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1 I ARRAHGIHG For Special Term of Court In Clay County. JUDGE BROWN IN FRANKFORT ASD XAT BS APPOINTED TO TBT THE CASES." SECRECY IS MAINTAINED. Governor Said To Bat Offered Ho ward Tor Arrtst of Tom Ba- ker's i C' KB8. BASES SERIOUSLY ZX.L. Frankfort.

Juno Gov. Bradley spent a busy day In ar ranging detail matters la regard to the specjal term to try the member ot the Baker faction under Indictment In Clay county foe murder. Judge Eversole tated a hi reason for vacating the bench that he wai related to the mem ber of one of the factions. Ills action seem to have set at rent further proba bility of an extra session of the Legis lature. Judge Brown, of London.

-Lau rel County, spent; the day in close con ference with Gov. Bradley, and he 1 being tipped a the special Judge. Judge Brown. It will be remembered, was appointed as Circuit Judge to succeed the tat Judge Clarke, and Is thoroughly familiar with the mountain faction and acquainted with the member of the feudal parties. Gov.

Bradley la said to have offered a reward for the arrest and conviction of the unknown slayer of Tom Baker. The reward was not mad public at the executive office. The details for the trial ar said to have been completed, but Gov. Bradley la maintaining secrecy about the mat ters In order that the members of the faction may not know what step ar to be taken by the authorities. QUIET AT XAXCHESTEB.

Citizens Fear ore Trouble and Fam ilies Ar Still Leaving. Corbln, Ky June 20. A courier from Manchester to-day reports everything "quiet." That Is to say. no one baa besn murdered there lately. No one scarcely Is to be seen In the town, and a deatn- like stlllne overhangs the neighbor hood for miles around citizens ttut tfr their lives.

-Xa going through Clay county alec the recent killings there you never meet a person unless It be some family trying to get away unnoticed and unmolested. Tou will perhaps meet a lonely mall carrier, horseback, but so afraid Is he of giving Information, by which will Incur the displeasure of the Here feud ists, he win not a much as say. Hood morning' to you. although he may ba an old acquaintance. Tou will, la passing houses oa the roadside, perhaps, notice in moving or a closely drawn window curtain or see the shaking of th uvrvr- bruah-and may rest assured from 11 that Km on Is peering from jebin I to discover whether you are friend or foe.

These are about all the signs of human life you will discover unfit ju reach Manchester. At that place, duiitur, the day. the streets are almost Jewrted. Tour name and business, however. be ascertained before you have liaclly entered I be town.

A suspicious s.Hlrtss pervades the very atmosphere. JOH2T O. WHTTTS LETTER. Capt. George Bryan Baa Something To Bay About Baker's Death.

Lexington. June SO. Special. Regarding the letter of John d. White, of Winchester.

Intimating that the hot which killed Tom Baker was fired by some on la the guard tent. Capt. Oeorge Bryan aald: i I was in my tent just beyond the hospital tent from the guard teat. I heard the shot distinctly and the bullet a It passed through my tent, after going through the hospital tent. 1 called to my men to fall in.

and just a were ready to charge en- White' house, from where the smoke of the gun had been seen. 1 accidentally discharged my revolver wall attempting to half-cock It, This was probably three minute after the shot which killed Baker waa fired, and It was not until Baker had beea dragged from the guard tent into the hospital tent. The soldiers smile at Mr. White road contradiction. KBS.

TOM TMirrTR XXL. She Baa Nervous Prostration and Physician Say She Will Die. London. Ky, June 80. Mr.

Tom Baker la at the point or death with nervous prostration, result lag frost tb nock caused by the murder of her husband at Manchester. The physicians have given her op. Cap. Joseph Garrard, son of Qea. Garrard, will be her on his way to Manchester from tho United 8tate army this afternoon.

The Garrard are Baker follower The Garrard house la surrounded by armed guard. Judge vrola Goes To Hyden. London. Jua ia Judge H. Kversol la back from Frankfort.

II baa gone to bis court at Hydro. Leslie to-day. He went through Clay couaty by way of Gea. Garrard's. It to believed he mad arrangements with Gov.

Bradley to hold a special session of court at Manchester with a special Judge from a distance at an early date. WHITECAPPERS TO HANG. Gov. XeXlllla Be fuses To Disturb the Sentence ot the Court. Nashville.

June 20t Special. Gov. McUUIln will not interfere la the case of "Plea Wynne and Cattett Tipton, the Sevier county whltecappers, who ar sentenced to be banged at Seviervllle July 6, for the murder of William and Laura Whaley. Efforts have been made to secure a commutation to life Imprisonment. When asked what he Intended to do about the matter.

Gov. alcklillln to-day said; I answer this question with less re-' luctance because it is well for the condemned men themselves to know whether they are to hope for life or have visited upon them the penalty of sentence to life Imprisonment. The preparations accordingly. I have examined into their cases and am not able to see that It would be doing Justice to the enforcement of the law to interfere. I shall, therefore, be constrained to let the law take its course, however glad I might be personally to be able to spar their lives.

I respited them heretofore to enable- the 8tate to have the heneflt of their testimony on a new trial of Robert Catlett. he being charged with being a party to the murder, and there having beea a mis trial. The condemned men were wit nesses and the Attorney-General and counsel aiding him. advised they be respited, because they desired their testimony. Whilst I.

respited them for this purpose. I did not then and da not now contemplate changing their the law. They can thereby make their law must take It course. NOV AT CHATTANOOGA. Baltimore Syndicate May Buy TJp the Trolley There, As at Nashville.

Chattanooga. June JO. Col. C. Howell.

of the KnoxvlBe; Traction Company, and Southern representative of Frank S. Hambletori A CoVthe street railroad magnates, of Baltimore. Is in the dry to meet Hambleten and associates, who arrived this afternoon. The syndicate will close a deal for the purchase of the Chattanooga Electric Street 'Railway system. The purchase price is not known, but is upward of $100,000.

The system baa Just secured a Government contract to deliver suburban mails. It I understood that there Is a possibility of the syndicate securing the Chattanooga rapid transit system and the two mountain incline. LOCK IS ASKED TO PROTECT MISSISSIPPI AT BAT0T7 LA Louisiana Delegation Appears Before the Commission at Hew Tork. ICHXIOH KXEDLESSLT SPEST. New York.

June 10. The Mississippi River Commission held Its second meeting to-day in the Army building. serskm was executive and may extend over Into, to-morrow. The object of the meeting now being held I to get all the special and other report ot the dif ferent member and engineers of the commission together and to prepare tbem tort the annual report embodying the work and recommendation of the year for the Secretary of War. The president of the commission.

Col. G. 8. Gillespie, presided at the meeting. The other members of the commission present were Lieut.

Cot A. Stlefcney. MaJ. D. M.

Harrod. J. R. Taylor. MaJ.

T- H. Handbury. H. L. Marnigtn, J.

A. Ockerson and the secretary. Capt. M. M.

Patrick. There were also present Capt. XI E. Wlnslow. engineer of the Brst and second section ot the river front Cairo to White river; Capt.

W. Newcomer. engineer of the third section from White river to Vicksburg. and MaJ. Oeorg McS.

Derby, engineer of the fourth sec tion, from Vicksburg to New Orleans. Many reports on the condition ot the work along the river were made, ana those making them had numerous rec ommendations to oner. The embooi- roent of these into the general report will be made a soon a possible and forwarded to the War Secretary. A delegation of prominent Loulslanlan appeared before the commission to re-attest it to recommend that needed and urgent improvements be made along the beak of the Mississippi river without delay. The following composed the delegation: Nolan 9.

WLIiama. president of the Atchafalaya Levee Board; Sidney F. Ltw.a president of the Louis iana state Board ot Engineers: Arsen PerUlat. president of Bayou La Fourche Levee Board, and Victor liayrtn. a member of the State Board of Engineers.

Messrs. Lewis and Peril Iat addressed the committee and clearly represented the condition of the levee along the river in the vicinity of New Orleans aad Bayou La Fourche and expressed strongly the need for Immediate remedial action. The serious condition of affair at the junction ot Bayou La Fourche and the Mississippi river, about eighty mile above New Orleans, was also discussed before the eommtssioa by the Louisiana delegation, who stated that the frequent Hood along Bayou LaJTourche greatly damaged property and endangered life for a considerable distance along Ita length. These flood ar caused by the breaking and Improper strengthening of the levee along the bayou. The necessity of these levee could be obviated it the lock at the Junction of the bayou and the rtver.

the building of which baa beea projected since 188. should be erected. This lock could be built at a cost of about .454.000 and already U.100,-000 has been expended In tbe construc tion of levee on Bayou. La Fourche. This money has been quit needlessly expended." said MaJ.

Harrod, a member of tbe commission, "and if the lock had been built In 1S8 this money could have been expended In Improvements oa the main stream." The members of the Louisiana delegation are hopeful ot a favorable recommendation ot tbe rtver commission. Death ef Mrs. George mtehaU. Beaver Dana, June J. (Special.

Mrs. George Mitchell died this morning after a lingering lllaesa of consumption. She waa tbe wife of Dr. George Mitchell, on of the oldest end most prominent physician in Ohio county. She was a life-long Methodist aad a consistent Christian.

The funeral services will take place at the Beaver Dam Seminary to-morrow morning, conducted by the Rev. Silaa Newton, of Hartford." IH.I...I in Killed By a Switch Engine, Alexandria. June 20. (Special. Peter Swift, a laborer, waa struck and Instantly killed by a switch eagln on the Panhandle railroad at El wood, a few mile west of hers, to-day.

Swift waa walking on the track, aad. teeing a passenger train coming, stepped over to another track to. avoid it. only to be cut to piece by the switch engine. Swift was twenty-two years old and un married.

Pound Dead In a Stable. Lexington, Ky, June 20, William Hayden. aged fifty-five, waa found dead at Sexton's livery stable this morning. He was unmarried and resided la Nlch oiasvule. Elected Director ef Kuala, Paducah.

June 20. Miss Alio Sachs, cf Louisville, waa last alght re elected director of music la the Paducah PUDI1C KCOOU. Nw Tork 'V Thr Dally Tralna. B. and a 8.

W. Koyal Bin Bout. Break your New York- trip. Stop at Mountain Laka or Deer Park fora dar or wo; win in nearr or aiiegnany moun talaa Ail fast train atop; -a, extra charge. i THE COUMEK-JOUKNAL.

LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUKE 21: 1893. EASY VICTORY i I Following the IlardFight-: Ins of Monday. INSURGENTS HAD RETREATED. WBXAT02 TOOK DAS KAKTTTAS Y--' WTTHOtTT jrUJmLEJ LOSS.

OTIS PRAISES HIS BRIGADIER. June t. nw Brig. Gen. Wheaton to-day resumed tbe-ettack on Peres da, Marina and took it without opposition except on the part of mall bodies of rebels, who- inflicted no' losses upon tbe The town' Is an unimportant place, surrounded by swamps, and Gen.

Wheaton, will probably rttuf-n- to Imua. The latest list of the casualties' hs yesterday' figh ting show that five were killed and twenty-three wounded. The list Includes uo officers. The wounded were brought to Manila from Bacoor In rascoes. a.e Kaj.

Gen. Otis Beport. Washington. June ia MaJ. Gen.

Otis forwards the following: Manila. Jua JOt Adjutant General, Wasatngtea. Wheatoa at Imua. Cavtt pro viae, with foar gua. four battalions.

Fourth sad Fourteenth Infantry. Nevada troop cavalry: sent battalion south ea reeoanote-sesce direction ef Da Marinas yesterday morning, where enemy reported eenceo-trating enemy's forces: battalion encountered enemy's force. X.00Q, marching to attack lmui; successful impeding 'its progress. Wheatoa, with two guns aad two battalions, hurried forward; repulsed enemy with heavy loss; enemy leaving over fcs dead ea the neid; eur lose flv killed. twenty-three wounded.

Wheaton re-en- torc4 last fht by battalion Ninth ta faatry; ia driving enemy beyond Das Marinas now in his Casualties today not reported. Wheaton' qualities for hold aad successful attack unsurpaa. Twenty-fourth Beady To Sail. San Francisco. June 20.

Four transports will sail for Manila within a week and fifth will soon leave. The steam er Zealandla is now scheduled to sa on Thursday. The Sheridan aad Penn sytvaaia will depart together Saturday aad tbe Valencia will follow on Sunday. The Wyefield. carrying only freight.

win depart early next week. The Zealandla wtn take- part ef the Twenty-fourth Infantry and tbe Va lencia will take the remainder. The troop that have been assigned to the Sheridan aad Pennsylvania will arrive late ha tbe week. WORK BEFORE CONGRESS. Bepre ntatlve Dolivar Bllva the Present Gold Standard Will Be legalised.

I.e.- Nash vine. June 10. (SpeciaLI Representative Dollrrer. of Iowa, was here to-day to deliver the annual address at the commencement exercise at Vanderbilt Vnrversity. He was asked this question: "What important legislation do yon look for at the coming session of COo-grt To which he responded: "ConseTTattve reformation of the currency system.

Involving, among ether things, the legal establishment ef the gold standard, which baa existed in this country for many years, and the relief of the Treasury against the embarrassment arising out of the repeated redemption of the outstanding Treasury note, with probably new provisions of law looking toward the popularisation of the national banking system. "What about the trusts There will undoubtedly be a very lively agitation la both parties agatna the aew forms of business combination a few years ago described a trusts, but now organised a plain ewrporattons with enormous capital. Whether this agitation will be come effective in the restrict io of the corporation depends somewhat on the question ef Federal Jurisdiction over State corporation. My own impression la, that no mono ply which does not give the pubUe the advantage ot cheap goods can survive very long In the present state of American business, and that most ef the watered stock corporations which ar alarming the public to-day will be tn the hand of a receiver before the politicians get tbem suppressed." SELF-DEFENSE1 NOT PROVED. Wealthy Xtmphia Kan Convict! of the Murder ef a ZTefra Woman.

Memphis, Ten. June 20. Aa unexpected verdict was rendered to-day, when a white man of wealth and social Influence waa convicted by a jury ta Judge Cooper's court of murder for the killing ef a segresa. Oreeaberry Red ditt. a wealthy farmer of this county, shot Maggie Hobbe, a aegrea.

The defense claimed that the woman waa advancing oa Reddltt with a brick la ner band, and the latter, believing that hi life waa la danger, fired the fatal shot. The jury, which was composed' entirely of white citlxen. returned a verdict of guilty of murder the second degree, aad Redditt waa gtvsa tea year ia the penitentiary. The ease was vigorously prosecuted by Attorney General M. R.

Patterson, who made a strong plea for Justice, regard of race prejudice. MRS, J. H. RICHART DEAD. She Beared the Late Gov.

Claude Mat--. thews, of Indiana. Owlngsville, June 10. (Special. Mrs.

3 IV Ricbart died of a compli cation -of. disease at I o'clock thht morning. She waa seventy-sin year Old. and had been a member of the Christian church for sixty-three year. She reared ex-Oov.

Claud Matthew. of Indiana. She had been a constant reader of the Daily Courier and Daily Courier-Journal for sixty-seven years. John W. Nuckols Dead, Versailles, June 20, (Special 1 John Wasaon Nuckol.

aged twenty-seven, formerly of this city, died last night at Chicago, IU-. after an Ulnesa of two. Kuckolf went to Chicago about three year ago, aad was connected with a publishing house In that city. He wss a son of 8. Nuckol.

of this cltv. and was universally His body will be brought to Lexington for interment. DOCTOR OF CIVIL LAWS. The Degree Conferred Upon President McKlnley By Mount Solyoke College. South June FresU dent McKlnley participated in the commencement exercises st Mount Holyoker College to-day.

awarding the diplomas to the senior class, among whom was Ills niece. Miss Grace McKlnley. and accepting in a brief address tbe degree of Doctor of Civil laws, conferred upon, him by the, THREE TOWNS FLOODED. CXOTJDBTJBST EXPEHI-- E2TCZD XV H0BTHEBU Only Cn Fatality, But Many Narrow Escapes -Property Loss Eati- mated at Mansfield, June to. A storm, of, unusual severity occurred her last night aad extended to other points in Ohio, notably Shelby on the northwest and Loudonvllle on the southeast.

Her the storm lasted from o'clock until after midnight and was accompanied with active thunder aad lightning and with heavy rain and halL A ember of house In the lower part of the city were moved from foundations and dwellings and places of business were under water several feet deep. The-street car power-hous was flooded so that ears could not run after p. m. Traffle on ail railroads was suspended until 4 a. m.

Washout occurred on the Baltimore aad Ohio railroad. All factories tn the lower part of the cfty were flooded and unable to run to-day. No one waa drowned, but there, were many narrow escape. Two hundred people at the Casion were surround ed by 1 the flood. Many waded out.

but fc others were Compelled to remain ail night in dark news. The. total dam 3 done fa. the city Is estimated at and may be more, At Shelby the riser tn the little stream runmg through the town waa so rapid that citisens were aroused at a. m.

by the fir alarm'' and by -ringing of church bella' All cellar were flooded and the principal streets became running st ream a The post-ooica could aot be reached early in the day and business wa at a standstill. A new bridge waa wholly submerged- The damage to it can not be ascertained Until the water Baltimore, and Ohio railroad suffered from washouts. Loudonvllle the storm seems it have gathered strength, and there wae decided cloudburst. Horsetail creek soon broke ever its banks with such: force that the first house it struck, that of Isaac Hunter, waa swept from, its" foundations and completely destroyed. Hunter I missing' aad may be drowned.

Bridge and roadway 4 hava been broken or destroyed. en- -I tailing a lose-of ilOO.000, Tbe dan-. to crops. tae -Uvs---atack reach- pernaps more. vmvt.

1 barns were struck by lightning, wau was unuauaUy aad brUUanL. wTTT WTt JSEAB COLTJMBTTS. Wind Beached High Telocity, But Did So Serious Damage. Columbus, Ok. Jua SO.

A severs atotwi passed ever Cotumbua thia eveniag. To wind reached high vetocity. but nto serious damage- is reported. Jacob Huffman, a farmer residing several miles southwest of tbe was killed by lightatng. He waa taking A lead ot hay eat of a field.

The horse were killed abto, aad the hay fired, Hoffman's body was badly burned. A severe Mora also passed south of this city, but no reports ef serious dam-sge from have been received. A FORTUNE INVOLVED. WSAX-MZSDSD MAX ABDUCTED TBOX HT3 TATEZJL j1 An Aunt Tn Whonx HI Money Be-Trts 1 Accused of the Crime, Detroit, Micsk, June 20. Moses Fowlar Cbass, aged twenty-one.

was. abducted from the Hotel Cadillac last night. Chase, who said to be me at ally th-competent. bad beea a patient at a san-ttartum In Flint and waa rout to hi home in Inl accompanied by hi father, Frederick Chase, a lawyer. When tbe father and son arrived here tbe young man's aunt met them at tbs depot and hurried tbe youth to the Cadillac.

The. father-was unsuspicious. Sunday night a carriage drove up to the- hotel and young Chase waa taken to tbw Cleveland- boat, which, in the company of hi aunt aad two unknown land the party took a train for Clnctn-'i natt Froa there they went east to Albany. K. where the private detective that, the father had employed to watch them lost alght of the party.

Cxtredi-c ttoa paper were' to-day made out ia an-ttctpatton of the- party'a arrest by the Mew. Tork authorities. Tbe fortune that the young man poe tesses is revet tlbi to tbe aunt upon death, which it is alleged furoisbe the motive for tbe supposed abduction. Ths ponce of Now Tork, Boston. Portland and Montreal have been notified to be on the.

watch for tbe party. Tbe father and his-attorney believe tbe object of tbe alleged abductors la to take the young man out-of ths country. It la said that upon yOung Chase attaining: bis majority ths tatner'a guardianship ceased, and that the father waa taking him to La Fayette for the purpose of becoming bis guardian by the- order of tbe Probate Omrt. FU From; An Georgetown, KyC Jun 10. Special.

While at work oa Wolf A Stoae'a new steel this Robert Bates, who waa engaged In holding rivets at the top of the elevator, tell from the scaffold, a distance of thlrty-flvs feet, to the steel floor below. He struck oa bis feet, and received probably, fatal injuries, both legs being broken at the ankle. Wall Dlffgexe ITatally Mart. Chattanooga. 20.

rtn. claLJ John Black and George Wade were fatally Injured while digging a wU at Cleveland, Tenn. Heavy blasting had loosened a laree ston. whirh fell about twenty-five feet, striking both men, who working la the well. 1 ouiu avrruiy mangieo- SEGOSD Man Rccommendeii For Bank Examiner.

TWO OF THEM MAY BE NAMED. BUBAL FKXZ DELTVEBT TO; BX TESTED tSC TTEHTUCST. 1 S0UCIT0R THOMAS' CASE! Washington, June 30. Special. Controller ef the Currency Pawes.

who Is now traveling in the" West, ha wired the department that he will re turn to Washington on Monday. It ta expected that Mr. Dawes will tajke up the vacant Kentucky bank exanV Inershlp without delay. He has been urged to appoint two bank exajnln- era for tbe State, and it Is understood the matter ia now under Senator Deboe has there-fora recommended Lewis Ryans. of Louisville, in addition to R.

D. Garrett, of Princeton. Telegrams were received at the Controller's office today from several applicants, inquiring- as to the time of Mr. Dawes return. '-i It Is announced at the Post-office Department that rural free delivery service win probably bp.

tried in as many as a dosen different localities in Kentucky. The department find Itself enabled to do this on account of tbe increased appropriation made at the last session of Congress. It Is practically certain that the Jefferson county route proposed by Postmaster Baker, of Louisville, wllll be favorably indorsed by the department. The papers In the ease "were, placed In the hands of a. post-office agent, but he has not had time, to fully go over the ground.

The department desire to confine the service to section of the. country where daily twenty-mile routes" will Include population upward of L200. The Post to-day prints, the following Interview, with ex-Congressman Kow-ard. of Alabama: -I think that Bryan's nominatioa Is a foregone' conclusion, but regard his defeat a Ha win get the electoral vote of the South, and that ta all he will be able to get. The Populists are net going to fuse, with the Democrats, as they did in 1890.

unless the Democrats concede them the Vice Presidency, which they are net apt to- do. There 1 a strong element In the Populist party -that believes In making a stralgbtout fight, aad la opposed, to- aay sort of combination. While I was for Bryan and Watson in 189S. I do not think that Bryan has done- anything of late to tiangthen himself, but, on the contrary, believe that he has lost much prestige he n- Joyed tn the former Presidential earn. pe paign.

Sf5a official-in the Treasury Depart meat and Attorney. Generate office have nothing te aay eoncerning the ease of Solicitor- of Iateraal Revenue Thomas. It Is undestood that ao further action will be taken at this time, and In the course of two or three month, when the matter cools off. the Solicitor wilt tender hi resignation. 'Reports received her from Louisville are to the effect that the rep-reeeatatrrea af the CitU Service Com-mhurtot in.

that city-, are making as good progress aa could be expected. The agents 'are aald to hava gone Nashville, hat wiU return ta Louisville and renew their Investiga. tloa on Tuesday. H. ef London, has suo ceesfuHy' passed the 'census examination, and upon recommendation.

of Rep-reeeatatlve- Boreing will be given a position this 1 I Lieut. Henry watteraoa, Jr of Lou isville, has been ordered to Join his regiment at Mataasas. Cuba. He win report to the commanding General of the Department of the East, Governor's Island, New Torkven route, -t A post-ofnoe waa to-day established at Alice, Xetcher. county- George Stamper was appointed; postmaster.

Miss Frances Gibson. daughter -of 'Representative aad Gibson, -of Tennessee, and Dr. "Walter A. Wells, ot this city, wor married at 'Ascension church last night, A TB2I iJTSOXVEST BAJTK3L Their 'Affair Will Closed Tn WltMn. the Present Tear, Washington, June ta The affairs af the insolvent national, banks of Kentucky will be closed, within the present year.

This Information wss given out to-day by Chief, Clerk Lynch, ef the Controller ef the Currency' oflo. Mr. Lynch states that the German National Bank, of LoalsvtHe, Is In the hands of Reostvee Courtney, and that he resorts the total asssta of that bank to be $320,000. of which 1374.000 Is considered doubtful or worthless. He says the dividends paid amours to ttftft.04C.92.

The liabilities of ths bank are M70.3e7.4t. of which fcTTOtOiM havs been proved. There are a great many- eU'm ia litigation. George K. WUsUa is receiver of the MK KX 000 "IVc had GRAPE-NUTS A 4r to breakfast aad neves before did I know what eV.

a charming flavor grape 1 sugar haa A CHaXnrHO, CBZSP A WD DELI-CJOTJS JTOVEXTT. Tfio, famoun novelty -in foods, Grape KutsPis pr-di gested and turnishe the human 'body, in a condensed form, the nourishment needed- to supply the waste ot the dairy exertion. Food experts assert that there Is aa rrucb nutrtment in pound ot Grape-Nuts aa In 10 of meat. 1 bis pleasing delicacy is sold by Oret-clasa grocers. Made by Postum Cereal, Llnx.

Battle Creek, luica, First National Bank; of Newport. Ky and reports the assets of that bank to be of which KXO.OOO are doubt ful or worthless. He aays that creditors of this bank have received about 7a per cent, in dividends. Mr. Lynch says the work of terminating these trusts is being pushed to the limit end that he is doing ail in his power to have an early settlement, VV.

M. HICKS ARRESTED. Believed To Be the Kan Wanted Da Ian cock County On Serious Charges. New Haven, Ky. June 20.

tSpeciaLj Marshal Daugherty arrested a man to-day calling himself the Rev. Wf VL Hicks, a Baptist minister, who has been in the vicinity for tbe past week collecting money for the Baptist Widows' and Orphans' Home of Louisville. He la accused of collecting the money without authority from that in-' 'titutlon. He answers the description the man wanted at Hawes villa for anr assault mad on two girls about two ruu I.VI4WW-SU ajr sa u-ru-aa, SAYS HODGSON DID SAY IT. DESPITE HTS TO JffAVX DEPARTMENT.

THE Lieut. Commander Eellner Tells of the Schley Story As Hodgson Bepeated It- Washington. June 20. Following the statement of Lieut. Commander Hodgson, respecting the events occurred on the bridge of the Brooklyn July the Navy Department to-day made public the following report from Capt.

Chad-wick of his examination of Lieut. Commander Hellner: United States Steamer New Tork, Boston, June t. 1899. Sir: In obedience to ths orders of the Secretary of the Navy I hava the honor to make the following report of an examination of Lieu. Cemmanasr Hellner, with, respect to his knowledge ot a conversation reported to have occurred between Rear Admiral Schley and Lieut.

Commander Hodgson, reporting tbe action of July I. lSo. Lieut. Commander Hellner states aa follows: "At on of the early sessions of the board on. ship's position during the ac tion of July I I strongly expressed my I eouDt ss to tns ssroosiya a position De-fore making ths loop aa laid down by w.Mr.

Mr. Comly aad Mr. Schueta, I know sided with bos. Mr. Hodgson oa tnis particular occasion walked up and down tbe port aide of the cabin of ths Brooklyn, where ths board waa sitting, it.

Is my impression Mr. Hodsson claimed ths Brooklyn was 1.N yards from the leading Spanish ship whsa tbs tura was made, a n. board. I think, nut It later at Lu varda. Mr.

Hodgson told me that hs felt certain they were cloaer than 1.4u yards, and that their etadlmeter gave Of yards. He said: "Ws were so closs that Schley gave ths order. 'Hard a-port. 1 said to him. 'You aaeea starooaro, as you notr xn com mod ore 'No, 1 mean port; we are sloes eaoucrh to them now." Mr.

Hods-Boa taea said be called atten tion to tbs position ot ths Texas, and told the Con mot) or thought there waa dan- 5er of running her down. Ths Com moor replied: "Dimn the Texas: let her look out for herself. This conversation was repeated to ma on several occasions. "Everytnina? I aay now waa contained ia Mr. Hodgson' statement.

The words say havs been a little different. He may have said. 'Don't you mean starboard. Com mod or Instead of the first phrase-. elosy.

certainly said, are near enough to them now, and also 'Dunn the Texas; let ner iooa out tor nerseiz. Hs rsoeaaed this conversation to ms at least three times during ths session ot the board, sscataas every time a discussion arose I recurred te the position given by him. which I did not think correct. 1 laced no dependence on any observation by stadinwter or sextant during- gunfire. My experience was that during the aot ion I could not get a single observation by the scadimeter on which I could place any confidence, though I was using two stadi- aaeters.

and had a man in the oonnine tower with cleaning material, wbose only duty was to try to keep ths glaares dean. With the utmost care tout coma not dons. I tried keeping the etadlmeter under my coat, but it waa of no use. I men. Don tni as a reason tor me ouuui wmwu brought up the Uisossin.

The report as published waa practically the (conversation as reported to me. UtuL cvmaaoaw nuntr appsnas ma signature as an attestation of the cor- ttasss of tbe roregoing a nerewiia given. Very respectfully. C. HEILNER.

Lieut. Commander U. S. N. Ta -the- Commsnder-Ia-Chtef.

Enemies of Admiral Schley have used Lieut. Commander Hodgson's statement as proving that Schley waa guilty cowardice. Schley called on Hodgson fur an explanation and Hodgson, in a larsonat letter of friendly tone, denied having said any such conversation reoorted has occurred, but in an official statement published this morning denies be was correctly quoted, put says toe substance of tbe Interview was correct. Hodgson's Statement Bulled. Washington.

June 20. The Navy De partment to-day gave out. tbe following correction capt Chadwicks anent the Hodgson statement The typewritten copy of statement of Capt. Cbadwtck and Lieut. Commander Hodgson, given, to th press yesterday.

was in error tn the following points: About one-third from, the beginning. where published statement read: "I tn tended him to understand there was danger of running into- the Texas. He said 'AH or word to that sffact. I cannot repeat verbatim it should have "I Intended him. to understand there waa danger- ef running Into the Texas.

He said AU th Texas must look out for that. or words to that effects I cannot repeat verbatim, -V "History Telia th Best. Bait I mors, Mdu. June 8a Rear Admiral Schley, who ia visiting Gea. Felix! Agnus at the home of th latter, near this city, declined to comment upon or discuss in any manner tbe statement of Lieut.

Hodgson, or of Lieut. Commander Hellt- ner. Gen, Agnus said: "Admiral Schley ba nothing to say. This la merely a dispute between Junior officers. History tell the rest." EXPLOSION AT FORT PICKENS.

One Xan Killed and Fur Injured and. a Property Loss pensacoUv June 20. A small magasine at Fort Pickena exploded at 1:45. o'clock tbi morning from aa un known cause. The tort I garrisoned by Battery- H.

Sixth artillery. Private Wells was killed, and four men badly Injured, one having an arm and leg broken. Tbe larger magasine, in which was stored a great quantity of dynamite and other explosive, waa In danger, but It and th fort were saved by tbe brave work of Capt. Nieumann and tbe marines from tbe navy yard. One corner of the old fort storehouse nd several buildings used as quarter by the laborers while at work on the new fortifications were demolished.

It ta beltewed tbe toes will reach I7S.0OO. The aew brtcfc storehouse and Ordnance. Sergeant' house were also destroyed. MOVING ODT. Standard Oil Will Leare Company Ohio.

TO LOCATE IN 0 RK STa LOTUS STREET BAXXWATS TO CONSOLIDATE EOOJT. WAGES CF ALABAMA MINERS. June 20. The Standard Otl Company la preparing to get out of Ohio. Ita headquarters will be removed from this- city to New Tork.

and the ut 0f July Us Ohio char- Ver will be given up. The office force Here win be reduced from about sixty ym to less than one-tenth of that nt-tmbar. The recent incorporation of the company in New Jersey, with a of $110,000,000. waa the-first step in tht -abandonment of Ohio. An officer of the company to-day confirmed the reptUt the removal of the efSoea, and said tbat Cleveland would hereafter be onty a branch office like those maintained''.

In several cities. It wss su.vtested that the action of the company41 wa prompted by a desire to avoid Iitlgatfoa aach aa was instituted by Attorney General Monnett, but tw effieer who gave the Information den that such was the case. Virgil P. Vllne, the attorney of the company, also 'sudd there was no desire to escape litlg Xion, and he scouted the Idea that Attorney General Monnett 'had driven the company from the State. COAL MTCTEB3.

WAGES. All Questions of Differ Vice Sel Vleld. e-' Settled In 'Walker County Birmingham. June The do mestic and steam coal neki of 'Walker county has arranged all wagi questions for th ensuing commencing July when present miners' wage iaraos expire. The.

Corona Coal axt Coke Company, the leading "Walker oocurty producers, have made a contract with their men by which the men wl.V get seventy-seven aad one-half cents 'rotn July to April 1 next year and evvity cents to the end of the contract yiatr. Tbe present price is seventy seven a-ld one-half cents. The Horse Creek CoV Company has granted sn advance of) five cents a ton effective July 1 and the I Virginia and Alabama Coal Company will do about tbe same. On July 1 the whole Walker county field will get an average advance of 12H per cent, and will start the new contract year without a riffle. The Walker field is doing a fine business on the Mississippi river.

35.00 tons having gone-down the river already. Tbe Alabama division United Mine Workers of America, representing all Alabama miners except those In ths Walker county field. Is still in Ion, having not yet formulated a scale of wage for next year. The Scale Committee still has that matter In charge. It la authoritatively stated by those on the inside that the sliding scale based.

on iron will be adhered to and" an ad-. vanes in the minimum pnoe will be asked. Bought a Famous Hani. New Tork. June 20.

W. A. Boland, the New Tork banker; has bought th famous herd of shorthorn cattle owned by Aaron' Barber, of Avon, N. aad will, within the next three weeks, have them shipped to his stock farm at Grass Lake, Mich. The herd which be baa bought is fifteen in nftmber and includes the famous champion cow Mary Abbottsbury VII, which baa ta-t ken Innumerable first prises a the Western State fairs; the yearling heifer Lady Sharon IV, the heifer calf Mary Marshall, the two-year-old heifer Lady Sharon 111.

and the bull Sharon Marshall. Bank Organised at Jamestown. Columbia. June 20. Special.

The following gentlemen formed a joint stock company at Jamestown Monday for tbe purpose of. doing a banking business in Jamestown: Henry Aaron. President i W. A. Stone, cashier; John Crisp, Slracoe Dockery, J.

B. Patterson, W. S. Knight. Judge Jas.

Garnett, Judge WV W. Jones and R. F. Paul, directors. The capital stock is 15.eoo.

and business Is to commence July 17. AMERICAN JEWS Raising Funds For Testimonials To Dreyfus, Emll Zola and CoL PlcqnazV Chicago, June 20. Chicago Jews and people of the Jewish nationality hx aU the large cities of are contributing funds for tbe purchase of suitable testimonials to be presented to Capt. Dreyfus, Emlle Zola and CoL Ptcquart. It is planned to honor Dry fus with a diamond-set and richly engraved sword.

To, hi stalwart de-tender, Emil Zola, whose defense of the army officer led to his sails from hi native country, will be given a solid gold pen. neatly engraved. To Col. Pie-quart, stanch friend to Dreyfus, will be presented a golQ loving cup, with richly engraved lascrlption. Already hundreds of dollars havs beea donated, and it is thought the fund will reach into the thousands, i-.

COLLEGIATE EDUCATION Got. Boosevelt 'Takes Issue With. Wealthy hfen Who Decry Its Valuav Ithaca. N. June 20.

Gov. Roosevelt to-day- attended tbe class-day exercise of the. class of '9 ia Cornell armory. Tbe students received him, with cheers. In his address to th graduates the Governor referred to statement recently made by several mea who bad amassed great fortune, to the effect that collegiate education is useless In the wortdr of to-day.

He attacked their position vehemently and Our- country could" better afford to lose- all of the men who have axnaasea million than to lose one-hair oz it college-bred men. We can get along without men of enormous wealth, du not without men of brains." BIG SCHEME ON All the Street Bail roads of St. Louin About Besdy to Consolidate. St. Louis, June 20.

It Is annnounced thatas Gov. Stephens has signed the Stre Railway Bill, the negotiations for a general consoIIdaUon of all tbe street railroads of St, Louis, which have been la praivres for some time, are now practixially completed, and a successful consumunatlon Is only matter bf fw day. The deal Involve nearly 1st all and la the second largeat street milway consolidation scheme ev-er undertaken. Brown bf New Tork. are said to be at the head of the consolidation.

Without the Suburban, which has not i yet come Into the combine, the consolidated company, will have 235 miles of single track, and. Including tbe Su- burban and new track to be construct- ed. they wpuid have nearly 400 mile. forming the most comprehensive y- 1 tern of street railway in the world. Over $5,000,000 will be expended In Im- provement and a much larger number of men will be employed than ever be.

fore. FARMING IS DEPRESSED SATS FBESTDEjrr 07 GEORGIA AGBJCTJXTTJBAI. soctxxt. The Iffegro, He Says, Bstards Development A Merchant's Views of tha Situation. 'Waabington June 20.

The Industrial Commission to-day continued Its in- -vestlgatlon of th agricultural condl-': tlons of th South. Mr. J. Polk Brown. President of the Agricultural Society of Georgia, waa' the first witness.

agreed with Mr. who yesterday, that the condition of agri- culture In the South was mora de- pressed than It had ever been. Mr Brown dwelt on the preseno of th negro as th special causa ef the want of development of th South. Ha 1 regarded him as retarding the lndustri- aL moral, religious, social and agrt- cultural development of the section, and he felt that if they were absent a better class of labor would take their place. The more th negro was paid the less efficient he was as a laborer.

Mr. Brown wanted the race separated from the whites, and colonised either la this country or elsewhere, in the in- tvrest of the Southern 8tate. But the nice 1 non-progressive and Indisposed to adopt new method and new devices. Th great obstacle tn th way of th dealopment of manufacturing Inter est was the want of money. Mr.

i Bros, vi advocated diversified crops, reoon unending that each community should raise sufficient of everything ta i meet It, own vlemanda. At tho afternoon session the committee ItsteAed to a statement by Mr. P. H. Lovejoy.

a merchant and of HawklnsvVUe, Oa. Hs- spoil especially of the- relation ef th local merchants snd the farmer. The merchant tbem- stves had not been prosperous for oral year, They- were- compelled to make the majority of their sale on credit, and hiad to take mortgage upon tbe land of tb farmers if they had any or on their cnips if they had no land. Many of them were not able to giv collateral of any value, and to such msri sales were mads on, large margin of profit. stse a man trp," said.

Tf be Is good sell to ban on a small margin. If Is a hard case we tak what be. baa and ouit.M He said that freight rates from Georgia to New Tortc were about twice wbat they ar team New Tork ta Georgia. The large- cities were evident-; ly being built up at tfte expense of the; country. Kven ta Bratermelott.

crop was unfavorable. We have found that fn hipping' me I- on we pay the freight, he sold. Tbj railroad cut us out of profits In that) DAMAGES. A. Woolbrlght Snss Eleven Kaa Whom Hs Accuses of Whlte- Him.

Bowling. Green. June 20. E. A-WoolbHgfat has brought suit here ton 136.

000- damages against Ex -Wilson. Henry Hollan or Hollins, Bloomer Dial John DlaL Pat Sullivan, Getty Ezell. Quince Grubbs, Wm. Wilson. Wm.

Wilson. Jr, Finn Grubbs and James POO. A few days ago Woolbrigbt was taken tram his plow aad tied to. a. tree and.

severely beaten, as he claims, by these men. He said that he had been warned) to leave the community, and on refu-, ing to do so waa visited by th whitej caps. Woolbrlght cam into town with, a loaded shotgun on. his shoulder, andi said that he waa afraid of being assase slnated by the whttecaps. Still Captured Operator Escaped.

Naahville Jun 20-4 Special. General Deputy Iateruai Revenue- Col lector Bell aad Deputy Collector Stona Went oat to South Tunnel last nigh and captured an Illicit distillery oft sixty-five gallons' capacity. Robert, Mayberry. the owner of the stilt, waa arrested, but escaped while the was back. Homeopaths Sleet, AtlanUa City.

Jfc J. June 20 TN, Amerioan Homeopath to Ear and Throat Society to-day elected officer as fol. lows: President. H. P.

Bellows. Bo. toai Vic Presidents, Dr. Ewan, Bti Pauli Dr. C.

J. Swann. Chicago; D. H. Schwenck.

Brooklyn, and Treaaurer. ii, U. Helf rith, Tork. 1 i Freight Wreck On- L. and 2T.

Hopkimwitl. Ky June 20. Th sec ead section of Louisville snd NaahvlU freight train No, 7 ran. into th section at Dulln Hollow this morning, wrecking the caboose snd derailing- ts cars. Conductor Kay was Injured about th bead, but ba ia not: thought to serloualy hurt.

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