t HIS FATHER PRESENT. Bvry Recourse to Law Xxhaaited to lava the Condemned Man. WIMIm Henry Theodore Dun ant ns hanged at Han Francisco, ('ill., Inst Friday morning. If ever nil known technicalities of law hnil boon taken advantage of It Wax done In till" re markable case. For two year the rase lms bes n iwunn from court to court ap pealed from lower to higher, hut lo no avail. Kven at the last moment the United Htatea Hupreme t'cmrt refused to Interfere. Durrant gave such an ex hibition of coolness and nerve as ha seldom been seen under similar lire um etnnces. Hopeful almost to the very Isst minute, that something or some one would Intervene to nave him, he walked to the scnffolil and made a lit tle speech protesting hla Innocence a calmly and with n distinct ennnchi tlon aa If he had been nddresslng an sssemblag of frlenda upon aome or dinary topic of the dny. Ilia face waa pale, hit eyes were red, but hla Voice was firm, and he atood aa aolldly aa a rock while he proclaimed hla Innocence and prnfeaaed forgiveness to those who he aald, had hounded hlin to death. There waa not a hitch or accident to mar the plana of Warden Hale In car rying out the sentence of the law. The n Done waa ad Hinted, the trap waa sprung, the atout rope held and Dur rani's daed body dangled at the end. The neck wis broken by the fall of live feet, and 15 mlnutea later the murder er' body waa rut down and placed In the collln. Durrani's father saw Ida aon meet death. The murderer embraced the Catholic faith at the Inst moment, the Protestant minister refusing to declare him Innocent. It waa on Kaster morning of 1R95 that Han .Francisco waa horrllled by the finding- of a beautiful young girl dead In a closet opening Into the library of Ilmanucl church. The girl had been ohnked, amnthered In her own clothe, and then almoat hacked to piece with a ease knife, borrowed from the church kitchen. For ten day another young girl hnd been missing from her home In the city. 8 he waa also a member of thla church. The police broke down a bnrred door that gave access to the belfry and high up In the ateeple they found the body of the miaalng girl. The body waa atark .naked, the hand folded aero the cheat, the head reeling on n block of wood. On the throat were the print of the nail of the linger that had htran gled her. The girl In the belfry wa Blanche Lament, and the girl In the library n Minnie William. Durrant knew them both. Ho waa the aHltant Hundny achool auperlntendent of the church and had offered marriage to the girl In the belfry. Durrant had been promi nent In the eearch for Hlanche Lament during the daya of mystery. Durrant wa convicted on November 1, 181(5. An appeal to the Mate aupreme court pre sented the Judge from fixing the date of execution. A new trinl wa denied on a hearing of appeal In March, 1SD7, and Durrant wa sentenced to hang June 11. A atay of execution won granted on an appeal to the United Htatea au preme court from the ruling of the United Htotes court of California, which refused to grant, a writ of ha beas corpu. The United Htatea au I reme court dismissed the appeal No vember 8, laat. The California superior court, before the arrival of the re inlttur. Immediately ordered Dot runt to be hanged November II, but the Mate aupreme court granted a certifi cate of probable cause and tho execu tion waa again delayed and finally set for January 7. A second application to the federal court for a writ of habeaa corpu waa mndc Tueaday, January 4, and waa denied. VISIONS OF WEALTH DISAFFBAB. AlUftd Haira of Robert Morria Cannot Sub atantlato Tbeir Claims, The claim made against the United State by the heirs of Iinhert Mortis for the return of money advanced to the government by the patriot during the revolution have been proved with out grounds. The claimants, of which there are several hundred scattered throughout New Jersey, are not so rich In their mind aa they were a month ago. These alleged descendants of the , fa mous financier of the Revolutionary war expected to secure from congress a claim for 18,000,000, which Is the prin cipal and Interest on sums of money advanced by Robert Morri when he waa the nation's banker. Home of the newer eluimants exam ined the evidence and found that It all hinged on the signature of Robert Mor tis In the Bible owned by Mrs. John Hrahn of Toms River, who won a de scendant of a Robert Morris. The sig nature waa somewhat like, but not identical with that of the great hlator i l al signer. The Bible has been taken to a blhllo phllist who finds It not a rare edition, and that Robert Morris the financier, waa dead some years before the Bible was actually printed, and that tho sig nature of Robert Morris was written there not many years ago. It has also lieen established that Robert Morris, the financier, had no aon who started the Jersey group of the family of that name. Frightful Orima , A boy named James Smith gave the police Information a few days ago tending to show that a frightful crime had been committed at St. Joseph, Mo. According to Smith's story, an un known man broke a hole In the ice on the Missouri river and shoved a small child into the opening. The act waa witnessed by a man who, after telling Smith to notify the police of the affair, followed the murderer across the river to the Kanaas side. Neither the pur suer nor the murderer has been found and the body of the child has not been recovered. eta F. Handy Dead. - Major Moses P, Handy died on Satur day at the hotel Bon Air, at Augusta, (la. The remains were taken to Berlin, Md., for burial. Major Handy was stricken with the Illness which ended In his death while he waa preparing to leave Paris for America after completing hla work aa commissioner to the exposition. Last year Major Handy was appointed by President McKlnley as special oommls sloner to the Paris exposition, where he rendered valuable service. Boilers Xxplofa The steamer Percey Kelsey left ntts burg last Saturday for Cincinnati. Ten mile from Pittsburg she was rent in twain, her boiltrs having exploded. TbUllsd were: Milton U Wood, allot: 1 nomas Flyun, secojtd engineer; L,t;0 V r, nrvraan. ItflSELY TOLD TRLEORAMS. Frost In Florida slightly Injured the orange crop. 400.000 people died of starvation In Cuba last year. Twenty-live colored men have en listed for Cuba In Pittsburg. , Dwight L. Moody I now holding re vival services In New York City. James D. Hcnlly, a well-known fit I sen of Pittsburg, died Inst Hunday. Ten lnsiirg"tits were killed In Culm In a nklrmlHh with Spanish troop, Tho exportation of leaf tobacco, free of duty, from Cuba began Inst week. The Kllwood, Intl., plate gin factory Iihm resumed, giving employment to Si0 men. There are J, Ron casp of fever teported among the soldiers and civilians now hi Cuba. Two bridges will be built by the Car negie Hteel Company at Chicago, to cost 1100,000. At Reading, I'm., Mis. Koch and SHin uel Fleming were killed by a pnssongor train Inst 'i'uemluy. Christian Pcpor's tobacco warehouse a I Ht. I .mils wa destroyed by fire the other day. Los. flOO.OiiO. KfTorts are being made In New York to form an Intcrnntlounl Federation of Inbnr to extend the world over. Andrew Thomns lost Ills sight by an explosion nt New Castle, Ph., the other (lay. Hla son John lent one eye. Six thousand people witnessed the departure of Gen. William Hooth from London for America Inst Wcdncsiny. Men returning from Dawson Clly deny that there Is no starvation there, and no need of a government expe dition,, A lunntlc escaped fioni hi keeper nt Do Moines, l.t., the other dny ami seri ously wounded Frank I.. Knhler and Karl Htnythe. Cuestss, president pro lem. has as sumed tho dictatorship In Uruguay and a revolution Is Impending In Hooth America. Burglars stole 120,000 In mining stocks from the resilience of W. W. Jacobs, In Chicago, besides rare coins, silxcrware and Jewelry.. John K. Redmont. the Irish imlltlcal leader at a meeting In New York te cently, said that Irish freedom was sure to come. By falling down a flight of cellnr stepa at Pittsburg. David It. Kubu re ceived Injuries from which he died a few days ago. Mrs. J. M. While of New York mis laid a package containing H.000 worth of diamonds In a railroad station. They can not be found. Now that Klao-Chau baa bren ceded Indefinitely to liermany by China. Rus sia Is making a demand lor Port Ar thur on tho same terms. In n. secret drawer of a bureau be longing to John Arnold, a brewer of llnzelton, Pa., who died recently, a for tune of !fU,oui) was found. Oeorge W. fliverly. a butcher of Tyrone. Ph., killed his wife anil nephew the other day nnd then commuted sui cide. He was Intoxicated. The "Chorister." a photograph which took first prise at an exhibition in New York Inst week, waa stolen a few dnys ngo. The picture was valued at $1.1)00. A mob took Mnrslml ( hud wick from the Jail nt Colfax, Wash., and hanged him to the court house wall. He whs accused of the murder of llnydcn, last October. At Oklahoma Territory two IndlnnH were burned to death by a mob of white men. The Indiana confessed to having murdered a woman named Airs. Flunk heard. The Image of Ht. Peter was hit by a bullet from the revolver of a lunatic at Havana last Hunday. Tim Incident canned much excitement among the members of the cathedral. Five, non-union workmen were seri ously Injured by strikers at Chicago a few days ago. They were employed on a building for Armour and were not working for the union seals. A Judge at Husanvllle, Cel., left the bench the other dny and struck an nt- torney. The lawyer had applied vile epltheta to the court, which the Judge, F. A. Kelley, would not tolerute. The supreme court of Minnesota holds that a wife has no dower right In the real estate of her husband w hich has been turned over to an assignee under tho Insolvent law of the state. Hypnotism Is the excuse of a woman bigamist for remarrying without se curing a divorce from her husband. Mrs. Henry M. Frusttick Is the woman's name and sue lives in Han Francisco. Robbers bound the express messen ger of a KanHua City, Pittsburg & Gulf road train Tuesday night, a few miles from Kansaa City. They broke open the safe and secured between $300 und $400. Thomas Webber, a well-known resi dent of Pittsburg, deliberately com mitted autelde last week. He waited until an approaching train was within ten feet and then placed his head upon the track. Two men, Fred Hhibcr and John Bel lows, were instantly killed at Allen town, Pa., lost Haturday. The men were burled beneath tons of rock that fell from a quarry In which they were working. The rim of one of the big six-foot driven of an engine on the Baltimore & Ohio ralldoad burst aa the train was rushing past Netherwood, N. J., Hun day morning. Three persons were rllghtly injured. Mrs. Alice Powell, of Pittsburg, care fully laid her baby aside after she had discovered that her clothing was on tire. Had she devoted less time to the child her body would not have been burned to a crisp. A bicycle rider wss attacked recently at New Rochelle, N. Y., by a bull dog. He drew his revolver and shot the dog In the throat und he lost his voice. The owner or the dog sued, but the Jury sustained the cyclist. D. N. Iluklll waa recently released from prison at Seattle, Wash., where In had been confined for seven months for embezzlement. He haa Just received word that he Is the only heir to a SI. 000,000 estate in England. Burglars entered the clothing store of A. Outtmann In Pittsburg, Wednes day morning. They removed about SI, 000 worth of goods to a waiting wagon, broke open the money dm wot, and se cured valuable papers from the asfe. $300,000 In gold arrived from France liiut Monday. Edward M. Hunt, an ex-deputy slier-, iff. was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon by W. Hay Smith, at Chica go, a bailiff in Judge Horton's curt and u nephew of the Judge, The men had quarreled over a small sum of money. Seth Burrows, a rowboy of El Paso, Tex., got Into a light across the liver. In Juarez, Mexico, the other night, and In a pitched battle stood off the Juares police for one hour. Hurrowa was kill ed himself, but before biting the dust ha killed a gambler, a policeman and fatally wounded two other oflloers. DEFECTS 11 IJIIIl MICE. CAGE'S OPINION. la Reply to a Senate Roiolntlon Ho SoggeaU onto Changes, In reply lo n resolution from the Hennte on December 18, calling on the head of the several executive depart ment for Information a to what posi tion In the vnrlou depnrtment should be excepted from the civil service rules, HecretarV Unite In reply says: "I believe that experience hna taught Hint the order of May 6, IslKI, was too sweeping and t hut there should be taken out of the classified service a considerable number of (daces that were at that time classified. The most Important of those places are In the In ternal revenue service. The difficul ties which the department hns experi enced In the administration of the ru!es as they now exist, as applied to the Internal revenue service, bavo become Intolerable. I believe that all positions of deputy collectors of Internal revenue should be mule excepted places, sub ject, however, to non-competitlvo ex aminations. The collectors who ap point the deputies are personally re sponsible for the conduct of their sub ordinates. This responsibility covers not only the fidelity and Integrity of those subordinates In their relation to the government, but extends to a per sonal liability to those who mny bo In jured In person or In property by In considerate or malicious trespass com mitted by such subordinates In the course of their duties. It Is obviously wrong Hint a collector, after nssumlng the heavy responsibility thnt he does, should be tied down to an eligible list. 1 believe Hint. It Is desirable that the collectors be free to select their subor dinates from among men concerning whose perso.iiil characteristic they have knowledge. "Another branch of the service wlier experience has demonstrated that clas sification was Ill-advised Is the custo dian service In the public buildings throughout the country. There are In this service a large number of low-salaried positions where no academic test Is required or desirable. 1 believe that It would be of distinct advantage to take all positions In the custodian force Including elevator conductor, firemen, dynamo tender and employees of a similar rhnrai ler out of the claasllled service. "The employees of the lighthouse es tablishment have been under civil serv ice rules slnee May s. No Improvement has resulted, hut on thn other hand vexatious delays have occurred In till ing vacancies which fortunately so far have not resulted in serious disaster. For all employees In this service save the clerical force the best lntresls will be conserved by removing them from the classified service. I would also ex empt positions of shipping commission er Ht the various ports. "I would further suggest such a modi fication of the rules as would permit, w hen no eligible register exists, a per manent appointment to be made. In the discretion of the head of the de partment, suhlcct to a non-competl-tlve examlnHtlon by the civil service commission, and also thnt the rules be so modified as to permit the head of a department to transfer liny .ron In the olnsMlll.nl rervlce of one branch of Ids department to the classified service of another branch, without regard to llppnllltuiollt." TERRIBLE SUFFERING, Fleih Dropped From the Frown Feet of a Oold Hnntar. A letter from Hkaguuy, dated January 2, says: "William Byrne, of Chicago, lies In a cabin on tho I.ewtM river with both feet amputated. Ilyrne nnd his uncle, James K. Miigulre, ulso or Chicago, were nuk ing their way up the river from Dawson and on December 6 Byrne, who Is only IS years of age, hnd both feet frozen. The men continued their Journey for five days. The boy suffered horribly, and the flesh began to drop from the frosen feet. Htlll they forged ahead, with tho bones protruding from young Byrne's feet, until hewes liver was reached, und he was placed in a cabin where he could receive some care. .It was found necessary to amputate both feet near tho knees. A doctor who hap pened to be In the Lewes river camp performed the operation. "Mugulre, tho uncle of Byrne, reach ed Hkaguuy In a dying condition, hav ing been seised with tulck consump tion, on thn way up. Ho will probably live long enough to reach hla home In Chicago." , Kl I.ard, recently arrested at Daw son for stealing $J2,000 worth of gold dust from a saloon In which ho was bar keeper, hus been released because the police had no food for prisoners. DYIH0 ON THE STREETS. Congronmsn King Makes a Statainont in Mgara to too. After spending several weeks making personal Investigation of tho situation In Cuba, Congressman King, of Utah, arrived home last Hunday. His tour covered four provinces and was thor ough. Speaking of his trip he said: ; l found that no one has ever half depicted the awful horrors of the re concentrrndos. These people, naked und emanciutcd, are dying like aheep In the streets of tho towns where they lire still huddled. To realize Jut what this means one must see for hlmscir. "I found that the Spanish people have little fHlth In the new autonnml col government, for they are strongly in favor of annexation, and want It at once, (leneral Blanco has not succeed ed In his efforts to alleviate the suffer ing, for he lias not had financial means to carry It out. I have Interviewed in surgent leaders. Hpanish ntllcers and Americans, uVd have some definite Idea of what Is going on In that terri bly devastated island. I know posi tively that General Lee is not going out with General Blanco to see Gen eral (loniex." CAFITAL OLEAiriROS. The Hawaiian treaty will be con sidered In the senate in a few days. A crank who claimed to have been sent by (lod to Interview President Mc Klnlcy waa ai rested last Wednesday. More than a hundred Republican members In the house are prepared to vote a change In the present civil serv ice laws. Secretary of War Long thinks that the present lleet of American war ships In Chinese waters la sufficient to pro tect our foreign Interests. Congress resumed Its session after the holiday recess lost Tuesday, In the house modifications of the present civil service bill were discussed. The houio military committee will submit a report favoring the establish ment of a government reservation of 1.200 acres it Vlcksburg. Memliera of the committee devoted the holidays to an inspection oi tne land. They were ploased with the alt and favor the project. A PERFECT COUNTERFEIT. Silver Oortifloatot of the Denomination of 100 Beoalled. Five of the most dangerous notes In the history of counterfeiting were nrotignt to tne secret service recently nnd an examination of the day's re ceipts of trasury cash disclosed a sixth. The notes arc silver certificates of the denomination of SI oo. The discovery was made on Wednes day by Oeorge Cremer, the assorting tinier In the Philadelphia sub-treasury, to whom one of tho bills was offered. Within two dnys three more were pre sented at the same window. It whs Mr. Creiher who brought the notes to the secret service. The discovery of the counterfeit In the treasury cash lead to tho fear that other note of the kind have been re ceived. A carefi,l Inspection will be made of every certificate of that deno mination In tho treasury reserve. ARslstitnt treasurers at all the sub- lreasury cities will be required to send to the treasury In Washington all $100 sliver certificates In their iiossesslon and to request alt banks, trust compa nies and other moneyed lntllutlon to do tho same. Hecretary (Inge desired the statement made thnt In his Judg ment It Is unsnfn for business men or others to accept sliver certlilcntes of tills denomlnntlon, nnd In ensn nny were now on hand they should be sent to the liank for transmission to Was hington. In view of the dangerous character of the counterfeit. Hecretary (lage de cided to stop Issuing and ht rnll In all i(Mi sliver certificates, of which there are about S:'8,on0,noo outstanding. These will be exchanged for silver certificate or smaller denominations nnd the plates destroyed. As soon a new plates ran be engraved a new series will be Issued. CHINA YIELDS. Klaochoa Est Ceded to Oormany for an In definite Length of Time. Homo months ngo two missionaries from Germany were killed In tho Chi nese Kmplrn by a mob. Germany did not wait for a settlement of the case, which China claims xhe would have satisfactorily done. Warships were sent from Germnny and without warn ing Klnochoii liny was elxil liy tne Germans. This ornuned the Indigna tion of the other Kuropean Power. Germany, however, held fnt. Her plea waa that two missionaries hud been killed, nnd thnt she wns conse quently to have Klnochoii Bay as a coaling station. At a conference held In the early part of the week the foreign ministry of China decided to cede Klaochou Bny to the Germans. Thn cession Is In the form of a lease for an Indefinite period. It la Intended by the cession to ren der possible for Germnny the fulfill ment of her justw Ish for the possession tho same a other powers, of a base for commercial trade and navigation In Chinese waters. China apparently get nothing In return. OLASS TRUST HA C0HTR0L. Thro Companies Abwb all tho Factorial in the United States. The two hundred glass factories of Ihe United Htatea will shortly be ab sorbed by one of three great trusts now being formed. These factories represent a capital of $,000,ono. The American Glass Company ha secured control of Wi per cent, of the window glass product and will have its otllces at Pittsburg. Mont of their fac tories have been started up, but many will be closed down, as soon us a suf ficient stock Is accumulated. The trust has advanced the prleo of window glass from 40 to 50 per cent. No fac tory will be permitted to make a ship ment of gluss without orders from the general nlllce. Another of the gigantic trusts Is th litshurg Plate Glnss Company, which hns been In operation for some time, but which on account of Its struggle to overthrow the manufacturers who would not Join It hns not yet Increased its price. The third trust Is being, organised entirely by Kngllsh capital, nnd $30, 000,000 has already been subscribed, while a much larger amount Is In re serve. Nothing less than the absorp tion and control of every glass factory east of the Alleghenles is the avowed object of this gigantic syndicate of for eign capitalists. FAMOUS ARTIST DEAD. Mrs. Faisott Fainted Fiotnraa How Hanging in tho Capitol at waihington. Mrs. Adelo C. Fassett. one of tho best known artist and portrait painters In the United Htutes, dropped dead from heart disease on the street at Washing ton recently while on her way to a re ception. Mrs. Fassett and her husband bnmucl M. Fassett, have been residents of Washington for over a quarter of a century. They were born In Ohio. Mrs, Fassett'a sitters for portraits included all classes, from the plain cltlxen to the president. Perhaps the work which gained for Mrs. Fassett the most famd waa the painting of the famous electoral com mittee during the Hayes-Tllden con troversy. It now hangs In the senate wing of the capltol. It represents an audience of !Mis persons, all painted most faithfully from life sittings In the United States supreme court room. The portrait which she painted of President Garfield Is the property of the United States, and haims in the room of the rpproprlatlons committee of the house of representatives. Hhe also painted a portrait of Gov. Charles Foster, of Ohio. Fatal Baalism. Ralph Wilson, 15 years old. was In stantly killed at Buzzard Roost school house, near Powell, Kan., the other day, while practicing a dialogue with Marvin Hale. In one part of the dia logue the boys were culled upon to uso pistols. When Hale brought his weapon Into play he pulled the trigger. The weapon waa discharged and Wilson fell to the stage with a bullet In his temple. Hla death was Instantaneous. Hale did not know the revolver was lo.idel. and' waa not arrested. ' Big Order for Onna An order for 10,000 of the latest rnt Urn of mjlltaiy rifles and 6,000.0u0 ri undo of ammunition has been placed with the Winchester Repeating Arms company, of New Havn, Conn., through its San Francisco otfVo within a few days. The order is to be shipped at the earlie.it possible moment. A re port, which la without foundation, t-ayn that the onl jr ccmes from the Russian government. Followed tho Faroe). Frederick dimmer, of dimmer tk Koehler, Insurance and steamship agents, one of the best known German citizens of Rochester. N. Y was killed Tuesday morning by falling from the window of Ids oRlce on the second lloor of smith's arcade. Mr. Zlmmer waa throwing a parcel out of the win dow to his driver on the sidewalk, when he loat hla balance and pitched forward to the sidewalk below, strik ing on hla head. There waa terrible gaping wound at tne Daos. of the head. GERMANY'S ACQUISITION. Kiao-ChonBayof no Commoreial Talno, and Will Entail Heavy Expanse. Now thnt Klno-Chott bay has been reded In Germsny, the expected re monstrance from Great flrltnln hns not mnterlnllsed. The bay Is of little com mercial value, and will only prove a grent expense to the German raiders. If the harbor had been commercially valuable, It Is pointed out, It would long sgo have been made a treaty port; but It is snld to be completely over shadowed by the close proximity of nourishing Che Fno. The province of Hhan Tung, It Is added, Is entirely ag ricultural and hardly nble to support It populntlon, while the strategic mine of Kluo-Chou bny can be Inferred by the fact of Russia, In spite of the CiimrIiiI treaty, slowing Germnny to ocupy It. Altogether, Klno-Chou bny I not likely to prove a bed of rose. A conclusive Illustration of the atti tude of Ihe llritlsh government Is fur nished by tho presence of warships of Great llritnln nt Chemulpo anil Port Arthur, and It Is likely to be further di monstrnled by the sending of ships lo Klno-Chou bay. In well-Informed circles It Is suggest ed thnt If Is not likely Great Mrltain will formnlly pretext ngnlnst the less" of Klno-Chou bny to Germnny, but will confine herself to Ihe slgiilllcnnt hint given In the movements of her fleet, t tin t she Intends to clnlm nn equal shnre of nil Chinn's concessions. In re gnrd to all seuports, "leased or looted," ns being ndditionnl treaty ports. As a lending diplomat remnrked:: "The statesmen of Iterlln and Ht. Petersburg must be strangely unob servant If they Imagine thst elth'-r Great Britain, the United Htates or Japan will allow them the monopoly of the plums." The "Spectator" revel In the tate merit thnt the United Htates Is Inclined to support the llrltish demand that no exclusive privileges be granted to any Individual power In China, and says: "Nothing short of a direct menace of aggression would tempt nny combina tion of continental powers to face tho whole Anglo-Hnxou race united and re solved." Oroat Britain'a Foreign Trade. The foreign trade of Grent Britain during IK!i7 wns the largest in history. The total export. Imports and re-exports amounted to i;4.',4:':i.0OO ($:l,7ri. II5.0U0.) The Incri-ase was entirely In Imports and re-exports, the decline In exports amounting to 5,705,000 ($28, S75.HOO. The growth of the Imports Is almost entirely due to the huge pur chases of produce In the U. S., amount ing to iiit.Koo.noo ($r,;:j,ooo.Ho. The greatest qnnntlty of the exports were textiles. FROM ACROSS THB SEA. A suggestive piece of news Is that Japan hus purchased two cruisers of 9, 000 tons each, which have been built in Kngland for Chill, ; Russia has not granted China the loan as wns expected. Kngland Is now considering the loan nnd may grant It, Inking the Chinese land tax as secur ity. Gen. Horace Porter, United Htntes nmiinssndor to France, entertained M.VIe. Curnot, widow of President Car not, at dinner recently. Many other notables wero present. A young girl named Ducnussot way laid a clerk of the name of Verdier at Paris recently, threw vitriol in his face and stabbed him In the back. Verdier shot her four times, killing her. It Is reported from Cardiff, Wales, that an American syndicate with a capital of A.'2,iKSl.0HO ($10,000,000) Is Hbout to purchase the Dowiais Hteel work and rolleries there belonging to the Wlnbern-n family. The German Transoceanic Klectrlc Company, with headquarters at Bt-rdn, has been formed, with a capital of 10, 000,000 marks, for the purpose of erect ing electrical stations In America. A central station will first be established nt Buenos Ay res for lighting and gen eral supply. A dispatch from Oviedo, capital of the province of that name In the As turlas district, says that 200 kilograms (about 440 pounds) of powder exploded recently at the Han Manjova factory. Seven were killed outright and many badly injured. The buildings were com pletely destroyed. The Swedes seem Inclined to take ad vantage of Russian pre-occupatlon In the far east to reopen hostilities with Norway. When the relations between the two countries were strained, In ISM, It became evident that Russia was inclined to aid Norway, in exchange for the cession of Flnmark, Including the port of Hammerfest. It is amusing to notice Russia and France courting Japan. Both of them are in deadly fear of her forming an of fensive and defensive alliance with Great Britain. As a matter of fact, there are things much more unlikely than the eventual alliance of Great Britain, China and Japan, and the con tingency would acquire still more prob ability should Great Britain, as It now seems certain, guarantee a Chinese loan. At thn present moment, so far as Great Britain Is concerned, the loan Is the kernel of the whole question. Another Bieb Oold Find. Representatives of Canadian and American compunle who vlalted La brador for the purpose of erecting saw mills report that that country contains depiailts of gold of great richness, and is destined t) become a great mining center. There exists strong evidence that the gold is to be obtained In quan tities equaled only by the deposits of the Klondike. In fact It Is asserted that the deposits In Labrador are on the same range as those on the Klondike. Preliminary arrangements fir a gold expedition to start in the spring have already been made. , Deadly Oaa Bxploaioa. The Avondale mine, operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna tk Western Company at Plymouth. Pa., was the scene of a terriflo explosion of gas a few days ago. The killed are: David Powell, ag?d 28, married: David F. Jones, aged 1.9, married: John Jones, aged M. single. William iirennan is the name of the man injured. He was bad ly burned in the tire. Tbo men were engaged in driving an airway off the slope. It Is supposed that one of the miners was careless In lighting hU lamp while in the presence of a body of gas, Hat Fin Used to Advantage. Two women were the passengers on a Chicago street car the other morning. As the conductor entered the cur to collect the fares two men suddunly seised him and proceeded to rule his pockets. One of the women came to Ihe rescue. With repeated thrusts from her hat pin she succeeded in forcing the robbers to. leave the car. TRADE REVIEW. Doorosao of Failarse Daring 1897 aa Com pared with Froviona Toara R. O. Dun & Co.' weekly review of trade for last week reports as follows: In failures 187 was not nnly the best venr since 1802, but on tho whole tho best ever definitely known. With 18. 522 failure. In number H.B per cent le than IMfl. and SI82.riN1.771 defau ted llnbllltles, 114 per cent. Iei than In INtfO, the yenr banking failure counted lor $211,240,7110 nnd the commercial failures were but lil.nr.l, with liabilities of Slf.l.o S:tt.07l, the average er failure being only $H,fpffi, the lowest ever known -cept In 1W2. But even In that year Ihe failures (luring the last half averaged linbllitles of $1(1.447 per failure, while In Ihe last half of 1M7 Ihe average waa only $,r.M. Tho returns by branches of business show that In llfteen out of twonty elght classes the failures were lower than In any previous yesr of which there Is record, with especially large decrease III the grent number of un classified manufacturing and trading fn Mures. Moreover, the yesr showed remarkable decrease, ns some other I rosporons yenrs hnve shown. In cnm pnring the second with the first half. Wheat d ( lined in cent, owing to (he termln.Hlon of the corner at Chi cago, and western receipt were about double Inst year's, with Atlantic ex ports 2,s40,ils bushels. Hour Included, against 2,IM.90'J bushels Inst year. Kx ports of corn for the week fell below ut year's, nlthough western receipts ere unusually large, and the price fell but ' of a eent. Cotton was a disap pointment to many because It did not change Ht alUIn spot price, although the hccoihiI of reduction In wages by New Knglnnd works warrant hope of larger consumption. Cotton manufacture Is little en couraged by larger demand for goods since the reduction In prices, and the nbstentlon of buyers for montha past has probably been due In large meas ure to expectation of that reduction. Mehlnd all the market reports there la the fact that consumption of wool has for about live months been the1 largest ever known, and the buying Indicates, us does the demand for such heavy weight gooda as hns been opened, that a satisfactory half year Is expected. Prices so far PR Id are said to be from 20 to 30 per cnt. higher than a year ngo, with wool from W) to 0 pPr cent. higher, but the buying Is thus far en couraging. The Iron manufacturer ban lecn further encouraged by unusual business for the sesson. Including a large building contract made and oth ers for bridges pending at Chicago, a sale of M),(ss) tons of pig to one pipe foundry at the F.aat, and contracts for two vessels of u.000 each at Cramp's yards, and contracts for fi.'.OO tons hoop at New York, the COO for Mexico. Price are generally unchanged, though eastern works have advanced structural beams 5 cents to SI. 15. Pig is unchanged, with fairly large sales. Visible supplies or tin are '.'v.xjli tons, agnlnst 32,:i42 a year ago, with 1S.7 cents quoted, and with exports of 10, :tor, tons of copper In December and 123,- 000 tons for the yenr, 11 cents la now limited for lake. , The coke output continues heavy, and the output of anthracite waa 41.2OS.00O tons In lH'.t7. though the consumption was nbout Z.MiO.OOO tons smaller, and thc-re are sales at $3.85 per ton higher. Failures for the week have been 322 In the United Htates, against 471 last yrar, and In Caiiuoa 32, against 02 last year. LEAFED BEFORE HE LOOSED. Man Deads Property to his Intended Wife and than Rofoaos to Marry. Michael H. Collins, of Houth Bruns wick township. N. J., brought suit the other dHy In the court of chancery to have set aside a deed made by him rrnveylng all his property to Agnes Allen. The properly was conveyed In July, IK'.iB. for $1 end "other valuablo consideration." The other valuable consideration was her agreement to marry him. The bill chnrges that after ward the woman only laughed at him, and had him ejected from one of the houses he had deeded to her. Subse quently, she iccelved tho attention of other men, and otherwise acted In a manner which Justifies him In being unable to marry her, even were she willing to marry him. Collin there fore asks that the deeds be set aalde. AUT0B 0MI8TS THEEATBRID Revolutionists Say They Will Fay Dearly far ( Their Treaohory. The revolutionary Junta of Havana has sent a communication to the au tonomist members of the cabinet, which concludes: "You shall soon pay dearly for your treachery to your country. When the Spsnlarda are fully convinced of the failure of autonomy you will be the first victims of their wrath. If you es cape being hanged by the patriots you will not escape being shot by the vol unteers, after having Yie-.n kicked down stairs out of the palace by the captain general." The arrival of Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the well-known Cuban leader and hero of tho Inst war, has caused a sensation here. Sanguilly. who remains aboard the steamer Suratnga, says he Is on his ay to Mexico for his health. This may be true, but there U hardly a doubt but that he will soon be back In the Insurgent ranks fighting. A big crowd was attracted to tho wharves by the news of Hangutlly's arrival. His friends and enemies were In the crowd and for a tlm trouble waa feared. Po lice Inspector f ens, and an escort went on the steamer to prevent Hangutlly from landing Thros Marderora Hangad. Three negro murderers died on the scaffold at Hahnvllle, a small town In Ht. Charles parish. La., Friday. Lcula Richards, alias Pierre, alias Creole, by tho latter name notorious, was one of the trio. Together with George Wash ington and Foxilo Motrin, also negroes, they were sentenced to death for the murdering and robbing of a Jewish pcuier named Iouls Zelgler last June on the Klllr.gton plantation, near Hahnvllle. Creole confessed, implicat ing the other two and also confessed that since 1884 he had murdered at least nine men and one colored woman on various plantations, and that not for a single one was he ever arrested. Hla victims were principally Italians and Jews, who mde a living by peddling umong plantation negroes. Close In vestigation revealed that his confession was entirely current and It cleared nu merous murder mysteries of years ago, Fonaionora Frightanad. ' Since the agitation concerning the publication of the list of pensioners haa commenced. Commissioner H. Clay Evans has received several letters from pensioners requesting a cancellation of their pension. One pensioner la Michi gan enclosed his certificate and stated bis iloslre to have the same recalled, an he was not entitled to the liovern rocnt's bounty. He added ha Would endeavor to return a I the money difwat aince l . wm-n me pension was grant ed- -..)
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