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LABOR LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY GIVE THEIR APPROVAL, AND MINERS WILL GET SUPPORT. A Meeting Held In Pitt»burg and the Situ¬ ation Fully Discussed by Gom- pers, Ratchford and Others. The greatest gathering of labor leaders that ever assembled in this f^ry held in Pittsburg, goring . . a national Pa., ,. Friday _ strike , night was to devise means to assist the miners in their contest for increased wages. The conference was called suddenly, but the officials responded represent- ing nearly every branch of organized labor in the United States. Those present were: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. M. L. Ratchford, national president of the United Mine Workers of Amer¬ ica. M. M. Garland, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Stephen Madden, secretary of the Amalgamated association. J. M. Hughes, first vice-president of the Federation of Metal Trades. M. J. Counahan, national secretary of the Journeymen Plumbers’ Associ¬ ation. M. P. Carrick, president of the Brotherhood of Painters and Decora¬ tors. D. R. Thomas, president of the Na¬ tional Pattern Makers’ League. W. P. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees. Frederick Dolan, district president United Mine Workers. The session was secret, and it was almost midnight when it was over. The press committee, Messrs. Gom¬ pers, Ratchford and Counahan, then gave out the following statement in which was corporated, they said, all that was done at the conference. The manifesto follows: “After an informal discussion, reports were made by Messrs. Ratchford, Dolan and Warner in regard to the situation of the movement, and it demonstrated that the situation In West Virginia required atten¬ tion in order that the suspension should be absolutely general and success assured. With that object in view, action was recom¬ mended by President Gompers, of the American Feds ration of Labor, and it was determined upon to overcome this feature of the contest. It was also determined that every effort be made on the part of those present to secure the co-operation and practical aid of organized labor for tho struggling miners. “All the circumstances warrant the Arm conviction that the miners will ultimately achieve victory and to this end the aid of the labor and the sympathetic publio is in¬ voked. Conscious of the great Interest which the public has in a contest so wide¬ spread as that of the miners, it gives us great satisfaction to know that the miners have not been and are not no v opposed to arbitration. We, therefore, urge and advise that a conference be held by the representa¬ tives of the miners and the operators with a visw of arriving at a settlement of the pres¬ ent suspension.” To Stop in AVest. Virginia. Notwithstanding the positive an¬ nouncement by the committee that the statement furnished the press covered all the proceedings of the conference, it is known that an organized effort to secure a general suspension of mining in West Virginia was decided upon. After a thorough canvass of the sit¬ uation it was unanimously agreed that the West Virginia miners held the key to the situation and without their united support the success of the gen¬ eral movement would be greatly jeop¬ ardized. In furtherance of this de¬ termination, the officials present pledged themselves to send into this field a full quota of the best organizers in their Several associations. After adjournment in response to the question whether a 2 per cent assess¬ ment on all organized labor,, as con¬ templated, would be made, jj'Mviideiit Dolan, of the Pittsburg distal 1 said he thought such action woul ' 'entu- ally be taken. He would not admit, however, that tht, matter of assessment had been considered at the conference, or that the question of a general sympathetic strike had been discussed. DISPENSARY SHORTAGES Surprise Members of the South Carolina Board of Control. A shortage amounting to $15,000 of the moneys due by county dispensers of the state were brought to light by the South Carolina dispensary beard of control at its meeting in Columbia. For tho period betweeu March 28, 1895, and November 30, 1896, the shortage is $12,702.S2. Examination reveals the fact that the bonds given by the dispensers who have fallen be¬ hind in their accounts are in each case worthless, and that no steps have ever been taken to punish any of the of¬ fenders. This showing has created a sensation. Department of Public Health. A Washington dispatch says: A bill providing for the creation of a depart¬ ment of public health, the head of which is to be a member of the cabt- net, was introduced in the senate Wednesday by Senator Mallory. Sentence of Luis Reduced. The sentence of Dr. Joseph J. Luis, the Cuban patriot, has been reduced by United States Judge Morris, at Baltimore, from eighteen months to one year in jail. SENATOR HARRIS BEAD. Well Known Tenno«*tt«mn and Prominent In Naiiou’rt Council*. Senator Xsliam G. Harris, of Ten¬ nessee, died at liis residence in Wash¬ ington a few minutes before 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The senator, who was suffering with stomach trouble, had been growing constantly weaker for several days past, the intense sum¬ mer heat which has prevailed greatly debilitating him and no doubt hasten¬ ing his end. Ishani Green Harris was born near Tullahoma, Tenn., February 10, 1818, the son of a poor farmer. He became clerk in a country store at the age of 14, attended a country school, and at the age of 19 settled in Tippah county, Mississippi, where he engaged in bus- iuess on liis own account and became a successful merchant. Ho studied law at night and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1815 and was a repre- sentative in congress from 1849 to 1853. He refused a renomination in the latter year, and removed to Mem- phis, where he settled as a- lawyer. In ’56 he w'as a presidential elector; was elected governor of Tennessee one year later and was re-elected for the two successive terms. He was a volunteer in the Confed¬ erate army and served on the staff of General A. S. Johnston. At the close of the war he returned to Memphis and resinned the practice of law. In 1877 he was elected to the United States senate and re-elected in 1882 and again in 1888. He was a man of strong intellect and great power in debate. Few men have wielded more influence in the politics of his native state. CLEVELAND WRITES A LETTER To the Chairman of tlie Gold Central Com¬ mittee of Illinois. A special from Rock Island, Ill., says: Ppul Kersch, the well-known German editor and chairman of the state central oommittee of the Illinois national democrats, has a letter from ex-President Cleveland which was read at the Iowa state democratic con¬ vention. It is as follows: “GniT Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass., June 29.—Paul Kersch, Esq. Dear Sir—My love of true Democracy is so intense and my belief in the necessity of its supremacy to the welfare of the country is so clear that I oannot fail to sympathize with every effort to save the principles of my party from threatened abandonment. I believe the very existence of true Democracy as an agency of good to tho American people is in tho hands of those who are willing to ba guided by the declaration of principles announced by tho national Democratic party. It is a high mission to thus have in keeping the life and usefulness of the party which has de¬ served so well of our countrymen, aud the Important consideration involved, should surely stimulate patriotic effort. The work before us is above partisan triumphs and its immediate rewards. Tho question is, are w» doing our duty to our country and to the principles of our party? No success worth the name can he reached except in the patli of principle. I hope the national Democrats of Illinois will not wait to exhib¬ it to their followers in every state the bright light of true Democracy. “Yours very truly, “Gboveh Clevelaxd.” RUIZ CASE READY. Claim Against Spain Made Out ami Will Bo Pushed. Tlie state department of officials, at Washington, after weeks of hard work, have completed the iireparation of our case in the prosecution of the Ruiz claim. After receiving the approval of the president, it will be turned over to Minister Woodford for presen¬ tation to the Madrid foreign office when he sails from New York on the 28th. In the jireparation of this case Mr. Calhoun, the United States special commissioner, has contributed the principal part, hut the law officers cf the state department have done much to present the facts collected to him in the strongest light and establish a good basis for the claim of indemnity originally fixed at $150,000, which is to be urged against the Spanish gov¬ ernment. QUEEN PARDONS CUBANS. Many Men Will De Allowed To R**urn To Their Homes. The queen regent has pardoned 108 Cubans who had been deported to the Spanish penal settlements at Ceuta, Ferdinando and Chaffriue islands. The men pardoned will bo permitted to return to Cuba. LEE’S GOOD ACCOUNT Shows a Large Surplus of the Money Ap¬ propriated for Cuban Aid. United States Consul General Lee has been rendering some account to the government of his expenditures from the fund appropriated by con¬ gress for the relief of destitute Amer¬ ican citizens in Cuba. His figures were presented to the cabinet Friday, and the showing was remarkable for it appeared that of the total of $50,000 at the disposition of Gen. Lee, he had expended only $6,000 and yet had given substantial relief to every distressed American whom ho could find ready to receive aid and be¬ sides had shipped some of them back to the United States. TO RUSH TARIFF BILL House Committee on Kulos Will Allow Only Short Debate. The house committee on rules deci¬ ded Thursday to present a special or¬ der sending the tariff' bill to coufer- ence as soon as it was received from the senate. This will give but 20 minutes’ debate on a side. The dem¬ ocrats tried to secure an agreement for a time to debate the conference re¬ port, but none was made. The repub¬ licans offered a day, and the demo¬ crats asked for three or four days. THROUUH GEORGIA. A consultation will be called at the chamber of commerce, at Atlanta, next week to organize for the enter¬ tainment of the confederate veterans next year. This meeting will be only a preliminary discussion, and will be probably followed by a movement to organize. * * * E. C. Flanagan’s trial is set for July 26th at Decatur. His first trial was ns to his sanity, and he was found to be sane by the verdict of the jury. Now he has to be tried for murder. Flanagan is in the DeKalb county jail His victims were Mrs. Allen aud Miss Ruth Slack. Fulton county’s delinquent tax pay¬ ers must pay up or lose their property. The board of county commissioners have resolved to force a collection of back taxes due the state and county, resolution was adopted directing the sale of all property of persons who Dave failed to pay their tax assess- me nts. The state school commission is bus¬ ily engaged considering some means for reducing the expenses of school books throughout the state. The ques¬ tion of uniformity is being discussed, but tlie commission refuses to give out their deliberations. It is proba¬ ble, though, they will agree on a rec¬ ommendation of non-uniformity of text books. Dr. Payne, the state chemist, has just sent a magnificent carload of Georgia wheat, oats and rye to Nash¬ ville for exhibition in the exhibit of this state in the agricultural building. The specimens were among the finest ever seen in this section, tho rye being nearly nine feet high and the oats six. The wheat came from DeKalb county near Decatur, aud is of an exception¬ ally fine growth. This exhibit will take a stand in the front rank of the agricultural products of the south. * * * The members of the Blalock com¬ mittee have resumed their investiga¬ tions at the capitol. The committee has reopened the investigation com¬ menced some weeks ago in the comp¬ troller general’s office and it is said that fresh data has been secured for the purpose of attacking the present methods employed in the issuing of licenses to insurance companies in this state. The fact that tho commit¬ tee saw fit to hold up its investigation on this matter for several weeks and now begins on new lines, gives prom¬ ise of some sensational developments. * * * The state fair is assured and Presi¬ dent Brown will call his committee to¬ gether in a few days to make final ar¬ rangements. Mr. Brown makes the following statement: “I think that the sum sufficient has been raised. Tlie people of Atlanta have shown a dispo; sition to help, and this encourages the fair committee. I did not like the at¬ titude of the Atlanta people at first, but they have come to our aid and there now seems to be no doubt but the fair will be held.” The regular meeting of the State Agricultural Soci¬ ety will be held at Tybee in August. * * * State Treasurer W. J. Speer has re¬ ceived notice from the treasury de¬ partment of tho United States that a credit of §23,000 has been audited for Georgia on account of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. This is the annual payment which has been increasing $1,000 each year for eight years. This is part of the fund the department of which Hon. Pope Brown’s committee is to investigate. The other part is the landscript fund of $17,000 per annum. Together they amount to $40,000, and constitute the bulk of the financial support of the state university. * * * Several of the Georgia papers have been publishing statements to the effect that Governor Atkinson was op¬ posed to the plans of the state phar¬ maceutical board in spending the ap¬ propriation of $1,000 from the legisla¬ ture for analyzing aud preventing the sale of adulterated drugs. The gov¬ ernor was not sure the law granted the board tlie right to send out an in¬ spector as they wished and requested that he be not employed until the attorney general could be consulted. The governor wishes it stated he is heartily in sympathy with any lawful plans the board may have for the dis¬ position of the money to good ad¬ vantage. « « • A final order in the cases of the Central Trust Company of New York against the Marietta aud North Geor¬ gia Railway Company and Y. E. McBee against the Knoxville Southern railway was placed on record in the United States court at Knoxville, Tenn., last Tuesday, whereby the receivers are dismissed, the final payment having been made on tho road by tbs recent purchasers, the Atlanta,Knoxville and Northern Railway Company. The new owners have had possession of the property for some time and have al¬ ready made many substantial improve¬ ments. The road is 200 miles long, running between Knoxville, Tenn., and Marietta, and does a very heavy freight and passenger business. SEIZED SMUGGLED WEED. Customs Inspectors at Now York Capture Clolce Leaf Valued at Sa.OOO. Customs inspectors at New York, Friday, seized two lots of smuggled tobacco worth about $2,000. The first seizure was made at a ho¬ tel, corner Dcy and West streets, where several bales of Sumatra tobacco " a a found. Later a hundred small pack¬ ages of choice leaf tobacco were dis¬ covered hidden aboard the Red Star liner Southwark. SIDE IN SEDAN CHAIBS. ANTIQUE METHOD OF CONVEYANCE BECOMES SOCIETY’S NEW FAD. Primitive Vehicle Apin to be Used in London and New York—Men Employed to Carry Them—Appearance of the Modern Sedan—Hich Interior Finish. The ultra fashionable. set of Chi¬ cago will soon startle the pedestrians of Lake Hhore drive and Michigan lioulevnrd by a new fad, says the Chicago Times-Herald. They are about to adopt the antique and aris¬ tocratic sedan chair as a means for conveyance over short distances. This new traveling fad has already become quite common in London, where the more fashionable people have begun to indulge in the practice to an alarming extent. They use the sedan chair for all functions in their immediate neighborhood, and only hesitate on veritable State occasions to abandon it for the brougham. The fad soon reached New York, where sw elldom is now trying to ac¬ custom itself to the primitive novelty of the horseless carriage. A corpora¬ tion has been formed and hundreds of sedan chairs have been made to be let out at a nomiual price per hour ou much the same system as that of the liansoui cabs. The promoters of the scheme are already reaping a harvest from the use of the new vehicles for evening parties, Small dances, receptions, dinners and all functions of a purely private and exclusive na¬ ture. Between the conspiracies of the fashionable world and the wheeling world the poor horse seems to be in the decline of his popularity. All the universe seems to be contriviug to push him out of usefulness. For the sedan chairs are to be carried by grooms, footmen or equerries, whichever term the society woman chooses to apply to her servants of the chair. Each will be propelled by the strength of four men. It seems like the revival of a barbaric, mediaeval habit, when human beings assume again the duties of a pack horse. _______________________ i 'iiiiiiiiriiiiiimiiMmii’Uiiuiiiiiwiumm U&LUiii_ S n s'.****'* S3 w- 1, THE SEDAN CHAIR AS REVIVED. But the sedan is extremely light in weight, and the burden, divided be¬ tween four, is said to be not so trying as one would presume. The men change their positions from one side to the other, so that the muscles of one shoulder and arm are not over¬ taxed to the neglect of the muscles of the other. When my lady appears on the boule¬ vard in her sedan she will not attract so much attention as one would fancy. For there is nothing showy, extrava¬ gant or ill-bred about the new fad. It is not redolent with cheap gilt, pink satin and panels daubed with high im¬ pressionism. The new sedan is, in fact, a characteristic modern vehicle, similar to the body of any closed car¬ riage, and differing only in the absence of wheels. In place of the latter two long the highly-polished poles are fastened to underside of the vehicle, ex¬ tending two feet to the front and two to the rear. By means of these poles the sedan is lifted from the gro undand borne by the equerries. The more popular style of modern sedan looks then like a correct brougham. It is constructed, how¬ ever, on a much smaller scale, it is vastly lighter in weight aud will ac¬ commodate only one person. The ! frame work is very slender aud deli¬ cately fashioned, though durable. It is made of pine, ash or oak. Over this breast plates, so to speak, of mahogany or rosewood. Others are covered with less expensive woods and painted black, dark green, bine or maroon, with yellow aud red for trim¬ ming. Still others are covered with leather in dark hues or canvas painted in the dark somber colors mentioned. Thus only the colors popular in the decoration of ordinary vehicles are utilized exclusively. A striking and fundamental differ¬ ence exists between the modern sedan and the European one of two centur¬ ies ago. The latter opened in front by a double door like the modern han¬ som cab. The modern sedan, how- erer, opens only at the side by a single door, constructed precisely like that of a brougham. Although the single-seated sedan now holds the popular sway there is another double-seated style, which will probably supersede it. This se¬ dan for two persons is much more bulky and heavy than the single sedan, and requires, or should require, eight equerries. In outline it has the grace¬ ful curves of the English state car¬ riages, with a suspicion of rococco or¬ namentation about the moldings. The seats are vis-a-vis like the old English “sociable,” and there is a single door on both sides like the modern closed carriage. • The severe and correct exterior of the sedan will bo left unmarred by any attempt at elaborate decoration. How¬ ever, the panels of the door will be fin¬ ished with the crest, heraldic arms or •simple monogram of the family. The equerries, too, will be costumed sim- ly. There will be little or no display of brass buttons, gilt braid or kne« breeches. The equerries will be cos¬ tumed as grooms, in blue, green or maroon, with high top boots and the coachmen’s cape and high hat. So that the equerry will be a cross be- tween the footman and the man on the box. It is upon the interior of the sedan that the greatest attempt at luxury is made. The richest tapestries, rare old brocades, velvets and satins will be utilized to tuft and feather the so- ciety queen’s nest. Not only dull gold, silver and old blues will be put in, but even brocades of pale, delicate tints like my lady’s own dainty satin toilet, For she will not call out her equerries and her sedan except when she is about to go abroad in evening dress. The hired sedans in New York are not fitted out on such an elaborate scale, of course, but, nevertheless, the use of them is reserved by the month for fashionable women who are sure that no ene else is allowed to travel in them. The interior of the chairs are thus kept perfectly clean and dustless. Consequently the loqg, marvelous evening wraps of shimmering white are not contaminated and soiled by contact with the vehicle. The private sedan chair is going to be an expensive luxury, for the orig- inal cost, not to speak of that of the maintenance of the vehicle and the servants, is by no means small. The body or frame of the sedan costs but little. Several hundred cheap sedans were made by a local carriage manu- facturer for use on the Midway during the £pir at $30 apiece. But they were covered only with canvas and lined with chintz. The new sedan, with its elaborate interior trimmings and cx- terior appurtenances, will cost from' $500 to §1500, a tidy sum for a mere whim. Unfortunately for those women who possess elaborate gilt sedans, they cannot put them to this practicable use. Some beautiful relics of the olden time have been used, however, for decorative purposes, and main- tained their usefulness well as bric-a- brae cabinets for little antiquities in porcelain, brass and silver. Or they have served as chests for old linen, laces and brocades. Nearly all of the sedan chair made in 1893 for the Mid¬ way are scattered throughout the city in the homes of curio collectors. Sev¬ eral society women succeeded in get¬ ting the unlovely things, rather soiled 1 after contact with the rabble of the Midway, aud then having them recov¬ ered and decorated, they exhibit them with pardonable pride and vainly as the real Eastern palanquin, One woman is now using her sedan chair as a decoration for her lawn, after having filled it with a profusion of rare trail¬ ing vines aud beautiful blossoms. IIow America Was Named. Vespucci himself must not be held responsible for the usurpation. The unconscious criminal was a certain Martin Waldseemutler, of Fribourg, an eminent cosmographer patronized by Bene, Duke of Lorraine. The Duke probably showed a letter of Vesnucci’s to his geographical friend, who incorporated its contents with the treatises which he was issuing under t'ue assumed name of “Hylaconiylas,” and, ns these publications had a wide circulation, the use of the name Ameri¬ ca thus became propagated through¬ out the world. A Famous Tablecloth. A famous restaurant in Vienna pos¬ sesses a remarkable tablecloth, on which i.re inscribed the signatures of the majority of the reigning sovereigns of Europe, the members of the house of Hapsburg, and of a great number of celebrities in art, music and letters. The names were written on tho cloth in pencil, the proprietress of the es¬ tablishment afterward carefully em¬ broidering them. The Philosophy of Marriage. IS. L I u ■M < ur li & y Miss Hunter—“Don’t you think my lord, a man should aways marr; a girl of entirely opposite characteris¬ tics?” Lord de Busted—“Yaas, I certain].' do. That’s why I’m looking for : girl with money.” ZINC IN COLD COINS. Its Presence Cauiohi the KemnUlng of m Large Amount of Money. The tests of gold bullion and coins Which are made at the Government Assay Offices occasionally disclose deviations from the standard of flne- ness which necessitate the remeltiug and recoining of considerable amounts of money. In one instance a lot of 8125,000 in half eagles was remelted because there was a variation in ttne- ness from .899 to .903. This variation was first discovered in two half eagles which came from the New Orleans Mint. The issue of these New Orleans coins was stopped and an investigation was made under the direction of Cabell Whitehead, the assayer to the Mint Bureau, Upon tracing the history of the bullion used to make these half eaglea back to its first appearance at the Gov¬ ernment mints, it was ascertained that the bars sent to New Orleans and to the Philadelphia Mint were made several years ago in the New York Assay Office from foreign coin, chiefly Spanish. The facts seemed to indi¬ cate the presence of some unusual ele¬ ment in this bullion, which only a complete analysis would reveal. Such an analysis was made in two different mints, and cobalt was disclosed. The trouble experienced in the New Orleans coinage was attributed almost entirely to the zinc, No less than ten dift'orent metals ordinarily enter into the composition of gold bullion. These metals are gold, silver, copper, iron, platinum, lead, bismuth, arsenic, antimony and tin. Of the live last-named metals, there is barely a trace, The presence of zinc, nickel and cobalt is unusual in gold bullion, When they were found in the New Orleans half eagles, the fact was re¬ called that the Spanish gold from which those eagles were coined had not been refined in this country, the natural supposition being that it was suitable for coinage. The mint at Philadelphia, which had been working on this same Spanish bullion, had an unusual mini- ber of melts condemned as “not- mixed.” It took several months to remedy the difficulty.—New York Times. A jjTr©j>lace3 H •*•■*£? .1 of Snovr. About the end of January, or when the sun again appears above the hori¬ zon, many families at the two Eskimo villages near Point Barrow, in Alaska, leave their winter houses and travel inland seventy-five or one hundred miles to hunt reindeer along the upper waters of the large rivers that flow in¬ to the Arctic Ocean east of the point. Here they encamp in large, comfort¬ able snow houses, usually dug out in a solid snowdrift. Like all Eskimo winter houses, these are entered by means of a long, low tunnel; and opening out of one side of this tunnel there is a fireplace built of snow slabs. A young man and his wife moved down from Point Barrow after winter had set in, and, as there was no ac¬ commodation for them in any of the permanent, wooden houses, they built themselves a small hut from blocks of snow and roofsd it over with sailcloth. I made them a visit one afternoon, and found the house pretty cold and un¬ comfortable in spite of the large stone lamp that was burning all the time. The entrance tunnel was about ten feet long; at the left hand as you en¬ tered, and close to the door, was the fireplace. This was about two and a half feet square, and neatly built of slabs of snow, with a smoke hole at the top and a stick stuck across at the proper height to hang a pot on. When the first fire is built in such a fire¬ place, there is considerable melting of the surface of the snow, but as soon as the fire is allowed to go out this freezes to a hard glaze of ice, which afterward melts only a very little. These fireplaces are used only for oook- iug, as the Eskimos rely wholly on the oil lamps for warming the dwelling.— Lippincott’s Magazine. Fascination of the Other Side. There always seems to bo a pecul¬ iar fascination about the other side of tho road. Let the cyclist be getting along never so gaylv, the chances are that unless he be one of long experi¬ ence he will every now and then be observed to change sides, in the hope of securing better surface. There must be a reason for this state of affairs, and while it would seem to bo anything but clear, yet it appears to us that the reason is so simple as to escape notice. The inequalities of the road just un¬ der one’s wheels are not only felt, but clearly seen, they being so close at hand; while the inequalities on the other side of the road are farther dis¬ tant, so that they are not so distinct, while they are not felt at all. This is cer¬ tainly one of those cases where distance lends enchantment to the view, as will usually be acknowledged by the rider who makes a piactice of crossing the road whenever occasion seems to offer. —London Cycle and Motor World. Snoring Caused a Death. The snoring habit has broken up families aqd friendships, but the first case on record of its causing death has just been recorded in New York city. The vi/ Is Anna Churchill, a three- year- 1, and the snorer in the case l; -ard Mason, a boarder in the Churchill household. Mason’s more is said to be such that the people within a block, of where he is asleep can hear it. The other night he came home drunk, lay down in the kitchen and fell asleep. His thunder¬ ous snoring awakened the child and threw her into convulsions. The fam¬ ily turned Martin out of doors aud called in a, doctor to attend the child, but she passed from one convulsion in¬ to another for several hours, and final¬ ly death ensued. The case will be in¬ vestigated by the Coroner, who will endeavor to ascertain whether Mason • an bo held criminally responsible for die child’s death,—Detroit Free Press.