Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUTINAL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1991.

rto Increase In the pay of the soldiers. Most of them, however, recognize that the difficulties of the exchequer had to be considered. Mr. lirodrick's speech, whleh lasted two and a half hours, and kept the House interested throughout, is praised cn all sides as a model of what such a statement should be. It contains numerous minor tktailä for increasing the efficiency and comfort cf the forces. The leaders on both sides hastened to congratulate him. The remainder of the debate turned on the vote for horse, the only Incident being the government's refusal to say what price it paid for animals. The radicals interpreted the refusal to mean that the authorities had been grossly swindled. The Daily Chronicle Fays it fears that, when peace is restored. Mr. P.rr.drlck and Ixrd Roberts will find hard work in their laudable efforts to exclude inefficient and to check extra vngance in the crack regiments but in this connection It should te mentioned that a certain number of commissions hav' btn reserved for deserving men of the rank and file. ALLEGED BLACKMAILER.

hrnikn lJuslne Man Arrested for Threatening; Senator Krnrnn. OMAJIA. Neb., March $. Ernest J. Wolter, a prominent merchant, of Schuyler, Neb., who was arrested there on a charge of attempting to blackmail United States Senator Kearns. of Utah, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Anderson, this afternoon. He waived preliminary hearing w?s held to the federal grand jury undr $J.C"X) bond, which he gave. The arrest of Wolter was the result of letters written in connection with attempted blackmail. The first. Feb. 10. made a demand on Senator Kearns for r0 and threatened that if this money was not paid the writer would take Kearns's life, the money to be sent to lockbox 4SI at Schuyler. Twit day later, a letter came to Mrs. Kearns, demanding I1.2U0 at once and another J1.2U0 by Aug. 1. A threat of kidnaping her children was made a penalty for noncompliance. These letters were put Into the possession of Postoffice Inspector Sullivan, who went to Schuyler, called at the postoffice and found that lockbox 4S4 had been rented by Krnest J. Wolter. Wolter's arrtst followed. He refused to discuss the case further than to say that he Is not guilty as charged: that he has no misgivings as to the outcome and there are others mixed up In the case. CRISIS IN CHINA. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) to be defrayed by the provost marshal from civil funds. sTiticT discipline:. United Stated Troop Are Not Perv milled to Wander Over Peking. WASHINGTON, March 8. Copies "of orders Issued by General Chaffee, Just received at the War Department, show that the American troops in China are under ths strictest discipline and are closely confined to the limits under the control of the United States forces. When off duty they are not allowed to enter sections of the city policed by troops of other nations, and soldiers on duty cannot visit such sections except upon written authority. Soldiers are not allowed to leave camp unless they are in proper uniform, and the sergeant of the guard is required to inspVct all soldiers returning from pass and to lock up those found under the influence of liquor. Soldiers and civilian employes are not permitted to carry revolvers or other ilrearms when going on pass. General Chaffee closes a general order on this subject by saying: "The attention of all honest soldiers and men of this command is called to the fact that there are thieves in our midst, wearing our clothing, who, by frequent robberies, disgrace all, bring about curtailment of privileges to honest men. who, if conditions were not as stated, might be enjoyed more fully than authorized." Reform Demanded hy Chinese. SHANGHAI, March 8. An article in the China Gazette published to-day says that Viceroy Liu Kun Yl has submitted a memorial to the throne in favor of reform on the following basis: The establishment of a permanent constitution; complete change in the educational system; the selection of only qualified men for the civil service; the creation of an army by conscription; the adoption of a systematic scheme of finance; the establishment of an Imperial bank empowered to issue notes that shall be current throughout China; the enactment of laws to encourage the establishment of newspapers and the removal of the present distinction between Chinese and Manchus. Chinese AVnnt Their Temple. PEKING, March 8. The French have unofficially notified Count Von Waldersee that they will send no more expeditions into the country unless circumstances absolutely compel, and that they will also withdraw their outposts beyond Poa-Ting-. Ku. Mr. Rockhill at the meeting of the ministers of powers to-morrow, will propose that meetings be held hereafter daily in order to carry the business through. Li Hung Chang says the return of the Temples of Heaven and Agriculture to the Chinese Is absolutely necessary before the dignity of the court will permit It to come back to Peking. RAINY AND WINDY. Dlnnereenble "Weather Predicted for Indlnnn To-Dny--Cooler. WASHINGTON. March 8.-Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: For Ohio Ilain on Saturday; southeast to southwest winds, brixk on the lake. Sunday fair, except rain or snow probable along the lake. For Illinois Occasional rains on Saturday; colder in central and southern portions; winds generally northerly; brisk on the lake. Sunday fair. For Indiana Rain on Saturday; falling temperature; winds northwesterly; brisk on the lake. Sundav fair. s' Locol Observations on Friday. Rir. Ther. IUI. Win. "Weather. Tre. Ta.tn :KJ.Sd Z :.k South. Cloudy. 0.) 1 I', m 2V.71 4'. V South. ClouJy. 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CHRIS L. MAGEE DEAD

Pi:.NSVI.VAMA LEGISLATOR AXD K L L-1 v X OW.V P O L I T I C I A X. Lone Ironilnent In the IttiMlnenn Affair? of 1'ittNhtir Death of Cnpt. Georsc X. Stone. IIARRISIiURG. r.a., March S.-State Senator Christopher L. JIagee, of Pittsburg, died at 5:21' o'clock this afternoon. lie had been in 111 health for a long time. His death was unexpected, a3 it was generally believed by his friends that he was Improving ia health. His condition took a turn for the worst last night, and the members of his family were hurriedly summoned to llarrisburg. His end was peaceful and calm. His remains will be taken to Pittsburg to-morrow afternoon. C. L. Magee was born In Pittsburg In 1813. Through the death of his father he was obliged to go to work when fifteen years old to support his mother and three younger children. After a period as office boy he obtained a clerkship, and In lMJy was made cashier in the city treasury, and in 1571 was fleeted city treasurer, andwas re-elected in 1871. lie was elected State senator in and was twice re elected. He was a director in numerous Pittsburg banks, trust companies and insurance companies, and at the time of his death was the principal owner in the Pittsburg Times. Cnpt. (ieortte -. Stone. CINCINNATI, O.. March 8. Captain George N. Stone, at the head of the local telephone business of Cincinnati, died this afternoon. He had submitted on Monday last to an operation for appendicitis, when the attack had reached such a stage that death was Inevitable if no operation was performed.- He withstood the shock of operation well, and rallied, but In a day or two complications of pneumonia supervened and death resulted. Captain Stone was a native of New Hampshire. He served during the civil war in the Seventh Rhode Island Infantry. He came into prominence as the owner of Maud S., the famous mare that held the trotting record in her time. Captain Stone had large business interests and amassed a large estate. Other Deaths. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.-John S. Hlttell, a well-known pioneer historian and journalist, died early to-day at his home In this city, aged seventy-six years. He was a prominent member of the Society of Pioneers and tho author ot numerous works, the best known probably' being his "History of California." CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 8. A private telegram received here tc-day announces the death of J. T. Dumas, one of the wealthiest manufacturers and cotton merchants of Alabama, at Mobile. He was a director in the Mobile Xe Birmingham Railroad and had other large holdings. ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. March 8. William M. "Wyeth, president of the Wyeth Hardware and Manufacturing Company of this city, and one of the pioneer jobbing merchants of the West, died at his home here at noon to-day aged sixty-nine years. BOSTON. March 8.-The Rev. Mark Trafton, an eminent Methodist minister, and formerly a member of Congress from Massachusetts, died to-day, aged ninety years. PROVIDENCE. It. I.. March S. Edward W. Tinker, formerly champion wing shot of the world, and a well-known hotel keeper of Providence, died to-day. BRIEF CABLEGRAMS. According to the census returns the population of the central provinces of India has decreased l,10Mtf), due to famine. Consuelo Yznnga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, and Sir John and Lady Lister Kaye will sail from England, for New York, to-day. Kersten. a prominent Casset banker, has been sentenced to imprisonment for four and a half years, after conviction of fraudulent practices. Three fresh cases of bubonic plague were officially reported at Cape Town yesterday. Two of the victims are Europeans, the others colored persons. A commission of Turkish ministers has been appointed to devise measures to counteract the addition of the party of Young Turkey, whose members are again active. The health of Count Tolstoi, the novelist and social reformer, is occasioning uneasiness. He has grown thin and complains of pains in the kidneys and of liver troubles. A heavy gale Is sweeping the English channel, and vessels are sheltering in the roadsteds. A three-ma3ted schooner lias been wrecked on the Rlchardo Rocks, near Prest. Her name has not been ascertained, but it is believed her crew perished. The French Senate, yesterday, after several days' discussion, rejected, by a vote of 176 to 10C. a bill introduced by the agriculturists, the effect of which would have been to create an export bounty of seven francs per quintal on wheat and flour. A heavy snowstorm, Thursday night, worked liavoc among the telephone and telegraph wires in Vienna, All communications were interrupted until yesterday afternoon. There were many street accidents during the day and several horses were killed. Count Portales Clumbowltz, who has often visited the United States, addressed the Silesian Chamber of Agriculture yesterday regarding cattle breeding in America. He declared that Germany would be swamped with American meat unless higher protection was afforded. The statement is confirmed that the Turkish government, with a view to meeting the extraordinary expenses of the army, is considering the proposal made for a loan of three million pounds Turkish, to be guaranteed by the proceeds of a 6 per cent, surtax on the tyixes of the empire and a 2 per cent, surtax on inland customs duties. Sir Thomas Upton has been gazetted a knight commander of the Victorian order Lieutenant Colonel Stiele, of Strathcona's Horse, has been appointed to the iourth class of the Victorian order. The King of Greece and the Crown Prince of Denmirk have received the honorary srand cross of the Victorian order. Queen Wiihelmlna, the Queen mother. Prince Henry and the Duke Regent of Mechlinburg-Schwerln visited the dockyard at Amsterdam yesterday. The Queen christened a new ironclad, bestowing on It the i.ame of Hertzog Hendrik. In a short speech her Majesty said she hoped the vesrel would do honor to the name of her consort and enhance the welfare of the fatherland. The celebrations in connection with the coming eightieth birthday of Prince Luitpold. Regent of Havaria. who was born March 12, Y$-. have already been begun in Munich. A number of elevations to high rank have been proclaimed, including the elevation cf the Bavarian premier, lJaron Von Crailsheim, to the rank of count. The sum of l.lTO.Wh marks has been collected throughout Bavaria to found a charitable institution in honor of the anniversary. Prince Luitpold has pardoned 422 persons convicted of various offenses. La Reforme, of Brussels, says it learns that the object of the forthcoming visit of the Duke of Orleans to Brussels is to act as one of the seconds of M. Andre Buffet In the expected duel with M. Paul Deroulede. The Rome correspondent of the Etoile Belg says the Duke of Orleans has declared that he will himself provoke M. Deroulede. as he considers the epithet, "royal liar." a personal Insult. M. Deroulede sailed from Barcelona yesterday for Genoa, accompanied by hi3 sister and M Marcel 1 labert. The trial of Countess Von Schlichen, a v eil-known writer on woman's right?, wh was arrested on a charge of arson in July of last year, but discharged ami rearrested In December, began yesterday in Berlin. She 13 accused of having s?t fire to her own villa, and the evidence against her. especially as nearing upon her attempts to obtain Insurance for thrice the value of the property, was quite strong. Tho m-.at Important witness for the prosecution, however, a servant named Krauz. has mysteriously disappeared. The count ex- was at one time a iluwer irl. Maurice Lyons, a lawyer of Queensland, intends to give King Edward what Is believed to be the largest end finest opal in the world. In the opinion of London lapidaries. Its only rival In size and beauty Is one possessed by Emperor Francis JosephThe Lyons gem is oval in shape, two inches long and an inch and a half deep, and weighs 250 carats. When found In Queensland it was an inch longer, but it was broken in the process of removal. It is estimated to bo worth upwards cf

50.000, and Mr. Lyons desires that it should be set in the King's regalia of the Australian federation. MRS. FRENCH PROTESTS.

She Sayn Her Daughter' Wedding Wns Xot n Elnbornte n Stated. LONDON, March 8. Mrs. Francis Ormond French, In order "to correct impressions conveyed through such portions of the English press as obtained their information from various Irresponsible newspapers," regarding the marriage ot her daughter to Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt, has sent out through a London press bureau an Itemized denial of certain erroneous statements concerning the wedding ceremony. She denies that the flowers cost about 100, and says the wedding cake did not cost 3,000. and that it "was entirely unadorned even with the usual sugar deVices." The bride's dress. Mrs. French asserts, was not copied from Queen Wllhelmina's. but was simple and "anything but extravagant." The bridegroom Is described as having been "equally modest in his arrangements." Mrs. French points out that she has read "with considerable distress" the mistaken report circulated by the London and provincial papers, and she asks them to make corrections to correspond with the facts. FIGHT WITH ft BURGLAR SEXSATIOXAL ATTEMPT TO ItOtl A CHICAGO MILLIOXAIHirS HOME. One of the Thieves "Wounded hy Yon nur Frederick 3IeLnuKhlln An Exciting Chute. t CHICAGO, March $. A highly sensational attempt to rob the home of William McLaughlin, the millionaire coffee merchant, at 97 Rush street, was made to-night. Scores of shots were fired and Frederick McLaughlin, a son of the merchant, narrowly escaped death. The residence i3 in the fashionable district of the North Side. With bullets from two revolvers flying about him, young McLaughlin stood on the front porch of his father's house and caught a burglar who had entered the residence, as the thief slid down the porch pillar. The escaping burglar, whose two confederates on guard were shooting at McLaughlin, drew his revolver. Pressing it to McLaughlin'3 abdomen as he landed at the bottom, he pulled the trigger, but the cartridge Tailed to explode. McLaughlin struck the burglar a blow that sent him reeling to the ground eight feet below. As he struck his man McLaughlin grabbed the revolver from the burglar's hand and fired at him as he fell. Then followed the escape of the two men who had stood guard. They rode east on Ontario street in a buggy, one man firing his revolver. The wounded man, forsaken by his comrades, ran madly after them, followed by McLaughlin and his brother-in-law. General M. D. Hardin. After running a block the pursuers were forced to halt, for the men in the buggy made a stand at Lincoln Park boulevard and Ontario street and opened up a fusillade while waiting for their wounded comrade to join them. When he got into the buggy the three lashed their horses and went south on Lincoln I 'ark boulevard. Mr. McLaughlin followed, shouting as he ran: "Kill those men, they are thieves." His shouts were heard by Cahrles C. Kern, a candy maker at 67 Lincoln Park boulevard, who opened fire on the fugitives, but failed to stop them. The men in the buggy kept up the tire until they were given free passage. The robbers had obtained no booty at the McLaughlin residence. Frederick McLaughlin is secretary and treasurer of the Costello Chocolate Company, a graduate of Harvard College, and well known in society circles. A servant girl had discovered the burglar in the upper part of the house. Alarming Frederick McLaughlin, she also startled the intruder, who started to leave the house as McLaughlin reached the front door. NO CANTEENS NOW. Uow Sold lern Behave AVhen They Get Drunk In the Groceries. CHICAGO, March S.Two hundred ' soldiers of the Fifth Infantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, created a veritable panic, last night, in the little town of Highwood, which adjoins Fort Sheridan on the south. The soldiers were on leave, and after visiting the saloons of Highwood many of them became drunk and fights among them were numerous. Frank Hughey, a private of Company F, was terribly beaten In one of the lights and is said to be in a serious condition. Two saloons were wrecked and the residents of the village were compelled to keep olT the streets. The Highwood authorities were utterly unable to cope with the soldiers and to-day ten extra officers were sworn in. There was not trouble today or to-night, however. TELEGRAPH MISCELLANY. The torpedo boat destroyer Lawrence made a maximum - speed of twenty-two knots at her third builders trial off Quincy, Mass., yesterday. In a test case at Louisville Judge Gregory held that the Pullman Palace Car Company Is not a railroad, and that its rolling stock cannot be taxed as railroad property is taxed. Two men were killed outright and three Injured so badly they will die by a heavy explosion of dynamite at a quarry near Ei Paso. Tex. All were Mexican laborers, except Charles Shelly, the foreman. William Jennings Bryan arrived In Buffalo late yesterday morning. He said his visit there was solely in the interest of his paper. During the afternoon he visited the Pan-American Exposition grounds. He left for New York at S:ü0 p. m. Col. J. G. Stowe. consul to Cape Town, South Africa, who has been home at Kansas City on leave of absence since November last, will leave to-day for New York, whence he will sail on the St. Louis on Wednesday next to resume charge of his olllcc. Recause of the many and diversified Interests In which John E. Searles was engaged the work of examining his financial condition Involves much time and labor. General opinion at New York now Is that Mr. Scarles's liabilities will be under I1.000.0UÜ. The Ontario government has taken up the question of forbidding the export of ratural gas from the western peninsula and there is every indication that the measure will became a law. Detroit now gets a large percentage of its natural gas supply from western Ontario. The steamer Numldian. with the Strathcona Horse on board, arrived at Halifax yesterday, from Liverpool, having been delayed by heavy winds. All on board were well, excepting one soldier, who has pneumonia. The steamer anchored in the stream to put oft the men. The soldiers will proceed to Ottawa at once. The University of Michigan won the debate against tho University of Pennsylvania Hi Ann Arbor last night by a unanimous vote of the judges. The question was: "Re?lv.M, That United States ouators should be elected by popular vote." Michigan too'.; the affirmative. Govern r Nash, of Ohio, presided. The coal in compartment No. 3 of the government collier Ajax, now at Norfolk. Va., has been on fire for several weeks rnd is still burning. The coal was taken on at Port Said and Malta on the return voyage from Manila, and has been burning rlnce the ship left Gibraltar. The origin of the fire is not known, nor is the amount of damage the vessel has suffered. The dead body of David Forsythe, a conductor on th Fifty-ninth street erosstown line. New V rk. was found on Fifty-ninth street near I irst avenue, early yesterday. Death was caused by a pistol shot wound in the left s'de of the head. It Is thought the man wa murdered. The police have arrested John Qwlnn. a motorman, in the belief that be has some knowledge of the frugfcdy.

HICKEY COMING TO-DAY

READY TO PIT IXDIAXAPOLIS AXD LOUISVILLE IX HIS LEAGUE. neply of John I. Hogers to John T. Brush DlNpute Between Milwaukee nnd PIttahurg. ST. JOSEPH, March S.-President Thomas J. Illekey, of the Western League, went to Indianapolis to-day to settle the two franchise questions, and, from a reliable source here, it is learned to-day that it has been decided to accept the propositions coming from the two cities. The question Is for them to fulfill the offer. Iloffer ilenlie to Mr. Itrnxh. PHILADELPHIA, March S.-John I. Rogers, treasurer of the Philadelphia National League Baseball Club, to-day gave out a long statement in reply to the charges made by John T. Brush, of Cincimiati, that the Philadelphia magnate is responsible for the failure of the National League to organic the American Association to offset the American League. Mr. Rogers in his statement goes into the history of the movement to start the association. He t!enie3 emphatically that he is responsible for its failure, and contends that the failure to reach a plan of organization was due wholly to the insistence by Brush on the adoption of his own plans in perfecting the organization. These plans, Mr. ltogers said, were not satisfactory to the Philadelphia National League club. John A. McPhee Here. John A. McPhee, manager of the Cincinnati club, was In Indianapolis yesterday to see President Brush. The two held a long conference, but neither would make a statement to the public. McPhee would not discuss his team for the coming season. Hnaebnll Xote. President Hart announced, yesterday, that the orospects of the Chicago club are the brightest. While the defection of several men is a foregone conclusion the remaining ones will make up a fast lot, and, in comparison with other National League clubs, tho team appears strong. Eli and Tannehill yesterday renewed their allegiance to the Pittsburg1 Club by signing contracts for tho coming season. At the end of last season Pittsburg drafted Catcher Harry Smith, from Milwaukee, in lieu of w hich Milwaukee agreed to pay Pittsburg for Peitz. President Dreyfus learned, yesterday, that Smith had signed with his old manager, Connie Mack, at Philadelphia, Dreyfus rays he has placed the matter in the hands of his attorneys, to see if Milwaukee can be held for a breach of contract. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. Kid Tarker, of Colorado, and Dave Barry, of Canada, fought a ten-round draw at Denver last night. A number of sportsmen of Peru have Incorporated a new racing association and will build a fine track in the spring. At Hot Springs, Ark., last night, the fight between Casper Leon and Morris Rausch lasted twenty rounds and was declared a draw. TonVJenkins, of Cleveland, O., champion heavy weight wrestler of the United States, defeated llalil All, the terrible Turk, at St. Louis, last night, winning two falls in the short space of sixteen minutes. The grand jury at Galveston, Tex., refused to find a true bill against Choynski and Johnson, the Imprisoned prize fighters. They were released and Immediately arrested on a new warrant. Terry McGovern and Dave Sullivan were matched, at Louisville, last night, for a twenty-round contest before the Twentieth Century Athletic Club, of San Francisco, on April W, for tho lightweight championship of the world. A committee headed by Judge Howard Ferris, of the Probate Court, of Hamilton county, arrived at Circleville, O., from Cincinnati, yesterday, and presented Harry M. Weldon, the disabled sporting editor, with a check for $10,300. Mr. Weldon was stricken with paralysis a year ago. The longest pool game of the Boston tournament was that played last night between Frank Sherman, of Washington, and W. II. Clearwater, of Pittsburg, In which Sherman was winner -150 to 126. Twenty frames were necessary, and the players used so much caution that the game was prolonged until midnight. Barney Reich and Peter Lowery, representing Tom Sharkey and Peter Maher, respectively, met In New York yesterday and clinched a match for the two pugilists at twenty or twenty-five rounds. Two weeks have been left open in which bids will be received from clubs throughout the country. The fight will take place before the club offering the biggest inducement. Prize fighting in Minnesota Is legalized by a bill introduced in the upper house of tho Legislature yesterday by Senator Ryder, of Polk county. No limitation is placed on the number of rounds, but the minimum weight of the gloves allowed is five ounces. The effect of the bill is to allow fights under the auspices of any "asuoelatlon" that may incorporate for the purpose In Minnesota. The continued match and the association championship at the traps were continued at the Interstate Park, L. I., traps, yesterday, instead of at Madison-square Garden. In the continuous match Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, Ia., took first honors, with a score of M. Crosby, of O' Fallen, 111., and Heikes, of Dayton, O., with totals of f5 each, were tied in the championship event. Company E, of Fond du Lac, Wis., defeated the Kenton, O., basketball team at the Chicago Sportsman show yesterday by a score of 21 to 17. Fond du Lac and the Ravenswood Y. M. C. A. team are now tied for first place in the tournament, both teams having won all their matches thus far. At night the Silent Five, of New York, defeated the University of Minnesota 21 to 20 at basket ball. Yesterday's race winners At New Orleans: Free Hand, 10 to 1; Henry Clay, ." to 1; Miss Soak. 3 to 1; Dissolute, 2 to 1; Donsterswivel, 8 to 1; Harry Preston, 12 to 1. At Tanforan: Mission. 7 to 1: Greatland, 7 to 2; McLaren, 11 to 5; Brutal. 4 to 1; Bonnie LIss lk. 7 to 2; Redwald, 4 to 1. At Oakland: Lief Prince, 3 to 3; Sir-Rolla. even; Constable. 12 to 1; Rollick, even; Rinaldo, S to 1; The Light, 5 to 1. Entries for the stakes and purser? offered by the Detroit Driving Club, to be competed for during its summer meeting, July i;. to ly, close on Monday. The stakes are the Merchants' and Manufacturers. $10.U) for 2:14 clasn trotters, and the Chamber of Commerce, Jö.üf'O, for 2:24 class pacers. The purse events, guaranteed $2,500 ea-.h, ai2 tho Hotel Cadillac, for 2:11 class trotting, the Russell House, for 2:17 class trotting; the Hotel Normandle, for 2:01) class pacing, and the Wayne Hotel, for 2:14 class. pacing. CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. Frank II. Stout, who killed James Wilson at Dawson. 111.. Nov. 21 last, was captured yesterday at Stroud, O. T. While making an arrest at Chippewa Falls, Wis., last night. ChW of Police John Moore was shot several times through the heart, dying instantly. The murderer escaped. Two highwaymen entered the village of Olpe, near Emporia, Kan.. Thursday night, and held up a dozen people, the occupants of two stores. The haul consisted of a small amount of money, several shotguns and a quantity of Jewelry. Kriby Graves. Rill Johnson and Henry Brooks, negroes, were hanged at Richmond. Ark., yesterday. Graves and Johnson wc,re convicted of murdering Ed Evans, white, and Brooks was convicted of murdering Frank Uopson, colored. At Chattanooga. Tenn., yesterday, T. P. Powell, with a 32-caliber revolver, while seated at the breakfast table. Mow out his brains and fell dead on the table. Brooding over the loss of a son who was drowned last summer Is the cause assigned. Captain Titus, of the New York Detective Bureau, says Alfred Parsons, the New Haven prisoner, charged with attempting to swindle President Hadley, of Yale, is not Sidney Lascelles, but that he Is Ross Raymond, almost as well known as Lascelles. James Smith. O. F. Rolls. C. I. Krebs. Joseph Tcrres. Philip Rolls. Elijah Walker. Robert Seymour and Joseph Able were arraigned at Seranton. Miss., yesterday on an indictment for tho lynching of John Knox, who shot and killed his stepson. Owing to the absence of the main witness the cases were continued until Thursday. Mrs. Ellen Allen, held as an accessory in the murder of her daughter at Knobnostcr, Mo., on Tuesday night, was released

at her preliminary hearing. yesterdaj the charge against her being withdrawn. Henry Wisely, the negro charged with the murder, was granted a change of venue to Warrensburg, and was taken there for trial. William Schriber, the young bank clerk who plundered the Elizabethport, N. J., bank last August of $109.000, has been traced to L03 . Angeles, Cal., where he cashed three United States 4 per cent, bonds, which are part of his plunder. The bonds were of the issue of 1S95 and were for Jl.OoO each. They had been placed in the bank for safe keeping by the administrators of the estate of the late Peter F. Wyckoff, of Elizabethport. The bank is now being sued for the value of thes bonds. Except that he cashed the bonds in Los Angeles, nothing further has been learned of the missing clerk. At Opelousas, La., yesterday, when the drop of the scaffold on which were three negro murderers fell, the rope around the neck of Willie Payne broke, though the recks of the other two were broken. Payne was picked up from the ground and put in a chair until another rope could be prepared, when he was brought again to the gallows. He was too weak to stand and had to be held until the drop fell a second t.'nre, when his neck was broken. Payne acknowledge his guilt of murder. Of the other two negroes hanged, Nathan Simpson confessed the murder of Sam Goldberg, and Stanley Gordon acknowledged murdering his wife. FILIPINOS AT PARIS.

Mr. Held Snys They Conld Get Hearings Before Peace Commission. NEW YORK, March S.-On Feb. 26 L. K. Fuller, secretary of the Philippine Information Society, of Boston, wrote to Whitelaw Reid, who was a member of the Paris peace commission, a letter in which he asked the following questions: "Did Senator Davis present a request of Aguinaldo for a hearing before the commission, and did he tell Agonclllo to send in a written request for such a hearing? Was such a request received? Did Agonclllo leave cards for the members of the peace commission, and were these courtesies reciprocated? Was any Filipino heard by the commission?" To this letter Mr. Reid replied on March 2, the substance of his answer being as follows: "Senator Davis on at least two occasions reported to the peace commissioners the request Mr. Agonclllo had made orally to him for a hearing. Each time Senator Davis was authorized by the commissioners to request Mr. Agonclllo to present the application In writing and to .assure him that it would have early attention. Senator Davis reported to the commission each time that he had communicated to Mr. Agonclllo its answer. Perhaps I ought to add that on more than one occasion I brought the subject up In the commission, and inquired of Senator Davis whether any such written application had yet come from Mr. Agonclllo. I was told that none had come, and that, instead, Mr. Agonclllo was reported to be frequenting the headquarters of the Spanish commissioners and the Spanish embassy. "In my own case Mr. Agoncillo's card was received, and my card was duly left upon him within twenty-four hours. "As a matter of fact, 'any Filipino was o heard. One was heard at considerable length and more than once. But the hearing was, at his own request, kept secret. He was a man of standing in the community of Luzon." Mr. Reid also told Mr. Fuller that as he (Mr. Fuller) probably asked the questions for Information. It might be well to give everybody the benefit of that information, so he handed both letters to the Associated Press, but their publication was delayed on request of Mr. Fuller. ALL ON BOARD LOST. Brltlüh Steamer Avlonn Wrecked nt the Bilbao Brenkwnter. BILBAO, Spain, March 8. The British steamer Avlona, Captain Lenox, has been wrecked at the Bilbao breakwater. All on board were lost. The last obtainable report of the movements of the steamer show her to have left Santander, Feb. 12, and to have arrived at Twoon, Feb. 17. She was of 1,1) tons net register, 274 feet long. '.-n feet beam, and 24 feet deep. She was built at Dundee, in IsSO, and was owned by the Avlona Steamship Company, of Ayr. Later The Alvona has gone to pieces on the rocks, and her entire crew, twentythree in number, perished. Movement of Steamer. NEW YORK, March 8. Arrived: Tauric, from Liverpool. Sailed: Southwark, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, March 8. Arrived: New England, from Boston. Sailed: Dominion, lor Portland. NAPLES, March 8. Arrived: Werra, from New York via Gibraltar, for Genoa, and proceeded. PHILADELPHIA, March 8. Arrived: Rhynland, from Liverpool via Queenstown. HALIFAX, March 8. Arrived: Numldian, from Liverpool, for Portland, Me. GENOA, March 8. Sailed: Aller, for New York. SIX-INCH GUN BURSTS. Collapses While ITndersoinsr an Oftl clnl Test at Fort Wadsworth. NEW YORK, March 8.-A six-inch gun undergoing its official test burst to-day at Fort Wadsworth. The heavier parts of the gun collapsed, falling to the ground yvith the tangled steel frames of its carriage. The breech block was hurled against the barricade, " where It was shattered agai.-ist the steel bolts, and its parts, deflecting, spread destruction in all directions. One largo piece passed through one of the frame storehouses and buried itself in the ruins of the old barracks. One jagged part struck the tracks on which several construction cars were standing. The rails were twisted like wire and two of the cars overturned and badly damaged. Grant Johnson and F. Newman, employes in the construction department, had narrow escapes from death. Johnson had a pall dashed from his hand and broken to pieces and Newman escaped by only a few inches from another piece of flying steel. Captain Babbitt is conducting an investigation. ChniiKe of Venne 13111 Vetoed. HELENA. Mont., March 8. Governor Joseph Toole to-day vetoed the bill commonly known as "the change-of-venue bill." It provides that when "Judicial prejudice could be shown on the part of the presiding judge, such prejudice to be shown by oral testimony," a change of venue could be demanded, and if refuse-d by the Judge himself appeal could be taken to the Supreme Court and that body could grant such change of venue. The Amalgamated Copper Company and others were commonly recognized as the men urging the bill. The Heinz interests were opposing it. Its purpose, according to general understanding, was to enable the Amalgamated Copper Company to get a change of venue from Silver Bow county, where It has an innumerable number of lawsuits with the Heinz people on the dockets. In the course of his reason for vetoing the bill. Governor Toole condemned it in severe terms. Xo 31oney for Levee Work. NEW ORLEANS, March 8. The failure of the river and harbor bill has made the river situation serious. Col. George C. M. Derby, United States engineer, in charge of the Mississippi river district from Warrenton. Miss., to the head of the passes, said i-vday that he had no money to continue tne usual levee work this year and only $o,.m) to expand In case of hig'a water. He said the entire plans of the Mississippi River Commission would have to' be revised from St. Louis down. The board of officers in charge of the Mississippi river work will meet in Memphis about the 13th for general consultation. The Goilah of Cheeks. Boston Herald. The famous JG.OOO.OfO check of the late William H. Vanderbilt. which was framed and hung up for exhibition after having been cashed, m:ght as well be turned to the wall row. Times have changed since it was drawn, and it now looks puny and out of date. Mr. Morgan's $23.000.000 check is the magnum cpus in the gallery of high rlnanct now. The big figures used in some of the current financial operations are aptly compared with those by which philosophers

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like Newton or Copernicus formulated the fundamental laws of the ;universe, and measured the distances of the heavenly bodies from one another. EDWARD VII, FARMER. His Model Farm, Which Were Organixed by the Prince Consort. London Mail. The interest which the King has always taken in agriculture will no doubt be increased by his coming Into possession of the famous Windsor farms, which the prince consort remodeled. These are now two in numberthe Shaw farm, a short distance from the castle. In the direction of old Tindsor, containing about 720 acres; and the Flemish farm, which covers some 4' acres of the outlying neighborhood. The farms exist to-day in almost the same form and with almost the same cultivation as in the days of the prince consort. The mixed farming, which insures that all the eggs shall not be in one basket, was ftrst taught in this country by the prince consort, and the royal farms at Windsor are still among the highest examples cf its successful practice. The prince consort's Shaw farm is the one which stands ilrst, its magnificent model buildings a well-planned combination of stabling, cattle boxes, stalls and yards, poultry house and piggeries as well as the fact that it Is the home farm of the historic home of the sovereigns of Kngiand, marking it out for this position. This farm is the latest acquired of all the Windsor estates belonging to the crown, having been purchased some two hundred years ago from the former owner, a Frenchman, M. De Shawe, and it is hl3 name that still attaches to the land. Till lH'j, wrhen the prince consort took them in hand, the home farm included merely the park and grounds of the castle, and the Shaw farm had been an appanage of Frogmore. The prince consort became the tenant of it and of the home grounds in 1843, and since 1SG3 the late Queen Victoria had been tenant. King Edward VII now comes Into possession. The landlords are the commissioners of woods and forests, so that the King is really a tenant farmer. During the time of the prince consort the rent and taxes paid for the holdings amounted to over 1,000 -a year. Besides providing thft necessary capital for the cultivation and equipment, the prince consort also lnvepteci upwards of 6.WK) in providing new farm buildings for both farms. The house occupied by Mr. Tait, the land steward. Is detac.ied from the homestead, rnd contains a suite of apartments for the King's use. from which his Majesty can (as did the late Queen) walk in comparative privacy through the range of commodious buildings and inspect the cattle which are bing prepared for exhibition. Several hundred head of cattle of different sortB are to be seen on the farm, many of them Jerseys and nonpedlgree Fhorthorns, kept for dairy purposes. Nearly a hundrel pigs are generally kept, and a great many half-bred ewes. The chief objects of the farm are the breeding of animals for food and the provision of dairy produce. The Flemish farm is situate in Windsor Great Park. It received its name at the hands of King George IV, and consists of 240 acres of arable and IfiO of pasture land. The great feature of the farm is the homestead, which was erected at a cost of 6,000. of which over five-sixths were paid by the tenant, and which nt the time was regarded as the most complete set of farm buildings ever erected. Many homesteads have been modeled sfter it. The farm is noted for its pure bred herds of Herefords and Devons, and lierkshire pigs. Cuban In ventmen t . W. G. Nicholas, in New York Telegraph. An immense amount of money Is going, into Cuba as soon as the people of the island quit their foolishness and furnish satisfactory assurances that outside Investments are welcome and will be protected. Now that Congress has given expression to the official verdict of what is due this country and what the relations should be as between Cuba and the United States, a speedy settlement of the political status of our insular ward seems likely, much to the relief of those who have been awaiting such an adjustment before embarking upon development projects they have in contemplation. In New York alone enterprises calling for at least $50.0i0.000 have been held in abeyance for months ready to be released for the benefit of Cuba as soon as it Is safe to put real money into the island. That time appears to be near at hand. Yankee Dltcra Bitten. Nebraska State Journal. The Maine Legislature has been, after the fashion of State legislatures of late, putting the screws on people from other States doing business there and the consequence is that the big ice firms of the Eastern cities have quit shipping Maine ice to the loss of about half a million a year to the people of Maine engaged in that industry. The coal dealers have also given forth the warning that as their vessels carrying coal up the coast to Maine in the winter, can no longer get cargoes of Ice for the return trip, the price of coal In Maine will doubtless go up. State legislatures will do well not to attempt to monkey with interstate business. The memlerg rarely have sufficient business sagacity to know jv.fit what they are doing, when they pass a little bill to sock it to "foreigners." Mr. Ilryan' Crookrrincs. Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Iiryan in his Commoner declares that Cuba is pacified and insists that the United States government should withdraw unconditionally from the island. Were the government to do that, Mr. liryan would, should he live so long, make his campaign, three years hence, on the incompetency of the Republicans, charge the present administration .with breaking its covenant with Spain, and leaving Cuba in a state to be a perpetual menace to the health of Southern cities and the peace of the whole Republic. Mr. Uryan for a good while posed u a statesman. He wrs mistaken. In hlmaelX h$ U Just & pollUcixa.

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