The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 27, 1894, Page 4

THIS WEEK'S NEWS A Summary of Current Events—The World's Doings for the Past Six Davs Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. Fifteen hundred cigar-makers have struck in Florida. “Black” diphtheria is raging at tVad- dington, N. Y., and Anderson, Ind. Henry D. Purroy was thrown from nis carriage at Saratoga and painfully bruised. The Pullman Palace Car Company declared its usual quartely dividend, gston-on-the-Hudson commemo- rated the burning of the town by the British in 1777. Commodore Melville s that if the five-day steamer materializes it will have triple screws. A clergyman of Cardinal Gibbon: household confirn the report that tolli is to be made a Cardinal. Jealous Mrs. Connover, of Hartford, Conn., summoned her husband to k her good-by and then killed herself. ouis Buckner, of Baltimore, paid & ) for a trunkful of jewelry and then learned that it was plated stuff. Justice Divver, of New York, was thrashed by Morris Tekul: <-Presi dent of the Liquor Dealers’ Indiana’s ovation to Gen. Har! on his second swing around the circle exceeded the Blaine demonstration of 1884. ident H. O. Havemeyer and surer Searles, of the Sugar Trust, gned and held in $5,000 bail each. | A plot to wreck and rob an express train near Pittsburg failed because the robbers put the dynamite on the wrong track. There is a movement at Buffalo to stampede the Democratic City Con- vention to Lieut-Goy. Sheehan for Mayor. or William unveiled the statue ~ andfather, the great Kaiser, the new Royal Theatre at Wiesbaden. Lav of the Lexow counsm, there will be undoubt- ation of the New York er New York Commission sued an addre to the people, < for votes in favor of munici- of the Pennsyl- says he thinks the red upon an era of re- and Jury at Chicago nt railroad men ations of the inter- of New York, convicted ays his wife ied him 9 that she could be- tray him to Secret Service agents. John Boyd Thacher declares that he expectes soon an indorsement of some sort from President Cleveland of Sen- ator Hill's candidacy for Governor. Col. Henry L. Turner, of Chicago, son of an abolitionist, will marry Miss y, granddaughter of the largest holder of the ante-bellum South. The Homer State Bank in Nebraska was robbed of $1.600 in 1891. The money has been found in a well on a p’ace where the cashier formerly lived. imore, whose n 1849 and went made a fortune, has sued ‘his alleged widow there for his estate. Attorney Broc e, of New York, ac- cuses Recorder Smyth of “petty mean- in disallov the expense items he bill for the defense of Poisoner Meyer. Thieves stole $1,200 worth of dia- monds from Mrs. Melville W. Fuller, in Washington, and returned them when it was found they were sus- pected. Banker Henson, of Chattanooga, who killed J. B. Wi thome and w: his suit for voree, naming a new co- th from American ad- nted to Johann Strau by Rudolph Aronson, of New Yor during the composer's golden jubilee celebration. Judge Jenkins has been petitioned to direct the Northern Pacific receivers to bring suit aga . Hoyt and Colby for the ution of alleged unlawful gains. Howard Carroll has en Island ferry th John D. Crimmins and Gen. muel Thomas, of ase National Bank, as sureties, and has begun running boats. The French public is agog over the act of the French Government in con- ferring the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Capt. von § skind, the German military attache at Paris. Emperor Willia ata milit cere- mony in Berlin, d the army is “the only firm pi and called on the German battalions to render uncondi- tonal obedience to their War Lord. George, the blind son of John Y. MeKane, will open a cafe and restau- rant at No. 1270 Broadway, New York, with Caterer Testara, late steward of the Union League Club, of Brooklyn. King Alexander of Servia is at Pots- dam. He was welcomed at the station by Emperor William and a number of German princes. A gala dinner in his honor was given in the new palace. The report that Lord Kimberly is sulking because Prime Minister Rose- bery meddles in the Foreign Office is met with an official declaration that “there is no disagreement between the two.” The body of J. H. Streidinger, the engineer who had charge of the blow- ing up of the rocks at Hell Gate, was washed ashore at San Diego, Cal. There is no reason to Suppose that he committed suicide. Constitutional Convention Delegate John M. Bowers has psinted out the apportionment and elections amend- ments as partisan and vicious, and de- clared that no harm would result to the State if all the proposed amend- ments were defeated at the polls. gned the Stat- ‘Large numbers of Fall River weay- ers have again struck. An international anti-gambling asso- ciation has been formed in Chicago. The remains of a mastodon were found in Tonowanda Swamp, near Me- dina, N. Y. Charles Pearsons, a special police- man at Hyde Park, Mo., was mur dered by burglars. Major-Gen. O. O. Howard says the last strike showed that the regular army should be doubled. The tenth week of the weavers’ strike at Fall River was ing@ugurated with a big mass meeting. The trial of Uncle Sam's first battle- ship, the Maine, proved her to be the | fastest of her kind in the world. | Princeton and Yale may not meet.on the football field year, on account of their failure to ¥gree upon a date. The Western ‘Turf Congress has adopted a rule prhibiting racing in, January, February and December. | Mate Roberts, of the bark Adalguis, | which put into San Francisco disabled, s the owners planned to wreck her. Chicago's Social Purity League pro- poses to establish seven “graded homes” for the rescue of fallen women. James H. Budd, Democratic candi- te for Governor of California, risked is life in helping to extinguish a fire. narles T. Saxton, Republican candi- Cc | date for Lieutenant-Governor, has de- , cided to hold on for the present to his job as Senator. The Kaiser is rejoiced to hear the East Prussian farmers say that they would shed the last drop of blood for him as King of Prussia. An indictment for violation of the anti-lottery law has been found against ofticers of the “State Mutual Life In- , Surance Company” in Chicago. One hundred and twenty-five of the descendants of Mrs. Zetta Swarts, of Chicago, 105 years old, followed her to the grave. ais Ernest H. Schnaber, of California, heir to a fortune, married Miss May Hillman, an actress, at Scranton, and has gone home to break the news to his family. The registration of cities and towns, for which Saturday was the last day in New York State, shows an increase over last year and in many cases an increase over 1892. A crippled girl’s flowing hair set fire to her father, mother, brother and an- other child while they were trying to escape from a tenement-house fire on Orchard street, New York. The Chicago Grand Jury has indicted | the wife of Warren Spring, capitalist, for an alleged attempt to bribe a jury- man in a suit of her husband for sev- eral hundred thousand dollars. Joseph Hendeschrer, a young Llinois farmer, who went to New York to be treated by Dr. Gibier, was seized with hydrophobia while walking with friends in Central Park. After a strug- gle eight men held him, while an am- bulance surgeon gave him a morphine injection. Bellevue Hospital doctors say death will soon end the man’s agony. GENERAL MARKET REPORT. Quotations From the Leading Trade Centres. NEW YORK.—Latest quotations are as fol- lows : FLOUR—Receipts, 2400 bbls. Sales. 2750 bbls, Straight Latest Winter wheat patent $3.05 @ $3 40; Roller wheat winter $2.75 @ ¥3.00; Short Roller winter $245 @ $2.60. Minnesota bakers, $2,40 @ $2.00 ; spring wheat patent $3.50 @ 83,75; rye flour $2.75 graham 83.W) ;@ 33.20 oat flake, €4,80 @ $5.00: BOCK Wibat FLOURSeline i SK W HEA’ JR—-eliing in the stre market at $1.75 @ $1.80 por 100 Ibs. ee CORNMEAL—1.20 to $1.25 per 1001bs. CORN—Higher. Albany inspection. ——. Spot: No. 2 yellow 591-4@ 5934 Sales. 5 cars. OS No. Ziwhite, 36 1-4 @ 361-20; cars, RYE—Seiling iu the street market at83c. @54c. = “<a Tbs. tu tD—Spot wheat, bran, sacked, $16.00 to $17.50: middlings, sacked, $18.50 to $20.06; r: =s —Timothy, prime. 70c.; Nc 5c: straw. No. Lrve i0c. No.2 350. Choice Minnesot. held at 61 cents. rowed State 63 two rowed 60c. MALT—Canada, 80 @ 85c.; six rowed state, 75 two rowed state. 70 @ 7c. Western . Market quiet and firm with usual jemand. HOPS Choice hops are scarce. We quote ex- tia choice New York Siate crop of 1894, 13@ 15 cenis. Inferior grades not wauted and quo- tations would be nominal, SEED—Ti 3 aha 73; Clover, BEANS—Marrow P. $2.75; mediums, $1.00. Peas. -80. BUTTER-Steady, Creamery, Western extras 25c., Creamery, do good to noice, 23 @ 24; dol b. ” print ais eee” its, extra 6c. Choice CHEESE- Quiet State fac. full cream, fin ll; good do., 10 1-2; part skim. do. choice 9 £GGS State. fresh dae or oS iohigat 19 to 20; western, 18¢ to'ite, + * Michigan, DRESSED HOGS--Higher, $7.50 @ $8.00 per 100 Ibs steady. Boneless : $16.50 PORK—Market BEA per bbl. clear, $16.00 to $17.00 short mess ups, 005, . SRE SEAR San tern per SMOKE 'S— Breakfast smoked hams,12 Ib. average, 124.5 Bie done 38 to to 20 Ibs.. average 12c;_ skin bac! 12ke California hams tic ; snoulders, 8 1 2csmoked on 1s to ie }—Pure leaf. 8 1-2 cts: com: FISH—Higher, ‘Mackerel, bay lores ao. @ y N 16.00; large No. 1$17,00; shore 317,00; shore No. 1 $21,00 fancy bloaters, per bbi. large Georges ‘cod, $575 per 100 large banks, $4.50,Georges boneless codfish §1-2c..Bank boneless, 6} c.; box herring, 1610 lgo No. 1, white fisn, $6.50 half bbl; No: 2, do. $6.59." No.1 lake trout, $5.50 half bbl.’ Mess salmon, $11.0 per bbl. Labrador trout, $12.58 per bbl; family white fish, $3.95 half bbl. per bol, Sts hale bi. Seeds Re, Cad - $1.75 pl. $2.15; qu: - 81. SALT—Steady,. Domestic, bbls, common fine $1.00; bbis. $1.20; 5 $1.15; bbls (Fj, bbis, dai per bags dairy, $1.15; 58 Ib ; dairy, 260. eral salt, No.l, No.2 or No. 3, sacks. 600. ¢ foreign salt—sacks, “Ashtons $2.40; Higgins $2.40 lump rock. per ton, $12.00; Turk’s iSena %c, 58. per 140 1b, vag. TEA—Quiet. Japan, 16Q10.c; ni Sise!; Bag! Gunpowder, 2 ish Breakfast’ 305 Te ;Oolone, damn duct ay oS Young Hyson, 17 @60c. —Steady. Roasted Rio. 20@27¢; roasted Maricaibo. Java, I@309 Media ip SUGAK--Pressed loaf 5c ; size Maoris, $5.25 3 das, size, Si.5; D0) size, 8428 Malena raaae, Shoo et box. Oranges—Floridas: $275 to $4.00 per box; Jamaicas. siem cut. $5.06 to $6.00 per DEL, MOLASSES—Firm. New Orleans. new” faney, 38 @ 42c.: choice, 36 @ 38c.; 36c.; common, 30 @ B0e.; Port bio tance ane, th sneer ~ Caroli Louisiana fancy head, 6G 703 choles POD 3 fair to good, 4 WOOL—The fleece wool mark 3 Fine washed wool is mein, 4 bry 6c; unwashed,10 @l#c.: medium and coarse, Baphed. 16 @ibe.. unwashed, 12@ Ide, PETROLEUM—New ‘York State ‘legal test, SS white, 150 test,6.34c. per gallon. ing & POTATOES — $1.50281.75 per bbl; Sweets, = to$1.75: Tomatoes 60 to 75 cents per bus- Subseribe LO THE BEE. In the Advertise A ROMANTIC YARN- {nmate of a Poor House Confirms a Queer Tale. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 2.—James Mor- ton, aged ninety, an inmate of the poor farm at Kingston, confirms the story of Mrs. Pierce, of Rock Springs, Wyo., that she is the daughter of Jay Gould. He says he adopted the child when she was six years old. He then resided at St. Thomas, Canada. Canada Deep in Debt New York, Oct. 2—<A special from Ottawa says: When the Government balanced accounts for the fiseal year just closed a deficit of nearly $2,000,- 000 was found in the treasury. . It has now become apparent that the revenue is going to fall a long way short of expenditures, and the Minister of Fi- nance, George Foster, has decided to sail for England on Saturday to nego- tate a new Dominion loan. During the year over $4,000,000 has been added to the national debt. Taxation through the custom heuse has been increased 64 per cent. since the present Govern- ment came into power, while the popu- lation shows an increase of only 21 per cent. Remnant of a Wreck Recovered. London, Oct. 2.—The Daily Graphic says the wreck of the Russian iron- clad Rousalka, which was lost in the ‘Baltic Sea last year, was found on September 19 south of the Islet of Wastertoken, Finland. ‘The wreck lies in twenty fathoms of water. A diver who went down and examined the hull reports he found a great hole in the stern. Appearances indicate that the Rousalka struck a reef and stove her hull, and then slid off the reef into deep water. She had on board 12 officers and 166 men. A wrecking crew has begun operations with a view of raising the vessel, but little hopes are entertained that it will succeed. Connecticut Elections. New Haven, Oct. 2.—Returns from 100 towns show gains for the Republi- cans in the town elections yesterday. In Waterbury the A. P. A. movement aroused the Catholics, who succeeded in electing an entire school board of Catholics. In New Britain the no li- cense vote of one year ago is reversed. In almost all the towns where the A. P. A. made a fight it met with defeat. Meriden, Norwich, Middletown and ‘New Milford were captured by the Re- publicans, but New London elected a Democratic Mayor, displacing a Repub- lican. Republicans captured all the} other offices in New London. i Working on the Canal Again. New York, Oct. 2.—A special from Colon, Colombia, says: Work on the canal was resumed yesterday with picks and spades at Culebra Hil, | eleven miles from the Pacific Ocean | and thirty-six from the Atlantic. } Twelve hundred men are required, and their wages will be from $1 to $2 a) day. Chickamauga Commissioners Report. ‘Washington, Oct. 2—The Chicka- | mauga battlefield commissioners have returned from Chattanooga. They re- , port the work of marking and improv- ing the battlefield is progressing rapid- : ly. The dedication will probably take | place next September, immediately fol- i rs lowing the Louisville encampment of the G. A. R. Died fro » an Overdose of Chioral. Ballston, N. Y., Oct. 1—Mrs. Alvah C. Dake, widow of the former law | partner of Judge J. S. L’Amoreaux, of this village, died early this morning at | the latter’s residence from an overdose of laudanum and chloroform taken Saturday evening with suicidal intent. She had been in a despondent mood for over a month. A Big Haul of Moonshiners. Ashland, Ky., Oct. 2.—Yesterday aft- ernoon United States Marshal Greer and his deputies left for Louisville with 106 moonshiners just from the Upper Big Sandy district. The party 4s made up of women, boys and men, some of the latter typical desperadoes. Malavita Members Sentenced. Rome, Oct. 2—The trials of the mem- bers of the Malavita Society at Lu- cera were finished to-day. Fourteen were acquitted and sixty-eight were sentenced to five to ten years’ imprison- ment. Shot Through the Heart. Chicago, Oct. 2.—Fred Schenick shot Edward Shea through the heart this morning in a West Madison street opium joint. Jealousy was the cause. Both were gamblers. The murderer has been arrested. Conan Doyle Visits America. New York, Oct. 2—Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the novelist, arrived to-day from England to fill a lecture engage- ment. This is his first visit to this country. An Insane Husband’s Act. San Francisco, Oct. 2.—M. Fortola, & passenger on the steamer Acapulco, attempted suicide at sea by jumping overboard with his wife in hie arms. He is insane. Both were rescued. More Room for Settlers. Washington, Oct. 2.—President Cleve- fand will issue a proclamation opening to settlement the unallotted lands on the Yankton reservation in South Da- kota, containing over 100,000 acres. A Scoundrel Arrested. Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 2.—Martin Irons, the old strike leader, was held to-day at a preliminary examination for assaulting seven-year-old gir's. Killed a BullFighter. Zacatecas, Mexico, Oct. 2.—Four per- sons were killed and many injured by the animals at a full fight in the town | of Mesquitie Sunday. A Big Masonic Gathering. | ‘Chicago, Oct, 2.-A thousand dele gates attended the opening of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Illinois here to-day. Bradstreet's Wheat Estimate. New York, Oct. 2--Bradsireet’s esti- mate of the av! x ly of wheat shows an in 8 aE coo bushels. | tied to trees on the campus. | of playmates. MRS. HALLIDAY REFORMS. She 1s a Model Prisoner Now and Her Insanity is Tamer. Matteawan, Oct. 2—Mrs. Halliday, who while insane murdered Sarah J. McQuillan and daughter, Margaret McQuillan, and her own husband, Paul Halliday, last fall, near Middletown, is a model prisoner at the insane asy- Tum here. Dr. Allison, superintendent of the hospital, one of the medical ex- perts who testified to her insanity at the trial, knew that the mutterings, incoherence and general viciousness of her conduct were not characteristics of the type of mania from which the gave her to understand that the kind of treatment she received in the hospi- tal would depend entirely upon her own conduct. There was at once a marked improvement in Mrs. Halli day’s mental condition. She became quiet, tractable, decent and cleanly in speech and habits, and has continued so up to the present time. She is made useful and helpful in the work of the hospital and is by all odds the best serubwoman about the place, being careful and painstaking, and quite an artist with brush and pail. BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS. Three Men Hold Up an Express in Ari- zona—Death the Penalty. Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 2—The Southern Pacific east-bound express was held up two miles east of Maricopa Sunday night by three men, two of whom were masked. They boarded the train as it was leaving Maricopa, capturing the head brakeman. He was compelled to turn on the air brakes and stop the train. The engineer and the head brakeman with pistols at their heads were compelled to go back to the ex- press car and induce the messenger to open the door. One of the bandits was then put in the car and searched for valuables, while the other stood guard. The amount taken is not known, but is supposed to be small. Sheriff Murphy and Deputy Widmere reached the camp of the suspected men, several miles east of the city, about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The only occupant was Frank Armor, a Tonto Basin cowboy, who com- menced shooting as soon as the officers came in sight. The officers returned the fire with shotguns, mortally wound- ing their man. The penalty for train robbery in Arizona is death. GIRLS IN A COLLEGE RUSH. They Join With the Men 1n a Free Fight at Wittenberg College. Springfield, O., Oct. 2—The annual rush of the freshmen and the sopho- more classes at Wittenberg College took place yesterday morning on the college campus, an unusual feature be- ing the participation of a number of women sophomores. A dummy placed in the cupola by the freshmen started the battle, which soon became serious. Fred Walz, of the class of '98, was | knocked senseless in the fight. A num- ber of sophomores were captured and A party of their classmgtes attempted to res- cue them by engaging thelr guards in | battle, and a few girls of the class cut the cords, while some of them had a lively time pulling each other’s hair. The faculty will investigate, and sus- | pensions are expected. Boys Play a Fatal Game. Pittsburg, Oct. 2—Willie Brown, aged thirteen, is on the verge of an at- tack of tetanus, the result of a prank Saturday evening it was proposed to play blacksmith, and Willie was selected to represent the horse. The crowd held the boy fast, while another boy drove three nails through an iron shoe into his foot. One of the nails passed entirely through his foot, while the other two penetrat- ed quite a distance into the flesh. The boy fainted with pain and his com- panions fled. None of the boys con- cerned in the affair have yet been ar- rested. Jealous Husband’s Crime. St. John’s, N. B., Oct. 2—At Fair- ville, three miles from this city, yester- day morning, Andrew Crawford, who keeps a boarding house, entered the sleeping room of a boarder named Bretton and crushed his skull with an axe. Crawford admitted the killing, and said it was because Bretton had been paying too much attention to his wife. Crawford has shown signs of insanity. Nearly Six Mifiion Dollars Coined. ‘Washington, Oct. 2—During the month of September the Treasury coin- ed 672,200 standard silver dollars out of a total coinage of 2,004,505 pieces of the value of 35,910,083. The gold coinage was 663,005 pieces of the value of $5,033,692; silver coinage, 1,380,800 pieces, of the value of $76,370, and minor coin, 700 pieces, of the value of A Janitor’s Deed. St. Louis, Oct. 2.—George Thomas, a negro, is under arrest for sending a poisoned lunch to St. Peter’s Episcopal Church last Saturday which caused the death of James Cunningham and the almost fatal illness of Franklin S. Beckett, the church organist. Thomas was supplanted as janitor of the church by Cunningham six months ago. A Rich College. New York, Oct. 2—The Society of the New York Hospital has transferred the property and buildings on the east of the boulevard, forty feet south of One Hundred and Twentieth street, extending to the west side of Amster- dam avenue, to the trustees of Colum- | bia College for a consideration of $2,- },000. es The Czar May Recover. London, Oct. 2—A dispatch from THROWN INTO THE OCEAN. A Cattle Steamer Has a Hy Time at Sea Was Adit and Hf New York, Oct. eached New York ional line st i lon, brought news that mother vessel of t ountered a terr-fi ast run from this port to L Jurope sailed from New eellaneous ¢ plexs. ver 2 n iddition to which she carried le and 599 sheep. She ran into a t fic northwesterly gale on the oon of September 8, and before ier rudder chain parted. She ] nd rolled heavily, shipping seas « inuatly. The ip terrib nd between 1 and 2 o'clock aorning the pens on the port side vay, and the cattle which had be ‘ed there were thrown out upon t lippery deck, and slid hither hither as the ship rolled, mak itfie endeavors to regain their il they were too weak to moy iy down to die. The crew wa nd even though the wind at vas not unti! 4 o’clock in th 1oon that the steering gear aired and the steamer got under w ‘hen the sailors threw overboard attle and 187 sheep that had be ojured or killed. IMPORTANT DEPARTURE. ‘abstitute Letter Carriers Must be Nomin- ated From the El Washington, Oct. 15. leparture in post-office app ras been made. Acting Pi teneral Jones has issued instruct o all postmasters at free delivery ices directing that hereafter ute letter carriers must be nominai ‘rom the eligible list. Vacancie he carrier force must be filled, w wracticable, by the promotion of enior substitutes. All removals 1ew employments of clerks and ¢ ‘iers must be reported to the Fir istant Postmaster-General as soon as nade. No carrier is to be remov ‘xcept for cause, and upon wr sharges filed with the Post-Office De yartment and ful! opportunity for de- ‘ense. No resignation asked for by 2 nostmaster wi - partment. Postn t to the department all qu ing to appointments, re statement of letier ¢ ment by correspond department and the Civi on. WANTS $10,000 FOR HIS WIFE. Gola Eloped With Mrs, Finberg and Gold Has Been Arrested. New York, Oct. 1 Justice Lawrence of No. 64 Canal str Sarah, in a su‘t against Gold io re ages for the alienation of his w affection. Finberg says that he was m. ed four years ago. A year : he took Gold into his house as a bi er. Until two weeks ago Finber: no reason to doubt either the fideity of his wife or of his friend. On the Rocks in Mountainous Seas. Syracuse, N. Y¥., Oct. 15—A special from Oswego says: About 1x! Thursday a vessel, supposed to the Hartford, went on the rocks Woodville, thirty-five miles east of b When she struck the wind had creased in violence and the seas were running mountains high. Capt O’Toole, of Clayton, the owner, six men were on board. The big commenced to break the vessel up, it is reported the captain and ent erew were drowned. The Hartfor was freighted with corn to Cape Vin- eent from Detroit. No bodies are re- ported to have been recovered. Did Not Speak for Twenty Years. Pitman Grote, N. J., Oct. 15. — A strange circumstance has just come to light here through the sale of a piece of property. William Thomas, who is about seventy years old, when called upon to sign the deed, said th and his wife had quarrelled tw years ago and that not a word h passed between them since, althoug! they live under the same roof. Miss Hayward, Librarian, Killed. Boston, Oct. 15. — Miss Almi Hayward, fifty-three years of ag many years librarian of the Cambrid Public Library and one of the best known women in Cambridge, was in- stantly killed in the library build ng by falling through 2 ventilator and striking on her head. Miss Hayw before her appointment to the library service, was a public school teacher. a Te Refuse Allegiance. London, Oct. 15—A dispatch from Berlin to the Times says that Herr Fernand Bueb, a Socialist member the Reichstag, and Herr Doppler, au- other Socialist, both of whom were elected members of the Strasburg P vincial Council, refused to take oath of allegiance to the Emperor on the ground that it was incompatible with their republican convictions. Lourenco Marquez Bestegea by Natives: Lisbon, Oct. 15. — A dispatch from Lourenco Marquez, on Delagoa Bay says the Portuguese there are hemmed in by 30,000 Kaffirs. The town is ‘ gtrongly barricaded. The natives loot- Berlin to the Standard says that Prof. | Leyden has returned to that city and expressed himself regarding the Czar’s condition as decidedly unfavorable to the imperial patient. Dr. Leydon thinks his Majesty may possibly recov- er if he is kept in good spirits and his | strength is maintained. ain Ee re A Faith Curist Arrested. Trenton, N. J., Oct. 2. — Bessie T. | Glenn, a faith curist, is held for trial under the new act. Her patient, Sadie Bell, of Palmyra, died of con- sumption, for which Mrs. Glenn was treating her. The case will contest the constitutionality of the act. ed the suburbs of the town Wed day, burned many houses and killed seventeen people. A “Fighting Slimbach” Killed. New York, Oct. 15—Otto Slimbach a Williamsburg peddler, twenty-eight years old, was stabbed in the left by an unknown man Thursday Leonard and Boerum streets and five hours later in St. Catherine’s Hos- pital. The President’s Probable Return. Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., Get. 15. Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., Oct. 12. less present plans fail the President and family will return to Washington this week, probably on ‘Thursday. They will sail to New York on the Rodgers.