Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Page 6

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. BBNBSBLABR, - INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of Happening. of Moot, or Little Importance from All Parte of the CleHired World —Incidents. Eaterprieee, Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars. First clash in the great conflict oc- “ curred at McKeesport, Pa., and was caused by reported attempts of employers to import nonunion workers. Cardinal Martinelli, representing the pope, dedicated St Josephat’s Roman Catholic church in Milwaukee, the ceremonies being witnessed by 4,000 people. Closing meetings of the Epworth League convention at San Francisco were attended with great enthusiasm. Many delegates started homeward. ■Heat Sunday reached 103 degrees at Chicago’s official thermometer and 118 degrees on the street level, all former records being broken. Two deaths and several prostritions. Heat record broken throughout the corn belt. German Exchange bank of Chilton, Wis., may pay creditors 50 per cent cash lost in bad loans to two concerns which were allowed to borrow without limit Kansas temperance women destroyed a tent saloon at Eldorado and a policy shop at Leavenworth. Fort Scott saloons enjoined by court. Arthur McLaughlin and Effle Tipton eloped at New Ross, Ind. Girl’s father chased them ten miles. Postofflce at Mier, Ind., abolished, releasing Postmaster A. L. Fox, who repeatedly attempted to resign. Eighteen incendiary fires last month at Mattoon, 111., destroyed property worth $2,400,000. Burning ship sighted oft Greenland, Mich., but no signs of wreckage could be found. Epworth league convention at San Francisco held sessions at the pavilion and at the Alhambra Theater. Many addresses made. Man and woman arrested at Worcester, Mass., charged with attempt to extort SB,OOO from Millionaire C. S. Barton. Rabbi Frey of Wabash, Ind., declares he has invented a car that will travel 300 miles an hour over sea or land. Governor Durbin, in letter to State Department, denied story that Italian Consul was refused admission to hospital at Peru, Ind., where injured Italians were cared for. Union molders in several cities offered aid to the Chicago strikers. All hope of compromise in steel strike was ended by declaration of J. Pierpont Morgan upholding combine’s stand. Arbitration board gave up attempt to secure a conference. President Shaffer still confident of victory. Letters found in Steyn’s captured baggage reveal the desperate plight of the Boers. Ammunition nearly gone, threatened by a famine, and the force in the field disrupted by desertions. Arnesti Z. Gomez, who claimed to be ia grandson of General potnez, committed suicide in the Midway of the Buffalo exposition after trying to kill proprietor of “Streets of Mexico." International Epworth League convention opened at San Francisco with delegates present from all parts of the world. Welcomed by governor and mayor. German Exchange Bank of Chilton, Wis., failed, with liabilities of $600,000 and $400,000 assets. Receiver asked by the attorney general. War between the sugar trust and the beet sugar manufacturers of California is about to open. Tolstoi passed crisis in his sickness ‘and is out of danger. P. E. Paulen of Chicago committed suicide by hanging himself with strap used by daughter for her school books. St. Louis man went to sleep in barrel of tar and had to be chopped out. Scattering rains in the droughtstricken corn belt check the work of destruction, but drenching floods are needed to save the remnants of the crop. W. R. Miller, station agent of the Metropolitan Elevated road, shot and severely wounded in fight with holdup men, who robbed Hoyne avenue station at Chicago. The village park at Allegan, Mich., i recently purchased by the council, has been renamed Plngree Park in honor of the late ex-governor. Robert McKee, a school teacher, was •drowned in Big Muddy river near Murphysboro. 111., while swimming. His companion, Elmer Warson, had a narrow escape from death in trying to save the former. President Shaffer charges the steel combine is using Its $200,000,000 reserve fund to sustain the market and thus hurt the strike cause. Federation of Labor promises the strikers $500,©OO weekly. Mayor Jones of Toledo fined $5 and costs for contempt of court. Alexander Bush, postmaster at Mills, New Mexico, has been arrested, charged with embezzling postal funds. Xthel Pitch and Annie Gunn were drowned in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, Ohio. The little girls ijMsw in bathing and went beyond their

FIVE IN YACHT DROWNED.

Merchant and Daughters Among the Victims of a Squall. SiTre persons were drowned in the sound Friday by the capsizing of the yawl rigged yacht Venitzia of Philadelphia at a point five miles east of Sand’s point Two only of those on board were rescued. The drowned are: Arthur C. Colburn, owner of the yacht, Philadelphia merchant; Ida Colburn, daughter of Colburn; Annette Colburn, daughter of Colburn; Captain Flint of Brooklyn, N. Y., master of the yacht; sailor, name unknown. Tbe others on board the ill-fated craft, Mrs. Walter T. Stankle of Philadelphia, daughter of the owner of tbe yacht; and the steward, James Stanbridge of New York, were rescued by the tug Gertrude, after clinging for two hours to the bottom of a capsized long boat. The yacht was built in 1888 in Mystic, Conn., and was elaborately finished and furnished. She was fifty feet long with a net tonnage of thirty-one. Awakening at 3 o’clock In the morning to find himself In the grasp of a supposed burglar, Morton Starr Cressy, a Harvard law school student who Is spending the summer at Brattieboro, Vt, struggled until free, and, snatching a revolver from the bureau, fired

EARL RUSSELL SENTENCED FOR BIGAMY.

Earl Russell, who was taken before the House of Lords at London, Thursday for trial on the charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ confinement in Holloway prison. The trial was conducted with curious ceremonies that have escaped the vigilance of reformers. It commenced in the peers - ordinary parliamentary chamber, where their lordBhips assembled fully robed. The chancellor occupied the woolsack, and ten Judges sat facing the peers’ usual seats. Behind the lord chancellor stood Norroy klng-of-arms, in brilliant heraldic costume. Near the clerks’

four shots at his assailant. On lighting his lamp he was horrified to find that he had killed his friend and classmate, Stoney Bristol of Battle Creek, Mich., who had been invited by Cressy to stay over night at the house of his grandmother, Mrs. P. Starr, in Brattieboro. It is believed that Bristol, while in a nightmare, took hold of Cressy.

Another .Jump In Ohio Oll.

Crude oil went up 3 cents Friday at Lima, 0., making 6 cents Increase in three days. The advances lead to the belief that the Texas field will not seriously disturb the production of the northern fields, and operations are being resumed. North Lima oil is now 85 cents per barrel; South Lima 80 cents. Another jump of 3 cents in Indiana oil Friday, sending the price to 80 cents, caused great excitement In the oil field about Montpelier,

Bunts a Posnslon Swindler.

Assistant Adjutant General E. B. Gray of the G. A. R. is sending out from Madison, Wis., to post adjutants throughout the state a description of one J. W. Dunn, alias Dolan, alias Boyle, who has been posing as a pension examiner, and swindling veterans who draw pensions, telling them that their pension has been cut down, but that for a small sum, ranging from $2 up to $lO, he would get pensions continued at old rate.

Negro Suspocts Discharged.

Joseph Robertson and "Bull” Holland, the negroes who came near being lynched at Kansas City by a mob of 2,000 people, on the supposition that they had assaulted Miss Grace Davis, a 20-year-old white girl, and attacked her escort, Vernon Newton, have been turned loose for lack of evidence. Justice of the Peace Ross In discharging the men said that little credence could be given the statements of Miss Davis and Newton. On the stand both of them admitted having made misstatements regarding the affair.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Winter Wheat—No. 2 red, 64Vic tft 8«% c; No. 3 red 65 Vic; No. 4 red. 59(065c; No. 2 hard, 66@S6Hc; No. 2 hard, 64Vi@66V4c; No. 4 hard, Spring Wheat—No. 1 northern, 64%@66Hc; No. 3 spring, 63c; No. 4 spring, 58®63%». Corn—No. 2. 49c; No. 2 yellow, 4814®48Vic; No. 3, 47®47V4c; No. 3 yellow, 48c. Oata—No. 2, 3Wtc; No. 3,33 c; No. 3 white, 344136 Vic; No. 4, 32@32%p; No. 4 white, 33vi®341|4c. Hay—Choice timothy, sl6; No. 1, ; choice prairie, $15@16. Provisions—Lard, $8.12V4«8.17Vi. Cattle—Native shipping and export steers, ss@d; dressed beef and butchers’ steers, $4®5.80; steers under 1,000 lbs, $3 55 @4.80; stockers and feeders, [email protected]; cows and heifers, [email protected]; canners, $1.25® 2.75; bulls, S2.6O@S; Texas and Indian Bteers, [email protected]; cows and heifers, $2.30® 8.70. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $5.80775.86; packers, $6.75®5.85; butchers, [email protected]. Sheep— Native muttons, $3.15®3.50; lambs, $3.75®5.25; culls and bucks, s2®4; Stockers, $2. Butter—Creamery, extra choice, 19c; dairies, choice, 16@16Vic. Cheese—New goods: Full cream daisies, choice, 10® 1014 c; young America, 10®10V4c; f ull cream, 10%c; twins, 9Vic. Eggs—Fresh, 10V4<hl0%c. Apples, brls, red Astrlcans, $2; early harvest, [email protected]. Blackberries, cases, 24 qts, Illinois, $1.75. Sweet corn, Illinois, 40®o0c per crate. Potatoes—Home grown, 90c@$1.10 per bu; early Ohlos, St. Louis, 80@86c per bu. Poultry—lced stock: Turkey gobblers, 6c; hens. 8c; chickens, hens and springs, scalded, BV4®9c; hens and springs, dry picked, BVic; roosters, sVi®6c; ducks, 7@Bc; geese, 6@7c; spring chickens, 15c. C. D. Graham made his fifth trip through the Niagara rapids in a barrel Sunday. Captain Strong’s resignation ordered accepted by Secretary of War.

table stood the gentleman usher of the black rod, bearing a long white wand, ten feet in length. This was the emblem of the office of the Lord High Steward, conferred by a royal commission under letters patent upon the Lord Chancellor. The proceedings began with prayer. Then the gentleman usher of the black rod formally delivered the wand to the lord chancellor, who returned it. The lord’s chancellor then read the king’s commission. Next the deputy garter king-of-arms called the roll of peers who had given notice of their intention to attend the trial. No peers of the royal blood were present.

Olive Schreiner in Cage.

Ouida, the writer, who in private life bears the name of Mme. Louise de la Ramee, protests in the London Daily News against the treatment accorded by the British military authorities in South Africa to Olive Schreiner, the author. Ouida says: \ “Olive Schreiner has been transported to a strange place and imprisoned within a fence of wire netting, which is patrolled by armed sentinels stationed at intervals with orders to fire on any one attempting to get through the netting to escape. “She lives alone, except for her dog. in one small room, for which she pays, cooking for herself. She is compelled to remain all night without any kind of light. Her husband is refused by the British authorities permission to visit her, although her brother is a former premier of Cape Colony. “What is her offense? Merely to have espoused the cause of the Boers In the war. Is it tolerable that for this alone she should be subjected to the indignity of isolation and be carried away from all she loves?" In the House of Lords, Lord Raglan, in South Africa, said the whites In the concentration camps numbered 14,624 men, 27,711 women and 43.075 children; that the mortality for the month of June was 63 men, 138 women and 576 children.

Baby Smothered In Bed.

Sleeping on the dead body of his 9-months-old child, whom he had Innocently smothered, R. I. Johnson, a night watchman at the Elgin, 111., watch factory, did not know what he had done iintil his wife arrived home after an several hours and made the sorrowful discovery. The baby had been placed on a pillow beside him. It Is supposed the baby rolled off the pillow and In some way got under the father. The coroner’s Jury exonerated him from blame.

THE FOSBURG MURDER MURDER TRIAL

Youth Charged with Murder of His Sister. CASE FULL OF MYSTERY. Family Declares Deed Wee Done by One of Three Unknown Burglars— State Lays Claim to Theta —Sensation at Plttefleld, Han. Robert S. Fosburg was placed on trial at Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday morning, charged with shooting his

ROBERT S. FOSBURO.

sister. May Fosburg, on the night of Aug. 20, 1900. The formal preliminary step was taken today when the young man was called before the Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to the indictment for manslaughter. In addition to the fact that the Fosburgs are people of wealth and social standing, the killing of the handsome girl of 18, In the dead of night and under peculiarly dramatic circumstances, was in itself so shocking an affair that the country rang with the story for months before it took on the added Interest of young Fosburg’s Indictment and arrest for the crime. Before that event nobody outside a narrow circle In touch with the Chief of Police and the Prosecuting Attorney here had the remotest suspicion there was anything else in the tragedy than just what the Fosburg family said there was —a plain case of murder committed by burglars caught in the act of pillaging the house. It is the theory of the prosecution that burglars had nothing whatever to do with the crime. The State will endeavor to prove that Miss Forburg was killed as the result of a furious family fight which broke out in the dead of the night, and that the story of the invasion of the house by burglars was hastily concocted to save the reputation of the family and to avert the punishment of one of its members or a crime which even the prosecution does not charge was premeditated or evti, intended, so far as the victim was concerned, on the part of the person who committed it. It is not the theory

MAY FOSBURG.

of the police that young Fosburg, even in the heat of passion, intentionally aimed at his sister the shot which took her life. It is their theory that the shot was aimed at another member of the family, either Fosburg’s wife or his father, and that Miss Fosburg, presumably while acting as a peacemaker in the family brawl, came in range of the bullet. There was a guest staying with them—Miss Bertha Sheldon of Providence. In her honor they were having a merry evening and retired close to midnight. Story Told by tha Family. According to the story told by the family, Mr. Fosburg, Sr., was awakened about 1:30 in the morning by a flash of light and was confronted by a masked man, who held a pistol to his head. Mr. Fosburg struck the pistol away, and then between Mr. Fosburg and the burglar there was a terrible struggle, during which one of Mr. Fosburg’s ribs was broken. Mr. Fosburg also received a heavy blow on the head, presumably inflicted by some weapon

Biddles to Be Hanged.

"Jack” and “Ed” Biddle were sentenced to death in the Criminal court at Pittsburg, Pa., for the murder of Grocer Thomas D. Kahney of Albert street, Washington. April 12 last, and Walter Dorman was adjudged guilty of murder of the first degree for his part In the homicide. Kahney was murdered while defending his home against robbers, and a few hours later Detective Patrick Fitzgerald was killed In attempting to arrest the Biddles.

in the nature of a sand club, and the hands of a confederate of the burg* lar with yrhom Mr. Fosburg was clinched in a deadly struggle. Mrs. Fosburg, Sr., by this time had come to her husband’s assistance, and she too was beaten, but beyond severe bruises received no lasting injury. The noise of the struggle awakened other members of the family in their respective rooms. Miss May Fosburg got out of bed and went across the room to the door opening into the hall. As she reached it and was about to step into the hall a man standing on the threshold of the spare room opposite fired two pistol shots, one of which struck her in the heart, killing her instantly. As she was sinking to the floor her brother, Robert Stewart Fosburg, the same who is now under indictment for killing her, who was rushing through her room to reach Ae scene of the struggle, caught her in his arms and laid her down. Then he, too, had a fierce struggle with one of the burglars, and was struck on the head by a confederate as his father had been. One burglar rushed down the back stairs and escaped by the door; two more of the gang got out of an upper window to the roof of a veranda and so to the ground.

THREE NEGROES HANGED.

Executed la Naahvllle, Tana., from tho Same Scaffold. The flret triple execution ever held in Nashville, Tenn., took place when three negro murderers were executed from the same scaffold in the jail yard. The condemned were Babe Battise, Dußer Thompson, and Abe Petway. The trap was sprung and the men were pronounced dead within fifteen minutes. The crime for which Petway paid the penalty was the murder of an old white man named Wrenne on the night of May 31, 1900. Battise and Thompson were hanged for the murder of Cain Miller, a negro “spotter” for the police. Thompson charged Battise with the crime, and to the last affirmed his innocence.

India Under Iron Heel.

India is threatened with famine to the extent unparalleled in the history of that country, according to Romesh Dutt, a distinguished Anglo-Indian of the Imperial revenue department Mr. Dutt 1b 26 years of age, and is the author of “Open Letters on Famines” and “Land Assessments in India.” Mr. Dutt said at London: “England's oppressive and frequently illegal financial treatment of India is largely responsible for famines. Unless this system Is radically changed the Indian empire will live in a perpetual shadow of famine, with its attendant misery and death.”

Woman Whipped at Post.

Lillie Thomas was whipped at the post established by Justice G. L. Walls in Kansas City Thursday. Lillie is about the color of the ace of spades, and was arrested a few days ago on a charge of having abstracted $3 from the purse of Mrs. Martha Etwell at No. 609 East Fifteenth street, for whom she had been working. The recent succession of extremely hot days planted in gillie an all-consuming thirst for soda water and lemonade. Having no other means of gratifying her thirst, when she saw a purse with |3 in it on the bureau at the Etwell home, she resigned without notice.

Man PoSES aS a Woman.

A Texas detective has arrested in the King’s river neighborhood in Madison county, Ark., a supposed young woman who had been teaching a private school there for some time. It turned out that the school teacher was a man in disguise, and that his name was Sears. He is alleged to have been wanted in Texas oh the charge of committing a murder seven years ago. When arrested the young man had in his possession $3,000 ir> cash carried in a belt.

Des Moines Man Is Missing.

Charles J Luthe, secretary of the Luthe Hardware Company and one of the leading young business men of Des Moines, has been missing since Wednesday night, when he bought a ticket for Denver at the Rock Island office, giving the name of C. J. Lambert. No trace of him can be found at Denver. His relatives believe he wandered away while temporarily deranged on account of hard work and heat.

Packing Plant Bnrned.

The packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons of Wichita was totally destroyed by Are. There were four large buildings. It is estimated that 7,000,000 pounds of meat, in process of preparation was destroyed. The loss is $650,000, with insurance about $400,000. One wall fell, Injuring four men, but not fatally. . .

Swears Glenn Is a Man

Dr. Qale Samuels testified at Parkersburg, W. Va., that Ellis B. Glenn, defendant in the Glenn forgery case, is a man rather than a woman. Several experts in handwriting strengthened the state's case by their statements as to the signatures on the original and the alleged forged notes.

Word "Christian” to Stay,

The word "Christian” stays In the bill of rights In the Virginia constitution, as far as the constitutonal-con-vention committee on that document is concerned. By a vote of 7 to 4 the committee at Richmond decided today to preserve the original language.

Beloit Mall Clerk Arrested.

Harry E. Mott, mailing clerk of the Peloit, Wls., postofflee, has been arrested and held for trial on the charge of embezzling 20.000 2-cent stamp*.

TWO NEGRDOES SHOT DOWN

Sequel to the Lynching of the Leader. BATTLE IN CITY STREETS. Great Eiolt.in.nt at Cl.rr.land, Xlu, Follow, a Lynching. Which Lead, to Discovery That Colored He. Are Organised and Armed, Jesse Phillips, labor agitates, preacher and lodge organizer, who murdered young Lucius Reed here July 16, was lynched in Cleveland, Miss., Saturday night. He was captured In the afternoon at Mound City, after a sharp fight with the officers ,and was being brought here for trial when a posse of citizens met the party and took possession of Phillips. He was at once hurried here and hanged to the cross arm of a telegraph pole. Just as the players were dispersing three armed negroes rode into town, and, stopping three white citizens on the main street, made threatening demonstrations. This was the signal for battle, and fire was opened upon the negroes, two of them being killed, one outright and the body of the other being discovered at the edge of the town this morning. The third man escaped. All were armed with Winchester rifles and were well mounted. During the remainder of the night excitement was at fever heat In the city. All the streets were patrolled by heavily armed men, and any overt act would have meant terrible warfare upon any negro who could have been found. Fears are yet entertained that the lynching of Phillips will breed bloodshed. He was especially active in organizing “protective societies” among the negroes, and it is thought they may try to avenge his death. The work of organizing the negroes has been going on for some time, and it is known that the lodges have provided themselves with arms and ammunition. It has been decided by the whites that it is absolutely necessary to break up these organizations. The enforcement of this decision is likely to be attended with Berious results. The fact has developed that the killing of young Reed was a studied scheme on the part of the negroes. Phillips was given the weapon with which he did the shooting by a negro, Gus Jones. Phillips himself confessed to these facts when he was captured yesterday. Papers found on his person disclosed plots to murder a number of planters.

Tolstol Is Seriously iļl.

M. Tchertkoff, who is Count Tolstoi’s representative in Great Britain, has received a telegram asserting that the famous Russian is dangerously ill with fever, accompanied by great weakness, and that his state Is very serious. The dispatch was received from Tula, European Russia, where Count Tolstoi is understood to be.

GEN. BUTTERFIELD, CIVIL WAR HERO, IS DEAD.

Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who had been 111 for a year or more, died at his home in Cold Springs, N. Y., Wednesday night. Gen. Butterfield was born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1831, was graduated from Union college and served with distinction in the civil war. Resigning from the army, he became assistant United States treasurer In New York, and afterward organized and built a railway in Central America. In September, 1886, at St. Margaret’s Westminster, England,

Two Fires In Michigan.

! The big maple flooring factory of Thomas Foreman ft Co. at Petoskey, Mich., has been destroyed by fire, together with six million feet of lumber and a dwelling house. The loss is estimated at $400,000. Insurance, $56,000. The fire caught from the engine room. The Michigan barrel works, located in the north end of Grand Rapids, Mich., burned with an adjacent lumber pile and a large amount of stock. The loss will reach $250,000.

MRS. PAUL KRUGER DEAD.

W?<e of tlx* Tnoinil St. teaman Pimm. Away at Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger, wife of former President Kruger of the South African republic, died Saturday of pneumonia, { after an illness of three days. She was 67 years old. Mrs. Kruger’s long:' separtion from her husband, combined with the death of her favorite 1 daughter, Mrs. Smith, last week, had completely broken her spirit. Mr. Eloff and many other members of the Kruger family were at her bedside when she passed away. She was somewhat younger than her husband. She had borne him sixteen children, eleven of whom are still living, including five daughters. In the small, unpretentious house in Pretoria used as the presidency domestic habits Were very simple. The president and his wife were habitually early risers.

Frank Wennerholm, the Chautauqua county murderer, was put to death by electricity in the prison at Auburn, N. Y. The current was turned on one minute and five seconds, and the man was pronounced dead. When he took his seat in the chair Wennerholm appeared to be on the paint of utter collapse. As the straps over the face were put in position the doomed man tossed his head to one side and uttered a low moan. The current was of 1,800 volts and seven amperes, which was reduced after two seconds to 200 volts for half a minute, and. then increased to its original strength for two seconds, when it was again reduced to 200 volts for half a minute, and increased to 1,800, when It was turned off, and the man was dead.

Woman Strangely Murdered.

Mrs. George W. Lane, wife of a rich retired farmer living two miles north of Canton, 111., was found dead in a woodshed by her husband on returning from Canton on Tuesday morning. She had been strangled. An examination of the body by the coroner’s jury disclosed scratches on her throat, and the imprint of fingers there. Footprints were found leading to the back of the house through a cornfield, and also leading away from the house. A place from which the tracks led was found where some one had been lying, watching the house through a hedge. The object seems to have Been neither assault nor robbery. Mr. Lane is 80 years old and his wife was 40.

Insane Asylum Quarantined.

Dr. Henry Schaberg, city health officer, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has established a strict quarantine against the Michigan insane asylum, where twen-ty-nine cases of smallpox and varioloid were discovered. No one is allowed to enter or leave the asylum grounds. Workman Munger, who went to his home in the city is quarantined. Vaccination of the 1,700 inmates has begun. The health officer alleges the asylum management has been careless in admitting patients without vaccination. The disease was brought into the institution by a female nurse who recently visited her home. It was first diagnosed as chlckenpox.

he married Mrs. Julia L. James of New York, the bishop of Bedford and Canon Farrar performing the ceremony. He planned, organized and commanded tjie civic parade on the third day of the Washington centennial celebration in New York on May 1, 1889, the largest movement of civilians in a public demonstration known in modern history. He declined the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth congressional district of New York city in 1891.

Famine Threatens Jerusalem.

"Death and famine threaten the Holy City," says the Jerusalem correspondent of the Standard in a communication, "on account of the scanty water supply, due to the Insufficient rains of last winter. The Sultan has granted permission to the municipality to bring water from the pools of Solomon through iron pipes Into the city along the line of Solomon’s stone aqueduct. The new works were begun today on telegraphic orders from the Sultan. They will be finished in two months."