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V-; THE APEliPIII A INQUIRER MONDAY MOKNING, APRED 27, 1896. STRANGE CONFESSION CASSARD WATCHED SCOTT JACKSON'S TRIAL 4 KUilXlJ. JLJ.XXV via. V- wuc juitat, XXKJXMJ J.X1 llclll Cl, llld.ll live dollars in machinery and baildines. That's the conclusion i BOLD MATABELES Continued From First Page.

of the owners of the Edward Harris Woolen Mills, stop manufacturing, and sell their entire stock of cloth, They Stories Concerning a Cuban Filibuster Suspect. Insnrsent Representatives Said to Be Interested in a Craft Down at Xewport Xctci. NORFOLK, April 26. The author- ities are still closely watching the steam- er Howard Cassard, lying at Newport News and suspected of being a A story comes from. Washington to the made and making.

We took every piece, and, of course, the price was a low" one. Our customers are as well pleased as we. Thse world-renowned goods are well known and bo't with confidence. The price is wonderfully low beginning at $7.75 and up to 20. Every day, from this time forward New Lots as fast as our wers and makers can finish them.

Soon we'll have them in Boys' Suits. In Tailoring-to-Measure Department you'll find a splendid assortment. Trousers, $5 up. Suits, $20 up. Perhaps you'd better have more than one Suit.

When this lot of goods are sold, understand, there'll be no more. i effect that when there was a possibility regarding the situation in the hard-of the United States recognizing the pressed settlement unabated, and belligerency of the insurgents the Cuban about the only agreeable factor is Junta planned to purchase the Cassard, that telegraphic communication with convert her into a torpedo boat and sjad. Buluwayo is still open. her down to Cuban waters to attack the slow, old-fashioned Spanish men-of-war on duty there. But the fact that there seems little chance of President Cleveland acting very scon on the resolutions of Congress has induced the Cubans to change! their plans and to make alleged arrange- PARIS, April 26.

M. Sarrien, Minls-ments with the owners of the craft to ter of the Interior in the retiring. Bour-use her to carry munitions of war to geois Cabinet, who had been summoned their belligerent countrymen. by President Faure to form a Ministry, A superb stock of Fine Black Worsted Suits especially the Suit for $15. Well enough worth double and been sold again and again for $30.

Sure when this lot is gone we can't give as good. $12 and $13.50 in Fancy Worsted Suits. Again just the kinds heretofore sold for $18 and $20. Still in great demand, the Black and Blue Thibet Suits, $5 and $6.75. Many'7a man returns Can you give me exactly like 1 had before for Certainly; we are pioneers in making these wonderfully good-wearing Suits.

Unmatchable and you'll not get as good value anywhere. MER BBO WN sixth md Last Monday exceeded anything we ever did in booking orders in our Tailoring Department. No doubt, will be larger today. Many new customers know of us, and their Clothing so satisfactory that it will be spoken of. That's enough.

All we want is to have you tell where it was purchased and the price. Next floor above and you'll see Clothing ready to wear. Hard to tell it was not made to your measure. Looks exactly like it. Look again $5, $10 less than made to your measure.

Ten to one you're as well pleased. It is remarkably well done. No obligation to buy. We'll risk the liking of every Sii it. Come direct here for Boys' Suits.

There's not a bit of use paying two to four dollars per Suit in excess of our price. That's the way things are going for handsome Clothing. You'll hardly know the Little Junior in one of our beautifully trimmed Suits. Not over $3.00. VK1.

H. VANA MAKER twelfth mid uaRKET FOR INFORMATION PARTICULARS THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER'S EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT THE HOWAR The Howard Cassard is a unique ciaft. She was built several years ago and wus designed to cross the Atlantic at the remarkable speed of thirty-five miles an hour. She did not come up to the specifications, however, and has only attained a speed of twenty-three mileo The value of the vessel as a fighting ship is enhanced by the fact that the greater part of the machinery Is far below the water line. Tomas Estrada Palma, the president of the Cuban Revolutionary party, and Dr.

Joaauin Castilho, two of the most active Cuban sympathizers in this coun-tiy. or at least one of them, are. expected tit Fortress Monroe to witness a smooth-water trial of the Cassard. TWO WERE LYNCHED Taken From a Tennessee Jail by a Mob and Strung lp. Special to The Inquirer.

NASHVILLE, April 26. At midnight last night a mob of fifteen armed men entered the jail at McMInnville, dragged the Jailer from his bed and forced him to give up the cell keys. William and Victor Hillis were then taken from the Jail, carried on horseback five miles from McMInnville and' both were hanged. The prisoners were accused of murdering, in 1S94, in Van Buren county, Car roll Martin at his home. ALLEGED WRECKERS' TRIAL An Effort to Complete the Jury to Be Made To-day.

Special to The Inquirer. ROME N. April 26. An effort to complete the jury in the case -of the alleged young train wreckers will be' made to-morrow at 2.00 P. M.

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PHILADELPHIA. Gentlemen I do not possess the "Encyclopedia Brltannica," but I am Interested in the work of "The Home University League," aa founded upon same, and request that you send me full particulars, also complete information regarding your special plan of furnishing th "Brltannica" at wholesale prices. A Female Convict Declares She Killed Montgomery Gibbs. Statement Which Recall a Buffalo Murder for Which a Man and Wife Are Serving Life Sentences. WAUPON, April 26.

Minnie Allen, a convict, 30 years old, serving two years for burglary, has confessed that on the night of April 26, 1894, at Buffalo, N. she shot and killed Montgomery Gibbs, a lawyer. She lived at Niagara, Falls, on -the Canadian side, and claims that Gibbs had promised to marry her. She says she met him on the corner of Bryant street and Delaware avenue and repeated her request that he marry her. He refused and she shot three times.

She says she makes the confession to clear Clarence Robinson and wife, who are serving life sentences for the murder. She says that at the expiration of her sentence she will go to Buffalo and plead guilty to the charge of murder. She will be released in a few weeks. About a month ago she sent for Mr. Bancroft and told him that she had a secret which had been troubling her conscience for a long time.

She then told him she had shot Mr. Gibbs in Buffalo. She said she had first met Gibbs in Canada several years before the murder and fell in love with him. He apparently returned her affections, but subsequently deserted her. Becoming desperate at the wrong done her by Gibbs.

she threatened his life. But the attorney paid no attention to her, and she says that after he left her in Canada she followed him to Buffalo. Again she pleaded with him and asked him to keep his promise, but he refused to do so. She then secured a revolver, and on the night of April 26, 1804, followed him as he was returning to his home and shot him down and fled from the city. DYGERT'S CUBAN EXPERIENCE He Bribed a Guard to Get Word to the Cnited States Consul.

TAMPA, April 26. Dygert, of Greenwood, 111., arrived here this afternoon from Cuba, where he has just been released from prison. He has been confined two months exactly. Dygert left Tampa February 13, without getting a passport. He went into Havana on February 23.

He was arrested in the province of Havana and placed in prison at Gulnes. The only charge against him was that Spanish soldiers found an old Sharpe gun near the place where he was arrested. It was of very ancient make and no cartridges are now made to lit its very large calibre. He was given several socalled examinations. Permission to write to friends or the Uuited States Consul was refused, but when he was searched the soldiers failed to discover In paper money concealed on his person.

Soon after his incarceration he bribed a guard to report his case to American Consul, paying $S0 to be paid on receipt of Information that case had been reported. On March 20th the guards handed him a piece of Spanish newspaper, from which he learned that the case had been reported. IOWA'S TWO CONVENTIONS The Democratic Party Splits at aterloo and They Try to Howl Each Other Down. WATERLOO, April 26.jr-The gold standard people won a victory In BOies' heme county They' outnumbered the silver Boies' men. three To two.

The convention was characterized by the wildest scenes. In the outset the Cleveland men captured the -convention. Just as the organization was perfected Chairman Scott, of the Central Committee, entered the hall, ignored the pro ceedings and called another convention. Thus the two conventions proceeded in the same hall simultaneously, each howl ing the other down. The disturbance continued for more than an hour.

The Cleveland men summoned Sheriff Law, and Marshal Klingman was brought on the scene by the white metal men. No arrests were made. Each convention adopted resolutions on the money question, the difference being as great as possible. LEUGER MAY RESIGN Tine Oft Elected Burgomaster of Vienna to Interview the Emperor. LONDON.

April 27. A Vienna dispatch says that Dr. Leuger, the anti-Semite, recently re-elected Burgomaster of Vienna, after his election had once been rejected by Emperor, will-have an au-. dience with the Emperor in the morning, at which it is expected he will renounce rls claim to the Burgomastership.another member of the party being elected instead. It is believed that the pour parlers have already been arranged for this solution, which means the- triumph of the anti-Semites.

This is startling news for the Marine Information. "Do you ever catch any whales, captain?" asked the fair passenger on the ocean liner. "Often, ma'am," answered the dignified captain. "How very wonderful! Please tell me how you catch "We drop a few of the old salts on their tails, ma'am." Chicago Tribune. Ex-Premier Pa rices Dead.

SYDNEY, N. S. April 26. Sir Henry Parkes, ex-Premier of New South Wales, is dead. QUEER THINGS IN JERSEY Allen Fogg, of Salem, has a curiosity in the shape of a lamb born with no upper jaw and with only one eye, which is in the centre of its head.

Jonathan Moore, a Pennsvllle octogenarian, has purchased a bicycle and is learning to ride. Murray brothers, of Paulsboro, caught 2320 shad In five days. A pet bantam owned by a Dennisville resident, lays an egg in the cupboard drawer every day. Henry Lamb and Albert Nooley claim to be the oldest shad fishermen in South Jersey. This Is the forty-fourth con secutive season they have fished.

Two black snakes over six feet in length were killed in the school yard at Hardingville. Socrates Willis, of Cape May Court House, has seven pigs nine months old which weigh In all less than fifty pounds. Their tails are about a foot long and have no curl. A Millville cycler found some old cloth es along the road fastened to which was a note stating that the owned had died of smallpox on April 4, 1806. It is sup posed they were left there by a tramp.

LOOK OUT FOR AUGJI'Ofj SIL OF rICTURE AT BIRCH'S R0QL1S ItIO CHESTNUT ST. PRIL 27, 78,129, AT 2 P. M. EACH BAY It Has Already Consumed Five Days and the End Is Hardly in Sight. WITNESSES TO BE HEARD The Defense Will Attempt to Impeach Will Wood's itnil Contradict Others.

THE TRIAL AT NEWPORT, OF" SCOTT Jackson, accused of the murder of Fearl "Bryan, will continue at least for another week. It has already consumed Ave days, during- which time fifty-two witnesses have been examined. The prosecution has about 'a. dozen more witnesses to examine. CINCINNATI, April 26.

The trial of Scott Jackson, at Newport. has consumed five days. Fifty-two witnes-s have been examined. The prosecu tion has about twelve more to exam ine. Amon? these are George t.

jacK-son, colored, who claims to have driven the cab that took the murderers to the spot where Pearl Bryan's body was found. Chester Mullen, the man who rented the cab that was gone all night of Friday, January 31, will be another witness. Colonel Deitsch, Chief of the Cincinnati, oolice. who made several exami nations of Jackson and Walling in private as well as in public, will be examined. Will "Wood, the friend of Jackson and.

the second cousin of Pearl Bryan, will be recalled and subjected, no doubt, to a fierce ordeal of cross-examination In connection with- certain affidavits In the hands of the de-fe'hse as to his admissions in Green Castle' and Indianapolis of improper relations with the dead girl extending from early in 1SD5. MOVEMENTS OF THE DEFENSE. It is thought the policy of the defense will be not to make a strong resistance, but to rely upon chances of error upon taking It up to the Court of Appeals. Others think the defense will exert Itself to the utmost. If this sbould prove true an attempt may be made to prove an alibi.

The defense will attempt to impeach the testimony of Will Wood and George H. Jackson, should the latter repeat the story made by him and published several weeks ago. -George H. Jackson will probably be examined to-morrow. It is not likely that Will Wood will be recalled until wanted by the defense to answer questions more explicitly in regard to certain depositions.

"PROTRACTED TRIAL. LIKELY. The week promises to abound in the most startling testimony of the trial. At its past rate the prosecution should complete its testimony Tuesday night. With direct testimony offered by the defense and cross-examinations, together with debates on legal, points, it is not likely the case will go to the jury this week.

The court has already shown its anticipation of a protracted trial by changing the time for hearing the case of Alon-xo Walling from May 5 to May 12. The defense will try to show contradictions in the testimony of some witnesses for the prosecution and attempt to disqualify whatever evidence has been presented as to the confession of Jackson by maintaining tha.t these admissions were not voluntary, but were made under duress and Intimidation. THAT SUNDAY SANDWICH It Bobbed I'o All In Tfew York's Saloon-Hotels, i C. JORK. April new hotels uid a large business to-day in the way of dispensing liquors to persons who purchased a sandwich or a more pretentious meal along -with their beer or whisky.

The police kept a shart lookout to see that the law was not violated by the hotels and also kept their eyes open to discover illegitimate places of liquor selling in rooms in the rear of saloons, especially In the Italian quarter and on the lower east side of the town. -There was no apparent attempt by the regular reputable saloonkeepers to evade the law, for the interior of all saloons was exposed completely to the view of every BIG BREWERY 3URNED I Was Only Recently Acquired English Syndicate. DARTMOUTH, N. April 2G. Gland's brewery, at, Turtle Grove, was destroyed by fire to-day.

It was one of the largest and best equipped in the Maritime province, and was one of those acquired a short time ago by the English syndicate which purchased all the breweries in the lower provinces. The building was valued at $40,000, the machinery at $43,000 and the stock on hand was worth about $40,000 more. -The origin of. the fire is a mystery. The property was insured for $95,000, mostly in English agencies here.

-MAN AND WIFE PERISH Bnrned to Death in a Fire of terioas Orig-in. NEWBURGH, N. April 26. Mr. and Mrs.

Barney Cullen were burned to death in their home near Chester, Orange county, to-day. They perished together in the sitting room, where Cullen had dragged his wife-from their bed in his effort to save her. Morris Cullen, a son, fractured his leg in jumping from a second-story window. George Thompson, an adopted son. sustained a bad scalp wound by being cut with glass when he was dragged through an upper window.

The origin of the fire is a mystery. A MOB'S SAVAGE WORK. A Dose of Tar and Feathers Admin-istered to a Chicago Man. Special to The Inquirer. CHICAGO, April 2G.

Charles MeCarty, charged with insulting women and little girls, in La Grange, was taken from the police fo-day by a mob. The confession was obtained from him in which lie admitted he was guilty. The mob then stripped him of his clothes, covered him with tar, and dumped feathers over him. In this strange garb he ran away from ais tormentors and disappeared. Riillroad Merger to He Consummated GAPE MAY, N.

April 20. The lines ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad in Southern New Jersey, comprising the West Jersey Railroad, the Alloway and Quin-tori Railroad, the West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, the Chelsea Branch Railroad and the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad, will be merged next Saturday into one road, to be known as the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. The "Old Brick" Church. The Sunday school of the Kensington M. E.

Church, better known as the "Old Brick Church." at Richmond and Marlborough streets, celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary yesterday. Joseph Bennett, one of the scholars at the opening of the school in 1821, gave a history of the growth of the church and Sunday school from that "day to present. The regular stated meeting of the Irish Catholic L'nion was held yesterday afternoon at St. James' T. A.

B. Hall. S'i'27 Market street. D. J.

Coughlin Routine business was transacted. kindle hope among those in the Bul-uwayo country that the Matabeles will be defeated. Colonel Carrington probably knows South Africa as well as any one living. In he was called upon to take a hand in finishing up the Matabele war and disposing- of Tohen cnla. His recall to such dutv now is taken as an Indication of the seriousness of the situation, and the intenton of the government to deal seriously with it.

The uneasiness at present, however. SARRIEN J3JVES IT UP Informs Faure He Cannot Form Sfew Cabinet. CASSARD. has finally informed President Faure that he finds himself unable to form a conciliation Cabinet. M.

Sarrlen's plan was to form a Cabinet containing representatives of different political groups in the hope of thus securing united support for the government in the Chamber of Deputies. He had already foreshadowed to President Faure that he had slight hope Kt effecting this object, but he reserved his declination of the task until he had consulted with the political leaders in the chamber. It is believed that President Faure will resummon M. Sarrien to the Palace of the Elysee to-morrow and will urge him to make another effort to form a Cabinet. TRUNK LINE IN CHINA Imperial Edict Authorizing the Construction of a.

Railroad. PEKING, April 26. An imperial edict authorizes the building of a railroad from Peking to Han-Kow. This is to be a grand trunk line. To Collect Armenian Relief Funds.

LONDON, April 26. The Duke of Westminster and the Bishop of Hereford have addressed an appeal to Prelates of the Home, Colonial and American Episcopate to form diocese committees to collect funds for Armenian relief. The Spanish MADRID, April 26. In the elections for the Senate 102 Ministerialists, 116 Liberals and three Carlists have been returned so far. lit- Dervish Camp Demoralized.

SUAKIN, April 26. Soudanese deserters who have arrived here report that there is demoralization.sickness and fam- PLATO. passed away shortly following the arrests. ine in the Dervish camp at Horasab. Os-man Digma with all his followers has therefore retired, it is supposed to Adar-ama.

Two Hundred Armenian Arrested. LONDON, April 27. A dispatch to the Daily News from Constantinople says that 200 leading Armenians have been arrested at Moush, and that the Embassies fear an outbreak of new troubles at Sas-soun. Willow De Hirsch's Generous Gift. PARIS, April 26.

The Baroness de Hirsch, widow of the philanthropist, has presented $20,000 for distribution among the poor of Paris. NO LONGER A SECRET The Marriage of "Happy" AVard and Lucy Daly Publicly Announced. Special to The Inquirer. BALTIMORE, April 26. The story of a secret theatrical marriage that took place here last Wednesday evening Was told to-day by members of the Ward and Vokes Company, which closed an engagement here last night.

The groom was "Happy" Ward and the bride Lucy Daly, the well-known soubrette and dancer who was with the Passing Show Company until a few weeks ago. In response to.a telegram from Ward his sweetheart came on from New York, and, accompanied by a few they went to the priest's house of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, where they were married by Father Boland. No one but the closest friends of the couple knew of their marriage until to-day. PASSED MANY ICEBERGS Transatlantic Liners Encounter Lots of Floating lee.

NEW YORK, April 20. All of the transatlantic liners which arrived today saw a large number of icebergs on their westward voyage. On Wednesday the Dutch steamship Maasdam, in latitude 43 and longitude 46, passeS a Id ro-ii T- 71 rl lntAr rn tri eam day she sighted fifteen big bergs On- Thursday she saw five more large ones and a great quantity of floating ice. The Palatia, from Hamburg, sighted twelve large bergs between latitude 43 and longitude 43 and latitude 47 and longitude 48. La Bretagne re ports naving passeu imuiuci vi.

lttigcj, ana smau lceoergs, uie nearest one seen being more than eighty feet Jiigh Theodore' Flood, Not Thomas. The name of Dr. Flood, delegate-at-large to St. Louis, is Theodore L. Flood, and not Thomas, as so persistently tmblished throughout the State.

THE FISHING SEASON IS GETTING here in earnest, and catches of all the earlier species are reported from all the nearby streams, while down at the seashore the big fellows are taking the hook after a fashion. Down at Longport quite a few tau-tog have been caught from the piers, and it will be only a short time before the sea bass begin to run. Rock-fish are coming inside to take the bait and flounders are being caught now and then. In the fresh water streams other than trout, catties, suckers and fall fish are bending light rods, and the anglers are beginning to smile, for they see fun ahead. Almost all of the small streams in Eastern Pennsylvania contain or fewer fallrlsh, and as they are full of fight no angler need be ashamed to boast of catches in that direction.

Of course they are not the equal of the trout in point of gameness, but on a light rod you can have almost as much fun catching fallfish as you can in catching trout. THESE NICE DAYS HAVE BROUGHT out many anglers along the Schuylkill, and almost every day a number of persons may be seen fishing for the quiet sucker at the dam at Lin- field station. There is only one trouble about the fishing at this dam, and that is the manner in which the fishermen secure the fish. The scheme is nothing new to the people in that vicinity, but to others it may be a novelty. There the youth who desires to catch the sucker takes a small dip-net and goes as near the falling water of the dam as it is possible for him to go.

Every few minutes you will see the net make a quick drop Into or near the falls and up will come an enthusiastic sucker. These fish, wanting to go up stream, leap over the falls, and it Is while in the air that the small boy is supposed to place the net under the fish and haul him in. This kind of fishing requires alertness, for the fish Is seen for only an Instant, and the 4 hand must be as quick as the eye. NEW JERSEY HAS FOR A LONG time had an eye on the pike perch of the Susquehanna, otherwise known as the Susquehanna salmon, and now the Fish Commissioners of that State propose to plant some of the fry in streams where it is thought the fish will thrive. It is claimed for the pike perch that it is about the only fish that can live in the same waters as the carp, and for that reason is considered of vast Importance.

The Pennsylvania Fish Commission intends to donate a million fry or the pike perch, and It is the intention of the New Jersey commissioners to secure a number of adult fish of the same species and transplant them to the waters of our neighboring State. SINCE THE OPENING OF THE trout season. April 15, the fishing near Henryville and at various good points nearly has been somewhat disappointing to those enthusiastic anglers that you will generally find at their favorite streams so early in the season. The drought of last season was so fatal to the small fry, they having been hemmed in the small streams that were veritable death traps for them. There was lots of water in the Broadheads Creek and its main tributaries and throughout all of northeastern Pennsylvania there was sufficient water for the larger trout to thrive in.

Yet, while the fishing so far is not up to the standard, in a few days it may improve. Those who have postponed their trips until May wi-fl probably enjoy good fishing. QUITE A NUMBER OF LARGE FISH have been caught during the past ten days in Monroe county. Fourteen and fifteen inch fish are brought in daily. There the hog fisherman 's conspicuous by his absence; it is not numbers of fish but quality.

The high water which has so lately been increased by the melting of. the winter snows has begun to run off, and In a few more days of pleasant weather the streams will be in good condition, just right for good fish-ing. R. COLEMAN. ONE OP PHILADEL-phia's few really expert fly fishermen, is at Henryville, having just returned, from a successful fishing trip in Virginia.

Last Tuesday he fished the Big Creek, one of the tributaries of the Broadhead, and In one hour brought back five fish averaging thirteen inches. James Rice, of New York, fishing with worms, caught twenty-, six trout on the Big Creek, fishing from Bates' down. All of the fish were large. LONG'S TROUT PONDS IN THE LEB-anon Valley, near Sheridan, have been leased by Reading parties, who will convert the same into a fishing preserve. The ponds will shortly receive twenty thousand trout fry.

ALDERMAN FEGELY. LAWYER Meredith and Charles Merrill, of Reading, spent a day fishing along the Powder Mill dam, in the eastern end of Berks county. They returned with sixty-four suckers. RICHARD LAWRENCE, OF READ-ing and his guest, George W. Linden-muth, Chicago, returned from a fishing trip to Port Kennedy, with eighty pounds of eels, suckers and carp.

H. R. BUCKLEY, THE ENTHUSI-astlc angler of this city, writes tbns: "Noticing an article about Wikert Run in The Inquirer, I offer' you some information, having fished it several times. Wikert empties into Penn Creek at Wikert Station. It is a good open stream to fish, and very suitable for fly fish- ing.

Nearby, is another very good stream called Cherry Run: there is any quantity of trout in this stream, but they are very small. Wikert Run is between Montandon and Belief onte, on the Bald Eagle Valley Road. Accommodations can be had at Wikert Station for 75 cents a day, and you can secure a guide If you desire for per day. "DTP NET" WRITES TO INQUIRE whether it is necessary for anglers from the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware to secure a license before fishing In New Jersey. It is not.

as yet. The new bill passed by the Legislature of our neighboring State provides that trout and salmon fisher-, men must take out a license if thejr are not residents of that State, but as the bill has not been signed by the Governor, it is not a law and probably never will be. Any how. It would in no case affect those who go after salt water fish and the trout fishing of New Jersey is the poorest quality, so Pennsylvanians need have no fear on that score. IT IS NOW SAID THAT THERE ARE few fall fish in the historic Brandy-wine, and that what fish of that species are there are quite small in comparison with former years.

This seems to be the case in almost all the streams near this city, but if one cares to go fifty or a hundred miles away fall fish may be. found in abundance. IN WINTER, WHEN THE SURFACE of the ground in which it Is accustomed to burrow may become frozen or covered with ice, the fiddler crab bores deep into the mud or sand and stays until spring. The black or mud fiddler fairly riddles the meadow banks along the salt creeks; it bores In. usually horizontally, and it may be as far as six or eight feet from the face of the bank, and then down into the mud at various angles until it gets below the level of the tide, which rises and falls through the loose mud, in the fiddler crab's burrow.

There are myriads of the black fiddlers, and they so honeycomb the bank that sometimes under the added weight of ice gathered upon the top of it the bank breaks down. AMONG SOME OF THE PROMINENT Phiiadelphians enjoying the nsning in Monroe county, are C. H. Fitzger-aj. E.

Selliez, W. P. Thompson, R. (ffleman, John Walker, all active members of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association. They have had fairly good luck considering that the conditions have been against good fly fishing.

TWO BELVIDERE FISHERMEN HAD excellent luck several days ago on the Buckhorn Creek, a stream five miles long emptying into the Delaware near Rpxbury several miles below Belvidere. They had thirty-seven fish running quite large, and among them were half a dozen fourteen inch trout, they used worm MR. AND MRS. AND Bifhrliinil T.aw. of Phllajlplrihio.

1 BRISTOL. port good catches in the upper headwaters of the Paradise Creek, a tributary of the Broadhead's several miles above Henryville. THE REPORTS REGARDING THE fishing on the Pocono Mountain stream, the Tobyhanna, Michaels Creek, and the several branches of the Big Creek six miles from Henryville near Cresco and at Canadinsis, the Livls branch, the Buckhlll. Stony Run and Goose Pond Run have been very favorable and some large catches have been made. BUCKS COUNTY ANGLERS.

WHO have visited-the various trout or mountain streams, returned disgusted and without any 1-eward. Some of the anglers assert that, there Is still too much snow water running into the jstreams the mountains', while 6thers" attribute the scarcity of "the finny tribe to the drought of last season when thousands of them perished, owing to the creeks having been entirely dried up. The Furnace Creek, about three miles east of Hamburg, and running through the mountain. Is considered one of the best trout streams in that part of the State. This stream is daily visited by anglers, but they meet with poor success.

PORK BAIT. Tlier Cycled to Stratford Town. Camden is possessed of many things, and among them the Egypt Club, a swell organization who go a-biking Saturday "thev took the first run of the season to Stratford, on the White Horse pike, and had dinner at the Old Orchard Inn. In the afternoon the party was entertained by Mr. and Mrs.

Charles King and the wheelists returned about 4 o'clock, highly pleased with the day's outing. The riders were Mr. and Mrs. F. Davis, Judge Dr.

and Mrs. Davis and Miss Mebie Davis, Harry Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs. Charles King, Mrs. West, Mrs.

Holmes, Miss Robbins, Dr. Wills and Dr. Handley and many others. Crack Amateur Boxers to Meet. The Tuxedo Athletic Club will celebrate its admission to the Amateur Athletic Union next Thursday night with a monster amateur night on which occasion a score of the crack athletes of New.

York and this city will contest in sabre, basco' all through. The gymnasium will be unique in its -character and as the prospectus says, will have a dash of 'To-basco' all though. The gymnasium of the club has been fitted with electric fans and on this occasion will be a regular bower of bunting and flowers. Pottstoirn Gun Clnl Shoot. POTTSTOWN, April 26 (Special).

A oVnntintr match between members of the Pottstown Gun Club took place yester day, with the following result: iarten-stlne killed 7, missed Bauer killed 5, o- Wnlf killed 5. missed 5: Long- acre killed 4, missed Smith killed 4, missed 6. The matcn was twenty-eignt yards rise, sixty yards boundary. I I I I' High School to Run at Princeton. The Relay team of the Central High School, have arranged to run In the Relay "races at the Princeton College on Saturday.

May 2. The team consists of FInley, '96; Thomas, '97; Mueller, '99; Grajv'99; Flint, Krne Challenges Dixon. BUFFALO. April 26. Frank Erne has issued a challenge to fight George Dixon for the featherweight championship of America.

Erne says he can find backing for any amount. A. Jersey man's Sadden Death. BALTIMORE. April 26.

William Da vis. aged TO years, of Bayonne, i J. was found dead in bed to-night at the Monumental Hotel in this city. He came here for treatment and had recently un dergone an operation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A widow survives him.

His body was taken to the morgue. BOOKS More than 200,000 volumes are on our shelves, represent- ing all (departments of literature, every rpook marked the lowest figure possible. The prices make selling so easy that our stock is kept up only by remarkable energy in buying libraries and smaller collections of books. Our great stock changes so rapidly books coming to-day and going to-morrow that this store affords the buyer unparalleled opportunities ffr money saving and rare-book-getting. Books wanted, libraries or small lots.

LEARY'S BOOK STORE Ninth Street, below Market. Oooosit the Postoffic. -ft EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF Oriental Rugs 600 and Carpets Selected Pieces Rare In Quality and Texturt TO BE SOLD AT DAVIS HARVEY'S GALLERIES 1212 CHESTNUT STREET COMMENCING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOOH APRIL 29,1896 CONTINUING SIX DAYS Each Afternoon at 3 o' Clock NOW OIM EXHIBITION Rubber and part-rubber things at Evans's. 1 106 Chestnut. Eighth and Arch.

3230 North Front. The Fencing; Championships. NEW YORK, April ,26. The final contest for fencing championship for sabre, foil and duelling sword, were held last night at the Fencers' Club under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union and the Amateurs Fencers League. Th preliminary battles were fought on March 2a There were fifteen entries tonight in the foil class and six each in the sabre and duelling sword.

The championship will be announced to-morrow. Atlantic League Team' Playiny. NEWARK. N. April 26.: Newark 1 0 10 6 0 8 1 623 Metropolitan 4 0 01 0 0 0 0 2 Base hits Newark.

19: Metropolitan, 10. Errors Newark, Metropolitan, 7- Batteries Kerwan and Otten and Rothfus; Sharrott. Kerns and Foster; Mulligan and Strowger. Umpire Wyckoft. PATERSON.

N. April 28: Wilmington 2 0 5 0 2 1 9 4 020 Paterson 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 04 Base hits Wilmington. 20; Paterson, 12. Errors Wilmington. Paterson.

6. Batteries Wilmington: Nops and Welch; Paterson I Callahan and Elton. That Rosie Rumor In Sew York. NEW YORK, April 26. The World tomorrow will say: The latest turn of th wheel brings the information that the big pitcher is to be traded to Baltimore, and that New York will receive in exchange twirlers McMahon and Hemming, and a big money consideration.

Other Sports or Page A Bedstead ought to be something more than a thing to sleep on. It should be pretty it must be sanitary, cleanly, and light enough for the average woman to move. Brass or Enamelled Bedsteads have these qualities. Are you ready to look at them Store, 11 North 11th Street. Factory, 331 North 2d Street.

NAME 427. ADDRESS TOWN AND STATE TO-DAY ON THE TRACKS Entries at Elkton, Benningra, JVash-ville and Lexington, LEXINGTON, April 26. Following are Monday's entries: First Race Six furlongs; Inaugural Scramble. Dorothy, J3; M. V.

Amy 99 each; Myrtle Harkness, 109; Zanone, Warrick, 102 each; Ramlro, 105; Gurgle, 111; Simon 116. Second One mile. Cashier, 85; Anna Lyle, 86; Fred Barr, 91; Tom Miles. 92: Tariff Reform, 93; Rejected. 96; Bonnie Dundee, 97; Half Mine.

98: Ace. IOO: Frontmen, SV.go. 10O each: 101; Rasper, 106. Third Distillers stakes; mile and a sixteenth. Prince Lief.

103: Cherub. 94; Semper Egro, 97; Galon D'Or. 99; The Winner. 99. Fourth Nine-sixteenths of a mile.

Love-joy, 115: San Gamon, The Gainer, Zelbach. Goose Liver, Joly Son, Gew Gaw, Red, Fortunate. T. W. Old Sport.

118 each. Fifth Purse: nine-sixteenths of a mile. Bveningr Chat, Virginia Moore, Tempesta, 115: La Princessa, 116: Suisuna, Breakaway, Cappy, Tin Cup, The Blossom, 115; Princess Maud. 112; Higrh Society, Lady Hope, Amiable, Eugene Wicks, Lady Rover, 113 each. Xashville's Card.

NASHVILLE, April 26. Following are Monday's entries: First Race Six furlongs. Mattie Lee, 87; Wanr, Onaretto, 94 each; Leo Lake, 105; Nick, Tartarian, 116 coupled. Second Mile. Miss Perkins, 92; Imp.

Sau-teur, 96; Joe O'Sot, Imp. Wolsey, Miss Clark. Rossmore. 98 each: Billy McKenzle, Blasco, 100; Leonard 101; Emin Bey, 105. Third Cumberland prize; mile and an eighth.

St. Peter, Judith 100: Forget, Mazarine, 112; Lady Inez, 117. and Ben Eder, 122, coupled: Subito, 117; Sondo, 112. Fourth Half-mile. Glen Albyn, Bonnie Alder, Cheatham, 105 each; Royal Lanier, Worry Not, Agent, Alvin Lord Fairfax, Tom Anderson, Abe Fuerst, Truxillo, Harry 108 each.

Fifth Selling; seven furlongs. Rosalind, III. 89: Minerva. 95; Fresco, 99; Define, 92; J. W.

Cook, Trilby. 104 each Guard, 105 Little Tom, 107; Overella, Masonic Home. Sandowne, Besrue, HO: Imp. Somersault, 111. Sixth Half mile.

Mautaga, Amaraia, Connie Lee, Ida, Bonnie Bess, Outing. Queen Vic, Granny, Oreusa, Leilas, Cucoo, Abbie 105 each. To-day's Card at Benning. First Race Thr-e-auarrers a mile- Sir Dixon. 121 (Valley).

107. and Contrition. 10. Second Four and. a half furlongs.

Dom-itor. Ignatius, 110; Bicycle Oiri, Flarian and Winged Foot, 107. Third Handicap; mile. Prig, 102; Golden Gate, 10O; Chugnut, 93. Fourth Three-quarters of a mile.

Pal me r-ston. 113: Jefferson. 108: Emotional. 98. -Fifth Hurdle: one ana Kilkenny.

157; Woodford, 154 each, and Tom Moore, 139. Reading Defeat Pottsville. Special to The Inquirer. READING, April 26. Several hundred spectators witnessed the game of basket ball last night in the T.

M. C. A. gymnasium between the T. M.

C. A. teams of this city and Pottsvllle. The good all-around work of the locals secured them the victory hy the score of 5 to 1. The line-up: Reading.

Pottsvllle. A. Eshelman. Forward. Swaving C.

Miller R- Forward Troutman H. E. James Centre Madison T. Walters Homan, C'pt. Guard.

Shay, Opt. P. Eiche R. Eberle Goals James, Miller, Troutman, Referee Professor Denman. Umpires professor Russell! Pottsville; E.

Scull, Reading. Time Two twenty-minute halves. Heading Will Enter the Central Lesgne. Special to The Inquirer. READING.

April 26. Manager Wit- man's Reading club will enter the Central League. "I have just returned from Sha- mokln," said Mr. Witman, "but owing to the parties conferring not being able to come to any satisfactory determination, the deal for a State League club in Read ing was declared, off. Reading will enter the Central League.

I promised the cranks that I would place a League team in Reading this season and I have done so. A meeting of the Central League will be held here on April 30, when Reading wUl be admitted." Of the above group Bristol is dead, he having Most men called have read a great deal about the case, and have formed such strong opinions against Hlldreth as to disqualify them. From talk at present it would not be at all surprising if a verdict was found of guilty. Hildreth is confident of acquittal and keeps up his courage wonderfully. His father is expected to be present at the trial this week.

LAWYER BULLOCK HERE He Comes From Indianapolis at Murderer Holme' Request. Lawyer of Indianapolis, who, with Coroner Caster, had been sent for by Holmes, arrived in the city last night. He said: "I was asked by Holmes some months ago to look up certain evidence for him and I have investigated certain matters in relation to Holmes movements. I have traced out the places where he was in t. Louis, Indianapolis and Chicago, and also the movements of Howard Pitezel." Mr.

Bullock would not give an opinion as to whether this evidence showed Holmes to be guilty or innocent. Nor would he say what he and Coroner Caster proposed to do. "You can depend on it, though," he said, "we will do nothing rash." Coroner Caster is. expected h-ere today. Then it Is thought that Lawyer Rotan will, show his hand.

It is as yet a mystery, what Holmes expects to accomplish. Nearly Choked by a Coin. By swallowing a souvenir coin nearly as large as a quarter-dollar, 3-year-old Merioti V. Little, of 1308 Clementine street, yesterday came near choking to death. His father hurried him over to the Samaritan Hospital, where Dr.

Coluum managed to dislodge the. token. A few minutes before the doctor was called on to remove a large button which Willie Gardner, 3 years old, had pushed' into one of his nostrils. Accused of Petty Thefts. Robert Dowdy, a young man.

of 9-10 South Twenty-third street, who is charged with committing a number of petty robberies downtown, was held un-i CkiU Kail Vv 1finrItratA Wnrierann yesterday. His method, it is alleged, was to get the keys of unoccupied houses and steal the gas fixtures and other movable articles. He was arrested on Saturday while rying to dispose of some of the stolen property. A spring of health and pleasure bubbles from HIRES Rootbeer. Make it yourself at home.

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