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THE SN OBS
OF New York Taken in and Bone Fer
by an AristOcratic Swindler-His
Anteeedents-A Career Cut
Short by LEMON De-
tectiVes.

New York World: "The members of the
Knickerbocker club who suddenly missed
from their midst on one bleak day in No
vember last an interesting and accomplished
stranger from the land O. cakes, who came
among them armed with recommendations
procured on the strength of letters from
Hon. SIR Charles Augustus Murray to our
esteemed fellow citizen, Mr.. Royal Phelps,
will be glad to know that the lost has been
found lie was found at Exeter, in Devon
shire, oD the eleventh instant. There can be
no mistake about it, because the person who
found him was Captain Bent, the chief con-
stable of that cathedral city, who was anxious
to prevent him from getting himself into
trouble by travelling alone in railway car
riage with a lady of Cornwall who had left her
home in his company. He answered, when
Captain Bent addressed him, to the noble
name of Hon. Arthur Arbuthnott, but upon
further investigation he turned out to be a
much more notable person, Mr.. Montague
D'Oyley Fullerton Armstrong, tor whose APP
prehension the Scotland Yard authorities
have held a warrant ever since February OF
last year. He Is thirty years of age and was
mentioned in the Hue and Cry as well-known
| in West End hotels, and minute search OF
his luggage has led to papers of very IN
| teresting nature being found concealed. 1t
| seems that in 1873, the queen, on the re-
commentator OF Earl Granville, approved oil
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SHEKMAN
In the Course of an Interview with n
New York Reporter, Tells what
he Knows about the Fund
ing of the Public Debt.

New York special to the St. Louis RepmbH-
can, April 9TH: Secretary Sherman reached
this city this evening, and went Immediately
to the Fifth Avenue hotel. He Is accompa-
MED by ]. X. Upton, chief clerk of the treas
ury department. 1t is expected he will re-
main in the city for several days. His visit
has nothing to do with the funding of five
twenty bonds Ia an interview in the Tribune
the secretary says: 81 do not know why peo-
pie should suppose that no more four per
cent bonds can be obtained. While l shall
retire from the market for a time the sale of
four per cent bonds, people can get all they
want now from funding certificates at
par. 10 a short time; as soon as the
market settles, | shall offer four per
cent bonds for sale to refund
10 40 bonds, but at advanced rates, so as not
to allow such heavy commissions. | hope to
save the double interest. l do not see at
present now l can do so unless congress short
ems the cali. The funding act, passed In
1871, provided that ninety days notice should
be given before 5 20 bonds could be called,
involving unnecessary delay. While that
law stands l cannot do anything else |
called the attention of congress to this in my
an lual report in December, and | strongly
recommended that the time for calls should be
reduced to thirty days. the house, after
considerable delay, passed such bill, and
the senate did not take it up. The shorten
ing of calls simply enables US to apply the
money we receive sooner" The secretary
stated that there was matter to which he
desired to call public attention. He said: Il
notice in some of the papers, principally In
the west, that | was gong to accept all bids
for four per cent bonds received on April 4th.
Some bids were received from banks In Bos-
ton, Cincinnati, st. Louis and other places,
in the ordinary course of business, aad GER
tIficates were forwarded before three
o'clock on Friday evening. These were
accepted, and they did not exceed IN all 81
900 instead of $40,000,000, as published
III some papers. The Continental and Han
over national banks of New York sent very
large subscriptions, but there is no claim on
their part that they were forwarded until
after three o'clock in the afternoon. The en-
tire amount of subscriptions received after
hours on April 4th, was $50 ,565, 700. At
noon when | went to the cabinet meeting
subscriptions amounted to $6,502, $50. At
two o'clock in the afternoon | received sub
scription from the Bank of Commerce for
$40 100000. Ii was 50 large and unusual
that requested the dispatch to be repeated
and certified before accepting it. Shortly
afterward | received subscriptions from banks
IN New York for $12 900 900, and these, with
ten million dollars by a London syndicate,
made $50 502, $40. / closed the 3 20 fund
ing and sent word to all suo-treasuries in
the country. No subscriptions after that
time were received. Those that came were
received at my house after FIVE O'Clock in the
afternoon, and they were all declined"
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miscellaneous.
4 Rewarded Faith.

Courier Journal: "a story comes from
st. Petersburg which is pretty enough TO
bear repeating. Not long since government
functionary died in utter restitution, leaving
without friends or relations two small chill
dren, one of whom was a boy about seven
years old. Alone, moneyless, foodless, with
his little sister crying for bread, he wrote on
piece of paper, as last resort, the petition,
Please God, send me three copecks to buy
my sister a ROLL This he carried to the
nearest church, to drop it into an alms-box,
and start it on its way to heaven, A passing
priest, seeing him trying to put the paper
into the box, took it and read it, whereupon
he carried the children to his house, and fed
and clothed them. The next Sunday he
preached sermon on charity, in which he
alluded to the incident The collection that
followed amounted to nearly one thousand
dollars
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a woman Burned Alive as a Witch.

st. Petersburg Government Messenger:
early last month woman named Agrafena
IgnatIeva was burned as a witch by the peas
ants in the village of Wratshevo, in the gov
ernAsent OF NOVgorod. 1t seems that the
wretched woman, who was the widow of a
soldier, had the reputation OF being a
sorceress and witch, and strove to promote
this delusion by every means In her power.
The peasants of the whole neighboring dis
trict had such dread of her powers of mis-
chief that they endeavored even to anticipate
her wishes, and, although an absolute pau
per, she lived very comfortably on the con-
tributions spontaneously made to her. There
were many persons in the district suffering
from epilepsy, and Il was popularity believed
that the witch had thus punished them for
offending her IN some way. One of these
epileptic sufferers, a girl from distant viii
lage, besOugh6 some peasants to burn the
witch and so release her from her sutferings
At an assembly of headmen and seniors of
the village. it was resolved to extInguish the
source of mischief. They proceeded to her
hut, which they found fastened up. They
| broke 1t open, discovered the wretched wo-
| man, charged her with the crime, and then
nailed up the window and door to prevent
her escape. By this Tune over three hundred
men had assembled around the hut, and amid
their jeers and shouts of exultation it was set
| on fire, and the whole crowd remained until
it was quite consumed. The sum of twenty
one rubles and eighty copecks (nearly sixteen
| dollars and fifty cents) was collected and
/ offered to the rural policeman as bride to
secure MS silence. But he rejected it, and so
| this terrible tragedy came to light"
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seIden Lindsey KAIled.

FORREST CRY, April 3.-On the IF
teenth of March Selden Lindsey, native of
Arkansas, was shot and killed 10 a diff
Guilty some fourteen miles from Dokesvilie,
in the Indian Territory. Young Ljndsey's
relations live somewhere in sorthern Ar
kansas write this in order that his friends
may know what has become of him. Lind
sey was about twenty-three or twenty-four
years old, dark hair, deep blue eyes and
rather daFk skin. Lindsey's relations are a
good family of people, and will appreciate
the publication of this statement. | knew
young Lindsey In Texas. Respectfully.
GEORGE TURNER,
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Another Cut in Passenger Rates to
Eastern Cities,

ST. LOUIS, April 10.-Under the cut of
passenger rates from here to the seaboard,
which has been in operation for some time
past, the rates dropped down to-day to
twelve dollars to New York, and the pros
pect is that they will go lower. Quite a
number attended the meeting of merchants
held here tonight to consider the questonsof
railroad freights from east to west, and'see if
something could not be done to prevent the
discrimination against st. Louis which now
prevails Considerable discussion was had
and a committee was appointed to report to a
subse quent meeting. The demand was for q
mileage rate which would place st. Louis on
the same footing as all other cities in the
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\ Tramp,s Dead Body.

COLUMBUS, Q April IO.-The body Of an
unknown man about sixty years Of age was
to-day. The body had the appearance Of
having been in the water for some time. and
portions Of it had been eaten by hogs. There
were no papers indicating who the dead man
was, and the superstition OF the coroner s
jury is that the man had been stealing a ride
on the cars, and IN attempting to get of
while crossing the bridge, had fallen into the
water and drowned, and that as the high
water receded the body had been left on the
hank where il was found.
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CINCINNATI, April 10. - An Enquirer
special says John Borum, a farmer living
near Sabina, Ohio, had difficulty with a
hired hand named Weaver yesterday, during
which the latter threatened to shoot. Borum
swore out warrants for the arrest of Weaver
for assault. Constable ]. l.. Johnson at
tempted to arrest Weaver, when the latter
fred at the officer. johnson returned the FIRE,
the ball penetrating Viewers abdomen and
fatally wounding him.
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Extensive Frauds Discovered.

CHICAGO, April 1O.-On the eleventh of
January last Marcus Krouberg. a State street
Jeweler, having failed, his business was put
In the hands of an assignee. 1t has just been
discovered that extensive frauds have been
perpetrated since then by the head clerk,
Charles Stiff. aided and abetted by L. B.
Hardness and Frank Murphy. other clerks.
These parties, together with Murphy S
brother, his room-m mate, and two receivers of
stolen goods, seven persons in all, were ar
rested this evening. The total amount taken
Is supposed to he about ten thousand dollars
worth
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IL. xx&VIII---NU LUMBER So
sale of a Derunct BanI.,s Property

CHICAGO, April I0.-Under an order of
court the property owned by the defunct
Fidelity savings bank. near the corner of La
sale and Randolph streets, was sold at auc-
ton this morning, the amounts bid being
of such remarkably low figure, jhat it is
expected the court will refuse to confirm the
order. The amounts bid were: for Hooley's
theater, sixty Thousand dollars; for Fidelity
bank, ifty-nine thousand dollars; for safe
depository, seventy-two thousand dollars.
This is all very desirable property, and Is ap-
praised at a much higher figure.
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germany suspicious OF Austria.

BERLIN, April 10-The internal affairs of
Austria are critically watched here. The add
vent of the ultramontane reactionary cabinet
seems probable. A great meeting of repre-
sentatives OF the German seaports will be
held on the seventeenth instant, to freely
discuss the new tariff. All seaport cities
strongly oppose the projected surtaxes and
retaliatory duties on trans marine imports.
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Give Him u Rest.

Philadelphia Times: "Ex-Senator STAN
ley Matthews makes two very important state
ments: First, that there is not the least
prospect that the President would appoint
HIM to the bench of the supreme court in the
place OF Mr.. Justice Hunt; aud, further, that
even were the President disposed to do so
ne would not accept the appointment. If it
like to suggest that Stanley Mathews be
gwen rest. He is an Ohio man. of course,
and therefore liable to be an object of per-
sonal concern, but the country would hardly
miss one Ono man if he could be allowed to
retire, as this one evidently desires to do"
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DEADwooD, d. T., April 10.-A party of
seven Indians attacked Sergeant Kennedy,
late signal observer at Deadwood, and .
private soldier named Bader. of the Second
cavalry. The two men were eating lunch at
Mizpah, forty-fve miles from Fort Keogh,
their destination, when fired upon. Bader
Was instantly killed and Kennedy badly
wounded. The latter crawled into some
brush and kept the Indians off with his six
shooter until assistance arrived. Bader was
scalped. Kennedy will probably recover.
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The OmclaI Vote of Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, April IU.-Ihe Official vote
412 majority; Boyce (Rep.), board of pnolio
works, 260 majority; Foraker (Rep.). in 'ge
of the superior court, 722 majority: K1mler
(Rep), city solicitor, 94S majority; Kuor:
(Rep.), city treasurer, iii majority; Wilson
(Dem.l, Judge police court, 1925 majority;
Murphy (Rep.), prosecuting attorney police
court, 701 majority; Setchel (Rep.), police
commissioner, 272 majority. Total vote cast,
1888.
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done its work effectively. She died about
hulf-past eight o'clock in the evening. She
left two notes, one to her father and one to
Mr.. Haworth, telling her ia her that she was
tired of the trials and vicissitudes of life, and
took steps to rid herself of them, and asking
all the members of the family to forgive and
forget her. The contents of the note to Mr..
Haworth could not be learned
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Sale OF the st. Louis Grand Opera
house

ST. LOUIS, April I0.-The one-half inter-
est in the leasehold, fixtures and interior
property of the Grand Operahouse in this
city, owned by the estate of Ben DeBar, was
sold tins noon under deed of trust for six
thousand dollars, by john q. Priest, admin
istrator Of the estate. The property was bid
FIVE thousand one hundred dollars. There
are debts against the concern amounting to
eighteen thousand dollars. 1t is understood
the purchaser will join interests with Charles
P. Chcteau, who owns one sixth of the lease
hold, and the theater will be leased to the
highest bidder.
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COTTON.
The Movement for the Seven Months
Ending on the Last Day of March
The Excess in Supply This
Year 262 1929 Bales,
As Compared with the Total Crop Last
Year - The Demand has been so
Great that there is d Deficit
of 71,46O Bales at the
SeapOrts.

NEW ORLEANS, April THE following is
the report of the cotton trade for the past
seven months, just issued by the national cot
ton exchange: The port receipts for the
month of March, as will be seen, have not
kept pace with the sama period last year, but
show a falling off of 1925 bales, making
the excess for the seven months 200, IT'S bales
compared with 1873 The deficit at the gulf
ports has been still further increased, the to-
tai comparative movement to March 31st
showing as follows:
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DIstilIery Burned.

Iowa CITY, April l0-Hull & Schofeld's
distlllery was burned at five o'clock this after
noon. 1t was the principal alcohol distillery
OF the northwest, producing almost ex-
cluslvely for foreign shipment to Marseilles
and other Mediterranean markets. 1t cost
originally thirty thousand dollars, and had n
capacity OF twelve hundred bushels day.
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The MICHIGAN Elections Yet Undeelded

DETROIT, April 10.-The returns from
Mondays election are yet incomplete, and
from present indications no satisfactory an
nouncement regarding the result can be
made until the official returns are all in. The
Democrats concede the election of Judge
Campbell, Republican, by about two thou
sand majority and the university regents by
something less, while the Republicans claim
a majority of FIVE thousand on the supreme
Justice and regents
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YEAS

he following pairs were announced:
b eek with Jones New. Blaine with Nj Pher-
sou, Davis VIVA. with Window, ard
Salisbury with Hoar, Senators Jones Nev.l ],
Blaine, Window and Hoar would have voted
in favor 0! the admission of Bell, and the
others against his admission. Senators
Thurman and Butter were not present. The
resolution of the committee AS amended was
then passed by precisely the same vote
yeas So; nays, 2S.
Senator Bell was then sworn in.
Senator Withers moved that the senate
now proceed to the consideration OF the army
appropriation bill.
Senator Hereford said that a week ago he
gave notice of his intention to speak on the
resolution offered winch condemned what
was supposed to be the Democratic policy,
bat had gwen way for the consideration of
the question of privilege just decided. He
did not think he ought now be antaQonizsd
with the army bill.
The senate, however, decided to take up
the bill.
A resolution was adopted giving to the Sc
lect committee power to examine the finance
reports, accounts and books of the treasury
department, and the power to have printed
all testimony taken from time to time, and
such statements as the committee may de-
sire.
Senator Randolph made q motion that
when the senate adjourn it be to Monday
next, SAYING that tomorrow would be Good
Friday, day respected by the religious SEN
timent of the country.
The senate disagreed to the motion-yeas,
81; nays. 81.
After an executive session the senate add
journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
The Legislative appropriation bill was taken
up by the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Nd 'Mahon offered an amendment re-
! pealing the sections providing for biennial
examination of pensioners, and concluding as
follows: ''In order to provide for the pay
| ment of the arrears of pensions, the secre-
| tary is directed to issue immediately IN the
| payment thereof, as they may be adjusted,
| the ten million dollars of legal-tender cur
| ency now IN the tr nasury, kept as a special
| fund for the redemption Of the fractional! cur
| rency.
Mr. Garfield raised to a point of order,
| which led to discussion.
The chairman finally ruled that the amend
| ment was german to the bill III direction OF
| economy, and therefore In order. 1t was
then further amended by the provision offered
| by Mr.. Cannon, that fir ctional currency may
| be redeemed in any class of money in the
treasury, and as thus amended, was agreed
| to.
Mr.. Atkins submitted an amendment
which was adopted, for the appointment ii a
deputy commissioner of pensions at q salary
of twenty four hundred dollars.
On motion of Mr.. Dunnel, the amendment
was adopted making Immediately available
Twenty-Five h)usand dollars of the appropri-
alton for the general land office.
The clause in the Giil requiring the photo
hlhographing work of the patent Office to &c
done in Washington, was stricken out.
Mr. Money submitted an amendment In'
creasinR the clerical TO ce OF the Iest9tiic
department. Without action on the amend
| ment the committee rose and the house adj
journed.
The speaker will announce he committees
: orr
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Ad tournament OF the General Ticket
Agents Convention.

ATLANTA, April IO.-The convention OF
general ticket agents adjourned after making
a general reduction in through rates.
The Southern railway and steamship asso-
citation is now IN session to try and discover
the source of the recent cutting in through
rates and to permanently restore pool igures
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1873. 1873.
Receipts at Gulf ports. 005,671 1902, 10
Receipts at Att ante ports 2 115.225 1,S2S,025
.4.12O.9a6 3,92O,141


1t is noticeable that this is the first season
since 1919 in which the movement to the
Atlantic Sc board, up TO the close of March,
has exceeded that to the gull OTIS, fact
which is mainly due 20 tie extraordinary
shipments overland. nearly all Of which are
the product Of the Mississippi valley Is is
interesting in this connection TO note the diff
ference in the details of the movenl mt to
New Orleans, where last year. the net re-
Ceipts were Thirty two per cent Of the entire
amount handled at the ports. The figures
are as follows:
Receipts at Ne V Orleans september
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LOUISVILLE, April l0.-The Republican
S ate convention, he'd here to-day, was very
lareely attended. Hon. John d. White,
nismorable as the only Republican who has
r-oresentcd Kentucky in congress for many
lfs, presided as chairman. Walter
j. ..us aaiycd the nomination for governor.
defeating General Eli II. Murray.
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wEATHER INDICATIONS.

WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE CH. SIG. OFFICER.
WASHINGTON, April IL, am.
For Tennessee and the Ohio rdltey
rainy, follo,ced by clear o. partly cloudy
ioeathey', tcesterly ,cindS, shifting to north
crly, stationary or l0lcer temperature, Vith
HIGHER pressure.
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Quarantine Established at New Or
leans.

NEW ORLEANS. April 1O.-Twenty days
quarantine will be established May LIST
against all vessels from or touching the
West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, south of Texas,
or South America as far as Buenos Ayres,
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Turkish Bath Exploded.

CHICAGO, April 10.-A Lake City special
to the St Paul Pioneer Press says that
Turkish bath blew up there to-day, tearing
the quarters to pieces and fatally scalding
DIR, Gel, proprietor.
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IN this moist and variable climate colds
are inc rule rather than the exception. DR..
Bulls cough syrupis just the remedy for every
one to take when suffering from q cough,
cold or any throat trouble
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CLOSING RATEs

Yesterday Of cotton: liverpool cotton,
8 1-sd Memphis cotton. 10 S-4e. NsI0
Orleans cotton 10 Use NeiC York cotton.
II :.