Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 February 1896 — Page 2

0ht§fifc;&0Utttt) gmotrat X. HaO. 8T00P8. Editor and Proprietor. FETE&SBUBG. - - - INDIANA Eiobt mnTDKED families In Wabash, In A, were left without fuel during the prevalance of a blizzard with the thermometer near zero all day, on the 19th, by the bursting of a gas main leading to the gas field.

A report reached Havana, on the flat, from the Island of Santo Domingo that a vessel in th5e hands of filibusters in those waters had tried to capture a Spanish merchant vessel. The attempt was, however, frustrated. William E. Geil, the evangelist ol Doylestown, Pa., recently closed a two weeks’ series of revival meetings at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Fifty thousand people attended. Somewhat more than 1,000 of his hearers were converted. Bt the burning of aplarge factory building in Troy, N. Y., on the 17th', a number of employes, thought by some to be at least 30.* mostly young girls, perished in the flames or were killed by jumping from fifth-story windows to the pavement. ^ The urgent deficiency appropriation bill, as agTeed to bv the conference committee of the two houses of congress. appropriates $6,^05,438. or about $2,000,000 more than the house bill, and $240,000 more than the bill as it passted the senate provided for. A company of Alsatians belongingto the Sixty-ninth German infantry, in garrison at Treves, Rhenish-^Prussia, deserted in a IkhIv, on the_J3*?li, and marched aeross the frontier into France. They were disarmed, but were allowed their freedom. The fifth annual congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution began its sessions in Washington city, on the 18th. behind closed doors. There was a large attendance of bright-faced, intelligent ladies present from nearly every state in the Union. The British government has approved the course pursued by the British South Africa Cb„ and;' pn the the 21st, appointed Earl Gray to act conjointly with Cecil Rhodes in the administration of the affairs of the territory controlled by the company iD South Africa. , A PISPATCH from Shanghai, on the fOth, said it was believed there that Russia intends to establish a protectorate over Corea, and that England and the United States will strenuously resist such action. In the meantime the Japanese are making active preparations in their navy. The porte agree*? on the 17th, to j comply with the request made by I United States Minister Terrell to suspend action in the case of Mr. Knapp, the American missionary whose arrest upon charges of sedition was .recently attempted at Ilitli*, until Mr. Knapp arrives in Constantinople. A DEUEO ATI ox of mining men from Colorado arrived in New York city, on the mh, to attend the opening of New York's first mining exchange. The party was accompanied by a bullion car laden with exhibits from the Cripple Creek country, and containing bub lion to the value of $200,000. JtTOGB VaT.iant. of St. Louis, decided the famous Post-Dispatch injunction ease on the 17th. The injunction is made permanent, and gives'Col. C. II. Jones' absolute control • of the Post-Dispatch newspaper during the life of his contract with Mr. Pulitzer, which runs four years longer. The weekly statement of the New York associated banks, issued on the 21st, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $8,101.-25; loans, Increase. $6,052,700; specie, decrease, $6,137,500; legal tenders, decrease, 52.570.400; deposits, decrease, $3,300,300: circulation, increase, 5180,000. John L. Waller, ex-United States consul ati Madagascar, who was courtmartialed and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment under conviction of having illegally communicated with the Horas, arrived at Paris, on the 21st, having been pardoned and released from Niraes prison the day previous. Thf. committee ■> of the New York legislature which has investigated the greater New York question reported, on the 20th. in favor of the consolidation of New'York, Brooklyn and Long Island City, and suggested a commisaion to prepare a charter. The eon* aolidation is to take effect January 1. 1598.

“XThk house committee on territories, oa the 19th. reconsidered the action taken at the last meeting of the com? mittee by which a motion to report the Arizona statehood bill whs defeated by a vote of six to five, which leaves the bill without prejudice and in the same position it occupied before action was taken. President Porter of the* Traders' national bank of Scranton, Pa., swore out a warrant before United States Commissioner Colburn, on the 90th, for the arrest of A. B. Williams, late cashier of the bank, charging him with embezzling $36,000 pf the institution's funds. Williams was .taken into custody and held for a hearing. The |o%va house of general assembly, on the 20th, by a vote of 76 to 16, passed a bill appropriating $10,000 for a semicentennial celebration of the admission of the state of Iowa into the Union, to be held in Unrlington. and $105,060, to be expended at the rate of $35,000 a year for three years, for the erection in Des Moines of a memorial building to contain the collection of the state historical deoartment.

CURRENT TOPICS.' THE HEWS DT BRIEF. LIV. CONGRESS.

(First Session.) XV the senate, on the 17th. the committee on privileges and elections reported in favor of Mr. Dupont, of Delaware. Mr. Hoar offered a memorial making the 24th of June a national holiday in commemoration of the first sighting of the North American coast by John and Sebastian CSbot in 1487. Mr. Davis spoke for an hour and a half in support of the Monroe doctrine. The military appropriation bill was then taken* a_In the, house consideration of the agricultural bill and the attack upon Secretary Morton were resumed. Several amendments were agreed to. and when the house adjourned the pending question was an amendment to the bill providing for the purchase and distribution of seed. Ik the senate, on the !Pth. the military academy bill was considered three hours and passed. The pension appropriation bill was also taken up and passed..... In the house the agricultural appropriation bf.ll vfas. after a three days' debate. Anally disposed of. Amendments incorporated in the bill make it mandatory upon the secretary to purchase and distribute seed, and the appropriation for seed was increased from $130,000 to $150,000. ^he Indian appropriation bill was re xjrted from committee, and the executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill was ordered filed with the clerk. Di the senate, on the 19th, the diplomatic and eotfeular appropriation bill was passed and the conference report on the urgent deficiency bill war agreed to. The remainder of the session was spent in the pas>ag$ of private tension bills.In the house the bill to extend for four years the time within which the government may Institute suits to annul land grants illegal or erroneously issued iraji passed. The agreement of the conferees on the urgent deficiency bill was reported and concurred in. The unanimous report of the committee on ways and means against the passage of the bill to regulate the issue of liquor licenses was submitted and brdered printed ar.d the army appropriation bill was passed. Is the senate, on the ilOtb. the session was occupied with a discussion of the resolution Ifcr recognition of the belligrent -ighls of the Cuban insurgents and the allternative resolution for the recognition of Cuban independence. The feeling developed on the fioor and in the galleries was enthusiastically in favor Qf the more stringent action, even with its possible result of war with Hpsiin in the house the Consideration of the prdvisious of the Indian appropriation bid occupied most of the session. The general pension appropriation bill was sent to conference on the disagreeing voces of the two houses, and the senate amendin' nts to the diplomatic and consular bill were agreed to. The senate was not in session op the 21st.... In the house senate amendment^ to the military academy appropriation bill were agreed to. and the following senate bills were passed: To amend section .*>.*91. Revised Statutes, so as to empower the secretary, of the treasury to remit or mitigate forfeitures under his jurisdiction as weli as fines and penalties, and to atnenU the law regulating the establishing of final proof in timber culture entries. In committee of the whole the Indian appropriation bill was further considered.! An evening session was held for the cobsidetjation of private pension bills, and the house adjourned to the 24th. PERSONAL AND GENERALThk trial of the notorious counterfeiters. Wm. E. liroekway. W.E. Agner and Abbie L. Smith, was resumed in the federal court at Trenton, X. J., on the 17th. The three-year-old daughter of William Wilson, of Canfield.| O., while playing with sulphur matches, ate off the heads and died from the effects of the poison within twjo hours of the occurrence. The Vulcan coal mine, located in the hog back just below the town of Newcastle, Col., was completely wrecked and set on fire bv a terrific! gas explosion. on the 18th. and it was believed that 60 workmen in the mine were instantly killed. I Bill Xye was stricken with paralysis at his home at Buck Shoalsl eight miles from Asheville. X. C\. on the night of the ISth, and his condition^ was such that his physicians feared he coilld not recover. ! The president, on thec19fh. approved the bill abolishing the post of chaplain and professor at the West Point military academy and providing that a regularly ordained clergyman be appointed to serve as chaplafin in a civilian capacity for a term of four years. Private William H. I-Iams, who gained unenviable notoriety for insubordination during the great strike at Homestead, Pa., was reported, on the 19th, to be dying in a Baltimore (Met) hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen, received! during an altercation y. ith a fell<>w-2«»dger. . . A joint resolution to) revive the grade of lieutenant-general of the United States army was introduced in the senate, on the P.'th. by Mr. Elkins, of West Virginia, and referred to the 'committee on military affqirs. 0CT of work, put of money and served with a dispenses, noitige, James McCartney, a New York bar’ender, shot himself through the head, in his apartments, on the 18th, whilestanding with his wife's arms around his neck. Their six children were ^asleep in the next room at the time. Besides the sum of £9, will lie asked by the British admiralty four battlefor the construction of ships, four first-class cruisers, four third-class cruisers and 60 torpedo de-f strovers. the government liamcnt for a large sum lor guns and men. r>00,000 which

The board of inquiry that investigated the grounding of the steamship St. lhiul exonerated Capt. Jamieson of any culpability in the ma tter. Tue vote on the Arizona statehood bill has been reconsidered in the house committee on territories, and it howstands unprejudiced, as it did before the vote sidetracking it tjras taken. _ The pardon of ex-United States Consul Waller, a prisoner in France on conviction of treason inj Madagascar, was sent to l*resident Faurc, on the l#th, for signature. j f '* The young king of Corea has arrived at St. Petersburg; with the object of seeking the protection cT Russia for his country. A dispatch from Ilavaha says that 30 days is the limit which- Gen. Weyler has set for the wiping oujt of the revolution. He promised a delegation of sugar planters that by Ma.rch 15 the cofntry would be cleared of the insurgents. Tuje city of Guthrie, Ok la., retains title to Noble paric. containing alnko. t 18 a«eres, in West Guthrie, by a decision rendered by Secretary Smith, allirminsr % lower ruling.

A fire ooeurred daring » masked ball at San Tarem, Portugal, and in the ensuing panic many lives were lost. Forty dead bodies were recovered. J. T. Lasiborx, a wealthy fanner, was found murdered in his house at Fall Leaf, Kas., on the 19th. The murderers literally chopped the old man to pieces. They left no clew. The grand lodge of Kansas has decided to establish a Masonic home in that state. The location has not been fixed.. President Cleveland in denying a pardon, on the 20th, to F. M. O. IIolston, convicted of forgery in a pension case, said he was decidedly in favor of strict punishment “in a case like this which involves the swindling of the poor and needy veteran and prostitution of the benetoient intentions of. the government as embodied in its pension law."*

Ax expedition b onnd for the interior of Labra’dor will leave Philadelphia, in •Tune, for the purpose of studj'ing the Esquimeaux and collecting specimens of the flora and fau na Of that region. Prof. Frank Russell, curator of the University of Iowa, will accompany the expedition as archeologist. *> Os the 20th the president signed the act to extend the mineral land laws of the United Suites to lands embraced in the north half of the Colville Indian reservation. The secretary of the interior, on the 20th. approved school indemnity selections embracing 15,733 acres of land inuring to the state of: Minnesota, situated^ in tne Marshal, St. Cloud and Duluth land districts, j „ Details of the dynaihite explosion at Viedendorp, Transvaal, show that thousands of persons ; have been rendered homeless by the tjerrible calamity of th'e 19th: loo persons are believed to have been killed, 200 men, women and children severely wounded, and rnauy others have been more or less injured. Fug EXE Fafe, a notjed band-instru-ment maker, living at Elkhart, Ind., while intoxicated, on the 19th, lay down in his front yard and, his wife being away from home, was not discovered until the mornjfng of the 20th, when he was found * to be so badly froeep that he will die. A. Leemax, of Wilkesbajre. Pal, claims to be the owner of Martin Luther's wedding ring'. Leeman says the valuable relic came into .the possession of the family 410 years ago. It was purchased in Europe. Ox the eve of her departure from Rochester,. N. Y.. for California, Miss Susan 11. Anthony, wajs. on the 20th, tendered a reception by 200 of her admirers at the home of jDr. Linn. The affair was also the celebration of Miss Anthony's sixty-eighjth birthday anniversary. I Albert I. Foster, fi>r five years tax collector at Concord. X. II.. was arrested, on the 21st, on: two complaints charging him with tHe embezzlement of §16.000 of the fuhds received by him. .He admitted his guilt, and said he lost the money in a bufcltetshop in Poston. Failures throughput the United States for the week*ended ou the 21st, as reported by R. G. jDun•& Co., were 2S0, as against 302 fotj the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 66, agajnt 30 last year. The treasury gold reserve became intact, on the 21st. for the first time since September 7 last, standing at §105,092.843. Ox the 21st the associated, banks of New York city held §28,627.050 in ex* •cess of the requirement of "the 25*pereent. rule. Li Huxg CHAXG. the famous Chinese statesman, and- for many years viceroy, who has been appointed to represent the emperor at the coronation of the czar and czarina of Russia, at Moscow, in May. will, upon the invitation of Hon. John W. .Foster, return to China by way of the United States, his visit to this country occurring some time during the summer. The Orange grand lodges of Xova Scotia and New Brunswick have passed strong resolutions against any interference by the Dominion government with the Manitoba sjehools. and calling : upon all Orangemen to support only the candidates for parliamentary honors who pledge theniselves to support non-interference wiith the Manitoba school question. The Campania Trans-Atlantiea Espanola purpose founding in the city of Montevideo, at an early date an important institution,j with a capital of §10,000,000 gold, to operate on a grand scale and facilitate commercial transactions between the River Platte and the northern Spanish provinces. Public opinion is opposed to it. The Colombian government will put up at public sale in the month of July next the monopoly for the sale of Cigarettes. The concession is to be for five years, and the following are the upset prices: First year, §360,000; second year, §390.00(0: third year. §420,000; fourth year, §430,000 and fifth year. §500,000. LATE ITEMS.

It appears from an examination of l the complete report of the Bureau of | American Republics that the South and Central American republics have not abandoned' thejir connection with the bureau, but have been more prompt in paving their quotas, of its expenses for the past year than in any like period. By the burning of the palatial residence of James R. Armiger, of North Baltimore. Md.. on the 23d. seven persons, members of the family, servants and a guest, were either suffocated and burned in the building or killed by jumping from the windows. The head of the family was himself among the victims. Edo ah W. X yf.„ the talented humorous writer, better known as “Bill" Xye. died at his home at Buck Shoals. Asheville, X. C., on the. 22d, as the reiult of a stroke of apoplexy., Miss Cl aba Baktox and the members of her party have relinquished their intention of going to Zeitoun owing to the refusal of the port© to grant them permission to do so.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. An artesian well has been completed at the plate glass factory, El wood, to supply that plant %with water for the grinding department. The well is 395 feet deep and has an output of 400,000 gallons of water per v <Jay. Before it could be controlled it had inundated almost the entire plant. At Crawfordsville, T. J- Huston was bound over to court to answer to the charge of collecting a note for $46 and i spending the money, which belonged to the Singer Sewing Machine Co., i while he was abting as its agent. George Oliver, a freight brakeman on the CloTer Leaf railroad, sued for injuries received. The case was tried • at Crawfordsville and the jury returned a finding of facts, leaving the judge to name the amount of damages Judge Harney has given Oliver $1,400. The Forma Cycling club, of Crawfordsville, has been disbanded and a new one formed, with Omer Cox, pres- | ident; Maurice Kelly, vice pr«iden E. F. Wilhite, secretary, andSl?. V. Blair, treasurer. Richmond lodge of Masons has received a historical brick—one from the cell in the old jail at Canandaigua, N. j Y., in which Morgan, the principal in the great sensation of 1837, was confined.

r. e*. n ei.ms, 01 uer#uw uniTerNi;-, late organizer of the Y. M. C. A., is conducting revival meetings for a week .at Earlham college. The three linen handkerchiefs found in the pockets of Scott Jackson were received by the Bryan family at Greencastle from Chief Deitsch, of Cincinnati. They were identified as the property of Pearl Bryan, having been given her by her sister, Mrs. Stanley, last Christmas. The pocketbpok found in the manhole accompanied the handkerchiefs^ but was not identified. Loris Sori-E, an aged Frenchman, was found dead in bed the other morning, in a cabin eight miles below Vincennes. Da Washington* Gladden, pastor of the Congregational church at Columbus. 0., has been secured by Earlham .college for commencement day otator. R*v. Ezra Bvti.er Newcomb, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Elkhart, has tendered his resignation, to accept a call to the First Westminster church of Keokuk, la. Mr. Newcomb is one of the trustees of the McCormick Theological seminary, Chicago. ’ < 'The new stone M. E church at Williamsport was dedicated the other _ day. Dr. Moore, of Cincinnati, editor of the Christian Advocate, had charge of the ceremonies and^preached two sermons during the day. The edifice is said to be the hrst stone church built in the Northwest Conference. Its cost' was 57.350.16. Subscriptions were secured for the (*extra church debt, which amounted to over 54,300. Rev. H. N. Barnes, of the North Indiana Conference, died at his home in Pasadena, Cal., tjhe other morning. In 1854 and 1855-he was the pastor of Roberts Chapel, Indianapolis, and from 1861 to 1864 was presiding elder of the Indianapolis district. W. R. Stevens, a former employe of the Pittsburgh Plate-Glass Co., of Elwood, has entered suit in the superior court for 525,000 damages against that company. Stevens was ordered to repair some machinery, he alleges, and while doing so the starting of the machinery caught him and crushed his back so as to render him a permanent cripple. The limited express on the Vandalia line early the other morning ran over” Felix Blutboker, a German shoemaker,’ aged 45, at the Center street crossing, Terre Haute, and ground him to pieces. ^Parts of the body were taken from the train at Glenn, five miles east of Terre Haute. The head was completely severed from the body. Prof. George MaIer, of Fort Wayne, has accepted a call to,the superintendcy of the Wernle Orphans’ home at Richmond. ■ It is astonishing to note the great activity now going on in the great Indiana oil district New derricks for wells are springing up in all directions. There seems to be no one favored spot for pushing the drill. The work is scattered over the entire producing area. U. C. Mourats has [leased a small acreage three miles soikt’n of Montpelier and will put down a test well on the Dr. Elder farm. Several good producers have been completed in the past few days. A review of the late completed work and the new work now under wav is given by counties, as follows: In Blackford count}-, out of nine new wells one is dry. 'The other eight yield 190 barrels daily. Eighteen njsw wells are being drilled. In Wells county six new wells showed 175 barrels a day at the start. Twenty-five new wells are being drilled in Blackford county. In Grant county eight new wells are being drilled, five are under way in Huntington county, t£vo in Jay county and one test well is going down in Wabash county.

The republican state central committee met at Indianapolis and decided to attack in the courts the apportionment act of 1885, which the supreme court has declared to be in force This is with the proviso that Gov. Matthews fails to call an extra session of the legi&lsture. % O. F. McClellan's general store at Hall, this county, was burned. Loss, $4,200; insurance, $2,400. Joseph Laughton, aged 45. representing a sewing machine company, dropped dead of heart disease at the residence of Hon. John Blessing, Shelby ville, while put up a machine The formal dedication of the Elkhart institute, the -college just completed, took place in the presence of n crowded auditorium. The college ha t an efficient corps of instructors, and starts out with a large membership. H. E. Drew, of Indianapolis, one of the promoters of the Chicago, Indiana. it Eastern railway, states that capital-, j ists are now interested in this line and that it will be finished to Richmond and j set equipment purchased.

“BILL** NYE IS DEAD. ItTliMd Away at IDs Home la Duel l Shoals, K. C.t the Result of a Stroke ol Apoplexy—A Brief Sketch of the Careet of the Man Whose Quaint Humor Hat Been Current for the Last Twenty Years. Apheyfli-k, N. C., Feb. 23.—Edpat W. Nye, better known as “Bill” Nye, died at liis home at Buck Shoals, about one o’clock Saturday afternoon.

wnvm // . Edgar Willi* Xye. Ed par Willis Nye, or “Bill” Nye, as i he is known to the reading- public, was born in Shirley, Piscataquis county, | Me., August 15, 1850, and at the age oi two years, according to his own story. 1 he took his parents by the hand and led them to the west. The family settled in Wisconsin, on the banks of the St. Croix river. The elder Nve was a farmer, and the son followed tiie plow until he reached the age of 12 years. He then went to school and received an •academic education at River Fails, Wis. In l$7t5 young Nye went to Wyoming, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. There, as he said, he practiced law in a quiet way, “although frequentlywarned by the authorities not to do so.” He had plenty of leisureitime on his hands in those days, which he used in ^Exiting a Sunday letter jfor the Cheyenne Sun at the liandsbme remuneration of one dollar a column., In one of his humorous autobiographical sketches Mr. Nye says that that surri. which amounted to SGO a year, so dwarfed his income frpin his law practice that he j decided to take up newspaper writings^ a profession, and accordingly he moved to Denver, where he obtained a position on the staff of the Denver Tribune. He corresponded from Denver 'for the Salt Lake Tribune. Later on a new paper was started in Laramie, called the Boomerang. The paper was named after Nve’s favorite mule, which he called “Boomerang” because he never knew where the animal would land. The Boomerang was not a financial success, however, and Nye began writing for a syndicate of newspapers. His face became familiar to the public by the hundreds of caricatures of the humorist from the pencil of Walter McDougall, who collaborated with him in getting up the Nye letters. “Bill” Nye. like most humorists, had a reputation for almost womanly gentleness. i In late years "Bill" Nye earned^S30,000 a year by his writings and on the lecture platform. He is said; to have acquired considerable property. His wife was formerly Misjs Fanny Smith, of Chicago. They were marv ried in 1877. and lived for a time in Wisconsin. Latterly the iamiljy moved to Staten Island, and a year or two ago Mr. Nye purchased a country place near Asheville, N. C. He lived at Asheville in winter, when not otherwise engaged. Some of the experiences of his life on this farm are among his quaintest and best efforts. A MISAPPREHENSION in Relation to the Kareva of j%mericai. Republic* Corrected. Washington*, Feb. 2 .—It appears from an examination of the Complete report of the Bureau of American Republics that the South and Central American republics have not abandoned their connection with the bureau, but h?ve been more prompt in paying their quota of its expenses for the past yea • Than in any other like period,. The misapprehension was due tc failure to understand the exact meaning of a sentence referring; to such payments which stated “that jsinee the date of my last annual report the following sums have been paid," which apparently included all the countries that had responded with their support and placed among the delinquents such countries as Brazil and Costa Rica, who are. as matter of fact, among the warmest supporters of the bureau. It appears that at the time the report closed, six months ago, not a single American republic had withdrawn from thi union, Chili having never been a m ?mber.

AN ENGINEER i shot and Killed by a Tramp Whom He Hat Driven From HU Engine. Raleigh: X. C., Feb. 23.—At Weldon, Mathew Dodd, the engineer of the Seaboard Air Line's vestibule train, was shot through the heart by a negro tramp. The. latter was in the engine cab warming up when Dodd told him leave. The* tramp again gpt into the cab and was put out. He drew a pistol, and standing a few feet way. killed Dodd! The tramp was captured agid locked up. ORANGE GRAND LODGES QfNora Scot In nnd N>w Brunswick Stnnc l’p for Manitoba Schools. Halifax, X. S., Feb. : 23. — Th< Orange grand lodges of Xova.-Scotia and Xew Brunswick have passed strong resolutions against any interference by the Dominion government with the Manitoba schools, and calling upon all Orangemen to support only jtbe candidates for parlimentary honors who pledge themselves nn reservedly to sup port in parli&ment a policy of non-in-terference with the Manitoba sehool question. ■ h -

COMMANDER BOOTH l«(UM to Relinquish Command of th« Salvation Army or' to Taka Orders from England- The Announcement of HU D*, termination Causes Rejoicing Among the Rank and File of the Army—A Bogus Telegram.' v;y New York, Fet>. 24.—Commander Ballington Booth of. the Salvation Army last night announced to the members of his staff that he had decided not to relinquish command of the army in the United "States and that udder no circumstances would lie take orders from England. This was; taken to mean that he will reorganize the army ia this country ,on an independent 'basis, and it was re* eeived with elteers and other demonstrations of approval. , Commander Booth appeared at the army headquarters last evening, and held a council of war with his staff supporters, au(l declared it liis intention not to relinquish his command until compelled to do so. Col. Alexander S. Nicol, the personal representative of Gen. Booth in the present difficulty, and Col. Eadie, who has assumed to exfcrcise the authority of acting commander, were called to the council room, and given to understand the commander’s position. They went into his presence pale and trembling, and they emerged from the room look* ing very much troubled.

uurmg tne session a message was receeeived, purporting to come from London, to the effect that Commander ' and Mrs. F. De Latour Booth-Tucker had been appointed to succeed Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth in the United States. This was promptly bulletined by Mr. Nieol. but its truth was denied by Commander Booth andhis friends, who declared that the dispatch was bogus and was issued by Eva Booth, who is in this eity, to create a false impression. Commander Booth's statement that he would not recognize the message as otjicial iwas received with applause. It was argued that the message could ndt be authentic, because Gen. Booth is not in Loudon and would not make an appointment of slheh importance except in the regular way from the London headquarters. Commander Booth’s arrival at headquarters was entirely unexpected,, and took the opposition by surprise. The regular Sunday evening Gospel service was in progress and the large hall was well crowded. .» < GEN. BOOTH’S RESIGNATION One of the Factors Leuiliiig to Ilia Deposition froyi Command of the Salva- . tiou Armyof the. Uutted States. Xkw York, Feb. 24.—Another feature of the trouble in the Salvation Army growing out of the deposition of Gen. Ballington Booth from the command of the army in the United States has developed. It is the outcome of the mass-meeting, held recently in this city at which lion. 'ChauucCy M. Depew presided. At thaC meeting resolutions ' asking- that Gen. Ballington Booth be retained as commander here were adopted and cabled to international headquarters. Mr. Depew has received a reply which shows that Gen. Booth, the in* ternational commander, is firm in his decision as to the change ia command of the United States, and further, that as long ago as January 31 Gen. Ballington Booth had handed in his resignation as a result of Ms removal from the command in this country. This 'resignation, it appears, resulted in the sending of three mediators to this country, but their emission was unsuccessful. .* , ^ The cablegram received by Mi*.- Depew is as follows; Uosiiox. Feb. 22. lion. Chauncey M. Depew. New York:—Cabled the General a summary of yours. He instruets'me to cable that universal changes and equity compel him to confirm the arrangement. Profoundly deplores resignation dated 31st January. Has done by three inedi* a tors his utmost without success. (■Signed; ‘ Bramwixi. Booth. THE ONLY HOPE’ ■ Of the I’rDoners Taken at Johannesburg i» the MeHowlug Influence of Time. ^ Nkw York, Feb. 24.—A special cable to the Herald from Cairo, Egypt, says: Cecil Rhodes was interviewed by a Herald reporter yesterday. Mr. Rhodes dacline to discuss the affairs of the South Africa Chartered Co. When # asked about the position of his mining manager. Jack Hammon, he answered, that bail had been provided, but that nothing further could be done. He added that Mr. Hammond s case was similar to that of his own brother, for whom he had been unable to do any- ;. thing except to find bail for him. ‘•Matters," he added, “are evidently quieting down of themselves* and I think time will gradually smooth them over. I am of opinion that' the prisoners will be^tried and simply fined.^

KILLED BY THE OFFICER Who was Mnt to Arrtit Him and Who Then Surrendered. Natchez, Miss*. Feb, 24.—News of a killing about 25 miles below -here on the Louisiana side of the river has reached here. J. D. Miller, a prominent planter and justice of the peace, attempted to arrest James Pettit, a fisherman, for carrying concealed weapons. Meeting with resistance Miller armed Himself with a rifle and as he returned met Pettit similarly armed. Both, men opedfed fire at once, with the result that Pettit received two bullets through his body and fell dead. Miller surrendered. v A GRAND JUROR Indicted for Violation of the Prohibitory Law. ^Topeka, Kan., Fen. 24.—Before final adjournment the grand jury added tn ts list of indicfcme nts one against W. F. Nece, one of the grand jurors, for* violating the prohibitory law. Nece's son had been arrested previously for tbe same offense. The grand jury was in session 23 days, and examined overthree hundred witnesses, resulting in. 31 indictments. Fourteen of the accused men have been apprehendedi and all except two have oivcm hoed*