Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 May 1895 — Page 2

X. XeO. 8T00P8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - * - INDIANA. Levi B. Tait, one of Michigan’s eminent jurists, died st his home in Pontiac, on the 29th, aged 73. Oh the 1st Got. Morton of New ]fork granted Dr. Buchanan, the wife- murderer, another week’s respite. Florida's quarantine regulations went into effect on the 2d and will continue in force until Not. 15 next. The resignation of Theodore Roosevelt.as a member of the ciTil-serrioe commission was received at the executive mansion on the 30th. -• "■»» The Afghan authorities hare ordered Umra Khan, who was captured in Afghanistan, to be turned over to the authorities of Great Britain. The public debt statement, issued on the 1st, shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during April, of $9,109,857.52. Total catlh in the treasury, $787,442,835. Fob usiug a profane epithet four times, Mr. John Hoffman, a contractor, was, on the 30th, fined $$88—sixty* seven cents for each time—-by Alder* ynan Donovan, of Pittsburgh, Pa. George Robert Charles Herbert, thirteenth earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, died at Nauheim, Hesse, on the Sd. He was born in 1850, and was under secretary of the ^British war office in 1874-5. Failures in the United States for the week ended on the 3d, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 231, against 233 for the corresponding week last yggr. In Canada the failures were 34, against 30 last year. The supreme court of Ohio, on the 30th, held, in a case from Lucas county, that the owner of a building is not liable to a sub-contractor, if, after paying the contractor said contractor fail to pay the sub-contractor.

The iron manufacturers of the Ma* honing1 valley in Ohio decided, on the Bd, to increase wages fifteen cents a da'y In all furnaces. This Valley contains more important blast ^furnaces than any similar stretch of ^territory in the world. The German marine department has contracted with the North German Lloyds and Hamburg-American steamship companies for the construction of ten ocean liners which shall become armed auxiliary cruisers in the event of war. Fob the nine months ending March B1 last 130,980 immigrants arrived in the United States. They are known to have brought with them in cash 13,397,846, and it is believed that many times this amount escaped the scrutiny of the officials. Mbs. Mary Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on tfie 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1804. Her husband died " fifty-one years ago. A friend of President Cleveland is authority for the statement that, in case he is not nominated for a third term, he will make an extended foreign tour soon after he leaves the White House, visiting England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Bussia. --- A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 8d, said that the Chinese, with a view of preventing the Japanese from entering Pekin, had cut the embankment of the Pei-sHo river and flooded miles of country. Hundreds of persons were caught by the rushing waters and drowned. The 800 students at the Ohio Wesley air university, at Delaware, O., were notified by President Bashford, at the annual cha^pel exercises, on the evening of the 3d. that, beginning with the opening next fall, no student will be allowed to attend who persists the use ot tobacco. An outbreak of the plague at the naval station at Moji, in southern Japan, was reported, on the 30th, but the United States sanitary inspector at Yokohama reports that such strict measures for repression have been adopted that there is very little danger that the disease will spread. The Kings county (N. Y.) grand jury finished its work for the term, on the 3d, by handing in an indictment against the Brooklyn Heights Rail road Co., charging it with manslaughter, in the killing of Mary Medinger, 63 years old, on March 36 last. The district attorney immediately issued a summons, which was served on President Lewis. »

The French foreign office is firmly convinced that the United States government is secretly supporting Japan, cad this belief is shared in the Russian and German embassies in Paris This feeling is causing the French government a good deal of anxiety concerning the outcome of the joint protest of Germany, France and Russia against Japanese occupation of Chi? nese mainland territory. A preamble and resolutions were in* troduced in the New York state assembly, on the 3d, expressing sympathy with the “Cubans engaged in a struggle to throw off the yoke of Spain and establish their national independence,” and fears that the “Spanish soldiers may repeat the barbarous atrocities which characterized the war of 1868,” and calling on the president 4*to take proper steps to insure the citizens and soldiers of Cuba the rights of belligerents under the rules of 90^ cxn warfare.1*

CUBBENT TOPICS. TEH NEWS nr BBIET. PERSONAL AND~GENERAV. The supreme court of Michigan, on the 30th, ordered a new trial in the case of James G. Clark, who was convicted in the recorder's oourt at Detroit of willfully and fraudulently forging and altering the tabulated election returns of Wayne county on the state salaries amendment in 1892. Clark was never sentenced. Tan home of Stanford Kimely, in the country near ' Atchison, Kas., was burned, on the 30th; during the temporary absence of Mr. and Mrs. Kimley, and their two children, aged 3 years and 15 months, were cremated. The origin of the fire is unknown. Thk body of Dr* C. S. Dixon, a prominent citizen of Ash land, Wis., who was lost in the woods last winter, was found by a searching party on the 30th.

A crucial test of Carnegie Harveyized plate armor took place at the Indian Head proving grounds,on the 1st, , in which, after all the required tests had been successfully resisted by a plate 16 feet 9% inches long, 7 feet 5 11-16 inches wide, of tapering thickness from 18 to 8 inches, and weighing 79,300 pounds, a 13-inch Carpenter shell, weighing 1,100 pounds, discharged with a | velocity of 1,810 feet per second with a striking energy of 25,000 foot tons, was almost pulverized upon the plate, which was penetrated only to the deptjh of 10 inches. The Baltimore railroad tunnel, one of the most remarkable engineering feats of modern times, built under the city of Baltimore, Md., from Camden station to Bayyiew junction, on the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore 6 Ohio railroad, a distance of ?X miles, was formally opened for business on the 1st. A north-bouhtd passenger train on the Chicago <fe Alton, railroad was boarded by three robbers at a point one mile north of Carlinville, 111., on the night, of the 1st, and in the fight which ensued with the train men, Engineer Holman, one of the oldest engineers on the road, was killed. The robbers were pursued and eaptured. On the steamier Vigilancia, which arrived at New York, on the 1st, from Havana, was Ramon C. Williams, con-sul-general of the United States at Havana. Mr. Williams declined to say anything about Cuban affairs. The town of Patterson, Kas., was visited by a death-dealing cyclone, on the 1st, which destroyed property to the value of of: $225,000 and caused the death of many persons and injury to a great many others. Guatemala has united with Honduras in a dispatch to Secretary Gresham asking him to use his ^good offices to bring about a peaceable solution of the Nicaragua dispute with Great Britain. < ( Larimer, a small town in Union county, la., whs nearty wiped out by fire on the 1st. Seventeen business houses were burned. The loss and insurance are unknown. The fire is sup* posed to have been incendiary. The bondsirten of ex-City Treasurer Czizek, of Mount Clemens, Mich., were notified, on the 1st, that there is a defalcation of funds amounting to about $10,000, and they are requested to make thp shortage good. The department of state received a cable message from Ambassador Bayard, on the 2d. stating that Great Britain had accepted .the guarantee made by Salvador of the payment of the indemnity by Nicaragua in London within a fortnight and that so soon as Nicaragua should confirm the guarantee and so inform the British admiral the latter had been instructed to .quit Corinto. On the 4th Warden Sage of the Sing Sing (N. Y.) state prison sent out invitations to the witnesses selected to attend the electrocution of Dr. Buchanan, the wile-murderer, the date of whose execu tion had been twice postponed through efforts of his attorneys in his behalf.

Representatives oi the (ioeso powder mills, near Xenia, O., were in Cincinnati, on the 1st, arranging to ship forty carloads of powder to Cuba. They would not say whether the order was from the government or the insurgents. Lieut. Valentin Gallege, who surrendered fifty Spanish soldiers to the Cuban rebels, and who was afterward arrested and turned over to the Spanish military authorities, was, after trial by court-martial, shot, on the 1st, in the fortress of Cabana at Havana. Secretary Carlisle, it is stated, will enter the Kentucky campaign about the lj5th of this month, and deliver two or more speeches, at points yet to be selected, in favor of sound currency. In the Cape Colony parliament, which opened in Cape Town, on the 2d, a proposition was submitted to absorb Bechuanaland. Thb preliminary examination of Durrant on the charge of murdering Miss Lament was commenced at San Francisco on the 2d. The secretary of war has ordered two companies of the Fifth infantry, now stationed at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, and the two troops of the Third cavalry, with the regimental band, now at Benton Barracks, Mo., to attend the encampment of the national guard to be held at Memphis, Term., beginning May 1 ( and ending May 21. John Huff, who is said to have fallen heir to $1,500,000 by the death oi j Charles Easthoff, a wealthy Califor- j nian, in 1893, died at Mateawan, N. Y., on the 2d. Huff nursed Easthoff twenty years ago through an attack oi typhoid fever, when no one else would go near him, and the entire estate has been his his reward. Capt. John Brown, Jr. died at his home on the island of Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie, on the night of the 2d. Capt Brown was 74 years old and was the son of John Brown, the hero of the historic scene at Harper's Ferry before the civil war. Capt. Brown was a fruit raiser on the island, and spent his aid age very auietlr.

Thkbr Is an alleged shortage of about 935,000 in the office of the county treasurer in Doniphan county, Has. When the present treasurer, J. Dee* eraux, took charge last October, he discovered something was wrong, and an investigation has reveffied the al* leged shortage. Col. R.*H. McLeajt was a passenger on the steamer Alameda, which sailed from San Francisco, on the 2d, for Honolulu- Col. McLean was recently appointed by President Dole to take command of the Hawaiian army. William H. Mes^cier, assistant cashier of the First national bank of Omaha, Neb., committed suicide, on the 3d, by shooting himself through the head at the residence of George Barker, president of the National Bank of Commerce. No cause for the act is known. A telegram received at the secret* service: bureau in Washington from Hamilton, Ont., on the 3d, stated that Mrs. M. T. Mack, charged with being a member of the Chicago postage-stamp counterfeiting gang, had been committed for' extradition. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Capitalist James G. McNab from Duluth, Minn., on April 16, was cleared, on the 2d, by finding his body in Lake G.nesen. (t is supposed to have been an accident. There is said to be good reason few believing that the civil-service commission will be completely ^ reorganized. The voluntary resignation of Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt r[ia soon to be followed by the involuntary retirement of Commissioner Lyman./ The Chinese officials of the maritime province of Fo-Kien, in which the island of Formosa is situated, have sent a memorial to the throne protest* ing against the cession of the island to Japan. They offer to contribute the purchase money instead of Liu-Kum-YL

According to a statement published by the Marine Hospital bureau there were 1,620 deaths from smallpox in the United States in 1894, 877 of which occurred in Illinois. A cyclone of frightful fatality visited Sioux county, la., on the 3d, dismantling nearly a dozen towns, and destroying crops, buildings and other farm property in its track, and causing loss of human lives to the estimated number of 200. The work of rescue, promptly entered upon by the survivors, was greatly hampered by pitchy darkness, a deluging rain and wreckage strewn everywhere. The pope has expressed his entire approval of the conduct of Archbishop Agliardi, papal nuncio to Austria, whose attitude upon the Hungarian ecclesiastical bill was denounced in the lower house of the Hungarian diet on May day. The steamer N. K. Fairbanks, from Chicago to Ogdensburg with 50,000 bushels of corn, ran ashore on Morgan's point, about 9 miles west of Port Col borne, OnL, on the 3d. She then caught fire and was entirely consumed. On the 3d the transport steamer Antonio Lopez arrived at Santiago de Cuba from Spain with 934 regular troops. Warren T. Thompson was arrested in Chicago, on the 3d, in connection with the counterfeiting postage stamp case. He was held in $5,000 bail. Seraphine Cenette and Delphine Chaput, two. girls who jumped from a fourth-story window during the fire in the McDonald Tobacco Co.’s factory in Montreal, Can., recently, and received external and internal injuries, died, on the 3d, at Notre Dame hospital. LATE NEWS ITEMS. A remarkable senes ox meetings, which really commenced in Washington last February, will be resumed in London in the week beginning June 16, when the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance union will present a gigantic polyglot petition bearing over 2,000,000 actual signatures in fifty different languages, with the attestations of certain great societies representing in all 7,500,000 persons, asking for the prohibition of the sale of alcohol and opium. The petition is 1,892 yards long and is mounted on over a mile of canvas. It will be successively presented to all the governments represented by signers.

The Waubansee club of Chicago gave a banquet at tbe Auditorium hotel, on the night of the 4th, for the purpose of protesting against the free coinage of silver and to voice the sentiments of the sound money elements of the democratic party. About 200 guests were in attendance, and speeches were made by Hon. Richard Knott, of the Louisville (Ky.> Post; Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin, and Hon. John M. Palmer. The weekly statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 4th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $1,962, 900; loans, increase, $4,407,800; specie, increase, $1,524,300; legal tenders, increase, $3,038,000; deposits, increase, $10,397,600; circulation, decrease, $1,900. On the 4th a heavy windstorm blew down one of the walls of the Lungren & Wilson building at St. Charles, I1L, which was gutted by fire a month ago. The wall fell on the Osgood building, a stone structure totally demolishing it and killing at least five persons and injuring several. Claus Blixt, who was awaiting trial in Minneapolis, Minn., for the murder of Catherine Ging, op the 4th changed his plea of “not guilty” to “guilty,” and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. According to advices received in Washington the evacuation of Corinto by the British fleet was quietly accomplished, on the 5th, and the port was restored to the Nicaraguan authorities. / Rolin D. Fowleb, of Rockford, 111., has received notice of the Suspension of his disability pension. He participitted in thirteen battles in the war, and was a prisoner in Libby and Belle Isle. On the 4th the banks of New York city held $27,938,575 in excess of tbe i requirements of tbe 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS* Judge Chas. E. Walxnb, leading attorney of the Jefferson county bar, to which he was admitted in *49, died suddenly of grip, aged 8& Mbs. Jambs Warner, of Taylorsville, Bartholomew county, was kicked to death in a runaway accident. ; Jacob Graham, aged lb, second son of Amos Graham, a well-known farmer living six miles north of Wabash, committed suicide by hanging. La porte has warned tramps to stay away. Indianapolis’ new manual training school will be dedicated June 3. Jambs Young, janitor at the courthouse, shot and killed his wife at Hoosierville the other day. He then drove to the city, went to the courthouse and shot himself dead. Mbs. Chaki.es Young, of ShelbyvQlo, attempted to separate two large dogs while fighting and was attacked by the vicious brutes, sustaining injuries from the effects of which she died. C N. Metcalf, secretary of the state board of health, found three cases of smallpox at Tell City, a whit* woman, a boy and Negro man, the la tter case very serious. There is also one new case in the suburbs. Strict quarantine regulations are being inforced by surrounding towns. John Cabp, dangerous lunatic, has escaped from the Frankfort poor*

house. Joseph Dillon and wife, who were injured in the Coatsyille wreck, hare compromised with the Vandalia Co. for *10,000. Ex-Sknator W. W. Berry died the other evening at his home in Vincennes, aged 72. He was president of the lxnox County Agricultural association. Edna Brown was walking a trestle near Delphi the other day, when, a Vandalia train approached. She saved herself by swinging from the ties while the train passed over her. A piece of watch case has been plowed up in Laporte county, 120 rods from the spot where a man named Pletcher was blown up by dynamite eight years ago. John Fuller, a convict confined in the Indiana prison south, made a desperate attempt to hang himself in his cell. He was not discovered until Guard McKesson was making his usual rounds. He was Bent doj n from Vigo county to serve three years for burglary. Gov. Matthews will join Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, in demanding that the federal government^ remove the dam above Mt. Carmel, 111., which is obstructing the passage of the finny tribe to Indiana waters. A Logansport physician says that the long stretches of cement walk in that city are causing sore eyes. John McCullough, aged 15, fell from a haymow at Tipton, breaking four ribs and one arm. Mrs. Thomas Whitehead was thrown from a buggy near Tipton. Her skull was fractured. William Newman, a railroad brakeman, was arrested in the First Baptist church, Ft. Wayne, on the charge of murdering the woman whose funeral was being held, Mrs. Savanna Dugan, who was found dead at her home with her neck broken. Joseph R. Hamilton, an eccentric character, aged 80, committed suicide at Madison, the other morning at his home near Dupont by shooting himself with a musket. He leaves a wife and four children, all grown. The ten-year-old son of Felix Craig was killed by a Pan-handle train at Middletown. A mad dog belonging to J. T. Humes at English bit his two horses, a cow and other valuable stock. The rabid animal is still at large. John Sheeley, an alleged horse thief, .was traced to Vincennes by William Bridenback, of Dubois county, who secured his arrest. Two stolen horses were recovered.

Col. Eli Lilly, of Indianapolis, has brought suit to have a receiver appointed for the Wawasee club, which is located at Cedar Beach, known as Turkey Lake, in Koscuisko county. Farmer George Washington Ab» bott, near Elwood, has a horse that pumps fresh water into the trough in the field whenever it wants a drink. Homer Thomas, fifteen years old, while horsebrfck riding two miles east of Alexandria, the other night, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. Ezra Searles, of Muncie, has mortgaged his property for $500 and gone to New York to try and get his son, Arthur Searles, out of prison by making good the money the young man received by fraudulently representing himself to be an agent of an Indianapolis newspaper. Dolly Smith, a six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, was instantly killed by an electric car while crossing the track on her way to sJipol at Marion. The Muncie Architectural Iron Co. works burned. Loss, $25,00C, with $16,000 insurance. James R. Sprangle is the heavy loser. Charles W. Kilgorehad the factory leased. James H. Chandler, running a restaurant at Indianapolis, wi,s appealed to by a chambermaid for protection against three drunken fellows. Chandler undertook to remon strate with his customers, and was hurled down a steep flight of steps, fatally fracturing his skull. Harry McGufi:. l and James Pierce were arrested. Henry Ives, of Mark n, found a 3?months-old girl baby on his doorstep £hfe«pther night. A^soerson citizens have taken the preliminary steps toward the organization of a commercial «ilub. Mayor M. M. Dunlap, J. D. Bosworth, CL W. Prather and A. A. Small are the prime movers. i At Lafayette a claim, against the •state of the late JobM. Mash was filed for unpaid taxes covering a period of 13 years that if sustained in the courts will realize for this city and county $350,000. William A. Goodman, of Cincinnati, is one Of the executors made defendant in the proceeding*

LATEST FROM CUBA. An American Newspaper Carmpondwl Arrested—The Mach*Annihilated In»urgMhlbUac thlagt Worm for the Span* Uh Troope-A Desperate Battle, la Which the Been lorn were Cat to Fleece— Jom Maeeo A cola la the Flesh. Key West, Fla., May 6.—The latest Caban advices to this city state that an American newspaper correspondent named Fuentes was arrested in Guantanamo on the 3d inst. He is charged by the Spanish authorities with negotiating with Gomefrand Marti for the sale of arms and ammunition. All the fortifications around Manxanillo have been destroyed by the insurgents. The province is virtually in, their hands. The battle at Bamon de Las Jugaa on the 15th of April, according to an eyewitness, was terrible. The Spanish troops were almcst annihilated. The battle lasted nearly three hours. The insurgents lost fifty men. Ex-Capt.-Gen. Celle jo. claims that the policy of Gen. Campos to arm the farmers is dangerous. The sentiment among the countrymen is, he says, favorable to the Cubans. The leading members of the homerule party in Cuba, on account of the government re/u*ing to institute reforms, have resigned. The belief is general that the revolutionists will be greatly strengthened. The two bands of 500 in the province of Santa Clara have joined the insurgents. They are led by CoL Quinlan Pravo, a former revolutionist, and Dr. Pruno Zeyelas. Jose Maeeo, claimed by the government to have been killed, has appeared at Quantanamo with 3,000 men, and has issued a manifesto taxing the inhabitants of that province $300,000, to be paid monthly. Mast Intend to Make a Meal of tlte “Handful” of Rebels. Santiago de Cuba, April 35, via Key West, May 7.—Campos has cabled Spain to send 3,000 additional troops and also hold 50,000 in readiness. CORINTO EVACUATED,

And the Nicaraguan Fine Receive* a Satiate of Honor. Nkw York, May 6.—A special dispatch to the Herald from Corinto, Nicaragua, under date of the 3d, says: “Great Britain has accepted the proposal made by Nicaragua, through Minister Fiallos, who came from Honduras to negotiate on Nicaragua's behalf with Rear Admiral Stephenson. The terms of the agreement are, in substance, that Nicaragua is to pay the money in London within two weeks after the British occupation of Corinto has been terminted. . The English have also offered to fire a salute of twenty-one guns to the Nicaraguan flag on leaving the port. 0 The British forces are to be withdrawn at sunset this evening, and the Nicaraguan authorities will re-enter into possession of the port to-morrow. THEY~ SEE IT N O W. Spain Acknowledges Her Responsibility In the Alllauca Affair. New York, May 6.—The Herald’s Madrid correspondent cablef: Senor Canovas, in an interview, said: “I look upon the Allianca question as settled. We made an inquiry and found that the Allianca was outside of our jurisdictional limit. It was a case of trop de seule, but not on the part of a responsible officer, for the captain of the Venidito was not aboard his ship, but lying ill in the Canary islands. According to international law we Were wrong; we admit it freely, and the matter will be promptly attended to by the new minister at Washington. JAPAN'S REPLY. She Will Abandon Liao Tong Excepting Fort Arthur—Will Declare War. Paris, May 6 —The St. Petersburg correspondent of theTemps says that Japan, in her reply to the joint protest, consented to abandon Liao Tong excepting Port Arthur. The protesting powers have not reached an agreement regarding the reply, the correspondent asserts, and the exchanges of opinion continue. The European edition of the Herald learns from its Berlin correspondent that Russia has informed .Germany she will declare war in case Japan insists upon the Shimon oseki treaty. WILL DECLARE HOSTILITIES If Japan Insist* Upon Maintaining th« Treaty of Shimoaoeski. New York, May 6.—A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Berlic says: “Declarations have been re ceived here from the Russian government of its intention to declare hostilities if Japan insists on maintaining the treaty of ShimonoeskL Intense Feeling In Japan. Paris, May 6.—The European edition of the Herald from its Tokio correspondent states that Russia’s attitude has created intense feeling in Japan. The tenor of the reply to the joint protest is firm. Russian ships are leaving Japan ports. Premier Count I to will resign, the report says, if allowed to do so. Should Russia force a war Japan would hope for an alliance with England.

Ordered to Assemble at Che-Foo. London, May 7.—The Times correspondent in Berlin speaks of the report that the Russian war ships stationed at Yokohama were ordered to sea with sealed instructions, adding that the squadrons of the three protesting powers have been committed to assemble at Che-Foo. Killed in Court. Kansas City, Mo., May «.— Ed Powers, a wealthy resident of Maysville, and defendant in a lawsuit brought by Mrs. Mary Browning, a woman oi means, who accused him of assault, was yesterday shot and killed in the court room during the trial of the case. He became involved in a heated altercation with J. S. Harwood, attorney for Mrs. Browning, while in the witness box. Who fired firsi is not clear, but Powers, and his son George, and William Dickinson, brother oi Mrs. Browning, all engaged in the •hooting

A MONSTER PETITION, Bvartac Orer Two Jtl&Uoo ItSMtWM, fat ntty Different iMgwgH. Asking for tfao Prohibition of the Sole of Alcohol mmA Opiw, to ho Formally Presented to Many tiovernaaonto. f Washbotom, May 6.—A remarkable series of meetings, which really commenced in Washington in February last, will be resumed in London in tba week beginning June 16. The World’sWomen’s Christian Temperance union has for some years been organizing a giganUc polyglot petition in fifty different languages, which has now been signed by over 2,000.000 actual signatures, and with the attestations of certain great societies, represents 7,500,000 persons. It asks for the prohibition of the sale of alcohol and opium by the different civilized governments. The petition is 1,893 yards long and is. mounted on over a mile of canvas. In cfcfccert with Lady Henry Somersot and Miss Willard, who presented the petition to President Cleveland last. February, Bov. Dr, Luna, who visited. Washington for the great demonstration when the petition was launched upon its world's mission, has chartered the steamer Berlin, of the American line, for the conveyance of the American contingent and for the transportation of the petition itself, which occupies several large cases. Arrangements have already been made for 250* women preachers and speakers to address the same number of audiences in London on Sunday, June 16. A most unique demonstration will take place in the Albert hall on Tuesday, June 18, when the polyglot petition will be festooned around thewhole of the great hall to be presented to the representatives of the British government. .. As eaeh national contingent enters the hall it will be preceded by a large flag of its own nation, each woman carrying a small national flag, and the national anthem of the nation in question being played. After the London .convention is concluded the delegates will proceed to> Grindewald where a temperance convention is being organized by Df. Lnnn to be addressed by Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs. Josephine Butler, Miss Willard and other leaders of the women’s movement. In August it is proposed to visit the northern capitals in Europe. A steamer is again being * chartered to* convey the petition and »the delegates to Christiana, Stockholm, Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. In the late- } autumn the delegates will continue the crusade, a third charter being arf *v ranged for a vessel to carry the delegates and their polyglot petition to* various countries on the Mediterranean, litterol, visiting Kaples, Rome, Athens,. Constantinople, the Holy Land and Egypt. At a later period it is intended;. to visit the centrals of Europe and India, and the-countries east and Att** tralia and Africa. SS &

. GALLANT GEORGE CURZON Happily Introduce* HU Bride to the Tenants on His Batata. London, May 6.—The return of George Nathaniel Curzon and his. bride, formerly Miss Lei ter, of Washington, has caused general rejoicing* among the people at Mr. Curzon's estate. Mr." Curzon’s speechto the tenants was greeted with repeated cheers^ After thanking them for their welcome, he said: “The question has been asked whyT went to America for a bride. The answer is before you. [Cheers].” ,f Mr. Curzon placed his hands affectionately on Mrs. Curzon’s shoulderand the tenants cheered again. The route from Derby to Keystone was. iecorated with triumphal arches. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JACKSON* lrrlvci In Washington to Sit In the Income Tax Cases. Washington, May 6.—Mr. Justice j — Jackson, of the supreme court of theUnited States, arrived in Washington, yesterday morning from his home,. Bellemead, Tenn,, to hear the re-argu-ment of the income tax cases. Hemade the trip with hut little fatigue, owing to the arrangements by theChesapeake & Ohio railroad officials. The sleeping car on the train leaving Nashville at 6:30 o’clock Satnrday morning was run out to* Bellemead the night before, so that he was enabled to secure a good night’s rest before starting. Mr. Jackson found the change in the temperaturefrom Nashville to Washington quitepleasant, although the residents of this city thought the day was very uncomfortable. Thesjustiee looks well.

JAIL DELIVERY. * Short-Lived Liberty. Ending in Death anti? Recapture. Wichita, Kao., May 6. —Information has been received here of a jail delivery and doable killing at Woodward,. Okla. Three prisoners. Waddle, Hill and Heffen, the first two being confined for assisting in a jail delivery^ last month, obtained possession of a. revolver, got the drop on the turnkey,, and compelled him to unlock the door' of the cell. The prisoners then lockedthe jailer in the cell and hastened to* the hills. Their escape was soon disrcovered, and the sheriff and a posse of deputies mounted horses and started, after the fugitives. The men had onlygone a mile when the officers overtook: * them. There -was a terrible battle,, which ended in the killing of Heffen* and Hill and the capture of Waddle. LITTLE ECUADOR naming Troop* mt Guayaquil to Attack thor Rebel* at l&meraldf*. New York, May 5.—A special to theHerald from Panama says: The Herald correspondent in Guayaquil sends, word that the government of Ecuador is massing troops in that city in order to make an effort to retake from the rebels the captured town of Esineraldes, which is on the coast. The revolutionists have trespassed on Colombian territory and have also* blown up. the government barracks in Esmeraidos_withdynanute.