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Vol. Vi. no. 1.075
LAWYERS HAULED UP
A Fight Over the Breckinridge
Case After Court Adjourns.
THE EXCITEMENT IS GREAT
Miss Pollard’s Previous Excite
ment Has the Effect of
Drawing Crowds Now.
Washington, March 13.—The crowd
that surged about the circuit coulroom
for half an hour prior to the beginning
of the day’s session of the Pollard-
Breckinridge trial was greater than on
any day since tbe trial began. This
augmentation in spectators was due
principally to a desire to ascertain the
action of Judge Bradley on the face
slapping episode of the previous session.
There were other reasons too, for the
expectancy of a sensational session.
The report that Colonel Breckinridge
would make the defense, that he had
been married to Mrs. Wing previous to
the date Miss Pollard alleges he became
engaged to her, and the sensational exit
•f Miss Pollard yesterday whetted the
appetite ot the public and made the
courtroom more attractive than even the
houses of congress Under Judge Brad
ley’s order only members of the bar.
witnesses, and working newspaper men
were admitted to the court room, hut
the press of lawyers demanding admit
tance was so great that the chamber was
nearly filled before the case was called.
Immediately after court was called to
order Jndge Bradley took up the face
slapping incident which took place just
after the previous session adjourned.
He decided that as the affair occurred
outside the courtroom and after adjourn
ment. he had no jurisdiction in the mat
ter. He, at the same time, stated he
had heard that some of tiio counsel for
the defendant were carrying concealed
weapons, and cautioned them that this
was a lawabiding community. and such
proceedings would not be tolerated.
Each of the counsel for the defendant
entered the disclaimer and the hearing
of the case was resumed. Miss Pollard
was not present.
The day’s proceedings began with a
little victory for the defense in a contro
versy over the admission of the deposi
tions taken in Lexington the day before
the trial commenced, and which led to
the recent affray between the counsel.
Justice Bradley sustained the objec
tions of the defense against the admis
sion of the depositions as evidence. Mr.
Carlisle then asked that the deposi
tion of Mary S. Logan, of Cincinnati,
formerly Dr. Mary L. Sweet, be admit
ted. Mr. Butterworth objected and an
/ other legal controversy ensued. Judge
Bradley overruled the objections of the
defense and admitted the deposition as
evidence.
Mr. Carlisle then read the deposition
in which Mrs. Logan said she attended a
ioung woman who gave her name as
Ire. Monica Burgoyne, in I*B4. This
was while Mrs t Logan was Dr. Sweet, a
practicing physician of Cincinnati.
Miss Pollard was present while the
depositions were being taken, but Mrs.
Logan said that while there were some
_ things about Miss Pollard that suggested
Mrs. Burgoyne, she could not identify
her. The young woman said she was
pregnant with her first child, saying
her husband was dead, and acting as
-. though there were some family reasons
why the matter should be kept secret.
The young woman called twice at her
•fflce, later deponent called to see her.
After cross examination had been read,
the court at 12:30 took a recess.
About Brsckinride’s Marriage.
Cincinnati, March 13.—Advices re
ceived by The Tribune from Louisville
and Lexington deny the rumors that
Colonel Breckinridge was married to his
present wife, formerly Mrs. Wing, at
New York, three weeks prior to the
ynarriage at Louisville. The family of
■ Mrs, Wing is a very prominent one in
and a member of it has given
out a denial of the rumor. At Lex
ington Colonel Breckinridge’s friends
will not discuss the subject. His politi
cal opponents there knew nothing
further than the mere rumor.
suapectea oi I'oisoiiinjj a Girl.
Dover, Del., March 13.—Walter Mc-
Ginnis. of this place, has been arrested
en suspicion of having poisoned Lulu
■rßeed, a young lady who died here under
[ peculiar circumstances several days ago.
L Miss Reed had not been feeling well and
■ McGinnis gave her an orange. Shortly
r after she ate the fruit she became ill and
Ljlied in great agony. The body will be
■ exhumed to allow an examination of the
eontents of the stomach.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS._
Tlio Senate on the Bland Bill—The House
on Appropriations.
Washington, March 13.—After some
routine business, on motion of Mr. Gor
man, tbe committee vacancies were
tilled. Mr. Bate was made chairman of
the committee on military affairs and
[ Mr. Blanchard was made chairman of
the committee on the improvement of
l the Mississippi river.
k -The Bland seigniorage bill was taken
P up «t 12:30 and Mr. Stewart addressed
♦he senate in advocacy of it.
The house at 1 o’clock on motion of
Mr. Sayers resolved itself into a commit
tee of the whole on the sundry civil ap
propriation bill, Mr. Lester, of Georgia,
in the chair.
1 The house elections committee has de-
I eided to take up the continued case of
Thasher vs. Enloe, from the Eighth Teii-
B nessee district, and Moore vs. Funston,
S from the Second Kansas district, for
on Friday next. Argu
nls have been heard in both cases. It
further decided that after March 27
■ arguments would be heard in the re
■ maining cases on the committee calen-
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
me ncuse committee on agriculture j
has decided to postpone until next month I
action on the bills providing for the ex
termination of the Russian thistle. The
Hatch anti-option bill was made the
special order of business until disposed
of and its consideration will begin at
once.
The sense of the committee has been
taken and shows that a majority are in
favor of son " legislation of this kind.
The bill wil be read by sections and per
fected, as the draft submitted by Mr.
Hatch conveyed only the idea, leaving
the exact terms to be diseased and fixed
by the committee.
Thurston Has No Fears.
Washington, March 13.—Hawaiian
Minister Thurston said concerning the
report that the arrival of so many steer
age passengers from the United States
and British Columbia at Honolulu was
part of a conspiracy for the restoration
of the queen, that it had been known for
some time that the ex-queen was seek
ing recruits in British Columbia. He
believed, however, that the provisional
government had the administration of
the government so well in hand that it
had nothing to fear from the queen’s
followers. He discredited the report
that many new men employed by the
government would join the queen’s
forces at a signal from her.
11l the Interests of Farmers.
Washington, March 13.—The United
States department of agriculture is about
to issue a farmers’ bulletin on fertilizers
for cotton. This bulletin has been pre
pared by Dr. J. M. Mcßryde, president
of the Virginia Agricultural college and
director of the Virginia experiment sta
tion, and gives a concise account of nu
merous experiments with fertilizers on
cotton made under his supervision in
South Carolina. It also contains direc
tions as to the selection, compounding
and application of fertilizers for this
crop.
Bout elie Makes Fun,
Washington, March 13.—Mr. Bou
telle, in commenting on Secretary Her
bert’s reply to his resolution asking by
what authority Mr. Blount was placed
in command of the naval forces at Hon
olulu, remarked that it was "amusing
to note that this administration is driven
to find the only semblance of precedent
for its action in some orders issued dur
ing the famous San Domingo episode by
that secretary of the navy (Robeson)
who has been the subject of Democratic
denunciation.
Injured by an Overturned Lamp.
Washington, March 13.—Mrs. Patty
Miller Stocking, widow of the late Wil
liam E. Stocking, and daughter of the
late Justice Miller of the supreme court,
was badly burned by the overturning of
a lamp at her apartments at the Elsmere.
Her physician states that the injuries,
while very serious, they are not likely
to prove fatal.
A Noted Divine Dead.
New Orleans, March 13.—Rev. Dr.
T. R. Markham, one of the best known
Presbyterian divines in the south, died
at midnight. He was a veteran of the
late war.
Weather Forecast.
Washington, March 13.—Forecast till
Bp. m., Wednesday. For North Caro
lina—Fair, slightly warmer Wednesday
morning, except stationary temperature
near Hatteras, southwest winds. South
Carolina—Fair, slightly warmer Wed
nesday morning, variable winds, be
coming southwesterly. Eastern Florida.
Western Florida and Georgia—Fair,
variable winds. Alabama—Fair, slight
ly warmer Wednesday morning in the
northwest portion, variable winds, be
coming southerly. Mississippi —Fair
southerly winds.
IMPORTANT PROPOSITION.
A Change in Government Methodi of Coast
and Geodetic Surveys.
Washington. March 13.—A most im
portant proposition for a change in gov
ernmental methods will be presented to
the house of representatives this week.
It contemplates the abolition of the
coast and geodetic survey, of which Pro
fessor T. C. Mendenhall is superin
tendent. The coast survey surveys
rivers, lakes and seacoast, and it is pro
posed to absorb this branch by the navy
department. It further contemplates
the termination of the geodetic survey,
with its extensive bureau under ths di
rection of Superintendent Mendenhall,
and the absorption of this bureau by the
interior department.
Representative Enloe will submit the
proposed changes as amendments to the
Sundry civil appropriation bill. One of
the first items of this bill is that for the
coast and geodetic survey. Mr. Enloe
has been engaged in gathering data for
proposed changes for some days, and his
purpose has been made known to the
house committee on appropriations.
Chairman Sayers, of the committee,
doesnot think the changes will be made,
as he thinks they should not complicate
an appropriation.
It is understood that Mr. Enloe's pur
pose is to make the geodetic branch of
the present bureau an adjunct of the ge
ological survey. The latter :s a bureau
of the interior department.
The coast and geodetic survey has an
extensive bureau at Washington, besides
field parties and coast survey boats
throughout the country. The office force
receives $143,000 annually, and those in
the field $119,000,
Interrstinc Insurance Decision.
Winchester, Va., March 11.—Quite
an interesting question, bearing upon the
law of insurance, was decided at the
March term of the Frederick county
court, which has just adjourned. The
Allen Vinegar company, of St. Louis,
Mo., sued the Commonwealth Fire Insur
ance company, of Winchester, Va.
ROME. LrA,. WEDNESDAY MOkNINO, MAhCH i 4, I»d4,
’START FOR THE POLE
The Wellman Party Off for
Spitzburgen.
A UNIQUE ENTERPRISE.
What the Young Explorer
Hopes to Accomplish—Nov
el Features.
New York, March 13.—Mr. Walter
Wellman, the well known journalist,
sails on the steamer Britannic en route
for Spitzbergen, from which point his
expedition will make a summer dash
for the north pole. Mr. Wellman is ac
companied by three other Americans—
Professor Owen B. French, late of the
United States coast and geodetic survey
and an experienced and capable scientist:
Dr. Thomas B. Mohnn, a successful
Washington physician, and Charles C.
Dodge, the artist and photograper of the
expedition. 'The enterprise is under the
leadership of Mr. Wellman, and the
three men named are his lieutenants.
Ten hardy young Norwegians, am
bitious and experienced in arctic explo
rations, will join the party in Norway,
and the expedition will sail from Trout
soe, Norway, for the islands of Spitz
bergen about May 1. At Dane’s island,
which is very near the eightieth
parallel—that point of latitude so far
north that many explorers have never
reached and few have ever passed
it—headquarters will be established, and ,
then the party will steam to the edge of
the great ice pack about a degree
farther north. After a landing is es- j
feete l the steamer will rethrn to Dane’s i
island, and about May 10 or 15 the dash j
for the pole will begin.
That marvelous new metal, alumini
um. has been used in the construction
of new sledges, boats and other appara
tus, and thus equipped with far lighter
paraphernalia than any previous ex
plorer Mr. Wellman expects to push on
north at the rate of from 12 to 20 miles
p r day. Ashe will have only about j
600 miles to travel before the pole is
reached, he expects to reach that goal i
or a point very near to it in 50 days. I
He will then return to the edge of the
pack in 50 days more, his steamer will
pick him up, and he will then return
home.
Mr. Wellman has carefully studied
the great problem before him ami ex
pects to profit by the knowledge gained
by previous explorers who have traversed
the pack and to avoid their mistakes.
His early start is for tho purpose of
getting far north before the pack begins
its drift toward the south. Away back
in 1627 Sir Edward Parry pushed on
northward over the pack at the rate of
from 16 to 20 miles per day, but his
heavy equipage compelled him to break
his loads into parts and pass from five
to seven times over the same road.
Other explorers, handicapped with
oldtime sledges and boats, have been
compelled to progress in the same slow
manner, but Mr. Wellman believes that
with his light aluminium outfit re
tracing his steps will be unnecessary, and ,
that every mile traveled will take him a
mile farther toward the pole. At the
start the drift of the ice pack will not
be against him, and when he returns
later in the season it will assist him in
his homeward journey.
Mr. Wellman carries with him his
aluminum boats and sledges—the first
ever built in America—and tests have
demonstrated that they are by far the
lightest and at the same time the very
strongest boats and sledges of Itheir size
that the world has ever seen. The entire
equipment of the party of 14 will be
about 5.500 pounds, and as 40 hardy
draft dogs will assist in carrying it, the
average weight per dog and man will be
about 100 pounds.
One novel feature of Mr. Wellman’s
scheme of exploration is that it is strict
ly a newspaper expedition, and if Mr.
Wellman’s plans are carried out the
world will be apprised of bis progress
toward the pole, a thing that has never
before been done in the case of any pre
vious polar expedition. Members of his
party will be sent back from time to
time to the edge of the ice pack with
letters describing the progress of the ex
pedition aud the discoveries made by the
explorers. At the edge of the ice pack
the dispatches will be taken on board ,
Mr. Wellman’s steamer, which will re-'
turn to Norway, whence the world will '
receive the news.
Whether Mr. Wellman's dash for the j
pole will be successful or not remains to
be seen, but if his novel plan is even
partly carried out he will succeed in
reaching a degree of latitude farther
north than that reached by any previous
explorer. With Wellman, Peary Nan
sen and possibly Jackson in quest of the
pole this year, it seems highly probable
that 1894 will mark the solution of the
frozen north’s fascinating mystery.
Wellman Presented With a Flair.
Washington, March 13.—Mr. Walter
Wellman, the Washington correspond
ent, who has organized an expedition at
his own expense to solve the polar prob
lem, has left for New York, from which
city he and his companions sail on the
Britannic for Europe. At a special
meeting of the National Capitol Prens
club, of which Mr. Wellman was until
recently president, he was presented
with a handsome silk flag of the United
States, which the club desired he should
nail to the top of the north pole or plant
in the whole discovered.
Still Talk of Improvement.
Chattanooga, Mar ch 13.—The Trades
man, in its weekly review of the indus
trial situation in the south for the week
ending March 12, says the new indus
tries for the week are somewhat less in
number than for the preceding one, but
the unusually large inquiry for machin
ery still continues, and many reports are
received as to intended improvements in
manufacturing plants.
REPORT CONFIRMED.
Da Gama Has Taken Refuge in
a Portugese Vessel.
WANTS TOBE SAFE, SURE.
The Portugese Commander
Has Cabled to His Superior
for Instructions.
Lisbon, March 13.—Official dispatches
from Rio confirm the reports that the
insurgent admiral, Da Gama, has left
his flagship and taken refuge on board
Portuguese Corvette Mindelli.
The commander of the Portuguese
warship has cabled to Senhor De Brissas
Dos Neves Ferriera, minister of the ma- |
rine aud colonies, asking for instructions
in regard to restoring the vessels com- .
prising the insurgent squadron, under 1
command of Admiral Da Gama, to the
Brazilian government to whom they
presumably belong.
Da Gama had offered through the
Portuguese naval commander to surren
der, on condition that he and bis follow
ers should be guaranteed safety. This
message was brought in to President
Peixoto by the Portuguese officer in per
son.
Secretary Gresham Pleased.
Washington, March 13.—From re
cent dispatches, from the minister at
Rio de Janeiro, Secretary Gresham un
' derstands that the war has virtually
ended and is gratified that the result has
been reached in time to avoid further
1 bloodshed.
; Minister Mendonca said that he had
received information fully in accord
ance with those of the state department,
but giving no further particulars.
Fodisilali Has Been Captured.
London, March 13.—A dispatch to
admiralty office from Baltruist Gambia
says: Chief Fodisilah, the slave trader,
I whose depredations among the natives
in the British sphere led to the recent
I fighting in that territory resultingin.
I several instances in the defeat of the
British sailors, has been captured in
French territory.
STARVING BRITONS.
A Steamer That Has Been In a Desperate
Strait Since December Past.
St. Johns, N. F., March 13.—The
British steamer Briscoe, which left Ham
burg on Dec. 6, carrying a cargo of
manure salt, lies in a desperate strait,
60 miles south of Cape Race.
A lifeboat containing five men arrived
at the Cape Race signal station and
brought news of the disabled and long
overdue steamer. It contained Mata
Mackay and four of the crew, all of
them nearly exhausted from cold.
According to their story, they left the
Briscoe last Friday afternoon an 1 after
overcoming the great obstacles they at
last reached the signal station. On their
long pull they had not a bite of food and
were thinly clad and suffered from the
cold and exposure, all of them being in
a frost bitten condition.
The tuv Ingraham and the coastwise
steamer Virginia Lake, both carrying
provisions to the famished crew, have
started to find the disabled Briscos and
render all the assistance possible. The
Briscoe was due to arrive in New York
Feb. 17.
The Briscoe Brought In.
St. John’s, N. F., March 13.—The
steamer Virginia Laks, having in tow
the disabled Briscoe, has arrived in port.
The provisions of the disabled vessel had
given out and the crew were in an ex
hausted condition. The Briscoe pre
sented a melancholy spectacle, being bat
tered and smashed in a terrible manner.
To Sell the Mobile and Girard
Columbus. Ga., March 13.—The Mo
bile and Girard railroad, with all of its
property, both in Georgia and Alabama,
will be sold in Girard, Alabama, which
is just across the river from Columbus,
■ in September next unless the first mort
' gage bonds with interest amounting to
, $1,109,000 is paid. Judge Bruce in the
United State* court at Montgomery, Al-
I abama. has rendered a decree to this ef
fect The decree was on foreclosure
proceedings in behalf of H. H. Epping,
of this city, trustee for the first mort
gage bonds, against the Mobile and Gi
rard company.
■
Strikers Create Excitement.
Paterson. N. J., March 13.—The
striking silk dyers have created another
big excitement here. They marched to
the works of Simon & Auger, broke
down the doors and forced the workmen
out of the establishment. They threw
the unfinished silk on the floor, turned
on the steam in the tubs and burned a
large quantity of material,
THOSE CHILIAN CLAIMS.
There Is Not Enough Time Left to Con
sider Them.
Washington, March 13.—There is ap
parently little prospect that the time for
the consideration of the claims now be
fore the Chilian commission in this city
will be extended beyond April 9 when,
according to treaty agreement, the com
mission must cease its work. Under the
treaty the time was limited, as it was
believed all claims could be adjudicated
in short order.
The number ot claims against Chili by
citizens of the United States, however,
became so large and the Chilian govern
ment became so frightened at the pros
pect that when request was made for an
extension of time the Chilian congress
declined. When ths commission ad- ’
journs m April not over one -rmru u. me
claims will have been passed upon Our
claims against Chili amount tc nearly
$30,000,000. while her claims against the
United States cover only $250,000, $200,-
000 of which grew out of the Itata seiz
ure and which have already been de
murred to by the commission.
One of the largest claims against Chili
is known as the Landrean claim, involv
ing $10,000,000. Another is the D’Arcy
Didier claim filed by a Baltimorean, both
of which have been disallowed by the
commission. This week the famous Du
Bois claim, representing over $2,000,000,
will be considered. The Chillian con
gress meets in June. An attempt. will
then be made to negotiate another treaty,
to be submitted to the senate next
winter.
MAY NEED EUSTIS.
The Ambassador to France Talked of for
the Senate Again.
Washington, March 13.—The eleva
[ tion of Senator White to the supreme
bench occasions a renewal of the talk
i about Ambassador Eustis. Mr. Eustis
is not only the most brilliant of Louisi
anians. but he has had more experience
l in public affairs than any other man
from that state now in office. It is re
ported that there is a growing disposi
tion among his people to ask him to re
turn home and again accept a commis
sion as senator. They have just had so
close a call in legislative matters here
that the importance of having their in
terests committed to the ablest hands is
borne in upon them most forcibly.
It is not known how Mr Eustis would
regard the proffer He is agreeably s.t
uated at present, knows Paris like a na
; tive. has a taste for diplomacy and great
i talent for the work. But it is considered
i not unlikely that, having served with
such distinction in the senate, he would
not refuse another term in that body if
I his people demanded it. The election
j takes place in May, when two senators
are to be chosen.
A VALUABLE PLAYTHING.
A Theatrical Troupe Chunk Each O her
( With a Currency Package.
, Oxford, Pa.. March 13.—A package
containing $6,000 was left by Mr. Jacob
Tome, of Port Deposit, Sid., on the seat
, of a railroad coach on tha Oxford-Balti
i more express. He had come up from
' j Vv ashington with the cash wrapped in
paper, and left the train at lais home,
Port Deposit, south of Oxford. A mem
ber of a traveling theatrical troupe saw
the package, and the company made
merry with it, throwing it at one an
' othes.
Conductor Gilligan was handed arnes
i sage at a station from the aged million
aire instructing him to secure the money,
. which he did. It was locked in the car
safe and sidetracked, and later the
money was restored to Mr. Tome. He
is an active business man of 84 years,
and was born in Hanover, Pa A few
years ago he lost a package of $9,000 in
a similar manner, but it never was re
covered.
M’KINLEY INTERVIEWED
He Allows His Tongue to Run a Little on
Tariff.
Cincinnati, March 13.—The Commer
cial Gazette's special from Masillonsays:
Governor McKinley attended the fu
neral here of James McLain, an old
friend. He goes to Minneapolis March
20 to address the state convention of Re
publican clubs.
“I have not seen anything but the
brief newspaper reports of the senate
tariff bill,” he said, “but I should say
that it demolished Mr. Wilson’s theory
very effectively. The transfer of arti
cles from the free list of the Wilson bill
to the dutiable list is certainly striking.
“The changes strike me as an aggra
vation. They are too inconsequential.
The committee has done fairly well by
sugar. The process is expensive how
ever. It provides revenue, but directly
out of the pockets of tho consumers.
The bounty plan affords the same pro
taction and at a far less cost.”
Shot by a Negro Desperado.
Sebastian, Fla., March 13.—Mr.
Laugeman, foreman of McLellan’s saw
mills, situated near here, was shot dead
by a negro desperado named Bridges.
The negro also shot and is thought fa
tally wounded Manager McCloud. The
negro had been discharged and he shot
the men out of revenge. A posse is in
pursuit of the murderer.
Captain Adam Warner Dead.
Raleigh, March 13.—Governor Carr
received a telegram announcing the
death of Captain Adam Warner, asso
ciate shellfish commissioner and com
mander of the state oyster patrol steam
er, Lilly. He was appointed three years
ago. His home was at Washington, N.
C. Before the war he was in the West
India trade.
Good Cltlsens, but Guilty.
Warren, Pa., March 13.—1 n the trial
'of the case against the White Caps who
took Frank Bright from his home re
cently at Kinsua and gave him a sound
whipping, the jury returned a verdict
finding eight persons guilty as indicted.
These persons include some of the best
citizens of Kinsua.
A. Lancaster Mauer snoots Himself.
Lancaster, Pa., March 13.—Jacob
Smith, a baker 40 years old, and a resi
dent of this place, put a bullet into his
own brain because he had lost his sight.
He will die. He is married and has sev
eral children. His sight began to fail a
year ago, and recently resulted in total
blindness.
An Alabamian Suicides.
Meridian, Miss., March 12.—Hon. W.
T. Taylor, a prominent lawyer and vete
ran newspaper man of Butler, Ala.,
committed suicide in this city by taking
55 grains of morphine. Mr. Taylor
comes of a wealthy,influential famil nim
was 46 years of age. He was maaried
’ and laovM savers] children, I
PRICE MVE CENTS.
TO FIGHT CHOLERA.
The Scourge Will Be Kept
Away This Summer.
QUARANTINE REGULATION
i Will Be Strict and Enforced to
the Letter by the Marine
Hospital Service.
Washington, March 13.—The marine
hospital service does not propose to al
low cholera to get to our shores this sum
mer, if watchfulness and strong quar
antine observance can prevent it. Last
year’s policy with regard to detailing
officers of the service at the various Eu
, lopean shipping ports to inspect all emi
grants will probably fie carried out again
this year. Reports received here indi
-1 cate that cholera is prevalent in Asiatio
Russia and along the borders. While
' no cases have appeared in France and
i Germany, officials of the bureau state
they would not be surprised to hear that
cholera was epidemic in the port cities
before many weeks.
Cholera is admitted to be a disease
1 bandied and stamped out with more
1 ease than yellow fever. Statements pre
■ pared by Dr. Wyman es recent epi
demics of the latter disease show that in
nearly all cases the invasion of yellow
fever are traced directly to Cubs, where,
it is said, the germs never die. Last
Bummer’s epidemic at Brunswick,
was brought about by fever in a vessel
from Cuba, and the destructive scourge
at Jacksonville four years ago was also
due to the fever introduced from some
Cuban port.
Stringent rules are to be enforced by
1 the service next summer agsmst all ves
sels arriving at southern noris from Cu
ba, and greater care than in former
years will be exercised by the officers of
the service to prevent a single case mak
ing its appearance in the gulf coast cit
ies. |
i
, A BOY TORTURED,
• Anil the Only Excuse Given T« Pure, Una-
dulterated Meanness.
i ■ Chicago, March 13.—Albert Barkow
' sky, 18 year, old, and George Dunn, a
bartender, have been arrested for inflict
ing serious and cruel wounds
' Thomas T. Davies, a porter in a barber
shop, with a redhot poker. Davies went
to the saloon owned by Barkowsky’s
father, greatly under the influence of
liquor, and the injuries were inflicted by
; the prisoners. J
Both of his eyebrows wore burned
’ away, and under each eye the hot Iron
* burned a track an inch long, and a sim
; ilar mark was left behind each ear. On
each wrist the skin was burned away
' for an inch and a half, while on each
leg from the ankle up for a distance of
six inches, the hot iron burned to the
bone. In the region of the abdomen
also there are severe burns, while many
( of his ribs were traced with the hot
metal. He will probably ba crippled
for life.
The prisoners had no reason for their
: diabolical treatment of the unfortunate
. man except pure maliciousness.
‘ BELLE PLATT'S ADVENTURE.
She Is Still In an Unconscious Condition
and Cnn Tell Nothing.
J Ansonia, N. Y„ March 13.—The
strange adventure of the school girl Is
abella H. Platt, who disappeared from
the Shelton High school Thursday morn
ing last, and was not seen again by any of
her friends or family until 10 o'clock on
Thursday night when she was found
lying insensible in the highway in front
of her father’s door yard, remains as
dense and impenetrable a mystery a»
ever.
The girl, who is nearly 17 years of age
and really more than ordinarily
still lies in a state bordering on mental
unbalance, with only now and then pe
riods of comparative clearness of intel
lect. She is under the charge of Dr. R.
Pinney, of Derby, who insists on her be
ing kept in absolute quiet, and will not
allow even her parents to press her with
questions as to her whereabouts and do
ings on the day of her disappearance.
A WOMAN PRESIDES.
The Affairs of Pleasanton Is Directed by
Mrs. Annie E. Austin.
Pleasanton, Kan., March 13.—Thia
is the only town in the United States
now presided over by a woman mayor.
She is Mrs. Annie S. Austin, who on
Jan. 16 was elected over J. W. Primer,
a hardware merchant.
Mrs. Austin was nominated on a citi
zens’ ticket, and her opponent was the
head of a business men’s ticket. Poli
tics were ignored. The issues of the
campaign were liberality with liquor
dealers and gamblers, for revenue, and
against which predominating policy Mrs.
Austin was, of course arrayed. So ani
mated was the contest that several hun
dred more votes were cast than at any
previous election here—national or local,
Mrs. Austin conducted her own cam.
paign. She is a powerful woman, weigh
ing about 240 pounds, and with not
much superfluous flesh. She was elect
ed by only 20 votes.
Celebrate."Alexander'. Assassination.
New York, March 13.—T0 com
memorate the assassination of tho czar
of Russia, Alexander 11, anarchists held
a meeting in the Thalia theater Sunday
night. The gathering was an orderly
one and the speeches temperate. Among
those who spoke was Herr Most.
The Floyds Found Guilty.
Minneapolis, March 13.—Frank and
Louis Floyd, on trial for complicity in
the famous steal of some $123,000 mado
by Philip Scheig from the Bank of M :i
--> oapolis, have been found guilty.