Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 28, 1896, Page 6

The Herald. BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA Bolivia may be smuil, but she is plucky. Her recognition of Cuban bel- ligerency may inspire other republics on this hemisphere to do likewise. By will, which has just been probat- ed, we learn that Mrs. W. H. Vander- bilt leaves $1,100,000. This should keep all but the m: re distant relatives out of the poor house. It will take a year to fix up that Ven- ezuela dispute, probably. So long as peaceful and fair settlement is assurea, wobody is likely to complain on tne score of time. Russia 1s about to undertake the erection of a mint and in future coin all its own money. If the spirit of Peter the Great had lived in recent ezars, that country would have severa] mints, and long before now, too. Two Paris areonauts are going to try to beat the balloon record by remain- ing twenty-four hours in the air. The record is now held by Caston Tissan- dier, who, in March, 1875, made a bal- Joon journey of twenty-four hours and forty minutes. Thomas Merrick Jones could not have Deen more bloodthirsty in the cause of areland if he had been a real patriot jike O'Donovan Rossa, instead of rommen British spy, like himself. If no Irishman would write or read in- cendiary nonsense, there would be no market for Thomas Merrick Joneses. A popular picture of Tom Sharkey the pugilist, and his bull dog, is going the rounds. Sharkkey wears a full suit of clothes and his dog only “pants,” therefore it is easy to tell them apart. The latest way for an actress to ad- vertise herself is to make a will be queathing millions of money to charity. The fact that she must earn the money before the will becomes a testament leads to the conclusion that it is a “prop” document. ‘The strait of the Dardanelles is less than fifty miles, but diplomatically speaking it reaches to all the capitals of Europe, and even to the State De- | partment at Washington. We are sorry to learn that Emperor Bill doesn’t approve of Wngland’s ac- ceptance of our Monrce doctrine, and that he says it won’t bind other Euro- pean powers. If the young war lord wishes to be bound in some other way, he might try the experiment of staking a claim on this side of the water. Ut is a curious thing that the late and present archbishops of Canterbury were notorious floggers when they were schoolmasters. There is many a public man of eminence who could not look Dr. Temrle in the eye to-day with- ut trembling. Crimes of violence always seem to zo in series. Just at present the desire to take personal vergeance for real or fancied injuries is epidemic. That the wielders of pistol or knife are in many eases acting from irresistible impulse is shown by the fact that in many cases they are sorry for their acts im- mediately after committing them. A church near Pittsburg is torn up with internal dissension as the result of the payment of an election wager. Good Deaccn Felcher attended church recently, barefooted, in fulfillment of a wager made with another good dea- con. And now the other good dea- cons threaten to discipline good Dea- con Felcher for enzaging in the perni- cious habit of betting, and a good- sized church row is the result. Russia may have none but the most peaceful intentions, but the massiug of an army of 112,000 men in Asia, coup- led with the movements of engineers in Manchuria, is regarded as suspi- cious.It is more likely, however, that the army is intended more to defend such territory as may be ceded by Chi- na for railroad and other uses than for purposes of attack. The Russian de- sires a Pacific outlet and is going to get it. If his aggressions to that end do not conflict with British possessions there will not be much trouble; if they | do, the Russian intends to be prepared to defend them, The British press and people seem to be more highly delighted over the peaceable adjustment of the Venezue- lan question than do those on this side of the water. The London Chronicle grows quite extravagant in its joy, characterizing the decision te arbitrate as the best thing for the peace of the ; world that has happened, perhaps, for a century, and adding: “If popular re- Joicing were always directed to proper ‘ends, every town in Great Britain and America would be decorated to-day, in honor of the victory of international wisdom. This is the emblem of the message of Bethlehem.’: PITH vf THE NEWS. EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per- usal by Busy People. n Washington Talk. Gen. Thomas M. Vincent has retired from active service in the army. The interstate curr merce commission, it is rumored, will examine the rela- tions of railroads to the beef trust. Consul General eLe reports actions on the part of the Spaniards in Cuba which may indicate an intention to go to war with the United States. Consul General Crittenden reports from Mexico to the state department that Mexican tobacco promises to take the place of the fine grades of Cuban | tobacco iu the markets of the world. ‘Che commissioner of immigration, in his annual report, says that a better class of immigrants are coming to the United States and the number has de- creased. The members of the United States battleship Oregon's inspection board, which has been ordered by the secre- tary of the nuvy to inspect the report on the fitness of th:s vessel for active service, convened on board the ship at San Francisco. People in Print. Mrs. John W. Mackay, who has been ill in Paris, has gone to the South of France to spend the winter there and in Italy. Mrs. Georgia Granger Howard, wife of A. P. Howard, treasurer of the In- ternational & Great Northern railroad, died recently at Palestine, Tex. Admiral Sir George Henry Richards, K. C. B., conservator of the Mersey, is dead. He was born in 1820 and was commander of H. M. S. Assistance in the arctic regions during 1852-4. Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army announces from Melbourne, Australia, that the army is to exteud its opera- tions to the whole of the Malay penin- sula. Gen. R. F. Dingate, ex-attorney gen- eral of Missouri, died at St. Louis of congestion of the lungs. He had dis- tinguished himself in politics and at the bar. United States Senator Voorhees is circulating among his old friends at Terre Haute, Ind., daily, and gives promise of a speedy restoration to his old-time vigor. He expects to return to Washington within the next two weeks. A cablegram sent by D. S. Richard- son of Oakland, Cal., bore to Marquis Yamagata, field marshal of the im- perial Japanese army at Nippon, the good tidings that there had been born to him across the Pacific a sturdy grandson, The Duchess de ca Cez, who died at Paris, was the daughter of Isaac H. Singer, the inventor of the sewing ma- chine. Emperor Francis Joseph, the pope and Duc d@’Orleans have tele- graphed their condolence to the Duke de ca Cez wi Accidental Happenings. Osear McCartney, aged 15, while out hunting, attempted to drag a shotgun over a rail fence and both charges lodged in his body. A steel compass in a pocket over his heart is all that saved him from instant death. A stranger was instantly killed in Deeatur, Ind., by a freight train on the Chicago & Erie railroad. He had nu- merous cards on his person from labor unions of Melrose, Minn., but nothing found by which he eculd be posi- tively identified. By a natural gas explosion at Ko- komo, Ind., the front of Brady’s music store was wrecked, and in the fire that followed damage to the extent of $1,000 was done. The Kellar furniture store adjoining was damaged $500. The explosion was from hunting a gas leak with a lighted paper roll. James Perdue, a prominent retired farmer, and his son John, in attempt- ing to cross over the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad tracks, three miles south of Sedalia, Mo., in a wagon, were struck by a south-boud freight train. Mr. Perdue was instantly killed and his son fatally injured . One of the elevators in the American Tract society’s building at the corner of Spruce and Nassau streets, New | York, fell twelve stories to the cellar, a distance of 140 feet, this afternoon. There were cleyen persons in the car at the time, including the attendant, and those who escaped injury were badly shaken up. J. P. Carpenter, one of the largest lumber dealers of Cincinnati and a res- ident of Covington, Ky., and D. H. Lyons, a prominent architect of Cin- cinnati, were killed in the latter city. They were walking on the railroad tracks, talking about business when they were caught by trains going in opposite directions, and in their confu- sion were killed. Crimes and Criminals. Two women near Liberty, Mo., were murdered by robbers. Franz Mayer, who one year ago was a sergeant in the Austrian army, hung himself to the bed post in his room in St. Louis, and was found dead. Mrs. Bourlier, wife of Henry Boar- lier, agent for the Allan Steamship company, shot himself at Toronto and died soon afterward. Mrs. Bourlier was well known in society. Ckarles ITlyatt, a deputy marshal of Stillwater, O. T., who was arrested and charged with murdering his wife, has been discharged, the coroner’s jury returning a verdict of accidental kill- ing. He mistook his wife for a thief and shot her. A man named Hogan, representing himself as agent for a safe manufac- turer, has been disposing of cheap sheet iron and clay-filled safes to the farmers in lowa. Farmers and officers chased him out of Linn county, Jowa, ‘the swindler escaping by means of 2 dhorse and buggy. ; Guy Hutsonpiller was murdered in \ his room at the Windsor hotel at Omaha by George Blliott. The latter used a coupling pin and beat his vic- tim’s skull into a pulp. Both men with a party of ten came here from Moberly, Mo., where Buffalo Bill’s show disbanded for the season, they having been employed as rough riders. In a scuffle with a footpad in the central portion of Kansas City, Mo., at an early hour in the morning, J. W. Reaneman, manager of the Central Coal and Coke company of Texarkana, Texas, was severely wounded and all but rendered senseless. There is no truth in the reports that Dominick O’Grady is dying at Long- view hospital, Cincinnati. O’Grady is the priest who.followed Mary Gilmar- tin from Ireland to that city and mur- dered her in a street car, over two years ago. John A. Bowlin of Duquoin, TIL, at one time a representative in the state legislature, purchased two bricks from an Indian just from the Western gold fields, paying him $1,500. A well dressed stranger, claiming to be an assayer, pronounced them genuine gold, charging $3 for the information. The assayer and Indian have disap- peared. ©. Rogolski, the Pole who is accused of exploding a dynamite cartridge un- der a dwelling house in the Detroit city limits, was found by officers in bed at his home with his clothes on. Since his arrest he has told various conflicting stories. The only motive known for the crime is the fact that Ewera, one of the injured men, had cuffed him during a small fracas on election night. Harry F. Johnson, alias Roy, has been arrested in New York at the re- quest of the chief of police of Boston. It is said that Johnson is one of a gang that have been opersting extens- ively in Boston and Philadelphia, and who is believed to be one of the many gangs of swindlers, headed by Peters and Thomas, who are already under surest Book dealers were their vic- tims, From Foreign Shores. Abyssinian independence was grant- ed by the treaty with Italy. The Pacific cable conference was re- sumed at the colonial office in London, but all the testimony was taken in se- cret. August Belmont’s American horse, Hagus ran third in the race for the Humberstone nursery handicap at Leicester, England. The German bundesrath ratified the treaty of trade and navigation and the consular convention recently arranged between Gern any and Nicaragua. According to the Echo de Paris, the regent and the queen of Holland will spend the winter in Italy, where Queen Wilhelmina will be betrothed to an Italian captain of royal blood, who has won the queen’s affections. An official dispatch received at Maad- rid from Manilla says that the insur- gents have been defeated in engage- ments with the Spagish troops, the en- emy having lost 400 men killed and the government loss being slight. The charges against James IF’. White, the retiring member of parliament for Farfarshire, who left England sudden- ly, grew out of the fact that he is be- ing pursued by the Gaughter of a Scot- tish divine for a breach of promise of marriage. Barney Barnato says that the state- ment cabled to the London Times from Toronto, the substance of which is that his firm is ohtaining options on mining properties in the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River districts of Canada, is totally devoid of founda- tion. No very explicit news has been re- ceived from Capt. Gen. Weyler, but it is known that after the engagement at the Rubi hills he continued his march into the interior of the mountains to- wards Soroa, and succeeded in pene- trating to points which no other Span- ish columns have ever reached. A socialist killed a rich merchant named Franco Poulo in the open street at Patras, Greece, and was afterwards arrested. The incident has caused a sensation, as it is the first outrage of the kind that has ever occurred in Greece. The murderer boasts of veing an anarchist. Many others have been arrested in connection with the crime. Otherwise. Severiteen of the twenty-one district superintendents of the American Bible Society met in executive session in St. Louis. J. P. Morgan and associates for the Erie railway have arranged for exten- sive shipments of coal to Chicago and other Western points from Marion, Ohio. Charles Leisner, president of the Coopers’ Co-operative Association of Cincinnati, has just been appointed or- ganizer of the International Coopers’ union. , The village of Burlington, ‘Ind., is in a state of agitation over the sudden death of Frank Hill, a wealthy bache- lor, who is supposed to have a large quantity of gold hidden somewhere in the vicinity. A. C. Carpenter, a medical professor of note in New York city, has been granted a divorce at Perry, Okla., from his wife. He charged that his wife maltreated him, refused to get his meals and finally deserted him. A striks or lockout ef all the union printers, feeders, pressmen, helpers and bookbinders in Kansas City em- ployed by firms who are members of the employing printers’ organization, the typothetae, is threatened. Chief officers of the railroad brother- hoods will meet in Chicago to consider what steps to take to secure passage of legislation desired of congress at the next session, including the arbitra- tion bill, contempt of court bill and Phillips commission bill. An artesian well now being bored in Cairo, Ul, at a depth of 750 feet is passing through a quartz that a care- ful essay by experts show rich with both gold and silver. A shaft will probably be sunk immediately in place of the well. A test of four of the five eight-inch disappearing guns at l‘ort Wadsworth, N. Y., make it clear that if a fleet of Spanish warships intent on wiping New York off the map should get past Sandy Hook they would be full of holes before they reached the Nar rows. WEYLERIN HAVANA TIE CAPTAIN GENERAL SAID 10 HAVE BEEN SCARED OUT, He Says That It Is Too Hot to Do Any Fighting, but It Is Openly. Asserted That He Was Frightened by Maceo Because He Hand Set a Price Upon His Head—The City Is in Great Confusion. New York, Nov. 25.—A dispatch to the World from Jacksonville, Fla., says: A cipher cablegram from Ha- vana to a Cuban leader here says that Gen. Weyler has been forced to return to Havana and that the city is in great confusion. Weyler gives no excuse, it is said, except that it is too hot and unhealthy for any fighting. It is openly asserted in Havana that Weyler became frightened because Maceo had set a price upon his head or his capture. Weyler’s scouts in- formed him that Maceo might make an attempt on Havana and the Span- ish general retreated in hot haste to the safety of his palace. It is also stated in the cablezram that Weyler’s recall is assured now, as the Spanish government is incensed against him for his dilatory tactics. Cubans here are jubilant, for they thin kthis will have a favorable effect upon congress. A dispatch to the World from Ha- vana under date of Nov. 20 says: The Competitor prisoners haye been tried by court martial in the Fortress La Cabana in spite of Consul General Lee's official protest, filed just before he left Havana. The eaceptions taken by the prisoners were overruled by the naval courts. Gen. Léee’s not» was pigeonholed, and it defiance of Secre- tary Olney’s intimation of disapproval the Competitor’s crew and Mr. Melton, the American newspaper correspond- ent, have again been tried by a drum- head court sitting within ibe walls of a Spanish fortress, where, according to Capt. Gen. Weyler’s orders, no rep- resentative of the United States con- sulate may enter. The priscners were allowed neither interprcter nor conn- sel. Those partly acquainted with Spanish were compelled to interpret for the others. So quietly was the affair conducted that Acting Consul Gereral Springer does not yet know, it is said, that the case was virtually closed Noy. 14, on which day Melton, Maza, Dr. Vedia and the witness, George Ferran, were forced by Naval Judge Fernandez to sign statements admitting their com- plicity in the filibustering expedition which the Competitor is alleged to have brought under Monzon and La- borde to the Pinar del Rio coast. This written evidence is now under consid- eration by the court. Judge Saul said to-day that a decision may be rendered at any moment. It is expected all the members of the party whose Ameri- can citizenship has not been clearly shown will be shot. The bona fide Americans will probably be sentenced to from three to ten years imprison- ment in some Spanish penal station off the coast of Africa. EX-GOV. HUBBARD CALLS. The Visitors at the McKinley Man- sion To-Day. Canton, Nov. 25.—Maj. and Mrs. Me- Kinley had a pleasant morning drive. When they returned they found a nuinber of visitors, among whom was Abner McKinley, who arrived from the East on a morning train. Among those who called to-day were: Col. Carleton of Frankfort, Ky.; ex-Gov. Hubbard cf Minnesota, ex-Corgress- man and Mrs. Bellamy Storer of Cin- cinnati, David Armstrong of Cleve- Jand. An express wagon unloaded a large crate at the McKinley gate this morning. On examination it was found to contain a_ splendid spring lamb, sent by an admirer in Hamp- ton, Mo. A placard on the crate reads: “This lamb’s dam is in Missouri, and Dockery and the dogs are after her. She is bleating for protection.” LOST HIS WIFE, A Minneapolis Man Bet His That Bryan Would Win, Minneapolis, Noy. 25. — A story of the queerest election bet yet is floating around about certain parties in South Minneapolis. It has been sulemnly af- firmed by parties not far from Fifth and Washington avenues south, that a Minneapolis man wagered his wife against $200 that Bryan would be elected. The circumstances were pe- culiar in that they favored this partic- ular form of bet. 1t so happened that the wife in question was more ordi- narily fond of the ian with whom her husband was betting. The husband knew this, and there is a growing sus- picion that he considers that he got the best of the bet when he lost it. At any rate, the story goes that the man with the $200 won the other man’s wife, and all parties concerned are satistied. Wife Armstrong Whips Slavin. New ork, Noy. 25.—Bob Armstrong of Chicago defeated Frank P. Slavin of Australia last night in the fourth round. It was a slugging inatch from the start, and at one time was a rough- and-tumble fight. In the fourth round Armstrong jabbed Slavin in the face and Slavin sent his right hard on the stomach. Armstrong sent Slavin to the floor of the ring with three lefts on the face. Then he swung left and right on Slavin’s face, and pummelled him so hard that the Australian threw tp his hands and quit. Prisoners Escape Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Nov. 25.—All the prisoners confined in the Wyan- dotte county jail escaped to-day and are now at large. It is supposed that some one gave them a key by which the lock was picked. Ex-Congressman Lane Dead. Roseburg, Or., Nov. 25. — Lafayette Lane, congressman from Oregon from 1874 to 1876, died at his home in this city to-day. He was the son of Hon. John Lane, the first United States sen- ator from Oregon, and a candidate for vice president on the Democratic ticket in 1960. Murderers on Trial, Paris, Nov. 25.—The opening of the trial of five youths for the murder of Baroness de Valley last June began to- day. She was £2 years old. WALES AT BLENHEIM. The Prince Visits the Duke and Duchess of Inborough, (Copyrigut, 1896, Associated Press.) Woodstock, Eng., Noy. 25.—In honor of the visit of ihe prince of Wales to the duke and duchess ef Marlborough, Woodstock and Ble heim were en fete to-day. The decorations were most elaborate and universal. The rail- road station here was made brilliant With scarlet and gold canopies, flags and colored lamps, and the streets leading to Blenheim Park gate were lied with Venetian masts, festooned with colored lamps and innumerable flags, many of which were the stars and stripes, sewn to union jacks, and everywhere were loyal, weicoming tri- umphal arches, covered with foliage and bunting in profusion, lamps of all colors and prince of Wales feathers in abundance. The palace was thorough- ly refurnished. The art treasures shown included Carolus Duran’s full length portrait of the duchess of Marl- borough (formerly Miss Consuelo Van- derbilt), which was hangirg in the first state salon. In addition, all the lackeys wore new liveries and the Marlborough arms were placed in ey- ery convenient spot. The most elab- | SE Ss Ee es ee REV. HULL GUILEY SENSATIONAL ENDING OF THE AT- TEMPTED POISONING CASE. The St. Paul Minister Is Confronted by a Letter Which He Had Writ- ten to a Friend, and the Defense . Breaks Down—Hull Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced to Six Years in the Penitentiary. St. Paul, Nov. 21—The trial of Rev. James C. Hull for the attempted poisoning of his wife came to a sensa- tional end to-day. Confronted by over- whelming proof of his guilt in the form of a letter which he had written, Hull broke down, changed his plea to guilty, and was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. The closing scenes of the trial were dramatic in the extreme. Hull was on the stand in the forenoon and admitted that he had wronged his wife's niece. ‘Phe prosecuting attorney secured from orate arrangements have been made | Hull an admission that he had been for shooting parties during the week convinced by his family physician that and there will be state dinners every | Mrs. Hull did not have a cancer, which night. The royal special train arrived here at 6:40 p. m. and was met by the duke of Marlborough, who was in waiting on the platform Upon arrival at the palace the duch- he at one time professed to believe. ‘The prosecution then produced a letter written by Hull while he was in Port- land, Or., last February, to Rev. I. N. Spencer of Fernando, Cal., telling him that his wife had a cancer and that ess of Marlborough, who was attired | he expected her death would soon re- in black, met the guests at the great door of the palace, where she warmly welcomed the princess of Wales, who returned her greetings in the most cordial manner. It was noticed that the duke of Marlborough was exceed- ingly timerous as he escorted the princess of W: Lively Free-for-all Fight in a Section of Cleveland, Cleveland, Nov. Almost the en- tire population living on Franklin Avenue Hill, composed largely of Slavs and Hungarians, with the ex- ception of the women and _ babies, turned out en masse last night in an effort to cut, stab and slash each oth- er’s heads. In fact it was the blood- jest battle of the year around the river front and Columbus street districts. Blood of the combatants dyes the roadbed of the Hill and makes for the time being the scene of battle a re- volting spectacle. Fully forty men were in from the start to the finish of the engagement. As far as could be learned at least twenty persons were more or less seriously injured,’ but the following are the only ones whose names could be learned: Sylvester Carter, aged 60 years, No. 5 Franklin avenue, five cuts on back and six cuts in head; will probably die. James Carter, 25, No. 4 Follett court, four cuts in head; will recover. Jobn Sprends, No. 4 Franklin ave- nue, clubbed on head; will recover. Joseph Sprends, 19, No. 42 Franklin avenue, clubbed on back of head; not seriously injured. William Malloy, 24, living on Lorain street, cut in back of head repeatedly; serious injuries and may die. Adam Shierman, 33, living on Smith House alley, cut in right shoulder; not serious. Michael Zebeck, 30, No. 189 Columbus street, clubbed; not seriously injured. John Kurshler, aged 24, No. 302 Columbus street, cut about face and teeth dis- located; not seriously hurt. A number of others were injured, but their names cannot be learned. The riot started on the street between James Carter and John Sprends over a very trivial matter. Carter jostled Sprends in passing, which led to angry words and later on to a fight. Other men soon came upon the scene, among whom were friends of both of the combatants, and within a few minutes there was a throng of fighting and cursing men, armed with knives and clubs, which were used with bloody effect. At the height of the fight there was a cry of police as a patrol wagon filled with blue coats came dashing down the hill. Many of the partici- pants in the battle fled, but a number who were rendered unconscious or too badly injured to escape were piled into the patrol wagon and taken to the police station. Others were re- moved in ambulances to the hospital. It is said that there is a broken head to-day in nearly every house on the Hill. Patients Treated Badly. Montpelier, Vt., Noy. 25.—The spe- cial committee which was appointed some time ago to investigate the man- agement of the state institutions for insane at Waterbury made its report to the legislature to-day. It severely scores the state supervisors of the in- sane, Dr. W. H. Giddings, superin- tendent of the asylum, and others. The report finds that Dr. Giddings himself strapped and choked patients. It further finds that patients were kept in a nude cond'tion in rooms bar- ren of furniture and having cement floors. These patients were allowed no rugs, and the rooms, the report | Words in a low tone to his wife. charges, were unheated in cold weath- er. Women in a Riot. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 25. — Trouble broke out between the factions of Pol- ish Catholics at Depew to-day and a small-sized riot was the result. Knives and rocks and fists were used, and at least half a dozen men were badly in- jured. A number of women were mixed up in the fight. They were more ferocious than their husbands. Seven arrests were made. More trouble is expected and a number of special po- lice have been sworn in. Unable to Reorganize. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 25.—That the Bank of Commerce will go into the hands of a receiver now seems in- evitable. All attempts at reorganiza- tion have proved fruitless. Daring Diamond Theft. Cincinnati, Nov. 25.—A stranger to- sult. This was five months before the attempted poisoning, and was to pre- pare his friends for news of his wife’s death. When Hull saw the letter he turned deathly pale and at first was inclined to deny its authorship, but bis counsel told him that if he had written it to confess. After a painful silence the prisoner said that he bad written the letter. Court was immédiately ad- journed for the noon recess. Plea for Mercy. The court room was crowded to suf- focation when court reconvened. Mr. Hull’s attorney at once rose and said: “If the court please, in view of the testimony that was last introduced—it was of such a character as to remove the doubt that had been in my mind as to the guilt of this defendant—I have felt, from the beginning, that there Was doubt, and for that reason I believed that I would do nothing more than duty in endeavoring to give him the upportunity of having a hearing before the court. But this doubt has been retaoved, and I felt it my duty to so inform Mr. Hull; and he himself feels and expresses himself that he has carried this thing as far, and farther, than it ever ought to have been carried. He realizes the wrong, he realizes the terrible calainity that is brought upon his family; and I may add what he did not realize before, but what I have believed and what others have believed, as has been ex- pressed to me by numerous parties, that instead of his wife being un- balanced, he is the one that is unbal- anced. If he had been limself, if he had been fully rational, I <lon’t believe that he would have been guilty—itis education was not of that kind. But it seems that the evil genius—some-. thing that is incomprehensible—oyer- came him and he has found himself now in the dilemma and under tie necessity of acknowledging before the court and before the world this terr# ble crime, and for that reason he de- sires me to also—and I want to say further, and I do it with a great deal of gratitude, that his wife, who has been the chief sufferer, wishes me to say in her behalf that the purpose of the prosecution has been accomplished, she does not desire to prosecute nor add to the misery of the man, and in being lenient to him, her own heart will be in accord with that of the court.” Acknowledges His Guilt. Hull was told to stand up. No such sight was ever before seen in the dis- trict court. Haggard. perhaps insane, with a dark line on his face, the mir ter who had led a double life, who had exborted others while he himself was a castaway. acknowledged that he had tried to poison his wife. Standing be- fore the bar of the court. he looked once aronnd at the iittle woman from Kansas, and then turned again toward the court to hear the words that made him a felen. A dense crowd was in the court room, and the nervous ten- sion was something terrible: The work of the fatal letter could not be undone. Nothing that he said following thit letter would he helieved, aud there re- mained nothing for him to do but plead guilty, but he did that unwilling- ly and with doubtful’ words at first, but later declared that he was guilty and had nothing to say why sentence should not-be pronounced. When Hulk pleaded guilty Mrs. Hull burst into tears. The court sentenced Hull to six years in the penitentiary, and in doing so intimated that Hull might be of un- sound mind. When Hull was being taken from the room he stooped and spoke a few She afterward promised Hull's attorney to see her husband in jail to-morrow. Mr. Hull was arrested Aug. 5 last. He came originally from Toronto, Kan., and was pastor of the Clinton Avenue M. BE. church in West St. Paul for three years previous to his arrest. MINNESOTA TRAGED A Farmer Injures His Sist. and Then Suicides. Dawson, Minn., Noy. 21. -+ Seblom Bloomquist, a farmer liying seven miles north of Dawson, shot his sister- inlaw, Mrs. John Bloomquist, to-day, and then shot himself, dying almost in- stantly. Mrs. Bloomquist, it is thought, will recover, but is in a critical condi- tion. There were no witneses to the shooting, and no cause is known for the crinie. n-Law Gen, Porter Calls, Cleveland, Nov. 21—Gen. Horace A. day stole a tray of diamonds from | Porter of New York was a visitor Clemens Oskamp's store on Vine street. He was closely pursued and dodged into an adjoining building, where the thief left his overcoat and Mr. Hanna’s office to-day. A long cont ference was held between the national chairman and the New Yorker. ‘There is gossip to the effect that Gen. Porter diamonds in a wash room and escaped. | will be appointed as secretary of war The diamonds were worth $6,000. Franco-Russian Treaty. Paris, Nov. 25.—La Paix announces that the text of a treaty signed in Paris by President Feure end the czar will be published shertly. in the McKinley administration. Returns to Washington. Washington, Noy. 21.—Commissioner Lamoreaux, of the general land office, is back from his home in Wisconsin, where he has been for several weeks. _