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Tie New York Ireveler ITaeaey Over theUnexpected Delay You fleett Meld Oe

Nobaelr Cevm Tel whet that MM IIn thefThlte Boat DoEobept LincolnFinally Aetept gs E Blleh MUalon-4an >orl Tanner Intended TVholeaMtoRemovals e> f Democratic Knldlem fromIk r B IOB Oce Cheeked hr Heeretsiry-NehUChlll Aerepte th Invitation to-

eth CengeIu ofAnserleaai NttoiVASinxoTON April 4Me81 Van Cott

lid Erh rdt have returned to Now York with-

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their commissions M Postmaster nnd Col-

lector¬

of the Tort of New York respectivelybut 11 r Van ClBAld before IOIDlto thn trnlntoday that woro ni rhhand mlsht bo announced Into today ¬

morrow nt tho furthest Tho Now York lend-

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all expootod theso two ofllcoi to bo filledthis mornlnc They fay tonight tbnt thyknow of no chango In tbo nranlement anddon that there Ila any hitch 1 no ques ¬

howoyor that they are uneasy ovortnunexpected dollY and do not foolquito Burof tho Presidents Anal action as to-

apartof tho slato agreed upon at yesterdaysconference Tills uneasiness was manifestedtonight by tho return to the city of Oon JohnK Knapp to look alter his chances for thoNaval Office and br tho activity of the friendsof Theodore Willis of Brooklyn who views

witalarm tbo strong mo > otnant In behalf ofWesley Jacobus for Surveyor Tho ob

lection mode to tho Dig Four nn Cott Ertardt Knapl and Willis Is that tholrnpoolntment bo nn undue recognition of MrIlatt It Is not bollovcd that the opposition-will change tho Iroht1cnts purpose but thoromay bo delay In HIIInK tliu remaining placesalter the Collector and Iobtmastor are aipointed-

ThoNnvnlOfllcornnd Surveyor will not bonamed until Mr Thomas C 1lntl cornea totown again some time next week

Tho President Lad a long talk today withPaitmaslerOnprul WanaiimKer nnd Assist

nt IOKtmasterUonornl JlarkBOn oor the NewYork Post Olllco question nod bcnator Illscook saw the 1ronldont and the IoMtnastorGeneral on the sarao subject Tbu heuiito-vantod the ImmoUlutelrbut Mr Yanamnktir apparently not BOO

the need of urgent haste It Is not understoodhovvdvor that ho objected to Mr Van ColtMr Hltcock said lato tonlcht that there wasno ctiano In the situation burnoutI trIJattlfriends tried to tko this view of Ittliov wow plnlnly a lllllo nervous

You ste said ono ul them In a whlellnobody feels qultu uro wbnt that I-lthere liiolntlnc with liU thumb toward thewhlto House uinr do about anything Tboromay bo lunrot

Mr Kobort Lincoln arrived hero late lastnight and this mornlnc called on SenatorCullom at tho Arllaeton Hotel wncra ho henrtthe story of his appointment n mnlinclnnd lie expressed his surprise that thoPresident should have thought ul him and hisregret that ho boulIIIe ben selected because In tlii > lce did not considerhlrusflll fitted either experience or talent tooccupy the placo iilthouBh ho felt very croatlyhaltered ut this murk ol the President s conlldenoo Ho said ho had not yet concludedwhether ho should lueopt or not Ho had notyet decided In his own mind whether It wasjust to bUn and just to tho President to acceptun oftlco involving FO much responsibilitywhere the duties wore entirely now to him MrCullom told him It would not do for him to de-cline

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and thnt hi had bettor talk the matterover freely with tho President and after statlug to him frankly what his teelincB wore toleave It entirely with him which Mr Lincolnconcluded to do They wont to the WhiteHouse where Mr Lincoln thanked the 1realdent for the went honor and described hisdilemma wit reference to accepting I ThePresident way enld tbnt couldnot get out of It that It wilt an appolntmonthat no man could decline and that he ihouLdconsider Mr Lincolns accoptnncu already re-ceived Then the pair went to tbo Htiito Dopartment where a elmilar conference WI holdwith Mr Dlnlno and afterward clodupon Secretary Proctor who Is 1101 thoMr Lincoln occupied for lour

Judge Oresbam has recommended the appolntment of Judge Brown of the United StatesDistrict Court of Michigan as the successor of-

StanleyMatthowson thoKupromo Bench andJudge Jlrown also halthe endorsement of1 mostof the enlnlluwYlrsln the northern portionof the 110hilan ha never had A manun the 8peme while Ohio has hueseven tt beloe that tho coming apKilntmentwlll former State lieu

Intimated that ho had a man Inhis mind for the place but ho has not yot indloted who ho is

Mr male today received news that Chilihad tbo invitation of tbo UnitedStates to the conference of American nations-to be hold in Washington next October Thiswill result undoubtedly in the acceptance ofPeru Bolhla and Ecuador throe nationswhich stnnd greatly In awe of Chill and willnot do anything to provoke her wrath

I It appears that Corporal Tanner asked for180 reellnitont from tho omelets of tho

01eo within three days after bo toolhis seat thus broke the recordothers who wore Invited to resign AmoliJoseph I Colt of Connecticut Chief of thoWar Navy 1 U Won Although a Demo ¬

crut ho eenAd with distinction tbiouirhWI carIes about with him several

of load anti tools that hisservices entitle him to Ills ulnce in theTension bureau When hs rocohed Cor-poral

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Tanners latter demanding hisresIgnation ho enclosed It In a note to Secro ¬

tary oble doscnhim his military record andeaWnl for an lno tlcutlon of hits conductof the PensIon Bureau bocrotary-itoble sent for him and from lien Colt rocehod the Information of tho wholesale

jlauuhter that was unlnc on in the PensionThen the Secretary sent for the Com-

missioner¬

told him It would not do and Issued-an order forbddlnl anybody to call for roshnations w1holt iia knowledge and consent

This was tim 1rosliloats lightest day so faracallers were concerned They mndo up InI talk however what they lacked In numbers-

and kept the President engaged Inthroughout the entire time devoted IsloulnFness Among those who sew thewere AttorneyGeneral Miller Honatorarid friends Honntor Hiioonor and friendsItearesentatUos Allen llurton and Butlerworth with Mr Lewis snncood and daughterlleprtBontutive Coleman and friends and Rep-resentative

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Urowor ami lends Walter ¬

ard applicant for the Governorship 01 lowJUte William Strong J U 0 Mtkln of New

Senator Wolcutt and ItonresentatlvaaJeborne 1homox nail Ktneuy Tho Hon Hobcrt T Lincoln the now Minister to Englandjalwd at nbput noon In company with Senator

ullom and had u short Interview with thePreldent Ion ins A EklnU S A the RevW W Burr the 11ev P W oiitns representwives oltnolloard of ioroliti MItbionC for thoU1DI drebb > terlun church culled in companytlDr Jos iI Cooper

JISS A Vote of Memo who for fourteenTears prior to the incoming of the last Admini-stration

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was appointment clerk of the PostOfflcs Department has been reappointed t-oW place

O F ciarkson Jr of Iowa has boon apolntd private secretary to the 1lrst Assistant

IQsImaterUenerallltsnIleeves Jr of Now York has been

IP oluteaa stant chief clerk of the Pension

aTbotlornoyGeneral has alpolntctHerbertIIW Depart ¬

abet of Justice vice T N Itoblnson rosigned and 0 P M Hubbard of tho sntnoState to blBtenocrapber and confidential seeret vl MlMLydu M Hull resteneiLAAvG jIooni Chief of the Conlputnl DivisionOlldbepTrelLrY Architects resigned

of MaReuhusetta has beenKvif for the Place Mr 1oase was formerlya Ithe omco but was dismissed by the last A-

detralonThe PostmasterGeneral 1 has appointed the

following fourthclass PostmastersCbatIet w btotdrd HridewsIr S r jhon01 Iirstnyuie s y J XirIvlieJ AlouZwni LMur S V ck Let Cen

Cechbun UurpoI Y 1itt lOyrt N J ft Ced t4ertti Chill N ylcbacbuh Oaond5s VUY t Y arlaf red 0 ValleyIy r rat King tJiiaaIlia York ayltt ItaItlflbtir NY J SY J Ilo-

eEfllylLl I lowy wtord 85 Ti Allen N iiWnt1J IC L nt nenton falls 1eii

r T u Hramer-aif t M1 it A csrk Hast Huston Me L 1> 1r-I hutuNaMu0rh Mt Jonathan llaronr

J W bweuy Annandale NJ JuliusI

Ir 5aybei a t J w l Barker 1orVed Illver N

Jobs ii IUD Ulen Uardner s Ji AUOIpIIUS WardBan j K i Larrabee Manrliester > JI-

PIIIOIi oPPOfk Wouul Pleasant N Ji Hiram VeSTSi nJ JiI IJ H AshleyV Port Itepubllo N Ji

V-M 11100 Slays K Ji XaUo llerr White-

tip 0 Colvln Slut llenton Pat M 8 KilrbtIJ PaJoboMcCrieoiaI 1outa La owl 7ki A Pckviflo i14sirAstuLO1 WUaUI Pa BwI-Q

The Oreeawloh Uarnburnlna VaseBaipoyjoni April tTho case of Alexander

14 gt Oavld I Uiuted the celebratedI Greenwichearn turnln cue wtlch hasbeet on trial In the fcu

nor Osur befere a jury toy the past IC o weeks wasDntsned thi arterneon ftli a verdict In favor of me defOIOI Voui1sl for lb PlelnUfJ gave noticeot an ap

The eme Utlaaata bate bUD before tbe courts oftUOUI11 TiLtf ivltt COVU ful slgt4 otin

KIlO JOHN OF ABX8BIN1JL

A Talk wll a New York Jormallet whoew him Personally

Mr Alvam 8 Soutbrrorlh at one timeBocrotary of the AmericAn Qooarrftphlc l Boolety and who was formerly In Abyssinia nndnn acquaintance and correspondent of EORJohn reported slain la bate said yesterday

ta Bus reporterYes I know King John or as ho was known-

in his own country Johanncz and J the re-

port of his death bo true it will prove Croatcalamity to Abyssinia Mr aonualntnnca bo-

nn with him In 1872 Ho was about 32

old at that tlmo havlnc proclaimed htmseJKins on the suicide of Theodore at AInafter the defeat of his forces by tbo Britishunder Lord Kapler He sot out to rule with

Irenpomp going to the ancient city of Axumcrowned boforo an assemblage of

SOOpooDle who kept up the festivities onbrewed from honey for threo days

and the rov client wore wild with fanatical en-

thusiasm brought on by this exceedinglyseductive bovoraee which I have put to thetest myself

When lie retired to Adowale capital of

Amhorawhose language a Cl1910 closelyto Its Hebrew stem hn took with him

nn English subaltern from Nnplors commandnntneiiKlrklmm Ho DAdo him nOoDoral andput him In countiand army and Klrkham-vvns the bolo forrltnor ho would trust Kirk

hll was a bravo and venturesome follow hutvery ignorant and unpolshodln In mannernmf carriage IU81Ul11cant compnred with tho AbynMnlnn arehandsome dlunlllod silent and serious men-The King however stack by Klrkharu 0-1thotich ho encountered much native hostility

I Ho bcuim to trill the soldiery In Europeanfashion and modern arms aud artillery werepurchased In Luro IB Everything was going onwell and thoro was every prospect that thecountry clreed for 1100 yours to the trade oftho world would bo opened commerce tr allbornlmindnd man llko Johnnnoz lint whenI hnpiicntd to reach Maiwmah Jute In 187i Ifound nn Egyptian expedItion on hand to cap-ture

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tho pioUnooo Ii Jlocoi I took crotupt-iioiistire to send the news to Huezand It wastelegraphed over KurotO vvostern-poivera took Inimedlntonnd ollocllvo measuresto present tho nnnosutlon of Christian soil by-

a Mo lem StateIIn what wavitre tthe Abyssininns ChristiansWell they itro not all Cbrlstant The

country Including the to thefoutli has a population of about 12000000and twothlriUof those are Coptic Christianswith their Patriarch at Cairo Tho rest aro-

Moholmetalslnd often dwell In tIle sameCopts with little or no

friction But the Mohammedan element hasboon In Abtfslula lees than 2UO yearswhile theCopts data back to near the boplnnlne of thaChristian erl hut this Ecypthui foray witsfollowed others which actually provednienadnc enough The Mohamnivdan troopseormaldet by American odlecrs and among

ion Lor I UK Invaded the coun-try

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buwore put to inglorious lllchtwlth greatloss Jo-

Tlnso attempts to subjugate and annoxmaddened the Klne who had pre-

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luMd broad vlovvs nnd had wlshet toopuu his country to the trade of tho Infact knowing the friendli act I had dOD to-

Ils country In causing tho seizurebo abandoned ho proposed that 1 should

live at Adoun tho capital and conduct the re-

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ot Abjsslnla with all foreign powerslnfact bo his Irlmo Minister For this service hocfTerod to pay mo SJOI n year In Austrian

current on Sea a largo tract ofdolorgovern internally which should besltuateda mountain and lake and other con-siderations

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eiiually nleiiiaut I told him that Iwas on mi way to London from the Koudanand would clvo tho proposition my earnestthought Meotlnir ion Ktrkltam Iwho couldSot even write his name a few mouths later InLondon he brought renewed and even moreliberal propositions and he also had letters totho various sovereigns of burot o and to Presi-dent

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Grant from Johannez which I undertookto forward to their properdestlnatlons Shortlyafter with the lul approval of the King and InaFsoclntlon several vrralthy and Influen-tial

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EnFlshlol at the hood of whom W0 Ad ¬

Osborno I undertook organlEe an Aliysfinlan company rounded upon thenonoral outlines of tho old East India Companyand tile Hudson Day Company In the mean-time the wily Klrkham had Interested a Ger-man

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trading syndicate which his since triedfoully to carry out part of the without en-terprise

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nerve orcottneration of the KingWhat bocamo of Klrkhum-Ho

Iwas shot and killed white tryine to

cross through the Egyptian lines and sIncethou the Klne has had uo sincere and Intelllgent adviser for Klrkham however untutored-had showed common sense The consequencehas been tho Italian Invasions the Mabdl-oporatlnc from tho direction of Khartoum andcivil wiiis with provinces other than his ownhave mado him narrow arrogant and fanat-ical

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exactly as THE BusYOI may say continued Mr Kouthworth

do not credit the assumption thut Johnhas boon killed In any contest with actualfollowers of the Mahdi Thla seems to mo likea eooeraphlcnl Impossibility because of tholong cninol trail I otvreon the Blue Nile and theAbyssinian frontier and the Impossibility oftho Atbora at this time of year It is moreprobable that ho has boon killed In conflictwith some rival State to Amhora aud that hehas fallen nt tho head of his troops Whateverzany be said of him ono fart cannot be deniedthat ho was the most obstinate notable andsuccessful chieftain that has flourished on theAfrican continent for generation and one oftho Ideal Abisslnlan monarchs since tho oxtlnctlon of tho old Ethiopian empire

4JIUiEMENX

Die nelden Leonoren at Ambere1Mr Ambers has condo agood selection In

choosing Die Balden Loonoren a fouractcomedy by Paul LIndau for presentation at histheatre It Is a piece well suited to his com-pany

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and one which must prove hUjbly pleaslog to his audiences The play Is pure comedynever running Into farce

The two Leonoras are a mother who Is notlot old and a daughter who has grown like amushroom The mother 1s engaged in a flirta-tion

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when the daughter comes homo from-boardiegechojI In loud dresses and with otherwomanly evidences and astonishes shamesand fascinates the lover of her mother with thomost brilliant celerity Frau Trautmunn themother was a picturesque and erneoful flirtfull of engaging languor and audacity Thefirst scene IB given to tho flirtation Herr Ottbert was the other principal and very hand-some

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nnd capable In his part Herr Friese wasthe uncle of the scapegrace wholly opposed toflirting The broadest fun of the piece was af-forded

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by him and ho hIlled his part mostcreditably

The second act Is disillusion Leonora thedaughter robust aud sprightly moots thelover Al the Herman phrase goes Tboscales from bin eyes and ho mutes him ¬

self with the younger beauty This and theIrst act have Berlin for the scene the thirdnnd last are laid In Hcldelberc where nvery-mlsuudorstundlnu Is adjusted and where thisfun Is continued by Herr Irloec ably assistedtiy herr Walter tho husband of the elderLeonora to the end Horr Meyer and Frauhahn are two others of the cast who fill tbalrparts with particular abilityflThe younger Leonora Is personated by Frfluoln Kllnkhummcr who finds hero a partwholly suited to her cBlnblllet Sho Is onher return from t voryostlni mixture of girl and woman ready tomakoloto play at dignity and bo pleased withn doll Dorr Ottliort was also singularly wellHted and shared with Jrflukln1 Kllnklmmmorherr 1rlose Frau Truutiuunn and herr Wai-or the chief honol of tho evening

The Itrooklym Fbllbstrosoailc HocletyTim PhlUmrmonlo Society of Brooklyn

will bring Its thirtyfirst season to a close withha robonrsl this afternoon and the contortomorrow oonlol at whlcb the enlargedorchestra uldor the baton of TheodoreJhomns will play it request procramme ofrare excellence and Interest It Im ludcm theSuite No lIlllu D b Ouch the Paciorule 8ymiliony of Boolbovonlnd six Koloctlons ironsWagner to note that the sea-son just closing has boen eticeewsful and tbatthIs substantial musical organization vvlll hvoa fair surplus In its treasury w 1th which to be-gin tho season of I t990A Intt Offlcn for SIr Hloucwull Jecksot

April 4Col C Parsons ofTWIUUSI Illurl Bridge loft this city today forWashington Col Pnraons was an orfiinaBlalne man and was the originatormovoraunt lootlnir to the aPJolntmenlllt1118 Lexington Post Ofllrellchmoml IoBt Office of Mrs Stonewall Jack-son Islntllitet trIp to Wnshlnctonsin I getting lira Jackson the

tlclimond olllco nnd In connection with theRepublican factional vminulen In Vlrulnlagenerally uiombon of thuXouonCJfocklnjparty 1100111 Jncksone up-

tiolatmunt will iso Illond solution or tlte qpuslon as turns concerned ColIlr-sonss isit hero caused no tittlo stirinIrcloa us ho ten strong antlMaboue mnu

A Vlotory far ABtUrohlbltlonletaTonoNTO April Elections for the re

of tbo Scott Temperance act were held Inplfollowing places In Canada today and therepeal was carried In nil of thorn Gnelnh and

Thomas cities and Ixinnox and AddlnRtonHI Northumberland mid Durham Victoriarontennc Wollincton ellnlol LanarkIrani Carleton Ontario end ilncoin counties In Ontuilp Uvl Oolaheitcounty Kovft COU

A MISSING ANTE MORTEM

POLIOttMAN rUIlLlPS CITES A BOOSTXO KKVLtSCUS DIUC

Bay TFeeheoan Told Him e Mum Did tCMDrderl Wrote It Dawn l atr JLeet A Detective DoEKUsr

Following the order of the discoveriesmade In the investigation of the hatohet mur ¬

der the prosecution in the trial of Krullech thedruggists boy has taken testimony for twodays without reaching the facts that finallyfastened suspicion on the prisoner Yesterdaybegan with the oroMoxamlnatlon of Druggist-Otto Doepfner In whoso store at 937 Thirdavonu tho drug clerk Ouenther Weh8unxwee chopped to death with the hatchet boughtthe day before ns the prosecution epotf toshow by Krullsch l the block u Inwhich bo lives the crossexaminationLawyer Purdy the prisoners counsel de-

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n new theory nt that was that atramp stole into the and killed Wochsung for the money In the cash drawer liewas Inclined to abandon his suspicions against

MDoepfnar lie began on him this wayQ Dr Deepfner did you not Ihave a talk with a de-

tective lat nlll In which you were toll that t wouldcharge you IUhaving committed the murder t Xwith hesitation No I-

rQDI4t have any talk with detectives about yourtestimony 1 X They talked with ne before I testified

QYou are not to understand that I donot necessarilythrew suspicion upon you In the coarse ot my crossex-amination I AMaybe you can

Q WhaldM yon do when Mr MeCreery called youafter be found VTeohsung lying bleeding at the back ofthe Store I AIrbbd my trousers end tried tretout of the doer where ktcOreery stood calling tee butU was locked and I couldnt Cod my keys Then I wentaround lbother way and called to Mr UoCreeryacroaa-th llftit shaft sod told him tunlock the door IntoWecbannta btoom Ho did 6-

0Qtow Doepfner JtcCreery testified that yeaappeared In Ities than a minute after he called you asSBe doean say you tailed to him at alL Who 1right youor he t AI1 right

Qwhy 41you waut Ernleeohto stay over ntfhtInthe store night after tbe murder and sleep InWechs gett X I cant give sup ront DUnt you put out the gas look the door and Insist on hit itaylniT ANo I thought tie consentedOrel and ha maId be was total to stay light along bet IInsisted on his tco4nie horns and telling hlaparenta Ithought hIs father would bworried about hm lieaid his father wouldnt worry That waabuM u

hla tether is dead Well he went away not go

bOII came hack and saId he wonldnt stay I Acane back but lie didnt say be wouldntQYou haS an acquaintance sleep with yuu In the ex-

tension I AV-QWlhm hrullecb tells me he rev you bit reel

eighth street and not In Beventynrststress where be really did live because you waatsd tohave boy who lived near tbe stnre which IIs nearI street IslLatsoI A No I Java a boyIIIJIlb lives In Seventyelf street 1 dont wantthose nettuoor kind of boya-

o When did you OreS tee the hatchet with whichWboua was killed f X boon after I found WechlungdlIDld you notice the TO oenta marked on the ba-

nqTliilam tells ma he deposited SIICO In the bank foryou two months aco on a Friday and that be was twoboar lateI because he could not deposit the money at It X-

USI when be arrived StIll tbat he saw a contractor therewhom you kno named L lulcr la thai true t A-

lontrememberanltbtlll abut Ito Is tbe comblblol lock on your moss

drawer d1ul AIts not like asafecomblny

ouil It require many tl to open U t AIeont uneof the jurors opened It on ones trying on Wednesdar didnt he 11bc I tsar

To Assistant District Attorney Jerome DrDooplaer said In rodlrect examination that

was not In the habit of gettingWocleunl could a giod shoal of beerwithout getting drn Uko all those Germanfollows

QDIyea order Wechiung to tray that hatchet f AQou carried considerable money In your wallet as-

a hbll you ever show It to the defendant f AUsmight have eeen It I never stowed U to him

u n hen did you fret notice theI blood r n echsnngafacet x Alter 1 came out of my bdroom before1 went Into the or to get a blood wascongealed 00 his ltwasnt very fresh

n Woblood flowing from the wounds X Bloodwas oozing from the wounds but I was partially drieSoaths I ac-

eJudle Ollderileevo was interested in this as-a Indication that tbo crime had booncommitted earlier than I8supposed lowabout tbo blood on the ha askedthat drvr

No said the witness it was freshJudre ilderlteeveWhen you bun to wash the

blood from Who face dle It came off readily t

Aso It W and that 1 the reason why leantfor hot WISer

As the witness was abut to step from thestand he remembered had boon dlrvot-od on Wednesday to brine to court the malletwhich was found on tho washstand In WechBunics room

It had no buso on the wash stand DrDoeptner I got excited when Isaw it thor arid asked William Krullsch about-It but nt tell mo how Itonma there

Dr Constantine J McOuIro of 141 It Fiftysixth street who was summoned boydefendant to go to Wecbsungs aid testifiedthltl was called by his coachman about 780

and found a ow minutes afterward alarge crowd in front of the store Wechsucgwas tilting in a chair The winessaw after-a brief examination of thathe couldnt live Brain matter was ozlnlirons Wechsungs wounds but heherently and intelligently

I asked him how ihalened contnueDr McOulre anti ho slttDIon the sofa bendlnc OTer when I got nI fell forward and afterward was hakodguss the wounds been made AIshould say anywhere from ten minutesI to faa hourbefore I saw blm

Then Policeman Abraham Phillips went onthe witness stlnd He said ho was on post onthe klllina of Wechsunc onThird avenue from Fiftythird to tinyninthB-troot and ho stopped Infrontlof Doepfnersdrugstore to look at the thermometer In thedoorway He had turned away when McCroerythe plumber whole shop was In tho basementcalled him Inside the store and asked himfor an ambulance He did noI and tootile drug store and asked ncb8unl how Ithad happened Krullsch Wechsung said I was struck inWj head by a mansensation and I put UD my right hand to save

my bendaaked wise did he said tie didnt know butte

saidI There Itane Then began to writedown bis antemortem rut The boy KrulaoIi eelSto me while I was writing thlaawful I He Itelme In might rnlnulei past 7 me aome mossy toget rolls and Icatae back sail found him here KruRich wee coot and Ills face was clean and Ills hair wasbrushed as Ihe was going 1church

Crossaxamlnod by Mr Purdy thosold that Weohsung told him at 728 A wlne8he admitted Krullscb to tbe store at 710-A haand had sent Krulleob for rolls forbreakfast The statement which ho had written down nt tbe time tbo policeman added

lienhad dlllpvenre from the Fiftyfirst street po

h3MrJeroa2eZa your former statement you ladnothing about Vechsung a sending KrulUch forrolls TIle d Ing man sorely said Itt AYee-

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In conversation with tne before saidnothing of this ASo but blbuI1rOlt liesaid be sent Krullscb out for the rolls

Phtlllpss testimony was a surprise In anothernartlcumpthej statement that Wecbsunjc toldhint that a man had bit him and that thewritten antomortam statement setting thisforth had disappeared Among the others whotalked with Wecbsuug nobody olse has oomeforward who got from him any notion that hohad seen bUassailant at all and there wereoven surmises iirnoni those not sa well in ¬

formed as Phillips that a woman haul done thismurder

Detective SerBflant James K Price testlnedat considerable length In a running narrativeseldom Interrupted By stoleAllen I arrived at the tore I askedKrullsch to toil me wbara be had ben thatmorDlna Ho replied Tne clerk Into

two minutes otter 7 I picked up themorning newspaper from the floor and put iton thsecounterniid stood still minute Then-I hung up my overcoat end WBtent lor rolls ablock or two below on avenue I witsgout eight or ton minutes and catne bank andfound thla excitement Titan I went for UrMoOulre

I had R conversations with the de-fendant

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I verahim If ho had seen any onoout of the hallway or coming In lieion a woman went in Then I iwent to the

hospital whore cchnunK lay and talked withhim ITIio wltnoss wits not permitted to lelwhat WectwuriK fluidI Afterward I testedlies knowloilun of the combination of the cash-drssworby ntllnj him to cliuiico HOIIIO moneyfor mo II o didnt tako Ibo ploce of 10noyhllout and mild he could not Idranor Ho had novor ben taught the corn ¬

bination looked In money drawer forblood Binlnalut found none I couldnt open thecash drawer oven alter I hail boonjolti whatthis combination was I theWilebloody hatchet He said be hued Itbolero About 8 P M n friend of WlohHunQcame from the hospital and told uswa dead Willla became excited and cried

Haoti afterward I said to Dr Doeiifner AreYOU loll to silty hers tonight 1 Wlwnoulie Im not afraid of the lay t II HoiiBkoil Wllllo to star and the boy consented-litero was Iconvere ton ubout that time be-tween

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Dr Doepfner and myselfI aboutWecli unBB habit In sleepIng on the sofa

said It was Weohsuntpa habitWile down there Dr Doepfner scolded theboy and called him harsh names for not Informlal him of It Weohsuna was Iflnldownsaid when ho pent him for tJe rolsteAt night when Willie said be folnlhome ha came back in no short a timemioiootoil something was wrong nnd I Bald

Wllllo dont you know I followed youanddidnsco home He owned that be had01boon home Uo said he had walked around

the block and met an acquaintance namedLonwho had worked for ImunameBlots

ibtuubam stir lieul A CIO

L on1 Finally TVll Ie begged tint to be ques¬

tioned any mor He would till all ho knewnext mornln he said It was nearly midnight ansi he was crying in the back of thetreAbut mjdnlaht I went roel the streetand d the store came to thedoor with a whlterobed flcure cameout and the flguro went buck Wile toreHe went to Flttysyventh atretthienfollowed At Seopnci avenue anti Fiftyseventhstreet he topped and looked around and Iwent on a Stoop as though I livedthere Willie took a street car uo townfind I followed and jumped on thefront platform HA came to the front of thacar ADd J dropped oft caiicbt the rear platlotus andiotind Detectives Tl tun nnd McCarthythere Willie came to the back platform andI dropped off and ran along not far from theoar to Hoventllth street whore tho boy got 01Tlie wont Into the Association apartment housentSoventrflrat street and Hocond avenue andtayed there

This chase wit to find where the boy reallylived lie hodgiven the police n false ttddressJudge aildernleovo at this point noticed thattho fecond juror John Olfnn of Ita East Fiftysecond street was pale

Do you think you can BO on V asked JudgeOlldereleor

Mr Olftlnnhook his head and court was ad ¬

journed until today Mr Olfllns physicianrayn Mr alffln is authoring from an attack of-malaria

Krullsch who was as cool aa a cucumber onthe first day 01 the trial grow dotted yester¬day while Policeman Phillip and DetectivePrice were on the witness stand Ho told biscounsel that Phllllns told the truth ansi thatthe others hail made mistakes In their testi-mony

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A OAFTirtt SKA Cow

Description nnd Habit or Title Queer etae-lRttr AnlmisU-

THOMISVILLK Qa April 4There is nowon exhibition at the old Alton House on Jack-son

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streot a manatee or sea cow Capt W IISquires who exhibits this queer animal soldto the reporter

This cow Is ten foot lone and weighs 1000pounds Its tall Is twenty Inches across Wecaught in the inlet to tho Bt Lucia Riverwhich drains the Everglades of Florida Weused in the capture a seine 500 fcot long madeof Inch rope This Is a very small cow Theycrow from fifteen to twentyfour foot long andto weigh from 10000 to 00000 pounds They-are very powerful and often break tho strongrope of the seine like spool cotton thread Woattempted to not ono fifteen feet long just be ¬

fore we cauaht this one and It tore our seine-to pieces Their bones are like ivory andworth U a pound Tho moat In tho marketsof Havana Is considered delicacy and Bells nt15 to 25 cents per pound There is but QUOfho manatee cow on exhibition In this countrybowldoH this one It la at Jacksonville 1laThere was one known as Old Columbus atthe zoological gardens In Cincinnati but theykilled and mounted It Tlioro was onoalso at Philadelphia but It died and wasmounted We caught all of them Old Colum-bus

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and the Philadelphia cow weighed each9000 pounds They make a fearful strugglewhen first caught but soon surrender like asheep and become very docile Though crea-tures

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of immense power thny are easily con-trolled

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They have crlnders und eat grasslike a cow The eyes are about the slzo of abuckshot TIle head tapers to n point Thereare two flippers In front no legs behind Theynurse their young hnvlnc six nippleson each sIde Tho sea cow Is found atonly one place In North America theJupiter Inlet of the Ht Lucia hIrer onthe coast of Florida They lira foundat three places only In tho worldthe mouth-of the Amazon River tho mouth of the titLucle River and near Cape Town on tho Capoof Good Hope In Africa They worn to havetheir habitation in the warm waters of theGulf Stream and Its branches The GulfStream begins at the Amazon Hirer and runsvery near the mouth of St Lucie Hirer misslag at that point the shore only three andpnebalf miles They lease the uulf Streamhere In pairs and enter the bt Lode lllver tofeed upon the tender blades of the manateegrass They leave In winter and return by pairsinto In the spring Another curious thine aboutthIs queer animalIs that It hat one hair abouta halfInch long that stands out perfectlystraight from the body to every suuaro Inch otsurface It lives In unit water but feeds Infresh water When In captivity they are kept inwarm suit water and lod on common entasesspinach and celery

N02ES ov nan AND FiSHING

North River shad continue to light shy of thefishermens nets One is caught now and thenbut the professional fish killers have not boonlucky yet In striking big school

Pompano usually a rare fish la Now Yorkmarkets and snapped up at forty or fifty centsa pound are plenty at twentyfive cents a-

round They lira brought from Florida by fastfreight

For local trout fishing tho finest catch for theseason yet reported is by a son of Mr E BSutton On Wednesday forenoon he caughtlit toon trout In the babbling brooks near Baby-

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and they averaged threequarters of apound each

A spotted hind caught tho Gulf of Mexicowas shown In Fish Commissioner Illackfordsplace in Fulton Market yesterday The fishweighed about fifty pounds It Is of a poorlywhite color and dotted with slateeray mark-ing It Is of the crouhor family and the spe-cies

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was not known to icthyologUitB until It wasdiscovered in the deepest tart of the Gulf otSloilco over twenty years ago in an expeditionof tbe United States FIStS Commission It Is agood food fish

A party of Jersey City anglers visited theFlockensaok Klor yesterday and with groundbait took nearly 200 yellow perch

Letters are received dally by the State FishCommissioners from fishermen and sportmen8 associations asking whether the Com-missioners

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will not at onco stock certain lakesor rivers with certain Ush The GreenwoodLake Uahermen for Instance contemplate ak-In the Commissioners to stock the lake withAolleyod puce as food for other fish Thu StateFists Commission has however closed UD untilnext fall tho business of cll tilbirtlniaU In roBponsa to applli atlons ApDlieatlona tiled nowwill not bo attended to until then Carp willba distributed In November and December tooil who apply before Nov 1 Tho Commission-era will have their hands full distributing fishon a hare scale in the Hudson and greaterlakes this spring

At a regular meeting of Excelsior Vien-na

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Club held at 395 Bowery on Tuesday thefollowing officers were elected for tho ensuing

year President Loonard J Kerr VlcoPrealdent Daniel Kuhn Jr Secretory Williamlaser Treasurer II MeL Looser The clubalso appointed committee to perfect plans forbuilding a new club house on their groundsluguenot Staten Island the large increase Inmembership roauirltig additional room Theproposed club bouse Is to bo In the Gothicstyle two stories In holcht with thirty rooms-on tim Beoond story and verandas on bothstories It will bo about 200 IODB and la to befinIshed about May 15

Prod Itouclaee U JuckeotiTllleJACKSONVILLE April 4Fred Douglass Is

In the city and today was tho guest of thecolored people A procession numbering 600ncludlnc military companies escorted him

from tbo station to tho SubTropical ExpoaiIon where bo delivered a short address con-

f1ratlilatiDlllhe

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colored pooplo of Florida uponsince emancipation Tomorrow

exposition The city Is lullof colored people from all parts of the Southcheat excursions having brought them in byhousands ilr Douglass remains hero twodays longer

The Secular 1reasi and RelljloAt the monthly mcetlne the American In

tltuleof ClirUtUnlhllotophy at 4 Mlnthrop place lastrenter a paper en The Attitude ot the Secular Frssa-Q America Toward Religion was rod by A IL Elegfried Eastern manager or the Chicago Delis Sews Tbepaper treate tbe subject irons the newspaper stand-point aa attempt chow to those outilds some hautlb eTeraxe newspaper a own thought Itarelatloa toelUrion The averaire edltorbe said regards religionwith friendly Inditlervnce but on cjccanton lie Ila tierstrong ally and nfpi rter The fcutidny neniisrer Wasloktn of an tlie vreetest single lactor In Hunu 4r Sec

Inrlatlun nut beruiiKe it VMIIIS tu bo ur tries tu bo butbe COllie of IDin oAtitre and utiloume nt the tliluif liself-iutt She curmit illcturn of certain or the oleriry SAd nun

Sunday editors that the Huilday newepaper must uu-s 111 uuDded and tlie Sunday paper wilt stub SOd grow

in spile of acoldlnif anathema boycott i r any utterform of optioiltlon whence the Inquiry What U re-Uglon BOliiK to do for and ulth tile Sunday paper I

The reading ot the paper was followed by a dlMUUlon

NEW JEIisITThe Pjecollve forniultteo of1 the lludioa Countyliiuor Dealers shocUUdU uiftl reslerdA sod dectdeil

to helpi all Hie leucrtloi candidates fur Aldermen as-

the cumin uprluir electionJauiee Vaiivourt 7 years ott of 75 lon Street Ho-

okik was run over and killed yesterduv ty a truckOrison tby Tbomua huati of ml Soot TwentytbltilIII reel this city IJuiau was arresleil-

Vetwesn S and lOorlook on Wednesday nlilit Ihlifentered the bouse of W r Atkln at ilouiolatr and sail

701 IB f too and iw bills which were lylnx on a bureauIn Mrs Atktns room la the second story

Eiassemblynsn Jobs Isaraou hu refused lbs Demorailo nomlaailon for member of tbe Hoard of PublicWork trora the Pint dutrlet In Jersey City A con

enilon will be held tomorrow to nominate anotherAndldae

Vice Chanettlor llrJ boo notified esMayor Collins ofJersey City counsel of the Order of financial tTnlouthat be baa decided to aopclot a receiver fur the orderslid to grant a permanent Injunction reairalntni theSupreme Council of the order tom dolua any busiuete-

bisl la the outoome of the charges of fraud which wereRIte fajhu tie njieae Cvuuoll itra mtotki ago

SWEPT BY PRAIRIE FIRES

NOflKOU DAaiAOK DOtfK IN DAKOTAAtl ttlUNKSOTA

The Lou relmkt stt 9OO O OTV7lio-lTllUce Laid U Ashc mnt Sloth Hioek-Ilesitrajed The Flame Passed by s-

sIlurrleaan Peas le named to DeathMINNEAPOLIS April 4 During Use last

two doye South Dakota and Minnesota haveboots swept by A series of wind storms whichhave cued hundreds of thousands of dollarsdamage to property and several lives naveboon lost Tho storm started on Monday nighnnd swept over a large area south of the Northera Pacific rood In Dakota and extending Intothe southern tIers of counties In this StateTho greatest damage hits not been caused bythe wind alone but flros fanned Into fury bythe storms have wiped out of existence severalsmall vlllacos and hundreds of farmers housesThe towns almost completely destroyedaro Volin Olhot Iuknwana Iostervlllo AndMount Vernon and three or four other villagewore badly damaged At Volin every house la-

the place except three Is demolished and IDDpeoplel are without homes tonight LesterTitle was levelled with thin ground and twentyfamilies are without a roof

A terrlblo gale of wind struck Mount Vernonand lire Btartod from a small house that wasblown over early last night No human poweroould stop thB flames and In an hour thabusiness portion of the place was all ablazeNearly 200 families are homeless and tho losswill foot up 430000 It Is reported that sovtral persons lost their livoa In this hire but noconfirmation has yot been received Fourlarge elevators and the Milwaukee depot werodestroyed

Itear lllunt on man lost COO head of sheepwhich were couctit in a prairie tire Severalhead of horses were uneil by awlmmlnc theThor In many places tile crops were coeroiby tho loose sand and dust and will have to-ne 10p1BII1 od Travel was suspended on somelinos of roiiJ so treat was tbo force of thewind The clouds of dust prevented engineersfrom seeing the track A report from Ci stysays the sun nns almost totally obscured nndthe superstitious thought tho end of tbo worldhad come Farm houses and barns were sweptaway and horses and cattle were burned todeath by scores

Near Mtlbnnk fifty head of llvo stock are re-ported

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lost and the fire bus swept over twentymiles 01 the country causing immense lossThe storm has abated somewhat hut the windis yiit high enough to keep the fires burningfiercely and further heavy losses aro almostcertain The damage In Minnesota is muchloss than In Dakota as the force ol thcittormwas pretty well spent before it reached theboundary

YASKTON Dak April 4The records of theSignal Ufflco show that during tbe prevalenceof the Ores in this region tho humidity was but7 per cent a condition or dryness SergeantOswald says never before attained in tillsregion The maximum humidity IIn 100 thomeson annual humidity hero 70 This showsthat the atmosphere was almost devoid of mois-ture

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The velocity of the wind was 40 miles anhour The losses South Dakota will foot upizooooou-

LtKK BENTON Mine April 4The most de-vastating

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prairie lire ever known raged over theprairies west and north ot Lake lion ton yes-terday

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sod lust night Tho winO was a hurri-cane

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for nearly twentyfour hours and sweptthe lire along with resistless force passing thewldobt lire breaks and leaping ploughed foldswith a bound It licked UP bouses barnsstock and In some places human lives Thegreatest destruction of property nod loss oflife IH In Dakota lleo Heights u town on theNorthwestern road in almost destroyedDempster a station on the Watortowu branchIs reported destroyed Spauldlugsranchueurthere Is also reported consumed CrossingInto Lincoln county over tract of land com-paratively

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little settled and covered with aheavy growth of grass it swent on with rnnewed velocity it Is reported that HenryKourth Mr Berg 0 M Moon and others nearhero lost nearly all their bullitlncB-

MtLLEii l> alt April llrulrlo fires lestnight destroyed about forty houses manybarns a large number of horses and cattleand left about forty families destitute in thesouth part of this county A terrible gale olwind added to the terrors of the situationThe loss Is estimated nt 50000 The CountyCommissioners are lu session and will see thatno one suiTors for the uecossurlos of life

Huiiox Dak April 4No prairie Ore In thehistory of this part of Dakota equals that olyesterday lu this county the losses are muchloss than in the counties west Half it dozenhouses wore burned and runny settlors losttheir barns some stock and n largo nuantltyof hay and grain The wind was from tllty tosixty miles an hour andsent burning embersovor the plouched ground and Ore breaks sev-eral

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rods wide setting lire to everything Intheir coors Tho fire camu UP so rapidly thatsettlers hind only time to save themselves leav ¬

ing their property to tile mercy of the flamesIn Sully and Hughes counties 200000 worthof property has been destroyed Near Highmore Miss Sweeny was burned to death andOar St Lawrence Mr Babcock perished In theflames

MITCHELL Dak April 4 Nobody but aman who has stood before a amine fire andtried to stay its awful rush and roar when it isfanned by a fresh wind can appreciate Itsalmost resistless force The fires that havebronchi en touch loss and KutTurlnc to south ¬

eastern Dakota In the last tow days worn prac-tically

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irresistible Flume lu some instancesleaped lot betel ploughed ground and rushedaway ngaln All ordinary precautions werevain The spring had boon very dry and thetop of the ground has boon dusty or batedUnder these conditions wherever hire touchedthe grass It burst out with a flash almost likepowder and shot away across the pratilu likein arrow Its course over widening To ex-tinguish

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it by water of course was out of thequestion Iloucblnc flro breaks was slow workand tbe wind often throve the flames aci ocr them

The losses In Vankton county are M MJoansson It Anderson F Ott Mrs Btockwell-It Prlnclo J K Olson David Iurley JamesIloxlnx John Hundorabot Leroy books Mholbrook E h Volln A H Volln Josooh-

ii lleckmelr Henry Haku Charles btenoel Wil-Hum llandall tS NL Howe in the vicinity ofJumesilllo twelve miles north of nnktoneight farmers sustained losses running frontlluuU to fJUOO each Among these wore NJohnson Choa liouk Wallace Brothers andK C CooL Around Jamosvllla the loss will

o upllOUOO One man lost 1000 in moneyf f ho bud In his cost on a piece ofplouctiodi-

U 3iiU fret from the grass Two newtronl were burned 100 feet from the tIre

Mxty muss of Wostera Union wires were blowndown between Contrevlllo and Huron

BLUNT Dak April 4 The stories of the firecontinue to be brought Into town bystragglersThoy say tbat the wind would gather up theloose tinder and hurling It highs In the aircarry It ahead of tile surfaon fire alightingbarns and houses and igniting the praltlo fiftyyanls In advance of this surface lire Housesand barns wore burned where the tire was car-ried

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over 100 yards across now broken groundThe losses are estimated at 200000 In thisvicinity

HICJIIMOUE Dak April 4A prairie flrostarted on the evening of the hat hive milesfrom Hlcbmoraon the farm of lames InnramWhile he was smoking his pipe his barn caughtfire and was destroyed A fierce wind carriedthe lire tu tba prairie and the work of destruc-tion

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began Housnfl barns and some stockwore burned On Tuesday morning the windreached a terrific gale No ordinary firebreaknmdo any resistance to the swooplucwAll offlame At 3 P M the fire reached lIce Heightsfifteen miles oiwt of Illulnnoro whore tlilrteen-rcsiilenit In the town wore ilobtrood Thalosses In hyde county are ltXK

At sundown on Tuesday another fire startedIn the northern part of this county sweepingaway six homes burning death Miss AnnieSweeny and a 5yearold baby Eugene TibbaMr nnd Mrs Tibbs Mrs nnd MUm Ruby areburned the two former fatally

ScoTLAND flak A prll 4It would take 1200-0H to cover tha loss In this county TheHuteblnson Herald outGo was burned DavidIncholtor and Howard White farmers nearOlivet were completely burned out Anotherlire east of Scotland destroyed everything onthe farms of A O Kannty Qua Kvonson andM Shook On the stock farm ofK8 Sweetthree barns were burned Loss 3000Twelve miles west of ScotlandtweniyQvofarmers are known to have lost everything

AiiEitDLRN Dak April ltNeus of the com-plete

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destruction of Leola the county seat ofMclhrmoD county hiss Peon brought in bycourIers Leola was a little town of 800 Inbnbltants and the country for miles aroundwas well settled with un Industrious nndthrifty pootilo It is twentyfive mlle frontrallroMl and tolocrunb fiicllltles and It Is illfllcult to got otetlste information Out of thirtyplacuH of business Including two hunks twonevvupanerH two churches iund three or tourhotels but four are loft standing and out offront thirty to forty residences loss than adozen remain The loss Is practically cornable and will reach tlAOOOi C W Old andThomas Wardell were terribly burned and he-courlerH say they cannot live Iartlea whodrove itcro B tlio country to ostport the nearebt railroad station BHV that the Hurroundluucountry Is nearly devastated Ilundicils offarm IIOUHCH ura In ashes nnd cuicatoa ofburned stock are lylnc about tlio road Scoresof farmers aro without seed wheat stockbullOiiiKs or implements to begin spring woik

LeeS hi Iletsd on hie Weelellnat DayMjHNEJrous April 4 James W Vlccare

disappeared from Mlnnaapolls on the day ietorhis marriAge to tllss Bar bas been heard from UrSmith tU former emplorsr IsIs rtetteJ a letter trotsthe young man who Is with his parents at Green Lasethou halt Vlccsre ears hs does Slot know how he cameti leave Mlniit IKJ > AH be knows Is that alter a periodwanlerint whirls seems to him Ilieu nltrnruisrc bereached home exhausted In body and soled lie ea-

tresses remorse for bis conduct and says be could notCons hack to Minneapolis sod feel bin f rienda In his leusir to Mr Smith be does sot mention JfuJ Ray but baswrlllerja Is 1501 It list uplalulac til dUapceataige

JJSAftNlflO TO RUN PTtlUARIES-

Tk Ataettenrsi Takiug he Cake lbs Btyle-Vt> Ia tke Millionaire DUtrlejt

The Republican primary elections will be-

held today except In the Eighth district Thefollowers John J OfirUn may occupy theirleisure by Interfering in contests In someot this other districts The fight In theFourth Fourteenth antI Sixteenth It Is al-

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were Instigated by the OBrlenlts Inmost districts tho polls open at B P M ThorUntight In tbo First but It will probably notamount to much In the Fourth the vociferousAbbottDunns opposition to John Cclllnt andhis white necktie will sot In their work at 211East Broadway

In the Flft1 the polls will be open front IP AIt too I1 M at 133 West Houston street Theprospect of lively times Is very cod There Isa miscellaneous voting population there Incolor and oven thing else anti they take theirpolities aa Keuouoly ns Indlanmns The Inswill take care to have plenty of policeman onhandi

In tho Thirteenth dlstrlot the Glbbs factionand the Cowles will take all day to find out wholifts the most votes The polllDe placo la at2G9 Eighths avenue

The Fourteenth will have tin fight at 1T9First avenue between the NugentHaly regulays anti this bohaotorlJamborBorVouDB contin gent

In the Sixteenth voting will proceed from 0to 9 nt 437 Second avenue The gavhoueo dis-trict

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Is well stirred up and although the reculars prevailed against the kickers before theCommittee on Appease Leader Henry Kropfwill tInt very sturdy fIghters marshalledagainst him even OH he used to marshal thornnenlnst his predecessor Capt Crogan

There will be a peculiar contest In the Twen ¬

tyfirst district at H Kant Klftvilnth streetThe mnchlnn politicians Including Jacobhost though ha no longer lives thereVllllutn LoaryWilliam Brook field and equally

ohIo managers are dlogruntleil ovor the at-tempts

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of A It Whitney John F Ilummerend their followers tu not control cud are bittony charging the whilom amateurs withtrickiness unfairness They say that theticket In made up by a conference betweencommittees representIng the district organiza ¬

tion anti the enrolled Republicans wasone which gave all Interests a fair representa-tion The Whitney people by pretendingto bo entirely satlslled lulled the Luaryllosspartisans to a feeling of falsa security and ledthem to lose Inteiest In the meeting the en-rolled

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Republicans The Miltnoyriumniorpeople contrived to got out In good force to tImmeeting and finding themselves In the ma-jority

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proceeded to tinker un tIm ticket aridmake It such a one as would elect Mr WhitneyChairman of the District Committee Amongthe men taken off the ticket were

George R CatbcarL John Proctor Clarke Joel WMason Mortimer C Addoina It J l Slater James 5lUMen K W Hlootnlnirilale William T illack LouisSleek C Cliurke VMiilam A Corp Henry ii Ue MiltCharles A lIeu James A Blanctiard William L FledIcy D Morgan lludretb Jr howard Iavson Wildsllarvood R 1ooL sod JameaS Letimaler

A very strong contingent of the dietriot rtepublicans commend tno original ticket In theinterest of hitrmonv fair play anti of orderlyand regular nrocecdlncs They have sent outthousands of circulars embodying these viewsand enclosing the ticket headed In big blaolcletters Regular ticket adopted by the cornIttues of the enrolled llopublloans and of thaDistrict Committee

The antimachine or rather the now ma ¬

chine people held a meeting iu title district lastevening The principal feeling seomod to ba-onant alarm The big label of regular ontim other ticket was the cause of the fear andIt was believed that It would carry It throughA gentleman named Campbell went so far asto say that Mr John F hummer was a foolbecause be deinrod Ills ticket to bo regular inthe circular which accompanied it but did notlabel the ticket Itself

Thoro are some very solid names on bothtickets such as fJbaunoey 21 Dtpow Joel IIErbardU Theodore Itoosovelt Kobort St Gal ¬

loway and Edward Mitchell hut curiouslyenough i he name of Elliott F Shepard appearsonly on the tinkered ticket The old llayrnondCrane row Is up In the Twentythird

1IIE SALE OF Sins SCUESCKS LOTS

Mr Barthnsm Denies that the Members ofthe Hoard of Education Iroflted by 1C

Mr Franklin 8 Schenok a real estatedealer In Brooklyn has made some singularstatements in reference to the recent sale otsome lots on Eosclusko street to the Board ofEducation ton school purposes He says thatJlrWilliam Bartbman a member of the Boardcame to him some time ago and made Inquiriesabout the lots which belonged tohls Hchoncks-wifo Mr Schenck sai s that bo was willing tosoil for 15000 but that Mr Bartbman agreedto these terms provided that he IMr Sobonckshould make it appear in the deed to the citythat S75iKi had been paid Mr Barthman ex-plained

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to Mr Schmuck the latter alleges thatthere were five men on the Building Committeewho would have to have 3Ui apiece

Mr Sohenck relused toacroa to those termha says anti the negotiations for the sale werebroken off Subsequently the lots wore toldfor JOCKJO to Mr Allen who said ho wantedthorn for building purposes but In a few weeksUr Allen dlspobodof the properly to the Boardof Education the latter paying 17575

Mr Uitrtlimnn Is a wealthy Maiden lane jew¬

eller lio flatly contradicts Mr BchuncksstoryI never he says had such U conversation

with him ns bo alleges and he never offered tosell the property for ttiCUO No one connectedwith the Board lies made a coat outoi thispurchase and Mr tichpnck will have to answerIn court for his statements

The matter will probably be made the sub-ject

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of an investigation by the Board of Edu ¬

cationlie was SIB Escaped Lunatic

Patrick Foley a man of middle age whosaid ho lived at 79 East 125th street was ar-

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on Tuesday at noon He had accostedtwo men on Madison avenue above 120thstreet and asked them who lived at No 1082where Judge McGovvn lives Before the mencould reply ha dashed across the street sayinc Thats the house and begun pulling thebell violently lie poked hisumbralla throughthe gloss of the vestibule door and the glass otthe Inner door frightening Mrs McUown whownu about to answer his ring She called for npoliceman and Foley win carried oil It waslearned that ho bad once boon at the Insauoasylum at Wards Island but had escapedChief Justice MoAdam sent him back thereyesterday

The New York Methodist ConferenceThe New York Conference continued its ses-

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yesterday al tbe Eighteenth stress church Tbelice T C HUT wlio baa charge of the mission work InUtah spoke of tbe needs of that country Mneteenyears ago be went out there and the only place batould get for meetings In Salt Lake City was a bayloftover a stable It waa fifteen years bsfere their werkmade any perceptible advance > ow they hay thirtychurches thirty schools with l5s5u pupIls thirty hissday schools with 2IU pupil church property worthiiAcso with nearly lush membera lie said theyneeded twenty ne inure rhuroriea and a collection weetMken on Use spot tar that purpose It amounted toJirisj

Chaplain McCabe announced that lie had received aletter from a lady who had volunteered to build achurch In NeplU Utah aplaceot3ti Inhabitants

At 31 M the annlvereary meeting the Womans-porettrn Missionary Society was held and addreuea

were mails by She II Koblnson and Sirs IJaldwIn whospent many years In mlsalonary work In China Jaysand Imlla In ICe evening Ibe hey Dr W r llstillir-eacbed the missionary sermon

The Mutual IleneAt AeaotlutloaA-LBANT April 4At a hearing before the

Attornsy Ueneral today on the report of the Insurancelepartment In rotation to the affairs of the Mutuallanent Association America of the city of > ew York

tile Mtorneyiieneral after hearing ttieetaiemenieandaffidavits said that ibere was mi occasion to lake soyproceeding ngslnit the association Tbe question otaction a alnst any of the ortlcera was tsservsd for tatore cbnslderallon when furtber papers hays bunireaented

IfltOOKLYX

Justice Cnlltn has granted Byrcn Triple in abioluU-dlroro from lies Tripen-

Cfiiutahl BrlnleCrbott hai appointed lUrbsrt LSmith a lion In law of lbs late Comptroller Llvliitfttoiibit deputy U fca been bond clerk In the offlc foraoina tIne

Work on the Fifth arenue branch of tbt Union Elrated Killroad la being pushed forward as rabidly a-pOMlble and the structure It U ixptcted will lbe compisSed oft JUDO 1

Pastel Donovan 45 years old of Fifty tint Street> cw york vrtill at work on ne hlnirwn M L burststa VMUoujUibir arcnua yesterday till off a step ablerand oejvd a fracture ul tile ekull Irom which bdid almost instantly

Mayor Cbapln his spooIntst John U Wrbtr A Themtarot tb Hoard of EUucatton tn plate of Artoipli UOttilia who slgaed ir Wtter It a wll knownO rineu and 4tifrevged In business with hl titerlalaw William Ullioer hue brew r us lea Uomocrat-

Ruitoils A Nathan eV year old dud on Wedneaday-at270 EUnth Street from lajurleato heriplo tauird-by the 511 of his levai r at tha lobojriran slid IA lbsrUtbMvetiUf rink on Vets f7 Uf the decor per un lu-theelfvaUir at Ib tins nf the accident MUti > ataauwas tba nly out riouly hurt

Tb r nube ut new drum and fife corps organizedIn Brooklyn roniiioMd of inembtri el dnfr iit drumcorps of Brooklyn The election if nflUcr resulted insfniioin ilium hired lii II iuruu Major I11511 Curls ant-yr Urraml llrslt berttCHiiU A 0 Wn aud i ru-XlubiLrker Bftoond sergeants tien Oeke yuartif-matttraerxeant adueo Krclericii Secretary

A gang of yonn1 booltum wreokid Ike windowsIn Adolph ltosgrragrocryilors at if ItrraiiT placeon WctiDfteday nlibt br hirliou stones end o her uiluti i-throafb them Onuftn stones struck Mr Kticv rrIn th tao destroyIng Itvaljthtof ens ay JoicpbWalsh Lawrence Vina John lilLtoni Edward Waistsand John OLeary who irs aroused of ha lug pulletpaled 10 111 1usd wr stresSes

Wllllacn Strong has beet sent to the penfttnllarrfor a year ty Julius waist fur anno > Jiff Ilri I 1 txtla serVant at 124 hi Murk avenue tie wn formerlr-Uf r nulior but his dUrardd lilru vu arcount of IU tadtemper ll rvenged lilnu lf by ipersluiently anuuj Inbr On Buuday last when on nir way to IT Palmatecborob with Lewis Lewis se an escort Dtrontf abasedhr anddrevT a knife CD atr Of tap ale p TfcU ceasedfill atc Oil

nODOKRS REPUBLICANS lV A UVDDIM-

Thay Have qnarrelled Over Their 10usdTicket VntU There IU Ness of It Loft

Hobokan Republicans are In a pretty muddie The City Convention to nominate candi-dates

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for city offices to ba voted for nextTuesday was held on Wednesday night JohnK Wljfsens was nominated for Mayor and E-

V B BoMon for Writer Registrar The Democrnilo candidates for City Treasurer sail Ho-

cordcrware>

endorsed Both WlsEonsand Bos-

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declined nominations The conventionreconvened and exMayor Tlmken and JohnPatterson both Democrats were nominatedThere was a kick In the party at Pattersonnomination and when the City ExeoutlvaOommities met yesterday a motion was made tastrike Pnttertons name from the ticket antIsubstltulo hoary Lohmanns for It Lohmana-Inalson Domoor t and he lurunnlnefor WaterItoclKtrar on nn independent ticket hoaryJnTdoro Is this Democratic nominee

KxAfttemblymnn John Tanyemnn ft Damher of ths committee made a speech mralnit-tho resolution lie said the committee had noright to undo the work of a City Conventionfind be threatened that If the resolution pasiedbe would be a Democrat In local politIcs boreafter rite resolution was passed by vote ofBtof The six Including Arthur Seitr whowas Chairman of tho coinmlltoo nnd is isocandidate for Alderman loft the room declar-ing

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that they would not support the ticket withLehmans name on It When exMayor Timken hoard of the trouble In the committeedecided that ho didnt wnnt the nomination forMayor nnd notified the part hf the committeethat was loft thIrst Im wouldnt accept Tbocommittee adjourned then

There IIs no Kopubllcan ticket In the field andthe regular Democratic nominees will have awalkover with the possible exception of Juidove

The Yorktown to be Made SteadyFniLaDRLPtiu Acrll Commandant It D-

fieelyof the Leairiie Island Nayy Yard has received acommunication frost Secretary Tracy orderlov that therulaer Vorktnwn ba made ready for salllraron April SOAlt that remalnMto he done It Is said Is to plaoe theelites on board the vessel While the communloatloa-rnmHeoretary Tracy tues not state where the York

town wilt sail It is thoiitht that she will be sent teSew sort during the centennial of Washingtons Inau-guration

J E POWERSWriter on business monoybringar

54 Wall street New York

Mr Powers is the writer ofthe Wanamaker advertising from80 to 86 There is said to

have been in those days at leastone column in the Philadelphiapapers that wasnt dull

Mr Powers has taken an of-

fice in New York and this morn ¬

ings World contains an accountof what he proposes to do here

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MAltRlKD-A68EMIEIXKEITOn Wednesday April 3 at the

realdenoe of the brldee parents 327 East Imoatby the ReT lr Isaac C Noot Louie Auenhslotbarali Kil-tSIMNSuaigson Wednesday March 37 by the HerOeorve f Breed at tbe rectory of ut Johns ChurchBrooklyn Slim Nary Alice Mines daunhlerotlate MliUom E Hines t Edward I1 Blmrns-

BSEUKs TOrTKNAt Trinity Church thla city onTuesday April by the KCT Fred liuriretaor rotafret Coca John M fcnedsn to liar Ion S Totten-

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DIEDBOOMER On Aprils at bis late residence 1O9 Pons >

lass it Brooklyn N VM Jots lloomsr age373 yeanFuneral today std3U V M-

IlUUIuKUoa Aonl a Deborah Bradford sister te-

trie late Nsthanlel U and Uenjamlu W llradroid Inher slits year

Funeral from the homo of her staler Mra O II WUlard lloa U eat 413th St toda at 1 o clock

BRAIV On Tuesday April 2 Tliomae f UelOTed huebond of jlarifaret Brady atred f d years

Belallves and friends are tnt iced lo Altenit the funeralto slay at I oclock Irom hU Isle residence 24J Cuetots St

BRENNANOn April 1 Kale ODonnell beloved wifeof AsBembiyinm Brennan

Funeral from her late residence todayCJlHlhTIR AtLeonla i J on April Uannab Uarta-

Brlakerhoft widow of David curlatli In the Wiayear of her aiie

Relatives snd friends are invited to attend her funeralherlaia residence on saturday April at 3from Train leave un Northern Kaflroau of New

Jersey rrm tout of Chambers au at I 151 atCarriages will be in waiting at the depot

DONNhtLYOu April Ueor e Vonnellr agod 37years-

Funeral on Saturday noon from his late residence 92-Hopaliia av Jersey CltT Melebts-

ECJAN Uo April it Alice raan in her 84th yearUelatlves and frtenda arid those of her son William

are tirvlted to attend the funeral from the residenceof her son In law Luke Towers 451 IaltsadaairJersey ttly llcldits today at I P U sharp Inter-ment

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In CalvaryFA1LM AI Vrooklva N V on Wednesday April 3

ltbel daughter of Iruocene C and lisa lato KuwarftYates

Friends are Invited toaUsnd the funeral services to-

day itllAitI at tier late rraldtnce 5j 7tb av-Vnioklyn Interment at llrlmuL It I

FALLUxuii Kednerday April 3 Tlomaa Fallon la-the OtJthyear oust age

Funeral from titillate residence B Collate place Saturday April u al in A M thence to lIt JosephChurch nth av and Washington puce whey a re

visas will be said for the repose of his souLFOX un April 2 tllcbael Vex In tbe Ittth jearof Mil

age-Itelativealod frlendeof family are respectfully

vttetl to attend the funeral from lila lit resIdencelUJEaat 1I7IUSI louayatlJA U Ilienca SL-

1aul burch IIl7thfct aud 4lliav where solemnOHM of requlum will be sOared tut his repose ot hissoul

GItIENOn VVedneidar April Mrs Ellis A GreenIn the O4th ear of tier age

Belatlrss and friends are Invited to attend the fuoeralfrom her late residence 4ltl 1 tit lonhnu today atU BOX Id tbeuce to At MepheiTs Church fast38th at where a solemn requiem mass win be cele-brated

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for the repose of tier soul Interment In Catvary

vEt iou o Tuedsy April 3 at her reatdeac 101West tOoth st Cnrtatlna Henry of consumption

ruseral aervlccs at the West ind lrasb > terlan-iturcb Vest lOith au and Boulevard today at-II 3i > oclock-

SSXNHIiYHrldiet wife of William J Sheridan mideuce awirieasint av

Funeral from the Church of the holy Bosary Zestimtum today a tub A h-

ifetVhOl April J Iloe at Isis resident to nernses-si Brooklyn Alexander XoCuo to the 83d year of-

7Jiefutitaihie axe

wilt take place from 81 Peters Churchcorner Warr u and tuck its on frlday she Sta-IneU at oclock A M-

itAHriliOE Weliiesday April Edna Uay Infantfiaurhter of Haymoud and Emily Martinez agedroonll s stud 1 data

ftelatlver and friends are respectfully invited to attendthe funeral frumihe residence or tier parents Jus-uth ft bomb Hrooklyu today at 1 P M-

HUllfHMtltlM mi April Mrs Met nbUnlrlnkwidow of John UuUletibnuk in the JtU year of her

Relatives and frleaids are Invited to attend the funeralfrom hor Ills residence t tfruome st today allclock C K-

ONru4sddstly April 8 at bis retldeice 390 WestS7tb st nt inflaumaUon ol the bssrl bdward lay-5fl POOl M I

Funeral u day at tllja A >t from Central Contreftt-lonal Church West A7tli at west of sib av-

syiiR After a itliirtng Illneta Ullllam J Iyms In his71m year

Ttefuneret services will lake laos at his late resi-dence < 7T rat av im Sunday rnnrnltm at lujio-o i lock Relative and friends In riled Ibteruientprivate liea b oinlt flowers