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REDUCING RATES WILL CAUSE WAR. The Seaboard Air-Line Throws Down the Gauntlet. CUTS PASSENGER FARES. f Road Stands Ready to Make Still Further Reductions. Once more the Seaboard Air-Line and the combination of its big rivals headed by the Southern railway, are engaged in a battle royal. Open war has again been declared and the tight will probably be one to the death. The) circular just issued by the Sea board announcing a differential pas senger tariff on through and local bus iness and the reduction of 33 1-3 per cent* in fares contained therein is the tirst shot in what may terminate in a long continued struggle between the associated railways which have refused to haul the Seaboard through cars and the Seaboard. The rates are subject to change, and this phrase, as defined by General Passenger Agent Anderson, means that the Seaboard will cut as often as its lower rates are met by its competi tors in order to preserve the different ial features. When questioned concerning the possibility of interference by the United States courts, as has been the case in former rate wars, Mr. Ander son said: “This road is proceeding upon dif ferent lines from those adopted previ ously, when cuts were merely made without any reason being given. We are proceeding upon logical grounds and have adopted the differential rates as our weapon, as the northern and western roads in an endeavor to equal ize rates, have done long since. The new rates go into effect October 25th and have already been filed w-ith the interstate commerce commission. “During the past three or four years the Seaboard Air-Line has made many and frequent efforts to secure for itself and the public the same through sleeping car service enjoyed by its competitors—to say nothing of their solid train service—between New York and Atlanta and New York and New Orleans, but requests for such equal facilities between these points has in every instance been met with a decli nation by connections, who have given as a cause for such refusal first- one reason and then another, a majority of which has been to an extent unsatis factory. "The Seaboard, therefore, and in view of such continued discrimination against its interests and the interests of its patrons, has determined, for the purpose of equalizing to an extent disadvantages under which it operates its fast mail and express trains to adopt similar action to that taken by trunk lines betw'een New' York and Chicago, St. Lous, Cincinnati and other cities, which action is recognized fry the trunk line association as being jtroper and right where disadvantages exist. ” TAMMANY HALL RATIFIES Nomination of Candidates In New York flunicipal Campaign. Thursday night Tammany Hall rati fied the nomination of its candidates for municipal offices in Greater New York. The attendance at the meeting, in the Wigwam was not as great as was expected. While the hall was well tilled, there was a crowd of several thousand surrounding the stands on the outside of the headquarters of the regular democracy. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, who had been in vited to speak, sent his regrets as did also Colonel William L. Brown. SCHEME FOR FEDERATION. Railroad Brotherhood Adopts Plans at Peoria fleeting. The conference of the four railroad brotherhoods at Peoria, 111., did not end until 11:10 Thursday night, when it adjourned sine die. having agreed upon a plan of international federation which will be submitted to the ap proval of the lodges of the trainmen, telegraphers, conductors and firemen in the United States, Canada and Mex ico, and returns will not all be in un til the first of January. against eight-hour law. A Kansas Judge Renders a Decision of Much General Import. Judge Wells, of the Kansas court of appeals, has rendered a decision which several lawyers declare practically ren ders the eight-hour law in Kansas a dead letter. A contractor named Billingsley, m doing a job for Marshall county, worked his men ten hours a day and then made a claim for two hours extra, which the commissioners refused to pay. Judge Wells holds that in working his men over eight hours Billingsley not only subjected himself but the commissioners to prosecution. EDWARD LANGTRY DIES. Was Well Known as the Husband of the “jersey Lilly.” A London dispatch states that Ed ward Langtry, the husband of Lily Langtry, the actress, died Friday night in the asylum for the insane at Chester, to which he was recently committed by a magistrate, having been found wandering in a helpless condition in that vicinity. It is supposed that Mr. Langtry was suffering from concussion of the brain, due to falling down the gangway of the steamer on which he traveled from Dublin to Holyhead. NEGRO PROTECTED HIS HOME. Fires Into Gang of Whitecaps, Killing One and Wounding Four. Whitecaps attacked the home of Dot Price,a negro living near Milan, Tenn., Tuesday night and fired into the house. He returned the fire, killing William Sires, a white man, and fatally wound ing four others. The negro was shotthrough the arm. Intense excitenent prevails and a race war is expected as a finale to the bloody tragedy. ELLISON FOUND GUILTY. Jury Convicts Him of Receiving Goods From Bohannon Gang. Again Tuesday the members of Jin lmunon’fi band were arraigned in court at Dalton, Ga., and they pleaded guilty to each indictment. Walter Bohannon, Tom Kinnemnn, Jim Harris, Sam Painter, Eli Morris, Ben Pearce and Luke White, all en tered pleas of guilty. There were three indictments against some of them. They admitted every thing, for they saw that there was not the smallest hope of escape if they went to trial. Ralph Ellison, one of their fences, was convicted after a trial in which he was defended by able counsel. Judge Bender, a councilman and formerly a merchant, demanded trial, and be, too, was indicted for receiv ing goods knowing that they had been stolen. Jesse Lan gstonwas brought in from Murray county, and he plead guilty. He is worth several thousand dollars. At Wednesday’s session of court Ellison volunteered to testify for the prosecution in any ease if needed. Sensational developments came thick and fast during the day. An indict ment was found-against Tom Peeples, agent of the Western and Atlantic railroad at Dalton, and his son, Drew N. I’eeples. They are charged with stealing nine barrels of New Orleans syrup from the Western and Atlantic freight depot in August, 1890. Drew Peeples is another city councilman. Things got too hot for Drew and his brother Tom and they skipped out. Clee Cumby stepped up to the bar and plead guilty to receiving stolen goods. He bought a bag of coffee from the gang. Jesse Langston, who plead guilty to receiving stolen goods, was sen tenced to pay $750 and serve twelve months on the chaiugang, hut the im prisonment was conditionally sus pended. Langston, who is nearly fifty years old, made a statement in which he de clared that he bought from Bohannon in good faith and did not know the goods were stolen. EX-SENATOR ROBINSON DEAD. He Represented South Carolina Under the Reconstruction Regime. Ex-United States Senator Robertson died in Columbia, S. 0., Wednesday. He was senator from South Carolina under the reconstruction regime, and w-as succeeded by ex-Senator Butler. Mr. Robertson had been paralyzed for years. His estate is estimated to be worth nearly a million dollars. During the civil war he was a de cided and open Unionist. He w-as a member of the state constitutional convention that was held after the passage of the reconstruction acts of congress, and was elected as a repub lican to one of the vacaut seats in the Upited States senate. He was re-elected for a full term, serving altogether from July 22, 1808, until March 3, 1877, and held the chairmanship of the committee of manufacturers. niSTRIAL IN ATKINSON CASE. The Defendant and Her Friends Ex pected an Acquittal. There was a mistrial at Glenville, W. Va., Wednesday, in the famous At kinson forgery case. The case went to the jury late Tuesday night, and after remaining out all night and during the forenoon Wednesday the foreman announced that no verdict could he be reached. When questioned as to how the jury stood he said seven were for acquittal and five for convic tion. The judge announced the case a mistrial and court was adjourned. The mistrial was a keen disappoint ment to Mrs. Atkinson and to her friends, who confidently expected an acquittal. MORE PRESIDENTIAL PLUMS. A Number of Southerners Given Ap pointments By McKinley. President McKinley made the fol lowing appointments \\ ednesday: To he consuls of the United States: Talbot J. Albert, of Maryland, at Brunswick, Germany. William A. Prickett, of New Jersey, at Klieims, France. To be collector of customs: John S. Bet-hell, for the district of Richmond, Va.; Jesse W. Elliott, for tie district of Newport News, Va.; William B. Shepard, for the district of Apalachi cola, Fla. FIENDS INDICTED. Men Who Assaulted Mrs. Gleason Will Have Speedy Trials. The special jury of Campbell county, Ivy., Thursday night reported the in dictments of the gang that criminally assaulted Mrs. William Gleason on the night of October 6. Seven were indicted for criminal assault, the pen alty for which in Kentucky is death. Six were indicted for complicity in the outrage, the penalty for which is from ten to twenty-one years. John Shannon, Matt Meeniu, Hubert Met ter and William Schorely were releas ed. All those indicted are in jail, and there will be speedy trials. A JAIL DELIVERY. Desperate Men at Brunswick, Ga., Effect Their Escape From Prison. Nine desperate prisoners escaped from Glynn county jail, at Brunswick, Ga., at au early hour Thursday morn ing. Within thirty minutes their escape was detected, and a quartet of blood hounds put on the trail. Following them were officers on horseback and citizens afoot. At each block the yelping, baying hounds and the yells from the men brought forth armed citizens to join in the search. FOUR AT A TIME. Two Boys and Two Girls, Quadruplets, Bless a Troy, N. Y., Home. Mrs. YVilliam J. Olmstead, wife of a motorman on the Troy City railroad, at Troy, N. Y., recently gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls, at her home in Albia, a suburb of Troy. . The mother and children are doing well. The children weighed six and one-half pounds each. Mr. and Mrs. Olmstead have four other children. FEVER FATALITIES AT NEW ORLEANS Break All Previous Records For Tewnty-Four Hours. DOCTORS ARE SURPRISED. Tabulated Statement Regarding Progress of the Scourge. CITIES. NEW CASES. DEATHS. New Orleans 29 Mobilo 7 Biloxi 17 0 McHenry, Miss 1 Scranton 7 1 Totals 91 U Wednesday was the record smasher in the number of deaths in a siugle day from yellow fever since the sick ness was first reported in New Or leans. It is difficult to find the cause except in the fact that concealment, neglect and rebellion against the authority of the board of health have made it difficult for the best physi cians to give proper attention to cases. At 7 o’clock Wednesday evening there had been nine fatalities reported during twenty-four hours. Hereto fore the highest number of deaths in any one day has been six At the board of health meeting there w r as some discussion among the gath ered physicians as to whether the dis ease had assumed suddenly a more ivirulent form or whether an aggrega tion of circumstances had sent up the /list of deaths. Prominent doctors say 'they do not believe the disease has be come malignant in type. They believe that the fact that on some days there have been four or five deaths, ou suc ceeding days no deaths, and then four or five again, goes to prove that the fever has been as eccentric before as it is now. At Mobile. Seven new- cases in the city proper and six brought into the city from Magazine Point, three miles out, made up the record at Mobile, Ala., Wed nesday. Eight recoveries are reported; no deaths for seventy-two hours. l>r. Guiteras Turned Down, No new cases w-ere reported as sus picious in Galveston Wednesday and there were no deaths from yellow fever. All the cases reported as sus picious are dismissed by the doctors, or are convalescent. The city council met and passed a resolution calling upon Surgeon Gen eral Wyman to have Dr. Guiteras return, or to send some other expert to investigate other towns in Texas and to w-atch the progress of the disease there and elsewhere. The city council adopted a resolu tion refusing to accept Dr. Guiteras’ diagnosis. WANT EV ANGELIN A AR RESTED. ! Military Judge at Havana Gives Orders For Her Apprehension. Wednesday’s Official Gazette at Havana, published an edict signed by the military judge calling upon Evati gelina Cisneros to present herself for a term of fifteen days in jail and ordering all civil and military author ities to endeavor to apprehend her and, if 'captured, to send her to Havana jail. It is reported that the young lady arrived at New York Wednesday on the Ward Line steamer Seneca. AGED MATRIMONIAL ASPIRANTS. Groom Is Eighty-Eight While Pros pective Bride Is Ninety. Benjamin F. Hunt, a former resident of Rochester, N. Y., now in his eighty eighth year, is about to wed Mrs. Julia A. Sherman, of "Watertown, whose age is given as ninety years. The event is set for the 20tli instant. Mr. Hunt resides in Boston with one of his sous. The bride-elect is said to he possessed of a fortune of more than $1,000,000. BANDITS LOCATED. Men Who Robbed a Rock Island Train Have Been Spotted. Inspector Houck, of the postoffice department, inis been notified that the men who recently held up and rob bed a Rock Island train are in hiding about twenty miles from Tulsa, I. T. Honk, with other officers left Tulsa Wednesday for the scene, and thinks he will succeed in capturing the des peradoes. SCHOONER WRECKED And Her Crew of Seven Men Find Watery Graves. Advices from St. Johns, New Found land, state that the schooner Blood hound is a total wreck near Cape Pine, on the sonthern part of the peninsula of Avalon. Her crew of seven men perished. IDAHO HAS SNOW STORM. Crops In Southeastern Portion of the State Greatly Damaged. A heavy snowstorm, beginning early Thursday afternoon and lasting all night, swept over southeastern Idaho. It will do much damage, as much grain ■vnd lucerne is still out. REYNOLDS FURTHER RESPITED. Murderer of Hunt Will Live Until the Third of December Next. Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, has respited Grady Reynolds, the murder er of Hunt, until December 3d, in or der that he may be a witness in the case against Bud Brooks in the event that anew trial is granted. It will he remembered that a few weeks ago the governor respited Reyn olds on the same ground. The former respite having lapsed, Reynolds’ lease on life has been extended. DEATH IN FLAMES. Residence Burns and Three Yonng Girls Lose Their Lives. The three daughters of Preston How ard were burned to death Friday morn ing in their home at Port Alma, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. The rest of the family escaped from the burning building. The girls were aged sixteen, ten and six years respec tively. One of them had escaped, but met death in returning to assist her sisters. FIELD’S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. President Congratulates the Venerable Jurist On His Long Service. The following letter signed by Asso ciate Justice Field was given out at, Washington Thursday afternoon: “Supreme Court of the United States, Washington,D.O., October 12.1897. “Dear Mr. Chief Justice and Breth ren: Near the close of last term, feel ing that the duties of luy office had become too arduous for my strength, I transmitted my resignation to the president, to take effect on the first day of December next, and this he has accepted, with kindly expressions of regard, as will be seen from a copy of his letter, which is as follows: “ ‘My Bear Sir In April last Chief Jus tice Fuller, accompanied by Mr. Justice Brewer, handed me your resignation ns as sociate justice of the supreme oourt of the United States, to take effect December X, 1897. “ ‘la hereby accepting your resignation, I wish to express my deep regret that you feel compelled by advancing years to sever your active connection with the court of which you have so long been a distinguish ed member. “In entering upon your great office in May, 1893, you will on the first of next De cember have served upon this bench for a period of thirty-four years and seven months, a term longer than that of any member of the court since its creation and throughout a period of special importance in the history of the country, occupied with as grave public questions as have ever con fronted that tribunal for decision. “I congratulate you, therefore, most hear tily upon a service of such exceptional du ration, fidelity and distinction. Nor can I overlook tho fact that you recoived your commission from Abraham Lincoln, and graciously spared by a kind providence, have survived all the members of the court of his appointment. “Upon your retirement both the bench and the country will sustain a great loss, but the high character and great ability of your work will live and long be remembered, not only by your colleagues, iiut by your grateful fellow- countrymen. “With personal esteem and sincere best wishes for your contentment and happiness during tho period of rest w-hich you have so well earned, I am, dear sir, very truly yours, William McKinley. The judge’s letter continues: “When my resignation takes effect my period of service ou this bench will have exceeded that of any of my predecessors, while my entire judicial life will have embraced more than forty years. I may be pardoned for saying that during all this period, long in comparison with the brevity of hu man life, though in the retrospect it has gone with the swiftness of a tale that is told, I • have not shunned to declare in every ease coming before me for decision the conclusion w-hich my deliberate convictions compelled me to arrive at, by the conscientious exercise of such abilities and require ments as I possessed. ” WHOLESALE ASSASSINATIONS Seems to Be the Order of the Day In An Alabama County. A special from Selma, Ala., says: law lessness runs rampant near Rich mond, in the southern end of this county. Several months since West Ethridge rode up behind Allie Cole man, a wealthy farmer, and blew the top of his head off with a double-barrel shot gun. He has managed to elude 'arrest. Later Barrett Duckworth, Coleman’s body servant, was assassinated in his house, and publio opinion laid the crime at Ethridge’s hands. A month ago Shelley Sumner, a nephew of Ethridge, was killed by Charles Nelson, a relative of Duck worth. Last Wednesday night Frank Banks, a cousin of Nelson, was shot down from the darkness while standing in the door of liis home. All of the murlers are thought to have grown out of the Ethridge-Cole mau killing. Not an arrest has so far been made, although officers have made repeated raids. KILLED BY FALLING VATS. Two Men Dead and Many Others Seriously Injured. A dispatch from Lille, France, in the department of Nonl, announces a ter rible disaster at Cambria, thirty-two miles from Lille. A large piece of the boiling vats of the Central Sugar factory fell Thurs day, burning or crushing fourteen persons. Two of the injured are dead and many others are expected to die. TOBACCO WAREHOUSES BURN. Great Quantity of the Weed Destroyed By Fire In Durham. Seven tobacco warehouses and eight cottages in Durham, N. C., were burned Thursday afternoon, entailing a loss of about SIOO,OOO, with 8200,000 insurance. It was the most destruc tive fire Durham has known since the big blaze of 1885. Three buildings occupied by the American Tobacco Company were gutted. The company had about two and a half million pounds of tobacco in three houses. Their loss is un known. W. T. Carrington had about 500,000 pounds of tobacco; $20,000 in surance. FORCED TO BUILD DEPOTS. Railroad Commission of South Caro lina to Take Action. The South Carolina railroad com mission has requested the attorney general to begin action against the South Carolina and Georgia and Flor ida Central and Peninsular and Atlan tic Coast Line. These roads were ordered by the commission to build a union depot at Denmark. They have delayed doing so for one reason and another. The commission is empowered to enforce their requirements. GORMAN CREATES SENSATION. Maryland Senator Writes Open Letter To Publisher Abell. A Baltimore special says: United States Senator Gorman issued an open letter Friday to Edwin Abell,publisher of the Baltimore Sun, in which he offers to relinquish the leadership f the democracy in Maryland, provided Mr. Abell will accept it and support the democratic ticket in the coming state and legislative campaign. MORE CONVICTIONS OF DALTON MEN. Daptaiu Peeples Fouud Guilty of E-eceiving Stolen Goods. % _ MORE ARRESTS ARE MADE. Car Conspiracy Trials at Dalton Develop Lively Sensations. Nearly all of-Thursday and Friday in the now celebrated ear robber oases at Dalton, Ga., was taken up in the trial of Captain T. J. Peeples, the agent of the Western and Atlantio railroad at Dalton. Notwithstanding that Captain Pee ples was ably defended, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Peeples has been the biggest game so far that the prosecution has brought down. His conviction created terror among the accused, who have not yet been brought to trial. There was some doubt about getting twelve men with the courage to find him guilty. He has the reputation of a fighter. The defense had the jurors polled, hut every one answered that it was his verdict. J ulge Fite did not pass sen tence. There may he another case against Peeples. It is rumored that he maybe tried for receiving stolen tobacco from Bohannon. The penalty in the case already decided may be either a fine or imprisonment in the ehaingaiig or penitentiary. The recommenda tion leaves it to the judge to say whether it shall be punished as a mis demeanor or as a felony. Captain Peeples has been agent of the Western and Atlantic railroad in Dalton for five years. Peeples was charged with buying a carpet from AValter Bohannon. The latter said that he sold it to Peeples and received the money for it. The defense attempted to impeach Bohan non, hut the jury believed him, and the citizens, generally believed. Pee ples w-as deserted by his two sons at the critical hour, and he had to rely for his defense wholly upon his own state ment and the evidence of a negro em ployee. The defendant said that his son Drew, a member of the city coun cil, had bought a carpet for him a year ago last summer in Chattanooga The father did not produce any receipt or memorandum of any kind to show where they got the carpet that ruined him. “Thor*! Are Others.” Anderson Giddings, a small mer chant of Tunnel Hill, pleaded guilty Friday to an indictment charging him with receiving stolen goods. Sen tence was deferred in his case, too. The case against Mack Cannon was called, but it was passed. Cannon’s trial will probably last two days. This will be a sensational case. Bo hannon says that Cannon often bought goods of him. There was one lot of clothing for which the Southern rail way paid McTeer & Cos., of Knoxville, $1,200. Bohannon says that Cannon paid him SBS for the lot. Cannon is the wealthiest merchant in Dalton, and has the largest clothing trade in north Georgia. Everything is done in his wife’s name. The store is known as the Baltimore Clothing House. W. B. McCarson, who runs a large store in North Dalton, was arrested Friday for dealing with Bohannon’s band of robbers. The grand jury has been investiga ting C. C. Bemis, the father-in-law of Drew I’eeples, who skipped. There is an indictment against one Buekholtz, who has a restaurant. Many Ladies Present. Move ladies were in court Friday than at any previous time in Whit field’s history. The ladies are for convicting nearly every time. One of them asks that it he clearly stated that the members of Dalton’s 400 do not regard Bohannon a a hero. Lee Arwood, who pleaded guilty to buying a bicycle from Bohaunbn, with drew his plea and went to trial while the Peeples jury was out. Bohannon stat ed that he did not think Arwood knew the bicycle was stolen. Arwood said that he did not know it, and on this testimony Judge Fite directed the jury to acquit the young man. So he was really tried aud acquitted within the ninety minutes that the Peeples jury was out. This was the first one to get off, and he had pleaded guilty. MURDER CHARGED TO SHAW. Police Say That He Is Slayer of His Mother and Grandmother. At Camden, N. J., Friday Eli Shaw was placed under arrest by the police officials and formally charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Shaw, and grandmother, Mrs. Emma Zane, which occurred several days ago. The arrest was based on newly dis covered evidence, including the find ing of a 32-caliber revolver, of which two chambers had been fired, at the bottom of a chimney. The pistol was thrown into the cliimney through a stove hole in the room in the third story, which had been occupied by Shaw. OBSERVED ANDREE’S BALLOON. The Monster Air Ship Reported to Have Been Seen in Siberia. A telegraphic message received at St. Petersburg from Krasnoyarsk, in the interior of Siberia, says that on September 14th, at 11 o’clock at night, the inhabitants of the village of Antz firowskojew, in the district of Yeni seisk, Arctic Russia, saw a balloon be lieved to be that of Professor Andree, the Swedish mronaut, who left the Tromsoe shortly before 2:30 p. m., on July Uth in an attempt to cross the Polar region. AMBASSADORS TRANSFERRED. M. Jules Cambon Will Represent the French Republic at Washington. At the French cabinet council held in Paris Thursday President Faure signed the appointment of M. Jules Patenotre, the retiring French ambas sador at Washington, as French am bassador at Madrid, and that of M. Jules Cambon, the retiring governor general of Algeria, as French ambas sador at Washington. DOUBLY FATAL DUEL. Constable, In Dying Struggle, Kills His Slayer. A special from Perry, (in., slates that ns the result of a duel between William Lizzonby, n justice court bailiff, and Bartley Amos, a negro, on whose property he attempted to levy last Friday afternoon, both men were killed, dying within a few feet of each other. Lizzenhy’s father is a justice of tho peace, and on the day stated William Rigsby, who was Amos’s landlord, went before him and secured an attachment against his property. The justice turned over the attach ment to his twenty-seven-yenr-old son William for execution, and the latter, accompanied by Mr. Rigsby, drove over to the negro’s cabin to make the levy. On arrival at the house Lizzen by acquainted the negro with his mis sion, and the latter remarked that “no white man should levy ou liis proper ty.” Lizzenby insisted on the regular attachment procedure and he and Amos became involved in an impas sioned dispute. Rigsby attempted to interfere, hut Amos angrily thrust him aside aiul stepping into his cabin secured his shotgun, and holding it but a few feet from his victim rapidly discharged both barrels at him. The shot struck Lizzenby’s breast, making a fearful laceration a few inches above the heart. He staggered and fell, but with his dyiug strength raised himself ou his elbow and fired two shots at Amos, both of which struck the negro, who tottered a few feet and fell dead. Lizzenby lived only a few minutes after the negro’s death. HONORS TO MISS CISNEROS. New Yorkers Turn Out En Masse to Greet Her. The popular reception to Miss F.van gelina Cossio y Cisneros in New York Saturday night was an extraordinary demonstration. Fully 50,000 person s. probably one-third of them well dressed women,crowded the upper half of Mad ison Square park and tilled Broadway and Fifth avenue and waited patiently for the congratulatory speeches to be finished and the Cuban heroine to ap pear. A stand had been erected south of the Worth monument, from which the speeches were delivered, and ou which the Seventh regiment band was sta tioned. Finally Mr. Decker, the rescuer, led his charge down the aisle between the musicians to the front of the platform. Miss Cossio Cisnero’s appearance was the signal for a tremendous dem onstration by the great crowd, which stretched out for one hundred yards before her. The men yelled and \n aved their hats, the women waved their handkerchiefs and the band played a Cuban battle song. Later Miss Cis neros was driven around the square and back to Delmonieo’s. The reception there was continued. Among those present at the recep tion in Delmouico’s were former Am bassador Eustis and wife, Colonel Ethan Allen and Charles Dana Gibson. Nearly every prominent member of the Cuban colony was present. DEATH OF CHARLES DANA. Attained Greatness as a Journalist, Politician and Historian. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at his home in Glen Cove, Long Island, at 1:20 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Dana’s death had been expected for several hours, and his family and physicians were at his bedside when the end came. His condition had been such for several months that the members of the family had kept them selves in constant readiness to go to his bedside at any moment. On Saturday morning he had a re lapse and it was apparent that recov ery was imp ssible. Several times, however, he rallied, but toward night began to sink. During the night there were feeble rallies, hut they did not last long. The cause of Mr. Dana’s death was cirrhosis of the liver. On June 9th he was at his cilice apparently strong and healthy. The next day he was taken ill and he never afterwards visited New York. He was seventy-eight years old. Not as a journalist merely, hut as a critic, historian and politician, lias greatness been achieved by Charles A. Dana, editor of The New York Bun. His manifold ability and industry placed him well in the lead of news paper managers of his day. REGISTRATION IN NEW YORK. The Figures Are But Little Under Those of Last Year. Saturday was the fourth aud last day of registration at New York. The total registration of Greater New York is 570,749. The total reg istration in New York city is 394,806, as compared with 330,618 last year. The registration in Brooklyn is 204,- 503. The total in 1896 was 207,272. The registration of Long Island city is 8,572. The total last year was 8,421. The registration of Btaten Island is 12,673 —1,500 more than last year. The registration is only a few thous and less than last year’s. SODDY MINERS SATISFIED. Trouble Over Wages Adjusted and They Resume Work. A Chattanooga dispatch states that the Soddy miners, who were out on a strike, held a conference with the op erators through their executive com mittee Wednesday at Bathburn. After some parleying the request of the meu was complied with and with the un derstanding that wages are to he re duced if prices should decline. They at once resumed their work. Nearly 700 men are affected by the settlement. FIRE IN COTTON STEAMER. Fifteen Hundred Bales Damaged In Charleston Port. | Early Sunday morning fire was dis } covered in the forward compartment j of the British steamship Rothefield, ! lving at Adger’s wharf in Charleston : loading cotton for Liverpool. The compartment, which held 1,500 hales of upland cotton, was flooded and the fire extinguished. The dam age by fire and water not yet estimated. The Rothefield was ready to sail. A STEAMER SINKS; MANY DROWNED. ---- The Triton Struck Upon Rocks and Goes Down, HER LOAD WAS TOO HEAVY Spanish Soldiers and Civilians Among the Lost. A special from Havana says: The coasting steamer Triton, from Havana to Bahia Honda, province of I’inar del Rio, has been wrecked between Do minca and Mariel, on the north coast of that province. 'The steamer went ashore Saturday morning during heavy weather, grounding about eight miles from the coast. The Spanish gunboat Maria Cris tina and the tug Susie left Havana at once for the scene of the wreck. It is said the Triton had on hoard over 200 passengers, soldiers and civil ians. Owing to the heavy sea that was running the gunboat Cristina found it impossible to reach the scene of the disaster till Saturday night. On board the Triton was $31,060 in silver to be used for the payment of the Spanish military and naval forces. The Triton, it is stated, was over loaded. She carried a large quantity of groceries and ammunition and had on board ninety-three rifles for the government troops. A later dispatch states that the gun boat Maria Christina returned to Ha vana Sunday from the scene of the* wreck, accompanied by the gunboat Susie, which went w ith her. The two vessels arrived at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the gunboat having on board nineteen and the tugboat twenty-tliree of the members of the lost ship’s company, of whom thir teen are civilians and soldiers. The whereabouts of the others of the com pany are unknown. It seems that the Triton struck the rock during a heavy rainstorm. Her cargo shifted and fifteen minutes later she sank in 120 fathoms of water. A scene of terrible confusion and panic ensued as soon as the passengers realized the meaning of the crash. In a wild struggle they rushed for the boats. The first boat that was lowered capsized immediately and all of its oc cupants were drowned iu the whirling waters. The next was struck by an enormous wave and turned over, drown ing twenty, but the frail craft righted again and eight who had been thrown out regained it. Some were good swimmers aud kept themselves afloat for hours; others floated about for twenty-four hours on planks. Four soldiers on planks, whom the strong current carried east of Havana, opposite Mono castle, were saved by a pilot boat going to ward Cardenas. They declare that on Saturday evening there were many others near them on planks, hut when Sunday morning dawned all others had disappeared. Some of them probably became food for sharks. VINCENT SWAYED JURORS. His Closing Speech For Luetgert Elic its Wild Applause. The last words in defense of Adolph L. Luergert on trial at Chicago was spoken Saturday. Former Judge Vin cent, chief counsel for the defense in the great murder trial, closed his ad dress'to the jury. As he bowed to the jury and took his seat an outburst of applause shook the courtroom. The jurymen stood up and the court bailiffs shouted in vain for order. Sev eral hysterical ladies were escorted from the room. Judge Tuthill ordered the jury to its room and delivered himself very forcibly on what he called a disgraceful scence. After order had been restored court was adjourned until Monday, when State’s Attory Dcneeu closed for the prosecution. SPANIARDS ARREST WOMEN. Cases Are Similar to That of Evange lina Cisneros. According to reliable information the police of Guinea, Havana province, have arrested and imprisoned Senorita Blanca Ortega, a young woman of distinguished family, aud Senorita Vargina Castellanos. CHARGES BY BROTHER-IN-LAW. Jones Says McCullough Is Both “ 1 hief and Aturderer.” Damning and bitter charges are brought against John McCullough by Mr. Kimsev Jones, who charges Mc- Cullough with the murder of his sis ter. He is accused by his brother-in law with being “first a thief aud then a murderer.” Mr. Jones says that the next trial will develop a case against McCullough that will be twice as strong as the last trial showed. There are many facts he says that were not brought out at the last trial, and the next trial he is determined to tiring out every thing. MORGAN LEAVES HONOLULU. He Is More Strongly in Favor of Annexation Than Ever. Advices from Honolulu state that Senator Morgan will leave for San Francisco Tuesday, accompanied by his daughters. They will go direct to Alabama, and after a brief rest the sen ator will leave for Washington, hoping to arrive thereabout the middle of No vember. He states that be has been strongly convinced in his own mind that the annexation of the islands is the right thing. PARDON FOR CUBAN EXILES. Spain’s New Cabinet in Council For mulates Important Orders. At the Spanish cabinet council at Madrid, Thursday, it was decided to pardon all Cuban exiles not included in previous amnesties and to suspend the decree of September 12th rela tive to legislative reforms in the Philip pine islands. The decree ordered a vigorous sup pression of political associations and the secret pact of blood societies.