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f Information In a Small Space.
' Three were killed and two injured
in a train-wreck near Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Nancy Welch, an Oregon pio
neer and the first white woman to set
tle in Astoria, died suddenly of heart
failure in Astoria.
By the nse of Roentgen's new dig
oovery, the "X" rays, a buokshot was
located in a man's hand, where it had
been for two years.
An Athens dispatch says that the
' German excavators near Theseum have
discovered a marble bust of the Roman
emperor, Antonius Pius.
Grant Atterbnry, a murderer, was
taken from the jail at Sullivan, 111.,
by mob, dragged to the courthouse in
bis nightshirt and hanged to a tree.
The schooner Aida, twenty-six days
from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has
made the best passage across the Pa
cific ocean on record for a sailing ves
sel. ' The oity of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was
visited by a terrible fire. The Peru
vian consulate and several blocks were
destroyed. The loss will aggregate
over $4,000,000.
Bartholomew Shea was electrocuted
in Dannemora, prison, New York, for
the murder of Robert Ross, at Troy,
N. Y., in March, 1894. tie died pro
testing his innocence.
There is believed to be a Jaok the
Ripper abroad in San Franoisoo. The
police say the murders reoently oom
mitted there are very similar to those
of the London terror.
The three-masted schooner Alhanoa,
from New York, went ashore on Plum
island, Massachusetts and was stove
to fragments. Four of the orew were
saved and three drowned.
As a result of a prizefight in Phila
delphia Frederick Schlechter, one of
the principals, died and ex-Polioeman
Huokfeder, the other principal, is in
Jail, charged with murder.
A statement prepared at the treas
ury department, under the direction
of Assistant Secretary Curtis, shows
that the government will realize from
the new loan f 1 11,878,886.97.
Governor Lord, of Oregon, has re
oeived from the United States land
offioe a certified transoript of a clear
. list of sohool indemnity selections in
The Dalles distriot, embraoiug 5,522
acres.
Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator,
will make her debut into the minis
terial profession, and henoeforth her
literary prefix will be reverend instead
of colonel . Her recent sickness was
the immediate cause of her mind tak
ing a divine turn.
Justice Morris, of Washington, D.
U, in announcing a decision of the
court of appeals for the District of Co
lumbia, ruled that while intoxication
-lay be a disease, yet if it is voluntary
and leads to commission of crime, it
ia crime in itself.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid.
The loud report was followed by a
general panic. All buidings were
shaken, and many windows were shat
tered. Aooording to the offloials of
the Madrid observatory, the explosion
ooourred twenty miles above the earth.
While proceeding from Yokohama to
Kobe, the United States flagship Olym
pia struck a gale to escape which all
team was crowded on and a speed of
twenty-one knots developed. The
atorm broke her forward deck stanch
ions and carried away her bridge rails.
Rev. J. H. Hunyoutt, a Baptist min
ister, has been arrested at Morrilltown,
Ark., oharged with infanticide. His
housekeeper's 1-year-old baby oried
while he was preparing a sermon, and
the preaoher became enraged at the an
noyanoe and choked the ohild to death.
The London Chronicle claims the
credit for the conversion of England
to arbitration, and says: "The speeches
in parliament show, that we have
reached the point where a solution is
a oertainty. The Sohomburgk line is
as defunot as the boundaries of Wee
set" ? Ht is snnounoed on authority that
following the advice of the United
States, Venesuela has practically de
cided to send a representative to Lon
don with power to open negotiations
with the government of Great Britain
for the settlement of the boundary dis
pute. Barney Beck, a printer, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. K. B. Catlin
in Anaoonda, Mont. He was pursued
by an angry mob, but killed himself
before they could capture him. In
fatuation for the woman, and her re
fusal to aooept his attentions is given
as the cause.
Cassius R. Carter, a retired sergeant
of the United States army, was found
dead in his room in the Palmer house,
Chicago. Death was caused by asphyx
iation. Carter had the distinction of
having served twenty-three years
with the Seventh cavalry, General
Custer's old regiment He partici
pated in a doaen engagements with
hostile Indians and earned a record as
a brave soldier on the frontier.
Delegate Catron, of New Mexico,
the author of the anti-priaefight bill,
1 8tly displeased at the impression
which haibeen formed that he was
acting under the advioe of Governor
Thornton, of New Mexico, in his
efforts to prevent prizefighting in the
territory. Catron made a statement
to the press, aoouaing the governor of
"standing in" with Stuart, in his de
sire to pull off the fights.
Dr. Cyrus Edson, of New York,
olaims to have discovered a remedy for
tuberculosis. He terms it aseptolin.
It is principally a solution of water
and oabrolio aoid, and is used hypoder
mioally. About fifty physicians in the
country have procured aseptolin from
Dr. Ed son's laboratory and are using
it in their practice. It has cured every
oase of malaria and la grippe in which
it has been tried, seventy-seven in all
of malaria and fifty-one of la grippe.
The Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
of Philadelphia has been awarded the
Contract for building revenue cutter
No. 8, for the Pacific coast The new
cutter is to be 160 feet long.
While the American steamer Paris,
from New York, was docking in South-
amton, she came into oolhssion with
the steamer Majesty, belonging to the
Isle of Wight The Majesty was sunk,
but all her orew were saved.
Meager details have been received in
San Franoisoo of a disastrous hurricane
on the Tonga islands, in the South
seas. The barks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no lives were
lost
Mangus C. Crosby died in Astoria,
The deceased was one of Astoria's lead'
ing business men, and was twice elect
ed mayor of the oity. He left a widow
and five children. The cause of bis
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from which he had been suffer
ing for several years.
Through Senor Andrade, its min
ister in Washington, the government
of Venezuela has notified Secretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela com
mission to submit all the evidenoe in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Count Zeppelin, of Germany, has
delivered a lecture at Stuttgart in the
presenoe of the king of Wurtemburg
and the military authorities on a steer
ing airship, whioh, it is said, will cost
about $75,000 and travels eleven miles
an honr. It is claimed such an airship
can remain in the air for 1 days.
The Brisbane river in Queensland
has been greatly swollen by floods.
A small steamer orosaing the river
with about ninety passengers capsized,
and only forty were saved. The cap
sized steamer was the ferryboat PeraL
The current was very swift and the
river banks and Victoria bridge were
endangered.
A telegram received from Irkutsk,
Siberia, says a Siberian trader named
Kouohnareff, the agent of Dr. Fridtjof
Nansen, the Narweigan explorer, who
sailed in the Fram June 24, 18U8, for
the Arotio regions, has received in
formation that Nansen reached the
North Pole, found land there, and is
returning toward civilization.
For the first time in half a century
the American falls of Niagara praotic
ally ran dry, by the formation of an ice
bridge or dam, extending from bohlos
sor's dock, on the American bank,
about halt way across the river. The
water was almost entirely diverted to
the Canadian falls. It was possible
for a time for a man with a plank to
have walked from the mainland to Goat
island without wetting his feet
Advices just received from Seoul,
the capital of Corea, say an uprising
tookplaoe there February 11, during
whioh the premier and seven offloials
were murdered. These dispatches add
that the king and crown prinoe sought
shelter in the Russian legation. The
king ordered the ministers put to
death. Iwo hundred Russian sailors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that country.
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queen's speeoh in the bouse
of commons, Sir William Vernon Bar
oonrt. supporting the amendment for
not proposing self-government for Ire
land, pointed out that the colonies,
from whioh there was evidently a
splendid testimony of loyalty to the
crown, enjoyea nome ruie, ana ne
maintained that the policy of home
rule could be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies.
A great fire raged in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, resulting in the death of
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers who were hurriedly ordered
out to help them, finally brought it
under control, thousands of panic-
stricken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
$2,000,000 had been destroyed, includ
ing the noble cathedral aud the con
vent which adjoined it
D. Willis James, of Now York, has
offered $25,000 toward paying the debt
of the American board of foreign mis
sions. The gift is to be made on con
dition that $90,000 additional be sub
scribed before March 1. The board
members are making a determined
effort to carry out the conditions of the
offer. The $90,000 has been appor
tioned as follows: Boston, $35,000;
New York, $30,000; Chicago, $25,000.
Milton Evans, chairman of the
farmers' oommittee, of Walla Walla,
has received a letter from Washington,
through Senator Squire, from W. R.
Morirson, of the interstate oommeroe
commission, iu which Morrison says
the commission had considered the
complaint made by Evans sgainst the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany, alleging that excessive freight
rates were oharged on wheat, and that
the commission has decided to make a
alight reduction from Walla Walla to
Portland, and that an order to that
effect will be issued as soon as it oan be
prepared and pointed.
THE TOTAL NUMBER
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MASSA
CRED BY THE TURKS.
These Figures, Compiled by Represen
tatives of tha Powers, Officially
Given Out by England In Another
Blue Book Just Issued.
Loudon, Feb. 19. Another blue
book on Armenia was published today,
the dispatches covering the period be
tween September. 3, 1808, and Febru
ary 11, 1896. It contains the tables
prepared by a oommittee of delegates
from the embassies of the six powers,
showing that the total number of per
sons massacred, concerning whose fate
accurate information has been obtain
ed, is 25,000.
London, Feb. 19. Under Secretary
of the Foreign Offioe George N. Cur
zon, replying to the house of commons
today to questions, said the powers
had not informed Russia that ber occu
pation of Armenia woud not be object
ed to. Suoh occupation, he added,
withont the consent of the sultan,
would be in violation of the treaties of
Paris and Berlin. Curzon also said
the statement of the Russian minister
of foreign affairs, .Prince Lobanoff
Rostovsky, that Russia was willing to
undertake to maintain order in Ar
menia was spontaneous.
FRENZIED WITH FRIGHT.
Hundreds of Woman and Girls Im
prisoned bjr Walls of Fire.
Troy, N. Y Feb. 19. A small boy,
carelessly throwing a match into a pile
of oily waste, a mass of flames and
800 girls and women frenzied with
fright, fighting for life as the hot
flames chased them, with hungry
tongues, was the beginning of a fire to
niiiht whioh consumed thousands of
dollars' worth of property and caused
the destruction of many lives. It was
just thirty minutes before the closing
hour in Stettheimer & Co.'s shirt
waist faotory on River street, and the
850 girls and women were working
rapidly to finish up. In the otting
room on the fifth floor, the 150 girls
were closing up their day's work and
preparing to leave when the whistle
blew. Lillie Kreiger, who was work
ins near a machine, called to a small
boy to light the gas over her work.
The boy struck a match and threw the
burning stub to the floor. It struck a
pile of oily rags, and in an instant the
girl was enveloped in names. With
ber olothes and hair burning, she
rushed to the window, and at once the
room became a struggling, Bhrieking
mass of humanity, filling the win
dows, the fire escapes and the only
stairway. Jamming and pushing,
tearing each other's olothes from their
backs, turning in narrow corridors to
find a sister, or mother, or friend, the
number in the exits augmented every
minute by those from the lower floors,
these girls and women fought for their
lives to get away from the flames whioh
seemed to be growing to a monstrous
size.
With rare presence of mind, Police
man f arreil, wno was on me Mireei,
seeing that in the panic a number
were liable to jump, let down the awn
ing over the entrance. Barely was it
down when two or three forms oame
flying down from the fifth and sixth
stories, and, bonnoing from the awn
ing, fell to the sidewalk.
Llilie Kreiger, over whose maonme
the fire started, was one of these. She
struok the awning, fell on ber back
and bounced to her hands and knees on
the walk. She got up and staggered
about until people helped her to her
feet again. By this time nearly every
window bad a female form dangling
from it, and when the firemen arrived
there was a hustle to get ladders up.
At least a dozen of the women and
girls were carried down the ladders and
dragged out of the corridors, the
officers and firemen going into the
midBt of the smoke.
Captain Willard, of the polioe force,
says he saw a number of girls at the
windows who never came out, but fell
baok into the flames.
Lottie and Nellie Hull, sisters,
grasped each other tightly by the
hands and started , down the stairs
from the sixth story. At the landing
of the fifth floor they encountered a
wall of flame and smoke. Nellie had
on only her corset and skirts, having
been making her toilet Lottie was
only partially dressed. She threw her
dress over Nellies' face, and together
they went through the flames. Lot-
tio's bair was burned completely off,
and when she reached the sidewalk
Nellie was burned only about her bare
arms, rney were taaen nome.
The loss by fire is from $350,000 to
$400,000, with about $100,000 insur
ance. At least 500 people are tbiown
out of work.
Nina Tersons Horned to Heath. -
London, Feb. 18. A number of hor
rible accidents occurred at a fire early
this morning in a tenement house at
No. 7 Church street, Soho, behind the
Palace theater of varieties. Five
children and four adults were burned
to death. One man 'jumped from a
window and was impaled upon the
railing of a f enoe. He was removed to
a hospital in a dying condition. Sev
eral other persons escaped from the
burning building with the greatest
difficulty.
Death of an Arctle Explorer.
New York, Feb. 18. The death near
Christiana, Norway, of Elvind Astrup1,
a member of one of Lieutenant Peary's
Arctic expedition, is announced in a
letter received by Jorgen Astrup, a
brother, who lives in Brooklyn.
Astrup was the only companion of
Peary in his march to Independence
bay, in the expedition of 1893. I
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
Routine Work of tba Flfty.Fourtb Ses
sion Henata.
Washington, Feb. 15. The friends
of the tariff bill met an unexpected
repulse this afternoon, when, by the
vote of 21 ayes and 29 noes, the senate
defeated the motion of Morrill to take
up the tariff bilL The negative vote
whioh defeated the motion, was given
by Democrats, Populists and four Re
publican senators Teller, Mantle, Du
bois and Carter. The affirmative vote
was entirely Republican, but its total
of 21 is less than half of the aggregate
Republican strength. The senate has
passed the bill authorizing the leasing
of lands in Arizona for educational
purposes; also, the bill authorizing the
First National bank of Sprague.Wash.,
to ohange its name and location; also,
the bill authorizing repairs for the
publio wharf at Sitka, Alaska.
Washington, Feb. 18. The senate
commitee on foreign relations held a
meeting today and practically deoided
to favorabldy repoit Pettigrew's bill
for the amendment of the law regulat
ing the seal fisheries. The main fea
ture of the bill is a provision permit
ting the president to have all the seals,
male and female, on the Pribyloff
islands, killed in case other govern
ments interested will not agree upon a
modus Vivendi for the better protection
of the seals, while the mateei of per
manent protection is under considera
tion by an international commission
for whioh the bill makes provision,
The committeee had also under oonsid
eration the proposition for a cable to
Hawaii. . The subcommittee which bad
this under consideration made a favor
able report without recommending
either of the propositions before the
committee.
Washington, Feb. 19. The senate
today adopted a resolution by Allen
calling on the secretary of the treasury
for information as to the amount of
money in the treasury March 4, 1889,
and March 4, 1893, and whether there
bad been a decrease of revenue, and
from what cause. Davis made a strong
speech in support of his resolution
enunciating the Monroe doctrine.
Mitchell of Oregon, chairman on privi
leges and elections, presented the views
of the majority of the oommittee favor
ing the seating of Dupont as senator
from Delaware. Mitchell has also pre
sen ted a resolution directing the ju
diciary committee to inquire if con'
gress has jurisdiction over the Colum
bia river to such an extent that salmon
may be protected, and asserting that if
steps are not taken to protect salmon
they will be destroyed. He says be in
tends to have the committee make a de
oision on the matter.
Boose.
Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten
days' debate the house today, by a vote
of 80 to 190, in oommittee of the
whole, rejected the senate free coinage
amendment to the bond bill, and re'
ported baok to the house, with a reoom'
mendation to nonconcur and insist
upon the house bill The most signifi
cant statement today oame in the form
of an ultimatum from Dingley that a
bill might be reported from the ways
and means committee looking to the
initiation by this country of a projeot
of another international monetary con
ferenoe to meet within a year. While
Dingley said he was expressing his per
sonal position in the matter, it was
generally understood from the manner
in whioh he said it that the suggestion
had already matured into a well-de
fined intention on the part of the Re'
pnblioan leaders of the house.
Washington. Feb. 18. The attack
on Secretary Morton for his refusal to
expend the appropriation for seeds in
the present -agricultural appropriation
bill was transferred from the senate to
the house today, and furnished the fea
ture of Jthe proceedings in the lower
bouse. It was led by Baker and was
supported by Moses and Livingtson,
Boatner and Meredith, borne very
harsh things were said and applauded,
especially by Boatner, who referred tn
Mr. Morton contemptuously as "teat
individual." and not a voice was
raised in his defense. The general de
bate on the agricultural bill during its
consideration, when the attack was
made, was olosed before adjournment
Several bills of minor importanoewere
passed and a resolution was adopted di
reeling the judiciary oomiinttee to in
quire into the right of an executive
officer to refuse to execute a law on
the ground of its unconstitutionality,
and to report by bill or otherwise.
This investigation crows out of con
troller Bowler's decision in the sugar
bounty cases.
Washington, Feb. 19. The agricul
tural appropriation bill occupied the
attention of the house today. A great
deal of criticism of Secretary Morton
was indulged in on both sides of the
political aisle, but, as on Monday, not
one arose to his defense. At last,
Pearson asked if there were not tome
member, Democratic, Populist or Re
publican, who would raise a voice in
bis defense. His question was greeted
with a chorus of "noes" from all sides
of the bouse. An amendment was
penidng when the house adjourned,
making mandatory the executon of the
provision in the bill for the distribu
tion of seeds. It is understood Cousins
will offer an amendment, directing the
secretary of the teasurry to withhold
the payment of Secretary Morton's
salary until this provision was exe
cuted. A Soldier's Suicide.
Salt Lake, Feb. 18. Private Mar
shall T. Mitchell, formerly of Missis
sippi, onimitted suicide at Fort Doug
lass by shooting. The cause was
despondency.
In beginning to teach deaf mutes
the art of speech, they are at first
placed before a mirror and taught to
form with their lips toe vowel sou no
THE BRYAN MURDER
EVIDENCE FOUND OF A STRUQ
CLE BEFORE DEATH.
The Bead No Longer Needed for Evi
dence, but tha Search Will Us Con
tinued William Wood Makes an
Elaborate Statement.
Cincinnati, Feb. 17. The search by
the officers to dear away the mystery
which surrounds the murder of Pearl
Bryan, the young woman, whose head
less trunk was found in this city, still
goes on. The authorities have a letter
from Greencastle, Ind., in which the
parents of Pearl Bryan identified the
hat sent to them as that of Pearl.
Some beads belonging to Pearl Bryan's
bat were found today near Fort
Thomas, where the body was dis
covered two weeks ago. The deteo-
tivei think this is a further indication
of a struggle and some violence. When
found, the hat was some distance from
the body, and was weighted down by a
boulder, tied in a handkerchief, which
has been identified as belonging to
Jackson, one of the suspects, who is in
jail here. Up to tonight nothing was
found by the foroe of workmen en
gaged in sections along the oanal,
which was emptied last night. The
officers feel that the head is no longer
needed for evidenoe, but they oontinue
the search for it so as to satisfy the
friends of the victim, who are anxious
to give the girl's whole body decent
burial. Over a thousand dollars re
ward is now standing for the head.
The fact that Jackson and Walling,
who have freely told where they put
the girl's clothing, still refuse to give
information about the head intensifies
the feeling against them.
William Wood, the third suspect,
being held in jail here, madeanelabor
ate statement today in whioh he said
there was a third man involved in the
murder, and that it would soon be de
veloped. It is thought he referred to
the driver of the hack, who took the
three people from Cincinnati across the
bridge to Newport, but no particluars
could be learned from him.
THE VENEZUELA AFFAIR.
Much Warlike Comment Provoked by
England's Alleged Action.
New York, Feb. 18. A dispatoh to
the World from Caracas says: The
story of an English vessel taking sound
ings at the mouth of the Orinoco pro
yokes much warlike comment The
people of Ciudad Bolivar, the capital of
Guiana, say the vessel is there for the
purpose of determining whether war
ships are needed to hold the Orinoco,
which is Venezuela's strong strategio
point The government has been
warned that as England is increasing
her force of men and cannon at the
stations on the Amaoura and Cuyunt
rivers, the latest movement menaces
the integrity of the nation. The press
says now is the time to teach Eng
land's arrogance a lesson.
The suggestion to arbitrate the
Uruan incident meets opposition here.
It is believed that the jurisdiction of
the disputed territory should be settled
first, otherwise it would be an admis
sion of British sovereignty.
Publio opinion is averse to treating
with England direct in the Guiana
boundary matter. The feeling is that
Venezuela should manifest its grati
tude and courtesy to the United States
by awaiting the report of the boundary
commission. It is pointed out that
when Venezuela was alone, England
never considered its desires for a peace
ful settlement, and that she only re
gards it now through fear of the United
States.
The board of directors of the English
railroad between Guiana and Bracelona
has been ordered to resume traffio, in
obedienoe to an order from the minis
ter of pubio works.
SHE IS ACQUITTED.
Mrs.
Shattuck, Convicted on 'the First
Trial, Now Goes Free.
San Franoisoo, Feb. 17. Mrs. Jane
Shattuok was tonight acquitted of the
murder of Harry Poole, for which she
was tried and oonvioted two years ago
and served over a year in the peniten
tiary at San Quentin.
The crime lor which Mrs. Shattuok
was tried was one of the most sensa
tional which has taken place in this
city for years. January 4, 1894, Mrs.
Shattuck shot and kilkd young Harry
Poole, her daughter Truly 's lover.
Truly sang in the chorus at the Tivoli
and was engaged to be married to
Poole. Mrs. Shattuck became impa
tient to have the wedding take place,
and, January 4, compelled Truly to
write a letter to Poole, telling him that
her mother was very ill and to call at
the house at once. Poole obeyed the
summons and found Mrs. Shattuck in
bed. She at once broached the subject
of her daughter's engagement and de
manded that the wedding take place at
once, rooie demurred ana was ac
cused by the mother of having been
unduly intimate with her daughter.
While the two were discussing the
case, Mrs. Shattuck became so wrought
up that she drew a revolver from under
her pillow and shot Poole dead.
In the following April Mrs. Shattuck
was tried before Judge Belcher. Her
attorneys set up a defense of insanity,
but Mrs. Shattuck was quickly con
victed and sentenced to life imprison
ment Her attorneys appealed to the
supreme court for a new trial, and af
ter Mrs. Shattuck bad served one year
in prison the appeal was granted.
Mrs. Shattuck is the second person
convicted of murder who has been so
quitted on a seoend trial during the
last two months. A short time ago
Dr. West who was oonvicted of mur
dering Addie Gilmour, was acquitted
under similar circumstances.
THE FEELING ABROAD.
Foreigners Are Buying American Se
curities, .
New York, Feb. 19. Ansel Oppen
heim, vice-president of the Chicago &
Great Western railroad, arrived from
England on the St Louis. He was at'
the Fifth avenue hotel last night, and
said: "The Englishmen have stopped
selling our securities. I have been
six weeks in England and loarned that
the English financiers believe that
American financiers are all right, but
tbey do not believe that we have
enough revenue to meet our expenses.
Tbey say that if we had sufficient reve
nue the so-called 'endless chain' of de
positing and withdrawing gold from
the subtreasuries would be broken.
There is a general feeling on the other
side that the whole world is entering
on a period of prosperity.
"The English are now buying our
securities, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding. In all this recent
trouble they did not hesitate to ad
vance me $1,000,000 for the better
ment of the Chioago & Great Western.
Before six months all first-class Amer
ican securities will be in good demand
in England, as there is a large amount
of idle money which sooner or later
must seek investment here. The En
glish prefer Amerioan securities to all
kinds of English securities. Money in
London is a drug at of 1 per cent a
year. The surplus revenue oolleoted
by the English government for the
past year was 80,000,000. English
railroad earnings and dividends are
increasing, and things look bright for
Amerioan securities in England."
SECRETS OF AFRICA.
A Race of Pigmies Whose Kxtsteuee
Was Previously Unknown.
New York, Feb. 18. Dr. Donaldson.
Smith, the young Philadelphia phy
sician who has recently experienced,
some stirring adventures on his expe
dition to Lake ( Rudolph, Africa, has.
arrived here from England on board
the St Louis. He goes direct to his.
home in Philadelphia, where he will
be busy with his book on his last
journey. Dr. Smith contemplates an-.
other expedition to Northeast Africa.
Perhaps of the greatest popular interest,
is Dr. Smith's discovery of many new
tribes whose exsitence was previously
unknown. Among these is a race of
pigmies, the fact of whose discovery
has caused something like a oommotion
in scientific circles. These people are
of a negro type, coal-black and naked.
Although of great physical beauty,
with well-formed limbs, they are bare
ly removed from animals, and their
code of morality is very lax. Later in
life they settle down and marry. These
remarkable people are between four
and five feet high, and live in primi
tive wood huts. The only industry is
corn-raising and the rearing of sheep,
and goats. Tbey are born hunters. In
warfare they use poisoned arrows, the
wound inflicted proving fatal within
an hour.
The Mrs. Lease Among the Indians.
Wiohita, Kan., Feb. 18. News has
reached here of the death of Washoe
Block, one of the most noted squaws
in the West, at her mother's home,
near Watonga, Oklahoma. She was to-
Indinas what Mrs. Lease has been to.
prohiibtion in Kansas. It is to her
efforts that the people are indebted for
the opening of all that country west of
the original Oklahoma. When the-
commissioners began to treat with the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes for their ter
ritory they met with resistanoe, but
Washoe Block mounted her horse and
in eight days secured the consent of all
the chiefs to the sale of the land to the
government. She was a woman of re
markable diplomatic skill, and a pictur
esque orator at the meetings of the
tribes. One of her sons is finishing
his eduuoation at a Cincinnati oollege,
and three more are attending the Has
kell institute in Kansas. Her daugh
ter, Muskogee, is one of the most cul
tured Indian women in Ametrica.
Washoe Block's mother, now over
100 years of age, is the great medicine
woman of the Cheyennes, and until a
few years ago made annual pilgrim
ages to Montana and Manitoba for
roots and herbs, of whose medical vir
tues she had the secret.
Philip Block, the husband of the de
ceased, is a Hebrew, who was adopted
into the Cheyenne tribe when he was
a child.
Permanent Court of Arbitration.
New York, Feb. 18. A call, signed
by Mayor Strong, Bishop Henry Pot
ter, Henry J. Bristow, ex-Justice
Charles Daly, Seth Low and William
E. Dodge, has been sent to a number of
prominent men in this city and Brook
lyn, looking toward the formation of
a commission to further the movement
now in progress in England and this
country for the establishment of a per
manent court of arbitration to settle all
disputes arising between the United
States and Great Britain.
Spaniards Killing Priaoner.
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 18. Forty pas
sengers arrived on the steamer Olivette
from Cuba tonight They say the
rumor prevails in Havana that th
prisoners in Moro castle are being shot,
as the firing can be heard in the city.
Gomes has notified Weyler that should
he attempt to repeat his atrocities of
the former revolution, that he would
be shot by Cuban assassins. A Spanish
secret service detective, Garcia, will
arrive on the next steamer, commis
sioned to remain here to spy upon ex
peditions. One Week After Ber Haaband.
New Orleans, Feb. 18. Mrs. Eliza
J. Nicholson, proprietress of the Pica
yune, died this morning. She was
suffering from the grip when ber hus
I band died a week ago, and that event
so shattered ber system that her disease
, developed into congestion of the lungs.