Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1900 — Page 6

®kf §ttke Sowtttj) K. 1K«0. noon, linor »< P»nrt»«» PETERSBURG, i INDIANA, The conference report on the army appropriation bill was adopted by the bouse on the 22d. Kain has quenched the forest fires north and west of Menominee, Wis., and most of the danger is now passed. R. G. Dun & Co. reported on the 25th: “Failures for the week hare been 185 in the United Sts,tee, against 142 last year, and 20 in Canada, against 16 last year.** Signor Guiseppe del Puente, the widely-known baritone, died suddenly, on the 25th, at his home in Philadelphia. Death was due to apoplexy. He was 60 years old. The last drawingroom of this sea* son was held, on the 25th, at Buckingham palace by the princess ol Wales, in behalf of the queen. The ^presentations included a number of Americans. The house committee on the Louisiana Purchase exposition, to be held at * St. Louis in 1903, voted, on the 24th, to report the exposition bill to the house * ithout recommendation, favorable or unfavorable. The official announcement of the relief of Mafeking was received at the London war office, on the 21st, from Gen. Lord Roberts. The town was actually relieved on the 17th, the date previously named. Resolutions expressive of the cordial relations between the United States and France have been agreed upon by the house committee on foreign affairs in connection with the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at Paris on July 4 next. The report of the anti-canteen bill was filed in the house on. the 24th. It submits the voluminous correspondence from the war department opposing the abolition of the canteen, and without comment submits a favorable lecommendation on the bill.

The Chinese ministers at Washing1 ton and London have been ordered *o retain their posts for some time longer on the recommendation of Li Hung Chang, who pointed out the undersirability of changing the representatives of China at the posts mentioned while many unsettled questions were pending. The National Conference of Charities and Corrections, at Topeka, Kas., on the 23d, was devoted to the consideration of the care of the feeble-mind-ed and epileptics. F. W. Powell, of Glenwood, la., gave the report of the standing committee on the subject, which was generally discussed by the visitors. It has been discovered that 18,000 aores of land in Atchison, Brown, Jackson and Marshall counties, Kansas, and in Pawnee county, Nebraska, recently advertised for sale at auction at the courthouse in Atchison, by the receivers of the Central branch of the Union Pacific railroad, are claimed by private individuals. Many scientists are arriving at Madrid, Spain, to observe the eclipse. , A party of English astronomers has selected Santa Pola, Province of Alicante, as an observation point. Sir Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, of the British nautical observatory, and his associates have gone to Pla^zencia, Province of Caceres. 1 The convention of the Western Federation of Miners at Denver, Col., on the 23d, adopted strong resolutions on the 22d, adopted strong resolutions on the subject of Japanese immigration, demanding the strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act and its extension to include all other Mongolian and Malayan peoples.

The state department dees not expect to have any further communication with the Boer delegation. Such interchange as has occurred was purely unofficial, it is stated. If the Boer delegates had any credentials of an official status they failed to present or even offer them in the course of their talks with the officials. The McLain case, in which five prominent Chicago board of trade brokers were charged with using the mails to carry on a bucketehopping scheme to defraud their customers, was taken from #ie jury by Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States district court, on the 22d, and a verdict of “not guilty” en« tied for the defendants. A movement is on foot for the establishment of an American National institute in Paris for use of Americana visiting <hat city for study. The French authorities have donated a site and given exemption from taxation to the building. Senator Chauncey M. JJepew heads the list of prominent persons petitioning for the building, , which will require, a government appropriation Of $250,000. The American jurors appointed for the Paris ^expositio n number 85. Sixty ©f them, now in Paris, held a meeting, on the 23d, and discussed theii duties. They afterward attended the general assembly of jurors of all nations at the Palias du Trocadero, at which 1,800 jurors were present. M. Millerand, the minister of commerce who presided, welcomed them, and M. Picard, the director general of the exposition, read the rules for adjudication.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Source*. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. _ In the senate, on the Slat, a resolufron altered by Mr. Allen (pop., Neb.), extending to the Boer peace commissioners the privileges of the floor of the senate during their sojourn In Washington, wax defeated, after a sharp debate, by a vote of 36 to 21. The post office appropriation hill was passed finally, the amendment to appropriate J225.000 to carry out existing contracts tor the pneumatic tube service, being agreed to.In the house, under suspension of the rules, a bill to extend the eight-hour law to all laborers employed on contract on government work, was passed, as was the bill to prohibit interstate traffic In prison-made goods, by bringing them under '.he police powers of the state. In the senate, on the 23d, after a number of minor matters had been disposed of. Mr. Spooner (Wls.) made a notable speech in favor of his bill providing that upon the suppression of the insurrection In the Philippines, the government of the Islands shall devolve upon the president until such time as congress may direct otherwise......In the house almost the entire day was devoted to the Alaskan civil.. government bill, 24 pages being disposed of. The conference report on the army appropriation bill was adopted. An invitation to the members of the house to attend the tenth session of the Inter-parlia-mentary union, at Paris, July 31, was read. In the senate, on the 23d, politics and orator}' occupied most of the session. Mr. Platt (Conn.) spoke in answer to the speech delivered a few days before by Mr. Bacon on his resolution demanding an investigation of official financial affairs in Cuba. Mr. Spooner (Wis.), continuing his speech of the day before, addressed the senate on the financial question, without completing his address.In the house the extradition bill was passed without division. The house also adopted the reaction to allow the committee on ways and mepns to sit during the recess of congress for the purpose of framing a bill for the reduction of the war revenues and the resolution for a sine die adjournment June 6. In the senate, on the 24th, the duty of the United States towards its •‘Island possessions” was the subject of a heated discussion, precipitated by a speech of Mr. Bacon (Ga.). The remainder of the afternoon was occupied by the speech of Mr. Spoorer (Wls.) on the Philippine question, and the political debate which grew cut of it.In the house the Alaskan civil government bill was under consideration for eight hours, but little progress was made. An amendment was adopted, authorising the secretary of war to issue permits to excavate or dredge for gold oetow low water mark on the beach at Cane Nome. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted. In the senate, on the 25th, discussion of the Spooner Philippine bill was continued. Mr. Morgan advocating the general ownership and the government by the United States of the islands, but opposing the pending bill as dangerous, because plat- | ing too much power in the hands of the president. He said the bill was being used as a foil to prevent the passage by this congress of the Nicaragua canal bill...4.. In the house two hours were devoted to the further consideration of the Alaskan civil government bill. The session from noon until adjournment was devoted, under the rule, to private pension bills, 190 of which were favorably acted upon, but their passage was blocked by the point if no quorum/_

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. N The senate, on the 24th, passed a bill for the investigation of the historical ti chives and public records of the states and territories of the United States, with a view to their preservation by publication. A gaily-decorated train of 21 cars left Topeka, Kas., over the Bock Island road, on the 24th, carrying 20,000 bushels of corn for the famine sufferers of India. The trial of Dullman, Nolan and Walsh, charged with attempting to destroy Lock No. 24 of the Welland canal, was begun at Welland, OnL, on the 24th. The special World’s fair comrtBtee, on the 24th, by a vote of 4 to 2, agreed to report to the house, without recommendation, the bill providing for governmental co-operation in the Louisiana Purchase celebration at St. Louis in 1903. The fate of the measure now is in the keeping of Speaker Henderson, and he is known to be opposed to it. Price. McCormick & Co., one of the largest brokerage houses in New York, failed, on the 24th, with liabilities estimated at $13,000,000. The firm is a member of the stock, cotton and "produce exchanges and of the Chicago stock exchange, and has branch offices in about thirty cities throughout the United States. South Africa has another menace. An extra, issue of the Gazette at Durban, on the 25th, hnounced the death of an East Indian from the bubonic plague. The government has put into force the most stringent preventive measures, but fears are expressed that the pestilence may get among the troops.

a sueiexon, wixn xne skuii crusnea, was discovered in the cellar of an abandoned place known as the Viera house, two miles west of Macedonia, 0. Tradition had it that a murder occurred in the tavern many years ago, when the place was the property of one Dorsey Viers. Jn the Methodist general conference, on the 24th, Homer Eaton and George 1" Mains were re-elected as agents of tfce Book Concern at New Yqjrk, A. C. Jennings, at Cincinnati, and Samuel H Pye, at Chicago. Mr. Pye for many ycers managed the agency at St. Uouis. Oklahoma will this year take her place among the great fruit producing sections of the country. StrawbeHies have been shipped in large quantities, several hundred bushels a day going from Guthrie alone. Cherry shipments to all the leading cities of the north began on the 24th. Nearly 1,000 men were thrown out of work when, at noon, on the 24th, the converter and billet mills of the Illinois Steel Co., at Joliet, were closed for an indefinite period. Only the blast furnaces and merchant mills are now mnning. By the explosion of a boiler in the sawmill of Capt. James A. McFerrin, at jinrleston, Tenn., on the 24th, six persons were killed. Capt. McFerrin himself, the proprietor, aged 65 years, formerly in the internal revenue service. is among the dead. His body was thrown 150 feet, Ampng the mass of dispatches indi: eating the approach of the war’s end In South Africa, is the intelligence that a referendum is in progress among the Boer fighting men to decide whether the war shall be continued.

Go*. Beckham of Kentucky, on the 2‘«k, Issued to Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn his commission as United States senator to succeed William Lindsay. The : commission is a certificate of election by the last legislature on January a for the term beginning in March, 1901. The apartments of Mrs. F. M. Betts, wife of a well-known physician at 1532 Court place, Denver, Col., were entered by a burglar, on the 25th, and diamonds and other jewelry valued at $7,000 were stolen. Roy Brock, a young man living in the house, was arrested on suspicion, but none of the stolen articles have been recovered. A dispatch from Georgetown, British Guiaiia, on the 25th, said that a steamer, with three convoys, was carried over a cataract in the Potara river, British Guiana, 40 lives being lost. The vault of the Bank of Dover. Minn., was blown open by burglars, oa the night of the 24th. and $4,500 taken. The burglars escaped. Eleven thousand additional troop* will be sent to South Africa from Fng land during June. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Capt. Page McCarty, who figured in the famous duel, at Richmond, Ya., with Mr. Mordecai, in which the latter was killed and the former terribly wounded, died at Richmond on the 25th. This duel, which took place in the spring of 1873, was one of the most noted affairs of honor that has taken place since the war. On the night of the 25th, an unknown priest descended the elevator at the Niagara whirlpool rapids and, after having his picture taken, walked out on a rock, threw his hat and cane back of1 him, and, waving his. right hand dramatically, shouted “Good-by” and leaped into the rushing waters. Thomas Flynn died,, on the night of the 25th, at Haverstraw, N. Y., after having lived six years over the century mark. Flynn was born in Waterfoid, Ireland, in July, 1794, and came to America , in ft22. He retained all his faculties, exeeept his eyesight, which he lost at the Chicago fire. Charles Bartley, a real estate dealer, of Chicago, and owner of considerable property in Toledo, O., attempted to assassinate his stepfather, R. A. Bartley, at the latter’s home, in Toledo, on the night of the 25th. The two had quarreled over money matters. , • 1,1!_ T__haw.

.Hid* xat**** WVCV.J/** * — ' - self in front of a Northwestern train running at the rate of 55 miles an hour in West Maywood, Chicago, on the 25th, in an effort to save the life of her two-year-old daughter. Mrs. Pollock was instantly killed./ Through its charge, in Washington, the Japanese gW^Tnnnent has joined the Chinese government in a strong protest against the compulsory inoculation of Japanese and Chinese in San Francisco with anti-piague serum. Karl Dullman, John Walsh and John Nolin wereconvictedatWelland,Ont.,on the ?5th, of having attempted to wreck Lock No. 24 of the Welland canal with dynamite, and were sentenced to Imprisonment for life. John Foust, a prominent young attorney of Iola, Kas., and son of Judge Oscar Foust, of that city, died of hydrophobia, on the 25th, the result of having been bitten by a mad dog last fall. It. is now assured that the Young Men’s Christian association will procure its jubilee endowment fund of $1,000,000 by May, 1001, when its great jutilee convention will assemble in Beaton, In the senate, on the 26th, some time was devoted to the sundry civil appropriation bill without completing it. The resolution for an investigation, by the committee on Cuban affairs, of postal and other irregularities, with authority to visit Cuba, if necessary, to pursue the inquiry, was agreed to. The remainder of the session was given to District of Columbia business, the most important measure considered providing extensive depot and terminal improvements in Washington for the Baltimore & Potomac and Baltimore & Ohio railroads and for the removal of the “Long Bridge,” the highway from north to south during the rebellion.., .In the house consideration of the Alaska civil government bill was practically completed, a few paragraphs only being passed over until the 28th.

In the midst of flowers sent in generous quantities by friends from all over the country, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, one of the foremost women of the country, received her friends in Boston, on the 27th, the eighty-first anniversary of. her birth. Messages of congratulation also poured in. Mrs. Howe was, in excellent health. Lord Roberts has wired the British war office that there is urgent need of more rolling stock, and the London Daily Express asserts that contracts have been placed in the United States for 50 locomotives and many cars, the British manufacturers being unable to fill the orders with requisite speed. A former Corean official has confessed, under torture, the names of those concerned in the .murder of the queen. Numerous arrests have been made and it is possible that all implicated will be executed. The illness of Mrs. Gladstone was, on the 2&th, reported to be more serious. Her strength was gradually failing, and the members of the family had been summoned to Hawarden. Three officers of the Turkish imperial guard have been placed under arrest because found in possession of ■plans of the Yildis kiosk and of the sultan’s private apartments. The national bazaar opened at Kensington, London, on the 24th, by the prince of Wales, in aid of sufferers from the war netted £ 50,000. Several prominent Uitlanders have joined Lord Roberts as guides and advisers with reference to the country around Johannesburg.

WITHIH OUB LIMITS. Hew* by Telegraph from Varies* Towns in Indiana. Ouml Over an IsUb4. Logan sport, Ind., May 25.—Dissension has arisen over the estate of the late Judge Biddle, who resided on Biddle’s island, in the Wabash river, near this city, for so many years. He left his library of 6,000 volumes ,tc his several nieces and in 1801 transferred his island, containing 17 acres, to various relatives, giving bills ol sale for all the property, both real and personal. His wife left him many years ago, and at the time was given certain real estate, but now hat been appointed administrator of the estate. The other heirs refuse to give possession, and have placed a guard iu the home of the late judge and author to resist all comers. A suit hat been filed by the widow demanding possession and damages. Judge Biddle could not secure a divorce. Mar Be President. Lafayette, Ind., May 25.—Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the division ol chemistry of the United' States department of agriculture, is being men* tioned as a candidate for the presidency of Purdue university. He was professor of chemistry at Purdue before going to Washington. Haaced Himself. Noblesville, Ind.. May 25.—Charles O. Billheimer, aged 27 years, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn. He was a brother to Joseph Billheimer, whose wife killed her daughter three months ago by giving her rat poison and is now in the asylum. Ready for Free Delivery. New Castle, ind., May 25.—The trusvees have renamed and renumbered the streets on the hundreds plan, in readiness for the institution of free mail delivery July 1. North and south streets have been numbered from one up. East and west streets retain their names. May Recover. , Rising Sun, Ind., May 25.—Garfield Peak, 19 years old who attempted suicide by placing a rifle to his breast and touching the trigger with his toe, may recover. The bullet passed clear through his body, missing the heart. It is alleged that Peak is disappointed in love.

A New Robber. Marion, Ind., May 25.—Charles N Bailey, of this city, has organized a company to manufacture a new kind of rubber invented by James Dennis, of Anderson. The plant will be located at Goshen, and will operate under the name of the Goshen Rubber company. Railway Sold. Brazil, Ind., May 25.—The Brazil Electric Street Railway company has been sold for $33,750 to agents fot Stone & Webster, Boston men, who are constructing the interurban line from Terre Haute to this city. Horse Sbow. Lebanon, Ind., May 25.—Lebanon's fourth annual horse show was held, with 5,000 people in attendance. Four* teen classes of horses were exhibited, and premiums aggregating several hundred dollars were awarded. Of Wide Repate. San Pierre, Ind., May 25.—Dr. Thomas J. Agnew, coroner of Starke county, died here. He was a physician of wide repute in northwest Indiana. His disease was appendicitis and a complication of bowel troubles. Gone to Alaska. Valparaiso, Ind., May 25.—Dr. O. W McMichaels, of Wheeler, this county left for Nome City, Alaska, under sis months' contract as surgeon of the Cape Nome Hydraulic Mining Rampart Coal & Gold company. Apalnat Incorporation. Lafontaine, Ind., May 25. — Th* voters of this town, which once was incorporated, but surrendered its charter, have voted against reincorporation by a large majority. Passed Away. Princeton, Ind., May 25. — J. A. Tichenor died at his home adjoining this city, aged 48 years. He was a prominent republican and county chairman in two campaigns.

Filed. Wabash, Ind., May 25.—Rev. Howard Steininger, the prominent Evangelical clergyman who was arrested at Lake Wawasee two weeks ago for catching fish illegally, was fined $23. ' Child Scalded. Princeton, Ind., May 25.—The three-year-old child of Ephraim Malone, a resident of Princeton, fell backwards into a tub of boiling water and was probably fatally scalded. Abandoned. Vincennes, Ind., May 25.—Prospecting for oil has been abandoned in this county, Messrs. Frey & Niblaclc stopping work at E mi son after reat hing a depth of 1,100 feet. A Prolific Cow. Wabash, Ind., May 25.—Timothy Griffin, of this city, owns a prolific cow. She is a Holstein, eight years o d, and has produced 11 calves. Eight of the 11 were twins. Found Dead. Kokomo, Ind., May 25.—An unknown man, about 50 years old, was found dead in the Kelly stock yards. Indications point to arsenical poisoning. Road Race. Marion, Ind., May 25.—An amateur road race from Fairmount to this city is being arranged for the week of the i elks’carnival. June 11 to 17.

f 11 Hill Gen. Roberts and His* Army ke ep Harrowing the Distance Between Him and Pretoria. 1 METHUEN M0VIN6 SCUT! OF TIE liiL Hvttm’a Colnaa Threaten lit* the PedentU* Rtsrkt PlMk - fk« *«t Big Fights Predicted lor Wear Johaaneabanr and at l4uu«t*g Nek ,«1th Bailer. London. May 26.—Another ad tjn,ee along the railroad toward Pretoria li as brought Lord Roberta’ troops to Vjmlefort road, a few miles north of Prospect, where they arrived at fioon Thursday. In the meanwhile Gen. Methuen is progressing along the southern bank of the Vaai river, with the object, possibly, of making a da: ! l at Klerksdorp when he arrives opposite that ratiroad terminus. c Threaten Ins Federal*’ FlanV . Gen. Hutton’s column is appar: m:ly in the neighborhood of Vredefort, 15 miles west of the railroad, whenae it threatens the federal*’ right flan v. Next Bl* Engagements, fit The next couple of days oug; t to settle whether Lord Roberts wij. encounter serious opposition sout!. of the Vaal, but the best opinion Jiel ievea 'he next big engagement will be fought just south of Johannes iu-g, and that the fight there, and poshly one at Laing’s Nek, will prove th< lust pitch battles of the war. .Latauv’a Nek Mar be Hottest . ' The latest indications almost ;oint to the latter being the more stullxrp of the two. It is hoped here that Gen. Buller will delay until Lord Rcoerts is able to detach a force to seize Heidelberg and sever railroad communication between Johannesbur and Laing’s Nek. British Presain* Onward. -J Warrenton, Thursday, May 24. -Operations have been pushed fox rsurd eight miles, one of Gem. Hunter’ tarigades having occupied Vreyberg last nigbt. Considering the difficulties of the road, this is a remarkable acT.ierement for a mixed force, short it rations, making, forced marches. Water is scarce. Some portions of th. , brigade covered 18 miles without a Ifi’eak. Gen. Hunter personally goes to V ryburg to-day by train.

nrarinx »e vaai Hirer.. Vredefort, Thursday, May 24. -The British columns, after an ucojiosed march, reached the Yredefort n id it nocn to-day and are now onl; two marches from the Vaal river. . Boers In Force Near Frtekil 'lrjf. Two thousand Boers are near 'icksburg, besides small roving partit , that come into contact with the British while reconnoitering. Presidem Stein was with these Boers last Mond iy, or* ganizing and inspiriting ther a s,nd drafting recalcitrants into th> service. British Sweeping the Cons ,ry. The British are sweeping th country far and wide, seizing hors s, cattle and grain. Yesterday Pr sident Steyn was reported to be at lethlehem, with a small force, appei ing to the Free Staters to defend the r freedom and independence. Appare tly he and all the Free Staters he can issemble will not join the Transvaal rs, but will remain in the northeaste a section of the Free State SERIOUS TROUBLE BRE FING. Between Pro-Boer French as 1 British Residents of St. He|t< <t, Island of Jersey. | i " London, May 26.—-Serious tr able is threatening between the Brit ih and French residents of St. Heliers Island of Jersey, owing to the pro-1 oer attitude of the latter. There ha ?e been several collisions, and yesterda f morning the troops were forced tc charge with fixed bayonets to prev ent the demonstrators from invadii j the French quarter. Thirty arres Is were made. The French consul has reported the situationjto the British foreign office with the result that th latter has wired to the governor, Lie tt.-Qen. Sir Edward Hopton, holding 1 m personally responsible for the maintainance of order. i

Dr. L«y4i Calls It lonier te. London, May 26.—In reply > a re? quest for a statement in refei nue to the allegations of the Daily Ixpreas of this city, claiming to expose Hhe use made by Dr. Leyds, the di] >matic agent of the Transvaal, of th< Transvaal secret service fund, it b> ag asserted that numerous con. cental newspapers were bribed, the fc owing authorized statement, signed ay the legation at Brussels, has just' *>n received: “Relative to the English rep<rta Dr. Leyds does not consider it no esisary to say anything about such no isenso. In regard to the peace rumor , and the possibilities of prolong! tg the struggle, he can not express hi a opinion.” CARVER FLED TO KENT CKY. dtana Murder that May On jn the Extradition Question J tween the Two States" g Rising Sun, Ind., May 26.— d ward Carver shot and killed Wm. P;; terson in a political quarrel at the rep tblican primary at Florence. Carver, w 10 was a candidate for sheriff, has led to Kentucky. Only two men w. cessed the killing, but neither will tai If Carver is caught, the ext edition question between Kentucky • lii Indiana drill doubtless be raised. ;

THEY'RE NOT WANTED HERS. JaaiM Fitakarrta and M«l* l«tt, Irish Kx-CNau'Wt’*. Or* Ieir4 I*»t*ort«l. New, York. May 28.—James Fitah arris, alias “Skin the Goat," and Joseph, Muliett, the Irish tnvincibles who were recently released from prison in Ireland, where they were sentenced for complicity in the Phoenix park murders of 1882, were yesterday ordered - preluded by the board of special inquiry at the immigration station, and ordered deported. • The Law at Exelasloa. The exclusion was made under the interpretation of the law which forbids anyone being admitted to this country who has been adjudged guilty of a “felony, infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.” HeM tor Examination. The two men were recently pardoned by Earl Cadogan, lord .lieutenant of Ireland,, from a sentence of life imprisonment, a%d reached this city among the steerage passengers on the Lucania Saturday last. After a con- , ference with Commissioner Fitchie, the men were ordered back to Ellis island to await the action of the board of special inquiry. Thjs board was r composed of William Weihe, chairman, H. H. Moller, James A. Toner and Maj. 5 Charles S, Sensey. The two men were taken before the board on Ellis island yesterday morning. The inquisition was secret. The only one at the barge office to meet the two men and who showed any interest in their behal* was Rocky Mountain O’Brien. Before the Board. After the meeting of the board it was learned that Fitzharris was the first of the two to be examined. He admitted he had served nearly seventeen years, in prison. After being asked the usual questions a$ to his age, nativity and residence, Fitzharris waa asked of what crime he had been convicted, and answered: Was Convicted of Treason. “Treason.” He was then questioned as to this charge, • and he told the board that he had been arrested about nine months‘after the famous Phoenix park murders in company with 23 others. These 23 were accused of having been accessory after the fact, while Fitzharris was charged with having been an accessory before the fact. Three months later he was brought to trial, with others of the accused. Five of them were sentenced to be hanged, and Fitzharris was sentenced to penal servitude for life.

An Improbable Story. While telling his story to the board Fitzharris declared that at the time of his trial he was offered £ 10,000 by the English government, if he would turn informer against the other mem* her* of the band. This he refused to do, and of his life sentence he served about seventeen years in the Mount Joy, Chatham, Dovmpatricl^and Marybone prisons. Eight months ago he was pardoned. Came to this Country to Reenperate. Fitzharris said that he and Muilett had about two hundred and fifty dollars between them when they reached this port. He asserted that while he was on British soil he was compelled to report to the police every month, as to his doings and whereabouts. s “I came to this country,*’ he added, “because I want a chance to rest and recuperate. I wanted to stay here about three months and then go back to my family.” Retried to Answer Questions. Muilett indignantly refused to answer any of the questions put to him by the board. He declared he was not being accorded proper treatment by the government. His examination lasted only a short time, as he would not respond to questions. The men were then sent to the “Excluded pen." May Appeal to Washington. The case will possibly be appealed to the authorities at Washington, and if the finding is affirmed, Fitzharris and Muilett will leave this port on Saturday on the Lucania. VIEWED THE SOLAR ECLIPSE

The President and Many Notables Arrive at Old Point from Washington and Baltimore. Newport News, Va., May 28.—President McKinley and party arrived at Hampton Hoads, off Old Point, about two o’clock yesterday afternoon on the dispatch boat Dolphin. On her arrival the Dolphin circled around the battleship Kearsarge, which was anchored in the roads, and afterwards cast anchor not far from the Chamberlin hotel. None of the members of the presidential party came ashore yesterday afternoon. Secretary Gage and a party of friends arrived at Old Pdint yesterday morning on the lighthouse tender Holly, which tied up at the government pier near the Hygiea hotel. Speaker Henderson and several members of the house reached Old .Point Saturday night. The total eclipse, this morning, attracted more guests to the hotels at Old Point than they have had at any one time for years The president and his party viewed the eclipse from the Dolphin. Stamps can be rapidly affixed by a new machine, which has the tube in which the stamps are stacked gummed side up. with a wick running from a water chamber to the top of the tube, to wet the envelope as it is inserted at the end of the tube, when a knob is pressed to force the envelope against the stamp. The greyhound was always associated with the sportsman—witness the saying: “You can always tell a gentleman by his horse, his hawk and hia greyhound.** ^ .