Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 February 1896 — Page 2

€bt§ikt Gnnntg graorrai M. MoO. BTOOP8, Editor sad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. • - - INDIANA. The regular session of the British parliament was opened on the 11th. Ret. Dr. Saxford Hckt, agent of the Methodist publishing house. New York, dropped dead in the Grand hotel at Cincinnati, on the night of the 10th. THE\honse, in committee of the whole, ^n the 13th, rejected, 41 te^llS, the proposition of Mr. Long (rep., Ka&) to ooin the output of the silver mines of the Cpited States at the ratio of M to t. , , The bowse committee on military affairs ordered a favorable report on a bill appropriating 815.800 for the payment of damages resulting to property from the explosion of a caisson at Chicago during the riots in 1891.

FAILURES throughout the country lor the week ended on the 14th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 321, egainst *270 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada tne figures were 67, against 51 last year. *-•— - Several socialists, including Herr Fisher, one of the socialist leaders in the reichstag. were arrested in Berlin, on the 11th. upon suspicion of having continued the existence of socialist electoral unions, whieh the authorities had suppressed. Thomas McCacslet, aged 75. one of the most prominent members of the tar In eastern Ohio, died at his home in Steubenville on the 10th. He was a law student of Edwin M. Stanton, and had filled the offices of state's attorney and state senator. TilE house committee on labor.on the 14th. ordered a favorable report on the bill of Mr. l’hillips, of Pennsylvania, providing for the appointment, of a nonpartisan commission to investigate the cause of labor troubles and to report their finding to the house. Mo. Ciuckkrino, of New York, from the committee on waterways and canals, on the 14th, reported to the house his bill providing for ascertaining the feasibility and probable cost of constructing a ship canal from the great lakes to the Hudson river. ,Lorp Samsbi kt. in the house of lords, and lit. Hon. George N. Curzon, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, in ^he'house of commons, on the 12th, presented concurrent statements intended to define the procedure of a settlement of the Venezuelan diffi- - culty. I’RIXCK CoXSTAXTlJfK lloHEXI.OHEScmi.i.iNGsrrHST. brother of Prince Ilohenlohe, chancellor of the German empire. grand master of the court of the emperor of Austria and a general of cavalry in the Austrian army, died in Vienna, on the 14th, at the age of 67. The (Correspondent of the Madrid Imparcial telegraphed from Havana, on the 14th. that Gen. Weyicr would shortly publish two strongly-framed decrees extending military jurisdiction to the mere knowledge of certain offenses, and delegating judicial functions to military officers. The birthday of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated a legal holiday in New York state, for the first time, on the 12th. The public institutions, schools, stores and places of business were closed, and many patriotic societies met to do honor to the memory of the martyred president. The p^rtc notified the foreign diplomats, on the 1 lith. that the Turkish government had agreed to grant amnesty to the Armenians, who are in possession o^ Zeitoun, but demanded that those among them who are members of the Armenian revolutionary committee shall be expelled. The prince of Males, the duke of j York, the duke of Connaught, the marquis of Salisbury, and other distinguished personages were among th<*se present in the British house of lords during the reading Of the queen’s speech on the llth. The princes* oi M ales was in the peeresses’ gallery. The American Biscuit Co. held its Annual meeting in Chicago on the 13th. 'The reports showed that the .usual dividend of six ^per cent, had been earned and paid for the year. Th'e' company has 40 bakeries in 12 states, and an authorized capital $10,OOO.l*Mi The total sales for the past year Amounted to S'.1,000,000. ?

Ox ihe 12th the German povqrn- ' mint issued a White book, eontuininp > the letters which had passed between ' tike government and Count von Hatz-. feldt, tierman ambassador to Great „ Britain, on the subject of the troubles in the! Transvaal, and also the tele-1 : grams sent by the emperor to Prcsi- i dent Krujrer at Pretoria*. < The steamer Alfbnzo XIII. arrived at Havana on the loth, bavin" on board Gen. Vaieriauo, Weyl#r. the new cap-tein-^eneral of t'uba; Xicolpu: marquis j ©f Teneriffe, and Generals Enrique, j Barges. Ferderieo Oehando. Miguel „ Melquiso. Martinez, Akumada, Luis G&steiloi. Sanchez, Hemal and Juan ■ Arolos. the latter being the hero of Jolo. Philippine islands. A resi’ATi H from Madagascar, on the 11th. said that a force of 4,000 Ilovas made an atttack upon the French soldiers stationed at Antananarivo and were repulsed. The French followed up their advantage and killed 3,000 of the 1 ilovas. Fourteen of the IIova chiefs were taken prisoners, condemned to death and immediately shot. Ikeveraj others were traaanortod

CUBBENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IHBBIEP. LIV. CONGRESS. (Ftnt Session.) In the senate; on the foth, Mr. Smith (N. J.) ; made a long speech on the Monroe doctrine in which he took issue with extreme Tiews on both sides •( the question and declared there was no necessity for action «f any kind on the subject. The remainder of the day was spent in discussing the joint resolutiondirectlng the secretary of agriculture to purchase and distribute seeds for the%ear 189'.In the house the bond-free-coinage bill was further discussed until the announcement of the death of Representative Crain, of Texas, out of respect to whose memory the house adjourned. Is the senate, on the 11th. the bill for the purchase and distribution of seeds for the year 1896 was passed. The urgent deficiency bill was taken up. and its discussion occupied the remainder of the session.In the house the callendar was cleared of measures reported by the District of Columbia committee, comprising a targe number of bills. The remainder of the session was devoted to the further discussion of the bond-sllver-coinage bill.

. IK tbe senate, on the IJth. Mr. Hansorougn s bill making Lincoln's birthday. February 1*. a national legal holiday, was just on the point of passage by unanimous consent when Mr. j Hawley (Conn.) interposed an objection, on the ground that there was danger of running to an extreme in the matter of public holidays. and the matter was dropped. A bill for a memorial bridge across the Potomac from the naval observatory grounds. Washington, to the Arlington estate, was passed. The urgent deleleney bilFwas then taken up... In the house, senate joint resolution appropriating IT5JM0 to pay the Joint expenses of the survey of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions was passed. The remainder of the session and the night session was devoted to the discussion of the senate's tree coinage ; amendment to the house bond bil?iK the senate, on the 13th. the urgent deficiency bill, carrying appropriations to the amount of §8.000.000 was passed, and the military appropriation bill was taken up and be- j came the unfinished business. The Pa irtc railroad problem wa-- further considered with- j out material action. The resolutions on the j subject of Cuba were taken up. but by consent ; went over for the day.... In the house, in com- j mittee of the whole, noneonourrence in the • senate free coinage amendment to the house bond bill was recomnieside l—190 to Itt Several proposed amendments were; voted down. The report of the commute* on flections No. 2. upon the contest of Van Horn vs. TatSJiey, j from the Fifth Missouri district, in favdr of Mr. Van Horn, was presented by the chairman. The senate was not in session on the llth . .. In the bouse the long debate over the senate tree-coinage substitute for the house bill authorising bond sales to maintaiu the gold re- \ serve; sales of treasury certificates to meet I deficiencies in the. revenue, and to provide ad- | dltloual revenue for the treasury, was termi- ; nated. and the substitute was rejected by a i vote of <15 to W. Twemv-five republicans. 5$ democrats, one silverlte and all the populists j present voted in favor of free silver, and 1*4 I republicans and 3! democrats against it. A ; night session was held for the consideration of ] private pension bills. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Burglaas went through the resi-j denee of Gov. Matthews of Indiana, on the night of the 11th. and stole S12 in money and the governor's gold watch. They entered the4-pantry and helped themselves to the pastry and otheH edibles. * ,v, , ) Br the bursting of a . water pipe on j Franklin. Avenue hill, in Cleveland, O., ! early on the morning of the lltli. sev- | eral hundred feet of the hill was washed into the river. The one-story frame house of Mrs. Mary Ravey. aged 60, was washed into the river and Mrs. Rajrey was drowned. Sterling Ei.uott, of Massachusetts, i was elected president of the League of American Wheelmen at Baltimore, McL^ on the 11th, and Louisville. Ky., was chosen as the place for holding the next annual meet. Three men were killed and three Seriouslydujured in a collision between kn east-.bound stock Chain and a west^bound freight, four miles east of Fairport. X. V.. on the 12th. Several horses were al*»o killed. The town of Waterloo. Ind., on the Lake Shore railroad, was nearly destroyed by fire on the 12th. The total loss was placed at $30,i>00. Count Wilhelm ton Bism.vbck. governor of the province of East Prussia, and youngest son of the aged ex-chan-cellor. was.* on the 12th, reported to be ! dying at Koenigsburg. Tax treasury gold reserve at the ; close of [business,* on the 12th, stood j at $64,Si 1,379, a gain for the day of j 812,901,976, being the second day's re- [ ceipts of gold from the new bond issue, ! The board of directors of the Na- \ tional Association of General Secreta- j ries of the Y. M. C. A. decided, cm the j 12th, to call the annual convention of ! the organization to meet in Cleveland, j Q., June 3 to 9. ■ About five hundred j general secretaries, representing the United States and Canada, will at- ■ tend. At 12:30 p. m.. op the 12th. the calendar of the New York state assembly ; was suspended in order that the elerk might read to the house the memorable speech of Abraham Lincoln on the battle field of Gettysburg, and the i (house then took a recess out of respect I tA the great statesman's birthday j anniversery.

l he tamous negro jocKey, Isaac Murphy, who was kuown from the At-r lantie U> the Pacific, amt who hail ridden to victory some of the most famous houses in America, died, on the 12th, at Lexington. Ky. He left about one hundred thousand dollars to his widow. Li Hcxo Chang and Shas Yu Lien have been appointed delegates to n*|js resent the emperor of China at 4the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II. of Russia at Moscow. Ox,’the 13th. railroad employes at Topeka. Kas., discovered that .1 Love, a Shawnee county farmer, ha*’, to save passrpjrr fares, packed lii^ three children, aged seven, nine and eleven years, in a box for shipment by freight to Guthrie, Okla. Love pleaded poverty and a stranger advanced him money to buy tickets for his little ones. The American line steamer l*3ris from New York, February 5. sunk the local steamer Her Majesty while docking her at Southampton, on the 13th. As the Paris swung around her rudder struck the smaller vessel, sending her : to the bottom. A report from Brisbane, Queensland, j on the 13th, said: ‘a passenger steamer j capsized in the Brisbane river, in' Queensland, and 40 of thepersons who! were on board of her were drowned,”!

Advices tram Corea, on the 18th, said that the Corean rebels had over* powered and killed a small party oi Japanese soldiers who were guarding the telegraphic lines. Jackson and Walling, the alleged murderers of Pearl Bryan, were indicted by the grand jury at Newport, Ky., on the 13th. A telegram received at St. Petersburg, on ,the 13th, from Irkutsk, Siberia, says that a Siberian trader named Kouchnareff, who is the agent of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the- Norwegian explorer, has reoeived information to the effect that Dr. Nansen ha^ reached the north pole, has found land there, and is now returning towards civilization. U. C. Leedv, the St. Joseph A Grand Island operator at Hollenberg, Kas., reported to the general offices at St, Joseph, Mo., on the 13th, that great excitement prevailed over the discovery of gold in a creek bed near there. Samples of the gold have been assayed by Prof. Bartlett, of Des Moines, who savs it will run $20 to the ton.

A needle factory, the first in the Uni ted-States, is soon to be started in Chicago, the needles to' be made by a machine, the first of its kind, invented bv Eugene Fontaine, of Detroit. Repeated tests have demonstrated its practicability, and it will turn out 2,500 needlesan hour. Bishop-elect G. Mott Williams, ol the Marquette Episcopal diocese, is quite ill in ‘Denver, Col. He is said tc be suffering from nervous prostration, induced by fhe trouble and worry occasioned by the efforts of some of the members of the diocese to defeat his consecration. »• Etienne Chatlain, a pensioner oi the war of 1S12. died at Cornwall, Ont., on. the 13th. at the age of 109 years. His widow is 93 years of age. He had been married TO years, and leaves 273 living descendants. ‘About a thousand unemployed Poles gathered at the sub-office of the street department in Buffalo, X. Y., on the 14th, and demanded work, threatening trouble if it was not given them. The poiiee were sent for, and the crowd was dispersed.! Some of them appeared later at police headquarters and stated, that their families were starving. Mrs. Sophia Whitten, a trapezist, professionally known as LolaVbilvester, died at the Massachusetts General hospital in Boston, on the night of the 13th, from injuries received by a fall from the dome of. Keith’s theater. Mrs. Whitten was born in England 32 years ago. and had been in the trapeze business for 16 years. - Secretary of the Navy Herbert was before the house naval committee for 2.’-7 hours, on the 14th, in relation to the proposed increase in the navy. He renewed the recommendation made in his last anunal report for two new battleships and 12 torpedo boats. George Palmer, of Wakarusa, Ind., disagreed with his wife as to whether a gun which was lying on a cuplmard was loaded. Mrs. Palmer declared that it was not. and in attempting to take it down the gun wasj discharged, the contents tearing her vlywhand's head from his body. At the regular weekly meeting, bn the 14th, the members of the Venezuelan commission expressed themselves highly gratified with the assurance that Great Britain would submit its evidence for consideration. The keel of a large racing yacht tvai laid in the shipyard of Henderson Bros., of Glasgow, on the 14th. The yacht is to be constructed after the plans • of Mr. G. S. Watson, the designer of Valkyrie III. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not in session on the l.'ith... .in the house, the agricultural appropriation bill being under consideration, several members, chiefly democrats. made scathing attacks upon Secretary Morton of the agricultural department for his refusal to execute tiie purpose of congress to distribute seed among the farmers of the country. Several of the speaker- include.: Comptroller Bowler in their denunciations, and demanded that the lines defining the duties of the executive department of the government be more closely drawn. Senate ‘amendments to several house bills were coucurre ; in. The Denver (Col.) Evening Post printed a statement, on the l»ith. that a friend of Bishop Xlutz had agreed to pay the huge debt now hanging over the Catholic diocese of Denver, amounting to about three-quarters of a million dollars, receiving a low rati of interest and awaiting the pleasure of the ehureh in settling it. ‘ These obligations are now held by parties receiving 10 and 12 per cent, interest per annum, and the diocese has been struggling for year.- under the burden of an interest account amounting to nearly one hundred thousand dollars a year.

A mspATCii from Havana, on the 16th. said uu order had been issued modifying the strict censorship th'at hud hitherto been observed in the matter of cable dispatches. The American newspaper correspondents would now be permitted to send their repot ts without being' compelled .to submit them to censorship. A copy in .Spanish of the matter sent would, however., be required to he placed on iih in the palace of the captain gvm r i . • * It was reported in C .ost .nth. on the 16th, that Kns-'h*. :.l >n «>i jt to the United States having a dispatch boat there, lion. A. *V Tcnvil. Auvrican minister, had referred th - matter to Washington for settlement with the government at St. Petersburg. A KKgoKT from Havana, on the 16 th. said 24 patriotic prisoners in .Cabanas had been shot by the Spanish soldiers, and that lien. Gomez had notified Genu Weyler that if Cubans in the cities were shot, he would retaliate by shooting Spaniards in the interior. . A message from Queen Victoria to the nation was issued on the 16th. In it her majesty expresses her thanks for the sympathy extended to her and her daughter—on the occasion of the death of her eon-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg.

INDIANA StATE NEWS. The national boar i*uf directors of the TraTelers’ Protective Association of America has decid ed to hold the na* tional convention a': Terre Haute, on Tuesday, Jnne, 2, text. Most Shepkrd, a d ay laborer at the mine, Jackson Hill, v as caught in the ; chain gear/of a revt Iving coal screen j | and one arm was t orn to pieces, and | the other arm broker and badly lacer - ; ated. His clothes w»re torn from his body. He is not expected to live. Jons Dirksos, ex county treasurer, aged 85, and pioneer of Decatur county, dropped dead "the other day. He was a member of the petit jary now m i session. 1 SUPERISTXSDKST T. I). NcXuTT, of the Ft Wayne Electric Street railway., died a few days ago of obstruction o:t the bowels. He had been ill only one week. Tom McMahos, a tool-dresser, on the Evers* lease, one mile south of Montpelier, was caught in the cable the other morning and was whirled with lightning speed around the cable shaft. He was killed almost instantly. While leading a team of blooded horses to his shop, George Dooley, a Sullivan blacksmith, w%s perhaps fatally injured by being kicked on top of the hear!

It has been discovered that a diamond and an opal ring1 worn by Pearl Bryan when she went; to Cincinnati did not return to Greencastle with the corpse, and the family assert that they were taken from the dead body by the murderer for the same purpose that the head was severed, l|o destroy the possibility of identification. The cprpse will not be buried for several days, in the hope that the missing head may be found. The grand council of the Royal Arcanum will be held at Richmond in April. Richmond has passed a dog ordinance, and will dispose of every canine that is caught without a check. Hon*. E. B. Reynolds, of Hagers-, town, is again a candidate for the legislature from Wayne county. A lodge of the Improved Order Knigh;taof Pythias was instituted at Terre Haute the other day. and included in its membership many Ger-man-speaking citizen^ of that city. There are now seven lodges in the state, four in Indianapolis, and one each in Evansville, Mhncie and Terre Haute. ■; f !j ■ Indiana poijs police! were looking ■ the other day for a prepossessing woman, who went into & cloak store there the other morning and offered a 91,000 check in payment for a S3Q0 seal | skin cloak. She became very indig- ; nant because the snore delayed delivI ery of the parcel on various pretexts until the bank could ice consulted. When the messenger returned he reported that the woman had $2,000 on ! deposit. The woman, however, had gone out angry. She ret urned in half an hour and said she had been hasty in 1 her anger, and as she could find no other garment tha *. suited her so well, she concluded.to take the one she had j looked at. She again proffered the : check for $1,000, received the coat and $700 and departed. Then the check was sent to the bank for collection, Hbut the woman had been there in the meantime and drawn out all of her money. ; Mks. Nancy Wile died at the home of her daughter in Columbus, the other night. She was almost eighty-five years old, and had for many years lived in Columbus, and was one of the pioneers of thecountT. < Wm. H. Brown, a shoe dealer of Logansport, made an assignment, the other day. Liabilities about $4,r>00. It is believed he will be able to pay-dollar for dollar. ; His stock is worth only about $2,500, but Mr. Bro wn has turned in all his other property and some stocks. Despite the persistent efforts of his attorneys ex-Trussee Adam Forney, of Adams township, Madison county, will be held to answer to the charge of perjury in the circuit court of that county. The other afternoon Judge Ellison decided against the plea of his attorneys to quash t tie indictment The case is one of almost criminal neglect of the business aff iirs of the township in which George W. Ray is implicated. The township was plunged into debts that will take years to eliminate. Forney never rendered any connected account of his transactions and swore to his final report as trustee, a false and misleading statement The annual meeting of the Society of Indiana Florists was held in Richmond the other day. Arrangements . were made for the annual cbrysanthemum show at Indianapolis, and officers were elected as follows: J. S. Stuart, Anderson, president; Henry Rietnan, Indianapolis, vice president; Robert McKean, Indianapolis, secretary; F. Huntington, Indianapolis, treasurer. John Cosnard, for stealing buggy robes at a protracted meeting at Nevada, and Jofrn Blake, for robbing a clothing store at Tipton, were each sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. A case has just been compromised at Richmond which has been in the courts 12 years. Samuel Replogle sued the .Home Insurance Co. to collect a $1,300 policy on his barn, on 'which he had another policy without the permission of the company. The case went to the supreme court twice, and was finally settled by the company

Loris Starr and Ferry Burrell, arrested in Vincennes charged with burglary, pleaded guilty in the circuit court, and were sentenced to two years each in the state penitentiary The condition of Hon, J. S. Hu* ; ton's health is still looked upon as be ing serious by the physicians. The shock to the business interests of'Con - j nersville caused by the closing of the Citizens’ bank has practically subsided andthe other banks are booking new j depositors. Tbk New Albany Woolen mills have I closed down, owing to the failure o:l the company to effect a reorganize- 1

NANSEN'S ACHIEVEMENT. 1 Opinions Differ as to the Probable Cor* fesetnes* of tbe Reported Discovery of the Jforth Pole. Washington, Feb^ 16.—In scientific circles in Washington the interest in the report of Dr. Nansen’s alleged achievement would be much greater if the news came in a more authentic shape and with more definite particulars. The two points from which confirmatory dispatches are alleged to have been received, namely, Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, and Archangel, in European Russia, being more than 3,500 miles apart, in the opinion of Lieut. William H. Sehueteze, °of the navy, who is thoroughly^ familiar with the Siberian coast, cast grave doubts on the authenticity of the reports. Mr. Leon Hardstcigner, a former associate of Dr. Nansen, when the doctor was curator of a museum in Norway, and who is now one of the curators of the United States National museum, thinks there is nothing intrinsically impossible in the story, and bears high tribute to Dr. Nansen’s indomitable courage and felicity of resource. Capt. Herndon, of the Smithsonian, was a member of the expedition of Peary in 1881, which went as far north as Point Barrow. Subsequently, in the whaling “business, he spent five winters there.

'“The surprising thing to me/'said he, ‘*is that Nansen has been heard from at this season of the year. The only way I can account for Nansen's return at this time, of the year is the possible fact that he has found land.” , Gen. Greely, the Arctic explorer, givesl little credence to the reported confirmation of the'5success of Dr. Nansen's'attempt to reach the North Pole. He laid particular stress, in speaking of the report from Archangel, on tho fact that Nansen's theoryof reaching the pole was at variance with his alleged arrival off the Siberian coast, \yhich the explorer did not contemplate in his ^arrangements for the expedition. MELVILLE INCREDULOUS. Dots Not Believe that Dr. Xuusrallas Discovered the North Pole.' Philadelphia, Feb. 16. —Commodore Melville, who ft in Philadelphia, is by no means convinced by the dispatches claiming to confirm the reports that1 I)f. Nausen has discovered the North Pole. “It is noBsefise,” he exclaimedemphatically, when shown the latest dispatches. “It is utterly impossible on the lines pursued by Nansen, and if I talked for an hour I could not say anything more. '“1 have no doubt that some of the natives on the northern coast of Siberia saw Nansen or the Fram, but the 'Russian merchants never got up so far, and the news would have to come from the natives through several mouths and could be turned entirely around. No, I say again, the thing is impossible and you will find the later facts bear this out.” LATEST FROM CUBA. Twenty-Four Political Prisoners Shot—Retaliation Threatened—Movements of the - Rebels. Havana, Feb. 17.—One of the many current rumors is 'that 24 political prisoners in the Cabanas were shot Wednesday night. Gen. Weyler says he knows nothing of it. It is also said Gomez has notified Weyler that if Cubans in the cities are shot, he will retaliate by shooting Spaniards in the interior of the island. Gomez and Maeeo are both in Havana province. The latter moved east after the Candelaria and San Cristobal engagements, crossed the military line souch of Guana jay .passed around Cuira de Melena, and is near San Felipe. Gomez has been a few miles east of San Felipe for several days. A detached column of rebels moved north and entered Managua, 15 miles from Havana, where the volunteers surrendered, joining the invaders with arms anil ammunition. Other parties moved even" to the outskirts of Havana, taking Abe horses of milkmen in the suburban town of Juburbans, and exchanging shots with the garrison in the block house ■fwjaesus Monte. , With Castillo's party of S.Oiwfiien in the east, and Maceo's force from the west, Gomez has t),000 men under arms operating in Havana province. Skirmishes between the qutposts are of daily occurrence. The Spanish officers of minor grades generally magnify these into battles, but since the arrival of Weyler the official reports are much nearer the truth than formerly. DEATH AT THE HYMENEAL ALTAR A Young Woman Falls Dead at the Side Of Her Prospective Husband. Toledo, O., Feb. 16.—A special from Cambridge, O., says: Miss Millie Dawson, of Point Pleasant, was to have been married there yesterday morning to Albert Shine, a promine fit young merchant of the village, Miss Dawson, who has recently been HI, was exceedingly nervous when the prospective groom called for her to gd to the minister's, and feared she would not be ; able to go through the ceremony without breaking d&wn. She resolved to try it, however. The first word had scarcely been spoken by the minister when the bride was seen to faint. She fell heavily before Shine nonld save her, and expired almost instantly. The physician who was called said death was caused by heart failure, brought on by excite- j nenL

RUSSIA ALONE Objects to the United States Haring a Dis. patch Boat at Constantinople. Constantinople, Feb. 17.—The representative of the pnited Press in this— city learns that Mrs. White, a member of the family of Rev. George E. White, an American missionary at Marsovan, has died from smallpox. It is reported that Russia alone objects to the United States having a di&> patch boat here. Hon. A. W. Terrell, the minister, has referred the matte” to Washington for settlement with the government at St. Petersburg.

LATEST FROM HAWAII* Queen Ltl Is Free—Dole's Tour—The Um In KUnuen-The Legislature Called to Meet—The Sugar Crop Promises to be Unusually Heavy. The Cruiser Boston. Sax Francisco, Fe1>. 16.—Special correspondence of the United Press: Honolulu, Feb. 3. —Mrs. Liliuokalani Dominis, ex-queen of Hawaii, was yesterday granted an almost une^ditional pardon for her participati&inthe uprising of January, 1895. MTht document reads as follows: y. •/ “Executive Mansion, | N “Honolulu, Feb. 7, 1896. f “Mr*. LQiaukalmii Domini*: “Madame—With the advice of the cabinet, ! take pleasure in modifying the restriction placed upon your freedom at the time of your release from confinement. Until further notice only the observance on your part of the following conditions will be required by the government: * “Not to leave the island of Oahu, without the consent of the president or a member of the cabinet. I desire to express my appreciation of the good faith with which you have observed the requirements of a former letter. [Signed.] ‘‘Sanford B. Dole.” It was intended that the pardon should be granted on January 17, the anniversary of the overthrow of .the monarchy, but fearingthat its receiptmight prove distasteful to the exqueen, on such a date, President Dole’s return ws-s awaited.

xno president reached Honolulu Janti ary 4, after a pleasant tour of the islands, during- the course of which he was the recipient of many flattering testimonials. The lava in Kilauea suddenly dropped 80 feet on February 1, at the time of a violent earthquake. The day following the lava rose with increased force and has been' more active than ever since that date. The sugar crop promises to be unusally heavy. Plantation shares, which have been somewhat depressed of late, have advanced 25 per cent., and still continue to rise. The regular biennial session of the Hawaiian legislature is summoned for the 19th of February, The United Stages cruiser Boston sailed for Yokohama February 7. All well on board. ' ■' - - • --*-—-——J ,. S A JEALOUS HUSBAND ^ Kills the .11 an at Whose IUmrctlaghflOM His Wife was Stopping. Chicago, Feb. 17.—Walter P. Bennett, a^ boardinghouse keeper, of 127 East Sixteenth street, was yesterday afternoon fatally shot by Albert F. Williams. .• Mrs. Williams recently left her husband and went to live at Kenneth's house. -Yesterday afternoon Williams, went to the place and broke in both the front door and the door leading into his wife's bedroom. Not finding anyone in, he went into the hall and fired two shots from his revolver into the ceiling. He then went down stairs, and meeting Bennett, fired the remaining cartridges at him. Bennett was taken to the hospital, vrhere it is said he cannot recover. Williams is under arrest. MRS. POWELL FOUND. She Denies the Clwrgf of Poisoning: Prof* 1 « Van Sickle. Columbus, O., Feb, 16.— Mrs. C. M. Powell, who has been charged with poisoning Prof. Van Siekle, of Springfield, to get possession of $6,000 United States tends which he had, was found here yesterday. She denies the charge, ancj says the relatives of Van [Sickle, who was a seeoad cousin cf lier’s, have known all along where she was. She says the stories have been put in 0 circulation from Y. S. Maloney, of Delaware, against whom she has a $10,000 libel suit pending. His children, she says; died of membraneous croup. Prof. Van Sickle accuses Mrs. Powell of poisoning them. A CHICAGO POLICEMAN, invltca Friends to His Funeral and Commits Suicide. Chicago, Feb. 17.—S. E. Nelson, an ex-member of the Chicago police force, committed suicide yesterday by taking carbolic acid after having invited his friends to his funeral by written cards. Saturday Nelson set yesterday as the day for his funeral, and wrote notes to several friends asking them to attend. John Matheson, having received one of the invitations, went to investigate yesterday and found Nelipn in his bed dead. The ex-police-man had quarreled with his wife, who left him. end this is supposed to be the reason for the suicide. WILL STICK TO THEIR JOB. Tfae French Cabinet Will Not Resign on Account of Advene Votes In the Senate. Pabis, Feb. 17,—Prime Minister Bourgeois yesterday afternoon visited the palace of the Elysee and informed President Faure that the cabinet had decided unanimously not to resign in;» - consequence of the two votes in the senate blaming the government for the appointment of Judge Pqitevin to conduct the inq uiry into the Southern railway seahdal. The ministers held that the Vote of confidence adopted by the chamber of deputies on the same interpellation that led to the adverse vote in the senate is sufficient justifi- j Mtmn for thr»m tn r^rtiain in , * cation for them to remain in office.*The cabinet will hold another meeting on Tuesday; 7

ROYAL THANKS For Sympathy E*j>re*s«d Over theJSocent Bereave meat. Loxdos, Feb. 17.—A' message-front the queen te the nation expresses-' her thanks for the sympathy extended to her on thfe occasion of the death of her son-in-law Prince Henry of Battenberg, and says: “This new sorrow is overwhelming’. I lose a dear, loved and helpful son, whose presence was like s bright sunbeam in my, home, and my daughter loses s noble sod devoted husband to whom Hite was united by the closest affection.” t