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I tlon of affairs the most beneficial thing We could do, would be to pass the neces­ sary appropriation bills and go home. The mere fact thai wo are in session is a men­ ace to the revival of business and the re turn of prosperity." LYNCHING IN ILLINOiS THE PLA1KDEALER J. VAH SLYKE, Editor and Pub. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW- MAKERS. TRAGIC FATE OF A YOUNG IN DIANA GIRL. GRANT ATTERBURY HANGED BY A MOB AT SULLIVAN. IfcHENBY. TtLINpt' FOREIGN, He Wa8„Charued with Murdering Hie Own Father and Assaulting His Sis- ter-in-JLaw -- PiriKOijfcr's Desperate Fight--Hiihr iu the Public Square. A Week's Proceedings in the Halle of Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An Impar­ tial Resume of the Business. Three Men Are Held for the Mftrder of Pearl Bryan--Maze of Contradictory Confessions -- Her Headless Corpse Found and Identified. BOAT'S GHASTLY LOAD FIVE CORPSES AND SIX UNQ6N SCIOUS MEN. Drifts Ashore on a Florida Island- Depot Usher Killed by the Man He Was Trying to Serve--Kansas Town Haa Oil Fever, Cast Up by the Sea* A boat eon taming five corpse men barely alive drifted ashore Tm Do;,' Island, off Carrabelle, Fla. When dis­ covered the survivors were lying uncon­ scious on 'the decomposed corpses of tirfcir com pa nioivs. La£t week the eleven mow left Key West on a smack to fish on the west troast. When two days out the smack was wrecked, the men escaping in •jt boat without food, water or clothing- Three days afterward Frank Mason died, and soon after Max Thornton, Alfred • Stafford, Joe West and Nathan -Adaips "succumbed. The survivors were too weak to throw their dead comrades into the. sea, a-nd the corpses.,remained in the boat. For the list two days Gilbert I lohnes '.wits the only one Conscious, and he does not remember all tbat happened. - The acetic in the boat was horrible. I he living and The dead were tumbled to­ gether. The Corpses seemed to-be gnawed in places; and' the fishermen suggested that'in desperation the survivors tried to sustain life on the flesh of their dead companions. The six survivors are being cared for on Dog Island. Several ot'i them seem to have been rendered insane by their sufferings. Tragic Death at A Depot. Edward II. Masterson, an usher at the Pennsylvania Railroad station iu New Brunswick, N. J., was deliberately pushed in front of a train Thursday night and so shockingly injured that he died an hour later. Thomas E. Donlan. of Philadel­ phia, twho caused Mastersou's death, at­ tempted to escape, but was seized and taken to the police station. In the angry crowd were several who attempted to do him injury, but they were kept away. Masterson was standing at the edge of the platform, warning passengers of the ap­ proach of a fast freight. Just as a switch engine was hastening past to get :>ut of the way Donlan attempted to cin^s the tracks. Masterson tried to force "the man back, when Donlan became angry and gave the usher a sudden push, which sent him headlong to the track iu front of the passing train. Fire Horror at Ecuador. Tha lire that swept through the City of Guayaquil. Ecuador, did not result in so many deaths as at first reported, but the property loss was much greater. Only five members of the fire brigade were killed, though forty were wounded, sev­ eral so severely that the death list may be materially increased. More than 134 houses, including several public buildings of great beauty and one or snore of his­ torical interest, were destroyed. Among the latter were the cathedral and the convent adjoining. The loss-is conserva­ tively estimated at $4,000,000. The panic- that seized upon the people of the city hampered the work of. the Are brigade, ami it is a wonder that, the loss to life and property was not much greater. NEWS NUGGETS. •bonds, and-find-that fhey are short in the supply they' expected to get. Late in the day, too, came a report from Washington saying that the Morgan- syndicate „ was only to. get $33,000,000 of the loau. This was a great surprise, as on Wednesday the general opinion of those who heard the reading of the bids, was that Mr- Mor­ gan would get at least $50,000,000, and Mr. Morgan reported the treasury clerks had given him $57,000,000 as his probable allotment. At the subtreasury in New York there was an inrush of gold for ex­ amination, which means that those who are in and above the Morgan bid are placing their gold for safe keeping in the treasury vaults until the arrival of the official notification thai bonds have been allotted to them. A three-masted schooner was wrecked Sunday night half a mile off Salisbury beach, near Amesbury, Mass., The schooner, presumably the Floritfa, of Rockland, Me., was driven on the beach iu a heavy northeast gale: The sea was so heaA' that-to-lminch a-small boat was out of the question, yet in the face of this peril two of the crew could be seen mak­ ing the attempt. The boat was taken up by a huge wave and tossed beyond their reach. The crew made for the rigarffuJ, one, thought to be the captain, lasning himself to"theTintTufEast, where through a glass an hour later he appeared to be dead. Five.of the others took tO' the'miz- V.enmast, lashing their bodies to it, while rhe-seventh-iivan lashed himself to the other majt. The Plum Island life-saving crew was notified and drove over the ten miles of rough road in the lifeboat behind foiir horses, Soon afterwards two bodies were washed ashore, and soon after, it )«-arfed for a few minutes, when it was cen that the masts had been swept away 'and the other live had gone down to a watery grave. " • v By a vote of 215 to 90 Friday the House refused to concur in the Senate's free silver amendment to the bond bill. • The Brisbane river at Brisbane, Queens­ land, has been greatly swollen rec-eutly, owing to the floods. While a small steam­ er was crossing the river Thursday, with about eighty passengers mi board, she was i-apsized and only forty persons were sav­ ed. A bloody battle took place at a school house in Hopkins Cunty, Texas, in which Charles Walker was killed outright, Wil­ liam Walker receiving a fatal wound and Elton Walker a,scalp wound. Jack Wil­ liams was shot ...through both thighs and will die. - A man who has lived in Butte, Mont., for several months under the name of John Ladusky was betrayed by his wife as the man who destroyed the residence of Mar­ tin Buckly at Basin, Mont., with dyna­ mite several months ago, with the inten­ tion of killing Buckly and his entire fam­ ily. The woman betrayed her husband because he beat her nearly to death. A negro burglar, or a white man black­ ened up, entered the house of Jefferson Smith at Dallas, Texas, at midnight Thursday night. Smith grappled with him and was stabbed in the back three times and is believed to be fatally in­ jured. His wife tried to assist him and the assassin crushed her skull with a blow from an axe. She is unconscious and cannot recover. Edward Webster, chief grain inspector at. Galveston,, Texas, reports that from Oct -12 to Jan. 29 there was exported from that port to foreign points 2,018,697 bushels of corn. So far during the present month there has been exported about 300,000 bushels, making the total trrain exports thus far this season nearly 3,000,- 000 buffliels, With nearly 1,000,000 bush­ els on hand awaiting tonnage. Brenson, ,a small town in Kansas, is much excited over the action (if the Standard Oil Company, which intends to open oil wells plugged there a"year ago. The company a year ago drilled several wells at ferenson, but soon plugged them up, and this gave rise to a suspicion that oil had been found and the company was suppressing the fact. The company has now begun to unload oil-drilling and oil pumping machinery at Brenson, and the citizens believe this substantiates their theory of deception. Wood & Robinson, New York lumber dealers, assigned to Andrew M. Under­ bill, with preferences for $9,403. Assets and liabilities about $40,000 each. Fear is entertained in Valparaiso that. Argentina will begin war with Cliili in April. A Valparaiso dispatch says it has "Xbeen agreed to settle all the French claims for $25,000. , WESTERN. : . At Omaha fire gutted the three upper stories of the building occupied by the Nebraska Dry Goods Company, whole­ salers. Loss, $41,000; insurance, $37,- Mrs. "^WHUiiMn Runuells, an old and prominent citizen of St. Paul. Minn,, died at a hospital, where she was being treated for the extremely rare Raynaud's dis- ea se. Grant Atterbury, charged with assault­ ing Mrs. Roxy Atterbury, his sister-in- law,^ was taken from the Sullivan, 111., jail at midnight Tuesday and hanged to a tree by a mob. " A train on the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, while making the trip around the Georgetown loop, near Denver, Colo.. Sunday afternoon, was blown from the track and all the passengers more or less injured. At McVicker's Theater on Monday even­ ing, Feb. 17, Mr. James A. Heme began an extended engagement, again appearing in his famous Chicago success, "Shore Acres." This wonderful story, as a speci­ men of American play writing, is far ahead of any other play now known, and we will probably not look upon anything like.it.in many a day. It presents, without .exag­ geration. without satire, the life of a se­ questered, narrow people; but the old ele­ ments of love, hate, avarice and unselfish­ ness are shaken into new shapes, the sub­ stance being endurable as ever. There is absolutely no villainy in it. The plot is simple, the action direct, the sentiment unrestrained, the tread pathetic, the moral wholesome. Nobody is.out of his sphere^ The business episodes are probable, the financial plans within bounds, and the love-making genuine poetry. The story of Lulu Hollingsworth see­ ing Pearl Bryan, the murdered Green- castle girl, in Indianapolis on Jan. 2S is exploded by the established fact that she was in Cincinnati on both the 27th and 28t.ii. Two careful post-mortems abso­ lutely exclude the theory of criminal op­ eration actual or attempted, as well as death by poisoning. T'ue knife cuts on the poor girl's hand, made while strug­ gling for life with her murderers, and the pool of blood where she lay set at rest the theory that she was first killed by anaes­ thetics and then taken out and beheaded. The Indianapolis police have released Lulu May Hollingsworth, and it is gen­ erally believed that the sensational'storles she told were sheer fabrications. It is believed the whole scheme was one be­ tween the murderers on one side and the girl on the other, to save their necks. A check which she had indorsed was found, and a comparison of the handwriting with that of the letter received by Marshal Starr, notifying him that the girl was in possession of"" important facts, shows such a close resemblance that the officers now think she wrote it ariff'thus put them on the trail herself. A disastrous wreck occurred near Don- gola, on the Illinois Central Railroad, 340 miles from Chicago, at 0:45 o'clock Tues­ day morning, between a passenger train bound for Chicago and a south-bound freight train, Five of the passenger crew were killed and three hurt. None of the passengers was killed, and, so far as known, none was injured. The dam­ age to the railroad property is very heavy, as the freight cars were piled up in frightful confusion. Passenger coaches, also, were totally wrecked, and the track torn up for a great distance. The men killed had homes in Centralia, as did those who were wounded, that being the end of the division. It is said that. Engi­ neer Huntington had ample time to escape had he jumped when the light of the freight first appeared. But he seems to have stuck to his i>ost and done all pos­ sible to reduce the force of the collision. The result is that he lost his life, though he undoubtedly saved the lives of his passengers. Had he abandoned his engine in time to secure his own safety, the shock must have been intensified to a tremendous degree, and, instead of slight injuries, scores of passengers must have been killed. A Frenclr newspaper published on the Island of^Rfeunio'n prints a message from its correspondent at Antananarivo, dated Jan. 24, declaring that a great conspiracy has \ been discovered there. The corre­ spondent asserts that 4,000 Hovas attack- fed the French, but were repulsed with a loss of 3,000 killed. 'CoJititlflitlff.'the" cor­ respondent says a rumor lifts reached him that a number of French officers and sol­ diers'have be£h murdered and that four­ teen Hova chifefs have been condemned to death. He adds that the French resi­ dent ordered them to be shot immediately and .that several other chiefs were sen­ tenced to transportation. The news is nor officially coritirmed. , Advices from Honolulu say that unless Secretary "Olney apologizes for the ac­ tions ef Minister Willis that official ma^r be given his passport soon. The trouble grew out of an invitation '-issued by the, Hawaiian foreign office to the diplomatic corps to participate in the national holi­ day of Jan. 17, the JlirtiivefJfary of the overthrow of the monarchy. Willis re­ fused to take part in the celebration oil the ground that President Cleveland did' dot approve the manner in which the; monarchy was overthrown.- Julian D. Hayne, editor of the Hawaiian, a month­ ly magazine published at Honolulu, ar­ rived at San Francisco on the steamship Australia. He takes a very pessimistic view of the present government' of Ha­ waii and says the Japanese are becoming so numerous there and so firmly rooted that the islands lire in danger of becoming mere outposts of Japan. Ex-Consul Waller wilt soon be a free man. s Ambassador Eustis, at Paris, has been instructed to accept the offer of the French" government to release him from further imprisonment and to pardon his offense, on condition that the affair be thereby terminated as between France and the United States, and that the latter make no claim in behalf of the prisoner based upon his arrest, conviction or im­ prisonment. Waller may, however, sue in the French courts for damages for ill treatment. The record shows that Waller is not only guilty of the charges made against him by the French authorities, but that he has never had a case of suf­ ficient merit to justify anything more than an inquiry as to the facts on the part of this government. John L. Waller is a colored man and was born in Missouri in 1850. He was confiscated at the fige of 11 years and taken to Iowa, where he received a com­ mon school education, read law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Kan­ sas in 1S7S. and soon became prominent in the politics of the Southwest. He a Republican. He held various offices and iu 1S91 was appointed consul to Tama- tave, Madagascar. At the expiration of his term he decided to stay there and se­ cured a concession, embracing 225 square miles of timber laud, especially valuable for the rubber it produced: Last, year, after Waller had refused to trade con­ cessions with a French syndicate, he was thrown into prison, charged with conspir­ ing with the native Hovas to overthrow the French protectorate. He was given court-martial trial and sentenced to twen­ ty years' imprisonment. He was brought to France in chains and subjected to other indignities until the United States took up the case and demanded better treatment and a fairer investigation than had been accorded him. . IN GENERAL, Count Magre, who married General Tom Thumb's widow, has ordered a bi­ cycle. It is to have a fourteen-inch wheel and twelve-inch frame, is to weigh ten pounds and will cost $250. W. W. Astor gives as his reasons for asking Henry J. C. Cust to resign the editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette the "constant sneers and disparaging com­ ments on America" printed in the paper and the "habitual disregard of Mr. As- tor's instructions." About- twelve thousand three hundred tons of sugar are now afloat on the way to Philadelphia from Alexandria, Egypt. These cargoes are on board British steam­ ships, and are diie about March 1. The importation in large quantities of Egyp­ tian sugar is a new thing, made necessary through the apprehension that the Cuban crop, by reason of the war, will be very poor. In addition to this large quantity considerable sugar is being shipped from Hamburg in British steamships and from Honolulu in American clipper-ships. R. G. Dun <& Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The wonderful success of the popular loan alters the face of eveuts. The influence upou all manufacturing and all trade cannot be lightly estimated. It puts the treasury on a safe basis for the time, whether Congress does anything useful or not. It notifies foreign nations that the United States has power as well as purpose. It unlocks millions of gold which have been gathered in preparation, brings directly several millions of gold from Europe, and stimulates the anxiety of foreign investors to obtain American securities. With such a revolution in business suddenly effected, the customary records of the last week and month are of less value than usual." WASHINGTON. At. Terre Haute, Ind., the jury in the case of the tWree Kellers, indicted for the murder of Clara" Shanks, Friday morning brought in a verdict of not guilty. The .ease was brought on a change of venue from Parke County. EASTERN. Late Friday afternoon the treasury offi­ cials completed the computation of the bids received for the new bond issue, from which it appears that the amount of the bids above that of J. P. Morgan and his associates (,$110.6877) was $00,788,05(3, and that the amount which will be award­ ed to the syndicate therefore will be $33,- 211,350. or approximately one-third of the whole issue. The number of success­ ful bidders is 781, distributed all over the United States. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, address­ ed the Senate Monday in opposition to the Monroe doctrine resolution. There was, he argued, no occasion for any ac­ tion of any kind upon this subJWt at this time. Both houses of Congress by the passage of the resolution providing for the appointment of a commission to det^-t mine the tr.ue divisional line between Ven­ ezuela and British Guiana had done all that the President and Secretary of State, charged with the responsibility of diplo­ matic negotiations with other powers,, de­ sired, and all that the people expected. "We have," he said, "done all that either prudence can justify or patriotism de­ mand." Later on ;n his speech Senator Smith said: "The people have had enough They want no more jingoism. They are • sick and tired of the constant injection of Story of a Dark Crime. j". The funeral of Pearl Bryan was held at Greencastle, Ind., and the services were spoken over a headless corpse. While the relatives were in the vault there was a meeting of the young and middle- aged men of the city, and it was said later that some--twenty- five or thirty of these pledged themselves to each other to ^wnvenge the girl's ^ \'death if the murder- > ^ ers were not hanged by the law. The or-51 .i wii.i. wood. g a n i 7, a t i p n thus formed is said to be regarded simply as the nucleus of a larger one which will take the law into its own hands if Scott Jack- sbn, Alonzo Walling and Wm.' Wood es­ cape the extreme penalty in the Cincinnati courts. \ ' The morning of Saturday, Feb. 1, there Was found,, at Fort Thomas,. Ky., the headless corpse of a young woman. For a time, identification was impossible. But inquiry was being made for Pearl Bryan, a Greencastle girl.- who had left her home with the avowed purpose of visiting a friend "at Indianapolis. • She was accom­ panied. to tho train by Win. Wood, son of a Methodist minister, and went to Indian­ apolis, stopping there only between trains. She then went on to Cincinnati. Nothing was thought of her temporary absence from home; but when the time came for her return, and she came not, the family began to wonder. Then came the account of finding the headless body of a woman near Cincinnati, and the announcement that the corpse wore shoes that had been purchased from Louis & Hays, of Green­ castle. After that identification was quick and certain, and investigation led to the arrest of the three men named. Jackson and Walling were students at the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati. They and Wood, are said to have been inti­ mate with the girl. But a maze of contra­ dictory confessions by all of them has made impossible the fixing of direct re­ sponsibility; and this confusion is com­ plicated by the assertion of Lulu May Hollingsworth, of Indianapolis, a friend of Pearl's. In the series of confessions Jackson says Walling carried the woman's head T HONOR FOR UHL. ~S- : He Succeeds Sntiyon as Ambassador to the German Capital. The President sent to, the Senate Moo- day the nomination of Edwin F. Uhl, pi Michigan,, now assistant Secretary of State, to be ambassador extraordinary land minister plenipotentiary of the Unit­ ed States to Germany. The Senate in executive session confirmed the nomina­ tion. Mr. Uhl was appointed assistant Secretary of State Nov. 1, 1893. He ie best known as the author of the dispatch to Spain calling upon that country in a peremptory manner to account for the fir­ ing on the Allianca by the gunboat Conde de Venadito off Cape Mays I, on the coast of Cuba. The new ambassador is a man of con­ siderable wealth, and was once Mayor of Grand Rapids, his former home. The Grand Rapids Common Council adopted a resolution congratulating Ed­ win F. Uhl upon his appointment and pron\pt confirmation as ambassador to ' . i-~: PEARI. IIIIY AX. in a vyalise to the Covington suspension bridge, and he believes Walling threw it into the river, or lie may have taken it to his home at Hamilton and thrown it from the Miami bridge at that place, Jackson says he did not go with Walling on the trips. On the contrary Walling says Jack­ son buried the head in a sandbar, in the Ohio river opposite Dayton, Ky., or drop­ ped it in the sewer on Richmond street, Cincinnati. Each affirms the belief that the other administered a fatal drug to produce a criminal operation, and neither confesses knowledge of time or place of decapitation of the corpse. Each charges oung Wood, of Greencastle, with respon­ sibility for the girl's condition, and Jack­ son says he was the medium through whom Wood was to remit $50 to Walling for performing the operation. On the other hand, young Wood denies his . re­ sponsibility, but admits knowledge of the girl's predicament, because Jackson, who was responsible for it, told him of it. He says the only part he took in the matter was to-advise Pearl to undergo an opera­ tion. To make the matter more unintelligible, Lulu May Hollingsworth, of Indianapolis, who was arrested, suspected of complicity in the murder, said: "I shall be able to clear Jackson. He Ib responsiblo for Miss Bryan's condition. A stock train of twenty-three cars and and an extra freight ran into each other at Macedon Swamps, four miles east of Fairport, $i. ^"Wednesday morning. Three men were killed, one fatally hurt and another slightly injured. . j par^y politics and personal ambition into The Morgan pool at Isew York was busy oul. dealings with other nations. They Friday selling bonds at the market rate are suffering from our inaction upon mat- of 116%. There were reports in \v all ters of most vital importance. Indeed, it street that Mr. Morgap was J^lso a buyer jB a fact, and we may as well admit it of \wnds. wluc^ ^as ;npt as they grst as last, that the great majority of are regarded as sure to aavahce to 120 tjje peopie are disgusted with Congress within a short time. It Is said that the ;n general and the Senate in particular. Morgan people, like many others, have The mogt p0pu]ar thini; wc could do to. contracts for the delivery of many of the day,,'and probably in the present condi- MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shopping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 04c to 05c; corn, No. 2, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 39c to 41c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 17c to 25c; broom corn, 2c to 4c per pound for poor to choice. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to 54.50; stieep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; .wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 1 white, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c. * Cincinna&i^-Cati'le, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00'».tV $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c? rye, No. 2, 42c to 43c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00 wheat, No. 2red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 41c to 42c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No, 2 white. 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 42q c l o v e r s e e d , $ 4 . 5 5 t o $ 4 . ' 0 5 . ' l * " < r " Milwaukee--Wheat, 'No. 2 spring, G2c to 03c; corn, No. 3, 27c to 29c; oats; <'No 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 33c .to 34c; rye, No. 2, 39c 'to 40c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $11.00. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs? $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $5£.50 to $4.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 78c; corn, Noa 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white 24c to 25c. Ne,v York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs $3.00 to' $5.00; sheep. $2.00 to $4.25 wheat, Now 2 red, 73c to 74c; com, No. 2, 30c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, West­ ern, 14c to 10c. EPWIX F. UHI,. Germany. Mr. Uhl will return home be­ fore going abroad, and numerous banquets and receptions are already planned for him. Mr. Uhl is a prominent Democrat of Michigan. He is widely known as an able lawyer, a brilliant orator, and a keen politician of the stalwart type. He was very active in the last presidential cam­ paign, giving not only his time to speech- making for Cleveland and Stevenson, but he gave largely of his private purse to the campaign fund. His appointment to an assistant secretaryship gave great sat­ isfaction to Michigan Democracy. Mr. Uhl was born in New York State fifty-five years ago, but has lived in Michigan since 1840." When his parents moved West. He was "brought up" on a farm near Ypsi- lant.i, in which city he attended school. He als& was a student in the State Uni­ versity, and in lS(i(i he entered upon the practice of law. Two years later he-made Grand Rapids his home, and his ability soon made him a leader at the bar of that city. It is estimated that now his law practice is worth from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. He has twice been Mayor of Grand Rapids, and the Democratic con­ gressional nomination from his district was a standing offer on a silver plate to him for ten years before Mr. Cleveland called him to Washington. It was an offer, however, which he never accepted. WEYLER IN COMMAND. At Once Reviews Troops and Issues a Proclamation. Yaleriauo Weyler, new captain general of Cuba, arrived at Havana Monday, and was tendered an ovation by the loyal Spanish. After taking the oath of office, he reviewed the troops, and issued a proclamation declaring that, backed as lie j was by all Spain's resources, he should never give up Cuba to the insurgents. He appealed to the gallantry of the army and navy, and especially to the loyal inhab­ itants, native or Spanish born. He an­ nounced his purpose to be generous to the subdued, and to all who render service to the Spanish cause. The plan of campaign of Gem Weyler is not known. He is likely to calkin all ' the small detachments of troops which ! have from the first had such a weakening , effect upon the Spanish operations, and he ' will try to drive the insurgents into a po- I sition from which they cannot escape without a pitched battle. Ho will en­ deavor to protect property to the utmost, ' but in so doing he anticipates being able to call in several thousand men who, are doing small garrison duty in places where apparently there is no necessity for their presence now. Gen. Weyler will also do everything possible to muster as strong a force of cavalry as lie can. Considera­ ble re-enforcements of this branch of the service have already arrived, and more are expected. In short, his first efforts will be directed to concentrating his forces and restoring public confidence. Later he will try to engage the insurgents, who are understood to be concentrating their forces in anticipation of having a much more difficult task before them than they have had up to the present. In fact, some reports credit the insurgents with desiring to concentrate all their scattered detachments and columns into one body, and so bring the insurrection to a direct issue. If so, there seems to be no doubt that the Spanish gefierals will uot put any obstacles in the way of the insur­ gent commanders. But Spaniards who are well posted on the situation say that there is no truth in the report that the in­ surgents will make any effort to risk a pitched battle. Judge Lynch'6 Stern Work. The case of Grant Atterbury, charged with murder and assault,"lias been taken out of the Moultrie County courts. Pie was taken from the Sullivan jail at mid­ night Tuesday and hanged to, a tree in the court-house square by a mob. At 11:30 Tuesday night a mob of men collected in the neighborhood of the Sul­ livan public school building. They dijd noir number more than Jifteftii, -but- they . were fully armed and several carried sledgehammers. They made little attempt at concealment, but went very directly about their work. Just,, before midnight they approached the jail,^ where Atterbury had been con­ fined for the last ten days, "charged with the' double,crime of murdering his father and of assaulting the wife of his brother. The leader's of the mob demanded the surrender, of Atterbury, and the sheriff refused,. He was re-enforced by a single deputy. As soon as his refusal had been communicated to the crowd a rush was made for the iron doors. An immense crowd gathered rapidly, but ho one inter­ fered witli.the work of the lynchers. The sheriff stood heroically before the, door to the cellroom and warned the. raiders to desist. He fired his revolver and .was im­ mediately disarmed. Half a dozen blows with sledges broke down the doors, and then the men marched upstairs, yelling their commands and their threats against any interference. Prisoners Panic-Stricken. The prisoners were panic-stricken. Locked in their cells, unable to escape, incapable of defense, they lost all sense of reason and howled for mercy. Shots by the raiders were continually fired. There w;as an intermittent beat of sledges against iron. Bells in the town *vere rung. No such scene of confusion was ever known in Sullivan before. Grant Atterbury's cell was in the upper tier. The mob reached it without loss of time. Some member of the raiding party knew his exact cell, and the sledgehammer brigade was instantly piloted there. Half a dozen blows sufficed to break down the barred portal, and Grant Atterbury was •in the hands of the mob. He fought like a. demon. Time and again lie broke the grasp they fastened upon him. Over and over again he hurled them from him. But it was a losing bat­ tle. He was forced by numbers down the stairs, a'ml was at once seized and bound. He was helpless. lie was taken' to "The courtyard, two blocks from the jail, where a perfectly frantic multitude greeted his arrival with a roar of curses, and the continual cry of "Hang him! Hangliim!" The man fbuglit as lie was hustled along, and at times pleaded with his cap­ tors. Protested His Innocence. "I am innocent!" he shouted over and over again, till the hoarse utterance rang through all the sharp anger of the crowd. "You are hanging an innocent man!" he moaned as they held him under one of the trees in the courthouse yard and bound a rope about his neck. No attention was paid to his protesta­ tions or his pleas. The end of the rope was tossed over a limb of a tree. A hun­ dred hands grasped for it. A dozen seized it and pulled with the frenzy of vengeance. The rope slid over the ice- covered limb and'the man's utterance was choked with the tightening.of the loop. Atterbury's Crime. Grant Atterbury was arrested, charged with the murder of his father. The elder Atterbury died by violence more than a year ago. The evidence of his brother, and particularly that of his brother's wife, Mrs. Roxy Atterbury, was strongly in­ criminating. Still the mnn was able to discourage arrest. And it was not till his sister-in-law was assaulted that the senti­ ment gf the community crystallized against him. He was at once arrested and lodged in jail. Bloodhounds tracked the woman's assailant to Grant Atter­ bury's home, and the evidence against him was regarded as conclusive. A short time ago an attempt was made to, ,take him from the jail,. but it failed, and the police had apparently settled down, to the belief that lie would not bo molested. It needed but the action of the fifteen leaders Tuesday night to fan the whole popular sense of condemnation against the man. It was swift in waking. In half an hour from the time the mob approached, the jail the strangled body of Grant Atterbury swung lifeless from a tree in the public square of Sullivan. 8COTT .TACKSON. AI.ON/.O WAITING. but he was not responsible for her death. I don't think" either, that Wood had any­ thing to do with this case. I became in­ terested in the girl because I had once known her and chanced to meet her tu the Union station. She told me what had happened, and said Jackson was to blame When 1 told her what drugs to get she said she would take them in Jackson's >pres- enee and die there and then so as to throw suspicion upon Jackson and get him into difficulty." Miss Hollingsworth afterward said she administered the fhtal drugs at the re­ quest of Miss Bryan. The police dis­ credit this. Miss Hollingsworth is re­ garded as a notoriety seeker. She once figured in an elopement from Terre Haute 1 Cincinnati police found Jackson's bloody coat in a sewer. Jackson claims that Walling wore his clothing on „tlie night of the murder.- Israel Cohen & Co., wholesale cloth lcrs of Boston, have failed. Their lia bilities will be large; assets, $132,000. Venezuela Advised to Settle., A dispatch from Washington to the London Times says: "The United States Government .has strongly and repeatedly advised the Venezuelan Government to settle England's demand for an indemnity for the Yuruan affair. Further, although America insists upon the arbitration of the boundary question, she has no inter­ est whatever in the result of the arbitra­ tion and would be quite satisfied if all England's claims were confirmed." The Times has an editorial which aims to jus­ tify England's refusal to assent to the ar­ bitration of the whole of the disputed territory between Venezuela and Guiana on the ground of her previous unfortunate experiences in arbitration. Pine Ridge Pow-Wow Opened. The great Pine Ridge powwow conven­ ed at Pine Ridge, Neb., Monday. Foi some* months a private subscription has been circulated soliciting aid among the Indians to send delegates to Washington to confer with the authorities in reference to matters pertaining to the* Pine Ridge agency. It was said 7,000 Indians would be present at the powwow, but there is no probability that so large a number will attend. Not 700 got in Monday. At this season zero weather is probable any day, and the Indians for this reason will not travel much. The scene of the meeting is Wounded Knee, twenty miles distant. The Roman Catholic Church in the province of Quebec lias always been against the Liberal party and so emphat­ ically has its strength been thrown into recent political contests in that province in favor of conservative members of Par­ liament that steps are now being takec to lay the matter before the Vatican iD the hope that his holiness will send a papal delegate to Canada to bring the •> 1_ _ _ ^ _ IS*. A n M J \ ML • ^ Is A t . 4 LINCOLN MONUMENT. Immortelles, Kvcrgreensand Flowers Placed About the Shaft. Wednesday was the anniversary of the birth of him whom history designates as the great emancipator, and the martyred President. Eighty-seven years have pass­ ed since Abraham Lincoln first saw the light of day on Kentucky soil, and it is more than three decades since he fell a victim to the bullet of the assassin, but his memory is still green, and with each succeeding year the celebration of the an­ niversary becomes more general. It is a legal holiday in this State, Minnesota. New Jersey, Washington and (this year for the first time) New York. In accord­ ance with the custom established many years ago, and which in all probability will be followed a century hence, a large number of people visited the Lincoln monument at Springfield and laid wreaths of immortelles, evergreens and flowers about the shaft. Minor State Matters. Mrs. Georgiana Joy died in Jackson­ ville after a brief illness. Her son, Chas. F. Joy, is Congressman from St. Louis. Miss Florence King Embrey lacked just ten votes of being elected police court justice at Edison Park, a Chicago suburb. The Joliet mills of the Illinois Steel Company resumed operations after a shut­ down of two months. The Wage question has been settled with the men, and 2,500 will be given employment. During a friendly chase after foxes in Jersey County the accidental discharge of a gun resulted in the death of Captain Arthur C. Hartwell, of Challacombe. Cap­ tain Ilartwell was a veteran of the civil war. Chas. Baker thinks he has a gold mine on his farm near Pana; and for forty acres of land which he used to. value a $1,000 he has just refused $5,000. His neighbors have also advanced the price of their lands. The Ethiopian Nightingales, composed of forty of the most prominent club and society women of ^lgin, gave a minstrel performance to a crowded house. The proceeds, $1,000, Will go to the Sherman Hospital and other local institutions. Two daughters of James Tolliver. a farmer living near Keithsburg, were tend­ ing a brush fire when the dress of one of the girls became ignited, and in going to the rescue, the clothing of the other girl bishop3 into line and forbid the pulpit „ ^ being made the hustings for favorite po-1 also caught: tirev There is little hope "for litical candidates. their recovei The National Solons. The House Friday was1 In an uproar most of the time because of a tilt between Talbert of South Carolina and Barrett of Massachusetts, over the former's defense of secession. A resolution of censure fail­ ed of adoption, 200 to 71. The bond bill debate consumed the evening session. The Senate chose Mr. Frye president pro tem. and passed a bill opening the forest res­ ervations of Colorado for the location of mihirig claiin.s. A resolution offered by Mr. Stewart was agreed to calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the estimated increase in revenue if the pending tariff bill becomes a law, and what the dujj- on wool per pound would be under the law based tfn the present market price of wool. The resolution con­ templating a X'eform in handling appro­ priation^, bills by distributing them among the Several committees was referred, for report next December. Senate adjourned until Monday. The House debate Saturday upon the Senate's free coinage substitute for the bond bill was very spirited." Mr. Towne, a. Minnesota Republican, claimed the attention of the House and ga!leries.vfor over an hour with an eloquent effort on behalf of free coinage. Mr. Hall, a Dem­ ocrat from Missouri* on the other'-handr announced his'conversion to "sound mon­ ey" iu a rather sensational speech, in which he charged that eight Senators who voted for free coinage, according to "credible information," had privately said that they believed free coinage would bring upon this country national and indi­ vidual bankruptcy and ruin. He charged them with trying to "feather their uests at home" and declared thait the greatest sin of the present age was the cowardice of statesmen. He also declared that a high officer of the administration had said that the silver agitation had already cost the Government $202,000,000 in bond issues, and in the course of the next twelve months the bond issues would in­ crease to $1,000,000,000. Mr. Hall voted for free coinage in the last Congress. The National Game, Bird and Fish Pro­ tective Association has prepared a bill, which will soon be introduced in both houses of Congress. Except to appoint definite time for the hearing of several important matters, the Senate did nothing Monday except wran­ gle over resolutions and amendments con­ cerning the Monroe doctrine. The House continued debate of the bond bill. The Senate did absolutely nothing of importance Tuesday. The President sent the following nominations: William Woodville ltockhill, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Matthias A. Smalley, of Ohio, to be Marshal (ff the United States for the Northern District of Ohio; Casper N. Morrison, of Missouri, to be Judge Advocate, with the rank of Major. The day in the House was devot­ ed to the consideration of business report­ ed from the Committee on the District of Columbia. At 4 o'clock the debate on the bond bill was resumed. Concur­ rence was opposed by Messrs. Ilill (ttep.) of Connecticut, Lacy (Rep.) of Iowa, and Burton (Rep.) of Missouri, and Og- den tDem.) of Louisiana, spoke in in its favor. There were only thirteen members present at the night session of the House. The House Thursday, by a vote of 80 to 190, in committee of the whole rejected the Senate free coinage amendment to the bond bill and reported the bill to the House with a recommendation to non-con- cur and insist oil the House bill. Propo­ sitions were offered during the day to con­ cur with amendments as follows: To coin, the American silver product, for the re­ tention of the seigniorage by the Govern­ ment, and to open the mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 15V. to 1. when Germany and France should have agreed on similar action. All were defeat­ ed by large majorities. By a vote of 21 yeas to 29 nays, the Senate defeated the motion of Mr. Morrill, chairman of the Finance Committee, to take up the tariff bill. The negative vote which defeated the motion was given by Democrats, Pop­ ulists and four Republican Senators, viz.. Teller. Mantle, Dubois and Carter. The affirmative vote was entirely Republican, but its total of 21 is less than half of the aggregate Republican strength. A reso­ lution was adopted directing the Pacific Railroad comniitfee to make full inquiry into the status of the Pacific railroads.. Later in the day Mr. Pettigrew made a , savage speech against the "highwaymen and conspirators" connected with the Pa­ cific railroads and urged the foreclosure of Government liens. (.onsideratiou of the urgency deficiency bill was then resumed, and soon thereafter was passed substan­ tially as reported. It carries about $6.- 000,000, a large increase over the amount passed by the House. Shaved Hypnotize the Shavers. "Did you ever know," said a Ninth street barber, yesterday, "that certain men wlio come into this shop to be shav­ ed exert a queer hypnotic influence over one or more of the barbers? It is a fact. Now. there's a man over there at the next chair, but onetCiJe doesn't look like a nervous fellow, does he? No! Well, he isn't nervous, as a rule, but there's a certain man-about-town whose very appearance in the 'doorway sets that man shivering like a man in a lit. He could no more shave that particular customer than fly.1 Another man who used to work in this shop a couple of years ago was similarly af­ fected. but to a greater degree, by a prominent business man, a Mr. Br . Whenever Mr. B came into the shop the barber would grow deathly pale and quiver spasmodically. It frequent­ ly compelled him to knock oft work for a whole day, and finally the boss bad to discharge him. Fact! Here's another funny thing. Did you ever know that the average barber bates nothing so niuch as to have to shave a man's up­ per lip? I don't know why it is, but 1 feel that way myself. I'd rather lose a day's pay than shave off a man's mustache, and when a smooth-faced man comes iuto this shop you ought to see the way each of us 'soldiers' and 'monkeys' around, so as to keep him from getting in our chairs."--Philadel­ phia Record. A Woman Janitor. , Miss Ella Wilcox is the highly effi­ cient janitor and sexton of the church the United Brethren in Marcellus, She has full care of the church, it in order, rings the bell on undays, and attends to all the other duties of sexton "in every way better any male janitor ever lias," the say. She is good-looking as accomplished; doubtless an­ other point of superiority over the male janitor. Bicycles Used in Armies, Nearly every army has now a bipycle corps. In Germany six men'of every regiment are mounted on wheels to act- as scouts.