—————— I — ———— THE NEWS, The Supreme Court of Nevada bas sus- tained the decision of the district court in the case of Mrs, Hartley, who killed State Senator M. D. Foley in ber studla at Reno, and was sentenced to eleven years’ imprison ment, Ia a Cincinnati Southern freight wree , caused by a broken axle, near Dan- ville, Ky., Stanley Davis, from Chattanooga, and D, R. Stokes, an negro from Georgia, both tramps, were killed, Five other tramps wero slightly injured ——Indian Agent Beck, with a force of Indian police, began evicting sett ers from the land of the Flournoy Com- pany. — Attor: ey General Haskell of Mon- taon, married Miss Ella IL. Knowles, the as- sistant attorney general, —— Advices from the Society Islands to San Francisco report the marriage of United States Consul Jacob Lamb to a native Tahite girl, —C. W. Win- tbhrop, & cemetery superintendent in San Francisco, is suspected of having caused the death of Mrs, Jennie Matthews in San Frau- cisco. Charles “Viley, Maud Katie Johnson, Knagge pond, near Effingham, was overturned, and Wiley, Katie Johnson and Maud Myers were drowne l. a student at Austin frosts have not hurt the wheat crop in Dakota Nearly iour hundred employes of Nut and Boit Work | in Wiley was College, ——The the Upson Clocinnati, O., who wages last week, returned Provideace, R. L, Lous P, Lejeune, former bookkeeper of the firm of Waldron, Wright. man & Co., was acquitted by Judg + Wubur, of the charge ol 3 &5,000 of the technicality, ——Hall a dozen depaty Uaited States marsha s to WOrk, ————Atl emberz.ing firm's money, on a raided a camp of whiskey paddieraon the line ol the Kickapoo reservation, four north shawnee, and in the fight that ensued two of the pe Idlers were killed miles and two wounded Jud se Shackleford, M ssouri, bas ia- structed t :e jury at Jefle son City to investi. gate the charge, of brivery against the legis- lature, ——The Charles A. Wood extensive dealers Cleveland, have G. Kassoulker, A $70,000, A move on the creditors to push their claims caused the as- vigan House of sigament, — [ha Mic sen'a ives has passed an Ans G roenlen: seventy-nine years « tis said that the ‘onfederate Veterans Texas, have a p an to run for president.— The Sound Money ¢ Goaaeral Schofleld javen- tion bezan at Memphi« General ( of Mississippi, was e.ected an sichings, chairman, Beore- tary Carlisle made exhaustive speech against [ree silver, The Supreme Court, four, decided the Inco by a vols of flve to 0-lax aw eonstitational, Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion of the sourt. ——The Governor ol Minnesota signed the death warrant of Harry Hayward, cotvicted of inciting the murder of Cather ine Glog, in cation being sot for June 21, —=Crawford & Yalentine, one of the largest stock brokerage Orms in Chicago, me nt, ——Mrs. Warrick, a farmer's wile, i Oskaloosa, Ia. gave poison dren and then committed ol aborate cerem ment at Raleigh N. C the speakers wers Gen. Bradisy T and ex-Governor Hot —Tte building on X. Eroad street, to be un, Minneapolis, the exe made an assign- to her three of suicide nies the Confederate mo , was unveiled, An Johnson, oogh, shot and killed William Lonard io a saloon in Aspen, Col, jared, and McDonough is in the city jail, — Charlies M elster, a teamstier of Ore, and aeld her head under until she was drowned. Three of his small standing pear and Thomas McLaren, the murderer ol Threa others were fn- Grants Pass, threw his wile into a poo of water, children were witnessed the act. was to twenty years' imprisonment by the court Jennie Koittel his mistress i i Stanford estate have been withdrawa in court in San Francise) by the authority and cretion of all interested parties, was for £51,000 against the estate shall Williamson. The other was 090, held by Horace talist, of allas Dean, was sentenced to four years in Folsom for counterfeiting by United Judge Hawley in San Francisco, postmaster at The Needles, Cal, ment against his George and Arthur Watkins, aged five and eight years, respectively, were burned death in the r home in Nanticoke, Pa. dis- Farren wns to The out, aad the smoke was so denso that they could not be rescued, Maud Watkins, sged eleven years, was also seriously burned, —— The Merchants’ National Bank of Seattle, Washington, suspended. Five caus»! £10.00) dumage in Ange lea N. XY, ——=At Oregon, Mo,, Miss Ads Wolpen- berger was outraged and then murder. ed. A younger sister is missing, Every briekyard in Chicago is tied up as a resuit of the strike in that city, —DBurginrs blew open the vault at the state bank at Oaeida, Kan,, and got away with £1,800 —The Ocelda (N. Y.) rvlilng mills were destroyed by fire ; loss $40,000 ~The Creek nation is in a state of insurrection against the tribal heads of the gov:ornmedt., The misappro- priation of funds is the cause, Armed bands are moving on Okmuggee, the capital from differést parts of the nation. —The Stock Feeders’ Association o! Eastern Routt county, Co orade, pawed resolutions forbid. ding sbeepmen til {roe dom of the Bar River Valley. The sh en will probably di.re, gard the warning. The stock fedders have a force of 800 to 1,000 men ready to resist any advances, aod war is iraminent, Prince Alexander von Hohealohe-Sehii- lingsfurst, youngest son of the chaneellor cf the German empire, was married to Princess Emman von Bolms-Lranufels, widow of the lave Prince George von Solms-Braunfels, The bride bs forty-one years old and the groom thirty-three, Latest Details of the Armenian Massacre. WHOLE FAMILIES KILLED. Terrible Torture of Der Hohannes, the Priest-Escaped Hefugees Appear Before the Armenian Commission at Moosh and Tellof the Sas- soun Disaster, ailoged Armenian par- ‘A letter relating to the atrocities has been received Ly reliable ties in Boston from an American resident in in its nterviews wi bh refugees and re. been Eu. Turkey, the value of which consists accounts of § have turned soldiers, some of whom witnesses before the commission ol the ropean powers, “While at Moogh, February 15-27, 1585, 1 w a jarge number of persons who bad es of dred. horror they had found a temporary reiuge aw Kin Having fled from the scenes in the ¢i.y and surrounding villages. 1 a man by thename of Tavon, a most intel ligoot person, ‘‘rais’’ of the village of Semal deeply pathetic account of his ex- He is ono of in Moosh prison He gave a arieu cos peri five Urothers, one whom died three bro and a large number from their househol f the massacre, were killed at the time « “*Tavon said the attacked , but were 1 bile t« 1» mush 8 the Armenians b tha ac that when errand had br yf the Sarsons was ; NAR n Hstriot. in « allowed thi » take away bis pierced hi 3 to drink a cu mmediately after this the sold the ¢ and a or by i ars wore rder to charge dreadful bayonets jollowed, Early in this massacre Avak Was severa y woun led and fell remained for a time unconscious beneath the others soon fe Bn, but he Rousing from hi« wel ne night he ¢ bodies of the slain, leath stupor i ricated with much diffi uity by ng around him, way to tid lor fools and gum pu he corpses above and rly and patiently he made his some low bushes, among whieh he three days, eating leaves, from the shrubs, “A cousin, Hashig by Sema! village, in passing and heiped him to get Lo the shelter ol some great rocks not far away, Hare, in pain and weak. name, aiso from saw Avak, ing him a litt @ food by stealth, could walk, he set out alone, Finding he and by slow the village of Shushanamerg, where be had an nnele liv. ing. Here his friends wrapped him in the When able to te removed he was taken to a shoiter where say and straw were kept, in the out, skirts of the village, “After about a month's stay there he re turaed to Semal where surviving members of his father's family were, aad had begun to renew some of the houses whic the soidie a had torn down and burned a sb’ £1 time ago, The attempt to rebuild was in obedience to the order of the governor to his subo™dis notes, “Avak was living witha fow others whe had escaped the massacre, whon word reache | them that foreign consuls had arrived at Moosh, and wished to see persons who could testily concerning the events at Sassoun, He eame to Periag village, and was kept for about 10 days in hidiag there, The Tarks bavinz hosed that a man from Semal wns there trind to find Lim. “The villagers believed, and with good reason, that they sought him with the intent to hinder him from appearing b efor - the com mission, He came to ns disguised in woman's dress, nad we put him in an inser room He remained there until dusk, when we sent him away, and he was taken in charge by the Gregorians, The English Consul approved, and at Jenth the poor man was ableto appear before the commission. We saw the soars of the bayonet wounds, 22 on his back and nearly as many on bis bead, 1 shall never forget that sight, “1 saw also another refugee, who sald he was from Semal ; that his name was Asda. door, and that four from his femily had been killed, He alinded 10 the terrible tortures foflicted on Der Hohanne-, to his having his eyos takon out while he was alive, &o, WHOLE FAMILIES MURDERED, “At Dekevauk I saw three women refugees from Bemal, of them, with quivering lips and quietly weeping, sal i: ‘1 bad two brothers, and other relatives killed," All three women sald, with emphasis, that the vinck soldiers (alludin ; to dark unl. by bayonet large numbers of people. They added that pro. tection was offerel the w men and children on condition that should adopt the Moselm faith: but, they added, ‘rather than do this we fled,’ After hiding in tbe shelter of rocks for several days they able to One a son-in-law form) attacked ani siew they wore make their escape. “At Havadoric a by of Terr: s also from Semal, told methat his son a brother, a brother's daughter and a sister wore kil He stated that man the pame ’ sd in the 1 alter fivedayss of the dire conflict he fled and hid for ten while on the Ir IASBAOIE fay among trees, subsisting menn- ul: of & kind of thistie sta ad tha: he helped open a pit or trench a tha } j ' ried five Hohant ieath after A pro- and removed and bu whom was the sald, privat, met his the hands « idiers, nged tortures at He raid they w more bodies and bury sm, but the stench of the g bodies was 80 grees fod: ‘At tho time I buried my sis- 3d it Is now When his broth r was the balr, a is my soldiers, he cK to his to The are going vranos, {f Rahan, { Havadori: of whom fi yours away captive saw the boy, and for a ransom ' Lea. Lree shee; Shamman bad a about 8 years with her, be sscajed, and the mothes sacked the ing lor sieep in IWOWer pas thus was san, “A woman [1 village of houses, tol rm AKpes, a ne she es raped Ly soidl re: ‘I'll br a Turk aad Dlilowy she saw them said kill when as ber husband, and idier seiz sd her sho appealed to aa offleer cl« He verasy, - mnlarir is fore § se by, imploring bim for her life said, ‘Let her g ihey Leat here se. took most ©! her clothes, then al lowe | her 10 run away, “Sao said she could h ardiy get on Lecause of the sinin persons who covered the ground and that s vmetimes she had to step She bid among rocks, aud finaly escaped, but was sick a month from the ef, fec.s of the she said that several women, who, having bidden them« eives and children be hind trees and rocks, ¢ hoke their younger children whea upon the 20T pees, cruel beating she received, she knew they be, cries and discover them, too, the children’s mouths with dirt to drown their 2rion, especialy whens they saw anyone UrawWilg near, “1 saw one woman and heard of another who were begging in the streets of Moosh' ihe Ly the torrivie experiences they hal passed through, CHILDREN HACKED TO PIECES, “Some of the most harrowiog sto.les we have heard bave boen told by the soldiers themselves, not a fow of whomoaim to have been very unwilling agents, bat compelied to obey the commands of their sapsriors Oae soldier, on hee return to Mocsh alters.augnie gave the followin: incident: ‘‘Dariag the terrible time at the province, in pwsiag by a fleld one morning, ne saw a it le motion among the grain, and drawing near found three littie boys huddied together. He told them not to be airsid, he would take care of them, “Upon reporting tho esse to his superior officer, he was allowed to Lriag the boys into eamp and maks a littie booth-like sheiter for them, He fod them several days, and hopel to save their lives ; bat aller acout a wesk had passed, when he weat to sarry them bread one day, he [ound they bad veen wan- tonly murdered, ——— Count Kolnoky. Aus'rian minister of for . Mga « Maden, bine resigned and the Empero 3a accepted th resigontion, Every Section of the Income Tax Unconstitutional. THE COURT STOOD 5 70 4. Chief Justice Fuller Read the Opin- lon of the Maljority.-Justice Jackson Dellvers an Extem- poraneous Opinion and Re~ turns to Philadelphia. The income tax ‘aw is no longer upon thy woks, It has been declared by the United Stat + Supreme Court unconstitution- un: in every particular, All of the ten tions of the tariff act of 1894 which relates to there 1s statute Lec somes have Lo sn wiped out aod a vestige of the law lef, Upon the question of the geaeral constita- of the law Lhe cour: fol- sould us lows: ¢ Against the law-—-Chlel Justice tices Fleld, Gray, Brewer, and Iww-~Justices Harlan Jrown, 1 White, i«.on by Was ren Presenc s Assent opened Liack-gown~d an When the ( hie! pet ied great » deeision they n thir ioather Justios White ‘throwing back his bead turnisg his face, with his eyes tightly ol to the panc.od celling if ng. Detween the pi & i r # and the rich red curtaln that orm a tmckgroucd to the bench, stood the pagos, mbarrassed, Overhead agiided whiie still the de.orted g go den wings, ' vaul'el rool was Lity ani as Lare as a OF THE MAJORITY DECISION, ol introcuciory busi. read at stice pr coeded to oh earnestness and feeling the He beld whieh nuliified the law, he sheets of paper upon jnsiened “on His great shock of upon his brow and tut them, white hair fe, ols glnsses, His voice was low genes, attention to the reading which lasted fo, summed up in the lollowihg words: Firsi-~ We adhere to the opinion announce aiready that taxes on real estate being undisputably direct taxes, taxes on the rents or income of faxes, Second -—We are of the opinion that taxes personal property, are .ikowise direct taxes, Tard 87, inc usive, of the act of 1894, so far as It fails on the income of real estate and of per- sonal property, being a direct tax within the meaniog of the Coustitution, and, therefore, unconstitutional and void, because not ap portioned according to representation all these sections constituting one extite scheme of taxation sre necossarily invalid, The decrees hercinbefore entered in this court wil be vacated, the decrees below w. li be reversed, and the cases remanded with in structions to grant the reliel prayed, Chief Justice Fuller was followed by Jus. tices Harlan, who sat next to him on the bench Jus joo Harlan supported the law, Iu doing this, however, ho set all preceden- of conservative utterance at naught, He made an almost personal aitack upon the justices who had concuired in the majority opinion, be was caustic in review of their de oision, and he added the emphasis of gesture 0 his vigorous words, Justios Jackson's dissenting opinion was delivered extemporaneously, and was pune” tuated by paroxysms of coughing which was paintal to wittess, His words were listened to with a pathetio interest, due to the fact Inst utter thant he was probably mak ug hi anes upon the beoeh, His address was brief byt foreibie, Justies Drown then 1end an opinion insupport of the law emphasizing the declar- ation that the decision ofyttbe majority laid a Leavy burden upou the general tax-payer while the wealthy was allowed their just proporiton taxation to os0ipe Jus foe Wolte concluded the delive y of the digsent- of ing opinions with au address as remarkable as that uttered by Justics Harlan, When the court adjournel the Chief Jus. tice announced that it would finally adjourn for the term on Monday, June 2, REV. WILLIAM SMITH. Under the direction of R the second American national pilgrimage to European shrines will leave New York, July 10, on the The success of the first pilgrimages which took v Will'am Bmith, | steamship Wesiornland. i plas last year, was great, and at the special | request of Pope Leo the present one is un. — - s—— i dertaken., There wil tha ihe | i rill be visited, hundred in arty, shrines is thoroughly verse! a a —————————_ ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Leenlereq co ; 'ro- American . Ida., has been elect. He HAP ar oor! anerport ga Ciy and Azua During tl ngo by the Spaniard- President nHEXA or Bpan- Hope author of William Harver, “Colin's Ficancial resuit of b ydd men of the Sa is fanaticis: iay. wer of autho are more peactrating and inf iin tbe Western rural wor Heo is ager in Vieginia, taugh school, £8 0! the DBitde, a son of tried law, ut is now providing brains for Southern and and, whatever may be sald of the quality, is makiog noaey, DYNAMITE EXPLODES. Western free silver editors, One Man Killed and Others Severely Injured While Removing Stumps A terrible accident took place cn the farm of J. J. Martin, of Phijadeipha, which Is tenantad vy W. C. Pyle. situated on the Eik River, five miles from Chesapeake City, Md Mr. Pyle with a number of assis ants bad been engaged for soma days in removing | stumps in a pew made fleld, using dynamite | eartrid ges for the purpore. Wiliam Havelow 0.0 of the assistants, bad jas placed a car. tridge iu position whon a premature explo. sion ocourred, hurling the men through the William Havelow, was frightfuily ia cer. ated and portly dismembered and expired shortly. The fojor ed ats W, C. Prie, aged 44 years, Frank Have ow, 40 years, and ason of Frank Havelow, w 0 will die from the effects o his Injuries, Ls 55. 5: PLUNGE OF A SCARED HORSE — The Animal Jumped Into a Crowd of Women and Children. A sorious runaway accident occurred at Fort Wayne, lad, during the Ringling Brothers circus parade, Bix'eon persons, most women and ehildr. n, were injured and two will die, The runaway horse, hitohed to a carriage s'ood quietly until over half the procession had passed, When the herd of elephants ar. rived, the animal jumped high in the air, breaking the bridle, The horse made a wild plunge upon the sidewa ik and leaped into the midst of at least fifty people, Defensoloss women with babies in their arms leaped into the street and others fell headlong into the store doorways, At least ten bany buggies were standing on the side. walk direotly in tse pata which the hores pursael anti oaptured, FENNSYLVANIA ITEMS — Epitome of News Cleaned From Various Parts of the Btate The people living near the Union Depot, by n terrific expic- siontbat shattered windows for a whole block, An showed that the entire jront of Pagliano & bad teen blown to I feces, Carlisle, were awakened investigation Co.'s store Upon further search it way found to have been caused by placiag a dy- namite cartridge under the door. It shattered the payment as well as demolished the front of the store, There Is no ciue to the trators of the deed, perpe- Ey u coal and gas deal 1,000 acres of in B« land uth and West Mahoning Townships has rausferred to an cate which will develop Indianapolis syndl- Oil and gas will be dril are armors elated, 80 far this month twenty-two cas f been reporte were thelr ve Deen also several deaths, Presbyterian General ro- try 10 8 for«ign Gove ty the Dethiebem Iron Assem! iy ia 10 men ooh I New recommen ating e:riain Union Beminary, « sar i of Home Missions, aint was filled in the 1 it Court at Pittsburg aliegin {ancke steal 1 alan Carnegie Steel Company, for Schneide & Co, Oi John and "8 ent Roler: Forres: made MID Assets, $15,002; liabilities, was crushed of coal in the Empire +s McDonald, aged 49, by a fail d Ashioa, the Draddock atiorae Varoer arre ted lor arc was takca to B addoek, whom Chisel William RB Scot | treaker boss at 2 collin y od is missing, Robbers blew op 'n the sale ia the office of the Union Brewing Company and secured about ihirty cents and two worthioss checks, MARTI AND AMERICANS. Papers Found on His Body May Implicate His Correspondents, Official confirma joa has been receiv 4 in Washington of the death of Gegeral Nari, the Coban leader, in a battle with the Gov. ernment troops, Marti's death is regarde « as the most important event since General Compos began his campaign, The other Cuban leaders, Gomen, Maceeo and Borrera, were known only by name in this country, bat Mart! is personally kuown throughout the United States, as he has long served ns president of the Cuban party in this country, Heo bas passed much of his lime in Washing- ton, his laa: service being as a delegate to the Pati American monetary conference, The papers found on Marti are expected 10 result in important developmen's, ns he was in personal correspondents with those sym. pathigers in the Uslie | Biates who have 10s far eluded deteotion smi III on. Yellow jover had Lrokon out among the fits artillery companies stationed at St nin, Wost Indies, and alreidy th sol. diers have died, gn Ld
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