HfifcfcNEB GETTE; HiWe, O&ECrCvN.
J3IG ADVANCE IN SEALSKINS.
Prices Go Up About One Hundred
Per Cent.
AT THE ANNUAL SALE IN LONDON.
The Small Catch Given as tha Beaaon of
the Unprecedented Bise To
day'! Quotations.
New Yokk, Oct. 28 The annual Bale
of sealskins was held this morning in
London by C. M. Lampson & Company,
showed an advance from 50 to 100 per
cent, over the prices of last year. As
this sale determines the market of the
next two months, it would indicate that
those who desire to luxuriate in seal
skins this winter must pay well for the
privilege.
Leading fur dealers in this city said
yesterday that the advance in prices is
something unprecedented. The highest
advance made in previous years
prices of fine furs was not over 50 per
cent. This is attributed to the em; X
catch' of seals this year. It is state i
that there were but 20,000 skins taken
as coninared with 100,000 one year ago.
The average advance on Alaska seals
is 100 per cent ; on northwest coast and
Copper Island seals 50 per cent. The
latter are inferior grade.
The sales yesterday show the follow
ing average prices for raw skins: Alaska
seal middling, ioz sniiungs ; smaiis, iuo
shillings large pups, 157 shillings;
middlings, 144 shillings; small, 140 shil
lings; extra small pups, 104 shillings;
northwoHt coaHt seals, middlings and
smalls, 81 shillings; small, 70 shillings;
large pups, 70 shillings; middling pups,
88 shillings; small pups, 70 shillings;
extra small pups, 00 shillings.
MASSAOHE WOT CONFIRMED.
Hopes That the Beport From Bouth
Africa Is Untrue.
London, Oct. 28 The report that the
massacre of a number of Mashonaland
pioneers by Matabels is not confirmed in
London, and at the office of the British
South African Company nothing has
been heard to justify the rumor. How
ever, it ha caused much anxiety, as it
is well known that King Lo Hengula's
warriors are generally hostile to the set
tlement of Mashonaland and that the
king has had much dillicultyin restrain
ing them from attacking the whitos.
Tho Matabels have heretofore had free
reign in Mashonaland, plundering the
inhabitants at will nnd carrying tliem
off into slavery. They are the most
powerful military nation in bouth Africa
and can put 25,000 men in the field, and
they are well organized and drilled. At
last accounts tho British expedition was
at Fort Hampden, preparing to explore
tho country for mines and agricultural
uses. Another expedition is also out
700 strong, well provisioned, and have
light arms and breech-loading rules.
SPEAKEH HEED BOBBED,
And Unable to Pay lor His Berth In a
Sleeping Car.
Cuicaoo, Oct. 28 It has come to light
that Bpeaker Reed found himself in a
ludicrous plight while on his way to
this city, lie took tho train at Water
loo, Iowa, last Thursday night, and a
piekpockot deftly robbed him of all his
money. Mr. lteed did not discover his
loss until ho was called on to pay for his
berth, in tho sleeping car. Ho was not
satisfied that his money had been stolen
until he had made a vain hunt for it
through all his pockets. His embarrass
ment increased as the search proceeded,
but at the critical moment when ho was
about to declare his identity and throw
himself upon the mercy of the flinty
hearted conductor, who eyed him with
icy suspicion, an acquaintance stepped
forward and assumed the financial dif
ficulty. HEflQWENT AFTEK HOBBEHS.
But the Bobbers Captured Him Exploit
of a Chicago Policeman.
Cuicaoo, Oct. 28 Officer Mahony, of
the police force, is tho sorriest man in
town. Last night ho started out to hunt
burglars, thero having been many rob
boriesof late in tho suburbs of Montrose.
IIo was fortunate in bis search. Hearing
a young lady scream, ho hurried up and
discovered a highwayman in the act ot
robbing a young lady. When the rob
bers saw him they ordered him to throw
up liis hands and robbed him of his star,
watch, club, revolver and a small amount
of change, after which they set him at
liberty. Tho officer was so much sur
prised and chagrined that lie did not
report tho matter for several hours,
which was timo enough to permit the
rascal to get out of the way.
NEW MEXICAN WHITE CAPS.
The Threaton to Kill an Employer Un
til He Inareasos Wages.
Ai.nemii'RiiiiK, N. M., Oct. 28 White
caps are again at their nefarious prac
tices. At midnight Sunday night 120 of
them rodo into Lamy Junction and
posted a notice at tho storo of William
Sayles, which informed him that he
must pay his wood choppers $3 per cord
and $1 per cord for hauling.
Hayles was away at tho time, but utter
frightening the clerk almost to death,
they told him to tell Sayles that dis
obedience of the notico would result in
his death. The counties of San Miguel
and Santa Fo aro thoroughly excited
over the doings of tho white caps.
Sulolde of a Young Olrl.
Pes Moines, Oct 28 Mina Huddle, a
10-year-old girl w ho lived with her sister
in this city, started for school Friday
morning and was never seenalivo by her
friends again. After three days' search
her body was found in the lcs Moines
river. There was nothing unusual in
her actions or appearance when last
seen, but she has lioen of a melancholy
disposition for some months. It is sup
posed that she committed suicide. Her
parents live in lukn, .Marion county
Illinois. '
Committed to Jail lor Contempt.
Tipi'ehabv, Oct. 20 In the court try
ing the conspiracy caso against Dillon,
O'Brien and others, Simon Glcason and
Alice Sutler were called today for the
defense. In cross examination by coun
Bel, the witnesses refused to give evi
dence, whereupon they were committed
to jail until Friday for contempt,
Beturned After a Long Absenoe.
Vandaua, III., Oct. 28 Forty-seven
years ago Charles Adams married Miss
Sarah Houston. A year after thoir niar
riag Adams suddenly disappeared and
was never afterward heard of. A few
weeks after Adams left home a son was
born to Mrs. Adams. The mother sub
sequently died and the child was taken
to the home of its grandparents. Adams
heard of his wife's death and was in
formed that the child bad died also.
Yesterday he returned to this city, after
47 years' absence, to learn that his son,
whom he thought had died in infancy,
was a well-to-do farmer living three
miles west of Vandalia.
BEET-SUGAB 8EED8.
New Yorkers hink the United Btates
Can Baise En ouch for the World.
New York, Oct. 28 A dispatch from
Chicago published here gives a talk
with a man "who enjoys rather an inti
mate acquaintance with Secretary
Rusk," to the effect that it had been
secretly intimated in Washington that
Germany intended to prevent by exces
sive duties the sending to America of
beet-sugar seed. It was said, if this
proved true, that the beet-sugar indus
try in this country was liable to receive
a terrible blow.
This dispatch was shown to several
men interested in the industry. One of
them characterized the statement as
perfect bosh, adding that this country
was able to raise beets enough to supply
tho whole world. Another man said
that even if the German government
should practically prohibit the exporta
tion to this country of seed, which he
believed would not be done, the United
States could draw from France and Aus
tria, each of which produced as much
as Germany did.
"The beet-sugar industry in this
country cannot be injured," he added,
by anything Germany can do. It ought
certainly to thrive when it is aided by a
bounty of 2 cents a pound, recently pro
vided tor by congress, and in Kansas and
Nebraska by an additional bounty of 1
cent a pound, given by the state."
WOMEN IN SCANTY ATTIBE.
Pictures in a Syracuse Publication Cre
ate a Oreat Sensation.
Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 28 There is the
liveliest kind of a time here in Bocial
circles over the discovery in a weekly
sensational paper of pictures of promi
nent society ladies in dancing girl attire.
Some timo ago several of the leading
young ladies of Syracuse took part in an
entertainment that required skirts
which would allow free motion to
their limbs. The ladies were
subsequently photographed in recum
bent and other positions for tbe purpose
ol keeping a memento ol tne occasion.
Society was astounded today to find
splendid likenesses of some of its ladies
published in the sensational form re
ferred to. The relatives and friends of
the ladies are on the warpath, and de
clare it their" intention to make it lively
for the party responsible: for the indis
cretion, to call it mildly, lie is sup
posed to nave stolen tne pnotograplis.
THEY WOULDN'T TELL.
Two Badly Injured Men Befuse to Di
vulge How They Were Hurt.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 20 Robert
Brown, son of L. Drown, of tho Mer
maid A Jaccurd Jewelry Company, and
a friend named Giles early Saturday
morning appeared at the city dispensary
and had ugly looking knife wounds
dressed. At first they refused to divulge
their names, but Dually gave fictitious
ones and drove oft. The police investi
gated tho matter and after two days1
search ran them down, but they refused
to make any statement, and no com
plaint has been made. The parties con
corned are society men, and it is thought
tney may nave natl n personal en
counter.
ST. MARY LOST.
The Besult of Ships Colliding While
Bounding the Horn.
San Francis, Oct. 28 Advices from
Stanley, dated August 21st, report the
ship St. Mary ashore August Kith, and
that sho will bo a total wreck ; also that
tho captain is dead. Arrangements had
been mailo with two schooners to save
tho cargo for 40 per cent, of tho value
recovered. The vessol was lying in an
exposed position anil salvage was diffi
cult. Tho ship had been in collision
wilh another ship when off tho Horn.
She was run into with some violence
and the colliding vessel lost her bowsprit
and jibboom beside other damage. The
ht. Mary was badly damaged and waB
running back for repairs when lost.
MONEY AT THE BOOT OF IT.
A Dispute Over the Division of the Pro
ceeds of a Sale Leads to Murder.
Noii.vi.kh, A. T., Oct. 28 James Fur
rell, a well-known mining man, was shot
and almost instantly killed in this city
yesterday by a carpenter named Hood.
;Uter the shooting Hood walked across
the line into Mexico and started over the
hills w ith his gun in his hands, l'eoplc
started in pursuit and ho was soon over
taken. Contrary to expectations he
quietly gave up and was taken to jail on
ino luoxicau Biuo anu loeKeu up. The
shooting was the result of the refusal of
l arrell to give Rood his share of pro
ceeds lroni tho saleol Borne mining prop
erty in which he was interested.
ACT OP A MAD MAN.
Holensed Prom an Asylum He Kills the
First Man He Meets.
Bki.i.evii.i.k, Oct. 28 Ixiuis Kitten-
house, the young man recently released
from a mad house in St. Clair county,
ran amucK with a shot gun near l'rairie
I Hi Lang today. Ho first encountered
Louis Talbot, a neighbor, and fired both
barrels at the unsuspecting man, shoot
ing him in tho head and left lung. Tal
bot is not expected to survive. Kitten
house reloaded the gun, and meeting his
brother shot him in tho side. Ho next
turned on his father but, after a desper
ate struggle, was overpowered.
FOUMEU FAMOUS NIHILIST.
Now Old, in Distressed Circumstances,
and Dying.
Hr.iaiN, Oct. 28. Vara Sessolnl.
whoso adventures and hardships in con
nection with the nihilist llartmann
attracted world wide attention and
sympathy about 10 years ago, is dying at
Geneva, whither sho sought safety after
escaping from tho clutches of the Rus
sian authorities. At the time she came
into notico sho was young and beautiful,
but time has robbed her of youth, ami
iiursu treatment and exposure and
consequent Ill-health despoiled her of
her beauty, and she is now a premature
ly old woman.
Von Moltke Congratulated.
London, Oct. 28 During the celebra
tion by Count Von Moltke of the 90th
anniversary of his birth, the venerable
soldier received upwards of 2500 tele
grams and letters of congratulations
from all parts of the world.
PHOTOGRAPHED THEIR MEN.
Western Union Telegraphers Met
For Organization
AND THE COMPANY WATCHED THEM.
Their Fiotures Were 'Also Taken
Future Beference The Marked
Men Expect Discharge.
Cuicaoo, Oct. 28 About 75 commer
cial telegraph operators employed by the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
this city responded for a special meeting
this morning, and remained in secret
session for several hours. The operators
have decided to affiliate with the federa
tion of railroad employes and rely upon
their strength of union to successfully
resist the attempts of the Western Union
to oppress and disorganize them. They
refuse to disclose the proceedings of the
meeting, except to say they met to or
ganize for a benevolent purpose and that
some new men were admitted to mem
bership. The Western Union intends tocontinue
discharging as many brotherhood men
as they can afford to lose without dis
turbing their business. Local officials
resorted to a novel scheme to identify
their operators who attended the meet
ing. They rented a room in Fairing hall
in which the meeting was held and by
means of a pocket camera photographed
every one who came within its focus.
Operators who were taken will no doubt
be put on the discharged list.
A PAY CAB SEIZED.
Mexican CuBtoma Offloials Find Dutiable
Goods in It.
Ei, Paso, Texas, Oct. 28 The Mexican
Central pay car arrived in the Juarez
yard on Saturday morning and paid off
the employes there and was about to
start on the return trip in the evening,
when it was seized by the Juarez custom
officials and searched. The officers found
100 flat irons, some silks and other duti
able goods aboard, and the officers and
men in charge were arrested and tbe car
was taken in charge by custom author
ities. The pay car is always accompanied by
an officer and about 15 men as guards,
and they bought tho goods in Juarez for
the purpose ot smuggling them to the
City of Mexico. They were taken to the
City of Mexico. There was about $500
worth of goods seized. The car was re
leased, and it being found that the pay
master and his clerks had nothing to do
with tho smuggled goods, they were
furnished with a body guard and left for
the City of Mexico.
JEALOUSY CAUSED IT.
Serious Shooting Affray Over a Woman
in California.
Keowoou City, Cal., Oct. 28 About
12 o'clock last night Julian Alvarado was
shot in the face by Manuel Paloma.
Tho wound is not serious. The shooting
was caused by jealousy regarding the
affections of a woman who was brought
hero as a witness in a horse stealing case
a year ago. She was the wife of a Por
tuguese near Martinez and had been
separated from her husband by tho man
who had stolen horses from this place.
The husband assisted in the search and
the thieves were captured and sent to
prison. Since then the woman has been
living hero. A number of men have fal
len in love with her, but Alvarado in
curred the enmity of the others and the
result was last night's fracas. 1'aloma
was arrested and Alvarado and the wo
man were locked up as witnesses.
NO SEIZUBES MADE.
The Cutter Boar Pound No Poachers in
the Behring Sea.
San Francisco, Oct. 28 Information
has been received here to the oll'ect that
the United States revenue cutter Bear,
which for the last four or five weeks has
been cruising around tho eastern por
tion of Alaska in the neighborhood of
the seal rookeries, is now at Dunlaska,
from which place it is said she will re
turn to this city in a short time. It is
also stated that during her four or five
weeks' cruise in Alaskan waters she
found no poachers in Hchrine sea and
consequently made no seizures.
TOW BOAT WBEUKED.
The Boilers of the Alex Swift Explode
on Her Frst Trip.
PiTTsiiuHO, Pa., Oct. 28 W. II.
Brown's tow boat Alex Swift exploded
her boilers at one o'clock this morning
while steaming up tho Monongahela
river opposite Glenwood. The crew,
eight in number, had a miraculous es
cape from the shock of the explosion and
swam safely to the shore. The Alex
Swift was one of the lamest tow boats
on the river and was returning from her
nrst trip. Miu was a complete wreck
and will lie a total loss to iier owners.
The boat was valued at $30,000.
Bussia and France Negotiating.
Bkui.in, Oct. 28 It is learned upon
the highest authority that a Russian,
Colonel Obrutscheff, who is now in
Paris, is under instructions from the
government at St. Petersburg to con
clude an offensive and defensive alliance
between Russia and France, and it is
said that his negotiations thus far have
been highly satisfactory.
Contributors Should Discriminate.
London. Oct. 28 Bishop O'Dvvyer, of
Limerick, is quoted as saying that Amer
icans should draw a broad distinction
between contributions to starving peo
ple of certain parts of Ireland and con
tributions to funds of the national
league, and should Bee that no money
intended for charitable purposes, goes to
an illegal object.
Sugar Trust Arguments Postponed.
New York, Oct. 28 In consequence of
the death of the eister of Judge Pratt,
the arguments w hich were to have taken
place in Brooklyn today, in tho Cam
eron injunction proceedings against the
trustees of the Sugar Trust Relineries
Company nnd committee on reorganiza
tion, was postponed until Thursday.
Denounoed by the Pope.
London, Oct. 28 Dispatches from
Rome state that the Pope is preparing
another mandate to Irish Bishops de
nouncing the plan of campaign, deciding
that sacraments of the church shall be
denied all who participate in the plan
of boycotting.
Wagon Works Fail.
Ami'RN, N. Y., Oct. 28 The works
of the Auburn Wagon Company, Lim
ited, was seized by the sheriff last night
on judgments aggregating $57,210.68.
The company was forijferly called the
. D. Clapp Wagon Company, the name
being changed in Ju'Auary last. The
company was organized in' 1880 with a
capital stock of $200,000, which has all
been paid in. TheE.'D. Clapp Manu
facturing Company, spanufacturers of
carriages and hardware, is also involved,
but is still running.
OLD SWEETHEARTS MAKBIED.
Interesting Romance of an Able Actress'
Life.
Ntw York, Oct. 28 Mrs. Francis W.
Tracy, at one time the well known act
ress, Agnes Ethel, was married on Tues
day evening to Clinton Rondebush, of
this city.
A romantic fact connected with the
marriage of Mrs. and Mr. Rondebush is
that they were sweethearts years ago,
but a quarrel caused the breaking of the
engagement. They drifted apart and
soon afterward both married.
At the time of the first engagement to
Rondebush, Agnes was leading lady in
Daly's company. Clara Morris, who had
come from Cleveland as a soubrette,
took the part left vacant by Miss Ethel,
when the latter married the millionaire,
Frank Tracy, of Buffalo. Miss Morris
achieved in it her first success as a tragic
actress.
On Tracv's death, in 1885 he left a
fortune of over $1,000,003. His daugh
ter by the first wife brought suit. The
contest lasted for a year, and from the
testimony it appeared that Tracy some
times drunk a bottle of brandy a night
and four or five bottles of champagne.
The will was finally upheld.
STANLEY ON -THE WAY.
The Great Explorer Will Arrive in This
Country Next Week.
New York, Oct. 28 Henry M. Stan
ley, the African explorer, is expected to
arrive in this country on November 5th
with his wife and Mrs. Tennant, his
mother-in-law. In New York the party
will stay at the Everett house. No pub
lic appearance will be mad3 bv Stanley
in this country until he attends the re
ception to be held at the Metropolitan
opera house in this city on the evening
of November 11th, when he will deliver
his lecture for the benefit of the home
for convalescents at Summit, N. J.
The reception of Mr. Stanley on that
Tuesday evening, at the Metropolitan
opera house, in connection with this
lecture, is expected to be a noteworthy
occasion. The reception committee will
consist of 300 men, known in science,
art, literature, finance and politics; in
fact, the whole gathering, it is fully ex
pected, will be as fine as any ever ar
ranged in this country to do honor to
any distinguished person.
T H hTb TOOK MABKE T 3.
Ruling Prices in the Principal Exohanges
of the World.
Liverpool, Oct. 28 Wheat firm;
California spot, 7s4d(B'7s B.Wdj off const,
38s; just shipped, 37s 9d ; nearly due,
37s 9d.
London, Oct. 28 Silver, 49?,, ; rentes,
94 francs 47J centimes ; consuls, 04 13-10
94J.
S.vNFRANCisco.Oct. 28 Wheat steady ;
buyer '00, $1.30,4 ! buyer season, $1.44, ;
barley, inactive; buyer '00, $1.49,'.
New York, Oct. 28 United "States
bonds, 4s, 121; 4-'s, 104,'; silver, 106;
sterling, $4.8i;(o.$4.86 ; Pacific Mail,
42!; Lake Shore, 107; New Y'ork
Central, 102J6; Northern Pacific, 28;
Northern Pacific preferred, 74 ; Union
Pacific, 47'; Missouri Pacific, IM'4;
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Ol ;
Western Union, 81J;- Northwestern,
108j3'.
THE YACHT ALL BIOHT.
J P. Morgan's Corsair Did Not Bun
Ashore and Go to Pieces.
New York, Oct. 28 The report from
Southampton, Long Island, that J. P.
Morgan's steam yacht Corsair went
ashore on a rock near Shinnecock point
Saturday and was slowly pounding to
pieces is denied at Mr. Morgan's office.
A clerk, Mr. Calloway, said: "The
Corsair is out commission and has been
lying at the foot of East Fifth stroet for
the last 10 days undergoing a thorough
cleaning out, preparatory to placing
in her winter quarters in Brooklyn."
Mr. Morgan was at Southampton near
Shinnock point last week but not with
the yacht.
Indians Leave Their Beservation.
Washington City, Oct. 28 The Pres
ident this morning received government
telegrams announcing the absence of the
Wintah and Incompahge Indians from
their reservations in Colorado and the
telegram was immediately referred to
the Indian commissioner for action.
Acting commissioner Bell had several
interviews on the subject with Secretary
Noble. Mr. Bell thinks the situation
somewhat exaggerated, as at this season
of tho year these Indians usually leave
their reservations in large numbers.
News at the Navy Department.
Washington City, Oct. 23 A cable
gram was received at the navy depart
ment this morning from Admiral Belk
nap, at Yokohama, announcing the
death from pneumonia, in the marine
hospital at Yokohama, of Le Constant,
of Omaha. Le Constant was ill some
time.
A telegram at tho navy department
announces tne arrival ol the United
States steamers Portsmouth and James
town at Newport, R. I., this morning.
A London Club Case Settled.
London, Oct. 28 The charge of assault
brought by Edward Cousins Gibson
agaist Sir Thomas Freake, two other
men nnd a woman, has been comprom
ised. In order to get possession of cer
tain letters Sir Thomas Freake decoyed
Gibson into the cellar of an empty house
and there took from him the keys of his
club letter box. Sir Thomas Freake
has settled all four actions by the pay
ment of 1200 pounds and 10J costs.
The imputations made by the two sides
against each othor have been withdrawn.
Rumored Hallway Aoeident.
New Havkn, Oct. 28 It is rumored
that one of the express trains over the
short line division of the New Y'ork &
New Haven Railroad struck a party of
men at work on a bridge near Lyne to
day and that two of the civil engineers
in the employ of the road were killed.
An Ex-Oovernor Arrested.
Harribiuro, Pa., Oct. 2!) A Phila
delphia constable yesterday served
warrants in the criminal libel suit of ex
Governor Patterson, against W. F. Gor
dan, proprietor, and J. (. McLaren,
editor of the Morning Call of this city.
Both defendants waived a hearing and
gave bail in the sum of $1500 for their
appearance at the quarter sessions court
in Philadelphia. Security was furnished
by Colonel W. P. Small.
Brlgantine Eugenia Wreokek.
London, Oct. 24 The brinantine Eu
genia of Halifax, X. s., from Arajau for
this port, went ashore in Jones' Inlet,
and it it a total wreck. The crew was
saved, '
THE INDIAN BUREAU REPORT.
Annual Report of the Commis
sioner Printed.
EDUCATION HAVING A GOOD EFEECT.
Tribal Relations Breaking Up Improve
ments Being Made at the Gov
ernment Training Schools.
Wabbinoton City, Oct. 28 The an
nual report of the commissioner on In
dian affairs was made public last night
It makes a printed volume of 131 pages,
or sufficient to fill about 35 columns of
an ordinary newspaper. It states (hat
the system of education for Indians and
the breaking up of their tribal relations
is proving very valuable and acceptable
to all parties concerned.
The public school system for Indian
children is being rapidly pushed forward,
and its value is now recognized by many
Indians, who are asking for more schools.
The system of alloting lands in severalty is
also proving valuable and generally ac
ceptable, and many Indians are clamor
ing for the right to have homes of their
own and to become citizens. At tne gov
ernment schools the flag is respected and
the national holidays and patriotism
recognized.
Tho government training schools, with
improvements now being made, will be
able next year to afford accommodations
for 2000 students. They are located in
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Oregon, Nebras
ka, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Nevada,
Colorado, Arizona, and North and South
Dakota. The cost is about $170 per an
num for each student. There are also
03 government boarding schools on res
ervations. The commissioner favors distributing
Indian children among the public
schools in the United States in order
that they may obtain not only the
knowledge taught in the Bchools, but
that to be obtained by being brought
into contact with civilization. He also
favors compulsory education for Indian
children. The total enrollment in the
Indian schools for the year, aside from
Sew York Indians and the five civilized
tribes, is 10.377 pupils.
He urges legislation to prevent the
sale of liquor among the Indians and
especially calls attention to the demoral
izing effect of "wild west" shows, both
upon the Indians who are permitted to
go with them and upon those who go to
see the show. Ihe employment ot In-
dianB of good character as police in their
agencies and reservations is commented
upon at length, anil the number of In
dian police is given at 770. Indians are
being encouraged in farming by all prac
tical methods and are making fairly
satisfactory progress.
FOREIGN AFFAIB8.
A Bevolution in Hawaii Fredioted
Strikers Firm in Australia.
San Francisco, Oct. 28 Tha steamer
Zealandia arrived from Sydney and Hon
olulu, yestorday, bringing the follow
ing advices :
Albert Loomens, who was sentenced
to death for taking part in the Hawaiian
revolution in July last year, has had his
sentence commuted to banishment from
the kingdom and has sailed for San
Francisco.
An episode transpired in the Hawaiian
legislature recently which augers no
good for the peace of the country. The
report of tho postoliice was under
consideration, when Wilcox, who
was the leader of the late
revolution, said: "There will be
a new government before a year;
there will be no king and I will take a
hand in it." On being called to order
Wilcox insulted the president by saying
that "he had very little brains."
When the Zealandia left Sydney the
men on strike in the various colonies
were still firm. A conference having for
its aim the amicable settlement of the
existing dispute was sitting.
Since the riot of wool handlers of Syd
ney there has been other disturbances
at Melbourne and New Castle. The
coal mines are nearly blocked and 50,000
tons are awaiting shipment. There are
now over 50,000 men out in New South
Wales.
CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
Desperate Efforts to Get Government
Clerks to Contribute.
Washington City, Oct. 28 Collectors
of campaign funds from department
clerks have beon making most desperate
efforts to get hold of some money for the
congressional election, but so far their
success has been anything in the world
but glowing. The Indianians here are
the only ones who have contributed any
thing worth talking about, nnd that was
only 7000. Most ol this came from the
army of Indianians who fill important
places, such as have trom $3000 to $4000
a year; but the rank and file simply
won't contribute.
The Ohio republicans were called to
gether after office hours and urged to
contribute the pittance of three per cent,
of their salaries. They all demurred on
the ground that it might get them in
to trouble. In vain their attention was
called to the fact that the grand jury had
failed to find a true bill against the Vir
ginia republican associ ition for collect
ing tribute. The Ohio men put on their
hats and went home. There is some
little money collected from the higher
officials from Ohio, as in the case of the
Indianians, but it doesn't amount to
much, as the campaign managers tear
fully lament. The Civil Service com
mission isn't worrying over this tiie
least in the world.
CARROLL AT WALLA WALLA.
An Old-Faahioned Mass Meeting Filled
With Enthusiasm.
Wai.i.a Walla, Oct. 28 .V genuine
old-fashioned democratic rally was held
here last night, and the reception ac
corded to Thomas Carroll and Judge
Nush was most enthusiastic. At the
court house Mr. Carroll delivered a
speech convincing enough to convert the
blackest republicans and make them
ashamed of their party collar.
Mr. Carroll dwelt exhaustively on the
silver question, showing conclusively
that the republican party was the tool of
Wall street manipulators. National
affairs were discussed as only one who
thoroughly understands them could
handle them.
Comparing the democratic and repub
lican ca ml hinted for congress in this
state, mentally and physicially, in intel
ligence and manliness of manner, one
can only wonder how any citizen of
Washington can vote for Mr. Carroll's
opponent. The speech was frequently
interrupted by enthusiastic rounds ot
applause.
judge Nasn then made a Bliort speech
on current questions of the day and
wanted to have some one point in J. L.
Wilson's record anything that tended to
benefit his constituency, and made the
broad assertion that Wilson's record is a
blank; that he is a negative man of the
most pronounced kind and never will,
through natural inherent opinions, be
able to represent Washington in congress.
STOLE AN ENGINE.
Mad Freak of a Man Who Was Denied
a Free Pass.
Readino, Pa., Oct. 29 Shortly after
midnight an unknown stranger rushed
into the desnatcher's office of the Read-
ingJRailroad here, and demanded a free
pass to Lebanon. hen it was refused
he threatened to fight the official
and rushed out into the train gallery,
where two engines and an emply pas
senger train of four cars were standing.
At the point of a pistol the man drove
off the engineer ot one of the engines and
mounted the cab himsell, keeping oil an
officer with his drawn pistol. The man
with his other hand pulled the throttle
and the engine started with a rush.
The locomotive crashed into a passen
ger car and pushed it and engine ahead
and oil' they started for Lebanon at a
high rate of speed. After going half a
mile an ollicer who had jumped on the
train shut down brakes and stopped it
just as a posse of officers caught up to
the rear engine. The man then
leaped from the cab and escaped in the
darkness and the train was brought
back to this city. The offender has not
yet been apprehended. The rear plat
form of the rear car was smashed.
DENNIS KEARNEY BOBS UP.
The Loud-Mouthed Agitator a Candidate
for Congress in New York State.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 28 Dennis
Kearney, formerly a labor agitator in
San Fra .cisco, now of Yonkers, and who
is a citizens' candidate for Congress in
the Fourteenth congressional district,
called upon the secretary of state yester
day, and upon his own admission
that a large number of names attached
to the petition accompanying his certifi
cate of nomination tiled with the secre
tary were written either by himself or
his attorney also on account of the
affidavit attached not being properly
drawn the secretary of state rejected
his certificate of nomination.
This was the first and only independ
ent nomination so far filed with the
secretary of state. The secretary of state
also rejected the certificate of nomina
tion of Frederick Bennetts, of Yonkers,
N. Y., the socialistic party's nominee for
congress in the Fourteenth congressional
district for the reason that the requisite
250 signers had not signed the petition
accompanying the certificate of nomi
nation.
BEHBINO SEA CONTBOVEBSY.
Sir Julian Fauneefote Will Renew Ne
gotiations With Seoretary Blaine.
Washington City, Oct. 28 Sir Julian
Pauncefote has returned to this city,
and on Secretary Blaine's return on
Thursday will renew negotiations con
cerning the Behring sea controversy.
Regarding the Behring sea question he
says: "I shall renew my proposition
for arbitration, for that is the only sure
remedy for the existing condition of
affairs. I propose following the provis
ional regulations, which say that pelagic
sealing must be prohibited in Behring
sea, the sea ot Okotsck and the adjoin
ing waters during certain portions of
the year."
Will Practice Tolstoi's Tenets.
Beklin, Oct. 28 A colony of Russian
gentlemen and ladies has been formed
at Vishnee Volotchok, a large town on
the river Tsa, in the government of Tver,
with the object of practicing the sexual
tenets of the novelist Tolstoi. Ihe colo
nists are all young, of the educated
classes, and are well provided with
funds, many of them being possessed of
large fortunes.
Italian War Expenses.
London, Oct. 28 The official reports
of the Italian war department just issued
show that for the fiscal year just closed
the expenses of maintaining the various
branches ot the Italian military estab
lishment were little more than 003,000,
000 lire. In this sum is included the ex
penses of various colonial garrisons.
GENEBAL TELEGBAPHIO NEWS.
Snow fell at Valparaiso, Ind., yester
day.
Premier de Freycinet, of France, is
conhned to his bed by rheumatism.
A meeting of the lady managers of
the world's tair has been called and will
take place in Chicago November 18.
Lieutenant Wyse telegraphs La France
trom Bagota, that Panama canal nego
tiations are certain to be beset with diffi
culties.
A general parliamentary election was
held in Greece yesterday. The govern
ment was defeated, retaining only one-
tlura tne seats.
Count Von Hartenau, who was for
merly known as Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria, has been gazetted colonel of
the Austrian army.
Clark & Partridge, proprietors of the
i;ueen Uity pinning mills, at Buffalo, N
Y., have made an assignment. The
preferences aggregated $10,000.
The Russian government has closed
the Catholic churches in the govern
ments ot ouivnia and l'edolmia, and
the Dominican monastery at Osa.
At Austin, Tex., Bill Darnwell, an ex
policeman, yesterday afternoon shot and
Killed Maggie Null and then blew out his
own brains. Drink and jealousy was the
cause ot ms act.
Mrs. Smith, sister of Mrs. A. 1). Starr,
a well known milliner of Oakland, Cal.,
was probably fatally burned vesterdav.
her dress catching lire from some paper
sue was burning in a sued.
Thirty-two bishops who assisted in
the recent Catholic Congress at Sara
gossa, have Bent a petition to the queen
of Spain, asking her to interfere in the
matter of the unjust treatment of the
pope.
In a row in St. Louis yesterday after
noon John Met une, a negro, was killed,
and Abe Thomas and Walter Stevenson
were seriously wounded. Byron Scott
and a negro, who were implicated, were
placed under arrest.
The United States steamer Thetis,
which was ordered to the Central Amer
ican coast during the war between Guat
emala and Salvador a few months ago.
arrived at San Francisco from San Jose
de Guatemala last night.
The steamship Zealandia, which ar
rived at San Francisco yesterday from
Australia, brought $2,000,000 in English
sovereigns, which will be received at the
mint, fhe money is in return for Amer
ican products shipped to Australia.
The London Telegraph publishes a
dispatch from a correspondent in St.
Petersburg, saying that it is believed seri
ously in diplomatic circles there that Gen
eral Obruschetf, who is now in Paris, is
authorized to formulate military condi
tions for a regular alliance between
France and Russia,
VANDERBILT TAKES A HAND,
Secures an Interest in the Reading
Syndicate.
THE TRANSFER HAS BEEN SIGNED.
The Change Will Make No Differenoe
In the Policy of the Bailroad
at Present.
Philadelphia, Oct. 29 The belief that
the Vanderbilts have taken an interest
in the Reading railroad syndicate, orga
nized less than a year ago to control a ma
jority of that company's stock, has been
quietly confirmed in New Y'ork. H. B.
Hollins has signed papers transfering to
las firm, H. B. Hollins& Son, represent-
ing the Vanderbilts, of the syndicate
holdings of W. W. Gibbs of this city.
That syndicate, which was really hos
tile to Austin Corbin, the late president
of the Reading railroad, was held in
check by the voting trustees,"' Austin
Corbin, John Wanamaker, John Lowber,.
Welsh and J. Pierpont Morgan, who
obtained control of the Reading stock at
a cost of not less than $8,000,000, amL
interest at 5 per cent, to the present,
time would increase that cost to $8,330,--000.
In August, the syndicate agreement"
will expire. Long before then the syn
dicate members hope they will be able,.
especially with the new Vanderuilt alli
ance as an anchor, to raise the value of
their holdings so as to close out at a o
per cent, interest profit, if not a specu
lative margin. There is to be no change
in Heading's present policy of extension
and that policy is more than likely
to embrace the building of the South
Pennsylvania railroad.
DYNAMITE CABTBIDGES.
New Invention for Their Successful Use
Developed.
Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 29 This city
seems destined to become identified with
the development of dynamite cartridges.
Dr. Justin is not alone in the field now.
Edward Lefevre, of the Lefevre Arms
Company and John Brimer, an employe
of that concern, have successfully con
ducted an experiment of discharging.
dynamite cartridges from a two inch
gun.
The experiment took place on the old
Wadsworth farm near Geddis. Three
shells were fired at a range of one-quarter
mile into the hillside. Each shell i
sped safely and exploded only when it
struck the target.
These shells in no way infringe on the1
patent of Dr. Tustin, tbe only similarity
being the use of an outer and inner shell. .
In the Justin shell the air is used as a
cushion; in the LeFevre shell the cush
ioning for the inner chamber, which i
contains the explosive, is accomplished .
by springs nicely graduated.
KILLED BY POISON.
One Indian Puts Another Out of Hisi
Way in That Manner.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 29 Meager
particulars have reached this city of a.
tragedy which took place in Tulare
county yesterday, in which two Indians -figured.
One of them named Sereno
succeeded in getting out of the way..
He succeeded in administering a fatal!
dose of poison to his enemy without ,
exciting any suspicion on the part of his .
victim, who in a short time expired in;
great agony. The cause of the tragedy
was an old grudge between the two In
dians, and it is thought that there may
have been ill feeling on account, of. in
woman of whom both were- enamored;.
News of the crime reached this city this"
morning. Sereno was arrested today and
is now in jail. He will be brought to
Los Angeles by a United States deputy -
marshal.
NO EEFLEUTION ALLOWED.
Deeision Begarding the Use of Printed '.
Matter on Envelopes.
Rutland, Vt., Oct. 29 J udge Hoy t H. .
Wheeler, of the United States district -court
of Vermont, lias decided that the
law prohibiting the mailing of envelopes i
having on their outside words calculated 1
to reflect injuriously on the character of i'
any one is violated by sending through i
the mails letter contained in envelopes
bearing the words "Excelsior Collection i
Agency," printed in large letters across i
the upper half of the envelope.
Judge Wheeler says: "The printed!
wo.ds are separate from the direction to
return to the respondent if notesiiled for, ,
in the lower left hand cornor, and: were
obviously placed there to attract atten
tion and cause the delinquent to make1
speedy payment of debts due. The ob
ject probably was to make the person1,
nav up to avoid the return of the reflec
tion." A LUNATIC AT LARGE.
Many Threatening Letters Beoeiwod" by
Besidents of Lattin.
Kondovt, N. Y., Oct. 29 Somebody
who signs himself "Jack the Kipper"
and says he has killed 12 persons and in
tends to kill three more, is writing,
threatening letters to people in Lattin, a .
town in Ulster county. Last Sunday
night somebody, supposed to be the
writer of the letters, fired two pistol
Bhots through a window of the house of,
William W. Mackey. It is said that at
tempts have also been made by an un
known man to take the life of the village
school teacher. . A reward has been '
offered for the capture of the man who is .
supposed to be guilty of these offenses,
and armed men are scouring the country
for him. It is supposed that the man ia
an escaped lunatic.
General Boberts Dead.
New York, Oct. 28 General Roberta
died in Brooklyn late last night, aged 72
years. He enlisted in the United
States army more than half a century
ago, served in the Indian Mexican wars
and the One Hundred and Sixtv-ninth
regiment of New York volunteers. He
was a warm personal friend of Lincoln,
Grant and McClellan. General Roberts
was appointed postmaster at Brooklyn
by President Lincoln, and served in that
position for two years.
Cloakmaker Fails.
New Y'ork, Oct. 28 L. B. Plant, a
cloak manufacturer, at No. 394 Broad
way and proprietor of the hotel Ven
dome, made an assignment today for the
benefit of his creditors. Arrangements
are being made by which the business
will be carried on as usual.
A Tacoma Ship Wrecked.
London, Oct. 29 The British bark
Hazlebank. from Tacoma for Hull ha
stranded on Goodwin eands. The crew
were sately landed at Dover.
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