Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 May 1895 — Page 2

tftwg'ifet (Sonuty Jmnorat K. Mta 8TOOP8, Editor ud Pwprkter. PETERS!BURG. - . - INDIANA. C—gBB^^W—1 Tide Merchants’ national bank of Seattle, Wash., failed on the 21st Thx revenue cutter Perry sailed from Port Townsend, Wash., on the 23d, for Behring sea. Ok the 23d Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania approved the bill prohibiting the selling of pools and transmitting bets on racing tracks. It Is learned that the Belgian government has decided upon the indefinite postponement of the project to annex the Congo territory, hence the resignation of Count Westerloo. Thx congressional, senatorial and legislative apportionment bills were defeated in the Pennsylvania house, on the 31st, and the judicial apportionment bill was defeated in the senate. --- It was stated in St. Petersburg, on the 23d, that Russia will not consent to Japan’s military occupation of Corea, and that she will soon request Japan to recall her garrisons from that country, j Twxktv-fivk thousand people made the rush for the 437 claims in the Kickapoo reservation, on the 23d, only to find that the “sooners” had anticipated them and secured all the really desirable claims. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 94th, said great, excitement had been caused by a report that the Russians bad occupied Kirin, Manchuria, thus cutting off the retreat of a large force of Japanese troops. * It is stated that Mr. Joseph Choate’s fee for arguing the unconstitutionality of the income tax law before the United States supreme court was 9300,000, one-half of whieh was paid as a retainer, regardless of the result.

A cablegram received, on the 23d, from Mr. John W. Foster stated that lie would leave Tien Tsin on that date for Shanghai, to remain in that city several weeks. It is not expected that lie will sail foir the United States before July 1. Mbs. Mart Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 10th, 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, Advices from Madagascar say that fever is making fearful ravages among the French troops there, especially among those who spent the rainy sea•on on the coast Of one company of soldiers 150 strong, only forty men were available for duty. Assistant Attornet-Gknrral Thomas, for the post office department issued fraud orders, on the 24th, against Charles Adams and Ella Moore, of Mishawaka,Ind.,for sending out illegal patent medicine circulars, and against the Central American Fur and Wool Co., of Indianapolis, Ind. --- ‘ Tor president on the 34th, appointed : It. Dorsey Mohun, of the District of Columbia, to be United States consul at Zanzibar. Mr. Mohun is the present incumbent of the office of commercial agent at Boma, Congo Free State, which will cease to exist by act of congress on July 1 next On the 21st Commissioner Miller sent the follow ing telegram to all collectors of internal revenue throughout the United States: “Dispense with services of all persons employed under allowance made for income tax work at dose of business on the 35th inst., reporting at once number discontinued and salary and expense allowance of each.” -■- In a speech in one of the committee rooms, on the 31st, M. Rouvier made the startling statement that the expenditures pf the French government were increasing 1,000,000,000 francs every decade. He said that such an increase was beyond the country’s means and declared that the country was nearing disaster which only retrenchment could avert.

Director of the Mint Preston estimates the production of gold by the mines of the United States approximately, during 1894, to have been 1,910,800 fine ounces, of the coining Value of $$39,500,000, an increase over 1693 of $3,500,000, which is the largest amount produced in any year since 1878. The prediction of silver is estimated at 49,500.000 ounces, of the coining value of $64,009,000, showing a decrease as compared with 1893 of 10,600,000 ounces. * By a report made public on the 93d it appears that during the fiscal year 1694 the bureau of animal industry inspected more than 13,000,000 head of animals at forty-six abattoirs, in seventeen different cities. Of this number a total of 16,703 were condemned and sent to the tank for destruction, divided as follows: Cattle, 4,127; sheep, 466, and hogs, 12,110. In addition to these whole carcasses there were a great many portions of carcasses that were condemned. * The southern Sound Money convention at Memphis, Tenn., on the 23d, was much more numerously attended than its most sanguine friends anticipated. During the two sessions held, afternoon and evening, President Cleveland was eloquently eulogized by several speakers for his unflinching stand in support of the public credit;. Secretary Carlisle addressed the meeting in favor of the gold standard of value, and a platform in line with the secretary's views was unanimously adopted.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWB Hf BRIEF. PE RSONAL AND GENERAL. A dispatch from Pekin, on the 21st, stated that an imperial decree had been issued recalling from Formosa the governor and all of the other Chinese officials, civil and military. On the night of the 10th, in the revival meeting conducted by Evangelist Chapman and Bill Horn at Ottumwa. Ia., W. T. Miller was among the first to profess conversion. On the 20th he fell dead on the street from a broken blood vessel. Advices from western Michigan say that sail fruit and vegetables that ear-, vived the previous frosts were ruined by that of the night of the 20th. * J. B. Koetitno, ex-cashier of the South Side savings bank of Milwaukee, which suspended in 1893 with $1,500,000 deposits, and which will not pay twenty cents on the dollar, changed his plea of not guilty, on the 21st, to guilty of receiving deposits in ah insolvent bank, and was sentenced to five years in state's prison. Bx an explosion of nitro-glycerine. on the 21st, the California powder works at Pinola, Cal., were destroyed at a loss of $250,000, and five white men and nine Chinamen were killed and a number injured. An explosion occurred at the Monongah mine, 30 miles south of Morgantown, W. Va , on the 21st, in which four persons were killed and several injured. The remainder of the 132 men at work got out in safety. Franz von Suppe, the famous composer, died iu Vienna on the 21st. The Schroeder Commission Co., carrying on a bucket-shop business in the Exchange building at Kansas City, Mo., failed on the evening of the 21st, with liabilities placed at $135,000. There are no visible assets. The firm was on the wrong side of the wheat market and was caught short. The Michigan senate, on the 21st, by a Vote of 18 to 12, passed the bill to restore capital punishment in certain cases in that state. - Representative Cogswell, of Massachusetts, who had been ill at Washington for three weeks, died at 1 o’clock on the morning of the 22d. He suffered from a complication of diseases, and his death had been expected, for some time.

George H. Hobmf.r, the W$ll-known oarsman, was reported, on the 22d, to be in a critical condition at the city hospital in Boston. A few days before he accidentally swallowed some small | splinters of Woken glass while drink- ! ing, and the physicians did not expect him to live, as internal bleeding had set in. The Vivant hotel, opera house block and several other buildings in Anti* go, Wis., were destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 22d. The guests of the, hotel were compeled to jump from windows to escape the flames and several were severely bruised; Joss, $20,000. The crew Of the German steamer Virginia, lying in the harbOr of Copenhagen, mutined, on the 22d, whereupon the captain drew his revolver and shot several of them, one or two seriously. This quelled the mutiny, and the wounded men, together with the others concerned in the revolt, were placed under arrest. A dispatch from London, on the 22d, stated that Gen. Booth, of the Salvation army, was seriously ill in that city. On the 22d the Pittsburgh (Pa.) jury is the case of Pitcher Baldwin against Chris von der Ahe, manager of the St. Louis Browns, for false imprisonment, gave Baldwin! $2,500 damages. Gen. S. S. Hinkle, a prominent lawyer of Washington city, and adjutant general of Ohio during the war, died in Washington very suddenly on the 21st. The statement was current in Washington, on the 23d, that on the assembling of the next congress Representative Bontelle|will offer absolution to strike from the records of the navy department President Cleveland’s censure of Admiral Meade, because it is without precedent to censure an officer untried % courtrmartial for an alleged offense, The trial of Capt. H. W. Howgate, upon the remaining indictments charging him with; false certification of his current accounts as disbursing officer of the signal service, and with forging a voucher for $4,000 in favor of the American Unjion Telegraph Co., was, on the 23d, setfpr June 6.

a oisrATUU jroin onaugnai, on uie 23d, said that' it was rumored that China will repudiate her obligation to pay additional indemnity to Japan in consideration of the latter’s abandonment of Liao-Tung. Ox the 23d the duke of Westminster introduced to Lord * Rosebery, British premier, a deputation favoring British interference in Armenia. The interview was private at the desire of the premier. The bill of Mr. Waite, of Menominee, making j it unlawful to treat to spirituous liquors in any saloon or bar room passed the Michigan house on the 23d: Yeas, 75; nays, 17. A report from St. Petersburg, on the 23d, stated that Germany had raisctd slight obstacles against the demand of Russia and France that Japan shall furnish guarantees for the security of European commerce in Formosa and the Pescadores. Recorder Owslet and ninety-five others were indicted in Kansas City, Mo., on the 23d, for election frauds. Hon. Hugh McCulloch, formerly secretary of the treasury, died, at his borne near W ashington, shortly before 8 a. in. of the 24th. With him when the end came W9re his two sons, a married daughter and a grandson. Death was calm and peaceful. Mr. McCulloch was over 80 years of age. The wreck of a ship has been discovered 5 miles off shore, 9 miles west of Dunkirk, N. Y. It lies in 65 feet of water. It is. thought to be the steamship Dean Richmond, which foundered with all on board October 14, 1893.

Ex-Got. W. B. Hoard was elected department commander of the Wisconsin G. A. R. The parade of veterans at Green Bar, on the 23d, had 3.000 in li ne. It was the last parade of the Wisconsin members, as the encampment voted to abolish the parade hereafter. owing: to the age of the members of the order. Son* of Capa Kidd's treasure lias been found by two Bridgeport (Conn.) men, Cart Dart and Bill Hodge. The men are clam diggers. A short time ago they were without wealth; now they are blazing with diamonds, and baying bonds and New York city real estate. Mrs. Mart Jkas Bradford, who died at South Boston, recently, leaves by will $4,000 in trust for the care and maintenance of her poll parrot The parrot is 25 years old, and was the joy, solace and comfort of Mrs. Bradford’s declining years. The annual convention of the New York State Democratic Editorial association met in New York city on the said. Ix a fight for possession of a skiff at Atherton, Ind., on the 23d, two fishermen, named William Bollinger and William Snooks, were stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant, who made his escape. Bollinger was fatally cut A. L. Bra in a no, confidential bookkeeper of the live stock firm of Garrow, Kelley A Co., Omaha, Neb., with branches in Chicago, St Louis and Kansas City, is said to have disappeared with 310,000 of the company’s money. Fire, on the 24th, destroyed the building and contents of the Excelsior stables in Chicago Seven horses and twenty buggies were destroyed, and Ed Jeffreys, night watchman, who was aleep in the stable, was thought to have perished in the flames. After examining several witnesses the Louisville (Ky.) grand jury reported, on the 24th, refusing to indict Fulton Gordon for killing his wife and Arch Dixon Brown, and he was discharged from custody. Failures in the United States during the week ended the 24th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 207, against 183 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 23, against 28 last year.

iuf steamer Lucamairom rtew lortc arrived at Queenstown, on the 34 th, at 6:55 a. m., 2,877 miles, in 5 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes, which establishes a record for the long route. ■ Mr. John M. Harlow, of St Louis, the newly-appointed civil-service com- ‘ missioner, was sworn in by Secretary Doyle, on the 24th, and entered upon the discharge of liis new duties. Chas. P. Thompson, aged 35, a salesman in A. A. Vantine’s oriental goods establishment in New York city, committed suicide, on the 24th, by drowning himself in a bath tub. < The New York police commissioners, in executive session on the 24th, retired Inspector Alexander Williams on his own application on a pension of §1,750 a year. Among those knighted upon the occasion of Queen Victoria’s seventysixth birthday anniversary were Henry Irving, the actor, and Walter Bes&nt, the author. The management of the Ohio Steel Ca’s plant at Youngstown, O., on the 24th, advanced the wages of all their employes, over 1,000 in number, 10 per cent. This action was voluntary on the part of the company. With the laborers the advance dates back to May 13, and with skilled workmen it begins June 1. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The statement oi the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 25th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, 82,387,250; loans, increase, 84,705,600; specie, increase, 8788,800; legal tenders, increase, 83,630,200; deposits, increase, 88,125,000; circulation, increase, 854,400. John A. Morris, widely known through his connection with the turf and as the owner of Morris park, in West Chester county. N. Y., died on his ranch near Kerrvilie, Tex., on the 26th, aged 58 years, of apoplexy. Mr. Morris was noted for many deeds of openhanded charity. A pispatch from Constantinople, on the 26th, said it is understood that a majority of the sultan’s advisers have urged his acceptance of the scheme for Armenian reforms submitted by the powers, but that the grand vizier opposes the plan.

A carload of flowers left Atlanta, , 6s., on the 25th, for Chicago, to be used in decorating the confederate monument and the graves of the confederate dead in that city. Savanah | also contributes a carload of flowers to the same object. Albert Shervok, general manager of the dining car service on the Grand Trunk railroad between Detroit and Suspension Bridge, N. Y., committed suicide, on the 25th, by shooting. No cause for the rash deed is known. A republic has been declared in Formosa, the flag adopted consisting of a yellow dragon on a blue ground. Tang Ching, hitherto the Chinese governor of Formosa, was chosen president. There was a marked improvement in the ^condition of Miss Mary A. Dodge (Gail Hamilton), on the 26th, and the family,long without hope, was very much encouraged. Mrs. Aubrey, the eldest daughter of Chief-Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court, was granted a divorce from J. Matt Aubrey in Chicago on the 25th. < Cambridge university has accepted the invitation of the Philadelphia cricket .clubs to send a team to America in the autumn, and will send her best players. Tee next general assembly of the Presbyterian church will meet at Saratoga, N. Y., in May, 1896. Lord Dunraven’s yacht Valkyrie III. was successfully launche4 at Glasgow, Scotland, on the 27th. The steamship St Louis left Cram pa* ship yard at Philadelphia, on the 25th, for her trial trip at sea.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Hope, while housed* mi nr, * heavy case fell on Mrs. Dr. litegennas sad broke her ley* - Axdejssox contractors will hereafter employ onion men. Soso: fiend is chopping do nna shade trees at Goshen. South Bend’s government building plans hare been revised and the people feel better. Harbt Kxipslkix was killed and several others were injured iin a runaway near Ft Wayne. Philip Goetz and David Tinker, Columbus, were aged friend* Tinkey died and was buried. Goetz grieved over his friend’s demise, fainted away and died fooa after. The grand jury of Hendricks county has again been investigating the killing of Mrs. H. E. Hinshaw, wife of the Methodist minister at Belleville. A well-posted miller of S:>uth Bend estimates that there is not now held in that vicinity 100,000 bushels of wheat for marketing purposes. The Wabash Valley Gas Co. has filed articles of incorporation at Indianapolis. Capital stock is $l,750,C']O and fee ,wa$ $1,752. ! These men dressed as whitecaps went into Eureka and robbed several stores. Firebugs caused a loss of $8,000 in Monk Schofield’s livery stable at Indianapolis. Rockville’s big candle burned 38 days, 9 hours. South Renders are after a bogus check worker. Tex tons of ice were stolen out of Senator Horner’s icehouse, near Kokomo. Martix Van Buren Cole, aged 78, and M rs. Mary Strong, aged 77, were married at Valparaiso, the other night. This is the third venture for both of them. Kappaxee is to have a new 50,000bushel elevator. Shklbtyillx is figuring on a big time July 4. Elizabeth Gormlet, of Lafayette, was appointed by the governor a delegate to the Atlanta cotton exposition. C. B. Hartmax, of Vincennes, a plow inventor, is dead. Andrew Helmick. of Kokomo, was arrested by the Madison county sheriff for stealing a team of horses at Elwood.

Clifford, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Davis, living near Williamsburg, was instantly killed the other night. He was out driving up the cows, and in passing by a trestle on which were a number of timbers, one of them fell on him, breaking his neck. Six years ago the 14-year-old son of John Trimble, of Anderson, became afflicted with a malady that grew out of bruises on the feet. The flesh began to shrivel away, and* ossification set in. This has been spreading ever since, and went over his entire body with the exception of the head. At a public baptizing in Burch creek a carriage containing a party of young ladies of Centerpoint was driven too near a bank when it gave way and the carriage and occupants rolled down the embankment and into the stream. The lives of the party were saved. The team was drowned. Judoe McMaster, of Indianapolis, ordered that all claims against the Iron Hall fund must be proved by June 10, and all settlements made with the receiver there by that date, in order to share in the final distribution of the trust. Dudley Bra yard, a young man of Morristown, has challenged anyone in the state to a throwing contest. He can easily throw 375 feet, and claims to be able to make it over 400. The verdict of the jury Using the death penalty in the Gibson murder trial at Laporte was followed the other morning by a motion for a new trial, which it is believed will be granted by Judge Hubbard- Until the question of a new trial is passed upon the date of Gibson’s execution will not be determined. Gut C. Maxley committed suicide at Milton. Until recently he was the agent of the Big Four railroad at that place, but had been dischajged. The cause of his suicide is assigned to despondency. He shot himself in the head and lived only a short time. His home was at Laurel.

William Lackey, 14 yeai*s old, living- near Oleo, in Hamilton eounty, visited Helm’s mill, on Fall creek, four miles west of Ingalls, and while watching the machinery was caught in some shafting and his left arm almost torn from the shoulder. It was necessary to amputate the arm. The boy may lose his life. $ Mrs. Mary Pool, aged 80, well known throughout Southern Indiana, died at her home in Rockport the other morning. A garfish was speared recently in the lake at Hamilton that weiged over eighteen pounds and measured four and one-half feet. The Hessian fly is eating the corn in Howard county. Warsaw has raised $3,000 for the Winona assembly. Hkxrt Ebkrhart, near South Bend, accidentally shot and killed himself while climbing over a fence with a shotgun. The citizens of Decatur are enjoying a bread war between the various bak- i eries there. One can now buy large loaves of bread for 3)tf cents. Sbvebal Marion citizens want the residents to subscribe $140,000 to a new railroad that it is proposed to build. Thi Clay City Block Coal Co., a new organization, has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $10,000. A reunion of the survivors of the Forty-sixth Indiana regiment was held at the residence of Col. T. H. Bringhurst, at Logansport, the occasion being the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of* Champion Hill, which occurred May 16, 33 years ago. The survivors were oat in full force, meeting the house of CoL Bringhurst, on recount of his feebleness.

A PRONUNCIAMENTO ImmI by tb« RbMUUte Lcmw of Tco> wmmo A|;aln»t tho Golfi XombmMIMoA Con veuitiott Called to lormoloto Some Definite listen or I ntnr* Aetioo. Memphis, Tenn., May ??.—The Bir metallic league of Tennessee has issued the following pronunciamento: tkt Pbtple of tie United State*: The arch enemies of the agricultural and producing classes of our country, moved by greed and encourage by avarice, have conspired to transfer the essentially governmental function of issuing and controlling the money volume of the nation to a system of banking corporations, full of the vice of class legislation and void of any virtue which commends it to the consideration of a patriotic citizen. Undaunted by the failure to secure the sanction of the American congress, the promoters of this nefarious scheme have boldly taken the initiatory step to attain the object of their conspiracy. Backed by the great power of exhaustless wealth and the influence of high official position, they have publicly convened in the eity of Memphis and openly declared their purpose. They demand that the constitutional and inherently sovereign right to issue money be delivered into their hands. They hesitate at no deception, they scruple at no fraud. Knowing the inate integrity of our people, they prate “honest money.** Appreciating our aversion to paternalism, they say the “government must go out pf the banking business.** They hope and believe that we will not 'stop to cpnsider that to exact a dollar which by vinous legislation they have made to eost the debtor twice as much labor and double the amount of produce as one promised is “not honest.” They expect the American people to accept as true the statement that the money of the constitution established by the fathers is dishonest for no other reason save the dictate of their illustrious accomplices and plastic tools. They hope that the people will ignorantly confound the sovereign prerogative and the bounden duty of the government to coin money and establish a system of uniform weights and measures, with the business of loans and discounts inherently appropriate to the occupation of the private citizen. They think that we will forget that the true question is not “whether the government shall go out of the banking business, but whether the banks shall go oat of the governing business.** Thus they design, by the aid of public apathy, to rivet the chains which will make free meiAlaves. i _ _ * . _

io tae ena tnat tneir nopes may , meet with disappointment and their conspiracy with failure, that the toiling' masses of our people may be saved from an industrial serfdom more cruel and degrading than chattel slavery, : something must be done to meet their j cunningly-directed and insidious as- ■ saults. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Our foe is unscrupulous^his greatest victory was achieved by stealthy and corrupt legislative legerdemain, disgraceful to the men who planned it and discreditable to the people's representatives who failed to detect it. The crime of 1873cannot be explained on any other hypothesis. That the people may come together and take counsel of each other, it has been deemed expedient to call together a convention to assemble at Memphis, on the 12th and ISth days of June, 1895. Every community, every city and town and every state in the Union are earnestly requested and cordially invited to send delegates to that convention. Every vicinity is urged to organize bimetallic clubs and every club should be represented. It is proposed that this convention shall voice the sentiments of the people. Their country needs their best thought, their most careful deliberation and energetic action. They have no money to employ hireling emissaries to drum up delegates from cotton exchanges and boards of trade. Their own intelligent patriotism is the only fund to which they can appeal. The object of this convention is to formulate some definite plan of future action; to give® direction to the overwhelming public sentiment favoring a return to our own, and establishing our independence of alien financial in* stitutions; to devise means for such a campaign of education that it hereafter will be impossible to elect only such men to the legislative and executive offices of the nation as are un- | awed by power and j unbought by spoils. [Signed] W. N. Browx, President Central Bimetallic Leagne of Shelby County. D. H. Arcuibau), Secretary.

FREE COINAGE DEMOCRATS. Ihe Larcett Meeting of Friends of Silver let Held in the Sooth. Jackson, Tenn., May 26.—The greatest silver meeting yet held in the south was that which occurred here yesterday, when 5,000 democrats from west Tennessee, north Mississippi and west Kentucky were present to hear W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska; A. J. McLaurin, of Mississippi; Private John Allen, of Mississippi, and F. W. Carman, of Tennessee. A Madison county Bimetallic league was formed in the jaorning with P. G. Murray, a leading manufacturer, as president, and vice-presidents for every precinct in the county. A REPUBLIC DECLARED. Further Complication* Arise to Confuse Affairs In Formosa. London, May 26.—A dispatch from Shanghai to the Pall Mall Gazette says that a republic has been declared in Formosa, the flag adopted consisting of a yellow dragon on a blue ground. Tang Ching, hitherto the Chinese governor of Formosa, has been chosen president of the new republic, indicating that the Chinese officials who were recently recalled prior to handing Formosa over to Japan, fully approve the movement

A BLOODY TRAGEDY Enartmt Cpna the Stvps «f » Eeataikj Char«b-»rotlt«r»4a.U» In Mortal Com. bat—One Killed Ostrisht aa4 Ik* Othw Mortally TT t Thir C'M(rt|[attM Panlr-Strlctuia, * Many «t lb* LadiM lalutlQK. Versaili.es, Ky.', Slay 37.—Ai noon yesterday the steps of the Troy Presbyterian church, seven miles south of here, were converted into a duelling ground, GCorge B. Montgomery killing his brother-in-law, Archibald Riley, and being himself mortally wounded by Riley. The tragedy Is the culmination of a sensation that upset High society in the Blue Grass section three years ago, when Riley seduced Montgomery's sister and Red to Mississippi, lie was brought back and at the point of a pistol forced to marry the girl. He immediately deserted her and did not return to these parts until recently. Both men attended church yesterday. There was a large congregation present, the church having the mast cultured and aristocratic membership in this part of the state. Neither man saw the other until after services! when they met face to face. Both Bergen firing at once and did not stop tilt one was dead with five bnllets in his body and the other dying with ani ugly wound Just above the heart. The congregation became panicstricken at onoe, and the wildest confusion resulted. Scores of ladies fainted, and several were badly trampled in the stampede. The entire scene was enacted so quickly that no one thought of interfering, x Both men were astonishingly cool and deliberate. NeitherJs thought to have said a word before firing nor to have made the slightest attempt to shield himself from the other’s bullets. After firing the last shot Montgomery turned to the bystanders and said: “Gentlemen, I hated to do this, but was compelled to; and my conscience is now easy.” Riley was SO years of age; Montgomery 31 and unmarried. It is claimed that Riley had threatened Montgomery’s life and both men had been carrying pistols for each other.

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.... Meeting of the National Conference tt Mew IJavea. Conn. .. • New II a vex, Conu., May 26.—About 200 delegates to the twenty-second annual meeting of the national conference of charities and corrections, assembled at Yale yesterday morning fos the opening practical addresses of the ; session. Beginning with 9;30a. m.,an hour was occupied with reports from states, from Alabama to district of Columbia, alphabetically. Sheldon Jackson gave the Alaska report, recounting the lack of charitable work there, the loose liquor laws and the poverty of the inhabitants. Supt. John Coffin, of the California reform school, gave the report of that state, and J. H. Gabriel, of Colorado, the report of that state, paying special attention to recent charitable legislation. The remainder of the morning session was occupied with the presents*tion and discussion of the question; “The Ideal Function of State Hoard* in the Economy of the Commonwealth,” by Dr. W. If. Wines, of Illinois, a symposium on state boards The question “Is a State Board ot Control with FqSl Executive Power Preferable to a State Supervisory Board ^ith no Executive Power?” wa* „ discussed by Clarence Snyder, of Wisconsin, and Rev. Nutting, of Rhode Island, in the affirmative, and Gen. Briokerhoff, of Ohio, in the negative. t The trend of the discussion seemed te I be that state boards of control witb 1 full executive powers were only prac- [ tieable in small states. THE^DEATH OF GEN. MARTI. Tbe Body Finally Identified and Buried— Some Particulars of tbe Battle. Santiago de Cuba, May 27.—Col. Sandoval reports that the body of Joe Marti was finally identified and buried at Remonanguas. Marti's watch and tbe correspondence found on the body have been delivered to Capt-Gen. Campos. Col. Sandoval says that in the battle on May 20 Marti personally led the machette charges made by the rebels. He also asserts that the horse ridden by Maximo Gomez was killed, and that in the last insurgent charge Gomez himself was wounded. The government .. troops attempted to captnre him, but Borrero, one ofthe rebel leaders, carried him off the field and to a safe place. In doing so Borrero had to cross the fire of the troops, but he apparently escaped unscathed. It is stated that the bands nndet Masso and Rabi will proceed to Gautc I to aid Gomez’ band, and that the combined bands will then continue tc j Puerto Principe. Juan Guerra, a leader of the rebels, was wounded in a recent fight with government troops.

Earthquakes In Pnratuythia. Constantinople, May 2a—A seriew of earthquakes yesterday virtually j razed the town. of Paramythia, European Turkey. Fifty persons were killed and 150 seriously injured. The inhabitants were panic-stricken and passed the night in open spaces. The total number of shocks was twentysix. The Greek church, which waa built 800 years ago, was moved several yards, but is still standing. TIME FOR ACTION, -And Action Means War, Holy, Human# and Righteous. London, May 27.—Zn the course of his sermon delivered In the city tern* pie yesterday, Rev. Joseph H. Parker, D. D., said that he had not attended the meetings in London to protest against the Armenian outrages, for the reason that those meetings would not come to anything. It was the time for action, he declared, but the Only action to be taken was a war against Turkey. Such a war would be most holy, humane and righteous. - ■ .' .