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peeny wees tet 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. Gov. McKinley had five large audi- ences at Dunkirk and Buffalo. Howard Gould and Miss Anna Gould returned from Europe on the Saale. Bismarck says Hohenlohe is “a safe man” for Chancellor but “lacks initia- tive.” Manufacturers in Illi are reported to have gr prosperity. ‘Big wholesalers cut I sugar at Philadelphia in antici of cheaper sugar. Am Anarchist plot to blow up the French Chamber of Deputies is said to have been discovered. Ohairman Wilson and Assistant retary of the N: McAdoo drew great crowds in West Vinginia. Frank A. Benson, a railroad conduc- tor, was horsewhipped at Mount Ver- non by Mrs. James Baker. Secretary Gresham has filed a pro- test against Germany’s prohibition of American meat products. Cardinal Gibbons if there is any palliation for ly: ing it is found in the laxity of legal methods. The Interior Department at Washing- ton has been closed in consequence of the small-pox outbreak there. Clarence_Robinson and his wife pleaded not guilty, in Buffalo, of the murder of Montgomery Gibbs. An eagle seized Baby Richardson at Huntingdon, Pa., but the child's cloth- ing gave way and it ped. The Lucania, on her last trip, broke her own record to New York. Her time was 5 days 7 hours and 23 min- utes. Lord Rosebery says Great Britain was never more united and determined than mow in questions of foreign policy. One candidate for the Kentucky ; Legislature has already been instru | for Col. Breckinridge for United States | Senator. | ois and Maine tly gained in the price of pation Mount Vernon citizens greeted Otto | i Kempner enthusiastically when he talked of the advantages of the Great- | er New York. With a registration of 347,000, 37,000 of which is represented by women, cago is claiming as large a population as New York. Articles of incorporation of the Con- timental Match Company, in which win Gould is interested, have been filed at Trenton, N. J. ‘Chauncey M. Depew presided at the | meeting of the Saly yn Army in Ca megie Music Hall, New York, and mill- ionaires occupied boxes. Ochoa, the Mexican _revolutionist, | was taken from jail at Fort Stockton, | Texas, and it is believed he was run over into Mexico to be shot. i President Seth Low, of Columbia Col- | lege, publicly apolog to Dr. Park- hurst for having criticised his reform methods two years and a half ago. While driving across the Erie 1 way tracks near Jamestown, N. Alonzo Eddy, his wife and two chil- dren were run down by a train and killed. Michael Angelo Borgione, of New | York, slashed in a dark hallway. four pistol shots at a girl and over the roof-tops, but was finally | caught. In a street fight in York, Ala., Chief of Police J. W. Thompson was killed | and E. F. Allison was mortally wound- ed by the discharge of a pistol in the } hands of S. A. Cameron. | It is reported that the New | Grand Jury has consi of Capt. Schmitthe nd ex-Capts. Cross, Devery and Stephenson and will indict all four for blackmail. | A prisoner in the Rockland County | temporary jail escaped, but was dan- gerously -wounded and brought back. Meanwhile the twenty-one other pr: oners were held in check at the point of the pistol. | Seth Low, Charle: ry George and Dr. Pa ed a demonstrative me of wo: at Cooper Union, New ork, urging them to work hard in politics, and they said they would | Judge Dallas, in denying a motion for a further hearing on the Olcott- Earle plan for reorganizing the Phil delphia and Reading Railroad Com-' pany, said that the receivership of the Property had lasted too long, and gave notice that it must soon be dissolved. Attorneys of Gen. B. H. Hastin: Pennsylvania, have begun suit against Francis J. O'Connor for libel in hav- ing charged that the plaintiff had e: riched himself by the use of his official ga at the time of the Johnstown ood. child, Hen- rst address- ‘or several months the statistician of the United States Department of Ag: culture has been conducting an iny gation regarding the acreage and pro- duct of cotton for the year 1893. His estimates are as follows: Acres plank in 1893, 19,525,000; number of bales harvested, 7,493,000. The Pittsburg conference of the Hvangelical Church, representing about 100 congregations, voted to sever its connection with other Evangelical con- ferences and to form the New Evan- gelical Church, thus, under a recent judicial decision, abandoning church property in various States valued at $30,000,000. According to the estimates prepared at the Interior Department, $155,805,- 278.83 will be necessary to carry on the work of that department, includ- ing payments for pensions, during the next fiscal year. The appropriation for this fiscal year was $169,559,950.03, and the saving for the next year is esti- mated at $13,754,671.20. Henry A. Rosenburg, aged thirty-two years, gave himself up to the Omaha police. He says that over a year ago, ‘while emp‘oyed by C. Bade, wholesale grocer of New York city, in the capa- city of a collector, he embezzled over $2,500. He went to Australia end has just returned, broke, Supt. Byines, ef Nem Xork. has beew@potified. ..... 1a Ghouls robbed graves in the ancient cemetery at Wethersfield, Conn. The Federal courts will be asked to investi, te the Cotton Seed Oil Trust. Chicago’s registration is about 326,- 000, 20,000 being represented by wo- men. The eldest da as been m Jdwin, of John D. Crim- d to Albert Gould wown man tried to assassinate the White Mahatma, th Pacific elevator system old to Emerson Peet, of St 30,000. r says Germany's em- the Eastern and Western was held in Rome. or John J. Ingalls’s eldest has been married to Dr. Ed- es Blair, of Kansas City. > headquarters at Grafton, sian Wilson's district, were and documents and letters were It is announced authoritatively that cares. ban t by made to it. ickles and Jacob Cantor will Congressional nomina- dge received an ovation at ng, and the talk of mak- ator from Kentucky is in- Roddy, a New York broker, posed to the cotton planters the on of a trust to raise the prices ic meeting in favor of 2w York was held in the manic Chamber in the New York , @ business mam, shot h the head at Fordham sumably as a result of show distrust of the demanding immediate Yment of recent loans which they The main building of the brewery Chu the hes summo! two insane on AM New en pos: s destroyed ared. ned Third York, on. by Wacker & Bro., Lan- fire. ded at a council of » Western and Eastern to try to bring ‘anches together. of Hoboken, interested ny crusade, was avenue, 1 taken to Bellevue Hospital. tern drowned himself in after the of the New Co., of which he was jtuation ton Gladden inves- at Colum- at more men are em- rear; that the nuim- pid increasing and will buy as much GENERAL MARKET REPORT. Latest Quotations From the Trade Centres. w fim nis. Inferior g) ons would be 10 for ] Quiet Tho. LHe. ; round coffee. Pre a, 4.08 Jamaicas. stem cut. MOLAS: —Firm. @ ic. WOOL—The fleece including barrels. POTATOES — $L33Q$L75 per bbl. $1.50 to81.75: — 031. elpts, 2825 bbls. patent $3.05 G per bbl. clear. $! ti U0; Dork; dellies, 300 Ib. m (BC), Java, 30@33e.; - 44d: 8 @ 42c.: choice, 36 : a 20 te: Se syrup, fan ips, 2 ney. 3 @ Aicns choise, BIO fi RICH Steady. Ca E—St - Caroli; head, 6@ We: 5 choice, 3 inter Sz. winter othy, prime. 70c. w No wed 60c, ad m1 ree. We Siate crop of 1894, 13 @ not wanted and quo- Leading +50 to $18.50; rye -iNo.1 hay 0c. No.2 35c. Id at 61 cents. NEW YORK.—Latest quotations are as fol- Sales. 2600 bbls Extia No. rowed state, 75 @ ‘dc. Western farket quiet and firm with usual juote ex- D—Timothy seed, $2.0 @ $2.75; Clover, ‘ge and sinall. P. $2.35; 2c. y, do good to choice. zl @ ,, Prints, extra Choice State fac. full cream. fine do., 1d. part skim. do, choice § 1-2 Michigan, 5 @ $7.00 per Boneless_: $16.50 00 short f bbl.; “ac ne pushel of 3), S11 4 to $6.00 New Orleans. is_ selling unwashed, ~ ene vet at R tb, do lig backs, + smoked 2 cts: compound 68-4. Mess rador trout. $12.50 white, extra, 4.31 @4l8 5 C. 3819 3.94. — Fi ‘tae 0 i ori tS) $2.75 to $4.00 por 00. ee box; 1. » 380; good. Porto ioe, i 7 sugar, air to geod’ 12¢ ackerel, bay large No. 2 16.00; large N 7,00; shore No. 1 $ bloaters, 35.75 per 100 rges oneless codfish vox herring, 16to lge No. 2, do., d(C) $1.15; nibs, 19@ 2c. lish Breakfast, 0@ Young Hyson, 17 @60c. Mocha. 0@ 16@30c.: chickory, d loaf 6c : cut loaf 5.31¢.; fancy a and Louisiana fan 3 @ te ; fair to good, 4 Wool i H FF 3 washed pee market is quet; unwashed, hc. 3 i a qe medium and PETROLEUM —New York State ‘legal 6ic.; water white, 150 test, 6.34c. per H@ coarse, @ ide. test, gallon. Sweets, Sy bscribe| "had THE BEE. ——- oe vertise -—— VON OAPRIV! RESIGNS. A Great Stir in Germany Over This Ac- tion—Enlenberg Also Resigns. Berlin, Oct. 29.—A great stir was caused in well-informed quarters here Friday afternoon by the receipt of @ telegram from Cologne which stated that Chancellor von Caprivi and Count Botho Zu Eulenberg, President of the Prussian Council of Ministers, had re- signed. There has been considerable tension between the Chancellor and Count Zu Eulenberg owing to the for- mer’s views im regard to the measures to be submitted to the Reichstag for the repression of Socialists. The Chan- cellor is in favor of pursuing a mod- erate policy, while Count Zu Eulenberg believes in the adoption of radical measures. It is officially announced that the resignation of Count Botho Zu Eulen- berg has been accepted. Potsdam, Oct. 29—Prince Von Ho- henlohe Shillingsfurst, Governor of Al- sace-Lorraine, is understood to have been offered the Chancellorship resign- ed by Von Caprivi. Accompanied by Herr Von Koeller, Under Secretary of the Interior of the Province of Alsace- Lorraine, he arrived at Wilfpark sta- tion this morning from St. Rasburg. Emperor William met them at the sta- tion and drove with Von Hohenlohe im an open carriage to the new palace. Von Hohenlohe was accompamied by Lieut.-Col. Von Moltke, the Emperor's Aide-de-Camp. ‘A conference was held at the palace on the ministerial crisis. Other Ministerial Crisis. Belgrade, Oct. 29.—The Nicolaievich Ministry has resigned, and the resig- nations have bean accepted. Madrid, Oct. 29.—A Ministerial crisis «S impending. The Blythe Estate. San Francisco, Oct. 29.—Several mill- 1on dollars’ worth of real estate was formally distributed in the Probate Court Friday afternoon. The prop- erty is that belonging to the Blythe estate, for which numerous claimants have been fighting. Judge Coffey sign- ed an order distributing all the real estate to Florence Blythe Hinckley. AS soon as the decree was signed the attorney representing Alice Edith Blythe gave notice of intention to file a bill of exceptions and the other side gave notice of an appeal. Accused Her Husband of Murder. Kansas City, Oct. 29.—While testi- fying in court here against his wife, in a divorce suit in which she sought separation, William Lacey, of Iola, Kan., wa arrested, charged with the murder of William Cummings at Iola last August. According to Mrs. Lac- ey’s story, her husband had twice threatened to kitl her. Lacey was on the stand testifying against Mrs. Lacey when she suddenly sprang to her feet and declared him to be the murderer of Cummings. Is He a Crank? New York, Oct. 29.—Goerdler, the man who was so anxious to see Presi- dent Cleveland on Thursday at Dr. Bryant’s house, visited the Republican ‘State Headquarters Friday. He saw Mr. Hackett, and said he wanted « commission authorizing him to change the German vote of the United States from the Democratic to the Republican narty. Mr. Hackett told him he would give the subject consideration, and Goerdley peaceably left. Another Whiskey Trust. New York, Oct. 29. — Papers have been filed at Trenton, N. J., in the Secretary of State’s office, which in- dicate the formation of a new whiskey trust. The papers comprise the arti- cles of incorporation of a concern to be known as the Great White Spirit Company, with a paid-up capital of $5,000,000, the total authorized capital being limited by the charter to $50,- 000,000. Suicidea During the Briae’s Absence. Syracuse, Oct. 29.—Christopher W. Smith, a young Englishman in the caustic department of the Solvay Process Company, committed suicide by taking poison. Smith, who had been suffering from typhoid fever, was evidently deranged. He sent his wife, a bride of eight months, to visit her mother, and killed himself during her absence. Expert Forger Caught. Denver, Col., Oct. 29.—Albert Town- send, an expert forger and a pal of James Conway, the check-ralser, now under arrest, was thrown into jail by county detectives. Townsend, who is wanted at Syracuse, N. Y., has oper- ated extensively in Colorado and has long evaded the officers. Three months ago he was married at Greeley to a well-to-do widow. Shot His Son By Acoident. Columbus, 0., Oct. 29. — Patrick Dougherty, aged six years, was shot and instamtly killed Friday night, re- ceiving in his breast the full discharge of a double-barrelled shotgun which his father, John Dougherty, had se cured to defend himself from George Carley, a neighbor with whom he was quarrelling. Both men are under ar- rest. To Save Him From Lynching. Lexington, Ky., Oct. 29. — Charles | Moran, a young white man, was! brought here Friday night from George- | town to prevent his being lynched. He attempted to assault Miss Ella Kim- | brough, a young lady of that place, | while going home with her in a buggy. | Entombed Miners Rescued. i Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 2®.—The | work of rescuing the imprisoned min-; ers in the Pewabic mine was accom-! plished Friday morning, and they were | hoisted to the surface as sound as a! dollar. There was great rejoicing. | Confessed to a Bg Sbertage. i Hartford, Conn., Oct. 29.—J. Allen Francis, teller of the City Bank and one of the most respected citizens of the city, was arrested Friday evening, charged with embezzlement. He has. confessed taking $23,859.83. { The Wife Wants Damages. Oreston, Ia., Oct. 2’ Mrs. Edward De Haven has brought suit agaimst six saloon-keepers for $3,000 each for sell- img liquor te wer husband, he being dabitual drmkard, = MRS. HALLIDAY REFORMS. She is 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- lum 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 hospl- 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 scrubwoman 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 Arl- 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 in 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 tied to trees on the campus. A party of their classmates attempted to res- cue them by engaging their 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 of playmates. 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. $t. 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 Miftion Dollars Coinea- 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 $5,910,083. The gold coinage was 668,005 pieces of the value of $5,033,692; silver coinage, 1,380,800 pieces, of the value of $76,370, and aa 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,- 000,000. The Czar May Recover. London, Oct. 2—A dispatch from ! 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. ee A Faith Curist Arrested. Trenton, N. J., Oct. 2. — Bessie T. Geary = es curist, is held for trial under i@ new act. Her Sadie Bell, of Palmyra, died ber st sumption, for which Mrs. Glenn was treating her. The case will contest constitutionality of act. tal INTO THE OCEAN. THROWN Has a Hara Time at Jit and Helpless. nen who the Na- reached tional line steamer Gre don, brought news that another vessel of the same countered a terrific storm duri last run from this port to Londe Europe sailed from New York ver 2 with a miscellane eargo, in iddition to which she tle and 599 sheep. She ran into a ter- vifie northwesterly gale on the af noon of September 8, and before ni her rudder chain parted. She fe! and rolled heavily, shipping seas tinually. The ship labored iy, and between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning the pens on the port si ‘a way, and the cattle which had b tled there were thrown out upon the slippery deck, and slid hither and thither as the ship rolled, mak‘ng ter- rifie endeavors to regain their feet un- til they were too weak to move and lay down to die. .The crew was sm: and even though the wind abated, was not until 4 o’clock in the after- noon that the steering gear was re- paired and the steamer got under way Then the sailors threw overboard 253 cattle and 187 sheep that had been injured or killed. the IMPORTANT DEPARTURE. Substirute Letter Carriers Must be Nomin- ated From the Eligible List. Washington, Oct. 15—An imports departure in post-office appointme has been made. Acting Postms General Jones has issued instruc to al! postmasters at free delivery of- fices directing that hereafter sub: tute letter carriers must be nom! from the eligible list. Vacancies ‘n the carrier force must be filled, where practicable, by the promotion of the senior substitutes. All removals and new employments of clerks and car- riers must be reported to the First sistant Postmaster-General as soon as made. No carrier is to be removdl except for cause, and upon written charges filed with the Post-Office De- partment and ful! opportunity for de- fense. No resignation asked for by 2 postmaster will be accepted by the de- partment. Postmasters must submit to the department all questions relat- ing to appointment. emoval and rein- statement of letter carriers, for settle- ment by correspondence between the department and the Civil Service Com- mission. WANTS $10,000 FOR HIS WIFE. Gold Elopea With Mrs. Finberg and Gold Has Been Arrested. , and pretty Yeste as in a cell in the Ludlow ‘nult of $2,500 bail. H an order obtaine wrence by Israel ‘anal street, the husb: suit begun by Finber: against Gold to recover $10,000 dan ages for the alienation of his wife affection. Finberg says that he was married four years ago. A a he took Gold into his hous er. Until two weeks ago Finberg hac no reason to doubt either the fideity of his wife or of his friend. On the Rocks in Mountainous Seas. Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. special from Oswego say: About 5 P. M. Thursday a vessel, supposed to be the Hartford, went on the rocks ne Woodville, thirty-five miles east of here. When she struck the wind had in- creased in violence and the seas w: running mountains high. € O’Toole, of Clayton, the owner, six men were on board. The big se: commenced to break the vessel up, and it is reported the captain and ent crew were drowned. The Hartford was freighted with corn to Cape Vin- cent 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 that he and his wife had quarrelled twenty years ago and that not a word bh passed between them since, although they live under the same roof. Miss Hayward, Librarian, Killed. Boston, Oct. 15. — Miss Almira L. Hayward, fifty-three years of age, for many years librarian of the Cambr Public Library and one of the be known women in Cambridge, was in- stantly killed in the library build'ng by failing through a ventilator and striking on her head. Miss Hayward, before her appointment to the library service, was a public school teacher. Refuse Allegiance. London, Oct. 15—A dispatch from Berlin to the Times says that Herr Fernand Bueb, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, and Herr Doppter, other Socialist, both of whom w elected members of the Strasburg P vincial Council, refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor on the ground that it was incompatible with their republican convictions. | Lourenco Marquez Besieged by Natives. | Lisbon, Oct. 15. — A d’spateh from ! Lourenco Marquez, on Delagoa Bay, | says the Portuguese there are hemmed :in by 30,000 Kaffirs. The town is ‘ strongly barricaded. The natives loot- j ed the suburbs of the town Wedues- ; day, burned many houses and killed | seventeen people. A “Fighting Slimbach” Killed. New York, Oct. 15.—Otto Slimbach, _@ Williamsburg peddler, twenty-eight years old, was stabbed in the left side by an unknown man Thursday at Leonard and Boerum streets and died five hours later in St. Catherine’s Hos- . Pital. ‘The President’s Probable Return. | Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., Oct. 15.—Un- Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., Oct. —Un- less present plans fai! the Pre and family will return to Wash n: this week, probably on Thurs They will sail to New York on Rodgers. — 4

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