Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. yriKCTT.iM, - - • INDIANA.

SHE WHIPPED “IAGO.”

SENSATION IN A COLUMBUS, OHIO. THEATER. I# :.* . 'Ji ' Indignant Woewn Wield* a Honewhip—Slight Improvement in Trade —Hypnotist Anxious to Barn $1,000,©OO—Prisoner* Allowed to Plead. Actor Horsewhipped on the Stage. The climax of the fourth act of “Othello,” as produced by Tragedian Tonis James at the Columbus, 0.. High Street Theater Friday night, was not written by Shake pea re. Columbus theatergoers Witnessed a startling innovation in the Immortal love tragedy. Guy, Tinsley, the leading man of Mr. James’ company, appeared in the role of lago. Tying on the stage floor, where he had been thrown by Othello, lago says: “This is damnation greater thau 1 can bear.” , Actor Tinsley had hardly finished the lines when a stylishly dressed young woman jumped from one of the boxes on to the stage. She was white with anger. Hhe held a leather riding whip in her hands and struck Tinsley repeatedly on the face and over the head. Linsley said: “Somebody take her away. Mr. James, take her away.” Mr. James ordered the curtain rung down. The woman was- arrested and locked ftp on The charge of assault and battery. She gave the nasne of Georgia Kimball, and said that she had met Linsjey in St, Tonis. She said he had Rejected her, and she came to Columbus for the sole purpose of disgracing and ruining him. Mr. Tinsley denied he had made her any promises. Manager Ovens appeared on the stage and apologized to the audience for the -disgraceful scene. Tinsley was greeted, with cheers upon his first appearance in the last-act after the whipping. Trade Slightly Better. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “As the season advances there Is more business, but advices indicate that on the whole the prevalent feeling is*ftat the gain is less than there was reason to expecU While retail trade has been active enough To materially--lessen stocks and. obligations and thus to prevent a great many threatened embarrassments, it has not yet brought enough new business to mills or factories to prevent decrease of unfilled orders and closing, of some works. Substantially the same state of things exists in all the great industries, notwithstanding the strong combinations in some, and evidence of inadequate consumption appears in the fact that the general range of prices for commodities —farm and mine as well as manufactured products—is nearly 1 per cent lower than it was April 1 and .the lowest ever known, the decline, since October, 1892, being 16.7 per cent.” To Try for Big Reward. Charles Broadway Rouss, the wealthy New York merchant who is rapidly succumbing to total blindness, has a standing offer of $1,000,000 open to any person who can cure him. Various people bave accepted the offer, Mr, Rouss wisely allowing them to experiment first upon a substitute. Only a week ago a substitute was tortured almost to madness by a crank with a pin pricking machine. Now comes a Western hypnotist Who claims he has cured a Chicago man of business. He will accordingly try his hypnotic powers on a Mr. Martin, a substitute, and if the latter is cured Mr. Rouss will take the cure. Then, if relieved, he will turn over to the hypnotist his eight-story Broadway store and everything in it as a reward. Asks for Reasons for Clemency. Yt is reported that the Transvaal executive has asked each of the reform prisoners, except the leaders, to make a serf arate statement giving reasons why his sentence should be reduced. All the prisoners were searched and everything taken from them. The prisoners are on strictly prison fare. George Bicker, United States geologist, has cabled Secretary Olney pointing out when in December a proposal to raise a foreign flag was made Hammond demanded and obtained an oath of allegiance from all the members to the Transvaal flag. Their sole purpose in forming a commit tee was for the protection -of-their-homes and not for fevolution.

National League. Following is the standing of the cluhs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg... 9 2 Brooklyn .... 0 6 Boston 8 4 Cleveland ... 5 5 Philadelphia. 8 4 St. Louis.... 6 7 Chicago .... 8 5 Baltimore ... 5 7 Cincinnati .. 7 5 New York.... 2 10 Washington. 7 5 Louisville .... 1 12 - . , Western League. Following ig tne standing of the clubs ot the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit ..... 8 2 Minneapolis. 5 (i St Paul.... 5 4 Grana Rapids 4 Ti Kansas City. 5 5 Indianapolis.. 2 5 Milwaukee.. 5 5 Columbus ... 4 7

NEWS NUGGETS.

It is reported that a shoe salesman representing the Standard Shoe Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, was burned to death in a Cripple Creek hotel during the last fire. George Anderson, colored, of TerreHaute, was instantly killed by Robert Lore at Indianapolis. Ind., and the latteh made his escape. A quarrel began about five cents. Mary, the wife of William Shore, of Huntington, W. Va„ leaped fifty feet from a railroad bridge into the Klkhorn river to escape an approaching engine. She was rescued, but will die. The pressmen of the Rockford, 111., Mitten and Hosiery Company have gone on a ■trike for increased wages. Fire in the Clothing house of S. Lazarus, Sons & Co., of Columbus, Ohio, was extinguished soon after being discovered, but the loss by smoke and wnter Will be considerable. James Nixon shot and killed Dempsey Brown, his brother-in-law, in a family quarrel at Austin, Texas. Brown in his dying agony returned the lire with a double-barreled shotgun, fatallv wounding Nixon.

EASTERN.

warehouse of the Atlantic MailiUH Company at Pittsburg, together settling tanks and a number of w«el»Uig tanks containing oil, was destroyed by Are Tuesday morning, entnilng aJoaa of about SIOO,OOO. The fire **. b®lteeed to bare been of incendiary origin. Tbe Arm of Pemberton Bros., manufacturers and dealers In sheepskins at Peabody, Mass., an: Boston, andthe firm of B. E. Baker ft Cor, dealers to goatskins. of which the Pemberton brothers were also members, assigned for the benefit of their creditors. Tbs Indebtedness *. -

•f the two- firms will aggregate about $300,000 aad their assets $150,000. / A strike of drivers has caused a suspension of five large mines in the Tpm’s Run district, near Carnegie, Pa. Not more than forty men quit work because their demand for an increase in wages was' refused, but they have thrown about 700 diggers out of work. The strike is - not sanctioned by .the miners district officers, and every effort is being made by them to effect a settlement. ' Intelligence has been received at Pittsburg of the capture in of John L. Cowan, who disappeared last February, leaving his friends, relatives, creditors and victims about $200,000 short. Cowan wa in the liimber business, and his victims are scattered over the lumber regions of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Canada. Forgery, note-raising and other forms of swindling are charged against him. Cowan will be brought back to the United States at once.

WESTERN.

The Lehigh Coal and Iron Company, one of the largest companies at- the bead of Lake Superior, has been Reorganized under the name of the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company. The purpose of the change was to recapitalize. The Mexico, Mo,, City Council passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to either'sell or give away to minors cigarettes or cigarette wrappers. The law Is that any one found guilty of the misdemeanor shall be fined not less than SSO nor more than SIOO, Most of the young men in the city are cigarette nseyg. Rev, C. O. Brown is no longer pastor of. the First Congregational Church of San Francisco. At one of the stormiest and moßt sensational meetings of-his congregation he resigned, and by this unexpected action destsoyed the plans his opponents had beemuaiiking foi several weeks, TO'TireweFj)f-4aJst-his-frjends— remained with him. Over twenty Milwaukee school children were knocked down and injured by a runaway team Tuesday. The- team, which was owned by William Schattsehfteider, was hitched with a weight. The little ones cried, “Runaway, runaway,” and gathered in crowds along the curb to witness tho horses dash wildly -along- the street. -As the t eam ran, the hitching weight, which was on the near. sid£, swung up over the heads of the little ones who lined the curb and landed in their midst. The infuriated horses followed the impulse which was given to them by the-fiying weight and dashed in. among a hundred oi the boys and girls who were shouting in glee at the flying team, and Tn an instant there wore at least twenty-five of them who had been knocked down and trampled upon. The only ones who are thought to be dangerously wounded arc Frank Sehubie and. Annie Nolden. They are in. a critical condition, and the physicians have but slight-hopes for their recovery.

The mining camp of "Cripple Creek, Col., is no more. The destroying angel whose wings of fire fanned the camp on Saturday renewed his visitation Wednesday, and completed the calamity. Thousands of people are homeless, with two inches of snow on the ground and a thermometer that is hugging the zero mark. No description can exaggerate the condition of affairs. Two million dollars’ worth of property went up in srnftke, with probably one-tenth of that coveted by insurance. The loss qf; life is great owing to the reckless use of dynamite in throwing down buildings that stood in the path of theifire, With the hope of erecting a barrier of debris that would stop further progress of the flames. The Palace, hotel was blown to bits, and sleeping guests were hurled to eternity. Four are known to be dead, and the injured number twenty. The fire was started by bandits, whose aim was to loot the banks. Not a business building is standing. Only- a few outlying residences escaped the flames. A severe cyclone struck near-Spencer, S. D., Monday at 0:30 p. m. It took a northerly course, destroying f;irm property and'daing immense-damn getir crops.The little town of Epiphany lay directly in its path and .waft completely wiped off the earth, not a building left standing. Three persons were fatally injured and fifteen more were seriously injured in that immediate- vicinity. At Madison heavy wind demolished several buildings. A family of five are reported killed outright near Montrose, bu'r the report cannot be verified. It rained in Nebraska almost incessantly for twenty-four hours. In various portions o i the State a violent gale blew, destructive of windmills and small buildings to a considerable extent. In North Omaha great piles of rubbish, tree limbs, mud an 1 sidewalks filled the street from curb to curb. Lightning that accompanied the rain.played havoc with the overhead wire system and struck iu several places. The greatest damage about town was sustained by the Nebraska Telephone Company. About 4Off telephones were temporarily: out of service and nearly all the toll lines knocked out.

SOUTHERN.

Passenger Conductors Guppy, Young, 'Sdrfkliw. IletinYfigs and Ravit-ftWroff, who were let out on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad a month ago, have been reinstated. The Governor of Louisiana ordered two companies of militia from New Orleans to Natchitoches. Trouble is threatened there on account of the refusal of election officials to proclaim the result of the election according to the ballots cast, some of which, it is claimed, are fraudulent. Fire at Paris, Texas, destroyed property valued at 8250,000, including the Hotel Peterson, the J. K. By waters 1 Building, M. F. Allen &Co.'s warehouse and the Clements Building.- The body of John Saulsman wai found in the ruins, and it is supposed taat he was murdered and the fire started to conceal the crime. At Newport News, Va., the Old Dominion Line steamer Wyanoke ran into the United States cruiser Columbia early Tuesday morning and sank in thirty minutes. All OT the Wyanoke's pasengers and craw were savfL, but the baggage is all lost and probably the cargo also. Two firemeu were badly scalded.- The Columbia was anchored very near the pies and was not seen from the Wyanoke on account of the brilliancy of the electric lights on the pier. According to Kentucky law, which requires that if u defendant is to be put on the stand at all he shall be called first, Scott Jackson whs put upon the stand at Newport, Ivy., Thursday morning. He gave a brief sketch of his life in Jersey City and New York, and of his acquaintance in Greencastle, lad., where his mother lives, and told briefly of liis acquaintance with Pearl Bryan. He was in Greencastle from the spring of 1895 until the middle "of October of that year anil saw Pearl Bryan often. He was about to tell of statements made to him by Will Wood concerning Wood's relations with Pearl Bryan.when the Court ruled that euch testimony was not admissible. Jackson said he received many letters, from Wood, but tharthey were so vile that hcdestroyed all cjxcept two, which are now Id the possession of the prosecution.

FOREIGN.

; The census of Pgris up to March 30 ■bows the French capital to have a population of 2,511,455, an increase of 87,250, Chiefly outside ot the fortifications. &ev. George P. Knapp, the American

missionary who was expelled from Blftts by the Turkish authorities without trial, on the cnarge of waving - incited Armenians to rebel against Turkish rule, was surrendered to the United States consul at Alexandretta Saturday, Details of the affair show thA* the step was not taken until a UnKed States warship had been telegraphed for. The correspondent of ,thte London Times at Constantinople says; "Rumors are current that the sultan has had a shddeu and. acute development cf spingk'hr wwaUydisease, due to Izzet in saving his sovereign from work anil worry. I believe that the sulta : is quite free from organic disease, but he is constitutionally subject to violent paroxysms of nervous irritability which brain fatigue tends to aggravate.” The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has captured and brought into Havana the American schooner Competitor, of Key West, loaded with arms and ammunition, believed to be intended for the insurgents. The details of the affair show that the Mensagera on Saturday sighted near Berracasj, on the north coast, of the’Province of Pinar del Rio, a sußpicious-looking schooner, which attempted to get away from' the war vessel. She was pursued, overhauled and boarded. In Command of her were Alfredo La horde, Dr. Bedia and three newspaper correspondents. The Competitor, it appears, was last from the Mosquito coast, where, it is presumed, she shipped the .arms and -ammunition found on board. The latter consisted of 38,000 Cartridges, a- number of packages of dynamite, mnny cases of Mauser and Remington rifles, cases of accoutrements, etc. The men found on board are held as prisoners. Baron Hirsch left to the Frinco of Wules by Will £1,000.000 ($5,000,000). This is announced from London noon the authority of a leading official in one of the royal establishments—a Knight Commander of the Bath, who by reason of his official as well as his personal and social

relations to the Prince of Wales, is in a position "to know the facts. Common rumor has had it for a long time that the prince was heavily in ihe baroft's debt. Whether the bequest is exclusive or inclusive of this alleged indebtedness cannot be known perhaps until, the will is read. The baron certainly and frequently was of great financial assistance to his royal highness. In return the prince gave him constant social countenance, even going to the baron’k vast shooting domains in Austria a few years ago on a visit". The young kaiser was also invited there, but, with contempt, refused to go. 1 Report has. over since had it that the prince pressed his nephew to go, and that the kaiser’s refusal was the first cause of the wellknown ill-feeling between the two. A dispatch from Pretoria says: Sentence of death has been pronounced upon Messrs. Phillips, Hammond, Farrar and Rhodes, of the Joliaiincsburg reform committee, who recently pleaded guilty of high treason. This appears to be confirmed by the following advices from London: The Secretary of State for the Colpnies, Joseph Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons Tuesday that the five leaders of the refera* committee'"of Johannesburg—J. H. Hammond, > Francis Rhodes, George Farrar, Lionel Phillips and Charles Leonard—had been condemned to death. Mr. Chamberlain added that upon hearing the news he cabled to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Hercules Robinson, to communicate the following to President Kruger: “The Government has just lourned that the sentence of death has been passed upon the five leaders of the reform committee. They can feel no doubt that your honor will commute sentence and haft'e assumed Parliament of their conviction that this is your honor's intention.” John Hays Ham- " mond, one of the members of the reform committee condemned to death, is an American. W. J. Galloway, conservative member for southwest Manchester, asked whether the law under which the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee ■“Were tried does not provide for the confiscation of their property in the event of conviction, and not for the imposing of the death penalty. Mr. Chamberlain said -he- was-unable- to-omwoE-the .question...

IN GENERAL.

The town of Flesherton, Ont., was wiped out by fire. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, the comedian, lias been sued for a separation by his wife, Elvia Croix Seabrooke, upon the ground of cruelty and abandonment. Obituary : At Dresdeu, Ohio, Dr. D. A. Austin. —At Falrbury, 111., Mrs. Mary Gibb, 08. —At Muncie, Ind., Milton Thomas. —At. Constantine, Mich., Samuel King.—At Eikhart, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Burdoff, 52—At Rockford, 1111., Mrs. A. J. Storey, 03. The steamer Alki, at Port Townsend, from Alaska, had a r passengers two seal ers, Gus Petersen, a German, and a halfbreed, Siwash Jimmy, who left Victoria Jan. 23_ in a sealing schooner; City of San Diego. April 4 the men, while hunting seals, were lost in a blinding snowstorm and driven before the wind all night in a small canoe. When daylight came the schooner was not in sight. For six days and night; the men drifted, until they went on the Alaskan beach 100 miles' west of and hffiStfb were frozen stiff. They were picked up by Indians. As the schooner City of San Diego has not been sighted since the night of the storm, Peterson is of the opinion she was lost. She had eighty skins nt the time the men left her.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 01c to 62c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,35 cft 37c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to IOC; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, 2c to 4c per lb. for common growth to fine brush. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, tide to 07c; corn. No. 1 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2\ white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.50;- hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 69p to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,30 c to 38c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye. No. 2,43 cto 45c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4,00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 6m! to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22e to 23c; rye, 37c to 38c.

Toledo —Wheat. No. 2 red. 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 cto 39c; "clover'seed, $4‘.TWTff S4.TO. — rr— No. 2 spring, 61c to 63c; corn, No. 3,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley. No. 2,32 cto 34c; rvo, No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, SB.OO to sß.po. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hoga. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.00 to *4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, creamery, 10c to 16c; eggs, Western, 10c to 12c.

SHAH IS SHOT DOWN.

PERSIAN RULER THE VICTIM OF An assassin. Tragic Affair Pregnant with Serion* Consequences—Hints at a Dark Con-spiracy-Man Who Fired'the Fatal Ballet Placed Undei* Arrest. Deed of a Secret Agent. ;» N'asr-ed-Din, the Shah of Persia, has been slain at Teheran, and in the diplomatic offices of the principal capitals of Europe there is serious perturbation. The tragic-affair is pregnant with astonishing results. Once again England will surely have to fight a desperate diplomatic battle with Russia’s czar. for Asiatic Territory.' The--story of the assassination, as telegraphed from Teheran Friday afternoon, contained no hint Of a widespread, conspiracy. It simply stated that while tbe shah was entering the inner court of the shrine of .Shall Abdul | Azim, six miles south Of Teheran, lie was shot t'ErcjSgh the heart; that immediately he was carried to d..s,carriage and in'it conveyed to the palace; "that There he was attended by Dr. Tliologan, his chief physician, and Other physicians who were hastily sent for. But in spite of their combined efforts majesty expired about A o’clock indhe '■afteyii’tJTJir‘'-'TlirnrssTissiii vviTS arrested. At the Persian legation in London the opinion Is expressed that the ifiurder was the deed of a fanatic and was not the outcome of any especially designed movement. But according tit a dispatch which has been received from St. Petersburg, the asanssiin-was n -member of the Babi secret criminal -association which has hitherto made attempts upon the shah’s life with, revolvers. Itis-kflo\v-n-t-h;tft-+heshuh-WHS T -arm»g--Ing for a great celebration of his accession, and it appears that the conspirators were determined that he should not live to enjoy the event. While in a general way Nasr-ed-Din was a humane and a progressive monarch, as far as Asiatic rulers go, still his love for money and for jewels prompted many cruel acts of confiscation and of barbarous punishment that made him thousands of enemies in all classes of society'. It is feared 'that Russian intrigue will bring about disorders in Persia. It is known that the dead monarch coveted Herat, and made a foray in its direction, but a repulse by the British brought him to his senses: Should the new ruler he tempted to make a similar .bellicose essay the results for all concerned would be extremely serious. Persia, Afghanistan, Britain and Itussiy would speedily become embroiled, and, the result could not be predicted. The killing of the shah has most certainly added to the troubles and the complications of the Salisbury cabinet.

RICHARD P. BLAND.

Brief Sketch of Missouri’s Candidate - ——for the Presidency. Richard Parks Bland, whosp presidential boom has been launched by the Missouri silver Democrats, is one of the Tnost, picturesque men 1 in, American political life. He has been" called “Silver Dick,” “Silver Dollar Bl'and,” “Bullionaire Bland” and other soubriquets indicative of the interest he has taken in money matters apd coin. Mr. Bland wqs born in 1835 neat? Hartford, Ivy., in “the Green River country.” Wheri about 20

RICHARD P. BLAND.

years old Bland went to Missouri, where he lived five years and then went to California, and later to Utah. He practiced law among the miners nnd had ample opportunity to study the mineral interests and the relative output of silver and gold. In 1865 he returned to Missouri and settled in Rolla, Phelps County. In 1809 he removed to Lebanon, whic.. is his present home. He was first elected to Congress in 1572. He took his seat the following year after the demonetization of silver.'WTß77 Bland began to fight for free coinage. He was in Congress for twenty-two years, and his most noted measure was a bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, restoring 412 Vi grains of standard silver as the dollar and the limit of value. The bill passed the House and was amended in the Senate. President Hayes vetoed It. Since his defeat in 1894 Mr. Bland has cultivated a farm near Lebhnon, Mo.

IRON IN LABRADOR.

Vast Riches Said to Exist in That Little Known Land. The existence of one of the greatest known deposits of iron ore nnd the fact that the larger portion of the supposed Labrador peninsula is in reality an islund, are among the latest discoveries of A. P. Low, of the Dominion Geological Survey. Mr. Low’s explorations were made in that part of central Labrador in which tha rivers Periboncn, Ontnrde. Moniconagan, and the Big river of Hudson Bay take their rise. The Municongan river was ascended for 200 miles from its mouth to Lake Mochalagun. Thence it was found impossible for a long distance to follow the stream, on account of its rnpid character and the high, rocky banks, which preclude portaging. For over six miles the river descends between almost vertical walls jn a continuous heavy rnpid. The first portage of ii mile and a half has u rise of over 600 feet. , f The deposit of Iron ore reported by Mr. Low is between the headwaters of' Ontarde and ‘Maniconagan rivers. The ore occurs in a gneiss composed of quartz, fuldapur aaul .maguetilt*,,. and according to the proportion of magnetite present grades from ferruginous gneiss into an almost pure iron ore of high grade. This bed, in great thickness, can be traced along the strike of the rocks for upward of thirty miles, and there is an immense niomitnin of almost pure metal, called by the Indians the “shinning mountain” because of the glistening of the ore faces In the sun. when they present a most dazzling appearance. -The provincial government is expected at once to send mining experts to report upon the deposit, but little cun be done toward developing it until a railway la built to it. i

TRIAL OF JACKSON.

Alleged Murderer of Pearl Bryan Fighting for Hie Life. The end is drawing near in the Pearl Bryan murder case —that case so full, of guilty romance, of mystery and of, pathos.

Seldom has a tragedy so engrossed the mind's of the public as this horrible drama of the bleak hills of the Kentucky Highlands, where in the murky gloom of a cold January night the unfortunate victim of her own love iaud a.man’s fiendish ‘scheming was be'headed. No adornment is needed for the story of the crime; if grands

JUDGE HELM.

forth as strange, as weird and as intricate as any yet are all the features in the case made clear; but the trial of Scott Jackson, Which is now progressing in the Campbell County court at, Newport, Ky., will lift fully the verl of inystery. - At)d foH6wing : his-~trlat for the butchery of Pearl Bryan will come that of Ms accomplice, Alonzo Walling. Interest in the trial of Jackson is very deep hnc! very general and the court room, in which Judge Helm, presides, is every

CAMPBELL COUNTY COURT HOUSE. Where the Trial Is Being Held.

day crowded with people, anxious to see the prisdnor and take in every detail of the proceedings. • Judge .Helm and 1 Sheriff Plummer decided to admit only 200 spectators tf> the courfroom at one time. Tickets are given out fur each half day, and no one Will be given tickets twice during the trial. In this way the sheriff hopes to discourage traffic in tickets, which, if placed on sale, would undoubtedly demand a high price. A theory which finds many supporters is that Jackson, will take the, stand and admit he was instrumental in bringing about Miss Bryan's death; that he was a mutual friend of the victim—and Will Wood, and that at their request he agreed to perform the operation and requested Walling to assist him. This they attempted: to do nnd_made a mistake which resulted in death, but the crime was committed in Cincinnati, and with a view to

JACKSON AND HIS AŢORNEYS.

concealing the victim’s identity the body was taken to Fort Thomas and the head severed. Should the truth of this story be established a. conviction in Kentucky could'not stand. Thus there is a possibility—of the -defendant-oseapiog--punish-ment on technicalities,. even though he be guilty. Witnesses were examined Saturday to establish the identity of the headless body found near Fort Thomas as that of Pearl Bryan's and to prove that she was murdered at the very spot where she was found. In the afternoon the defense began to cross-examine witnesses. The method pursued indicated the lines of defense; one that the body was killed by some.drug several hours before it was beheaded where it was found; also that all confessions of Jackson were made under durance, were not voluntary and will be incompetent as evidence.

LITTLE RUTH CLEVELAND.

Thongh the President's Daughter She Had Common Meusles. Doubtless, every plain, ordinary citizen from one end of the country to the other has had the measles at some time or other. The malady is no respecter of persons. It invades the mansion of the rich as well as the lowly cot of the poor; V*- _

RUTH CLEVELAND.

the palace of the king ns well as the hut of the peasant. It entered the home of President Cleveland and two of his little tots were stricken. Esther, the President’s second oldest daughter, wos attacked first. Every precaution was taken to keep it from tin other children, Rutn and Marion, but despite every effort the former, the first born of the President, also fell a victim.

News of Minor Note.

Nine Russian warships are now at Nagasaki, awaiting the arrival of six others. Paderewski, the pianist, hns placed In the hands of William Mason, of New York, and Col. H. L. Higginson, of Boston, as trustees, SIO,OOO for the purpose of establishing triennial prizes for composers ft American birth. Perry S. Heath, who for over two years has been president and general manager of the Commercial Gazette at Cincinnati, has sold his interests in that company, and has resigned and retired from the directory and management. A settlement with the creditors of P. H. Kelly, Of the Kelly Mercantile Company in St. Paul, has been made, and the assignees left for Chicago and the East to meet the creditors elsewhere. The creditors in that city agree to a 60 per cent settlement. The abolishment of the Mexican custom houses in the interior of the country, to take effect July 1 next, the beginning of the new fiscal year, is announced ln t Communication to jibe Postoffice Department here from tne Director General •/ Poets of Mexico.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF PUB NATIONAL" LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of tfife Business. The National Solons. In the Senate Saturday the sundry civil appropriation bill was completed and passed during the day. As it passed the' House it Carried about $30,000,000; as reported to the Senate it reached $35,0Q0,000, and with amendments ‘added the total was raised to $37,000,000. -Most of thetime in the House was occupied with the general pension bill. The debate was generally formal in character. At half-past-2. o’clock, without concluding debate on the bill, the House entered upon the special order—the delivery of eulogies on the late Representative William H. Crane of Texas. Then the House, a,s a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. adjourned until S o'clock. The debate on tne adoption of a rule brought ih by the Rules Committee in the House Monday for a vote on the Pickier general pension bill was rather sensational, though nothing was accomplished. The minority report on the Ijavifie Railroad bill was submitted t« the House by Representative Hubbard of Missouri. It deals exhaustively With the financial conditions of the companies concerned in the proposed funding plan. It argues that the majority hill should not be adopted. The Senate did nothing of importance. - *■ The Senate waß pluufceti into an exciting financial jlehat; Tuesday, after several weeks of serene and formal procedure on: appropriation bills. The naval appropriation hill was umlcr cousideration, and the item of four battle-ships, to cost an aggregate of $15,000,000, served as a text for a speech by Mr. Gorman pointing outthatTherdtffexmes _aftheGovernment! are less than the receipts. Mr. Gorinan’s statements brought on a;i animated controversy,' in which Mr. Sherman, Mr. Hale and'Mr. Chandler joined issues vit'u the Maryland Senator us to the responsibility for the failure of tariff legislation in the present Congress. The House passed the Pickier general pension hill by a vote of IS" to 54. The section to which the bulk the opposition was directed provides that persons otherwise entitled to pensions' shall no be disqualified on account of prior service in the Confederate army, provided they joiitei. the Union forces ninety days before l.oe's surrender. Both House and Senate spent Wednesday jn debate of various measures. Absolutely nothing of importance was done. Tilt; genera! de'bate sfi tile bankruptcy, bill was continued and concluded in the House Thursday. Mr. Bailey of Texas gave notice that he would offer as a “substitute his voluntary bankruptcy bill. The Senate spent another day on the , naval appropriation hill without completing it Mr. Gonnati further opposed the item of four battle ships mid expressed the opinion that the appropriations already ‘made would consume the balance in the treasury. A determination of the number of battle ships has not yet been reached. Mr. Chandler has proposed subsl ituting thirty large and fast torpedo gunboats for two of the battle ships. The hill was passed increasing the pension- of Brigadier General William Gross of the volunteer forces to $75 per month. .' ~ The Senate Friday discussed the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Gorman's amendment reducing from four to two the number of battle ships to be coustructed was adopted in the Senate by a vote of 31 to 27. The House again devoted the iSajor portion of the day to debate on; the bankruptcy bill. Several amendments were altered, but uoue were'adopted. A bill to provide for a delegate in Congress from the territory of Alaska was defeated by a rote of 00'to 44.

Items of Interest.

England's polict; army numbers 40,000 men. Sunflower stalks are now converted into paper. Tlie Cberokees of North Carolina number 2,855. Blotting paper is made of cotton rags boiled In soda. The Russian imperial crown is valued at $0,000,000. The notes of the Bank of England -cost one-halfpenny each; -t:—,, The eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of a goose. The Himalaya Mountains have been seen twenty-two miles away. Railway travel In Xorwny Is eheaper than In any other country of Europe. In Brazil there are said to be 300 languages aud dialects spoken hy the Indians. In the Bermudas accounts are settled but once a year, June 30 being the day fixed for payments. The commander in-chlef of the Sultan of Morocco’s army is a Scotchman, by name Kaid McLain. In marching soldiers take seventyfive steps per minute," quick marching 108 and in charging 150. A healthy man respires 1(5 to 20 times a minute, or over 20,000 a day; a child 25 or 35 times a minute. It Is said that a clock Ims been Invented which requires to be wound only once every hundred years. The number of fleeces taken from our sheep In 1880 was 32,121,808, which made 105,440,230 pounds of wool. The largest ocean creature now known to exist is the rorqual, which often reaches a length of fourteen feet William Strong is the only retired Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States now living. He is SO years old. * • It is said that at Steveus Point, Wls., a local census disclosed a lmsbnnd of 37 and wife of 140 who had a grandchild 5 years old. ' There are 107,140,420 acres of timber lands In the Southern States, qhd the average yield of these forests is 3,000 feet per acre. J. C. Kissinger, a successful funner and banker of Butler Couuty, Pa., Is the father of thirty-four children, nineteen by bis first wife aud fifteen by a second. The oldest chestnut tree may be that at Torwortb, which is 50 feet In circumPCTPnee,: Aslong ago as 1135 it was a landmark. An electric system of intercommunication for trains is being tried on the London Southwestern Railway, doing away with the overhead cord for Communicating from nuy part of the train to the locomotive. The New York Lenox avenue conduit road (underground trolley) has emerged saccessTuHy from thirtests-tDwrhleh the severe storms of last winter subjected It. The equipment of this line Is to be increased.

ENGLAND IS EXCITED.

EVIDENCE AGAINST JOHANNESBURG CONSPIRATORS, Rhodes in the Plot—London Times Admits His Guilty Knowledge— Chartered Company Furnished Him Arms and Money. r ' V Approved the Jameson Raid. It would be difficult to overestimate ths sensation which haa been, caused in England by the publication of the substance of the telegrams and docifments which have come into t.hj possession of the authorities of the South African republic. The weight of evidence which they furnlsh againsFTiersons to whom they were addressed and by whom they were signed, of being engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the Transvaal is admitted to be crushing. The opinion of the press very

CECIL RHODES.

generally condemns them. But strenuous efforts are being made to prevent, a sweeping condemnation of the authorities of Cape Colony and, of the British Chartered South Africa Company, other than individuals whose names are included in the documentary evidence. - ~ The j-.ondon Times in an editorial on the subject says: “It is impossible to ignore the gravity of the conclusion, to which the published telegrams point. They establisn beyond the possibility of a doubt that lion. Cecil Rhodes, the then premier of Cape Colony; Mr. Alfred Beit, a director in the British South Africa Company, and Mr, Rutherford Harris, secretary of the British South Africa Company, were privy to. the movement agaihst Johannesburg, and that the leaders of the movement counted upon their help and countenance to insure its success. ' “These telegrams must he taken to prove that Mr. Rhodes approved the revolution which was desired in Johannes•burg, hilt nothing in the correspondence goes to show that the actual crossing of (the frontier by Dr. Jameson, under the jcircutnstanees under which it eve ritually, occurred, was known to Mr. Rhodes or carried out with his approval. The reasons which actuated Dr. Jameson in

JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, The American Mining Engineer Whose Death Sentence Has Been Commuted in the Transvaal.

crossing the frontier when he did remain shrouded in mystery. His conduct awaits the explanation he may have to give at his trial.” A Pretoria dispatch gives the substance of an interview with President Kruger, In whicn he su'd that he had scratched the death sentence at once, to show that after the law had been vindicated there was HO vindictive personal feeling on the part of himself or the Government. It 4s- rumored also that President Kruger has received a personal cable dispatch from President Cleveland in reference to John Hays Hamilton.

Many State Conventions.

The Mississippi Democratic convention indorsed free silver and Cleveland. The Georgia Republican convention selected tnree McKinley delegates. The fourth is understood to favor Reed. They are not instruCed Sound money was indorsed, \ lif a furor ■ of enthusiasm the Vermont Republican eouvention declared its preference for McKinley, but refrained from instructing its delegates. Sound money ' was indorsed. The McKinley Republicans of Alabama have agreed to co-operate with the A \ar bama Populists. The failure of the McKinley faction to put up a sound money ticket is a disappointment to sound money Republicans. The Miebignn Democratic convention indorsed Cleveland and sound money. The free silver men made a brave tight and wore defeated by a small majority. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the A. P. A. The Tennessee Prohibition convention defeated a resolution to indorse the free coinage of silver. The platform declare* against the liquor power, for national prohibition organizations, for woman suffrage, more money for schools, a graduated income tax, local option for titles, and a State constitutional convention.

SHARPSHOOTERS AT ST. LOUIS.

National Tourney In June Equipped with a Fine Programme. Arrangements have been made for the grand national sharpshooters’ tournament to be held in St. Louis on June 13, 14 and

15. It will Im‘ held under the auspiepq, of the ,Central Association at their park at Bobringville. The program is a bin g aml interesting one. The shoot will be open to all corners. Kv-, cry shooter that competes will ho obliged to pnrebnse ■« festival • ticket, which will cost him sl. aud will be good for entrance dirring the tournament. The principal target will be the Point and i King. The prize medul

THE KING MEDAL

for the target is worth SIOO. Fifty, prizes in money ranging from $25 to $1 will be added. The prizes attaching to the other targets are all valuable, and wjll bring out. some of the best shots In the country. Sportsmen say the tournament will hbve a very large attendance.