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VOL. VI. NO- 1.0 0. ' SENT TO THE. HOUSE The Hawaiian Correspondence Before that Body. FROM THE PRESIDENT. He Has Made a Full Exhibit of Everything He Deems of Importance. Washington, Jan. 13.—The president has just sent to the house of representa tives some additional correspondence on the Hawaiian matter. In his letter of transmittal the president says he sends copies of all dispatches from our minis ter at Hawaii, except such as have been heretofore transmitted to congress. He also sends copies of the instruc tions sent Jan. 12, 1894, being the only instructions to him that have not been sent to congress. He says that in his former message to congress he withheld dispatch number 3, under date of Nov. 16, 18915, and also dispatch number 70, under date of Oct. 8, 1893, inasmuch as the contents of dis- Satch number 3 are ail referred to in ispatches of more recent date, and in asmuch as there seems to be no longer a reason for withholding it, the same is submitted. Dispatch number 70 is still withheld for reasons that seem to be justifiable and proper. The first instructions to Minister Wil lis referred to is the president's letter of transmittal as only instructions not sent to congress are dated January 12. They were sent under cover of a telegram to W. A. Cooper, despatch agent at San Francisco instructing him to forward the following telegram to Willis by Steamer Mariposa: ‘‘Washington, Jan. 12, 1894. •‘To Willis, Minister, Honolulu: “Your numbers 14 to 18, inclusive, show that you have rightly comprehend ed the scope of your instructions, and have, as far as was in your power, dis charged the onerous task confided to you. The president sincerely regrets that the provisional government refuses to acquiesce in a conclusion which his sense of right and duty, and a duo re gard for our national honor constrained im to reach and submit as a measure of justice to the people of the Hawaiian islands and their deposed sovereign. “While it is true that the provision"! government was credited to exist only i until the islands were annexed to the United States, and that the queen finally but relunctantly surrendered to an armed force of this government, illegally quartered in Honolulu, and representa tives qf the provisional government, which realized its impotence and was anxious to get control of the queen’s means of defense, assured her that if she would surrender, her case would be subsequently considered by the United States, the president never claimed that such action constituted him an arbitra tor in the technical sense or authorized him to act in that capacity between the provisional government. You made no such claim when you acquainted that government with the president’s deci sion. The solemn assurance given to the queen has not been referred to as au thority for the president to act as arbi trator, but as a fact material to just de termination of the president’s duty in the premises. “In a note which the minister of for eign affairs addressed to you Dec. 23, it is stated in effect that even if the con stitutional government was subverted by action of the American minister and the invasion by military force of the United States, the president’s authority is limited to dealing with our own un faithful officials, and that ho can take no steps looking to the correction of any wrong done. “The president entertains a different view of his responsibility and duty. The subversion of the Hawaiian government by the abuse of the authority of the United States was in plain violation of international law, and required the pres ident to disavow and condemn the act of our offending officials, and within the limits of his constitutional power to en deavor to restore lawful authority. “On the eighteenth ultimo the presi dent sent a special message to congress, accompanying copies of Blount's reports and instructions given to him and to you. On the same day, answering a res olution of the house of representatives, he sent copies of all correspondence since March 4, 1889, on the political affairs and relations to Hawaii, withholding for sufficient reasons only Stevens' No. 70, of Oct. H, 1892, and your No. 3, of Nov. 15. 1898. “The president therein announces that the conditions of the restoration sug gested by him to the queen had not proved acceptable to her and that since instructions were sent to you to insist upon those conditions he had not learned that the queen was willing to assent to them. The president thereupon sub mitted the subject to the more extended powers and wide discretion of congress, adding the assurance that he would be gratified to co-operate in any legitimate plan which might be devised for the so lution of the problem, consistent with American honor, integrity and morality. “Your report shows that, on further reflection, the queen gave her unquali fied assent in writing to the conditions suggested, but that the provisional gov ernment refuses to acquiesce in the president’s decision. The matter now being in tire hands of congress, the pres ident will keep that body fully advised of the situation, and will lay before it from time to time the reports received from you, including your number 3, heretofore withheld, and all instructions sent to you. “In'the meantime, while keeping this department fully informed of the course of events, you will, tinitl further notice, answer that your special instructions upon this subject have been fully com plied with. Signed, Gresham.” The Queen Wanted Blood. The correspondence makes about 30,- 000 words. The -'numbar B** referred to THE ROME TRIBUNE is a aisputcu ot w mis to uresnam in which he gives an account of his visit to the queen when he made known to her tiie president’s regret that through un authorized intervention of the United j States she had been obliged to surrender her sovereignty, and his hope that with her consent and co operation the wrong done to her and to her people might be redressed. He asked her if she should be restored to the throne would she grant full am nesty as to life and property to all who have been or are now in the provisional government, or who were instrumental in the overthrow of her government. The queen hesitated a moment, and then refused, saying she must abide I y certain laws of her government; that such persons should be beheaded and their property confiscated to the govern ment. Willis told her he had no further com munication to make to her then, and ’ would have none until he heard from his government—probably three or four weeks. He then informed her that he was au thorized by the president to offer her protectian either on one of our warships or at the legation, and desired her to ac cept the offer at once. She declined, saying she believed it best for her at present to remain at her residence. He then told her that at am moment, night or day, this offer of on government was open to her acceptance. This ended the interview. Minister Willis adds that the tension of feeling is so great that the promptest action is necessary to prevent disastrous consequences, and says: “I send a cipher telegram asking that Blount’s report be withheld for the present, and I send with it a telegram not in cipher, as fol lows: ‘The views of the first party are so extreme as to require further instruc tions.’ ” / Tn the House. Washington, Jan. 13.—Immediately after the reading of the journal, tho president's message, transmitting the Hawaiian correspondence to congress, was laid before the house. The houso then went into comini, tee of the whole, Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, in the chair, for the consider ition of the tariff bill. Mr. Pickier was the first speaker of the day. WRONGS MAY BE RIGHTED. The th-vol ion of M rs. Hedberg to the Mem ory of Her Dead Husband. Chicago, Jan. 13.—Colonel GeorgeH. Burton has concluded an investigation of the events which led to the killing of Captain Alfred Hedberg by Lieutenant Maney at Fort Sheridan. It is said that the Avar department desired to learn at once if there was any foundation for Mrs. Hedberg's charges that her hus band avas persecuted. It is said that Colonel Burton has evidence to show that the story of the widow is in the main correct. The trouble betAveen Maney and Hed berg is said to have begun about two years ago. Up to that time they had been friends, but Hedberg became con vinced that Maney was trying to get him on the retired list to make room for a friend. Numerous efforts had been made to retire Captain Hedberg, and Colonel Crofton is said to have taken part in some of them. After several failures, Hedberg Avas examined by the post surgeon, who reported that he had chronic kidney trouble, and he was ad vised to apply for retirement. He was told, it is asserted, that if he did not ap ply for retirement his case would be sent before the proper board, and he would be “wholly retired.” That meant that he would be given one year’s pay and dropped from the rolls of the army, which is equivalent to a dishonorable retirement, as it is never done except when the disease contracted is the result of the man’s own viciousness. He re fused to make application, and then he had his quarrel with Maney. In 1873 Captain Hedberg was dis missed from the army, and when he was vindicated by five congressional commit tees and reinstated in his old command, Colonel Crofton, it is alleged, recognized him officially, bnt snubbed him when ever opportunity offered. In conse quence of this, none of the officers recog nized him or Mrs. Hedberg, and even the enlisted men felt that they could insult him with impunity. All sorts of trivial charges were preferred against him, and he spent a good deal of his time in an swering them. In the meantime the breach widened between him and Maney. The affair finally reached such a serious stage that on Oct 3, 87 days before the shooting, Captain Chapin is said to have advised Maney to arm himself, and, it is said, from that time on Maney went about the post armed for the avowed purpose of shooting Captain Hedberge if they had any further trouble; and yet no attempt was made to prevent the shoot ing. When the meeting took place Hedberg had his arms full of bundle® and his left wrist was broken. He told Maney he was not armed, and Maney told him he had better arm himself. Instead, Hed berg shifted his bundles to his left arm in order to leave his uninjured right hand free, and advanced in the face of the big revolver and struck Maney. Then Maney shot him. That Unlucky Number. Tacoma, Jan. 13.—Comptroller Eck els has ordered the stockholders of the defunct Merchants National bank to pay up the par value of their $250,000 stock to meet the shortage. Superstitious de positors are gossiping about the fact that there are just 13 stockholders. Another Chicago PoatofUco Robbery. Chicago, Jan. 13.—George B. Hen nessy, employed in the retail stamp de partment of the postoffido, reported that he had been robbed of stamps to the amount of $550. He turned his back on the stamp window for an instant, arl turned around just in time to see the stamps disappear. He said he raised an outcry, but it was not heard. KOMBiuA.. BU> Udi MORMnG, JAMAttY 14, i.->r.4 A HEAVY JUDGMENT- The Richmond and Danville and West Point Terminal. BONDS AND INTEREST. The Judgment Was Entered in the New York County Clerk’s Office. Neav York, Jan. 13.—Judgment for $17,813,619 has just been filed in the county clerk’s office against the Rich mond and West Point Terminal railway and Warehouse company, in favor of Charles H. Coster, George Sherman and Anthony J. Thomas. The amount represents the principal of their $5,453 6 per cent gold trust bonds and $10,596 5 per cent consolida ted first mortgage collateral gold trust bonds, in the aggregate $16,049,000, to gether with the interest ffom Sep. 1, 1892, amounting to $1,820,261, on which there was paid on the company’s account $55,799. The attorneys avlio represent the plain tiff are Bangs, Stetson, Tracy and Mac- Veagh. THE GOVERNOR’S WORDS. A Colorado Representative Who ii a Wag Repeats in the Homie. Denver, Jan. 13.—There seems to be indicationsnf a long tediou i fight, which Avill accomplish nothing, ahead of the present session of the legislature. The house, from present indications, will not agree to an immediate adjournment, and es the senate will probably refuse to transact any business it looks as if there will be a deadlock. In the house Mr. Baldwin, of El Paso county, introduced the following resolu tion: “Whereas, It looks like tho devil for the members of this assembly to bo stop ping at the sumptuous hotels of Denver, and drawing $7 per day from their im poverished constituency, under tho pre tense that they can better their condition by legislation; therefore, be it Resolved, That the members of this assembly, and the employees of the same, will stay here without pay ‘until hell freezes over,’ and do all Ave can for the good of tho state. There was great merriment over the resolution, but Speaker Ammons refuse to entertain it, because the language w«. objectionable. “I only quoted the governor,” Mr. Baldwin replied, but his resolution was not reeewed. BIT "t’heTcHARMER. A Huge Rattler Did Not Like The Bath Given Him. Chattanooga, Jan. 13.—H. C. Clark, who has been seen in the role of snake charmer, in all the large museums of the country under the show name of “Harry DeLong,” was bitten here by a huge rattlesnake. He recently blasted two rattlers out of the rocks on Lookoat mountain. While in a room in tho midst of highland moccasins, China snakes, spreading vipers and rattlers, lie attempted to Avash one of the mountain rattlers and plunged it into a basin of hot water. Then it buried its fangs in his hand. One of the deadly prongs he sucked out and then swalloAved a quart 1 of Whisky. Three hours afterwards he fell to the floor as if dead. Medical aid was called and the poison extracted. His arm was swollen to twice its ordinary size, and at one time the heart almost ceased to beat. The charmer’s wife, Cora, died from a moccasin’s sting while exhibiting at Fond du Lac, Wis., five months ago. Clark shoAved a season Avith Cole & Mid dleton’s five museums, the largest of which is stationed at Chicago. He will recover. They Have Hard Times Abroad. Chicago, Jan. 13.—Professor A. H. Lowrie, of Elgin, late United States con sul to Freiburg, Germany, whence he has just returned, says: “Business de pression is not confined to the United States. Germany, France and Switzer land are experiencing just as hard times, and in England the condition is much worse than here. Free soup and lodging houses are crowded to their utmost. The depression in Baden and Alsace is at tributed to tho depression in the Uifited States.” Sitting Bull Avenged. Fort Yates, N. D., Jan. 13.--An In dian courier brings news of the murder of Iron Thunder by a deaf and dumb Blackfoot, son of White Blackbird. Iron Thunder was the Indian who rode 22 miles through Sitting Bull’s hordes and gave tho information that led to the successful issue of the conflict in which Sitting Bull was killed three years ago. The murderer crept into Iron Thunder’s tepee and crushed his head witli an axe while he slept by the side of his wife and child. EVANS AT LARGE. The California Outlaw Makes Bls Pres cnee Felt Again. Fresno, Jan. 13. —Two bandits did as they pleased in Fowler, a town of 300 inhabitants, south .of here, the other night. It is believed that they were Chris Evans, the escaped murderer of Deputy United States Marshal Vic Wil son, and his understudy, Ed Morrell. It is thought they were starved out of their mountain retreat. A posse is now after them. Station Agent George Leon ahd three men with him at the depot Avere sud denly held up by a man who had a ba i dana handkerchief over his face. How ard Harris and A. Vincent happenr 1 along and the bandit held them up, too. SrOKdind rix men to stand in a row ami men tie wvuc t.’irougn cneir pocKerg" Avith one band and kept them covered with a revolver he bad in the other. He got about SSO. The bandit next ordered the six men cut on the street and marched them to Cutler & Goldstein’s grocery store, which lie evidently intended to loot. Ha had just ordered everybody in the store to throw up their hands when Constable Ochs appeared at the door. The bandit turned and both men began shooting. Ochs’s bullets went astray and one of the bandit’s prisoners was shot through the arm and another in the breast. One of the bandit’s bullets struck Ochs and he tumbled down the steps. At this point a man in a spring wagon drove up to the front of the store and began shooting. Ochs got up and ran and both bandits got away. It is be lieved the man in the wagon was Chris. Eyans and the other man Ed Morrell. CARLISLE’S OFFER. It Is Reported That a Big I.oau Concern Wants Bls Services. Louisville, Jan. 13.—A despatch from Washington says: Secretary Car lisle, it is said, has a definite offer from a syndicate of Ohio capitalists to become president, general counsel and solicitor general of a corporati >n which is to es tablish a chain of national loan associa tions over the country with headquar ters in Washington and the Ohio Nation al bank of this city as tho center. The offer Avas made some days ago Avith a salary of $25,500 per annum, and time until Feb. 1, 1894, given him to con sider. The proposition was made a sow days ago by ex-Congressnian J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, and he was advised not to'be in a hurry to decide. When the question tion was asked at the treasury in regard to the affair it was not denied, and all that tiie secretary Avould say was that the gossips had a right to romance, as there was no law against it. A Rumor About Carlisle. Washington, Jan. 13. —A rumor has become current here to the effect that Chief Justice Fuller contemplates re signing and that Secretary Carlisle is to succeed him on the supreme bench. Judge Fuller declares that the story is absurd and Secretary Carlisle says he knows nothing about it. News of the Wilson Massacre, Capetown, Jan. 13.—Details of tho massacre of Captain Wilson’s party by the Matabeles, has been received here. The news, just wired to tins town from Buluawayo, shows that Captain Wilson and his men made a hard fight and died gallantly fighting to tho las:. It is stated that Wilson's force, outside of a few natives, numberel troops; the number of tho Miitabele forces which surrounded them being variously estimatedfat from 1,090 to 4,000. Au Old AVoniau Cremated. _ Milw aukee, Jan. 13.—Fire partially destroyed the Queen City hotel, corner Jackson and Wisconsin streets, and drove the guests out in their night clothes. All escaped without injury ex cept a woman named Chrums, aged 80 years, whose charred remains were found in her bed. The damage to the building was slight. Louis Kossuth Still Lives. Turin, Jan. 13.—Louis Kossuth, the venerable Hungarian patriot, is greatly annoyed at having to deny once more the oft-revived reports that he is dead or dying or very sick. He is in the best of health, considering his age. Cotton Mills Destroyed. Woonsockee, R. 1., Jan. 13.—The Harrisonville Avoolen mills have been destroyed by fire. Tho loss is $300,000. Weather Forecast. Washington, Jan. 13.—Forecast till S p. m., Sunday—For North Carolina and South Carolina fair and decidedly warm er with variable winds shifting to south erly. Georgia, fair, followed by show ers in the northern portion and decidedly warmer southerly winds. Eastern Flor iA, fair and warmer, northerly winds becoming variable. Western Florida, increasing cloudiness and probably will be showers tonight or Sunday, with de cidedly warmer Avinds shifting to south erly. Alabama and Mississippi, increas ing cloudiness and probably showers in the southern portion tonight or Sunday, with warmer east to south winds. Thoma. HrCarter'g Successor. Washington, Jan. 13.—The Republi can National Executive committee met and elected Joseph H. Manley, of Maine, chairman, tb succeed Thomas H. Car ter, who resigned.. Mr. Carter gave as his reason for resigning his private bus iness interests and the distance of his home from the center of political inter est, which makes it impossible for him to attend the meetings of the committee. Mr. Carter continues chairman of tho full committee. Will Publish Property Owners. Chicago, Jan. 11.—W. T. Stead has secured the names of all oAvners of prop erty leased for disreputable purposes and proposes to publish them in his book on Chicago. To make certain of the ownership he has sent circulars to all who pay taxes on the property, asking if his information is correct. He will lec ture next Tuesday night at the People’s Institute on the question, “Who are the Disreputables of Chicago?” Strangled by a Hair. Vineland, N. Y., Jan. 13. —George W. Harvey, of lona, has just died in terrible agony. He was celebrating the anniversary of his golden wedding, and Avhile surrounded by his children and grandchildren he kissed one of the latter on the head. A hair lodged in his throat. A severe spell of coughing en sued. Mr. Harvey suffered greatly and at last burst a blood vessel. He died in a few minutes. I SHOT TO DEATH. ■Jimmie KlngCharged wi h Vol untary Manslaughter BY A CORONER’S JURY. A Negro Boy Shot and Instant ly Killed Yesterday Afternoon. “I don’t want to go to jiff. I— I aint done nothin’, an’ 1 want to ” The sentence ended with a burst of tears, and little Jimmie King buried his face in his bands while the slender body heaved and quivered convulsively with passionate sobs. It was in the t-herifi’s office, and the little fellow’s brother put bis arms around him, and stroking bis head gently told him to cheer up, that no harm should come to him. The room was almost filled with men who looked on in pity—for pitiful it was. Eleven years old, and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter! True only by a coroner’s jury, but to a bright and sen sitive boy of that tender age, the knowl edge that even one night or two nights must be spent under confinement was too much. • Yesterday afternoon about 1 o’clock Will Trout, colored, a boy of elevtn years, was shot and instantly killed by —whom? The father of the dead boy, a brother of the boy and the coroner’s jury say Jimmie King. Jimmie says it was a brother of the boy,who did the shooting. But the jury has spoken, and last night Jimmie was under the care of Deputy Sheriff McConnell. Percy King, his brother was allowed to remain with him. Stcry of the K Hing. Here is the story of the killing: The killing occurred about 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon just beyond South Rome in the woods the other side of Chtrokee street and near the intersection with Fort avenue. Just here lives Andy Trout, a negro drayman, who works for Mr J. H. Hoskinson. About the time \ mentioned above, Jimmie King, the eleven year old son of Mr. J. H. King, passed by the house going hunting. He had a cheap, single-barrel muzz’e-loading shotgun. About 150 yards beyond the home of Trout, in the woods, young King struck up with Meredith and Will Trout, aged 12 and 11 respectively. King suggested that they go hunting with hiia. An<j here’s where diverge. The Brother’s Story. Meredith, the twelve year old negro brother of the one killed, says that King insisted on their going hunting with him. They told him they could not; that dinner was reedy, and that their father objected. “If you won’t go, I’ll shoot you,” said King, and with that he blazed away at the smallest negro. The chat ge of small shot struck him full in the neck, and the boy fell to the ground. King dropped the gun, and ran off through the wood?. Meredith ran to the house to tell his mother. As be did so his father reached the dying boy. Andy Trout’s Story agrees in detail with that of Meredith, though he knew less. He told this story to a Tribune reporter shortly after the killing and repeated it in substance to the coroner’s jury: “I had just fed my mules and before starting in the house for dinner told my boys to keep the goats from eating any of the mules’ feed. Just then Jimmie King came along and asked them to go hunting. I cut my eye at them so they understood not to go, and when I went in they all went a little way down into the woods. When I finished dinner I started down to tell the boys to come get theirs. Just as I got about fifty yards from them, Jimmie King satd: 'lf you won’t come, I’ll shoot you.’ He raised the gun and shot. My boy fell to the ground and tried to get up but fell again. As he did so King dropped the gun and ran, and Meredith ran by me to the house. I went to Will and in a few min utes he was dead. There was no quar reling and no cursing.” In different language that is the sub stance of the story of the senior Trout. The News Spread. Great excitement prevailed at once in the neighborhood. Dr. McCall was sent for, and arrived in a few minutes. The boy was dead when he arrived, and with assistance the doctor carried him into the house. The news became noised about and in a I short lime a large crowd gathered. , Coroner Drennon was sent for, and im mediately began holding the inquest. The testimony taken was that of Dr. McCall, who told of the wound in the left side of the neck being the cause of the death. This part of the hoy’s body was horribly mutilated. Andy Trout aid Meredith Trout testified about as above quoted. The gun was in evidence. It was a ramshackle affair, and would hardly stand cocked. The hammer could be pushed down from a full or a half cock, and it was plainly showed that it was in such a condition as to easily go off accidentally. A negro woman testi fied that sh« saw Meredith Trout when she heard the explosion, but could not I PRICE bIVE CENTS. see theotbeis. She said he had nothing in his hands. With this testimony ths jury came to town to mike uo the verdict. * King's Story. la the meantime Offiser Wtmpse had been to King’s home io the Fifth ward, and finding Jimmie there, brought him to town. He wis carried t> the Sheriff’s office, and there told his story. He said tbat Will was shot by bis brother Mere dith. He met the boys and let Meredith have the gun to shoot a bird. The bird fl iw and the negro pointed the gun at King. “Don’t do that,” cried King, ‘ It’s easy , on the trigger.” Then Meredith pointed it at Will. The gun fired and Will fell. King says he was frightened and ran home. This story caused the attest of Mere . dith Trout, who was brought to the city, and kept in the sheriff’s cffice until the jury’s verdict was read, when he was re leased. Making A Verdict The jury repaired to the city court ro >m and for nearly an hour discussed the case. All parties stuck to their orig inal stories. Many thought that King had accidentally shot the negro, and wanted him to say so, but he persistently refused, saying he would not toll a story. Finally the jury returned a verdict charging King with voluntary manslaugh ter. Che result was a surprise to many and the little fellow and his brother were greatly affected. They proposed to give bond, but Sheriff Moore said it was not in his power to give bail, and that they would have to get an order from Judge Henry, who is in Summerville. A telegram was sent to him last night, but the judge refused bail until he could investigate. Tomorrow Carey King, and bis attor ney, Mr. W. W. Vandiver, will go to Summsrville and institute habeas corpus proceedings. They are confident of securing bail,as are the others who heard the case. Toe general and almost uni versal opinion is that the shooting was accidental. Even granting every particular of the stories of the Trouts, they say young King did not intend to shoot. King will remain in custody at least until Monday, when the habeas corpus proceedings will be heard. Kentbuky Lottery Men Indicted. Louisville, Jan. 13. —Manager James! Douglass, of the Kentucky State lottery,— and 40 of his venders in charge of policy shops in this city have been indicted' by the grand jury. Under the Goebel law, passed a year ago, running a lottery was made a felony. A long fight in the courts folloAved, while the lottery draw* ings continued. A few weeks ago the supreme court of the state decided against the lottery company. Its were closed until an appeal was taken to the supreme court of the United states, Avhen tho daily drawings were resumed. The commonwealth’s attorn* eys presented these facts to the grand jury and the indictments followed. K In Full Blast iu New Orleans. W Orleans, Jan. 12.—1 t has beeU decided by the attorneys of the AntU Lottery league that the act passed b® the last legislature prohibiting lotteries in this state is defective. The memberj of the league and other respectable peo«, pie ara alarmed and humiliated. Tha New Orleans Premium club can novs. hold its daily drawing without hind\ rance. A Girl May Marry nt Fourteen. Raleigh, Jan. 13.—1 n the superior court here Judge a vex* diet of “not guilty” iu man was indicted fur obI.'iinfIQKSHQgRTOH riage license for a girl 15 court decides that it is not a pnuisnfflHg offense to obtain a license for a girl 14, that being designated as the age at which they marry. This decision M* tracts much attention. The courts have hitherto held that consent of parents must be obtained where the girl is nudes 18. There was no appeal. Lett to Her Kuin. Anniston, Ala., Jan. 13.—Maggie Sweeney, a 15-year-old white girl, was found in one of the most notorious ne gro dives in south Anniston at 3 a. m. by tho police, who were looking for an es cape! criminal. The police took the girl to the station house, and her mother went to see her, but would do nothing for her. The girl was released. A Town Almost Destroyed. Ipswich, Mass., Jan. 13.—The most disastrous fire this old town has ever known broke out about 2 o’clock a. m., in the hall occupied by the Red Men in the Jewett block, and when it was sub dued, some throe hours later, it had swept away the larger part of the busi* ness portion of the place, and caused a loss of $125,000. May Ifscapt from the Law. 4 Americus, Gn.. Jan.. 13.—Henry Col lier, who jumped from the third story of the* (feurthouse during his -trial for murder last Thursday, is unable to con tinue in court. He was brought info court on a stretcher and a mistrial de clared in his case. If he recovers suffi ciently he will be tried for his life again about Fob. 1. Valliant Befl for Clemency. Paris, Jan. 13.—Vaillant has weak ened. It is announced that he has re pented of his decision not to appeal to the court of cessation, and has signed the necessary document. But he still refuses to petition President Carnot for ( a commutation of sentence.