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mm mm Try our mot "Ads." They ham made money for other. Way sUoald ttejr not make money lor ycu? Blight, Newspaper advertising PAYS, Other kinds may but probabty will not VOL. XII NO. 150 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1892 TEN CENTS A WEEK IMPORTANT DECISION TBLEQRAPHIO BREVITIES. A SING SING SHOCK, The Times says: i Lord Salisbury proposed several methods to NOT THEIR COUNTRY.

NOT SO STUBBORN NOW BRADLEY BROTHERS CLIMAX BAKING POWDER Will Have their SPRING MILLINERY TUESDAY AND March 29th and 30th. They will make an unusually large dis play of Paris and London Novelties in the Millineiy line and will be pleased to have the Ladies visit this establishment on the above dates. Comer of North Water and William Sis. Agents for Jouvin Kid Gloves. First Opening of WEDNESDAY, mm ILLS 151 N.

Water St. Of Interest to Minor Stockholders to Railroads. Columbus, March 28. Judge Pngh, in the common pleas court, rendered a decision of much importance in railway matters. Some time ago Robert Barrett, the Baltimore railway magnate, applied for the appointment of a board to assess the value of 1,728 shares of stock held by him in the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati St.

Louis Bail-way and merged without his knowledge and consent, by combina tion, into the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago St. Louis Railway Co The decision grants the application upon the ground that Mr. Barrett did not agree to the consolidation, and he and the two companies have been unable to agree upon a value of the stock. It is regard ed as a decision greatly in the interest of minor stockholders. The alleged value of the 1,728 shares is $86,000.

Pleading for the Oatch Bill. Des Moines, March 28. Delega tions of anti-prohibition republicans from all the larger cities of the state are in the city to endeavor to induce the republicans of the house to pass the Gatch local-option bilL At noon a committee from these republicans met a committee from the republicans of the house to present arguments. The French Dynamite Scare. Pabis, March 28.

The alarm created here by the "dynamite outrages" is extending to the provinces. At Bordeaux twenty-six cartridges have been discovered in a private dwelling and an investigation is being made. Five dyna mite' cartridges have been found at Lyons, and have been turned over to the police for examination. Solicitor-General Aldrich. Washington, March 28.

Mr. Charles H. Aldrich, of Illinois, the new solicitor-general of the United States, whose nomination was confirmed by the sen- ai last week, was presented to the su preme court of the United States by Attorney-General Miller. The attorney- general also filed Mr. Aldrich's com mission as solicitor-generaL The Waraprite Going- Northward.

San Fbajtcisco, March 28. The British man-of-war Warsprite left Santa Barbara yesterday morning, and will arrive here to-day on her way to Behring sea. River News. Evaksvrxs River 27 feet inches: clsar and pleasant. CntowwATi River 31 feet, stationary.

Clear. Thermometer, 53 deg. Memphis River 21 feet 9 inches and rising. Clear and pleasant. MARKET REPORT.

MONDAY. March Grain and ProTlslona. St. Louis Floor Fancy to extra fancy. S3.

410; patents. S4.30S4.4i. No. 2 red, 8l85c: No. 3 red.

82 Futures clostd: March. 84c April, 83loc May, 62Slc Jaly, 7tc August, 7Sc b. Corn No. 2 mixed. No.

2. white. 37c Futures dosed: March, April, 36bc May, 3.a08c July 38 n. Oats No. 3114029 ice.

Hay Prairie. Se.fi&a9.5): mixed timothy, S8.SOaiO.00; clear timothy, 19.60 6 12.50. Butter Creamery, S327c: dairy, We 25c. Egga Fresh. Uc Lard -FTim steam.

6.053. Pork New standard mess. 1 10.50. Bacon Longs. 6.20c: clear.

6.350) 6.3719c; clear ribs, 6.20s: all paoked. Wool Choice tub-washed. Naw York Flour Minnesota extra, (.900 8.15; City Mills extras. S4.7fiO4.90 for West Indies; superfine. S2.45as.4fi; fine.

$2.0093.00. Wheat No. 1 red winter, cash. 97)40: March, SGo; April. 94bc; May, 91Ac Corn No.

2 mixed, cash, 49c; April. 48 te; May, 4740. Oats No. 2 mixed, cash, 844C; May, 84se. fork Jiew mess, Hl.UOiL00.

Jjaro May, (L66c; July, 6.69. Butter New Western ex tras. 28 Egga State fresh. 1313a; western, uhsc. Ch 10 aoo Opening quotations: Wheat May, W07914C.

Corn May. 40O394C Oate May. 28OS9c Pork May. 10.22010.35. Lard- May.

6.2506.80c; Bibs May. 6. 6205. 70c. Closing quotations: Wheat No 8 cash.

78c: May, 79c; July.SOo. Corn Cash, 8840; iwiflo; April, 89c: May, 39ac: June, 88 July. Oats-Cash, 28c; May, Pork Mess. Cash. lUM7o: May.

S10.80ei0.33ia. Lard Cash, 6.85c; May, 6.30a. Short Bibs Cash, 0.5740; May, 5.70 a 5. 7 -Seed Prime timothy, Sl-ra. utter leasee.

ggs 12 Cincinnati Flour Weak. Wheat 909 fXUsc. Corn 40 04Oc. Oats 80-i 8Ha Pork 810.25. Lard 6.06c.

Bulk Meats J1O05. Live Stook Market. St. Louis Cattle Choice steers S4.65'34.B0 good, S4.30e4.60: butchers. $3.0008.45.

Hogs Packing, s4.wv4.bu; Dutoners' nogs. H.65S4.7&: Yorkers. S4.6094.70. Sheep Prices range at S4.7&-36.00; lambs, S6.00O6.00 each. BOBSSS.

Heavy draft, extra. SI SO 00 to 140 00 Heavy draft 80 00 to 11000 Drivers, good to 90 00 to 140 00 Saddlers, good to 90 00 to 130 Matched teams, good to extra. 120 00 to 800 00 Southern horses and mares. 60 00 to 76 00 16 hands, extra. 4 to 90 00 to 100 00 Ifiifl hands, extra, 4 to 7 120 00 to 18000 14 hands, 4 to 7 years to 00 to 70 00 10 to nan da.

extra. 4 to7 years ISO 00 to 16000 Cmr loo Cattle Market weak. Hoi Bough and common, S4.00e4.36; packing and shipping, S4.66a4.86; prime heavy and butchers. S4.80O4.97-; light, S4.6504.95. Sheep Lambs, alow; sheep, active.

-Kansas Cmr Cattle ateers. S8.0094.S9; cows. SL66aaifi; stockersand feeders, $2.95 8.4a Bogs AU grades. S3. 75 4.

00; bulk, (8.40 04.60. Sheep Uncnanged. Iiroiaif apolis Hogs Choice heavy shlpphur. S4.76a4.S6; heavy and mixed packing, S4.70O 4.75; choice lights, S4.70O4.S0; common lights. S4JJ5 04.60; pigs, S3.7604.2T; raugaa, S3.

50O 4. 15. CinoimiATi Hogs Common and light, $8.60 4.83; packing and S4. 50 4. 96.

Cotton, Quotations for mlddnng range as follows: St. Louis, Go; New York. 63c; New Orleans. 6o; Memphis, 6 6-18c; Galveston, 67-16o. Financial.

Naw York, March 28. Money on call easy at 1492 per cent Exchange steady; posted rates, 487069; actual rates, 4850486 tor sixty days, and 487k0488 for demand. Governments steady; currency 6s, 109 bid: 4s. coupon, 11 bid extended 2s, registered, 100 bid. The deal in 28 on the stock exchange this morning amounted to 168,000 shares.

The opening prices were practically unchanged. In the early dealings tnere was oonsiueraoie pressure to sell, and prices fell all around, emgar and West Point led tne downward movement. Towards 11 o'clock the market rallied sharply, and at the end of the first hour figures were about the same as those of Saturday. In the hour to noon or! cos were again weak. Sugar, West Point and Rock inland were pressed for sale with considerable vigor, and under tneir lo.id prices declined to the lowest figures at noon.

At this writing tne market is ami to 1 per cent lower than the does onttaLurocy. make the a ward of the arbiters retrospective, all of which have been rejected with scant courtesy and often scant logic by the American negotiators. If neither of the equitable modes which Lord Salisbury has now offered are ac cepted, it will be difficult to resist the inference that America has rcmaraaDiy uttie connuenoe In her case. The Morning Post says: We are confident that the more the Behring sea correspondence is examined, the 4ess will there be any lkelihood of a permanent misunderstanding between the two nations. Whatever we may think of the style and methods of the Washington foreign office, they have made no serious attempt to npset Lord Salisbury's contention as to the security of the seal species or the propriety of resorting to the arbitrators.

The Daily News The Americans have justly regarded with disfavor the propositions that the fishery be opened to vessels guaranteeing damages, and adds; Lord Salisbury only writes of the responsibility of the governments for their own acts. This might easily be made to involve responsibility for the acts of citizens they neglected to coerce. The Telegraph says: At present it must be confessed that the negotiations appear to nave come to a deadlock, not altogether devoid of anxiety or even peril. On every ground it most be desired that the arbitrators shall get to work at the soonest possible moment. In the house of lords Lord Salisbury stated, in reply to a question, that the blue book laid before the members of parliament contained all the information regarding the Behring sea negotia tions in the possession of the foreign omce.

BLUS FOR THE SILVER MKN. They Bun Against a Snmg in the Shape of Speaker Crisp. Washington, March 28. The ranks of the free silver men in the house were thrown into consternation by the report that Speaker Crisp had stated that he would not vote in the committee on rules in favor of bringing in a rule to shut off debate on the Bland bill, unless he received assurances from a ma jority of the democratic party that they would support the rule. This statement was made by Mr.

Crisp to Representative Pendleton, of West vergima, shortly after noon, and Mr. Pendleton immediately communi cated it to some of his party associates on the floor asd the news spread with lightning-like rapidity. Both sides on the measure were loth to believe the report when it was first started, but they soon received assurances that it was true. The anti-silver men were jubilant and freely made claims that the bill was dead. "This kills the bill," said Mr.

Barter, of Ohio, one of the most active anti-sil ver "The silver men can not get a majority of the democrats to sign any petition to the committee on rules for a cloture. Indeed, this seemed to be the opinion on all sides, irrespective of inclination on the question. A formal requesV was made to the committee on rules by Mr. Bland that the committee bring in a special order setting an early day for another vote on the silver bill, with a cloture provision. Speaker Crisp told Mr.

Bland frankly that he had decided not to favor the request for cloture unless he was assured by a majority of democratic members that they would give him their earnest support attempting to adopt it. This was a startling piece of information to Mr. Bland. He had a long talk with the speaker on the subject, bnt did not succeed in making Mr. Crisp change his mind.

FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. (First SesslonJ BOCSB. WasuiiroroN, March 28. The speaker sub mitted a letter from Mr. Donovan O.J.

whose vote on tbe silver bill last Thursday was questioned. He stated that he was recorded as voting in tbe negative on the motion to table the bill, and that he was not in the hpuse when his name was called on this or any other motion to tbe bill. He was detained at home by illness, and was not allowed to leave his room. The vote of Mr. Donovan as recorded did not affect the result.

On motion of Mr. Dockery (Mo.) a resolution was passed requesting the secretary of the navy to inform the house what amount of gold, silver and minor coinage has been executed at the four coinage mints of the United States from Jnne 80, 1861, to March 1, 1882, the number of pieces and respective denominations of such gold, silver and minor coinage, and also whether the present capacity oi the mints Is adeauate to execute the authorized coinage of the United States. t. A bill was passeed granting a pension to Sam uel J. Bolting and to Eliza Fay.

A resolution was passed providing for the ex penses of the sub-committee on judiciary to investigate alleged abuses of process and author ity by certain officers of the judicial depart ment. This being District day, the house then pro ceeded with the consideration of business re ported from the committee on the District of Columbia. On motion of Mr. Morgan a resolution was passed requesting the president to communicate to tbe senate the correspondence with the government of the Argentine Republic on the subject of commercial reciprocity under the McKinloy Dill. Mr.

Wolcott (Col.) introduced a resolution requesting the president to refrain from allot- Ing lands in severalty to tne Indians or Colorado pending existing legislation as to their removal. A rather animated discussion arose upon a resolution offered by Mr. Sherman for immediate consideration, calling upon the secretary of the treasury for a report as to the increase or decrease of expenditure which would result from the transfer of the revenue marine service to the navy department (some additional interest bemg In need into this question by the pending Behring sea dispute). Finally the resolution was adopted, and the sonate took up bills on the calendar. At 2 o'clock the senate went into executive session on the "Behring sea matters.

A fllg Missouri Lumber Firm In Trouble. Springfield, March 28. Two lumber yards of S. A. Brown A Co.

were attached for 825,000. by Spencer A. Brown, Union national bank, Chicago, and McNulty, members of the firm. The company owns yards all over southwest Missouri, and does a gigantic business. It is thought that all their yards are.

attached. A partnership quarrel is supposed to be the cause. Only One Convention. St. Louis, March 28.

The republican state committee met here and decided I 1 V.4 nsmwOTitirm On Anrll 37 delegates to the national convention 1 will be chosen, ana on tne rotn state of ficers will be nominated. Dynamiters blew the nubile oroeecutor'a boose in Pans. Rev. Mr. Mansur has been hoUinrr a very suc cessful revival at Albla, la.

Max PnWipe died at the St Louis city hospital of self-inflicted wounds. Patrick owner of the white horse of Dr. Cronin celebrity, died in Chicago. Timothy Hopkins is said to have received 910,000,000 settlement from Mr. Searles.

Troops have been ordered to the front in anticipation of the Cherokee strip's opening. Chicago has named a citizens' committee to help the crand jury in the boodle investigation. A queer religious sect of Swedes, known as the New Evangelists, has come to light New York. Second Adventlsts claim the recent celestial phenomena are signs of the early approach of the milleniam. Buncoing senators through begging letters has begun again.

Senator Palmer, of Illinois, Is me latest great rush to the iron belt of Minnesota is practically over, the ore-bearing lands having ueen aoouc au taiten ap. The Bohemians of St. Irais enfehrated the birthday of Jan Amos Komensky, the originator ui uie puDiic scnooi system. In a house of ill repute at Omaha a visitor auiea an inmate, with whom he had quarreled, and then committed suicide. Miss Nannie Roberts, of Oskaloosa.

ob jects to the efforts of her father and uncle to put her into an insane asylum. Borrows, the New York masher, was once kicked out of Millionaire Newcombe's house for unwelcome attention to a lady. Near Waco. a neero who criminally as saulted a white child, was caught after two oay searcn ana placed jau. Rev.

Dr. Scudder, in a letter So Brooklyn mends, says that his son is insane, and that he Is not morally speaking, a murderer. The National Association of Democratic clabs advises all democratic societies to celebrate Jefferson's birthday anniversary April 15. Father Oessner. of Elizabeth.

N. denounced from the altar the circulation of peti tions for the pardon of two well-known thieves. Stories of the immorality of "Prince Mi chael" of the "Flyinir Roll" at Detroit are creep- tng out and the police are taking a hand in the aevouons. The agricultural depatment will show at the Chicago fair models of plants attacked by in sects ana aisease, besides many other interest ing exhibits. The estimates of the state department for tne diplomatic and consular appropriation bill have been cut down $565,541 by the committee on foreign anairs-A Kentucky legislator and a clerk of a com mittee went to a country hotel with two women and registered in the names of two well-known members of the house as man and wife.

They will De removed from office. Clans Sprockets' sugar refinery at Phiadel- phia has been formally turned over to the Sugar trust in consideration of in trust cer tificates. Mr. Spreckels will go to San Francisco, where he will remain. Lord Salisbury's last note is said to contain the intimation that the British government is wilting to enter into an arrangement for the protection of the seals in Behring sea as soon as tne arbitration treaty is ratified.

The five-story budding occupied by the Oma ha (Neb.) Hardware Co. was completely de stroyed oy nre. Tne loss on stock is 17o.UUU: insurance, building, insurance roil, it is believed the are was started by burg lars. Pink Varble, the falls pilot at Louisville. was stricken with apoplexy while taking the John A.

Wood over the falls. His condition is very critical- Capt. Varble is 62 years old, and is one of the best-known river men in the west. 8 trance to relate but little of the fruit in Mis sissippi was killed by the late blizzard. Much of the peach and pear crop was in bloom, and for thirty hours the trees were covered with ice.

yet reports say tn.it the fruit crop will be larger than tast year. HavorFawcett of Burlington, Ll, began his administration by an order for all gamblers and disreputable characters to leave the city at ami for all saloons to close at midnight and ai day Sunday. The police are strictly currying out his orders. Benjamin Eggenspielder, 30 years old and limed, whose residence was at Utlca, fl miles east of Jcffersonrille, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear, almost severing his head from his body. Eggenspielder had been on a drank ot several weeks duration.

Mr. A. Pardee, tfae coal king, died at Phila delphia. His wealth has been variously esti mated at from .000.000 to It is possibly not over the latter of these figures. but it may even exceed them.

At the time of his death he was not abio to estimate it nimael i The bloody engagements recently between imperial troops and rebels in northern China re sulted in the sJaugnter of several uionsana rebels. The imperial army lost only five killed and forty-five wounded. Over 8.000 rebels were put to death with the sword and 500 were actually burned auve. Charles F. VaiL of St.

Louis, under indict' ment for the killing of his wife at Old Monroe, whose case was set for trial at St. unaries. Saturday, failed to put in an appearance; neither was his attorney in court, and his bond was declared forfeited, vail is In the St. Louis Typewriter exchange. The Denver (Col.) Oil and Gas Co.

has struck oil at Morrison, a town fourteen miles west of Denver. Particulars of the strike are being kept secret, but it is known that the oil was found in a new well which was started recently. The quantity of oil at present is not great, but it is asserted that the main flow will be reached in a short time. 'hkdgkpkth wild fight. The 'Leader of the Glendale Robbers Plead Not Guilty.

St. Lot-ib, March 38. Marion Hedge- peth, the man charged wilth leading the "Cileudale gang oi roooers wno held up the Adams express -car to the tune-oi on hovcjuuct taken to Clayton, St. Ixrais county, for arraignment. Duputy hheriK uarrett, accompanied by Sheritf iPosenbach's son.

made up the legal escort, and the prisoner was accompanied by his attor- nev. lion. ionn i. iwaruu. The proceedings in tfie court consist ed merely of the routine "You are charged," "IIoxv do you plead? of the clerk ana wi.

Aiarcm stenionan Not indltY? in behalf of his client Hedgepeth was returned to the St, Louis mil. It is understood that CoL Martin will ask for a change of venue. A. Memphis Murder, March 28. Miss Tate was found in her room on Jones avenue bleeding from nine knife and razor wounds.

-She said that Sam Allen, a negro, entered her room and without any provocation began to cut her with a razor- He then dropped the razor and began to stab her with butcher knife. The. woman died at and. Allen can not be found. -t to the Wall.

Chicago, March 28. The board of trade firm of C. Doerr Co. was forced to the wall bv the severe decline in wheat. The amount of liabilities is not yet known, but i expected to be greater than the assets.

Ten for Eunsoor O'Brien. A lb an v. March S3. Itancoct O'Brien ns budi sentenced to ten years jprisonmelC Lord Salisbury Gradually Dismount ing from His High Horse IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S NOTE. The Chances Now Are that the Seals Will be Mutually Protected, Pending the Results of the Arbitration.

Lord Salisbury's Beply. Washington, March 28. The news of the receipt of Lord Salisbury's reply to -President Harrison's note of the 22d inst. brought Hon. John W.

Foster and Senator Sherman to the White house at an unusually early hour. They re mained in conference with the president for half an hour. When they left their faces expressed inward satisfaction with the condition of things which occupied their minds. The reply of Lord Salisbury, it is said in high ofhcial circles, while not con ceding in express teims what the United btates has for in the recent correspondence, is so conciliatory in tone and manner as to open the way foi an amicable settlement of the present controversy. In previous correspondence Lord Salisbury declined to admit the subject of damages to the terms of the treaty at all; now he proposes to refer the question of damages to the arbitra tors.

Upon this point his lordship's sug gestion contains an impracticable fea ture, that of attempting to measure dam ages to Canadian sealers which were prevented by the United States from engaging in their occupation. This is what the late Charles Sumner described as "Consequential damages." It would be impossible, in the opinion of the officials ui teres ted, to make any esti mate of damages for what "might have been; actual damages are all that can be assessed. But, as stated, the tone of the reply encourages the officials to be lieve a satisfactory arrangement can be made with England for the protection of seals, pending the decision of the points in dispute by arbitration. Besides Gen. Fester and Senator Sherman, Secretary Blaine, Senator Frye, member of the senate committee on foreign relations, and Representative Blount were conference with the president.

They had under consideration the terms of the reply to the propo sition of Lord Salisbury respecting the question of dsonages before the arbitra tors as affecting the. renewal of the modus vivendo. Members of Congress Unusually Beti- eent- Washington, March 28. Members of congress are unusually reticent in expressing opinions on Lord Salisbury's propositions as contained in his last two notes to Sir Julian Pauncefote, concern ing the renewal of the modus viveudi. Chairman Blount of the house commit- I tee on foreign affairs, and Messrs.

Hitt 1 and McCreary, ex-chairmen of the com- mittee, and several of its members re- fuse to talk on the subject, taking the ground that the Behring sea matter is now in the hands of the executive i and the senate, and that expressions of opinion by members of the house, and particularly by members of the foreign affairs committee, at the present time would not be entirely proper. Several members of the committee. however, talked of the subject in the general aspects, two of them only mak ing reference to Lord Salisbury propo sitions. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, took the ground that as the United States had paid for the privilege of obtaining seals in Alaska, it snould main tain its rights at all hazards.

He thought the position of Lord Salisbury was entirely untenable. Mr. Hooker said he advocated the prevention of pelagic sealing by Canadian vessels. To abdicate our rights now would be, he said, to forfeit not only our rights but our honor as a nation. The United States had a clear title, and we should surrender nothing pending arbitration, nor permit indiscriminate sealing.

Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, said that when the United States obtained Alaska it secured vested rights in regard to the sealing privileges which could not be surrendered. He thought that the rights of the United States should be asserted and maintained. Mr. O'Donnell said that while he believed in arbitration for all international differences, yet in this instances there were certain privileges which would be unjust and dishonorable for the United States to release pending arbitration.

Mr. Kaynor, of Maryland, said that, as a member of the committee on foreign affairs, he preferred not to speak until the matter came before the com-mittc (if it ever did), but his impression' was that the demand of Great Britain was rather an extreme one, and that a compromise should be agreed on during the pendency of the proceedings and before ratification of the treaty. Spirit oi the London Press. London, March 28. The Star (liberal) says: The official dispatches as published do not put Lord Salisbury right.

He has not been cousit-ent, while Secretary Blaine ha3 been conisteat. The Star expresses the belief that Behring sea ought to lie fallow for the present. The St. James Gazette (conservative) says: It is to be hoped that not even the exigencies of the presidential election will induce the United States to reject the last handsome offer of Lord Salisbury. The Evening News says: President Harrison, with all his bellicose buncombe, will scarcely decline proposals so reasonable to the United States.

The Chronicle says: It is to be regretted that the correspondence will not tend to popularize arbitration. Itsays: "Mr. Blaine very cleverly, by a sort of attor-nev'n trick, nut Lord Salisbury into a somewhat absurd position by consenting to arbitrate whether we ever had or have a right to carry seals on the way to the American 'ireeding waters. We admit our right is doubtful. The world wound vote us foolish to go to war on account of 25.000 seals.

It is clear that Mr. Blaine saw from the first the advantage of his side. His government 1 on the eve of an election, and can afford to to be ndicakuia, We Jeremiah Cotto, Murderer of Louia Frankelso, Electrocuted. HE DISAPPOINTED THE PRISON OFFICERS By Going Calmly to His Death A Cur rent of 1,700 Volts Did the Work Brief Resume of His Terrible Crime. Sins, Sing, N.

YMMarch8. Atabont 10:45 a. m. Jeremiah Cotto, the murderer of Louis Frankelso, was executed in the electric chair. This was the eighth ex ecution by electricity.

It possessed peculiar interest, because it had been reported that Cotto had been suffering from a dreadful fear of his ap proaching death, and because it seemed probable that he would break down and make a pitiful scene in the execution room. But Cotto's courage seemed to increase with the approach of death. The nervousness which had almost prostrated him in the days preceding seemed to leave him to-day, and he went to death calmly. Little preparation for the execution was needed. The execution cell adjoining the cells occupied by the condemned man was just as it had been left after the execution of McElvaine a month ago.

The chair in which McElvaine had sat had been taken from its place and a new chair had been built on the same pattern. The only change made was the addition of rubber bags filled with salt water from which the electrodes were to be kept wetted con stantly. This was done last Saturday, and the dynamos at the other end of the prison yard were run for half an hour while the strength of the current was tested and all the connections examined. At the last elec trocution arrangements were made to try tne metnoa 01 applying me electrodes suggested by Thomas A. Edison and other eminent electricians through the hands, but the results were so un satisfactory that Dr.

Carlos F. MacDon- aid, who has had charge of the details of all executions by electricity, thought it best to return to the form of application before used at Sing Sing at the forehead and at the calf of the leg. The chair used haa been de scribed before. It is of hard pine with a head rest of rubber, against which the condemned man's head was held by two strong straps, and side pieces, to which his arms were tightly strapped. The witnesses included half a dozen newspaper reporters, representing the principal morning papers in JNew York city and the United Press.

Cotto had passed a quiet night. Much of the time Father Milo, assistant prison priest, and Father DeSautis, of Brooklyn, who was a neighbor of Cotto in Italy, had been in the man celL Shortly after 10 o'clock the witnesses were summoned by the warden, and went into the prison. Electrician Davis had tested the current. Everything was in perfect order, and Cotto was brought in. Father DeSautis walked in front of Cotto, holding the crucifix before his eyes and uttering prayers in Italian, to which he made firm responses.

He took his place in the chair without any signs of failing. The priests' knelt in front of the death chair and continued praying aloud. Cotto kept his eyes fixed on them and continued to repeat the responses while he was being tied to the chair. Warden Brown suddenly dropped a handkercheif and the executioner turned a switch, applying a current of over 1,700 volts. Cotto body stiffened and the straps made deep in his skin.

The current was turned off and on four times. After each application Cotto showed signs of apparent life, moving his hands and opening his eyes. There was no movement of the chest, however, as there had been in other es. After the fourth shock there were no signs of life aud the doctors declared the man dead. There was no burning, but the steam arose and there was a scalding of the parts where the electrodes were applied.

The murder for which Cotto died was committed last July in the outskirts of Brooklyn. Cotto and his victim, Louis Frankeloso, were rag-pickers. Cotto had been a lover of Mrs. Frankeloso, in Naples, Italy, and after she and her hus band emigrated to this country she sent Cotto money to follow her. He deserted a wife and family to join his paramour here.

He lived with the Frankelosos in a tumbled-down tene ment in Brooklyn, and he and Mrs Frankeloso discussed the question of putting Frankeloso out of the way so they might retain their relations with out the husband a interference. One Friday night Frankeloso started out to steal vegetables from the neigh boring farms, and was stealthily fol lowed by Cotto. Upon a lonely roadside Cotto came upon his victim, and with savage fury stabbed him no less than fourteen times. Frankeloso was left frying dead in the road. Cotto returned to the Frankeloso home and, standing before the woman he had widowad, licked the blood from the knife with which he had committed tho.

deed. I The Bain Hill Inquest. IvONDOJT, March 2S. The inquest in the case. of the victims of the Rain Hill tragedy resulted in a verdict of willful murder against Deeming, alias Arthur Williams.

.1 Martha Deeming, wife of the murderer's brother, testified in regard to the movements of the murderer while he was at Bain Hill, so far as known to his relatives, and other witnesses gave similar evidence, Vail Gone to Surrender, St. Loots, March S8, Charles Vail, whose bond was declared forfeited for- failure to appear for trial for the killing of his wife, at St. Charles, Ma, Saturday, left the city ostensibly to de- liver himself up to the authorities. He was heard to remark, however, that his boo was not worh ten cenjB. tjLi Ohicago Negroes Befuse to Sing "My Country, "Tls of Thee," BUT HEARTILY IN "JOHM BROWN." They Do Not Indorse the Sentiment of the Former Because of the Discriminations Made Against Them as a Race.

Chicago, March 28. One thousand colored people refused to sing the national hymn Sunday night, and applauded the retaliatory sentiments eloquently pressed by one of the speakers. The audience gathered at Bethel African Methodist church. Thirtieth and Dearborn streets, to consider the recent southern outrages, and to express their sentiments in reference to bettering the condition of the colored peo ple. Kev.

George W. Games, the pastor, preached a short sermon in which he exhorted the people to consider these matters which effect the in terest of the race with Christian forbearance, trusting to the plan of infinite wisdom to bring about some remedy for the execution of the law. After his sermon the meeting was opened to the consideration of the recent cause in the south which has led the colored peo ple to voice their protest no unmia-taken way. I A decided sensation occurred when the pastor stepped forward and asked the audience to join in singing: "My Country. Tis of Thee." A number of voices indicated a deeided-opposHianTto this part of the programme.

He did not at first comprehend the situation, and asked: ycu want to sing to which question a dozen voices in different parts of the house answered One man in the audience rase and said: "I don't want to sing iliat song until this country is what it claims to be, 'sweet land of The preacher then started "John l(nmn in tK ioini'd in singing. The first speaker was Col. A. A. Jones, lie said that the lynching of the three men at Memphis and the young negress at liaiville, and the burning of a negro at the stake at Tcxarkana.

should cause the colored people throughout the country to join in one voice of protest, and send a committee to Washington t- see if some plan could not be devised to protect a citizen in Lonisana as well as one in Chili. He was followed by E. H. Morris, "who claimed that the laws were in the hands of the people, and that the colored people should organize themselves into leagues and associations and thus be enabled by united efforts to resist the outrages. Dr.

J. Vi. Curtis spoke of the outrages perpetrated upon the negroes of the south. Sol. Taylor said that the colored man in the south had borne his sufferings with patience, which had ceased to be a virtue, and the time was fast coming when the fatal blow would be struck.

F. L. Barnett said, among other things: "During the years of our freedom more than 10,000 of our race have met with violent and unlawful death. 'Ten thousand toys lightly upon the tongue, but to the thoughtful man murders mean something. Itmeans 10.000 homes shocked by the Imtal butheries of loved ones; 10.000 families nursing the smoldering embers of hate to keep them warm; 10.000 crimes for which some one must pay.

"To-day the south stands with reckless feet upon a crime-stained crust beneath which seethe and swell the crushed, pent-up and pitiless energy of outrage upon humanity. One murder too many, and that spirit will- break forth in one remorseless sweep of devastation and death. Ten thousand more cictims. may die, bnt it will be 10,000 black and white in 'one re4 burial blent." God forbid that day, but if it mustcome, let it come. IN THIS PRUSSIAN LANDTAG.

Stormy Scene on the Announcement of the Death of the Education BUI. Berijx, March 38, The landtag has not witnessed in many years such an exciting scene as that of to-day when the new Prussian premier announced that the primary education bill had been abandoned. Von Eulerbcrg was received on his first appearance as head of the Prussian ministry with signs of general respect. 11c is a man whose manner and appearance impress favorably, ami, aud with the exception of the social democrats, the members of the landtag have no prejudice against him personally. Even those who dislike the aristocracy as such, respect Von E'alenbcrg for his literary culture.

Therefore, the first impression seemed favorable. 1 he premier, howewr, was not long in a scene significant of future d'nicord in the diet He announced, in clear and unequivocal language, that the government had decided to abandon the school bill. The statement had an electric effect Everylnxty had expec'ied that the education bill would be pcetr- ported but the declaration that it had btcn abandoned was almost a universal surprise. The national lib erals were delighted; the ul tramontanes could not conceal their anger. They hail not anticipated' such a straight bww from the government, and a storm of hisses greeted the premier's an nouncement.

The national liberals cheered loudly, and both parties got so excited that, for time, it seemed as ff some might be provoked to personal violence. A The premier took everything calmly and waited until the excitement had quieted down. Ihen he proceeded with other business. Inquire In VrooresaT A mian N. Y.j March 28.

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