WITH A PEN KNIFE. I A Principal in tha Notorious Bice Case Tries to Suicide. Jklli(re signed by the mil lionaire; the refusal of one bank to cash the checks drawn on it and th® discover* by the bank officials that Mr. Kiee was dead at the lime the checks were presented; the subse quent claim by Patrick that Mr. Kiee had made him by will the trustee of his estate, -vhioh amounts anywhere from $3,000,000 to $8,000,000; the charge of forgery both as regards the checks and the will placed against Patrick and Mr. Wire's valet, Charles J'. Jones; the arrest of Patrick and Jones and their lodgment in jail, have kept New York interested for over a month in what, by the developments of yesterday, promises to become the most celebrated of the many cele brated crimes which the courts of this city have been called onto investi gate. The first incident which led rp to the climax was the fact disclosed on Wednesday that Valet. Jones had been taken to the district attorney's ollice and the subsequent rumor that he had made a confession to the author ivies. Before the public had time to learn if the report of a confession was true, came the more startling news that during the night Jones had in his cell in the Tombs attempted sul fide by cutting his throat with a pen knife gi\en him, he says, by Attorney Patrick, also confined in the Tombs, and for the purpose of getting rid of one witness to Patrick's alleged crime. His crime, according to the confes sion of Jor.es, parts of which the dis trict attorney's office gave out. was nothing less than the murder of Ihe millionaire by Attorney Patrick and the purloining of valuable papers re lating to the estate. The taking off of Mr. fiice. says Joncfe, was caused by the internal administration of some poison, supposedly mercury, and the final application of a towel satu rated with some anesthetic, pi • sum nbly chloroform. Jones also said. "After the body had been laid out Patrick gathered up all the letters.l was with him and had as much as he to do with lhat. He gathered up two watches and all the money that was in the trunk. Patrick selected such as lie wanted from the papers. He told me that lie wanted all the valuable paper. The next day he returned and had with' him bank books and check books. He haction on the third clause relat ing to future procedure in case any power seizes territory. ESCAPED FROM JAIL. Tilree Prltonitri Get Away from the .Titulary Frlaou on Alcatraz Inland. San Francisco, Nov. 2. —Three pris oners have escaped from the military prison on Altai raz island. One of the escaped prisoners was Frank Kinne, who was under a sentence of 15 years for desertion and treason. Kinnc was brought here a few months ago In irons, from Manila. He had deserted his command and accepted a commis sion in the Filipino army, lie was caught leading a charge of insur gents. In the number captured by the American troops at the time Kinnc was taken were several American prisoners. Kii.ne claimed to be him self a prisoner of the Filipinos, but lire American? who were witii the party declared this to be a falsehood and denounced the man as a traitor < nil a rebel. The others who escaped with Kinnc were C. J. Huntington, under sentence of ten years, and J. M. Potts, serving five years. BOTH IN ONE CLASS. A Chicago Judge Ha* the Itls&t Idea About Hoard ol' Trade and Bucket Shop Heal*. Chicago, Nov. 2. —Judge Vail in op-si court Thursday created u sensation by the declaration that in his opinion dealing on the Chicago board of trade and dealing in one of the institutions which, tlie members ol the board of trade had stigmatized as a ."bucket shop" were pracfieaily the same, lie stated that the same thing was called "gambling" in the bucket shops, and "speculation" on the board of trade, but that both were "betting, pure anil simple." The occasion for these remarks was furnished in the closing of the case brought by the central slock anii t»r.ii ii exchange against the board of trade for an injunction lo prevent Ihe board from slopping it from re ceiving quotations. Judge \ nil post poned a formal decision. A Iteeelver Appointed. Chicago, Nov. 2.—C01. Thomas W. Scott was yesterday appointed receiv er of the Horn. Forum Benefit Order, a fraternal insurance society with headquarters in Chicago. State su perintendent of Insurance Van Cleave asked the circuit court to make the appointment. The state official de clares the liabilities of the order as disclosed in its annual statement re ceived by him last month are $270,000 in excess of assets. The figures giv en in the annual statement place th> assets of the order on October 27 at !M 7,000 and the* liabilities at #317,000. There are 30,000 members in the or der. The lloadi ape KcNpoiiMlble. Chicago, Nov. 2. —According to a de cision by the I'nited States court of appeals in the'case of the Chicago, hock Island Pacific Railroad ( o. against Nancy A. Wood, railroads are responsible for the safety of their passengers while in their stations for a reasonable time after descending from trains, and the relatiens <»;' car rier and passengers continue until j passenger quits the station or depot. Suit was brought by Mrs. Wood to recover damages for bodily in.juri..s she received while inn railroad sta tion belonging to the ltock isla:id. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1900. HOPE LONG DEFERRED. When Itlfhri Came at Lar t Georgt Wedekind Had Lost Ilia Capao it> for Kn joy went. Luck, as it is interpreted in the mining camp, has been emphasized in the case of George Wedekind, of Reno, Nev. Years and 3'ears ago, when George Wedekind was young, he went west in a fever for gold. All up and down the famed coast country of the Cali fornias he wande:ed, bootless. The gold was not for him. As the country settled he drifted from town to town, tuning pianos. It was his trade. He brought his wife to Reno, finally, and the two settled (.awn to the scant ex istence that j.iano tuuing in a western town afforded. UNCOVERED A GOLD MINE. (After Many Years Fortune Smiled on George Wedekind.) Wedekind was 72 years old when one day he went hunting, tven the game had suffered f'-om the civiliza tion that had come to the state and then gone to such measures as to leave it a population less than it had when admitted to the union. He was discouraged with hunting and was re turning moodily homeward. Climbing down the siue of a bluff hi 3 foot slipped— And uncovered a gold mine! He saw the unmistakable "color" in the yellow earth and he staked right and left. Reno awoke to a new gold fever and the stakes were planted everywhere that they had not been driven before. One hundred thousand dollars was bid for his first claim and the old man and his wife are said to be worth $1,000,000. But long j'ears of hardship have dis counted this great sum. Privation and makeshift means to live have so affected the old peopie that they have little capacity for enjoyment of their gTeat wealth. They live in the same little house in the same frugal way that they had lived for 30 years or more. They have better food and better clothes, but the old man's chief pleasure is to "potter" around the mine, while the wife sits with folded hands looking across the alkali plains, day-dreaming. HIS RISE WAS RAPID. Career of Connt Iluelow, Germany's New Clmneellor, Considered Phenomenal by European*. Count Bernhard von Buelow, who has crowned his rapid and brilliant rise to political power and fame by becoming the chancellor of Germany in the place of Holienlohe-Schilling furst, has the shortest career of any of the great statesmen and uiplomats of the world. At he finds himself at a pinnacle of eminence reached by others only after laborious and haz ardous toil and Waiting. Von Buelow until 1880 hai done no better than serve as the secretary of embassy at Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna. Until 1888 he had not reached the dig nity of plenipotentiary, and he was then made minister to the insignifl- COUNT VON BUELOW. (Just Appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.) cant post of Roumania. In 1893 hs was appointed to the mission to Italy, where he remained several years. In 1897 Count von Buelow was selected by the kaiser for the post of foreign minister, and since that time he has been the emperor's right-hand man. During his ministry in tne foreign of fice he has developed splendid capa bilities in statecraft, which will have the freest play should he succeed to the station once occupied by Bis marck. American Salmon in Demand. Another American product that is already affected by the Chinese war is canned salmon. Besides a shortage of from 500,000 to 730,000 cases, as compared with last year, the Jap anese government is placing heavy or ders in the local market for salmon to feed its army. BATTLING FOR LIFE. Widow of Stonewall Jackson, Fa mous Southern Hero. fin* Recently I'ndergone an Opera tion from Wlioae Result* She May Not Recover—Hf r Home Life ait Charlotte, N. t. Rome weeks ago the widow of Gen. Stonewall Jackson had a critical oper ation performed in a Baltimore hos pital, and her friends are afraid that she will not recover from its effects. Although now over 70 years old her face, according to a Charlotte (N. C.) correspondent of the Chicago Chron icle, retains much of the beauty which enthralled the then awkward, diffident young military cadet from Lexington when he first met her as Anna Mor rison at the home of Gen. David Ilill. Her black, luxuriant hair has few traces of gray and her blac.i eyes are piercing and lustrous still. Since the death of Mrs. Jackson's only child, Mrs. Christian, several years ago, she has devoted her life to her grandchildren, who reside with her. Her home is a plain two-story building on Trade street, Charlotte, X. C. To the unpretentious dwelling, however, a picturesque charm is given by ivy and madeira vines climbing at will about the veranda, violet bordered walks leading to the hospitable door way and stately magnolias casting their luxuriant foliage over the whole. Within is the refined atmosphere of a typical southern home. In the draw ing-room the most conspicuous object Is a large oil painting of Gen. Jack son. Portraits of other heroes whose memories are still sacrsd in the hearts of old confederates are also hung everywhere upon the walls, inter spersed with tattered flags and other trophies of the lost cause. Here the widow of one of the great military geniuses of the world has passed her peaceful days, busied with her household duties or superintend ing the education of her grandchil dren. In her "Life of Jackson" she said: "The home of my girlhood was a large, old-fashioned house, surround ed by an extensive grove of pine for est trees, on a plantation in Lincoln county, N. C. My father was Rev. Dr. Robert Hall Morrison, ths first MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON. fWldow of Famous Southern Hero Now at Death's Door.) president of Davidson college. He was a graduate of the university of the state, and of the same class as President James K. Polk, Bishop Green and others of note in church and state." Mrs. Jackson's mother was Mary Graham, daughter of Gen. Joseph Graham, of revolutionary fame, and sister of Gen. W. A. Graham, who was once secretary of the navy. Mrs. Jackson was one of ten chil dren, six daughters anu lour sons. She spent much of her early life in Washington with her uncle, Gen. Graham. While on a visit to Lexing ""ton, Ya., she met her future husband, then Prof. T. J. Jackson, whom she married in July, 1857. Gen. Jackson died in 1563, May 10, and left hit widow and one child, a girl, Julia, who was but a few months old. Tho two and the skillful old nurse Hetty returned to the Morrison home in Lincoln county, where they lived a quiet life until Julia was reany to en ter college, when the mother and child moved to Charlotte. After finish, ing school Julia married E. Chris tian, a talented newspaper man, now in the service of the Seaboard Air line railroad at Portsmouth, Ya. Airs. Jackson lived with the young couple in St. Paul, Minn., Minneapolis and other western towns up to 1889, when Mrs. Christian died, after which she returned to her home in Charlotte and brought with her Juiia and Jack son Christian, her grandchildren. Miss Christian, sister of Mrs. Jack son's son-in-law, came to live with her. Mrs. Jackson's Charlotte home is very near the Southern railway sta tion, where an aged Mexican war vet eran who served under Jackson has stood for years as guard. He took great pride in guarding Mrs. Jacksor, and lost no opportunity to point out the house to strangers. The house is a plain two-story frame building and the yard is adorned by several beauti ful evergreen trees. When at home Mrs. Jackson lived a simple but pleas ant life, surrounded oy her bright grandchildren, who are now off at school. Mrs. Jackson spent part of every year at Lexington, Ya., her health permitting. It was there that she spent her married lfe and where hci husband and daughter are buried. Mrs. Jackson is an ideal southern lady of the old school. She is presi dent of the Daughters of the Confed eracy and regent of the Daughters ot the Kevoluion. ALTOGETHER TOO SHY. Q,ueer Kirutr Given hy n Pretty Girl for Wlidui tlir llrldrKroum Waited Luna; in Vain. Mary Pliska, shy as a chamois, donned her wedding dress at her home in New Britain, Conn., the oth er evening and made all preparations to accompany her parents to the cozy little home that Michael Neidboler had prepared for her and there to be married to him. Michael and his friends were wait ing. It was to be an eventful mar riage, for Mary was pretty and Michael was popular. When the bride and her parents were not on hand at the appointed moment, the prospec tive bridegroom was made the object of jests, lie laughed with the jesters. AND THERE HE FOUND MARY. (Connecticut Girl Who Was Too Shy to Bs Married.) When five minutes had passed the jests became more pointed and the shafts of witticism sank deeper, but still Michael laughed. When ten min utes had passed, and then 15 minutes, and then half an hour, Michael was decidedly uneasy. Then a messenger handed a note to Michael. He suddenly left, without giving an excuse, and went directly to the home of Papa and Mamma Pliska. They were in a state of great excite ment. They could not find Mary! She had robed herself in her wedding gown with her mother's and then, when her mother left tc put on her hat, Mary mysteriously disappeared. Michael thought deeply. At last h# asked the parents if they had gone to the home of a chum of Mary. They hail not. liut they were sure she had not gone there. Nevertheless, Michael got into a carriage and drove rapidly to the home of Mary's chum. And there he found Mary—all dressed in her bridal robes, with a bunch of real orange blossoms in her hair, crying her pretty eyes out. Michael asked her why she had not come to the house. She cried in an swer. He asked her again; and then, amid her sobs, she told him she had feared to face the crowd that would witness the ceremony. Michael left without a word. He drove back to his cottage, told the guests what had happened and that the wedding was off. Some of them suggested that he take the priest to the home of Mary's chum and be mar ried there. But Michael told them he did not care to marry a girl who had insulted him before his friends. And the marriage ceremony has never been performed. FAITH IN BALDWIN. Millionaire Who Will Spend a Fortune on Expedition, Con fident He Will Reach Pole. William Ziegler, the New York bak ing powder manufacturer, who is will ing to spend $1,000,000 on the Baldwin expedition to the north pole, which will start next year, says he is sure Baldwin will not return without hav ing reached the pole. "I am a busi ness man,"he said, in an interview in WILLIAM ZIEGLKR. (Baking Powder Magnate Back of ths Baldwin Expedition.) New York, "and accustomed to look at things only from a business stand point. If I did not feel absolutely sure that this expedition will be suc cessful I would not waste my money and Mr. Baldwin would not waste his time. The race to get to the north pole first is not a race between two or three men; it is a race between nations. I do ijot want to see an Italian or a Norwegian reach the north pole first. I think this country is great enough and progressive enough to have that honor. It is sim ply a matter of national pride with me. 1 have every confidence in Mr. Balwin. He is a man of determina tion and will to get. to the pole if it is within human pwer to do so. lie will not turn back and come home." Two Horticultural Freaka. White blackberries and green roses have been propagated in Louisiana this year. REVIEW OF TRADE. Encouraging Signs Noted itt the Iron Industry. BUYING HAS INCREASED* Full Forces at Work in Eastern Shoe Factories. WOOL MARKET IMPROVES* A Tendency Toward Better Price# for Till* Staple I» Reported -The Cotton market fiirlUliy Kecover* from ttio He<'«ut Decline. Now York, Nov. 3. —R. G. Dun