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A WHOLESALE HANGING,
Seven Murderers simultaneously
Executed in Arkansas.

Seven Murderers simultaneously
Executed in Arkansas.
A wholesale hanging took place at Fort
Smith, Ark, on Friday, Of murderers re-
Gently sentenced by Judge Parker OF the
United States Court
The execution was public and an enormous
crowd Of people from all parts Of the Indian
Nation and Arkansas assembled to see the
murderers hung. The Sheriff had erected q
scaffold with seven nooses and seven traps,
and shortly before noon the signal was given
and simultaneously the following seven mu:
derers were swung into eternity:
Owen D. Hill, colored man, for the muir
der Of his wife on July !, 1887.
Jack Crow, colored, for the murder OF
Charles B. Wilson, Choctaw, in the Choc-
taw Nation, in 1895. .
George Most, colored, for the murder OF
George Taft in Red River County, C} : -aw
Nation, in September, 1887.
jefferson Hildebrand. Cherokee, for the
murder Of John Ridgeway, near Coffeyville
Cherokee Nation, in May, 1885.
William Alexander, colored, for numbering
his stepdaughter, Ella "hitefield, in Choctaw
Nation.
Emanuel Peterson, colored, for the murder
of Deputy Marshal Willard B. Hayes, who
was trying to arrest him in the Choctaw Ma
tion in 1881.
Richard Switzerland. white, for the muir.
der of his renter, Jake Burrows in Septem
ber, 1885.
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Washington

A MAJORITY of the members Of both houses
have accepted the invitation of the Secretary
of the Navy to witness the launching OF the
new war vessels at the Cramp shipyard In
Philadelphia
TOTAL amount of bonds offered in reply tc
Secretary Fairchild's recent call, So
COL ,05O; total accepted 50, IT'S, $50 total cost,
s4,29l, ,79O75. Total saving in interest to the
Government, 1886, 1884. Is.
THE President has approved the act max
ing appropriations for the support of the Mil
itary Academy: the act to secure the relin-
uuishment Of the Iniian title to certain por-
tions of the reservation of the Sioux nation
of Indians: the act ratifying an agreement
with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Black
feet, and River Crow Indians in Montana;
the act for public building at Greenville, s.
c., and the act for the construction of an ar.
senal at Columbia, Tenn.
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THE GOVERNORS MEET.
Chief Executives Of Thirteen States
Assemble in Convention.

Chief Executives Of Thirteen States
Assemble in Convention.
In response to call issued some time ago
by Governor Beaver, the governors OF the
thirteen original States, or their representa-
tives, with the exception of Massachusetts,, met
In Carpeater's Hall, Philadelphia, Saturday,
to consider plans for the establishment OF q
fitting and lasting memorial to commemorate
the first centlry Of the Constitution OF the
United States. Governor Green, OF New Jer-
sey, was made Chairman of the nesting. =.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
calling upon the National Government and
the various States and Territories OF the
Union to make suitable appropriations to a
fund to be dedicated to the build
Ing of grand national monument
commemorative of the framing
and adoption of the Constitution, to
be erected within the city of Philadelphia,
said monument to bear the r.mes OF the
signers Of the Declaration of independence
in their autographs, and Of the trainers OF
the Constitution. A resolution was also
adopted declaring that the Governors OF the
thirteen original States be invited to ap-
point q Commissioner from each State to CO
operate with the citizens of New Iork in their
preparations to fitly celebrate the centennial
celebration of the inauguration OF George
Washington as the first President OF the
United States and to invite cooperation on
the part of the sister States and territories
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The VesuyiuS.

The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has length
of 246 feet, with beam Of 26 feet 6 inches;
her mean draught is 81 feet on the plans
and her displacement 700 tons. Her engines
will be Of the latest triple expansion type,
with twin screws, designed for $500 horse
power, which is expected to give speed OF
twenty knots per hour. There will be four
cylindrical locomotive boilers, 100 pounds
steam each. She is very lightly built, but
firmly put together, and will trust to her
speed and shallow draught to choose her own
time for fighting.
She will have three dynamite guns, fifty
four feet in length, fixed in position side by
side, and they will really be built into the
ship. They will project above the deck at an
angle, and the shells to be thrown by them
will weigh 20J pounds. In firing the guns it
will be necessary to move the vessel in tax
Ing aim. The officers quarters will be right
aft while the crew will berth forward in the
usual manner, the midships Of the boat being
taken up with the appliances for loading and
firing the guns, machinery, coal space and
stores. The gallery and coming tower are
on the upper deck. The success Of the dyna-
mite cruiser has been and will be watched
and waited for with deep interest Its sue
cess ssimply means the revolutionizing OF naval
warfare
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TOWED BY A WHALE;

Remarkable Adventure Of GIou.
cester FISHING Schooner.
a letter has been received from the cook
of the schooner d. B. Griffin, Captain George
Nelson, of Gloucester, Mass, now on a trip
for salt cod on the Banks, in which very
strange occurrence is narrated.
She arrived on the Banks few weeks ago
and found fish exceedingly plenty. One day,
which was moderately fine, and while the
crew were all out in their dories attending
their travis, the captain and cook remained
aboard, as is customary, the sails being reefed
and the vessel at anchor, the two occupants
felt sudden jerk and moment afterward
the vessel was going through the water at
rapid rate. They rushed on deck to IND the
cause Of the commotion, but none was dis
covered until suddenly large whale came to
the surface to blow, with the anchor attached
to his side. The marine monster had evi-
IDENTIFY been swimming near the bottom OF
the ocean, where he became attached to the
fluke Of the anchor.
Once on the surface the maddened whale
tore through the water at frantic rate. so
fast as to nearly submerge the bows. The
captain saw that they were rapidly losing
sight of their crew in the dories and would
leave them alone on the ocean, SO he cut the
cable and freed the voessl. The jibs and fore
sail were hoisted, and they returned and
secured their crew, who had filed their dor1es
with finny freight. The vessel was put on
the course for Newfoundland, where new
cable and anchor have been secured.
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A PApAL DECREE.
A Letter Issued from Rome Against
the Irish Plan of Campaign.


The statement that the Pope has iss1ed g.
decree condemning the plan Of campaign In
Ireland Is confirmed A Papal letter says hes
does so because he is convinced that the plan
Of campaign is illegal BE says he IS alse
convinced that the land courts will reduse al
unfair rents. Another circumstances that
Influenced him, he says, is the fact that funds:
are extorted from contributors to the plan.
The Pope condemns boycotting as practice
contrary to justice and charity. e 9,
The Dublin Freemdn's journal urges thet
people to exercise calmnessand patience, and
respect and loyalty to Rome. II declares
that boycotting Is rare. The Nationa1sts'
have determined to continue the plan OF CAM;
paign in spite Of the Papal decree 1t IL as-
serted that the movement will not suffer
much from the necessary detection OF the
priests, who will undoubtedly continue 70
sympathize with the people, and that thai
with laymen The matter has caused
an extremely bitter feeling among
the Nationalists. Mr.. Dillon, In speech ct
Herbertstown, Ireland, pointed out the
Justice of the plan Of campaign. the results OF
which, he said, fully justified the wisdom
of the League In recommending 10 The
whole ground for the Nationalist policy was
the fact that an Irish TENANT coulQ nos MAKE
contract with his landlord; that freedom
of contract did not exist He denied ern-i
phatically that the plan Of campaign funds
were obtained by force and intimidation.s
A despatch from Rome to the London Times,
saws: s1The Papal letter has already been
sent to the Irish Bishops and will be pub,
lished soon. The Pope forbfds Catholics
to adopt the plan Of campaign or to en-
/ gage in boycotting and enjoins obedience To-
The London Post thinks that the PopeAs ac.7
tion Is BY far the most formidable blow yet;
struck at the Nalionalists. The London
Standard says: That the Papal decree viii.
do good cannot be doubted, but that it VIII
extirpate the evil can scarcely be hoped. ."s7s,
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
r.st.rr and Middle states

JOHN B. BlscoE colored man, has been
hanged at Leonardtown, Md, for the muir
der Of Captain R. P. Dixon in 1886.
THE sixty-sixth anniversary Of the birth
day Of General Grant was celebrated through
out the country, particularly by notable
gatherings of men in New York, Boston and
Pit: t:sburg.
THE remains Of ex-Governor John T. Hof-
man, who recently died abroad, were brought
to New York, and after memorial services in
Grace Church, were taken to Sing Sing, n.
Y, and there inferred.
FREDERICK WITTE, a New York clerk,
while attempting to put out an electric light
received shock that resulted fatally.
A LAD in Grove City, Penn, hanged him
self because his mother whipped him
The Rev. Edgar L. Heermance, former
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at White
Plains, n. Y, committed suicide Sunday by
shooting himself while standing In that
church's pulpit.
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, the high
est in rank of living officers OF the Confed-
crate army, has been unanimously elected
an honorary member of E. D. Baker Post, u.
A. R, of Philadelphia.
FREsHETs have done much damage in val
leys of the Connecticut Merrimac, Kenne-
bee and other New England rivers, and IN
the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
DAVID N. BURKE, of New York, to be
Consul of the United States at Bahia, and
Francis Gross, of New York, to be Appraiser
Of Merchandise in the district of New York,
are the latest appointments by President
Cleveland.
W. G. DUTTENHoFFER, ta1-collector Of
Columbia, Penn. having defauted to the
amount of $1,000, now turns out to be q
fOrpar es we'll his hOndS having no genuine
! signatures upon them
Two little children of Emil Faist were
burned to death in New York city by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp in the hands
Of their mother.
CHARLES A. RICKERD, New York police
man caught in the act of robbing a store on
his beat, was arrested, disgraced by having
the buttons cut from his uniform, indicted,
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment, and
taken to Sing Sing, all in less than ten
hours.
DIR. SIMMONS, of New York, who attended
Samuel j. Tildeu in his last illness, has suel
the executors of the Tilden estate for 81 i3,-
OOU, the amount of his bill for medical YER
vices
Ex-Ass1sTANT CASHIER De BAUM, of the
National Park Bank, New York, has stolen
s95, 600 of the institutions funds and fled, it
is surmised, to Canada. This does not affect
the stability of the bank, as it has large
surplus.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Democrats held their
State Convention at Concord, and adopted
resolutions approving the Presidents mes
sage on the subject Of Tariff reform, and
recommending him to the st. Louis con-
vention for denomination. The delegates
were instructed to so vote in the Presidential
Convention.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TENNYsoN Is at work on q poem Of some
length.
HENRY T. CoxwELL, the balloonist, now
70, has made 7OO ascents
BISHOP WILSON is the oldest preacher in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
EMPEROR DON PEDRO, Of Brazil, Is great
admirer of George Eliots novels.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, st 72, Is as
much interested in this world as ever.
SENATOR SALISBURY, of Delaware, is the
only bachelor in the United States Senate.
EXPRESS ELIZABETH, of Austria, is superb
ly beautiful, and has wealth OF golden hair.
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND will re-
main in Washington until the latter part OF
June.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico. has received
the French decoration Of the Grand Cross OF
the Legion of Honor.
SECRETARY WHITNEY Is very fond OF
animals, and has several fine horses and one
dog for which he paid $500.
SECRETARY BALFoUR, Of the English
Cabinet, used to be known in school and at
college as ''Clara Balfour."
CONGRESSMAN W. D. KELLEY, Of Penn
yylvania, "Father Of the House." recently
celebrated his seventy fourth birthday.
THE Duke of Marlborough returns to this
country in June it is said, to continue his
wooing of young and very wealthy Ameri-
can widow.
THE Rev. Robert Collyer, Of New York,
was twenty-seven years old when he came to
this country and brought his wife over with
him in the steerage.
GABRIEL SALAUSoN, the young French
man who is to marry daughter Of the Brit
ish Minister at Washington, is Of Hebrew
descent and wealthy.
TIE Due de Cazes, the sec, 900 bridegroom
elect Of Isabella Blanche Singer, the Ameri-
can heiress, is an insigni6cant-looking little
man, and anything but an Apollo.
LORD AUGUSTUS LOTUS, at one time
Queen Victoria's Ambassador at Vienna,
now presides over the bookkeeping depart
ment of Lady Loftus's millinery store in
London.
GENERAL BoULANGER, of France, has a
large and constant correspondence with
America, and receives regularly number
of the leading newspapers of leading cities in
the United States.
EMPEROR FREDERICK, of Germany, in spite
of his illness, still supervises the history OF
| the great elector, upon which couple OF
Germans have been at work for years, and
which has now reached its eleventh volume.
CONGRESSMAN HIT, Of Illinois. is one of
the richest Representatives at Washington.
He is said to have spent s30, 900 year enter
tanning when he was Secretary of Legation
at Paris. He is an expert stenographer, and
was at one time clerk OF one of the Senate
| Committees.
OF the eight Republicans who received
votes for the presidential nomination at the
Chicago Convention of 1880, four are dead,
four still live. Grant, Garfield, Washhurne
and Conkling have passed away. The four
who remain are Blaine, Sherman, Edlnunds
and Window. ~
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Foreign.

QUEEN VICTORIA has returned to England,
landing at Sheerness.
THE Panama Lottery Loan bill has passed
the French Chamber of Deputies by vote Of
3l2 to 1872 This empowers Count De Lesseps
to establish a lottery in furtherance OF his
Ship Canal scheme in Panama.
THE Servian Ministry has resigned and a
new Ministry formed
THIRTEEN lives were lost by the sinking OF
the ship Smyrna off the Isle of Wight.
MEXICAN trsops had sharp battle with
hostile Yaqui Indians on the Tejambpo
Mountains, in which twenty-one redskins
were killed and fourteen taken prisoner.
THE British Government offers to owners
of fover twenty horses an annual retainer of
81. so for each horse for the option OF pur-
chasing them in time of war.
PAUL KRUGER has been reelected Presi-
dent Of the Transvaal Republic.
SIR ALFRED Phillips RYDER, Admiral
of her British Majesty's feet, has been
drowned in the Thames at London. Admiral
Ryder suffered from insomnia, and the
drowning was the result of an accident.
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South and West.

AT Galesburg, ILL.,, W. A. Hedberg, a Bur-
lington engineer, killed Herbert Newell, a
striker, and seriously wounded fireman.
ALEXANDER JONES has been hanged at
Tallahassee, Fla, for the murder of George
Cuthbert. While in Jail waiting to receive
the death penalty he murdered one Of his
guards.
BY the breaking through Of the floor in the
Rushsylvania Ohio town hall, three persons
were killed and many injured
JOHN QUARLEs, of Ridgeway, S. c., at
tempted to punish his young brother for a
trifing offense. when the boy stabbed him to
the heart, killing him instantly.
ARCH SroLTz, farmer who lived near
His brother William, seeing the corpse, took
the remainder of the drug and died, asking to
be buried in the same coffin with Arch.
A PEANUT trust has been formed at Nor
folk, Va, which controls the entire peanut
interest Of this country with the exception
Of three small factories
THE bodies Of Mrs Mary ]. Kearney, aged
sixty, and James Hand, aged seven, have
been discovered on the ranch where they had
been living, ten miles from Colorado Springs,
Col The boy had q large fortune, which
| was held in trust for him. There is no clua
to the murderers.
THE boiler in William Caldwells file fac
tory at Rushville, Ind, exploded, killing
three men and wounding five Others.
HENRY Pope, a colored murderer, was SEN
fenced to be hanged Friday, at Summerville
| Ga, but Governor Gordon respited him foi
sixty days There was such intense feeling
against the culprit, however, that a mob ol
citizens took him from Jail and lynched him.
THE State Republican Convention met al
| Columbia. S. C., and chose delegates to tht
Chicago Convention, who 60 thither unin.
structed on the subject Of Presidential
nominee.
Two section men were killed and three
badly hurt near Elko Neo., by an engine
running into hand car.
THE Wisconsin Democracy assembled ir
convention at Madison and adopted resolu.
tions demanding Tariff reform and indorsina
the administration of President Cleveland
A delegation was sent to the St Louis Con.
vention that will support Cleveland for the
| Presidential nomination. As electors rs-at-largo
the Convention elected Nelson Dewey, who
was the first Governor the State Of Wis
consin ever had, and Thomas Thompson, a
young Norwegian, from Trempealeau county.
GENERAL WRIT ADAMS, postmaster oil
Jackson, Miss, and John a Martin, editor
of the NeU Mississippidn, fought street
duel, in which both were killed. The cause
Of animosity was certain articles in Martins
! paper rejecting on the veracity Of Adams.
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. NEWsY GLEANINaa
,cov f,orv, Iv1, lo,t 4oEo nm 4.

ROSCOE CoNKLING lett $I5U,0OU
An ostrich farm Of $50 acres is 70 be started,
near Red Bluff, Cal s.s ],
NEW YORK CRY consumes so, 600 Frank
furter sausages daily. 3. 4
THE police force Of London has been fn-I
creased to Il, 800 men. - i
THERE were sixteen fatal accidents in tho
football field in England last season. q
n PoLIKoFF, the Russian railway king, IS
dead. His fortune is estimated at $SG0oV,-s
900. =! Il. Il
MARY SHARPLEss, the richest child in.
America, IL nine years old and worth ffty
millionA ~ 4.
Two THOUSAND foreign Jews In 0dessa,
Russia, have received notice to quit within
3ne week. =. Z 81
THERE are about $4,000 persons in Salt:
Lake City, Of whom perhaps 5000 to le,eVoE
are Mormons. -: 3S5
AN industrial school for colored people has
been started in Alabama, wherein twelve IN
dustries are taught. ."# 49, s
REPRESENTATIVE MULLIeAN has offered ..
bill in the Kentucky Legislature to make
poker playing felony.
The mills Of Minneapolis made 169, 200 bar
rels Of -four last year, an amount e3ceeded
but twice in their history.
SAMUEL MORRISON, the surveyor, VINO
made the first map Of Indiana, recently died
at indianapolis on his ninetieth birthday.
AT the Hoosic Valley (Mass) sheep-shear-
ing the other day, heeces from prize rams
varied all the way from Is to 10 pounds
Ex-ArToRyzY GENERAL BREwsTER's es-
tate Of 500, 900 will be held In trust Tor nus
son, until the latter reaches the age OF thirty:
GENERAL GONZALES, Governor OF tne
Mexican State Of Guanajuato, has decreed
the suppression Of bull fighting in that
State. n - --,5 -
AN American quack who went to France
to advertise "a sure cure for consumption,
was arrested and sent to prison for eighteen
months. . - 5t
ST. HELENA, Napa County, Cal: has
wine cellar in conrse Of construction that win
cost $3.50 0oJEand safely house 6oo,oo ga
pms Of wine. =.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Connecticut Democracy met in State
Convention at Hartford and passed resolu!
tions demanding readjustment of the Tariff
and elected delegates to the st. Louis Con-
vention who are pledged to support Cleve-
land for denomination. ..
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS R. REED has been
re-nominated by the Republicans Of the 1st
Maine District.
TIE town of Ralston, Penn, has been de-
stroyed by fire. r.. s.
THE Illinois Republican State Convention
met at Springfield and Mayor Joseph w.
Fifer, of Bloomington, was nominated for
Governor. Resolutions indorsing Judge
Gresham as candidate for the presidential
nomination were passed. F..
THE Democrats Of Iowa held their State
Convention at Dubuque, and elected district
delegates to the St. Louis Presidential Con-
vention. The delegation goes thither un-
pledged
The California Republican Convention
convened at Sacramento and chose all un.
pledged delegation to the Chicago Presiden'
tial Convention.
GEORGE MORTON, miner, killed Deputy
Marshal Kelly at Warrior, Ala, and was
lynched by citizens, who dragged the homi-
eide from freight train on which he was
being carried to Birmingham for safety. He
was hanged and then riddlei with bullets.
The Convention to organize farmers
trust in Kansas and the Mississippi Valley
effected permanent organization at To,
peka, Kan, by electing Ex-Governor David
Butler, Of Nebraska, President.
THE Senate, near the end Of its session
Wednesday, proceeded to the consideration
of individual pension bills on the calendar,
and in IS minutes passed 105 of them, AZ being
House bills.
The public debt statement shows reduc-
ton during April Of 1926, ,SOo Total cash
in the Treasury, $3.50, 1896, ,5l9.4s.
THE value of the coinage of the United
States mints during April was s5,32l EOS, OF
which s2,s5O, OOl was silver.
The Sultan of Morocco refuses to submit
the differences between Morocco and the
United States in reference to the men
imprisoned at Rabat to arbitration, and the
disput, has been reopsned. 81
FIFTEEN banking houses in Buenos Ayres
have suspended within ten days The liabili-
ties of one Of the banks exceed $1,000, 600.
The government; bank refuses to discount
bills and a financial panic is the consequence.