Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 13, 1897, Page 6

jo The Herald-Review. By BE. Kiley. GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. It ts hard to please people who do not know what they want. Nothing changes a person’s manner more thoroughly than to want some- thing. Perhaps more’ good might be accom- plished by ringing a curfew for grown people. They deserve to be slaves themselves who will make no effort to secure lib- erty for others. You can make lots of headway some- times by admitting your are wrong when you are not. If some people knew that the sun hhad spots on it, they would almost worry themselves to death. There are but few occasicns in an av- erage lifetime when a man is an abso- lute free agent in what he does, , When we are children, we would rather be whipped than apologize for anything; after we get older we would rather apologize for anything than be whipped. Not a mile of railroad track was laid last year in Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Massachusetts, New Hampsire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and only one mile in Kansas. A French specialist in nerve diseases writing of the number of American women who are threatened with nerve prostration, and go to Europe as a rest- cure, says: “They break-down, many of them, not from too much brain- work, but brain work in too many. di- rections. The Frenchwoman is satis- fied to be either a good mother, a sa- vant, or a leader of society. But the American tries to be all of these at once.” A family living in Susquehanna, Pa., has a crow that gets drunk on beer. He steals into the cellar and manages to break a bottle of beer, and drinks what remains in the bottle. Then he carries the pieces of the broken bot- tle out of the window and disposes of them so that no trace remains of the theft. When he presents himself up- stairs his gait is unsteady, his voice is hoarse, and he looks upon the world with bloodshot eyes and in an evil temper. Religion becomes ridiculous when a congregation of only thirteen people, with only six in condition to pay, takes upon itself the support of a church and a minister. The instance in Atchison has a parallel in almost every town in the United States. There are too many churches and too many ministers to support. Hard times have resulted in cutting down the number of amuse- ment halls, the cost of clothes, food, ete., but have had no effect in cutting down the number of churches to be supported. There are a great many people who imagine that they can’t go to heaven unless their path is paved with debts incurred in keeping up a church. New Yorkers are making an attempt to secure the passage of a law limiting the height of buildings. Architects and health experts have been giving testi- mony to a committee of the board of trade with a view to ascertaining where the limit ought to be put. The chief of the fire department said it was impos- sible to fight fires in buildings more than 125 feet high. But the newest and strougest testimony against the high building was furnished by Charles S. Wilson, president of the board of health. “I find,” said he, “that above a height of seventy feet the air in big cities is full of smoke and gas, and necessarily unhealthy. Then it is dif- ficult to get good water up to the high floors of the big buildings, to say noth- ing of the dangers by fire and col- lapse.” The part played by the Bank of Spain in floating the new loan des- ‘tined to provide resources for the con- tinuance of the war in Cuba has placed that institution in a very awkward po- sition. For, in addition to the immense sums which it has furnished to the government itself, it has advanced, one way and another, nearly $40,000,- 000 to people who subscribed for the loan. The bank may therefore be said to have found the mayor portion of the money subscribed. Besides this the bank is a creditor to the govern- ment under various heads to the extent of more than $250,000,000. Inasmuch tas the capital fully paid up of the bank, together with its reserve fund, only amounts to $30,000,000, it will readily pe seen that the strain to which this, the leading financial institution in Spain, is being subjected is tremen- dous and cannot be continued much longer before disaster ensues. Remarkable as it may seem, the heaviest contributor to the expenses of the recent presidential campaign was the United States government. The amount of campaign literature sent through the mails free on the franks of the congressmen would have cost $10,000,000 in postage stamps un- der other circumstances. To this must be added $5,000,000 as the cost of sending out information from the various departments in response to campaign demands, making a total of $15,000,000 that Uncle Sam is out of pocket. PITH vk THE NEWS. EVENTS UF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM, AGencral Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week, From all Parts of the Globe, Bolled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per- usal by Busy People. Washington Talk. Word has reached Secretary Herbert from Commander Brown, at the Nor- folk navy yard, the the United States vessel Alliance, used as a school ship for naval apprentices, which went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., succeeded {n getting off and has arrived at New- port News. The commandant says the Alliance is uninjured. ,She was floated without assistance. Capt. Zalinski, the famous dynamite gun inventor, who is now on the re- tired list, is in Washington in pursuit »f his fad, which is military instruction In the public schools. He is the orig- mator of the law requiring the decora- Yon of schoolhouses with United States flags, and he wants to go a lit- tle further in the instruction of youth to include military science and patri- otism, People in Print. W. D. McLaughlin, architect, died suddenly at his home in Sioux City, lowa, under circumstances which point strongly toward suicide by poisoning. The Earl of Kinnoull is dead. He was born in 1827, and is succeeded by ais eldest son, Lord Hay of Kinfauns, vell known Anglo-Egyptian army dfficer. The funeral of the late Gen. A. J. Bmith took piace in St. Louis. It was attended by many prominent men. A battalion from the United States regu- tar army, of which he was a retired of- licer, also attended, Lady Henry Somerset has undergone an operation. It was made necessary by the recent carriage accident in which Lady Somerset was injured. Her present condition is pronounced favorable. Sims Reeves, the famous English singer who recently married a young wife and returned to the stage, has been declared a bankrupt. He was born in 1822. During his career he made several fortunes, but has been unable to keep them. Y David D. Phillips, a prominent Re- publican politician, died at Pottsville, Pa., of cancer of the stomach, aged 50 ye He was a member of the house of representatives from 1885 to 1888 and had been delegate from his dis- trict to several Republican national conventions. Crimes and Criminalss Miss Catherine Sprunger, matron of the Berne (Ind.) orphans’ home, has been arrested, charged with applying the faith cure to one of the inmates. Bradley’s bank at Eldon, Iowa, was robved. The safe was blown open and all the funds, from $5,000 to $8,000, taken. The dead body of Francis Wolff, who was suspected of the murder of his mistress, Mrs. Sprinznik, has been found in a room on Howard street, San Francisco. Louis C. Evans, the Springfield, Ohio, manufacturer, shows no ill effects from his attempt at suicide. His mind is clear but he is still confined to the house. Miss Charlotte Brown, a teacher in a St. Louis school, was struck in the face by an unruly pupil and rendered unconscious for forty minutes. The identity of the embryo pugilist could not be learned, as the victim of the assault positively refused to give his name. Taylor, the noted Missouri outlaw and murderer, was captured at the Jacobs ranch near Hanford, Cal. The sheriff suspected Taylor’s identity for some time and secured employment for him on the ranch pending investi- gation. Satisfied as to his identity, the sheriff brought him to jail. Near MHomerville, Ga. a woman named Lizzie Chapman started to whip one of her children, when the youngster ran, The woman ran after the child. and chased it some distance. Not being able to catch the child she picked up a light wood knot and threw It at the little one, killing it instantly. An attempt was made to blow up the bank building at Hollidaysburg, Pa., lately occupied by the firm of Gardner, Morrow & Co., private bank- ers. The motive for the crime is as- cribed to the resentment and hatred of some depositor. The bank failed last September. John R. Breeze, deputy sheriff of Westchester county, N. Y., has left St. Louis for home, having in custody Ar- thur Palmer, charged with the murder of his mother, brother and sister, near Larchmont, N. Y. He had been stop- ping in St. Louis for two weeks under an alias. ’ From Foreign Shores, The Mark Lane Express says it is surprised at the decline of prices in the United States and remarks that the definite crop returns of 1896 do not warrant any depression. The Scotland yard police have not yet received a farthing of the reward ‘offered by I. Townsend Burden of New York for the recovery of iis stolen jewelry, though they have by no meas abandoned hope. Canadian . cattle dealers believe, through the favorable arrangements made by the dominion authorities of the raising of the forty-days’ quaran- tine on Canadian cattle going into the United States, they will be able to build up a valuable export trade. The London emigration office, acting upon information furnished by A. J. Van Stittart, British consul at Chica- go, has issued a warning advising all Englishmen against emigrating to South Dakota under conditions involv- ing payments to colonizing agents or companies. One of the most daredevil feats of the Cuban war is reported from the Pinar del Rio sertion, it being an at- tempt to abduct Cel. San Martin from his camp, the Texan “Lone Star’ com- pany being the heroes. San Martin ia very obnox:! to the insurgents on acl count of his many acts of brutality. | Miscellaneous. t The cruiser Philadelphia, which went down the Southern coast as far as Callao about three months ago on a cruise, ig on her way back. 1 Mrs. Leland Stanford has Jecided to close up the estate of her deceased husband. First she will dispose of the iands and afterward personal prop- erty. Herman Oerlichs, the well known so- ciety and club man and steamboat owner, was sworn in at New York city as foreman of the February grand jury before Judge Cowing in part 1 of general sessions. At a meeting at Lincoln, Neb., of the state relief commission it was found that there are now loaded for shipment five cars of corn at Hastings, one at Aurora and one at Wilcox in- tended for the relief of the poor in Chicago. Woodson, agent of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, has received a let- ter from Gen. Porter asking for a number of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians to march in the inaugural pa- rade at Washington March 4._ A band of fifty reds will be sent to the capital as requested. Gen. R. A. Alger of Michigan has purchased of ex-United States Senator Warner Miller and others the controll- ing interest in the Lauremtide com- pany of Gaudmer, P. Q., Can. ‘The company’s plant includes a number of big pulp mills and thousands of acres of timber land. ! W. M. Chandler, J. S. Lathers and F. X. Carmody were selected as Mich- igan university's debaters to mect Chicago’s representatives in the Audi- torium April 16. Chandler is a senior law student from Texas, and Lathers and Carmody are both senior literary students from Michigan. A twelve-year-old gray Mexican par- rot whipped a large Yorkshire terrier in a pitched battle for $500 a side at Hawthorne, N. J. The victorious bird was unharmed, but the grip of its beak upon the dog’s snout was so pow- erful that the handlers had to pry it open by ferce in order to release the dog. The county jail at Dayton was placed under quarantine by Health Officer Iddings. A prisoner named George Stimmel has a severe case of varioloid. He was sentenced to the Ohio reform- atory last week for burglary and lar- ceny, and would have been taken to Mansfield to-morrow. He was ordered | to quarantine instead. The Butte and Boston Mining com- pany’s property, consisting of fifty- three mining claims, and everything | belonging to the company, was sold by the receiver at Boston to E. Rollins Morse, chairman of the Butte and Boston reorganization committee, for 50,000. The bid was $50,000, the difference being represented by in- cumbrances on the property. Truman P. Lawrence against the Pullman Palace Car company, a case of unusual interest, was decided at Port Gibson, Miss., the jury awarding Lawrence $34,000 damages, afterward reducing it, by order of the court, to $15,000. Both will appeal. Lawrence claims to have been severely beaten by a porter in the employ of the com- pany on-a train in Illinois. The new Hamburg-American line steamship Pennsylvania, said to be the largest freight-carrying steamship in the world, left Belfast on her trial trip to New York. The Pennsylvania is 568 feet long, has 62 feet beam, is 42 feet deep, is of 20,000 tons displace- ment and her dead weight carrying capacity is nearly 14,000 tons. She has accommodation for over 200 cabin passengers and for 1,500 steerage pas- sengers, HIGH PRICES FOR RARE COINS. Sale of the Third Part of the Monta- gue English Collection. The third portion of the collection of English eoins made by the late Mr. Hyman Montague has just been sold in London, the sale taking seven days and bripging in $43,919. The first two portions of the English collection had fetched $49,408, while the Greek coins sold for $44,88 4,and the Roman gold | coins for $65,000. The gem of this sale was the Juxon medal, for which $3,850 was obtained. Among the other coins that brought high prices were a ryal of Mary I., the queen standing in a ship, holding a sword and scepter, $216; an angel of Philip and Mary, $108; a half-crown of the same, $480; Eliza- beth, a half-crown, the queen with long hair. $182; a spur ryal, $200; a half- crown of James I., $177. There were many patter pieces and unique specimens of the coinage of Charles I. and the Commonwealth. The Oxford silver pattern crown, with the king on horseback, brought $640; a siege piece, the Portefract gold unity, $600; another, a Scarborough silver 5-shilling piece, $300; a Bristol gold unit, $126; an Oxford gold £3 piece, $230; a Shrewsbury silver pound, $177; a Beeston Castle silver 18-pence, $100; two pattern broads, $150 each; a silver half-erown, with the hing on harse- back, $2 a pattern penny, $36; a | crown by Briot, $212. Cromwell’s coins were nearly all pat- tern pieces. Cromwell's crown of 1658, with the bust of the Protector and the inscription, “Has nisi periturus |; mihi adimat nemo,” brought $760; a 50-shilling gold piece, 1656, also by Si- mon, $367; a half-broad, of the same year, with milled edge, $250: a silver 2-shilling piece, $150; a 6-pence piece, 1658, $100. The Simon petition crown of Charles Il., 1663, fetched $1,550; the silver crown with the inscription, ‘Deddite Quae Caesaris Caesari,” $500, and the same, in pewter, $275; a pattern crown, by Roeltier, with the arms of England and France quar- tered, 1663, $450; another, with the arms on separate shields, $200; a 5- shilling piece by Simon, $172; a 2 guinea piece of 1675, $222. he highest price paid for a coin of James II. was $83, for a 5-guinea piece of 1686, with elephant and castle; $125 was given for a 6-pence and a shilling and a half of William III.; $144 for a 5-guinea piece of Queen Anne before the union with Scotland, and $174 for a guinea of the same period, while a shilling of 1700 brought $86.—New York Sun. Easily Accounted For. Mrs. Ferry—Well, the idea! Here is a story in the paper of a man who traded his wife for a pipe. Mr. Ferry—I’ll bet she was & woman whogvould not ailow him to smoke in the house.—Cincipratl Enquiry. ‘the Madrid government requesting the HE TELLS FIBS THE BUTCHER SAID PINAR DEL RIO WAS PACIFIED. But the Insurgent Forces in ‘That Province Are Better Off Than Ever Before—The Cubans Won’t Accept the “Reforms” as They Feel Sure of Winning Something Better—Spaniards Are Heartily. Sick of the War. (Copyright, 1897, Associated Press.) Havana, Feb. 10.—The various re- ports and statements of Capt. Gen. Weyler announcing the pacification of the Province of Pinar del Rio and the almost complete disappearance of the insurgents in that part of the island are far from being borne out by facts. As a matter of fact the insurgent forces in Pinar del Rio seem better off than at any previous stage of the cam- paign. ’ A strong body of insurgents has mys- teriously disappeared from the neigh- porhood of Havana and their where- abouts is known to be causing the Spanish staff considerable anxiety. The friends of the insurgents intimate that a big surprise is being prepared for Capt. Gen. Weyler when he tries to return to Havana. On Feb. 1 the insurgents destroyed with dynamite a culvert near here at the moment that an exploring train from Vuelta Abajo was passing over it. snd the engine fell throngh. The culvert was totally destroyed and one passenger on the train was Killed. ‘The engineer, two firemen, an artillery cap- tain of volunteers and five soldiers of the battalion of Asturias were serious- ly injured, two of them having since died. Eight other soldiers were slight- ly wounded. All the statements to the cont! it can be affirmed on excel- lent authority that the insurgents ex- pect in the long run to win something much more than the “reforms” pro- posed by the Spanish government. The Spaniards here, it cannot be de- died, are heartily sick of the war ex- cepting only those who are without money or property, and who actually make a better living out of the reyolu- tion than they ever did before, or could hope to do again if peace is proclaimed. Then there is another class anxious for the war to continue—those who hope to better themselves considerably should the insurgents triumph. The insurgents on Monday fired upon a Matanzas train near Camp Florida, wounding a Spanish major and two passengers. As this dispatch is sent is has be- come known that some of the most prominent of the home rule leaders here, after consulting together over ; the reforms projected for Cuba, suc- ceeded in sending a cable message to latter to considerably amplify the re- form scheme, adding that under its present form there is absolutely no chance of its meeting the wishes of the insurgent leaders and bring about the pacification in Cuba. Gomez Interviewed. New York, Feb. 10.—The World pub- lishes an interview with Gen, Maximo Gomez, who says in part: “Spain will not grant any real re- form. We no longer ask concessions from her. Even were Spain’s proposi- tion bona fide, nothing could tempt us to treat with her. We are for liberty, not for Spanish reform. We are for Cuba, not for Spain.” “Could you materially increase the size of your army if you had plenty of arms and ammunition?” “I could march into the province of Havana with 75,000 in a month,” re- plied Gen. Gomez, “and that would mean the almost immediate freedom of Cuba, for one Cuban is as good as two Spaniards. More than that, I am con- vinced that with 50,000 men properly armed and equipped and supported by artillery the Spanish army could be driven from Cuba within — three months.” SHOT HER HUSBAND. Domestic Tragedy Resulting From a Long Series of Quarrels. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 10. — George Dav for many years a prominent commission merchants of this city, was shot dead by his wife at the residence of the couple, No. 11 Grace _ street. Davis and his wife lived unhappily, and the tragedy was the result of a long series of quarrels. Mrs. Davis was arrested shortly after the shooting on the charge of murder. When taken into custody she wept bittery and said her husband had treated her unkindly and had called her bitter names. Aberdeen Visits United S‘atcs, Montreal, Feb. 10. — His excellency, the governor general of Canada, the earl of Aberdeen, accompanied — by Lady Aberdeen and suite, will leave for Nashville, Tenn., Friday in their private car to attend the wedding of Hon. Archibald Majoribanks, son of Lord Tweedmouth and brother of Lady Aberdeen, to Miss Myssie Brown of that place. His excellency has been given permission to absent himself for this purpose. What Good Disipline Does. New York, Feb. 10.—The house of refuge on Randall's island caught fire and damages estimated at $3,000 was caused. There are 600 boys in the in- stitution. The keepers, however, had established such excellent discipline that it took less than one minute to get them dressed and march them out of the building. Mortality of Old Soldiers. Washington, Feb. 10.—The secretary of war has sent to the house a report of the annual inspection of the several branches of the national home for vol- unteer soldiers. During the year there were 1.171 deaths out of a membership of 21,684. Woman for Chaplain. : Boise, Idaho, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Rebece Mitchell of Idaho Falls, president of the Idaho W. C. T. U., has been elected chaplain of the state legislature, an un- usual honor for a woman. She was largely instrumental in securing wo- man suffrage for Idaho. He Wedded Another. Cedar Rapids, lowa, Feb. 10.—Fannie Stepanek secured a judgment of $5,000 against Leander Lefebure for breach of promise. Lefebure has married an- other girl. ' ; press car then; TRAIN ROBBER SHOT. Good Work Done by an Express Messenger. Los Angeles, Cai. Feb. 10.—A dis- patch has just been received to the ef- fect that the west-bound Santa Fe train was held up and robbed by two masked men near Nelson, a small sta- tion about six miles east of Peach Springs,, Ariz. The train robbers stopped the train by signal, and as the engineer stepped out of the cab to as- certain the cause of the trouble an armed masked man commanded him to cut the engine and run ahead a quarter of a mile, which he did. ‘Che robbers then turned their attention to the mail car, their command to open the door being complied with. One robber entered the car and commenced picking up the loose registered pack- ages. The robbers started for the ex- Messenger Summers quickly opened the door and, with ex- traordinary coolness, shot the robver dead. The other man then escaped, taking with him a few registered pack- ages. The dead robber was taken to Peach Springs, but hag not yet been identified. POOR ALICE PAGE, Frightful Story of a Girl Almost Buried Alive. Champaign, IIL, Feb. 10.—Undertaker Fox of Urbana received a message to come to this place to prepare for burial a girl who had die@ at the house of Ida Simpson. He had not been at the task long when he saw movements of the musck of the face, which led him to believe that the girl was not dead, and he at once sent for Dr. J. M. Bar- tholomow. \/hen the phy nm ar- ic} rived he found that there was life in the body, and after hours of hard work the girl was revived. Dr. Bartholo- mow says that the girl was poisoned, but so far no arrests have been made. The girl says that her name ig Alice Page and that her parents live in Jew- ett, Cumberland county. GREAT NORTHERN EXTENSION. Construction of the Fosston-Duluth ‘ond Decided Upon. ¥ New York, Feb. 10.—It is reported in financial circles that the Great North- ern has now practically decided to ex- tend its line across the northern part ; of Minnesota from Fosston to Duluth. A surveying party has been in the field some time past, and has run the line from Fosston nearly due east. ‘The survey is being thoroughly made, and the indications are that the new route will be pushed through at an early date. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 10.—A spe- cial to the Citizen from Pensacola says that a nest of boilers at the gang mill of Simpson & Bagdad, twenty miles east of here, one of the largest plants in the South, exploded, killing Paul -Raymond of New Orleans and fatally scalding another man. badly damaged. The mill was Drop in Steel Rails. Chicago, Feb. 10.—Steel rails are be- ing sold at the lowest price ever known in America. The steel rail pool has col- lapsed and $18 a ton was asked for rails in Chicago to-day and in Pitts- burg the rate we a ton. Mon- day the price in Chicago was $26 and in Pittsburg it was $25. Drowned Their Child. Corning, N. Y., Feb. 10.—At Couders- port, Pa., the coroner's jury in the case of the drowning of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ellsworth, has found the child’s mother, Flora Ells- worth, guilty of wilful and deliberate murder, while the father is held as an accessory. > A Smooth Swindler. Indianapolis, Feb. 10.—A man named Von Berg, hailing from Boston, was arrested here for obtaining goods under false pretenses. By representing he represented Deboney Co. of Boston he managed to secure diamonds, cloth- ing, furniture, ete., to a large amount. eep Harbors, Washington, Feb. 10. — The commis- sion appointed by the president to lo- cate a deep water harbor at Santa Monica or San Pedro, Cal., will meet here and make a report to the secre- of war after several weeks spent and estimates. Killed by the Cars. own, N. Y., Feb. 10.—John J. Clare was run over and instantly killed by the Buffalo express near North Tar- rytown. Papers found on him showed that his name was Clare. It is be- lieved he was walking from Milwaukee to New York, ©. Madras Free From Plague. Madras, Feb. 10. — Denial is made here of the report emanating from Bombay that cases of the plague have appeared among the Hindoo devotees from Poona. Madras and Southern In- dia are officially declared to be free from the plague. Excursionists Safe. Philadelphia, Feb, 10.—Vhe American line steamship Ohio, which sailed from this port recently with a large party of rursionists bound for the semi-trop- ers south of the United States, has arrived at Bermuda. Naptha Destroyed. St. Petersburg, Feb. 10. — Fire has broken out in the naphtha district of Baku. Twenty-nine boring platforms and five depots containing a million poods of naphtha have been destroyed. Traffic Again Stopped. Foreman, N. D., Feb. 10.—A storm of sufficient magnitude to delay all rail- road traffic is raging to-day. The Soo did not start its train from Oakes this morning. Cycle Works Burned. New London, Wis., Feb. 10.—Fire de- stroyed the plant of the Burtwood Cycle company. The loss on stock and building is $12,000; insurance, $6,000, Miners Riot. ‘Belle Vernon, Pa., Feb. 10.—A riot occurred among th>2 striking miners at J. H. Somers’ Fuel company’s mines in which Supt. William Bates and Boss Hauler Charles Cannahan were shot and probably fatally wounded. St. Louis, Feb. 10.—The National Lin- seed Oil company filed a first mortgage bond to secure on issue of $1,500,000 of fifteen-year 6 per cent gold bonds, pay- able at the Central Trust company’s of- fice, New York. ' THEWARIN CRETE GREECE'S AMBITIONS SAID TO BE THE CAUSE OF THE OUTBREAK. reer . All the Grecian War Ships Hay Been Sent to the Island—The Pence of the Whole of Europe Threatened—Turkish War Vessels Sent to the Coast of Greece Christians Are Aggressors- Athens, Feb. 10.—Advices from Canea , say that the Turkish troops and armed Atrestiinane had a fight with Chris- tians in the environs of Canea. Fit- teen soldiers were killed. London, Feb. 10. — Private and of- ficial advices and private letters from fnglish officers show that the troubles in the Island of Crete are undoubtedly caused by Greek agitators, and that the Christians are undoubtedly the ag- gressors. The Greek government, be- lieving that the end of the Ottoman empire is near, thinks the time oppor- tune to carry out the long cherished desire to annex the Island of Crete. Public officals here and on the conti- nent regard the situation as serious and as threatening the peace of the whole of Europe. In the event of a collision between Turkey and Greece it Is doubtful whether the entente of the powers could be maintained. It is an- nounced that Turkey war ships and a transport have left ‘Constantinople tor the coast of Greece. Confident That It Will Subside. A dispatch to the ‘Times from Con- stantinople says that the amba sadors: appear more hopeful and confident that the insurrection on the Island of Crete will speedily subside. ‘The represen- tatives of the powers at Constantinople are averse to giving their consent to the dispatch of Turkish troops to Canea as desired by Abdul Hamid, the sultan and the porte, therefore, will not send the Turkish warships and a transport to the d of Crete for the present. Isolated Action Not Permitted. A special from Canea says that the commanders of the foreign men-of-war now concentrated oft the Island of Crete have notified the captains of the Greek warships that no isolated action on the part of the Greeks, such as bombarding Canea, or the landing of troops, will be permitted. PURITAN IN BAD SHAPE. Inquiry Likely to Be Called. New York, Feb. 10, — Work on re- pairing the damage to the engines and hydraulic apparatus of the monitor Puritan is being hurried. The dam- ages are more extensive than was at first supposed. Besides the valves be- ing in a leaky condition and the jour- nals having been badly burned at the recent dock trials of the engines, the propeller shafts have been found to be out of correct alignment. ‘There is no doubt a court of inquiry will be ordered to investigate the matter. A Court of WINNIPEG ENFETE. Decorated Gaily in Honor of Ron= spiel Visitors. Winnipeg, Feb. 10. — The city is gaily decorated and crowded with strangers in honor of the opening of the great bonspiel and carnival, which is the greatest affair of the kind ever seen in this section of the dominion. The curlers are here in force from the- dominion as far as Ontario, as well as from the United States. The pro- gramme is an elaborate one, and the prizes numerous and costly. CLEVELAND WILL TRAVEL. After the Inauguration Cleveland Will Become a Globe Trotter. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 10.—A. passenger in agent of the Canadian Pacific now this city is authority for the s ment that President Cleveland will take a trip around the world after the inauguration of his successor. The party will go to the coast over the Can- adian Pacific road, and Division Pas- senger Abent Sheehy of that line will conduct the party in person. Fireman Sealded to Death. Omaha, Feb. 10.—The Union Pacific east-bound flyer was derailed at a “puzzle” switch in the west end of the yards. The train was running at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred. Engineer W.H. Van Noy was picked up unconscious and is now at the hospital, where hopes of his re- covery are held. Fireman ‘Thomas: Krause was caught under the over- turned engine and scalded to death. Mrs. Burnham's Suicide. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 10.—A spe- cial to the Citizen from Starke says: Mrs. Dr. N. S. Burnham of Chicago committed suicide in the Commercial hotel. As she did not come down to- breakfast in the morning a servant was sent to call her. No answer was. obtained and the door being locked, the girl entered by the window and found her dead. Libel Verdict. Pittsburg, Feb. 10.—In the criminal libel case of State Senators William Flinn and C. L. Magee against the Commercial-Gazette, the jury found Proprietor Alfred H. Reed and Political Editor Walter J. Christy guilty an@ City Editor E. W. Bartlett not guilty. Officer Shot by Robbers. Huntington, W. Va., Feb. 10.—Three masked men held up two citizens in the- central part of this city. Officers Alex McClaskey gave chase and was fatally. shot. A posse is in pursuit, heavily, armed and with bloodhounds. Rooney on Trial. Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 10.—William Rooney is now on trial, charged with having drugged and robbed Mrs. Anm@ Kelly of Chippewa Falls in this city a few days ago. x The Halibut Trade. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 10.—Samuel G. Poole, president of the Atlantic rali- but company, which has twenty-two vessels engaged in the halibut trade out of Gloucester, Mass., is here investi- gating the halibut trade. Farmers’ Trust Failure. Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 10.—Receiver Hollister, of the defunct Farmers" Trust Company of this city and Chi- cago, has just filed his first report showing the concern’s. financial condi- tion, ee na