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Newspaper Page TextCIRCULATION j STEADILY INCREASING. [ VOL. I. TWO WIDOWS CLAIM Baltimore’s Social and Business Circles Startled. DEAD MILLIONAIRE’S DIVIDED ESTATE Story ot the Two Separate Families of the Late Mr. Sinclair, ot Catonsville, Brought to* Light by the Set tlement ot the Estate. Baltimore. October 29.—1 t caused something of a start in Baltimore’s highest business and social circles yes terday when the news came that a legal action had been begun in Brook lyn, N. Y., which recognized two wo men as claiming to be widows of the late Sinclair, of Catonsville. Mr. Sin clair came to Baltimore from Brooklyn in 1871. Mrs. Phoebe Sinclair, the second wife and widow, lives at Catonsville. Story of the Marriage In Florida. The estate has been in the hands of the administrators for over two months. Mr. Sinclair left a number of relatives in Brooklyn who are heirs to half the estate. A special from. Jacksonville last night says; William Sinclair mar ried Rosalie Perpall about eighteen years ago. The Perpall family is one of the oldest and best known families in Florida. Mrs. Sinclair was a devoted Catholic, and it is said that that was the bone of contention that eventually caused a separation in 1880. Mrs. Rosalie Sinclair resided at St. Augustine for several years. It was generally believed that she was very wealthy. In 1888 she went to Atlanta, Ga., and her friends here lost track of her until three years ago. She was then taken to a hospital in St. Augus tine, where she died after a few weeks illness. Heirs ot the First Wife's Share. Just before her death Mrs. Sinclair wrote a will, bequeathing property, which she valued at $300,000, to Catho lic institutions, but only about $15,000 worth has been found. The physician who attended Mrs. Sinclair in her last illness and also witnessed the will, says that the lady was undoubtedly of un sound mind. F. E. Perpall, of St. Au gustine, was made execiitor of the will and represents the other seven heirs in this state. Their attorney claims that no divorce was obtained by Mr. Sin clair. at least ho record of it has been found in New York, Maryland or Flor da, and that their clients will be able to secure one-half of the property of the deceased millionaire. M’KINLEY SPEAKS ATSUN RISE. Opens Up For the Week at Olney, 111., ord Presses Far-yar4 1 .. Cincinnati, October 29. Refreshed by a day’s cessation from speaking, and the attentions of reception committees, Governor McKinley reached Cincinnati from Philadelphia at Bp. m. and ten minutes later left for Olney, 111., where at 7a. m. he made the first one of twelve speeches between that point and Chicago. During a brief stop at Co lumbus yesterday afternoon for the purpose of visiting Mrs. McKinley, the governor was met by a committee from Nashville, Tenn., headed by Newell Sanders, chairman of the state central republican committee, and who made and earnest plea for a speech in that city next week. Every day for a week the governor has been deluged with dispatches from, democrats and repub licans in that city, urging him to can cel one day of his Ohio dates and speak in that city before the close of the cam paign, promising a special train and all other faclities from Chicago to Nash ville and back in|o Ohio. The Ohio emmittee, however, would not lot him off. WHY ONE CANDIDATE REFUSED, Reason Assigned for Not Accepting the Chancellorship Surrendered by Caprivi. London, October 29.—The Berlin cor respondent of the Central News says: “The appointment of Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Koeller will be published in the Reichs Anzeiger today. It is re ported that before Prince Hohenlohe was named a more conspicuous candidate for the office was invited by the emperor to serve, but refused with the words: ‘I do not wish to be brought into daily conflict with Prince Bismarck, who never will abstain from criticising his successors and their measures. While Bismarck lives there will always be two chancellors and I do not care to be the second one.’ ” COXEY'S RESIDENCE BURNED. Incendiaries Get In Their Work on the Famous Commonweal General. Masbillion, 0., October 29.—The handsome residence of J. 8. Coxey, at Coxana, four miles north of this city, was burned to the ground last night. A number of out-houses were also de stroyed and but few household effects were saved. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been incendiary. The loss is estimated at slo,ooof Socialism to Women and Sailors. Berlin, October 29.—The social dem ocratic delegates in Frankfurt voted on .Saturday to preach socialism more en ergetically to women and sailors, and to extend theer sympathy to the social ists who are being persecuted by the Government. j Italy’s Proposed Financial Reform. / Rome, October 29.—The ministers be gan yesterday evening a series of coun- Is in which the proposed iinacial re atps will be discussed until the par j»mentary program shall be ready for gfhe opening of the chambers late in "November. i Francis Kossuth Assume* Leadership. ' Buda Pesth, October 29.—Francis Kossuth-came here today to assume the leadership ot the Kossuthist party. He was received at the train by a crowd in which were many political subject* and figeieties of the city. The Daily Press RIPPEY CAUGHT AT LAST. The Fake Produce Dealer Captured at Lex ington After a Lively Foot-race. Lexington, Ky., October 29. A fake “country produce" man, who claimed to do business under the name of C. R. Jlenderson, at 52 West Main street, this city, was arrested here Sat urday after a lively ehase of three quarters of a mile by John W. Gaines, of Memphis, Tenn., who has been vic timized to the extent of $225. Gaines is route agent for the South ern express company, and traced Hen derson to this city by similarity of his handwriting, he having shipped him a large consignment of produce to Mont gomery. Ala., where he was known as C. H. Rippey. Gaines walked into his room here that morning at a boarding house and said: “Hello. Rippey.” The men, who is about twenty-five years old. well-dress ed and good-looking, arose from his chair where he was at work on his cor respondence by which he practiced his fraud, and said to Gaines he must be mistaken; his name was not Rippey, but Henderson. Gaines said: “You beat me out of $225, and I have come after you.” At this the fake produce dealer broke for the door, ran down stairs, with Gaines in pursuit. Rippey went over the back yard fence and through a lumber yard, with his pursuer close at hand. He was finally caught and jailed. HOW AND WHY CAPRIVI FELL. Accounts of the Kaiser's Conduct In Send ing Him After Bismarck. Berlin, October 29. —The unexpected resignation of Chancellor von Caprivi and Count zu Eulenburg has created a greater public sensation than any event since the retirement of Prince Bismarck. All of the newspapers pay high tribute to the personal qualities of the retiring chancellor, but none attempts any ex planation of the causes of his resigna tion. The Vossische Zeitung expresses fear that there is more now at stake than merely anti-socialist measures. The Tageblatt says the friends and op ponents of Caprivi and Eulenburg are equally astonished. The Cologne Ga zette learns that the chancellor declar ed on October 23 that he regarded fur ther colaboration with Count Eulen burg as hopeless. Since the Emperor expressed the fullest confidence in Caprivi, Count Eulenburg tendered his resignation. Thereupon the Emperor demanded the resignation of both. IS FOREIGN TIN INFERIOR? How the New Tariff Now Forces its Use in This Country. Milwaukee,jWis., October 29.—The cargo of 500,000 pounds of Welsh tin re ported to berea the way from Balti more to this is consigned to the Kieckhefer company. Ferdinand Kieck hefer, apaaking of the matter yesterdy, said: . . 4 “We do not like to purchase tin abroad, as the grade is inferior to what was made in this country, but we could not help ourselves. All the American mills have shut down. The tariff has been reduced until the manufacturers could not stand the competition, and they had to close or go into bankruptcy. The importation of plate has largely increased, as a matter of course. All the manufacturers are in the same po sition we are. We are getting plate a little cheaper, but we cannot make any more money.” ASTOR DRIVESTHEENGINE. John Jaeob Made Things Hum for About One Hundred Mlles. Fobt Dodge, la., October 29.—A mil lionaire engineer ran a train dn the Illi nois Central today. The officials and directors of the road were making their annual tour, and, when they reached here, John Jacob Astor, who has quite a mania for mechanics, mounted the engineer’s seat and drove the engine to Sioux City, a distance of about one hun dred miles. The train was made to hum at a rather fast pace for that divi sion of the road, but with the excep tion of a little dificulty with the water supply the trip was successfully made. NO ARRESTS YET MADE. More of the Tennessee Band of “Blue Beards*’ Found Wounded. Knoxville, Tenn., October 29.—The sheriff of Sevier county has made no arrests of white-caps or “blue beards” connected with the pitched battle fought there Thursday night. Mel Llewellen, a member of one of the gangs, has been found fatally wounded and will die. Others are seriously in jured, as forty shots were fired. In a tight yesterday another, name un known, was shot. A POOR MAN’S WINDFALL. Gets the Last Installment of His English Fortune of 5300.000. Springfield, October 29.—Jas. Wood, who up to a year ago was a poor car penter working for $2.50 a day, return ed yesterday from England, where he came into possession of the second and final installment of an inheritance of $300,000, left him by his great-grand jncle. John Wood, of Arden, Chester county. Cyclone Destroys a Town. St. Lovis, Mo., October 29.—1 tis re ported here that a cyclone has destroy ed the town of Tonkawa, Ind., Ter., causing loss of life and great destruc tion of property. Cabinet Crisis in Spain. Madrid. Spain, October 29.—1 tis thought that there will be an outbreak at the meeting of the cabinet council which will result in the dissolution of the ministry. NEWS ITEMS BY WIRE. The remains of the late Justice L. Q. C. Lamar were interred at Oxfork, Miss. The new anti-trust distillery, at Peoria. 111., made his first shipment of goods Saturday. The Methodist Episcopal bishops de cided to elect a missiouary society sec retary until 1896. Several weeks must elapse before train robber Morganfield can be ra inuved Irwn the Cincinnati hu»yitel, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1894. PORTLAND'S NIGHT OF TERROR. Half of the Town Burning, While the Other Half Was Fighting. Portland, Mich.. October 29.—From midnight until nearly day break yester day morning this town was in a state of terror. Revolver shots rang out fre quently. the marshal was twice fired at from ambush and i-alf of the town burned out. The trouble started Fri day evening when Melvin Mcßoberts found two strangers on his premises and drove him away. When he return ed from down town he induced Mar shal Copehaven to accompany him. As the two men were passing a dark cor ner two shots were tired, the bullets passing through Mcßoberts’ hat and the two strangers jumped out from a dark corner. The shots aroused sever-, al citizens who turned out to assist the marshal in rounding up the suspects. Before daylight the marshal had been fired on twice more, but with the as sistance of an impromptu posse he cap tured Charles Stewart, Henry Wilson, Charles Clarke, Fred Merrill and Lou Noyes, all believed to he the burglars wanted at Grand Ledge. All through the night at least half the citizens of this place were either in the streets armed, or else guarding their homes and getting ready for all kinds of emer gencies. Over fifty shots were fired between midnight and daylight. The men captured were all heavily armed. WHEN BLIND MEN QUARREL. An a Result One of Them is Stabbed in. the Neck. New York, October 29.—John Con ners, a blind peddler of 386 Third ave nue, was brought to Bellevue last night with a stab wound in his neck which had been inflicted by William Kenney, another blind man, who lives on First avenue near Thirty-third street. The two men are partners in peddling lead pencils. They also sing and collect pennies. Last night was a profitable "one, and they went into several saloons. Kenny became intoxicated and accused his friend of cheating him. They had a few words, and Kenny stabbed him. Detective Pender asked Conners if he wanted Kenny arrested, when Conners replied :' “It was dead wrong for Billy to say I took the money and then stick me, but it ain’t right for me to send up a blind man like him.” The detective, however, did arrest Kenny; THE FALL OF AN ALABAMIAN. Young Man Murders and Robs His Father, Is Caught, and He Then Suicides. Milan, Ala., October 29.—Several days ago William Klilford, a young farmer, disappeared from home. His aged father was also missing. Yester day the old man’s corpse was found in the woods near, his home with his head flattened out by a club and his pockets rifled of several hundred dollars, which it was known he had started to take to a neighboring .town to put in the bank. Officers were put on his son’s track and yesterday morning they found him hid den in a deserted log house twenty miles from home. He confessed the murder of his father, gave up the money, swallowed a bottle of morphine and whiskey and died. SHOT HIM THROUGH THE HEART The Nephew of Kansas’ Governor Murders a Kansas City Policeman. Kansas City, Kan., October 29.—L. D. Hampton, nephew of Governor Lew elling, shot Edward Egan through the heart last evening in an alley in the rear of Egan's residence. Hampton was shot three times by Dennis Byrnes, Egan's father-in-law. Hampton is a sergeant of police. He was prowling around in Eagan’s back yard, as he says, looking for a man. Eagan and his father-in-law Byrnes, came out and did not notice his policeman’s uniform. A quarrel arose that led to the shooting. Hampton was taken to the hospital and Byrnes was arrested. the calFfornTaearthquakes The Sbocka Felt at San Diego Continue* to Be Felt Through the Week. San Diego, Cal., October 29.—The shocks of earthquake which began last Tuesday afternoon, continued duririg the week and reached an end with a perceptible shock, felt throughout the region between Lakeside and Alpine. A spring of water which* had been ob literated because of the earth again sprang into existence. There are other similar occurences in the mountain country. MARYLAND LYNCHING AVERTED Henry Leonard, the Negro Fiend, Caught and Lodged In the Brooklyn Jail. Baltimore, Md., October 29. —Henry Leonard, the negro charged with at tempting to assault a young white wo man in Anne Arundle county last week, was captured last night and lodged in the Brooklyn jail. An angry crowd be gan to collect in front of the jail and Marshal Frey was telephoned to send assistance. Ten poliemen were quickhv dispatched to the scene. The crowd finally dispersed and no further trou ble is anticipated. Only Twenty Killed and Righty Wounded. London. October 29.—The Japanese legation here has received official tele grams from ToKio confirming the re ports of the fighting at Kiulen. They state that the Japanese loss was twenty killed and eighty-three wounded. Field Marshal Count Yamagata is now at Caoju. Landing of Oyama'a Force of Thousands. Washington. October 29.—The fol lowing despatch was received at the Japanese legation last night: “The second army of Japan under Marshal Oyama effected a landing at Talien Wan with great success." Arkansas Whitecaps Go Free. Helena. Ark.. October 29.—The white cap cases resulted in acquittal. The jury had little trouble in arriving at a verdict, though two of the jurors were at first in favor of a verdict of guilty us charged. The Csar Nut Ixielag Strength. St. PItTItMRURG, October 29 —Accord ing to this morning's reports the Czar hu- not loat strength since batwtay. THE SEED OIL TRUST Combination That Permeates the Southern Cotton States. WHY THE PRICE CONTINUES SO LOW. The Federal Court at Memphis Asked to Enter Upon an Investigation of the Charges Made Against Them. Developments of the Case. Mf.MPhis, Tenn., October 99.—The federal court was today asked by Tate Brothers, of thia city, to enter upon an investigation of charges that have been made against the cotton-seed qil owners of the south to the effect that they have nearly all entered into a. gigantic conspiracy to control the market for cotton seed and that this combine ex tends all' over the southern cotton states. The specific allegations that are made iu t he public print s here reference only to the Memphis mills, and there are eight, and these are the largest in the world and the same owners control mills in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississip pi, Alabama and Georgia and the Caro linas. Two years ago, cotton seed was worth $25 per ton: last year $lB, while now the market price isonly $9 per ton. The mills which are alleged to be in the combine further decline to purchase at any price except from the producer. The seed sold at the Memphis market alone each year is worth in the neigh borhood of $2,090,000. G R A N T's"FORMAiLACCE PT A N GE. Explains In His Letter Why He Again Al lows Himself to Become a Candidate. New York, October 29. —Mr. Hugh J. Grant last night formerly accepted the nomination for mayor tendered him by Tammany Hall. In his letter of ac ceptance he says: “1 accept the nomi nation for mayor of this city, not be cause of any ambition or desire of my own to hold the office again, butbe cause I consider it to be my duty as a democrat to accede to the demand of the party which has conferred so many honors upon me in the past. The cir cumstances attending my nomination render it unnecessary for me to say, if event of my election. 1 shall be abso lutely free in every instance to do only that' which, in my judgment, will best conserve the interests of the pity and reflect the greatest credit upon the par ty to which, in common with a vast majority of my fellow citizens, I owe allegiance. I believe in a party organ ization and fealty to that party. Tam many Hall is a potent factor in the elections of this city, but it has no monoply of democracy. All members of Tammany hall are democrats but all democrats are not necessarily members ’of i'lTiimiany hall: IlAWiizg 'Jffcetr nu:u inated by the democratic party and be ing the only democratic candidate, I shall, if elected, be ever mindful of this fact in all matters relating to ap-. pointments as well as to party places.” MAY POOL THEIR ISSUES. Plate Glass Manufacturers Meeting Quietly at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., October 29.—The plate glass manufacturers of the United States have been quietly meeting in Pittsburg for the past few days. Among those present were George W. Chase, president of the Charleroix company; E. H. Hitchcock, president of the Crys tal glass company, St. Louis; A. L. (longer, president of the Kokomo Plate glass company, and the representatives of the local companies. Business is badly demoralized, and the manufac turers wanted to see what could be done to hold up rates and the trade. It was the sincere wish of a. majority that the old combination or pool be restored. Nothing was done, but the indications are that another association will be formed. SENATOR GIBSON SNUBBED. Not Permitted to Officiate In a Democratic Convention at His Own Home. Easton, Md., October 29. Senator Gibson did not preside over the demo cratic mass meeting in Music hall Sat urday. As United Senator he would naturally be consided the biggest man in his party, at his own home. But he was not even given a seat on the plat form in front of the people, who he was sent to Washington to represent. The central committee was plainly told sev eral days ago by a member of the anti- Gibson democrats that if he should be made chairman of the meeting that at least one hundred prominent democrats would leave the hall in one body. Their animosity toward the senator is based on that gentleman’ course in the seriate regarding the tariff bill. SHOOK THEEARTH FOR MILES. Terrific Explosion of Hix Tool of Dynamite In a Magazine. Chippewa Falls, Wis., October 29. Six tons of dynamite exploded yester day, causing $5,000 loss in property, and probably the death of Paul Brohau. The shock was terrific and was heard for miles. A panic was created in the churches of Bloomer, twenty miles from here. Heavy plate glass windows were shattered in many parts of the city. In the vicinity of the magazine all the trees were uprooted and not a splinter of the building is to be found. Kains, and Colder Weather. Washington, October 29.—Forecast: For Georgia, generally fair during the day with south to west winds, followed in extreme northern portion by local rains, decidedly colder in northern por tion by Tuesday morning. For Ala bama. local rains in northern portion, probably fair in southern, south winds, shifting to west, colder tonight. Twenty Persons Perish In the Quake. Buenos Ayres, October 29. The earthquake which was felt throughout the Argentine republic Saturday was most severe in the provinces of San Juan de La Frontera and Rioja. Many churches, theatres and private houses were destroyed. Twenty persow. are known u> have perished. ALTGELD PARDONS A TERROR. The Illinois Criminal Began His Career at the Age vs Ten. Chicago, October 29. —Governor Alt geld. who pardoned the Haymarket An archists Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, besides many other criminals, has par doned John McGrath, convicted of bur glary July 16, 1893, and sent to Joliet prison for twenty-five years under the habitual criminal act. McGrath is twenty-eight years old. At the age of ten he stole a horse and wagon, and at twenty-one he stood trial for murder ing Patrolman Adam Fryer. For a long time he led the notorious “Henry Street Gang.” In September, 1892, he helped hold up a South Chicago train on the Santa Fe. January 12, 1898, he beat senseless Officer Mahoney, who tried to arrest him. Ho was arrested for burglary only after a sharp ex change of shots, in which he was wounded. BONANZA IN THE EXCAVATIONS. Three Barrels of Whiskey Dug Up Near Cumberland Gap. Middlesborough, Ky., October 29. The excavation at Cumberland Gap still goes on. Today two more forty pound cannons, several hundred pounds of powder, cannon balls, bombs and rifle balls were found. This, morning three barrels of whiskey were found ten feet below the surface. The bar rels are intact and the whiskey is said to be delightful in taste. William Dohn, a saloonkeeper here will put It on sale. Fall River Weavers Start Again. Fall River, Mass.. October 29.—The weavers of the Shove mill have decided to return to work today. The action d as taken at an independent shop meet ing and as several other meetings have been called tomorrow to take action upon the question of going back to work under the managers offier, inde pendent of the vote of the weavers body. Accidently Kills Wife, Child and Himself. Newton, Mass., October 29.—Philip Raymond was attempting to shoot a muskrat at West Newton yesterday af ternoon when the gun exploded, mor tally wounding his wife and probaldy fatally injuring his son Raphael, aged 9, and seriously injuring himself. . Killed In the Collision. Bristol, Pa., October 29. A fast freight train on the Pennsylvania rail road yesterday evening crashed into the rear end of. a work train near Cory dan station, kiljing three men and in juring many more. Forest Fires Now In Tennessee. Trimble, Tenn., October 29.—Forest fires are spreading ruin in this section. The long drouth has made the timber and grass dry as tinder and the flames spread with lightning-like rapidity. the Wheel. France derived 950,000 francs last year from the tax on cycles, the num ber of machines being 132,276. The bicycle of the khedive of Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely covered with silver plating. A young French officer lately, on a wager, made his way on a bicycle to the top of the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, 9,540 feet high, and then down again. * The Bell Telephone company, of Cin cinnati, 0,, have mounted thirty in spectors on bicycles. Thirty horses and as many buggies have been dis placed thereby. Wheels propelled by petroleum are being introduced in Paris to take the place of the cycle. They arc very costly, one thousand dollars being the price for one.—Hardware. MEDICAL SCIENCE. A burning gasjet is unhealthy in a bedchamber, because one gaslight gives out as much carbonic gas as two sleepers. Sir Andrew Clark, general physi cian in the largest London hospital, says that seven out of every ten per sons taken to the building owe their ill health to drink. Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur institute, claims to have found a cure for croup. It consists in the injection of serum from the blood of a horse that has been inoculated with the cultivated microbes of croup. Dr. Goriansky, a Russian physician, claims to have found that the juice of raw cranberries given freely, pure or diluted with an equal part of water, is an excellent means of relieving thirst and vomiting in Asiatic cholera. PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS. Rosa Bonhkub is over seventy years of age, and not finding her easel suf ficient to occupy her time and consume her energy, she has taken up with pho tography as an additional work. Miss Dhanbai Fabdonjer Banajee, aged eighteen years, of Bombay, is the first woman to go from India to Paris for art study. She has succeeded in having one of her pictures hung in the Paris salon. Afteb many repaintings and altera tions Alma Tadema has finished his magnum opus, a picture of ancient Rome in festival, which has already been bought by a dealer in Berlin for one hundred thousand marks. It is called “Spring,” and contains more than one hundred figures of celebrants and spectators, a procession in honor of the gods of flowers and fertility, mov ing along toward the temple. ABOUT AMERICAN CITIES. Philadelphia has 2,000 miles of reg ularly laid out streets, and 300 miles of street car lines. It produces every year $500,000,000 of goods. Dubham, N. C., is one of the greatest tobacco manufacturing points in the south. One firm there makes 300,000,- 000 cigarettes every year. BUFFALO has a city hall that cost $1,850,000. Over 90.000,000 bushels of grain have passed through Buffalo go ing east in a single season. WAGED BY CATHOLIC WOMEN. New Phase ot the Female War Against the Tammany Candidates. New York. October 29. —A delegation of Catholic women of the eastern half of the twelfth congressional district called upon the headquarters of one of the anti-Taminany associations this morning for tracts, anti-Tammany lit erature and speakers. They are form ing an organization, and Will begin meetings next Tuesday afternoon. They are strongly in favor of Mr. Goff for recorder, and are equally opposed to Recorder Smyth. The secretary of the delegation said of it: “We ure taking this action not as citizens, but as Catholics, and wo men of Irish birth as a practical pro test against unscrupulous Tammany men who have been declaring that the Women's league is an A. P. A. organi zation, and that all good Irish Catholics belonged to Tammany. This is an in sult to us women on the one side and our church on the efiier. Must of us come from the same county in Ireland where Mr. Goff was born, and we know of him and of his family for a longtime, and know he is the right kind of a man for the place. We don’t know where Smyth comes from and we don't want to. If there are more like him in that place they had better stay there and not come to New York". SCHOOL FUNDS IN PERIL. Kansas Commissioners Invest In an Open Violation nt Law and Order. Topeka, Kan,, October 29.—The fact was disclosed here today that on Octo ber 16 the state board of school fund commissioners, consisting of Attorney- General Little, Sectretary of State Os born and Superintendent of Instruction Ganes, bought 35,000 worth of refund ing bonds, issued by Wichita county, at par, although in Kansas market they were worth but 85 cents on the dollar, and outside of Kansas market there is no sale for them whatever. The as sessed valuation of Wichita county si $705,227, and its bonded indebtedness is $141,210. A state law prohibits the school fuud commissioners from buying bonds offered whose indebtedness ex ceeds 10 per cent of its assessed valua tion. The same board last spring pur chased a lot of bonds issued by Scott county, the validity of which is ques tioned. , THE FATED LOVE PASSAGES. Says His Wife Corresponded In This Way With an Admirer. Chicago, October 29. Everell D. Stiles, who is wealthy, is suing Lillian Brower Stiles for a divorce. He names Herbert P. Crane, son of the millionaire elevator manufacturer; “Al” Barker, of New York, and ethers as co-respond ents. Mrs. Stiles is young and attrac tive. Stiles first introduced in evidence letters from Barker, filled with endear ing terms, which he jtmad in his wife’s possession. He also introduced a ixioft of ve se entitled, “Love Letters of a Violinist,” in which he said the lovers marked passages expressive .of their feelings, afterwards exchanging vol umes. At the Crane villa at Lake Ge neva, said Mr. Stiles, he found Mr. Crane in Mrs. Stiles’ room, and she and Mr. Crane pretended that they had been alarmed by a burglar. Mrs. Crane has begun a suit against her hus band for a separate maintenance. OVER IN EUROPE. Windsor castle has been used for a royal residence seven hundred and eighty-four years. The results of the recent expedition to the polar regions prove that north of seventy-five degrees the ice over the whole surface averages six thou sand feet in thickness. The highest spot Inhabited by hu man beings on this globe is the Buddhist cloister of Hanle, Thibet, where twenty-one monks live at an altitude of sixteen thousand feet. In a ton of Dead sea water there are one hundred and eighty-seven pounds of salt; Red sea, ninety-three; Medi terranean, eighty-five; Atlantic, eighty onc; English channel, seventy-two; Baltic, eighteen; Black sea, twenty six, and Caspian sea, eleven. A man in Germany recently bought one thousand cigars and had them in sured against fire. Then he smoked them and demanded the amount of his policy from the insurance company. The company refusing to pay it, he brought suit and got a verdict. According to Power, a foreign chem ist has devised a sensitive paint which is yellow at ordinary temperatures, but turns bright red on reaching one of two hundred and twenty degrees. It is suggested that this paint may be used advantageously to indicate' heat from friction in machinery. One part of the wadding ceremony among the Babylonians was very sig nificant. The priest took a thread from the garment of the bride, and an other from the garment of the bride groom, and tied them into a knot, which he gave to the bride. This is probably the origin of the modern say ing about tying the knot in regard to marriage.—Jewish Messenger. SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS. Experiments are now being made with compressed hay for paving blocks. The hay. after being pressed, is soaked in a drying oil, which, it is claimed, renders it indestructible. A new alloy has been invented by a Paris manufacturer, composed of silver and copper. It has great strength, and will resist sudden or long sustained strains. The low price ot silver has lately made such an alloy practicable. Great success has been obtained in Belgium with the ammonia process for sinking shafts through quicksand. The principle is that of freezing the quick sand by an ammonia freezer similar to that used in making artificial ice. A new thermometer for registering extreme heat is composed of a liquid alloy of sodium and potassium, instead of mercury. The boiling point of this alloy is about 1,100 degrees above, and its freezingpoint 12 degrees below zero. I .SPLENDID J ADVERTISING MEDIUM. , NO. 104. FIENDS’FATAL WORK Explosion of Dynamite Hurl Many Lives Into Eternity. <» NO CAUSE ASSIGNED FOR THE CRIME. i Fenosylranla Town Excited Over the Provoked Act ot Desperate and Determined Outlaws—Na Ar- i Have Been Blade. Penn., October 29.—J At Laurel R#h. this county, a large Hungarian boarding house was blow a! to atoms by dynamite at 3 o’clock yes»i terday morning and three of the in«j mates killed outright, four fatelly in 4 j Jured and half a dozen seriously hurt. ■ The fiends who planned the oxplo- 1 Bion did their work welL despite the fact tliat part of the plan failed. They, placed about twenty-four sticks of dy namite under the building, each being about nine inches long and weighing about half a pound. A wire connected, the sticks with a battery situated, about fifty yards away. When the signal was given only about half a. dozen of the sticks exploded. They were sufficient however, to completely, wreck the building, not a bean or plank' of which was left standing. Several 1 * of the inmates who occupied beds in the upper floor were hurled fifty feet in the air, Some of them escaped fatal injuries by alighting in the trees near by. Half dazed by fear and sleep, thejj, managed to hold on to' the branched until they recovered their senses andt were able to reach the ground. A track walker, who arrived on tha scene shortly after the explosion, says it rm sembled a battle field. , Heartrending Cries of the Injured, j The cries of the injured were heart*! rending. Some of them were in the trees; others were lying on the /ground > and under the debris of the wrecked building. One of the boarders who riw caped injury madq his tray toi » neigh/ boring shanty and woke the inMate*. Blankets and bedding were carried tq the sdene and the injured made as com! sortable as possible. At daylight the officials of the Lee high Valley road were notified and a special train, with a number of physW cians, was hurried to the scene. The doctors dressed’the wounds of the in« jured, who were brotight to the hos« pital in this city. The boarding boss says he i« at a lose as to what prompted the deed. As far as he knows ho has no enemies in the world. Some of the boarders think the motive was robbery, as several of them were known to have considerable money th their possession. If this* was the object of the fiends it was plain why they placed so much of the explosives under the building. They wanted to IcllJ every person in the place in older to get the plunder and then escape detection. Up to 7 o’clock last night no arrests ‘ had been made. One of the wounded men says immedi ately after the explosion he saw four strange men running down the road way loading to the village of Miner'* Mills. They carried lanterns. While he lay on the gound another stranger approached him and rifled his pockls. He also cut the belt which encircled 1 his waist and carried away. Version of One nt the Victim*. Another of the injured gives it as his opinion that the men* seen on the ground after thcexplosioa were tramps. The dynamiters used Pittsburg dyna mite, which fact may lead to their dis covery, as dynamite of tha. character is used by the railroad contractors, whose tool house is near the scene. The house had been broken open and a new battery taken out. An old bat tery was found near by. The supposi tion is that the latter would not work and a new one was necessary. THE GIRl'diED IN AGONY. Ji After Whipping Her Father She Commit* Suicide. Trenton, Mo., October 29.—News of a • sad tragedy comes from a point fifteen miles northwest of this- city. Farmer Sprout, prominent in that part of the state, severely whipped his son for some misdemeanor. His twin sister, Ollie, an exceedingly stout young wo man, became enraged at the treatment accorded her brother and attacked her father. She broke some ot hi:; ribs and injured him so severely that his life is despaired of. The girl then, stricken with remorse, placed the muzzle of a shotgun to her breast and sent the load into her body. She died in great agony. BISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS. Mronxe Statue In the Church es the Incarnation. New York, October 29.—The bronze memorial to the memory of the late Bishop Brooks, which is to be placed in the Church of the Incarnation, Madison avenue, of which the bishop's brother is rector, is to be executed by Mr. W. Clark Noble, who has also in baud a memorial of the Bishop to be placed in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Phila delphia. . Forest Fires Rage In Mississippi. Corinth, Miss., October 29.—Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Cor inth and a dense smoke overhangs the town. Several cotton fields have been destroyed In the outlying district* valu able timber ruined, and the country laid waste. Colonel Strong Opens Ills Campaign. New York, October 29.—A meeting of the C. C. Shayne republican club will lie held this evening at the club house, No. 2112 Second avenue, when ad dresses will be made by Colonel Wil liam L. Strong and C. C. Shayne. Open Gambling on Morton and HUI. New York. October 29.—Two wager* of SI,OOO to S4OO each on Morton against Hill were made on the stock exchange today, and there was any quantity of republican money at nearly the same odds. ' . K<iMO-.la|Min Treaty of Commereo. St. Petersburg, October 29.—Negot iations have been opened for a Bua*o« Japan Trraty of commerce.