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:.® o y - The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER, $..4 INDIANA. m FLOCKMASTERS of Wyominh are preparing for the largest year’s wool business on yecord. Shearing will be commenced at Fort Steele on April 20, and it' is estimated 100,000 head of sheep will be handled there. ' ONE great moral influence not yet credited to the bicycte is indicated in &e fact that horses are now so cheap in the west that horse stealing is no longer .worth while, and that species of crime has practically disappeared.

DR. ALEXANDER, the new primate of all Ireland, is over seventy, and of late he has lost something of the fire of his eloquence; but he is, with the possible exception of Dr. Salmond, by far the greatest preacher in the Irish church.

© Dr CARL PETERS, the German explorer whose conduct in Africa has got him into trouble, is a knock-kneed little man with a well-shaped head, his cheeks scarred with slashes from student duels. He lisps, wears eyeglasses and is a pronounced Anglomaniac.

SAwpusT is turned into transportable fuel in Germany by a very simple pro= cess. It is heated under high steam pressure until the resinous ingredients become sticky, when it is pressed into bricks. One man with a two-horse power machine can turn. out 9,000 bricks a day. '

. THE nearest blood relative of Prof. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, discoverer of the X rays, is said to be Rev. Dr. J. H. C. Roentgen, pastor of the First Reformed church of Cleveland, 0., and superintendent of the German hospital of that city. He is a first cousin of the discoverer of the new photographic light. o o .

HERBERT SPENCER is putting the finishing touches to therlast of the volumes containing his system of synthetic philosophy, a work he began 85 years ago. Mr. Spencer is now 76 years of age, and has been for several years in such poor health that it was feared he might not live to complete his great work. , : :

Lorp CHIEF JUSTICE RUSSELL has got himself in a legal mess. He surprised the house of lords by taking the oath and signing the roll two weeks after the session had begun, having forgotten that this formality must. be gone through in every new parliament. The penalty for sitting in the house without having taken the oath is £5OO for each offense. -

ONE of the greatest inventions ever added to the granite business .is being given a test in Montpelier, Vt., says the Argus and Patriot.. The machine is for sawing granite, and if it proves satisfactory it will go down in history with the cotton gin. The machine contains 64,000 worth of diamonds, and the total construction costs in the neighborhood of $lO,OOO. v

"~ Tae flood tide of immigration is again upon American ports. In March, 1894, but 14,452 aliens were admitted; in the first 28 days of March this year 21,803 immigrants were registered in American ports and the great majority of them were from Italy, illiterate and without sufficient funds to keep them from becoming obgects of charity 380 or 60 days after landing.

PADEREWSKI has returned to New York after a tour which extended to Texas and California. Exclusive of charity performances, he appeared in 78 concerts, the total reecipts of which aggregated $208,000, an average -of $2,667 each, which is said to be an unprecedented record. The- largest amount taken in at any one concert was $7,384 in Chicago. '

Tue Scandinavian supply of cod liver oil is said to be an almost complete failure. Comparatively few codfish were caught during the past season, and those that were captured were found to yield only an inferior quality of the oil. The yield for the past three years shows & rapid decrease. In 1893 it ‘amounted to 26.813 barrels; in 1894 it dropped to 18,500, and last year it was only 12,680 barrels.

Pror. ALBERT KOEBELE has returned to California from Honolulu for a short visit. He is under contract with the Hawaiian government for three years as a pest destroyer. He saved California orange groves from the scale by developing the Australian ladybug. He has done a great deal toprotect the Ha~ waiian coffee plant by importing a parasite from Japan that destroyed insects fatal to the pfant.

-Cor. A. K. McCLURE, of Philadelphia, who has just completed a trip through the south, told a Chattanooga reporter that he found the general condition of that section better than it had been for years. ‘‘The small producers are di= versifying their products, more closely observing the demands of the markets, and there is a decided improvement in their condition as compared with that of a year ago. This is always the first symptom of a general improvement. When the small manufacturer and farm producer show signs of prosperity the dawn of better times is at hand.”

C. D. VAUGHN, an electrician, is experimenting with an invention by which telephoning may be possible between America and Europe. Mr, Vaughn elaims that by his invention he can hear the ticking of a watch 1,500 miles away. He says: ‘The rea~ son it is impossible to telephone more than 1,000 miles by the Bell method is because the transmitters now in use will not stand so great an electric power. After years of experiment I have succeeded in perfecting an improved comsbination of induction coil and trans--mitter that will permit the use of forty or fifty volts.” : ] S ——————— Capr. CeccHr of the Italian army es- - timates Menelek’s forces on a war foot“ing at 145,000 men. Abyssinian warriors are thoroughly organized and well'equipped. It costs comparatively little to maintain the army, for in the field the men subsist off the country. Moreover, the Abyssinian soldier lives for an entire year, it is said, on the three months’ rations of a European soldier. Menelek moves his army with %uwuptm It is the testimony of uropeans ‘who ' have witnessed the ‘march in Abyssinia thata camp of 40,000

»y > Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. The Proceedings of the First Session. Washington, April B.—ln the senate yesterday the post office appropriation bill was passed. A joint resolution was introduced providing for ap amendmen? 1o the comstitution to limit the veto power of the president sojas to make 1t competent for the two houses to pass bills over a veto by a majority vote. In the house the time was passeéd in discussing a bill to fix the standard ot weights and measures by the adoption of the metric system on and after July 1, 1898,

Washington, April 9.—Senator Turpie spoke in the senate yesterday in favor of radical action on Cuba, even to the extent of sending a fleet to Cuban waters. Most of the day was given to the Indian appropriation bill, which was not completed. Unanimous consent was secured for taking up, next Tuesday, the resolution for a senate inquiry into recent bond issues. A bill was passed granting a pension of $5O monthly to the widow of Maj. Gen. Charles S. Hamilton. In the house the bill toadopt the metric system of weights and measures was sent‘sto the cominittee on coinage, weights ‘and measures for further consideration. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill was adopted.

Washington, April 10.—After being in retirement for some weeks the tarifisilver bill was brought forward in the senate yesterday as a text for a speech by Mr. Mantle (Mont.), who urged that unsectional protection should be linked with bimetallism. The navel appropriation bill ($31,279,482) was reported and every pension bill on the calendar (75 in number) was passed. In the house the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed and a favorable report was made on the bill for the admission of New Mexico as a state. Mr. Hopkins (I 11. introduced a reciprocity bill and a resolution was adopted calling on the state department for information regarding Mrs. yaybrick, imprisoned in England. _

Washington, April 11.—The main portion of the session of the senate yesterday was taken up by the Indian appropriation bill, the house proposition abolishing the systemn of contract schools for Indian children giving rise to a long debate. A favorable report was made on the bill providing for a delegate in congress from Alaska. Adjourned to the 13th, The house spent nearly the entire day in general debate on the “filled cheese” bill. The fortifications bill ($ll 384,000) was reported, as was also the bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to Indians holding lands by allotments.

FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States and Canada the fire loss for the month of March shows a total of $14,839,600, being about $600,000 more than in March, 1895. It was said that the president had sent 8 message to Madrid urging Spain to submit the Cuban question to mediation, and offering the good' offices of our government to aid in restoring peace,

Throughout the country the volume of business has not increased nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range for' all commodities was the lowest ever known in this country. ’ -

The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 10th aggregated $926,220,255, against $951,976,788 the previous week. The increase, compared with the .corresponding week in 1895, was 6.2 A In the United States there;were 209 business failures in the seven days ended on the 10th, against 259 the week previous and 207 in the corresponding period of 1895. :

’ THE EAST. | The chess championship of the United States and a purse of $750 was won by Jackson W. Showalter, of New York, by defeating Emil Kemeny, of Philadelphia. ; ; - After a trip around the world William T. Adams, better known as “Oliver Optie,” the author of books for boys, reached Boston. ; Frederick Booth-Tucker, the new commander of-the Salvation Army, declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States and took out his first naturalization papers in New York. An explosion of dynamite at the new Radebaugh tunnel near Greensburg, Pa., killed one man and two others were fatally injured. : Fire destroyed 14 buildings in the business section of Yonkers, N. Y., the lotal loss being $lOO,OOO. ; In various portions of central New York a foot of snow on the level fell. - Frank McKinley was killed at Elizaveth, N. J., by a railway train in the presence of his wife, to whom he had been married less than an hour before. At the age of 64 years Robert Littell, the publisher of Littell’s Living Age, died at his home in Brookline, Mass. In western New York potatoes were gelling at two cents a bushel, and in some places the farmers were giving them away to getrid of them, The death of Phillip G. Killian, the union soldier who cut down the confederate flag at Fort Sumter, occurred at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 56 years.

Rhode Island republicans in convention at Providence selected Reed delegates to the national convention and adopted a platform in fayor of gold as a monetary standard, in favor of a national board of arbitration, and against the free coinage of silver. The firm of Hall & Garrison, manufacturers of picture frames in Philadelphia, failed for §250,000,

WEST AND SOUTH. , At Bloomington and other Illinois towns the heaviest April snow within the memory of the earliest inhabitant fell. At Whetstone, W. Va., Jackson Martin, his wife and child were burned to death, The house took fire and the inmates were unable to escape. Fire ruined the cotton mills at Douglassville, Ga., the loss being $125,000. The democrats of the Third district of Kansas nominated Hugh P. Farelly, .of Chanute, for congress. * James Knott, of Hallock township, 111., celebrated his 100th birthday an- . miversary. ! 6 Flames at Savannah, Ga., destroyed ‘the building occupied by the Savannah Grecery, company, the loss being L ~ While riding at anchor in the bay at San Francisco the British ship Blair_more was struek by a violent squall awd . capaiced and six seuien lost their lives. G LT SR e e T s e B e T

Flames destroyed the busineas center of Lyons, O. Fas ’ John Brooksshotand killed his daughter, Mollie Brooks, at the depot in Millican, Tex., and also shot her lover, A. C. Worrels, as they were about to elope, and then sat down on a box of dynamite, which he exploded and blew himself to'atoms. : 7

Oregon democrats in convention at Portland adopted a platform favorIng the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen te one and elected delegates to the naticnal convention instructed to support a free rilver candidate for president. L . In Leavenworth, Kan., George Owens, an ex-soldier, cut the throat of Cora Barton because she refused to marry him. ~ ; Two whites and 25 blacks were said to have been killed in a riot at the polls in Mallet, La.

The First district republican convention in Canton, Mo., nominated Maj. C. N. Clark for congress. The republicans of the First district of Oregon nominated’ Thomas H. Tongue for congress. At the age of 87 years Gustavus Koerner, who was lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1852, died at Belleville. Illinois prohibitionists in convention at Springfield nominated a state ticket with Hale Johnson, of Newton, for governor. The platform favors woman suffrage, free silver, civil service reform, and reaffirms the positicn of the party on the liquor question. .A new St. Louis directory gives that city an estimated population of 611,268, an increase of 145,052 since 1890. Ohio on and after July 1 next will inflict capital punishment by elcctricity. Republicans of the Fifth Nebraska district renominated E. J. Huiner for congress, '

By the capsizing of a beat near Cape Henry, Va., Capt. John Faunce and his son, - Percy, of Washington, were drowned with their crew of seven colored men.

At the age of 56 years Gov. John E. Jones, of Nevada, who has been ill in San Francisco for several months from cancer of the stomach, died in that city. e ;

The republicans in the Ninth Illinois district renominated R. R. Hitt for congress by acelamation. 3 The Oregon republicans in session at Portland selected delegates to the St. Louis convention for McKinley. The platform declares for both gold and silver and the maintenance of values of the two metals. :

In New Orleans Arthur Schneider, 20 years of age, was hapged for the murder of Herman Schreder, his rival in love.: ! . ,

The Ohio democrats will meet in Columbus on June 23 to select delegates to the national convention.

In Detroit, Mich., May 26, a non-polit-ical tariff convention will be held to discuss ways and means for taking the tarifl guestion out of partisan politics and making it a business question. 8. B. Minshall, a prominent insurance man at Pentwater, Mich., crazed by financial difficulties assasinated. Wil-

liam B. O. Sands, a wealthyf lumber dealer; then went to his home and Ikilled his wife and three children, and after that blew out his own brains.

The death of Miss Minnie Owsley (colored), aged 103 years, occurred at Danville, Ky. At Lebanon, Ind., Capt. James Watts, a prominent citizen and veteran of the lute war, was organizing a company to go to Cuba to assist the insurgents.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

It was said that the sultan of Turkey had issued an order to expel all Christian missionaries from Armeénia.

Dispatches say that 15,000 Italian immigrants were about to leave Naples for New York. ‘

Venezuela, it was reported, was in favor of recognizing the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents. _

By an explosion of a fort at Kiang Gin two regiments of Chinese soldiers were blown to pieces. - 'The well-known newspaper correspondent, Col. John A. Cockerill, died of apoplexy in Cairo, Egypt, aged 54 years. |

~ In the Olympian games at Athens, Greece, the Americans were the winners in the final contests.

LATER NEWS.

Thereport that the president had sent acommunication to Madrid on the Cuban question urging Spain to submit to mediation, and offering the good offices of our government to aid in restoring peace, was said to be false. :

: CAL Coombs (colored),aged 112 years,: died at his home in St. Paul, Minn. Records show he was born in 1784.

Capt. Gen. Weyler asked Spain for the immediate dispatch of 5,000 cavalry to Cuba, and the minister of war was arranging to send them. :

The Lexington & Carter Mining company, owning 10,000 acres of land in Carter county, Ky., failed for $lOO,OOO.

. A terrific wind and snowstorm in the Cripple Creek distriet of Coforado deetroyed property valued at $lOO,OOO. In the vicinity of Denverall railway trains were blockaded by snow. A dozen buildings were blown down at Gillett and a number at Altman, Goldfield and Viector. | L

Republicans of the Fifth Tennessee district nominated Dr. Houston for congress, . j

The Towa legislature adjourned sine die. Gov. Drake has called an extra session to meet January 19, 1897, to complete the revision of ge code.

~ An explosion of giant powder in a mine at Butte, Mont., killed six men. John Hoefs and his wife were found dead in their beds at Milwaukee. They had been poisoned, but 'no cause was LKnown for the deed. It was reported at St. Johns, N, F., that the sealing steamer Ranger was lost with over 200 men. )

Thomas M. Holt, ex-governor and the wealthiest and most prominent cotton manufacturer in North Carolina, died at his home in Haw River,

A. E. Lane, a. Boston leather. dealer, failed for $150,000. Oaki, a Japanese cook, fatally wounded Miss Minnie Miller, by whom he was employed in Denver, Col., and killed her 12-year-old nephew, Willie Truesdell. :

Reddyeck Adams (colored) -was Iynched by a mob at Seal, Ala., for shoot~ ing R.'T. Renfro. . v Over 1,300 Italian immigrants, 600 of them being penniless, arrived at Ellis Island, N, Y. ' Washington, April 18.—The senate was not in session on Saturday. In the house.the filled .cheese bill, requiring the manufacturers of filled cheese o pay a tax of $4OO annually, the m sale dealers $250 and the retail denlers

INGERSOLL'S LATEST. Famous Agnostie Delivers a Lecture with Religious Accompaniment. . 7 Chicago, April 13.-—With a prelude that included the pronouncing of an invocation, the repeating of the Lord’s Prayer. in unison, the reading of the tenth chapter of Luke, commencing with the 25th verse, the singing of an hosanna, of “Nearer, My God, to Thee” and “America,” the greatest living agnostic of the age stepped tothe restrum of the Church Militant Sunday morning and for nearly two hours expounded to the congregation his views upon “How Mankind Can Be Reformed.” Church Militant is composed of the major portion of the former adherents of the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian church, one of the strongest parishes cf that denomination in the city, and who, with their pastor, Rev. Dr. John Ruslk, branched off into an independent organization some months since as a result of opposition of the minority of the congregation tothe introduction of radical changes in the conduct of the services, including the use of an instrumental orchestra and the attachment to the parish of employment, hospital, clubhouse and other guilds. : Although admission was strictly confined to ticket holders, the street in front of the theater was blocked with people long before the opening of the doors, and even after the interior:had been packed to suffocation over a thousand men and women besieged the entrance. On the stage were 400 or more representative citizens, including nearly every member of the appellate and superior judiciary, several federal and county officials, delegations from every medical and law college and institution of learning in the city and suburbs an< a number of retired divines. Every sect and denomination without an exception had it srepresentative. When Col. Ingersoll made his appearance arm in arm with Dr. Rusk there was loud applause mingled with murmurs from some who seemed to regard such a demonstration as foreign to a religious service. In the prayer that followed the musical exercises Dr, Rusk asked for a special blessing on their guest of the day, who was endeayoring to show the world how this life might be made one of usefulness and joy, and also invoked a dispensation for his wife and children, while in his introductory remarks Dr. Rusk characterized Col. Ingersoll as “the man who is endeavoring to do this world good and to make it better.” This, he said, was no time to reason, no time to disagree with the faiths of men, or beliefs of men, when they were trying to maje the world better than they found it. No matter, he said, whether a man believed in God or not, if he expounded the truth, then the truth was there and God was there.

As Col. Ingersoll stepped to the rostrum he was welcomed with applause that lasted for over a minute. With the suggestion that while his hearers and himself might be traveling different rvads, they were all trying to add to human joy and happiness he took as his text the quotation from Shakespeare, whom he characterizeg as “the greatest, of human beings:” ‘“There is no darkness but ignorance,” and for two hours spoke upon the necessity of arbitration as a substitute for war, the need for new methods in the treatment of eriminals, the desirability of the occupancy of the prairies of the west for homes as a panacea for the tenement system, the question of dlvorce, the relations of capital and labor and the need of reform in the education of children.

In concluding his address Col. Ingersoll said: : , “The reforms that I have mentioned cannot be accomplished in a day, possibly not for many centuries, and in the meantime there is much crime, much poverty, much want and consequiently something mus¢ he done now. ILet each human being within the limits of the possible be self-supporting: let everyone take intelligent thought for the merrow, and if a human being supports himself and acquires a surplus let him use a part of that surplus for the unfortunate, and let each omne to the extent of his ability Lelp his fellow men. Lect him do what he can in the circle of his own acquaintance to rescue the fallen, to help those who are trying to help themselves, to give work to the idle. Let him distribute kind words, words of wisdom, of cheerfulness and hope. In other words, let every human being do all the good he can, and let him bind up the wounds of his_fellow creatures and afi the same time put forth every effort to hasten the coming of a better day- i

‘““This, in my judgment, is real religion. To do all the good you can is to be a saint in the highest and in the noblest sense. To do all the good you can—this is to bhe really and truly spiritual. To relieve suffering, to put the star of hepe in the midnight of despair—this is true holiness. . This is the religion of science. The old creeds are too narrow! they are not for the world in which we live. The old dogmas lack breadth and tenderness; they are too cruei, too merciless, too savage. We are growing grander and nobler. ; | ‘““The firmament inlaid with suns is the dome of the real cathadral. The interpreters of nature are the true and only priests. In the great creed are all the truths that lips have uttered and in the rexl litany will be found all the ecstasies and aspirations of the soul. all dreams of joy, all hopes for nobler, fuller life. The real church, the real edifice, is adorned and glorified with gll that art has done, Intho real choir is all the thrilling music of the world and in the starlit aisles Have been, ana are, the grandest sculs of every land and clime. i :

‘ ‘There i 3 no darkness but ighorance ’ ‘“Let us flood-the world with intellectual light.” |

When he concluded the applause was loud and long continued, many of those in the foyer waving their handkerchiefs and bhats. The congregation united in singing ‘“Blest Be The Tie That Binds” and with the pronouncing of the benediction the uhique service came to an end. : : 3 i

Prophesies Three Cyclones.

Wichita, Kan., April 13, — “Dutch Charlie,” a queer character, of Cowley county, who is known as the prophet of Brandon, has made the announcement that the Arkansas valley will be swept by three terrific cyclones this summer. The first one is to come in June, the second in July and the third in September. - s

Americun Professor Honored.

Edinburgh, April 13,—The Edinburgh university Saturday conferred the degree of LL. D. upon President F. A. Walker, of the Massachusetts Cullege of Technology.

‘ Killed Hhmself. Chicago, April 13 —Barney Josephs, once a prosperous and well-to-do Chicago drygoods merchant, committed suicide by taking ammonia. Josephs, it i 8 sald, was ruined financially through the failure of his father-in-law, Joseph Swarts, for whom Josephs had endorsed notes for many thousand dollars.

‘Bard Whisky and Tobacco. . Richmond, Va., April 13.—At ths African Methodist conference Bishop Gairfes served notice on candidatesshat’ he would ordain no man minister who drank whisky,® chewed tobacco or emoked cigars,

‘BRITISH SHIP CAPSIZES, Disaster Occurs in San Francisco Bay—- : o Bix, Drowned. : : San Francisco, April 10.—The British ship ‘Blairmore was capsized in the bay off the Union iron works Thursday morning and six of her crew were drowned. The dead are: First MateT. Ludgate, Able Seaman Henry F. Clark, Apprentice Roland Seigle, Seaman G. Rennebaum, Steward Samuel Kenny, and Watchman I. Synstrand. The ship is now at the bottom of the bay and the bodies of the drowned men are imprisoned in the hold. It will be impossible to recover them for several days. Then the work will probably have to be done by divers. /

The Blairmore was anchored about half a mile off the Union iron works in seven fathoms of water. During the early part of the night she was held only by one anchor. Butat four o’clock Thursday morning, when the windstorm came up, all the available anchors were dropped and her other fastenings made secure. Though the weather was squally all the morning, the ship held ‘fast and Capt Caw had apparently no reason to fear. At seven o’clock, however, the wind suddenly sprang up from the southeast with increased violence.

The tide was then at its flood, and taking the ship on the starboard bilge heeled her over considerably. So, with the wind on the port bow the ship was in a very dangerous position. The captain at that time, however, thought the wind bad about exhausted itself, but suddenly and without warning a wild squall rushed up, and catching the vessel under the port bow, lifted her completely out of the water. Fora moment she seemed to hold in the air. From that position she dropped over on her side and shortly after sank out of sight.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. Good Government Gains in Chicago—Re= sults in Minnesota Towns. Chicago, April B.—ln the election here Tuesday for town officers and aldermen the republicans carried all of the seven towns by majorities ranging from 1,000 to 4,000. The campaign for aldermen was not strictly on party lines, being more of an effort on the part of reputable citizens to oust the old gang which has controlied the council, regardless of politics. Of the 34 aldermen elected, only eight are men who were opposed by the muaicipal voters’ league. The remaining 26 may be said to fairly represent the respectable element.

St. Paul, Minn., April B.—A large number of Minnesota cities held elections Tuesday. As a rule party lines were not closely drawn. Hottest fights were usually made on excise. So far as heard from the pro-license men won in a majority of cases. At St. Peter L. M. Erickson (rep.) was elected mayor. A proposition for the establishment of a public library carried by a two-thirds vote. License carried at Blue Earth City by a majority, of 112. Mankato defeated a proposition for the issuance of $20,000 in bonds for waterworks. H. B. Jewell (dem.) was elected mayor of Wabasha. The license men won at Tracy by a majority of 90 votes. W. F. Parker (rep.) was chosen mayor. The present mayor is a prohibitionist. M, M. Guthrie, people’s candidate, was named as president of Blooming Prairie, and N. H. Miner (rep.) as mayor of Sauk Center.

" At Faribault the democrats elected moyor and secured a majority in the common council for the first time in many years. -

AMERICANS WIN FINAL HEATS. Carry Off Honors in Presence of a Vast Audience. Athens, April 11.—In the Olympian games Friday the contests at the parallel bars were won by Flatow, German, and Zutter, Swiss. The contests at climbing the pole were won by the Greek athletes, Andri, Kopoulos and ‘Xenalkis, The final heats of the unfinished events of the first and second days were contested Friday. v The 100 metres race was won by Thomas E. Burke, of Boston, in 12 seconds. Hoffman, the German champion, was second. The high jump was won by Ellery H. Clark, of Harvard, a member of the Boston team, covering 181 centimetres. | The hurdle race of 110 meters was won by Thomas P. Curtis, of Boston, 17 3-5 seconds; Goulding, the English champion, was second. e ¥ An Italian Defeat. Massowah, April 9.—Later advices from the front show that the losses of the Italians in the fighting which followed the attack upon the Italian native battallion at Mount Mocran, April 2, were much more severe than first reported. The first advices stated that 5,000 dervishes attacked the Italian forces, and were repuised in an engagement which lasted four hours, during which the Italians lost 100 killed and wounded and the dervishes suffered heavily, many of their number being made prisoners. Now, however, it is stated that the loss of the Italians was ten officers and 300 men. Charged with Embesziement. Chicago, April 11.—Christopher A. Larrabee, anephew of ex-Gov. Larrabee, of lowa, was arraigned before Justice Glennon Friday on the charge of having embezzled $15,835 of the funds of Boyd, Stickney & Co., coal dealers, of Harrisburg, Pa., with a branch store in this city, where Larrabee was employed for eight years as bookkeeper and cashier. He was committed to jail in default of $20,000 bail. He absconded a year ago. Was One of the Original Mugwamps. Boston, April 7.—William I. Hen‘shdw, of Cambridge died at Fitchburg Sunday, aged 60. He was the original ‘ mover and developer of the banana importing trade. Mr. Henshaw was one ‘ of the company of 100 who were the original mugwumps and was a member of the Massachuserts tariff reform Jeague. e s _ g Fatal Boiler Explosion. : North Mountain, Pa., April 9,—John Boyd and George Oiler were killed and four other persons, two of them girls, were seriously injured by the explosion of a sawmill boiler here. Getgne S 'Robbed of Five Thousand Dollars, ~ Paris, Tex., April 10.—Five men, one uf whom wds masked, went to the resi‘dence of Dr. Cooper at Calvin, L. T., | on"-"Wedn‘eiday;—niEh,t’ - ransacked the house and found $5,000 in a'smal’ trunk. _They then left, and are supposed to have gone to the mountains, -~ = . - ~s:;;;**‘3%' % ot teenth United States fn 4; ‘awardéd ‘s meddl for most distin-| (AR SO e TS STRTH WA P AT el W L e

, TELLS OF HIS /CRIMES. Extracts from a Reported Confession by H. H. Holmes. - Philadelphia, April 11.—The : North American of this city will this morning print what purports to be sentences from the confession #lleged to have been made by Murderer H. H. Holmes. Among other things the story says: In prefacing the confession, which covers In full nearly three newspaper pages, written in Holmes’ own handwriting;, and detailing with a minuteness that is simply at times revolting, the arch-mutilator and author of 27 murders, as he admits himseld to be, states with something like pathos that he does so simply that he may obtain enough money to educate his boy. Holmes writes of his blood-curdling atrocilies with an abandon that simply apalls one. Not one grain of remorse'seems to enten into the construction of that document, and never for a moment, except in two jsolated cases—one where he refers touchingly to the memory of Minnie Williams and another time when he pathetically speaks of an outrage perpetrated on his boy—does the redeeming element pity figure in the case. Regret is never for a moment expressed, and he comes out boldly and without com=punction on his very opening with the statement: ‘I was born with the very devil in me.”

Even now he believes that the evil spirit is the guiding genius of his destiny. He asserts that he is gradually changing in appearance, in figure, that his face is becoming distorted, and he sees, whether in the distortion of his bloody imagination, which conjures up hosts of wvengeance-calling dead, or not, his fa¢e assuming the look, the eyes, the leer, and the very ears the exact similitude of the picture of Satan themselves. \ “I was born with the devil in me,”” says he in one part of his confession. ‘I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to song, nor the ambition of an intellectual man to be gredat. The inclination to murder came to me as naturally as the inspiration to do right comes to the majority of pergons. Not only that, I was not satisfied in taking it in the ordinary way. Isought devices strange, fantastical, and even grotesque. “I am convinced,’” he declares, ‘“‘that since my imprisonment I have changed woefully and grewsomely from what I formerly was in feature and in figure. I mean, in fact, that my features are assuming nothing more nor less than a pronounced satanical aspect; that I have become aflifcted with that disease, rare but terrible, with which physicians are acquainted, but over which they seem to have no control whatever.* “That disease,’”’ says he, ‘“ls a malformation or distortion of the osseous parts, causing deformity so marked that in many cases men are made to assume likenesses to the inferior animal. Sk “From what I can see, T believe fully that I am growing to resemhle the devil; that the osseous parts of my head and face are gradually assuming that elongated shape so pronounced in what is called the degenerate head, and that the similitude s almost completed.” Holmes’ confession from this on speaks of his early experiences, of his boyhood days on the farm up in Vermont, and the life he led, until 'he entered college to study medicine in Michigan. It was not until after he was graduated and fully equipped with the knowledge of persons and the easiest way to sever the thread of life, that Holmes began his career as a murderer and a mutilator. +When he begun, he admits himself, he was ruthless, and never once halted until he took 27 lives. : R

“And I would have committed six other murders,’”” he added, ‘had not certain occurrences intervened.” o

- SLAIN BY SPANIARDS. Troops Fire Into a Crowd and Kill Four Women and Two Children. : Havana, via Key West, Fla., April 9.— During a night attack upon the town of Hoyo Colorado, abgout 15 miles west of Havana, the Spanish troops shot and killed four women and two children and wounded others. The troops occupied four forts. The insurgents entered the town, crawling on hands and knees, fired upon the forts, burned a number of houses and retired. The troops later, seeing a group of people on the principal street, fired a volley from the fort, mistaking the women and children for insurgents, owing to the darkness. The accident is greatly deplored. Seven prisoners of war condemned to be shot in Cabanas fortress Monday morning, have been respited.. The general belief is since the action of the United States congress, no more insurgents will be publicly shot under the bandit decree.

‘Four times within the last four days the Spanish forces have been defeated by the insurgents under Maceo in Pinar del Rio, but not one word has been allowed to go out im regard to these engagements by the Spanish authorities. The most important conflict occurred near Majana on the strong line. Maceo’s advance guard, 2,000 strong, attacked the Spanish column under Col. luclau near that place. The Spaniards were routed, according to reports, with a loss of 500 killed and wounded. Prior to this encounter there were engagements with Maceo’s main army west of the strong line, in which the Spaniards had the worst of it. It is said the Spanish loss in the four engagements was over 1,500 in killed and wounded. SR

A Journalist Dead.

. London, April 11.—A dispatch to the Chronicle from Cairo says that Col. fohn A. Cockerill, the well-known American newspaper editor and correspondent died suddenly at Shepheard’s hotel in that city Friday. Deafh was caused by apoplexy. Col. Cockerill recently arrived in Cairo from Japan, where he had spent some time as correspondent of the New York Herald. He was representing the same paper in Cairo.

Tragedy at Pentwater, Mich.

. Pentwater, MicH., April 11.—S. B. Minshall, an attorney of this town, made a successful attempt on Thursday night to assassinate William B. O. Sands, president of the Sands & Maxwell Lumber company. After leaving Sands for dead, Minshall went to his home and shot his wife and three children dead and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. '

Spanish Papers Indignant. Madrid, April 7.—The newspapers here are deeply indignant over ‘the adoption by the American congress of lihe resolutions recogmizing the belligerency of the Cuban insurgents . andtheir comments are very bellicose. They support the proposal that has' been made to raise a national subseription, for a volunteer fieet. : Must Go to Prison. Des Moines, la., April 9.—The case of J. C. Yetzer, convicted of fraudulent banking in Cass eounty, has been affirmed by the supreme court, and he will go to prison for five years. . ' Actress Sues for Divorce. -Youngstown, 0., April 9.—Mrs. Henrietta Brown, nee Crossman, the wellknown actress, has brought suit in the common pleas court here for diverce from her husband Sedley Brown, the actor and playwright. The plaintiit charges the defendant with habitual drunkenness. , gl |, Decldes Against the Women, ' ' . New York, April :'ef*-m?"_bté"af 99 to §9 the New York Methodist Episcos, pal conference decided aguinst “\hé: amendment recommending that lay delegates to the gencral couference beeither male or female, =~ R R R e R AR B S B e e SRS e NGRS A S DS R e G

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A Spring Trip South.

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