 1, was Instituted in 1729 and chartered under the title of Royal Exchange Lodge, No. 172. Under the Grand Lodge of England it operated until 1S41, when it surrendered its English charter and received one from the Grand Lodge of Scotland, which conferred the title of St. John's Lodge, No. 177. Then came a period when the revolutionary war cut it off from communication with tho Grand Lodge. At Williamsburg in 1777 a convention of Virginia lodges was held. P. M. Mathew Phripp. of St. John's Lodge, was elected president. Four years later the Grand Lodge of Virginia was organized, and in 1790 St. John's was chartered under its present title. Since that time the lodge has played a prominent part in the history of the city. In 1806 the corner stone of the first Masonic hall was laid in this city by Norfolk Lodge, which, on Sunday, Oct. 24, 1824, was honored by the presence oi the Marquis de Lafayette, who was received with exalted Masonic honors. Mr. J. Hardy Hendren is the oldest living member of Norfolk Lodge. Mr. Hendren was raised to the sublime degree March 5. 1S53. The original charter of the lodge adorns the walls of the Blue Lodge room In Masonic Temple. The relic is highly prized. Another priceless relic In possession of the lodge Is a past master's Jewel of gold, said to be one of the oldest Jewels of any Masonic order In America. The Jewel bears this Inscription: "Presented December 27. 5S04 A. L. (which Is 1S04 A. D.). by the Lodge No. 1. Norfolk. Va., to the R. W. James Whitehead. P. M.. as a testimony of respect and gratitude for the zeal and abilities displayed by him in his exalted station." The Wife of Oom rani. New York Sun. Mrs. Paul Kruger Is said to have accepted her husband's offer of marriage with the words: "I can bake, I can cook. I can sew, I can clean, I can scrub." Whether or not that is the customary Boer formula is not explained, but lt is true that the wife of the President of the Transvaal has lived up to her words. Oom Paul Is said to be worth several millions. Much of this accumulation is attributed to the thrift and economy of his wife, who was not only able to do the things that could help to make a man rich, but was not ashamed to. She Is still a gentle-mannered, blueeyed woman, who. has not changed her method of life because the husband she married as a poor man has come to have riches and power. She still attends to the duties of which she told her husband she was capable. The household work Is her exclusive duty. That begins at 5 o'clock In the morning with the preparation of S5TSkSSt For making the Ort coffee with the smallest amount of bean she Is famous In the Transvaal, Her days are passed, between the -Intervals of heavier labor, in sewing and darning. ,The wiff om PauI never ha a dress that she did not make herself, and at no time ever had - more than three dresses wr.hm,ClLeS her?elf' -ust as 8h d5s her. hats, which were never more than two In number at one time. The best of these is likely to become very familiar to church-goers In Pretoria before It gives Eice K a new one and becomes secondbest. The Kruger household Is to this da v without a servant, and is kept cawfuily by the wife of the President of the South African Republic. Darning her husband' k5JS;S?ite of these respoSbiimes said to be the severest duty of her utl Outside the household her Interest Sf rhif?" ly in an!mals She has always refused to put any kind of a feather fn anV ?k two bonnets, and has used he influence K interest the women of her cwSS In th2 same renunciation of feather om-i. Her task has not beer Taa i vSS fc Transvaal as it mi-ht have been in he places where modes ar? J?.I?.her Another intone cf tit?

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was snown wnen nif r-c-uipiurn wno designed the statute of her hu?land l.r,!jr!it some of the early sketches to h r f..r ;n opinion on the likeness. The statue th..wS Oom Paul as he appears ordinnriiy wearing his top hat. Mrs. Kruger liktd th- designs, but had one sugRetion to n-.: :.-. "Don't you think that the crown of ;., hat," she asked, "might be mad. lu.Uow. so that the water could b caught in it when the rain fell? Then the birls u-.-.n be able to get a drink." That sugijt-ii,. was followed, and after the infr-;M.-nt showers in the Transvaal always brlr.es a circle of sparrows around the top i.f j-ia Paul's hat. WEATHER SIGS IX THE 1!II!IJ:. . i . i ... i . i The Ancient Men of God Coulil I'mpti. esy Stornis Better than We tun. The Quiver. "Foul weather" in Palestine from M.y to October 19 practically unknown. Travc.rs tell us that for daya and witks toit.. not a -cloud will stain the Inline !;.;. .f the Syrian sky. Thunderstorms during t!.:a period are so rare that they woui J i regarded as miraculous should t.V'y i.cc .r. When Samuel taid to Israel: "is it i. : wheat harvest to-day? I will call unt. th-i Lord and he shall send theunder and rain," the storm that Immediately broke was evidently considered as a miracle of divi.vj judgment. (1 Samuel, xil. 17.) Tno weathcr-wite Elihu. who strikes v. as more conspicuous for his knowkd..:. nature than the depths of an ai:i:ei I human heart, tells how the Almighty .r.atterss the dense cloud with hi bursts f lightning, and, in an extremely intvr. stir.passage (Job, xxxvi. S3), remarks hew tr;j cattle are aftccted by the appreach :" u.j storm. He does not mereiy ay with Vir-.l (and, no doubt, many other poets) that t:: -beasts make an affrighted stamp-Jo. ar t rush to a place of satcty, but he in.iict!i something of the inlluencvs which lat. r -servatlons have shown that elemental disturbances have upon the animal k:nU n;. We think of the immense probable inti-p:i;y of the Book of Job. and. proud as we ju-:i are of the forecasts of the cierk of weather to-day, we cannot deny that thihusbandmen of the "land cf the l'z" k. j t their eyes and ears open under the ChaMt-aa stars. No less a philosopher than Sir Isaac Newton, if we may trust Dr. Anthony Thomson's "Philosophy of Magic," was deik i. ; t in the cattle lore of which Klihu pos s. i at least the rudiments. Sir Isaac was u:;; riding one day when he met a drovtr, whj advised him to go no further, as a shar tempest would soon wet him to the j-km. The author of the "Principia." trusting in a sky which was at the moment pe-rtVetiy serene, pursued his adventurous way. Ti. soaking, however, came on as prophesk"!, and the sage condescende-d to ride back an t find out on what the drover had foumii I his forecast. "Well, master," answered the drover, "all I know is that when my cow twists her ta.l in a particular way there is certain to be a shower." Next time our domestic cat performs Ixr toilet when the barometer is low, and we watch her pass her paw over her left iar. we may Matter ourselves with a. sense ,f our superiority to Sir Isaac Newton, and rejoice In a bond of hitherto unsuspected sympathy with the youngest of Job's comforters. THE EVEItV-DAY VOICE. In Slost Cases It Needs Mach Improvement. E. V. Sheridan in Werner's Magazine. Unless the voice rounds cordiality, words are powerless; unless the voice attest selfconfidence, protestations do not convince; unless the voice t-ptak sincerity, the apology Is useless. It is necessary that we should control the voice to a reflection of that phase of mind and mood which w desire to present. When we ..would convince people of our efficiency, we must not permit a weak-krfeed voice, to stagger under the words. When our heart gues out in warmth and affection it cannot get far in a brass-lined, iron-bound voice. Conciliation Is vain when the voice rings defiance. Imagine yourself at a telephone when the Instrument whirrs and wheezes. Th nio-t impassioned appeal to John to como home to dinner and meet Cousin Mary is likely to prove lneuectual. A message to "t.at brute of a dressmaker man" who wants his money, may be delivered into the receiver with all dignity of tone and chojeo of word, but the wobbled reproduction at the other end does not go. You may uso all your most dulcet tones and most expressive ds when you are talking through the messed wire to the business manaprr. If the possessed wire is in a creaky l.t . business manager does not get the . .ht idea at all. The truth Is that most of us are always talking through a telephone. Tho ho:i-t will, the courteous Intent, the high heart of courage, speaks clear and sweet and strong, but the muffied, wheezy, creaky, thin, unnatural, colorless result at our lips misrepresents us, and John doesn't, the dressmaker-man Insists and ihe business manager gives the other fellow the Job. What can we do about it? The difiiculty Is almost always first a voice hao.. a color the voice has taken on from some prevailing tint in our life. This is so w it a almost everyone. This stain of tho natural voice color Is not voice Individuality; it Is a modifying of voice individuality, an objuring of It. It is a habit not a characteristic It must be got rid of. A Kentucky VIevr. Chicago News. "A man was saved by n bullet striking a. flask in his pocket, major." . "Well, sah, all I've got to say is. if a mn lives In Clay county and expects to rt p bullets that way he ought to have a tl.Tk In each pocket, and extra pockets for ixtra flasks." MRS. ANDERSON'S BADY. You couldn't convince Mrs. Anciersoti that Cupid ever was as pretty as her little girl. Mrs. H. C Anderson is well known ia South Britain, Conn., where she lives. She is very enthusiastic about Dr. Fierce' Favorite Prescription although no more so than thousands of other women who have been similarly benefited. Sue writes : "During th I first month of the period of cita tion I couM nefc keepanythingca tny stomach. I went to bed the aSth of June ani never got up till the firft cf Ai ru?t. I trird dSfrrcnt doctors. but with little benefit. I began to take your Favorite Prescription in November and I had a nice little baby girl in February following. X was only ia hard labor about one hour and was up and dressed on the eighth day. I never had the doctor with me at all; just the nurc and two friends. This makes ray second child; with the first one I did not take the 'Favorite Prescription and the little one wa sick all the time and lived just about two months. Thi last ba'or Is as plump and healthy as any mother could wish. She is about three weeks old now and i raining in flesh every day." Mothers who suffer undue pain prior to or succeeding the baby's birth are invited to consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, by letter, absolutely without charge. The great success which has attended the careful methods pursued by Dr. Pierce, has caused imitators to spring up, who make offers of free advice, which they are not competent to give, not being physicians. when you not, and docs not, and dares not claim to be, a physician. To offer such advice is deceit! ul. To receive it is dangerous. Prospective mothers should send for a free copy of Dr. Pierce's great i.ooo page book the M Common Sense Medical Adviser." A copy in paper-covers will be sent to any fiddress on receipt of 21

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