Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 365, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,

MONDAY, DECEMBER SI, 1800.

pnwrrs. Referrinsr to the "serious trde cr.ipetIlion of tlermany and tlc United. States." he appealed to England to rouse hfTMlf. Alluding to the national curse of intemperance, he said that the Rev. Charles Sheldon had told him that he had seen ranre t:runkonnei In England in ne year than In Vdi own country, the United Stales, In a whole lifetime.

m:v triai ron stehmiehg. I.oknl Anzeiger Sr.ys'lle Will Secure It on a Technicality. BERLIN', Dec. The Lokal Anzeiger pnnounets that the apical In tho case of the banker, Sternbors, convicted of ar; offense against morality, will result In a new trial, owing to a legal flaw. It also asserts that proceedings have been begun against Dr. Seile, the leading counsel for the defense, and Dr. Werthi.uer, the Junior count-el, for collusion with the original commissioner. Thiel, to secure Illegally the acquittal of Sternberg. Asrrnrlan Complaint from lierlin. B Kit LIN. Dec. SO. Much American maize, lJOO crop, is arriving here in bad condition. The Society of Berlin Grain and Produce Dealers have cabled to American exporters calling on them to see that their goods correspond with the certificates. CADIXET CRISIS IX SPAIN. Sllrela I-'xpected to Succeed Aicarraen SiiKaata llreaks III Silence. MADRID, Dec. 30. Rumors of a Cabinet crisis Increase. Senor SagoMa, former premier, who has finally broken silence, declares that a change of Ministry la Inevitable, on account of the differences In the Cabinet itself, as well as In the ranks cf its supporters. Many ministerialists assert that the Azearraga government will continue. Should it fall, its only possible successor would be a Sllvela Ministry. Two persons were killed and eleven seriously wounded at Vivar, province of Grenada, during an election riot. Should Xot Inrlte Competition. MANCHESTER, Eng., Dec. 30.-Review-Ing ho cotton industry the Textile Mercury remarks: "One effect of the present condition can hardly fall to be a great Increase in planting next spring. In spite of any attempts to prevent It. Should a determined and combined effort on the part cf the American cotton States restrict production so as to maintain prices at the present level, this will simply invite competitors in other lands to enter the field of cultivation." May Visit the United States. LONDON. Dec. SI. With reference to the order for Prince Henry of Prussia to repair to Berlin, which the Nord Deutsche Allgenelne Zeitung explains as due to the Tvifeh of Emperor William to have him learn the affair of Rovernment. the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News mentions a conjecture that the summons is preparatory to a visit by the Kaiser to the United States. American Pictures Purchased. PARIS, Dec. 30. The Luxemburg Museum has Just purchased several pictures which were displayed in the foreign sections of the Paris Exposition. Among these are Mr. Walter MacK wen's "A Sunday in Holland," and Mr. Humphreys Johnson's "Portrait of a Woman," both from the United States section. Will Xot Re Sold to Germany. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 30. In Danish official circles the report that Germany is negotiating to purchase the Danish Antilles is denied. "lf'the Islands are to be sold," said a high otll'dal to-day, "the purchaser will be the United States and no other power. All will be sold or none." German Tonrint Killed hy n Full. LONDON, Dec. 31. Two German tourists, Herren fitter and Kindllnger, ascended Mount Schwartzenbergen without guides, according to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Vienna, and fell into an abyss and were killed. DntvleitcM In a Free Flight. LONDON, Dec. 31. Scandalous scenes ensued at a Dowie Zionist meeting in Bermendsey town hall last evening, the disturbances culminating In a free fight. AMERICAN WOMEN. Hall Calne Says a Xnmher of Very Good Word for Them. CHILLICOTHE. Mo., Dec. 30. Hall Calne. .writing to the Sorosis, a local woman's club, under date of Greba Castle, Isle of Man, Dec. 8, says: "When one considers what the position of woman was, even In the most civilized countries, as recently as one hundred years ago, and how high a place she has now won for herself, not only In the statute books of nations, but In the republic of art, one cannot but feel that the change Is even more remarkable than some of the great material developments which have distinguished the century. "Speaking as one who has seen life In many countries, I feel that it is within the truth to say that the position of woman is higher in America than in anv other part i tne world. For this result American women have, no doubt, to thank their own natural gifts and great Independence of mind, but they have also, I think, to be grateful to the splendid chivalry in the other sex. which is nowhere more conspicuous than in the best type of American gentlemen." HICHBORITS SUCCESSOR. Ilanieom and RottIcs rioth L'rsed for 'Chief Xnvnl Constructor. NEW YORK. Dec. 30. The Times will tomorrow print the following: "There is much interest In the navy over the appoint ment or a successor to near Aümirai Philip lllchborn, chief of the bureau of construction and repair at the Navy Department, who. will be retired on March 4 next. "Capt. John F. Hanscom, now on Inspection duty at the Cramps shipyard at Philadelphia, is at the head of the eligible list, but Capt. Francis T. Bowles, attached to the Brooklyn navy yard, is being strenuously urged for the place. Captain Hanscom will be retired on May 31, 19UI, whllo Captain Howies will remain on the active list until Oct. 7. 1920." SIGN THE NOTE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE. the modification of their demands. It is understood that LI Hung Chang sent a memorial to the throne, couched in very Utrong terms, urging compolte compliance. The Hermans killed forty Chinese troops near Man-Cheng, northwest of Pao-Ting-Ku. They had no casualties. Among the natives a feeling of great distrust is being caused, apparently by the high-handed action of the Germans, as the Chinese suspect them of an intention to force a serious engagement with the Chinese troo:s. Xo Arbitration Negotiations. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 30. There have been no negotiations regarding the arbitration of the China Indemnities between the United States and Russia, which first proposed arbitration, and the raising of this question, ths correspondent of the Assoctated Iress. understands, will not be regarded as timely until negotiations in Peking have proceeded further. It is believed, however, that Russia is still inclined to support the arbitration proposition. Smallpox Quarantine ltaled. RT. PAUL. Minn.. Dec. 30. Dr. Justus O Hage. health commissioner of St. Paul, having been satisfied that tho new Health Hoard formed at Winoni has taken proper measures to guard against the spread of smallpox, which Is said to exist there, has raised the quarantine, and Intercourse between the two cities is cow of Its normal character.

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GENERAL OPIMOX COXCERMXG D. A. JCXXIXGS AT SALE 31. Disturber lu the Community Ter re Haute'i New Industrien Hoy Preferred Death to a, Whipping Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM. Ind., Dec. SO. The publication of the several articles in the newspapers of Saturday regarding suits fded by one D. A. Jennings against seventy-nine citizens of Salem, many of them high in oificlal and social' life, created no sensation of the day In this part of the State, where D. A. Jennings has been so well known. He was a constant disturber in the community. Almost every Immediate neighbor he had is made a defendant in his suits, nearly all of whom are among the best citizens of this vicinity, and lenient and forbearing to the last degree, as were also the court officers. He names among them ex-Judge Alspaugh. the present sheriff, district, prosecutor. Justice of the Peace Berkey, Marshal Medlock and Postmaster Hobbs. The grand jury, at the Juno term of court, looked into the alleged whltecapplng of Jennings, which was said to have occurred Jan. 30 last, and considered it such a trivial matter, that it was not worthy of their further investigation. It was not his "caustic writings" but rather his actions that caused the people 'to turn as one man against him The people here are confident they can only be caused a little trouble in the matter, that he cannot secure damages, and that his whole object Is notoriety and to make the citizens all the trouble possible. Alt RESTED FOR MURDER. Frank Montague nt JefTcrsouvIIle for the Death of William Gllmore. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VI LLE. Ind., Dec. 30. Frank Montague, who says that his home is at Ottumwa. Ia., was arrested to-day by a posse headed by S. W. Evans, and placed In Jail here, charged with the murder of William Gilmore, whose mutilated body was found on the tracks of the B. & O. S. W. Railroad near Otisco, yesterday morning. Montague, who was traveling with Gilmore, declares his innocence, and bays his friend was murdered by tramps. He said that he and Gllmore had always been friends and both lived at Ottumwa. They have recently been working in a porkpacking establishment at East St. Louis, 111., but had quit and come to Louisville la search of work. Not being successful In securing employment they had started for Cincinnati. They were attacked by three negroes, he says, and Gilmore was killed. NEARLY TAVO HUNDRED MEN Will He Employed at New Factories In Terre Haute TliU Week. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. SO.-Tho North Baltimore Glass Company's factory will be put in operation to-morrow with employment for 123 men at the start. The company will make beer bottles principally, and has orders for some time to come. The plant cost $75,000 and next year It will be doubled, when the removal of the industry from Albany, in the Indiana gas belt, will be completed. Tho company originally was at North Baltimore, O., but removed to the Indiana gas belt when the Ohio natural gas began failing. Being forced to leave tho Indiana field the company decided to select a location Independent of gas and to find tho best coal field and shipping facilities. The Hays glass factory, which will make flint ware, also will start up during the week, beginning with fifty-two employes. IIOV PREFERRED DEATH. Tried to Kill Himself Rather than Receive a Whipping. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Ind., Dec. CO. Daniel Alley, a boy twelve years of age, son of Squire C. P. Alley, of this place, attempted to commit suicide at his home in the presence of his mother late yesterday evening. The boy had committed some trivial offense and stayed away from home until late, fearing punishment from his father. When he went homo his mother informed him that his father was threatening to whip him, when the boy replied, "If he beats me he will do It in fifteen minutes." He went Immediately and took down a preparation of horse medicine which contained aconite 'and swallowed a part of the contents. A physician was called Immediately and the boy probably will recover. ' BELONGS TO THE STATE. Deed for the Grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln In Governor's Hands. RICHMOND. Ind., Dec 30.-After many years of effort the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, is now the property of the State. Governor Mount has received the deed for the ground in the immediate vicinity of the grave in Spencer county In behalf of the Nancy Hanks Memorial Association. The ground is to be turned into a park and a custodian will be put in charge and much beautifying done. The deed Is from tho commissioners of Spencer county. Franchise for an Electric Line. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Dec. 30.-A franchise was secured yesterday from the County Commissioners by George H. Holzbog, ' of this city; Judge Stotsenberg, of New Albany; Senator Louis Schneck, of Seymour, and Leonard Krantz, of Sellersburg, for a right of way for an electric line from this city to Seilersburg, and then by way of New Albany back to Jcffersonville. The line will be something over twenty miles long, and work will begin on it at once. Will Provide Free Gas. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOOGOOTEE, Ind., Dec. SO. Some foreign Investors in the gas field at this point have been attempting to secure franchises to pipe the wells under their control to Washington and Vlncennes on the plea that thA town canr.ot profitably consume the output. The citizens here greaMy rerent the move, and, acting on popular opinion. th Tovvi Council will meet at once and i-ut.scribc to drill or buy gas wells with the intention of providing free gas for factories which may bo induced to locate here. Money for n Xctt Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SIIELBYVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 30. The Christian Church of this city. Rev. E. F. Mahan pastor. Is getting ready to build a 513,000 church on its recently acquired Washington-street lot. Elder Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, preached here today on "The Power of the Gospel" and "Why I am Not an Agnostic." About 510,000 was raised during the day to begin wo'.k with. Alleged Digamist Is in Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Dec. 30.-O?ncer Fred Krone, who made a race against time to Indianapolis, Columbus, O.. and Dayton. O., In order to get requisition papers for Bcnajmin F. Sackett, the alleged bigamist, and head off hnbeas corpus proceedings at Daytcn. arrived here last night with his man. Fackett is in the city Jail and may have a' preliminary hearing to-morrow. Shouldn't Mix In a Crowd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. CO. Charles Gwynaopo had a diamond valued at 5125 stolen

from his shirt front nt Indianapolis tonight while In the crowd In the Union Station, preparing to take the Knickerbocker. The Muncie man says he could have caught the thief had not his family been In the train, which pulled out as he was making the chase.

Indiana Obituary. MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 30.-Dr. H. W. Cure, a well-known physician of this city, died this morning of complications resulting from a severe cold contracted a year ago while practicing his profession. He was born Sept. 14. 1S30, in Dearborn county, Indiana. In 1SÖ0 he united with the Christian Church and began studying for the ministry, which he entered. He came to this city in IKiS. accepting the pastorate of the Christian Church, In which capacity he served for about two years. He then began the study of medicine, preferring it to the ministry. He was very successful. He left a widow and four grown sons. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 30. Achsah Jane Self, wife of Kenneth W. Self, died at her home in Farmersburg yesterday afternoon. Dropsy, due to valvular heart trouble, was the cause. Mrs. Self was born in Kentucky on Dec. 12, 1S25, and married Kenneth W. Self on July 21, IS.. Her husband, now seventy-seven years old, two daughters and five sons survive. MUNCIf:, Ind.. Dec. 30. Noah Eppard, aged seventy-three, died near Granville, Saturday, from grief over the death of his wife, soon after the celebration of their golden wedding last October. He was a well-to-do farmer. Indiana Xotes. The Rev. I. V. Spiccr, of Alabama, has been called to the pastorate of the Christian Church of Richmond, succeeding the Rev. L. I. Mercer, who goes to Noblesvllle. The American Express Company, which is to operate over the Cincinnati, Richmond Sc Muncie. will bo ready for business at Richmond within a few days. The equipment has arrived there. Another Wayne county couple soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage is Clarkson Thomas and wife, of New Garden township. On Jan. 2 they will reach that anniversary. FATAL TRIPLE SHOOTING SOUTH CAROLINA TOWX HAS A S 31 ALL CHAPTER OF HORRORS. Tlie AfTrny A roue Orer Two Dollars and n Game of Cards All the Victims Were Prominent. ABBEVILLE, S. C. Dec. 30. Sheriff Kennedy, of this county; William Kyle, of Massachusetts, who has been superintending the building of a cotton mill here, and John Dansby, a United States marshal, are dead, as the result of a shooting ot a card game and an attempt to arrest the men who did the shooting. Several persons were playing cards, last night, when Dansby threw two dollars on the table and said: "Play for this." The men at the table refused, and an altercation ensued. Dansby suddenly drew a pistol and shot Kyle in the abdomen. He then backed out of the room, declaring that he would shoot anyone who attempted to stop him. He was followed by two policemen, but held them at bay until Sheriff Kennedy and a number of citizens arrived. The sheriff called to Dansby to come out of the house of his father-in-law, whither he had lied, and surrender. Dansby came out,, and, with the remark, "Well, we'll all go to hell together," commenced firing. Dansby was shot twice in the leg and once in the chest and the sheriff was struck near the heart and fell. Dansby walked fifty steps and was reloading his pistol when he was shot again, it is said, by the dying sheriff. The sheriff and Dansby died within a few minutes, Kyle lingering until 2 o'clock to-day. SSBBSBSlaillMMSSSBSHBBSBBMSllBBlSMBnMSBMSBSSS TOR A WOMAN'S DEATH. President of an Arizona Mining: Company Arrested at Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 30. Merritt D. Hoff, president of the Turn Again Arm Gold Mining Company, of Phoenix, Ariz., was arrested here to-night and is held pending an investigation by the police into the death of Mrs. Nora Hammers, who was found dead in her room to-day with a bullet in her brain. Hoff, who had been acquainted with Mrs. Hammers since July, admits that ho was in the room at tho time of tho shooting, which was done with his revolver, but he says the woman committed suicide. Charles Gaussen. a friend of Hoff, and Mrs. Lydia Griswlll. a sister of the dead woman, have also been arrested. These two maintain that the woman killed herself because she feared Hoff, who has a wife and daughter, intended to cease his attentions to her. ; OBITUARY. Hiram Hitchcock, Laut of the Founders of n Famous Hotel. NEW YORK. Dec. 30. Hiram Hitchcock, the last of tho founders of the Fifth-avenue Hotel, died at the hotel this morning after a few days illness from pneumonia. The deceased was born in Claremont, N. H.. on Aug. 27, 1S32. In 1S5D, with Albert B. Darling and Faran Stevens, Mr. Hitchcock founded the Fifthavenue Hotel, and with the exception of a few years spent abroad has lived continually in it and has bceu actively engaged in .the. management. In 1S66 his health failed and Mr. Hitchcock was forced to relinquish the active management of the hotel. The Rev. Dr. G. IV. Northrop. CHICAGO, Dec. 30. George W. Northrop, D. D., LL. D., professor of theology and head of the department In the divinity school of tho University of Chicago, died to-day. Dr. Northrop was in his seventyfifth year and his health had been failing for a number' of years. He had been a resident of Chicago since 1SC7, was president of the Baptist Union Theological Seminary for moro than twenty-five years, and since ne insisted on retiring from that position In 1S02-3, when the seminary became the divinity school of the University of Chicago, had been the head of the department of theology. He was born at Antwerp, Jefferson county. New York. AV. S. 31 1 sm er. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. Dec. 30. W. S. Mlsmer, prominent in secret order work of this and other Western States, dropped dead of heart disease here this afternoon. He was forty-nine years old and a brother of W. S. Mismer. superintendent of the State Odd Fellows Home at Liberty, Mo. Edwin Dedford. PARIS, Ky., Dec. 30. Edwin Bedford died near this city to-day, aged eightysix years. He was a noted breeder of shorthorn cattle and recently sold a young bull lor $7,000. He paid the highest price ever given for a shorthorn 536. OuO for a bull at the New York Mills sale In 1S7C. Dropped Dead While Preaching:. WEST SUPERIOR. Wis., Dec. 3ü.-Tho Rev. Anton L. Mollne, pastor of the Scandinavian Free Church of God of this city, dropped dead during services to-day. Mr. Moiine was but twenty-two years of age. Heart failure is believed to have been the cause of death. , Dert L. Goodale. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 30. Bert L. Goodale, a theatrical man of Los Angeles, Cal.. died In his room at the Elks Club last night of tonsllltls after a short illness. The body will be sent to Kalamazoo. Mich., the hornef Goodale'i parents, for burial.

BLIZZARD IN THE WEST

PREClRSOIt OF THE COLD WAVE WHICH IS PROMISED HERE. Omaha anil AH Nebraska Swept by the Storm St. Joseph. Denver nnd Kansas City in Its Grasp. OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. 30. A furious blizzard began in the eastern part of Nebraska at S o'clock this morning, continuing throughout the day and to-night and extends over the State and as far west as Cheyenne. In this city street-car traffic is badly blocked. There Is a high wind and heavy snow which cleared the streets of pedestrians at an early hour. Several signs were blown down, but so far as known no person has been Injured. Henry Snow at St. Joseph. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 30.-A severe snowstorm set in late this afternoon, with a constantly lowering temperature. Telegraphic reports from all sections ol Kanfas, Nebraska, Iowa and northern Missouri show the .fall to be very heavy. Winter wheat in many sections of these States, as well as throughout the West generally, has been greatly in need of a heavy blanket of snow, which will afford ample moisture as well as protection to the grain from severe freezing. All Colorado Has It. DENVER, Col., Dec. 30.-The blizzard which visited Colorado last night continued with varied strength throughout the State to-day. Trains are all arriving late. No great damage to live stock has been reported. Heavy Snow mid Hlsth Wind. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 30.-A snowstorm, driven by a strong north wind, prevails here to-night. The storm is general in the southwest. No reports of damage or delay of trains have been received. COLD WAVE AT IIAXD. Clerk of the Weather Advises of a Sennon of Heal Winter. WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.-Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Ohio Rain on Monday, probably turning Into snow; colder; cold wave Monday night. Tuesday fair and cold; winds becoming fresh to brisk northwesterly. For Lower Michigan Snow on Monday, with a cold wave. Tuesday fair and cold; brisk westerly winds. For Illinois -Cloudy on Monday; probably snow, with a cold wave. Tuesday fair and cold; winds becoming brisk northerly. For Indiana Cloudy on Monday, probably with snow and a cold wave. Tuesday fair and cold; winds becoming brisk northerly. For Kentucky Fair in western, rain in eastern portion, probably turning to snow on Monday: colder, with a cold wave Monday night. Tuesday fair and cold; northerly winds. Cold Wave Promised. CHICAGO, Dec. 30. A cold wave Is coming. The temperature, probably will fall to 10 degrees above or lower Monday morning or night. Coldest weather of season so far. Local Observations on Sunday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. W'ther. Pre. 7 a. m.. 29.84 29 91 South. Lt. snow. .14 7 p.m. .29.74 33 70 South. Cloudy. T Maximum temperature, 3tf; minimum, 23. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total" precipitation for Sunday, Dec. 30: . Ther. Pre. Normal w; 31 0.10 Mean 30 ü.l I Departure 1 0.04 Departure since Dec. 1 2 1.71 Departure since Jan. 1.. 473 4.W Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Teniperntures. Stations. Mln. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta, Ga. 42 42 Bismarck. N. D 2 i Buffalo, N. Y 26 30 Calgary, N. W. T 10. , 10 Chicago. Ill 20 31 32 Cairo, 111 32 40 3S Cheyenne, Wyo 6 4 j Cincinnati, 0 2.8 2$ 20 Concordia, Kan ..20 Davenport, la. ..:....'.... 24 23 21 Galveston. Tex. tA ZC, Helena, Mont 12 2 Jacksonville, Fla 76 72 Kansas City, Mo. 22 31 Little Rock, Ark 34 40 40 Marquette, Mich 2$ u Memphis, Tenn 36 41 44 Nashville, Tenn 32 46 4d New Orleans. La 62 ofi New York City 40 Hi North Platte, Neb 4 22 4 Oklahoma, O. T 28 52 ZU Omaha. Neb 8 30 8 Pittsburg. Pa 2$ 42 42 Qu Appelle, N. W. T 8 14 Rapid City, 8. D 0 4 0 Salt Lake City 16 22 16 St. Louis, Mo 30 36 Zt St. Paul. Minn 20 4 Sprlnfrlleld. Ill 28 ,40 31 Springfield, Mo 30 3S 36 Vicksburg, Miss 40 4S . 46 Washington, D. C 38 36 DR. KÜHLER HAS RESIGNED. Venerable Pastor Has Passed the Afce Which He Thinks Serviceable. PITTSBURG, Dec. 30. The Rev. J. P. E. Kumler, D. D., LL. D., the venerable pastor of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church, to-day tendered his resignation to his congregation, his reason being his belief that when a minister reached the age of three score nnd ten he should retire. He reached this age in August last. The doctor and his wife will make their future home in Washington, where their daughter, Mrs. John B. White, is now living. Dr. Kumler was ex-President Harrison's pastor, in Indianapolis, before that gentleman was chosen President. BULLET THROUGH HIS HEAD. Gotham Cigar Maker Killed Himself After Shooting His Uncle. NEW YORK. Dec. SO. -Abraham Beckerman, a cigar maker, killed himself this afternoon at his boarding house. He worked lor his uncle, Julius M. Cohen, who last evening left a note for his nerhew, saying his services were no longer needed. Beckerman later shot his uncle, wounding him slightly in the head. To-day there was talk of arresting Beckerman. but before this could be done, it was discovered that he had gone home after the attack on his uncle and put a bullet in his own head. TURNING 'EM LOOSE. Plngree Keeps I p Ills Iteeord by Parol in ST a Noted Forger. JACKSON. Mich., Dec. SO. Stonewall J. De France, a noted forger, 'who was sent to the state's prison here from Kalamazoo county, in 1S94, for eleven years, for defrauding a Kalamazoo baük of several thousand dollars, has been paroled by Governor Pingree, and will be released Monday morning. De France has a record of having realized 566,000 by forgeries perpetrated on the St. Paul National Bank, the Flour City National Bank, of Minneapolis, and a bank in Chicago. Rockefeller's Cleveland Church. CLEVELAND, O.. Dec. 30.-Rev. Dr. W. W. Weeks, of Toronto. Ont., has declined ft call to tho Euclid-avenue Baptist Church

in this city. This is the church of which John D. Rockefeller Is a leading member, it -has been without a pastor elnce last summer. It was announced to-day that John D. Rockefeller, jr., had been granted a letter of withdrawal rom this church to the Fifth-avenue Baptist Church in New York.

WRECK DUE TO 3IAUCE. Five Persons Seriously Injured on a Kentucky Ilallroad. HENDERSON. Ky.. Dec SO. Train No. 41, on the Henderson road, was wrecked two miles east of this city this afternoon and five persons were seriously injured. They are: WILLIAM S. HOLLO WAY, of this city, arm broken and badly bruised. JOHN MASON, of this city. Injured internally: serious. CYRUS SCOTT. Madisonvllle, leg broken. Two others, whose names could not be learned, were seriously injured. The three named were brought back to this city. A coupling pin placed in a switch frog caused the wreck. All .the injured were in the parlor car, which left the rails and toppled over on its side. The engine, smoker and baggage car ran over the switch, but the two rear coaches left the rails and broke loose from the head end. About fifteen passengers occupied the coach ahead of the parlor car, all of whom were more or less injured. It Is believed here that the coupling pin was placed in the frog by wreckers. SUMATRA IN THE STATES DEPART3IEXT REPLIES TO CRITICIS31S ON THE EXPERIMENT. Tobacco Was Owned by a Connecticut Company -Warning Against Indiscriminate Cultivation. WASHINGTON, Dec. SO. The publication of the successful results of the experiments conducted by the division of soils of the United States Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the Connecticut experiment station In the production of Sumatra tobacco near Hartford and the subsequent sale of the crop to a Kansas City firm, has caused widespread interest in the experiments among tobacco men. Numerous communications on the subject have been received by the department, and two suggestions made as to the manner in which the tobacco should have been disposed of. The first was, that tobacco leaf grown by the government should not have been sold but should have been distributed in small quantities to dealers In leaf tobacco and other interested persons. The other was, that If it had been grown to be sold it should have been auctioned off at New York, Philadelphia and other points so as to give all leaf dealers an equal chance. In reply to these communications and suggestions Prof. Milton Whitney, chief of the division of soils, states that the tobacco was grown by and was the property of the Connecticut Tobacco Experiment Company, which is virtually a State experiment station, and was sold by the company, the department having no rights in the matter. The crop was merely grown under the direction of the department. Prof. Whitney thinks the proposition to sell at auction at a number of places is a good one, and says if the work is continued next year and a larger crop is to be handled this method of disposing of it should be adopted and doubtless will be by the Connecticut poople. Growers are again warned against attempting to grow this tobacco except when there is a reasonable chance of success. So far as known the successful growth of Sumatra will be confined to Florida and Connecticut. STRIKE DECLARED OFF. Street Car 3Ien of Scrnnton Receive Company Officials with Cheers. SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 31. At 12:45 o'clock this morning the fetreet-car strike, which began a week ago, was called off. President Clark, general Manager Silllman and Directors John and Timothy Burke, of the street-car company, came to the strikers hall after the vote to compromise was passed, and were received with tumultuous cheers. The men demanded what was equivalent to an advance of 3 cents an hour. They were allowed 2 cents. The men are also allowed a ten-hour day. IT WAS PAT CROWE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) until these parties had been captured that the letter should be withheld." Mr. Cudahy states that ho has not withdrawn the reward and does not propose to do so. , John Smith, a broommaker employed by the Schneiderwind broom factory, is tho one who has positively identified Pat Crowe as the man who, in his presence, rented the Schneiderwind house on Grover street which was used as a prison for Eddie Cudahy while he was being detained for the $23,0n0 ransom. This is the first positive personal recognition of any of tho bandits, and establishes the most important point yet developed in the case. When asked to identify the picture of Tat Crowe In connection with the case Smith said: "You need not show me any pN.ture. I know that man; lt was Pat Crowe. I could have told any police officer the same thing had he called upon me. I was busy at the broom machine when Fat Crowe called to rent the house, and paid no attention to him during his talk with Mrs. Schnclderwind. "Then I thought I recognized the voice, and stopped my machine long enough to get a good look at him. I saw at a glance that the man was none other than Pat Crowe, a man whom I have known for ten years. I am as positive as to tho identity of Pat Crowe as I would be of my own brother." Smith has lived in Omaha twelve years, during which time he has known Crowe and seen him at frequent intervals. LETTER FROM THE WOMAN. Mysterious "Eloise T.' Writes Acain to the Cincinnati Enquirer. CINCINNATI, Dec. 30. The Enquirer has received the second strangely significant letter from "Eloise T.," who now signs herself "Eloise V. Tarrell." In this letter the mysterious writer says that conjectures as to her Identity on the part of the Omaha correspondent are wrong that she Is not Lizzie Burns, and that the correspondents are not at all likely to fathom the mystery of her identity. She also gives reasons for her offer to clear up the Cudahy mystery. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," Is the quotation that she uses tt- explain her position. The last letter is dated Dec. 23. And again the woman if the writer be a woman gives names and dates that are convincing on the point that she knows enough about the Cudahy kidnaping to be wanted Her letters are long and most mysterious in facts, dates and details. Efforts to ascertain who the mysterious writer is have proved futile. She keeps well in the background, and evidently considers her position well before instrusting the letters to the malls. ALMOST A KIDNAPIXG. Crazy Tramp Ran Away with a Small Hoy in Michigan. MARQUETTE. Mich., Dec. 30. William Sullivan, a tramp, picked up the five-year-old son of Raymond Thier', of Dollar Bay, Saturday, and led him to Point Mills, some miles off. Sheriff Lean apprehended the man eighteen miles south of Houghton this afternoon. There was considerable excitement over the affair, but ft is not believed that Sullivan harbored any sinister intentions. He is believed to be mentally deranged.

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STEEHIXG GEAR TWICE DISABLED IN THE HEAVY SEAS. One Man Killed and Several Injured Return to Port In Had Condition A Race Into New York. QUEENSTOWN. Dec 31. The British steamer Lake Megantlc, Captain Taylor, from Liverpool Dec. 2T, and Queenstown Dec. 26, for St. John, returned to Queenstown harbor yesterday (Saturday) morning after a terrible experience in the gale. She left Queenstown on Wednesday, carrying the Canadian mails, forty-five saloon and twenty-eight cabin passengers and about 500 steerage passengers, principally foreigners, with many Jews among them. She had reached a point about 400 miles west on Thursday night, when ehe encountered a merciless gale. Behaving splendidly, she would have got through had not the steering gear become damaged badly, placing her in a dangerous position. The crew worked bravely and rigged hand gear, and the vessel was again brought under control. Unfortunately, the hand gear also became damaged. The gale lasted twenty hours, and an immense sea broke over the vessel, smashing the booby hatch and flooding her between decks, where the steerage passengers were located. It also washed away a greater portion of fittings and did considerable deck damage. Three lifeboats were smashed. Some of the crew were seriously injured and one seaman was killed on deck. When the storm moderated Captain Taylor decided to return to Queenstown. It was difficult work to steer the big ship, but she managed to anchor here without assistance. Her officers and men were exhausted. To everybody's surprise the Beaver Company directed Captain Taylor to take the Lake Megantic to Liverpool, and she proceeded there with all her passengers and malls to be transferred to the Lake Superior, which will leave the Mersey on Tuesday. The company ordered a tug to accompany her, but none was available here. Tugs will be sent from Liverpool to meet her. There will be considerable onxlety as to her safety in her present disabled condition, and especially as the weather has again broken in a high northWest Kale. It was impossible to interview any of the Lake Megantic's people, and the company's agents are reticent, but lt is understood that there were indescribable cenes among the passengers, who are ald to have howled in despair, expecting that the steamer would founder at any moment. Gale Renews Its Strength. LONDON, Dec. 31. A dispitch from Dover says the gale has renewed and that the wind is blowing heavily In the channel. HAD A' RACE INTO PORT. New York and Etrurla Three Days in Company Coming: Westward. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. The American line steamer New York and the Cunard line steamer Etruria, the former from Southampton and Cherbourg, the latter from Liverpool and Queenstown, arrived late last night at quarantine. For three days the steamers were in company and an interesting race was afforded the passengers. On Dec. 26. 27 and 28 the steamers were in sight, and it was evident that the Cunarder vas constantly gaining. On Dec. 28 at "6 p. m. the New York was passed by her rival and during the ensuing night she dropped out of sight astern. The New York brought the passengers of the disabled steamer Westernland, of the Red Star line, which was towed into Southampton Dec. 22 by the steamer Sumerhlll. Ship Pulled Off the Reef. MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 30. The British steamship Mount Oswald, which Went on a reef at Elbow reef -on Dec. 17. was pulled off by the wrecking tug Albert F. Dewey today and proceeded on her voyage to Tarnrico, Mexico. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Dec. 30. Arrived; ' Minneapolis, from London; La Gascogne, from Havre. Sailed: Anchoria, for Glasgow. HEAVY FIRE LOSS. A Canadian Village Loses Its Principal Business Structure. WEST LORNE, Ont., Dec. 30.-A disastrous fire visited this village to-night, wiping out one of tho principal business blocks of the village. The loss will reach $125,000. Heavy Loss by Fire and Water. COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 30. FIro on the upper floors of the six-story business block at Fourth and Main streets, to-night, caused a loss estimated at $50,000. The chief damage was by water, which deluged the stocks of the various merchants occupying the building. The fire Is supposed to have been caused by the bursting of a gas pipe. SWITCHMEN ON HORSEBACK. Colorado Railways Employ Cowboys to Make Up Their Freight Trains. Chicago Inter Ocean. Absolutely unique In the history of railroading are the cowboy switchmen of southern Colorado. With the Introduction of automatic couplers, and the present use of double-headed trains of fifty cars In length, it was discovered by long-headed railway officials that men on horseback could couple up trains much quicker than those on foot. Although not a general custom, this unique method of switching has been tried with success in both the yards of Walsenburg and Trinidad. Here are located great coal mines and hundreds of cars a day were handled formerly by footsore switchmen, who trudged many miles coupling trains. One day a cowboy dashed up and watched the switchmen at work.4 With a grunt he urged his pony across the tracks, rode fearlessly between the cars, arranged the coupler, then backed out and gave tlfc signal for the engineer to back up. The coupling was made, and then the cowboy dashed farther up the track, uncoupled another portion of the train, and In various ways performed the work of the regular switchman in half the time it would have taken him to do it. Three brothers named Berry, who were working for a rancher close to the range, came into town resolved to get work on the railroad. They learned the duties of yard switchmen, and then Introduced their ponies. These animals had a special training, and were taught not to balk at the cars, never to stand on the tracks, but between them, so there Is no possibility of being run over. They were also trained to follow their owner along the train, should he climb on the car to set brakes. The Rio Grande Railroad, seeing the pessibilitles of this new method of switching, soon introduced several cowboy, who became fully as expert as the Berry brothers. A train of forty cars was recently made up, the Air connected and the brakes loosened In eighteen minutes. This necessitated twelve switches and is the best on record. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen took the matter up. and. after a long Investigation, they decided that the new method was not down In the agreement with the railroads, and. therefore, it must be abolished. The railroads, however, fought th-s brotherhood, claiming that they had used the cowboys more as an advertisement than for any other reason, and, seeing that it interfered but little with the work of the road crews, they would continue to use tlvs cowboy switchmen. Coincident Denths in Cleveland. CLEVELAND. Dec. SO.-Two frightful elevator accidents occurred here to-day within five minutes in buildings only a short distance from each other. Sydney Hamm, of London, Ont., stepped into an open shaft and fell six stories, and Ralph Spellman. aged nineteen, fell nine stories. Both were Instantly killed. French Ambassador Arrives. NEW YORK. Dec. 50. Among the passengers who arrived to-day on the steamer Iv Gascogne from Havre was M. Cambon, French ambassador at Washington.

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WANTS TO FIGHT TERRY T1PTOX SL,ASlIKlf POSTS A FORFEIT TO 31 LET M'GOVIIRX. Jeffries Will Regln Trniuine Soon Racing I'lnns nt St. LohIh Miller llreedlng Farm Transferred. ' CHICAGO, Dec. 30. Benny ' Yanger, th "Tipton Slasher," through his manager, tonight deposited a forfeit of H,00 with George Slier and issued a challenge to fight Terry McGovern at 122 pounds at the ringtide, before the club offering tho best inducements. As these are the terms asked by.McGovern's manager, it Is almost a kttainty the match will be made. If the men meet It will be for the featherweight championship of the world. JeflTlea Hendy for Training. CINCINNATI. Dec. 30. It U announced that Ed Cook, as the representative of Manager William A. Rrady, will be here to open up Jefffries's headquarters this week and that Jeffries is expected to go into training at West Baden, Ind., next week. Gus Bezenah is trying to make a match for the preliminary of the Jeffrles-Ruhlin light here, Feb. 15. RAC1G AT ST. LOUS. Fair Grounds Will Open on 3Iay H Turf War Is In Ironpect. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30. Racing will be resumed at the St. Louis fair grounds on May 11 to continue Tor ninety days, th limit fixed by the Missouri breeders law for any single track. Although the Turf Congress jermits the St. 1ouis course to be oien on April 1, the State law does not. lr. fixes the opening of the season at April 13 and the close at Nov. I. This gives St. IiOuis 171 days of actual racing. Letween April 15 and May 11, when the fair grounds opens, it Is conridcred likely that Klnloch Park will have a reason of twenty-three days. If the Tllles-Adler-Cell syndicate track completed by the end of the fair grounds season, and the Klnloch people seek to resume at that time, a fight between it and the syndicate would undoubtedly result. Kentucky Farni Transferred. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec 30. The trotting horse breeding firm of Miller & Sibley, of Franklin, Ta., has transferred to its trainer, Charles Marvin, a two-year lense of Its breeding farm near Lexington and Cecilian. Captor, Rattle Sign, Hndow, six brood mares and several yearlings and weanlings. The firm will retire from the breeding of trotters. Marvin has been trainer for thq firm for many years. MARCit'HTTirS Gil A VC Facts vrith Which the Frankfort Discoverers Must Contend. New York Times. Great man and good as Tcre Marquette seems from all accounts to have been, it is hardly probable that what little Is row left of his mortal tabernacle finds a single grave insufficiently spacious. Therefore is one tempted to uneasy questionings by the announcement of some Anc Arbor railway officials that, in the course ot certain excavations making at Frankfort, Mich., they have unearthed a skull nnd several other Utensils once used by the heroic missionary and explorer. Fere Marquette died in 1673. while on his way from Kaskaskla to Mackinaw in a .canoe. Ills red companions buried him, according to Farkman. by a small stream in the west of Michigan, "some distance touth of the promontory called the Sleeping Rear." Later the body was removed to St. Ignace, many miles to the northward cf Frankfort, and on the other side of the strait separating Michigan's two parts. There the traveler who had gone no far rested quietly, und after a while the exact position of his grave was forgotten, a fact due, possibly, to Inappreclatlon of Jesuit priests by a majority of those who were glad enough to walk into a new land along paths which he had opened as a discoverer nnd rendered comparatively safe by the effect which his virtues had produced on the Indian tribes. The position of the Krave at St. Ignace. however, was re-established to the Keneral satisfaction in 1S77, and with this determination of the matter the railway men (and real-estate speculators?) of Frankfort will have to contend. While cordially sympathizing with their desire lo make the metropolis of Benzie county Interesting, and while thoroughly agreeing with what we take to be their belief that the rrave of Fere Marquette would Ik about the most interesting possession a Michigan town can hope to have, we must confess to serious doubt as to the authenticity of their find. There Is no easily Imaginable reason why the far-wanderinsr Frenchman should have been burled at Frankfort, many why h t-hould have been carried to St. Ignaee. Still, the Michigan Historical Society ought to know more about the subject than we d, and If, as Is reported, its members support the claims of Frankfort's antiquarians, of course that goes far toward upsetting received theories aid establishing new ones. Anyway, there should be no quarrels over Fere Marquette's bones. He was a man cf peace, notable in his day and in many later days because ho helped, instead of harming, the Indians, and neither, killed them nor was killed by them. Hxplorers ot that sort are rare. 3feiv Terror for Man. Baltimore American. ' An Indiana court has decided that husband and wife aro two, and that. If tho husband gives his note to his wife, ho must pay her Just as though she were a stranger. The domesticity of th twentieth century is evidently going to take oi4 a serious aspect for the believer in the old theor' that husband and wife are one. and that one is the husband. With courts ordering husbands to pay wives the money borrowed from them a new terror is added to the perils of matrimony. aBBBMSBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBSBM Edna Tatton. living on East Washington street, was arrested last night by detectives and charged with petit larceny. Matt McNerney complained that he had by her been induced to go to her home, where, he claimed, she took $30 belonging to him. Tlx girl Faid her companion was drunk and gave her $15. which she declined to give up. The other J15 she paid over. A Mystery. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Bryan is to be introduced to his AbIhne audience by a preacher. Why the committee did not select a Democrat la not explained. - Xarrovrlnir the Field. Pittsburg News. The country will soon be able to guess for whom Mr. Cleveland voted. He says It was not McKinley, and as he is a confirmed fisherman, we know It was cot Brother Woolley. To Cure o Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH druggists refund the money if It falls to cure. C w. Grove' signature is on each bos. Zl