Ligonier Banner., Volume 34, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 April 1899 — Page 2

THE EX-MILLIONAIRE. i Aurelian Flagg of the board of trade . Discovered a scheme whereby ; A million or more could be handily made . Through a speculation in rye; So he laid his plans and he blundered in, He staked his all to lose or win, ~ As others had done before; . 1 Y.O! the market turned as he said it would, And there, with a swelling chest, he stood, Worth a million dollars or more! Aureclian Flagg of the board of trade, ‘"Who had speculated in rye, Put on some frills of the highest grade And exploited a capital I; . It was not to luck that success was due, But a wise foresight had ' carried him through : And made him a millionaire. You had the chance, I had it, too, = But we didn’t know the things he knew, So we stood aloof and we didn’t dare. Aurelian Flagg of the board of trade Took a second flyer in rye, And dropped the million that he had made— Would you know the reason why? Things didn’t turn out as he thought they, would, < % i Just why he never quite understood—. 11l luck had entered the deal somewhere; Whén vou win you have wisdom, genius, ' pluck, . When yeu lose your loss is due to bad luck, As it chanced with the ex-millionaire. —S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Daily News. .

The New Planchette

HERE was no one to answer’ the T bell, so Mrs. Cassidy went herself. “Why, Cela Bethune! lam so glad!” she cried. in greeting her visitor. “Yes, I wanted to see you,” the girl returned fervently, as they kissed each other. “I was out for a €pin and came this way = * * Jjow do you like my new suit?” ' “I like it.. It looks just lovely on you.” © . *lsn’t the skirt-too short?”’ “Not abit. You want it-short.” ; “But not too short,” insisted the girl. “I was so afraid it svould be too short. Some look perfectly shocking.” : “I know. DBut- yours isn’t a bit too short. Come in this way, where we can sit down.” : : - “Oh, but I mustn't stay.” “I thought you wanted to see me?” ~~Cela’s exercise had heightened the color in her pretty face. but a blush increased it still more as Mrs. Cassidy recalled those first words. Cela covered her confusion with more talk in regard to her mew gown and the trials she had undergone in havin'g it cut and fitted. Even as she spoke Mrs. Cassidy seemed forced to take the girl’s measure in a certain otherlight. . N “How old are you, Cela?” she asked, abruptly. ek . *Why, Laura Cassidy! What a question! Do you think I'm going to tell? % # % Nineteen. Why?” ‘“NYow'll be getting married before long.” » K

“Oh, my goodness! ' I'm never going to maryy. But I've had.a propesal,” biushing furiously. - T “And you've'said: ‘Yes.” I'mso glad. How lovely of ydéu to come and tell me all about it.” :

Mrs. Cassidy was about to fold the girl ia her arms again, but Tela waved her off. ¢

“Oh. dear, no! And what's more, I'm net goine to say: ‘Yes’' Oh, T don't know what I'm.going to say. How. do vou decide about such things? You've had fo, once. not long ago. Tell me. That’s whatl came for:”. :

A note of tremulous despair hovered about her voice.

“It’s easy. You must know whether you love Norman Ford or not.” E “Norman Ford! How did you guess him? 2 : “Why. who else could it be?”

S S “He isn’t the only young man!” Cela retorted. with a touch of resentment.

Mrs. Cassidy gave tone to a rich laugh. She was in love with the moment. Cela was mindful only of the main guestion, - -

“You see, I would have to leave papa and go and live with N—Mr. Ford. Iye only known him a few months—a ye?ar or two at most—and I've known papa ail my life.”

- Mrs. Cassidy's laugh was very provoking. Cela was vexed. :

“Oh, you know what I mean. What makes you behave so? I thought you would help me.” : e “And so I will. You must stay with me a week. Send for your things,- You must think it over. A matter of this kind can’t be decided at onice.”

© “That’s just what I told Norm’!” said the girl, flashing joyously. “It’sso kind of you to help me. I knew you would. I want to talk it all over with you. You see, I don’t want tomalke any mistake.” And talk it over they did every day, aimost every hour, for a week. “It will be better for you not to see Mr. Ford until you can give him a definite answer,” her friend had said, and Celia acquiesced in the wisdom of this. “Of course, I can’t choose for you. I can only help you to know your own mind.”

“How did you ever choose?” Cela asked, envious of her friend’s ability. “It was easy. I just knew.” = “That’s it; you always know everything and I never know anything.” Later, when Mrs. Cassidy questioned her, Cela said: “In the morning I'm all ior papa. Then it seems just as clear as can be what I shall do. But toward evening about the time Nor—Mr. Ford —-isually comes”—the red poured into Cela’s cheeks—‘“why, I'm all . at sea again.” . . “But you don’t really have to choose between them. You just—" “Oh, yes, I do!” interrupted Cela, very positively. “It can never be-the same. It will all be different. I should have to give up papa, and I shall most certainly say: ‘No.” This was in the morning. : In the afternoon Mrs. Cassidy and Cela went for a spin through the parks on their wheels. : | “Oh, Mr. Ford and I hare had such lovely rides on a tandem tl at he has!” Cela said, rapturously. “I wish I had written him a pote telling where I am staying. I really don’t think there would be any harm in his coming, and he might help me to-a decision, It really seems as if it would be heartless to say: ‘No,” for he says he thinks everything of me. You just ought to hear him once! And, as you say, I haven’t . really got to give papa up. He might come and live with us. Anyway, I could see him every day—almost as much as - Ido now, for he’s only home a few hours in the evening. But it did seem so teroM ~ In the morning the terror of it all returned, made worse by a feeling that a decision must be reached that day, for

it was the last of her stay with her friend. But when Mrs. Cassidy joined Cela her fa¢e was beaming with a plan which she had thougnt out. ' : “I've a way, Cela, for you to know your own mind.” ' “Oh, what is it?”? ' “ “Listen!. Tom says that every evens ing Mr. Ford and your fatherwalkdown Columbia avenue together 'on their way from town. At Madison street they separate; your father goes west to take the Third street cars.. Now, this is my plan:’ This afternoon on] your way home you ride your wheel fislowly down the avenue just back of the two men. But don’t let them see you. All the way you must just think that you must make up your,mind between them, and at the corner where they part that you will follow the one whom you decide upon. Ride your wheel just as slow as you cax, but you mustn’t stop or fall of.” :

*¥es > said Cela. “And if at the very last you can’t decide to leave it all tothe wheel.” - - “Leave it to the wheel?” Celadid not understand. ’

“Yes. Haven’t you ever noticed your wheel act independent of yourself? hat is, turn this way or that without gour consciously nfaking it?”

"It did thkat when I was learning to gile.” : , : *But since?”’ . : “Yes—sometimes.” :

“Well, that's the way planchetta wworks,” said the other, mysteriously. “Ttla rgallY one’s subconsciousness that does it, I suppose. You know subconsciousness is like clairvoyance and second sight and hypnotism and all those things which know all about the past and future.” .

Cela shuddered. ‘ “I'm afraid of such things.” “But not of subconsciousness. To be afraid of that would be like being afraid of one’s own soul.” L

“Well, what then?” eagerly

“Why, if it is best that you should aecept Mr. Ford your wheel will keep straight ahead down Columbia avenue after him. But if you really ought to refuse him it will turn without yourreal1y making it, down the street that your father takes.” fi *“Really 2 ' f¥es ! . “I have read that the wheel taught one decision,” Cela said. “Dut:l never knew just how.” ' “Well, that’s how,” said Mrs. Cassidy, slowly and thoughtfully. , ! The sun had disappeared behind the tall brick blocks to the west and left the street, canyonlike, in soft shadows, Cela darted among the carriages, dodging heavily-laden trucks, the while keeping a sharp eye upon the walk for two men. )

“Oh, there he is!” she said, softly, with a little thriil of de]igz'ln.)““;\'onn has a new suit of gray—that's why I didn’t know him sooner. What would he think of.me if he knew I was so near, watching him? He said he should be under torture till 1 gave him my answer. He doesn’'t act like it. What can papa and hebe talking so agreeably about? Papa, the dear old soul! Bu® I must be thinking. I must choose between them.”

Cela’s face paled a little. - & “Papa wouldn’t come and live with us. He just couldn’t. Whenever we've talked of boarding, he has said he could not bear to give up his home. -It's a wonder Norm doesn’t look this way. He has said again and again that he knew when I was in the same room with him—that he could feel my eyes.” Thev crossed Jefferson street.

“It's at-the next corner, now!” she gasped, “and I haven’t decided yet. I am all that papa has in this world. How can I leave him alone? Would it be right? Other daughters do.” Laurz seemed to think it would. Norm says he can never ldve anyone else— he'd rather die than live without me. Oh, here is the corner. And they are separating. Papa is looking this way. What shall T do? I just can’t decide. Laura said leave it to the wheel. What ‘will the wheel do?” There was a breathless moment. Cela’s wheel was going very slow; then slower, slower, but straight ahead. Upon its movements hung her fate. Would it decide for Norm? Her heart had almost ceased to beat. One more turn of the pedals would carry her by. Slower, slower. Suddenly her wheel turned sharply to the right. - “Oh, it’'s for papa,” she said, with breath that came like a knife in her side. “Poor Norm.” ; : In another moment Cela had over= taken her father, and together they turned down the street, which ran parallel to Columbia avenue. ‘“You're not looking well,” Mr. Bethune said. :

© “I've been doing some very hard riding,” Cela replied, avoiding his eyes, for there were tears in her own. “Why, there is Nor—Mr. Ford,” she exclaimed, as that young man came up the side street toward them.

Ford was surprised to find Cela with her father, but delighted withal.” Her reception was such as one might give the ghost of a dear friend. “Here are some papers I meant to give you, but forgot them.” “Oh, yes,” replied Bethune, taking the package. “You’ll be up this evening?’* he inquired with a look toward his daughter which seemed to add, “now that Cela is home.”

“Yes,”” Cela answered quickly for him, and Ford felt he was to know his fate that night, and feared what it would be. Cela was very pale; her manner was unmistakable. : After tea Mr. Bethune sat in his library. Cela had taken a stool and drawn it near him in the dusk. “Daughter, I'm going to take Mr, Ford into partnership in my business.” “Oh, papa, he—he has asked me to be his v&ife, too!” ; “Too? Tl'm not going to be his wife; you needn’t be so frightened.” “Oh, you horrid papa! You know what I mean. There’s his bell now,” she added, springing to her feet. “Well, I half expected it,” sighed the old man, “but he’ll have to come here to live. I can’t have him carrying you away.” . & “Come here to live,” Cela repeated to herself as she flew to answer the ring. “Why, of course—that’s what it meant his coming up that other street to join us. My wheel knew how it was tabe’ : “Well, which is it?” said Ford, like one asking his doom. S ~ “It’s yes. But, oh, it came awfully near being no! I must tell you about it. Now, don’t act silly.”—N. Y. Herald.

- As Seen BY SARAH DAVIDSON. , , ) _ The Princess Gown Is the Prevailing Rage for All Occasions. L

TIIESE are the days of weddings in Gotham. It would seem from : the number that are taking place that the little god of love had had a busy winter, but then again Cupid is not always represented in Gotham’s marriage ceremonies. . Oftentimes it happens that wealth or social pesitien plays a more important part in the joining of two young.lives than love does. This is especially true of those who are supposed to represent the swellest of the swell set. The Easter weddings this year were, as a rule an exception. to this statement, however, and there are but few that were solemnized in which love did not play an important part, even though other things were taken into consideration. Who could have seen young Vanderbilt and Birdie Fair on their wedding day and have doubted their regard for each other? - .

The weddings have offered the greatest opportunity to display the elaborate gowns that the wealth of Gotham has been purchasing for just such occasions for weeks past, and to the credit of the people who wear them be it said that the great majority were of home manufacture. TFewer Paris productions are seen in New York this spring than in any season for some time, and while' the little god of love has been busy, even more so than usual, the dressmakers and milliners have not been idle. They have had their full share of prefit out of Cupid’s business, and are blessing the little fellow for his work. -

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performed in the bride’s church, and hundreds of invitations were issued. For the reception at the bride’s home immediately after the ceremony, the attendants were not so numerous. I saw the ceremony and not the reception, but as it was only the gorgeous gowns in which I was interested instead of either the ceremony or the reception, T imagine the church was the best place of the two to go. I certainly saw some remarkably pretty costumes, in which those in the prineess style predominated. Jt seemed as though everybody, from the bride to the most unobtrusive guest, wore a prineess gown, and some of them were very beautiful. : )

This desire for princess gowns sometimes leads one astray, and at this particular wedding 1 saw several that were entirely out of place because the women who were wearing them were not suited to that style of dress. A leading dressmaker said to me a few days ago that the return of the princess gown was never entirely welcome to “the dresgmakers, for the reason that every woman imagined herself adapted to that particular style, and that it was seldom good policy for the dressmaker to tell her differently. To wear a princess gown one need not always have a perfect figure, but to look well in such a gown one must have a straight and well rounded figure. One of those that I saw at this particular wedding was worn by a little short woman, and she had much better have sacrificed her appearance for the sake of the gown. Hers was but one of many cases one pees almost every day in which the desire for this particular style of gown runs away with their good sense in matters of dress. One of the beauties of the princess, however, is its adaptability to all occasions, and .this is probably one of the reasons why so many women persist in having them when they are unsuited to their figure. Especially is this true of the woman who cannot afford a dress for every occasion. To this class of woman the princess appeals as a matter of economy, as it may be used either for the afternoon reception, the theater or the ballroom or other evening occasion. In fact, the princess is worn more or less on all of the occasions, and it is especially popular for both afternoon and evening wear. But it sometimes seems poor policy to allow either this matter of economy, when it is not an absolute necessity, or the desire to appear in a princess gown get the better of good taste and appearance, and that is certainly what it does. . ‘ ; 1 must describe the gown worn by the bride at this particular wedding, howevey, or my readers will lose interest in the wedding itself. which I intended should be the center around which this letter should revolve. The gown was

of whitel duchess satin, embroidered with pearl passementerie. It was made withia panel front embroidered in the pearl passementerie. At the bottom of the skirt were two rows of heavy white silk- eord, and square train had a border of the passementerie which was brought up at one side. Around’'the waist was a girdle of the passementerie. The sleeves were tight and of the duchess satin and d’vz\gr them were a fall of real lace with two rows of passementerie. The square yoke was made of the real lace with rows of the pearl passementerie to finish. :

A gown worn by one of the guests at the same wedding was made in the predominating princess style of dove gray Lyons gross‘grain with a very small train. 1t was fastened down the back with tiny rosettes of gray velvet. It had a round- yoke of gray velvet wvith a double frill of soft lace, and two rows of embroidery in cut steel and gray chenille from the round yoke.fo the bottom of the dress gradually widening towards the bottom. This embroidery gave the front the effect of a panel that was very graceful and becoming.

Stillanother was a beautiful gown of blue brocade in a-lace pattern and lilies of ‘the ‘valley. 1t also was made in the princess style and had deep scallops just below the knee. A double flounce of crepe dé chine around the scallops to the bottom of the dress, with two tiny ruchings of crepe de chine to finish around the scallops. A square voke filled in with shirred crepe de chine, with a fold of raspberry velvet around, and a rosette at one side witha buckle of gems to fasten. It hadatight

sleeve witha V to finish at the wrist, and two tiny ruchings of crepe e chine. . SARAH M. DAVIDSON. MADE GOOD IMPRESSION. . Effect of the Trip of the Gunboat Wile mington Up the Orinoco River on Venezuelans. United States Minister Loomis, at Caracas, has sent to the state department an account of the trip made by the United States steamship Wilmington up the Orinoco and along the mnorth coast of' Venezuela, in which he says that the Wilmington made a strong and agreeable . fmpression wherever she touched in Vgnezuela. ‘“The splendid condition and appearance of the men and the boat,” he said, “never failed to call forth praise from those who saw them. /As a result of the trip, I think it will be found that American prestige has been substantially augmented and the idea of American power and resources, vitalized by the war, enormously deepened and widened. Practical results are coming, too, in the way of increased commerce with the United States, and if our merchants and manufacturers will take advantage of the favorable conditions that have been created for them they ought to profit very largely.” : Minister Loomis impressed the native officials deeply by causing the Wilmington’s machine guns to be fired whenever any of the army officers came aboard. The result was the forwarding of several orders to the United States for similar weapons. The captain of the Wilmington cansed a chart to be made of the river as far up as Ciudad Bolivar, there being none in existence before.

TO RIDE FREE ON STREET CARS Tom L. Johnson Says Happy Result - Will Follow-Municipal Owwnership. : _Hon. Tom L. Johnson, the widely known street car magnate, in an interview at Cleveland, is quoted as saying: “The time is going to come when the people will ride free upon the street cars run and operated by a municipality, the same as they now get their letters delivered to them by the postal system. ! ; “Municipal control is as easily handled as government control. Politics would not be able to cut any figure. In every separate organization, where the servants of the company, government or municipality, are subject to examination by public sentiment and where free access to the inner workings is made accessible, no corruption is found. It is only in thé hidden byways that political chicanery can be possible.” Some of the stars move with a veloc: ity of 50 miles a second. @~

THE DOLLAR BANQUET. Nearly 3,ooo_Men and Women Participate in the Demoeratic Gather- . ing in New York. : New York, April' 17.—The dollar Jefferson dinner of the Chicago platform democrats at the Grand Central palace Saturday night in point of numbers was one of the biggest affairs ever held in this city. Nearly 3,000 men and women sat down at long tables in the various rooms at the big palace. There were all kinds of people there, dressed in all kinds of clothes. White men elbowed with colored men and white women with colored women. The main hall presented a different aspect from that of the Metropolitan opera house at ‘the ten-dollar dinner of the Democratic club. There were no flower embellishments, but just great long avenues of tables covered with plain white plates., Among tHose who sat at the guests’ table were: James R. Brown, presiding; on his right, W. J. Bryan; on his left, (‘harles_ A. Towne, of Minnesota; O. H. P. Belmont; William S. McNary, secretary of the democratic state committee of Minnesota; Mayor J. L. Rhimoohs, of Covington, Ky.; Bolton Hall, George Frederick Williams. ex-Con-gressman William E. Ryan, of Rochester; A. S. Townson, of Virginia; Col. Thomas Smith, of Virginia, and John Clark Ridpath. . At nine o'clock the commiitee and the speakers ascended to the platform. Bryan received a vociferous- ovation. James R. Brown called the meeting to order and introduced George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, who was given a fine reception. The crowds in the galieries meantime had increased, and there were at least 5,000 people in the hall. The mention of Henry George's name evoked an extraordinary demonstration. The speakers were Mr. Bryan, O. H. P. Belmont, John Clark Ridpath, John A. Crosby and James P. Tarvin. :

JOHN H. OBERLY DEAD.

Former Commissioner of Indian Af- . fairs and Civil Service Passes Away at Concord, N. H.

, Concord, N. H., April 17.—John I Oberly, former commissioner of Indian affairs, ex-civil service commissioner and president of the International Typographical union, died here Saturday. [Mr. Oberly was bora in December, 1836, at Tarentum, near Cincinnati, O. He learned the printing trade in Wooster, 0., in the office of the Wooster Republican. On completing his apprenticeship he weent to Memphis, Tenn., where, aftersworking on the Appeal and the Avalanche, he stanted a paper for himself. On the outbreak of the war he was run out of Memphis because of his union sentiments. He returned to Wooster,, 0., and conducted the Wayne County Democrat. Later he went to Cairo, 111., in charge of the Daily Bulletin. He was mayor of Cairo, a member of the state legislature, and was appointed by Gov. Cullom as democratic member of the warehouse commission. He was a strong candidate for nomination as governor against Lyman Trumbull, was nominatzd secretary of state, and defeated on the ticket with him. He was for a long time chairman of the democratic state committee and was twice president of the International Typographical union. The by-laws of the organization to-day are his work. President Cleveland appointed him superintendent of Indian schools and later dommissioner of Indian affairs, inducing him to resign th= latter office to take a civil service commissionership.” He then became editor of the People and Patriot, of Concord, N. H., and held that position for some time, relinquishing that position to become editor of the Richmond (Va.) State during the Mc-Kinley-Bryan campaign. He then became business manager of the Washington Times, and so remained until January 1, 1898, after which time he returned to Concord, resuming the management of tke People and Patriot.]

FATAL EXPLOSION.

Disaster in a Sawmill Near Chippewa Falls, Wis,, Causes Three Deaths —Five Men. Injured.

Chippewa Falls, Wis., April 17.— Three men killed and five injured is the result of a boiler explosion Saturday in a'sawmill located about eight miles east of this city. The mill was a small one owned by George Straight. Power was furnished by a 20-horse power engine and boiler. Without any warning the boiler exploded about one o’clock, entirely demolishing the building and hurling eight workmen high in the air. The dead are:. John Brisnois, sawyer; William Olson, sawyer; Lem Wileox, foreman. Engineer P. A. Briggs and four others whose names are yet unknown ‘were injured. Fragments of the killed were found over 100 yards from the scene, and portions of the boiler were picked up a quarter of a mile distant. The explosion was due to the weak condition of the boiler, having been in use for a number of years. The three men killed were residents of Cadot, Wis."

Wlll Make a Fair Crop.

Omaha, Neb., April 17.—Reports to the Bee from over Nebraska receéived within the last few days indicate that the danage to winter wheat and rye has - been greatly exaggerated. Fields which had all the appearance of being dead when the ground was frozen are reported to be coming out and with a favorable season from now, on will make a fair crop. In other sections where the plant was reported damaged to a considerable extent it has developed wonderful vitality and shows little if any damage. ; Will Present Sevres Vases, New York, April 17..—M. Loubet, the president of the French republic, has informed the committee of the international chess congress in Paris that he would be pleased to present several Sevres vases valued at 5,000 francs as special prizes for- the international chess tournament to be contested in Paris next year, - ; Road to Pike’s Peak to Open, Colorado Springs, Col., Aprilll.—The cog road up Pike's Peak will begin business for the season Sunday morning, next, when a train will be run to the summit. . _ Elevators Burned. St. Louis, April 17.—Elevators Nos. 1 and 3 of the St. Louis hay exchange 'were destroyed by fire Sunday, entailing a loss estimated at $60,000. The elevators were used for storing hay. Five cars loaded with hay standing on a side track, together with four empty cars, were burned. | Honor for Mrs. McKee, : New York, April 17.—Mrs. Mary MeKee,. daughter of ex-President Harrison, has been appointed by Gov. Roosevelt a commissioner to the 1900 exposition in Paris to represent the stawe o New TR . ey

CROKER TELLS LITTLE.

Examined Before the Mazet Commits tee, the Tammany Leader Refuses’ to Reveal His Methods. .

New York, April 17.—Riehard Croker was again the chief witness at Saturday’s session of the Mazet investigating committee. The Tammany leader produced several sensations, but these resulted more from his countercharges than from any unexpected revelations wormed out of him by the tireless Moss. Mr. Croker declared that Senator Platt’s firm was at the bottom of all the 'co’r_ruption in New York city. *“Go on and examine Mr. Platt’s firm and find out what his boys are’in if you-want to be honest,” shouted Mr. Croker. He also intimated that he believed Mr, Moss had been’ none too honest whil&-a police commissioner of this city. He stoutly maintained his own honesty. Once or twice during the dramatiec exchange of accusation and denial between lawyer and leader tempers were lost on both sides. There was no veiling to the accusations of dishomnesty implied by the questions which Mr. AMoss hurled at Mr. Croker, and which almost invariably were met with the reply: *“I decline to answer.” Stock transactions. Mr. Croker maintained, were “personal matters.” Behind this answer he hedged time and time again, and as a result only a small amount of tangible ‘evidence was adduced as regards alleged corruption, although some questions asked and not denied implied that corruptior of the worst kind existed. Mr, Moss endeavored to badger Mr. Croker into telling of his personal affairs. and finally told the Tammany leader that he “dared” not tell. Mr. Croker declared that the breaking of friendship bétween him and Bourke Cockiran was not due to the fact that he had taken from Mr. Cockran a part of a fee which Mr. Cochran got from the Broadway road and had thén demanded more, but was due to the fact that Tammany had refused to-support Mr. Cockran for United States senator.

WAR TO BE MORE HUMANE. One of the Good Results to Be Ex- .~ pected from: the Czar’s » Conference. Washington. .\pril 17.—The ipstruetions to the American delegates to the czar's disarmament congress are in the hands of the president and they will be communicated to Messrs. White, Low and Newell and Capts. Mahan and Crozier at an early day. There will be no formal meeting of the delegates on this side, the only purpose being to arrive at The Hague about the same time—on or about May 18. Capt. Crozier, the military expert Oll,thf‘ delegation, is preparing to sail some time next week. Seth Low awill probably come over from New York to conferwith the president and Secretary Hay before sailing. Capt. Mahan is in New York. and may go on with Capt. Crozier next week. Messrs. White and Newell are already near the scene of'the congress. One of the

American delegates said that tentative plans had been put forward for doing away with torpedoes in naval warfare: also for abandoning rams on warships: also for discarding explosive shells below five pounds. The abandonment of torpedoes and rams would probably arouse much opposition from naval quarters, on the ground that it was Utopian and sentimental. It is advocated on the tkeory that the torpedo and ram cause wholesale destruction of

life and property, killing and maiming hundreds at a singe shock. and that this loss is out of all proportion to the military advantages secured, amounting to wanton destruection. { )

DAMAGING EVIDENCE.

A Witness Positively Identifies Mrs. George as the Mysterious “Woman in Black.”

Canton, 0., April 17.—Very damaging testimony was offered against Mrs. George in the progress of the trial Saturday. Mrs. Christine Eckroats positively identified Mrs. George as the mysterious “woman in black” who was seen to run from the Althouse residence immediately after the shooting of Saxton. In this evidence she was to some extent corroborated by her daughter, Mrs. Laura Hudwig, of Cleveland, who saw the person who fired the shots.running away. This-person Mrs. Hudwig described as closely resembling in form, figure, carriage and general appearance Mrs. George. In answer to questions on cross-examination Mrs. Eckroats admitted having used morphine for nine or ten years, but for the last six months only took it every other day.

New Spanish Ambassador.

Madrid, April 17.—The Official . Gazette contains a royal decree appointing Duke de Arcos to be Spanish envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States. The decree also creates consulates at Havana, Manila, Iloilo, San Juan de Porto Rico and Cienfuegos. A Horrible Suicide. Chesaning, Mich., April 17.—Mrs. M. B. Keith, wrapped in a shawl saturated with kerosene, went out into a field and set herself afire. She was soon discovered, but was burned so badly that she died six hours later. Mrs. Keith ha(kfor years shown signs of insanity. g

ODDS AND ENDS. | No receptacle has ever been made with sufficient strength to resist ‘the bursting power of frozen water. : The number of visitors to the Tissot pictures at the Chicago Art institute is said to have been about 80,000. The doll is probably the mostantique of toys. It has been found inside the graves of the children of ancient Rome. . The now fashionable, game of golf was put down by an act of parliament in Scotland in 1481 as a nuisance. Then fines were inflicted on people who were found guilty of playing the game, for it interfered with the practice of archery, as men preferred wielding the club to pulling the bow. e In the early days in the northwest, when the Hudson Bay company laid thefoundations of great fortunes by trade with the savages and a gun paid for as many beaver skins as would reach to the muzzle of it, the skins packed flat and the gun held upright, it was. alleged that the barrel of the weapon grew and grew with each successive year, until the Indian, after he had bought it with the peltry, had to borrow: a file and cut off a foot of useless metal.

SLAIN BY SAMOANS.

American and British Marines At.

tacked by Natives.

Four of the Former and Two of the .. Lafter Are Killed and Afterwards Beheaded — Situa- " ‘ tion Is Serious. : ~Auckland, N..Z.,, April 13, -- Dispatches received here from Apiz, Samoa, April 1, say that a party of 103 American and. Dritish sailors were forcéed to retreat to the beach, after havingz beén caught in ambush on a German plantation that date. The expedition was led by Lieut: A. IL. Freeman, of the British third-class cruiser Tauranga. Licut. Freeman and Lieut. 2. B I;:m'sda;le,; of the United States cruiser Philadelphia, were left dead on the field.- Ensign Monaghan remained to assist Lieut. Lansdale z;.(ud was shot in retiring. - - y Two DBritish and two .-\mt:ri(ran sailors were also killed. o Heads Cut Off. - The natives engaged were some of Mataafa's warriors. They severed the heads of the Dritish and Amerivan ofAficers killed. - Priests of the French ‘mission afterwards brought the heads into Apia: The manager of the German -plantation has been arreste:l and detained on board the Tauranga, on aflidavits declaring that he was seen -urging the rebels to fight. o “In a previous engagement 27 of Mataafa’s warriors. were killed and there were no casualties among the European forces. 5 A Jt is estimated that about 800 warriors attacked the Anglo-American party. from ambush. . . Dispateh from Kawmtz.

Washington, April 13. — The following dispdtch. from Admiral Kautz has been received: : . . ““Auckland, N. Z., April 12.—Secretary of Navy, Washington: On April 1, while the combined forces of the British and United States under Lieut. Freeman, Britizh navy,

were reconnoitering near Apia, they were ambushed. e

“Deeply regret to announce the death of Lieut. Philip B. Lansdale, Ensign John R. Monaghan, ‘Cockswain James Butler, Ordinary Seaman Norman Edsall, and five men wounded, belonging to the Philad«! phia, - The British loss in killed two men and Lieut. Freeman.” ) I "+ Meost Dangerous Feature.

The arrest and detention by the DBritish naval officials of a German subject is one of the most dangerous features of the controversy. It is said that the consuls of the three powers stationed at Apia claim - extra-territorial jurisdiction, involving ' the right to try the subjects of their respective countries for any offense alleged to have been committed. Under this practice the German consul; Rose, may demand the surrender of the German subject. If the magn is guilty, it is considered improbable that the Dritish will yield unless aupon some ‘adequate Jruarantee that he is-to be sufficiently punished. Itis not believed lilkely that Rose will make such promise. It is believed that Admirai Kautz, with the cooperation of the British will continue his- efforts to bring the rebellious natives to terms. This is not likely to be an easy taslk, in view of the small force at his command, butit is possible the British government may aceept the proposition of the authorities of New Zealand to send a regiment of soldiers to Apia. No protest thus“ far has beef lodged at the state (Tepai'fment against Admiral Kautz. ) Ordered to Samoa. Sydney; N. S. W, April 13.—The British cruiser Wallaroo and the British gunboat Goldfinch have been ordered to proceed to Samoa. b - Agree Upon Tnstructions, Washington, April 15.—After hearing Friday ‘morning from the British an:| German embasgies, the state department.was enabled to announce positiveIy and finally that the three parties to the Berlin treaty had agreed upon the instructions to be given their Samoan commissioners, and that it was eertain that the commission Woulci leave San Francisco on the 25th inst. for Sawmca on the Badger. : ' ~ Bottom Fell Out. ° San Francisco, April 14.—Passengers on the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro from Honolulu state that on March 23 the bottom of the great volcano fell out, followed by great clouds of dust and smoke.. Some alarm was felt by the guests of the Volcano house, occasioned by the noise and the frequent landslides which followed, but some of the guests became reassured and started to investigate the phenomenon. A hole 150 feet in diameter showed the extent of the cave-in. All attempts to locate the bottom of the crator were unavailing, and some authorities place it at 800 feet below the mouth of the crater. R ‘Struck by a Train. ' ~ Fond du Lac, Wis., April 13.—1 n a railroad accident Wednesday night Robert Frenzel, of Oakfield, and Mrs. A. Kettler, his mother-in-law, were instantly killed and Mrs. Frenzel seriously injured. The party had been shopping and were returning home in a closed carriage. The vehicle was driven across the Wisconsin Central track just as the Chicago train approached. The occupants were hurled 30 feet and the carriage reduced to splinters.

The Cuban Army Rolls.

Havana, April 15.—The Cuban army muster rolis, which were delivered Thursday evening to Gov. Gen. Brooke throughSenorDomingo Mendez Capote, are prepared in neat clerical style; the 1,200 broad sheets showing on their face 48.000 names—~6,ooo commissioned officers and 42,000 noncommisioned officers and privates. The whole statement is in orderly arrangement of corps, regiments, battalion and company scores. i o Quiet Now Reigns. “ Pana, 11, April 13. — Continued calm reigns at Pana. The control of the military is absolute, all civil authority represented by the local police and sherift’s office having been relinquished to =C'o¥ J.'S. Culver, in command of the infantry forces. All three of the mines reopened for work Wednesday morning. There is no prospect of trouble while the troops are here. , _ Boston Theater Burmed. ‘Boston; April 14. — Theé Boston museum, on Tremont street, the oldest play house in this city, was badly damaged by fire early Thursday. The blaze started on the Tremont street sice and is thought to have been caused by a seum is estimated at about $96,000,