CITY TREASURER FOUND MURDERED. SAFE ROBBED. William Blevins Finds His Father Dying in His Office at New Castle—Large Reward Offered for the Assassins. City Treasurer John Blevins, of New Castle, Pa., was Saturday night foul- ly murdered in his office in City hall. The floor of the office was covered with blood; while there was plain evi- dence on every side that after commit- ting the crime of murder the guilty ones had ransacked the place. Mr. Blevins had been to a merchant tailoring establishment to see about an overcoat he was having made. The coat was not finished and he was told to come back in half an hour. He then walked to the store of his son, William J. Blevins, and was there a minute or two. He had not returned to his home when his son William reached there, a few minutes of 12 Saturday, and his son started out to find him. The young man went directly to the treasurer’s office, found the door un- locked and the electric light burning. He saw his father lying in a pool of blood, apparently breathing his last. Almost fainting at the sight, he rushed outside, found a policeman and Dr. Pollock, and the three entered -the of- fice. Dr. Pollock raised Mr. Blevin’s head and at that instant the latter breathed his last. The office was an awful sight. The private room was covered with blood, and Mr. Blevin's face was battered al- most out of human semblance. The nose was broken, the lower jaw shat- tered, a great hole in the back of the head, and there were no less than a dozen cuts and bruises on his head. He had evidently made a terrific struggle, for there were blood pools in a score of places about the room and splashes on the walls. His hands were torn and bleeding. One hand was almost severed, showing that he had endeavored to retain the tin money boxes whieh were in the vault. It is not+known just how much money was taken, but it is thought the robbers got about $500. The two tin cash boxes had disappeared. The po- lice are of the opinion that the crime was committed by some one who was well acquainted with the office and with whom the dead man was also well acquainted. The wire screen and door which divides the private office from the public department where the business is conducted was always se- curely locked, and that, too, from the inside, sothat a person who was enter- ing the office could not reach the vaults ynless the man inside unlocked the door, which was locked with a spring. Mr. Blevins, to the best knowledge of those who were acquainted with his habits, never permitted anyone whom he did not know very well to go inside and this is why the officers think that the crime was committed by someone he knew well. They reason that the murderer, as soon as he knew that he was recognized by Mr. Blevins, be- came terrorized and made the murder- ous assault. The city council and county commis- sioners met Sunday afternoon and each body offered $2,000, making a total of $4,000, for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers. The city is in a state of excitement beyond ‘belief, for there was no more popular man in the county than the dead man, and if his murderer is caught it is not too much to say he would speedeily met his end. Mr. Blevins was born in County Ty- rone, Ireland, February 3, 1828, but came to Lawrence county with his par- ents in 1831. He was elected treasurer of the county in 1875 and served three years and was appointed city treasurer to fill an unexpired term in 1884. Since then he has been elected term after term and was the only candidate for feseloction at the coming spring elec- on. STANDARD DEFIES THE COURT. Will Not Produce Its Books and May be Ousted From Onio. In the arguments before the sup- reme court at Columbus, O., a few days ago of the motion of the attor- ney-general to dismiss the master commissioner and continue the inves- tigation of the Standard Oil Company in open court, Hon. Virgil P. Kline, of Cleveland, attorney for the oil com- pany, was forced into making some very positive statements and admis- sions. He declared in the first place, in response to interrogatories of the court, that the company will not un- der the fermer order of the court pro- duce any books other than those al- ready given in evidence. In the sec- ond place, he admitted that there are still outstanding about $27,000,000 worth of trust certificates of the Standard Oil trust, which the court ordered dissolved in 1892, but which the president of the Standard com- pany has all along been trying to get in and is still trying. Transports Will Honor Generals. The War Department issued orders that the three transports now being prepared for the Philippines shall be named as follows. The ‘“‘Mohawk” shall be known as ‘“‘Grant,”” in honor of the late General U. 8S. Grant; the ‘““Mobile”’ shall be known as ‘‘Sher- man,” in honor of the late General William T. Sherman, and the ‘Mas- sachusetts’” as ‘‘Sheridan,” in honor of the late General P. H. Sheridan. In addition it has been decided to name two other transports, the “Thomas” and the “Logan.” . Wh stled While Dying. Charles Memberger, 27 years of age, who was found lying by the New York Central tracks last Friday with his skull fractured, died Wednesday. On the evening of the day on which he received his injuries Memberger be- gan to whistle, though he was wholly unconscious and remained so to the last. He whistled all sorts of tunes and without cessation for ninety-five hours and never ceased until shortly before he died. : Found a Depleted Treasury. When the United States occupied San Juan, Porto Rico's capital, and in November Julian Blanco was suc- ceeded as secretary of the treasury by Dr. Coll y Toste, it was found that the insular treasury held 76 cents in cop- per, $3.80 in Venezuelan gold and about $900 in American bank bills. Dr. Coll was greatly surprised to find the insular treasury in such ‘a depleted condition. From receipts issued the treasury he has learned that over 300,000 pesos, about $200,000 ars miss- ing, from this fund, and it is probable that the full amount, which has been done away with, amounts™ to nearly 500,000 pesas. This money was taken to Spain; of this no one has any doubt. The President’s Gifts, When tre President received his New Year’s callers Monday he wore for the first time a set of beautiful pear] shirt studs. ‘TERSE TELEGRAMS. A. D. Henrickson, of Janesville, Wis, a paralytic, has not tasted food for 40 days. Rudyard Kipling, with his wife and | family, will leave England for Amer- ica on January 25. At Dawson City Myrtle Brocee, var- iety actress, a native of Lindsay, Ont, suicided by shooting. Laurence Harrigan, one of the best known police officials in the county, died at St. Louis last week. Swift & Co., of Chicago, pork pack- ers, have increased their capital stock from $15,000,000 to $42,000,000. Admiral Sampson’s daughter, Olive, was married to Henry Scott, of San Francisco, last Wednesday evening. Secretary Alger last Saturday decid- ed to send four regiments of infantry to the Philippines by way of the Sues Canal. George Tyler, while engaged in a prize fight with Thomas Foley of New York, received a blow which broke his neck. William Neeb, editor and proprietor of the “Freiheits-Freund,” of Pitts- burg, with which he was connected 62 years, died, aged 76. The Chicago University has just re- ceived $169,000 in land value from wealthy citizens and $234,000 cash from John D. Rockefeller. Commodore Watson has made ap- plication for Admiral Dewey's posi- tion at Manila as soon as the latter retires from active service. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lucius, of De- troit, were seriously burned last Sun- day and their 2-year-old son fatally, by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Rev. Dr. Hillis of Chicago succeeds Lymon Abbott as pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. This is the church made famous by Henry Ward Beecher. In defiance of Gov. Roosevelt's pro= test against the high salaries paid some of the New York city laborers, Mayor Von Wyck has increased their wages. Joseph Leiter and the Rothschilds of Europe have secured control of the Rhode Island Locomotive Works. The plant will manufacture appliances for horseless trucks. Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio, was quoted as saying that the officials of the Standard Oil Company should be sent to jail for contempt of court in refusing to produce their books. Pennsylvania oil men are now receiv- inb $1.19 per barrel from the Standard. They claim that consumption exceeds production and in fair speculation they ought to receive $3 for their crude oil. At Minior, west of Bloomington, Ill, last Wednesday John Lytton shot his wife, two children and then himself. All are dead except the husband, who cannot live. Jealousy was the cause. Capt.: Sigsbee - receives $976.88, the gunner’s mate, $10 and the sailors be- tween $4 and $5 each, from the total of $13,000 realized from a sale of the cargo of the prize, the British steamer Restormel. At a meeting of the Ohio centennial commissioners a committee consisting of C. M. Spitzer, I. E. Knisely and S. C. Schenk _were appointed to visit Washington and ask for $500,000 for the Ohio centennial. The Ohio miners in convention at Columbus indorsed the attitude of Governor Tanner, of Illinois, in the recent mining troubles at Pana and Virden, in which he declared against the importation of negro miners. A number of Philadelphia wholesale merchants have decided to refund the railroad fare of the retail merchants who come to make purchases from the smaller towns. This move will keep the retailers, from going to New York. H. Wurster, night telegraph oper- ator for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company at Bingen, Pa. was murdered a few days ago by Llewellyn Stout, 17 years old, who was traced by the tracks he left in the snow. The life of County Attorney Van R. Brown, of Red Lake, Minn, was at- tempted last Thursday. A dynamite bomb was placed over his office door, and fell when Brown entered, explod- ing with terrific force. Brown was knocked senseless. By a Supreme court decision the town of Pullman, Ill, will in a few days pass out of the hands of the cor- poration and become a free commun- ity. The 2,000 brick residences and public buildings will be sold to the highest bidder. . Andrew Jackson day banquets wera held in many cities. At the one in Chicago Wiliam J. Bryan declared that the Democratic party is arrayed against expansion. The startling growth of trusts under the McKinley administration called forth many warnings. About 1,300 Cubans are now work- ing on the new branch of the railroad from the government dock at Havana to connect with Quemados camp, some 500 Cubans are handling quartermas- ter’'s stores at the wharves and else- where, 200 Cubans are cleaning the streets and 200 more are cleaning the public buildings. Three people were killed and several others quite seriously injured in a fire at the Hotel Richelieu, Pittsburg, last Sunday morning. The list of dead in- cludes: Amos 8S. Landis, aged 28, Grapeville, Pa., suffocated; George A. Waters, aged 28, Camden, N. J., suffo- cated; Mrs. Kate Boyle, aged 28, Pitts- burg, suffocated. J. H. and J. W. Moore, the Chicago Diamond Match and American Bis- cuit company manipulators, who fail- ed for $3,000,000 in 1896, have sent checks for over $500,000 in payments of notes given to bankers in Providence, R. I. It is said that note holders throughout the country all fared alike and received checks. The taking up of these notes closes all debts of the Moores. Justice Shiras a few days ago hand- ed down the opinion of the United States supreme court in the case of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Trust Company vs. Theodore Krumseig, in- volving the Minnesota state laws prohibiting usury. The trust com- pany had loaned Krumseig $2,000 and taken from him 10 notes of $360 each, or an aggregate of $3,600. It was a part of the agreement that Krumseig’s heirs were to be relieved of the res- pcnsibility of future payments in case of his death before the entire amount had been settled, and it was therefore urged that the contract involved a life insurance feature. The court, however, overruled this view and canceled the contract as one merely for the payment of money, on the ground that it was usurious. At Eagle City, Alaska, on December 11, Jack Jolly, a saloonkeeper and gambler, who had gathered around him a gang of toughs and was terror- izing the mining camps, was warned by a vigilance committee to leave. He refused and the next day was lynched. Col. Dudley, by order of Gen. Brooke has taken possession of the office of secretary of justice at Havana. Senor Literas and Vidal, Cuban attaches of the American commission, will assist him in the administration of the office. Under the proclamation issued by Gen. Brooke the civil authorities are re- taining their offices. RHRGERNTED BEEF COMMENDED HAD A GREENISH GROWTH. Major Harrison Gives Testimony Before the War Investigating Committee—Cuban Cattle Inferior. Before the war department investi- gating commission a few days ago Maj. Harrison, Ninth volunteer infan- try, whose regiment was raised near New Orleans and is now in service at Santiago, said concerning commissary stores, those in the United States were the best that could be bought in the open market. The refrigerated beef sent from this country, he said, was excellent. : He had had much experience with refrigerated \meat, and he said that while there was some disposition on the part of the regimental cooks to cavil at the appearance of the meat it was in reality quite good. He explained that the sudden change of temperature on removing the meat from the refrigerator ships produced what is known as a “beard,” a green- ish growth that had to be scraped off. When this was done the meat beneath was perfectly good. It was served to the men with excellent results, and benefited the sick materially. The chief trouble came when the change was made to hoof cattle sent from Porto Rico. This beef, Maj. Har- rison killed himself, and personally superintended its dressing and cool- ing. “But it would not cool in that clim- ate,” he said very emphatically. “The meat never lost its animal heat and with its use our sickness increased 10 per cent. In a country where our dead putrefied in six hours you will easily understand that meat killed and ex- posed to the atmospheric changes with coagulated blood and the attacks of flies will spoil much sooner. Our board of survey had no work to do except condemning and burying this local killed beef.” Of the canned meat Maj. Harrison spoke with equal emphasis saying that it was fully as good as the re- frigerator beef, was well received by the men and none of it had to be con- demned. plant was established there, Cuban beef could be killed ground and rendered fit for the men. Witness said he thought this would not be desirable, as the Cuban cattle, while fine looking, fur- nished the coarsest and most stringy beef he had ever seen. Witness said he was thoroughly fa- miliar with the processes of refrig- eration, and affirmed that he was willing to state positively that there were no chemicals used in any of the American beef that passed under his observation. On the contrary, he said that there were no chemical prepara- tion that could be used on the meat with advantage to the packers with- out ruining their product before they could get it to the army. He regarded whether on the use by it as highly improbable that anything’ of the sort had been attempted. Recurring to the hoof-killed beef at Santiago, witness said the surgeons in charge attributed the 10 per cent. in- crease in intestinal sickness to the use of the fresh-killed beef. There was a proportionate decrease in sickness when the regiment returned to the re- frigerated beef. A SUCCESSFUL ROBBERY. At the Point of Pistols the Engineer Forces Open the Express Car. The ninth and first successful at- tempt at train robbery on the Kansas Ft. Scott. & Memphis route occurred Tuesday night at 8.55 o'clock, near Macomb, five miles east of Mansfield, Mo. One of the robbers got aboard at Norwood, paying his fare to Macomb, and compelling the train to stop there. It was immediately boarded by five or six masked men, who, covering all members of the train crew with Win- chesters and revolvers, compelled the engineer and fireman to cut loose from the remainder of the train. The mail, baggage and express cars were then run up the line about two miles and stopped in a lonely cut, where Engineer Callander was placed in front of the robbers and forced to break open the door of the express car, after which he was placed in front of the foremost robber, and together they entered the express car, covering Southern Express Messenger Newton and Baggagemaster Sieben with their pistols, forcing them to adjourn to the outside of the car. They then dyna- mited the through safe. Everything was taken from it and it is safe to say that they were well paid for their trouble. The local safe which contained all local money picked up was not molested. Many Skeletons Found. The employees at Richmond, Va., a few days ago, dug a trench near the city almshouse and in what is now a populous district. At a distance of two feet they struck a large deposit of human bones, in many individuals the skulls and larger bones being whole. The skeletons were packed closely together as if buried. in one large grave. Dark stains and shape: s in the earth show where coffins have once existed. About two hundred skeletons were unearthed in a trench seven feet wide. How the bodies got there is a mystery. An old citizen suggested that they were victims of a cholera epidemic here in 1840. Two Hundrzd Troops Killed. Official news received from the Kongo Free State says that a column of state troops, commanded by Licu- tenant Stevens, was defeated on No- vember 4 by the insurgent tribe of Batelas, which captured KXalambari on November 24. Two officers, one Sergeant and 200 native troops were killed. One officer and two Sergeants were wounded. OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. feft All Spanish soldiers have now Havana. The gunboats Princeton and Yeork- town were ordered to join Dewey's fleet at Manila. Gen. Rios, the Spanish commander of llolio cables to Madrid that he blew up 14 forts and a fleet of gunboats be- fore he left the islands. Géneral Ludlow has caused several private houses in Havana to be searched for arms. Eighteen rifles were seized at No. 40 Compostele street, and eight in a house on Tenien- ferey street. Two hundred Spanish officers and soldiers and 500 other convicts found in Havana prisons will be released by Major General Brooke. The chiefs of the Cuban army held a meeting and decided to disband the army. Gen. Ludlow, of Havana, is deter- mined to form a rural mounted police of 300 men and to patrol the suburbs with Cuban soldiers. They will be chosen from Gen. Mario Menocal’s forces. Each will be furnished with a horse, revolver, rifle, machete and working suit. A squad will consist of 25 men and four squads will constitute a company. The companies will be of- ficered, though the selections for these posts have not been made. NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES. First of Secretary Gage's Uniform Des'gn Put ; in Circulation. Four thousand $1 silver certificates of the new uniform design that Secre- tary Gage has arranged shall apply to each denomination of bill, whether silver certificate, treasury note or United States note, reached the United States sub-treasury at New York Tuesday. They were quickly distri- buted to individuals and banks. The new notes on both face and back, show much white paper. On the face the central design is an American eagle with outstretched wings guard- ing the flag, the background being a view of the capitol. Below are small portraits of Lincoln and Grant. Each note has printed in blue on its face a large figure 1 and the treasury department seal. The other figures denoting the denomination of the note are all large and bold. Treasury notes and United States notes are each to have their denomination and seals printed in a distinctive color: Sub- treasury experts say the new notes will be more difficult to counterfeit than the last issue, which was filled up with engraved work. BRICE WORTH $600,000 It Was Generally Thought That He Wasa Multi- M llionaire. A petition for letters of administra- tion on the estate of ex-Senator Cal- vin S. Brice, who died on December 15, New York, was filed in the surrogate's offige by attorneys, for Mrs. Calvin Olivia Brice, the widoy. The petition states that no real property was left by the decedent, and that his personal estate is valued at $600,000. Mrs. Brice gave the name of the heirs as Stewart M., Helen O., Marga- ret K., Walter Kirkpatrick, and John Francis Brice, who are all of full age, and reside with their mother in New York city. The petition was granted. Mrs. Brice was appointed adminis- tratrix. It was the belief of many financiers that Mr. Brice was a multi-millionaire Many believed that his fortune would be valued at from five to ten million dollars, and the comparative small amount of the estate proved a general surprise. Mr. Brice left no will, CUBA NOT YET FREE. Gomez in a Letter to His Men. Gen. Maximo Gomez, from his camp 200 miles westward from Havana near Narciso, has addressed a proclamation to the Cuban army advising against disbandment until the proceedings at Washington regarding the pay of the insurgent troops have been completed. It is dated December-29, and is in part as follows: “The moment has arrived to give a public explanation of my conduct and my purposes, which are always in ac- cord with my sense of duty to the country I serve. 1 believed it was my duty not to move, for any political or other object, from the spot where I had drawn my sword so long as the enemies of the army had not complete- ly evacuated the island. “Cuba is not yet free or independ- ent. For that reason we must dedi- cate ourselves to bringing about the disappearance of the cause for Amer- ican intervention. It is necessary that before the liberators of the people can dissolve, as a guarantee of order, that the debt which the country owes to its soldiers should be satisfied. Awaiting this result, I remain in my present position.” So Says Gen. A Protest from General Wood. General Leonard Wood has left San- tiago for Washington. The reason of the General's departure is unques- tionably the order to transmit the en- tire customs receipts each week to Havana. Compliance would involve the abandonment of many necessary public improvements, would throw 10,000 Cubans out of employment and send them to the hills to become ban- dits, and would revive Spain’s prac- tice of monetary realization, which caused most of her troubles in Cuba. Colonel Valiente, chief of the gendar- merie, says the Cubans fought 30 years against this policy, and they were ready to fight 30 years more if necessary. Encouraged Her to Commit Suicide. It has just been made public that Eleanor Marx, daughter of the German socialist leader, Xarl Marx, was prompted to suicide last March by the knowledge that Dr. Aveling, the Eng- lish socialist, with whom she had lived as his wife had secretly married a young woman. When she confronted Aveling with her knowledge of his marriage he admitted that it was a fact and intimated that Eleanor Marx should take her own life. He allowed her to send out for prussic acid and went out for a walk while she drank it. The public prosecutor would have taken some action in the matter but for Aveling’s sudden death on August 4. No Mercy for Wifebeaters. Governor Roosevelt, of New York, has established a code of rules to gov- ern his consideration and determina- tion of applicants for pardons and commutations of sentences. He will not exercise executive clemency in be- half of a man who has been convicted of murdering or abusing his wife, nor will he pardon any habitual drunkard. His mercy will be shown only to those whose sentences seem to have been severe, or whose commission of a crime was the result of influence. |! Killed by a Wind Storm. A heavy windstorm swept over the remote section of Scott county, Ark., a few days ago. At Boles a school house was blown down and three pupils were killed, another was fatally wounded, and a dozen or more sustained more or less serious injuries. Those killed were the children of Joseph Lawrence, Mr. Frost and Mrs. Rutledge, respectively. A child of Joseph Lawrence was fatal- ly wounded. So far as known here, no other lives were lost. Four Killed in a Wreck. Four dead, two injured—one of these perhaps fatally—and the loss of prop- erty of the Seuthern railway to the amount of about $100,000 is the result of a wreck which occurred Sunday morning on the Knoxville & Ohio branch of the Knoxville division of the Southern railway, one and one-half miles west of Elk Valley, Tenn. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Congress has appropriated $7,000,000 for the care of the District of Colum- bia. B. F. Fifield was appointed by Gov- ernor Smith, of Vermont, to succeed the late Senator Justin Smith Morrill. The house refused to consider an ap- propriation of $12,000 for naval charts of the Philippines. They were still considered foreign territory. Southern Confederates have inform- ed Congress that they do not want the government to care for the living sol- diers or guard the graves of the dead. DETERMINED 10 RESIST AMERICA. STUBBORN NATIVES. Filipinos Have Saturated Their Buildings at Iloilo With Kerosene—Uni..d States Soldier Killed by a Rebel. The proclamation of the United States government made public to tha Filipinos last week has not been re- ceived with favor by the natives. Al- though they were promised all’ pos- sible liberty and advantages the rebels still insist on independence. Colonel Pollock, the special embassy of General Otis between Manila and Iloilo, has arrived at Manila with dis- patches. The situation when he left Iloilo was practically unchanged. The streets were barricaded, and it was reported that the principal buildings had been ‘kerosened,” the insurgents threatened to destroy the whole busi- ness section by fire at the first shot of bombardment. The banks were shipping their treas- ure to the United States transport Newport and other vessels. The family of the American vice consul has gone on board the Newport. Colonel Potter reports that Presi- dent McKiniey’s proclamation had to be typewriteen aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the text of the pro- clamation was read to them ridiculed the notion that conciliation was pos- sible. Privates Harry Silvey and Frank Kirkpatrick, of the Sixth United States artillery, while guarding a wa- ter boat astern of the Newport, were attacked by the natives of the craw. Private Silvey’s skull was fractured, fatally, and Private Kirkpatrick fell overboard, but escaped with a fle:h wound. The United States gunboat Petrel arrived at Iloilo Friday, and Colonel Potter reports that the United States troops will probably land on Guiamar- as island, about midway between the island of Panay and the island of Negros, where a camp will be estab- lished. Both sides, Colonel Porter says. have been impressing the local shipping for military purposes, and the Fran- cisco Reyes had landed 550 natives The foreigners were taking refuge on the British cruiser Bonaventura. There is no change in the situation in Manila. On Friday night public de- monstrations were held in Pam@ngas province in ratification of Aguinaldo’s proclamation, and the excitement was intense. All natives who enter the city in. the night time are searched and every precaution is taken. The newspapers at Hong Kong pub- lish the following dispatch from Iloilo, evidently from a Filipino source: “When the Americans arrived at Iloilo they found absolutely no looting upon the part of the Filipino forces or conduct of any kind unworthy of civ- ilized people, In conformity with their agreement with the Spaniards the Filipinos entered Iloilo in an or- derly manner and formally hoisted the Filipino flag. The Americans found a good government established and meeting with the complete ap- proval of the foreign residents. The postoffice, customs and other depart- ments were working smoothly under the entire control of the Filipinos. This ard of the allegations of the inclination of the Filipinos to loot and kill. The Filipinos occupied Iloilo on the same humane principles which have guided their actions against their Spanish oppressors.” The correspondent adds that the re-- ports of an opposition republic having been established are refuted by the facts that the governor and general commanding at Iloilo have assured the American delegates from the war- ships that they could settle nothing without orders from the national gov- ernment at Malolos.” A dispatch to the Manila Independ- encia from Malolos, the seat of the so- called Filipino government, says the gevernors of all the provinces of Lu- zon have assembled at Malolos for the purpose of offering their lives and property in adhesion to the policy of the president and government. They say they fought only for the inde- pendence of the Filipinos and are un- willing to surrender to strangers. Commenting upon President McKin- ley’'s proclamation to the Filipinos, is- sued on Wednesday by Gen. Otis, the Independencia, which is a native pa- per, says the problem presented is most grave. It admits that there are only two solutions possible, namely, the American abandonment of. their annexation policy, claiming that the people here are not desirous of ab- sorption into their nationality or a prolonged and bloody war. It cites the example of the ‘“‘noble patriots of Iloilo defying General Miller,”” ex- presses hope for a pacific termination of the crisis, but hints ‘of trouble. The official organ, the Republica, is less aggressive, but is indisposed to accept the suggestions of General Otis in their entirety. The Spanish papers are evidently afrajd to com- ment on the situation. A Remarkable Chess Player. At the Deutscher club, Milwaukee, last Monday Harry N. Pillsbury, chess champicn of the United States, per- formed the remarkable feat of playing twenty-five games of chess simultane- ously and coming out victorious in all but one. He was also successful in an exhibition of “blindfold.” playing against half a dozen well known local players. (CABLE FLASHES Russia denies that she ever sent to a United States syndicate to negotiate for a large loan. A crisis is at hand in Bolivia, Presi- dent Alonso's forces being near La. Paz, the capital, where the revolu- tionists are. With the portrait of a lady at his side Count Franz Karolyi of Austria was found dead in London a few days ago. He had committed suicide. The presents of money and valuables sent to the pope during 1898 amounted to more than $2,000,000 in value, in- cluding $800,000 in Peter’s pence. Thirty fresh expulsions of Danes from North Schleswig have been or- dered, it is said, In consequence of the attendance of their employers at a meeting addressed by Herr Hansen, a Danish deputy. The imperial insurance department of Berlin reports that 30,000,000 marks have been paid to aged persons and invalids as pensions in the past year. Dreyfus has not yet been brought to Paris. The authorities fear a disturb- ance. His testimony may be taken by telegraph and the expense will prove enormous. The London News says the anarchist movement in France has received an enormous impetus through the grow- ing fear of a military despotism. The sum of 20,000 francs has been placed at the disposal of M. Sebastien Faure for the purpose of establishing an anarch- ist daily newspaper. Th — MAINE PLOT RECALLED. A Cuban Newspaper Charges a Fugitive Havans Judge with Destroying the Ship. A dispatch from Havana says: It locks as if the question.‘ “Who blew up the Maine?” is about to be answereds Zacarias Bresmes, a Spanish judge, now a fugitive from Havana, is accus- ed by a Cuban newspaper of being ac- tive in a plot for the destruction of the battleship. ! A good deal of excitement has been caused by the charge, which is made in El Reconcentrado, the organ of Cuba. libre. The paper says that when the Maine came into Havana harbor Bresmes openly declared that such an act of audacity could not pass without stringent punishment. ‘His threats where direct,” the paper con- tinues, ‘and boded destruction to the American ship. His associates were Felipe Gonzalez, Dion Sio Vega and Euselio Aszcue, violent Spaniards. Others with him were officers of the volunteers. “These men boasted that the Yan- kees were about to get their due, though no charge can be directed against any save Bresmes. He and the hot-headed Spaniards met nightly at a house near the corner of Murallo and Habana streets, where the public know the plot against the Maine was concocted and all arrangements com- pleted. When the explosion took place Bresmes was in the Tacon theater with friends. At the sound of the explosion he cried: ‘There goes the Maine!” Champagne was drunk in honor of the terrible event at the mo- ment when others were vaguely in- quiring of one another what had hap- pened.” Bresmes’ name was mentioned be-= fore the American court of inquiry, but not sufficient evidence was then forthcoming, and all reference to him was suppressed in the report. Capt. Sigsbee, who is .here with the Texas, said, when told of the charges: “I hope to see those punished who sent my good ship and beloved men to the bottom of Havana harbor.” Bresmes is said to be in hiding in Spain. A TRIPLE MURDERER, Wife's Confession May Release an Innocent Man From Prison. Sheriff George A. Storrs of Utah county, Utah, left New York a few days ago accompanied by Mrs. Jennie Wright. They are en route to Utah in an endeavor to clear up a murder mystery, and to free, if possible, a man from a life sentence. At the Pelican Point ranch, Utah, in 1£95, three young men were shot down one night in their ranch house. The stepfather of one of the boys, named Haynes, had had trouble with the men and was arrested, charged with the crime. The bodies of the men were found sunk in Utah lake, and the premises they had occupied were loot- ed. Haynes was convicted on circum- stantial evidence and was sentenced - to be hanged, but a stay was secured and the sentence cecmmuted to life im- prisonment. A short time after the crime George W. Wright left that locality and lived in various parts of the West, finally drifting to Fresh Water, Col. He was a graduate of Kalamazoo law college. He soon became prominent, bearing the sobriquet of “King of Fresh Wa- ter.” One morning a man with whom Wright was at odds was found shot to pieces in his cabin. Wright assist- ed at the coroner's inquest and wrote out the verdict of “murder by a per- son unknown.” Later Wright became involved in a (uestionable sheep deal, and after being arrested jumped his bail and fled. He visited his wife at her parents’ home at Gouverneur, N. Y., and then disappeared. After he left the West evidence of a positive character relating to the mur- der at Fresh Water is .said to have been found against Wright, and after working on the case for over a year Chief Harder elicited a confession from Mrs. Wright to the effect that her husband had goods which figured in the Pelican Point murders. The Utah authorities were commun- icated with and found articles just where she said. Mrs. Wright said she was willing to testify against her hus- band for the triple crime, providing he can be caught. She says her lips have previously been sealed through fear of him. Electric.ty to Annihilate Germs. A wonderful discovery of electric foree is announced, whereby the in- ventor ®laims that he can send a mil- lion volts through the human body, kill all forms of bacilli, including tu- berculosis, without, incidentally, an- nihilating the patient. A New York wttorney is now in, Washington filing with the patent office the papers nec- essary to protect this remarkable dis- covery. He is very reticent, and frankly admits that he fears ridicule. From what was divulged, however, it appears that the inventor proposes to take advantage of the fact that glass is not an absolute resistent or non- conductor, but that a tremendous electrical current striking against a glass case, in which is enclosed a hum- an body, is diffused over the wide ex- panse of glass plates. and hence per- meates all parts of the human body inside the gl iss case, Sixteen Seamen Drowned. A dispatch to Lloyd's says that the Italian steamer Voorwarts has been abandoned near Trevose head, on the West Cornwall coast. She went ashore in the gale that has been raging in the Irish channel. Eleven members of the crew, who put off in boats, were drowned. Nine, who clung te the rig- ging, were rescued by the ceast guard lifeboat. Details received regarding the wreck of the steamer at the en- trance of Dieppe harbor show she was the Anvers. The captain and 14 of the crew succeeded in clinging to the part of jetty. One man perished from ex- haustion, and four were drowned in the engine room. Give Their Policies as Security. Under the lead of Mayor Taylor, citizens of Bridgeport, Conn., are try- ing to carry out a novel scheme for raising funds for public improve- ments. Prominent men propose to in- sure their lives and let the policies be used as security for the payment of debts to be contracted in the interest of the city. But for a provision of the city charter which prohibits the furth- er bonding of the city for public im- provements, recourse to such a novel proposition would be unnecessary. It has ‘been half a dozen years since the Bridgeport authorities could engage in important public works. Choked by a Piece of Steak. John Brady choked to death in a Bowery restaurant the other night at New York. The principal event in his life was that several years ago he saved the life of a Vanderbilt by stop- ping a runaway team. Brady never knew which Vanderbilt it was, but each New Year's day he has gone to the Vanderbilt mansion and received a $100 check. Brady expected to go Tuesday to get the money, and he celebrated in a Bowery restaurant Monday night by ordering a large steak. The first bite stuck in his throat and he died of strangulation.
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