Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 February 1897 — Page 2

$1wgUw®0untg|lron>mt XL Mcc. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, • - INDIANA. Til Westinghouse electric works of Pittsburgh, Pa., resumed, on the tth, on doable time. It had been operating on half time. Tbs German government has ordered the prosecution of several university professors who recently signed a declaration in favor of the striking dock laborers of Hamburg. Dm. Fsidjof Nansen, the Arctic explorer, was entertained at dinner, on the 6th, at the Savage dub of London, and elected an honorary life member of that organisation. The Paris Sollel says: England does not heed the vain protests of France, knowing that they will not be followed by results. Let us, therefore, utilize the territories which France already poesessss _ A bxvivaJ* of the iron and steel business was reported from Pittsburgh, Pa., on the *th, prices of steel billets having advanced about 25 cents within a week. Pig iron prides were also advancing. _ Jon before the adjournment of the house, on the 8th, the speaker appointed Messrs Grosvenor (rep., O.) and Richardson (dem., Tenn.) tellers on the part of the house to. canvaas the electoral vote.

Tax dynamite cruiser Vesuvius leu the League lalaud nary yard, on the 9th, to join the North Atlantic squadron. Sue was to bare departed one dny earlier, but a a* detained by the let in the Delaware river. Ixxokmatiox was received in Lon* don, on the loth, that the British Niger expedition had oaptured the town of Bida, the capital of the Fculah tribe. One officer was killed In the assault upon the town. Tax extensive St. Cloud sugar plantation, near Kissimmee. Ela., has been purchased by a syndicate of Cubans. The capacity of the sugar mill will be doubled at once, and 2,000 acres of cane will be planted next fall. Sxcxktabt LaaoxT has recommended to congress an appropriation of •5,000 for the care and maintenance of the building in Washington city in which Abraham Lincoln died and for the appointment of a custodian. Tax Nicaragua canal bill wae withdrawn from the senate, on the 10th, by Mr. Morgan (dem., Ala.) who haa had it in charge, with a notice that he wonld introduce it at the extra session of oongress and press it then to a gnal vote. It haa oome to light at Detroit, MlCh., that a Plug Tobacco trust, which contemplates the absolute coa* Irol of the plug tobacco output, la in aotlvc process of formation and may be sxpected to be in fall operation in a few weeks Txx Cuban committee of Italy held a meeting in Rome, on the 10th, and votfcd their approval of the action of the New York committee in rejecting the reforms offered to Cuba by the decree recently signed by the queen re* gent of Spain. Carr. Philo N. McGurrix. a former officer in the Chinese navy, who was [p command of the battleship Chen Yuen at the battle of the Yalu river. Committed suicide, on the 11th, in the Post Graduate hospital in New York dty, by shooting himself through the head. He was 34 years old.

Tu steamer Pelican, chartered by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., arrived at Victoria, B. C,, on the 8th, Irem Yokohama. A case of leprosy was found among the crew, lie will be detained ip quarantine until the outward vojragv of the Pelican when he will be returned to China. Tb« state department learned, on the Uth, that Correspondent bcovel must be tried at Sancli Spiritue, where he was arrested. The trial will be before a civil tribunal, and in ease an appeal is taken it will probably be heard at Havana This information is understood to be satisfactory to the officials. A dispatch from Havana, on the 8th, aaid: It is an open secret in the American consulate that the consul-general Is conducting some unsatisfactory correspondence with Washington. He thinks the state department is not hacking him up in his efforts to get jastice for American eitisens arrested and thrown into Spanish prisons BimJtn, or Weller, as he is variously known, who is under arrest la San ’Francisco, charged with many murders in Australia, was taken before Commissioner Hancock. on the 8th, for preliminary hearing on the applN cation for extradition. It was expected the hearing would consume several days Tut immigration bill aa amended by the conference committee and passed by the house of representatives, on the 8th, provides for the admission of Illiterate wives and children of male immigrants who themselves are eligible to admission. The educational test was changed so as to admit any male immigrant, otherwise qualified, who can read and write the English or some other language. lx the British house of commons, on the 18th, Mr. George J». Corson, parliamentary secretary to the foreign office, announced that the latest news received bj the government showing the situation hi Crete was that the Christians were the aggressors and were attacking the Moslems in many localities. ▲ large number of Maw lams, Mr. Onraon said, had beau killed pad It villacai had bMfiJffumed, ( .„ _

I FEBRUARY—1897. Tw. id. Th«r. Frl. Sit 4 t 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 17 18 19 20 ; 21 22 23 24 25 24 27 CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SMoad Session. Ik the mate, on the 8th. the An*lo-Ameri-can arbitration treaty occupied nearly the whole day In executive session. The bill creating a new Judicial district In Texas waa passed over the president's veto—$7 to I. In the house business relating to the District \ of Columbia occupied almost the entire session. The copies of the returns of the several states for presidential electors were laid before the house- The second agreement of the conferees on the immigration bill was presented. after which the house adjeurned. In the senate, on the Kh, a concurrent resolution withdrawing from the president a bill passed by both bouses In relation to the Umber culture law was passed. A Joint resolution was offered and referred looking to the payment of some I57.UOO in employes of the ! government printing office for lenve of absence which they did not have since 1887. Most of the session was taken up la executive sessiot\ In consideration of the arbitration treaty. In the bouse two pension bills to soldiers' I widows who had remarried and lost their second husbands were passed over the president's veto. The conference report on the Immigration bill was agreed to—217 to 87. Several minor bills were passed. Is the senate, on the 10th. Mr. Tillman's bill “amplifying und classifying" the existing law as to the right of state authorities to seize intoxicating liquors brought into the state was considered. It was strenuously opposed and went over without action. The senate as a body withdrew to meet In the house of representatives to witness the counting of the electoral vote. Arterward the Nicaragua canal bill came up and was withdrawn. The agricultural hill was taken up and passed.In

the house the fortificstioas end the post office Appropriation bills were reported and placed on the calendar. The house then joined with the senate In witnessing the count of the electoral vote for president and rice-president of the United Suites for the terth beginning March 4.1897. and after the announcement of the result adjourned. Is the senate, on the llth, the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, carrying an aggregate of ♦ 1,096.308, was passed. An agreement was reached to hare tbe rote on the conference report on the Immigration bill taken up at 4 p. m. of the 17th. The arbitration treaty was further considered In executive session_In. the house the bill providing for the refunding of the bonded indebtedness of the several territories was amended and. passed. The sundry civil appropriations bill was 'reported from committee and placed on the calendar. Tha committee report on the contested election case from the Tenth Georgia district In favor of Mr. Blaok. was made, and the poet office appropriation bill was taken up In oommlitee of the whole and discussed for an hour without action. IK the senate, on the 13th, a joint resolution was introduced dee is ring the Clay ton-Bui wer treaty abrogated. A Joist resolution appropriating 16.0 0 for the expenses of the senate for the inauguration ceremony was passed, as was a resolution, offered by Mr. Hill, directing the secretary of state to use his good offices | with the Spanish gevernment to have Sylvester Scovel, the American newspaper correspondent reoently arrested In Cuba, removed to Havana for his better protection by the United States consul-general. The arbitration treaty was taken up In executive session ...In tha house the post office appropriation bill was passed, and the sundry civil appropriations bill was taken up and its first reading begun. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Sio. Galileo Fxrrarib, a member of the Italian senate and an electrician of note, died In Paris on the 7th. FntB damaged one of the wings of the house of refuge on Randall’s island, N. Y., on the 9th, to the extent of 86,000. When the fire broke out over 800 children of both sexes were in the building. They were safely removed to another building, and no casualties occurred.

George Davies, commission merchant, wAs shot and instantly killed by his wife at their home in Cleveland, O., on the 9th. The shooting was the result of one of many family quarrels. The family are prominent. Mbs. Rebecca Mitchell, of Idaho Tails, president of the Idaho Woman’s Christian Temperance union, Iwas, on the 9th, elected chaplain of the Idaho state legislature, an unusual honor for a woman. Jobs Quntcr Adams Herring, of Baltimore, McL. the oldest managing director of the Adams Express Co.,died suddenly in the Holland house, New York, on the 9th. of heart failure. He was 72 years old. 6xnor Thomas Micuklxsa, who wa Venezuelan minister at London when diplomatic relations were severed, flatly accuses Lord Salisbury and Secretary of State Olney of conspiring to render void the report of the high commission which President Cleveland appointed a year ago to investigate the boundary question. AMU Good ell, of Salem, Mass., Celebrated the ninety-second anniversary of hia birth on the 9th. He has been noted for his inventions, having built the first cracker machine, a machine to shave out keg stock and the first printing press to print both sides of a sheet at once. A report is current that it is President Cleveland's Intention, immediately after the inauguration of his successor, to start on a trip around the world in a strictly private ;capaclar the deatruetion by fire, on the 10th, of a small frame cottage in Springwella, Mich., occupied by the family of Stephen Rogniski. a two-year-old child was burned to death and Mary Rogniski, aged ll years, was fatally burned. Five other members of the family were also more or leas seriously burned. Tax Bankers’ Exchange bank, of Minneapolis, Minn., closed its doors on the 10th. If dosed some weeks before, but resnmed in a few days. Its last statement was dated December M. 1890. It ahowed deposits of *61,000; capital, fMtOQQi loans and discounts. •tttOOfc _ _

Tn TOO employes of the Me Beth lamp-chimney factory at Elwood, Ini, walked out, cm the 10th, on acoount of a difference with the company. The safe in the Clear held (fa.) poet offioe was blown open, early on the morning of {he 10th, and $1,000 worth ofetamps and $300 in cash were stolen. A hole was drilled through the top of the safe, and the door was blown off and landed across the room. The board of trustees of Washington and Lee university met in Lexington, Va., on the 11th, and unanimously elected Uon. Wm. L. Wilson, postmaster general, president of the university. It is said ^that a committee from the board visited Mr. Wilson soon after the resignation of President Lee and that he expressed himself as being willing to accept the position. He will enter upon the duties as president July L

Senator Pettigrew (sil., N. D.), on the 11th, introduced a resolution, which went over, directing' the senate committee on public lands to investigate, by sub-committee or otherwise, the issue of a patent in the Perrine land grant in the state of Florida. This is the patent issued to President Cleveland's father-in-law. Ltxax J. Gage has severed his connection with the First national bank of Chicago, of whioh he had been president, his resignation being tendered to the board of directors at a meeting held on the 11th. Spences Ervin, a well-known stock broker of Philadelphia, died at the Hotel Aidine, where he resided, on the 11th. He had been ill of pneumonia. Mr. Ervin was senior member of the firm of Spencer, Ervin & Co. On the 11th Cbauncey M. Depew was unanimously elected chairman of the board of control of the Joint Traffic association. THE«Grecian government has formulated a notification to the powers setting forth that Greece cannot remain a mere spectator of the events which are taking place in Crete, and that the ties of race and religion compel her to intervene in behalf of the oppressed and outraged Christians in that island. * Mbs. Jane L. Stanford has surprised the trustees of Stanford university by anuouncing that she had made a deed'of feift to the university, to take effect at her death, of the fine Stanford mansion on Nob Hill, in San Francisco, with all its furnishings, paintings and other art works, the whole valued at Si,000,000. The house is the finest ever built in California. The price of steel rails advanced a little at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 12th, ranging bet ween $17 and SIS. Count Yon Wolkenstein Trosbbro, brother of the Austrian ambassador to France, committed suicide in Vienna, on the 11th, by shooting himself with a revolver. A heavy snowstorm, interspersed j with hail and rain, prevailed all over j Pennsylvania on the 12th. In tbs | mountain regions the snow was ten inches deep, and at Harrisburg there was five inches on the level. Fire, on the 12th, caused a loss of 9100,000 in the bnilding 172 and 174 Madison street Chicago; well covered by insurance. A boiler in the coal mine of Lee & Vestal, in Weathersfield township, near Youngstown, O., exploded, on ! the 11th, killing Joseph Willock and fatally scalding Louis Kyle. The president, on the 12th, sent to the senate the nomination of Carroll ! D. Wright, of Massachusetts, to be commissioner of labor—a reappointment.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Is the senate, on the 13th, a joint resolution was passed to have a naval vessel placed at the disposal of the San Francisco chamber of commerce to transport wheat and corn contributed by western states for the relief of the famine-stricken poor of India. A resolution was agreed to directing inquiry into the Perrine land grant iu Florida. The seuate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty_In the house the session was consumed in a discussion of the sundry civil appropriations bill,and in criticism, of the supreme court for its decision on the income tax feature of the Wilson tariff bill, and the failure of the administration to respond to the sentiment of the country on the Cuban question. In an article on the situation in Crete, the Paris Gaulois says that the king of Greece, when in Paris in November last, gave the government to understand that his further resistance to the aspirations of the people of Greece was impossible, and he was, therefore, compelled to seek closer relations with Austria and Great Britain, the disposition of ’ Russia being unfriendly. The building occupied by the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post was burned, on the J4th, causing a loss of $9t),000. The printing presses, one valued at S25.0U0 and the other at $10,000, were badly damaged. Ten type-setting machines, valued at 830.000, were ruined. The Post's loss will probably reach 870,000; covered by insurance. The weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 13th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $7,901,8:5; loans, increase, 87.845,100; specie, increase, 8638,000; legal tenders, decrease. 83,756,500; deposits, decrease, 8886,700; circulation, decrease. 864.000. Admibal Bcxce's squadron suspended their warlike work, on the 14th, and observed Sunday in regulation fashion. Episcopal service was held on the flagship New York, Catholic service on the Maine and general services, including other denominations, were celebrated on the Columbia. The porta has informed the powers that Turkey will attack Greece in Thessaly in the event of the powers’ failing to restrain hostile action on the part of Greece in Crete. Ox the 13th the banks of New York city held 831,650^235 in excess of the requirements of the 35-per-cent. rale. _a_ _

INDIANA STATE NEWS. U|WtU>e Pro«Mdti|ii Indianapolis. 1b<L. Feb 4—Ssnatb.Gct. Mount Wednesday sent his first veto message to the legislature. The same message covered two hills that he had vetoed, oae (or the creation of a superior court in Grant | County, and the other for the division of How- • ard and Tipton counties into separate judicial circuits. The three counties named are contiguous counties, and there was considerable opposition from Tipton county to the erection of a separate circuit The governor suggests that instead ot j creating two new courts, a bill j be passed creating the superior circuit court in Grant and Howard counties, which he be- j lieves would bring all the relief required in j the litigation of these two counties The governor also suggests that the judiciary of the state is sadly in need of revision, and he believes that the judicial circuits might be so | reformed as to give all needed relief with a reduction of the present number of circuits The house sustained the governor by a heavy vote. The house indulged in a long discus- j sion over a seven per cent, usury bill, which j came up on an adverse committee report, i and the bill was saved Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 5.—Szhatb—The senate Thursday passed a bill regulating the building of partition fences and one appropriating 18.068 for Chlcamauga park, which has | also passed the house. It also amended the j tsw of weights and measures, and refused to ] pass the Duncsn court bill, providing for sep- I arate circuits in Bartholomew and Shelby, j and one for Johnson and Brown counties. | There was no effort to save it in the face of ; the governor's vetoes sent to the house Wed- j

nesday. House—The house rot huffy Thursday morn* Inc on the return of the cigarette bill passed by it. Mr. Nicholson offered a resolution, that was-adopted, to investigate the^nattcr. The legislative apportionment measure^as adopted by the republican caucus, came in with two reports, the minority offered by the democrats. There was no discussion, and the vote not to concur in the latter was of no significance, except to .show that Mr. Butler supported the majority under protest. The bill will receive^ the solid republican vote on its passage. The house passed bills to prohibit the killing of quail and grouse for the market, and exposing them for sale: for the collection ot attorneys' fees in suits for wages, to prevent the clipping of horses la winter: providing that in the absence of Mpf circuit judge from the bench the judge of the adjoining circuit snail have jurisdiction Indianapolis. Ind, Feh. 4— Undoubtedly the strangest bill that has ever passed the general assembly of Indiana was passed by the housg Friday afternoon It enacts in%> a law a mathematical discovery made by Dr Goodwin, of Posey county, being- a method of computing the area of circles. The bill in its first sections reads ,thus: • “Be it enacted by tbe general assembly of tbe state of Indiana. That it has been found that a circular area is to the square on a linear equal to the quadrant of the circumference as the area of an equilateral rectangle is to the square on one side. The diameter employed as a lineal unit, according to the present rule in computing the circle’s area. Is entirely wrong, as it represent's the circle’s area and one-fifth times the area of a square whose perimeter U equal to the circumference of the circle. This is because one-fifth ot the diameter fails to be represented four times in the circle’s circumference For example. If we multiply the perimeter ot a square by one-fourth of any line one-fifth greater than one side, we can. in like manner, make the. square’s area to appear one-fifth greater than the fact, as is done by taking the diameter for the linear unit instead of the quadrant for the circle’s circumference ” Indianapolis. Ind, Feb. &—Senate—No session Saturday. House—Saturday was spent upon second readings, and in tbe course ot them a bill compelling people to build partition fences whether they wanted to or not was killed, and another, requiring township trustees to furnish work fsr everybody, was recommitted A number of bills went by the board on committee reports, among them two of the anti-trust measures that hurt been introduced in the bouse, but there are p’enty of the same kind left This was the day upon which the officers of the Vandalia road were required, under the provisions ot the bill passed two weeks ago, to render an accounting to the state ot the operations of the company during a period from 1347 to (B73. while it operated under a special charter, nhe officers of the road have paid no attention whatever to the demand. Indianapolis. Fed a—The fight over the legislative apportionment wvg postponed in the house till Wednesday by the republicans Monday. The leaders of tbe majority are still opposed to amending the bill so as to give Lagrange and Steuben separate representatives Senator Duncan's bill authorizing boards of county commissioners to vote aid to educational institutions was passed. Tbe bouse passed Mr. Wair'»blll for the recall of the special verdict law of 185>i The Fornshell bill, imposing heavy penalties tor weariaa high hats in theaters, was defeated by a heavy

TOW. Indianapolis, led.. Feb. 10 —The senate Tuesday passed Senator Hugg’s bill, changing the rule of evidence in damage suits as to contributory negligence The bill shifts the burden of proof from complainant to defendant Senator Holler’s intermediate prison or reformatory bill was defeated.but a motion j to reconsider that action is pending The ] Nusbaum bill, providing that county com- j missioners ahall aiiovr no claim, and issue no Warrant except at a regular or special meet, was passed, as was that of Senator Johnson against the adulteration of food and drugs > Hocsx—The house passed the Goddard bill, providing how county commissioners shall proceed in regrrd to building bridges across county boundaries. The Blankenship bill, relative to the issuance of capiases by justices of the peace on affidavit of plalniUf.and his giving bond, was also passed, as was one by the same author amending the law of libel by abrogating the rule requiring justification to be supported by proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and applying the rules that- control evidence in mil civil •auses. The senate bill, relative to the construction of toll roads, was sent back to the committee Lambert's bill to abolish convict labor for the market and provide for the manufacture by prisoners of supplies needed by state institutions, was defeated. Under suspension of the rules the East bill, in regard to appeals to the appellate and supreme i courts, providing that notice shall be served upon attorneys of record, and not upon the parties to suits, was passed. The Reynolds ! bill to prohibit the teaching of German in the public schools, was defeated Thos. Tract, of Benton countj, died recently. His will was admitted to probate the other day. It gives his property, valued at $25,000, to Jane Herron, a domestic in the family, as a reward for her faithfulness. Thr jury in the case of Mrs. Mort McAff vs. the City of Bluffton, tried in the Adams county court, gave the plaintiff $1,500 damages for injuries caused by a defective sidewalk. In a previous trial she was awarded $400, ! but the supreme oourt reversed the de- ■ eision. Mx hundred glass workers employed by the Lippencott Glass Co., Alexandria. went on a strike because of the discharge of one of the men. At Greencastle, Thomas Ash, Jefferson Rynearson and Edna Rynearson have been arrested on the charge of counterfeiting. Thk Fornshell bill, imposing a heavy penalty for wearing high hats in theaters, has been defeated. # Fire destroyed the large general store of J. W. Pringle at Mahal as ville. near Martinsville, causing a loss of $3,500 on stock and building. The building belongs to W. W. Da via Small Mirage; but half insured. ;

A REIGN OF TERROR la tb* Counties of NeXtaui sad Mooroo> Teuneisee, Ceased by Deeds of LswIsmdsm by Desperadoes who for Mod tbs Hove Been Robbing end Murdering Poo* pie end Destroying Property—Portions of Three States Terrorised. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 14.—Almost s reign of terror prevails in the adjoining counties of McMinn and Monroe in east Tennessee. This state of things has been brought about by the lawless deeds of several desperate characters who have been robbing and murdering people and destroying property with impunity for months. When pursued in Tennessee, the outlaws cross the line into North Carolina and, hidden in the al most inaccessible mountains of Upper Tennessee and North Carolina, defy arrest. The ringleader of this desperate band is Richard Derrick, who was arrested last fall for the murder of United States Deputy Marshal Lumsteel at White Cliff Springs, but broke jail at Athens, Tenn., and has since terrorized the mountain counties of three states. They were recently followed by a posse of Tennessee officers into Kentucky. A reward of $2,000 was offered by the North Carolina officers for Derrick’s capture and a price has been also put on his head in several j Tennessee counties. Fuel to the fire was added a few months ago by the fearful stabbing of Taylor Miller, a prosperous farmer, by George Jack, since which deadly feuds resulting in many bloody en- | counters have existed between the i Miller and Jack factions. Several ; persons have been shot from ambush j and farm houses fired into. As a con- j sequence the citizens of McMinn and Monroe counties have organized into ; a vigilance society to protect their j

homes. Last night Sheriff Burke left Athens, j the county seat of McMinn, with ten deputies, heavily armed, in search of; Derrick and his raiders. At a farm I house they were halted by a party of men with guns concealed behind <fa fence. They proved to be farmers on the lookout for trouble witn some of the Miller faction, who had threatened the owner of the farm house. Pfeople are afraid to leave their homes at night, and most of the farmers go armed. A DESPERADO CAPTURED. itetrajred by HU Brother, Who Says He was an l'u willing Accomplice to Many Crimes. Denver, Col., Feb. 15.—Harry Davis, a member of a Stratton gang of robbers, wanted in North Baltimore, 0., for the murder of Night Watchman Joseph Baker, on the 21st of la&t June, was arrested here Saturday, having been betrayed by his brother. ■> Davis was not one of the original Stratton gang, but was admitted after the first breaking up of the outfit by the arrest and imprisonment of several members, liis qualities of toughness and his expertness in all kinds of crime led Bob Curry and Doc Lee, two of the men who had escaped incarceration for a long period, to pick him up. They were operating, through Ohio and oue night tried to rob the post office at North Baltimore. ' Discovered by Officer Baker, they killed him in'attempting to escape. The three were taken to the Toledo jail, whence Lee and Curry were sent last December, to the Ohio penitentiary for life, but Davis had previously bribed twc of the guards and was allowed to escape November 11. Going to Cincinnati he was joined by his brother Gus, and the two went through Tennessee, Alabama, Texas and into Mexico, thee back into Arkansas and up into Colo

rado. The brothers arrived here last Monday and engaged a room in Arapahoe street. Saturday afternoon Gus, who is a mere lad of 20, quarreled with Harry and, fearing violence at the hands ol his brother, decided to betray him tc the police, and he was promptly placed under arrest. The Ohio authorities have been notified of the capture and he will be re* turned to Toiedo'at an early day. A BIG JAIL DELIVERY Frustrated by the Sheriff on Information Furnished by a Trusty. CoLtrMBCS, 0., Feb. J5.—A jail delivery, by which 65 prisoners confined in the Franklin county jail here were to have been liberated yesterday afternoon, was discovered just in time to prevent it, through the friendliness of a trusty prisoner who bad been taken into the plan. All the prisoners are released from tjieir cells on Sunday afternoon and allowed to go to the chapel on the third floor. It was arranged that as soon as they were released yesterday they should overpower Wm. Shockley, the turnkey, take his keys, and, after letting themselves out, lock him and Deputy Sheriff Ed Phelan la. Among the prisoners are some noted criminals, such as Si Morris, burglar, the members of the McVey gang of highway robbers, and J. W. Stiles, murderer. Sheriff Young had a large force of deputies on hand when the prisoners were released, and going out on the balustrade he told the prisoners that they could make their break now if they wanted to. Jim Anderson, the leader in the gang, announced that he was ready to make the break if he could get anyoce to second him. None volunteered, however. WENT AFTER DUCKS AGAIN. The President Spends n Day Among the Blinds Near Wide Water, Ya. Wide Water, Va.. Feb. II.—The lighthouse steamer Maple dropped anchor off Wide Water station, Richmond, Fredericksburg A Potomac railroad, at 3:30 a. m., with President Cleveland and CoL Lambert on board. The president came to shoot ducks from the blinds off the famous Arkedale farm, three miles south of Wide Water. The pres ident and party went immediately to the blinds and commenced shooting.

SITUATION IN CRETE. \ _ . , United Efforts of the Powers Lockring to Pacification. A Turkish Transport; litstwptxl-Orsolsu. Arm; Reserves Called Out—Infantry* Artillery and Engineers Em* barked at Ferae as for Crete. Turkish Transport Intercepted and Ordered Back by a Ureek War Ship. Athens, Feb. 15.—Advices have beenj received here giving details of thoj detention at Candia of a Turkish) vessel by a Greek war ship. The ves-j sel, which was stopped and compelled: to return to her anchorage, wasi-, the Turkish transport Faud, bound for Canea with munitions for the besieged garrison t at that place. As the Faud moved from her anchorage and started to leave the harbor, the Greek war ship headed in snch a direction as to intercept her and ordered her to stop. No attention being paid to this order the Greek vessel fired two shots across the Fuad’s bows, and the transport, being unarmed, put about and returned to her moorings. It is reported that the commander of the British fleet protested against the action of the Greeks and ordered the vessels of that nation to make no further attacks upoix the Turks.

Prince Ceorge Turui Back. Canea, Crete, Feb. 1 5.—Prince George of Greece, who arrived her© on February 12 in command of the Greek flotilla, after receiving visits from the commanders of the foreign war ships, returned to Milo. It is reported that the Beins of Canea have requested the commanders of the foreign war ships here to land men from their vessels to occupy the city. The intense excitement which has prevailed hefo recently has not stall abated. ' V . Reserve* Called Out. Athens, Feb. 15.—The army reserves of 1893 and 1894 have been called oat and ordered to hold themselves in readiness to join their colors at. 48*hours* notice. A number of detachments of infanttry, artillery and engineers have embarked at Piraeus for Crete. Their departure was attended with great enthusiasm. A Graceo.Turktsh War Imminent. London, Feb. 15.-The London papers, concur in the opinion that a G.aeeoTurkish war is imminent. The Liberals implore the government not to impede the action of Greece in any way while the more moderate journals urge the powers to occupy Crete and to decide the ultimate destiny of the island when matters shall have become more quiet. The Standard declares that the Powers may pacify Crete since they have decided to restrain Greece and Turkey. Gladstone Favors Greece. London, Feb. 15.—Mr. Gladstone yesterday telegraphed to the Daily Chronicle the following message: “I do not dare to stimulate Greece when I cannot help her, but I shall profoundly rejoice at her success. 1 hope the Powers will recollect that they have their own character to redeem. ” CRITICAL SITUATION AT CRETE,

Though Sensibly Improved by Orders from Athens and Constantinople. New York, Feb. 14.— A special dispatch to the Journal from London says: The last 24 hoars have sensibly changed the European situation for the better, and it is clear that unless Greece intends to openly -flout the Powers there will be peace, at any rate for the present. The Greek torpedo boat flotilla, under .Prince George, arrived at Canea last night, but so did orders to the commanders of the respective foreign squadrons to hinder all naval action by Greece in view of the fact that the sultan had abandoned, also under pressua, the idea of sending reinforce* tnents to the island. The situation is, of course, still: critical, as the merest accident may precipitate an explosion. It is stated that the insurgents are landing arms aud munitions in the most approved style of Cubau sympathizers. All the Powers are strength* ening their naval squadrons in Cretan waters, but everything now depends, in the first place, on whether Greeee is going to obey the Powers, and in the next, on what the latter are going to do if she declines. At present no* body knows, not even the Powers themselves. The diplomats at Constantinople have accepted Great Britain’s proposal for a Joint naval occupation of Canea, Retime and Heraklion, the removal from Cretan waters of the Greek fleet and the forbiddance of the dispatch to Crete of Turkish reinforcements, and it is thought probable that the orders of the French and Russian ad* mirals are in accord with the pro* gramme. The refugees who sought shelter at the Greek consulate have been placed under the protection of the British ■ consul. The Greek consul at Heraklion embarked on one of the warshipa after requesting the British consul to protect the Greek subjects there. GLASS WORKERS’ STRIKE At the McBcth Factory, Eiwsod, lad.. Ended by Agreement. Eewood, Ind., Feh. 15.—The strike of the glass workers at the Me Beth factory ended Saturday night by the men agreeing to return, to work today and allow the court of appeals, composed of tvro manufacturers aud two workers, which meets in this city Wednesday, to settle the differences. The difficulties which caused the walk* out have been pending for three years. President Smith of the glass workers’ association has gene to Pittsburgh.