Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1896, Page 9

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Beginning with Trebi- zond, the report opens with the statement that “the Armenian agitators, endeavor- ing to realize their subvertive designs by destruction and ravage, procured arms, cartridges, bombs and dynamite, hoping to impress the Mussulman population by the number of their engines of war. It was thus that they caused the troubles at Talouri, Sassoun and Yozghad, ard, later, those at Constantinople, which in tura re- acted on Trebizond.” The following are excerpts from the re- port: “In Erzeroum it is stated that a band had as its chief one Serope, who had a convent as his refuge, and that it was his object to create an Armenian question to provoke the intervention af Europe. The instructions which they had received from him admon- ished them to call themselves by Mussul- man names, in order that they might attribute to these latter the outrages which they committed. These instructions came to them from Constantinople, in shape of letters written on the one side in ordinary Ink, on the other in invisible ink. The au- thorities discovered In the adjoining con- vent and a neighboring cave a whole manu- factory of arms and weipois, and their ac- cessories. and a large number cf rifles and Martini cartridges, which they seized.” Alleged Intrigue. In Bitlis the report says: “An Armenian, questioned by a commissary of police, de- clared that a certain Mr. George, a Pro- testant missionary, in the service of whom he was employed, announced to them three days before the Bitlis incident that reforms were going to be effected, and also wrote a letter to the Armenian bishop, in which he stated that ‘six vilayets had already been ceded to Armenia.’ This, of course, cenelu- sively proves that the Armenians were al- lured and incited to revolt by the prem’ made to them by the Protestant inis: aries.” In Sivas, the report states, an Armenian was arrested at the very moment when he was extorting money from a notable in his community, and he admitted that he was one of a band of Armenians who had been placed under the orders of a certain Daniel, and that his band was organized after the “English system,” and bore the name cf mountaineers’ band. In a letter found in the possession of an- other Armenian arrested as belonging to in- surrectional committee it was asserted that this body owed its organization and er to a great personage residing in Eng- land. “Judicial inquests were held to discover the perpetrators of the various crimes. The 6th of December Dan‘cl, the famous brigand, was captured on the coast of Cotchkin, the man who had plunged into abject terror the entire population of Vi- vayet of Sivas. Following a, judicial in- quest, and on the avowal of his acolytes, this Daniel had been condemned to hard labor for life a year and a half previously, and this because of murders. From the advices received, Daniel had assassinated in the most atrocious manner the substi- tute of the imperial procurator general of Kara Hissar, a corporal, the chief of the correspondence of Tchourum and six Mus- sulmans of Sahar-Dag, of whom two were women. He was recognized as the chief of a band. organized by an Englishman, un- der the name of ‘Mountaineers’ Band,’ and which band had committed no end of murders and burnt and pillaged a larga number of houses and Mussulman vil- Tages” “Kingdom of Armenia.” In Diarbekir the porte states that “It was established that a certain Hamouch Abraham of Mardin, master of a Protes- tant school, sent in every direction letters to propagate the idea that an independent kingdom of Armenia would be established, with a constitution based on twenty-four fundamental articles, and, on the other hand, which had as its purpose the ex- citing of the Kurds and the nomadic tribes by means of seditious writings and false news. The 4th of November they seized in the hands of the Armenians four bombs and epaulets of black and red worsted. “The value of the buildings, houses and Personal property destroyed during the riots, and for the loss of which the blame must be laid at the door of the Armenians, exceeded 200,000 Turkish pounds. More than two-thirds of these great losses were suffered by the Mussulmans. Lately received official advices describe the case of one un- fortunate Mussulman who was having him- self shaved by an Armenian barber, who at the signal of the lieutenant cut off the poor man’s head. At Alepp,” so runs the report, “the Armenians of Zeitoun pillaged and burned the Mussulman villages of Bechan and Kourtel. They burned the Mus- sulmans alive, cut off the breasts of the wo- men and strangled the ghildren. They caused also great massacres at Tchoukour- Hissar. These facts, at first known through a telegram sent by the inhabitants, were lately confirmed by the official reports of the vilayet. Violence by Armenians. “During the night of the 24th of Novem- ber the Armenians of Zeitoun burnt about forty houses tn the villages of Demir and Lari.. It was shown by official advices that Sm n- CURES SCROFULA, BLOOD POISON. S tm the number of Mussulmans killed by the Armenians in these villages and in neighboring ones, Zeitoun, Enderin, was of which there were fifteen women, and that the number of houses burned was about 500; that the Armenians committed horrors by cutting off the breasts of wo- men, by strangling children before the eyes of their parents, and then by killing them after having burnt their eyes with gun- powder. Like veritable tyrants, they mas- sacred first the three children and then the wife of the unfortunate lieutenant whose murder has already been described in his presence, and compelled the corporal of the mounted police to endure the same fate, and also the corporal of the regular army. “Advices from the Mutessarif of Marash state that the vilayet of Alepp has trans- mitted a telegram announcing the capture by the Armenian brigands of the two police officials, who had been secretly sent to Alambich to open an inquest. It is stated that the Armenians killed them in a most brutal manner, burning their bodies. After having violated the wife and young children of the HMeutenant, Assan Agha, they massa- cred them, as has been already stated. Government Property Burned, “They burned the government house at En- derin and eleven villages, of which they tassacred the population. They seized about 150 brides and virgins, and, taking them to Zeitoun, after having violated them, massacred some in the most barbarous man- ner, together with some sixty military pris- oners. They fastened together the corpses and threw them thus fastened into the stream which runs through.the town. These facts were proved by the production of these kodies at the judicial inquest. Notwith- standing all these atrocities, the Mussulman Population not only committed no premedi- tated murders on women or children of the Armenians, but showed the greatest pity and mercy in regard to them and watched over their security. “During all these occurrences the Arme- rians made use of bombs of dynamite and of all sorts of weapons, and sprinkled vitriol on the soldiers and inhabitants.” Word From John Wanamaker. The citizens’ permanent relief committee of Philadelphia has received a cablegram from John Wanamaker, who at the present time is in Constantinople. He confirms what has been said and printed about the Arme- nian situation, and declares that the present necessity is appalling. Mr. Wanamaker strongly approves the transmission of funds as has been done by the citizens’ permanent relief committee through Mr. Peet, and urges generous remittances. VICTORY FOR MORTON. New York's Primaries Show Gains'for Thomas A. Platt. Republican primaries were held in each of the 1,392 election districts of New York city last night, and the results show vic- tories for Thomas C. Platt, the Morton leader, in most of them. The primaries were held for the purpose of electing dele- gates to assembly district conventions which will elect delegates to the state con- vention and congressional district conven- tions, where the delegates to the St. Louis convention will be chosen. While the Platt men claimed to have held their own In all the districts where they are now in control, the Brookficld men made strong claims to gains in the fifteenth and twenty assembly dis- tricts, and the indications were that Wil- liam Brookfield and Gen. Anson G. McCook will be sent to St. Louis as delegates from the fifteenth congressional district. They both assert that they are for Morton for President, but have a strong leaning for McKinley. In the twenty-ninth district the delegates were for Morton as a first choice, but were divided between McKinley and Reed for second choice. T. C. Campbell claimed that he would be chosen as a delegate to St. Louis from the fourteenth congressional district, but the followers of Congressman Qu'gg and Abe Gruber sald there was no doubt but these would be chosen. eee WARSHIPS IN A GALE. England’s Flying Squadron Has to Run for Queenstown in Distress. Terrible gales occurred yesterday in the west of England and in Irelard. The force of the wind and waves was such that the piers at Liverpool have been washed cver and flooded. Several derelicts and disabled vessels have been towed into the Mersey. The ship canal has been made unnavigable by the storm and the walls of the canal were severely tried by the wash of the waves. - The flying squadron, which was the cen- ter of so much attention a few weeks ago, when the crisis batween Great Britain and Germany was acute, had to make for Queenstown in distress, the vessels having shipped large quontities of water. No se- rious damage resulted to any of these ships, however. ——__—+e+—__ AN ECHO OF THE BOND ISSUE. A Boston Man Who Made a Lucky Hit Did Not Pay Those Who Aided Him. Russell Sage was one of several defen- dants in the suit of the Hancock National Bank of Boston, against Abraham White, a motion in which case was before Justice MacLean in the supreme court in New York city yesterday. Abraham White was one of the bidders for the late issue of gov- ernment bonds. He is reported to have had very little capital. The Hancock Na- tional Bank and Russell Sage aided him in handling the bonds. The bank pcople claim that they did not get the commission prom- ised, and brought suit. An injunction was issued restraining sev- eral of the defendants—Mr. Sage among them—from turning any moneys they might have of Mr. White over to him. When the Lank asked to have the injunec- tion continued, Mr. Sage’s counsel said that so far as his client was concerned he had disposed of his bonds and paid White what he owed him before the original in- junction was issued. After hearing the facts in the case Justice MacLean vacated the injunction, and an appeal will be taken. The injunction asked for by the Hancock Bank was based on the ground that White had no right to give any part of the trans- action to any one else after hawing entered into an agreement with the Institution. +oo—__ REV. F. E. CLARK A SALVATIONIST. The Christian Endeavor President and the Salvation Army. Rey. Francis E. Clark, president of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor, states that his action in becoming an auxil- jary member of the Salvation Army has no significance other than as it shows his in- terest in the work and aims of the or- ganization. It is a step, he says, he has long wanted to take, but circumstances al- ways interfered until this time. ‘ Mr. Clark adds his action in enrolling himself as a member of the organization should not be construed as having been prompted by anything that has been said in connection with the recent troubles of the army. _—_—_—_—_ee______ Hurled Off a Scaffold. J. J. Colvin, a prominent manufacturer of galvanized iron cornice, was superintend- ing work on the new station of the Lake Street Elevated road, at 52d street, Chicago, yesterday, when an east-bound train struck the end of a projecting plank of the scaf- fola on which he stood and plank and man were hurled into the street below, a dis- tance of forty feet. Mr. Colvin was almost instantly killed. S ——_+e+____ Rowers Not to Aid Spain. The Berlin correspondent of the London ‘Times says that:the Hamburger Correspon- dent, which is often used as an official mouthpiece, believes that the powers would refuse to intervene in support of Spain in the Cuban affair against the United States. A GREAT UNIVERSITY |__ Bishop Hurst Before the Philadel- phia Conference, EXPLAINS ITS SCOPE AND ORIGIN Splendid Endowment and Gratify- ing Progress. GIFTS YESTERDAY eS In the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday af- ternoon, cn motion of Rev. William M. Swindells, Bishop Hurst was invited to ad- dress the conference on the subject of the American University at any time most ap- propriate to him. Bishop Hurst addressed the conference at some length, giving the history of the ori- gin of the movement to establish an Ameri- can university in Washington. He said: “Three men in Berlin, Humboldt, Schlegel and Fichte, were regarded as three dream- ers. They had no money, for, like many literary men and authors, they were poor, but they reached the conclusion that there should be in Berlin a university. The peo- ple sald: ‘Here are these three dreamers proposing a univer: . There is no room for ene,’ but the dreamers kept on. After the battle of Waterloo the first thing pro- posed was to found such @ university as they had suggested. Now there are 10,000 students in the universities of Berlin, with 500 professors. It may be said, as was said of Rome, ‘All the paths of science are on the way to Berlin. What a Fast Horse Did. Three years ago an American student said to-the bishop: “If the American University had been started sooner many of us would not have been compelled to tive tn the sti- fling atmosphere of the skeptical universi- ties of Germany.” Letters were recsived sons and from bishops, urging that this Movement be inaugurated. A few Initial gifts were proposed. The question then oc- mm various per- x If He did not, He would stop .” “With that test,’ said he, “I went to work, I did not want to enter this work. It meant the fracture of every plan for the future. It would have to be all absorbing. It might lead to an abrilgment of my life. I hoped that barriers of brass, if necessary, might be raised to prevent me from going on with it. So I went to work. A layman in Washington had a fast horse. Methodist preachers know—so: f them by experi- ence—what a fast horse means. ‘The fast horse is part of our inheritune2 from our stors. This layman tool me over the city in all possible directions, looking for a suitable site, and the last ‘afternoon we found one on Massachusetts avenue. It seemel a3 though it was torzordained for the purpose I wanted it. I h&d not a dottar paid in for It, but I pougnt it, agreeing to pay in a few days $1,000 optiop on it. IT was in tho south when it was due, but I tele- graphed a friend in Washington to pay it end count that his subscription, and he did it. ‘The Site a Gift. “I thought I would test the spirit of Washington, in insisting upon the condi- tion that the university should not be started unless the people there would pay for the land. The lot cost $100,000, and the people of Washington paid for it. My in- terest in the property is now in the hands of a board of trustees, who have full con- trol of the whole project. The land 1s now estimated at $50,000. It !s the site of the first breastworks erected for the protection of the capital, by the Pennsylvania re- serves. These breastworks are never to be disturbed, but to remain a monument to Pennsylvania loyalty. It is said that this ground belonged originally to Addison, a brother or cousin to the renowned author and publisher of the Spectator. “The question may be asked, ‘Why build such a university in Washington?’ I an- swer, ‘Because it is central.’ In that city there is a scientific department of our cen- tral work. There are fourteen vast scien- tific collections containing types of all the wounds received dur the war. Formerly the greatest scientific museum was i France, then later Vienna. The muse- ums of Washington are the finest in the world. They cost $10,000,000 and $3,509,000 is expended each year in maintaining them. Here also are the National Observatory and the Congressional Library. “I join with others in asking the United States Congress to make these vast muse- ums free. We wanted them to be free, not by courtesy, but by law. The bill pass- ed as soon as it was introduced. It was among the last that President Harrison signed. Every person that gives a dollar to the American University knows that in view of its location that dollar is spent on the habitat of the student or to pay the salary of a professor. We shall have the use of all that has been collected in that city for the benefit of science. Massuchu- setts avenue is to be opened and paved by act of Congress as far as this university. “The preachers have subscribed $W),000 for the erection of Asbury Hall. The name of every contributor {s to be put on a brass tablet in the hall of that building wien it is erected. Money Raised. “A lady in New York recently placed in my hands securities to the amount of $100,755 to end@w a chair for the best Iis- torian in the College of History. The in- come began the night this contribution was made. I sald, ‘Why don’t you put your money in a building? In reply she said, ‘Any one can put money in bricks and mortar. I would rather give to brains.’ “The subscription for the present College of History amounts to $150,000. This amount is in bank, to be paid out in install- ments as the work advances, “Gen. DePeyster has given also a very large contribution for the endowment of a hall of languages. The total subscriptions and payments amount at this*date to $1,- 040,000." People of every grade*have give! it is a Protestant university. A Presby- terian gave me $25,000 toward it. I never saw him but once before he made this con- tribution. He said: ‘If I can only live to see the corner stone laid I will give you an- other “tip;” then I shall be like old Simeon, “Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy’servant de- part in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” ’ In four weeks from today we, expect to lay the corner stone. “Pope Leo has a nephew in Washington who gave us $10,000, another Roman Cath-, olic gentleman $12,000, his brother, who is a Baptist, also $12,000. Sixty per cent of the amount contributed for the payment of the lot was recelved from outside the Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens, the histo- rian of Methodism, and Rev. Dr. Daniel Wise wrote, ‘Why cannot we have a hall in which Methodist preachers can be repre- sented? At the same time a young Metho- dist preacher by the name of Copeland sent & subscription of $100 for that purpose. This was the origin of th¢ plan to erect aay Hall. universl' to be open- ed alike bow. A_ resolution was.submitted by Rev. Dr. T. B. Neely to any one ani opportunity to subscribe to the erection of Asbury Hall. ‘The total amount subscribed by the preach- ers for the hall was $4,270. ~ T. Kirk- The bishop thanked conference for the liberal contribution that had been made. Safe and reliable—Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, RAID) iG DIVISION HOUSES. ree Women to Be Tried for Keep- ing Disreputable Places, The agitation of the question to what must be done with the “Division” has had a marked effect on that part of the city. ‘Those accustomed to frequent resorts there have been frightened away by the fear the police would make raids. The action of the police last night proved that their fears were well founded. Three houses were raided, and the proprietresses arrested. During the past few days a number of houses have been watched by the police, and it is said there is a list of names at the police station of the men who may at some future date be summoned into court to give testimony. It was suspected by the police that the recent order of the Commissioners against the sale of rum in the “Division” was not being complied with by the women who -conduct the houses. Intoxicated men had been seen coming from some of them, and beer wagons had been seen on their Toutes as usual, So last night Acting Lieu- tenant Shilling, Sergeants Moore and Acton and Precinct Detective Sutton led a party of officers through the “Division” and made the three raids, It was about 9 o’clock when Sutton, the detective, and Policeman Williams, dressed in citizens’ clothes, called at the door of the house of Willie Gilmore, No. 401 13th street, and were admitted. They were not recog- nized, and so they were admitted without any questions being asked. There were four women and two men in the house, but the men were permitted to slip out and leave the premises, while the girls and the proprietress were marched to the station. Eleven bottles of wine were found in the house, the only evidence that there was any liquor business being con- ducted there. The next house visited was that of Grace Ferguson, ¢ Ohio avenue, and in there they found four girls, but no men. Two boxes of beer were found in the woodshe:l, but there was no evidence of sales found. Lettie Tillford’s house, at 212 11th street, was next visited, and five girls and three men were found in the parlor. In a closet beneath the steps was a wash tub, in which the officers found thirty-seven bottles of beer buried beneath a large piece of ice. Some bottles of soft drinks were also found in the house. When the four women had been taken to the station the news of their ‘arrest soon spread through the “Division,” and many of the frightened girls left their houses and went into the street, fearing they would be the next ones to fall victims to the police raids, Collateral for the appearance of the girls was left and they were released, and later in the night bond for the appearance of the women charged with running the houses was given and they were set free. This morning the women were in the Police Court. They had been raided on suspicion ef *having viclated the excise law, but Prosecuting Attorney Pugh could find no evidcnce on which to base such a charge, and so the three women were charged with the more serious offense of keeping bawdy houses. This law is more severe than the liquor law, for under the latter law only a fine could be imposed, which the women could pay, thus avoiding the service of a term in prison. Under the charge of keeping a bawdy house the court, upon conviction, may impose a jail sentence. The cases were called for trial, and coun- sel for the defendants demanded jury trials, and the cases went over. Other houses in the “Division” are being watched. While the ivision’ question is being agitated, the clearing of the disreputable houses from 13th street Is also being dis- cussed, because it is one of the principal thoroughfares to South Washington. The people living south of the Agricultural Grounds are much interested in this move, for 13th street 1s the most convenient route Grier Sholes Snoceeds Where the Police Failed to Arrest. A Shrewd Domestic Detained the Man Until Her Employer Could Come Down Stairs, * For some time past residents of Capitol Hill, particularly in the vicinity of Ist and A streets northeast, have been troulfled by the visits of a young colored man, who re- Heved their halls of umbrellas, canes, hats, ovzrcoats and similar articles. The fellow would generally enter the front doors of the houses by means of false keys, but sometimes he would find the doors un- locked. If detected before stealing any ar- ticle he would explain that he was looking for Mr. So and So, giving, of course, a fic- titious name. The robberies became so frequent and annoying that the police of the ninth precinct unusually exerted themselves to catch the fellow. Their ef- forts were unsuccessful, however, and it remained for a private citizen, Mr. H. C. Sholes of 131 A street northeast, crier of Criminal Court No. 2, to catch the fellow, who is believed by the police to be the man they sought. A Shrewd Servant Girl, This morning about 7:30 Mr. Sholes’ ser- vant heard the knob of the front vestibule door turned. The door did not open, and some one tapped on it. The girl, upon opening the door, found there a young, light colored negro man of about twenty years of age. He inquired if Mr. W. W. Johnson lived there, and the girl told him that he did not, but that Mrs. Sholes might know where the man lived. The girl then called Mrs. Sholes, who invited the fellow into the kitchen until she could call Mr. Sholes down stairs, she at once being convinced that the fellow was the man who had been robbing her neighbors. The man became somewhat uneasy, but Mrs. Sholes quieted him until the coming of her husband by telling him that Mr. Sholes knew the man he was looking for. At the Point of a Pistol. In a few moments Mr. Sholes came down stairs, and, as the servant girl had iform- ed him that she believed the fellow was the one who had been robbing the houses, Mr. Sholes stuck a couple of revolvers in his pockets. As soon as Mr. Sholes saw the young negro, he became satistied that he was the thief, and as the fellow could give no satisfactory explanation, Mr. Sholes sent his son for the police. Then the fellow became very indignant, and at- tempted to brush past Mr. Sholes, when the Jutter drew one of his revolvers ard told him that if he moved he would estab- lish a lead mine in him. “And,” remark- ed Mr. Sholes, drawing the second pistol, “if that one will not do, this one will.” Now in Custody. ‘The negro, a smooth-faced fellow, wear- ing dark trousers and overcoat, and a yachting cay cf dark blue, then quictly submitted, and in a few minutes was ariven in the patrol wagon to the rinth precinct station house, where he was charged with housebreaking. The police are perfectly saiisfied that the fellow, who said his name is William Worthington, is the man they have been seeking, and they are anxious that all persons whose houses ute| have been robbed shall call to. identify for many of them. It leads to the wide| him if possible ee in the Agricultural Grounds. There ——_ are nineteen houses of ill fame reported to | wy be located on this strect between Pennsyl-| W@rming to the Republican League. Vania avenue and the mall. Many of the women are owners of the houses they oc- cupy. . President McAlpin of the National Re- publican League has issued a circular to all officers of the league reminding them that it fs against the constitution of the league fer it to interfere in the action of any county, state or national convention. He declares that all clubs affiliated with the league must not, anterior to the nation- al convention, announce any preference for any candidate. The object of the league, President McAlpin declares, is to work for the sominee and not for candi- dates. CARLISLE AND SILVER. The Secretary Writes a Letter An- swering Mr. Crisp’s Assertions. Secretary Carlisle has written a letter to Representative Patterson of Tennessee in answer to ex-Speaker Crisp’s assertion in a speech that the administration of the Treasury Department was unfriendly to silver. “In answer to your question,” the letter says, “I can only say that in all the operations of the Treasury Department during my admjpistration of its affairs the legal tender gold and silver coins of the United States have bcen treated precisely alike, except that greater efforts have been made to keep silver coins in circulation than have been made to keep gold coins in circulation. “The amount paid out by the department in silver coins and silver certificates greatly exceeds the amount paid out in gold coins and gold certificates, and in no instance has the least discrimination been made against silver or its paper representative. In no instance has silver or silver certifi- cates been refused in payment of a debt cr demand due the government, and in no instance has the government refused to pay silver coins or silver certificates in discharge of iis obligations when the hold- ers of the obligations demanded or re- quested such payment. When the United States notes or treasury notes are pre- sented for reGemption gold is paid if it is demanded, and if silver is demanded sil- ver is pa'd. Thus the coins of the two metals are treated exactly alike in. mak- ing payments by the government, as well as in the discharge of debts due to the government. In August, 1893, there was @ great and unusual demand in nearly ev- ery part of the country for currency of small denominations, and in its attempts to supply this demand the Treasury De- partment paid out, in defraying the ex- penses of the government and in exchange for other forms of currency, all the silver that could be lawfully used for these pur- Poses, so that for a short period it was compelled to suspend payment in standard silver dollars, except in the redemption vf sliver certificates and treasury notes of —--0+____ Runaway at a Faneral. Charles Morrison was killed, a child was fatally injured, a dozen persons, mostly women, seriously hurt and the hundred or two members of a funeral party almost panic stricken yesterday afternoon by the running away of one of the teams in a funeral procession at Ottumwa, Ia. Mor- rison’s horses became frightened and dash- ed frantically through the procession, frightening other teams and causing sev- eral runzways and many narrow escapes from death. ——_+-2+_____ Outraged by a Tramp. Miss Allie Douglass of Akron, Iowa, was outraged by an unknown tramp Monday. She was waylaid while going horseback to give music lessons in the country. She was held prisoner all day, and then bound to the horse and released. The horse came back to Akron last night, dragging the un- couscious girl. Large posses are scouring the country for the tramp, and a lynch- ing will no doubt follow his capture. ————-+ee. New Officers for Staunton Institute. The new board of viSitors of the Vir- ginia Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute met at Staunton yesterday, with all the mem- bers present. Little was done save elect- ing J. N. Stubbs president, and R. E. R. Nelson of Staunton, secretary. At the April meeting a list of all the places to be filled will be published and applications re- ceived. The places will be filled in June. “As Well Off as the Richest.” Charles V, Marie Theresa, the Empress of Austria, Gocthe, Bee- thoven, Bismarck, the © Princess Louise of England, Count ‘Von Caprivi, and a host of other celebri- ties have visited the famous Sprudel Springs of Carlsbad. We are not all Goethes and Bismarcks, but we may enjoy the greater advantage of hav- ing*the Spring, with all its benefits, brought directly home to us. The more rapid means of transit and the march of invention are bringing every one within easy reach of every creative blessing. The Carlsbad Water bottled at the spring, or the Carlsbad Sprudel Salt (the solid evaporations of the water), may be had of any druggist, and are without an equal in all disorders of the stom- ach, intestines, spleen, liver, pros- tate, kidneys and bladder, and in gout and diabetes. Beware of imita- tions. The genuine must bear the seai of the city of Carlsbad, and the signature of “EISNER & MEN- DELSON COQ, Sole Agents, New York.” “My letter to the United States Senate, upon which Mr. Crisp’s statemeht seems to have been based, was written on the 17th day of August, 1893, and at that time there was no free silver in the treasury; that Is, there were no standard silver dollars in the treasury, except such as the law re- quired to be held for the redemption of silver certificates and the treasury notes of 1890, and these redemptions were made at all times during that month and every other month when these forms of currency Were presented. During the month of August, 1893, treasury notes to the amount of $1,273,267 were redeemed in silver and canceled, and since the Ist day of Au- gust, 1893, the total amount of such notes redeemed in. silver and canceled is $19,- 533,722, Prior to my administration of the affairs of the department none of these notes had been redeemed in silver or can- celed.” —__—__-e._____ A Bishop in Trouble. Bishop W. B. Campbell of Toledo, Ohio, the head of the African Evangelical Mis- sion, a colored denomination, is in jail at Cleveland, Ohio, on the charge of em- beazling $500. A few weeks ago Campbell deposed, during a conference in Cleveland, that Rev. R. H. Morsell, Rev. J. H. Brown, Rev. R. Mosely and Rey. J. W. Stewart had collected money for the church and had not turned it into the treasury. Yesterday Messrs. Mosely and Stewart of Cleveland swore out the warrant for Campbell’s ar- rest, accusing him of embezzling $500 of the church's money. Publishers at Law. 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