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atitrban St. gmxis Jlnst-gisptcfe, gmmbcr 26,1888. I BAYARD MR dent Cleveland or Secretary Olney an ffl-cial information regarding the ndiVJ affairs in Cuba, and as a member or grees and of the Committee on Frfig'nl fairs he wishes to know what he Is doing before he casts a vote for or against any one of the several resolutions pending. POOL SELLING IS AT II STIDSTILL. The cause of rhenma- here he made a speech.

In the course of which he declared that his public life was not ended and chat he would not give up his seat In Parliament until he was turned out. Brazil Renounces Her Claim. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, via Galveston, Dec. 26. It is officially announced by the Government that the claim of Brazil to all territory in Guiana is renounced.

OATH-BOUND. Toohil refused to answer and Zaney told her that he would kill both her and her baby. He advanced toward her. his hand In his hip pocket, and she fired on him with a rifle, killing him instantly. The Coroner's jury declared It justifiable homicide.

G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. I Is to Be Held at Pertle Springs on May 13 and 14.

Special to the Pot-DIpat-h. WARRENSBURG, Dec. 26. The department commander G. A.

R. has decided May 13 and 14 for the State encampment Pertle Springs. The Women's Relief Corps Sons of Veterans will hold their encampment at the s-ame time and place. UNDER THE BAN. Peculiar Bulldozing Methods of a Chicago Collection Agency Which the Government Denounces.

Sperial to the Pl'RDY, Dec. 2. "The Merchants' National Union" is the title of a concern operating in Chicago. Its business is writing bulldozing and threatening letters to debtors. It is a blackmail scheme and the statement ha3- been sent out from Washington that the Post-office Department hns issued a fraud order against the concern Following are a letter the so-called union nd one of its "warrants." They are addressed to a citizen of Purdy, whose name the amount cf the claim stated are with- held not essential to the matter.

It is i understood that country merchants have been induced to put up $12 each for the pnv- ilege of membership in tms orga.mzii.un VnllrnaHno- i the letter: CHICAGO. 111.. Nov. 30, 1S96. Mr.

A. Purdy, Dear Sir Mr. C. D. of Monett.

noti this office that you owe the sum ot i and that the Union's warrant requesting ious a year ago tnat Air. Bayard should repayment of the same has been sent to you. sign; that all of the negotiations were tak-Now, the Union must ins'st that you settle en out of his hands, and that he has known this account at once. Unless you do so nothing of what has passed between Wash-within ten days the officials will be obliged i ington and the Foreign Office here, but has proceed against you according to the been content to be pushed aside without re-plan laid down bv the Union. Furthermore, i sentir.g it.

you must give this matter your immediate I attention or your name will be entered as The Christmas weather has been of delinquent in the rating book which will mildest descr.ption and foggy, but the be issued for the protection of all day trade has been the best in years, espe-merchants i cially in jewelry, fancy articles, books and We are the management of I mechanical toys, which formed the chief at- THK MERCHANTS' NATIONAL UNION. traction of the shoppers. The receipts cf last DicD Monday at one big co-operative store alone p. Do not write to this office, as it were 22.400 ROBBED 1 MAN IN HIS BDGGY. A.

F. FORD HELD TJP WHILE DRIVING ON LOCUST STREET. TWO MEN WERE IN THE JOB. Had Revolvers and After Stripping Their Victim Forced Him to Drive Away at Full Speed. The highway robbers have now commenced holding up men in buggies.

At 5:40 a. m. Saturday A. F. Ford was stopped on Locust street and relieved of $137.

Ford was driving a one-horse buggy on his way from his meat market at 2700 Olive street down to the Third street markets. He had passed Jefferson avenue on Locust street and was Approaching Twenty-third street when two men, one from either side of the street, ran out to the center of the pavement and grabbed the bridle of his iioree. The animal stopped suddenly and each of the robbers drew a revolver from his pocket, and Ford was commanded to drive around the corner on Twenty-third street to St. Charles street, where a large building threw a shadow across the pavement. On the way over no the dark spot one highw-ayman held the reins while the other kept a revolver leveled a.t Ford.

When the footpad in the lead had halted the horse the other man told Ford to throw ii i iiti a mi trot rtut of the busrgy. Ford complied and while he was standing on the street, the man who had led the horse came up and went through pockets. The other man kept the revolver at Ford head. When the butcher's hand would drop a little he was urged to raise them higher and the argument was the muzzle of the revolver. The searcher took from Ford pocket J137 in bills and some silver change.

Then tne victim was ordered back into his buggy and was told to drive north as fast as possible. He was quick to comply and as he was crossing Washington avenue he looked around and the two men turning west on Locust street. They turned and looked ai nim at the same time, and one of them shook a revolver in the air as if to threaten him not to give the alarm. Ford ammedlatelv reported the robbery at Polife Hendn-larters and was waiting for the detectives over an hour Saturday morning. Detectives Allender and Smith went to work on tiie case.

Mickey Mack is not suspected, as he was in the Central Police Sta- iion ai iiie nine. FOR SAFE-KEEPING. Negro Who Shot a Policeman Put in Paris (Ky.) Jail. PARIS, Dec. 26.

Johnson Howe, the 15-year-old negro boy who fatally wounded Policeman Lacy at Cynthia en Christmas eve, when the officer attempted to arrest him, was brought here last night for safe keeping. The negro's garments show seven bullet holes inflicted by the wounded policeman, who fired while he was on the ground. GOING TO LEADVILLE. Eugene V. Debs Will Talk for the Striking Miners.

TERRE HAUTE. Dec. 26. Eugene V. Debs has promised the president of tte Western Federation of Miners that he will go to Colorado the first ci the week to help the Leadville strikers.

He will speak in Colorado cities, beginning in Leadville, whoi-o labor demonstration is to be given his arrival. President Boyce says public opinion is still with the strikers, and that tney can noiu out inueuuiLeiy nc Mr. Boyce received a letter saying that OiK had been, sent rrom iiutte to ijeauvnitr. vt T-hx f4 an hnnnrarv member of the Sil- vei Bow Trades Assembly of Butte, which organization sent $2,000 to the union at the time cf the Pullman strike. He nays he could not do less than respond to their request now.

One purpose of his meeting' will be to increase the membership of the Federation. Boyce informed him that there are at least 300,000 miners in the mining States eligible to membership. PASTEUR'S REMAINS Bemoved From Notre Dame to the Pasteur Institute. PARIS, Dec. 26.

The remains of Prof. Louis Pasteur, who died Sept. 28. 1S93, were removed to-day from the Cathedral of Notre Dame to the Pasteur Institute, where tney artxra received bv a eratherinsr of distin guished men, including Premier Meline, Wm. Kambaua ana Mrrsson.

ana several unknown men from Great Britain. President Faure and Jen. Billot, the Minister or war, were represented at the cermony. Speeches were made at tne crypt or the institute oy M. Rambaud, M.

Bod in. President of the Municipal Council of Paris, and lr. livens. Dr. Rice Duckworth and others.

DISPENSARY IN DANGER. "The Famous Three" Leave a Written Threat to Steal It. After Saturday night the City Dispensary and its famous code of secrecy will be for ever a thing of the past, if the "Famous Three" keep their word. The trinity of bad men called there Fri day night and began operations by removing the bridles irom me team or amouiance TCo 9. The driver.

Fred Buser. went down to the Four Courts about 9:30 o'clock to take some medicine to an incarcerated patient. When he returner tie found his horses, a skittish pair, standing in the shed minus their bridles. From a buckle on the har ness fluttered a piece or paper. The driver, after securing the horses, went inside and read this: Thanks for the brldlea.

We'll be back to-morrow night for the Dispensary. int. AMUl THKBIi. Chief Harrigan will be to send up a detail of six men to guard the place. Calendars and Coupons.

So many beautiful calendars ad enter taining novelties have been Issued by the proprietors of Hood's SarsaparilLi, that we are hardly surprisea to receive this season not only one of the very prettiest designs in calendars, but with It coupons which en title the recipient to attractive novelties. Every one who gets a Hood's Sarsaparilla calendar for 1897 secures something that will prove interesting and valuable as well as a beautiful specimen of the lithographer's art. The calendar Is accompanied this season by an amusing little book on "The Weather." Ask your druggist for Hood Coupon Calendar, or send 6 cents in stamps for one to C. I. Hood Lowell.

Mass. REMNANTS OF HOP ALLEY. Six More Opium Den Keepers Ordered Out of Town. The last of the joint keepers of "Hop Alley" have wound up their affairs and must leave town Six Chinamen were given urrt.l 10 o'clock Sun-day morning n-i um oi ura vnj Judge reawwj She Was Late in Complaining. Elllen Dunn Riddle stre v.

u. last n.eht at street was ahoS er home by M'chael 'Hh whom she quarreled A policeman arrested O'NeiH on a eharge of du-arging firearms. He not know then iht thf woman was shot, as she nud. no Sitol 6h reported tha fact! at noon to-day. rein to I'll 'Police Court SiO aiscoargio BADLY SNUBBED THE AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN IN A NEW LIGHT.

HAS BEEN PUSHED ASIDE. It Is Claimed That President Cleveland and Mr. Olney Wanted Him to Resign. LONDON, Dec. 26.

Official and diplomatic circles are in a flutter over an outspoken article on Mr. Thomas F. Bayard, the United States Ambassador, in the Chronicle of Thursday last. Hitherto it has been the custom of the English press to lavishly praise him, and he has been everywhere presented as the American who single-handed accomplished the An-do- American entente. The Chronicle upon the occasion referred to gave groat prominence to a Washington letter savins: that instead or rendering either country service, Mr.

Bayard, by minimizing the gravity of Pres- 1 Ident Cleveland's Venezuelan message to Congress, was a dangerous representative of the TTnited States during a great crisis, and it was no tnanks to him that th sItu A S1IU most serious con- The Chronicle's correspondent further claims to have the highest authority for making the statement that President uieveiana ana secretary uiney were anx An average of 200.000 parcels were handled daily at the main parcel office, where 1,400 clerks have been working night and day. On the other hand, the distress among the poor of London -is equally marked. Over 7C0 persons were relieved out of the funds of the poor box at Bow Street Police Court in three duys, some of the cases being moat p.tiabie. The Government is busily engaged in mak- inquiries into tne systematic vulgence confidential information persona em- ptoyea in the department offices and pres ecutlons will probably follow. It is stated mai vj-overnments are better in formed regarding secrets of the British service h.n in the case of the secrets of any other Power.

The Czar has sent to King Menelik of Abyssinia a large collection of musical instruments, including a grand piano, an organ and a complete set of wind instruments. as well as a band of musicians, who ac company the imperial Dr. Frederick Temple, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, and formerly of London, bid farewell to the clergy of the diocese on Wednesday in St. Paul's Cathedral. The archbishop in full robes preached an eloquent sermon.

Mrs. Temple was presented in behalf of the ladies of the diocese with set of Chippendale furniture. Mr. Gladstone, in a letter just published on the subject of book collectors, says: "I have been a purchaser in my time of about 35,000 books. A book collector ought to possess six qualifications an appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination and perseverance.

Of these I have only the two first, and the last is restricted, as my lack of visual power seriously disables it. Speaking generally, I have retired from the list of purchasers," and I am gradually transferring the bulk of my library to an institution. St. Daniel's, Haward. "The book longest in my possession is 'Sacred presented to me by the author, Hannah More, inscribed "As you have just come into the world and I am just going out of it.

allow etc." The British Museum has obtained an im portant papyrus manuscript of the first century B. C. It was found in Egypt and contains lost odes of the lyric poet the contemporary of Pindar. The manuscript is finely written, but is much mutilated. Fifteen to twenty poems are in tact.

Truth, printing a letter from R. A. Lehman, the Oxford coach, in which he record a the progress made bv Harvard and the anxiety and willingness of the 'crews to learn the English style of rowing, com ments on it as follows: "Already we can see the grand challenge cup sailing across tne Atlantic. A peculiarity of the amusement world here is the large number of prominent theaters which are closed this week, and, incidentally, it has leaked out that the real reason of Sir Henry Irving for closing the Lyceum Theater until after Christmas is not an injury to his leg. but because Satur day's production of Kichard III.

showed that the play needed much cuttinsr and re vision. The work must be superintended by Irving himself. Julia Arthur, the American actress, who was given a great chance by Ellen Terry not being In the cast of Richard ap parently railed to embrace the opportunity er yueen Anne displeased the critics. The Queen's Christmas was celebrated very quietly at Osborne, the death of frinct Henry of Battenberg having maae all its festivities unseemly. Onlv the old traditional customs of the table were unin- terfered with and the usual presents were given.

The royal baron of beef, wnien is the principal dish on the Queen's side-boar .1. was cut from a Devon ox fattened on the Queen's Flemish farm in Windsor Great Park. The joint was roasted at Windsor and was sent to Osborne cnrist-mas eve. along with a boar's head and a woodcock pie. They all duly appeared on a sideboard yesterday.

The annual performance of "Elijah will be given by the Royal Choral Society dur ing the afternoon of rway nw, -an. at the Albert Hall. The same organization will sing tne "Messiah" on the evening of the same day. The first representation of "Pilgrim's Progress" took place at the Olympic Theater on Thursday. The play proved to be nothing more than a pantomime utterly lacking in all the beauty of Bunyan work.

Grace Hawthorne was ghastly and did not act. She took the part of Christian. W. L. Abingdon was a fine Apollyon.

The scenery and dresses were superb and the music was delightful. The text, however, was rubbish and the performance met with a hostile reception NATIVE UPRISING. Ei itish Troops in Bechuanaland Wait for Reinforcements. CAPE TOWN. Dec native uprising on the Tamigs Reserve Bechuanaland is developing serious proportions.

A pnrley has been refused, fighting has occurred and the Br.ttsh have been obliged IU wan tuiiyj a.v-Uitriila. Raiders Released From Jail. 'Su- Orey and Col. fr Tite' "horn were sentenced with Dr. Jameson to Imprisonment for viola-Hom of .1 enlistment act in invading the territory of the Transvaal Re- to-day from Holloway jail, their sentences of flv mth.

h.rin Russia Suspicious of Japan. nllP1 26 A dispatch to the Graphic from Paris says: It I state that a uus-an fleet of twelve vessels has been stationed tt Vladivostok to watch Japan, bl a Cfi n0 te1 rnedlt-tin another Cecil Rhodes Heard From. PORT HT.t7 i Dtvpif TTkAs. At banquet tendvxed to Ccil iihodee Col. Money was an officer in i erate army under Gen.

Sj's four years' service in the field whetted his interest in military operations He thinks that his visit will at least enable him to eaVn more -he could by depjjjd.n, on the State Department for information. MR. PHELPS' OPINION. He Agrees With Secretary Olney Respecting Cuban Recognition. BURLINGTON, Dec.

26. Hon. F. J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England, gives his opinion' upon the recognition of Cuba in the following language: "I have no doubt that the position of Secretary Olney as published is entirely correct.

The question what Government shall be recognized in a country where an attempt at revolution is in progresss is certainly for the Executive to determine and not for Congress No legislation by that body can under any provision of the Constitution decide it. They can of course, pass resolutions upon the subject, if they please, but they in no respect can control the discretion or the action of the President. "Besides, no Government can be recognized until it exists. The recognition by ether nations of a Government once in existence must always continue until it is actually subverted and a new one put in its place. When it is overthrown and another established that becomes entitled to recognition.

"The rebels in Cuba have no organized government nor even abiding place they may call their own. They are merely a gurrilla force which would speedily be annihilated if drawn into a general engagement with the much superior Spanish army. proves its existence by its dexterity in avoidlne an eneaeement. It would be ab surd to sav that such a forca constitutes a Government, or that the Government in Cubi has been overthrown, or that anv diplomatic relations could exist between these rebels and the Government of the United States. "If this country interferes by arms in that contest, it must be by assisting the rebellion of Cuba to displace the spanisn Government and to set up another and this would be a declaration of war against a country with which we are and always have been at peace.

It would be a grcss and utterly unjustifiable violation of international law which no country can afford to perpetrate. "It would, in my judgment, be fatal to that restoration of business prosperity which is now our most vital necessity." PALLIA'S STATEMENTS. The Cuhans Not Discouraged and Will Keep TJp the Fight. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.

At the headquarters of the Cuban Junta to-day Gen. Estra da Palma and his secretaries were kept busy answering quesctions as to the disposition of the patriot forces in Cuba and denying reports that Gen. Mateo's death was but the beginning of the end of the war. In talking of affairs Gen. Palma stated that the Cuban army was now as strong in poiat of numbers and enthusiasm as it ever had been, and that the Cubans have full faith in Gen.

Rivera, who has succeeded Maceo in com mand. The Cuban forces in the province of Pinar del Rio, he said, are encamped, on the mountain tops ani could afford to laugh at Gen. Weyler's declaration that he would soon dislodge and scatter them and wind up the war. "Gen. Rivera." said Gen.

Palma, "has 6.CV armed men under him at present, and with provisions enough to last for six months in mountain stronghold. It Is simply idle for Gen. Wevler to make such sweeping declarations. There has been vand there will be no general laying down of arms on the part of the Cubans, such as has been reported. As tor Dr.

Zertucha's charges that Maceo was driven, to death by despair by reason of non-support accorded to htm by the Cuban allies in this country, it is simply infamous and unworthy of contradic tion. Gen. Palma said that he had heard noth- ng definite about the reported adventure oi the Three Friends. Gen. Lee at Havana.

HAVANA. Dec. 26. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.

the United States Consul-General here. Mrs. Lee. his wife, and their daughter arrived here to-day via Tampa, Fla. Mr.

Joseph A. I springer, the vice consul-General, tne stair the ITnited States Consulate ana the rep resentatives in this city of American news papers received the General on landing. Gomez's Men Capture a Town. CINCINNATI. Dec.

26. A special to the Commercial Tribune from Key West says: Havana advies sav Gomez advance guard has captured the town of Las Pes- sega, in Santa Clara province, taKing the entire garrison and all its stores. threat exertions are being made to get a strong force to oppofe Gen. Gomez, ana three lines are being formed to get the Cubans en tangled between them and crushed. Another Cuban Canard.

WASHINGON. Dec. 26. It can be dened officially and authoritatively that no Eu- pean government, either directly or indi rectly, has made any representation what ever to the United States, to restrain or pre vent its free action in connection the Cuban insurrection. A fimilar report was denied by authority several weeks ago and the latest denial results from a publication of a Paris dispatch in tthe London Timts.

Phoebe Couzins on the Cubans. Special to the Pont-TMspatch. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Dec. 26.

The citizens here who favor the recogni tion of Cuba have invited Miss Phoebe Couzins of St. Louis to deliver a lecture on the subject. She is an ardent sympa thizer with the Cubans. Weyler Hanged in Effigy. NEW YORK.

Dec. 26. Gen. Weyler was hanged in efllsrv last nieht by citizens Cape May and New Brunswick, N. J.

FREDA AND HER BABY. East St. Louis Girl Out of Luck in Kentucky. Special to Post-Dispatch. LEXINGTON, Dec.

26. FreJa Masch- kar, ithe East St. Louis girl who came here last week with her 14-months-old boy baby in quost of a well-known turfman, whom she accuses of being the father of the child, has been sent to the Lexington Home of the Friendless. The woman left St. Louis with $25, a sufficient um she thought to insure ner return, DUl a st-aiifr noiu iier a unn-less ticket, obliging her to pay cash fare to Cincinnati and she is unable to get back.

The turfman she is seeking is In Little Rock, A.rk. DEATH OF MRS. BROWN. The Widow of an Ex-Governor and Ex- Senator of Georgia. ATLANTA.

Dec. 26. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, widow of the late ex-Governor and ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown, died this morning at her home In this city.

She was 70 vears old. She had just returned from a tour of Europe and the Holy Land when seized witn ner ratal illness. 33.00 for SI.S9 We still have a few left of those a Ideal Skatii or Stre FOR LADIES, BOX CALF. WATERPROOF. ETC, $3.00 Value for $1.99.

G. H. BOEHIV3ER, 613 and 615 Olivo Next to Barr'ii tism is lactic acid in ifV fX ft the blood. To this acid rX 1 are due the and pains, tha swollen Joints, the sharp, agonizing twinges that torture every muscle and make life a constant siege of pain. A permanent cure for Rheumatism Is found In neutralizing this acid, which may oe aone oy a inorougn courM of Hood's Sarsaparilla.

Thousands of testimonials prove the power of this medlctn to overcome rheumatism by its great blooi pumping properties. Saraaparilla Is the best In fact the One True Purifier. Blood Hood's Pills act easlly.promptly and effectively. 25 cents. THE MESSIAH." Annual Production of the Christmas Oratorio at Music Hall.

A mammofh production of "The Messiah will be given to-night at Music Hall by the Choral-Symphony Society chorus and orchestra under direction of Mr. Alfred Ernst. The soloists will be Miss Helen Buckley of London, soprano; Mrs. May Phoenix Cameron of Chicago, contralto: Mr. George Hamlin of Chloago, tenor and Mr.

D. Ffran-geon Davies. basso. The regular c-norus of the society will be assisted by members of the Morning Choral Liederknanz and Apollo Clubs. There will be over J0 voices.

The concert Is not, as In former years, part of the society's regular season. No seats have been reserved for members of the society. The entire parquet and balcony is for sale at popular prices. THUGS IN A SALOON. Stole $17 and Bombarded the Barkeeper With Beer Glasses.

James Harrington and George Townend walked into Louis Soroces saloon at 2237 Franklin avenue at 7 p. m. Friday. After drinking (two glasses of beer, for which they did not pay. they went behind the bsr.

each armed with a heavy beer- glass, and commanded Soroces to stand back. They then took $17 out of the cash register and were on their way out when Soroces struck Harrington on the back of the-head with a club. Harrington and Townsend turned and hurled their glasses at the $100 plats glas mirror behind the bar, shattering it. After they got out on he street they hurled rocks at the aloon and broke five panes of glass before they got away. Harrington lives at Twenty-second and Fallon streets and Townsend at 2308 Wah street.

They have not yet been arrested, NEGRO OUTLAW KILLED. Abe Henson Shot by His Step -Brother, Also a Jail-Bird. LANCASTER. Dec. 26.

Abe Henson. colored, one of the members of the gang of thieves and outlaws who reside on tha Welsh Mountains in the eastern end of this county, was shot and killed last night by his stepbrother, Jerry Green, who Is also a noted criminal and member of the same gang. Henson'ft breast wan practically blown away and he was killed instantlv. After the shooting. Green in comnariv with his brother drove to the residence of Squire Groft in Salisbury Township with the view of surrendering himself, but when he discovered the magistrate was In bed he refused to awaken him and said he would give himself up to-day.

He also declined to return to the mountains and walked way. Nothing has since TfVen heard of im. Jerry Green Is colored and has firured even more prominently than his victim a lawbreaker and resident of tails. Both men wtre members of the famous Buzzard gang, and since the last jailing of i host-leaders Green has been practically the head of the outlaws. MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Pure 18k wedding rings. Our prices th lowest. E. Jaccard Jewelry Olive anj Sixth streets. Peter Keller fit.

tannin. 11 Kbs liv. Vi Brunot. MinchMtor I Old MincijIt'r rl Kockhri ltr. Ilwkliri.lt;'.

I I lark Cedar mt Mary M. -Knight. reilerii-k I-euu Iiaris Martin rizik runic Mikulen Jvlwln S. Ltftira I. Turner Frii Huntt-r Lille Weber Burial Permits.

Atle lyodr-nkaemner. months. 432T ItrSolo: Inanition. Kjan. 2.

2010 Biddlt. Dbtblaia palam- nallH. Jolin Knit.ild. 73. Ix-ree and Gratiot: abork and injuries a-cidroti.

Anna Louisa Mumaea. 41. Z99 uron: nikx-ar dltla. Fly Owena. 87.

City Hoilial: pneumonia. Aunie M. Hinii x-l. 5, 1 Vulcan: aaibma. Karl Clifford Mario-.

1 HHintb, M2H S. Molb; pneumonia. Arthur IrooiK, 1.1 moDina, am Illinois; pneu monia. Amanda Sftt. 4.

Mam-neater: Matlie May Nlcbola, months, t'arr; bron- Cblila. Marr tsteefl. TO, niy itoapuai; pans -treea pur- toning Isnlcdle). jane Urinen. 63.

liJ 31 owe; senile netmnj. DEATHS. BUENTEOn Friday, Dec. 25, 1S36. Georr Buente.

aged SS years. Funeral on Sunday, Dec. 27. at I o'e1vlc p. from residence, South Kighi-eenth street.

COLLINS On Dec. 26. at 12:10 a. An drew Collins, beloved husband Mary Collins (nee Houlihan), aged year. Funeral will tsk place from she lata residence, 924 N.

High Monday p. 28 at 8 o'clock a. ro. Interment at Litchfield. HI QUINLIVAN On Thursday, Dec.

at 10 p. Bridget Qulnllvan. The funeral will take place from tha residence of her son. John Qulnllvan. 2313 nickaon street, on Sunday.

Ink-. at 1: P. to 8U Lawranca 0TK? Church, thence to Calvary Cemetery. Friends Invited to attend. Kansas City papers plese copy.

SULLIVAN Dec, 23. at a. John Sulli van, beloved father oi cnanes r.aara and Mary Hilbert SuSHvan), aged 67 years. i.r,.ril from the resident" ef his rr. ai: OTaa a merntwrr K.

of tf 3TONK at 12 p. Mrs, Mar Stone, beloved mother of Albert Stons. Funeral to take place at Cincinnati, O. RUDDY On Saturday, Dee. I.

Thorns Ruddy, agtd 5 months da. beloved son of and Wiaifred Rud ly. Kuneral from family rastdamre. JNt on Saturday. Dc at I a Calvary Csaatery.

tnrnda ire rePHfuUy mvaed. How Each State Went During ths last ejection prior 'Hefi. ZrftTth. OWL. CAR T'VC TAJJIA Os 1 oae at Una ffl daughter.

No. 1W On 4a avenus, on FJ. day Tt. at I o'clork r. to Nam Church, thence to Calvary Cm- WAITING FOR THE LAW TO BE INTERPRETED.

TOM WALSH STILL DEFIANT. Bis Lawyer Says the Police Can't Stop the Telegraph System of Gambling. The police have brought the poolrooms to standstill and will hold them there, until the courts have a chance to pass on the legality of the statute of 1891. which City Counselor Marshall says is valid. Early Saturday morning- Detectives De-war, Hatton, Guion and Killian went to Col.

Dick Johnson's office and made the requisite affidavits to warrants already drawn up against Ed Fitzgerald, Henry Wider and Tom Walsh. There was no warrant for John Hambrick, nor for the South Side people, Hambrick having already been arrested and the South Side having abandoned (ts foreign book. The only poolroom which will have the temerity to open its doors in the face of the police edict is Tom Walsh's the Missouri Knnrtlnor "7 o-o art 1 r- 'i CnmnanV as it Is called. The telegraph system will be train installed and the reirular work aban 3oned. All money received for wagers will ostensibly be telegraphed to a poolroom in Ijouisville or New Orleans to be wagered there.

Everybody connected with the poolroom will assert, if asked, that no bettirg le being doi-e on the premises. The odds will be posted, however, and the results of the races announced as soon as they are run, just as they have been heretofore. Ed Fitzgerald has closed. That is the result of a little conference with Chief Harrigan Christmas afternoon. "Fitz" went to the Chief and said: "Major I hear you are going to back the wagon up to my place as soon as we go to the post?" "You do?" said the Major.

"Yes; and I want to get the right tip. if the wagon is looking for me. I have a date to eat a Christmas dinner with some friends in the West End." "You had belter eat dinner with your friends instead of in the holdover." paid the Chief. "Capt. O'Malley has instructions to arrest you every time you itry to operate vour pool room." Fitzgerald shut up shop Christmas afternoon and will not resume business again until ne sees tne way citar.

ne uoes ji want to fight the city authorities, so he abides bv their instructions. Chief Harrigan said Saturday: "Warrants or no warrants we will arrest all KjiJicmakers as soon as they attempt to sell po'Jis on races ouisiue i ri ntai. i urj muc shut up until after the question is settled, and that is all there is to it." Attorney Thomas Rowe of the Missouri Exporting News and Telegraph Co. was at the Four Courts to see what was being done. "The oftener they arrest the Sporting News Telegraph people the higher they will run their costs," said he.

"The police have no shadow of a law to go on, and if they beoome unreasonable the department will be sued for trespass and false imprisonment. "In its last decision the Supreme Court Fettled the whole question. The warrants, if you notice, say that the statutes in such cases made and provided have been violated. If the Stone law, or the law of '91 had been violated the Supreme Court would have let the fine against Walsh stand, but Court did not do this. It declared that ther, was no law being violated by the Mate of facts presented, mere is no more law for what they are doing now than there was when alsh was arrested before, am absolutely sure of this and propose to show it when I set a chance." The bookmakers who nave closed do not like the way Walsh is going about his case.

Thev want the law against straight book- making tested, not the law against the telegraph betting- svstem. Under the '91 law. before the '95 law was passed, Jim Town-f end's telegraph company, run on the same lines, was broken up. They 'hope, however, that the issue will not be made in Walsh's case, but in the one against John Ham brick, who ran a straight book without the telegraph feature It may be said that the pool rooms are to nil intents and purposes out of the business for the time being. Walsh may try.

to do business, but the bettors will be afraid to risk their money in the telegraph game when there is always a chance of the gamekeeper being arrested and the money carted oft to the Four Courts with the rest or the outfit. Betting on local races will not be Inter fered with. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Johnson received a letter In the morning- mall from Henry Wider, Informing him that the poolroom Wider was running would not be opened. Col. Johnson consulted with Chief Harrigan about it and the Chief Insisted on the warrant being issued as was originally intended, arguing that the offense had already been committed and Wider should be treated as the other had been.

Shortly after noon the warrant for Kits rerald. Wider and Walsh were turned over to a. Deputy Sheriff for service, and under me Bumiajtct ui utjiecai ves nation ana Guion he startled out on his quest for the men who were to be brought in and allowed xo go on oona or jaw. Other Dolicemen wera rivon utrlrt lntnic. tions watch all the pool-rooms and make arrests the instant any attempt was made ia uu any Detting.

WALSH RAIDED. Police Take a Load of Gamblers From Texas Tom's Pool Room. Promptly at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon the patrol wagon drove up to Tom Walsh's pool room on Eighth street, just south of Olive street. Detectives Hatton and Dewar with a deputy nherift went Into the room and gathered in everybody who seemed to be In any way connected with It. A crowd of several thousand people gathered about the wagon as it -was being loaded with gamblers.

OLD PEOPLE'S CHRISTMAS. asant Dinner Party of Men Over Eighty Years Old. th rot-DIptch. CARLVLE, 111.. Dec.

25. 'Squire John Wade had a gathering of octogenarians at his home in thia city yesterday to eat Christmas dinner with him. All present were between SO and 90 years of age. A good oM-fahioned Christmas was enJovd by the old ftentlemen. The following were present James Justice, age S9: Atom Shoutw aire St; Mr.

MoGaffigan. age Mr. Hubert, age 85; eight others, all over 85 years of age were invited, bu were unable to attend rhrough infirmity. "Squire Wade, the hoot In SS yearn, hale and hearty, and down town every morning by 8 o'clock to attend the lutles or i'olloe Magistrate, which of- act new tor twenty years. Grade Crossing Accident.

ALLENTOWN. Dec. 28. A Central Railroad of New Jersey pa-uutenger M-ln cinei raw irouey car at a grade cross-Jng in East AHenlown yenterday afternoon Lawrenr Wehr, the nvotortnan. wa in-Kamty killed liol four passengers badly injured.

The blame for th accident has not bet a oxa. Compelled to Kill Her Father. m.ti?t.ji. iter, jit-jonn A. Zaney went last ninht to tha hon rvf his itanshia.

Mr. A. J. TovhU. and demanded Informa tion, At to tne wnerMhoux or i wife, her iuei.

cr, i rem wnom oewu separtuea. Mrs, on at and and fies to a to to of How Cuban Sympathizers in Oklahoma Propose to Help the Struggling Insurgents. EL RENO, O. Dec. 26.

Cuban sympathizers here have formed an oath-bound organization which contemplates fighting for the insurgents without violating the United States neutrality laws. The members, composed of able bodied men, are to go to Cuba as colonizers, and to purchase or lease land for the cultivation, manufacture and sale of tobacco." After Cuba is reached, say the by-laws, which have been adopted, "other civic enterprises, to be decided on later, may be entered The minimum membership of the colony shall not be-less than 100 nor more than 200, a.nd the' membership fee, to be paid after arriving in Cuba, is set at $100. The colonists "emseives witn nre arms at m-ir own expense ror personal protection and are to pay their own expenses to the seacoast from which they shall embark. going as individuals. ZERTUCHA'S TREACHERY.

It Is Exposed by Gen. Miro, One of flaceo's Aids. -NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Brigadier General Miro, who was with General Maceo when he was slain, writes to a member of the Junta that Zertucha betrayed Maceo to his death and, moreover, that for months the surgeon had been giving information to the i Spanish, which resulted in the butchery of wounded Cuban soldiers.

Zertucha. says Maceo's aid, was in every way a traitor to the Cuban cause. Every possible, bit of news concerning the leader's movements or pians that he could secure and his opportunities were many he forwarded by means known to himself to the nearest commander. With Major Cirujeda. who commanded the soldiers who killed Maceo, Zertucha is charged with having been in direct communication for nearly a year.

To that officer were divulged many of the "points" which led to Cuban disasters. Concerning the manner in which Maceo met his death. Miro tells a story which flatly gives the lie to almost every detail of Zertucha's so-called confession. It shows that the -plan xo assassinate the Cuban leader had been mapped out with extraordinary care. On the day Maceo mas killed, says Miro, Maceo, with Dr.

Zertucha and five aids, of whom young Gomez and the writer were two. were riding along near Punta Brava a little in advance of a small Cuban force. Some firing was heard near by. and Maceo expressed a desire to know what it might mean. Zertucha.

who had ridden off to one side of the road a few moments before. at this moment came galloping back, and cried out: 'Come with me! Come with me! Quick! Quick!" at once put spurs to his horse. and. followed by his five aids, rode swiftly atter the physician, who plunged into the thick growth on the side of the road. The party had ridden only a few hundred yards.

wnen Sertucha suddenly bent low his saddle and swerved sharply to one side. galloping away like mad. Almost at the same moment a volley was fired bv a parlv vi oilman Huiuierj inuuen in tue oense underbrush, and Maceo and four of his aids dropped out or their saddles, mortally wounded. The single survivor the writer Quoted (here managed to make his way back to his own men. and brought them up to the spot of the tragedv.

The dead bodies of Maceo and Gomez and the three other aids still lay on the ground. The Spaniards had aisappearea. zertucha nas never since been seen by any man of that command. rtiat Captain General Wevler knew of the plan to assassinate Maceo. the Cuban writer affirms, is shown by the fact that for days before the murder occurred all persons were prevented by his orders from going anywhere near the spot where it was committed, and which had evidently been carefully selected.

No one but Zertucha was to be permitted to esca.ne. and these precautions were taken to preclude the pos- siDiiuy oi mere Demg any hostile witnesses. All the published reports concerning alleged jealousy existing between Generals Maceo and Gomez are declared to be absolutely false. CUBANS CORNERED. Weyler Says Pinar del Rio Rebels Must Starve or Submit.

NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Weyler, in an interview reported by the correspondent of the Herald in Pinar del Rio Province, says he has the insurgent army in that province pretty well cornered and that they must either starve or submit. Weyler confessed to some disappointment that his proclamation of amnesty had not been availed of.

and added that the fear of as sa ssin inn probably had deterred the more timid people of the province from, coming into camp. He said that Maceo's successor. Vfina Rivera, had not shown himself, but that the ixovemmeiii naa oeen annoyed a good deal by the Ducasse brothers. Gen. Arolas, with 8,000 men, has been withdrawn from the trocha for the reason Weyler states, that the necessity for the irocna.

as a aeiensive line no longer exists. A dispatch to the Times from K'ev We- states that Gen. Weyler narrowly escaped capture near Artemisa two days ago, while traversing the military road with a small escort. Only th timely arrival of Spanish f.il 1 V. I BdVCU 11 1 III SPANISH CRUISERS.

J.wo Formidable Battleships Being Rapidly Prepared for Sea. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. An interestin Kern in the last publication by the Naval Intelligence Office is the statement of the naval construction that the Spanish Government has dn hand. It appears that orders have been eiven to a Italian firm near Genoa to build im.mediatelv an rm- ored cruiser, which will be named the Pedro Aragon.

will be on the lines of the crack cruiser. Giuseppi Garibaldi which has purchased and rechn'sf enfd Cristobal Colon. The latter Is to be deliv ered by the builders to the Spanish Govern ment complete next February. Only fifteen months are allowed for the construction of the Aragon. Both of these cruisers are to be supplied with tubulous rvoiiers in vogue in the French navy.

When finished the vessels wil Ibe sliarhtlv more for- iniuaure tuari our Desi armored the MR, MONEY'S MISSION. The Senator-Elect Proposes to Beard the Spaniard in His Den. WASHINGTON. D. Dec.

26. Senator- elect Money of Mississippi, whose term In the House does not expire until "Marr-h antj who is one of the Democratic members or tne nouse oreign Atrairs Committee has determined to visit Cuba and find hu( for himself the true situation of affairs in the island. According to a letter rcei v(h1 from him by one of his personal friends, he will leave Tampa at once for Havana and remain a week or ten days in Cuba. It is his purpose to seek an aiwience with Capt. Gen.

Weyler as soon as possible after nrr'v- insr at Havana. Col. Money nroiwsea in r. quest the Captain-General to provide him witn an escort atn a na oi truce, so thai he can go into the heart of the territory oc cupiea Tne iiiui(tcti, wun a view find in a- out what is going on. Col.

Money says that he is determined to make as lengthy a journey into the interior or I'uM as time win imtiuh, and it is under stood tnat ne win aiso enueavor to com munieate with tne insurgenia whether Capt Gen. weyier graxrc.s or not It la his intention to sfesvt-frankly to the I mat nr iwui me island because It iimp3sible to jrocure from Pxest It will be of no avail. All letters and money 1 must be sent to the merchant that holds this claim against you. Following is tne "collection warrant re ferred to: Date Name, Mr. A.

P. Purdy. State, Havixur become a member of the above- named Union of Merchants, the officials of which have agreed to act as our agent, and assist in collecting accounts (without commission) for the purpose of compiling statistics to secure correct information as your rating or deportment, and before re- sorting to such measures to collect amount due us, we consider it a matter of courtesy on our part to notify you that unless our claim for dollars and cents against you is settled before the expiration the time named in this warrant, it w-iu be necessary for us to report your name, aind resort to the course laid down by said Union to collect this claim, lours truly. N. B.

The time of this warrant expires ten days after date. DR. MORRISON'S WILL. His Estate, Valued at $53,000, Di- vided Among His Family. The will of the late Dr.

W. N. Morrison wa? filed Saturday. The estate is valued at $53,000, $13,000 of which is in estate. His two young sons are left $100 each.

On their attaining their majority the estate is to be divided in three parts equally between the widow and two sons. Meantime the widow has the use of it. The deceased brother. James H. Morri son, Is made executor, ana tne wiaow execu- Street Car Employes Mobbed.

CHICAGO. 111.. Dec. 26. A West Kight- eenth street electric car killed George Danemark at Throop street yesterday af ternoon, cutting his body in twain.

The accident so excited the spectators that an at tempt was made to lynch the conductor aid the motorman of the car by a crowd of 4.000 that assembled in a few moments. The lat ter was badly beaten. Both men escaped into a drugstore and kept the crowd at bay with revolvers borrowed from the druggist until a squaa or ponce arrived. Ended an Old Feud. NEW MADRID.

Dec. 26. John Adams and Charles Simpson met at a dance in Pemiscot County last night and began firing their revolvers at each other. Both are dead. Texas Firm in Trouble.

Special to the PiM-t-Dispatcta. TEX ARK AN Dec. 26. The firm of Willis Buel, proprietors of the Texas Book Store, cn the Texas side, filed a deed of trust this morning, naming P. A.

Turner trustee. Heavy Rain in India. CALCUTTA. De-c. 26.

Heavy rain has fallen in the province of Oude and mere is expected. TELEGRAPH BRIEFS. Ex-Queen Lilioukalani reached Bo3ton Fri day Wyzeman Marshall, the veteran actor. died yesterday at Boston. He was born in 1S16.

John Drake Townsend. the well-known New York lawyer, died at his Christmas dinner. J. P. Tisdale.

a hot tamale man at Pon- lar Bluff, fatally stabbed Robert Col- ins in a quarrel. At Houston. an unknown negro shot to death Will Davis of Ualvesson as he was boarding a train. At Blkton. Tandv Poster, aired 64.

and his wife, aged 66. died within five min- u-tees of each other yesterday. The overdue steamer Scandinavian arrived Friday at Boston after colliding with and sinking the schooner Carrie Walker. New York officers fail to identify the man jafl at Monmouth. 111., as J.

L. Harris. the firebug wanted in New York. The Sedalia (Mo.) Brewery, property of Henry Wiegandt, was destroyed bv fire last night. Ixs.

insurance, $12,000. Governor 6tone has pardoned John Jack son, sentenced in in Saline County to twenty years for murder in the second de gree. MarMn Snencer was arrested at Houston charged with passing a forged check. He had a number of blank checks on his person. John M.

Thurston thinks there will an extra session or congress and that the uovernment will foreclose on the Pacific railroads. In Deer Lodge County. a Rilev the mining man. was killed, and his asssa I- ni. johii was wounded in quarrel.

A petition is circulating at St. Joseph. king to have the Question of nensionlne disabled firemen submitted to vore at the April elect on. In Carroll County, Herman Medley and rrank Harris fous-ht a nistnl dnl over the latter's wife, and Medley was killed and iiarns laiauy wounaea. At Kavanaugh Chapel.

Lawrence County. Hill Morrow, a desperado, entered the church and bman firing a pistol promiscuously. Oeorge Pack was fatally wounded and several others slightly hurt. Steamship Movements. NEW YORK.

Deo.4a.Arrlved: New lork, Southampton; IJotteniam. from llot- terdam. Mra, Winslow'j Soothing Syrup tor CaUUUa taeuilof mffrM jic, dlarrbort, etc. ot I a W-f tag j---rr.