The Watertown News from Watertown, Wisconsin • 2

IP WATERTOWN. WIS. was convicted and fined SSO for carrying a banner for the striking tailors of Boston up an down before their shop. In explanation it may be said that was the name of a negro. Thh Kentucky supreme court has just decided that a contract made by telephone is valid and can be sustained in court.

The same question is in dispute in some other states, but Kentucky is the first to make a judicial decision upon it. A colored exhorterin Florida began to draw an imaginary picture of heaven, but finding that the subject was too much for him, he was suddenly relieved as he thought of a bright idea, and concluded by saying street in heaven is as fine as Bay street in Massachusetts has for some years allowed women to vote school affairs, but the largest number who have registered in any one year is and of these not one-half have ever voted, except last year. These figures might suggest a field for missionary work to the woman suffrage laborers. It is a queer commentary on the superficiality of modern civilization that a duel should be regarded as the necessar outcome of a quarrel over a card table in a fashionable New York club, and that all of the friends consulted by the parties most deeply interested should advise recourse to the barbarous resort of the code. Is our civilization a failure The actors who have been compelled against their will to take part in Sunday night performances, in the large cities and the smaller towns throughout the west, have begun to protest.

A league has been formed with a membership already of over 2,000 actors, designed to make an earnest and effective jirotest against Sunday performances. There is great excitement in Bismarck, D. in relation to reported gold discoveries twenty-three miles north of that city. Nearly 100 claims have already been staked out, and it is stated that specimens of ore stand the test of acids and fire. The reports find general belief, but an expert expresses the opinion that the specimens are mica, feldspar and yellow pyrites in granite, porphyry and quartz.

Comparing the returns of the last twelve or fourteen years, the London Insurance Journal thinks it by no means improbable that at the end of the present century the total premium income of the life insurance offices doing business in England will have reached £23,000,000, and the interest on investments £8,000,000. It expects claims to amount to £16,000,000, the total life insurances in force to 000,000, and the total funds to 000,000. Dom Pedro wants Capt. Eads to come down to Brazil and tell him how to improve the port of Rio Grand du Sul. It would be a great undertaking, because of the length of the estuary and the dangerous bar at its mouth; but a good harbor there would do much to develop the resources of Southern Brazil, and the emperor doubtless is not unaware of the great military advantage it would give him when the long-threatened conflict with the Argentine Republic for Uruguay can no longer be postponed.

The Detroit Free Press says: The Buffalo papers take it greatly to heart that gave the great fire in that city an insignificant mention while a column was given to a Chicago stating that a 15-year-old girl had been masquerading for three years in clothes. The Buffalo papers should not blame the metropolitan journals but the readers of the latter. If they liked fires better than stories they would get them. The successful trial of dynamite shells as projectiles at the Washington navy yard a few days ago sustain the predictions made by Gen. Sheridan about the possibility of improvement in the weapons of war.

Dynamite shells are shown to be capable of demolishing in an instant the largest ship that floats. Who knows but they will be made destructive enough to destroy armies in the same manner, and batter down the walls of fortifications like pasteboard castles? The most destructive weapon of war may thus, in the end, be the means of rendering war impossible. A movement to fight the Mormons in their own way has been started in Massachusetts turning toward Utah a strong tide of thrifty Christian I emigration; and for this jiurpose the Legislature is asked to incorporate the Utah Emigrant Aid and Improve- I ment Company The success of ef- lorts of this sort must, of course, de- pend upon the inducements offered; people do not select homes for sent 5 mental or even religions purposes. But the experiment is at least worth tfying, and if conducted upon business principles may yet help to neutralize the Mormon wretchedness. A remarkable example of the way in which Gen.

Grant was hoaxed by Ward is shown in the means the sharper took to allay the suspicions. Warned to let him alone, Grant announced that he wished to withdraw from the firm and asked for a settlement. Ward agreed at once and handed the general a check for $1,500,000 as his share of the profits. Dazzled by these figures Grant withdrew his withdrawal, returned the check and asked for $25,000. With the greatest difficulty Ward raised that amount for him and the game went on.

A little unpleasantness may grow out of the cession of the Manoa territory by Venezuela to a United States company, if England insists upon considering it a j)art of British Guiana. The county is rich in asphaltum, timber and rubber, and is believed also to contain gold; and the British have ong coveted it, and have long sought to exercise sovereignty over it. The Venezuela claim is, however, that the Aberdeen treaty limited British authority to the banks of the Morveer, which lies to the east of the Manoa territory, and the Venezuelans are declaring with some heat that they will never allow claim. Very few men in history have celebrated their seventieth birthdays under circumstances so thoroughly adapted to assure them that their careers had been successful as those which surrounded Prince Bismarck. When he became conspicuous in German affairs Germany had no political existence, and Prussia was not entitled to a higher place in the list of European states than the fourth.

Now there will be few to deny Germany the first place among continental powers. The consolidation of Germany is recognized everywhere as the achievement of Bismarck, and Bismarck himself is recognized as the chief arbiter of European affairs. The peace of the empire is not threatened from without, and the internal opposition to policy, by reason of a gross tactical blunder on the part of its leaders, has been made to seem of much less account than it is through the hearty and generous contributions throughout the nation to the Bismarck testimonial. The position of Bismarck receiving the homage of the German people is in striking contrast to that of the other old of contemporary politics holding power by precarious tenure against the assaults of an angry and increasing opposition. Coats of Mail Worn by Arabs.

Coats of mail are still in use among some of the Soudanese Arab tribes. Whether original or a copy, says Col. Colbourne, in speaking of one of these coats of armor, it was undoubtedly the dress of the crusaders. The hauberk of mail was fastened round the body by the baltan, and formed a complete covering from head to foot. The long two-headed doubled-edged sword was borne between the leg and the saddle.

The wearer of this mediaeval garb was Sheik Mohammed Sebekh of the Halawin tribe of Bagarra Arabs. His armor has been in his family 310 years. The head was incased in steel, and its body covered with a quilt thick enough to turn a spear. It was shaped like the armor one reads of in Froissart. It has been asserted in connection with this curious subject that the practice survives in the Soudan alone.

It may, therefore, be as well to state that it is also found among the Khevsur people of the central Caucasus, who still habitually wear chain armor, shields, and helmets, like mediaeval knights. In fact, it was formerly general among all the Caucasian tribes, and the Chechenzes of Daghestan still wore coats of mail down to the beginning of the present century. The armor does not appear to have been forged by these people themselves, but was handed down, as among the Soudanese Arabs, as an heirloom from generation to generation in the families of the chiefs. Hence the inference that this armor dates everywhere from the times of the crusades of which it may be regarded as a remarkable reminiscence. The Old Ways and New.

the Philadelphia Now, while it is easy enough to laugh at the bigotry and absurdity of the old-time teaching, there is no doubt that it made tough fibred men and women. The child was not allowed to cry when he was hurt; he was forced to shut his teeth and bear it. The belonged to his father until he was of age; he worked for him so long without wages. Now-a-days it is the old father who works for his sons, and thinks himself fortunate if they can support themselves at 24. The man then was most respected who could best do without indulgences; the man now is held to have succeeded in the aims of life who can surround himself with most luxury.

We have not only found the use of beauty, of art, off music, of amusement and of ease in life, but we have made them its chief end. The creeping softness has changed the face of our religion. It is not the coal-scuttle bonnet, the hard pews, the bare walls that assist us to higher life on Sunday as they did our fathers, but stained glass, luxurious seats, exquisite colors and music. Sensuous gratification helps, not hinders, the growth of our souls. It is, in a word, the humor of this generation to be borne to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

NEWS IN BRIEF Chicago's Mayor. At the election on the 7tli Carter Harrison was re-elected mayor of Chicago. Additional Troops. Additional troops left New York for Aspinwall on the 7th. A dispatch from that place reports nothing new in the situation of affairs.

The Deadly Roller. William Donovan, of Elmira, N. winner of the late roller skating match at Madison Square Garden, Ncav York, died in the latter city on the 10th from pneumonia. Cholera In Spain. A dispatch of the 7th reports that there were forty cases of supposed cholera at Jativa, the previous Aveek, and twentv deaths.

On the 6th inst. there Avero thirty uoav cases and seven deaths. Strikers Ahead. The strike of the river coal miners in the Pittsburg district was ended on the 6th inst. by operators granting the advance asked by the men.

This action will give employment to nearly 6,000 men. The Manitoba War. A Winnipeg dispatch of the 9th says the movement of troops to the front has been stopped, and the government intends to see if a commission cannot adjust matters peaceably after an inquiry into the alleged Avrongs of the half-breeds. After Fifty Years. Cyrus W.

Field, the New York millionaire, has resigned his connection with the many business and railroad interests with Avhich he has so long been identified, and will retire. He has been in business for fifty years in New York City. Burned to Death at Halifax. At a fire in a Halifax boarding-house, on the sth, James Fuller was burned to death. Seven fishermen avlio Avere sleeping in the upper part of the house escaped by jumping from a Avindow to the arm of a telephone pole, and then sliding to the ground.

Dynamite and Clockwork. The authorities at Frankfort-on-the- Main on the 11th investigated a suspicions box addressed to Prince Bismarck. It contained dynamite and clockwork machinery of very skillful make. There was no clue to the sender. Crossing the Border.

The premier of Manitoba, on the 11th, telegraphed the Canadian government that a band of Indians had crossed over the American border into the Turtle Mountain District and depredations. Communication lias been opened Gen. Crook. First Blood. The London Standard of the Bth announces the receipt of a dispatch from a correspondent in Russia stating that a battle has been fought on the Murghab River, and that it is reported that 5,000 men were killed.

The dispatch was written in cipher in order that it might pass the Russian censors. The Afghan Muddle. The war feeling'at St. Petersburg is reported to be very strong. Naval and military preparations continue with great energy, and the flouring mills at Odessa are being run day and night in preparing food.

Ayoub Khan, ex-ameer of Afghanistan, who was living at Teheran on a British pension, has been arrested for attempting to return to his own country. Three Fatal Aline Explosions. An explosion in the mines of the Dombrou Ornau Mining Company at Trappan, Austrian Silesia, on the 27th, buried forty miners. All are believed to have perished. An explosion in the mines of Baron Rothschild at Ostrau, in Moravia, on the same day, killed fifty-six men.

An explosion of gas in the coal mines at Leber, Chifi, caused death of thirty-five miners. Another Crank. Great excitement was created in Brussels on the 9th by an attempt by a crank to harm the crown prince of Austria. Prince Rudolph and a party were passing along the street in a carriage when an excited individual rushed up and smashed the windows of the carriage with his fists. He was taken away before doing any further harm.

It is thought he is a lunatic. The French Programme. The new prime minister, Brisson, has enunciated the programme of the cabinet. It contemplates the revision of the constitution of 1881; the abolition of the Senate liberty of the press; secularization of religious property; separation of church and state; reform of the judiciary; compulsory education; taxation for revenue; and a reduction of the taxes upon articles of food and drink. A Stop to the Tonquin War.

A dispatch was received at Paris on the 7th announcing that the peace preliminaries had been signed by the Chinese authorities. They stipulate that hostilities shall cease on April 10, that the Chinese shall evacuate the Red River delta on the 20th, and the other positions gradually while the French shall occupy Farmosa and Pheng Hoo, enforce the blockade of rice ports and search neutrals until a definite treaty of peace has been signed. A Serious Riot. A dispatch from Larnica, Island of Cyprus, on the 6th. reports a serious riot growing out of a wanton attack upon a religious procession of the Greek Church, While the procession was passing the English club-house, a party of loungers began to jeer and hoot at the priests.

Finally they attacked the processionists with stones, and the troops had to be called out before the disturbance was quieted. Is It the Asiatic Visitor? Considerable excitement was caused at Cleveland, 0., on the 11th by the announcement that two children had died in that city from some mysterious disease the previous day, ami that the bodies had turned black a short time after death. The symptoms were like those of cholera, but the physicians have withheld their decision until the result of the post mortem is announced. Another Aline Horror. On the afternoon of the 6th one of the gangways of the Cuyle colliery, at Raven Run, near Shenandoah, caved in without warning, burying ten miners.

The cave was caused by the sudden crashing of the timbers. The imprisoned men are 700 feet below the surface, and the break lias filled the shaft for a distance of 400 feet. The mine w'as not in operation at the time, or the loss of life would have been over a hundred. Answer. In the British House of Commons on the 10th Mr.

Gladstone said that a reply was received from Russia the previous night. This stated that Russia had already asked Gen. Koraaroff to explain his conduct in attacking the Afghans at Penjdeh. Mr. Gladstone added that Russia had not vet received Gen.

explanation. "in regard to the question of the present occu- pation of Penjdeh. Mr. Gladstone stated that he had been in communication upon this subject with Sir Edward Thornton, British ambassador at St. Petersburg, and that the latter had informed him that the Russians do not occupy Penjdeh, but have retired to the positions they occupied before the battle with the Afghans.

Armed Strikers, The strike of the McCormick reaper men, at Chicago, is assuming a serious aspect. The strikers and the police came into collision on the 9th, firearms were used, and a man named George Roth was killed. The strikers swore vengeance on the Pinkerton men, and several parties of them, en route to the works, were stopped and forced to return. In the evening a party of Pinkerton men, armed with Winchester rifles, were stopped, their arms taken from them and the burned by the strikers. Forged Checks.

Will H. McMillen, a well-known young attorney, who has been acting as confidential secretary for ex-Judge M. H. Tilden, a Cincinnati. has been discovered in presenting to business houses forged checks purporting to be drawn by Tilden.

This discovery was made simultaneously with another that Judge bank account is or $2,000 lighter than he supposed it was, and he is now trying to ascertain how much of his money has been improperly drawn by McMillen. Successor. News confirmatory of the reported death of President Barrios continues to reach this country. The latest received brings intelligence of the installation of a successor to Barrios, and gives the names of some of the cabinet ofiicers. The new president is Gen.

Manuel Lizandro Barillos, one of the two vice-presidents or designados. Dr. A. M. Arroyo, who has been the president of the Legislature, becomes minister of foreign affairs.

U. J. Dardon, who has been president of the supreme court, becomes minister of war, and Martinez Sobral is made minister of the interior. Smoke. Twenty-eight buildings in the village of Summit, twenty-five miles east of Kansas City, were destroyed by fire on the 12th.

The entire business portion place was ruined. The losses will reach The paint factory of W. W. Lawrence Allegheny City, burned on the 11th. Loss $45,000.

Fire on the 11th destroyed the starch works of Custinge A Edinburg, worth $75,000. The Stillman Hotel, an apartment house, one of the finest buildings in Cleveland, was partially destroyed by lire on the 12th inst. A number of inmates barely escaped. The loss will reach $50,000, The furniture factory of M. Siebert on Grant Street, Pittsburg, was totally destroyed by lire on the 9th inst.

Loss, Arming Merchant Ships. The British government is continuing its preparations for arming its fast ocean steamers. Work on the Anchor Linesteamer America and the Canard steamer Oregon was begun on the Bth inst. These steamers will receive an armament of ten guns each, and each will have transportation facilities for 1,500 men. Every movemehtof Russian vessels in all parts of the world is being closely watched, and if war were declared, a vast tonnage of Russian cargoes now afloat would be liable to capture.

A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 7th says the Russian government is making active preparations to put the great naval and military station of Cronstadt in a state of complete defense. The harbor has already been protected by the sinking of hundreds of torpedoes in the ship channels. Alinor Mention. The striking employes of the McCormick Reaper Works, Chicago, returned to work on the 13th, the company having granted the advance asked for.

Gilbert Parker and Ferdinand Y. Rogers, sons of prominent citizens of Davenport, were drowned in the Mississippi on the 7th, while taking a pleasure sail. Richard Grant White, the famous Shakespearian scholar and writer, died at New York on the Bth. He was 63 years old. The employes of the McCormick Reaper Works, at Chicago, to the number of 1,600 went out on a strike on the 7th.

The al leged cause of the trouble was an attempt to reduce wages in one of the departments. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry sailed for England on the 7th on the steamer Arizona. Forced to Return. The White Star Line steamship Germanic, which left Queenstown on the 3d inst. for New York, with 850 passengers on board, returned to port on the 7th, having encountered a terrific storm and tidal wave.

On the night of the 4th, when the vessel was about 500 miles west of Fastnet, a tremendous storm began to rage; this continued with unabated fury for the space of ten hours. On the following morning the waters were in the wildest commotion. The vessel was repeatedly struck by tremendous seas. The pilot-house was destroyed. All the boats were swept away and" the skylights smashed.

Then a tidal wave "of enormous force and volume burst into the reading-room, smashed through the bulkhead, and poured in a great flood into the grand saloon and the state-rooms. The passengers were thrown into great commotion for a time, but none of them were hurt. The captain and officers remained cool and self-possessed throughout, and acted with excellent judgment. One seaman was lost and several were injured. The steamship suffered such injuries, though the engines were not damaged, that it was considered unwise to proceed on the trip.

She will go back to Liverpool to make repairs. Eight Whites Killed. A Winnipeg dispatch of the 10th says: The telegraph wire to Battleford is apparently on the ground, and when the latter is frozen, a weak current is established. By this means word was sent from Battleford last night that the Indians at Frog Lake had killed eight whites. These were: J.

J. Jurin, Indian agent; John Delaney, farm instructor; Mr. Gowanlock and wife; Rev. Father Foffard, Rev. Father Le March and, and two men names unknown.

Mrs. Delaney is a prisoner. Frog Lake is about 120 miles northwest of Battleford, and is thirty miles from Fort Pitt. The reserves there are occupied by bands of Crees. They number 1,000 Indians, but no attack has been made on the barracks.

Indian Agent Roe has not been killed, as reported. Advices to the Hudson Bay Company from Saddle Lake, via Edmonton and Calgary, say that the Indians there have raided the government warehouse and gone to join the rebels. Saddle Lake is in the Edmonton Agency, about 100 miles west of Frog Lake. It looks now like a general Indian uprising. The Hudson Bay Company have received a cipher message from the agent at Prince Albert, dated March 31, saying: whole population is on our hands.

lam scouring the country to collect provisions. Send flour and bacon at once. The Indians are cpiiet, except the Sioux and fifty Crees who have joined the A company has been formed in Battleford, under command of Capt. Nash, fully armed and equipped. There is also a guard of sixty members.

Saskatchewan River is now Deeds of Blood. Jacob Kerwin was shot and killed at Chicago on the 12th by George Anderson. The shooting was the result of an old quarrel. Julius Loiseau, a professor in Columbia College, New York City, shot himself fatally on the 10th. Carrie E.

Brown, daughter of ex-City Treasurer Brown, of Rockford, 111., committed suicide, on the 10th by deliberately walking into Rock River. Her mind was deranged by a fall three years ago. George 11. Mills, who murdered his wife in the city of Brooklyn, on the 6th of October, 18S3, paid the penalty of his crime by hanging, in the yard of the Raymond Street jail, New York, at 10:14 on the morning of the 10th. A body, supposed to be that of S.

S. Conant, the long-missing editor of Weekly, was found in Coney Island Creek, on the 10th. It was not positively identified. A. V.

Arnold, a wealthy lumber merchant of Wilkinsburg, suicided on the 10th by shooting. Nelson Eduards, a New York dentist, committed suicide in that city, on the Bth, by cutting his throat with a razor. At Chicago, on the Bth Edward Lambert, 23 years old, called at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ann A. Mulligan, to see his wife, from whom he had been estranged.

He shot and killed Mrs. Mulligan, and also shot and dangerously wounded his wife. He then killed himself. William H. Carroll, at one time a labor agitator, and originator of unions throughout the state, shot Henry Taylor, a business rival, at Wilkesbarre, on the Bth.

Carroll, it appears, had been ejected by his landlord to make room for Taylor. The ball took effect in the region of heart, and the wound will prove fatal. Erwin Hecker committed suicide, at Summerfield, 111., on the Bth, by shooting. Financial troubles and drink led to the act. Hecker was 40 years old.

He was a son of the late Col. Fred. Hecker, and left a Avife and five children. Dr. George Vesey, of Clinton, Sully County, D.

took poison on the sth, from the effects of which he died the folloAving day. John McKee, a Pittsburg oil broker, committed suicide on the night of the 7th. 11l health was the alleged cause. A HAIjA DAY UVBLIN. The Future King anti Queen Greeted With Enthusiasm.

Dublin, April The Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son. Prince Albert Victor, slept on board the royal yacht Osborne at Holyhead last night. They deft Holyhead at a quarter past 6 this morning and arrived at Kingstown at half-past 11. The Osborne was escorted across the channel by the Enchantress, a paddlewheel yacht belonging to the navy, Although the weather was unpropitious, large numbers of people had assembled on the docks to greet the royal visitors. Kingstown is crowded with people, and the tOAvn is profusely decorated with flags and hunting.

Numbers of excursion steamers thronged the bay, decked out with gay colored bunting and six vessels of the Channel Squadron were in waiting, arrayed with the flags of all nations and brilliant with vari-colored streamers. The Osborne was sighted when still ten miles out at sea and as she drew nearer was greeted with salvos of artillery from the men-of-war. When the Osborne touched the pier and the royal party disembarked the throng raised a loud and enthusiastic cheer. Dublin presents a lively appearance, but there are many indications that there is no great popular enthusiasm. Outside the route of the procession the decoration of the city is far from being general, anotherflag has been substituted for the missing one and this is now floating over the Mansion House.

Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland received the Prince and his party, and the town commission presented an address of welcome. The Princess at the same time was made the recipient of numerous bouquets. The crowd, which numbered thousands, kept up a continuous cheering during the reception and cheered loud and long as the royal guests proceeded to Dublin. They arrived at Dublin at 2 and were accorded a splendid reception. In answer to the address of welcome presented to him by the committee the Prince said he was delighted to renew his acquaintance with Dublin.

In the passage through the streets of the city the party were everywhere greeted with enthusiasm. The houses on both sides of the avenues along which they proceeded were adorned with beautiful decorations and the windows and roofs were crowded with spectators eager to catch a glimpse of the future king and queen. THE HA KOTA TRAGEDY. Finding of the Body of Forest S. Small, Sully County.

Blunt. April second phase of the Harold tragedy was enacted Saturday by the finding of the body of Forest G. Small, victim, where it was buried in Lake township, Sully County, in a plowed field at a depth of about two feet. This corroborates the confession of Bennett, the accomplice of Bell. Bennett reached Pierre overland from Bismarck Friday afternoon, and Saturday was brought here to point out the spot where the remains would be found.

In the custody of his captor he reached the spot just as the body was discovered, and jumping out of the buggy asked: found him, without a shade of apparent regret in his face or manner. He was hustled back into the buggy and driven to Pierre to avoid a possible lynching. XE i AOA 'S (I TEX ESS. How She Beat Alaplesou in a Financial Skirmish. Chicago, 111., April published statement is made that when Miss Nevada, the prima donna of company, first appeared in New York, she was to receive a night; but when she at first failed to score a success Mapleson reduced the figure to S3OO.

In San Francisco, she proved a drawing card and compelled the impressario to allow her Arriving here, she was again notified that her salary was again reduced to S3OO. Just before the hour for the presentation of the opera last night, it is stated that she refused to appear unless the full figure was allowed, and that Mapleson had to give her the amount, to prevent a change of opera at the last moment. A New Hampshire horse balked the other day, and four patients recovered before he could reach them. A Mjl TTIjK woman. Annie Koppel, the Iminigrant, and Her Young Charges.

Nf.w April little blueea, flaxen-haired girlformedthehead ol a very juvenile procession that filed into asl le Garden from an emigrant barge, Sunday morning. The little gir! was Annie Koppel, il years old. She tinned around every now and then and gazed solicitously at the rest of the procession, made up of Martha Koppel, aged Hans Koppel, aged 5, and 2-year-old Katie Koppel. A big bewhiskered German picked up Katie and set her on one of his mighty shoulders. Katie was delighted but Annie looked up in alarm and cried to the big German, careful! You will let the child fear, little said the big German, stooping down and stroking hair with his disengaged hand.

The broad, fatherly smile that shone through the big whiskers reassured Annie, and she returned to her place at the head of the line. Annie stepped in front of the recording clerk, and told him her name and the names of the rest of the procession. She showed tickets to St. Louis, and said she was going there to meet her mother. much money have you asked the clerk.

replied Annie, hat are you and the babies going to live on before you get to St. Annie said she thought St. Louis was only a little way from Castle Garden, and that she need anything until she got there. Then she calmly asked: much would be required to feed the children and until they reached St. Louis.

Somebody said: Annie corrugated her white brow, thought a moment, and asked the clerk if he would lend her $2, saying she would give him a receipt for it "and send the money back when she got to her mother. The clerk gave her the money, and, when she had the money, she made out a receipt, to which she attached her signature in aclear, business-like hand. She put the money in her pocket, turned around and smiled on her smaller companions, and said: on. and the procession moved on. TROOPS FOR THE ISTHMUS.

Another Detail Sails From New York To-day. Washington, I). April Secretary of the Navy has ordered 250 marines and 100 bluejackets to sail to-day on the Acapulco from New York to Aspinwall. When these men arrive at their destination the United States will have a force of about 1,200 men and 100 officers on the Isthmus. The marines are armed with Springfield rifles, and the sailors with Hotchkiss rifles.

Four Gatling guns and two three-inch rifles with 100,000 rounds of ammunition will be sent with the men leaving New ork. The entire force is to be under command of Admiral Jouett, who is expected to arrive at Aspin wall with the Tennessee, Wednesday. Capt. B. H.McCalla and Lieut.

I. B. M. Mason, who left Washington for New York on Friday last, have been ordered to proceed to Aspinwall to-day. Capt.

McCalla wall be in command of the supplementary force of marines, subject to the order of Admiral Jouett. Lieut. Mason will be in command of the artillery. With the arrival of the Tennessee at Aspinwall the fleet will consist of five vessels, including the Tennessee, the flagship of the North Atlantic station, with twenty-two guns, the Yanticwith fourguns, the Galena with eight guns, the Swatara with eight guns and the Alliance with six guns. A It IA CK RETCH.

Brutal Murder of a Father and His Tittle Son by a Negro in Illinois. St. Louis, April story comes from Nameoki, 111., eight or ten miles north of here, on the Wabash Railroad, that a negro calling himself Wiggins went to the house of Robert Williams, also colored, a small farmer living on the Emmert estate on Wednesday night and asked for lodgings. He was permitted to remain and amused the family by telling funny stories until about midnight when he suddenly rose and with drawn revolver demanded money. Williams produced $9.50.

Wiggins demanded more, and when Williams said that was all he had, Wiggins shot him twice, inflicting mortal wounds, and then shot and killed little boy and fired two shots at Mrs. Williams, but she escaped unhurt by running from the house. Wiggins fled and at last accounts has not been captured. STRIKE AT CHICAGO, Sixteen Hundred McCormick Reaper Makers Quit Work. Chicago, 111., April 7.

The employesat extensive reaper works in this city, numbering 1,600 men in all, held a meeting this morning, at which they decided to quit work, and the works are idle in consequence. The managers apjjeared to fear a disturbance and telephoned for police protection, but thus far there have been no evidences of trouble. vThe factory is the largest of its kind in the world. Some of the employes in one of the departments had been on strike, and the attempt of the owners of the works to fill their places with men at lower wages, was occasion of the present enlarged rike. A 11 I A o.

Arrest of a Negro Who Assaulted a Young Woman, Baltimore, April Cooper, the negro who assaulted Miss Katie Gray near Rockland on the 2d was captured last night at Riders. about eight miles north of this city, on the Northern Central Railroad. He was brought to Baltimore between 2 and 3 this morning and lodged in the Central Police Station for safe keeping. There was an angry throng at the Towson jail last night, and had they found him he would have been lynched. His hiding place was told by a negro who promised to protect him..