Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 May 1901 — Page 2

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Weeklu Courier. . poaaeC, PaMlsher, JASl'EU, ""i : i 1XDIAXA.

It la DOderstOOd that France Ll OSs gvtiating with F.oundor, says the Syl my correspondent of the LOMlul Daily Mail, for the purchase Oj ue o: tht flilayfoi island. QoT. 1. a Follette of Wisconsin, on th- b'.th, to 1000 the Collin compulsory vaccination bill. The governor l .-s not believe that un emergency exists Html) demands smh u law. 'Ihr prospectus of the Bll !! lonr. was issued on the 1Mb. The price of issue is Ufe1. ; one-tenth payable on uy.. pluaiion. c;tie-nfth Ml allotment, and the balance October -' and Hcceiubcr The statement of the Treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive 1 the tHiO.OOO.OOO gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 17th. showed: A ailable cash balance, $l5s,747.:;U. gold. '... f.-7.;.07. m i.ctidon morning papers, of the i7th, referred editorially in terms of dOOfi st sympathy to the illness of Mrs. McKinley, recalling the sympathy displayed by both the president and hi; wife when Queen Victoria died. The loard of director! of the Itenj Harrison Momnm-nt association met in Indianapolis, Ind., on the 17th. Senator iairbunks presided. Evans Woollen was chosen secretary to till the piace node vacant by the resign.tiou of K. F. Tibbott. The toir.i of contributions received by the Jacksonville (Fla. I relief association. u; to the 17th, wan $113,900. Chairman Purrott of the commissary deportment-, stated that the number of people Oeing fed daily by the relief association was above ."..ootj. Orin Hicknk, the well-known, driver, who arrived in Cleveland. O., from California, on the 17th. states that just before leaving California he timed Dolly Dillon a mile in -':l"i,. the fastest mile ever trotted in May. The trial was over the 1'lcasantown (C'al.l track. Inquiry in official and diplomatic circles indicates the practical certainty hat Ft; nee will (.-rant a subsidy to the proposed direct steamship line between France and Canada. This sulvsidy will be similar to the one voted by the Canadian parliament. The idea is v. armlv welcomed in 1'aris. tjuurtei mast r-iieneral I.udinpton has arranged for the removal of the remains ol the confederate dead iu the Soldiers' Home cemetery and in the Arlington cemetery to another section of the last-named cemetery, which has been set aside by the secretary of war for their reinterment. One of the largest tohsCCO dealt? ever made in the west has just been carried through by the sale to a Philadelphia firm l.'.ooo cases of last year's ctop of Wisconsin tobacco. About three hundred end fifty thousand dollars cash changed hands. Thshipment will amount to 'Ml eur'nads Sidney R. Lowenthal. of Cornell university, xvon the Central Lea jftie oratorical cortest at Hloomington. Ind , on the night of the 17th. His subject was ". Judaism; Its Mis-inn in the Twentieth Century." II. II. Horner, of Ohio We: leyun un i versi t y , wa s second, and Alvah Johnson Kucker, of Indiana university, third. After a d7 of terrible anxiety, during which it was stated from San Francisco that Mrs. McKinley had entered the Valley Of the Shadow of Death, and that almost all hope of recovery hud bOM abandoned, the night bulletins, on the K'th. brought the Welcome I i WH of a slight but distinct hoproTCUH nt in her condition. The Fcrto Hico exhibit for the I'anAmerican exposition, at l'.utTalo, N. Y., seie by the customs offlcittls, was releaeed on the nth, with the exeeption of that portion which is to be hipped east for sale. This, accordlog to or:e of the Porto (Ucan commissioners, consists of goods for which there is not space enough tn the Porto Kkan section. The monthly Statement of imports nnl exports of the I'nited States, iv luol on the llth. by the bureau oj statistics, showed that during April, r.o, the imports of merchandise mounted to ffevTSO.Mt, of which sir,,. 1,781 wue free of duty. The whole amount is Sl.ooo.oof, in excess of import I of April, 1906, The exports of domestic merchandise during Apr I aggregated MJn.Tsu.vjo, un increase of $8,0 0,000. A ttfOBg movement is on foot In Ok'i iom.i 1o have the general land olV.cc set. asidt part of the Wichita mountains tor a nntional park, to he ten miles square and to contain 64,108 a res. The Wichita mount ainn are too ragged to be of mint for agricultural purposes, but nevertheless possess scenic beauties, Msh as great canyons, sparkling strt nms, towering J' ikv and delightful wooded parkt, necessary for a punt preserve. Thomas Ashton. a wealthy stock man hving south of St. Joseph, Mo., received several letters threatening hitnself, his home and family with destruction unless he deposited $12,000 in gold at a designated spot. Hetrctives waii lud decoy placed at the spot, and, on the 16th, captured he let ter-wi iter, who proved to Ire Wm. Mnttsa, aged 62, farmer, who confeastd and Raid that be cut the Idea from the Codahy aaao la Omaha.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. F B. Mo rc has resigned ns manag log editor ot the Montana Daily Ib-c ord. at Helena, to accept an evlitori.il po-i'.ioti . on the 1 uiumcrciul Advcrtiser of New Vvrk. All the union machinists in Scatt!.', Wash., '-'0 in nuiulver, struck, on the I4thi for rlgkt hour.- bjsOtOad Of tea, with a -per-eent. increase i.i O a 00 At I pper Sandusky, O.. on the llth. Charles Foster was sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary at hard labor and to pay the costs of the trial for the murder of a f..rmer named JdhttaOn. The cose attracted widespread attention .is the result of an Order honed OJ Judge Young prohibiting the publication of testimony. It Cuilglissnmo H. f. Hartiue, of Nevada, who was associate editor of the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard to two years, has o;ie to Washington to t:ike odltorlol Chtttg of the Washington Times. There has been a slight falling off in the enlistments for the regular army since the withdrawal of that portion of the advertisement saying lho1 recruits and nets regiments were being enlisted for the Philippines. John W. dates end Mrs. Gates sai"d from New York, OH the 1 5th " fh steamship m. Loo is. Before soiling Mr. Gated took oeeoslon to deny ogola that he had been short of Northern Pacific. lrt deference to the mandate of Gor, La Pollette, the boxing contest scheduled to take place at Oahkosh, Wis., on the bight of the 16th, between Jack Root, Of ChicngO, and "Kid" Carter, of Brooklyn, was declared off by Ifanoger Moore ol the Oahkosh Athletic tlul. Th strike of the Traction company's employee at Albany, N. V., resulted, on the 6th. in the fatal wounding of threepersonswhiletnany other- red ived minor injuries from contact with the national gOOfd tn the Sorts of the latter to disperse mobn. tile Cleve A Cliffs Mininp Co., of Ashland, Wis., has purchased the Ashland mine from the Hay ties Pros., the eoneldcratioa being "oo,ooo. Strike riots have occurred in the cotton mills on the Vi boy side of the Neva in liussia. It is reported that many have been killed. Lovit GoIlOtt, a United States prisoner in the Ohio penitentiary, was releost i. by pardon from President McKinley, on the ICth. (inllott was sent tip from New Orleans for emlnvzleinent. After a day of intense anxiety, on the l'th. dewing which, at one time, jt was reported that Mrs. McKinley wa dead, a private dispatch was sent out stating that the patients' condition was unchanged: that while criticallyill, she was not suffering, but was very weak. Mrs. Potter Palmer has leen tendered the position of volunteer inspector of streets and alleys in her precinct o: the Twenty-first ward of Chicago, and Alderman BonOTO Palmer says ft thinks his mother will accept.

The London Telegraph of the 17th. commenting on the serious illness of Mr. McKinley, says that "the most sincere ami most heartfelt sympathy of the Anglo-Savon xvorld is with President McKinley, who. by the meet tragic irony of fate, is shadowed by the approach of the saddest bereavement to which life is exposed at the very moment when he has reached something like the spotheosis of his career." In the police court at Wiehl to, Kas., Miss Jaasfmine tftthof t, Anna Peebles and Winona Kilgrove, who, in imitation .f their elders, smashed the saloon of Fred Wolf, were found guilt of the charges and fined $bsi "ach. the full extent of the law. Gen. Pitz, John 1 orter, who for three years has been sufTeiintr from chrono diaoetes. is very ill at Morristown, N. J., his disease noting taken such a serious turn that it i feared he mav die at any time. The general is SO years of aire. Hardin W. Johnson, I farmer, near Mansfield, III., committed sniciH, on the 10th, by cutting his thro.it, oecause of his inability to plant crops as early as he dooffed. It is estimated that at least 20,0iK men from oitside the state will ls needed in K ii mis to secure the enormous wheat crop. Wages win range from M6) to HJO a day and "found." liar. est will lie-in nlMf.it June 10. Three men fatally Wounded, hundreds of others xvith broken head, and cut face, coro running merely as arsenals, with no patrons, n(,d the city tinder martial rule, was the situ ation rt Albany, V V.. at th- close f the day on 'he 10th, with no settlement in sight. ov. Nnsh of Ohio was poisoned b poison oak while participating in the dedication of a big tree named in his honor at Santa CrtML Cal. He was partially blinded and is under the constant care of a phvsieian. in the superior court at Chicago, on the 10th. JedgO linker, decided that it is lvgn for employ ers to maintain a blacklist. The inline; was in the e.Mo of Annie Condon OgOitWtt Ltbby, McNeill A l.iliby. Armour ir Co., and other Stock yards packing flrnis. V' l'. rnid ji. Minn., the Norvvepin n national festivities, on the 17fh, lot of fin-works in the steamer Sjiudow exploded, and out of noout thirty people on board five small boy s and Ktal lion received perhaps fatal burns. wh le of those who jumped into th' lake to escape the lire, four sun,; I bos v. p) I drovv ncj, k

The stiike riots which occulted to the colt, j mills on IH Mibog, or rts nish sile of the lfiver Neva, duriiiff winch it was reported that many had bei a killed, were a result of a strike ot workmen from feejr ol the textile factories tor an increase of wages. The strikers held several noisy meetings ami threw stones at the window Of t he factories. Urn. Gago, wife of Secretary Idmmo J. 'iiiL'e of the treasury depart mem , dked at her .-cidcncc, in Washington, city, on the Kth, at '.:.;o p. ni. President Nick Vonng, of the tioi.ni ßaaeball leogne, has ruled that the time within which the chilis of that otga n ial ion shall reduce the number of their players to 10 may be ntendeo to June li Failures for Ike week ended on the 17th numbered 177 in the United States, ageipel 177 last year, and 1U iu Canada, against M last year. The poet ofHce at Holden viilye, Indian territory, will is- raised to 'he presidential grade on July L LATE NEWS ITEMS. AhemdTcw tik Pasha, Ottoman minister of foreign affairs, has called upon the ambassadors and notified tb -m of Turkey's desire to re establish too StatttS OttO ante iu the postal piestion and her intention to send a high functionary, probably the foreign minister himself, to apologize for the violation "f the foreign mail bags. The British steamer Para. (apt. Btrnngera which arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 16th from Colon, reported the suspension of hostilities on the part of the Colombian rebels, and that the Colombian government was believed to be negotiating to cud the revolution. The Oregon Christian Endeavor union closed its state convention at Sabin on the 16th. Francis K. Clark, of Boa ton, President of the National Union of Christian Endeavor societies) eras present at the convention, and delivered several addresses. All rumors regarding the abdication of Kinir Alexander of Servin, the -esignation of the cabinet, and the banishment of Queen Drage, growing out of recent sensational experiences t f the Servian royal family, are declared to be without foundation. The re.t lutionary groups of Paris celebrated, as usual, on the 16th, the anniversary of the Commune, marching In batches to the cemetery of Per LaChalae and depositing wreaths at the foot of the wall where the communists were shot. The elections to the new chamber of deputies were held in Spain on the 16th. At Bilbao there was a quarrel between a minis t rialist and a socialist, and flu latter was killed. Another person was killed at Cnence, a suburb of Bilbao, A cabinet crisis in Peru is reported to be Imminent, it is said thai the minister of linance Domingo Almeiiara. has threatened to resign as he disagree a eritk kls colleagues on the details of the salt monopoly. According to advices from Seoul, the Corean government has leased to Japan 4Ü0 oeres of land to form a setth DoCnf at fa San Pho. The land in pjesf.on was formerly anxiously

Sought by Kussia. Gen. I ho free, at midnight of tho 18th, issued his farewell order ending the American relief expedition in China. If. Pichon. the French minister, left Pel. in, on the 16th, for uuiuc. Kunernl service over the remain of Mrs. Lyman J, Gage were held, uu the .loth, at the secretary's residence on Unasnchnset ts avenue in Washington. Kev. Dr. N. I. Hillis, of Plymouth church. BlBOklyn, conducted the Services, Whlcl were exceedingly simple. At tea o'clock the body was placed on the Pennsylvania limited train for transportation to ChleogO for Interment in KoseHll cemetery. mong the features ot the dedication of the Pan-American exposition, at Buffalo, N. V.. on the 66th, was '.he simultaneous release of several thousand carrier pigeons. Confused at first by their own numbers, they circled low in wild flight, and then gradually roared upward on graceful wiiiL'. lli'h up. where they got thir bee rings, they parted ami took flight to every quarter of the compass, Mr.-. IStner Qu im by, srffle of a farmer living i tai St. la ills. Mich., on the night of the 16th, gave morphine ' heff two children, v. boy aged seven ami u giri of nine. Itoth children di d next day. Mrs. Qulmbj then took the drug herself, but sin- win recover. Family trouble is saiil to have induced the woman to commit the crime. HtlC i- under arrest on the charge of murder. in tht presence of n vast eoncuree of people, with ceremonials Inith co:iventkwiai and novel, the Pan-Aoetrf-can expositioi a! Buffalo, N. wait formally dedicated on the 10th Tho day vvas fair, ami the indusl t io-ix, energetic men who planned the greet enterprise rejoiced In flattering success. Appro: imatelj fifty thousand mav chinists throughout the country struck, on the loth, for a ntne-keur day, a scale of a-ages equal to tho present N n-koor jm r day scale in i oilier demands, A large number of employes conceded the demands, ami thus everted threatened trouble. I In Sot reign camp Woodmen of the World at Columbus, ., mi the 60th, decided that in the future if n member Itgnge In the liipmr bttsinefto he shall b expelled. II lid camps refusing to ti ke this action shall have their hart i revoked. Kstbrr t leveland, the nine-year-old daughter ol the former president, It iinrrinK 1 1 un inpni neria at ner iioiiiiu Princeton, N. J. The physic is it in attendant! antlcipateo no serious do - lopiiicnt in the use.

NEWS FKÜM INDIANA.

Latest Happenings Within the Borders of Our Own State. on i Deed i atflee eg, Indiiinap.dis, Ind., May flh ' In luüiana, Ohio ami Illinois coal operators arc combining for the purpose of doing away with compel it ion, i.ud L'apt, John Ingle, wkn owns one of Ike ktrgCOf mines in i:ansville. - lid the Ope rotors in that end of the slate had been naked to place a VOlttC SO their property in order to complete the deal. ( apt. Ingkl is of the opinion that all the mines in the StttO can be bought for about $H' ' oo.nntl. Xhe main ohject of the trust is to control the western market and incidentally iioiii the United Mm w orkers. Flan nit i a ton, Wabash, Ind.. Mav 'i. meeting hus beet) called to effect union of all the fOttng people's societies ,.f I he various church denominations in Wabash county. The gathering will be held next Sunday at the First Evangel ical church. Hereafter annual conventions of the society members will take place, the ti is t at Hich Valley 00 J ii ay 14, The new orgs nlaat Ion la to be formed to efface prejudices on denominational lines which may exlal and the memberahip vvili rxceed 1,000. Tunk Mio Deeorhter, South Bend, Ind., May 60. Ira Washington, the husband of Ktlnl Coatello Washington, the professional nnrae said to be h-ir ss to ISOO.000 through the death of her tirst husband's uncle in Honduras, and who had been ahandoned by his wife ami was residing in Tampa. Fla., came lure vtiv quietly and see a re I posse avion of hi- Bve-y earold daughter, end if the mother gets possession again It, vvili take a share of her acquired fortune to light the matter in t he courts, Ho Cannes n.-ntn Indianapolis. Ind., May SO, A man supposed t be Charles Viekers. of I'ra n kf ort . was found dead in the rear of a saloon In re. Charles Coleman and a companion weee arrested. They say that they got Into a tight in Wachstettcr's valium and Viekers was thrown out into the alley, but tiny had to ides th:.t he nras badly hurt until they wire arrested and charged with the murder. Preferred lie n Soldier. Prankfort, Ind., May 60. The marriage of I5av id (inff and M i- Mary Austin, well-known people of tkta city, which was to have taken place, was unexpectedly postponed by reason of the bridcgrOOin-elcCl suddenly deciding that he preferred the life of a sol-di-r to that of a benedict, and ke left town a few hours before- h vva- to have been married. lanstr lassisio, Petersburg. Ind.. May 66, Jokfe Adams, a wealthy farunr. BCM Algiers. I: n - been declared Insane, Ike result of brooding over a business trenaactlna by which be wrss worsted out of 1640. Six oth r substantial farmers w re defrauded in the same manner, but paid their losses wiihun succumbing thereto. Ktiinid In Ti-vni. Frankfort. Ind.. Mav 60. Charte K. .Miller, a business mail of this city, who was arrested last February for blowing open a s;fe iu ;) dig dry goods house in thi city and who tab si-(uentl,v jumped a heavy bond, has Im-cii located in Texas, Sheriff Corns has gone to Teens bearing requisition papers for Miller. Parole minted. Richmond, lad., May 10, William Harden, of tins city, eras released from the Michigan City prison ten days ago, after serving a term for larceny, Re sum arrested again on the charge of stealing a razor, and taketi back tn Michigan City, having violated his parole. Drew l.ntn. Noblesville, Ind.. May SO, At the If cent lection in Cicero, George Hail, republican, and Charles Dale, democrat, tied in the ra-e for town clerk rack receiving 6TS votea. both candidates decided to settle the mat ter hi drawing lots, am) Rail won. nied u hfle l iHhiiiK. I t w Albany, Ind.. May to, Predei ' iek Miller, a dairyman, dropped dead White Rshlng IIS the banks of Silver creek. His body fell in t he creek and was drawn out by two boys, He was 4, years old and leaves a family. Wnll Snap,. ,,,e, I. I Koretuft, Ind., May 96, -Several raev of smallpon lure lone eduscd the suspension of some of the rural mniK in Spene r and Warrick rOttUties. ami the bridges a re gnarded by , i,ii-ii w it h Winchesters. sei or itlsitns, nioomingtoa, tndH May W, OfWceri of the ifonon railroad snv. svatcmatic : sttempts bnve been eiade in the last taree sreesta to r--k paaaenger trains on the road by setting ßre to bridges. !riitel lien, I. kfilroy, Ind., May 26, join, ggnlsor a well-knowi former, driipped dead whib working iu hi- Held. aWeea Beeepeioo. Kokomo, Ind.. May 60. The elrelion of ( apt, Milton (iairigus to t he poaithni of department eomflnnnder, ti. v. R.. Hseeta with general approval by all classes in his home town. The ritleettfl tendered bhn a reeeptloo oo 'i s return. Child Pnnnd Mend. Dnnklrk, Ind.. May 60. Ibisse!', the four-yea r-old son of rironi Qnttckle, played about in the evening comparatively well, but upon retiring he complained of some slight Indisposition, in tin morning he was found dead in bed.

H Km i w isesasi mesewtefaw riiif Mini gSMl Sllglilljr. nil. mo- Mux 1 ow Mini siil, IU. m. transville, Ind., May I. i'hrei eol, ihr-' wounded, one fatally, ii i in result it i iu- a w t iii w . 1 1 k of Ever Ott (Jonwaj in tkie eltl this morning Conwoy killed W. C Harrison, Qarrison's wife: wounded i'utrolinan VVallk fatally ami lid Unvldson and Adam ( raw ford slightly , and then kille! himself. The Clime vvas committed early thil morning in that portion if the city known as the Wist Bad. Conway anc Uarrtaoo i re neighbors, and had nol boon on friendly terms for the lost year. Two years ago the father d Conwoy SOhi a small dairy to tiariison. ami I he latter vvas prosperou- I a marked degree. 1 oung Conwaj w of the opinion that Harrison had wind lift 1 his father in Some way. ;.n i bore malice OgalOSt him. This morning at 6t30 o'clocV i onway took hit repeating rifle and, going- to the rear of the iu use. saw Harrison milking his COWS In the stable. Without any. lag a woni. he shot darrison in tht head, and the latter fell over dead. Adjoining the stable of the OarftSons was the stable of the ( onwavs Old man Conway vvas in the stab!( and ran out, asking his son what la Meant. Tin son turned t h' gun . him. bring two shots, mit her of w hi ii took effect, The old man ran down the Sliey to the patio house an I turned in tin- alarm. Mr-. Garrison appeared on the back porch about this time, and Conway, standing in tin- stable door, '-hot her in the heart, She fell dcod on the Step! of thhouse without utt ring a word. 'flu- uiis attracted the policemen in th- luwei part i the city, and Patrolman Pen Wallis was the tit- ti appear. He entered the Conway houe and went upstair--, where till murderer had secreted himself. When he got to the head of the stairs In saw ( onway wiih bis toiii in his hand mid retired, not wishing to walk int sure dCSth. The otbeer walked acros tin- strict and. while engaged in talking to a party of neighbors, Conway, who Mill remained in the upper story, fired at klra. The weapon ueii was i shotgun and the officer received no-t one hundred shots. n- fell t tht ground in an BO Conscious state. Edward DnvidaOO ami Adam Craws ford, who were standing near, were also WOUnded. Wnlb-. was taken 1c the in spitai ami is not expected live many hours, as he is slreadj weak from the los-; of blooil. ami eon Uaues to grow weaker. A not alarm was turned in and Police Sergeant Fred Heuk and the . n tire police lepa rt ine n t arriv.-d am) surrounded t he kOUOe of the ConW a I onway had told hi- wife the vv hoi, story and she begged him to leave th. city, but he replied that he realised that he was up aeainst it, ami erat Poing to die game. Going upstairs ,( -hot himself in the heart with a itiob er that lav on the dresser note left by tin- dead man to -i loal morning pa pi r told why In- WH led to the crime, lb- said that Oer risOO bad robbed him ami hi- lathe, and that he (( onway I could stand it do longer. He ended by saying hi was from Kentucky, and that the people in a few hours would be abb- t; SM his work. Sat unlay morning Con waj wrote a letter to Garrison, telling him In- would give him ten day I to leave the neighborhoood. Darrison Showed the letter to t he fatlnr ol ''onway, and he upbraided his son for his act. The son said nothing, bi t i rose early this morning, and dressed himself as though he was going t aork. II was employed as switch man by tin- Louisville ,v gaahvilli kail road Co. He 69 years old. am :amc here from Kentucky when i mere hey, Harrison was 'ii years old. und leave two children, a boy and u t'irl. After Conway had killed Oarrisof h- -hot pine cows am! attempted to lire the stable.

DANGEROUS DERELICTS. Man of Tli. -hi Mepurlfd In the Writ. Hound Oeenn l.nnea. Menselnic Xh Isrntlon. New York. May .;:. Two of tht large ocean liners, L'Aqualtainc, fron: Havre, and the Meeobo, from London which came into port yesterday, reported thi i ii crossing the oceal I hey passed daiiLrero;is derelicta vx li i ti . if met vvilh in the nigh I linn-. rould not have been observed by the lookouts, ami would certainly have resulted in disaster. Theve wrei'ks air drifting with the wind an: water in the ocean lines which are now being daily traversed by the lim rs many of which an- carrying n a voyage i.ooc Immigrants in their steerage. Three other liners which arrive, 1 here during the last few days here if ported peering dangerous waterh 'i wreckage In (he west-bound ocean lanes. s observatiens were token nt the lime of the sighting of the wrecks, I he govern n ent will u- asked lo send nit one of the rmall gunboats MlJ hunt for and destroy lh- derelicts before tney cause dhOhtet t VOasefct boiinii tor the I nited states. line to I iSaOff Os .let. Topeka, Kas., May 19. Josephine Herron and Carrie HhecfHeld, women Nnployet in the Topeka post office, wer- rrightfully i i j n i I by exploding pas. Mis.-. Herr on is not expected to tnrvive During the tiighl gas had leeunittlated from a faulty jet la the 'tamp viuit. 'i h- two women entered at - n. m .. after their packages, Meantime lighting match. ter rifle npln ion followed, blowing tkeni tgainst the wails, nmi burning iin-ir Sodiea sevi rely. They wen- ImmedlotO1 i.v reacucd i'-. fellow clerks.

THE CRIMES OF A MADMAN. I AYRES MURDER CONFESSED.

Mr. J. .1. Uonlnr. m NihuuiI W uu. hunes iiist mm kui.-u eeaaeo A r res. Woahlngf "'. M.i' I I Mtm I I lloninc was arrested bite resterdni ftemooai for the murder of ilosepi Ay i es. sh hae eonfei setl, Mm. Benine waah resident a iht Keumore hotel, where the murdei wa- committed, and is the wif ..i ., drummer for a Chicago hou is about thirty (be years ol , lloninc, in her confession, admits that she was alone with Ay res in i when the murder wat committed, Mrs. Hotline's confeeakm vva c w'.i, ly voluntary. At u f vv ntinutes p-t three o'clock yesterdaj afternoon i,, telephone fn Moj Bylvester, chh o jMilice. saying that she was eimmL t his office, and sh- appeared theri i few minutes nfterwards. When i. reached the otbee she said sh- Ii.mI u statement which she wished to and she wai immediately t tn ni i to Detective liorne, who took h fession. She BOkj that she wain vr-s' room with him when the killing took place, ami that the shoothag was the reSUll of his own 11 liu-t. she stated that Ay reu had drawn the pistol upon her for the purpose of in;. king her respond to an improper proposal which be hud made to her. At the commencement of tin affair, she saiil that h- had conic to hei room bi the Kenmore hob i about i, 'lock Wednesday morning and upon tb- platens.- of being ill gained mi mission to her room, lb mplti ned of feeling as if h- vv.i- going lo havi a chill, and asked her to give him some preventive. Hhe had gleen him she said, a medicine which she had iu her room, and he h i. I then referri d t some differences which thev had bad in th' past ami had asked her to come to his room, where Ihej mighl quietly talk the matter over, u come to an amicable understanding! She had agreed to go to the room be had requested, and he lefl In i room, preceding her to his room. When Ay res called at h-r room k was entirely dressed, but when she nterel his room as per agr m ist she found him standing behind the door undressed, except as to h - udcrshirt, and with a revolver in hi hand. He limn told her ttiat he bad enticed her t,. the room for ! - own purpose- rind that if she lid i ' mil to bis wib-s be would h II hei kfrs. lloninc -ays that she Intmf ly gropood the revolver, and in tki struggle which ensued it Was ll charged three different times, strik nig him at i ich lischarge. tin- lasiiot proving fatal. She say - that th cries for help which Mis.- Minns bean wen- all fron, her as xvere also thi sobbing which Miss Minaa described. Mrs. lloninc says that after tin shooting aht passed through the win don f Ay res' room onto ami dowi the tire escape ladder, and enterinj the parlor window of the second tlooi passed through the parlor and hoc1 up the stairway of the hotel to he Own room on the fourth door. Sin then washed her hands, undressed ant ret ired. Mrs, lloninc was entirely sell pos sessed when she made her confessiot and did not exhibit any evidence 0 ither present r peat unusual exeiti mcnt. Hhe is apparently about thir ty-two years old. and say- she wa1 lMirti in Macon, Mo. She then ITIOVCI to Hamilton. In the same state, am afterwards to Richmond, Kas . when b r husband was engnged in the dim business, Bubsetiuently she went ti tlrnnswick, ia.. ami then to Florida where her husband was engaged ii orange growing, Bhe says that it wat at her husband's solicit iat ion that sh learned t practice with a revolvei and that he had made the BUggestioi that she should learn Ibis art foi self tl fense against possible assault-. Ski Said -he bad twice in her life tired : revolver t frighten burglars and tha she had brought a bulldog revolvei xv Ith her to W ashington, but had give! ii away to a m-gro man. After she had concluded her state incut the woman was placed under at rest and sent to the house of dctCU tion. HELD FOR MURDER. Wife Held na ICOSSQOCf llefore lh Fact of the lllnek Man hrtt ' wilt, the raisoalnot Fpringfield. ill.. May 61, The roe oio-r's jury emp im llel to Inquire Int the death ol )i Joseph L. Itan. lH Monticcllo. III., who died suddenly si the Central Hospital for the Insane si Jav'ksooville, last night broughi In verdict thai H u nc come to death ,x strychnine poison administered by William Webb Ferguson, alias William W inn, and thai Mrs. Marie II whiou of the deceased, vvas an acces sory before the hit t . The jury rccoinin nils that both t h id In custody Prominent men in Spring Behl and in Qtdney luiv- been mentioned Incoo' ne1 ion With the -l.se. Ferguson is positively identified at the negro oho relied on Bnmen ib- Control HoepMol for the Insane on the afternoon of Bornes' auspit lout iiatk. THE CYCLING WORLD. On a bad or narrow road alwayi make room for the henvler vehii The Touring club f Prance 1 splendid showing with t nicmliiiship record of 1 0,000 rid Tom Cooper royi he in going if be eyel racer until he is tio oW tC gui.'le a wl 1. He adds that he has been obliged to asert his stand owing to th instant rumors purporting t0 conic from him. ami claiming to indicate his intention of retinua from the truck.