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CHAPTER IV. In Extremis. some time—a minute, an heur— Steel siood over the dreadful thing hud- sd upen the floor of his conservatory. Just then he was incapable of consecu- tive ideas, His mind began to move at length. The more he thought of it the raore ab- eolutely certain he was that he fast- ened the door before leaving the house. Yrue, the latch-key was only an ordin- ary one, and a key might easily have been made to fit it. As a matter of fact, David had two, one in reserve in case of accidents, The other was usually kept in a jewel drawer of the dressing table. Perhaps— David went quietly up stairs. It was just possible that the murderer was in che house. But the closest search re- vealed nething. He pulled out the jew- 1 drawer in the dressing table. The spare latch key was gone. Here was something to go upon. Then there was a rumbiing of an electric bell somewhere that set David's heart beatirg like a drum. The hall t streamed upon a policeman in uni- form, and an inspector in a dark over- oat and a hard felt hat. On the pave- nt was a long, shallow tray. which id reecgnized, mechanically, as ar ibulance, omething very sericus, sir? tor Marley asked, quietly. brought the doctor with m David nodded. Both the inspector and the doctor were acquaintances of his. He closed the door and led the way into the study. Just inside the conserva- tory, and net far from the huddled fig- ure, lay David's cigar case. Doubtless, without Knowing: it, the owner had whisked it off the tabie when he had sprung the telephone. *'Um!” Marley muttered, “Is this a slue. or yours, sir? He Mfted the case, with its diamonds gleaming Uke stars cn asdark night. David had forgotten all about it for the time, had forgotten where it came from or that it contained 0 in bank notes. “Not mine,” he “T mean to say, of course, it is mine: A recent present. The shock of this discovery has de- prived me of my senses pretty well.” Martey jaid the cigar case on the ta- ble. It seemed strange to him, who could follew a tragedy calmly, that a man should forget his own property. Fo In- “lve Meanwhile, Cross was bending over the body. David could see a face, smooth, like that of a woman. A quick little exclamation came from the doctor, A drop of brandy here, and quick as possible,” he commanded. “You dor‘t mean to say,” Steel began; “you don’t —"” cress waved his arm impatiently. The andy was procured aS soon as possi- ble. Steel, watching intently, fancied that he detected a slight flicker of the muscles af the white, stark face. “Bring the ambulance here,” Cross said. curtty. “If we can get this poor ‘hap to the hospital there is just a chance for him. Fortunately, we have not many yards t» go.” As far as elucidation went, Marley naturally leoke to Steel. ‘[ shou#d like to have your explana- n, sir,” he said, gravely. Positively, I have no explanation to offe David replied. “About midnight X let myself eut to go for a stroll, care- fully closing the door behind me. Nat- uraily, the Goor was on the latch, When = came back, an hour or so later, to my horror and surprise, I found those marks of a struggle yonder, and that poor fellow lying on the floor of the onservatery.” “Um, Was the door fast on your rer turn?” o; tt was pulled to, but it was open, all the same.” ‘You didn’t hapren to lose your latch key during your midnight stroll, sir?” “No; #t was only when IT put my key in the doer that I discovered it to be open. I have a spare latch key that I keep for emergencies, but when I went to look for it just now, the key was not to be found. When I came back the house was perfectly quiet.” “What family have you, sir, and what kind of servants?” “phere is only myself and my moth- er, with three maids. You may dismiss any suspicion of the servants from ‘your mind at once. My mother trained them all in the old vicarage where I was born, and not one of the trio has been with us tes3 than twelve years.” “~hat simplifies matters somewhat.” said Marley, thoughtfully. “Apparent- ly your latch key was stolen by some- ody who kas made a careful study of your habits, Do you generally go for Yate walks after your household has gone to bed, sir?” David replied, somewhat grudgingly, that he had never done such a thing He would like to have con- before. cealed the fact, but it was bound to come out, sooner or later. He hac front and round strolled along the Marley shrugged Brunswick Sqvare. his shoulders. “well, it’s a bit of a puzzle to me,” he admitted. “You go out for a midnight walk—a thing you have never done be- fore—end when you come back you find somebrdy has got into your house by means of a stolen tatch-fley and mur- dered somehody else in your conserva- *tcry. According to that, two people afisc have entered the house.” “that’s logic,” David admitted. There ean be no murder without the slain ani the slayer. My impression is that somebody who knows the ways of the house watcred me depart. . Then he} to serve him out!” yured his victim in here, under pretence that it was his own house—he had the | into executiom while David was stroll- | purloined latch key—and murdered him. ‘Audacious, but a far safer way than doing it out of doors.” But Marley’s imag‘mation refused to .go so far. The theory was plausible enough, he pointed out, respectfully, if the assassin had been assured that the midnight rambles were a matter of cys- tom. The point was a shrewd one, al id ‘Btecl had to admit it. He almost wished now that he had suggested that he oft- en took these midnight rambles. He re- gretted the fiction still more when Mar- ley asked him if he had some appoint- ment elsewhere to-night. , “No,” David said, promptly, hadn't.” He prevaricated without hesitation. His adventure in Brunswick Square could not possibly have anything to do with the tragedy, and nothing would be gained by betraying that trust. “rll run around to the hospital and come and see vou-again in the morn- ing, sir,” Marley said. “Whatever was the motive of the crime, it wasn't rob- bery, or the criminal wouldn’t have left vhat cigar case of yours behind. Sir James Lythem had one stoien like that at the last races, and he valued it at £80." “I'll come so far as the hospital with you.” said Steel. At the bottom of the flight of steps they encountered Dr. Cross and the po- liceman. The former handed over to Marley a pocket bock and some papers, together with a watch and chain. verything that we could find upon he explained. “Is the poor fellow dead yet?” David asked. “No,” Cross replied. “He was stab- bed twice in the back, in the region of the liver. I could rot say for sure, but there is just a chance that he may re- cover. But one thing is pretty certain —it will be a good, long time before he is in a position to say anything for him- self. Good-night, Mr. Siecel.” David went indoors thoughtfully, with 2 general feeling that something like a hand had grasped his brain and was} squeezing it like a sponge. He was free from his carking anxiety now, but it seemed to him that he was paying a heavy price for his liberty. Mechanic- al.y he counted out the bank notes, and almost as mechanically he cut his ini- tials on the gun metal inside the cigar case, He was one of the kind of men who like to have their initials every- where. He snapped the lights out and went to bed at last. Butn t to p. The wel- come dawn came at last, and David took his bath gratefully. He would have to tell his mother what had hap- pened, suppressing ail reference to the Urunswick Square episode. It was not a pleasant story, but Mrs. Steel assim- ilated it at length over her early tee and toast. “Tt might have been you. my dear,” she said, placidly. ‘And, indeed, it is a dreadful business. But why not tele- phone to the hospital and ask how the poor fellow is?” The patient was better, but was still in an unconscious condition. “y CHAPTER V. “Received With Thanks.” Steel swallowed a hasty breakfast and hurried townwards, He had £1,- 000 packed away in his cigar ease, and the sooner he was free fron, Beckstein the belter he would be pleased. He came at length to the offices of Messrs. Mossa & Mack, whose brass plate bore the legend that the gentry in question were solicitors, and that they also had a business in London, As David strode into the offices of the senior partner, that individual looked up with a shade of anxiety in his deep, Oriental eyes. “If you have come to offer terms,” he said,’ nasally, “I am sorry—" “To hear that I have come to pay you in full,” David said, grimly; ‘974 16s. 4d, every penny you can rightfully claim. up to yesterday, which, I understand is Here it is. Count it.” He cpened the cigar case and took the notes therefrom. Mr. Mossa counted them, very carefully. indeed .The shade of disappointment was still upon his aquiline features. He had hoped to put in an execution to-day and sell David up. In that way quite £200 might have been added to his legitimate earnings. “It aprears to be all correct,” Mossa said, dismally. “So I imagined, sir. You will be so good as to indorse the receipt on the back of the writ. Of course, you are delighted to find that I am not putting you painful extremities. Any other’ firm of solicitors would have given me time to pay this. But)I am like the man who journeyed from Jericho to Je- rusalem—"” “And fell among thieves? You dare to call me a thief? You dare—" “I dido’t,” David said, drily. “That fine, discriminating mind of yours saved me the trouble. I have met some tol- erably slimy scoundrels in my time, but never any of them more despicable than yourself. Faugh! The mere sight of you sickens me. Let me get out of the place so that I can breathe!” Devid strode out of the office with the | remains of his sma!l fortune rammed into his pocket. In the wild, unreason- ing rage that came over him, he had forgotien his cigar case. some little time before Mr. Mossa was | calm enough to see the diamonds winking at him. 4 “Our friend ts in fuads,” he muttered. “Well, he shall have a dance for his cl- | gar case. I'll send It up to the police; station and say that some gentleman or | other left it here by accident. And if that Steel comes back, we can say that there is no cigar case here. And if Steel does not see the police advertise- ment he will lose his pretty toy, and serve him right. Yes; that is the way Mossa proceeded to put his scheme ‘ing along the sea front. He was too excited for work, though he felt easier | in his mind than he had for months. | He turned, mechanically on to the Pat- | ace Pier, at the head of which an East- | pourne ‘steamer was blaring and pant- | ing. The trip appealed to David in his | present frame of mind. Like most of | his class, he was given to acting on the | spur of the moment. . . . It was| And it was |’ “Downend Terrace with hig latch-key. “How good it wes to The eye of the artist rested fondly on the beautiful things around. And, but for the sport of chance, the whim of fate, those had all passed from him by this time. It was good to look across the dining table over Venetian glass, to the lg of light cast by the shad- F dccitic, to note the feathery fall of flowers, and to see that placid, gentle face in its frame of white hair opposite him. Mrs. Steel's simple, unaffected pride in her son was not the least grati- fying part of David's success. “You have not suffered from the shock, mother?” he asked. “Well, no,” Mrs Steel confessed, plac- idly. “You see, I never had what peo- ple call nerves, my dear. And, after all, T saw, nothing. Still, I am very sorry for that poor young man, and I have sent to inquire after him several times.” “He is no worse, or I should have heard of it.” “No; and no better. And Inspector Marley has been here to see you twice to-day.” David pitied himself as much as a man could pity himself considering his surroundings. It was rather annoying that this should have happened at a time when he was fo busy. And Mar- ley would have all sorts of questions to ask at all sorts of inconvenient séa- sons. Steel passed into his study presently and lighted a cigarette. Despite his de- termination to put the events of yester- day from his mind, he found himself constertly returning to them. What a splendid dramatic story that would make! And what a fascinating mys- tery could be woven round that gun metal cigar case! By the way, where was the cigar case? On the whole, it would be just as well to lock the cigar case away till he could discover some reasonable ex- cuse for its possession. His mother would be pretty sure to ask where it came from, and David could not pre- varicate, so far as she was concerned. But the cigar case was not to be found, and David was forced to the conclusion that he ad left it in Mossa’s office. A little annoyed with himself, he took up the evening Argus. There was half a column devoted to the strange case at Downend Terrace, and just over it a little advertisement to the effect that a gun metal cigar case had been found, and was in the hands of the police awaiting an owner. - . David slipped from the house an caught a "bus in St. George’s Road. At the police station he learned that Inspector Marley was still on the prem- ises.. Marley came forward gravely. He had a few questions to ask, but nothing to tell. “And now perhaps you can give me some information?” David said. “You are advertising in to-night’s Argus a gun metal cigar case set with dia- monds.” “Ah!” Marley said, eagerly, “can you tell us anything about it?” “Nothing beyond the fact that I hope to satisfy you that the case is mine.” Marley stared. open-mouthed at Da- vid for a moment, and then relapsed in- to his sapless official manner. He might have been a detective cross-examining a suspected criminal. “Why this mystery?" David asked. “T have lost a gun metal cigar case set with diamonds, and I see a similar art- icle is noted as found by the police. T lost it this morning. and I shrewdly suspect that I left it behind me at the office of Mr. Mossa.” “The case was sent here by Mr. himself,” Marley admitted. “Then, of course, it is mine, I had to give Mr. Mossa my opinion of him this morning, and, by way of spiting me, he sent that case here, hoping, per- haps, that I shon?d not recover it. You know the case, Marley—it was lying on the floor of my conservatory that night.” “T did notice a gun metal case there,” Marley replied. “As a matter of fact. you called my attention to it, apa asked if it was mine.” ’ “And you said at first that it wasn’t, sir.” “Well, you must mak> sllowances for my then frame of mind,” David laughed. “I rather gather, from your manner, that somebody else. has been after the case; if that is so, you are right to be reticent. Still, it is in your hands, to settle the matter on the spot. All you have to do is to open the case. and_if you fail to find my initials, “D. S.,” scratched in the left-hand top cor- ner, then I have lost my property, and the other fellow has found his.” In the same reticent fashion, Marley proceeded to unlock a safe in the cor- ner, and from thence he produced what appeared to be the identical cause of all this talk. He pulled the electric table lamp over to him and proceeded to ex- amine the inside carefully. . “You are quite right,” he said, at length, “Your initials are here.” “Not strange, seeing that I scratched them there last night,” said David, dri- ly. “When? Oh, it was after you left my house last night.” “And it has been some time in your possession, sir?” “Oh, confound it, no, It was—well, it was a present from a friend for a little service rendered. So far as I under- stand, ft was purchased at Leckhart’s, in North street. No. I'll be hanged if T answer any more of your questions, Marley. I'll be your Aunt Sally as far as‘ you are officially concerned, But, as to yonder case, your queries are dis- tinctly impertinent.” Marley shook his head gravely, as one might over a promising but headstrong boy. “DoT understand that you decline to account for the case?” he asked, r “Certainly 'T do. It is connected with some friend of mine, to whom T render- ed a service a little time back. The ‘Mossa | whole thing is and must remain an ab- | solute secret.’ t “You are placing yourself in a very delicate position, Mr. Steel.” David started at the gravity of the tone. That something was radically wrong came upon him like a shock. And he could see pretty clearly that, without betraying confidence, he could not logically account for the presence of the cigar case. In any case, it was too much to expect that the stolid police officer would listen to so extravagant a tale for a moment. “What on earth do you mean, man?” he cried. “Well, it’s this way,” Marley proceed- ed to explain: “When I pointed out case to you, lying on the floor of the getting dark as David lef himself into | ¢¢ ‘back again! | ‘the'} failures are scored by Kipling and their ation given me last night I have been making inquiries about the cigar case. You took it to Mr, Mossa's, and from it you produced notes to the yalue of nearly £1,000 to pay off a debt. Within eight-and-forty hours you had no more prospect of paying that debt than T have at this moment. Of course, you will be able to account for those notes. You can. of course?” Marley looked, cagerly, at his visitor. A cold chill was playing up ind down Steel's spine, Not, to. save his life, could he account for those notes. “We will discuss ‘hat when the prop- er time comes,” he said, with fine in- difference. ‘As you please, sir. From informa- tien also received, I took the case to Wallen’s, in West street, and asked Mr. Wallen if he had seen the case before. Pressed to identify it, he handed me a glass and asked m? to find the figures (say) ‘1771.x.3,’ in tiny characters on the edge. TI did so, by the ai-l of the glass, and Mr, Whalen further proceeded to show me an entry in his purchasing ledger, which proved that the cigar case in gun metal and diamonds bearing that legend had been added to the stock quite recently—a few weeks’ ago, in fact.” ‘ “Well, what of that?’ David asked, impatiently. ‘For all I ienow, the case‘ might have come from Walen’s. I said it came from a friend, who must needs be nameless, for services equally name- less. I am not going to deny that Wal- en was right.” ! (To Be Continued.) ‘Washington, April 24. — Mr. Rawlins of Utah yesterday continued his speech in the senate oppozing the Philippine temporary government bill. He de- voted the greater part of his) speech to a discussion of the testimony presented to the Philippines committee relating to the administration of the “water cure” to natives and to other forms of torture inflicted on the Filipinos. He had not concluded his remarks when the senate adjourned. In the House. The hcuse yesterday began consider- ation of the senate amendments to the oleomargarine bill. A special rule for this purpose was adopted by a vote of 152 to 79. By the ruling of the chair the question of other amendment of the senate proposition was confined within very narrow limits. Slow progress was made. The opponents of the measure, who sought to modify the senate amendments in various particu- lars, were outvoted cn every proposi- tion submitted. In the House. ‘Washington, Arril 25. — The house yesterday sent the oleomargarine bill to corference after agreeing to the Senate amendments with some modifi- cations suggested by the agricultural committee. The opponents of the meas- ure offered a number of amendments, the principal one of which was designed to place renovated butter on the same footing with oleomargarine, but they were overwhelmingly voted down. The latter part of “he day was devoted to the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Fox of Mississippi made an exhaustive speech ir. defense of the suffrage claus? of the Mississippi constitution. Tn the Senate. Just before the senate adjourned yes- terday Mr. Rawlins of Utah concluded his speech in opposition to the Philip- pine gevernment bill. As on previous days, he devoted much of his time to a consideration of the testimony taken before the Philippine committee. He Analyzed the testimony in connection with orders issu2d by the war depart- ment and by general officers in the Philippines. He was particularly se- vere in his denunciation of Gen, Chat- fee for the orders jie had issued in car- vying out the policy of the government, Four-Cent Tax on Novels. The proposed municipal tax of 4 cent: a volume on fiction is likely to be adopted if the newspapers have can- vassed the members of the council cor- rectly. Jobn Labusquire, the only American- born Paris alderman in history, is the author of the measure. He says: “My purpose is not anti-educational. Nobody has worked harder than myseif in behalf of public libraries. But the truth is, few novels really are educa- tional. “Noyel-reading is merely one way -f intoxicating one’s self—like opiue1, whisky or wine, If we tax beer, why not fiction? We tax many essentials of life, why not this demoralizing con- sumption of romance? “My bill exempts histories, scientific books and all the classics.”—Paris Ca- ble to New York World. In the Senate. Washington, April 26.—Two speeches occupied the entire attention of the senate yesterday. Mr. McCumber of North Dakota discussed the bill to pre- vent the misbranding and misrepre- sentation of food products which enter into interstate commerce. Mr. Car- mack of Tennessée, one of the minori- ty members of the Philippines commit- tee, spoke in opposition to the Philip- pine government bill now pending. His address attracted to the chamber not only meny senators, but a considerable number of his former colleagues in the house. He sharply @riticised the pres- ident not only for the policy he is pur- suing in the Philippines, but for utter- ances which, the senator declared, tended to fan the flame of insurrection. In the Hooxe. The house yesterday passed 145 pri- vate pension bills, including bills to persion the widow of the late Gen. William Ludlow at $50 a month and the widow of the late “Parson” Brownlow of Tennessee at $30 per month. The re- mainder of the day was devoted to gen- eral debate on the agricultural appro- prietion bill, The Wrong Connection. The telephone girl 2nd the bill clerk, to whom she had promised ber heart and hand. were sitting in front of the fire place, talking about the happy days to come when they ‘should be one. From one little detail to another, the talk finally drifted to the subject of lighting the fires in the morning. On this point the young man was decided. He stated it as his emphaiic opinion that it was a wife’s duty to get up and start the fires, and let her poor, hard- worked husband rest. After this decision there was a silence for about thre-quarters of a second. Then the telephone girl thrust out the finger encircled by her engagement ring and murmured, sweetly but firm; a7 “Ring off, please. You have got con- nection with the wrcng number.”—New York Times. \ Perfection. The sense of importance which little Clara felt on being promoted to the public school, after two years of lessons at her grandmother’s knee, was much enhanced when the time came for her written examination. She studied faith- fully the twenty pages in her spelling book covered in the review, and when her paper was retucned had the delight of seeing that it was graded 100, The little girl at once wrote to her father the news of’ her success. “Dear papa,” -he little note ran. “I did not miss a single word in my ex- amiation. I am now purface in spell- ing.""—Harper's Magazine. In the Senate. Washington, Arril 30. — Two impor- tant measures—the oleomargarine bill and the Chinese exclusion bill—yester- day were passed by congress and go to the president for his signature. In the case of the oleomargarine bill the senate concurred in the house amendments, which act finally passed the measure. Mr. Culberson of Texas moved that it be referred to the com- mittee on agriculturs, “re motion was defeated—26 to 35. An effort was made by Mr, Teller of Colorado to amend the measure so as to levy a tax of 10 per cent of the capi- tal or assets on any butter trust that might be formed. It was defeated. Mr. Proctor, in charge of the meas- ure, moved that the senate non-con- cur in the house amendments and that a conference: be iequested. Mr. Cockrell of Maine interposed with a motion to agree to the house amendments and the motion was agreed to without division, thus passing the bill. Mr. Platt of, Connecticut presented the conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill. He briefly explained The Minister’ Wonderment. The Rev. Dr. Ritting, pastor of the Mount Morris Baptist church, is a Southerner, and is noted among the many who have had the pleasure of hearing him speak for Lis original as well as his humorous remarks., The other Sunday evening, as he was an- nouncing the offertory, and while solic- iting a generous collection, he said: “When I look over an audience, such as this, I say to myself: Where are the poor? But, more often, when I gaze at the contribution boxes, I wonder, Where are the rich?”’—New York Times. that after “a somewhat strenuous dis- Nervousness Gave His Words a |cussion,” the conferees had agreed that Labaek dig no definite limitation should be placed “Everything was in readiness, The groom, best man and the minister were gathered in the vestry. The organist began to play and the minister started for thé door. 4 “Wait a moment, dactor!” called the nervous groom. “Is it the right or left hand that the ring goes on?” “The left,” hurriedly replied the min- ister, “And, doctor, is—is it kisstermary to guss the bride?”—Philadelphia Times. upon the Geary law as re-enacted, but that it should remain in force until otherwise proviied by the operation of the law in the Philippines, including a registration of the Chinese in the islands, had been placed in the hands of the Philippine commission, but the zommission would hav2 no authority to admit Chinese to the islands. The sen- ate, without debate, adopted the con- ference report on the exclusion bill. Mr. Simmons of North Carolina ad- dressed the senate in opposition to the Philippine government bill. In the House, Representative Sibley of Pennsyl- vania created something of a sensation in the house yesterday, during the gen- aral debate on the agricultural appro- priation bill by severely denouncing Gen. Jacob H. Smith for the orders he issued in the Samar campaign. He de- clared that Gen. Smith was a disgrace to the uniform he wore and expressed the hope that the presideat would strip him of his uniform within forty-eight hours. Mr. Sibley’s speech was en- thusiastically applauded by the Demo- crats and was received with some evi- dences of apprcval on the Republican side. The speech was considered the more remarkable in that it came from a Republican who left the Democratic party on the issues raised by the Span- ish war, and who since has been an ardent expansionist. Possibilities of the Latest Craze. Tousemaid (entering hurriedly)—Oh, if you please, mum, you know when you allowed cook to go out, just now for an hcur? Well, she’s come back so very—er—(hesitatingly)—poorly? Mistress—So very poorly? Good gra- cious, Jane, what is the matter? Houremaid—Well, you know, mum, you told her to do them bantam's eggs for master’s tea, and she's trying to poil the ping-pong balls!—Punch. piscieRiws 2 aN eie at What's in 2 Name? “How full of misnomers our language is,” siid Mrs. Brown. “I mzt a man yesterday who was a regular bear, and yet they said he was a ‘civil’ engineer.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Lamb, “and there is the ‘teller’ in the bank. I asked him how much my husbend had there and he wouldn’t tell me at all.""—Philadel- phia Press. At Both E 7 Jasper—The British government {s heaving a tough time of it just now. Jempuppe—1 should say so. Their In the Senate. jas Washington, April 30.—A spirited dis- cussion of the Philippine situation oc- curred in the senate yesterday. It re- successes praise] by Austin —Life, been igsued by Gen. Jacob A. stances surrounding the alleged order, he did not approve of cruel methods in warfare, and every right minded per- son must volved around the order alleged to have fs to, make the Isiand of Samar a howling wilderness and to kill all male inhab- itants over the age of ten years. The \ debate took a wide range, however, and i many other points. were discussed. Mr. Teller declared that Gen. Smith, if he had issued such an order as had been attributed to him, ought to be dis- missed from the service, as tt was @ disgrace to the American army and to the American people. Mr. Lodge said that while he knew little of the circum- regret Gen. Smith's order. To him, it was revolting. He defended the administration, however, saying as soon as knowledge of the order had zome to Waching*on the president had directed that Gen. Smith be court-mar- = tialed. In the i. -se. Under a speciai order which alloweg three hours debate, but which cut off all opportunity for amendment, the house yesterday passed an omnibus public building bill which will dis- tribute $17,405,450 among 174 cities. The dill provides for 77 new buildings and pites, 6 buildings on sites already pur- chased, 17 buildings on donated sites and 58 increases in appropriations for buildings already authorized. It also provides for the purchase -of 16 sites. CLARK PUTS UP CASH, Pays a Fine of $10 Assessed Against His Chaffeur. ‘Washington, May 1. — Peter J. An- derson, the chaffeur of Senator Clark of Mcntana, who was arrested for ex- ceeding the speed limit while taking the senator to the capitol last week, yesterday was fined $10 in the police court. Senator Clark testified that the automobile was going at a moderate rate, certainly not over ten miles an hour. The maximum allowed by law, however, is six miles an hour. The fine was paid by Senator Clark. EXPLOSION ON FULTON. Five Members of the Crew Are In- jured. Philadelphia, May 1. — The maritime exchange has received word from Del- aware breakwater that an explosion > has occurred on the submarine torpedo boat Fulton, in which five men were in- jured, cne probably fatally. a Strangled to Death. Philadelphia, May 1. — Alfred Smith, colored, was strangled to death official- ly yesterday in Moyamensing prison for the murder of his wife last Sep- tember. She refused to live with him. Fort Meade Barracks Burn, Fort Meade, S. D., May 1. — Fire de- stroyed one of the first sets of barracks ever built at this post. It started in the kitchen at reveille, and it was impossi- ble for the fire department to suppress it, although it was assisted by the de- partment from Sturgis. Veteran Is Drowned. Prairie du Chien, Wis., May 1.—John = Gremore was drowned in the Missis- sippi river near Waukon Junction yes- terday while digging clams. The body was found. He was a veteran of the r. Civil war. $ State Militia Encampment. Fargo, N. D., May 1. — The militia- men of the state are pleased over the reports from Bismarck that there is really to be a state encampment thi@ summer. It is announced that Adju- tant General Miller has prepared an order to be issued in a day or two designating the date. \ Missouri River Traffle Resumed. Bismarck, N. D., May 1, — River transportation on the Missouri has opened and the boats of the Benton Transportation company and _ the ‘Washburn road are making trips up and down the river. HART EXPLAINS CASE. ‘Washington, May 1.—While in Wash- ington a few days ago, en route to his home in West Virginia, Mr. Hart, the United States minister to Bogota, ex- plained to officials here the facts which have formed the basis of charges against him by individuals in Colombia. ty The Colombian government didnot 9 ; adopt these charges as its own, nor did + it declare the minister persona non : grata. ; It simply, through former Minister Silva, submitted to the state department i the various allegations in the case, as matters of information. Mr. Hart's ex- 4 planation is believed to have been satis- factory. a ‘Drank Only Coffee. Canton, Ohio, May 1. — Mrs, Hers- pool, teacher of boys in Sunday school here, has just received a letter from Admiral Dewey, in which he declares the battle of Manila bay was won om coffee, and the men did not have liquor of any kind. Fire Loss Is Great. St. Louis, May 1. — The plant of the Hagers Steel company at Madison, IIL, employing 400 men, yesterday was de- stroyed by fire, which resulted from an explosion. The jamage is estimated at $250,000; insurance, $100.000. Victims of Lake Disaster. “ Sandusky, Ohio, April 30.—The fishing steamer Louise which arrived here yes- terday afternoon brought the survivors and first details of the story. of another lake disaster. The schooner Grace Gribbie, of Cleveland, Capt. Thomas ‘Wilson, went to pieces on Point Pelee Saturday and three of the crew were drowned. ey More Earthquake Shocks, \ @t. Petersburg, Arril 30.—Shemakha, Transcaucausia, again was visited by evening. earthquake shocks yesterday 2 ‘There were two severe tremors, Co! Proving. New York, April 30.—The of pment Corrigan has grea’ proved he passed a peaceful His physicians report hy monia is now thoroughly — patient’s to his lona@ and