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The Talihina News.
It. P. liKVMlV, Editor.
TALIHINA, CHOCTAW NATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895.
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J. A.. HALE,
Attorney at Law,
Bonth McAlestor, Indian Territory
W- F. BLYTHE,
Attom«y-&t Law,
Fort SrxiitH, ,A.rlc.
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pcr~ All work d>ne neatly and
f>romptly. Pension claims a spec-
alty. Fees reasonable.
SET Marriage license obtained
on short notice. tf.
RUBE TUTTLE
Freight, Wood, Water,
"~AND—
All Kinds of Hauling
y unit are vHb our*.
Ok the 8th the Span'-sh cnamber of
deputies adopted a bill granting the
government unlimited credit for the
purpose of conducting the campaign
against the insurgents in Cuba.
On the 10th the Jupanese legation at
Washington received the following dis-
patch confirming the capture of New
Chwang: "Japanese army cuptured
open port of New Chwang March tt.
All foreigners arc safe."
Bankers of the City of Mexico are
becoming apprehensive of the currency
situation in the United Stutes, and sev-
eral important houses refuse to pur-
chase drafts on New York when not
made expressly payable in gold.
The German reichstag, In commit-
tee, on the 8th, rejected the paragraphs
of the anti-revolution bill imposing a
penalty for public attacks upon re-
ligion, the monarchy, the marriage
system and the right to hold property.
Tiikrk arc only 100 Japanese soldiers
and three small war ships at Wei-Hai-
Wei. the main army having pressed
forward after the retreating Chinese,
and were reported, on the 8th, to have
reached a point west of the Liao river.
One hundred employes of the Cleve-
land (O.) Ship Building Co. went out
on strike on the 5th. The company
proposed to pay the old hands 32.37
and new men 82.25 per day. The strike
was for a $2.50 per day rate. The
strikers were employed in the boiler-
making department.
Thk Marquis and Marquise de Cas-
tellane, Count Jean de Castellane, Miss
Lloyd and servants arrived in Niagara
Falls, N. Y., late on the night of the
5th. On the 6th the party went for a
long drive, taking In all the points of
special interest on both the American
and Canadian sides of the river.
IIecause the operatives had Ignored
previous decisions of arbitrators, the
boot-manufacturing employers of En-
gland have refused to consider new
overtures for arbitration, and the na-
tional federation has notified the op-
eratives to stop work on the 10th.
The order affects 200,000 employes.
Tiie statement of the associated banks
of New York city for the week ended
on the 9th, showed the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, $5,205,875;
loans, increase, $5,125,000; specie, de-
crease, 52,308,500; legal tenders, de-
crease, $3,015,100; deposits, decrease,
$470,000; circulation, increase, $30,000.
The national convention of the
American Protective association
opened in Saginaw, Mich., on the 12th,
for a three days' session. The prime
object is the consideration of the prop-
osition for the formation of the inde-
pendent American party, which, it Is
said, will put a presidential ticket in
the field next year.
It was positively affirmed in Toron-
to, Ont., on the 8th, that writs for a
general election in Canada would be
issued within a week and that the
election would be held in about a
month. The liberals are confident of
carrying the country on their trade
policy. They promise to make sweep-
ing tariff reductions.
Mrs. Bali.inoton Bootii, of the sal-
vation Army, was, on the flth, granted
a ministers' license by Probate Judge
Ferris of Cincinnati. The document
gives Mrs. Booth a right to officiate at
weddings, and is one of the four legal
constructions given in favor of the Sal-
vationists in their efforts to be recog-
nized as a religious body.
In an attempt by two farmers to rob
the bank at Adel, la., on the 0th, the
cashier and a customer of the bank
were dangerously shot by one of the
robbers, after which they retreated.
Tney were pursued by a posse of prom-
inent citizcns, and one of the robbers
was killed and the other and four of
the posse were wounded.
There were seven cases of diphthe-
ria reported at the Indiana Institute
for Feebleminded Youth, at Fort
Wayne, on the 7th. The sufferers
had been isolated, and every effort
made to prevent a spread of the fatal
epidemic. It was not known how
many of the 5.10 inmates had been ex-
posed, and there was much alarm
at the institute.
Frederick E. Sickkls, the actual
inventor of the Corliss engine; of the
apparatus for steering steamships by
steam now in universal use, and of
the Sickels' automatic steam cut-off,
which revolutionized the steam en-
gines of the world, and which is now
un essential part of practically every
engine, died suddenly in his office in
Kansas City, Ma, on the 8th.
At the opening of the wool sales in
London, on the 7th, 10,070 bales were
offered. There was a moderate as-
sortment, mostly of merinos. The at-
tendance was very large, and the com-
petition was remarkably good for an
opening sale, being ubout equally
divided between contiuental buyers
and purchases for the home trade.
Merinos were generally 5 per cent,
higher and the better qualities fully a
half penny higher, but the heavy and
wasty wools aud cross breeds were, as
a rule, unchanged.
After the most desperate fighting
yet recorded during the present war in
the orient the Japanese army under
(Jen Nodzu captured New Chwang on
the 5th. After entering the city theii
progress was stubbornly contested
from street to street, and it was only
after thirteen hours' fighting that the
enemy was routed and the city cap-
tured. The Chinese lost 1,880 killed
aud wounded, and great quantities of
rifles, ammunition, bauuers and provi-
sions. The Japanese loss was some-
what above 200 killed and wounded.
News was received, on the 10th, that
China had been informed in general
terms of the conditions upon which
Japan will consent to peace, and that
Japan had been notified that China is
ready to accept these conditions aud to
sign & treaty.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BEIEP.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
PBOUAnLY the country will hear no
more extra session talk this year. All
the appropriation bills were passed and
signed and the president has gone off
on his vacation.
Ik France follows the example of
Germany In excluding American dried
apples, the supply of foreign chain-
pngnes in this country may be con-
siderably disturbed.
Princeton's foot-ball team reports
its expenses last year at over $22,000,
of which &79rt was for drugs and doc-
tors. An item of $2,050 for "training
table" probably refers to the surgical
operations, and several thousand dol-
lars under the head of incidentals
doubtless went to the undertakers.
Gov. SiiEAKLKY of Alaska, who has
been visiting Washington to file his
annual report, says that the big terri-
tory in time will be famous in many
ways, but most of all in its mines.
Even now Alaska is contributing stead-
ily to the world's supply of gold.
It was stated on authority, on the
10th, that the International Pacific Ca-
ble Co., which failed to get a national
charter from congress, will go ahead
with its project of connecting San
Francisco, Honolulu and Yokohama by
cable, acting under a state charter.
The women of Alliance, O., held a
largely-attended meeting, on the 9th,
and nominated an independent ticket
for public school board. There was
great enthusiasm. At a caucus of the
populist party, the same evening, the
women's ticket was indorsed unan-
imously.
Nkws from Havana, on the 6th,
stated that the Guantanamo troops
had (.ttacked and dispersed the insur-
gent band under Berez Brooks at Luzo.
Several of the band were wounded. The
troops captured all their arms, ammu-
nition, etc. The provinces of Puerto
Principe, Matanzas, Pinar, NRio and
Havana were quiet.
South-round steamers arriving at
New Orleans, on the 5th, reported the
burning of the little steamer Laura
Banks in the Tennessee river with the
loss of several lives, the victims all be-
ing negroes, excepting a lad named
Knight, the 12-year-old son of the cap-
tain of the boat, who was in the boiler
room when the fire started and could
not escape.
The city of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
suffered from a $-1,000,000 conflagra-
tion, on the 6th, and but for the as-
sistance rendered by sailors landed
from American and British ships In
the harbor, the whole place would
doubtless have succumbed to the
flames.
Otis R. Johnson, the Wisconsin lum-
berman and capitalist, died in Racine,
on the 0th, aged 80 years, leaving an
estate estimated as high as $10,000,-
000. lie was a partner of the late Sen-
ator Stock bridge, of Michigan; Gen.
Russell A. Alger and ex-Senator Saw-
yer, of Wisconsin. He owned millions
of dollars' worth of property in the
California redwood country.
An imperial edict has been issued
abolishing the knout in the infliction
of punishment in Russia. Hitherto
the peasantry have been completely at
the mercy of the local judges. The Is-
suance of this edict is due to the fact
that statistics were submitted to the
czar, which showed that within the
last ten years 3,000 persons convicted
of petty thefts have died from the ef-
fects of the knout.
On the 6th the French government
received information by cable from
Zanzibar that the French had seized
the island of Nossivey, lying south-
west of Madagascar.
IIerk Schmiele, the German gov
ernor of New Guinea, committed sui-
cide at Batavia, Jamaica, on the 6th,
by shooting with a revolver. He was
on his way to his home in Germany.
Norval A. Hawkins, ex-cashier of
the Detroit (Mich.) branch of the
Standard Oil Co., was found guilty by
a jury, on the 6th, of having embez-
zled $2,700 of the company's funds.
The defendant admitted taking the
money, but claimed that he had in-
vested $3,000 in the hope of increasing
his earning capacity and squaring his
accounts. It was claimed that he was
not a criminal, but a failing debtor.
On the 7th Public Printer Benedict
dismissed 100 employes of the govern-
ment printing otUce, the majority of
them being compositors. The remov-
als were caused by the adjournment
of congress, which made a scarcity of
work. Other dismissals will follow as
the work of the bureau decreases.
George L. Siioup was re-elected
United States senator from Idaho, on
the 7th, on the first ballot. He re-
ceived the entire Mormon vote. There
was great rejoicing in Boise City after
the election, Senator Shoup being ex-
ceedingly popular in Idaho.
Thk steamer Rosedale sank in the
Wabash river, near New Haven, 111.,
on the 8th. One deck hand was drowned
and 5,000 bushels of corn was lost.
The seventeen pasbengers were res-
cued.
At South LondoA, on the 7th, an un-
employed plasterer uamed Taylor,
having become despondent from long
idleness, murdered his wife and five
children and then killed himself.
Assemhlyman Blake's bill abolish-
ing capital punishment in New York
was lost on final passage, on the 7th,
by a vote of ayes 26, nays 68.
A Ron.Kit at the B. F. Goodrich com-
pany's mill at Akron, O., exploded, on
the 7th, killing John Vanco and se-
verely wounding John Somcrville.
On the 7th the directors of the Amer-
ican Sugar Refining Co. declared a quar-
terly dividend of 3 per cent.
The Cincinnati, Memphis and New
Orleans packet steamer Longfellow, In
tow of the Hercules Carrell, struck a
pier of the Chesapeake «fc Ohio railroad
bridge at Cincinnati, just after start-
ing on her south-bound trip, on the
8th, and went to pieces. Most of her
passengers and crew were huiried
aboard the Carrell and rescued, but
after the disaster twelve persons were
found to be drowned or i  Using.
The boiler In Kenney's sawmill.
cated 6 miles east of Hillsdale, Micti.,
exploded, on the 7th, demolishing the
mill and instantly killing Al Kinney,
the proprietor.
The big cordage works of William
Wall &. Sons, on Bushwick avenue,
Williamsburg, N. Y., have entirely
shut down, all the employes being dis-
charged. The plant during the last
few years has been coutroled by the
Cordage trust. It gave employment to
nearly 1,000 persons.
In the British house of commons, on
the 7th, Mr. Henry Gardner, president
of the board of agriculture, promised
that the government would make in-
quiry into the alleged packing of dis-
eased meat in Chicago for export to
England.
At Louisville, Ky., on the 8th, the
steamer John K. Speed was blown
over the dam at the falls in the Ohio
river and considerably damaged, lisd
she not righted quickly she would
have broken to pieces.
Police Justice Quisle y, of Brook-
lyn, was removed from office, on the
8th, by an order handed down by the
special term of the supremo court of
New York.
It was reported from Paris, on the
8th, that the difficulty between France
and San Domingo had been settled.
The woman suffrage bill was defeat-
ed in the California senate on the 8th.
Burt and William Coleman, broth-
ers, aged, respectively, 22 and 16, were
shot and killed near Newkirk, Okla.,
on the 8th, by Cyrus Cowan, a con-
testee for the claim occupied by the
two brothers. Cowan gave himself up
after the killing.
A cyclone passed over north Geor-
gia, on the night of the 8th, which is
reported to have caused much damage
in many localities.
Health Officer Wrioiit, of New
Haven, Conn., and Dr. J. P. C. Foster,
one of the lecturers in the Yale med-
ieal school, gave orders, on the 10th,
that every student in Yale university
should be vaccinated at once unless he
could furnish proof of having been
vaccinated within two years.
Dr. Frederick Cook, the well-known
explorer, has come forward with a new
plan for accomplishing the conquest of
the antarctic region. With a small
band of scientists he expects to sail
from New York September 1 next and
it may be three years before the expe-
dition returns.
Fire destroyed the shaft house of the
Old Abe mine at White Oaks, N. M., on
the 10th, the flames communicating to
the shafting in the mine which was
also completely destroyed. Eight of
the nine inen at the time in the mine
were believed to have been suffocated.
I'at Sullivan, aged 59, of Fall
River, Mass., went to bed with a silver
half dollar, a quarter and a nickel in
his mouth, all of which lie swallowed
during the night and, on the morning
of the 10th, was found by his wife cold
in death.
A whale about seventy-five feet in
length and evidently an old settler was
killed off Nahant, Mass., on the 9th,
by a picked crew of experienced men
made up in Nahant for the purpose.
The Alice rubber mill at Woon-
socket, II. I., of the United States Rub-
ber trust, and the works at Millville,
Mass., resumed operations on the lltli.
The associated banks of New York
city held $22,788,630 in excess of the
25-per-cent. rule on the 9th.
The Dominion comptroller of cus-
toms has decided that electricity gen-
erated iu the United States for use in
Canada, as proposed at Niagara, is sub-
ject to 20 per cent. duty.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Charles Frederick Worth, the fa-
mous English "man dressmaker" of
Paris, died in that city, on the lith,
aged 70. He was the undisputed king
of fashion, and made dresses for all
the queens of Europe with the single
exception of Queen Victoria, and for
women of fashion the world over. He
was first apprenticed to a printer, but
developed as great distaste for that
business as he did aptitude for those
of draper and dressmaker which he
afterward learned and the latter of
which he pursued so successfully.
ThV. secretary of the interior, on the
11th, decided a case involving about
68,000 acres of land located in the up-
per peninsula of Michigan, near Lake
Superior, and valued at between $10,-
000,000 and $15,000,000, in favor of the
Wakeela, Limited, a corporation, for-
merly the Portage Lake and Lake Su-
perior Ship Canal Co.
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett. M. P.,
 n the 1 ltli, challenged the London
Telegraph to produce the alleged dis-
patches detailing the blood-curdling
stories of atrocities against the Arme-
nians, or to unite with him in a re-
quest to the telegraph company to pre-
serve the dispatches for future exam-
ination.
Jim Murray, a negro, under sen-
tence of death at Clayton, Mo., for the
brutal murder of young Edgar Fitz-
william, has confessed to complicity in
the murder of Banker Benjamin McM.
McColloch at his home in Woodstock,
a suburb of St. Louis, in May, 1893,
and has named his confederates.
Harry T. Hayward, convicted at
Minneapolis, Minn., of complicity in
the murder of Miss Catharine Ging,
was, on the 11th, sentenced by Judge
Smith to be hanged, after the expira-
tion of three months, on a date to be
set by the governor.
Pauline Cony Aurrey, daughter of
Chief-Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court, applied, on the
11th, to the circuit court of Cook coun-
ty, 111., for a divorce from her hus-
band, James Matthew Aubrey, Jr.
A dispatch from St. Johns, N. F.,
en the Uth, said that the Newfound-
land government was holding daily
caucuses for the purpose of consider-
ing a plan of confederation with Can-
ada.
Of the ten miners imprisoned by the
fire in ths Old Abe mine at White Oak,
N. M., five were dead when taken out
.vi the 10th.
The coronation of the czar will take
place in Moscow during the 'atter part
of May,
THE KINO OF FASHION,
Worth, the Noted Parisian Dressmaker,
In Dead tYim Not h t- reiictiman. us Sup.
posed, Hut the Son of un Knp;llnli Solicit-
or, and lleffan 111* It.'tnarkable Career
with the Firm of Bw«n £ Ldgar, Well
Known In London.
Paris, March 12.—Worth, the famous
dressmaker of Paris, is dead.
M. Worth was born at Bourne, in
Lincolnshire. England, in 1825, and the
"King of Fashion" was therefore not,
as is generally supposed, u French-
man, but an Englishman. He was em-
ployed for some time with a well-
known firm in Oxford street, London,
and thence proceeded to Paris.
M. Worth has made dresses for all
the queens of Europe with the single
exception of Queen Victoria, and for
women of fashion the world over. His
father was a solicitor, with a good
private fortune, which he lost in
speculation. At the age of 13 young
Worth went to Swan &. Edgar's, in
London, and remained there for sever-
al years, during which time he did all
the work falling to the lotof an or-
dinary apprentice.
Having heard much of French fash-
ions, he determined togo to Paris, but
on his arrival there was for some time
out of a situation; ultimately, however,
he succeeded in getting into Gagelins,
where he remained twelve years. This
firm was noted for silks, which were
woven by workmen in their own homes.
There was at this time no house In Paris
which sold material and made it up
as well, and this combining of the two
branches struck M. Worth as a good
idea, and he obtained a commission
from his principals to try it. This he
did, beginning with cloaks, and a train
that he designed gained a medal in
1855. The firm refused to take him
into partnership, although he had
been the means of introducing
a profitable and novel feature
into the business, so he determined
to start for himself. This he did at
his present premises, 7 Rue de la Paix,
in 1858. He began by employing fifty
hands, gradually increasing his force
as business warranted.
At the present time his establish-
ment employs about 1,200 persons and
turns out between 5,000 and 6,000
dresses and between 3,000 and 4,000
cloaks a year. M. Worth was
assisted by his sons, M. Gas-
ton Worth, taking sole charge
of the counting house, and M.
Jean Worth the technical part of the
business, in which he bids fair to be-
come a worthy successor to his clover
father.
"Who," asked a visitor recently,"are
your best customers?"
"Well, replied Worth, "we send
model dresses to ull parts of the world,
but I think Americans are the best
clients."
THE CORPORATION WINS.
A Suit Involving Nlity-Elglit Thousand
Acres of Lund Alleged to bo Mineral
Lands.
Washington, March 12.—The secre-
tary of the interior yesterday decided
a case involving about 68,000 acres of
land located in the upper peninsula of
Michigan, near Lake Superior, and
valued at between $10,000,000 aud $15,-
000,000.
A grant of 200,000 acres of land was
made by the government in 1866 to the
state of Michigan for the benefit of the
Portage Lake & Lake Superior Ship
Canal Co., now the Wakeena Limited,
a corporation.
The grant was settled by patenting
to the company the amount called for
in the grant. Certain persons desired
to file Poterfield scrip upon some of
these lands patented to the company
and their applications being refused
because patents were issued to the
same lands, petition was filed, asking
the secretary of the iuterior to re(*>m-
mcncl to the attorney general of
the United States that suits be
brought to set aside the alleged
erroneous certification of about 68,000
acres of these lands. The commissioner
of the general land office recommended
that such suit be brought. The prin-
cipal point in the petition was that the
lands applied for, including the 68,000
acres were of mineral character, and
the act making the grant provided for
nonmineral lands only to be patented
to the company.
The secretary, in disposing of the
matter, did not concur with the com-
missioner of the goneral land office,
holding as the principal point of his
decision, that Oliver H. Browning, a
former secretary of the interior, had
practically decided that the lauds cer-
tified were not, as a fact, mineral
lands, and refused to disturb Secretary
Browning's decision upou a question
in fact.
THREE DAYS OF DOOM,
try.
Ashland, Ky., March 12.—Latest re-
ports from Floyd county, brought by
local traveling salesmen just returned,
are not at all encouraging for the early
suppression of the strange malady that
Is raging in the Mud River country. It
has become so violent that even phy-
sicians of the surrounding towns re-
fuse to visit the victims. The death
roll has exceeded fifty already, and the
decease is on the increase. Instead of
being smallpox, it resembles cholera,
except that it chokes the victim to
death, beginning in the stomach and
rising to the throat. In almost every
case it has been fatal, the victims sel-
dom living more than three days after
being attacked.
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY.
Boston's Contribution Ilclng Dlsturlhuted
Anions the Poor of St. Johns.
St. Johns, N. F., March 12.—The
goods for the relief of the suffering
poor of St. John?, which where brought
here from Boston, were partially dis-
tributed yesterday. The number of
destitute families in SL Johns is in-
creasing daily. A dispatch from a
bmall settlement on the southwest
coast, signed by the parish priest, was
received here yesterday, stating thai
forty families were starviug there and
theic was QQth incr  .o *ive then)
THE BEHRINQ SEA DIFFICULTY.
Another Acute Stage In the Complicated
Sltuatl in Presented.
Ottawa, Ont., March 12.—Another
Acute stage in the Bchring sea dif-
ficultly is engaging the attention of t'ae
British, United States and Canadian
governments. Since the refusal of the
American congress to vote the compen-
sation agreed upon, the Canadian gov-
ernment has been urging the home au-
thorities that the indisposition of the
United States to carry out the under-
standing, justifies the refusal of Great
Britain to assent to the enforcement
of the restrictions upon sealing during
1895. So far no answer has been re-
ceived to these representations.
About this time last year a similar
difiiculty arose when, through the
delay of the great powers interested,
it began to look as though the award
would not be enforced in the approach-
ing season. At that time Senator
Morgan, chairman of the senate com-
mittee on foreign affairs, made a bold
declaration that in his opinion no
damages would ever be paid by the
United States. Though the govern-
ment of the republic is still declaring
its desire that the lump sum of $425.-
000 agreed upon should be paitl over,
the action of congress is a plain in-
tiina on that Senator Morgan's views
hold good with those who hold the
strings of the national purse.
Whether Canada is to be compelled
to live up to her portion of the award
while the United States refuses to be
bound by the part which applies to it,
is the question which is bothering the
diplomats of the nations concerned.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
The Condition of the I'ubllc Treasury Not
Ho Satisfactory a« Was Hoped.
Washington, March 12.—The treas-
ury condition for the first third of
March shows that receipts have aggre-
gated $0,325,000 and the expenditures
$11,354,000, or an excess of expendi-
tures over receipts of $2,029,000. An
element of uncertainty not heretofore
entering into treasury calculations has
not been considered. It is the large
sums of money appropriated by con-
gress in the deficiency appropriation
bill and sundry civil appropriations
bill. Many of these items are made
immediately available and the pay-
ment yesterday of $615,000 on the
"civil and miscellaneous" accounts
shows that some of them have begun
to reach the cashier's desk.
The custom receipts show a contin-
ued and sustained improvement, being
for the fiscal year up to date, $105,877,-
000, or nearly a million more for the
same time last year.
Internal revenue receipts are $5,000,-
000 in excess of this time last year; but
improvement in both sources of re-
ceipts must be shown for the last third
of the fiscal year or government rev-
enues for the entire fiscal year will fall
considerably below the estimates.
THE FALL OF TENCHANTA
Confirmed by Marshal Oyaina—A Line of
Retreat Htrewn with Dead Men.
London, March 12.—A dispatch to
the Central News from Toklo says
that under date of March 11 Marshal
Oyama reported that the first division
of the Japanese army, leaving one
regiment to garrison the captured
town of Ying-Kao, crossed the Liao
river on March 9 and advanced on
Tenchantai, acting in concert with
the first army, which was proceeding
along the left bank of the river. The
third division of the army advanced
along the left bank and crossed the
river above Tenchantai.
The enemy retreated in the direc-
tion of Tsong Taitz, and was actively
pursued. Eventually the Japanese
forces succeeded in surrounding the
Chinese troops. The Chinese sus-
tained severe losses, leaving over 1,000
of their men dead along the line of
their retreat. This number, however,
does not represent their total loss.
The town of Tenchantai was burned
by the enemy.
On February 24 there were 600
wounded Chinese soldiers in the hos-
pital at Yankao, receiving the atten-
tion of the foreign Red Cross society.
KILLED BY A BOY.
John Seaye Murdered Near Nashville,
Tenn.. by Allen Allsbrook.
Nashville, Tenn., March 12.—John
Seaye, an old fisherman, who lived
3 miles from this city, was killed Sun-
day night by Allen Allsbrook, a 19-
year-old boy, who made his es-
cape from the Tennessee indus-
trial school Sunday. Allsbrook sur-
rendered to the police. He says that
while under the influence of liquor he
applied for a night's lodging, which
Seaye refused. He claims that Seaye
attempted to strike him, whereupon he
struck Seaye on the head with an adz.
The sheriff visited Seaye's house and
found the body, with the adz lying
WAYLAID BY ROBBERS.
John Spencer Probably Fatally Shot Near
Apple Creek, O.
Wooster, O.,March 12.-John Spencer,
commissioner of Holmes county, was
waylaid by two colored men near Apple
Creek. He resisted and was shot four
times. It is said he will die. Spencer
had over $200 in his pockets. The men
are the same fellows who robbed men
near Akron, Canton and Wooster. A
big posse is in pursuit, and if the vil-
lains are captured there is little doubt
that they will be lynched.
Challence to the London Telegraph to
.Produce the Armenian Dispatches.
London, March 12.—Sir Ellis Ash-
mead Bartlett, M. P., has renewed his
attack on the sensational stories of
Armenian atrocities published recently
in the Telegraph. In a letter Sir Ellis
challenges the Telegraph to produce
the alleged Armenian telegrams pub-
lished in that paper, or even to
join him in requesting the tele-
graph company to preserve the
original dispatches. Until the Tele-
graph is willing to show them, he says,
he will remain in the belief that they
never existed.
IMPRISONED MINERS,
Fire In the Shaft Hons* of the Sultana Mine
Catcliea Several Men Underground—Two
of Whoniare Suffocated,While the Others
Have a Close Call—Heroism of Foreman
Johnson and Others.
Winnipeg, Man., March 12.—The
shaft house of the Sultana mine, near
Rat Portage, was destroyed by fire
yesterday afternoon. The fire com-
municated to the shaft and the miners
underground were imprisoned for
seven hours before the fire was extin-
guished. Two of them died soon after
being brought to the surface; six
others are in a precarious condition
while the rest of the men are still in
the mine.
The fire caught in the drying room,
and is supposed to have been started
by a pipe in the pocket of a coat hang-
ing on the wall.
Firemau Johnson noticed the fire
and called on the men to assist in put-
ting it out, but all ran away, being
afraid of explosives in the drying
room. Mr. Johnson rushed into the
fiery room, removed two boxes of pow-
der and then directed his attention to
an attempt to save the building.
The fire started at 9 o'clock, and un-
til 11:30 no effort could possibly l e
made to assist the men in the shaft.
As soon as the ruins were sufficiently
cooled it wis found that the timbers
lining the shaft were blazing, and the
water was directed on these timbers,
but in the excitement the greater por-
tion of it fell useless down the shaft.
About this time help arrived from
Rat Portage, and shortly after 2
o'clock the fire was extinguished in
the shaft and Messrs. Motley Bell, as-
sayer at the mine, and Foreman John-
son rigged a hoist, descended the
shaft and found six men on the first
level. They were apparently suffo-
cated. They descended to the lower
level and found three more, but these
men were in better shape than the
others and efforts were begun to raise
the others.
The first three brought up were suf-
fering badly, but were resuscitated
after a short time under I)r. Mac Don-
ald's attendance. The fourth man,
however, John Tagler, was very low
when he arrived at the sur-
face and died shortly after. He
was a Frenchman and had been
working since last fall. The others
were in a critical condition
when brought to the surface, but all
recovered excepting Rudolph Erick-
son. William Ryan, upon examina-
tion, was found badly burned on the
back in three places by burning sparks
falling on hitn.
It seems the air shaft ignited and
caused a suction of air from the bot-
tom of the shaft, depriving the men of
fresh air, and also causing the smoke
to descend the shaft.
When found, all the men were un-
conscious and leaning against the side
of the shaft. Mr. Caldwell and as-
sistants did everything possible to re-
lieve their sufferings.
The building was completely con-
sumed, but the loss is covered by in-
surance. The fire does not affect the
the mill proper, and work coutinues
during the erection of a new shaft
house.
HANGED BY THE NECK.
Sentence of Death Pronounced Upon liar*
ry Hayward, by Judge Nmlth at Minne-
apolis, for Procuring the Murder of MIsh
Catherine <ilng—To be Hanged by the
Neck, Three Month* Hence, Until Dead.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 12.—
Harry T. Hayward, convicted of the
murder of Catherine Ging, has three
months to live. Sentence was passed
on him by Judge Smith yesterday
morning, after a motion for an arrest
of sentence by Mr. Erwin had been
denied.
Harry came into the court in the
leisurely, calm manner that has char-
acterized his demeanor all through the
trial, and surveyed the crowd coldly
while the handcuffs were being re-
moved. Judge Smith agreed to exam-
ine the grounds urged for a new trial
on March 28, and then passed sentence.
He said he had no doubt whatever
that the vcrdict was a just and right-
eous one, and while he did not believe
in capital punishment, it was his pain-
ful duty to pass sentence in accordance
with the law. "The sentence of this
court," he continued, "is that you bf
taken to the Hennepin county jail and
there confined until, after a period ol
three months, a time fixed by the gov-
ernor of this state, you be taken to the
place of execution and hanged by the
neck until you are dead."
Harry listened calmly and sat down
without the slightest show of feeling.
AFFAIRS IN COLOMBIA.
Inexorable Punishment to be Dealt to
Disturbers of the Peace.
Panama, March 12.—The Star and
Herald says Gov. Arango Sunday is-
uued a proclamation stating that se-
vere measures would be adopted by
the authorities to prevent further
bloodshed in the department of Pana-
ma. The proclamation also says the
governor has in his possession plans of
the enemies of the republic, and that
inexorable punishment will be dealt
out to such persons as may hereafter
attempt to create disturbances.
Advices from Bogota say orders have
been issued by the government rais-
ing the rank of Lieut. Lopez, who is
said to have killed the outlaw, Garza,
at Bocaa Del Toro, and who was him-
self killed by the rebels, to that of
lieutenant-colonel, and that his fu-
neral be conducted with the military
honors due that rank.
MONEY AND TROOPS
for the Suppression of the Insurrection
In Cob.*.
Madrid, March 12.—A credit of
£1,000,000 to be used in suppressing the
Cuban insurrectiou has been cabled to
Capt.-Gen. Calleja, in Havana.
The preparations to ship more troops
to Cuba are pressed forward with great
rapidity. In addition to the three
transports which have already sailed
half u dozen or more troop ships have
beeu made ready to leave Cadiz and
Saubinder as soon as the iii'uutrjr
shall be got aboard