Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1890, Page 1

ae * pu” & THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAK BUILDINGS, Werth west Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th Sty by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, & i. KAUFFMA: Pres. ‘Thr Evexixe Stan is served to subscribers in the tity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents Beek. or 44 th. Copies at the count Post Second-clans mail matter.) THE WEFKLY StaR—publiched on Frida Bear. postage prepaid. Six months 50 cents S97 All mail subscriptions must be paid i advance; Be paper sent longer than ts paid for Rates of advertising made known on application Che pening Star. [ Va. 76—No 15,035, WASHINGTON, D.C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1890. TWO CENTS. SPECIAL NOTICES. COMPANY. » NOTICE, four (4) per cent, payable DIVIDES ‘A semi-annual dividend of re td Januaty 1. 100, line been fe ‘ UG." at the office of the TAYLOR, Aue Li-eost We have removed our stock of Lumber to our New Yard, 14th and D sts. aw., where we will be pl to nee and fricnds whenever in wantof ny th line. Reclaim that iu Our new location we posseas unex- eelled tactlit for handbng our Lumber, being con- Senient both to Failroad and river front. ‘We have in stock a full Line of Lanber, Sash, Doors, ands, &c..and we guarantee oUr usual prompt de- veries to purchasers, F. E. JACKS¢ Yard, 14th anc Factory and Main Office, southeast and Ubio ave. nw. a r. TREASURY DEPAK OFFICE OF THE © = ‘Whereas by satisfactory the city of county of and District of Coiu ith all the prov of the at d to be complied with horized tu commence Abrabams.deputy and act- do hereby certify that Washinnton, in the ty of and District of he business of king, 38 pro . . Sie of the evised Statutes of the United Iu testimony whereof witness my hand and seal of Office this 7 L TSOG. tuday of January, 159) ABRAHAMS, Deputy and Acting Controller of the Currency, ‘THE WEST END NATIONAL BANK of Washington, Corner of 19th st. and Pe Wasursotos, D. C~ Jan Im accordance with the above i END NATIONAL BANK OF WAS yivania ave, jan us 5 3 THE WEST NGTON ned it of a General Bank- fie iniines ver new. Receive posites, ‘Paper. ular Btiention paid t Collections. . EY ). A. McILHENNY, a Se GEO. A. Meee President, SHAS. P. WILLIAMS, Cashier, CHAS. 1 TRECIORS: ey. Geo. A. MeTihenny, Sako Geo. J Johuson, i 10. Frank T, Kew Ino. E, Beall, ino. F_ Leroy Tustie, Ir E.S. Wescott, A. F. Fardon, Calvin Witmer, W.K Wilcox, Owen 0" AND FIXTURES FOR GAS. ©. 4. MUDDIMAN, 8 END WE STOVE AND House. Ord re for Repairs t e Latrobes and Ranges attended to promp Thirty hfferent patterns of latrobes in stock. Prices reduced fourth. A large stock of Heating Stoves and wesatcost, Tin roofing at the very lowest prices on Eest Chare Glendale, Cameret "ani ipped fing Tim in'stock. Will warrant our roots for 3 ). 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TO THE STOCKHOLDERS: At the regular monty meeting of the Board of Directors heid Today an order was adopted limiting the sale of capital stock to 3,000 shares until fur- ther order of the ‘There are only 470 shares now subject to sale under this order. by order of the Board of Directors, . W. MOSBY WILLIAMS, $a15-3t* Becretary. ee HOvAL BEKTO! oo LOT OF Wine; only MAGRUDER, _ $a 5-3t ee Fightly-made Overcoat at 2 wg ~ GEO i c= SE OF THE CHt a Votomne 7 one Cx oh mnt of 31.25 per share will be pay the 27th day of January, INO, to the stockholders of r at the close of busitess on the 17th day of January, 1890, at the office of the treasurer of the coupany, G19 Lith st. n.w., Washington, D. ranster books will be closed from the 18th to of January inclusive. 3 M. BYRA CHARLES BELBE, Trews Washington, D.C., January 11, 1590, gald <e=2 YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL AT OUR store auy time this week aud try a cup of the BLOOKE! DUTCH COCOA. 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By the sixth article of the by-laws of the company itis provided: “At the annual nm» ing of the co pany the first business in order shall be the appoiut- Ment ofa chairusn, who shall conduct the meetng and election im accordance with the act of incorpora- on, between the hours of 9 o'clock ain. aud 6 o'clock 29 00 106 6> 168 00 000 00 on = 300 00 Losses by fire adjusted and pai Fear 1559... 5,734 26 The annual wat Will” Be Feddy Yor distevbution at th 3, SLEY BOTELER, Secretary. t ,. TEMPOKAKY OFFICE OF Tite, WASHINGTON LOAN AND THUST COM- rect n.w, 5 1001 ¥ st Ww. y 000,000.00. pu CAPITAL, & This company is Low Of deposit bearing intere Geposited for ninety days or m 3 per cent per a posits for more than six ui tut Jess than » year, And 4 per cent on deposits of one year or louger. Becured investments forsale. BH. WARNER, President, W. B. ROBISON, Secretary. DIRECTORS: Charles B. Bailey, Barbs 1 per ceuton de- ree F. Schafer, Franklin Schneider, Thomas Johu A. Swope. 3.5. 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To make room for our Spring Stock of AMEKICAN AND ENGLISH HATS tock of Furs, BEAL at AND SRAL JACKETS, AT 20 FM CENT OFF FOR CASH. MES ¥. _ 3810-19 => BOOES FOR St BscKIPT! ©) ‘ae Washiugton at pailroad Coral Dib inatant, wt 2 a buildin 8. 1201 Pennsylvania ave. _ TO STOC | FOR SALE Musorurannoue extra change. | Washington News and Gossip. Index to Advertisements ttt FDUCATIONAL. EXCURSIONS .. tit SNASHBISIVeVAVIAI—] i TLE GENTLEMEN'S GOOD! rere iy ry OES WWEWWHISRANSIIVEIUAUAVSTAMGAGEABYS z g PEERS EERE gE SESE gE 3 AND ORGANS, PERSONAL, PROPOSALS. RAILROADS., WANTED Citvoms) . WINTER RESORTS. A Mammoth Star. Saturday's Star will be issued in sixteen- page form and will be of unusual interest to advertisers and the reading public generally. Numerous chapters on local subjects have been prepared with great care and will be profusely illustrated, Saturday's Stax will be a model. Murrany Capets Appornrep,—Cadets have been appointed to the West Point military academy as follows: Willie A. Pratt, tenth dis- trict, Virginia; Jas, M. Talfafero, alt ate; Celwyn E. Hampton, ninth district, Ohio; Al- fred McK, Shevlin, fourth district, Massachu- setts; Samuel G, Creden, alternate; Join War- ren Joyes, third district, California, and Jos. A. Kelly, fourth district, New York, Grnonivo’s Banp.—Secretary Proctor has received a letter from Capt. R. H. Pratt, tenth cavalry, superintendent of the Indian school at lisle, Pa,, warmly commending the Secre- tary’s plan for the transfer of Geronimo’s band of Apaches to the Fort Sill reservation. He ays that he regards this place as eminently suited for the purpose. ‘THaNkiNe THE Presipent.—The entire re- publican delegation in Congress from Missouri called on the President this morning and thanked him for his appointment of the St Louis postmaster iterda: Vinersta Postmasters.—I. W. Baker has been appointed postmaster at Flatwoods, Scott county, Va., and H. H. Rivercomb at Williams- ville, Bath county, Va. Axono THE Presipent’s Caniers this morn- ing were the Attorney General, the Secretary of War, Senators Washburn and Wilson (Md.), Representatives Sawyer, Smith (Ariz.), Carter, Walker (Mass.), Randall (isa and’ Wilson (Wash. ). ex-enator Clayton and Judge Howeil (Ark,), Col, Fitzgerald (Phila.), Capt. Renni- sonand Mr, Wills, Norristown, Pa. Tae Wasuixctox Mam Destnoyep.—Infor- mation has been received that the mail for the Pacific coast via the Union Pacific road, that left Washington on the eveningfof January 6, was totally destroyed by the burning of the mail car at Sydney, Neb, on January 9, ProMorions Ix THE Anmy.—Secretary Proc- tor has issued a set of regulations governing the promotion of non-commissioned officers to the grade of second lieutenant under the terms of the act of June 18, 1878. The examination forsuch promotion must be confined to un- married non-commissioned officers between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-nine years, in- clusive, and willembrace the followin, jects: Reading, writing, arithmetic, En; grammar, geography, history and the constitu- tion of the United States. No candidate will be passed who shall not have attained a gen- average of at least 70 per cent. Ivcreasep Postan Receirrs.—The gross postal receipts during the quarter ended De- cember 31, 1889, were $6,278,618, as against $5,692,062 for the corresponding quarter of 1888, Personat.—Ex-Gov. Foraker of Ohio ar- rived in the city yesterday and is stopping at the Arno.—~—Maj. Stofer, the well-known Wash- ington correspondent, is laid up with the grij at his home, Culpeper, Va. —Mr. 8. W. Wood- ward is in Boston.-—Mr, J. R. Little has re- turned from New York.—Chas, H. Cramp of Philadelphia, J. H. Dulles of Princeton, N.J., Wm, Dulles. jr., W. W. Heroy and wife, Miss Heroy and N. W, Kiddle of New York are at the Normandie.——Mr. h. D. Britton, late manager of the Bijou theater in this city, who recently suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in Louis- ville, is on his feet again and likely to stay there.——Mr. Harry E. Rickard, editor and proprietor of the Williamsport, Md., Transcript, was @ recent guest of the Washington cor- respondent of the Transcript, Mr. J. A. Hawkenof 719 9th street, northwest.——J, N. Sharp of Statesville, N. C., Hon, A. G. Smith and W. B. Burnett of Cin- cinnati, and J. W. Bennett of Lowell, are atthe Ebbitt. ‘T. M. Earle of Mexico, J. Sullivan of Cincinnati, T. A. Holt, T. Bull and J. Hastgen of New York are at Willards.——A. . Belford of Brooklyn and M. H. Patten of Boston are at the Riggs,——Mr. Ogden Gollet and family and Henry C. Olds of New York are at the Arno,——L. Maxwell and wife and J, Nix and family of NewYork are at the St.James,—— J.Lowrie;Bell,the general superintendentof the railway mail office, is absent on an official trip through the southwestern section of the country, THE MISSING COL. CLITZ. The War Department Comes to the Conclusion That He is Dead. In the weekly order issued today from the War department, dated January 13, announcing changes in the personnel of the army there is a curious statement, Under the head of casual- ties is this clause: “Col. Henry B, Clitz (re- tired) died—(last seen at Niagara falls, New York, between 4 and 5 o'clock a.m. October 30, 1888).” ‘The case has quite a history. Shortly after his disappearance, as sketched in the brief line of the order, the War department, at the AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY. THE WORLD'S FAIR SITE. ———_—_ A Preliminary Skirmish in the ' House. ON THE RACE PROBLEM. Speech of Senator Butler on Ne- gro Colonization. THE SENATE. The Senate today passed a concurrent reso- lution, reported from the committee on finance, requesting the Secretary of the Treasury not to take any steps toward making a new lease of the seal fisheries until after February 20, Mr. Hale, from the census committee, re- ported buck, adversely, the bill to require the superintendent of the census to ascer' what percentage of people own their farms, the number of farms under mortgage, and the amount thereof. He said that the re- port was not unanimous, and therefore he asked that the bill be placed on the calendar; and he gave notice that he would call it up some time next week. MR. BUTLER ON THE RACE PROBLEM. Mr. Butler, after the introduction of miscel- laneous business, made a speech on his bill to provide for the emigration of the negroes of the south at government expense under the direction of the quartermater general of the army and appropriating $5,000,000 to carry out the purpose of the bill. He thought the subject too grave to be dis- torted by party considerations, “It has,” he said. “cost the government millions to settle the race question with the Indian, and still it is not settled. The Chinese branch of the question was summarily settled in defiance of treaty stipniations, humanity and justice. The Chinaman had to go or die. ‘he Indian would not be reduced to slavery and was hunted and corralled. The Indian was here before the white man, the African or the Mongolian. He possessed characteristics which would make him a valuable citizen in afree re- public, and yet he has been regarded as only fit to live on reservations to himself under coercion, The craze of universal suffrage had furnished a solution of the difficulties of reconstruction, Doubtless surrounded by like circumstances he might have fallen upon the course that was adopted—the enfranchisement of the slave and the disfranchisement of his master—but in the light of experience it was not judicious, It would be uncandid to say there is no RACE PREJUDICE, but the point is, is that prejudice etronger in the south than in the north. There are 343,701 negroes in the north, Presumably the have had every advantage of education, yet you do not find a negro at work for a railroad com- pany there, even as a train hand, or on a street ted with the government of or occupying any position of trust. honor or emolument in the state gov- ernment, How powerless the intellect becomes when it reaches into the hereafter. If in 1860 some people had predicted that within ten years the proud Caucasian master would be prac- ticing his profession before a negro judge; that the then despised slave would represent a sovereign state in the Senate, he would have been regarded as on the verge of insanity, If in 1870 another prophet had said that ina decade not one representa- tive of the negro race would occupy a seat in the Senate or fill a place on the bench throughout this broad land, he would have en written down an untrustworthy soothsayer. Yet both of these things had occurred. ‘Today many would stand amazed at the prediction that within fifty years a genuine, full-blooded negro could not be found in the present limits of the United States; yet there were many that believed that very thing.” AN APPROPRIATION FOR COLONIZATION FAVORED. Mr. Butler justified the proposed appropria- tion on the grounds that like appropriations had been made to move Indians and to exclude Chineze, He held that where the negroes gather in greater numbers than their white neighbors the negroes retrograde, while exper ence had proved that where the white race was largely in the majority both races were better off. He argued that slavery had retarded the development of the south and expressed the belief that there are great possibilities in store for the negro; that if our government would do its duty by him he would illumine the dark continent of his fathers with the light of liberty regulated by law, At the conclusion of Senator Butier’s remarks Senator Pasco gave notice that he would at an early day address the Senate upon the question of federal control of presidential elections, and then Senator Hoar took the floor to respond to Mr. Butler, One Noniination Today. The President today sent to the Senate the following nomination: Passed Assistant Surgeon Frank W. Mead of New York to be a surgeon in the marine hos- pital service, HOUSE, In his prayer this morning the chaplain said: Almighty God, we come before Thee this day, bearing in the arms of our tenderest sym- thy, Thy servant, the Secretary of State, rom whose hand the staff of his advancing years has fallen and his broken-hearted wife, from whom the hope and jag Gad her life has been taken. In these dark hours when the soul sits dumb in the shadow of a great afiliction; when all the tumnit of the world withdraws and seems an idle babble and the honors and pleasures of the world have lost their vaiue and their charm to whom must we go but to Thee, Oh Christ! who hast the words and the inspiration of eternal life, On motion of Mr. Breckenridge (Ark.), act- ing under instructions from the committee on ways and means, a resolution was adopted calling on tho Secretary of State for copies of the existing customs duties of Germany, Aus- tria and France, and also information as to the | sen of those countries in regard to draw- acks and bounties on sugar. Mr, O'Neill (Pa.) presented resolutions of the Philadelphia maritime exchange favoring the passage of the bill to transfer the revenue = bureau to the Navy department, Re- THE OHIO BALLOT-BOX FORGERY. On motion of Mr. Mason (Ii) a resolution was adopted authorizing the sergeant-at-arms to appoint a special deputy to serve processes for the special committee to investigate the ballot-box forgeries. Mr. Lacey (Iowa) introduced a bill to amend the election laws. Referred, Mr. Dorsey (Neb.) introduced the Knox bill for providing for a permanent national bank circulation. - Referred. THE WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST FAIRLY OPENED. Mr. McKinley (Ohio), from the committee on rules, reported a resolution for the appoint- ment of a committee on the world’s fair te con- sist of thirteen members, which committee shall within three days reports plan by which the — | > site of not posed and subseqt report a bill pro- viding for the fair, Mr. Cannon (ill.), as the mtoortty ot the committee, re; ‘8 substitute lution as follows: Whereas, On December 18 and 20 and at other times the House referred to the committee affairs divers _ bills, ot 10th, thereby siting Bt by giving committes of the whole ject matter, said committee hae given exhanstive considera- same; Resolved, That the committee on committee at the earliest possible day shall re- rt a bill providing for a world’s fair in 1892, be held at the e selected as above pro- vided. FAVORED THE SUBSTITUTION. Mr. Hitt (I11.), chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, favored the substitute resolu- tion and testified to the vigorous and faithfal work which that committee had performed in reference to the projected world’s fair. ‘The site having been selected by the House the committee could, within twenty-four hours, report a plan for the fair which would be satis- factory to all the members of the House. Mr. Morrow (Cal.) took the same view de- claring that the committee on foreign affairs had proceeded diligently and effectively to the consideration of the question. He created a ripple of laughter by asserting that no matter what site was lected the real exhibition would be heldin the city which he had the honor to represent. San Francisco did not rely on arti- ficial aid. It would be the site of the exhibi- tion without any assistance on the part of Congress. IN FAVOR OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTER. Mr. Hatch (Mo.) favored the majority reso- lution. He said that prior to the appointment of the committe on fereign affairs the gentle- men representing the competing cities had entered into a compact that a special committee should be created. All St. Louis asked was that a special committee should be appointed by the Speaker, and that that committee should contain an equal number of friends of the four cities competing for the fair. Gentlemen might rest assurred that no representative of Missouri or no friend of St. Louis would ask that that city should have any advantage. She needed none. If her friends could not secure the site without violating a compact St. Louis did not want it. He asked that the agreement be carried out in good faith and that the ma- jority report be adopted. District in Congress. A STATUE OF MADISON, If there is no statue of James Madison erected in this city the blame cannot be laid on the shoulders of the Senate library committee, for they today, through Mr. Hoar, reported a bill appropriating $40,000 for the purchase of such a statue, Capitol Topics. ‘TO PROTECT RAILROAD EMPLOYES, Railroad employes will be especially inter- ested in the bill which Senator George intro- duced this afternoon, Its title is to pro- tect employes and servants engaged in fgreign and interstate com- merce, Md it makes employers liable for injuries sustained by employes when negli- ence, carelessness or omission can be proven on the part of the employer. No rule or regu- lation is to exempt the employer or company. ‘The last section of the bill is very strong. It says: “That where an injury shall be sustained by an employe while engaged in coupling cars on any railroad it shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of the railroad company that the coupling arrangemhuts about which the said employe was then engaged were not of the satest kind then known and in use. TO REORGANIZE THE SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT. Senator Manderson today introduced a bill which, if it becomes a law, will make the sub- sistence department consist of one commissary general of subsistence, with the rank, pay and emoluments of brigadier gen- eral; three assistant commissaries gencral, with the rank, pay and emoluments of colonel; six assistant commissaries general, with the Tank, pay and emoluments of lieutenant colonel; eight commissurics of subsistence. with the rank, pay and emoluments of major, and cight commissaries of subsist- ence. with the rank, pay and emoluments of captain of cavalry, ‘The vacancies created by the act are to be filled by seniority promotion of officers now in the subsistence department. DEATH OF REV. DR. HARRIS. End of the Career of a Vencrable Clergyman and a Distinguished Mason. Rey. Dr. Wm. A. Harris died of pneumonia last night at his residence on L between 9th and 10th streets northwest. Dr. Harris was of the family of that name who founded Harris- burg, Pa., and at the time of his death was over eighty years of age. He was a well- known clergyman of the Episcopal church, who, over fifty years ago, studied for the ministry at the Episcopal high school in Virginia, and had, in his time, served in a number of the District churches, Dr. Harris was one of the oldest Masons in this city. More than fifty years ago he was made an Apprentice Mason while rector of a parish in Georgia, After coming to this city, where he will be remembered by the older residents as rector of the Rock Creek church parish, he took the other degrees. He received the third degree in St. John’s lodge in the year 1843, He was past prelate of Washington com- mandery and was a member of all the Scottish Rite bodies and an honorary thirty-third of the supreme council of the southern jurisdiction. He was a regular at- tendant of the meetings and was present within the past few weeks. The fuveral will be at- tended by the bodies of which he was 4 member. ——— Interior Department Changes. The following official changes have been made in the Department of the Interior: Pension office—Promotion: John K. Boude of Illinois, meuical examiner at $1,800, to asst, medical referee at 32,250. Resignations: Andrew J. Poulson of Missouri and Charles D, Shank of Indiana, special examiners at $1,400, Washington Started the Ball. Representative Hooker of Mississippi in his speech in the House this afternoon took oc- casion to get in some sharp licks for Washing- ton. He referred to the board of promotion as the real starters of the world’s fair idea and wound up by saying ‘‘whatever city is chosen the people owe a debt of gratitude to Wash- ington for its work in starting the ball rolling.” The Sioux Lands Proclamation. The President is considering whether to sign at present the proclamation announcing the acceptance and consent by the Sioux Indians to the cession of a portion of their lands in the Dakotas or to defer affixing his signature until later in the season. Under the terms of the act authorizing the purchase of these lands from the Indians the issue of a roclamation by the President declaring That the consent of the Indians had been obtained completes the transaction, and from that date the landa are restored to the public domain and open to set- tlement, The question to be determined is whether intending settlers are to be encouraged to go out to that country in midwinter or whether the signature to the proclamation should be deferred until the spring opens, Representative Peters to Withdraw. Congressman 8. R. Peters of the seventh Kansas district has sent a letter to the editor of from public life at the close of this, bis third term, he says: ‘‘The reasons for this course are well embraced in the short sentence—I cannot afford it, The expenses incident to so large a district are so great that for the last three years n insuflicent to meet them, my salary has Until last year I had sufficent income from law business to meet the deficiency, but since then this income has ceased. Necessity, therefore, as well as inclination, induces, mo to rotire Telegrams to The Star. UNITED THEY MET DEATH. Six Murderers Bloedy Indian Swung Into Eternity. THE QUEEN TALKS OF BEHRING SEA Editor Parke Found Guilty of Libel Against Euston. BIG FLOOD IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Vast Flood on the Little Wabash in Southern Hlinois. Carno, Int., Jan, 16.—Three hundred people at Carmi have been compelled to leave their homes by a sudden rise in the Little Wabash river and it is feared that a still larger number will be forced to abandon their dwellings and take refuge on high ground. The river is out of its banks and the north part of the town is overflowed to the depth of twenty feet in some | ewe and from seventy-five to one hundred ouses ure submerged. The houses have all been vacated, the people secking refuge in the spare rooms of their neighbors in the south part of the town. Vast stretches of low lands and meadows are submerged and a number of animals have been carried away or drowned in the fields, Fence rails, boards and ot! drift borne down stream by the raging waters indi- cate that farmers have suffered severely, Much hay on bottom lands is ruined, It is reported that the worst is yet tocome and that the peo- ple in towns along the Little Wabash are pré paring for the worst, At Corwin it is expected the river will rise fifteen feet higher,and if this happens the result will be simply appalling. SIX TOGETHER. A Lot of Choctaw Thugs from the In- dian Territory Hung. Fort Sarr, Arx., Jan. 16.—Thos. Austin, John Diliey, Thomas Willis, Samuel Goin, James Burris and Jefferson Jones were hung here today simultaneously. The drop fell at 12:12 a m, and in sixteen munutes every one of the six guilty wretches were pronounced dead. The arrang. ments were perfect and the execution was with- out a single mishap. THEIR CRIMES. Austin was a full-blooded Chickasaw Indian and a splendid specimen of physical manbood, weighing about 200 pounds, In 1883 he shot Tom Elliot, a tenderfoot, deliberately in broad daylight, first in the breast, again in the b: and then putting his pistol to the dying man’s forehead shot him the third time. Elliot had accused Austin’s brother of taking a bottle of whisky. He was not caught until last April, John Dilley, Thos. Willis and Madison James were all full-blooded Choctaws and were con- victed jointly of the murder of a white man whose name was supposed to be A. B. Williams. The principal witness was another Indian named Graham. ‘The three shot Williams in April, 1888, for bis whisky, riddling his body with bullets, They stripped him, divided up his fire arms and $12 found on him, and bury- ing the body built a fire over the grave. Mad- ison James’ sentence was commuted to 1mpris- onment in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years. Sam Goin and Jimmon Burris, full-blooded Choctaws, were tried in last October, Jim Goin aiso being a defendaniin the case, but he was acquitted, while the others were guilty. The victim of these men was Houston Joyce of Franklin, Texas, who had fled from his home ‘on account of some trouble he had gotten into, The Indians saw his money when he paid for a dinner and, sending him ona blind trail, shot and robbed him. leaving the body to the merey of the wild beasts of the forest. Two days after the killing, at a dance, Sum Goin di- vulgéd the whole thing to his friend, Solomon Bacon, telling him the horse of the white man was on the prairie, and requested that Bucon take the animal up and post him as an estray. Solomon did not do it, however, but later on gave the whole thing away to the authorities, Jefferson Jones, a full-blooded Choctaw, was convicted on the 14th of October of a most foul and dastardly murder, his victim being an old man, sixty-five years of age, named Henry Wil- son, On the 12th of March last the old man started on foot from the Choctaw nation for Polk county, Ark., where he was to get a horse and return. His way lay through the Winding Stair mountains, Several weeks passed and nothing washeard from him. Finally his gun was found at the house of George Beams. Beams was arrested, and he said Jeffer- son Jones had killed the white man and left the gun at his house. Jefferson was arrested and acknowledged the whole thin THE CHILD WIDOW WEPT, Her Lover Who Murdered Her Husband Goes Back to Jail. Kansas Crry, Mo., Jan. 16.—A Liberty, Mo., special says: The preliminary hearing of James Sheets, ex-prosecuting attorney of Clay county, who a week ago shotand killed John Lewton, with whose fifteen-year-old wife he previously had improper relations, was held esterday before Hecorder Gray. Since the Intter last week admitted the prisoner to bail he has become very unpopular and when he asked two brother justices to sit with him in the case they refused. The court room was crowded to its utmost capacity and the popuiar feeling all against the prisoner. The child widow was in attendance, She was greatly affected during the proceedings and wept most of the time. It was decided to hear no new testi- mony and only the coroner's record was read. After arguments by counsel the recorder de- cided that Sheets’ crime was not bailable and remanded him into the custody of the sheriff. ‘The announcement of the decision was greeted with a storm of applause. Sheets was then taken to jail. Habeas corpus proceedings for his release on bail will be begun tomorrow, a THE GRIP TODAY. Its Swath che, Siete’ Does Not Diminish, Rather Increases. Cuicaco, Jan. 16,—There were eighty-six death certificates issued by the register of vital statistics in the health department yesterday, ‘an increase of sixteen over Tuesday. Of these eleven were credited to grip and twenty-seven to pneumonia and bronchitis, making a total from the three causes of thirty-eight, or nearly one-half the entire number. Newaxk, Ox1o, Jan. 16.—Hon. John Lawler, representative-elect, died at 9:10 this He had pneumonia, aggravated by grip. ‘Wall Street Today. ‘New Yors, Jan. 16.—The stock market this morning was unusually dull for the general list, but in the leaders there was a fairly active business and all the movement in the market was confined to these half dozen stocks, 8 fs Paul, Atchison, Missouri Pacific and Union At 11 o'clock the market was dull and to firmand generally ata shade x f PARKE SENTENCED, Euston Beats His Libecler — Various Other Items of Foreign News. Loxpo, Jan. 16.—The libel suit of the earl of Euston aga: Mr. Parke, editor of the North London Press, enced to-day in the coaviction of Parke. Justice Hawkins, before whom the case was tried, in his charge to the jury reviewed the evidence carefully. He deciared that there were great discrepancies manifest in th fication of the plaintiff. Referring to mony of the witness John Swul, the ju if his story was trae he marveled why he bad not been arrested and prosecuted and also why a warrant had not been asked against the of Euston. The jary then retired and « quently returned a verdict of guilty. Darke was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, LaBEL. Loxnox, Jan. 16.—Col. Mallison has been ordered to pay £1,000 for libeling Mr. Herbert Gladstone in the Allahabad J’ost, DRAD, Loxpox, Jan. 16.—Alexander Craig-Sellar, member of parliament for Patrick, is dead. WORD FROM THE CZAR. St. Perensneno, Jan. 16,—A rescript ad- dressed to the governor of Moscow bas been issued by the czar. His majesty says: “As wo enter 15% I pray God that the development of the country’s internal resources may be undis turbed amid peace, h is universally de- sired and which bri appiness to all,” THE QUE SPEAKS. She Says Something About Behring Sea Anairs. w York, Jan. 16.—The Herali’s Ottawa special says: It has leaked out thet the queon's ch to be delivered today will contain a graph stating that strong representati have been made to the imperial governmen the subject of the Lehring sea. The governor general will say that the Capadian government nadian captane im that sea n their rights on the to refuse to re m the part of any high nize power not © exclusive jurisdicty in these waters, THE GOVERNOR GENFRAL's SrEecn. Ortawa, Ost., Jan. 16,—In his address today to the senate Gov. Gen, Stanley said: “In con- sequence of the repeated seizures by the cruisers of the United States navy of Canadian vessels while emp: seule in that part of the northern I pan known as Behring sea my represented to ber necessity of protecting gaged in their lawfal ing a exclusive proprietary rights in those waters. I focl confident that theve re presentations have ur shipping while e alling as had due weight and 1b nabled duri the present’ session to assure you th: ferences on this question are in the course of satisfactory adjustment. “My ministers ba difficulties which surround of the rights of the Dominion in its foreshores, harbors, lakes and rivers, anda measure will be submitted to you for removing uncert to the respective rights of the Dom of the provine the titles thereto, The dominion parliament was opened this afternoon with the customary formalities, and of preventing confusion im Sick of English Syndicates. Sr, Lovrs, Mo., Jan, 16.—The English syndi- cate is seeking a renewal of its option on the united elevators in this city. Tuesday J, Brooks Johnson made the elevator company @ proposition for an option on a majority of the stock at £70 a share, good until the Ist of July, for which he agreed to put up €10,000 cash at the Bank of Commerce, to be forfeited if the option was not taken and to go in ax part of the purchase price if the deal was closed. Mr, Jobnson was told that the company was sick of English syndicates and that no such option would be given to anybod A Fatal Amusement. Hantroxp, Coxs., Jan. 16.—Oscar Williams, employed at the Cushman chuck works, was killed yesterday by an electric shock, The men in the factory have b the habit of amusing th ectrie light ving ped 2 os by touching ¢ wires hat run past the windows and re slight shocks. Yesterday Williams thus gr: a wire while leaning across a steam radiator, The current from the wire passed throngh his body to the radiator and killed him. The eur- rent wasan alternating one, of about 1,000 volts, Senator Beck’s Son Honored. Curvexxe, Wy., Jan, 16.—Geo. T. Beck, son of Kentucky's Senator and the new leader of Wyoming's democracy, was elected president of the legislative council by acclamation yes- terda: He has built two flour miils and ‘big irrigating works in Johnson county and gave Butlalo the electric light and a water system. 2% Texas Fever. Surrerviize, Ivt., Jan. 16.—A number of valuable thoroughbred Herefords, the prop- erty ef H. H. Funk of this county, have died with Texas fever and many more are sick, Funk recently purchased stock in St. Louis and thinks the disease was contracted in the yards at that place, ee Died From Street Fight Wounds. Macox, Mo., Jan. 16.—Deputy Sheriff Polson, who was shot by W. G. Larribee in Tuesday street fight between the latter and Mason Norris, died yesterday. Dr, Larribee, who was shot by Norris, is suffering ‘from bl ing and is not expec to live. — A Swindler. Artasta, Ga., Jan, 16.—W. M. Heatheock, a merchant of Fairburn, Ga., bas been arrested oar a charge of cheating and swindling. featheock, who had considerable propert: made a sale of it all to his son and the bought goods to the amount of £3,000, and when the bills were presented refused to pay. A Collapsed Tank, Jerrersoxvit.e, Lvp., Jan. 16.—An 8.000-gal- Jon tank in the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis yards collapsed yesterday morn- ing while carpenters were at work upon it. Joe Gable of Columbus was fatally hurt and two others were badly hurt. ‘The cause is supposed to bave been the swelling of the dry timbers, A New Chairman. Mriwavker, Jan. 16.—Edward C, Wall of this city was elected chairman of the democratic state central committee yesterday to succeed Ellis Usher of Lacrosse, who recently resigned. Mr. Wall was internal revenue collector during President Cleveland's administration. He is & man of high standing politically, socially aud im @ business way. = Died in Jail La Porte, Ixp., Jan. 16.—Ella Wasserman, who created a sensation several mgnths ago by making a murderous assault on Mrs. Minnie Leeds of Michigan City, died in the county jail yesterday of ulceration of the stomach, Saneeetpioreerenss . Convicted of Murder. Araya, Ga., Janu, 16.—The trial of James Bone, jr., charged with the murder of James P. Woodward, was concluded last night, when the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with a recommeudation of mercy. This weaus a sen- tence of imprisonment for life. Woodward was mysteriously shot on the night of December 26, Circumstantial evidence pomted to Bone, # paid Smith on the land entries about €19,000. Bmith’s whereabouts are unknown, ———