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BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E.MOPSS, BEN A. EATON, Preaideo', Vice Preaideot. b. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (Eaterr4 at t tie PnntoRlpe at Indian ayolis n second clusa matter.) TEHMS PER YEAR I Single copy (In Advance) ft tt'( ask democrat to bear in rolntl aid select their own state paper tt hen they come to take subscription and make up clabs. Asenta making up clubs tend for nny information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SEXTI.XEL, Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 18tt. There seems to be a general demand that McKinley shall be the Lobengula to make th? last stand against the advance of civilization in -America. He tuits. us. Let him prepare his impis. If, as the republican pre fa Is claimin. McKinley Is to be th republican candidate for president In 1S96, democrats may rest easy. McKinley will pever be pr?sident of the United States. t One unfortunate result of the Ohio election Is that it puts an end to John Sherman's presidential aspirations. It would have been a great satisfaction to let the people have an opportunity to express their opinion of John. Just rmce. Our bribery hw is still receiving compliments from all parts of the country. The Springfi Id Republican thinks it is "the most eltective means of stamping mt the evil" that has been devised. The legislature of 1.VS9 made a great deal of re putation for Indiana. The election or a democratic congressman to the seat made vat-ant by the dath of th late Judge Chiprr.an Is significant. Tn that district, of all the territory in wh::h flections wore held Tuesday, way there any chance of influencing congressional a-t'.on on the tariff. In that district the democratic majority the tariff reform majority was 1,700. The - rle of the United States are still f r t-viff rrform. Af'-rdi"? to a published interview Congressman Conn is inclined to hHlr " on th tariff question. Con-fyes"-:r?r. Cr :ti and all other Indiana congre?.-m -n might as well understand row as lair-r that the democracy of Indiana will not tolerate any hesitation in this matter A revenue tariff, pure and ur.defikd. is the demand of the Indiana democracy, and it will have no patience with ai.ything short f that. The report that th woman's suffrage amendment h-.s carried in Colorado Is of special Interest, .as this Is the first time that th' reform has ben adopted by a vole of the people. In the territories of Washington and Wyoming it was done by act of the legislature. The fidvocates of the change in Colorado made a "still hunt" and probably succeeded on thut account. The subject was hardly mentioned in the Colorado papers during the campaign. Now listen for a patriotic (?) outburst cf indignation from republican sources anent Secretary Gresham's report on the Hawaiian matter. They will ignore the fact that Minister Stevens was violating the laws of honesty, decency and International comity to aid a ring of conspirators In an attempt to overthrow a friendly power. Their whole insistence will be that the "rebel? are again in the saddle." There will be neither rhyme nor reason in their remarks, but that seldom makes any difference to a republican. The anti-vaccination school, which Is cjuite formidable in England and which also has quite a following In this country, would not find much that Is encouraging in the results reached during the recent Muncie smallpox epidemic. Out of 147 cases of the foul d!sea?e eighty-seven of them were r.ever vaccinated and sixty-one of the feverest cases were never vaccinated, and of all the cases that were classified as severe three were vaccinated. Of twenty deaths seventeen of them were r.Ot successfully vaccinated, and of all the deaths that occurred only one was cf tecent vaccination. Ii formation from the counties of northern Indiana Indicates that the I'armers' alliance Is rapidly going to pieces. Many of the lodge have surrendered their charters, and It Is said that in some localities the organization, whl h was formerly large and vigorous, h.3s now dwindled to that point whre rlr.jle figures will denote the membership. The allianre, which was founded cn the Idea that trusts and monopolies were becoming dangerous and should resisted, may now easily find a welcome In the democratic party. Its members will never find a congenial home in the republican party, which has feasted and fattened upon trusts, monopolies and high protective tariff fruits for lo these many years.

The Russian Imperial commissioner to the world's fair, M. de Grinevsky, seems to think the Harrison assassination a valuable object lesson to those Americans who protest against Russian severity. He says: What la the consequence of humanely treating criminals? 'the assassination of the mayor of Chicago la a sad answer to such a question. In Europe Idle men and dangerous elements, socialists and communists s'py monarchs. Here, they raise their hands against the loaders chosen by the i-eople. Is not this a f hocking sign of the times that leaves jio room for sentimentality? Wc do not see where the question of humane treatment of criminals comes In. i'T-endergat was not a prisoner; ba - h&d not been subjected to

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j orinvsky wants to carry- Ms argument to a logical conclusion he should Insist who can possibly become a criminal. That would t the only way of preventing crime. As a method of intimidating others the Russian system does not seem to be any more successful than our own, and it certainly is less in keeping with the civilization and enlightenment of the nineteenth century. THE ELECTIONS. The result of last week's elections is not particularly surprising. It Is one of the peculiar facts in American political history that the party successful at a presidential election invariubly meets defeat In the comparatively unimportant local and state elections of the year following its victory. So uninterruptedly has this thing occurred that shrewd politicians long since ceased to regard these "off year" results as indicative of the future. This yeir there was more reason than ever to anticipate republican success and democratic defeat The disappointed offloe-eeekers who wanted revenge for fancied personal grievances wer .all democrats; a financial crisis always charged, no matter with how little reason, to the party in powerwas on the country; and the democrats had In the last elections secured control of several naturally republican states, which have merely returned to their old party allegiance. Take a look at the states which the republicans carried Tuesday: New York seldom votes twice in succession the same way Last year it went democratic. This was its republican year, and the nomination of Maynard for judge weakened the democracy. Iowa is naturally republican and the same may be said of Ohio and Massachusetts. In their victories in these states the republicans have merely held their own. About the only national significance to the result Tuesday comes from Ohio. The large majority of Maj. McKinley gives that gentleman a commanding lead for the republican nomination for president, and shelves Benjamin Harrison, who lost the country and practically lost Ohio one year ago. There Is really nothing in the result to discourage the democracy. It has lost little. If any. solid ground. But it is awakened to the necessity of watch fulness and work If the control of con gress Is to be retained next year. This is well, for the overwhelming victory of 1802 had tended to throw the party Into a condition of lethargic over-confidence. In putting democracy on its guard the defeat of Tuesday may prove a blessing in disguise. nit: ri:im:l ihm.. To the Editor Sir: Is there any law In force since the repeal of the Sherman law by which the government can coin any more silver money? if so, what arcits provisions? Answer In detail in Tuesday's Sentinel. It KADER. Tipton, Ind., Nov. 6, 1S::5. The repeal bill passed at the extra session repeals only so much of the Sherman law "as directs the secretary of the treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500.000 ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month at' the market price thereof, not exceeding $1 for 271 23-100 grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment for such purchases treasury notes of the United States." The Sherman law repealed only so much of the act of 1S7S, known as the Bland law, or Allison law, "as requires the monthly purchase and coinage of the same into silver dollars of not lees than two million dollars, nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion." Hence the remainder of the act of 1S78 Is In force, and it provides, among other things, thus: There shall be coined at the several mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of 4121-2 grains troy of standard silver, as provided in the act of Jan. 18, 1S37. on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act: which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by tho United States of like weight ar.d fineness, shall be a legal tender at their nominal value, for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated In the contract. If there could be any doubt os to this It would be removed by the declaratory passage of the Voorhees bill, which states the purpose of the United States "to coin both gold and silver into money of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value." This can apply only to the dollar, because all of our minor coins were debased under the law of 1K53 and were merely token-money, when th silver dol- ' lar was demonetized. REFORM THE TARIFF. The claim of republican papers that the recent elections show a change of I opinion among the people as to the ee- , Bit-ability of tariff reform Is one that will cause very little worry to any intelligent reformer. The people of the whole country passed on this question i last year. Their verdict was very plain and emphatic. No state has rej versed Its verdict this year except New j York and New Jersey, and in both cf ' these there were ample local causes for ; the change without taking the tariff ! question Into consideration. It Is true J that the republican majorities In Massa chusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio were largely Increased, but there waa also ample cause for the change In these. It Is apparent that a considerable portion of the people have believed the Incessant cry of the republicans that the panic and the business depression were due to the proposed change of the tariff. Of course it s not true, but they have believed it, and that settled the matt?r so far as these elections were concerned. ! ' There Is a natural tendency to blame hard, times to tha party In power. It.

I has been observed in this country for j years, and 'every student of politics Is j familiar with it. A certain percentage

of the people t0 not st0p to think, or are not capable of carrying thought to a proper conclusion. They know that something Is hurting them and they strike viciously at the first thing in sight, which Is the party in power. And yet you will find scarcely one of them whe has changed his views as to the tariff. We had a somewhat startling election at this point, but we have yet to hear of a man who changed on this ground. There Is no reason why anyone should change, for there has been no change in the tariff, and no one has had any experience to induce a change. So far as the tariff has affected the situation at all, there has been a complaint of delay in the action of congress. Any business man, whether protectionist or free-trader, will agree that a delay in a proposed change of tariff is bad for business, simply because men want to know the basis on which they are doing business, and they cannot know It in the face of a proposed but indefinite change. If congress had passed a tariff bill two months ago there would have been no trouble in the country now, and the more quickly it passes one hereafter the more quickly will the situation Improve, because a genuine reform of the tariff would be an Immense stimulant to business. Business has been depressed on account of a money panic brought on by an absurd piece of republican legislation. It needs a stimulant. Congress should give it one. and it should do so quickly. Mr. Gorman Is reported to have promised in a speech a few days ago that the country would have tariff reform "within two years." It ought to have It within two months. If congress heeds the true lesson of these elections It will do little talking and act quickly. VALVE OF THE MIT MARK. In answer to an anxious inquirer the Philadelphia Press gives some Information as io the nature of money that will not stand the test of reason. It say i 'n the first place: Flat money Is that which is made to do the office of money by virtue of the command of the government making it a leiral tender for debts, and which would be of no value without that command. Paper money which Is redeemable in coin on presentation is not "fiat." for it is worth the money it is payable in independent of its legal tender quality. The silver dollar would be fiat money to the extent of the difference between its bullion and legal tender value, b it for the fet that it Is exchangeable for gold, so that which would otherwise be its hat portion Is, like the greenback, the government's promise to pay. This is well enough so far as it goes, but the Press doe? not carry to Its legitimate conclusion Its point that silver is maintained at the gold standard by being exchangeable for gold. This Is now true, of course, as to silver coins alone, but there is no reason why It should not apply to all silver equally If there were governments ready to exchange gold for It at a fixed ratio, as each country now does with Its own coins. The Press, forgetful of this fact, sajs: If all the important mints were closed to the coinage of gold it would undoubtedly fall in value. In the same way if the leading markets of the world were for any reason dosed to wheat that staple would fall in value and Its production fall off greatly. Demand and supply together go to make up the market value of any product. The mint nvirk no more gives gold its value than the peck measure gives value to wheat. Both mint stamps and peck measures are convenient instruments for ascertainirg and proving value and that Is all. It Is a long way between this and fiat money, which one instant Is a blank piece of paper and in another reads "this is a dollar and a legal tender for all debts." The mint mark does not give value to the coin becaue it Is an agreement of the government to maintain it on exchangeable relations with gold, which Is now the sole standard In this country as well as in most of the commercial nations. As a matter of fact three-fourths of all the silver in the world is maintained at a standard varying from 14 to 1 to 16 to 1 because It Is in the shape of coin. If all these nations should give free coinage to the remaining silver It would at once come to the same ratio, because It would then be exchangeable also. The establishment of a bimetallic coinage ratio Is in fact a bid for the money metals at a fixed rate, and If all countries mnke the. same bid there would be no fluctuation in the value of either as measured In the other. This would not be "fiat," but it would be giving an arbitrary fixed value to the metals by the mint mark. One country alone could not maintain such a system without losing its stock of one or the other of the money metals, but all the nations acting in conjunction could do It without inconvenience. A n ALLOT I'M! 1 FI ER. The decision of our supreme court In the case of the state ex rel. Beedle vs. Schoonover Is attracting outside attention to the excellence of the Indiana election laws as preventives of bribery and corruption. The law sustained by the court in this case Is the one prepared by Judge McCabe, now of the Supreme bench, and passed by the legislature of 1SS9. It provides, In brief, that a bribed voter shall have an action for $3iK) against the person who bribed him, or furnished money to do so, and that the Judgment may be enforce! by imprisonment, as In cases of bastardy. Schoonover was candidate for clerk of the circuit court for Warren county, and was charged in the complaint with buying needle's vote for the sum of $10. Ills attorneys demurred to the complaint, and the demurrer was held good by the lower court. This decision was reversed and the lower court was directed to rustain the complaint. The attorneys for the defendant attacked the law with much ingenuity. They claimed that it was repealed by the general election law, which was passed a few hours later; that It put the defendant twice in Jeopardy, as he was also subject to criminal prosecution; that it was contrary to the fundamental principles of our constitution, as it arbitrarily created . a relation of

debt against a man who had made no , contract to that effect, and had not injured the plaintiff; that It violated the constitutional provision against imprisonment for debt; and that it gave a man a right to recover damages for his own wrong. The supreme court answered these objections and placed the law on the broad and firm basis of a remedial measure for the prevention of a great public wrong. It took judicial notice of the corruption, under the old elective system and of the strong public sentiment in favor of a more effective law for the protection of the ballot. As to the injury to the plaintiff the court says: It will not do to say that a person who is Induced to vote for any candidate Is not Injured. He has sold his birthright. Under temptation to which he was subjected he has bartered his honor, his manhood, his political freedom, his sovereignty. We cannot say Judicially he has not been Injured. While the body politic hes suffered greatly, the loss he has sustained Is infinitely mere. Judge McCale took no part In the decision of the case, as he prepared the law. The people of Indiana are under great obligations to him for devising this system for the discouragement of bribery. So far as we have been able to ascertain it 1 entirely unique, but It Is evidently better calculated to put an end to the nefarious business of votebuying than anything that has yet been produced by ballot reformers excepting alone the Australian ballot system.

MODERN ITALY. One of the most striking publications Issued in connection with the world's fair was a special edition of "Pro Italia," which was published for Italy day. The whole purpose of this publication, as stated by its editors, was to remove the mistaken impressions that exist in this country In regard to Italy. Its purpose Is expressed in these words: Every year you see thousands and thousands of Italians coming to your ports, who come here to se k work, to seek life that Is lacking for them In their own country. You see these poor brothers of ours, exhausted, ragged and Ignorant, devote themselves to the most humiliating work, and all this makes a sad impression on your mind and induces you to believe erroneous conceptions about the true state of Italy, which 1 by many of you considered yet as the classic land of mountebanks, hand-organs, cutthroats and tatterdemalions. Those of you who sympathize more with our country believe you do it a great honor by calling it the land of music and art. But this is not enough. We wish to have it known that we are also the land of thought, of science, of agriculture and of Industry. One of the first points made to establish this claim is that most of the Italians who come to this country are not beggars, but farmers, and their emigration is due to the system of large estates and farm tenantry' with very low agricultural wages. In this country very few of them try agriculture except in California, where grape and olive culture offers a field In which they are already expert. The Italian farmers are not vicious, but industrious and frugal, and aside front their general lack of cleanliness are not objectionable as citizens. We presume that It Is not generally understood by the Italians of this country, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that nine-tenths of all the prejudice there is against them could be removed by soap and water. Cleanliness of person, of clothing and of dwelling is the greatest recommendation any foreign people can bring to America. And it is so cheap and so easy of application. We would earnestly recommend Italians who feel the oppression of American prejudice to make a crusade for soap and water among their people. It is really a pity that people having so many good qualities as the Italians should let themselves be injured in the eyes of their neighbors for the lack of a little effort in this line. The army and navy of Italy, as Is commonly known, are large and fully up to modern requirements. Italy has over 8,000 miles of railroads and over 22,000 miles of telegraph. It has an extensive and elaborate public school system and the government spends annually 42,000,000 llras, or $8.106,000, for public school education. The school system embraces all Etages of education from primary schools to universities. Italy has a complete separation of church and state. It has an elective system of representation with universal suffrage on an educational basis. It has a penal code much admired by Jurists, under which capital punishment is abolished. It has an extended system of public works, on which it spends annually about 130,000.000. No country of Europe Is moving to the front more rapidly than Italy, and everything points to a great and prosperous future for her people. Diphtheria has been unusually severe in several sections of Indiana and It yet lingers In many towns and counties. We published the other day. a long-tried remedy of liquid tar and turpentine, to be burned and the fumes Inhaled under certain conditions. Another remedy which has reached us from France we give also to the readers of The Sentinel. The French doctor was at first very unsuccessful, but he treated the cases In the( usual way. Remembering, as he says, that the English use petroleum as an anti-spasmodic and antiseptic, he determined to try It as nn experiment. His first trial was in the case of a little girl seven years old. He had already given her up and proposed to the parents to make the experiment, which 'consisted In swabbing the throat with common petroleum." He had little hope of success of his new "method, but to his astonishment he noticed an improvement after the first application. He continued the treatment and the child recovered. Then he tried it successfully with his other patients. This year he had forty cases of diphtheria to treat, and he was successful in every one. The treatment presents little difficulty or danger. The swabbing is done every hour or every two hours, according to the thickness of the mem branes, which become, as it . were.

diluted under the action of the petroleum. The brush, after being dipped In the petroleum, should be shaken to preJ vent any drops falling into the respira

tory channels. The patients experience relief from the very first application. The disagreeable taste of the petroleum remains for a, few moments only. In his remarks at the recent banquet at Liverpool Mr. Bayard made plain to his English hearers one point as to which they might have been misled by republican buncombe. He said: Permit me, as an American, to say whatever legislation upon the tariff may be projected at Washington, it will not be projected in the interests of England, or France, or Germany, or any other nation. If the legisla-tion lncidenta.llbenefits other people. Americans will be perfectly contented, but our first sentiment In this matter is patriotism, national patriotism; yes, selfish patriotism, if you please. That Is the democratic Idea l.a a nutshell. The tariff should be framed for the benefit of the American people, the whole people, not a few beneficiaries. The effect It may have on other countries Is not material so long as we benefit ourselves. It is the plan of robbing the masses under the preter.se of spiting foreign nations that is objectionable to democrats, p.nd it has got to go. The defeat of Maynard and Boody in New York and the election of Judge Gary in Chicago are distinct triumphs of good government. Maynard and Boody had put themselves in positions that were indefensible, if not criminal. They were opposed by the better class of democrats and by all the reputable democratic papers. Their overwhelming defeat Is a gratifying assurance that New York democrats demand good government as well as their brethren elsewhere. Judge Gary was opposed by the A. P. A. because he Is a catholic. His handsome lead of his ticket is a slap In the face of this treasonable organization which will please all patriotic Americans, and It Is always a triumph of good government to defeat these enemies of American constitutional liberty. Senator Teller has been interviewed, and on being asked whether a silver party would be organized, he replied: There will not. At the conference in Washington Wednesday night we decided it was best to fight inside the party lines, and we rely on an overwhelming return of silver men as a result of the last three months' debate. Senator Sherman said the other day there was never a question discussed in congress where the arguments of both sides were so full and so exhaustive as this, and the result was a mine of knowledge to the people of the United States. We need no party machinery. The work of education is going on in each party, and, while silv?r may be the dominating issue in the nxt campaign, it will be Inside all parties. This is cold comfort for the populists, but the senator's Idea of the result is pretty thoroughly sustained by Tuesday's elections. The populist organization has seen its best days. Burglars and tramps continue to terrify, maltreat and rob the farmers and their families throughout the state. Last week all of the household of a farmer In Lake county were tied and the house robbed. The rascals did not stop then, but made away with the farmer's buggy and a fine team of horses. In another part of the state a defenseless family was chloroformed and the home raided and robbed. It is quite as necessary for people .iving upon Indiana farms to supply themselves with powder, shot and guns as their forefathers did when savages roamed through the state killing defenseless women and children. Farmers, be prepared when the rascals appear to give them, not only a warm reception, but a decidedly hot one. ANSWER TO CORRESrOMJEXT. To the Editor Sir: Can a county school board enforce the following resolution passed at their last meeting: "Resolved, That we, the trustees of the various townships of Brown county, state of Indiana, will not employ any teacher In the common schools of said county who holds an exemption license, unless said teacher goes before the county superintendent and procures a certificate upon a regular examination. Further, we will increase the salaries of all classes of teachers now employed except those exempted from examination." The law governing exemption license you will find In "house bill No. 67" of the acts of 1S92-93, if I make no mistake in the matter. Also, can a trustee, under his oath of office, discriminate against a superior and in favor of an inferior teacher in the matter of wages? A. A. MANUEL, Postmaster. Beck's Grove. Ind. The entire matter of employment of teachers is in the control of the trustees. They may refuse to employ teachers with exemption license, or without exemption license. They can discriminate in wages In favor of anybody, for any reasons, or without reason. The trustee is the judge of superiority, of fitness &nd of everything pertaining to the Oftice of teacher. In other words the trustee is a czar an autocrat axid the only right of his constituents is to protest against a teacher who is unsatisfactory. ET CETERA. Statistics show that 28,407 articles were left In cabs In Paris last year. The Chinese have an academy of manners that prescribes etiquette for the whole empire. West Virginia coke is being sent to Mexico in direct competition with the English product. Politeness Is the husk, kindness the kernel. You can't tell how much meat the nut has until you crack it. A Canadian has made a collection of the buttons of officers of every regiment and department of the British army. The greatest whirlpool is the maelstrom off the Norway coast. When the current Is one way and the wind another, no ship can withstand its fury. Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment," executed in the Sistlne chapel In 1311, produced a host of Imitations, most of which were mere caricatures. A European mathematician of worldwide celebrity claims that from a single potato a careful cultivator could raise lO.ooo.ooo.OOO tubers within a period of ten years. The largest nugget of gold found In Mexico within the memory of white men was picked up by a Mexican at Planchas placers. Sonoro. in the spring of 1892. It weighed HVi pounds. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has been induced to revive "Little Lord Fauntleroy" In a series of articles Just completed, in which she t-lls "How Fauntleroy Really Occurred," anl traces the conception of

the story, the development of the character as he lived under her own eyes, and describes Fauntleroy as he is today her own son. Dentl3ts are great users of costly metals. Beside gold for stoppings, two-sevenths of the world's consumption of platinum is employed by them in making the wires by which artificial teeth are firmly fastened to the plate. Probably the richest town in the country, in point of population, is Brookline, a suburb of Boston. The Inhabitants number less thr.n 13,000 and own property valued at J62.00O.0OO. Its wealth Increased 111 per cent, last year. The Eskimo Bulletin, published at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is the only arctic circle newspaper. It is all written out and copld from a gelatin pd. It is Issued once a year, malls not being more frequent than that. Statisticians claim that the earth will not support to exceed 5.9!l,ooo,o.io people. The present population is estimated at 1. 4177.000, ono, the increase being 8 per cent, each decade. At that rate the utmost limit will be reached in the j'ear 2,072. A Taris shop girl ordinarily begins at a salary of from $6 to $8 per month. Beside she invariabiy hr.s a commission on her sales, varying from Vi to J per cent., according to her success. Many receive as high as $.10 a month in salary and make much more in commissions. Explorers have recently visited the wild Olympic mountains In western Washington. They report that the timber line disappears at about 6.0" feet, and that at the base of the higher peak, on the 5,000 and 6,000 feet leveL is a system of meadows and lakes where grass and flowers grow in great luxuriance. Dr. M. L. Nardi, who was Gen. Grant's physician during his tour around the world, now lives in San Francisco, whre he is devoting himself to nuking anatomical casts of the human bod. He has Just finished the largest cast of the human neart ever made for the Midwinter exposition In San Francisco. It is thirty-five times the actual size of the human organ.

IX THE KARA SEA. Explorer Xansen May Yet Reach the Xortb. role. LONDON, Nov. 10. The Pall Mall Gazette says that Dr. Nansen's prospects of reaching the pole are greatly improved. It appears that some of the Norwegian seal hunters, who have just returned from Hammerfest, in extreme northern part, of Norway, report that at the time they were there Nansen's expedition was entering the Kara sea. This was in August last and the seal hunters were then able to cruise freely in northern parts around Nova I Zemla Islands, north, east and west. The scalers add that over an area of twentv to thirty miles there was no ice whatever and moreover they could judge from the water that the sea was quite dear further north. They add that there was every probability that the Fram had gone through the otherwise generally ice-choked Kara sea In a few days after leaving Jugor strait. The seal hunters report also that In the memory of all these experienced Arctic hunters, numbering quite one hundred men, the sea was never so free of ice as it was last autumn and that no Polar expedition ever had such fine chances of success as the Nansen ex pedition has. Another seal hunter on Sept. 30 was in latitude 77.15 north and from there sailed thirty, miles direct east and encountered no ice during the trip. Another skipper sailed close to the northeast land of Spitzenbergen where there was but little ice. Dr. Nansen himself. In a letter to a friend, dated Aug. 3, says: "Tomorrow we start eastward. It really seems that the winds favor us, as .we find wide open gates, for here it is blowing a capital south wind, which must push the ice far northward into the Kara sea." I'OISOX IX THE PORTER. Three Tragic Deaths In a Boston Family. BOSTON, Nov. 9. The mystery surrounding the tragic deaths of Mrs. Hannah Toole and her daughter Margaret at their home in South Boston last night after partaking of a bottle of porter, has added horror tonight. Once more the silent hand of death has entered the home of this once happy family of nine and claimed the father at 6 o'clock tonight. There were four in the familypresent at the bedside of the dying man. They were Joseph, John, Patrick and Annie. Stephen, Michael and Minnie were confined at station 6 charged with the murder of the mother and Margaret, whose bodies lie at the city hospital morgue. The father passed away never knowing that his wife and daughter had gone before. He had been confined to his bed for months suffering from an incurable malady. Wednesday night he had been watched by his wife and daugher Margaret, and at 9 o'clock he fell off into a sound sleep and the two watchers left the bedside and went into another room. In the room which they entered was a son, Michael. He was sent for a botle of porter, the drinking of which caused the death of Mrs. Toole and Margaret The report of the medical examiner shows that there was cyanide of potassium enough in the stom achs of the two to kill forty men. WOMAX STEALS A TRI XK. Arrest of a Handsome and StylishlyDressed Individual at Clilcnso. CHICAGO. Nov. S. A handsome and stylishly dressed woman, giving the name of Mrs. Allen II. Clark and claiming to be the wife of a Philadelphia physician, has been arrested here charged with stealing a trunk. The trunk belonged to Mrs. Henrietta Sidons, a wealthy Denver woman, and was turned over to the Clark woman at the depot upon her representation that she had been robbed of her check. The receptacle was recovered, but its owner claims that a one-thousand-dollar insurance bond, a pension certificate and deeds to valuable property are missing. Mrs. Clark is thought to have a confederate, who has escaped with the valuables. SHOT A HARTEXDER. Sensational Killing of J. I. Collins at Enat St. Louis. ST. LOUIS. Nov. 9. James I. Collins, head bartender at the East St. Louis jockey club track, was shot and killed last night at the eart approach to the Eads bridge. The killing was done by Charles McCaffert, a horse owner from Chicago, who has a number of horses at the East Side track. The killing was a very sensational one. The general testimony indicates that Collins was partially Intoxicated, and on the car from the track used language that was not becoming in the presence of several ladles who were with . McCaffert y. Tha latter remonstrated and Collins attacked him with a knife whereupon the shooting occurred. ...... WEEKS GETS TEX YEARS. Enters a I'lea of Guilty and Is Sentenced to Sing Sing. NEW YORK, Nov. .8. Francis II. Weeks was today sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in Sing Sing prison. He pleaded guilty on . arraignment, and the entire proceeding did not occupy five minutes.

ROBBER'S DARING ATTEMPT

, WITH A REVOLVER AM) DYNAMITE ! HE demwds asn.ooo. Col. Derrick, the Cleveland Ranker Has a Close Call With a Cool Hand He Knock the Robber Donn The Latter Fires a Miot and Escapes. CLEVELAND. Nov. 10. A daring at. tempt was made to rob the Society for Savings this morning, and It nearly resulted In the murder of Col. Myron T. Herrick, the treasurer of the institution. Owing to the bravery of Col. Herrick the robber was balked, although the treasurer had a narrow escape from death, a bullet fired by the robber passing through his coat and vest and burying itself in the frame f an of!i-e door. Col. Herriek, shortly before noon, entered his office after escorting Mrs. Herriek, who had called to see him. out of the bank. A moment later a stranger entered the room and asked for a pr -vate interview. Col. Herriek led him into the trustee's room, the stranger closing the door tehind them. The man was of medium hight and build, with a sandy mustache. He was rather poorly dressed and wore a slouch hat and was in appearance not different from scores of men who call upon Col. Herriek daily. Col. Herriek seated himself upon a corner of the table that stands In tha middle of the trustees' room. He was at the corner next the door. The stranger passed him and stood at the farther end of the table. Without preliminary remarks, the man said: "I want some money, and I want you to give it to me. Now you can go into the vault and give me $r.0.0Hi. m ga with you and the clerks in the house will think you are shewing me the vaults." The stranger quickly drew a revolver from his pocket and thrust the muzzle against Col. Herrick's head. "If you don't do that." he continued. "I'll blow you to h . I have a charge of dynamite in my other hand and I'll blow us both up." Col. Herrick promptly struck the man In the face, knocking him down. The robber sprang to his feet, shot at Col. Herriek, and sprang out of an open window into the street. The ball passed through the right side of Col. Herrick's coat. The robber has not been found. Col. Herriek. when seen after he had recovered from his excitement, said: "The man requested a private interview with me and we walked Into the inner office. I then asked him what he wanted. I want JX.OOO,' be said 'Yvi go with me to the vault and get it. Yon walk ahead and if you turn from a straight line or attempt to communicate with anybody I will kill you. At that he pointed a pistol at my head." Col. Herrick grasped the revolver, which was aimed at his head, with one hand and with the other he struck the fellow in the face. Then a desperate struggle followed, at the end of which the fellow fired a! Col. Herri, k and made his escape. The police were notified at once, but they have been unabl to obtain anv clue to the would-be robber. Col. Herriek thinks he has seen the man in the bank within a week and Is ertain he could identify him if he should see him again. CA HXEtilE'S SOX qi ITE GAY'. Arraigned Inn er York Police Court Charged with Drunkenness. NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Thomas M. Carnegie, who says he is a son of Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg iron king, was a prisoner in Jefferson mark?t jKlice court this morning .larged with intoxication, and with him was arraigned David T. Jones, a cab driver, and Henry Small, a colored man. Carnegie was anxious to press a charge of larceny against the two others, but he had not sufficient proof. All three were discharged by Justice Koch. It seems that Carnegie hired Jones's cab at th Imperial hotel at midnight and started out to visit as many saloons as possible in the tenderloin district. He hai visited a number of these when Carnegie avers the driver stopped the cab while a strange man entered and tool; away his gold watch and chain. When he left the cab to chase the thief Carnegie says the cab driver held him fast. Then the driver drove Carnegie to a few more bar-rooms, and at the Imperial hotel at 4 o'clock this morning Jone had Carnegie arrested for refusing t pay his fare. The cab driver says that Carnegie was so drunk that he suddenly rushed from the cab on W. Thirty-seventh-st. Thinking he was trying t avoid paying his fare, Jones held his passenger. On the advice of a policeman the colored man. Small, agreed to ride on the driver's seat to see that Carnegie did not try to run away again. Policeman MeCormack at the Imperial hotel decided to r.rrest all three men. Carnegie is a blonde with a refined face, and has been leading a rather gay life in New York for several weeks. MRS. READE XEE MAXSF1ELD. Her Hnshand Will Try for a Legal Separation. NEW YORK, Nov . 8. Robert L. Reade, the New York lawyer who has been living at Paris for several years, has returned to this country, and is making arrangements for a legal separation from his wife, who will remain abroad. She Is Josephine. Mansfield, who twenty years ago was the subject of so much gossip in connection with the shooting of James Fisk. jr.. by Edward S. Stokes. Miss Mansfield went abroad soon after the tragedy and has lived in Paris ever since. Though somewhat mature she is said to be still beautiful and fascinating. She met Mr. Reade at Paris In the summer of lSl and they were married In October of the same year. At that time the lady was known in Paris society as Mrs. Lawler. which was the name of her first husband, an actor of some note. It appears the married life of the couple was not harmonious and that they have resolved to separate. It is understood that Mr. Reade, who is quite weakhy, will make a handsome provision for his wife. Road Is the son of the late Robert Reade, who was once of the largest propertyowners in Minneapolis. He is the brother-in-law of Lord Falkland, a prominent English peer, who married Reade's sister. WRECK OX THE HOCKING VALLEY. Fonr of n Train Crew Killed Orders Disobeyt-d. TOLEDO. O.. Nov. 9. South-boun passenger No. 36 crashed into northbound freight No. 57 on the Hocking Valley railroad, one and one-half miles north of Rising Sun at about 7 o'clock this evening. The collision was due to the disobedience of orders on the part of the engineer of the freight. A heavy fog prevailed at the time and obscured tht? vision of the passenger engineer. Four were killed outright: L. H. JONES, engineer of the passenger. JAMES E. KERLIN, engineer of tha freight. JONES, fireman of the passenger. EXPRESS MESSENGER JAMES E. BRISCH. A wrecking train was dispatched from this city immediately upon receipt of the Information it headquarters. Rising Sun Is a sm?.ll station abiut twentyeight miles south of Toled. I Cure Xervouaneaa nnd Constipation. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pills sent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggists, 25c Dr. Bhoop, Box X, Racine, Wis.