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IS, LEASE FIRED

From the f at Office She Has Been Holding, Hemoved by the Act of Governor Lewelling, Nho Thus Accepts Mrs. Lease's Challenge. WAR IS NOW FAIRLY BEGUN jAnd the People's Party in Kansas Is Split Wide Open, Vith the Prettiest Kind of a Scrimmage in Prospect lAnd With Nobody to Predictthe Outcome. The Gorrmor Intimate That Mrs. Lease Warn a Disturbing Element la the Hoard of State Charities and He Therefore Dropped Her She Declares That She NVas Removed IJernase She Wouldn't Resort to I'ea- , not Politics A Lively Political Sensation. TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 2S. The populist parap was this afternoon thrown into the wildest excitement by the act of Governor Lewelling in removing Mrs. Mary E. Lease from the state board cf charities. This was done after a long conference with his associate state officers and leaders of the people's party, and was, no doubt, in anticipation of the war which Mrs. Lease was preparing to declare against the state administration. "Why Letrelllnsr Acted. To a reporter Governor Lewelling Eaid: "I do not want to say much about lt. I want you to be careful to quote me correctly. I have removed Mrs. Lease in the interest of harmony and good government. There feems to bi pome lack of harmony in the charitable institutions of the state and considerable trouble in the board. I concluded Mrs. Lease's removal was the remedy, and I accordingly removed her. That's all I liave to say about it this afternoon." "Don't you think you have stirred up a row?" "Maybe I have, but I guess there will le no great trouble grow out of it." Mrs. Lease, who was up to 2 o'clock bead of the state board of charities, was in the city today to confer with the populist leaders about the recent election of George F. Tauber to be steward of the deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe by the vote3 of M. A. Householder and W. S. Waite, the republican members of the board. "Either he goes or I go." Mrs. Lease paid to a reporter, and she stamped her foot to emphasize the assertion. This was before her removal was announced. "It is a question of principle with me. First, I am a populist of the middle-of-the-road sort, and do not believe in appointing democrats to office. Next, good populists have been ignored; and lastly, I am opposed to Tauber, because he was appointed to secure the beer-drlnk-lng element of the state for the people's party next year. I am not that kind f a populist. I do not believe in compromising with wrong in any shape or form. It is certain Tauber will have to be retired or I shall quit the board." A Sudden Impulse. The removal of Mrs. Lease was a thought of today. Yesterday there was no talk of it in the state house or in populist circles anywhere. It is not believed the removal was wholly caused by the row in the board, for that has been of lonff standing, and was open and notorious. That somebody had to go has been known for some months, for Mrs. Lease on the one Eide and Mr. Waite on the other could never harmoniously work, but it was not intended to let it be Mrs. Lease until this morning, when intelligence was brought to the governor that Mrs. Lease had not buried the hatchet, but was getting ready to make another assault through the newspapers upon the administration. She, In conversation with a well-known populist within the past forty-eight hours, stated that ehe was not satisfied with the terms of peace made for her with the governor. She said Governor Lewelling and the entire state house crowd ought to be turned down, and that she was loaded with letters and other documents that would make the turn-down. She said she proposed to go after the governor on account of a good many misdemeanors, and especially on account of the appointment of Artz and Todd. When this reached the governor's ears he decided the question of removing her, and instead of letting out Householder and Walte he let out Mrs. Lease. It Is AVar Now. The removal means the administration has accepted Mrs. Lease's challenge to battle. The contest will be full of fire and interest. Mrs. Lease takes her removal like a trained politician. She said to a reporter: "Yes, I have been officially Informed of my decapitation. I had had a hint of what was coming. But Governor Lewelling ought to have told you the reason. It was because I went to him yesterday noon and made a demand upon him, not a request, mind you a demand that at th expiration of the term of Mr. Yoe, a republican member, next April, J. R. Kennedy, a populist editor of Wilson county, be appointed. I know that with Mr. Kennedy on the board we oould run the institution la a businesslike way and get rid of the political schemes to which the board now resorts. But the Rovernor seems to like that way of administering our stare charities. It was not a month ago he came to us with a demand that we remove Carter from the superlntendency of the deaf and dumb asylum. I said to him that he had no right to make such a demand; that we, the board, were responsible for our appointments, and the party could not afford to have euch an Institution as the deaf and dumb asylum mixed up in small politics. But the majority of the board did the governor's bidding and now they are trying to find a way to reinstate Carter; but It Is all right. If Governor Lewelling can stand it, I can. I will 'saw wood' and wait, as the politicians say. I am jxo politician, but you may congratulate

Governor Lewelling upon downing the best friend and most sympathetic and cordial worker the people's party has in the state of Kansas." Mrs. Lease said it was rather early to talk about state nominations, but present signs pointed to Lewelllng's nomination. Mrs. Lease was asked by an Associated Press representative tonight If her removal would cause a split in the party. She reiterated the statement in Topeka a month at?o that the present administration would be turned down. "I have never denied the interview," declared Mrs. Lease, vehemently, "and every charge preferred by me will be substantiated at the proper time. The old crowd must go. I went into this fipht for principle and I cannot and will not tolerate the corruption of the present administration, an administration more corrupt than any republican administration that ever disgraced Kansas. Governor Lewelling seems to make appointments to further his own political ends regardless of consequences. When he finds an appointee whom he can't use he deposes him." JtST LIKE A WOMX.

She necame Reconciled to Her Ilecreant Spönne. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. Two weeks ago Lincoln Potter, who recently engaged in the saloon business here, was arrested for grand larceny and embezzlement on advices from La Crosse, Wis. It was alleged that he had been a railroad brakeman there until he marlied a wealthy widow, from whom he ran away after getting jr.,000 of her money to engage in business. The wife from Wisconsin appeared on the scene today and went direct to the city prison. She ran to her faithless husband's arms, wept on his neck and then went to the chief of police and induced him to release the prisoner, stating that they had been reconciled and would return to La Crosse and try to live happily. She gave her husband ready cash and the couple disappeared in a hack. A BOMB FOR CLEVELAND FOUND IX THK STREETS OF A COLORADO TOWN. An Infernal Machine of the Most Approved Pattern Addressed to the Chief Incentive at Washington No Clew to the Dynamitard. DENVER, Col., Dec. 2S. A special to the Republican from Loveland, Col., says an Infernal machine was picked up in an alley this afternoon by a six-year-old boy who took it home. It was a wooden box about four Inches square, neatly wrapped and addressed to "The president, executive mansion, Washington, D. C." On the lid was written, "Compliments of a Colorado miner." The box contained some chemical compound mixed with" gunpowder and a detonating cap so arranged that when the lid was removed it vould explode. The chemical composition of the contents of the box is not known, but that it was an explosive of considerable power has been proven by experiment. Who prepared the machine or what was his object is a mystery. SHE CAICHT Tim IllIiOLAR. And Then She Let Him (Jet Away from Her. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Four young saleswomen who occupy a rretty little fiat in Thirty-fifth-st. had a novel experience last nisht. When they entered their apartments they found a bold, bad burglar in possession. The young women screamed discreetly and three of them ran away In search of a policeman, but one, Isabella Follcnwelder, was undaunted and heroically locked the burglar into a room. Then she left to look for a policeman. In her absence the burglar became restless and with the aid of a skeleton key made a quiet exit with the valuables of the feminine quartet. Later there was a crestfallen heroine and a policeman using strong language. MADE MAD BV HIS CRIME. Th? Fate of a Defaulting Clerk of a Virginia Court. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 27. Two years ago Dave Morrison, circuit court clerk of Scott county, Virginia, was discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of $30,000. He was arrested, but soon afterward escaped from custody, and his whereabouts have since been unknown. A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn., says that Morrison has mad his appearance at Gate City and that he is a raving maniac. It is believed that he never left the country and has been hiding at his father's home, from whence he has escaped Fince becoming demented. ARRESTED AT Till? ALTAR. rt no I neon Rudely Intruding I'pon the Affairs of Don Cupid. CHICAGO, Dec. 2S. Arthur A. Winter, a traveling salesman from Muscatine, la., was arrested today on the eve of his marriage to a Muscatine belle and the nuptials postponed at the demand of J. T. Dougherty, a druggist, who has secured judgment of S7."0 against the prospective bridegroom. The judgment Is the result of a suit for false arrest, growing out of an old-time dispute between the men, who were formerly business partners. Wineters pretty fiance, Miss Rosa Macleod, accompanied her prospective husband when he was placed under the sheriff's charge. DOVT KHAR THE TARIFF. Plttsbnrg's Largest Plate Ins Works Resumes Full Turn. PITTSBURG, Ta,. Dec. 2C.-The Howard plate glass works at Duquesne resumed In full today giving employment to over.CGO men and boyg who have been out of work for four months. Enough orders have been received to keep the plant in operation several months. The Public Press. It may be truthfully affirmed that the public press is an educator; that It is the champion of ri?ht, the defender of the Injured, and the terror of evildoers, and what Is of encouragement to all is the fact that it keeps in the advance and carries Its standard In the front of civilization and of refinement. If not the ideal leader. It is at least a living exponent of best thoughts of good men, and Is, as a rule, found upon the side of truth and richL r. Worth (Tex.) Gazette,

SPEAKING FOR HIS LIFE.

crisis ix Tnn piiilic career of COL. BRECKINRIDGE. He Addresses a. Gathering? of Masons, Supposed to De Ills Bitter Enemies After n Masterly Address He Receives a Veritable Ovation. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 23. The Hon. George C. Lockhart will make the race for congress in Col. Brecklnridg .-'s district. He said this morning that he had finally decided to run. This will leave the fight between Breckinridge and AV. C. Owens. Congressman Rreckinridge made his first public address since the institution of the Pollard suit this morning at the Turf club, before the Masonic lodges, who were giving their annual banquet. He had been invited to speak, and knew that his future depended on the success which attended his effort before a body that had been reported to be his deadly enemy. Miss Pollard's father was at one time a grand master mason, which is supposed to have given rise to the rumor. The congressman was on his metal and was heartily applauded. The reception he received when he closed amounted to an ovation, and proves that Rreckinridge has lost none of his Influence with Fayette county people. The speech Is pronounced the effort of his life. IN CINCINNATI. Mls Pollard Gathering Evidence for Her Suit. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 28. Miss Madeline Pollard, of Follard-Breckln-rldge notoriety, is in Cincinnati tonight. Her attorneys. 'Messrs. Carlisle and Johnson, are also here. Miss Pollard was brought here incognito today by her attorneys to collect and establish evidence for her forthcoming suit against Congressman Rreckinridge, such evidence as it was impossible for anyone but herself to secure. Certain houses had to be located, certain people confronted and certain facts proven, none of which could be effected otherwise than by her personal presence In this city. Her brother came with her and they are at the same hotel Incognito. Her case will depend chiefly on the testimony of people in this city, since most of the alleged offenses of Mr. Breckinridge occurred while she was a student at the Wesleyan female college on Wes-ley-ave., this city, over which the Rev. Dr. D. K. Drown presided. Mr. Breckinridge's son has been in this city collecting evidence for the defense and it is stated that Miss Pollard's lepal representative have been thwarted in several places where Important evidence was expected. This young attorney was a friend of I 'resident Brown and had also liwa a professor in Wesleyan college and had thus acquired special facilities for collecting evidence. It is stated that both parties tried to secure his services, and only Miss Pollard succeeded. The attorney found his way unexpectedly blocked in certain quarters in that some who knew about the case refused to talk. This decided Miss Pollard's attorneys to bring her here. It is stated that Miss Pollard, under assumed names at different lying-in hospitals, gave birth to three children in this city whil: receiving attentions from the Kentucky congressman. One of these places, she says, was the foundling asylum of the Black Cap in Reading. Here she bore the name of Wilson. Sister Agnes of the asylum yesterday, when Miss Pollard visited her, recognized her as a former Inmate. The news piven above thus far has been collected by the Commercial-Gazette Independently of these parties. Attorney Johnson, who was seen by a Commercial-Gazette reporter, repelled an attempted interview and declined to affirm or deny a report that he was here collecting evidence in the Pollard-Breck-inridge case. He said his position was such that he must say nothing. He said, however, that both he and Mr. Breckinridge had denied that any compromise was contemplated. VANQUISHED A ROBBER. VALIANT NVORIv OF AN OLD WOMAN AND HER D.UGIITER. They Are Confronted by a. Masked nurulnr nud a Fierce ThreeCornered Fight Ensues The Women Finally Drive Away Their N isltor. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Deo. 26. A masked burglar entered the house of Mrs. Ellen Kelloy, five miles southwest of Argentine, Sunday. She and her daughter Eliza live alCne and there was considerable money in the house. The women awakened to find tjhe burglar in their presence. Mrs. Kelle got hold of a long, sharp corn-knife and, a threecornered struggle followed. The robber received a wound in the head inflicted with the knife and he beat both the women badly about the head and face with his fist, while the daughter received two severe wounds in the head,1 inflicted by the robber with the cornknife. Finally the daughter succeeded In giving the alarm and neighbors came to their assistance. A large posse is In pursuit of the robber and lynching Is not improbable. Mrs. Kelley Is seventy years old. FENNOYER FIDIJED. And the Iluslness Men of Oregan Are ludlarnant. SALEM, Or., Deo. 23. At a special meeting of the board of trade last night resolutions were passed condemning Govenor Pennoyer's Christmas letter to President Cleveland. The resolutions say the statements In the letter are false and will prove Injurious to the state by deterring home-seekers from coming. They say there Is no widespread destitution In Oregon. Polite and Grateful. That's what all boys should be, whether training in the parlor or In the barn. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was six years old In 17G2 he exhibited his wonderful talent as a musician before the emperor and empress of Austria at Vienna. On leaving the Instrument he slipped upon the polished floor of the palace reception room and fell. Marie Antoinette, afterward queen of France, lifted him up and kissed him. "You are very kind." eaid the little musician, "and when I grow up I will marry you." Harper's Young People.

IE WILSON BILL

To Be Pulled and Wrenched in the Senate In the Hope of Having Minor Changes Made. IT CAN STAND IT ALL. Its Merit Will Bring It Out of the Ordeal With But Few Changes, and Those Very Slight. The Committee Represent "Widely Separated Sections nnil plvornlmr Interests, itut Senator Voorhees Will I phold the Mcasnre He Will Advocate the Retention of the Wilson Hill A&ainst All Attempts to Substlt ute The Fight on It to Ue .Made In the Senute. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 The prospects are that those persons who are opposing the free raw materials in the Wilson bill, edil, iron and lead ore, lumber, etc., will concentrate their efforts to secure changes in the bill in the senate. Delegations representing these various interests will be here during the coming week to begin their work. Democrats, as far as possible, are being delegated to make these protests. John M. Rurke of Idaho, the advance guard of the lead men, is here and will be Joined in a few days by others representing the states of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and the territory of Utah. Mr. Rurke was the democratic candidate for governor of Idaho In the last campaign. If the duty of lead ore cannot be retained in part at least by the Wilson bill these lead miners will ask for the retention of the duty of 2 cents on pig lead reduced by the Wilson bill to 1 cent. An effort will be made on the part cf the representatives of the several interests to combine so as to secure concerted action, but whether a combination can be eilected is very uncertain. What Will the Senate Do? What the senate will do with the tariff is coming to be a question of some moment now th(t it is realized that probably only a little more than a month will elapse before the bill providing for its change shall reach the body. The democratic members of the finance committee appreciate that they will not be relieved of responsibility by the action of th,e house, and are looking forward to the time when the house will have to take it up and go to work on it as a live Issue. They have already gone far enough to know that it Is going to be very difficult for them to harmonize views which are in some respects widely conflicting. The meetings which they held a few weeks ago are believed to have developed more in this respect than was given to the country. There will necessarily be vast differences as to details, and it seems probable now that each member of the committee will have many changes to suggest if the bill is allowed to stand as a whole, but the principal contest will be over a proposition to report a complete substitute for the Wilson bill In the senate. The only thing which will probably prevent this radical treatment will be the Impossibility of agreement among the democratic members who do not accept with favor the present bill. All Shades of Opinion. The democratic membership of the senate committee on finance, composed as It Is of senators from all sections of the country, naturally represents all the varying shades of sentiment on this subject held in the party from a belief in protection to American labor and American Industries to an advocacy as near an approach to free trade as the collection of revenue to pay expenses of the government will permit. Senator Mcrherson, representing an eastern manufacturing constituency, has been known for years as a Randall democrat and his friends intimate that h? finds so many objectionable features in the bill In the direction of a reduction of duties on manufactured goods that he would prefer to amend it by the substitution of a complete new measure. On the other hand, Senator Jones of Arkansas believes absolutely In a tariff for revenue and for no other purpose, and does not consider that protectio i Is constitutional. lie does not like the retention of the purar bounty and is inclined to the opinion that a small duty on this article for revenue purposes would be far more strictly in accord with democratic doctrine and would serv e the purposes of tho treasury better at this time. He finds many traces of the protective theory left in the Wilson bill and would doubtless, if he had his way about the matter, report a substitute for the entire bill, which would look absolutely to the revenue feature and knock out all semblance of protection to whatever interest. Senators Harris, Vest and Vance would be more inclined to coincide with Mr. Jones than with Mr. McPherson. Senator Voorhees Conservative. Senator Voorhees, who, as chairman of the committee, will have more than other members to do in shaping its course, may ba denominated a conservative, as between these conflicting theories, and it is safe to say that he will advocate the retention of the Wilson bill. He holds the opinion that the democratic members of the ways and means committee have done a great deal of hard work In preparing the bill and finds in It so many features that commend themselves to him that he thinks it ought to stand with some changes. He accepts with favor the ad valorem system, and also the transfer of a large number of items on the raw material list from the protected to the free column. With the administration holding the same view as the chairman of the committee it would seem probable at this time that the Wilson bill will hold Its place as such when reported to the senate from the finance committee. Unquestionably there will be many changes, but if the internal revenue bill should provide a fairly satisfactory means of providing for the treasury deficit the Wilson bill, after being tossed about, criticised and altered to a greater or less degree will be reported to the senate by Its committee early in the spring months. The Debate la the Houiie. The program upon which the tariff debate will be conducted, as outlined by a member of the ways and means committee today, does not Include fixing a time for taking a vote as soon as the bill

comes before the house. It Is the present intention to allow the debate to run on for some time, and If it then becomes apparent that no vote can be reached, or that the 'bill cannot be suitably considered by paragraphs, the committee on rules will be asked to fix a time for consideration under the five-minute rule and a final vote It Is believed by the democratic members that when there Is a general understanding that no final vote is to be taken until the last of January there will be no difficulty In securing euch vote by an agreement on both sides.

CIT Ills RYE CUT. A Pennsylvania Man's Awful Revenge on n. Rival. HAZLETON. Pa., Dec. 27. Martin Wendel and Stephen Stabol, rivals for the hand cf a woman, met in Shepptown today for the first time in twelve months. Wendel had always attributed his failure to win the object of his affections to Stabol's influence over her, and had sworn to have revenge. As soon as he saw Stabol today he drew an immense knife from his bosom and made a fierce attack on the man he hated. The first slash cut out Stabol's right eye. and before he could escape Wendel was upon him, trying to cut out the other. In this he did. not succeed, but a second sweep of the big knife sliced off Stabol's nose and severed all the arteries and muscles of the luckless fellow's face, inflicting wounds from the effects of which he wiil die. The physician In attendance says he never saw a case in which the mutilation was so horrible. Wendel was taken to Fottsville tonight to be locked up. MET AWFUL DISASTER. THE BRITISH FORCES ROTTED BY KING LOI1ENGILA. Scouting Parties I nder Cants. Wilson and Harrow Surrounded and Maaered by Matabele The Bodies of the Dead Arc Horribly Mutilated Scunt News of the Disaster. LONDON, Dec. 27. A terrible disaster is said to have occurred to the scouting party under the command of Capt. Wilson, which has been in pursuit of King Lobengula and which has not been heard from for some time past. Several South African merchants In this city have received cablo messages today announcing that Capt. Wilson's force had been completely annihilated by the Matabele, who are said to have cut them to pieces. The news of the disaster was received by Mosenthal & Sons, merchants, and by a broker named Hirsch, as well as by several other people doing business In the city. It is now stated that in addition to Wilson's party the party under Capt. Barrow, sent out to reinforce him, has been cut to pieces. No press dispatches have been received which either confirm or contradict these alarming reports. The number of men composing the Wilson detachment Is said to have been from forty to 100 and the Barrow detachment is reported to have been composed of about the same number of men. The news has caused great excitement throughout the city, and is being magnified on all tides. Rumors which are undoubtedly exaggerated have it that the two columns were compared of several hundred men and that after being completely surrounded by the Matabele, they were charged upon repeatedly and slaughtered to a man, their bodies being afterward horribly mutilated. THE ANARCHS. Trial of the Frenchman A Romh at neriin. PARIS, Dec. 27. Vaillant, the bombthrower, will be placed on trial Jan. 5. The trial of the Aigues Mortes rioters has begun. The mayor of St. Etlenne has been threatened with dynamite. MADRID, Dec. 27. Delbache and Vcreira, charged with trying to blow up the congress house, has begun. It will probably be protracted. The court is carefully guarded. During the trial the prisoners addressed the jury, upholding anarchy, but denying the crime with which they are charged. The queen regent and royal family remained away from the opera last night because threats had been made to dynamite the opera house. BERLIN, Dec. 27. Two workmen, while walking to Muegelseen yesterday, found a package In the road. They cautiously opened it but It exploded. The men escaped with wounds about their faces and hands. The police are Investierung. VIENNA, Dec. 27. Doleza! and Dragoun have made a full confession of the murder of Merva, the glove merchant. They Intimate that there Is a great plot against the police in Prague. LONDON, Dee. 27. On the sitting of commons Secretary Asquith announced that Williams and Jowers, who have been making incendiary speeches at Tower Hill, were belns watched and would be arrested if found inciting to riot. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Jos. Donjon, the letter-writing crank, was to have been arraigned this morning, but there was some delay in preparing warrants and . the case went over. He will be prosecuted on two separate charges, one of forging the name of his father. to a postal note or order and of sending threatening and scandalous matter on postal cards and on the outside of envelopes through the mails. Each of the offenses Is a felony under the federal statutes. PITTSBURG, Dec.. 27. A dynamite bomb was exploded on the porch of. Lilly Auty's house, 75 Howard lane, Oakland, tonight, breaking the door from the hinges and smashing all the glass In the house. The adjoining houses, 77, 73 and 81, were also badly damaged. The miscreant who threw the bomb or his motives are not known. Another Life Saver. The respiration apparatus Invented by Prof. Volt of Germany has been received by the Yale college medical school. Its purpose is to measure the oxygen absorbed by the body and the carbonic acid anö water given off. From the data thus obtained, the decomposition of the body can be determined, and the decomiositlon caused by the digestion of the various kinds of food compared. It is hoped that the experiments will result In the selection of diets thst will prolong the lives of those suffering from consumption and other diseases. Philadelphia Ledger.

LOOTED THE WIDOWS' HOME

SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES MADE AT CINCINNATI. Promtnent Politicians and Citizens Are Accused of Conspiring to Steal the Funds of a Charitable Institution How the Game NVas Worked. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 2S. Sensational reports have come from the grand jury this week over the investigation of $63,438 raided from the treasury of the Widows' home. The grand jury has not yet reported, but it is given out on good authority that J. D. MacNeal. W. B. Burnet, Powell Crcsley, F. J. Mitchell, W. A. Thompson and George M. Leighton have been Indicted as principals and accessories to obtaining money under false pretenses. MacNeal is a son-in-law of Edward Sargeant, formerly head of Sargeant, Wilson & Hinkle. school book publishers. Sargeant is a retired millionaire, devoting time and means to charitable institutions, and is a trustee of the Widows' home. Powell Crosley was ex-Congressman Benjamin Rutterworth's law partner and prominent in state politics. Burnet was also prominent in politics and United States district attorney under Cleveland's first administration. He tried Harper of Fidelity bank wrecking fa me. Mitchell, Thompson and Leigh ton are equally well known MacNeal was the attorney for the officers of the Widows' home and in giving tips as to when money was in their treasury to t-e loaned out on mort crape security Is regarded as next to Leighom in working the game. Burnet io in NewYork and Leigh ton in Chicago. The names of other prominent citizens are being freely mentioned as dupes, or accessories, and their cases have been considered by the grand jury, but only six indictments are unofficially rviortei. Vacant, lots were purchased in obscure subdivisions for nominal amounts. Fictitious values were put on the same by frequent transfers to each other and to their wives. At every transfer the consideration was put higher. When the limit of inflation was reached a mortgage was executed for many times the real value. Some of the lots are on almost perpendicular hillsides, and were recommended as good mortgage security by the attorney or the Widows' home. TO POISON THE FAMILY. STRANGE DEED OF A WEALTH V NE1IRASKA YOUNG LADY. She Prepares n Fatal Itreakfast for the Family, lint Is Herself the Only Victim Her Sister Saved by Prompt Action. OMAHA, Dec. 2S. A special to the Ree from Grand Island, Neb., says: Miss Adele Egge, a young lady aged twentyfive years, daughter of one of the oldest families in the city, arose thi3 morning, mixed strychnine into a batter of cakes, baked them and ate of the food. She lived with her widowed mother, Mrs. Auguste Egge, also a brother and a sister in a home of their own in this city. The mother and son bad not yet arisen, but her sister. Miss Margaret, came into the room where she was eating her breakfast ;nl also began to eat. Margare", noticed that the cakes were bitter and questioned "ier sister the reason therefor. The young lady answered with a smile that It was better for all of them. Her sister became alarmed and a doctor was called In, who in turn called assistance. Five minutes after tho arrival of the physician Adele was a corpse, having died in intense agony. The younger sister was given an emetic, which acted promptly, and she wa.-; saved. She had not partaken of a fatal quantity. The deceased has always been of a bright, cheerful disposition until the widowed mother's and the family's money beea-ne tied up in the bank which failed. Thereupon the family became quite distracted. It Is clearly evident that the unfortunate girl intended to poison all the members of the household. After taking the strychnine she prepared more cakes for them and urged her sister to eat. Just before death came she said she was glad she and her sister were out of misery, but was sorry her brothers and mother had not partaken of the deadly food. RESCIED MY HIS WIFE. Evan, the California Ilandit, Ttrenk Jail. MSSS FRESNO, Cal., Dec. 2S. Chris Evans, the noted bandit, has just escaped from Jail. The city marshil, John D. Morgan, attempted to arrest him, and was shot but not dangerously Injured. Mrs. Evans wtnt to the Jail with a loaded pistol ai.d commanded the jailer to open the door and let Evans out. The jailer complied. Evans was recently convicted of murder In the first degTee for killing Deputy United States Marshal Wilson in the famous fight at Simpson's Flat, and was sentenced to life imprisonment In the penitentiary. FOSTER CAN'T SETTLE. The Appraisers Valued His Assets Too High. TIFFIN, O.. Dec. 23. A fer,' weeks ago, after ex-Governor Charles Foster had completed his negotiations to saeure the funds, arrangements were made with the creditors' committee tu settle at 50 cents on the dollar, but since that time J. B. Gormley, assignee, says that errors have since been discovered in the work of the appraisers, which upset the whole arrangement, and which will require Mr. Foster to raise a much larger sum than he was led to believe would be required. HELD THE CHILD As Security for Payment of a Iloard Hill. CHICAGO, Dec. 2S. Fred Unlit, proprietor of a Milwaukee-ave. boardinghouse, was compelled to answer today for introducing the startling innovation in bill-collection of retaining a creditor's child as security for a board bill. John Pf ester, with his three-year-old child, lived with Unlit and because of lack of employment failed to pay. Unlit ejected him and kept the child. The court ordered the landlord to return the child to its father and held Unlit under heavy bonds. .Not a Safe Sort. She "No. I like you very much indeed, but I can never ir.arry a spendthrift." He "How do you know I am a spendthrift?" She "By the way you have been wasting money on me." N. Y. "Weekly.

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At Which Americans Were Served Up. The Pentecost Island Massacre Avenged. FRENCH AND ENGLISH JOIN And Meta Out Punishment to the Islanders, Who Have Been Guiltx of Many Awful Crimes. The nnnmemne and Scorn" Lund Tlielr Crews and Wipe Out Many of the Native N ilia Ken The Inhabitants Offer Tint a Fcchle and Fruitless Resistance. LONDON, Dec. 21 An officer of the British giinbcat Boomerang, engaged in the protection of the floating trade in Australian waters, writing from Sydney, N. S. W., undvr date of Nov. S. gives a graphic account of the punishment of the cannibals f Pentecost island for the massacre of the cr.-w of the American schooner Den Henri. He says that reports reached the commander of the Boomerang while at Noumea, capital of the Frenvh colony of New Caledonia, to the effect that numerous cases of cannibalism, murderinpr and plundering were reported from the neighborhood cf IYn'eeost island. The Boomerang, thereupon, was beaded for the Sandwich islands, where the captain of the Don Henri was found. The commander of the American schooner made a statement to the British officers to the effect that early in September last, when calling at Pentecost island in order to engage natives to work on plantations, he sent a boat ashore containing M. Lifton, a French trader, and three seamen. Upon reaching the shore the party was attacked by savages armed with tomahawks and all fcur were murdered. The commander of the Boomerang at the same place also received news of the murder of the crew of a boat sent ashore from the Neptune, a French trading vessel, at Aurora island. Later, In company with the French war ship Pcorff, the Boomerang proceeded to Pentencost Island, where each war ship landed at different points a detachment of fcrty-eight officers and sailors with instructions to converge upon certain villages and thu3 hem the cannibals i:i and administer to them revere punishment fcr the murder of the boats' crews. The movement was successfully carried out. The French and British Mu ' jackets advanced through the bush upon the different villages. The natives, alarmed at the advance of the two naval detachments, retreated upon the villages, calling upon r. 11 the Inhabitants to take up arms. The latter did so, but they made but a feeble defense with their old Fnyder rifle?, poisoned arrows and spears, and soon 11 1 to the bush. Th sailors then destroyed the native villages of Pentencost inland and returned to their respective shirs. The Boomerang and Scorff then proceeded to Aurora island, where similar tactic were adopted and where two villages wer destroyed. In addition heavy f.'.vs were inflicted upon the natives of several other islands who had been prominent in the ill treatment f the traders r seamen. Those direotly implicated in the murders were scired and sentenced t imprisonment for lift at the rrsnoh convict settlement ut Noumea, At Pentencost Island alone over thirty white men have been massacred and robbed and large quantities of human bones were found. N ECHOES PARTICIPATE. In HnriRluff a Neyro for Assault on II in litre. St. LOUIS. Deo. 27. A special to th Republic from New Orleans says: "Tillman Green, the trusted colored carriage driver in a prominent family living ten miles from Columbia, in this state, was lynched yesterday for an attempted outrage on his mistress. He broke into her room at nifrht while her husband was in attendance at a Christmas party elsewhere. She escaped by the rear of the house and pave the alarm. Oreen was arrested. He confessed his design and was lynched by a mob in which a number of negroes of the neighborhood participated. STARTIN IP. Factories Not Greatly Alarmed liy the Wilson Hill. NEW CASTLE. Pa., Dec. 27.--Th9 Arethusa and the Etna mills are again in operation. They have been idle since before Christmas. The steel mill and tha tin plate mill will start up tomorrow. The big plant of the wire nail works started on double turn tonight. Besides these the Rosena, Faney & Berger and Red Jacket furnaces are in full blast, and with all the minor manufactories running the opening of the new year will find the Industrial affairs of New Castle In better shape than at any time slnca the summer collapse. A Fonr Years Debauch. It was a four-year debauch that caused the national headache. Present sobriety is not the cause of the headache. The nation simply hail to get sober or die of delirium tremens. Reckless extravagance, bounties, subsidies, Jots, jingoism had to come to an end. j The headache Is disappearing and tha i national nerves are getting all right. We shall be happy yet, you bet, as Homer or some other poet has beautifully said. Terre Haute Gazette. Death to Trusts. The Wilson tariff bill deals death ta trusts. A great number of them are demolished by coming- in contact with th free list. The binding twine trust Is smashed and will no longer oppress tha farmer. The coal trust, the white Wd trust, the steel rail trust, the farming Implement trust, the plate glass trust and a host of others equally oppressive will not survive the passage of the Wilson bilL Bluffton Banner.