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of withdrawing the American, forces until nftcr the election and Installation of Cuban utr.rl.il I'mler the new Constitution. There win be an clfort to report the amendment Mor.rt.iy or Tuesday, as there Is a general Icuire to have It become part of the army :ip;rprlatlon bill, consi Juration of which has already begun In the Senate. Actlcn of Cuban Delegaten. HAVANA. Feb. 3. The constitutional convention's committee on relations between the United States and Cuba held a lens fes!!on this afternoon, and afterwards comerred with a number of delegates to the convention. At the private session the members of the convention unanimously agreed that some form of relations should be drawn up showing the gratitude of Cuba to the United States, but these relations, they also agreed, must be In conformity with the vlev3 of the people of Cuba, and must not endanger the sovereignty of the republic. The right of the United States to Intervene for the preservation of peace an- the establishment and maintenance of naval stations by the Americans were considered dangerous to Cuban sovereignty, and on these two questions the difficulty hinged. It is understood the committee was agreeable to accepting ' the provisions of the treaty of Paris vith reference to the former clause, giving the United States the right to Intervene, however, only when the republic's sovereignty Is endangered or h'e government la incompetent to preserve peace. A compromise was suggested with reference to the question of naval stations providing that It be agreed that the United STates bo allowed to fortify and occupy forts in time of. war, the same as at the Dry Tortugas. rilOCLASIATIOX I1Y THE I'HESIDEVT.

Senate lo Meet In Sperlnl Selon on DlHMolutlon of Prenent CousreM. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. The President to-day Issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Senate for executive purposes immediately on the disi-olutlon of. the present Congress. March 4. It follows: "Wherea., Public Interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the fourth day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the executive. "Now, therefore. I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the fourth day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice." The extra session of the Senate la called In accordance with the usual custom for the purpose of confirming presidential nominations. Note About Indlanlana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. James Goodrich, of Randolph county, who has been visiting Washington for several days, left for Indianapolis this afternoon. It Is thought probable here that Mr. Goodrich will be the next chairman of the Indiana üepubllcan state committee. The Richmond (Ind.) Bugle Corps, forty strong, has Informed the Inaugural committee that it will be present at the Inauguration, and has asked to be assigned a place in the parade. Charles G. Perkins and Charles Y. Walker have been appointed stampers in the Evansville postollice. MISCCLL ANUOt S NEWS. Drlgndler General Schunn Retired !evr Commandant at West l'olnt. Secretary Hay has returned to his desk after a week's illness. Brig. Gen. Theodore' Schwan has been placed on the retired list on his own application under the forty years service clause. Seven applications already have been fiied at the State Department for the HongKong consulate, made vacant by the death of Rounseville Wildman. Representative Thomas C. Catchlngs, of Mississippi, was to-day the recipient of a beautiful silver loving cup from th citizens of New Orleans in recognition of his efforts to secure legislation for the improvement of the passes at the mouth of the "Mississippi river. Senator Stewart, from the committee on mlne3 and mining, yesterday reported a substitute for the mining bill heretofore introduced by himself. The substitute prohibits any person from locating a mining c'aim, lode or placer for any other person, corporation or association. The substitute WEATHEE FORECAST. Fair To-Day and Probably To-Mor-row-Northwesterly Winds. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Ohio Partly cloudy on Sunday; probably snow flurries, with rising temperature. Monday fair, except snow flurries along the northeastern lake shore; fresh southwest to west winds. For Illinois and Indiana Fair on Sunday and probably on Monday; fresh northwesterly winds. Loeal Observations on Saturday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m.. 30.05 8 72 S'west. P tCl'dy. 0.00 7 p.m. .30.05 13 60 N'west. Clear. 0.01 Maximum temperature, IS; minimum temperature, 6. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for Feb. 23: Ther. Fre. Normal 32 0.13 Mean 12 0.01 Departure ftm normal 20 0.12 Departure since Feb. 1 174 1.6U Departure since Jan. 1 n? 2.90 C. F. R. WAPPEN HANS. Local Forecast Official. YeaterdayVi Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Chicago. Ill 0 H iu Cairo, 111 14 2G 21 Cheyenne. Wyo 8 32 G Cincinnati. 0 10 22 IS Concordia, Kan. 16 30 26 Davenport, la 6 18 IS Des Molnrs. Ia. 10 t 24 Kansas City, Mo .16 26 24 Little Hock, Ark 22 si Memphis. Tenn 22 34 32 Nashville, Tenn ,.n 2 4 North Platte, Neb 8 30 26 Oklahoma. O. T. 16 3$ 34 Omaha. Neb. .; 14 4 Pittsburg. Pa. 6 20 16 Rapid City. S. D 12 32 24 bait Lake City, Utah 38 4$ 4S St. Lou 1 3. Mo 14 4 . Springfield. Ill 10 is Is SprlnKfleld. Mo n 24 22 VIcksburg. Miss 24 35 34 "White V.'luter In the Soath. ATLANTA, Ga.. Feb. 23,-The Southern States, from Texas to the Atlantic coast, were given their, first taste of winter last night and this morning, snow falling In many places from Charleston. S. C, to central and northern Texas, and almost to the gulf. The storm, which was over the vest gulf coast last night, moved rapidly t the east during the night, and is central to-day over northern Florida, where snow is expected during the next twelve hours. The heaviest snowfall recorded Is at Lagrange. Ga.. where the precipitation was ten inches. At Birmingham there is about fix Inches; Montgomery reports a similar depth and very cold weather; southern Misfl.tippi reports the first snow In some pieces in two years; there is none at New Orleans. The prcipItation at Dalian Is three Inches, and in northwestern Texas frcm three to nve inches. The f now is, of ccurpe. of great benefit to the growing wheat, but It Is feared will cause severe less to live stock. In Atlanta snow began fulling last night, and by 10 o'clock this morning the ground was covered to a uepth of five Inches. Dllxxard In North Dakota. JAMESTOWN. N. D.. Feb. Cä-A bllzrard has prevailed north of Jamestown end extending into Canada for fortyeight hours. Trains have been abanduntJ rorth of Carrington on the Jamestown Northern and the Cooperstown branch of the Northern Pacific Is blocked. Snow Im tome places is higher than box cars. It Is feared ranchmen will lose heavily. C:urn Ccr.l Company fills the bs:t Ceil.

also authorizes the purchase from the government of land believed to be oil land at the price of I2.C0 per acre. The secretary of war has detailed Capt. Charles G. Treat, artillery corps, to be commandant of cadets and Instructor of tactics at the Military Academy, with rank and pay of lieutenant colonel, to succeed Lieut. Col. Otto L Hein (captain of First Cavalry), whose four years' detail in that office will expire in J:ne next. Captain Treat la a senior Instructor of artillery tactics at the academy, and has held that office since Aug. 31, WOO. The House committee on public lands, at its meeting yesterday, ordered a favorable report upon the irrigation bill which the subcommittee of five appointed at the last meeting had prepared. The bill follows subFtantially the lines of the Newlands bill in the House and the Hansbrough bill in tho Senate, with it modification leaving the disposition of the water to the control of the States. Chairman Lacey voted against the Mil In Its present form and will file a minority report. Secretary Long said yesterday that the battleship Kearsarge would not come north for the repair of her damaged thirteen-lnch gun until after the cruise of the North Atlantic squadron is over. The Injury could bo repaired, he said, by placing a new lining in that portion of the gun muzzle that has been widened by the premature shell explosion. The work of repairing the gun proper, the Fecretary stated, probably will be done at the Washington yard, the Kearsarge coming up to Norfolk and having the damaged gun conveyed to the navy yard here on a lighter. The secretary of the Interior has transmitted to the Senate an amended treaty between the Dawes Indian commission on behalf of the United States and the Choctaw and -Chickasaw Indians. The agreement provides that no child born to any citizen or freedman of either of those nations after Sept. 1, 1901. nor any white person who Intermarries with a Choctaw r.nd Chickasaw woman after that date shall be entitled to enrollment, and that no person whose name appears upon the rolls as a citizen or freedman of any other tribe shall be enrolled as either a Choctaw or Chickasaw citizen or freedman. The conferees on the naval appropriation bill yesterday reported a disagreement on the main Items before them appropriations for battleships, for additional submarine boats and for appropriations involving the removal of the naval station from Port Royal to Charleston. S. C. Other Senate amendments on which there was disagreement were the following: Reducing from 0,000 to $30,000 the contingent account of the Navy Department; detailing commissioned officers of the navy to be assistant chlef3 of the bureaus of the Navy Department: increasing from $1X),000 to $700,00) the appropriation for coaling stations; for a naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; allowing the President to appoint ten more naval cadetsi

OBITUAKY. Miss Laura Towne, "Who Did Mach for Education of Negroes. CHARLESTON. S. C, Feb. 23. Miss Laura Towne, who, as agent of philanthropic Philadelphia Quakers, founded the Penn Industrial and Educational Institute for Negroes, on St. Helena island, died at her home on the Frogmore plantation yesterday. She came to Beaufort soon after the war and did a great work for the eductalon of the negroes. She was also highly esteemed by the old Southern planters thereabouts. J. F. Probst. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. J. F. Probst, senior member of the banking and brokerage house of Probst & Wetzeler, of this city, died to-day at his home in Englewood, N. J., aged bout sixty years. Mr. Irobst was a director of the Southern Pacific and Louisville & Nashville Railroad companies. He was one of the oldest members of thu New York -Stock Exchange, having been a governor of the exchange twice and was at the time of his death. . Wild Man from Borneo." MAYSVILLE, Ky., Feb. 23. Henry Robinson, known as "The Wild Man from Borneo," died here to-day. For the past ten years he has traveled with circuses and on exhibition in museums all over the country. Other Denths. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. William R. Singleton, a native of Norfolk and the grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the District of Columbia, died in this city to-day at the age of eightythree. During the early years of hl3 life he served as'state surveyor of Illinois, and subsequently engaged In engineering work at the Norfolk and Tensacola navy yards. He was for sixty-one years a member of the Masonic order. WABASHA. Minn., Feb. 23. Commodore William T. Dugan, a pioneer settler and river man, died to-day, aged ninety years. For many years he conducted the Wabasha boat yards, and was well known to all river men. CEIMES OF ALL DEGREES. Dr. G. II. Farman, a dentist, president of the Napa (Cal.) Anti-saloon League, yesterday smashed some of the fixtures in a Napa saloon. He was arrested. A delegation from Mollne, 111., advised Mayor Foulkes of its intention to visit Dyersburg, Tenn., for the purpose of investigating the recent lynching of Fred King. The mayor burned the letter. Robert Burns was arrested at Lancester, O., yesterday on the charge of manslaughter, William Southern having died from the effects of being knocked down by Burns In an altercation Tuesday night. Southern's home was In New Jersey. District Attorney Phllbin. of New York, states that he has not yet decided whether Samuel J. Kennedy will be put on trial for the third time for the murder of "Dollie" Reynolds, but a decision Is expected by next Monday. He will be guided by the weight of evidence brought forward. Henry Wilcox, a twenty-year-old youth, charged with murdering his father, Albert J. Wilcox, was found guilty of manslaughter last night at Rockwell City, Ia. The Jury recommended mercy on the part of the court. Wilcox shot his father after a family quarrel and entered a pica of self-defense. Rhody Redmond, a former Omaha saloon keeper, who was arrested in Kansas City as a suspect in the Cudahy kidnaping and released on his promise to report to Chief of Police Donahue at Omaha, fulfilled his promise yesterday. Redmond convinced Donahue that he knew nothing about the case. Redmond said he was in Kansas City for the purpose of buying a saloon. Mrs. Frank Beatty, of Hamilton, O., narrowly escaped death through arsenic placed in medicine which was being administered to her for nervous prostration. Her hustand noticed something was wrong, and by prompt action secured a physician, who succeeded in saving the woman's life. A relative Is suspected of placing the poison In the medicine. The police have the matter in charge. A search of cells in the penitentiary at Lincoln. Neb., revealed, according to a statement made last night by prison officials, a plot for a wholesale delivery of convicts. Saws fashioned from tools in the shops, chisels, keys and a revolver with cartridges were found secreted in different cells, most of them in quarters occupied by A. Beard, a bank robber, under a six years' sentence, whom Warden Davis regards as the leader of the plotters. George Anderson, a footpad, who on Thanksgiving night last, shot and killed W. H. Linter, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and seriously wounded Mrs. Linter, committed suicide in his cell at Burlington, yesterday, cutting his throat with a razor. Anderson was about to be taken into the courtroom to hear the verdict of the Jury before whom he had been on trial for attempting to take the life of Mrs. Linter. The Jury had pronounced him guilty. The ballifl who went to get the prisoner found him dead. Facts concerning the larceny of $30.000. for which "one Salisbury" was Indicted by the grand Jury at Chicago last Wednesday, are still shrouded in mystery. State's Attorney Dcneen and the complainant's son, K. C. Barton, will not talk about the case. A new complaint was drawn up by Assistant State's Attorney Barnes yesterday against "Lant K. Silsbury." This I3 the name of the city attorney of Grand Rapids. It Is thought the new complaint was prepared because the name in the Indictment is "Salisbury," which is wrong, and renders the indictment Invalid. Chnrch Desecrated and Robbed. CONNELLSVILLE. Pa.. Feb. 23. The Church of St. John the Evangelist. Slovak Roman Catholic edifice, in New Haven, was entered by thieves last night and all the sacred vessels and figures of pure gold were stolen. The thief also wrenched the figures of Christ from two ebony crucifixes and took them.

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TO CONTROL ATHLETICS

AX IXTKUCOLLCGIATE COXFEREXCE ASSOCIATION PERFECTED. Indiana and Purdue In the New "Bis Xine' Xevr Regulations Adopted by Eastern Colleges. CHICAGO, Feb. 23. The Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association was formed to-day at the meeting of the college conference. All question of eligibility of athletes contesting in Its annual meets will pass through the hands of its eligibility committee, consisting of three members of faculties of the nine conference colleges. The management of the annual meet will be In the hands of the local managing committee, composed of alumni of the "big nine." These in the main are the' results of the long session of the conference authorities at the Lexington Hotel to-day. The nonconference colleges are effectually shout out from the conference and from all mangemcnt of the meet. Their proposition In regard to eligibility rules, however, was unanimously adopted. The name of the new association was decided. upon as above. As the matter now stands the faculties have assumed control and intend to retain it. The number, of institutions in the sacred ranks of the conference will remain nine. The representatives who . were present were: A. H. Pettingiii, Michigan; J. E. Raycroft, Chicago; A. A. Knlpe, Iowa; M. W. Simpson, Indiana; W. A. Locy, Northwestern; K. S. Jones. Minnesota; C. S. Slichter, Wisconsin. 11. A. Husted, of Purdue, the ninth member of the conference, was unable to be present. Mr. Raycroft took the place of A. A. Stagg, who was absent from the city. EASTERN ATHLETICS. New Regulations Adopted by the Intercollegiate Association. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. The annual convention of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America was . held this afternoon at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. About forty delegates were present, representing over a dozen colleges and universities. It was decided that the annual games of the association should be held in New York again this year, on the last Friday and Saturday In May. The constitution was amended in several important particulars. It was decided that the faculty committee which passes upon the eligibility of candidates for athletic honors should have its jurisdiction confined merely to the question of the candidates' scholastic standing. Heretofore such committees have been accustomed to pass upon the eligibility of the candidate as an amateur athlete as well as upon his standing as a student. Another amendment, however, makes the rule regarding scholarsnlp more stringent. In order to compete In association games the classified "special students," if In their lirst year at college, must have passed an entrance examination equivalent to that required in regular courses. Still another amendment requires that'if a student has competed in the games one year and then enters another institution he cannot enter again until after a full calendar year has elapsed. Thus a student who competes for a certain college next May and next fall enters another college cannot enter next year's games, but must wait until 19i3. This rule will have a tendency to save small colleges from losing promising athletes who, In their freshman or sophomore year, might be attracted to some wealthier institution whose supporters mighc offer Inducements to get them to transfer their allegiance. Seven institutions were admitted as members of the association, including the University of Michigan. The University of California was dropped from the roll for nonpayment of dues, with permission to secure reinstatement within tiiree weeks. 128 WENT DOWN. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) sunken rocks, forming a dangerous ledge on the southerly edge of the fairway channel of the Golden Gate, but close under the shore. There Is a light on top of the fort and a fog bell, but the latter cannot be heard far when a westerly wind is blowing. Capt. Frederick W. Jordan, the pilot who was in charge of the Rio de Janeiro when she went on the reef and sank, is a man little past middle life and has been a master mariner on this coast for over twenty years. He came from the Atlantic coast. Previous to being appointed a pilot, about twelve years ago, Jordan was In command of the Wellington, Bristol and other collieries still plying between this point and Puget sound. He was a remarkably safe navigator and never before had a notable misfortune. He declares the loss of the steamer could not have been foreseenr According to his story the vessel drifted half a mile broadside in the fog that enveloped the home-bound steamer like a pail, and no man could have Judged either the direction or the velocity of the invisible current that changed her course and sent her on the Fort Point ledge. PREVIOUS ACCIDENTS. The Rio de Janeiro has since the year 1S90 had several accidents. Aug. 1, 1S90 she was in collision with the British steamer Bombay and was severely damaged. This occurred in Hong-Kong harbor. December, 1S03, she went ashore at South Kagoshimo, Japan, and was so badly damaged that her cargo had to be discharged and the vessel docked for repairs. March, 1S, she started from Honolulu for Yokohama. Continuous heavy head weather was encountered and when the Japanese coast was still 1,200 miles away It was found that there was only 250 tons of coal in the bunkers. The steamship was run back to Honolulu, but before she got there the cabins and state rooms had been gutted In order to provide fuel for the furnaces. May, li09, she collided with an unknown Japanese steamer off Honokomo, Japan, but was not seriously damaged. During the past fifty years, the Pacific Mall Steamship Company has lost nineteen of its fleet. The list Includes the Southerner. Salvador. Golden Gate. Golden City, America. Guatemala, Sacramento. Honduras, Japan, City of San Francisco, Georgia. City of Tokio, San Pablo, Gran ada. Nicaragua. City of New -York, Collma, Columbia, and the City of Rio de Janeiro. The foundering of the Rio de Janeiro does not result in the greatest loss ot life, as two hundred of the three hundred passengers on the Golden Gate were lost off the coast of Mexico In 1S. Four hundred Chinese were lost in the wreck of the steamer Japan off the Chinese coast in the early 70's. Only forty souls were saved out of the crew, and 121 passengers of th Collma, which went down in lt,i)3. Freight Clerk G. J. Englehart. of the Rio de Janeiro, who was saved, said: "The report that Captain Ward locked himself in his cabin must be untrue. The last 1 saw of Captain Ward he was standing on the bridge and was tying the rope of the whistle to the rail. This was done to keep the whistle blowing all the time. I am sure that the ship sank so quickly that Captain Ward did not have time to reach the cabin." Some mystery attaches to the question of the Rio's breaking up so rapidly after the plunge, but engineers state that to the explosion of the boilers is due the shattering of the vessel. A survey of the wreck is being planned. ROUNSEVILLE WILDMAN.

City of Rio De Janeiro Was Ills Favorite Shin Talk with Ills Brother. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Friends of United States Consul General Rounseville .Wildman, who left his post In Hong-Kor. on a leave of absence and embarked on the City of Rio Janeiro, Jan. 22, sorrowfully regret the fate that has overtaken him. His brother, Edwin Wildman, is now in this city. He was formerly vice consul under Rounseville Wildman in Hong-Kong. Discussing the loss of the Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Wildman said last night: "It is a remarkable thing that this steamship was my brothers pet, and he always made it a point to sail on her when crossing the Pacific. When I was last In Hong-Kong he vrantcd me to sail on her, too ha was eo frr.d cf her. I Jailed, however, last Novcrn- : ci t'o C::.!:. Tbr.,);;-;';3u:5

the oldest and smallest vessel of the line and I preferred to sail on a large and modern ship. My brother would take the trouble to miss asteamer in order to go on that ship. Captain William Ward, the commander of the ship, was reputed to be about the most popular ofilcer In the employ of the line. The fact that he was in charge induced a good many to sail on that particular vessel. My brother was a great triend of Captain Ward. "On this trip he took the enUre family, consisting of hi3 wife, who was Miss Letitla Aldrich, a niece of United States Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada; his two children, Rounseville Wildman, Jr.. nine years old, and Dorothy, two years old. They also had with them Katie O'Brien, the children's nursje, whom they took out from San Francisco several years ago. My brother has worked very hard and he and his family have been under a strain since those troublous times in China began. He was much in need of a leave of absence, and thought that the health of the children would be benefited by a change. I understand he was to have returned to HongKong in about three months." Mr. Wildman said that his brother had left Vice Consul William Aldrich, a brother-in-law, in charge of affairs while he sailed for this country. Mr. Wildman said that Mrs. Rounseville Wildman was a granddaughter ov the late Lucius Foote, the war Governor of Missouri, who had to leave that State because of his strong Unionist sympathies and went to San Francisco, where he afterward became United States senator. His son, W. W. Footc, iirs. Wildman's uncle, is now in that city and Edwin Wildman communicated with him in an effort to get news of the missing family. College friends of Consul Wildman were planning to welcome him upon his expected visit to Syracuse next month. He was a graduate of Syracuse University, and had many friends there. Gilbert H. Wildman, a brother, is now a student at the institution. Rounseville Wildman was born in Batavla, N. Y., where his father, a distinguished editor and clergyman, was president of a theological seminary. Educated in the common schools at Lima, N. Y., and at Syracuse University, he afterward located in Bolso City, Idaho, as editor of The Statesman, the leading Republican paper of the Territory. Subsequently he was sent to Washington to urge the admission of Idaho as a State. When Idaho w as admitted into the Union, Mr. Wildman, in 1SS9, was appointed consul at Singapore, afterward going to Barmen, Germany. He was recalled by President Cleveland, but was given a world's fair commission, representing the Straits Settlements and Borneo, from which countries he arranged elaborate displays. At the close of the exposition he became editor of the Overland Monthly, of San Francisco, where he remained until appointed by President McKinley to be United States consul general at Hong-Kong, in 1S'J7. During his temporary residence in Washington he met and married Miss Letitla Aldrich, of San Francisco. Mr. Wildman was the author of two books, "As Talked In the Sanctum" and "China's Open Door," both the recipients of considerable praise. His position at Hong-Kong since the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, and his relations with Aguinaldo and the Filipinos In the early days of that conflict made him conspicuous and a familiar figure in the news from the Orient. ' KO WATER-TIGHT BULKHEADS.

Mr. Roach Describes the Ship, "Which Warn Dalit nt His Yards. CHESTER. Pa., Feb. 23.-The steamship Rio de' Janeiro was one of a fleet of Pacific mail steamships built at the Roach shipyards, in this city, although she was not contracted for by the Pacific Company at the time of her building. In 1S77 the late John Roach conceived the idea that a fleet of first-class American ships running to South American ports would build up American trade in that section and prove a profitable invesment, and he organized a company among his friends end built and equipped two fine ships for the trade as his share of the capitalization. It was believed that Congress would aid the enterprise by giving the line a subsidy for carrying the mail, and the new ships, Rio de Janeiro and City of Para, were built for the service. The Rio de Janeiro was launched on March 6, 1S7S, and Just one month later, on April 6, the City of Para was launched. This was a great occasion in Chester, and President Hayes and several members of his Cabinet were present as the guests of the veteran shipbuilder. President Hayes stood on the deck of the Rio de Janeiro and Irom this point of vantage saw the Para slide down the ways.In speaking of the loss of the Rio dc Janeiro John li. Roach, president of the shipbuilding company, said: "The rapid sJnicing of the ship was due to the fact that she was not built as modern ships are, with water-tight bulkheads dividing the vessel up Into comparatively small compartments. At the time the Rio was built this practice of insuring the safety of vessels had not developed as it is today. The Rio was a stanch and steady ship, splendidly constructed and had proved her seaworthiness in a dozen typhoons, but the lack of water-tight bulkheads was a latal defect in case the ship struck a reef which tore a large hole in her." BIG STEA3ISIIIP DISAPPEARS. Possibly Another Marine Disaster on the Pacific Ocean. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Feb. 23.-An account of what may turn out to be another marine disaster and mysterious disappearance of a big steamship while crossing the Pacific Is given by Capt. Morris, of the Port Albert, which arrived from quarantine to-day. Capt. Morris says that while in midocean his mate sighted a twomasted steamship abeam of the Port Albert about two miles distant. The weather was hazy, but it could be seen that the steamer was In the trough of the sea and laboring heavily. The sea, was running high at the time and it was all that could be done to keep the Port Albert head on. The mate went below to get his glasses so he could see the vessel, but when he returned it was so foggy nothing could be seen. In less than half an hour the weather cleared, but no vessel was visible. Both steamers were traveling in the same direction and Capt. Morris expresses the opinion that the unfortunate vessel mist have foundered. HARRY F. SEYMOtirS CAREER. lie Waa Well Knonn Among- Theatrical Teople. George June was much astonished and surprised when in reading over the list of those who were lost in the steamer City of Rio Janeiro to the name of his old friend and companion, Harry F. Seymour. Mr. June said last night that Seymour was one of the most remarkable men he had ever come in contact with. He sas born in Bedford, Mass., and started in life as an actor. He was known all over the profession as the little man with the big voice. During the civil war he made himself famous by his escape from Libby Prison through a tunnel. This escape was made under the direction of the late Colonel Strelght, of this city. After that he was commissioned lieutenant and was one cf the youngest men to receive a like commission during the war. He served on the staff of General Hancock and was noted among the officers for his bravery. "All of his life he has led a most varied career." said Mr. June. "In 1S9S he left Milwaukee, which was his home at that time, as a partner In the operatic production "In Gay Paris," going with this organization as far as Seattle, Wash. There he left the company and went to the Klondike as correspondent of a paper In Portland, Ore. He remained there for two months, after which he took a theatrical company into British Columbia and then shipped for Honolulu, staying there until the. following November. He then went to Manila, where he was at once engage! as an editorial writer. When he landed there he had $3 In his pocket. After be ing there a short time he was made partr.ed of the concern and assumed full charge o! the paper. This was the first time that he had returned to this country since leaving it." Mr. June says Seymour's real name was never known and that he had managed theaters in nearly all of the large cities in the. United States. Losses by Fire. MONTGOMERY. W." Va.. Feb. 23. At Thurmond to-day fire destroyed nearly all of the business portion of that town. It originated "in the kitchen of the Hotel Thurmond. A number of freight cars near the hotel also burned. The loss will reach about $50,0. The buildings destroyed were the Hotel Thurmond. Warner's drug store, Nichol's barber shop, Graubb's Jewelry store, Lopex's dry goods Etore and ths pestofüce. OALVII3TON. Ter--. Fe?. H- I!ra f - f 1 - t: -3 T7;r.u.i c !

Galveston Cotton Oil Refining Company, located on PostoQce and Thirty-fourth streets. The origin of the fire is not known. The damage Is estimated by the owners at JOO.OOO; partly covered by insurance, iilght cars of cotton-seed meal and soap were burned. COLUMBIA. Mo., Feb. 23.-Hadens Opera House was destroyed bv fire to-day. The fire was caused by a defective furnace and started while a matinee performance was in progress. The audience was largely composed of children, but all escaped Injury. The loss on the building and contents ia $60,000 and the insurance $40,000. NEW STAR IS BLUISH WHITE.

It Is of the First Magnitude and as Bright as the Xorth Star. BOSTON, Feb. 25. A telegram has been received at Harvard Observatory from Dr. T. D. Anderson, of Edinburgh, saying that he had discovered a new star in the constellation Perseus. It is said to be the brightest star discovered In three centuries. The new star Is almost directly west of Capella. It Is at present almost as bright as Capella, one of. the most brilliant of the stars. Dr. Anderson found its magnitude to be 2.7, or about as bright as the North star, on Feb. 22. Its color appeared to be a bluish white. The star has been observed at the Harvard Observatory through clouds and fourirKto be of the first magnitude, much brighter than twenty-four hours before this last observation. A photograph of this region of the sky taken on Feb. 19 showed the new star was then fainter than the magnitude of 10.5. It apparently has flared up suddenly. COBURG. Feb. 23. The new star of the first magnitude which was discovered yesterday by Dr. T. D. Anderson, of Edinburgh, in the constellation Perseus, was simultaneously observed by Professor Grimmler at the Erlanger Observatory, Bavaria. MYSTERIOUS "TERROR. He Has Assaulted a Score of Women, Two or Three of Whom Have Died, DENVER, Col.. Feb. 23.-The mysterious assassin who has for several months terrorized the people of Denver by murderous assaults upon women walking alone at night, has added three more to his already long list of victims. All were assaulted within a few blocks of the same place and within an hour. Each was struck from behind on the right side of the head with a club and all were unconscious when found. The victims are Mrs. Mary Short, colored, who died to-night; Mrs. Josephine Unterehrer, seriously injured, and Miss Emma Johnson, who may recover. There i3 no apparent reason for the assaults and the police are without the slightest clew to the perpetrator. It is believed to be the work of a mad man. These assaults have occurred at brief Intervals for about a year and fully a score of women have been assaulted, two or three of whom died. UNEXPLAINED SUICIDE. Frank Ilng-an Arose from the Table, Said "Look Here,' and Shot Himself. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Feb. 23. At Pratt City this afternoon, after Frank Hagan, a prominent contractor, had finished his .dinner, he arose from the table and called out to his wife and children, who were leaving the dining room: "Look here." As they did so, they saw him take from his pocket a revolver, place It to his head and blow out his brains. The act was done so quickly that no one had time to interfere. The cause of the suicide is a mystery, even to the members of Hagan's own family, as he was in good circumstances and excellent health. He was forty years old. TELEGRAPH MISCELLANY. The United States cruiser Philadelphia arrived at Callao yesterday. The Legislatures of Oregon, Montana, Nebraska and Delaware are still unable to elect senators. Henry Raab, twice Illinois state superintendent of public instruction, is dangerously 111 at his home in Belleville, 111., with pneumonia and heart disease. The Hamburg-American line cruising yacht Prinzessin Victoria Louise arrived at Havana yesterday on her West Indian cruise. A great celebration of Washington's birthday was held on board Friday. The engagement Is announced of Miss Gertrude Pullman, of Louisville, to Lieut. Taylor Evans, son of Captain and Mrs. Robley D. Evans. The date of the wedding has not yet been fixed. Lieutenant Evans now being on duty in the Philippines. Rev. Hanson Pulsford, who has been pastor of the First Parish Church, at Waltham, Mass., since 1892, has accepted the call extended to him by the First Unitarian Society (Church of the Messiah). Chicago, and will probably begin his pastoral duties In that city on March 10. Gen. N. A. M. Dudley, U. S. A., retired, an old Indian fighter, has been ill at his horr.e. In Boston, for almost a week and his condition is such that his friends have become seriously alarmed. He is in his seventy-sixth year. During the rebellion he received five brevets for bravery under fire. In' view of the present state of the question pending between Chile and Bolivia It is probable an early and definite settlement will be reached unless Bolivia shall receive support and thus be enabled to continue her resistance. This contingency is, however, generally believed to be highly improbable. John Daly, the lord mayor of Limerick, who was a passenger of tthe steamship Etruria, which arrived at New York last evening, is going to Chicago, where he is to attend the Emmet day celebration on March 2. On his return to New York there will be an Emmet celebration on March 10. The lord mayor of Limerick will attend and make a speech. A Toledo chemist for te Ohio State Dairy and Food Commission announces he has found arsenic in large quantities In the remains of the oyster stew after partaking of which, a week ago, C. R. Burnett, of Columbus. O., and Michael McDonald, of Detroit, died in a Toledo hospital. The detectives are now proceeding on the theory that the case is one of murder. Application was made at New Whatcom, Wash., yesterday by the First National Bank of Seattle for the appointment of a receiver f cr the Puget Sound "Packing Company. Henry Newton was appointed temporary receiver. March 7 the defendants are cited to show cause why the receivership should not be permanent. Liabilities of the company are placed at $120,000 and assets at $50,000. ' Latimer E. Jones, who fifteen years ago startled financial circles by his vast enterprises, failed for many thousands and fled to South America and was later arrested in London on a charge of forgery and extradited to this country, has been pardoned by Governor Odell from Sing Sing, where he had been sentenced for five jears and six months. He was convicted of forgery In New York in June. 1837. Secretary Cortclyou. In behalf of the President, replying to another invitation to visit Memphis during the reunion of Confederate veterans in May, says: "It is, of course, impossible to say so far In advance whether the President's duties will admit of his being away from Washington at the time you mention, but I assure you that your courteous letter is much appreciated." The Chicago Anti-cigarette League has taken the Initiative in the formation cf a national organization, through which it is hoped that prohibitive bills now pending before many of the state legislatures may be aided to final passage. A meeting of ail who favor this object has been called to be held at the Palmer House in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 2S. and Friday, March 1, when it is hoped such organization will be perfected. The Woolson Spice Company brought to the Ohio Supreme Court yesterdayanother case growing out of the fight between the company and the Arbuckles. The court at Toledo sent General Manager Brisbane of the Woolson company, to Jail for contempt and suspended the sentence until March 7. The case was taken to the Supreme Court on a motion for a further stay of execution of this sentence and the motion will be argued next Thursday. S. Y. Sebree, a Missouri, Kansas City & Texas Railroad conductor, who was cent from Paris. 111., to the Kankehee Insane Asylum seven years asro. and trho hod fcztn just relased frcra the crylura, rrr-.t to r3 ycrtcrd-y end rrrcr :1 t! r ' "-- cl : J. T. Mr-zl an, ttL - : I " : ' r;r c' l z - - - - . r -

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has been adjudged Insane and sent back to Kankakee. The decision by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, at Winnipeg, as to the power of the Manitoba Legislature to pass the "liquor act" was given by the full court yesterday. Judgments were given by Chief Justice KHlam. Mr. Justice Rain and Mr. Justice Richards, and are unanimous. The court holds that this legislation deals with a subject specially assigned by the British Iorth America act to the Dominion, and is not a matter within the jurisdiction of the provincial Legislature. Nineteen ministers, most of them Presbyterians, are included in a party of forty-six which will start on Sunday to make a study of the Holy Land, Kgypt and the Mediterranean countries. They will leave Congress street, Brooklyn, on the North German Lloyd steamer Werra to-day. They will be away for ninety-eight days, during which time they expect to cover-a distance of approximately 12.000 miles. They. will stay in Palestine for about thirty days, passing Easter and the week preceding in Jerusalem, encamped on the Mount of Olives. President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale College, was the guest last night of the St. Louis Commercial Club. He had for his theme "The Benefits of Collegiate Education for Commercial Life." He said that In this age of progress it was noticeable that in educational matters the world was going ahead, and particularly the United States. As a commercial country she had made unprecedented bounds, and the proper education of the youne me to take their places as leaders was a problem of everwidening scope. A college education broadened those who had the advantages accruing therefrom, because it gives them association with able, thoughtful and liberal men, men of affairs, and it put them In the line of correct mental training. BREAD KI0TS IN ITALY. Authorities Attnckcd by Peasants, Who Are on Veroc of Starvation. ROME, Feb. 23. As a result of poor crops and the heavy snowfall great misery exists in the Apulia district, thousands of persons are without shelter or bread. Two thousand peasants attacked the local authorities, assailing them with stones and other missiles, and troops were sent to the scene to preserve order and, at the same time, to render whatever assistance they could. It is feared that trouble Is Imminent similar to that which occurred two years ago, when the inhabitants invaded a number of estates to work without the consent of the owners. PATRIOTISM IN P0KT0 KIC0. Thousands of School Children Celebrate Washington' lllrthday. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 23. Washington's birthday was celebrated yesterday throughout the island, between thirty and forty thousand enrolled pupils In the various schools taking part. Th anniversary was made the occasion of the greatest patriotic demonstration in the history of the island. Addresses were delivered to tho native school children in both English and Spanish. The remarkable progress made by the pupils is the source of much gratification to those In charge of educational affairs in Porto Rico. SERMON BY TELEPHONE. Preacher Xorthrop's Voice Will Xot De Quarantined. MT. PLEASANT. Mich., Feb. 23. As all church services In the city have been suspended on account of smallpox, Rev. G. S. Northrop, of the Baptist Church, will conduct a unique service over the telephone at the usual hour to-morrow morning. One switchboard of the Union Telephone Company will be used, and all who can be accommodated will be connected. The service will consist of singing, reading and a fifteen-minute talk suited to the occasion. Rev. Mr. Simmons, of the Presbyterian Church, will assist. gift: worth $1,000,000. Institute of Pcdauojcy Presented to Chicago University by Mm. E. Blnlne. CHICAGO. Feb. 23. The Chronicle will announce to-morrow that Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of this city, has turned over to Chicago University the Chicago Institute of Pedagogy, which will represent an addition to the university endowment of nearly $1,000,000. The institute waa started by her some years ago by an appropriation of three-quarters of a million dollars, and since that time she has made additional gifts to it. The Institute is considered one of the leading schools of the kind in the country. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. Emperor William has Informed the Heligoland cup committee that in consequence of the death of Queen Victoria the race for the cup will not be sailed this year. The Northeastern Ohio Trotting Circuit will meet In Cleveland next Tuesday to make arrangements for dates. Youngstown will ask for dates in July, and also for dates in the latter part of August or first of September. Thieves broke Into the office of Chairman Batchelder, of the N. C. A., in the American Tract building, at New York, on Washington's birthday, and stole the diamond-studded medal of "Major" Taylor, emblematic of the championship of last season's grand circuit. Thomas W. Lawson has offered several cups for open yachting competition the coming summer through the Hull (Mass.) Yacht Club, of which he is a member. Mr. Lawson desires to bring about races between schooners, fifty-one-footers, flfty-one-raters and fishermen, for prizes designated as "suitable" in some cases and named at 11,000 in others. The billiard match of 1.800 points, 300 points each night for a purse of $300, between Leonard Howison, of Canada, and Ora C. Mornlngstar, of Chicago, which was in progress last week in New York, was concluded and won last night by Howlson. Mornlngstar was thirty-nine poinU behind his opponent, when Howison ran out with a brilliant string of fifty-three. J. C. Eppens, of Tiffin, won the Ohio chess cbampionshp In the final game of the State tournament at Columbus yesterday. There were eight contestants In the championship section, representing all parts of the State. Eppens played brilliant chess, winning six games and losing one. Twentyfour players contested in tne free-for-ail, which was won by Owen Evans, of Cincinnati. Yesterday's Race Winners At New Orleans: Lady Mother. 30 to 1; Lou Woods. 6 to 5; Krewer, 30 to 1: Jo Martin. 0 to 5; Sir Fitxhugh. 7 to 10; General Magruder. 6 to 1; Two Annies, 16 to L At Tarrforan: Skip Me, 15 to 1; Topmast. 5 to 1; Periwig, S to 1; Yarins. 4 to 5: Thr&cla, 9 to 5: Bogus Bill, ri to 1. At Oakland: Trlstain. 12 to 1; Ht. 2 to 1; t. L:hrf, 4 to 1; Dur.frc?, 13 1 3 C : r-i L!:n. 5 to 1; L ::zl'z'.ziz?, 0 to 2. - - , t . i . A.A.

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The fourth annual midwinter shooting tournament closed at Hot Springs, Ark., yesterday, with the Hot Springs handkap at twenty-five live birds. Fred Gilbert wai the only one of the twenty-six contestants who faced the traps that finished with a clean score of twenty-five. He was clo.ly pmhed by Klmbell, of Omaha, who lust a. dead bird out of bounds on the twentythird round. Gilbert made an exctilen: showing from the start, and his pcore was all the more creditable because f the fact that he was scratch man at twenty-two yards rise. An International trap contest has Wen practically arranged to taice place in Hr.cland. It is expected that this contest will be engaged in by the best wing shots of America and England. A popular fund has already been liberally subscribed to, and as tho expense of sending the team of tn men and two substitutes from this country will be upward of Jt.OiX), It is desired that those favoring the contest send anything they care to subscribe to Thomas A. Marshall, mayor of Keithsburg. 111., twice winner of the Grand American Handicap, who has been appointed captain and manager of the team. Movements of Stenmem. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Arrived: Nw York, from Southampton and Cherbourg; Etruria. from Liverpool. Sailed: S rvl.i, for Liverpool; Pretoria, for Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg; Maasdam, for Itotterdam; Furnessla, fur Glasgow. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 23. Arrived: I'mbria, from New York, for Liverpool. SiiK l; Ithynland, from Liverpool, for Philadelphia. HAVRE, Feb. 23. Arrh'ed: I.a Champagne, from New York. Sailed: Le Bretagne, for New York. HONG-KONG. Feb. 23. Arrived: HongKong Maru, from San Francisco, via Honolulu and Yokohama. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 23. Arrived: Cymric from New York. Sailed. Lucania, for Ntvr York. ALEXANDRIA. Feb. 23.-Arrlved: Aller, from New York, via Naples, etc. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 23. Arrived: Kensington, from New York. ANTWERP. Feb. 23. Arrived: Switzerland, from Philadelphia. MOVILLE. Feb. 23.-Arrived: As-toria, from Glasgow. Do Yon Gesture ia Writing f National Magazine. Do we gesture in writing? Nletsche. tM German philosopher, recently do .im d, claimed to have scientific proof of the tuA that we do. Now Just pause a moment a;. J see if you' can comprehend my gotur-s in this paragraph. Here a deepened frown In selecting a word to fitly express an l l i, then bending closer to the paper and racing the pen along to record a happy thought. After a paragraph couched ia words or.ee elusive, an approbative scr.itrh of the head, and after another, a de p draught of the pipe. When interest In ll.s subject increases, the pen goes in deeper, and the writing becomes more scrawly; the top of the page Is deliberate, prori-, perhaps dull, but as the pace warms up there is less dotting of and eroding of t's. It might be interesting for you to take this, or other articles in the National Magazine and write lis Just how yvj think the authors gesticulated whil writing. To watch the face of a writer unobserved is indeed a profound study 'f the subtle, subconscious depths of human nature. Somehow we read through tgether the last leaves, with a look up anl down as the last word is spoken: irh-ia finished in a fading pianissimo or witSi a forte exclamanto. The duo bangs on tr.e last chord well up in the treble, and thj rc-cponse a few octaves lower, is the conventional way of concluding an Instrumental piano solo, which Is iiotlnns mui than a farewell gesture then it la nnish-.-d it's now you can applaud. AN TIE EffifiD All the time, eating irregularly, sleeping irregularly, exposed to every disease latent in bad cooking or poor food; that's a summary of the traveling mnn's life. The result is eral term which covers various Tv1 forms and stages of disease of the organs of digestion and nutrition. The traveling man can't avoid the troubles which spring from his business obligations. But he can avoid stomach trouble." If Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery is used Vj'fii"- '--when the early p ;V symptoms of de- yr ramrement of the M7J: ' 111 f.t stomach manifest themselves, the cure will be quick and radical. But even if the disease has become chronic the "Discovery" will cure ninety - eight times out of every hundred if tried fairly and faithfully. Mr. Ned Nelson, the celebrated Irish comedian and raimic, of 577 Rovdrn EL, Camden. N. J., writes: We fuelled aa engagement of twelve week and the constant traveling gave me bad tooch ot t.J InViii rmfeicMl friend cf mine cirird C a trr Dr. HeTce'a Golden Medical IHscovctJ I tried it, and. thank God. with good result. Frcs! Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, xooS pages, 7? xl" lustrations, is sent free on rel?:. t tamps, to cover expense of maiucnly. Seed 21 cr-ccnt ftamps lor

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