Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 March 1896 — Page 2

She Sfifet County gtraomt MU MeC. STOOPS. Mdltor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - * • INDIANA. A box was introduced in the senate, «t the 3d, granting a pension of $50 per month to the daughter of Gen. Phil Kearney. At a meeting of the convocation of Oxford university, on the 3«.k the pro* posal to allow women to take\ degree was rejected by a vote of S15To 140. Ox the 2d Chief-Justice .Fuller announced the opinion of the supreme court of the United States declaring the Nogales land grant in Arizona Invalid.

The (governor of Pennsylvania, on the 5th, signed tlie death warrant oi Herman W. Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, and the latter will be executed on Hay 11. Li Htrso Chang and his fellow envoys to Moscow, where they will rep- , resent the emperor at the ceremonies of the coronation of Czar Nicholas It, j started from Pekin for Russia on the 6th. ______ The correspondent of the Berlin Local Anxeiger in Constantinople Is authority for the statement that Russia has asked Turkey to expel all English and American missionaries from Asia Minor. > Sir George F. Nkwees, the wealthy London publisher, for whom a yacht is being built by the Henderson Bros, at Glasgow, said, on the 6th, that he intended to challenge with the new boat for the America's cup in 1897. Failcreb throughout the United States for the week ended on the 6th, as reported by R. G. Dun 4 Co., were *85, against 234 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 68, against 58 last year. It is asserted upon good authority that Spain is in communication with the several European ministries with a view of securing their agreement to a Joint protest in the event of President Cleveland declaring the belligerency of Cuba. At its sitting, on the 3d. the supreme court of the United States disposed of 54 cases, the largest number dropped from the docket in any one day for years, The decisions rendered will govern in not less than forty-five hundred pending cases for aud against the United States. .< 1 The public debt statement, issued on the 2d. showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in tdie treasury, during February of #1^978,764.8?. The interest-bearing debt increased #75,232.350. while the non-interest-bearing debt decreased #115,886.50. Ca>h in the treasury, 391,115,228.33. Brewers in Germany have contracted for 2,500,000 bushels of barley from Montana next season. This barley will come from the famous Gallatin valley, which lies along the Northern Pacific railway, about eighty miles east of Helena, where enormous crops of the finest quality are raised by irrigation. A disiutch from Brisbane, Queensland, on the 3d, said that 17 vessels in the harbor of Townsville foundered during the late storm, and one of them went down with its passengers an^l crew. Houses on shore were razed to the ground. The loss by the founded ing of four passenger steamers is estimated to be 32.500,000. —t-*-Grace King, missionary of the American board in Armenia, cabled the Christian Herald of Boston, on the 6th, from Van. that the outlook was rather better and more peaceful. Orders had been given by the government for five battalions of troops to protect Christian villages in the outlying districts from the Kurds. It was rumored in Rome, on the 2d. that Gen. Baratieri had committed auieide, being unable to endure the humiliation of the crushing defeat at the hands of the Aby&sinians, on the 1st, when 3,000 Italian soldiers were killed, including t wo general officers, and all the stores of the Italian army were captured by the enemy.

Tbs semi-official press of Berlin agrees in saying that' the failure of one Italian general will not induce Germany to sever herself from the triple alliance, to which Italy has Steadfastly adhered. Moreover, they say, the triple alliance is valid for a series of years, daring which the powers composing it are bound together. A dispatch from Kimberly, South Africa, says that Gardner Williams, ma American, manager of the Delivers mines, was arrested there, on the 5th, j st the instance of the government of Gape Colony, on the charge of having supplied arms to the Uitlandersof the j sand, to be need in their threatened j revolt against the government of the Transvaal. Tos Massachusetts delegation in acmgress met, on the Sth, to take suitable action with reference to Gov. Grveohalge's death. All the members in Washington were present. Appropriate resolutions of sympathy were .adopted and Senator Dodge and Messrs. Apeley, Gil let, Barrett and Atwood were appointed a committee %> attend the funeral. Ex-Pbxsidcxt Habbiso* said to a reporter in New York city on the 3d: “The wedding between Mrs. Ditumjck and myself will take fileee daring the day of April ft, ai St. Thomas' ehurch. The rector of the church. Rev. John *W. Brown, will officiate. The wedding will be very quietly celebrated, as only relatives and a few very intiState friends will be wesanW*

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THE HEWS IH BRIEF, LIV. CONGRESS. {First Session.) Ik the senate, on the 2d. a bill to enlarge the nary was passed without a dissenting voice. The bill places in the hands of the president a restricted power with which to deal with the SpanUb-Ouban situation, should the emergency arise. The remainder of the day was consumed in the passage of hills on the calendar unobjected to.In the house, during the morning hour, a number,' of bills were passed by unanimous consent or under suspension of tbe rules. After two hours' spirited debate, the house agreed to the concurrent resolutions previously reported by its com* tnittee on foreign affairs looking to the according of belligerent rights to the Cubans. In tbe senate, on .the Sd. the only important transaction (in addition to the passage of several bills) was a motion submitted by Mr. Gorman (dem.. Md .) for a reconsideration of the vote q? the day previous passing a bill authorising the enlistment of additional men in the navy: The motion is a privileged one. and may be taken up nt any time. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed.In tbe bouse tbe session was devoted almost wholly to a,, discussion of' a proposed amendment to the legislative, executive and iudiclal appropriation bill to make the offices of district attorneys and United States marshals salaried ones, instead of paying tbe Incumbents with fee*. Mo action was taken on the amendment In the senate, on the 4th. consideration, of the question whether Henry A. Dupont is or is not a legally-elected senator from the state of -Delaware, wah entered upon. The facta are conceded, but the legal points Involved may occupy the time of the senate for weeks to come. The senate disagreed to the house substitute for life senate concurrent resolution as to Cuba, and a conference was requested-.In the house, after the passage of a few relatively unimportant bills, the entire day's session was occupied in consideration, in committee of the whole, of the fee and salary amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. Is the senate, on the 5th. some 35 bills were taken from the calendar and passed without objection. Mr. Mitchell (Ore ), chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, finished his argument in support of the committee's report declaring Henry A. Dupont a duly elected senator of the United States from the state of Delaware. The matter went over The conference report on the Cuban resoivtions was made the special order for the 9tR at two o’clock. _In the house the principal feature of the day's proeee lings was a savage attack gpon President. Cleveland by Mr. Hartman <Mont.) on account of Mr. Cleveland's Carnegie hall speech, when presiding over tbe meeting of the Presbyter.aa Home Missionary society. .■ The seuatc was not in session on the 6th.... In the house the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was passed, the fee and salary amendment having been so changed as to forbid the beginning of a prosecution under the internal revenue law upon the complaint of a private citizen, except by the written approval of the district attorney; and, further. to forbid the appointment of any federal ceurt officer. Including United States commisioders. as receiver In any case before a federal court. The post office appropriation bill was taken up. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The fruit growers Of southern Ohio and West Virginia report that the recent cold weather has damaged the peach crop from 40 to 50 per cent. 15euna.ru J. Fokd, ex-superintendent of the statehouse at Trenton, N. J convicted of embezzling moneys of the ■ state and official misconduct, was, oh the 3d, sentenced to pay a fine of 81,000. A heavier punishment to the old man, perhaps, was a long and severe address to him by the judge. A dispatch from Constantinople, on the 3d. stated that Mr. Hampson, British consul at Bftlis, telegraphed, on the 1st, that 15 families in the Guendij district in Armenia who had embraced the Moslem faith had recanted and returned to Christianity, whereupon they were all murdered. The irades reported to have been granted by the sultan to the members of the Red Cross soeiety enabling them to go into Asa Elinor for the purpose of distributing relief ha-1 not been de-. livered up to the 3d. Saloon-Keeper Bledsoe, of Centerville, Ind.. was converted at a revival meeting in progress. He headed a procession from the church to his saloon, where he emptied all of his liquors into the streetand burned his license^, An explosion, followed by fire, occurred in the Cleophas mine at Kattowitz, I*rasstah Silesia, on the 24th. Rescuing parties were immediately organized and succeeded in taking out alive 80 of the entombed miners, and also brought to the surface 27 corpses. There then remained in the pit 33 men whose fate was uncertain.

l ue supreme court 01 rcaoHjirapia, on the 4tb, affirmed the verdiet of murder in the first degree in the case of Herman W. Mudget, alias H. H. Holmes, found guilty in the court of oyer and terminer of Philadelphia of the murder of Benjamin F. Pitezel. Ax oil well with a capacity of 1,000 barrels daily was struck near Bradner, O., on the 4th. This is said to be the | biggest producer * in the Ohio fields l since 1893. William Ev a ns. the Welsh poet of America, died at Lock port, 11L, on the 4th, aged 71 years. V Tux grand jury at Greencastle. Ind.. adjourned, on the 5th, without returning an indictment against Will W'ood as an accessory to the killing of Pearl Bryan. 6s the 5th Lieut-Gov. Wolcott of Massachusetts Issued an official proclamation announcing the death of Got. Greenhalge and his own assumption of the duties and powers of the office of governor. He recommended that the people of the commonwealth take steps to properly observe the event of the g -venter’s death. The treasury gold reserve *at the close of business, on the 5th, stood at $134,833,431. The withdrawals for th» day amounted to

Eat Vast Tassel was found guilt) of murder in the first degree at Mason City, la., on the 5th, and sen&noed to life imprisonment at Anamosa. He poisoned his wife in June, 1895. Ex-State Sexatob W. C. Gear, or trial at Columbus, 0., charged witk bribery, was on the 5th, acquitted bj the Jury. It appears that the resignation o: j Capt. Grant of the American liner New York grew out of His refusal to eomplj with the request of the pilot to “cat’ I his anchors while approaching New j Tork harbor in a fog, a precautior ] usually token to secure' speedy drop ping in “thick" weather. At Valencia, Spain, on the 5th, th< I disorders broke out afresh, and ther* j were renewed' demonstrations of hos- j tility to the United States. The mot j made its way to the United States con- | sulatc, which was Atoned, and the win-1 dows of which were smashed by the ]

infuriated populace. Kixg Mexelik II. of Abyssinia, whc has just administered such a * crushing defeat to the Italians, claims to be descended in a direct line from Menelih I., emperor of Ethiopia,• son of King Solomon by the queen of Sheba. Menelik II. succeeded to the throne in 1889. on the death of John II., and concluded in that year a treaty with Italy, which placed the kingdom under an ltaliac protectorate. He has quarreled with the Italians over the text of that treaty, hence the war. Cp to the evening of the 5th 90 bodies had been recovered from the CiexSphas mine, at Kattowitz. Prussian Silesia. It was believed that 20 bodies remained in the mine. The undergraduates of Princeton (X. J.) university, on the night of the 5th, burned in efligy the king of Spain in a demonstration, in which several hundred took part. The flag of Spain was dragged through the main street, and later was torn to pieces in the center of the campus. The Venezuelauia&e book, which is entitled “Documents and (Correspondence Relating to the Question of the Boundary of Guiana and Venezuela,” was issued by the British government on the dth. The volume consists of 443 folio pages, with a separate book containing nine maps, and treats exhaustively of the occupation of the territory in dispute by the Dutch and English long before Spain planted a colony there. The Hocking-Berry gas well, two miles west of Metz, W. Va., belonging to the South Pennsylvania Oil Co. took fir£, on the 6th, from the friction of pebbles which were being ejected from it while Foreman ,Wright and his men were pulling the easing. One man was fatally and several severely burned. Loed JLiAxsoowxe, British secretary of state for war, has attached a memorandum to the" army estimates stating that, in view of recent events, it will be impossible to reduce the strength of the garrison in Egj’pt in 1896. Capt.-Gex. Wkyler has issued a circular to the various military commanders in Cuba instructing them to arrest no more civilian® for deportation except upon indisputable? proof of thcii connection with the insurrection. G. Gldboese and his wife and fire children perished in the bunting ol their home near Alma, Wis.. on the night of the 5th. Their bodies were found in the ruins. Thk arsenal at Cadiz, Spain, is being worked to its full capacity in the manufacture of gnus, cartridges for artillery, etc., and the greatest activity prevails. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not in session on the “ti»... lr. the house several bills were passed, among them senate bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to distribute the diplomas and medals awarded *.*xhlbttt»rs at the World's Columbian -Exposition. Senate/ amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill, with two exceptions, were aon-concurved in. The house went into committee of the whole forthe further consideration of the post otijee appropriation bill. General .debate lasted an hour, during which 'several efforts were made, unavailiugiy, to increase the compensation oi fourthclass postmasters. At a miners'meeting held at Cuba switch, near Phillipsburg. Pa.. on the HU, resolutions were adopted providing that a demand be made on the operators for an advance of ten cents a tou on and after April i. A committee was appointed to confer with the miners in adjoining districts, so that a general demand could be made as soon as possible. A si'vciAl. from Princeton. X. J., on the 8th, said: Perrine's comet, which has beeu coming earthward fyr some past time, is uow known to have safely passed, and there is no further danger H orn that source. Prof. C. A. Young, of Princeton college, said to-day that the comet was rapidly receding from

luc carlo. UBVU.LE R. Cuaube_si.aix, formerly captain of Company G, Forty-seveatn Indiana infantry, who went through a galling lire to procure ammunition for nis company at the battle of Cniekaumugn. nas been granted a medal of honor by the president for “most distinguished gallautrjr." A M'iccut dispatch from Rome, on the 8th. said: The situation is going from bad to worse. Signor Kudini's efforts to form a cabinet have faiie<l completely. The king, encouraged by the ambassadors of Germany, Austria and England, will persist in baring the war carried on. Two senate amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill authorizing the iir.mediate publication of 73.UCW copies of “Diseases of the Uorse^aud - O-J.OW) copies of "Diseases of Cattle and j imiry Farming" were concurred in by ! the house on the 8th. Ukak-Auxibae Hknbt Walkx, C. j S. X., retired, died at his home in ! Brooklyn, on the fcth, of heart failure, : aged !W years. Sevestt-two pilgrims sailed from Philadelphia, on the 8th, for the Holy Lend, to pass the remainder of thair da vs

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gov. Matthews sent to Chairman Gowdy, of the republican state committee, a formal letter refusing to convene the general assembly in special, session to enact a new apportionment law.. He says the extra session would cost the people of the state $23,000 and would accomplish no good, as the legislature of 1S97 will pass an apportionment law. The board of trustees of the State j Normal school decided to admit new i students at the spring term -who hold, a j one year’s license to teach in the public schools of the state. Last spring, ow- ; ing to the short appropriation by the j legislature and t he lack of school room, ; applicants were required to present a j two-years' lieerse. The change this j year was made p ossible by the new law which increases the amount of money j for the school and by the fact that | more room in th * new building will be j available. The total enrollment last spring was about one thousand, and it is thought that this year it will reach 1,^00 and possibly 1,400. ° Two of the " spotters” who were at j Terre Haute spying on the letter ear- j riers were arrested by the police on ‘'suspicion.” An officer took them in because a storekeeper saw them hanging about his place and suspected they might burglarise his store. At police headquarters the men showed thei r credentials and werj? released, but their identity was thus made known to the carriers and their usefulness was at an end. Shelbtvuxe is flooded with cov.nterfeit coin of the denomination of SI The date is 1879 and the imitation is a very poor one. It is thought to be the work of home talent. . Henry B. Scott, an agrieultur \1 implement dealer at Disco, made i n assignment to Tobias Gushard. L .abilities. about $5,000; assets, S3.000. Wm. Frocks, a well known c tizen, aged 00 years, and a member of the Thirteenth Indiana regiment, diei Suddenly of heart disease at Madison. Peter Hentz. a member of the Sis th Indiana. is also dead. Bert Wtcuffe. a young man residing near Greenfield, was seriously injured abont the head the other afternoon by being kicked by a horse' His injuries will probably result fata ly. Fred. Kinder, a 16-year-old la 1, was jailed at Tipton for stealing a bicycle, which it is alleged he took to Indianapolis and sold. A woman is supposed to be working Logan sport with two-and-a-halfnloliar, counterfeit gold pieces. She passed on*/ the other afternoon upon Ed Gardner on a street car. The counterfeit is well made and is pronounced the work of an expert. The Huntington county commissioners appointed Nathan Fisher cou nty recorder. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wm. Blackburn. Some days a^o Miss Sarah Phillips, formerly of Richmond, died at her home in Philadelphia, leaving considerable property at Richmond. The contents of her will have been made public and reveal the fact that she bequeathed >2,000 to the Wayne County Orphans’ home, all the rest of her coii-e erabie estate going to ]x>rsons and instil utions in Pennsylvania. J. W. Rosenberhy, a well-knoi-n citizen of Kendallville, while load! lg his revolver the other day. was instantly killed. The gun slipped from hi; hand, and. striking the floor, discharged, the bullet piercing his heart. William Mullins. who is wan ted at Richmond on & charge of forgery, was arrested the ether day and is now in jail. It has been about two ,aonths since it developed t£at Mull in’s financial dealings were not right, an l when it did develop it was found that he had disappeared and that no one knew of his whereabouts. His home is on a farm south of the city.' The .othermorning'two officers heard he was at home and about to leave for the south. They went to Westvillo, a way station, where Mullins got on, having walked across from his home. He was at once arrested. Mullins does not deny hi* guilt. He forged the name of his fath-er-in-law. Isaac Seaney. and the total amount of money standing against him is estimated at $2,500. Six prisoners awaiting trial for burglary and similar offenses escaped from jail at South Bend the other night. They sawed through the top of a cell and then let themselves down from the roof wfth ropes made from blankets. The escaped prisoners Are Bert and Will Anderson, Thomas Clark, John Hempenstall. William Cahill and

Thomas McHenry. J. W. Ckail, of Elwood, was awarded the contract for building eleven miles of free gravel road in Hobart township, the contract price being1 536,000. This will be the first free gravel ro*>d ever built in Lake county. At Tipton, in the damage «mit for $1,000 against the Pan Handle railroad for killing David Farren, the jury brought in a verdict for tL Emaxcel Bechtel, of Newcastle,was driving in a road wagon and leading a horse by a rope halter. He had the end of the rope twisted about the thumb of one hand and the horse, besoming flightened, gave a quick spring back* ward and jerked off the man’s thumb completely. The firm of S. F. Shumaker & Co., poultry dealers and wholesale growers, Bluff ton. assigned the other morning with C. H. Pessinger, of the Studebaker bank, assignee. It is estimated the assets are $13,000, with liabilities of $30,000. Powell Clark’s sawmill End tile j mill, at Selma, were destroyed by fire. Incendiarism. Loss, $5,000; insurance. $1,000. The farmhouse on Frederick A.Capp’* place, south of Rushville, burned and with it a large tool house containing many fanning implements. The tenant is Andrew Walls. Loss unknown; insured in the Rush 'bounty Farmers’ Insurance association. Ik state convention at Indiana,polls, a few days ago. the prohibitionists put a ticket in the field, beaded by Rev. K. 6house, of Terre Haute, for governor, and J. G., Kingsbuiy, of Indianapolis, far liantenaut crave: roar*

* A HYPNOTIC CRAZE ,

Xhkw Possession of the City of Huletoa, Pa., and Threatens Serious Results—The Somniferous Art Practiced by Many New Disciples, 3'tme of Whom Are Unable to Call Their Subjects Back to Conscious, ness. Hazleton, Pa., March 9.—A hyphotic craze has taken hold of the city and threatens to develop serious consequences. It is already alarming and has attracted the attention of the authorities. Dr. J. W. Cole has felt constrained to sound a warning through the newspapers, and Saturday Prof. Bierly found it necessary to issue an edict making any attempt among the pupils of the public schools to practice it sufficient cause for expul* sion. The city authorities are considering it, and the mayor is inclined to issue a proclamation making it punishable, by a fine or imprisonment to experiment. * Prof, and Mrs. Sage three weeks ago concluded a two-weeks' engagement in the opera house Kere, giving lectures on hypnotism afid practical illustrations with local subjects. Cfpwded houses greeted them each night during their stay and they took $3,0(K) away in: profits. The impression which they- created remained.’ Men and boys became students of hypnotism; and the feats that some of them have since performed excel even the professor's. Among the most prominent of the disciples is George Marlcle. He was one of the first to master the study, t He has exercised, the power in a medical way only, and some astonishing cures have been made by him. One case was that of Mrs. Reinhart, mother-in-law of William Dersliuek, an editor, who^ was taken home from & hospital pronounced incurable. She was suffering from abdominal trouble, and, being unable to retain anything she swallowed, was slowly starving to death. Mr. Markle, after placing her under the hypnotic spell, administered nourishment to her, and muder the treatment she lias since been able to take fod^wfc^patient at the State hospital, whoSplijjM resisted all efforts of the doctor^feeSpepd. was movad without any apparent difficulty after getting the rnviu under Markie's influence. Many otiwnr experiments°of like character have been made by him, but unfortunately all who have studied it do not confine their powers to acts of * beneficence. In the parlors, store rooms, schools and in the streets men and boys tied subjects susceptible to _Xh£<bf)duenee. It is not an uncommon thing to see a dozen men and boys moving half dazed along the streets, searching for an imaginary article said to be placed by the performer. William Gorman, a pupil at the public school, created the wduest alarm in the schoolroom Saturday while performing with several pupils*. One hoy was told that a snake was iu his shoe, and started thorough the rami yelling at the top of iiis %'oice, creating a pan ij in the building. l*rof. Bjerlv was obliged to issue N, edict prohibiting the amusement. In several instances the subjeet^*\have suffered seriously from the /<effects. Margaret Dolan, a waitress at a restaurant. was thrown into a stupor?* and when, the operator attempted to arouse her he was unable to do so. The several experts about the city were called, but despite their efforts the woman could not be revived anti she was left to sleep it off. Prof. Dutton, in the business college. in practicing on two pupils, was unable to revive ^them. and they remained 4u that state for four hours. The entire city has gyne daft, and leading citizens are discussing means to discourage the practice. A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION. Fifty Persons Injured in an Accident on a . * Scburbau Electric Line. St. Loris, March 9.—Nearly half a a hundred people were injured in a collision on the new electric car line just west of Kirkwood, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Four of themj will die. Two cars running in opposite directions, loaded with people, crashed into one another with terrific force on a curve. While no one was killed outright, at least four persons, including the two metormen, were fatally injured, 20 passengers either had lin^bs broken or \t*ere otherwise badly injured, and a still greater number were cut by splintered glass, and more or less bruised ty the shock of the collision. The accident appears to have been Caused by the disobedience of orders.,r ax

REAR-ADMIRAL WALKE fau«d Away at HU Home in the. City ot Brooklyn. BarfbKLYX, March 9.—Rear-Admiral Henry VValke, U. S. died yestcr* day afternoon at his Up me in this city. He had been suffering' since Tuesday last With a severe attack of the grip, but the immediate cause of death was heart failure. He was born on a plantation on the Lynn Haven river, Virginia, 88 years Ago. During the war of the rebellion he commanded the gunboats Taylor and Lexington. He was also at the battle of Fort Henry in charge of the gunboat CarondcleL Not one of the men aboard met with any accident. i For this piece of work the commander was honorably mentioned. In 1862, for his bravery he was made a captain; in 1S66| made a commodore and rear admiral in 187a He was retired in 1871. AN IMPRISONED BURGLAR bat Cscnped from the Penitentiary, Bees pt tired. Columbus, O., March 9.—George Thomas, of Cleveland, serving a firegear sentence for burglary and larejeny, escaped from the Ohio penitentiary yesterday afternoon, but was captured aud returned. He feigned insanity and has been in the insane department for some months. Taking advantage of the lax vigilance there, : he reached the yard apd by means ol a ; gas pipe scaled the walls and made far j Ul-rjT. ' ~ . !

THE NEW MOVEMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. Bfdji*gton Booth at Coops# Union—aS^st Enthusiastically Received - The HsiU ' Crowded to Its Utmost, »n«k Many Thousands Turned Array— V\ 111 Organize a Mission to tite Middle Classes. New York. March 9.—Mr. and Mrs. Baliington Booth addressed an immense audience at Cooper Union last night It was one of the largest gatherings ever held in the historic building. A few minutes after the doors, were opened there was not an. unoccupied seat in the hall,„and it is estimated ifcat five thousand men, womea and children were turned away. The stage was decorated with the national flag, and pictures of Washington. A large crayon portrait of Washington occupied the center of the stage. One, of the favorite hymns sung while tfie crowd- was waiting for Mr. and MrsT Ballington Booth to appeal was that containing the lines: “We never, never will give in; XiMre wotit, no we woat'v * At prwisely eight o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Booth appeared on the stage and. the immense audience fairly went wild, with enthusiasm. Hats, handkerchiefs, flags, canes and bonnets were waved ami those, present cheered and shouted for fully 15 minutes without, ceasing. During this procedure Mr. Booth stood with bowed head while Mrs. Booth knelt in prayer. Some one shouted: “Three cheers for our American commander.” Th** cheers were given and for another interval of ten minutes the crowd went fairly wild with enthusiasm. Cheer after cheer was given for Mr. and MrsBooth. .. Maj. Peter Glen then addressed the Audience as follows: “This is not a meeting where we have come together to talk about that which seems uppermost in everyone's mind. We*are here to have a purely spiritual meeting.” Mr. Booth then led in prayer, and at its conclusion he spoke as follows: “Mrs. Booth and myself have not come U> this gathering for the purpose of alluding to the recent sad events in our experience. “It is true that after deliberatethought, we have decided to inaugurate a new movement [Cheers.]. • Could it have been avoided, it would not have been thought of. Mrs. Booth and 1 received assurances from the people of the United States, fighting on behalf of Jesus Christ, that wa had done a work for which they were. rateful and would not quietly submit that we should retire to private? life and relinquish a field which is.the-, largest of any on tie globe; where there is not only v.o k for one Salvation army, but for a hundred. “We have resolved, to the best of our ability* to dp something to brijg over the middle or artisan classes to God.’ We do not intend to enter into any battle or strife with the Salvation army. We want no fight, neitherritual or verbal” ' : ■ “Don't believe it,” shouted a man in he audience. «. '"That is a brother,” replied Mr. Ijooth, who Continued his address by aying “we want to have a mission to ■each the ^passes. We have resolved that the consecration we shall make, shall be lasting.” Mr. Bgoth then spoke of consecration of the heart and mind in religion, and closed by saying: “I want to assure Mrs. Booth and those officers who have taken a stand by me, that by faith l see in the distant future a movement that- we will not regret hiving linked our names, with.” Mrs. ‘Booth spoke briefly and was cheered enthusiastically. She made no reference to the troubles in the? ranks of the army. ^ mm *? ■M ill ANOTHER CUBAN EXPEDITION Believed to Have Sailed' from I’hil*— 1 delphia Last Week. S V 1 Piulai»ei.puia. March 9.—Undis- : mayed by the failure of several expe- | ditions sent from this country to aid their struggling compatriots, the res:-' i; dent Unbans of the United States are •’ said to have fitted out and dispatched - f another vessel to Cuba. It Ls reported ‘ that this vessel- left here on Thursday ! last. ,; She took no munitions of war at i this point, but it is said that the arms ; and ammunition were transferred tc j her after she got to sea and beyond | the three-mile limit. Nothing definitej in relation to the vessel could be* { learned here. The local Cuban leaders would not talk about the expedition.

THREE YOUNG, TOUGHS Board a Train and Order “Hand* Fp”-Aa Unexpected Kecponse, and a Hatty Re~- | treat. ' . , . ‘ Jolikt, 111., March 9.—Three boys got on the Bock - Island train which, left Chicago at 10 p. m. at the station f known as the Chute, and created a disturbance which nearly coat one of them \ his life. As the first of the boys entered the car he shouted “hands up,”and instantly hands were up in all parts of the can* In the second seat from the door sat a genteman who carried a revolver,, and when his hand went np a pistol was in it. He fired point blank at the ; first of the would-be robbers, and with a yell the three boys ran out and. 1 jumped from the moving train. 1 The conductor thinks the affair was an escapade of three young tcugh3 of Joliet, and does not believe they in- | tended to rob anybody. PENNSYLVANIA MINERS (HU Ucaaitd aa Advance of Tea Cents. . p«r Ton. v' ’ , PHILUEPSBUBO, Pa., March 9.—At a miners7 meeting held at Cuba Switch, near this place, yesterday, resolutions, were adopted providing that a demand be made on the operators for an advance of ten cents a ton on and. after April I. A committee was appointed to confer with the miners in adjoining districts, so that a generaland siroaitanioua demand could be made as soon as possible apou all the* one ra tors.