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Feb. 7, 1893. j The majority report of the house judi- i ciary committee, which investigated the Homestead labor troubles, has attracted ' wide attention. It was written by Representative Boatner, of Louisiana, who says therein that he finds nothing in the constitution which authorizes con gress to interfere with, regulate, or pro hibit the employment of Pinkerton or other detectives, by persons or corpora- j tions, except so far as they may be en- i gaged in interstate commerce. "The i trouble at Homestead," continues the I report, "was beyond federal or congres sional jurisdiction. To permit interfer ence by the federal authorities, without demand of the states, or to make laws which would control or effect the rela tions of employer and employe in the states, would he to undermine the just authority of the states and to interpose federal authority upon a subject of which the states have, and ought to have, su preme control. Representative Fellows, of New York, is chairman of the committee that will investigate the spending of Panama ('anal money in the United States. Col. Fellows is a shrewd lawyer, and as a skillful cross-examiner has few equals. Furthermore, he is deeply interested in the subject he is investigating. All of which increases the chances for the ex posure of somebody, if there is any truth in the charges that have been from time to time made, both in this country and in France, of the bribery of Americans of prominence. Ex-Secre tary Thompson will be one of the wit nesses heard. He was president of the American end of the company. The senate, which ha 9 only passed two of the appropriation bills, seems at last to realize that it is in a hole. Beginning today, it will meet at 11 o'clock. Senator Sherman's ability to look out for number one baa made him a very rich man, and not a small part of bis wealth was made out of \\ ashiogton real estate. Several years ago he bought on speculation a large piece of unim proved ground on the outskirts of the city, and recently a water-main was laid along the front of that property and a bill amounting to about S7OO for the . special tax provided by law was sent to i Senator Sherman. Instead of paying the i bill as a private citizen without an otli- I cial "pull" would have done, he appeal ed to the local officials to remit the tax, on the ground that the land was unim proved and would remain so, as it was his intention when he purchased it, and still is his intention, to sell it to the government to be used as a park. If the senator proposed giving this ground to the government there might be some justice in his not paying this water tax, but as he expects to sell it (.at a big profit presumably) he should be made to pay all the legal taxes on it, just as the most obscure individual would have to do. President Harrison caused consider able comment at the capitol hy his ap pointment of Judge Jackson, a Demo crat, as the successor of Justice Lamar on the supreme bench. Just why he performed an act so contray to his past record cannot be understood by either of the great parties, but none doubt that he had a deep reason for it. Whether or not it was done to spite the Republicans for failing to re-elect him cannot be posi tively stated and will probably never be known. Perhaps the old adage, "It is never too late to mend," occurred to the president and caused him to commit the gracious act that has thrown the Repub licans into a spasm. 8. LUZERNE is one of the Bixteen coun ties in Pennsylvania tiiat had no debt of any kind on January 1, 1893. Why should Freeland and Foster leave such a county to enter a new one that would be compelled to pile up debts aggregat ing hundreds of thousands of dollars? Our county tax rate is the lowest in the state, and we had better stay in good company than to rush into a scheme that has for its avowed pur pose nothing but the booming of Haz leton. It is a question of dollars and cents to every property-holder on the North Side. The plan of the work, now nearly complete, to utilize the power of Niag ara falls is as follows: The river is tapped a mile above the great fall and a portion of water drawn off through a canaL At intervals along this canal wells or vertical shafts are dug down into the ground. The water from tho canal falls through the shafts one after another upon turbine wheels that whirl and develop tho power for the machine works that will be built along the canal. Great plants are already in process of erection. After the water has done its work it passes off into a tunnel which discharges it a quarter of a mile below the falls. Delaware is able to meet all tier state debts and has more than $.147,000 leu over. Now let Delaware go in for good country roads and first class country school houses. CLIFFORD ACQUITTED IN THE HOMESTEAD RIOTS PINKER TONS WERE LAWFUL. The Convicted Grand Master Workman, Hugh Dempsey—Judge Stow© Holds the Lawyers Down to His Decision That the Plnkertons Were Lawfully Employed. PITTSBURG, Feb. B.—Jack Clifford, the Homestead strike leader, charged with the unlawful killing of P. J. Connors during the famous barge battle on July 6, WHS acquitted last evening. Attorney Erwin asked to submit an offer as to the line of policy in cross examination with regard to Pinkertoniam. The Plnkertons Were Justified. The judge said: "These men were going to Homestead on a lawful errand f Sjgjk and had a right to / go. Even if the JCS Plnkertons had /' been going there S\ to take that mill Wb" by force they were Justified in doitig so, and no one has a right to dispute A it in this court, and you may as well understand ' that now. Such ideas as you at- HUGH DEMPBEY. tempt to advance never have been the law, are not the law, and I hope never will he the law. It is anarchistic to advance such sentiments, and I will allow no one to ad vance such ideas here." Strikers Fired First. Captain Rodgers, who was in charge of the steamer Little Bill, related the story of the trip. During the cross examination the court again overruled the questions asked by Mr. Brennan, and an objection was filed. Witness said that Captain Iliues and others on the barges had revolvers in their hands. Then the firing became gen eral on both sides, lasting 15 minutes. After the battle a dozen wounded men were taken from the barges to Port Perry. Pinkerton Captain W. H. Burt graph ically described the battle at Homestead, aud declared that the men on the barges did no firing until after 15 shots had come from the crowd on shore. After this the detectives sent two volleys of shot at those on the mill property, scat tering them right and left. The witness then described the wounding of Conners. He saw Clifford just before he started to run out the gangplank. The defendant came in through a break in the fence. Clifford had a pistol in his pocket. Several other witnesses reviewed the scenes of the riot and identified Clifford as a participant. The Vesuvius' Tests. PORT ROYAL, S. C., Feb. 4.—The tests with the pneumatic tubes of the cruiser Vesuvius were continued at the navy yard dock yesterday. The vessel did not move down to the lower harbor because it was desired to test certain important observa j tions made from data acquired by a com j parison of the results of preliminary prac- I tice with the results obtained during pres i ent experiments. Beginning shortly before noon seven shots were fired, with even more satisfactory results than any yet ob ! tained. Two shots fired from the same gun consecutively were absolutely accurate. Had the tests been made on shore the two I shells would have fallen In the same hole. The first shot fired for a range of 2,000 yards fell directly on the line. Speaking of the day's work, an officer said this after noon that it would lie misleading to state that every shot had been entirely satisfac tory. Oue of the shots had, he said, iieen disappointing, but the remaining six shots had given the most satisfactory results yet obtained. It is probable that the Vesuvius will not go down to the lower harbor be j fore Monday. Rhode Inland Odd Fellows. PROVIDENCE, Feb. B.—The 50th annual meeting of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Rhode Island is being held here. The following officers were elected: Grand master, j. Milton Payne, Pawtucket; dep uty grand master, Joseph E. C. Farnham, Providence; grand warden, George F. Mac kinuon, Providence; grand secretary, Wil liam H. T. Mosely, Providence; grand treasurer, Stephen O. Raudell, Providence; grand representative, John Cockcroft, Paw tucket; grand marshal, Adoniram J. Gush ing, Providence; grand guardian, Henry O. Martin, Olneyville. Ward and FJnb Free. NEW YORK, Feb. B.—Judge Cowing, on the recommendation of District Attorney Nicoll, dismissed three indictments against Ferdinand Ward and James D. Fish, joint ly accused of grand larceny, and three against Ward alone for the same offense. In making his application Assistant Dis trict Attorney Macdona, who represented Mr. Nicoll, said that in the case of Ward it was understood at the trial that conviction on any indictment would entail the dis missal of all the others. The President-elect Praises Harrison. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—ln reference to the nomination of Judge Jackson as the suc cessor of the late Justice Lamar, President elect Cleveland alluded pleasantly to his ! appreciation of the compliment paid to a man who had been originally appointed to the bench by himself. He was pleased to know not only that the bench "would suf fer no injury from such an appointment, but that President Harrison had had such a high regard for our highest court." Legislation Against Crinolines. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4.—George M. Beck er, Democratic member, caused a sensa tion in the legislature by introducing a bill as follows, "It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or sell, or to offer for sale or use, or to permit the manufac ture, sale or use of any hoopsklrt or hoop skirts or anything like thereunto within the limits of Minnesota." The Old Colony Rumor Confirmed. BOSTON, Feb. B.—The Old Colony rail road has been purchased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway com pany, subject to ratification by the stock holders. President Choate will immedi ately issue A circular to stockholders sub mitting the offer of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. Governor Foraker Declines a Trusteeship. j CINCINNATI, Feb. B.—Ex-Governor For aker will not accept the appointment of fered him by Governor McKinley as trus tee of the Ohio State university to succeed ex-President Hayes, deceased. Not Any For Boles. I DUBUQUE, la., Feb. 4.—Governor Boies ( has forwarded to President-elect Cleveland I a letter declining the secretaryship of agri- I culture. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. Allegation* A|;iiln*t Dr. Treverton, at Uncle or Harris' Victim. SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 3.—Evidence which it is believed will be of great importance in the case of Carlyle Harris, now under con victiou in New York for the murder of hit wife, Helen Potts, has just been discovered here. Mrs. Harris, the young man's mother has been spending some days here, and it is principally through her efforts that tin evidence was gathered. The newly found evidence has been ob tained from Helen Potts' friends and inti mates while she was a visitor here at tin home of her uncle, Dr. C. W. Treverton and from physicians of high standing in their profession. Some letters are held from young ladies in the Hyde Park section of the city who during Helen Potts'visit hero associated with her, and who were spoken of as the "arsenic eating coterie," and who know more about the troubles of the dead girl than they have heretofore cared to reveal. The evidence gathered shows that Miss Potts was a confirmed morphine eater. The claim is also made here that whatevei abortion was performed on the girl wnv done by Dr. Treverton while she was at his home, Treverton's wife being an aunt ol Miss Potts. Traverton left this city some time age and is now. It is believed, living in Chicago, i Treverton's house burned a short time ! after the conviction of Harris, and nothing i was saved from it hut his diploma, show-1 ing that he graduated from the University j of New York. Treverton received ovei ' $2,000 insurance and soon afterward left j for the west. There is also some evidence 1 that Dr. Treverton encouraged ins niece in ' the use of morphine, and it is stated that I prescriptions that he gave her have been j procured from a Hyde Park drugstore and j are certified to as being filled for the girl. I OUR PANAMA CANAL FRAUDS. Colonel Ingernoll Received $5,000 unit Other Lawyers 825,000 In Fees. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. —After many de lays the Punama investigation was begun by the special committee appointed by the house for the purpose. Charles Colne of Brooklyn, secretary of the American com mittee of the Panama company since its formation in 1881, testified that Mr. Thomp son was not at the office much, and most of the business done there was transacted through witness. He has disbursed about $3,000,000. After 1883 the principal busi ness of the American committee was to seek for subscriptions to loans and to act as a go between for the Panama Canal company and the Panama Railroad com pany, the canal company owning nearly all the capital stock of the railroad com pany. Mr. Colne testified in substance that the American company purchased the Panama railroad stock at $290 per share, although the market price was $l4O, because it was necessary to obtain control of the road. Attorneys' fees paid were: To It. J. Inger soll, $5,000, and Shellabarger & Wilson, $25,000. The committee decided to meet again on Wednesday and if possible have Messrs. Thompson and Appleton present. Mr. Ellis Is now traveling in his yacht "for his health," as Mr. Colne expressed it. The books of the American company will he brought from New York by Mr. Colne and placed before the committee for inspection. BURNED AT THE STAKE. A Texan .Mob Takes tin* Execution or the Law Into Its Own Hand*. PARIS, Tex., Feb. 2.—Henry Smith, a negro, who murdered the 4-year old daugh ter of Henry Vance, a white man, was cap tured by a mob. The country roads were alive with people coming in with wagons and on horseback. It is estimated that the crowd surrounding the depot num bered nearly 20,000 people. When the train arrived a rush was made for the coach In which the negro was confined. The deputy sheriffs and the guard of Paris citizens who accompanied the negro from Tex arkana drew their revolvers and attempted to prevent the mob from taking t heir pris oner. The guard was quickly overpowered, however, and a rope was thrown about Smith's neck. He was dragged from the train and hurried to the scene of his crime. All along the route he was pelted with missiles, struck by fists and otherwise mal treated. He was tied to a stake, and alter being subjected to every conceivable tor ture lie was cremated amid the howling of the mob. Tern.' Governor Denounce, the Mob. AUSTIN, Feb. B.—Governor sent a message to the legislature concerning the lynching of the negro Smith nt Paris hy a molt, the governor strongly denounces the torturing and burning anil wishes to have laws made to punish those who participate in lynching. He denounces Smith's slayers as murderers. Donoghuo Anxlou. to.Sleet If agon. N'EWBURO, N. Y., Kelt. 8.-The Newburg ! Skating association will give a purse of i 1800 as a bonus for Hagen to meet Joe Don ogliue in a it-mile race at this city within 20 days. Donoghue Bays that, as chances of a race between hiruself and Hagen for a purse are very slim as It stands at present, he will meet Hagen in an exhibition race of five miles as stated for honors only. If such a race cun be arranged, Newburg sport ing men stand ready to back Donoghue In bets for $25,000. Murderer McDowell Confesses. BENNINGTON, Vt., Feb. 4.—Officers here have been notified by authorities in Nur walk, Conn., of the arrest and confession in that place of Henry McDowell, who killed John Crowley at Glsstonhury, near here, in April, 1892. One night lie coolly walked into town and told what he had j done. He as coolly walked away and has ! not been seen since. A Cabinet Rumor From Boston. BOSTON, Feb. 7.—There Is a rumor cur rent that the portfolio of state has been of fered to John Quincy Adams by the presi dent-elect. At hiß residence on Common wealth avenue today Mr. Adams could not be seen. His secretary refused to say if there was any truth in the report. The Haytian Minister Arrives. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Among the passen gers arriving on the Dutch steamer Prince Wilhelm 11, from Amsterdam via Port au Prince, was Mr. C. Haentjeus, minister plenipotentiary of the Haytian government to the United States. West Point Appointments. \\ ABIIINGTON, Feb. B.—The following ap pointments have been made to the Military academy at West Point: H. K. Cloke of Trenton, with W. S. Fennimore of Beverly as alternate. Nellie Grant's Husband Dead. LONDON, Feb. 7.—Algernon Sartoris, who married Nellie Grant, died on Friday at Capri, Italy. He had not lived with his wife for some years. ANNA E. DICKINSON SUES. The Doctors Who Committed Her to the Insane Asylum the Defendants. SCR ANTON, Pa., Feb. 6.—Miss Anna E. : Dickinson, lecturer and actress, lias brought three suits in the circuit court of the United States directed against eight' cians. askingdam- T a^ts in tlie n^re ' gate sum of $125,- yajjf 000. These suits are against the i*L ..... instrumental in lodging her in the • against James j ANSA E. DICKINSON. Courtwright.G. B. Thompson, Allen I Kggleston, John B. Heilmaii, George Un derwood and Henry Bryden. In this $50,- 000 damages are asked. In the second suit I)r. George Underwood of Pittsburg is made defendant, and damages are placed at $50,000. The third suit is against Dr. James Oglesby of Danville, from whom damages are asked in the sum of $25,000. Miss Dickinson, after referring to her al leged forcible removal to an asylum, de clares that the examination the physician* made as to her condition was hastily, im properly, negligently and insufficiently done. In consequence of her imprisonment she suffered mental and physical agony was subjected to indignities and pain from wounds and from exposure and for five weeks was kept in the asylum, during which time she was prevented from pursu ing her vocation as a lecturer. For these reasons she believes that she is entitled to damages in the aggregate sum of SI2S,(XX), which she now claims. The case will prob ably be tried at the March term of court. FOY PRONOUNCED GUILTY. He Receives the Jury's Verdict With an Air of liravudo. BALLBTON, N. Y., Feb. 2.—The jury in the Foy murder case came into court and asked that the evidence given by eye wit nesses of the shooting be read to them. The testimony showed clearly that the second shot, which struck Miss Wilson in the back of the neck, nearly severing the spinal cord, was the fatal one, and not the third one, which was fired after Foy had shot himself twice in the forehead. The jury retired, and Judge Holmes, who had been standing out alone that the third shot was the one which caused death and which was fired after Foy had been crazed by bullets striking his skull, now became convinced of the prisoner's guilt and agreed with the other 11 jurymen. Foreman Sickler announced that they had agreed and that their verdict was guilty of murder in the first degree. Foy took his fate nonchalantly and walked back to his cell with the same air of bravado that has distinguished him in jail. His aged father sat by his side and seemed to realize that the verdict was the inevita ble result of the evidence. ANOTHER HOMESTEADER GUILTY. Robert J. Heatty Fouiul Guilty of Com plicity In l'ulttoiiliig. PITTSBURG, Feb. 3.— A verdict of guilty as indicted was rendered in the case of Robert J. Beatty, charged with complicity in the poisoning at Homestead. It was just nine minutes from the time the jury retired until they reported their verdict ready. When the verdict was rendered Beatty was taken back to jail. He looked very much worried, the very noticeable change in his countenance indicating his great disappointment. Another Inland Seeks Admission. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7.—Colonel Charles E. Dailey, the Ameiican commissioner for King Teburiemo of Butaritari, one of the Gilbert islands, has forwarded to the state department at Washington a protest from the king aguinst the forcible seizure of his islands by the British government while negotiations were progressing with the United States. He asks the protection of the United States or annexation. Advices from Butaritari state that Captain Davis of the British navy, who seized the islands, was very arbitrary in his conduct He was insulting to Americans on the island and übusive to the king. Representatives of the island king in this country state that the British made haste to seize the islands some months ago on receipt of the information from Sydney that the king had gone to the United States to ask protection. To Connect Fondu and Fultonvllle. FONDA, N. Y., Feb. 3. —A company with a capital of SIOO,OOO has been organized to build an electric railway between Fonda and Fultonvilie. The road will he oper ated in connection with the one being built from Fonda toGloversville. Ex-Coniptrol lerWemple and Ex-Superintendent of Pub lic Works Shanahan are among the di rectors. _ Phillips ItrookH* Estate. BOSTON, Feb. 8. —Bishop Brooks' estate is barely sufficient to cover the amounts named in his will, aggregating $10,500. I)r. Brooks never permitted himself to receive any emoluments outside his salary either as rector or bishop, and he gave from his income with an open handed but wise charity. A Yellow Covered Tale. ROCKVILLE CENTER, L. 1., Feb. 4.—This town is stirred by the attempted elopement of pretty Miss Stella Bright man with Deer foot, the head medicine man of the Kicka poo medicine tribe. Stella was locked up by her mother. She wore a bright red Kickapoo squaw's costume when captured. Populist Senator From Nebraska. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. B.—Judge W. B. Al len, Populist, was elected United States senator today, receiving 70 votes, 4 more than necessary to a choice. The vote for Paddock, Republican, was 57. All the in dependents and Democrats voted for Allen. His election was then made unanimous. Port Itoyal Mines Ablaze. WEST NEWTON, Pa. Feb. 4.—The fires in the Port Royal Coal and Coke company's mines are now burning with the fury of a .furnace. All efforts to reach the part where John Gettings is supposed to have lost his life have been abandoned, and attention is now given to extinguishing the flames. Egyptian Affairs Serious. LONDON, Feb. 4.—Lord Cromer, the Brit ish minister to Kgypt, says that the condi tion of affairs in Kgypt may compel the landing of nil the British troops who have been ordered to that country. Mrs. Whitney Dead. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Mrs. "William C. Whitney, wife of the ex-secretary of the navy, died at her home, 2 West Fifty seventh street, at 8 o'clock Sunday morn ing of heart disease. THE DEACON DIVORCE. The Decree Granted Upon Arrangement With Mm. Deacon. PARIS, Feb. 3.—About a month ago Mr. Deacon offered to his wife the following conditions: That the eustody of the thra elder children should be given to him; that his wife should acknowledge that tht charges of cruelty made against him in the Paris proceeding were false; that she should consent to a decree in the Paris proceeding granting him a divorce, and that she should relinquish the name of Deacon and resume her maiden name of Baldwin. Mr. Deacon, on the other hand, was to abandon tin proceedings in Grasse and in New York. Mrs. Deacon after consideration agree! to these terms and gave evidence of la consent in writing. Therefore the divon was granted. It is understood that Al Deacon will shortly return to Amer with Gladys. DR. GRAVES OUT ON BAIL. Once Sentenced to He-Hung, Now Frc- Ui dec $5,000 Bonds. DENVER, Feb. 0. —Dr. T. Thatcher Graves who a little over a year ago was convicted of poisoning Mrs. Josephine Barnaby of Providenceand was sentenced to be hanged, but subsequently , V granted a new \ trial, was released t\ from the peniten &X tiary and came immediately to Denver. He came here for the pur- Py pose of furnishing bail Pending are Upon his arrival v ' the formality of DR. T. T. GRAVES. frni9ln K bonds was gone through with, and the doctor was allowed his free dom. The amount of bail given was $5,000 Dr. Graves is lmle and hearty and does not show any truces of his long imprison ment. He retains his old time courtesy and pleasant manner. The doctor is of course happy at being free again, as there is no probability of his ever being tried the second time because of the great expense attached to the trial and the absence of witnesses. TO TELEPHONE HANDWRITING. A New Company Which Will Do A\va\ With the Telephone Girl. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. —A new telephone com pany is chartered here with $80,000,000 cap ital to work under the Harrison patent. The Harrison patent was some time ago involved in a lawsuit with the Bell Teh phone company. The case was hotly con tested before the supreme court of tin United States and was the first in which the Bell company ever suffered defeat. The incorporators claim that they can give service for one-half the rates now charged. President. Feree said: "We will construct a circuit between New York, Boston, Buf falo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Louis ville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and from then back to New York. "One of the most important features of our new system is that it is expected to do entirely away with the telephone girl. We do this by a system of automatic switch boards. In conjunction with the telephone we will have a new system of telegraphy by which messages are written out, and an exact facsimile is transmitted to the re ceiver." CHICAGO AND INAUGURATION RATES The Trunk Line Agents Establish High Tariff For the Events of 1893. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. —At a meeting of the executive committee of the Trunk Line as sociation it was agreed to sell tickets to and from the World's fair at Chicago at a 20 per cent reduction from present rates, with one stop over in each direction. It was also agreed to sell unlimited tickets at the fares now charged for limited tickets. This arrangement will take effect April 15 and continue until Oct. 30. Rates to Mr. Cleveland's inauguration at Washington will be made on a busis of 2 cents a mile each way. Alaska Wants Homo Kule. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 4. Late advices from Alaska are to the effect tliat the citi zens of that territory are earnestly work ing for home rule. A convention will meet in Junsau this month to elect a delegate who will carry to Washington a petition asking the following legislation: A delega tion in congress, home rule, modification of the present prohibitory law and a law by which the public lunds may be taken up by actual settlers. Major Pond's Daughter Keeks Divorce. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.—There was much surprise in theatrical and musical circlesol this city when it became known that Edith Hand, nee Pond, daughter of Major J. H. Pond, the manager of lecturing tours, had begun suit in this city lor an absolute di vorce from her husband. Elmer E. Hand. Edith is a singer of ability and has a repu tation in musical circles both in this city uud New York. Hell's Telephone Patents Fx pi ring. ELIZABETH, N. J., Feb. B.—The old Mucci Telephone company, of which J. It. English of tlds city is president, is about to revive Its charter and begin active operations here and in other cities of this state. The Mucci | company had a regular system in operation I some years ago, hut had to suspend busi ness oil account of infringing the Hell com pany's patents, which are now expiring. New Jersey Repeaters. JERSEY CITY, Feb. 4. —The argument in the Kiddle-Hoffman contested senatorial election case from Atlantic county was continued before the senate committee. 1 j The evidence went to show that some men had voted in Philadelphia and Camden and then went to Atlantic City and voted I there. The hearing will be continued at | Trenton ou Tuesday. A Reception to Governor Pnttlson. 1 FRANK 1.1 if, Pa., Feb. 4. —The reception tendered Governor Pattison and staff by General Wylie and staff of the Second Brigade, N G. P., in this city last evening was the most brilliant social affair of the seasou. Lamar's Successor Appointed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Howell E. Jack son of Tennessee was appointed by the president to he associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, vice L. Q. C. Lamar, deceased. Fell Into a Rolling Vat. NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 7.— Peter Reilly, an employee of the Newark Licorice works, fell into a vat of boiling iicorice. lie was frightfully scalded and died in a few I hours. Hon. Joseph I*. Couiegys Dead. DOVER, Del., Feb. 2.—Joseph P. Come* gys, ex-chief justice of this state, died at I his residence. He was born near Dover In 1 lb) 3. 1 BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR. The Development* of Kach Day During the Week Caught Fresli From the lluny Wire* uutl Carefully Edited and Con demned For Our Headers. Thursday, Feb. 2. Stephen Decatur Johnston, the veternn hotel keeper of the Thousand Islands and proprietor of the Isaak Walton House, died of puralysis. An explosion of firedamp occurred in the General von Dluinent hal coal pit at Reck linghausen, Westphalia. Eighteen miners were killed instantly and 17 were injured. Hon. George C. Shearer died at Watkins. N. Y., aged 75 years. In 1862 he was elected judge of Schuyler county and served one term. Miss Ethel Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Reeves, pupils of Linden Hall seminary, Lancaster, Pa., have died of diphtheria at that place. A record of accidents in and around Bos ton caused by the electric street cars in 1892 shows that 10 persons were killed aud 205 injured. In the Tennessee senate Tuesday a reso lution advocutiug the amendment of the United States constitution so as to elect United States senators by direct vote of the people was adopted. Ex-Governor Robinson of Massachusetts has been retained as counsel for Lizzie Borden. Friday, F. b. 3. Maurice Morlarty of Ware, Mass., over seer of mason work on the Central Massa chusetts railroad, was killed by a milk train at West on. A colored man was killed at the same time. The First National bank of Little Rock has failed for $500,000. George M. Pullman intends to present Chicago with a children's hospital. Four negroes suspected of having killed two country merchants were lynched at Rich lands, Va. Powell, Partridge & Storer's brick and terra cotta works at Rocky Hill, N. J., were destroyed by fire. It is said Mrs. Blaine and her sister, Gail Hamilton, intend to write the life of James G. Blaine. Dr. Lancaster Drew, secretary and treas urer of the Central Savings Fund, Trust ami Safe Deposit company, Philadelphia, has disappeared, and his accounts are said to be SIO,OOO short. At Xenia, 0., a paper mill was complete ly destroyed by fire. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. Saturday, Feb. 4. Ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard and Mrs. Bayard arrived at Niagara Falls and are quartered at the Prospect House. At Schenectady Margaret Thurber, aged 82, and her 5-year-old daughter Josephine were fatally burned. The little girl's clothes caught fire, and the mother tried to extinguish them. John McAdams of the firm of McAdams Brothers, Penn Yan, N. Y., was run over by the cars at Dresden last night, crushing hot h legs. He died this morning. General John F. Hallier died at his resi dence in Philadelphia. He was boru in Wurtemburg in 1815 and came to Philadel phia in isas. The president sent to the senate the nomi nation of J. Rice Winchell to lie collector of customs for the district of New Haven. Johu Cooper, the tramp indicted for the murder of George L. Cottle, a reputable citizen of Skaueatelc* Junction, N. Y., was declared guilty of murder in the second degree. Monday, Feb. O. Dr. Horace Lathrop, a prominent physi cian of Cooperstown and a member of the State Medicul society, has been stricken with apoplexy. It is feared that he will not recover. Miss Sallie C. Koop, 28 years old, com mitted suicide in Brooklyn by taking chlo roform, and then she fired four shots into her left breast. Miss Koop was the daugh ter of Herman 11. Koop, a wealthy retired merchant, who died suddenly lour yeurs ago. Judge L. C. Lincoln, a prominent attor ney of Conway, Ark ,is dead. He was a third cousin to ex-President Abraham Lin coln. Dr. Spencer C. Dovnn, past assistant, sur geon of the United States Marine hospital service, died at Philadelphia. Stephen A. Walker, who was United States district attorney in New York In the latter part of President Cleveland's term and who was for seven successive terms president of the board ot education, died of pneumonia. Stephen Vanderpool, a wealth farmer living near Clyde, N. V., cut his throat. Tuesday, Feb. 7. Chancellor McGill granted a writ, of er ror in the case of Wesley Warner, sentenced to be hung at. Mount Holly, N. J., on March 15 for the murder of Lizzie Peak. A train from New London on t he Consoli dated road struck a woman named Arm strong and her infant child at Shannock, R. 1., instantly killing the child and Injur ing tlie woman so severely that she will probably die. The woman became bewil dered on the track. Sherman Weldon, a bachelor, 35 years old, was frozen to death on the road be tween Charleston aud Rural Grove, N. Y. Charles W. Walworth, president of the New York Walworth Business college, is dead. He conducted commercial colleges in Utlca, Philadelphia, Washington and Detroit. Professor J. H. Worcester, Jr., T). D , professor of systematic theology at the Union Theological seminary, New York, died of heart failure. W'(liie(lay, Feb. 8. C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo sold the famous pacer Jocko to A. E. Perren. Jocko lias a record of 2:16K over a mile track. He is one of the Hal Pointer type and went A trial mile in 2:14. Thomas Coyne called upon one of his neighbors in Miuooka. In the morning his dead body was found lying outside the house. Dr. Benjamin S. Van Zile was found guilty by a Brooklyn jury of manslaughter in causing the death of Lillian Cook through malpractice. Ilenry Kamm, a young man who figured prominently iu the George manslaughter case at Leeds, N. Y., about two years ago, has been declared insane and taken to the Hudson River Insane hospital at Pougli keepsie. Frank Madden, a Rochester bookkeeper, jumped from the Genesee river bridge to the river bed, a distance of 125 feet. Augustus Jost, who shot his wife at their home at Glen Cove, N. Y., on Oct. 10 last, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and Judge Brown sentenced him to Sing Sing at hard labor for the remainder pf bis natural life. lias the Xjarg-est Stcr® in town. Bargains are prevail ing this week in all depart ments. Ladies' Coats. Newmarkets at half price. An $8 coat for $5. A $lO coat for $5; etc. Special Bargains In Woolen Blankets. Have them from 79 cents a pair up. Remember, men's gum boots, Cnndee, $2.25 Mnifs, 40 cents up to any price you want. Ladies' woolen mitts. 2 pair 25 cents; worth 25 cents a pair. Some 50-cent dress goods at 25 cents. All-wool plaid, which was 00 cents, now 39 cents. Some Special Things In Furniture. A good carpet-covered lounge, $5. A good bedstead, $2.25. Fancy rocking chairs, $3.50. Ingrain carpet for 25 cents a yard. Groceries & Provisions. Flour, $2.15. Chop, sl.lO and $1.15. Bran, 50 cents. Bologna. 8 cents. Cheese, N. Y., 13 cents. Tub butter, 28 cents 18 pounds sugar SI.OO. 5 pounds Lima beans, 25 cents. 5 pounds currants, 25 cents. 5 pounds raisins, 25 cents. 6 bars Lenox soap, 25 cents. 6 bars Octagon soap, 25 cents. 3 packages pearline, 10 cents. Best coal oil, 12 cents. Vinegar, cider, 15 cents gal. Cider, 20 cents a gallon. Syrup, No. 1, 35 cents gal. No. 1 mince meat, 10 cents. 3 pounds macaroni 25 cents. 3 quarts beans. 25 cents. 0 pounds oat meal, 25 cents. FftEELAND READY PAY. J. C. Berner, Spot Cash. Promoter of Low Prices. IF'reelan.d., - - CITIZENS' BANK OF FEE ELAND. 15 Front Street. Capital, - gpSO,OOC. OFFICERS. JOSEPH RIRKBECK, President. H. C. KOONS, Vice President. R tt. DAVIH, Cashier. JOHN SMITH, Secretary. DIRECTOKB. Joseph Rirkbeck, Thomas Rirkbeck, John Wagner, A Hudewick, H. C. KOOIIH, Charles Dusheck, William Kemp, Mathias Schwnhe, John Smith, John M. Powell, 2d, John Liu r ton. &T~ Three per cent, interest paid on saving deposits. o|h?m daily from 9 a. m. to 4p. m. Saturday evenings 1 nun 6 to 8. The Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill R R, Co. PASSKNQEK TRAIN TIME TAIILE. Taking Effect, September 15, 1892. Eastward. STATIONS. Westward, p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. 5 00 1 02 7 60 Shcppton 7 40 10 20 3 49 Atsool 08 7 50 Oneida L J 7 '* 14 313 Ll 5 12 124 8 (fc> 1 neiaa A j 10 ., ;w 520 1 37 H 18 Humboldt Road 7 10 950 324 529 140 821 Harwood U..Hd 707 947 321 635 147 830 Oneida Junction 700 940 3 15 i{B >" i{SM s <r >l B. Meadow Road 028 tt®! Btoe- ton Jet. 019 6 12 Eeklej Junction 0 10 tt£* Drilton 0 00 "PECTECTION or FKEE * The lending statesmen of the world pronounce it. the greatest work ever written upon tin; tariff question. No statistics, no figures, no evasions. 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