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Pill - GHT OR A "FLUNK Is *?ell known that Venezuela has been preparing for this event for some time, and the belief ®ia general that as-soon as Congress meets in Washington so that the President can secure immediate co-opera­ tion the Venezuelans will make a bold move to occupy the disputed territory, re­ lying on help fh>m Uncle Sam. The news has been of such a character that there is talk already of a special session of Congress to assist the President in "main­ taining the integrity of American soil." British View of the Matter. There are intimations that the British Government would at first have been in clined to take no active steps, pending the consideration of the note from the United States submitted by Bayard. Had the mat­ ter been kept reasonably quiet, it is said, Salisbury might have consented to some arrangement which would have "let Vene­ zuela down easy.'* But the alleged „de- ARMS AWE THE MOB. tination. beeran before the expectant thou-sands realized that the distinguished visitors had reached the city. Mr. Cleve­ land was in evident good humor and bowed in response to the.continuous ova­ tion he received all the way to his hotels Secretary Carlisle, who with Mrs, Car­ lisle rod«! in the second carriage, was cheered frequently, afrid Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, who found himself on his native heath, was given a hearty reception. At the Aragon the party was made com­ fortable until 8:30 p. m. At that hour.the ladies were escorted to the Grand Opera House, where they were the guests of Mrs. Hoke Smith at a box party to see Rice's "1492." The presence of the bril­ liant array of Cabinet representatives had packed the house, which is by far the largest place of amusement in the South. At 9 p. m the President and Cabinet offi­ cers sat down in the Aragt>irTjHTiquet-han~ to a dinner, given in their honor by Por­ ter King, Mayor of Atlanta. Covers were laid for eighty, including, the exposition officials, the visiting Governors and oth­ er distinguished citizens. • . .. • • • LOOKS AS THOUGH BRITAIN COULOfPT NOW BACK DOWN. OHIO LYNCHERS MEET WITH DEADLY BULLETS. Rioters Break Into the Jail at Tiffin and Two Are Shot Down by Guard*-- The Offensive prisoner Had Mur- J. Bull and Uncle Sam. Great Britain's radical steps toward Venezuela continue to excite the liveliest interest in official and diplomatic circles. President Crespo, who has been absent from the capital on a vacation, has start­ ed back, for the purpose,, it is believed, of filling the four vacancies in his Cabinet Troops Called Ont. Martial law reigned in Tiffin, Ohio, Sun­ day night. The gleam of musket and bay­ onet was seen glancing back the moon­ beams, on the streets surrounding the county jail. Morris Degan, one of' the rioters, assaulted a militiaman guarding _the jail and was taken in custody by the police, who were followed to the station by a howling, hooting mob. The jail doors are wrecks, having been battered from their hinges by .an armed mob. Two men lie dead with bullet wounds in head and body, one police officer is at home with probably fatal injuries, two others are injured and a young man has a bullet through his hand. The attempt to lynch Leander J. Mar­ tin, alias Miller, murderer of City Mar­ shal August Shultz, anticipated since the' tragedy, was made in dead earnest at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, and result­ ed in the instant death of Mutchler and -Matz, members " of. the mob which afcf" tacked the jail. The rioters exceeded 350 men and most of them were under the in­ fluence of liquor at the time. The mob came front an entirely unex­ pected source. Six men gathered on the lawn .about fifty feet from the jail and in a moment about thirty others joined them. Then a .sharp whistle was heard and out of an alley on the opposite side of thie street and a little to the west rushed fully 300 more, thedeadefs carrying a rope and several sledgehammers with which to ac­ complish their work. A squad of police­ men who had stationed themselves on the steps, were whisked to one side as if they were so many straws. A rush was made for the jail. The men were without reason and made no demand for the keys. A powerful teamster wield-' ed the sledge. The door was broken in splinters in a short time. With each blow the fury of the crowd increased. When the entrance was gained there was a wild rush and the hallway was filled with ex­ cited men. Sheriff Van Nest and three men stood in the opposite end. He ap­ pealed to them most bravely and strongly several times, asking them for God's sako to disperse. It did no good, for the men only grew fiercer. The entrance to the corridor is first protected by a heavy sheet-iron door. The lock was broken off with a few bfows and then there remained the heavy grating. Guards Open Fire. Then it was that the guards, who were in that portion, began to fire. At first they shot over the rioters' heads. A guard afterward said the men swore to kill every person inside, and to show their purpose they began to fire at them. The guards said n® shot was- fired by them un­ til the attacking party had fired through the grating first. Henry Mutchler, the first man killed, was the one who carried the rope.. He was shot through the left temple, the ball coming out on the right side, and he died instantly. Then Christ Matz received a bullet through his heart. He was picked up dead- t The killing of the two men caused a ces­ sation of the attack. Then the mob thought of dynamiting the jail and sent messengers to all the stone quarries in the city and vicinity, but all returned without any explosives. While this was going on Sheriff Van Nest placed Miller in charge of Captain Falkner and Officer Sweeney, who drove him at a breakneck speed to Fremont, eighteen miles away, and placed him in the Sandusky County jail. It was found necessary to call out the local militia, and as the day advanced and the news spread to the rural districts Governor McKinley was appealed to for troops, and ordered the two companies from Kenton, one from FostOria and an­ other from Clyde togotoTiflin at once, once. r >" ' Story of Martin's Crime, August Schultz, city marshal of Tiffin, was shot and killed Oct, 23 by Lee Mar­ tin, a farmer, whom lie and Officer Swee­ ney were attempting to arrest on the charge of threatening the life of a neigh­ bor. Martin had trouble with his brother- in-law, Abraiur Sheidler, over a saw-mill in which both were interested. During a quarrel Martin drew a gun on Sheidler and the latter swore out a warrant for his arrest. The warrant was placed in the hands of August Schultz. city mar­ shal, and Patrick Sweeney, who for more than twenty years has been on the police force, and the officers left the city for the %^>rne of Martin. Arriving there they found Martin armed with a Winchester rifle, and this they succeeded in wresting from him, the weapon being discharged in the conflict. While the officers were con­ ducting Martin to their carriage he drew a revolver and fired three shots, one of which barely missed Sweeney, and two entered the body of Marshal Schultz. With the assistance of Sheidler the offi­ cers succeeded in disarming Martin and started for the city, and when half of the distance had been traversed Marshal Schultz expired. new officers fcs the Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is no doubt entertained in Washington that Crespo's new Minis­ ter will share the views of his predeces­ sors, as no Ministry or administration could survive in Venezuela which did not make resistance to British aggression its foremost policy. Some of the. latest re­ ports from London cause comment and criticism anions* bfficials in Washington. One of these-.statements attributes to Am­ bassador Bayard the declaration that the made public on all sides, and this has forced Salisbury to act. A cable from London says: "Summed up briefly the attitude of the English press and people towards Venezuela is one of conscious righteousness and calm serenity. It is everywhere aocepted here that the British claims are perfectly justi­ fied and complete confidence in the firm­ ness of the Government is expressed. Hints haye been thrown out. for some time past that the Marquis of Salisbury will BIG FIGURES ABOUT MAILS. Annual Report on Postal Revenue and Expenditures Is Made. Kerr Craig, Third Assistant Postmas­ ter General, in his annual report for the past fiscal year, shows that postal rev­ enue from all sources were $76,983,128, t1ie expenditures being $86,790,172, an excess over receipts of $9,807,044. Not taking into account the outstanding lia­ bilities or the earnings of the subsidized Pacific railroads ($1,395,732), tlie com­ parisons with the statistics of the year ending J line 30, 1894, show an increase of receipts amounting to .$1,002,649. and an increase of expenditures of $2,405,738. The principal items of expenditure were: Postmasters' salaries, $16,079,508; clerks in postoffice, $9,414,135; free deliv­ ery service. $1.2,139.092; railroad mail transportation, '$26,429,747; star route transportation, $5,753,570; mail messenger transportation, $1,192.985; railway postal car service, $2,946,939; railway postal clerks, $7,103,025; foreign mails, $1,171,- 455. The principal items of revenue were: Letter postage paid in money (made up principally of balances due from foreign postal administrations), $135,818; hox rents, $2,509,949; sales of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers and postal cards, $73,477,440; money order business, $812,038. Mr. Craig also submits some statistics relative to the increase of second class mail matter, upon which subject Post­ master Generel Bissell made a vigorous report last year. He says the weight of set'ui.d class matter sent in the mails dur­ ing the year (not including matter circu­ lated free within the county of publica­ tion) was 265 314,382 pounds and the amount of postage collected, $2,653,143. This was an increase in weight of 10,- 524.076 pounds and in postage collected of $105,240. Estimating, as heretofore, that 15 per cent, of all second class mat­ ter mailed is sent free of postage within the respective counties of publication, the number o pound's of such matter may be placed at 46,820,185; adding this 'tp the number of pounds on which postage was paid, as- above, makes the total weight of second class matter mailed 312,134,567 pounds, or over 156,067 tons. The number of requisitions for news­ papers and periodical; stamps filed during the years was 13,003, an increase of 1,194. The number of newspapers and periodi­ cal' stub books requisitions received dur­ ing the year was 3,385, on which were forwarded to postmasters 5.593 stub books, 2,727 being of the manifold kind. There were also sent to postmasters 5,619 packages containing 56,190 news­ paper and periodical envelopes. Telegraphic Brevities. The Masonic Temple at Boston is to be repaired at once for temporary occu­ pancy and a project is on foot to build the finest structure owned by the order in any city. At New Orleans W. B. Stansbury, a reporter, fired two ineffectual shots at D. C. (d'Malley, proprietor of the Item. O'Malley refused to retract an article re­ flecting on Stansbury. Shanghai Pierce has been appointed receiver at Perry. Ok., for the Campbell Commission Company, of Kansas City and Chicago. The live stock property in­ volved is worth nearly $200,000. In a quarrel over a crap game at Wil- mot, Ark., Heno Allen, 16 years old, shot and killed John Norvill, and seriously wounded Levi Norvill and a merchant named Moselv. Allen is in jail. Regents of Michigan University have begun mandamus proceedings to compel Auditor General Turner to pay over to them 1 per cent, interest on Government land money held in trust by the State. Initial steps toward a midcontinental exhibition in 1900 were taken at Indian­ apolis by official representatives from the Congressional districts, appointed by Gov. Matthews on the authority of the last Legislature. Near Independence,. O. T.„ a team of mules driven b& Howard Mott ran away and. dashing into a canyon, hurled Mrs. Mott and baby upon the rocks below, iin­ stantly killing the baby and injuring the mother fatally. A gigantic fraud was practiced upon the Nebraska State fair management at Lincoln by a number of the gatetenders. The result of the fraud was the loss to the fair of an amount of money estimat­ ed in the thousands. It seems likely that for the first time in the history of St. Louis a negro will have a seat in the municipal assembly. An intelligent colored man, Munroe Cra­ vens, was one of the five Republicans de­ feated on the face of the returns at the last city election, but a recount gives him more than JLOO majority. THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD, The American Ambassador is London Upon Whom Devolves the Duty of Defending the Monroe Doctrine. ("man incident is independent of the boundary question, and that the United States can take no part in the former incident. It is, pointed out that the two questions are inseparably connected. The Uruan incident is based on a claim that the Venezuelans arrested Sergeant Beh- rens of the British constabulary on Brit­ ish soil, and that this indignity must be repaired. The Venezuelans claim that it occurred on Venezuelan soil. A Washington correspondent thinks that if the newspapers and the wiseacres have "got it right" the question of what the Monroe doctrine means is approach­ ing a solution pretty rapidly for a subject in the hands of diplomats. That is, it looks like it would not be a great while before it. is known whether the present interpretation by the American editor and Washington correspondent "goes." From what can be learned it looks as though stand no nonsense from the Venezuelan Government, and consequently the an­ nouncement of the St. James Gazette that the Premier had sent an ultimatum to President Crespo caused but little sur­ prise. As is the case of Nicaragua, every­ body expects this latest ultimatum will have the desired ̂ effect without the neces­ sity of a recourse to the arbitrament of' arms." An official statement from the Vene­ zuelan foreign office covers the policy of Venezuela in case the British attempt to build the military road recommended by British Minister Chamberlain in his let­ ter to Gov. Lees, of British Guiana. The Venezuelan statement closes with the sig­ nificant jeutence that on the question of building this road the course of Venezuela has beea such that the "invading neigh­ bors" cannot make another step further "on the Venezuela side of the line" with out at sjace provoking a collision. GRCVER REACHES ATLANTA. Presidential Party Pays a Visit to the Exposition City. For She present, at least, the seat of the Government of the United States may be said lit have been transferred to Atlanta, for, eays a dispatch trom that city, the city ^Arbors tlu> President, the Vice Pres­ ident and six members of the Cabinet, not to mention Treasurer Jordan, Gov­ ernor Coflin of Connecticut, O'Ferral Of Virginia, Stone of Mississippi and a long list t>f other dignitaries of officialdom. Tue^ay afternoon the Presidential spe­ cial, running as the first section of the Southwestern vestibule limited on the Southern Railway, rolled into the Union depot. In accordance with the expressed wisl} of the President and the desire of the exposition authorities the arrival of the fjarty was deprived of anything In the nature of a hippodrome. Tfcji thousand people had assembled in the vicinity of the station, crowding the stress as thickly as the space would al­ low And overflowing for several blocks in every direction. The roofs, windows, awnings, telegraph poles and every point of vantage in the neighborhood had been utilised by eager onlookers. The special was stopped ©utside the depot, however, the party disembarked and escorted to carriages byji4he reception committee, and the drive to the Hotel Aragon. their des- I.OIID SALISBURY. The Treasury shows an available cash balance of $182,183,698 and a gold re­ serve of $93,291,087. Yancey Lewis, of Ardmore, I. T., is ap­ pointed United States Judge of the Cen­ tral District of the Territory, to succeed Judge Stuart. In the presence of a gathering that filled the edifice Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage was installed as co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. It is expected that appointments will be made soon to fill the vacant positions of solicitor of the Treasury and United States Judge in Alaska. The State Department has received from Ambassador Patenotre, of France, the invitation of the French republic to take part in the French exposition of 1900, which is to usher in the twentieth century. T* The Postofiice Department has ,coni- piled the receipts of the thirty Veiling cities of the United States for the third quarter of the year 1895. The receipts were $7,400,449, against $6,733,719 for the same quarter in 1S94, an increase of 9.9 per cent. , Attorney General HArmon made his initial appearance in l^s official capacity before the United States Supreme Court Wednesday, making the ope.£) ing argu­ ment in the Greer County case, involving the question Of the boundary line between the State Of Texas and the territory of Oklahoma. The Detroit Dry Dock Company, which the Naval/Bureau Chiefs recommended be awarded the contract for building two of the six new gunboats, now wishes to ..withdraw that, part of its proposition which looked to the assembling of the parts for the ships at Seattle on the Pa­ cific coast. UNCLE SAM'S PROTEST TO JOHN BULL.