The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1896, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CEN WARLIKE ORDERS SENT FROM PARIS French Reserve Squadron to Be Prepared for Action. URGED ON BY RUSSIA. Rumors That a Conference on the Egyptian Question Will Be Called. DERVISHES PUT TO FLIGHT. Advance of Macdonald’s Column To- ward Akasheh—A Reported Defeat Denied. PARIS, France, March 29.—It is ru- mored this evening that the reserve squad- ron at Toulon, Brest, I'Orient and Cher- bourg have been ordered to hold them- selves in readiness to be placed on a war footine. I 0 that France, under the coaching v will con- vene an ernational conference to settle the qui n of the powers of the Egyptian debt cor s been found impo: er rumor, but it was semi-offi- iounced this evening that the ron at Toulon had received one of the cruisers to keep stear There has been no change in the politi- eal sitnation he vesterday. The Temps, commenting upon the resignation of the Foreign Office portfolio by M. lot, says that if the recent foreign vas not a success, the change has isted by Prime Minister Bourgeois, 1 able parliamentarian but an in- M. whois experienced diplom Therefore, Bourgeois in the Foreign Office will po: 1 more dangerous than was M. lot. France must know who leads she is led. f Deputies M. Bruent and in the Senate M. have notified Prime Minister t they will to-morrow inter- jovernment on the situation in afosse, . Poincaire, ex-Minister of Finance, will.also to-morrow question the Govern- m in the Chamber of Deputies on the resignation of M. Berthelotand on the for- eign and general policy of the Govern- ment. The debates will be important and the defeat of the Government is possible. The Figaro publishes an interview with M. Berthelot, in which the ex-Foreign ister defends his actions while in the t, especially in respect of Siam and S M. Bertheiot claims he held the French flag as it should be held. L et BERTHELOT MADE A SCAPEGOAT. Bourgeois Charged With the Authorship of the Egyptian Note. LONDON, , March 29.—The Graphic will to-morrow say it regrets the resigna- tion of M. Berthelot. It adds that he sin- cerely sought the friendship of Great Britain, and that the French tactics re- garding Egypt probably originated with his colleagues in the Cabinet. The Standard’s Paris correspondent tele- graphs that M. Bertbelot was made a scapegoat, though it is believed that M. Bourgeois was the aathor of the Egyptian note, which had its origin in his diplo- matic defeat. The Standard will to-mor- row publish a dispatch from Vienna say- ing that Russia’s disapproval . of the French Cabinet’s handiing of thie Egyptian matter was the principal cause of M. Berthelot’s resignation. The Times to-morrow, commenting on the situation in France, will say there is no difficulty in seeing that misconceptions of Egyptian affairs are being extensively used in Paris as weapons in purely domes- tic struggles. ERC A DERVISHES FIRED UPON. Reconnoitering Party Put to Flight By British Artillery. CAIRO, Eayer, March 29.—General Kitchener, of the Egyptian army, and his staff, arrived at Wady-Halfa to-day. The second column of the expedition, under |" Major Macdonald, is approachingA kasheh. Sixty Dervishes reconnoitered the column, but were fired upon by the artillery, whereupon they rapidly retreated. The report of the defeat of the Egyptian advance guard by Dervishes near Aka- sheh turns out to be untrue. ITALIANS WILD WITH J0Y. Remarkable Demonstration Over the Release of a Spanish Prisoner Under the Amnesty Decree, PALERMO, Itavry, March 29. —Si Giuseppe de Felic Geiffrida, who in May, 1894, was sentenced fo eighteen years’ im- priconment for connection with the social- ist riots in Palermo and elsewbere, and who was recently released under the de- ree of amnesty issued by King Humbert, visited Catania to-day. He was a member f the Chamber of Deputics wher he was During his imprisonmentelec- nor sentenced. | tions were held for members of the nine- teenth (the present) Legislature, and he was returned for the Second District of Cztania. His entry into the city to-day wasa tri- 1tphal one. Special traing were run from Me:sina and the city was full of visitors. A lirge crowd gathered about the railway taton and when De Felice appeared he was greeted with enthusiasm. He was carrid to the carriage that was waiting and after he had entered it the harnessed the horsesand dragged 0t its pceupant to the hotel. > ATH:NS 4LIVE WITH VISITORS. for iim, Greek Gladiators in Active Training for the Olympian Games. ATHENS, Greecr, March 29.—There was influx of visitors to witness the bicycling and shootinz con- prelimiar, lests Wday,_for the purpose of selecting Greek champions to take part in the Olym- | pian games, which begin on April 5and last until April 15. An immense audito- rium and the stadium or race track on which most of the games will take place are now nearly completed. Arrangements have been made for theillumination of the streets, the Parthenon, and other ancient monuments on the occasion of the Olym- piad. REBEL CAMP - CAPTURED. Colone/ Molina Reports a Battle in Which Firty-five Cubans Lost Their Lives. HAVANA, Cusa, March 29.—At a meet- ing of the leaders of the Autonomist party, beld here to-day, it was decided to take no part in the approaching election of mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies, but to vote only for two Senators. The decision is causing much comment. Colonel Molina reports the capture of a rebel camp at Guasimal, near Corral Falso, Province of Matanzas. The troops at- tacked the camp with machetes. rebels fled, leaving behind them forty-five dead. Many of their wounded were car- ried away. People in the vicinity say that many other bodies are strewn around the camp. The Government denies the rumors of an attack upon and capture of the city of Pinar del Rio by the rebels under Maceo. J. FRANK CLARK. il it GOD’'S AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS. Two Immense Meetings of the Followers of Ballington Booth Held in New York City. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29.—Major ! Pattie Watkins, who had been ill for some days and who said she was threatened with pneumonia, presided at a meeting of the American Volunteers, over whom Bal- lington Booth has assumed command, at | the Cooper Union Institute this evening. Miss Watkins was clad in her new uni- form; which is of cadet blue material. The gathering was very large. A meeting of the followers of Ballington Booth was also held to-night at the West Fifteenth-street Tabernacle. The hall was crowded with the followers of Ballington Booth, and the greatest enthusiasm was displayed when his name was mentioned. J. W. Merriil, who was formerly staff captain of the Salvation Army, presided at the meeting. Evangelist F. M. Meinsinger of Brooklyn made an addre ying that Ballington Booth had a divine work to perform and that he should be supported. The name of Ballington Booth’s new pa- per has not yet been determined upon. MajorJ. M. Allen, who came over on the steamer St. Louis with Mrs. Booth-Tucker, presided over the meeting at the Salvation Army headquarters in Fourteenth street. Mrs. Tucker was said to be quite ill. It was reported that if she is able she will ac- cept the invitation of Ballington Booth to meet him at his home in Mountclair, N. J.,on next Tuesday. A meeting of the staff officers will be held at Philadelphia soon, at hich either Mrs.. Booth-Tucker or her sister, Commissioner Eva Booth, will be present. LG ge S PROSPECTIVE LYNCHING. The Perpetrator of a Terrible Crime Is Strongly Guarded. CROWN POINT, Ixp., March 29.—Itis very probable that the Crown Point jail vard will be the scene of a lynching party before morning. Albert Knauss, a farm- hand working for Nicholas Haan, a pros- perous and wealthy farmer living five miles south of this place, attacked Mrs, Haan while ber husband was away from home. He then kicked the woman into an insensible condition, and it is extremely doubtful that she will recover. Knauss was spprehended and jailed vesterday. Sheriff Hays bas placed the jail undera heavy guard. Zoiargs e b DIVORCE 1IN HIGH LIFE. Prominent St. Louis Couple Separated Through the Wife’s Desertion. LOUIS, Mo., March 29.—Henry H on Crittenden was yesterday granted a divorce from Daisy Dozier Crittenden on the groand of desertion. No defense was offered. Both are members of prominent and wealthy families. Mrs. Crittenden is the daughter of a millionaire cracker manufacturer and Mr. Crittenden is the son of Hon. Thomas T. Critten den, now Consul-General to Mexico and once Gov- ernor of Missouri SUCCUMBED 10 FRIGHT, Four Patients in a Burning Paris- ian Hospital Are Scared to Death. ST. Sappers Mistake Drugs for Schnapps. Four Dead, Others Suffering Intensely. PARIS, Fraxce, March 29.—The Gothic Church of St. Sauveur, on the boulevard de Marechal Vaillant, at Lille, was de- stroyed bp fire this morning. The flames spread to the hospital adjoining the church, and there was great excitement when it was seen that the hospital would be burned. The scenes among the pa- tients were terrible. Those who were con- valescent were hurriedly directed to leave the building, and the hospital attendants and others devoted themselves to remov- ing tLose who were not able to help them- selves. The cries of the sick were heartrend- ing. Four of the patients, who were extremely weak, succumbed to fright and died before they could be taken out. Many of the sick were received in the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor, which is situated but a short distance from the scene of the fire. Ten sappers, who had been ordered to save the medicines in the hospital, came across what they thought was a quantity of schnapps. They each took a drink, and were almost instantly seized with symp- toms of poisoning. = Physicians at once attended them, but despite all efforts four of the sappers died and the others are stiil suffering agonizing pain. It was not until 7 o’clock this evening that the fire was mastered. It was caused by the neglect of some plumbers who had been employed in the lower part of the church, and who had either left a burning brazier or dropped & piece of ignited char- coal. The | \7-’\ American Farmer — Why don’t you trade with us Uncle? e M—-\< E OV ENGLag, the way you used to do, DIED N DEFENSE OF HIS HONOR. Social Berlin Is Exercised Over the Killing of Zenker.’ THE DUEL AT POTSDAM. | Triumph of a Lieutenant Who | Had Wrecked the Law- yer’s Home. SHOTS EXCHANGED"FOUR TIMES | The Surviving Principal Has Surren- dered and Will Be Placed on Trial. BERLIN, Gerwaxy, March 29.—The | story essociated with the duel fought last | Thursday between Lieutenant von Kettels- | hodt, an officer attached to the imperial vacht Hohenzollern, and Herr Zenker, a prominent Berlin lawyer and anti-Semite leader, in which the latter was killed, is of absorbing interest in social circles, where the affair is being discussed in detail. Lieutenant von Kettelshodt ob- tained permission to remain in Germany when the Hohenzollern started for Genoa, and it was known among his friends that his remaining behind was for the purpose of fighting the duel. Herr Zenker was a lawyver of large practice and very wealthy. He married a charming woman, by whom he had two children. In the summer of 1894 Frau Zenker met Lieutenant von Kettelshodt at Laboe, a seaside resort near Kiel, and their ensuing unconcealed friendship aroused Herr Zen- ker’s jealousy to so great an extent that his wife left him in August last and went to Detmold, taking her two children with her. Herr Zenker then set to work to find | proofs of her undue intimacy with Lieu- tenant von Kettelshodt. As Zenker was a lieutenant in the Landwehr he was en- titled to demand a duel. The challenge was accepted by von Ket- | telshodt, who, according to his right, chose the weapons and the terms of their use. The challenged officer named pistols, both principals to fire until one should be dis- abled. Several naval officers accompanied von KettelsHodt from Kiel to Potsdam, near | which place the duel was fought. Herr Zenker wore the uniform of a lieutenant | in the Landwehr, and his brother, a| physician, watched the fight. Shots were exchanged four times, von Kettelshodt’s fourth shot piercing-Zenker’s heart. Von Kettleshodt immediately surrendered him- self to a superior cfficer and will stand trial. The episode has greatly touched public | feeling, there being, even in army and navy circles, a feeling of sorrow at Zenk- er's fate, and the affair will undoubtedly | lead to a widespread agitation against dueling, too strong for the devotees of the code to withstand THE NLW COLORED WOMAN, Kills Her Husband in Settling the Right to Run the House. SPRINGFIELD, Onro, March 29.—Ar- thur Wilson, a negro, was shot and killed this afternoon by his wife. The only wit- | ness to the deed was a woman named Blair, over whom the trouble occurred. The Blair woman was staying at Wilson's house against his wishes as the guest of his wife. Wilson insisted on her leaving and his wife refused to let her go. Wilson then took the woman’s trunk and started to leave with it, when his wife drew a re- volver and shot him teice. He died ina few hours. —_———— A DEATH-DEALING BOWLDER. Three Persons Killed and Two Injured by a Rolling Stone. HINTON, W. Va., March 20.—Three people were instantly kiiled and two others seriously injured at Echo, a mining town forty miles west of here, this morning. A mass of stone, loosened by the spring rains, let go and a huge bowlder rolled down the mountain side, tearing up coke ovens and railroad tracks, and fimllyi | where for years she was a popular prima crashing through a small frame dwelling- house, with the above result. The kilied are: Jim Tillman, Frank Tillman and Lucy Law. The names of the injured could not be learned. Henry Law, an oc- cupant of the house, rushed out and flagged an eastbound express train, which was just due, and would have probably been derailed by the ruined condition of the track. Bagiiciy A JEALOUS HUSBAND’S DEED. Shoots His Wife Twice and Then Kills Himself—The Woman Will Prob- ably Recover. COLUMBUS, Onio, March 29, — Fred Gorrell, aged 22, attempted to kill his wife this afternoon, and supposing he had sue- ceeded, killed himself. Gorrell came from Mount Vernon, Ohio, last fall and married the daughter of his employer, Sylvester Eggleston, a contract- ing painter. He was insanely jealous of her, and because of quarrels resulting from this she left him some days ago. Gorrell went to the house of his father- in-law, where hig 133' was staying, this afternoon and ,agked her if she would go back and livy o M Bhe refused- ® drew & ‘revolver a) shot her twice. One bullet entered her hip and the other pierced her left breast just below the shoulder. Gorrell then snapped the revolver at his own head repeatedly, but it would not go off. He then went to the kitchen and, seizing a butcher knife, tried to cut his throat, but the blade was too dull. " He then ran to his father-in-law’s room and, securing his razor, cut his throat. He made such a desperate stroke at his throat that the head was almost severed from the body and he tell dead. | Mrs. Gorrell, notwithstanding the : wounds she received, seems to suffer little | pain and will probably recover. LOUISE MANFRED'S DEAT Passing of a Prima Donna Who Found Favor on This Coast. Fatal Ending of an Illness Contracted Soon After Her Return to the East. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29.—Louise Manfred, a comic orera prima donna, known in private hife as Mrs. Charles M, Pyke, was buried this afternoon in the | Actors’ Fund plot at the Cemetery oi the | Evergreens. Mrs. Pyke made her first debut in the ‘Two Cads,”’ a comic opera, in 1875, In 1879 she joined the Haverly Comic Opera forces and made her first appearance in this city in “Patience.”’ After three years of traveling she and her husband went to the "Pacific coast, donna. She returned from the West last fall to apoear at a theater in this city. But a few days after her arrival she was taken ill with an affection of the liver, which caused her death on Friday. Her husband and her brother were at her bed- side at the time of her death. — e TERRIFIC WINDSSORM. Two Women Kiliew and Several Injured at Cleveland, Ohio. CLEVELAND, Onto, March 29.—A ter- rific windstorm, lasting only two minutes, sprung up about 2 o'clock Sunday morn- | ing and created considerable havoc during | its brief existence. 5 A few days ago fire broke out in the six- | story Kimball block, on Cedar avenue, | leaving the walls in a tottering condition. The storm blew the walls down upon the dwelling of H. A. Vaughn, 745 Cedar ave- nue, and crushed in the roof, instantly killing Mrs. Sarah Bradford and Miss Emma Dietrich, who were in bed asieep. Mrs. Bradford was asleep in an upstairs room over the kitchen, on the side next to the falling wall. The debris crushed upon her and carried the woman and bed down through the heavy timbers of the floor to the kitchen below. Five other people sleeping in the house were injured. To-night at 8 o’clock the people in the vicinity of the Kimball block ruins were thrown into a panic by the fail of another section of the fire-blackened walls. After a hurried but complete investigation it was ascertained that no other buildings had been damazed nor further personal injuries sustained. At this hour the front wall, six stories high, is standing withoat any support whatever, and a brisk and in- creasing wind is coming straight against it from the lake. Should it fall outward the damage to other buildings will be reat; but people have been warned, and ere lhoulr be no one hurt by its fall, J ¢ NATIVES ADVANCE ON BULUWAYO. An Attack Upon the South African Town Is Feared. TWENTY WHITES SLAIN. Four ‘Women Numbered Among the Fierce' Matabeles’ Victims. " DEAP. e > Sl 57 MUTILATION OF THE Their Faces Covered With Grass, Which Is Then Ignited—Rifles Sent to the Police. CAPETOWN, SourH Arrica, March 29.— A late dispatch from Buluwayo, the prin- cipal town of Matabeleland, said that it was feared an attack would be made on that place to-night by the native rebels. A disp atch received to-day from Buluwayo, said that thus far twenty whites have been killed by the natives. Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner in South Africa, has cabled Colonial Secre- tary Chamberlain in London that Captain Nicholson telegraphs from Buluwayo that he has 350 rifles and plenty of ammuni- tion. Captain Nicholson believes that the revolt will not spread. The only detachments of the native volice who are known to have certainly deserted are thirty, who shot Commis- sioner Bently. Anotheér thirty were very restless and were disarmed, after which they deserted. Several of the white settlers, who were missing and who were supposed to have been massacred by the natives, have ar- rived at Buluwayo. Governor Robinson has furnished a mounted escort to convey 500 rifles be- longing to the British South African Com- pany from Mafeking, on the Transvaal border, to Buluwayo. Among the victims of the Matabeles was a family consisting of husband and wife, three grown daughters and three sons. Commissary Bently and other persons massacred were horribly mutilated. After death their faces were covered with dried grass, which was then set on fire, render- ing the features of the victims unrecog- nizable. g RETURNING TO SOUTH AFRICA. Jomesow’s Troopers to Re-enter the Char- tered Company’s Employ. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29.—A Her- ald cable from London says: Fifty of “Dr. Jim’s” troopers who returnea from South Africa in the Harloch Castle lett Waterloo station Saturday morning for Southamp- ton to embark o the Lismore for South Africa, their ultimate destination being Buluwayo. The remainder, numbering 100 troopers, under the charge of Lieutenant White and Secrgeant Steele, left by.special train in the | aiternoon from Waterloo to join the Mexi- can, the Union boat, which had been kept back for that purpose. According to the Evening News the offi- cers stated they are rejoining the service of the Chartered Company; but are at the order and disposal of the Government. e e BITTER TOWARD ENGLAND. Excitement Renewed at Berlin Becouse of the Transvaal Situation. BERLIN, Germany, March 29, — The changed situation in the Transvaal has reawakened the excitement against Eng- land. On all sides the preparations which the Boers are making to resist England’s encroachments are approved. The con- sensus of opinion in the German press is that the denial made by Mr. Chamberlain that England had purchased Delagoa Bay was 120 vague to suffice, and it is pointed out in support of this view that Mr. Cham- berlain had denied that there had been negotiations between Great Britain and Portugal looking to such purchase. The National Zeitung says: “England cannot suppose that the friend- liness of the German empire toward the Dongola expedition implies a pledge that she will remain passive in South Africa.” The Hambnrg Correspondenz officially declares that Germany will adhere to the declarations made in the Reichstag by Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein, Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, that Germany will not permit German interests to be en- croached upon. The Taegliche Rundschau asks: ‘“Has Germany built up an empire through blood and iron only to look on while a for- eign nation 13 setting the German nation at naught?” The Weltpolitik says: ‘‘The people are standing before the choice whether to be the hammer or the anvil. They cry out that they must be the hammer.” The Vossische Zeitung urges the Gov- ernment to propose that the powers neu- tralize Delagoa Bay and keep the Trans- vaal independent. An Anti-Boer Propaganda. LONDON, Ex6., March 29.—In its issue to-morrow the Chronicie will denounce the demand that is growing in certain English newspapers in favor of sending a powerful expedition to South Africa. The Chronicle ascribes the demand to an anti- Boer propaganda that is being pushed by a ring of capitalists. THE CATHODE RAY CHEATED. Needle Extracted From the Breast of a Convict Who Swallowed It Forty- Two Years Ago. COLUMBUS, Onro, March 29.—A simple operation periormed in the hospital of the State Prison this afternoon ends a most interesting surgical and pathoiogical his- tory. Prison Hospital Surgeon Tharp re- moved from the body of James Morris, a Federal prisoner, serving a term for coun- terfeiting, a needle which was swallowed by the patient when he was a boy 11 years old. As he is now 53 years of age the needle has been in the body forty-two years. In that time it has traveled undoubtedly through nearly every part of the body be- low the waist. He has made several ap- plications to have the needle removed since he has been in the prison, but it could not be located with sufficient ac- uracy. Notlong ago it was in his right knee and he claimed he could feel the point of it. He suffered great pain from it all the time. To-day he felt the point of the needle projecting from his breast just below the heart. It was an easy matter to remove it. It was the intention of the prison physicians to use the cathode ray in searching for the needle if it had not been found so soon. LIGHTNING TYIPE-SETTING. Phenomenal Work in a Match on Lino- type Machines. S8T. LOUIS, Mo., March 29.—Advanced figures were set here to-day for rapid com- position on linotype machines. Barney Mensing of the Post-Dispatch and Robert 'W. Francis of the Globe-Democrat com- peted for seven hours for the champion- ship and $200 a side. Mensing’s total was 74,100 ems and that of Francis 65,500 ems. These totals. are net, as all corrections were deducted. . Mensing’s total would have been larger but for an error by the timer, who called bim off ten minutes be- fore the seven hours were completed. Their proois were good, those of Mensing especially so. The betting was slightly in (avo; of Francis and about §1000 changed hands. e sab i e Press Attack Upon Sherman. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29.—A spe- cial cable to the Herald from Madrid says: A violent atlack upon Senator Sherman is published in the Imparcial, which calls him a former siave-trader, and asserts that he wants the Cuban rebellion to succeed in order to re-establish slavery in Cuba. B R Negotiating an Extradition Treaty. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20.—A special cable to the Herald from Rio Janeiro says; United States Minister Thompson 1s engaged in negotiating an an extradition treaty between Brazil and the United States. ARMENINS PLEA FOR AID The United States Evangelical Alliance Recites the Woes of the People. Intervention Not Asked For, But the Exercise of Moral Powear by the Nations. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 29. — The Evangelical Alliance for the United States has issued an appeal to the people of this country in behalf of the sufferers by the recent Turkish 1aassacres in Armenia. The document also contains an appeal from the missionaries. It states: “An appeal of the most solemn and impressive character has just been re- ceived, signed by the entire force of the American missionaries at Harpoot, in the Turkish empire, imploring sympathy and moral influence in behatfof the persecuted Armenian Christians in that empire. The Alliance would be untrue to its constitu- tion and its history if it did not give earn- est heed to this memorial. It has taken immediate measures to sscure favorable action from the Suitan of Turkey by the Government of the United States and by the various branches of the Alliance tnroughout the world. “In addition to these efforts, the Alliance herewith spreads before the people of this country the document recetved from the Christian missionaries at Harpoot. *‘Does the Christian world know that this has been and is a clearly defined re- ligious crusade? It is part of the Moslem creed that men of all other creeds are in- ferior, and the Christian races in this country have always been treated as such; and now that the Armenians have sought for some equality of rights, for greater free- dom from oppression and injustice and for the protection of person and property, the Turks have sought to crush them. “‘We do not ask for intervention but for the exarcise of such a moral power by the nations as shall free the poor Christians from this intolerable yoke. We are con- fident that if the representatives of the Christian governments in Constantinople were to unite against any further attempt to renounce the faith which their fathers have held in the midst of persecution and oppression from the days of the apostles to the present time with a persistence al- most as marvelous as that of the Jews, such a protest would be effectual.” THIES TO POISON COBURG ORPHANS, Deadly Powders Placed in the Smith Family’s Larder. PERSECUTED BY A FIEND Repeated Attempts to End the Lives of Four Adopted Children. WARNED THAT THEY WILL DIE Threatening Notes Left by the Un- known Enemy—Dwelling in Fear of Death. PORTLAND, Or., March 29.— Mrs. Hiram Smith and family of Coburg are the innocent victims of an unknown per- son’s hatred and live in daily fear of death. Repeated attempts have been made to poison the woman and her chil- dren, and of late the would-be poisoner has grown bold in his attempts. It is be- lieved he is crazy or has a mania for mur- der. This person visited the Smith home last Thursday and left some kind of powder on the top of the jars of milk. Mrs. Smith does not know what the powder was, but believes it was the kind of poison used to destroy rats and squirrels. On this visit the poisoner left two notes of threatening character. On the afternoon of the next day he again visited the premises and put another kind of powder on the cream in the pantry. This substance was of a whit- ish color, looked like soda and tasted like concentrated lye. On this yisit another notice was left, as follows: The ones we want to kill is Hiram Smith, L. Smith, Mary Smith, Clara Smith. I am coming again. This is done by one you will never know. God is building the fire for you now, d— you. On the days that this note and the poison were left, Mrs. Smith and her two little girls were alone at the farm, the young men—Leet and Hiragp—being absent on business. Judging from the tone of the note it appears that the unknown desired to take the lives of the four orphan chil- aren who live with Mrs. Smith. Yesterday fhe family persecutor again gained admittance to the premises unseen by any one and scattered poison about the well and in watering-troughs and in the grain bin. Thwarted thus far in his efforts to take the lives of the family, the myste- rious individual now seems determined to poison the stock on the ranch. The family livesin constant terror, not knowing what minute its property may be destroyed or the lives of its members taken bv. the unseen enemy. The case has been placed in the hands of officers. Mrs. Smith is the widow of the late Hiram Smith, a man who was quite wealthy and prominent in social and political life. He owned large tracts of land below Coburg and at one time was a candidate for Congress. He has been dead for a numberof years. Mrs. Smith is now 73 years old, and lives on a farm about four miles below Coburg. ‘She has no children of her own, but adopted four children who were orphaned by the death of another adopted son. The first attempt to poison Mrs. Smith was made about ten years ago. Lost His Money and Took Poison. DETROIT, MicH., March 29.—W. £, Streibinger of Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide at the Randoiph House here some time to-day by taking poison. He leita note which said that he had lost all of his money in speculation. 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