Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 10, 1898, Page 2

= The Hevald--Review. By E. Kiley. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - A good bluff is often more effective than a bad act. Cupid uses nothing but smokeless powder in his warfare. It is easier for some men to sing & hymn than speak the truth. Some people make the best thing of everything—and others take it. The best some people can do is to express somebody else’s opinions. The oftener a man fails the more he is addicted to the advice-giving habit. The title often sells the book—and invariably catches the American heir- ess. The kangaroo is a healthy looking animal, but it is nearly always on its last legs. The trouble with the man who knows it all is that he is unable to keep it to himself. No man ever did a designed injury to another but at the same time he did a greater to himself. It’s a wise man who can conjecture what a woman is going to say—and it’s a foolish one who wants to. a wo- judg- Even though she refuses him, man always admires the good ment of the man who proposes. Wisest schemes by statesmen spun, time has seen them one by one like the leaves of autumn fall—a little song outlives them all. A scientist recently asserted that a man could double his circulation by bathing his feet in tepid water, and now some rural editors are having tanks fitted to their office stoves. No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and pure and good, without the world be- ing better for it, without somebody be- ing helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness, The proportion of genius to the vul- gar is like one to a million; but genius without tyranny, without pretension, that judges the weak with equity, the superior with humanity, and equals with justice, is like one to ten million. Felix Mendelsshon, in the first half of this century, thought to spare his sister’s feelings by publishing her songs under his name. In the closing years of the nineteenth century Pro- fessors Ayrton and Welldon proudly acknowledge that for a large part of the interesting facts in science they have recently presented to the British Association they are indebted to the assiduous labors of their respective wives. A Chicago junk dealer has been us- ing his 6-year-old boy as a cart horse. The boy was hitched to a small wagon by means of a strap, performing the labors of the noble equine while his father went along and gathered up old rags and iron. On the day that a po- liceman arrested the father the little fellow had traveled many miles through muddy alleys, and had a look of weary resignation on his face just like a tired horse. His father was fin- ed $25, One of the results of the late war be- tween the United States and Spain will most likely be the abolition of that form of naval piracy which finds its justification in prize courts. In the military service of the civilized world the principle of looting conquered ter- ritory has long since been abandoned. Yet, through that strange contradiction which has not reformed the navy in the same ratio in which the army has been brought under civilizing infiu- ‘ences, not only did the merchant ves- sels carrying contraband goods fall a prey, but a valuation of the warships destroyed is bound to go to officers and sailors of the ships engaged in the fight. The race problem, in dealing with Puerto Rico, is quite certain to be a difficult one; but the religious problem will be still more perplexing. The in- habitants of the island are—substan- tially without exception—Roman Cath- olics. Although there are millions of Americans of the same faith, the new citizens of our country will naturally regard us as a Protestant people. They are accustomed to a religion establish- ed by law and supported by the state. There will be nothing of the sort here- after. The Puerto Ricans will have perfect freedom in religion, but they must support their own institutions, or rely upon Roman Catholics here and in other countries to provide the funds. That class of people who get their wood without paying for it made an assault on the grand stand and fence of the Northwestern baseball park Thursday. A trolley car, borrowed for the occasion, was used to pull down the stand, and before the police could arrive over half of the lumber had been carried away by seekers after free fuel. An eye-witness says that the assault on the fegce will go down in history along with the charge up San Juan hill, and that the trolley car turned out to be more powerful than the Grime: battery. Foreign Notes. | THE. NEWS RESUME) me uni tetvsn “asso en ermany is becoming serious.” It is asserted that a marriage has EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A | been arranged between Don Jaime, 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 Perusal By Busy People. Washington Talk. The monthly report of the commis- sioner of internal revenue shows that during the month of October the re- ceipts aggregated $21,735,807, an in- crease, as compared with October, 1897, of $7,699,276, Sergeant-at-Arms Russell, disbursing ofticer of the house, says Gen. Joe Wheeler is the only congressman with } an army commission who refused to accept his salary as congressman. The state department is informed that the exports from Germany to the United States during the quarter end- ed Sept. 30 amounted to $19,970.719; an increase of $5,115,913 over the ex- ports during the corresponding quarter of the previons year. People Talked About. Lewis A. Bailey, one of the leading dry goods merchants of Cleveland, Ohio, died of malarial fever. Gen. J. G. Dupuy, a Confederate general, died in’ Memphis. He was in all the battles of the Army of the Ten- nessee and was wounded four times. John Taylor Gause, president of the Harlan & Hollingsworth company, died at Wilmington, Del., of pneu- monia, Lillian Russell disclaims all ac- quaintance with her former husband, John Chatterton, otherwise Signor Perugini. Jacob Beck, secretary of the Nation- al League of Musicians, was found dead in bed at Cape May, N. J:, from heart disease. Ex-Judge William Foster, a well known Hawaiian jurist under the monarchy, is dead. Judge Foster has been practicing law in San Francisco for several years. He has also been one of the editors of the Crocker law publications. He was about fifty years of age. On Noy. 14 he suffered a stroke of paralysis while at work in his office and he never fully recovered consciousness. Accidental Happenings. Fatal prairie fires have occurred in the Southwest. Forty persons were killed or injured in an explosion at Havana. Fully two hundred lives were lost in the recent storms along the New Eng: land coest. Part of the business district of Cuya hoga Falls, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be about $20,000. The Milton B. Hopkins university building burned at Kokomo, Ind. ‘The Joss is $45,000 and the insurance $11,- 000. The Cheney block at Manchester, Conn., was burned. The loss is esti- mated at between $50,000 and $60,000, nearly covered by insurance. By the explosion of a boiler on a riv- er steamer at Stockton, Cal., six per- sons were killed and a number seri- ously irjured. At Birmingham, Ala., Jehn W.Thom- as, a drayman, was killed by the ex- plosion of several barrels of torpedoes, known as “sand poppers,” which he was hauling for the Christmas trade. Ralph A. Obleness died at Athens, Ohio, from injuries received from playing football two weeks ago. He was the quarter-back on the eleven of Olio university. He suffered from a head collision, James Meecham, a prominent at- torney of Pueblo, Colo., thirty-nine years old, fell from a train on the Denver & Rio Grande railway near Swallows while attempting to pass from one car to another. He died in a few minutes.. Criminal Record. John Hobver of Muncie, Ind., was ar- rested at his wedding reception, on a charge of stealing $60.25. Frederick Martzen, a farmer who lived near Green Tree, Scott county, Iowa, shot and killed his wife and himself. No cause is known. Ralph W. Wireback, convicted at Lancaster, Pa., of the murder of D. B. Lanéis in April last, has been refused a new trial and was sentenced to be hanged. Spanish officers at Guines, Havana province, destroyed the office of La Justica because of an editorial censur. ing the military commander. The edi- tors fled. Samuel Kennedy is tow under arrest at Williamson, W. Va., for the assas- sination of Constable Charles Steele. Circumstantial evidence is very strong und there is threats of lynching. “Grandma” Wynn, the richest resi- dent of Brooklyn, Ill, was recently killed by robbers. The amount ob tained by the robbers must have been considerable. The London police here have arrest- ed two men who had in their pnosses- sion a considerable quantity of the jewelry recently stolen on board a train between Paris and Calais from the dowager duchess of Sutherland. William Franklin, a negro who was fcrmerly employed as a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, has been arrested at Boston charged with steal- ing a United States mail pouch from the Fitchburg railroad. Franklin is a cripple. Chief of Police Lees of San Fran- cisco has secured much additional evi- | dence against Amadeo Horace, a cley- } er confidence operator now at the city prison. In Chicago he was known as Dr. J. M. Weygand, dentist, 126 State street, which name appeared upon } niost of bis linen, son of the Spanish pretender, and a Bavarian princess. The attempt to unite the states of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador under one government, to be known as the United States of Central America, has failed completely. It is reported in Berlin that the Standard Oil company has made a con- tract with Russian producers which will give it control of the world’s eil supply. The Mad Mullah who, with 600 men, has been threatening to pass the Swat frontier, has crossed the Swat river, and fighting has occurred between his followers and, the Indo-British forces. As a precaution against the introduc- tion of the San Jose scale France has prohibited the importation of trees, etc, from the United States, and all fruit will be inspected before landed. The premier and mirister of interior, Count Thun Hohenstein, says Austria will, if necessary, adopt retaliatory measures against the expulsion of Austrians from Prussia. According to the official forecast the wheat harvest of New South Wales for 1898 will be 1,590,000 bushels in excess of that of 1897, and there wil! be a surplus available for export of 2,250,000 bushels. The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard says the Carlist pr: paganda assumes serious proportion and the government, ayprehensive of the effects of the signing of the treaty of peace, maintains a strict censorship. The Rome correspondent of the Lon- don Daily News says the anti-anar- chist convention, now in session there, has practically abandoned the proposal to extradite anarchists, which was one of the leading motives of the con- vention. The London Times, in a recent edit- orial in praise of the foresight of the United States government in increas- ing the army, says: “Looking to im- mediate needs, Mr. Alger’s estimate of 100,000 is below, rather than above the mark, for considerable force will be re- quired to bring the new population into subjection.” General. An attempt is being made in Chica- go to form a large sugar trust. Thirty or forty thousand American troops will soon be mustered out. Pennsylvania has a soldiers’ home scandal, James Gray, a Cleveland brakeman, has failen heir to $300,000 by the death of an aunt. The Hiram S. Maxim suit is said to have been settled by the payment of $1,000 to Helen Leighton. A business letter containing a bond for $15,000 was found in a waste-paper file at Newport News, Va. The feat of telephoning from Little Rock, Ark., to Boston, a distance of 1,900 miles, has been accomplished. ° While plowing in a field near Mum- ford, Ohio, William Taylor unearthed a large diamond of great value. Rockefeller is credited with an at- tempt to gain control of the entire eop- per-mining industry of the country. The stallion Top Gallant was \2uc- ticneered to W.J. Alexander of Chi- cago for $20,000. It is believed that Germany will bid against the United States for the Carolines. The First regiment of engineers has arrived at New York on the Miune- waska from Porto Rico. A $11,000,000 syndicate will absorb all the elevator manufactories of the country. A baby was attacked and almost killed at Perry, Ok., by a monkey that escaped from a show wintering in the town. The director of experiment stations reports them more efficient than ever. The $720,000 appropriated by congress was supplemented by over $400,000 in state funds. The United States collier Aberenda, which recently coaled the Oregon and Iowa at Bahia, Brazil, has arrived at St. Thomas, D. W .L, and is awaiting orders from the navy department. No report has been received from the agent detailed to investigate the charges of Indian Commissioner Jones against Marshal O’Connor of Minne- sota. George P. Atbury, commissioner of public works of New York, has re- quested Goy. Black to suspend him from office until after an investigation of charges against him by the courts. ‘The war department has received a second dispatch from Gen. Brooke say- ing the ,eports of disturbances at points mentioned are unquestionably false, It was announced at St. Louis by the management of the Columbia Theater company that an alliance had been formed in Chicago that would practi- cally monopolize all the high-class vaudeville attractions that came West. The $1,000,000 bequest left to Phil- adelphia by Thomas W. Evans, the famous dentist, with which to found a dental institute, may be invalidated regardless of the efforts of his relatives to break it. A new will has been found. . Forest Salee, a bell boy formerly employed at the Planters’ hotel at St. Louis, is heir to $25,000, left him by J. T. Spaulding of Chicago. Salee is a nephew of Mr. Spaulding, who was a wealthy merchant. The boy is now without a position but is supposed to be somewhere in St. Louis, Dr. E. W. Kinsloe and T. P. James, Denver mining men, who, with Col. Hughes of Rossland, have just re- turned from Alaska, report that a yol- cano is in active eruption about fifty miles from Atlin City. The highbinders of San‘ Francisco show contempt for the proclamation of the Chinese consul general bidding them desist in their murderous feud. TRAIN ROBBER IS CONVICTED THE THAYER CASE IS DISPOSED or. | The Jury in the Case Against Thay- er for Attempting to Hold Up a Train Near Fergus Falls Brings in a Verdict of Guilty After Five and a Half Hours of Deliberation —Sentence Will Be Pronounced To-day—The Attempt to Prove an Alibi Resulted in Failure, Fergus, Falls, Minn., Dec. 4. — The jury in the Thayer case brought in a verdict of guilty at 10:30 last night after five and one-half hours’ delibera- tion. The prisoner received the verdict with no sign of emotion. Sentence was deferred until to-day. The attendance at the trial was the largest yesterday of any day since the trial, and no case in Otter Tail county has ever drawn the crowd which this one has. The state began the work of demolishing the alibi and produced some very strong testimony. Thayer testified that he had not any drills about him and also that the guns which he carried into the saloon known as Soap’s, he carried there just before he left for Moorhead and that he had not been there before. The guns in question are the ones believed to have been used in he hold-up. The state impeathed this testimony with William Swadding, who testified that he had been bartender at Soap Wolfson’s place in Breckenridge, known as the Red, White and Blue, since August, but had now severed his connection. He saw Thayer there off and on. He loafed there a good deal. He saw Hoffman, Hall, Minot and Ross there occasionally;’ did not know their names until recently. Some time in October Thayer handed him a bundle and asked him to put it in the drawer. He did so. It was wrapped in canvas. It was heavy, and later he opened it and saw it was “drills and an iron such as that” (pointing to one of the kit). He could not say that these were the drills, but they were similar to them. “Thayer called for them before he went to the camp at Battle Lake. I saw Thayer, Hoffman, Hall and Minot on Nov. 10 at 7:25. I came from Staples on the Northern Pa- cific train and saw Thayer and the others at the station the morning be- foré the hold-up. They had some guns and other things..” O. F. Larsen, a farmer living in Car- lisle township, a quarter of a mile east of the mile post where the robbery oc- curred, positively identified Minot as being near his barn after dinner Noy. 10, the day of the hold-up. The cross- examination failed to shake his testi- mony. Joe Smith of Fergus town testified that Noy. 10, about 5 p. m., while driy- ing home with his sister, Mrs. Jennie Jenson, he met Thayer and Minot three miles north of the city, walking along the road. This ended the evidence and County Attorney Daly addressed the jury for the state and ©. C. Houpt for the de- fendant. They each made strong ad- dresses. Judge Searle’s charge was brief and the jury went out at 5 o'clock. INDIANS ARE TROUBLESOME. Fourteen Resist Arrest by a Game Warden. St. Paul, Dec. 4.—Fourteen Indians at Park Rapids have resisted arrest. Yesterday an attempt was made to ar- rest them for violating the game laws, but the deputy warden was powerless and the Indians got away. Every at- tempt possible will be made to get them at once. This information was contained in a telegram received by Executive Agent Fullerton, of the state fish and game commission, from Deputy Warden Stephens at Park Rap- ids. The telegram stated that the deputy had discovered fourteen In- dians near Park Rapids with fourteen deer and had made an attempt to ar- rest them. They resisted and the ar- rest could not be made. Mr. Stephens had a rough-and-tumble fight with six of the Indians but they were too many for him and all of them.escaped. He further states that the Indians are in an ugly mood and that he fears any further attempt to arrest them will re- sult in an uprising. He states that forty deer have been sold recently by Indians at Pine Point. Mr. Fullerton at once replied, instructing the deputy to hire all the men necessary to arrest the Indians. He left for Park Rapids this morning to take charge of the mnatter. Mr. Fullerton seems determined to capture lawbreakers, and there is no question that the Indians are in an in- solent and independent mood. The re- cent experience of the Indians on the Leech Lake reservation has tended to make them insolent. ‘ BROUGHT THE BAILIFF. Bold Defiance of British Admiralty Court by Steamer’s Captain. Philadelphia, Dee. 4. — The British steamer Briardene, whose master, Capt. Johnson, defied the English ad- miralty court and sailed from Queens- town Noy. 18, has arrived at the Dela- ware breakwater. The court had seized the steamer for debt and the marshal had placed a bailiff on board. The captain left with the bailiff on board. Shot His Sweetheart. Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 4. — William Foster shot and _ probably fatally wounded Myrtle Gorman, his sweet- heart. They had a quarrel and Foster fired two shots, one taking effect in the girl’s abdomen. He escaped. OT The Sheriff Seized It. Pine City, Minn., Dec. 4.—The cloth- The consul’s ‘proclamation has been ‘torn trom the bulletin board in, front of the consulate and in its place a placard referring to the consul in un- complimentary terms was posted. ing store recently purchased by C. N. Carson of N. A. Crittenden was seized by the sheriff to meet liabilities of N. A. Crittenden estimated at $5,000 to $8,000, | : THE UNION DISSOLVED. | United States of Central America ‘ Collapses. . Managua, Nic., Dec. 2.—The attempt. ito effect a coalition between the States jot Nicaragua. Honduras und Salvador, ito be conducted under a common ad- ministration and known as the United States of Central America, has failed completely. The federal organizers yesterday formally declared the union dissolved, the three states resuming respectively absolute sovereignty. The collapse is due to the failure of the troops of Honduras, acting in behalf lof the federal organizers, to suppress the outbreak in Salvador against the proposed federation and to force Sal- vador into the union. The prospects ‘are peaceful. Usurped the Presidency. San Francisco, Dec. 2. — Gen. Tomas Begalado, head of ‘the revolutionary. movement in Salvador, has usurped ithe presidency and proclaimed himself \chief executive of the republic. Such is the sensational information that has ‘been received in this city. The news ;was conveyed in a private cipher cable dispatch received by a prominent banker here who has extensive busi- ness interests in Central America. Fatal to the Union, Washington, Dec. 2.—The uprising in Salvador has reached the dimensions jof a revolution in the judgment of of- ficials and diplomats familiar with af- fairs in that quarter. President Gui- iterrez has given way to Gen. Regal- lado, who has formed a provisional government. The changes are con- istrued by some of them as a death lbiow to the newly-formed republic composed of Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, one of whose main pur- lposes was to provide a joint military force for common defense against up- risings, but other diplomats take just che reverse view. PLANNED BY WOMAN. Participants in a Murder Accusing Each Other. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 2. — John Hancock, who has*just been taken to San Quentin to serve a ten years’ sen- tence for burglary, has confessed that jhe and Winifred Myers murdered Dr. |Engel and Pete Edmiston on the des- ert in Southern Nevada, over a year ago. Hancock says the crime was lplanned by the woman, with the object ‘of securing the horses attached to the wagons belonging to their victims in jorder that they might continue their journey to Salt Lake, their own horses being fagged out. Miss Myers, now Mrs. Gross, recently made a statement accusing Hancock of both murders and asserting her own innocence. ALL ARE INDICTED. Who Engaged in the Riot at Virden, Wlinois. Carlinville, Ill., Dee. 2.—The Virden riot investigation by the Macoupin county grand jury was practically con- cluded and the state’s legal repre- sentatives are busy drawing up the bills of indictment. That true bills have been returned against all who participated in the battle of Oct. 21, as far as the investigating body can as- certain, is virtually assured. The na- ture of the indictment cannot be at present learned. HARDY TO BE KNIGHTED. Premier of Ontario to Receive a New Year’s Gift From the Queen. ‘Toronto, Ont., Dee. 2.—Arthur Stur- gis Hardy, leader of the Liberal party in Ontario, who has been premier of the province since Sir Oliver Mowat resigned the position in June, 1896, has been given to understand that he can be a knight at the coming new year. Mr. Hardy is a native of Cana- da, sixty years old, and a lawyer of repute. SECURED THE JURY. That Much Progress in th First Train Robber’s Trial. Fergus Falls, Minn., Dec. 2. — The trial of Link Thayer, charged with be- ing implicated in the Great Northern hold-up, has begun before Judge Searle. A jury has_ been secured, itwenty-three men having been ex- amined. A hard-fought trial is certain. His conviction means the conviction ‘of Hoffman, Hall and Minot without doubt. Receiving Stolen Goods Owatonna, Minn., Dec. 2.—The pre- ;liminary hearing of Theodore Nelson,, ‘accused of receiving goods stolen from, -the Northwestern freight trains is on. ‘Felton, who stole the goods, implicates Nelson. He will be brought from Wi- nona to testify. The case is exciting ;much interest as Nelson is a promi- nent country storekeeper. IN BRIGGS’ PLACE. Rev. Dr. Thomas Hal! Accepts an Appointment in Union Seminary. New York, Dec. 2.—Rev. Dr. Thomas Hall will not succeed his father, the late Rev. Dr. John Hall, as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, for he kas accepted the chair of Chris- tian ethics in the Union Theological Seminary, which was vacated by Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs. Mott Is Serious. Baltimore, Dec. 2. — Albert Mott says he has heard nothing of the suit! which, it is said, the promoters of the! coming six-day bicycle race in New York have brought against himself, President Potter and Mr. Sturmey. He! says a New York court has no juris- diction in Maryland, and, furthermore,; ihe believes the action was caused for. advertising purposes only. President! \Potter, the only one of the trio who}! lives in New York, will take care of the league’s interests in that city. Medal for Schley. Baltimore, Dec. 2—At a special meet- ing of the Schley testimonial commit-! tee it was decided to present to Ad- | miral Schley a medal emblematic of, his distingvished services. The medal! his distinguished services. The medal was decided on in lieu of a sword. Blanco Sails. » Havana, Dec. 2.-The Spanish mail jsteamer Villa Verde, with Marshall Blanco, the former captain general of iba, and his suite on board, has left for Spain, DRAFTING THE PEACE TREATY JOINT COMMISSION DEVOTES SOMB TIME TO THE SUBJECT. The First Three Articles Have Been Mutually Agreea Upon, as Well as the Article Embodying the Terms of the Evacuation of the Philippines — Thirteen Articles, Covering Ten Subjects, Were Laid Before the Commission — Mutual Release of Military Prisoners Was Agreed Upon—The Work May Possibly Be Concluded This Week Paris, Dec. 2—The joint peace com- mission devoted two hours and a half to drafting the three first articles of the peace treaty protecol, dealing with the cession of Cuba, Porto Rico and@ the Philippines, upon which the com- missioners agreed in principle. A general discussion on the other arti- cles followed, but no decision was reached and the joint commission ad- journed until to-day. There were thir- teen articles laid before the two com- missions, covering ten subjects: First—The relinquishment of sover- eignty over and clair of title to Cuba. Second—The cession of Porto Rico an@ other Spanish possessions in the West Indies, together with Guam, in the Ladrones. Third — The cession of the Philip- pines. Fourth—The terms of the evacuation of the Philippines. Fifth—The pledge of the United States to preserve order in the Philip- pines pending the ratificatio nof the treaty. Sixth—The release of military pris. oners mutually. Seventh—The cession by Spain of the island of Kusae, of Strong island, in the Carolines. Eighth—The religious freedom of the Carolines, assuring the rights of Amer- ican missionaries there. Tenth — Cable landing rights at points within the Spanish jurisdiction. Eleventh — The release by Spain of political prisoners for offenses in Cuba and the Philippines. Twelfth—The pledge of the United States to inaugurate in the Philippines an “open door’ policy and to guarantee the same to Spain for at least twelve years. Thirteenth—A revival of the treaties broken by the war. The first three articles were mutual- Jy agreed upon, as was also the article embodying the terms of the evacuation of the Philippines, which will be prac- tically the same as in the evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico. The mutual release of military pris- oners was agreed upon, Spain liberat- ing the rebel prisoners and the United States liberating the Manila garrison and the Spaniards held by Aguinaldo. The political prisoners to be released by Spain are such as are now in exile at Ceuta, in Morrico, or at other Span- ish penal settlements. Daily sessions will be held hereaf- ter, and it is now believed that the work may be possibly concluded this week, although so early a termination is not probable. THE CAROLINES. Spain Says She Will Not Sell Except for a Very Good Price. Madrid, Dec. 2.—The Imparcial an- nounces that the government intends to retain the Carolines, and will only Sell them in case it receives an ad- vantageous offer and they become a burden to Spain. The paper adds that the government has not received such a proposition, but expects to do so. Watching the Carlists. Bordeaux, Dee. 2. — Advices from Bilboa, Spain, refer to the rigorous anti-Carlist precautions taken in that district. The convents, it appears, are particularly watched. Portraits of. Don Carlos and his son, Don Jaime,, have been widely distributed. A small band of Carlists have appeared near. Alcala, in the province of Castellon de la Plana, and is being pursued by. gendarmes. Street Cars Destroyed. New York, Dec. 2. — Every trolley line in the borough of The Bronx was) forced to suspend operations for three hours on account of a fire which de- stroyed the big car shed of the Union Railway company, burning seventy- five cars and a large quantity of ma- chinery, tools and other supplies. The loss to the railway company is esti- mated at $150,000; insurance, $100,000, The Icss on the building is $25,000. Not Slick Enough. Lendon, Dec. 2.— A special from Lyons, France, says that a man giv- ing his nome as Charles Walker, and! saying he resides at Quebec, has been arrested at Lyons for attempting to snatch a wallet containing 11,600 francs from a bank messenger. Two accomplices of the prisoner succeeded in escaping. Will Carry Sugar. San Francisco, Dec. 2—The Ameri- can ship Edwin O’Brien will be the first ship of the sugar fleet to be put on between Honolulu and New York. She has been chartered to go to Ryget sound and load coal for the islfnds and then take a load of sugar around the Horn. Verdict of the Court of Cassation. London, Dec. 2. — The Paris corre- spondent of the Daily News, Mrs. Emily Crawford, predicts that the court of cassation will declare the Dreyfus trial irregular and Dreyfus in- nocent. In her opinion the court would not interfere in the Piquart affair. This Steamer Safe. Savannah, Ga., Dee. 2.—Advices re- ceived here state that the steamship Gate City, which left Boston Saturday for this port, was sighted off Long Is- Jand yesterday by the Chattahoochie, *