Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • Page 1

"VOL. 'XXVII NO. 1G. ALTOONA, MONDAY, APBIL 8, 1901. TWO CENTS A COPY.

SI nothing whatever except what he had read. "Have yon at any time given permission for him to absent himself from the house of detention exoept when he was in attendance in court?" BEC0RD OF DEATHS. Name of Ferion Wbo Have Croiied to tbe Other Shore. After an illness which caused him, on the 14th of March last, to be confined to STRIKE IS IMMINENT. Tbat Is What Kany People in Hew York City Think.

FEBS0BAL BOTES. Item About Feopl Whom Ton Mar Chanoe to Enow. 1 Hon. JohnG. Love, of Bellefonte, was in the citySaturday.

Mrs. Ida Leonard ia visiting relatives and friends in Carrolltown. W. Fisk Conrad and wife, of Tyrone, spent Saturday in the city. Miss Bess Devereaux, ofJCresson.Jviait-ed friends in the city yesterday.

A. A. StevenB, and wife, of Ty. rone, spent Saturday in the city. Mrs.

Minnie Bnate is visiting her BiBter, Mrs. H. E. Kirk, in Huntingdon. Joseph O'Friel, of Pittsburg, spent Easter with his parents, on Sixteenth avenue.

Mr. and Mre. J. W. Crouse, of Philadelphia, spent Easter with friends in this city.

Missus Nora Beale and Martha Griffin have returned from an enjoyable visit to What tbe Alleged Murderer of Millionaire Rica Has to Say. JONES BEYER COMMITTED THS DEED Ibt Object or the Story Ii to Hold Patrick in Prieoa There How Six Month! and Rot Yet Indioted. H4S JOflES BEES ON THE TOWS New Yore, April 7. Lawyer Albert Patrick, who is charged with the murder of Millionaire William Marsh Rice, made a statement to-night concerning a etory printed in a morning paper to the effect that Valet Jones had spent several hours, acoompanied by a policeman attached to the district attorney's office, in touring the Tenderloin district. According to this Btoiy, hotels, concert halls and gar dona and theatres cad bsen visited by tbe prisoner and bis attendant and dozens of drinks taken.

On this point Lawyer Patrick said: 'I have known that this kind of thing has been going on for several weeks. I coiftd not have sworn that such was the case, put 1 have heard lrom various Eources that Jones was plentifully sup plied with money, was taken out buggy riding and was otherwise treated with great kindness and consideration." Patrick then went on to speak of-the Rice murder case. This is the first time that he has made any statement since his arrest. He said: "Jones never killed W. M.

Eice. Had he done so he never would have testified to it, especially as the district attorney has promised turn no immunity nor would his counsel, even though provid ed for by Captain Baker, nave permitted him to do so. His confidence is due to the fact that W. M. Rice at the age of 84 died of heart failure, as did his brother, F.

A. Rice, yesterday at the age of 70, and there will never be any proof of it otherwise. Tbe only crime Jones is guilty of is that of conspiring against the 1900 will and that of perjury in the present proceedings. His fairy story is the result of a collaboration with Captain James A. Baker, Jones's lawyer; Mr.

Battle, who is hired by Baker; Assistant District Attorney Osborne and Professor Witthans, the professional expert wuose report Osborne tor tbe last six months has been expecting in a few dayB, and who swore that Rice died of mercurial poisoning if he did not die of something else." "The object os Jones's story is to have me held in prison pending the will litigation. I have already been in prison six months on the forgery charge without even being indicted, and I do not believe that there is any serious intention to try me on a criminal charge before a jury. My arrest on a murder charge and the attempt to hold me is due entirely to my inability to give bail upon any less serious charge. Tbe stock in trade of the opposition to the 1900 will is their already demonstrated ability to control the district attorney's office; that is to say that portion presided over by Osborne, over which there seems to be no administrative supervision. "So far as the tactics employed against me have been the giving out by Mr.

Osborne, continually of statements known by him to be false, in order to cause the public to pre judge me guilty eo as to justify false imprisonment and prevent a fair trial, the wrongful impression, of my self and the hounding detectives of those who appear to favor me; the abuse of tbe process of the courts by wrongfully subpoenaing, in tbe name oi the coutt, persons to personally appear before him and submit to examinations in his office. "Tbe use under tbe guise of witnesses of professional handwriting experts to swear that the signatures of the 1900 will, checks, assignments, are forgeries and the procuring of false testimony are all in tbe same line. Jones Bwore on the witness stand and Osborne admitted it in open court, that Jones had informed Oa- borne about January that Jones had killed Mr. Rice with chloroform and that subsequently, in collaboration with Whittbaus, on February 27, the present complaint charging me with killing Rice with mercurial poison, was made at the instance of Osborne, in an attempt to de prive me of all knowledge of the nature of the accusation against me until be had used as witnesses those whom be sup posed to be for me. "I have been informed that Jones baB been for several weeks past permitted to roam the streets, bo for as I am con cerned I have no objection provided that Jones be kept within the jurisdiction of tne court.

"It would take but little corroboration to convict Jones upon his own confession, but it would take a great deal to convict me upon Jones's accusation. If I am held or indicted for murder, Jones will certainly be also, and I would be readily acquitted, but in his effort to have himself corroborated, he might be convicted; he would surely be electrocuted, for no hand could save him. "JoneB is staking Lis life upon tbe ability of tbe handwriting experts to discredit Rice's signature which JoneB eaw him write and which he shows by bis numerous statements and uncertain testimony that he knows Rice signed. "Jones may rest assured that those for whom he has outlawed himself from mankind will abandon him when they can no longer use him. "As to my own position, I can only say that I wilt oe able to discharge all duties devolving upon and maintain all rights belonging to me, all of which, however, is in the bands of my able and conservative attorneys." District Attorney Philbin was asked to-day what he knew of Jones's tour of the tenderloin.

He replied that be knew Continues to Act Toward Russia. ISSUES ORDERS C08CBRNI8G SHIPS Companiee Ordered to Hold Theii Veneli in Beadinei for Traniport Servioe. An Enigmatical Note From Bquiera. KlKiSTERS JOLTED BY TROOPS Lrndon, April 7 lhe Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mail, wiring yesterday and dealing with the attitude of Japan towards Russia's Chinese pol icy, says: "Shipping companies have been ordered to hold their vessels in readiness for transport service. Cruisers on the reserve list have been commis sioned for active servioe.

Officers the first reserve have been warned for service. There ia much popular excite ment." Pekin, April 7. Mr. Rockhill, United States special commissioner in rekin, had a long interview yesterday with Li Hung Chang, wbo satisfied him that that there is not likely to be any further hitch in the negotiations for a settlement betweenlChina and the powers. China haa agreed to the list of punishments submitted by the ministers of the powers asking only one concession, namely, deprivation of office, instead of baniah-meutt in the case of a man who is 70 years of age.

To this the ministers have agreed. Li Hung ChaDg says tbe court ia ex tremely anxious to return to rekin as soon as the foreign troops evacuate the capital. Some of the ministers of tbe powers begin to think tbat so large a force of 2.000 troops acting as legation guards in the city proper would be a great mistake, Such a body would have to remain in a spac of one square mile. The troops can not be allowed outside the legation quar ters armed, and it would probably not be safe for them to go unarmed. It is thought by some of the ministers, that, if the encampment were made from twelve to fifteen miles away, with the neceBsarv stores, this arrangement would be much preferable, as a telegram could bring the troops into the city imme diately.

Moreover several ministers have been inBuited by troops of other nationalities. Mr. Rockhill and Mason Satow (the Brit ish minister), were returning from dinner in sedan chairs when the chairs were stopped by German soldiers, who pro ceeded to cry at the bearers. Tbe ladies of the party were greatly frightened. The ministers generally fear that the presence in Pekin of a considerable force of troops of various nationalities might be a source of international friction.

They are entirely pleased over the military- proposals for the generals, as they fail to see the necessity for the demolition of all forts. Washington, April 7.r-The adminis tration is perplexed over a cable dispatch received yesterday from Mr. Squiere, now in charge of the American legation in Pekin." This dispatch, according to a publication, to-day said tbat the Russian minister "refuses to receive othciai com munication from China ministers" which carried the inference tbat diplomatic re lations between the two countries inter ested would be broken off. The officials are very reticent about the matter and decline to affirm or deny whether it is correctly stated. They will go only so far as to admit the receipt of a message whose purport was not clearly under stood, for which reason it was not given to the press for publication.

'Another cablegram which reached here to-dav from Mr. Rockhill, the spe cial commissioner of the United States, engaged in conducting the peace negotiations, made no reference to the alleged refusal of the Russians to receive omeial communications from tbe Chinese com missioners. As Mr. Rockhill is in a po sition to know promptly what develops between the ministers and the peace commissioners, it ia believed he would be prompt to report a step of such far-reaching importance as the published dispatch from Mr. Squiera would indi cate.

At the Russian embassy no infor mation on the Bubject was obtainable tonight. The impression of the officials at the embassy was tbat no special significance attached to the Squiera dispatch. According to them it simply meant that the RusBiana bad discontinued further negotiations at this time on tbe Man-churian question alone, whioh for the time is held in abeyance. Young Woman Drank Foleon. New York, April 7.

Mary Rivers, 18 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlea W. Rivera, evangelists, of Jersey City, committed suicide to day by taking carbolic acid. The parents say they know of no reason why she should have ended her life.

They were away from home in an adjoining town when the girl took the poison, Mr. and Mrs. Rivera having gone to pray for a person whom they say needed prayers and did not know of their daughter's act nntil they returned later in tbe day. Italian Squadron Baile for Toulon. La Spezia, April 7.

The Italian squadron sailed for Toulon to day in two divisions, the fiist commanded by tbe Duke of Genoa, consisting of six ironclads and two torpedo boats, and the second under Rear- Admiral Coltelletti, consisting of several ironclads and one torpedo boat. The Dake of Genoa bears an autograph letter from King Victor Emmanuel to President Lou bet. Dookers Will Go to Work. Marseilles, April 7. The Btriking dockers to-day decided to resume work Tuesday next.

Japan "I have not," he replied. OFF HEW EHOLAHD'S C0A8I. Big Btorm Baged on Eater Veuell Loit and Seamen Drowned, Gloucester, April 7. The southeast storm just before the Easter dawn threw up on the jagged rocks of Eastern Point the old Calaise two-masted schooner Hyena, and within an hour tbe waveB bad torn her to pieces and swept off her crew of four men. Two of them, Elmer and Bennett Stanley, managed to reach shore and dragged their bruised bodies up the rooks, but her skipper, Captain B.

Dix, of West Tremont, and Howard Fuller, failed to gain the shore and were probably drowned or killed by being dashed on the rocks. The two battered sailora reached this city this morning. Portland, Maine, April 7. The two-masted schooner Wendall Burpee, of St. John, N.

went ashore off Cape Elizabeth shortly before 12 o'clock this noon, captain, cook one sailor being drowned, while the mate only waa Baved. The lost were Captain Louis Mersebury, George Foster, the cook, both of St. John, and a Bailor known as Charlie." The mate, John SwenBon. of St. John, managed to reach the Bhore more dead than alive? The schooner will undoubtedly be a total loss, SrOEY OF CANNIBALISM.

Two Survivors Tell of Awfnl to a Shipwreck. London, April 8. The Singapore correspondent of the Daily Express wireB a ghastly story of cannibalism at sea brought to Singapore by two survivors of the Nova Scotia bark Angola, wrecked six days sail from Manila, October 23, last. The correspondent says: "The survivors, Johnsen, a Swede, Marticornu, a Spaniard, assert that the Angola struck a reef. Two rafts were built.

The smaller, bearing five men, disappeared. The other with twelve men drifted for forty days. The sailors ate barnacles, sea weed and hnally their boots. "On the twenty-fifth dav two men be came insane and killed themselves. On the twenty-sixth a Frenchman killed his mate with an ax, drank his blood and tried to eat his brains, but was prevented bv the others.

Next day the trench- man waa killed while attempting to mur der the captain. The survivors, all of whom were now insane, ate the French man's body. Cannibalism continued until only Johnsen and Marticornu remained. On the forty-second day tbe raft stranded on Subi or Flat Island, in tbe Natuna group (northweBt of Borneo). Johnsen and Marticornu were awfully emaciated.

Friendly Malays sent them by junk to Singapore. A Murderer Jailed. Sunbury, April 7. Remorseful, haggard and worn John Gulick, who last Tuesday, murdered his mother and brother at their home near this city, was lodged in jail here this morning. He was discovered in the spring house on the Gulick farm.

In this place be secured his first shelter since committing the crime. He said he waa tired and had come back home intending to give him self up Monday. Since the day of the crime he had roamed through the raoun tains during the day and at night went to nearby towns and begged food from back doors. He positively refused to spead about the crime merely saying he was very sorry. To Chief of Police Met ier he stated that he had witnessed the funeral of his victims from a nearby hill.

When searched the revolver with which he committed the crime was found in bis coat pocket. Both Dead When Wilmington, April 7. Walter Keech, a drug clerk of this city, aged 21, and Madge McGinigan, aged 30 years, were found dead to-day in a room at a reBort on Orange street. They had been asphyxiated. The room was filled with gas and it is supposed that by mistake they had opened the stop cook of the gas stove after the flame had been extinguished.

The woman formerly resided at Chester, and bad been separated from her husband. Uniatiafaotory Result cf a Trial. Sallna, April 7. The first trial of the "jointist" under the new Hurrell law, passed by the last legislature, which makes it a misdemeanor to be found in possession of spirituous liquors, resulted in no verdict here late last nieht and the jury was discharged. The passage of the law was a result of tbe temperance cru sade started by Mrs.

Nation. Badioal Cuban Were Abient. Havana, April 7. The radical mem' bers of the Cuban conetitutional conven tion did not attend tbe special meeting held last evening to discuss the question of sending a commission to Washington Their absence made a quorum impossible and anotber call was issued for a meeting to consider the same matter to morrow afternoon. May Have Committed Suioide.

Philadelphia, April 7. Howard Hun- sicker, aged 25 years, of Allentown, was found dead in a hotel here to-day. Tbe room waa filled with gas, and it is supposed the young man committed suicide. Hunsicker left no clue by which a reason could be assigned for his self-de struction. Locomotive Spare Ctuie Big Fire.

St. Louis, April from a switch engine to-day set fire to the big elevator owned by tbe St. Louis Elevator and Storage company and was lees than two minutes nntil tbe buildicg was reduced to ashes entailing a loss of Tbe building and contents wbicb coosisted of about 800 buBbels of wheat and corn, were fully insured. Ma roomjand bed, Mr. John A.

Gantt died at his home, 704 Seventh avenue, at 1.10 clock yesterday morning of pleuro pneumonia. He had not been in good health for aorno months previous to this hia final illness, but nevertheless con tinued at his work in the company paint shop, under foreman C.W. Mason, when everfchia health would permit. The deceased was born near Newport Perry county, October 7, 1850, and was consequently aged 50 years and 6 months. On November 14, 1875, he was married to Miss tlallie Settle, the cere mony taking place at her home in Mat tawanna, Mifllin county.

In the year losl he came to Altoona and entered the employ of the railroad company under foreman Mason, a position he tilled most acceptably until sickness caused his skill ful hand to fail. His sorrowing wife and two daughters survive him, theEe being Misses Martha A. and Stella S. Gantt, teachers in the local public schools. Al fred and Daniel Gantt are brothers, and Mrs.

John Kroh, a Bister of the deceased, all residing at JNewport. Mr. Gantt was a member of the SeO' ond PreBbvterinn church; of White Cross lodge No, 354, Knights of Pythias of Altoona conclave No. 132, Improved Order of iieptasophs, and of the Pennsylvania Railroad Voluntary Relief asso ciation. He waa a good man, a Chris tian in thought and deed.

As a neigh- bor there could be none better. His friends were numerous; his enemies few. if any. He waa quiet and studious and only to those close to him was his true character known. Hia wife and daugb ters were his constant thought and his devotion to them was returned by their unwavering loyalty to him.

The funeral Bervices will be held at his late home at 8 o'clock Wednesday atternoon and will be conducted by Kev, Henry Howard Stiles, his pastor. Inter ment in Fairview cemetery. Friends of tbe deceased can view the body after 4 clock to-morrow afternoon. MISS SARAH EVERHART. At the old family home near State Col lege, Centre county, on Friday, April 5.

1901, Miss Sarah Johnston Everhart died of congestion of the liver, aged 60 years. She is survived by four brothers, James and William, with one sister, at home; John, of Huntingdon county, and A. J. Everhart, of She was a life long member of the Spring Creek Pres byterian church. The interment will take place this afternoon in the Branch cemetery.

Evening papers please copy. MISS ELIZABETH GRIMES. At 4.25 o'clock Saturday morning Miss Elizabeth Grimes died at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Callin at 815 Sixteenth street, of diseases incident to old age. Deceased waa born in Bedford, Bedford county, and waa aged 77 years 5 months and 2b days, She came to tbia city sev enteen yeara ago and had since resided here.

She waa a member of the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church and waa esteemed by a wide circle of frienda. She is survived by one brother, Andrew Grimes, of Alaska. W. and two sis ters, Mrs. Fannie Patterson, of Altoona, and Mrs.

Susan Trice, of Roaring Sonne. Tbe funeral will take place at 2.30 this afternoon. Services at the bouse, oon ducted by Rev. T. S.Wilcox.

Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery. SIJM8 A. CASSIDY. At 11.05 o'clock Saturday morning Silas Cassiday, an aged and respected resident of this city, died at the home of his son, Frank Cassidy, at 2138 Nine teenth street, of diseases incident to old age. Deceased was born in Cambria county and was aged 77 years.

He had resided in Altoona a number of years and enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends. He was a member of St. John's Catholic church, and ia survived by four sons Frank, Jamea, Thomas and Silas all of this city, and Robert, of Eb-ensburg. Tbe funeral will leave the house at 8.15 o'clock Tuesday morning and proceed to St. John's church, where services will be conducted at 9 o'clock.

Interment in St. John's cemetery. DEATH OP A CHILD. Joseph Lester, son of William D. and Myra Stevens, died at the home of the parents, near Miller's school house, Lo gan township, Saturday afternoon of brain fever, aged 1 year and 9 months.

Tbe funeral will take place at 230 o'clock this afternoon. Intermen in De-ford cemetery. Big Fire in Paper Box Factory. New York, April 7. During last night a fire which broke out at two different times did damage to the extent of 000 to Block of the Sndhaus Paper Box company and the machinery belonging to the company, as well as to the stock of Swetzer, Pembroke both firms occupying the building at 83 and 85 White street.

The fire first broke out at 1 o'clock at night and was supposed to have been overcome in a short time with a small loss, but at 2 o'clock flames again broke ont on one of the upper floors which waa occupied bv theSudhaus company. Catcher JBoFarland Beturne Home. Philadelphia, April 7. Catcher Mo-Farland, of tbe Philadelphia National League wbo came here from hia home in Cleveland a few day ago as waa suppoEed, to enter into practice with his team, haa to tbe surprise of the management, returned to his home. Manager Sbetsline said tonight that McFarland had signed a contract with the club and tbat he knew no reason for the catcher's sodden departure.

Czar Make a Contribution. New York, April 7. At the Bervices to-day of the Syrian Greek Orthodox church in thia city, it waa announced that Czar Nicholaa II, of Ruesia.has given 2,003 rubles, or about (1,000 toward the building fund, of tbe ohurch which is soon to be erected in Brooklyn. Lord Bahibury's Health. Nice, April H.

Lord Salisbury has ar rived at Beaolieu. He was but little affected by the journey from London. CHIEF ARTHUR LEFT FOR BOISE 1 Sargent Ii Said to Be Preparing to Follow Bait Chief of Brotherhood Profeu to Be Bather Indignant. Ml LOCAL MEETINGS WERE HELD New York, April 7. In the opinion of a good many people a strike is imminent on the Central Railroad of New Jersey system.

Thia opinion ia based on the fact that Chief P. M. Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, left the city to-night for his home in Cleveland.and Chief Frank P. Sargeant.of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men, waa preparing to-night to leave the City also. Added to this was a statement made by E.

E. Clark, chief of the Broth erhood of Conductors, who said that he certainly would sanction any action his men, meaning the conductors of the road, might see fit to take. He added that he knew oi only one time fn the hiBtory of railroad strikes where the sanction of the executive chiefs had been withheld. The chiefs of the brotherhoods pro fessed to feel angry at their failure to bring about negotiatiations with Vice President Warren, of the 'railroad, con cerning the points of difference between the company and its employes. It is said that the letter which Vice President Warren sent to the chiefs on Saturday waa not at all satisfactory and that Messrs.

Arthur, Sargent and Clark on Saturday night told tbe representatives of the employes that they had done all they could and then sent them back to their various organizations. As a consequence meetings were held to-day by the local organizations at all important points along the Jersey Central line, it is believed tbat a vote as to the advisability of a strike was taken at to-day's meetings of the employes. Chief Sargeant, of the firemen, when asked before his departure, how long it would take to get a strike under way, aaid: "We generally do these things very quicKiy." Chief Arthur hurriedly left his hotel to-night and went to the Grand Central depot to take a train for home. Here be waa surrounded by reporters to whom he gave information that be was going to Cleveland. "Is there to be another meetirjg of the tT' Tf ftl ft river "Not that I know of." "Do you expect to meet the other chiefs again to-morrow anvwhere out of town?" "I do not." "What does the departure of yourself and tne otner cnieis at this stage of the negotiations mean?" 'We came here by request of the executive board of the several organizations and the request of the men themselves for a conference with the railroad officials.

We have made three requests for a conference and we have been unable to secure one. We do not purpose staying around here any longer with our hands in our pockets waiting for the pleasure of Mr. Warren, "We have performed the duty for which we have come and we failed to get an audience with Mr. Wairen. It ia not possible for us to break into the office of Mr.

Warren. Having done all in our power and having failed we have decided to return to our respective homes. We will report the conditions which confront ua to our respective organizations and brotherhoods." In answer to the direct question aa to whether or not there would be a strike, Chief Arthur anawered: "Time will tell," and added that while the public could not naturally be let into the business, there was no desire on his part to create tbe impression the men had anything to keep from the public aa far aa the interests of the public were nnnnornari E. E. Clark, chief of the conductors.

will leave the city to morrow night and go to Cedar Rapids, where he has his headquarters. When seen to-night he said that tbe chiefs realized there was nothing for them to do but leave the matter in the bands of the men themselves. "Our organizations are not run by the executive ohiefs but by a majority of the memoers. we were called in bv the men. We have done all in our power to obtain an audience in behalf of our organ izations Dot nave tailed, to get an au- dienos we went as far as decency and manliness would permit.

Now we are going home. As I said before, the" power rests with the men. The chiefs have only the veto power." Mr. Clark in response to a question said that aa far as be was concerned, the veto power would not be exercised should the men choose to call a etrike. He said there was little likelihood of any of the other chiefs exercising theirs.

Boiler Landed on a Freight Train. Ogdknsburg, N. Y.t April 7. The steam boiler in Charles Clark's griat mill at Liabon, blew up last night. The explosion raised the boiler from the building, throwing it about 100 feet in the air, the boiler landing on top of a pausing Ogdensbnrg and Lake Champlain freight train.

The explosion resulted from the low water. Several men were at work nearby but all escaped injury. Will Be Buried Wedneeday. Harrisburg, April 7 The remains of Representative P. R.

Cotter, of McKean, who died last nieht in this citv. were to day shipped to his late borne at Eldred for burial on Wednesday. Pittsburg. Mrs. Martha Houaer and little daughter, Helen, are visiting the parental home in Franklinville.

Mr. and Mrs. Jackman, D. K. and E.

R. Jackman, of Carrolltown, were visitors in tbe city Saturday. Misses Margaret II. Herehberger and Amolia Auer Bpent Easter with their friend, Miss Mae Kuhn, in Pittsburg. Percy Goldstone, editorial correspondent of the Municipal Journal and Engineer, of New York, is in the city on business.

William L. Woodcock, and bride arrived in the city Saturday and are receiving the congratulationa of their frienda. Mrs. W. M.

Binckley, of spending the Easter season with her mother, Mrs. Robert Green, 1204 Eighth avenue. Attorney II. Stover and wife are entertaining Rev. R.

U. Colburn and wife, formerly of Williamsport but now ofLewisburg. William H. Hill, master mechanic of the Cornwall and Lebanon railroad, at Lebanon, spent Saturday in the city as tbe guest of Harry L. Adams, of- Eighth avenue.

Mrs. D. L. Paightel, of 1804 Seventh avenue, who had been in Philadelphia for Beveral months undergoing treatment in one of the hospitals of tbat city, returned to her home on Saturday evening somewhat improved. She will remain several weeks and then return.

A HEW SPEECH BPBTJIHG. What Peraons Wbo Were Preient Tell of Kauer'i Addreae. Berlin, April 7. Careful investigation at Potsdam to-day regarding the circumstances in which Emperor William delivered his latest military addresB developed the information that during a review last Tuesday (not Friday, as originally cabled; of a number of military bodies belonging to the Potsdam garrison, including the First regiment of foot guards, extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent any representative of the press or other civilian from obtaining knowledge of his majesty's remarks, which were uttered in tbe lustgarten, adjoining tbe royal castle. From persona who were present.it waa learned that the kaiser Bpoke substan tially as follows: A hand from out of the people was recently raised against me, to my intense sorrow.

Evidently Berioua times are coming, which will try our mettle. 1 know that the army ia true to its tradi tions and to the solemn oath it baa taken. I know it will remain steadfast and faithful to me. "My conviction is especially strong re garding tbe guards and regarding this regiment now present, which ia tied to tbe Hohenzollerna by indissoluble bonds, as the past haa shown during the troubleouB times abroad and even during revolutionary times at homes. "lhe authontv of the crown must be maintained at all hazards.

Woe to the soldier who listens to the voice of the tempter." Orders seem to have been given by the Prussian ministry of the interior to sup press all public mention of quotations from the emperor's speeches. At Sty-rum, near Essen, during a recent meeting called to protest against an increase of tbe corn toils, the police dissolved the assembly when a speaker cited a sentence from his majesty's speech, read at his appearance on horseback after the attack upon him at Bremen. The papers mention similar instances elsewhere. THE MEBBIHAC AOAIK. Dynamite Tied to Blow Up the Wreok Of the Veeeel.

Santiago de Cuba, April 7. Fifteen hundred pounds of dynamite were used by the authorities of the port yesterday afternoon in blowing up the forward auperatructure of the sunken United States collier Merrimac which bas long impeded the entrance to the harbor. explosion waa plainly heard in tbe city five miles away. Divers immediately descended and found forty feet of clear water over the forward portion of the wreck. Port Captain Irvin will begin to-morrow to place minea aft which be expects to explode in a week, thus completely clearing the harbor entranoe.

Yeeterday's inoident was highly epec-tacular. Residents of Smith Key, adjacent to the wreck, left tbe island, fearing tbat their houses would be demolish-ee. The overlooking hills were lined with people and large numbers of pleasure veetels encircled tbe wreck at a safe distance. When the electric button was touched a pyramid of water rose forty feet and the Burface waa immediately covered with wreckage and tons of dead fish. The launches and yachts returned to the city laden with souvenirs of the wreck.

Coal Fooket Burned. New York, April 7. The ooal pooketa of the Long Island railroad in the yards at the terminal in Long Island City, which were loaded with coal, were destroyed by fire to-night. The railroad company estimates the loss at $20,000..