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i „ ■; Cmmin llebieto. A F A M IL Y > EW S V A VRR O F LO C A L A S H U R X r R A L IN T E L L IG E N C K . FREEPORT. N. Y ,. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. v fiiln I -------------------------------- , - Special Depodte. _______ i l e w d oo Englsnd end the l T e w f h f c w i Solicited. ----- wrt D»r^-Tee«leyi end Frl. , * * r . ---------------------------^ , THEFREEPORTBANK . CAPITAL, $30,000. ^ M i Street, - Freeport, L I. MMOrf.-WUlDAUi. Fr■Hint, t, CBAOWOET.T. SPBAOVE. Vln»Pmie*t. K& -.i — WILLIAM e. HALL, CMhle. OF DIRECTORS. e r j s e s r 1 • Greater New York • ^ I D e n ta .1 F e u r lo r a , ueecMCRU a ikioso * e . COE. roi/TOM AM) GOLD STS., W fr V Brooklyn, N . Y . E' . . „ -------------- w 5 e : c roiflo* AMD OOLD BTHire, Off. Leeeer’e, ' Erooklyn, N . Y. ' . W L E U * r . TWEOWELL, / OOUMISLOBAT-LAW, f. t t t Mmmm M i m a n reek ly e , * . Y. Vhe s e w e MeM. Fwport, L. I.. Irolng, E . I __ ,__i ____ eed ■etwdeyfc ntA N C IS B. TAYLOR, LAWT1B. J eoewee B A IR AHO FULTON STA. E . V, BA L D W IN , I, -eWBANJO SOLOIST.^ ^ _______ 1 C m m m t —e*— «w » a t l o w * . u a , W F ITIAO or U U FW T. i c A a o e . JAMES >XLMER, REAL ESTATE AGENT, RATCWOOUE, L I. • ■nvwiiee ^ BBS MSB, — BB4. E. A. DOR LON, eo R o e o A u eneREE*. eee m i a w weea. eeweewr., eeae eeweea. FREEFONT, p S . r - E .S . RANDALL. AaaAReae. •ear. OanEIrm ete.. w i Meta a., f CHARLES L SEAMAN, Carpenter *»» Builder, OREEFORT. v l. \* •k a * r w iy El w e . ■ OanQeoU u L e e . m # l 1 6ILS0I 11T10R CASPSNTER5 AND BUILDeRS. . FRBBKIAT, U L — '■■■■Ur m , 1 m ta. review ■H U R R O we Me yweMea i . u * . • ■ ■ • I l l Ww IrM «I mb eerti. r - e«N“ 4 /Stiab • lem l Cutndon, !• eoWard A e e w e , SOOKLVII N . Y. L^fSCTh A b r a h a m L i n c o l n . < 1 H O O —F e l > r x i a r y 11^—IH O fF.) When o’er the land, from e trand to strand, the drum beat near and far, When from the shop, the field, the crop, men crowded to the war. When In the South, from the cannon's mouth, shell rained on Sumter’s w Tho summons then tor loyal men went forth—the battle call — Red w a r’s alarm s—to arms, to arms, our land and flag to save— By one proud stroke to break the yoke—to manumit the slave. Then s talw art men from rale and glen to arms came promptly forth, And faithful sons with swords and guns thronged proudly from the Nortl The glowing West, her b ravest, best, heard the wild war trum p sound, And formed in line, with hope illvlne, to fight on freedom's ground; Proud, patriot men from the land of Penn, from valley, hill and crag, For equal laws, for freedom's cause all circled round the flag. To freedom true, the Jersey blue, th e Knickerbocker brave, And many a band from Maryland, came forth our land to save, From Maine’s green pines, Missouri’s mines, and from the land of Clay Kentucky sent, on victory bent, her sons to join the fray— The brave and free from Tennessee, and all the sunny South Sent men to fall a t their c o u n try’s call, ut the grim cannon’s mouth. For freedom’s land, with heart and hand. New England’s faithful host Like Spartans came to breast the fame or fall at duty’s post. From mine and mill, from knoll and hill, came forth the m o untaineer. From the prairie sod, with shoulders broad, the gallant voluntee; The ciAoipfire’s blase shone through the haze by rivulet and rill. And freedom’s lamp shone o’er the camp where squadrons thronged to drill. And who the wan, ungainly man, who marshaled all the free, Like marble stood while war and blood oppressed by land and sea; His one firm word, the people stirred; “ Union!’’ for evermore; One land, one sky, to live o r die, one flag from shore to shore, No arms, no fates can part the States, no cause the Union sever— Preserve this soil for men who toll forever and forever! This soul th a t God picked from the sod to stand in freedom’s van, \h e land to save, to free the Slav* and light for tram p led mnn; To check the pride—to stay the tide of fell despotic power, vie held the rein—he broke the chain—In freedom’s trial hour, • be Spartan horde th a t drew the sword to him gave up the brand, And Lincoln died I d freedom’s pride tho savior of o ur laud! —Charles J. Beattie. OF IBB GREAT EMANCIPATOR. The following ertiole, giving eome meodoiei of the early life of Abraham Linnoln, ia taken from Snoceee: “ I meant to take good care of your book, Mr. Crawford, I did, indeed,\ •aid the boy, in great trepidation; •‘bnt I ’ve damaged it a good deal with- »nt intending to, and now I want to make it right with yon if I can. What •hall I do to make good the damage?\ ‘‘Why, whafa happened to it, Abe?\ teked the rich farmer, a« he took the copy of Weeme'e “Life of Waebing- ton,\ which be had lent young Lin- aoln, and looked «t the atained leaves ind warped binding. “ I t looke aa if it had been ont all through last n ight’s itorm. How came you to forget, and leave it out to aoak?\ “ ’Twes this way, Mr. tioo of the Capitol at Washington, March 4, 1800, were written by a man whose school days, all told, ‘did not amonnt to one year,’ and who was ‘never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside a college or academy building, till after be bad be come a practicing lawyer, in his twen ty-eighth year.\ Mr. Weik says that Lincoln found \pieueo to speak\ in “The Kentucky Preceptor,” containing a number of useful lessons in reading, compiled for the use of schools by a teacher. “ We are indebted to bis stepmother for the information that his mathe matical instruction came from Pike’s arithmetic; but bo was unable to buy tbe book, and was therefore obliged to borrow the copy which belonged to a neighbor—presumably Josiah Craw- “In order to possess the essential parts of the book, he resolved to copy them. Having procured certain sheets pap and fourteen long, he sewed them to other at one edge with atrini of unrnled paper, nine inches wide ng, Ige with string, n like a book. they would open with a quill peu, he pat Crawford,\ the essential parts of tbe so that Then, ally copied atire arith- YOUNG ABE LINCOLN IN TRAINING FOR THE PRESIDENCY. \Oh! I'll study and get ready, and then maybe the chance will come.\ replied Abe, ehifting uneasily to the ither foot; “ I eet up late to read it; and,when I went to bed, I put it ewey aarefnlly in my bookoese, ee 1 call it, t little opening between two logs iu the well of onr cabin. I dreamed •bout General Washington ell night. When I woke up I took it out to reed i page or two before I did the chores, ted yon can’t imagine how I felt when I ton e d It In this shape. It eeeme that the mnd-dnnbing hed got ont of the weather aide of that crack, aud the rein meet have dripped on it three or four honre before I took it ont. I ’m reel sorry, Mr: Crawford, end want to 6 i it np with you iomehow, if you can tell m e nay way, for I ain’t got the money to pay for it with.\ “ Well,\ laid Mr. Crewford, \being is it's you, Abe, I won’t be herd ou re*. Come over end ehuok corn three aaye, and the book's yours.\ Had Mr. Crawford told young Abra ham Lincoln that he hed fallen heir to e fortune, the boy could hardly have felt more elated. Shuck corn only metio. Along the edges aud in the unused corners of many pages are “Not only were books any pai found snatebesof schoolboy doggerel.\ ion, but paper and b not< always to be had, o« off writingriting wasas notot out of hie reach, but snppliee were n that the praetioe o w w n at all timee an easy matter. Oftentimes when at work plowing in the fields, tbe boys would—when the old, flea- bitten grey mere stopped to rest at the end of a long fnrrow—draw from his pocket a piece of smoothly planed wood and cover the impromptu slate with words and figures, written with tho pencil he had made of soapstone or clay. His stepmother tells ns he would cover the smooth side of every log and board about the cabin with his rode essays and arithmetical calcula tions. The door was a study in hier oglyphics.\ ‘As I was once riding to mill with iar, •it- .ld- readiug so intently that he did not IK 1 father,\ said Captain John Lama fashioned atake-snd-rider worm fen m y laU ier,” said C a p tain Jo h n L a m a r, “I sew, aa we d rove along, a boy sit tin g on th e to p m o s t ra >ng, a it of notice onr approach, turned to me and said: Mv father ‘John, look th a t boy y o n d e r , an d m a rk m a k e a sm a r t m an of himself. i boy 3 he will rn e a a x T c c r i m iox o r L in c o l n ' s b ir t h - r L A C l , NEAR HOUO K N S V ILLE, K E N - three deye, end earn the Iwok that told all ebout his gieatest hero! \ I don't intend to delve, g ru b , ehueh corn, split rails and th e like al ways,\ he told Mrs. Crewford, after he had read the volume “ I 'm going to lit myself for a profession.\ “ Why, whet do you now?\ asked Mrs. Crawford, in sur- prise. “ Ob, I'll be President,\ said Abe, • with a saule. “You'd make e pretty President, ; with ell #oar tricks and jokes, now, ! wouldn’t yon?\ said Ibe farmer's wife. \Ob. I'll study and get ready,\ re plied the boy, \and then maybe tbe chance will come.\ •‘Perhaps people a hundred years hence.\ w r ites Jesse W. Weik. one of Lincoln's leteel biographers, ''w ill hesitate to believe that the speech at Gettysburg baU leflsld and th e inaug- ju v l eddrew delivered from the por- I m ay not see it, but you'll see if my words don't come true.' That boy was A b raham Lincoln.\ “ I only went to school by litt'.es,\ Lincoln said iu after life; “in all it did not amount to more than a year, and the time was too short to give int much of a start under such instruc tion as we got then. No qualifleation was e»er required of a teacher beyond reedin', writin' and cypherin’ to the rule of three.’ If a straggler sup- ned to uudersiand Latin happened poaeil to u m lersiam l L a tin nappe to sojourn in tb e n e ig h b o rh o o d , be n as a w iza mother, I learned to read, and and th e en c o u rag e m e n t on want to be i mai SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT? FOR FEBRUARY 12. Lesson Text: “C h rist’* Divine A u thority,” Jo h n v., 17-27—»Gol<len Text: Jo h n lv.. 42—Commentary on the Day’* Lew nor by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. “ But Jesus answered them, My Fath- irketh hitherto and I work.” Be cause He had healed the Impotent man at Bethosda on the Kabbath day they cuted Him and sought to kill Him. Weston pays that their Sabbath day and soug h t to iton pays th a t the ir Sabbath da them their national banner, and 0 was not well for anyone who would dare break their laws concerning it. God's Sabbath's and leasts which He Instituted had be come the Jew s’ Sabbaths and feasts, and Instead of observing His laws concerning them they bad multiplied traditions of their own. thus making the commandment of God of none effect by their tradition (Math, xv., 3, 6). 18. “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because Ho not only had broken th e Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, m aking Himself equal with God.” On another occasion they were g oing to stone Him because, ns they s&ld, He, being n man, made Himself God (John x., 33). What spectacle Is this, the Creator hated by the creature, sticklers for tho Sabbath day seeking to kill the Lord of the Sabbath! Yet such Is religion that It not of God. 19. “ Then answered Jesus and said untc them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Hon can do nothing of Himself b ut wbat Hf seeth the Father do, for what things soevei Ho doeth these also doeth the Hon like wise.” Their unbelief and opposition did not and could not alter the facts in th< case, so without argument Ho quietly went on with His teaching. When one Is right, the onlv thing to do Is to keep right on saying and doing right, sure that they who war against us shall bo as nothing and us a thing of n aught (Isa. xli., 12). 20. “ F or tho Father lovoth the Hon and showeth Him all things that Himself doeth, and He will show Him greater works thac these that ye may m arvel.” In c h a p ter 111. 35, “ Tho F a ther loveth the Hon and hath given all things into His hands.'' In chan- tflfx., 30, “ I ant! My F ather are one.” In chapter xlv., 9. 10, “ He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; I am in the Father and the Father In Me.” In chapter xv., 9, wc read, “ As the F a ther h ath loved Me so have I loved you,” and in xvll., 23. that the Father loves us as He loves the Hon. We wonder at the m anifestation of God In Christ, but what shall we say when we read that It Is His pleasure that Christ should be manifest In us? (Gal. 11., 20; II Cor. iv., 21. “ F or ns the Father ralseth up tho dead and qslekeneth them, even so the Hon qulokeneth whom Ho will.” In the following verses this Is explained as refer ring not only to those who are dead In sin, living In ' 11., 1; I T whoso bodi< unto themselves (Epli. 6), but also to those dies are dead in the grave. In verses 28, 29, we read that all that are lu the graves shall hear His voice and shall come forth either unto life or dam n ation. 22. \For the Father judgeth no man, bill hath committed all judgm ent unto the Hon.” Ho hatli appointed a day In the which Ho will judge the world in right eousness by that man whom He hath or dained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all men in that He hath raised Him from the dead (Acts xvil., 31). One day Is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years ns one day (II Pet. ill., 8). At tho beginning of the day shall bo tbe judgm ent of the righteous, and of the living nations, and at tho end of tho day that of the unrighteous. 23. “That all men should honor the Son. sven as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Hon honoreth not the Father which hath sent Him.” Ho will be honored by all kings and all nations, and to Him every knee shall bow (Ps Ixxli., 11; Phil. 11.. 9, 10). A day is com ing In which every high thing shall be brought down, and the Lord alone exalted (Isa. 11., 11, 17). He Is the only Saviour of sinners (Acts iv., 12), tho only J u d g e ns wo saw In tho last verse, and Ho will be the only Ruler, for He must reign till He hath put oil things under His foot (I Cor. xv., 25). 24. “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He ihat hearoth My word and believeth on Him th a t sent Me h ath everlasting life and flhnll not come Into condemnation, but Is passed from death unto life.” Here Is the way of life, described In chapter 1., 12, as receiving Him, In chaper ill., 16, ns believ ing on Him, and hero as hearing His word and believing on Him. This verso was blessed to my soul in the summer of 1873 with a blessing th a t has lasted ever since and will to all eternity. It was somewhat like this: Do you hear the word of God aud believe th a t Jesus died for you and rose again, and do you receive Him ns your Saviour? I do. Then you have everlast ing life. No. I cannot feel that I have. What ddes God say? He says that I have. Is Ills word sufficient? I would like to feel It. Will you take Him at Ills word or make Him a liar? (.John v., 10.) I will be lieve God. 25. “ Verily, hour Is oomln, shall hear the ■ind they that hear shall live.\ This hour has already lasted over 1800 years ant! Is Billion. The dead In trespasses and sins are hearing the word of God, and receiv ing It and life In it, or rather In Him who is the Word and the Life. Faith oometh by hearing the word of God. hud been hearing It from my childhood,n before 1865 I had been received into ohm irshlp and was regular in irlly, I say unto you, The lug, and now is, when the dead th voice of the Hon of God, shall live.” This I. I membership and was regula r In my a t tendance upon ordinances and outwardly consistent, but until the time and tbe ex perience mentioned in the last verse I did not know th a t I had passed from death to 26. “ F or as the Father hath life In Him- Belf so hath He given to the Hon to have life in Himself.” He Is the Life. He that hath tho Hon of God hath life, and he that hath not the Hon of God hath not life (John xlv., 6; I John v., 12). We can neither earn nor in any way deserve this life, for It Is the gift of God (Rom. vl., 23). But whosoever will may receive the Bread of Life, the W ater of Life, the Life itself, and even Christ Himself, and in Him find and even Christ a life begun here, comsumumted and enjoyed resurrection at the J through all eter- empty and help- nt Bethseda; then :y. We inns less as the Imp nil la ours. 27. “ And hath given Him authority to execute judgm ent also, because He is the Hon of Man.” In the final day of judgment all men shall come forth from tho grave and be judged. Aud all thost* who have done good shall see the resurrection of life and those who have don ♦ evil tlw Resurrection of damnation —Lea on HttlutZ THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN TRANSIT. A letter written In Columbus, Ohio, on August 14,1863, has just been delivered to Mrs. Louise Coombs, at Erlanger, Ky., for whom It was Intended. It was written to her from Columbus by her husband. Cap tain Thomas M. Coombs, while he was a, prisoner of war in the Ohio Penitentiary^ with John Morgan, the Confederate raider. Captain Coombs tried to send the letter out by underground route, but It was de tected by Warden Nathan Myron and •elsed. It was discovered a short time ago In the papers of the dead warden, and his son caused an advertisement of tho letter, giving the address, which was simply “Lou,'' aud signature, which was “T. M. C.,” In the hope of p u tting it In the hands of the person to whom It was written. Captain Coombs is dead, but his widow is still living, at Erlanger. Kenton County. Ky., and she read a letter a few days ago wrtit prisons: read a loite r a few days ng er by her husbaud xvhile war thirty-six years ago. A WOMAN AS SPEAKER. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. W a slilnrton Item ng January The customs collections at the pi Calbarien. Cuba, for the four weeks rr.euclng Janusrv 1 and ending Jai 28 amounted to $8,852.13. Mr. Chandler gave notice in the Senate of an amendment to the Naval Appropria tion bill appropriating $5000 for a m onu ment to be erected to George Henry Ellis, the only American killed in the b attle which resulted In tbe destruction of Cervera's The President sent these nominations to the Senate: Marine Corps. Captain S. H. Harrington, to be Major; First Lieutenant Charles H. Lauchhelmer. to be Captain. Secretary Alger sent the following cable gram to General Otis at Manila: “ Accept my best congratulations upon your m agni ficent victory of Sunday, all the more creditable because you were not the ag- Itessor. A loeb .” Representative Rtalllngs. of Alabama, introduced a bill iu the House tu authorize the President to appoint General Wheelei a Major-General in the regular army. Major Henry O. Helstand, of the Adju tant-G e n eral's Departm ent, has been de tailed ns Military Attache of the United Htates Commissioners to the Paris Exposi tion. He Is expected to leave Washington about the first of June for Paris. unities In the MNALDO IS DEFIANT. He Issues Two Proclamations Encour aging the Filipinos to Fight, MAKES HIMSELF THE DICTATOR. The Filipino Chief Order* That Friendly Relation* W ith This Country He Broken Of!—To Treat American* a* Knemlew—Assertion That We P rovoked the Fighting—Talk About a J u e t Cause M anila . Philippine Islands (By Cable).— Aguinaldo, the rebel leader, issued two proclamatious on Saturday and Monday, The first declares that the Americans opened the fight, and adds; “ I o rder and command: “ F irst—That peace and friend]} rela tions with the Americans bo broken off, and that the latter be treated as enemies, within tbe limits prescribed by the laws of General Otis’s report of casualties in i Manila light up to Wednesday nggreg 197. Of these, forty-nine were of Qflle and men killed, and 148 wounded. “ Second—That the Americana captured be held as prisoners of war. “ T h ird—That this proclam ation be com municated to the Consuls, and th a t Con gress order and accord a suspension of the constitutional guarantees, resulting from the d eclaration of w a r.” The Monday proclamation is a lengthy document, in which Aguinaldo dwells upon on, that a new agreement hail (ho alleged grievance of the natives aud red Into by the commission on'1'calls upon tliem to expel the invaders from of the United States with the the islands. This document is In places a tis- lies. Aguinaldo declares th a t the Ambassador Porte partm e n t of State th formed him that be his post a t Washing has Informed the Pe- t M. Cambon has in- •xpects to return to ton within a few days. The Secretary of the Interior was in formed by Secretary Bixby of the Dawes Commission, th a t a new agreement hail been entei i is believed eyance for a long time, and the settli But announced by Secretary Bixby in his message sntisfaet tes with th e has been in nd the settle- reta ry Bixby in h be conclusive and sue of lies. Aguinaldo dec tillties were provoked by t that the Filipinos we:re outbreak of war.. i the many outrn Senator Pettus introduced a bill author- , izing the Secretary of War to provide for the reimbursement of States for the ex penses incurred in transporting troops to the places of muster in tho late war with Spain an<l appropriating the funds neces sary for this purpose, Major-General James F. Wade, United States Volunteers, has been directed to proceed to St. Paul, Minn., and take com mand of the Departm ent of Dakota, reliev ing Brigadier-General John M. Bacon, ordered to join his regiment in Ctfba. , The War to m u ster troops. Depnrtmen out about particular. Diphtheria-is prevalent . J . There have bei Hackensack- lere have been a number of d eaths tho last few days. Tbo authorities closed , ubllo schools qn Tuesda es th a t th e hos- Amerlcans.and os we not expecting an • He treats of what he calls many outrag e s that have been com mitted by the American soldiers, and craftily appeals to the worst passions of the natives to seek revenge. He de clares that the Americans have treated tho native Congress with contum ely and contempt, which, he says, shows that the United Htates never had any intention of acting justly toward the Philippines. After pointing out that he tried to prevopt an outbreak of hostilities, but th a t his efforts were negatived by the Amerloans.who were swelled with pride over their easy con quest of the Spaniards, he calls upon his followers to keep up their courage and tc remember that their efforts to secure theli independence have not been wasted. He declar the blood of Filipinos, who were martyr*, has hitherto been freely shed in the sacred cause of independence, and that will be shod In the future tostrongth- eoncluslon, he says i t is indis- hat the actions of the Filipinos id to tbe law and right. MOIIK FIGHTING AT MANILA. N. In the public schools qn Tu< Dr. Henry Elmo Keye New York City, were asphyxiated some time Tuesday morning in their bedroom in tbe Ardsley Casino, at Ardsley-on-the-Hud- son. Gas was found escaping from a gas stove. It was thought th a t Dr. Keyes mis took the stopcock for an electric light but- Sohlatterr-tho tllvlne healer, has m arried Miss Luvornia Coleman, a handsome and popular young woman of Cullman, Ala. Idgedge overver tlxhe raes were nd his wife nhyxiated s A span of the high bri o t Mis sissippi River a t Muscatine, loww, fell Ing to c o n traction due to the cold. C u n y was injured and four hora Frank Blair shot and Instantly killed Ed ward Brovord and Mary Anderson at West m inster, Ohio, a few days ago and im mediately afterward committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. In a boarding house fire at Springfield, III., n few days ago three persons were burned to death. The dead arc Mrs. Eva Wlthey, proprietress of the boarding bouse; Miss Helen Rose and J. C. Hall. The origin of tho fire is supposed to have been a defective flue. Tho logs is probably $10,000; partially Insured. Texas citizens, indignant at the action of Congressman Hawley in defeating the ap propriation in the River and Harbor bill of a quarter of a million dollars to dredge out and deepen Ibe Texas City channel to a depth of twenty-five feet, assembled at Galveston. Texas, a few days ago and burned Mr. Hawley in etfigy. Ellis Phaup, a prominent citizen of Ches terfield County, Va., while getting into his carriage a few days ago, gave a loud sneeze and felt a keen pain In Ills back. Ho had to be assisted into tbo vehicle. It was found that his spine was dislocated. Tho press mill of the Ohio Powder Com pany's works, near Youngstown, Ohio, ex ploded with terrific force shortly before noon n few days ago, killing two employes, Evan Evans and Daniel Davis, aud de molishing tho building and machinery. Anthony Burgle, an inm ate in tho jail at San Francisco, Cal., a few days ago se cured some coal oil from the stove which was used to heat the cell and poured it over his clothes while tho other prisoners were asleep. Ho then ignited the oil, and In a few seconds his body was enveloped In names. The cell caught fire and the sleev ing cellmates were barely saved by the guards. Burgle lived hut a short time. years Mrs. Amelia peatedly attemp pt ted flehyhaie lusbai eighth attem her life. M anila , Philippine Islands (By Cable).— Three companies of the Kansas Regi ment. under command of Colonel F unston, I made a brilliant charge Tuesday evening i against a body of Filipinos who were hard pressing a reconnolterlug party which was doing duty not far from Caloocan. The Americans behaved with the greatest gal- 1 The reconnoitring party were fighting against very heavy odds, but they showed no signs of quitting, though there is scarcely a doubt th a t they would have been cut to pieces had It not been for the opportue arrival of the Kansas troops. Af ter a desperate nfllct, in which Lieuten ant Albert C. Altc 1, cf Company I and n private were killed and five wounded, the enemy were driven back to Caloocan, which is the strongest position of the Meantime the light draught gunboats were shelling tho town from the left, while the Utah Battery was putting good work froi Their shells flic ted severe lossess onn Battery the right. the town on fire r » o the Filipinos. During tho last tbr< Lutz, of Chicago, has to commit suicidi attem loramit suicid by h anging herself. Eu time her husband has cut the nod her, but a few days ago Ighth a p t, and succeed ier life. Lutz Is a contractor time was wealthy. rope and res- sho made the 1 In ending and ut one oyod the home of Thomas Low- nlles north of Sears. Mich., n o. After rescuing his wife and ired the Fire destro) den. seven mil few davs ago. After reset four children, Mr. Lowden re-ent dwelling for his five-year-old boy perished In the flames. Low tem p erature Is general throughout Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska, ami considerable damage has been done to etock In consequence. It is difficult to estim ate the damage to wheat. The steam er Arcadian wont ashore on Rock Island, at the e n trance of Loulshurg harbor, Nova Scotia. She was a total loss. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, retiring United Htates Ambassador to Russia, arrived In London a few days ago on his way to America to take up tho duties of Secretary of the Interior, and lu an interview denies that Russia was over in a coalition to hamper the United States in its conflict with Spain. Influenza has been rampant iu Berlin, Germany, and many of the public of*.dais are suffering from the epidemic, including Baron von Uulow, the Minister of Foreign Affair*. The Chief State Attorney, von Moe*e, Is dead, and Prince George of Prussia Is recovering. The Criminal Section of tlx* Court of Cassation at Paris, France, has concluded Its inquiry into tho Dreyfus trial. It has referred the whole m u tter, with tho now light developed d u ring the Inquiry, !<> the ~eneral, nerui. who will be required rnorEssoR dean c . W orcester . One of the Commissioners appointed by President McKinley, who has sailed for the Philippine Islands to study the economic and social conditions of the archipelago. The Commission is to report the result of its labors to the President. GENERAL EAGAN’S SENTENCE President McKinley Suspend® Him From Bank and Duty For Six Yeare. W ashington , D. C. (Special).—Tho P resi dent has taken action In the case ol Brigadier-General Charles P. Eagan, Com- rahsary of Subsistence, whose sensational attack on Major-General Nelson A. Miles, Commanding General of the army, before the War Investigating Commission led to his trial by court-m artial on charges ol conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. General Eagan was convicted of the charges and specifications to each and was sentenced to dismissal. The court agreed, however, th a t Its members might make individual recommendations that clemency be exerctsod, a n d tho President approving these applications, which were j headed by that of Major-General Wesley | M erritt, president of tho court, reduced ■ the sentence to suspension from rank and . duty for a period of six years. Tbe period of suspension govs beyond the date of General Lagan's compulsory re- j tirement for age. and, according to the law. an officer under suspension time of his retirem ent Is dropped from army, and may not have his nu on the rolls or General Eagan ’ January 16, IH'.U tbe j entitled to retireil pay. ! i fifty-eight \cnrs old on | Procurator-G who will to report his opinion to the Co place of hoi ence have agr< The confei ng tb e coming peace coni eed to meet at The Hague. 11 probably meet about Ouey Cue* Again I'cetponeil. The trial of Senator Quay, his son, Richard R. Quay, and ex-State Treasurer Benjamin J. Haywood, at Philadelphia, charged with conspiracy lu the misuse of state funds on deposit In the People's Bank, again has been postponed, t h b lime from Febri ru ary 20 uary 27. Albert I’eugnez, a youth who murdere 1 n woman and boy. was guillotined at Paris, France, a few day* ago. The fad 1* notable ah being the lai*t‘ execution, which is t > take place in the Place de la Roquti i place of Paris. «M looked npoo as 'tint, witb tbe help of my teacher* of my atep- ad, and that help. I didn't bare my boot*, but^hey were good one*, d 1 read them over and over again. 1 had the Bible, 'IMgrim'a 1‘rogrea*,\ 'liobiueon Crnaoe,' '.E*op'a Fsble*. Weenie * 'Life of Washington.’ » 'History of the United States,\ and the 'Statntea of Indiana.\ Besides these I borrowed snd read through every book I ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles. I almost learned them by heart.\ In th# government reformatory of West Australia, boy prisoners are banded over to the Salvation Army authorities, who employ them on anew industrial farm in the Collie d istrict Mr*. of the Colorado Legislature, Prove* a Good P a rliam e n tarian. Mrs. Francis S. Lee. representative Arapahoe County, preside I over the <1 eratlons of tbe Colorado House of Repre sentative a few days ago. hpeaker Smith wishe J to speak on a bill and asked Mr*. Lee to take the chair. Mrs Lee blushed at first. She was not expcctlne such an honor, but her embarrassment soon disappeared a* she took the platform Once \ r twice the fair Sp«-uk-r h* l OPCS s»ion to sound the gavel to call members tc order. But tbe gavvl 'lid Dot sound vor> loud. Mrs. Lee showed herself convei>aui with parliamentary tactics, a n t proved herself a very good Speaker During tb« debates she *wu9 variously addressed a> “ Mr. Speaker. ’ AMr*. S h a k e r ,” ’Mine S h a k e r , “ Mme. President\ and \Mrs President.'\ Th** m^st popular way seemed to be “ Mrs. Speaker, which will be adopted on future occasion*. lette, the execution The Queen Regent of Spaini decree raising the state of si out Spain. meeting of the Commercial Club at movement was started has signed At a meeting < Madrid. Spain a the Gove; ith part of the $20.900.< will pay for tbe Philip pines. ablo Longoria. sub-Lieu- fought a duel Jose Rios and Pabl tenants In the Mexi • with pistols at San 1. few days ago. Thei vanning at each shot geroesTy wounded in were placed under arrest. i Armv, fought i Luis Potosi, Mexico, h y tired five shots, nd- Longoria was dnn- the b reast. Both men Victor Willoms. the Anarchist who no *t 11 lust shot and wounded a police * endeavoring to arrest him need to fifteen y e a rs' penal In the course of disc jwet of gambling in the mao Ue| hstag a few dayi ter of War said that the Emperor ervitude Battleships Fur the Navy. ! The House Committee ou Naval Affairs, j Washington, has decided to recommend the construction of t welv* warships, and I will probably add turei) more to that num- byr. Ire Cream at a W edding I'olsonone. A case of wholesale poisoning, wlihh, ; from Investigations made by the authori- ,, ties of Torrington. Conn., was the result : of eating ice cream, was the sequel of a ; 1* dish we Ming held at Torrington a few days ago. There nen aud chf * fatalities resuli Liberated by the Tagale. General Rios telegraphs from Manila tv the Spanish Government at Madrid that the Spanish military prisoners at Mayarlz have been liberated by the Tagah, and th» he has paid them the arrears of wages i British Parliam e n t Opens. At the opening of the British Parliam ent ein was critical TERMS: S1.S0 TEA B I T 7E A B T A E tl NO. 15. COUNT V3N CAPRIVI DEAD. The Form er C h ancellor of the German Umpire Expire* at Skyren. F rankfort , Germany (By Cable).—Gen eral Count von Caprivi, the former Chan cellor of the German Empire, died Mon day morning at Skyren, near Cros.sen’ thirty-two miles from here. MRS. MARTHA PLACE’S CASE. Goveanor Rooaevelt Saye Sympathy and Sex W ill Not Affect Him . A lbany . N. Y. (Special).-G o v e rnor Roosevelt will, within a few days, consider and dispose of the case of Mrs. Martha Place, of Brooklyn, who is under sentence of death at Sing Sing Prison for the m ur der of her s tep-daughter. Ida Place. Governor Roosevelt has made h state ment relative to this case in response to inquiry as to whether ho had been peti tioned to change her rentenco to life Im prisonment. He said th a t he had not. am! that It was not neeessarv for petitions of Hint kind to be presented to him as It was his intention to give tho case his earnest consideration. It will be decided on Its merits and not on any m a tter of sentiment. Mrs. Place will receive the same consider ation as if she were a man. and no more and no loss. Petitions simply from a sentimental source will not receive the slightest con sideration. The Governor Is willing to re ceive any statem ent of facts that will give him additional inform ation connected with tlm commitment of the m u rder other than what was brought out at the trial, but on the general facts of the cose ho desires no iniunicatlous. He Is anxious to do jut uatlng clrcum tlco where there are extenuatin g circum stances connected with the commission of has made It nls rule never > of mere sympathy. stances connoctt a crime, b u t he to take cognlzur in ce of mere sympa GENERAL WHEELER LOSES HIS SEAT. He and Other* Ceaeetl to Be Congreesmen W hen They Bernme Army OlHcere. W ashington , D. th (Special).—Major- General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama; Colonel J . R. Campbell, of Illinois; Colonel D. G. Colson, of Kentucky, and Major E. E. Robbins, of Pennsylvania, must give up their scats In the House of Representatives. This conclusion was reached by the House Committee on the Judiciary, pursuant to the resolution introduced by Representa tive Bailey and passed by the House, directing that committee to Inquire into tho question of the right of members of tho House to hold m ilitary or naval commis sions under the Government. The >6mmtttee reached tho conclusion that the provision of the constitution that “ No person holding any office nnder the United States shall be a membej of either House during his continuance in office” applied to commissions In the volunteer army as well ns to commissions inthoregu- Gcnerat Wheeler and tho other Repre- scntatlves In Congress who accepted mili tary commands during the war with Spain thereforo ceased to bo members of the House of Representatives tho Instant they ac cepted their m ilitary commissions. GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO. The Insular Cabinet l>l**olve<l ami Four Executive D epartm ent* Substituted. S an J uan , Porto Rico (By Cable).—Gov- crnor-Oeucral Henry has orc.ered the dis solution of the Insular Cabinet and has substituted the following departments: State. Justice, Finance and Interior. Gen eral Henry says that it has become evident to him, a fter a careful trial of two months, that the Insular Cabinet does not corre spond with American methods of progress. The heads of the new departm ents will confine their duties to their departm ents and the Governor-General will preside and give Instructions directly to the heads of thesehese departmepartm ents.nts. Officialsfficials who h o o b jeotto aerh'au methods aud f their departm ents the vacancies will be t d e O w the intn-'tueUon of Atnerieau met! to the Investigation of the ir depi will he relieved and filled by the appointtment potent persons, Irrespective of pa loiu of 1 most com- arty affili- SHOT BY A HUSBAND AFTER DINNER Harry Brown Iniiilteri Mr*. W a rf and Five Minute* Later Wae Dead. W elch . W. Va. (Special).—Harry Brown and J o rdan Dore were Invite 1 to dine with Presley Warf Sunday evening. After din ner Mrs. Warf told her h u sband that Brown had Insulted her and Brown and Dore left tho house. Five minutes later Warf had shot Brown, killing him instantly. After Mrs. Warf informed her husband of what had happened ho followed the two young men to the Tidewater Coal plant nearby and demanded nn apology. Brown refused to apologize and the two men ran Warf hack to his house. Entering It, Brown threw Mrs. Warf against a trunk. As he did so Warf placed th \ muzzle of a revolver against his head and blew out his brains. Warf is lu jail and the citizens are raising a fund with which to bail him out of custody. Soldier's Sentence For M u rder Approved. Major-General Miles at Washington bae approved the sentence of dishonorable dis charge from tbo army and Imprisonment for life Imposed on Private James Ellis, Company I, Third North Carolina Volun teer Infantry, for m urder committed at Macon, Ga. General Miles designated the military prison a t Fort Leavenworth, Kau., as tho place of confinement. Argentine llepoblic Get* * Big Loan. The Argentine Government bus arranged a loan of $30,000,000 with the Rothschild- Morgan syndicate, secured by the alcohol revenues of tho Argentine Republic. W. C. J o h n son Succeed* Sexton. Captain W. C. Johnson, Kenlor Vico. Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Is th« bend of tho firm of the Johnson Brothers Hardware Company, In Cincinnati, Ohio. Under the Grand Army of tbe ItHpuhlia c jnstltution, he be came the Acting Commauder-lii-Clitef at nee upon tho death of his superior, and rill continue n* the Acting Commander- ti-Cblef until tho vacancy is filled. The In - r i i lsl Notional consisting ... each htate dep all vacancies. of Admlnlsiration irty-five members, on e from ;»artnjent, has power to fill Get* Ten Year* For K illing ■ Man. Judge Fort, In tho Essex County Court, N. J.. a few days ago. sentenced Carlo Del- shot ati' to ten years iu prison for having d killed John Aibland, of Brooklyn, irk \U December 18 last. Delfatarre Bluugbter i rt pronouoiced sed, a* he had bo in Newark \U Decc pleaded guUty manBluugUter a short tbe Court pronoun the (lapsed. as he hud been uu- isiuu that his sentence would gal*, and th a t ippine of wages due l time ago. when! sentence he coliu der the tmpi be a light one. O u r r i i l l l p p l n e F o l l r y . General Corbin, at Washington, said that the President’s December proclama tion would be tb* basis of o u r future PhU • I ceedtng again! the recent gai I that steps were A W i l e ftel.1 F u r T h r e e D a II a t s . , . . • i fe-selling '. x m n * CM. from Oenera, cdct .. UJ_, , , h£ u r U u D A wif ease from G In against Jtroee Afbrlehl tbat Albright had takeen andnd thatbat whenhen he Uepherd alleged wife from him, hi* wife from hi a t w h remonstrated he u driven off. AlbrUtkt claims that he gave Shepherd $3 and a hat for the woman, who went with him willingly, and that bbep- i herd then got drunk and demanded back j his wilt. t th a t tb e E wn«* pro- ist the officer- implicated in j on Tuesday Lord hallsbury, tbe Premier, m hling scandals. QQd added jQ r6p\y tu Liberal demands for Informa tion, spoke a t length regarding the Cttl- uese and doudan questions and upon tbe ( zar’s disarmament proposal*. Cordial comment upon the .friendly relations ex isting between Great Britain and Am enta was made in tbe House of Lords and tbe House of Cou age of Nagyprobroee, In ict. Hungary. «i*»troyed it of the Colorado^ against Provisional President of Uruguay Cueetos. Provisional President or v ru has broken out. Two hundred men have landed near Carnielo, and captured th# Tbe Pope grunted an audience to Arch bishop Ireland a low <tavf ago a t Rome C a p tain C la r k ’s N e w Poet. Captain C. E. Clark, formerly of the Oregon, has been assigned to duty by tbe : Navy Departm ent, Washington, as Captain | of the nsv? yard at League inland. Peon, VAGARIES OF THB NEE A Chapter of Unwonted Happenings Told by the Telegraph, HUMAN LIFE SAVED BY CARDS- A R e m arkable Case of Btorphlue Poison- Ing—Mwrvellou* Escape of a Paesen- ger Train In Kansas—Saloon* to Close In Akron. Ohio—Falcon Island* Die* appealing—Indiana's Hmallaet Babe. L o c k p o r t , N. Y. (Special).—Six mem bers of Spalding Hose Company played a game of cards n few nights ago under growsome and novel circumstances. Ed Bronson, a member of the company, who bunks at tbe houge, was dlacovered in a semi-conscious state about 9 p. m. Dr. Cosford was called and discovered that he wus suffering from morphine, having taken thirty eight-grain tablets. Bron son wa* suffering from grip, and says be took the m o rphine instead of quinine, by mistake. The doctor told Bronson’s fellow mem ber* that the only hope of saving his life was to keep him awake. A game of cards was started, after it was found Impossible to keep the patient on his feet. Blood spurted from his nostrils aud mouth, dye ing the cards, but the game continued for six long hours. Bronson relapsed Into sleep several times, and, being aroused, would resuino the game. Nothing except cards could a t tract his interest, and the two doctors present assert that the game saved his life. A curious psychological phenomenon was the fact th a t, in the midst of a story. Bronson would fall asleep, and upon belu aroused, would take It up where he bn left off, a p p a rently unaware of any in ter ruption. Drs. Baker and Cosford pro nounce It a remarkable case. ROADBED SANKJ/NDER A TRAIN. Rail* Held Together and Cars Ran on Un damaged*-Road B u ilt Over a Mine. F o r t S c o t t , Kan. (Special).—The south bound passenger train on the Kansas City and San Francisco Road met with a pe culiar accident near Pittsburg, Kan., a few days ago. The train was slowing up for a railroad crossing when the roadbed for a distance of sixty feet started to give way under the engine a n d train. When the en gineer felt the engine going down he put on a full bead of eteafh and, as the rails neld together, he succeeded In pulling the entire train out of the hole and up to solid ground. Upon exam ination It was found th a t the roadbed was over a mine, and th a t the ground had sunk to a distance of six feet below the road level. Had the train been running fast when the oave-ln occurred it would probably have been derailed. As It was, the trainm en cannot see why the en tire train did not pile up In the hole. The vicinity where the accident occurred Is u n dermined by tho vast drifts that have been run for coal. The passengers were all badly frightened as the cars sank, but no! one was injured. TO CLOSE SALOONS FOR TWO YEAR* S r n o r A c o n c l l l o ia C a n a d a . Without clot bos, excepting those which be wore on bW back, Mr. F. Agonclllu, tbe Envoy Extraordinary of the Philippine Oowrnoient, arrived at Montreal, Quebec, a lew day* ago, e« companled by nU 8ecre- tery. Mr. Marti. He deniea that be advised Aguinaldo to attack tb e American*, and be ' *** ingtou knowing that anything wou.d happen o il to J o lu Dewey. Tbe form -r hospital ship Solace com pleted taking on coal, ammunition and etore* for Dewey » equandron at Norfolk, Va., a lew days ago, and sailed Ux Manila. A kron , Ohio (Special).—Liquor dpalen are about to take heroic measures to con vince tbe ministers and other orusaden at the city can’t get along without Their programme Is to for a period of two th a Is to close i ery saloon fo r a period of tw o years, presentatlve of the National Llqu representativ e of th e National Llquot League was here a few days ago and g u a r anteed the s u p p o rt of the league, which li represented lu thirty-four States of thi Union. The programme Is to have the league buy outright the 133 saloons lu Akron and to pay the proprietors lu addi tion a sum equal to their profits for the two years past. These saloons pay annually $62,000 tax and revenue besides the regu lar tax on their property. By depriving tho city of its income it Is hoped to con vince the crusaders that saloons are indis pensable to the c ity’s wellrre. Brewers aud wholesale liquor dealers a re expected to help along tho project by refusing to sell to outsiders who might start in busi ness a fter the other saloons a re closed. FALCON ISLAND SINKING. Fathom e of W ater. B an F rancisco , Cal. (Special).—-The news has been brought here from Australia that officers of the British man-of-war Penguin have found that Falcon Island, not far from Auckland, New Zealand, which sud denly came up out of the ocean in 1985, Is gradually receding. Tho island was re located by the Penguin’s officers three fathoms under water, i’he officers of tl The officers of th e Penguin also suc ceeded iu taking tho tem p erature of the ocean at a greater depth than ever before. Hitherto, wnero the thermometer got down a certain d istance, it was invariably broken. On this occasion the thermometer was sent down 4762 fathoms, where the tem p era ture was found to b« 85.5 degrees, while on the surface the tem p erature was eighty- two degrees. A Babe W eighs One Pound. M is h a w a k a , Ind. (Special).—There wa$ born tc the wife of Noble Austin, In thle city, the smallest Infant over reported lu Northern Indiana. The child is about the size of nn incandescent electric light globe end weighs one pound. Tho physician, an old practitioner, says It will live. SIX KILLED AT A CROSSING. A Stock Train of the Baltim o re and OhU R a ilroad Rune Into a Wagon. PiTTHDURo, Penn. (Special).—A stock train on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran Into a wagon containing six persons si at MoK tho Riverton road crossing oKeespori Friday. Four of the occupants were In stantly killed and two other* died a t th4 hospital. The dead are Hndon Elder George Dawson, Vest Wilson, Jam es Robi son, Rush Wilson and Mrs. O. Bhang- buessy. Mrs. Shangbuessy lived in Du- queene and was moving to McKeesport Elder’s body was thrown fifty feet. dopted by a slug reeo- » wltl Oxford Debater* Oppose Alliance. The Oxford University Union Debating Society, at Oxford, England, which was at antagonistic to tlm North during tbe Civil War In the United States has adopted by a vote of 4fi to 30, the foilowl lutlon: “That any formal allli America would be both injudlcloi practicable.” W e n t Dewey to Be a P a ll A d m iral.’ The Henate Committee on Naval Affaire in Washington has decided to report favor ably the joint resolution reviving the rank of Admiral in the Interest of Rear Admiral Dewey. The resolution was so amended as to extend tbe time of bis retirem ent tei American Goode In Russia. The United .States Consul General at Bt. Petersburg, Russia. W. R. Halloway, an nounce* the establishment of trade agen cies and permanent exhibitions of *amp!es of American goods In the Baltic province# The Labor World. Bakers at Kansas City, Mu., organized recently. Tbe strike of the glass workers a t Hway- zee. Ind., continues. There are flft«*u unions of photo-en gravers lu the United States. The United H a tters of North Ameilca issued 4,190.000 labels to m anufacturers during the la*t six months of 1*9*. Carpenter* of De* Molne*. Iowa, expect to inaugurate an eight-hour day April 1. The jew scale calls for thirty cents per A call has been Issued for the second bi ennial convention of the Order of Railroad Telegrapher*, to be held in Peoria, III., Monday May 15. 18»9. The strike of the Clyde (Scotland) »ea- m«n has collapsed, the shipowners having been able to find crews for their veenels without difficulty at current rates. The Southern Railroad, which a short time ago restored a cut In wage* made lu 1893, has now reduced the working hour* In Ha shop*, and there’s another row on In iveland Electrotypers Union 81. which chartered In February, 1899, has In- ted it* membership so rapidly In the consequi Clevi creased It* membership eo*rapidly 1 past eleven months that every electrotyper in the eity now belongs to tbe union. Secretary Klapeuky. of tha Barbers’ la- teroatlonal Value. In reply to an Inquiry, ruled tbat lady barbers were n<k admitted Into the anion, neither con Id e shop •■ - ploying aae display • s a l * card. NEW YORK STATE NEW * ** State Capital News. > M Fmirento n * Noam W oods .—TW iqpnrt .-3jj of William F. Fox. Forest Inspector ot lltlft '**3 York Stale, says tbat the wood-pwlp tmdsh* . ‘ try of the State Is denuding i t f fofniftftj' ‘ He says: The lumber and wood-pulp IhWh} vt tries of odr State continue to make a aaaew drain upon the resources of « deck forests. The demand Is the supply Is rapidly dlminle such conditions the tesult I s ____ _ _ ___ seen. In the last year 450,9SS,41S tent #4 timber were cut and removed fr e e tlw V* great forests of Northern New York. TMi .in means that over 105.000 acres of foreet land « x were stripped of their merchantable ttm- her. It does not imply that thin ama wen denuded or left without forest coven, b et II means that our State is that, much ataiag. ? the end of Its timber supply, and that If la \ j a serious menace lb our economic enndt- A Hons. A still more serious feature e l V this timber-cutting Is that, with tbe ex- *’ ception of a few loealltlee. no MW- ,4j vision whatever Is made for tbe fateiw growth. Theee unfavorable condlftnee earn be remedied only by thoughtful, JadteW r legislation. S tate I xcomb T ax Paoroaip. BaBaltt Coggeshall bee Introduced a bill providing, for • Bt ate income tax. Tbe tax preenetbaij . on amounts oven 3 ! Is one-half o l one per ce vz \ e M ,% T r z : r a & s $< 2020 ,, 000000 ,, twowo per cent,ent, onn $ 20,000 too QIMIB, > t per s o <10.006 t <W 2 S per eent. on <30.000 to <40,000, na< ___ half of one per rent, for every addM eaal <10,000. The bill exempt, nil pwapatb ' property from Uxetlon, except that t e s a * by It, and declares that alt State expeeeea^ •hall be met by a tax on corpomtloea, Irea- ehlsee, Inheritances and Incomes, Tbe State Board of EquallxattdS *»d the Btate Tax Commission are abolished. A L im ited W omxw grrraaaa. Beaataf j > Cogceaball has Introduced a bill aytaadlhft / -1 the franehlee to women In certain Tillage elections under n property qe^IBcatioa. TheblllprovIdeethateyerypeiloBtweety- one j e a n old, who shall hare lived la th# j vlilBRe thirty day* next preeediag the' ; election, end la the owner of property th the tUHtge assessed on the laat ptweed)aW assessment rolls, ehall be e e tltw l te rote on ntoDosltloni for or against the eg- pendlture of moaey. C o n d itio * or ynn Tansy Ooaraanfc— The total reeourcee of the forty-ala# treat companies of the State last year WWW #579,aOS,««a, an Increase of about WMOvt 617 as compared with the prevloue year.' A tabulation of the reports ot tbe treet com panlee for the year ended Deoembar SL 169#, shows that the total surplus f e ul i e e i n’Institution .'■ • i otai surplus baw l bean lanesass< i these'luatlttttloDi had Ing t he year by ei.M t.W . T h e , earned <<,064.674 more In p rolts 1 than during the preceding year. 7 ettiutlons also show a total el „ commissions end prohta rsnatre* the year ot <S6, h 7,7M; • 6 , 600, MS; expenses for j , , dividends declared, <4,406.600; taxes | <463,667; total deposits, 0411,007,tlSl b and mortgages purehaaed, I M I M f i. B cbnbd to D ixte i * a Casta.—Oi Eddy, aged forty-three, wae feead , by ble wife a tew days ago seated ta ee near the store In his home. Xe horribly burned, the barn estawf through to the heart. Foanss O ot O bnoi B lxcb F xjls re I —Former O.rsraor Freak * * Hark Black Is one of t i e been remise In this D ie d at t m A os or 114.- The (Mete Board of Health has received from Ymd- p W - m ^ i s s m the a g e ot 114 years. Tbe womaa WfftlMM In Ireland, but had been In this M U t t * forty-four years. Dreaded a Bey With H et 1 nlsbmentishment has 1 ■ Summary pun 6 upon the two negro boys, i , and Frank Washington, who look I twelve-year-old son of Daniel Wlllla— 1 , to tbe Methodist Church at S o iu e a l H ! . day* ago, bound and gagged him e a * W$B < branded Lira with red-hot knife M idWi mob of fifty men end boys onughi Iks I offenders at Bodue Point e n d d r a g g N lI up and down the froien streets ny a n Tbe rope was then thrown overt ~~ ree near the rope was then throe • of a big oak tree near the 1 traltral trestlerestle an<L<t fiftyifty pairsairs < Unit! . . _ Cen t an f p swung Newton Into the air. Tka L broke nnd Newton fell to the groaid# 1 tainlog bad bruises. The mob tkehj both boys to the trunk of thetiaa. F lashes were applied, after whleh the T were left tied to the tree, notwfthetaif the Intense cold. They cried piteously til they attracted the atteatloh ot 1 women, who oame and released them# , ..m Explosion ef a 1 Erie engine No. 1S27 blew up while etsad* ing on n siding at Cameron n few daye ast» resulting In the death ot Fireman F. W< Cbambeglnin end the serious Injury g | Engineer Frank Solomon and BrukemSB Melvin McCormick, all of whom live t e HoroellsviUe. The Injectors on t h e e a f t ia failed to work and a stop wae mad# at Cameron to ascertain the cauFt. The glue was of the Mother Hubbard t two firebox* had Juet < the othier •eod one firebox door aad opened th e oth when the explosion Was h u rled forty feet in the air, bruises which caused bis deatJ morning. Brakeman McGora standing on the tank ot the engtaa. force of the explosion tore oil the 1 door which Chamberlain had Ji aud It hit McCormack In the was badly scalded, will lose an ays marked for life. Engineer Bolomoa 1 seriously burned by the escaping stasm, T h e O ldest F o e tm a e ter. New York State hea tbe honor ol fceriag ' tbe oldest Postmaster I d the employ e l t h i ' j poetel service. He It Boswell Beeraaloy. M ,;>* North Laoelog, Tompkins County. e u 4 M f been lu tbe service of tbe poetoffloe a | t e * ; been In tbe service ol tbe pi place since June 26, 1836. Wl appointedappointed Postmasterostmaster thehe ofloiaoe P t or had hems in eslitence about two years, baylsg base established April 6 , 1896, with JoeSf* Dlsbop at Postmaster. Mr. Beardsley 4i regarded as a model Postmaster by the 4 * partment oBolals, and during hlaloug ser vice of seveety-one years tbert hie a eves been a complaint against ble adasteflotie* tton ol the affairs o f the oSee. The *•*• master.Oen.rel received a letter Item the aged Postmaster a short while aeo, lh whleh he said tbat be still esloyed geod health and was able to personally write all bis reports and to attend to th# oOiSb which pays e salary ol #171 per saaam. Hel at Fane Yen. liar manner i Peculiar Sel.lcte e l P e e a te a . Mils Helen M. T. Ayres, who IWed Blew milted suicide la a peeu- nearly eotapH S .\ ‘ lure h as hem- village w ilt b West M i , Hie. Hbe was found la with bor bead bowed. Miss Ayres was eh. gaged In tbe Insurance business. M e wee a eoueln ol De Witt 0 . Ayroe, editor * the Yates County Chronicle. All Around 16 . Mass. L . Roy s curfew ordinance has g o n e UK lo effect. Tbe Union Block at Coralag has been de stroyed by Ore. Lose 600,000. - Many eases o l grip among tadtaae ea the /j Cattaraugus reeervetleu era reported. Thu - M death rate Is high. Livingston County’s I begun lest April. Is sow Tbs colonial style of srel followed. A company has been or, roan to operate a teleph> will eonoeet Ihat v\\\ Mayvllle and Ripley. Niagara Falls water works system Is ta be estendod at a cost e l eboet OSS, M i. • [ , Tbe Allegany County arsed Army i elation has decide I to assess sash lu tbe couaty two dollars lor the ol ratelag a fund to erect a sold meat on the court bouae hill at In Its e n a e s l repot Beard ol Charities at tbat th# Midlers' 1 Both •heltera • lan whose eondltlos eod enable them lo live e Miss Lean Todd, daughter e l F. M,Ta ol Cabo, baa been admitted to pra s d iw t Hbe la only twealy-tweyeers * aer \ studied lu fior father s o E ec. MtssTl the Orst womaa Alleffeay County had Uhed who hao become a lawyer. She Duel Practically a Muariso. I# a dual at Metz, Oermaey, th - nHuP. ' day Lleuteeea! He hitch tna na.oO the Ma thpc > lan lalaatry.shot aud killed a e lrlla n . In aeeordaaee wttk peror'e deer##, duels era ouly allow## eseonttoaal rases aad bribe eoeeeut * 1 Court ol Honor. THImean, wbi shored off the aMowelk by home e I act May. strew, eew with a *Mei boasted of M In tbe rarieuraats. The <•1 Honor decided that, aa he waa a m e a - I ter ol a wealthy leeUy. he wield g tre set* M I'lectio*, aud ewleeted U s u lm e e t MhUihw isaaa to raerraeat ihararimaut. -- --------------------------- -- , Kiwpra.r ml Cbiaa's Amassn a ti\ Tbe ebtel em u a eiee* otlho *W| SHSt * Chlae M tr elalag #iete < f l B M h e fh