ciiriisiyiNO MIMED. SAFE ROBBED. William Rlevlna Findi Hit Father Dying In Hit Office t New Cattle - Large Reward Offered for the Atsaaalni. City Treasurer John Blovlns. of New Castle, Pa., wos Saturday night fou' ly murdered In Ills oMli-t In City hull. The floor of tho olllco win covered with Mood; while there wns plnln evi dence on every side thnt after commit ting the rrlme of murder the guilty ones hnd rnnsnoked the pine. Mr. RIevins hnd been to a men-hunt tailoring establishment to nee about an overcoat he wns having tnnde. The coat won not finished nnd he wns tolil to come bnek In hnlf nn hour. Hi- ttvil walked to the More of his son, Wllllnm J. lllevlns. nnd was there a mlntit or two. He hnd not returned to his home when hln Hon Wllllnm reached there, a few minutes of 1'.' Saturday, nnd his on started out to find him. The young mnn went dlrertly to the treasurer' olTlce. found the door un locked and the electric light burning. He saw his father lying In a pool of blood, apparently bren,thtng his Inst. Almost fainting at the sleht, he rushed outside, found a pollecmnn nnd Or. Pollock, and the three tnt'-red the of fice. Dr. Pollock raised Mr. Rlovln's head and at thnt Instnnt the Intt T brenthed his last. The office was an awful slitht. The private room was covered with blood, and Mr. Hlevln's face was bnttered nl most out of human semblance. The nose was broken, the lower Jaw shat tered, a (treat hole In the hark of the head, and there were no less thnn a dozen cuts and bruises on his head. He hnd evidently mailt? a terrific struggle, for there were blood pools In a score of plnces about the room and splashes on the walls. His hands were torn and bleeding. One hand was almost severed, showing thnt he had endeavored to retain the tin money boxes which were In the vnult. It Is not known Just how much money was taken, but It Is thought the robbers got about $',00. 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 acriuninted with the office nnd with whom the dead mnn wna 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, nnd that. too. from the Inside, sothat a person who wna enter ing the office could not reach the vaults unless the man Inside unlocked the door, which was locked with a spring. Mr. Blevlns. 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 thnt the crime wns committed by someone he knew well. They renson thnt the murderer, as soon as he knew thnt he was recognized by Mr. nievins, be came terror;zed and mnde the murder ous assault. The city council nnd county commis sioners met fiundny afternoon nnd each body ofTered IJ.nou. making a totnl of $4,000. for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers. The city Is In a state of excitement heyond beilef, for there wns no mote popular mnn In the county thnn the dead mnn, nnd If his murderer Is caught it is not t.'.o much to say he would speedelly net his end, Mr. Blevlns wns born In County Ty rone, Ireland, Februnry 3, 1S2K, but enme to Lawrence county with his pnr ents In 1S31. He was elected trensurer of the county In ISTfi and served three years and was appointed city trensurer to fill an unexpired term In 1RS4. Since then he has been elected term after term and was the only candldnte for re-election at the coming spring elec tion. STANDARD DEFIES THE COURT. Will Not Produce Itt Booki and May be Outted From Onlo. In the arguments before the sup reme court at Columbus, O., a few days ago of the motion of the attorney-general to dismiss the master commissioner and continue the Inves tigation of the Standard (III I'ompnny in open court. Hon. Virgil P. Kline, of Cleveland, attorney for the oil com pany,' was forced Into mnking some very positive stntements and admis sions. He declared in the first place, in response to Interrogatories of the court, that the company will not un der the former 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 till outstanding about $27,000,000 worth of trust certificates of the Standard Oil trust, .which the court ordered dissolved In 18H2, but which the president of the Standard com pany has all along been trying to get In and Is still trying. Tranaporta Will Honor Oenerala. The War Department Issued ord.MS 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. S. Grant; the "Mobile." shall be known as "Bher mnn," 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 !t has been decided to name two othar transports, the "Thomas" and the "Logan." Wh atled While Dying. Charles Membcrger, 2" years of age, who wus found lying by the New York Central tracks lust Friday with his skull fractured, died Wednesday. On the evening of the day on which he received his injuries Memberger be gun tb w histle, though he was wholly unconscious and remulned so to the lust. He whistled ull sorts of tunes und without cessation for ninety-five hours and never ceased until shortly before he died. Found a Depleted Treaaury. When the United States occupied dan Juan, Porto Klco's capital, and In November Julian Blanco was suc ceeded as secretary of the treasury by Dr. Coll y Teste, It was found that the Insulur treasury held 76 cents In cop per, $3.60 In Venezuelan gold and about $1100 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 are miss ing, from this fund, and It Is probable that the full amount, which has been dona away with, amounts to nearly 600,000 pesaj. This money was taken to Spain; of this no one has any doubt. , The Presidents Oilta. When the) President received his New Year's callers Monday he wore lor tbe first time a sat of beautiful year) shirt studs. TERSE TELEGRAMS. A. P. Hcnrlfkson, of Janesvllle, Wis., a paralytic, has not tasted food for 40 days. Hudynrd Kipling, with his wife nnd family, will leave England for Amer ica on January 2S. At Dawson City Myrtle Brnree, var iety actress, a nntlve of Lindsay, Ont, suicided by shooting. Laurence Hnrrlgnn, one of the best known police oillclnls In the county, died nt St. Louis lust week. Swift Co., of Chicago, pork pack ers, hnve increased their capital stock from $ir.ooo.wo to $42,000,000. Admiral Sampson's daughter, Olive, was married to Henry Scott, nf San Francisco, last Wednesday evening. Secretary Alger Inst Saturday decid ed to send four regiments nf Infantry to the Philippines by way nf the Sues Canal. George Tyler, while encaged In n prize tlKht with Thomas Foley of New York, received a blow which broke his neck. Wllllnm Neeb, editor and proprietor of the "Frelheits-Freund," of Pitts burg, with which he wns connected 62 years, died, aged 76. The Chicago University has Just re ceived $i;'.i.oon In land value from wealthy citizens nnd $L';U,noo cash from John Ii. Rockefeller. Commodore Watson has made ap plication for Admiral Dewey's posi tion nt Maniln as soon as the latter retires from active service. Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles Lucius, of De troit, were seriously burned last Sun day nnd their 2-yenr-old son fatally, by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Hev. Dr. Hillls nf Chicago succeeds Lymon Abbott as pnstor of Plymouth church, llronklyn. This Is the church mnde famous by Henry Ward Iteecher. 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 loiter and the Rothschilds of F.nrope have secured control of the Ithode Island Locomotive Works. Tne plnnt will manufacture uppllances for horseless trucks. Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio, was quoted as snylng thnt the ofllclnls of the Stnndnrd Oil Company should be sent to Jail for contempt of court In refusing to produce their bonks. Pennsylvania oil men nre now recelv Inb $1.19 per barrel from the Standard. They claim thnt consumption exceeds production and In fair speculation they ought to receive $3 for their etude nil. At Mlnior, west of Ploomlngton, III., Inst Wednesday John Lyttnn shot his wife, two children and then himself. All are dead except the husbnnd, who cannot live. Jealousy was the cause. 'apt. Slgsbee receives $976.1(8. the gunner's mate, $10 and the snilors be tween $4 nnd $5 each, from the totnl of $13,000 realized from a sale of the enrgo of the prize, the British steamer Restormel. At a meeting of the Ohio centennial commissioners a committee consisting of C. M. Spltzer, I. K. Knlsely and S. C. Sehenk were appointed to visit Washington nnd ask for $500,000 for the Ohio centennial. The Ohio miners In convention nt Columbus indorsed the attitude of Governor Tanner, nf Illinois, in th recent mining troubles at Pann and Vlrden, In which ho iU dared against the Importation of negro miners, A number of Philadelphia wholesulo 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 Al Heading Railroad Company at Hingen, Pa., was murdered a few days ngo by Llewellyn Stout, 17 years old, who was traced by the tracks he left In the snow. The life of County Attorney Van It. Brown, of Bed Lake, Minn., was at tempted last Thursday. A dynamite bomb was placed over his ofllce door, and fell when Brown entered, explod ing with terrific force. Brown was knocked senseless. By a Supreme court decision the town of Pullnmn, III., will in a few days pass out of the hHnds of the cor poration and become a free commun ity. The 2.000 brick residences and public buildings will he sold to the highest bidder. Andrew Jackson day banquet werj held In many cities. At the one In Chicago Wlllam J. Brynn declared that the Democratic party Is arravel against expansion. Thn startling growth of trusts under the McKlnhy 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 Quemndos camp, some BOO Cubans are handling quartermas ter's stores at the wharves and else where, 200 Cubans are cleaning the streets and 200 mere are cleaning the public buildings. Three people were killed and several others quite seriously injured In a Are at the Hotel liichelieu, Pittsburg, last Sunday morning. The list of dead In cludes: Amos S. Lnndis, aged 28, Grapevllle, 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 1HH6, have sent checks for over $."00,000 In payments of notes given to bankers in Providence, It. 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 Shlraa 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 Krumselg, In volving the Minnesota state laws prohibiting usury. The trust com pany had loaned Krumselg $2,000 and taken from him 10 notes of $350 each, or an aggregate of $3,600, It was a part of the agreement that Krumselg's heirs were to be relieved of the res ponsibility 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 puyment 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 ising 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 ofllce of secretary of Justice at Havana. Benor Litems and Vldal, Cuban attaches of the American commission, will assist him In the administration of the olltce. Under the proclamation Issued by Gen. Brooke the civil authorities are re I tUnlt,g their offices. Umm BEEF COMMENDED. HAD A GREENISH GROWTH. Major Harrleon Olvea Teetlmony Before the War Inveatlgatlng Committee Cuban Cattle Inferior. Before the wnr department Investi gating commission a few dnys ago MnJ. Hnrrlson, Ninth volunteer Infan try, whose regiment wns raised near New Orleans nnd Is now In service nt Santlngo, snld concerning commissary stores, those in the United States were the best that could be bought In the open market. The refrigerated beet sent frnm this country, he said, wns excellent. He had had much experience with refrigerated meat, nnd he snld thnt while there wns some disposition on the part nf the regimental cooks to cavil nt the nppenrnnce of the meat It was In reality quite good. He explained thnt the sudden chnnge of temperature on removing the meat from the refrigerator ships produced what Is known ns a "beard," a green ish growth that hnd to be scraped on. When this wns done the meat beneath wns perfectly good. It was served to the men with excellent results, nnd benefited the slek materially. The chief trouble enme when the chanae wns mnde to hoof entile sent from Porto Hioo. This beef, MaJ. Har rison killed himself, nnd personally superintended Its dressing nnd cool ing. "But It would not cool In thnt clim ate," he snld very emphnticnlly. "The ment never lost Its nnlmnl heat nnd with its use our sickness Increased 10 per cent. In a country where our dend putrefied In six hours you will easily understand thnt ment killed nnd ex posed to thp atmospheric changes with coagulated blood nnd the nttacks of files will spoil much sootier. Our board of survey had no work to do except condemning nnd burying this local killed beef." Of the ennned meat MnJ. Hnrrlson spoko with equal emphasis saying that It wns fully as good as the re frigerator beef, wns well received by the men nnd none of It had to be con demned. plnnt wns established there, whether Cuban beef could be killed on the ground nnd rendered tit for use by the men. Witness snld he thought this would not be desirable, ns the Cuban rattle, while fine looking, fur nished the coarsest nnd most stringy beef he had ever seen. Witness snld he wns thoroughly fa miliar with the processes of refrig eration, and affirmed that ho wns willing to state positively that there were no chemicals used In nny of the American beef thnt passed under his observation. On the contrary, he said that there were no chemical prepara tion that could be used on the ment with advantnge to the packers with out ruining their product before they could get It to the army. He regnrded It as highly Improbable thnt anything of the sort hnd been attempted. Recurring to the hoof-kllled beef nt 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 wns a proportionate decrease In sickness when the regiment returned to the re frigerated beef. A SUCCESSFUL ROUUERY. At the Point of Pittolt the Engineer Forces Open the Kxpresa Car. The ninth and first successful at tempt at train robbery on the Kansas Ft. Scott & Memphis route occurred Tuesdny night at S.Sfi o'clock, nenr Macomb, five miles east of Mansfield, Mo, One of tbe robbers got aboard at Norwood, paying his fare to Macomb, nnd compelling tbe train to stop there. It wns Immediately boarded by five or six masked men, who, covering nil members of the train crew with Win chesters and revolvers, compelled the engineer nnd fireman to cut loose from the remainder of the train. The mall, baggnge and express cars were then run up the line about two miles and stopped In a lonely cut, where Knglneer Cnllnnder 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 Kxptess Messenger Newton nnd Haggngemnster Sleben with their pli tols. forcing them to adjourn to the outside of the car. They then dyna mited the through ofe. 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 wus not molested. Many Skeletone Found. The employees at Richmond, Vn., a few days ago, dug a trench near the city almshouse and In what Is now n 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 burled In one large grave. Dark stains and snap s In the earth Bhow where cotllns have once existed. About two hundred skeletons were unenrthed 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 Hundred Troopt Killed. Official news received from tha Kongo Free State says that a column of state troops, commanded by Lieu tenant Stevens, was defeated on No vember 4 by the Insurgent tribe of Batelas, which captured Kalanibiri on November 24. Two officers, one Sergeant and 200 native troops were killed. One oftlcer and two Sergeants were wounded, OUR NEW POSSESSIONS All Spanish soldiers have now teft Havana. The gunboats Princeton and York town were ordered to Join Dewey's fleet at Manila. Gen. Rlos, the Spanish commander of Hollo cables to Madrid thut he blew up 14 forts and a licet of gunboats be fore he left the Islands, . General Ludlow has caused several private houses In Havana to be searched for arms. Klghteen rliles were seized at No. 40 Compostele street, and eight in a house on Tenien ferey street. Two hundred Spanish officers and soldiers and 600 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 3u0 men and to patrol the suburbs with Cuban soldiers. They will be chosen from Gen. Mario Menocal'a forces. F.ach will be furnished with a horse, revolver, rifle, machete and working suit. A squad will consist of 25 men and four squuds will constitute a company. The compunles will be of ficered, though the selections for thasa posts have not been made. NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES. First ef Secretary Oage'a Uniform Deign Put In Circulation. Four thousand $1 silver certificates of the now uniform design thnt Secre tary Gage has arranged shnll apply to ench denomination nf bill, whether silver certificate, treasury note or United States note, reached the United States sub-treasury nt New York Tuesday. They were quickly distri buted to Individuals nnd banks. The new notes on both face and bnck, show much white pnper. On the face the centrnl design Is nn American cngle with outstretched wings guard ing the flag, the background being a View of the cnpltol. Below nre smnll portraits of Lincoln nnd Grant. Ench note has printed In blue nn Its face n. large figure 1 nnd the trensury department seal. The other figures denoting the denomination nf the note nre nil large nnd bold. Treasury notes nnd United States notes nre ench to hnve their denomination and senls printed In n distinctive color. Sub treasury experts sny the new notes will he more dllflrult to counterfeit thnn the last Issue, which was filled up with engraved work. BRICE WORTH $600,000 It Wat Generally Thought That He Was a Multl M llionaire. A petition for letters of administra tion on the estate of ex-Senator Cal vin S. Price, who died on December 15, New York, wns filed In the surrogat olllce by nttorneys. for Mrs. Calvin Olivia Brlce. the widoy. The petition stntes thnt no renl property was left by the decedent, nnd thnt his personal estate Is valued at $600,000. Mrs. Brlce gave the name of the heirs ns Stewart M., Helen O., MnrRa ret K., Walter Klrkpntrlck, nnd John Francis Brlce, who nre all of full nge, nnd reside with their mother In New York city. The petition wns granted. Mrs. Brlce was appointed adminis tratrix. It wns the belief of ninny financiers thnt Mr. Brlce wns a multi-millionaire Many believed that his fortune would bo valued nt from five to ten million dollars, nnd the compnrntlve smnll nmount of the estate proved a general surprise, Mr. Brlce left no will. CUBA NOT YET FREE. So Saya Oen. Gomel In a Letter to Hit Men. Oen. Mnxlmo Gomes, from his camp 200 miles westward from Havana near Narclso, has addressed a proclamation to the Cuban army advising ngninst dlsbnndment until the proceedings nt Washington regnrdlng the pay of the Insurgent troops have been completed. It Is dated December 29, nnd Is In part as follows: "The moment hns arrived to give a public explanation of my conduct nnd my purposes, which are nlwnys in ac cord with my sense of duty to the country I serve. I believed It wns my duty not to move, for nny political or other object, from the spot where I hnd drown my sword so long ns the enemies of the nrmy hnd not complete ly evacuated the Islnnd. "Cuba Is not yet free or Independ ent. For that reason we must dedi cate ourselves to bringing nbotit the disappearance of the cnuse for Amer Icnn Intervention, it Is necessnry thnt before the liberators of the people enn dissolve, ns a gunrantee of order, that the debt which the country owes to Its soldiers should he satisfied. Awaiting this result, I remnln In my present position." A Proteet from General Wood. General Leonard Wood has left San tlngo for Washington. The renson of the Genernl's departure Is unques tionably the order to transmit the en tire customs receipts ench week to Havana. Compllnnee would Involve the abandonment of many necessary public Improvements, would throw lii.oiK) Cubans out of employment and send them to the hills to become ban dits, nnd would revive Spain's prac tice nf monetary realization, which caused most of her troubles In Cuba. Colonel Vallente, chief of tbe gendar merie, snys the Cubnns fought 30 years against this policy, and they were rendy to light 30 years more if necessary. Encouraged Her to Commit Suicide. It hns Just been made public thnt Eleanor Marx, daughter of the German socialist lender, Karl Marx, was prompted to suicide Inst March by the knowledge thnt Dr. Aveling, the Eng lish socialist with whom she hud lived as his wife had secretly married a young woman. When she confronted Aveling with her knowledge of his marriage he admitted thnt It. wns n fact and Intimated thnt Eicnnor Marx should take her own Hie. He allowed her to send out for prussle acid and went out for a walk while she drank It. The public prosecutor would hnve taken some action In the mutter but for Avollng's sudden death on August 4. No Mercy tor Wllebcatera. Governor RooBevelt, of New York, has established a code of rules to gov ern his consideration and determina tion of applicants for pardons und commutations of sentences. He will not exerciso executive clemency In be half of a man who hns 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 huve been severe, or whose commission of a crime was the result of Influence, Killed by a Wind Storm. A heuvy 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 wus fatally wounded, and a dozen or more sustained more or less serious Injuries. Those killed were the children of Joseph Lawrence, Mr. Frost nnd Mrs. Rutledge, respectively. A child of Joseph Lawrence wns fatal ly wounded. Bo far as known here, no other lives were lost. Four Killed in s Wreck. Four dead, two Injured one of these perhaps fatally and the loss of prop erty of the Southern railway to the amount of about $100,000 Is the result of a wreck which occurred Sunday morning on the Knnxville & 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 hns appropriated $7,000,000 for the cure of the District of Colum bia. B. F. Flfleld 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 RESlSf IKJ. STUBBORN NATIVES. Filipinos Have Saturated Their Buildings at Hollo With Keroaene-Uni.jd States Soldier Killed by a Rebel. ' The proclamation of the United States government mnde public to th Filipinos Inst week has not been re ceived with favor by the natives. Al though they were promised nil pos sible liberty and advantages the rebels still Insist on Independence. Colonel Pollock, the special embassy of General Otis between Manila and Hollo, has arrived nt Manila with dis patches. The situation when ho left Hollo wns practically unchanged. Th" streets were bnrrlcnded, and It wns reported thnt the principal buildings hud been "kerosened." the Insurgents threatened to destroy the whole busi ness section by tire nt the first shot of bombnrdment. The hanks were shipping their treas ure to the United States transport Newport nnd other vessels. The family of the Amcrlonn vice consul has gone on board the Newport. Colonel Potter reports thnt Presi dent McKlnley's proclamation hnd I i be typewrlteen aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, nnd when the text of the pro clamation wns rend to them ridiculed the notion that coniillntlon was pos sible. Privates Harry Sllvey nnd Frank Klrkpatrlck, of the Sixth Unlt-d Stntes artillery, while guarding a wa ter hunt nstern of the Newport, we r attacked by the native of the or-w. Private Sllvey'a skull was fractured, fatnlly, and Private Klrkpntrlck fell overboard, but escaped with a flc-h wound. The United States gunbnnt Petrel arrived at Hollo Friday, and Colonel Putter reports thnt the United States troops will probably bind nn Oulnmnr ns Island, about midway between the Island of Panny and the Island of Negros, where a ramp will lie estab lished. Both sides, Colonel Porter snys, hav been Impressing the local shipping for military purposes, nnd the Frnn (isco Reyes had landed fi!0 natives The foreigners were tnklng refuge on the British cruiser Bonnventurn. There Is no change In the sltuntl m In Manila. On Friday night publl- de monstrations were held In Pnmpang.is province In ratification nf Agulnaldo's proclamation, and the excitement wns Intense. All natives who enter the city In the nlrrht time are searched and every precaution Is taken. The newspapers nt Hong Kong pub lish the following dlspntch from Hollo, evidently from n Filipino suirce: "When the Americans arrived nt Hollo they found absolutely no looting Upon the part of the Filipino forces or conduct of nny kind unworthy of civ ilized people. In conformity with their egreement with the Spaniards the Filipinos entered Hollo in nn or derly manner nnd formally hoisted the Filipino Hag. The Americans found a Rood government established and meeting with the complete np provnl cif the foreign residents. Tbe pnstolllco, customs and other depart ments were working smoothly under the entire control nf the Filipinos. This disposes nf the allegations nf tho Inclination of the Filipinos to loot and kill. The Filipinos occupied Hollo on the same Immune principles which hnve guliled their actions against their Spanish oppressors." The cm respondent adds that the re. ports of an opposition republic having been established are refuted by the facts thnt the governor and general commanding nt Hollo have assured the American delegates from the war ships thnt they could settle nothing without orders from the national gov ernment nt Male. Ins." A dlspntch to the Manila Indepcnd rncia from Malolos, the sent of the so calleil Filipino government, snys the governors of nil the provinces of Lu zon have assembled nt Malolos for the purpose nf nlYoiing their lives nnd prop'-rty In adhesion to the pollcv nf tbe president and government. They say tiny foimlit only for the Inde pendence nf the Filipinos and arc un willing to Mirrender to strangers. Commenting upon President McKln ley's prniiiimntlnii to the Fillp'nos, Is sued on Wednesday by Gen. Otis, the Independence, which Is n native pa per, snys the problem presented Is most grave. It admits thnt there are only two solutions possible, namely, the American abandonment of their nnnexntlon policy, claiming that the people here are not desirous of ab sorption Into their nationality or a prolonged and bloody war. It cites tho example of the "noble patriots of Hollo defying General Miller," ex presses hope for a pacific termination of the crisis, but hints of trouble. The nfllclnl organ, the Republlea, Is less augresslve, but Is Indisposed to accept the suggestions of General Otis In their entirety. The ..Spanish papers nre evidently afraid to com ment on the situation. A Remarkable Cheoa Player. At the Detitscher club, Milwaukee, last Monday Harry N. Plllsbury, chess champion of the United Stntes, 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 ugtitnst half a dozen well known local pluyers. CAULK ILASUES. Russia denies thnt she ever sent to a United Stales syndicate to negotiate for a large loan. A crisis Is at hand In Bolivia, Presi dent Alonso'a forces being near La Pas, the capital, where the revolu tionists are. With the portrait of a lady at his side Count Fran Karnlyl of Austria wus fotind dend In London a few days ago. He hud committed suicide. The presents of money and valuables sent to the pope during amounted to more than $2,000,000 in value, In cluding $800,000 in Peter's pence. Thirty fresh expulsions of Danes from North Bchleswig have been or dered, it is said. In consequence of the attendunce of their employers at a meeting addressed by Ilerr Hansen, a DanlBh deputy. The Imperial Insurance department of Berlin reports that 30,000,000 murks huve been paid to lined persons and lnvullds us pensions In the past year, Dreyfus has not yet been brought to Paris. The authorities fear a disturb ance. His testimony may be tuken by telegraph und the expense will prove enormous. The Loudon News says the anarchist movement In France hue 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. Sebustlen Faure for the purpose of establishing an anarch ist dally newspaper. MAINE PLOT RECALLED. A Cuban Newipaper Charget s Fugitive Havana Judge with Destroying the Ship. A dispatch from Havana snys: It looks ns If the ii!"stlon "Who blew up the Maine?" is about to be answered. Zacarlas Bresmes, a Spanish Judge, now a fugitive from Havana, Is accus ed by a Cuban newspnper of being ac tive In ft plot for the destruction of the battleship, A good denl of excitement hns been caused by the c harge, which Is made In El Reconcentrndo, the organ of Cuba llbre. The pnper says that when the Maine enme Into Hnvana harbor Bresmes openly declared that such an net of audacity could not pass without stringent punishment. "His thrents where direct," the paper con tinues, "und boded destruction to the American ship. His associates were Felipe Gonzalez, Dion Slo Vega and Kusello Aszctic, violent Spaniards. Others with him were olllcers of tho volunteers. "These men boasted that the Yan kees were about to Ret their due, though no charge enn bo directed ngninst nny save Bresmes. He anil tbe hot-headed Spaniards met nightly at a house nenr the corner of Murnllo nnd Habnna streets, where the public know the plot ngninst the Maine was concocted nnd nil arrangements com pleted. When tho explosion took place Bresmes was In the Tncon theater with friends. At the sound of the explosion he cried: 'There goes the Maine!' Chnmpngne was drunk In honor of the terrible event at the mo ment when others were vnguely In quiring of one another whnt had hap pened." Bresmes' nnme wns mentioned be fore the American court of Inquiry, but not suflleiont evidence was then forthcoming, and all reference to him was suppressed In the rewrt. Cnpt. Slgsbee, who Is here with the Texas, km 1.1. 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 snld to be In hiding In Spain. A TRIPLE MURDERER, Wile's Confession Mny ReteaBe an Innocent Man From Frlion. Sheriff George A. Storrs of Utnh county, Utnh, lert New York a few days ago accompanied by Mrs. Jennie Wright. They are en route to Utah In an endeavor to tienr up a murder mystery, nnd to free. If possible, a man from a life sentence. At the IVIIcnn Point ranch, Utnh, In IWi, three young men were shot down one night In their ranch house. The stepfather of one of the boys, named Haynes, hod had trouble with the men and was arrested, charged with the crime. The bodies of the men were found sunk in I'tnh lnl:e, and the premises they had occup.ed were loot ed. Hnynes wns convicted on circum stantial evidence and wns sentenced to be hanged, but n stay was secured ntid the sentence commuted to life Im prisonment. A short time nfter the crime George W. Wright left thnt locality and lived In various parts of the West, finally drifting to Fresh Water. Col. He was n graduate of Kalamazoo law college. Ho soon became prominent, bearing the sobriquet of "King of Fresh Wa ter." One morning n man with whom Wright was nt odds wns found shot to pieces in his cabin. Wrlaht assist ed nt the coroner's Inquest and wrote out the verdict of "murder by a per son unknown." I.nter Wright became Involved In a questionable sheep deal, nnd nfter being arrested Jumped his bull nnd lied. He visited his wife at her parents' home nt Gouverneur, N. Y., nnd then disappeared. After he left the West evidence of a positive character relating to the mur der nt Fresh Wnter Is snld to hove been found ngninst Wright, and after working on the ense for over a year Chief Hnrdi r elicited a confession from Mrs. Wright to the effect thnt her husbnnd hnd goods which figured In the Pelican Point murders. The Utah authorities were commun icatee! with and found articles Just where she snld. Mrs. Wright said she was willing to testify against her hus bnnd for the triple crime, providing he enn be caught. She says her Hps have previously been sealed through fear nf blm. Electric. ty to Annihilate Ocrma. A wonderful discovery of electric force Is announced, whereby ihe In ventor claims that he can send a mil lion volts throuKh the human body, kill nil forms of bacilli, including tu berculosis, without. Incidentally, an nihilating the patient. A New York attorney Is now In Washington filing with the patent ofllce the papers nec essnry to protect this remarkable dis covery. He Is very reticent, and frankly admits that he fears ridicule. From whnt was divulged, however. It appears that the inventor proposes to take advantage of the fnct that glass Is not an absolute reslntent or non conductor, but that a tremendous electrical current striking against a glnss 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 Insldt the gl iss case. Sixteen Seamen Drowned. A dispatch to Lloyd's snys that the Italian steamer Voorwarts has been abandoned nenr Trevose head, on the West Cornwall roast. She went ashore In the gale that hns been raging in the Irish chnnnel. Eleven members of the crew, who put off in boats, were drowned. Nine, who clung to the rig ging, were rescued by the coast guard lifeboat. Details received regarding the wreck of the steamer at the en trance of Dieppe harbor show she was the An vers. The captain and 14 of the crew succeeded in c, Inning to the part of Jetty. One man perished from ex haustion, and four were drowned in the engine room. Give Their Polic.ci aa becurity. 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 tor 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 preposition would be unnecessary. It has been half a dozen years since the Bridgeport authorities could engage In important publlo works. Choked by s Piece of Steak. John Brady choked to death In a Bowery restaurant the other night at Now York. The principal event lit his life wus that several years ago he saved the life of a Vunderbllt 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 reoelvod a $100 check. Brady expected to go Tuesday to get the money, and he celrhrated in a Bowery restaurant Monday night by ordering a large steak. The first bite stuck In hia throat and ho died of strangulation.
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