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FOREIGN FLASHES.

Three valuable paintings in the taria
Della PAGER church at Rome were buln>d by
hsupsetting of lamp. Raphnel's fresco,
the Sibyls narrowly escaped destruction.
A new manager of the Savoy hotel in Lou
don offended the Chef, who Immediately
struck, followed by sixty cooks. Then the
walters, maids and porters struck and the
hotel is practically closed. o..
French Canadian social and commercial
circles OF Montreal are considerably aroused
over the mysterious disappearance of l. A.
Quintal, highly respected member of the
notarial profession. A number of banks
hold several thousand dollars of his paper.
Sentences of fifteen aud four months i'm.
prisonment respectively have been passed
upon two ofthe writers of the Paris Egalite for
threatening M. Constants, the Frenehminister
OF the interior. The manager OF the paper
was sentenced tn three months Imprisonment
for samiIar offense.
Henry NJ. Stanley maintains that the Ger
mans influenced Emin while he was sick and
that Emin doubtless revealed the proposals
Stanley made to him at Wadelai to escort
him to another part ofA:rica and install him
in the government of the region. Stanley
thinks the Germans intend to annex and will
act on these plans. If Germany secures the
lake region, he says, it will destroy the whole
value OF the British coast possessions. The
conquest ofthS Soudan would cost 5, O00, 900
pounds, nnd no government in Europe has
the stamina to undertake it.
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WRECKED ON A ROCK.

Steamship Suetta Strikes a Reef In
Antipodean Waters and Sinks at
Once.
SAN FRANCISCO, Special. BY steamship
Mariposa, from Australia, additional details
have been received of the wrecked steamer
Suctta, off Thurdah island. About 8
o'clock on the evening of March the pas
sengers, who were holding an impromptu
musical, were startled by the sudden stop
ping of the engines and the grating of the
vessels keel on the sunken rock. In
less than three minutes the Suetta
had sunk out of sight, leaving 291 people
struggling in the waves. Some were borne
under by the tangled rigging and others,
more fortunate, chung to the floating
wreckage. One hundred and thirteen lives
were lost. Of one hundred and twenty -six
whites only thirty escaped, while of the one
hundred and sixty-five negroes, eighty-two
survived, many of the whites being inn
prisoned in the state rooms. Capt
Sanders states that he was
on the bridge when the vessel
struck. He rushed forward and ordered
the boats out. He found the ship already
settling. He had just time to climb the rig
ging and jump into the water when the YES
sci seemed to stand up on end for mo-
ment and then sunk. After halEhour he
was picked up. The rock on which the
vessel struck is not on the chart and is
right in the track of the course recon-
mended by the admiralty which states that
there are twelve fathoms of water there. .,
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ADJuDIcATED BYDEATH.

Father Jaen, the Famous Unfrocked
Priest OF Lyons, Iowa, Dies Sud-
denly of La Grippe.
LYONS. Iowa, Special Telegram,
Death to-day has ended famous law
suit. It was that of f. @. Jaen, an UNI
frocked priest of Lyons, against Bishop
Hennessey of Dubuque, which has been
pending for nearly eighteen years.
It was decided adversely to Jaen
before Judge Ney at Dubuque, Jan. 8.
Becoming involved in a quarrel in 1872
Father Jean brought suit for $100, 900 dam
ages again.t the bishop. Father Jaen car
ied the suit to the supreme court, where it
was pending at his death. Father Jaen has
since 1852 been a familiar figure
about Lyons, of medium weight,
swarthy complexion, with smooth,
strong face, indicative of much
mental strength and flowing white hair. He
looked as he was, q remarkable man. His
death occurred suddenly in this city to-day
of la grippe. He was native of France and
was ixty-four years of age The death of the
eccentric, yet kindly, old man is regretted
by many.
THE LAST OFFICE.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, Special Tele-
gram, Special. Lhe funeral of Rev. A.
Ronneberg, pastor of the Lutheran church,
took place here tot day and was largely at
tended. The church decorations were very
fine. The sermon was by Rev. Hoyme of
Eau Claire. Ministers from Minneapolis
and Milwaukee were also present.
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way bearing huge JOHN STEPHENSON.
placard informing the public that This
is the way one bankrupt pays his debts.
his name is Honest John Stephenson"
The story of the truck was that some
time before Stephenson had failed and
paid so cents on the dollar. Getting on
his feet again he had paid off, one by
one, as fast as he was able, the other so
cents to all his creditors but Jordan L.
Mott, who siubbornly refused to accept
his debt, telling Stephenson that the
failure had been an honest one and that
his Indebtedness was legally and morally
wiped by the Bankruptcy proceedings.
Stephenson could not force Mott to take
the money, but when Mott ordered a
truck from Stephenson the latter built
it and delivered it according to ord ,rs,
and then sent the bill Endorsed "Receiv-
ed payment by bankruptcy debt. John
Stephenson" 1t was Mott, then, who
could not force Stephenson to accept the
money, and he got square by hitching
up four horses to the truck and having
it driven up and down the city with the
placard upon it.
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EXCHANGED SHOTS.
A Burglar and Business Man Nor
tally Wound Each Other.

A Burglar and Business Man Nor
tally Wound Each Other.
Dies MONIES, Special. An attempt to rob
the residence of George B. Grimes prom
,inent East side grocer, resulted in the NOR
tai wounding of the burglar, the loss of an
eye by Mr.. Grimes and injuries which may
cost him his life. The burglar made so
much noise searching bureau drawers and
trunks that Mr.. Grimes, who was sleeping
on the floor below, awoke and started up
stairs, revolver in hand. He soon discov-
cred the burglar and six shots were ex-
changed at short range in the dark. Two
hit the burglar. Grimes was shot at four
times and one OF the bullets struck him in
the right side of the face, tearing out his
eye and lodging in the brain. The burglar
escaped, but was found in the cellarway OF
a house block north of the shooting with
a bullet in his breast and very weak from
loss of blood. He gave his name as James
Quinn, and his home as Minneapolis, but it
is known that about five weeks ago he was
released from the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary, where he had been sent Tor similar
offense.
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uNFAvoRABLE SHOWING.
Recent Frosts Cut Down the Per
centage in the Condition OF White
Wheat.

Recent Frosts Cut Down the Per-
centage in the Condition of Winter
Wheat.
WASHINGTON, Special.-The condition
of winter wheat on the first of April,
as reported by the statistician of the
department of. agriculture, averages 81
for the entire breadth. Thegeneral average
for rye is 928. In the states of the central
valleys, recent irosts have cut down the
growing wheat plants quite generally, and
in wet or submerged areas the roots have
been destroyed. There are reports of re-
cuperatlon by sprouting and renewed
growth in this region. Where the roots are
intact, great improvement will follow, with
good weather. The fact that the roots are so
well developed is favorablet to improvement.
The averages of condition of principal
states are as follows New York, IS; Penn
sylvania, 80; Ohio, 81; Michigan, 81; In
diana, IS; Illinois, 75 Missouri, SO; Kansas,
81; California, IL. The report of the cen
dltion of farm animals makes the averages
as follows: Horses, GA; cattle, 941;sheep,
$751;; swine, 95.6. The percentage OF losses
of farm animals by disease, w: nter exposure
or otherwise, as estimated, average 1.64 for
horses, 1854 for cattle, 7.3 for sheep and 7.6
for swine. The reports indicate the loss by
exposure throughout the country of more
than 1000, 600 cattle and still larger losses
of sheep.
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GUILTY OF MANY CRIMES.
of Two Men on Trial
for Robbing an Express. Messen-

Confession of Two Men on Trial
for Roboing an Express, Messen-
ger.
DALLAS, Tex, Speciaf.--0ne of the most
sensational cases ever OH trial came up in
the district court to-day. The prisoners in
the dock were Charles and Commodore"
Miller, indicted for robbing an express
messenger on Texas q Pacific train at the
Santa Fe crossing near'this city one year
ago. Months afterwards Charles and Conn
inodore Miller were arrested on the charge
of perpetrating series of startling crimes.
Charles Miller turnsd states evidence, and
not only confessed that he and his partner
robbed the Texas & Pacific express niessen-
ger. but also confessed that they had as
saulted q white woman, robbed stores and
residences and held up pedestrians on the
public highway. relieving them of their
vaiuables. The case has been tried from
time to time, but always without coming to
any conviction or acquittal. Commodore
has always, until to-day, maintained that
he was innocent, but when he learned that
his brother was to be nolle pressed he broke
down and. confessed to the sheriff and his
attorney that they were guilty of not only
all the crimes in which Charles had turned
states evidence Of but more, On receipt Of
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S'BLUkE, Y0g. HAVE MYSYMPATUfES.
which he received was warm and cor
dial
Once, when the doctor returned home,
having been over isre another neighbor-
hood to poison a patient, he found the
preacher and Julie engaged in earnest
conversation, but too broad.minded to
show evidencesd jealousy. he seized
MIR. Gray by the hand and saids "All de
tine -w6lc0sscs army house, bruder. =
One evening,uVon reaching home the
doctor did not find Julie TO welcome
him. He walked about the house. seem
inglY attempting TO convince himself
that nothing was wrong. but at last,
finding that her clothes had been remov-
ed, be locked Into the ''cobbord' to see
il be gould find anything to eat and re-
marked: She is dun gone.'
Tho nextday;; while the doctor was
istandingin front OF, his house, a white
man rode up, and, stopping Ut the fence
said:
"Bluke, old man, you have my sympa.
thies. 49,.
'sWhut is dom wild en-, sah2"
why, heard that your wife had run
awav with the new preacher.
"Yes, sab, / reckon you'se yered dat,
an reckon de preacher thinks dat it is
er TACK. Er-haw-haw, it tickle me when
think O. dat man. Lemme tell you
suthin. had er sort o. relation libin'
ober in de Blue-Smoke curmunity-er
neice or suthin o. dat sort. Mr.. Gray he
ulster preach ober dar, aud dis relation o.
mine she fell in love wild him, but he
neber tuck de slightes' notice O. her.
She mout be duced ter him one day an
he wouldn't know her de mex, so
hearn er bout 1t an when de preacher
como ober yere I sent fur de chile an
tole her dat eff she wanted him would
see lat she got him. Wall, tole my
wife all err about 1t, an sent her way
frum home, fotch &c preacher over one
day, did, an let on dat Julie wuz my
wife. Iknowed dat de sconnel gwine
ter bite at dat bate, or haw, haw.
Knowed dat he les nachully couldn't
hep it. Oh. vas. dat gal is dun married
ter him now, ter he-he. Pc fool thinks
dat he-rulSer way wild my wife; but
lemme toll you, It takes er man ter run
away Wild sher. Dat lady weighs mos
three, hundred pounds, -0pie r, Read,
in N X World.
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the States of Minnesota, Oregon. Kansas,
Nebraska, Nevada, Colorado, North ana
South Dakota, Montana and Washington.
This act gave the State of Mississippi 5 per
cent of the proceeds of all present and
former Indian reservations as If sold at
81 % per acre. The effect of the act is to
put Indian reservations in the same class as
public lands, so far as this per cent do.
nation is concerned. Under the terms OF
this act Minnesota will derive from the
Chippewa lands alone SITS, 600 on the basis
OF 2, 500 900 acres in that reservation. As
now stands there are other lands which
have formerly been Indian reservations
which will swell the amount to some
what larger figures. The acts directs the
commissioner of the general land office to
state an account between the several states
and the United States and certify it to the
secretary of the treasury tor settlement. lie
is to pay it directly from the unappro--
priated moneys, rather than from the actual
proceeds of the sale of the lands, for by the
terms of the acts under which the Indians
cede their lands to the government the en-
tire proceeds are to be held by the govern
ment in trust for the Indians and could not
be available for donations to the state.
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confederates in force between Chambersburg and
Wilismsport During the battle OF Gettys-
Marshal of Columbia. He entered tho
Thirty eighth congress in December, 1868,
and kept his seat in the house of representatives
ever since that time. He served in the commit
tees on appropriations, public buildings and
grounds, banking and currency. retrenchment
and expenditures in the state department..
Mr. Randall was o ready, concise speaker,
without rhetorical affectatiofs. He was elected
speaker in 1875, aud held the position until the
election Of J. w. Keller He was an outspoken7
advocate of o judiciously adjusted protective
.Sariff, and never wavered from his position ex-
cept when monopoly and not protection was the
object sought to be attained. The free trade
papers were unanimous in their antagonism to
his candidacy for speaker OF the Forty-eighth
congress, and Carlisle of Kentucky was chosen
to the position. In the early part of 1886 Mr..
Randall made tour of the South, and was re-
ceived with much enthusiasm. Mr.. Randall was
@ man who would attract attention in any COM
pany, and was of extremely imposing appear
ance He was q little above medium height, but
q. slight stoop reduced his stature to the aver
age He was broad-shouldered and loose
lmbed. Wearing no beard and always close
shaver, his Napoleonic face was almost as
smooth as o. chfld's. His eyes were large,
black and piercing. But his most prominent
feature was his mouth. which. while inclined to
smile and reveal fine set Of teeth, shut with q
snap and assumed the irmest sort of expression
under the impulse OF, atagonism. The sunshine
of boyish frankness which usually dwelt upon
q cloud as black as thunder The massive
lower jaw was thrust forward, the thin lips closed
o frown fell upon the brow. and the whole head
was thrust forward In q defiant fashion. 1t was
q compile transformation, and when Mr., Randall
was in this ugly mood friend and foe were
equally liable ito suffer from the displeasure OF
the moment. Very different did he look as
| ne saulftered down Pennsylvania ave-
nue or sat in his sparsely furnished study with
lew chosen friends talking the affairs OF the
day. There he was all smiles, and nobody who
has seen him laugh heartily viii ever think Of
him with that Other look. As to dress he was
somewhat careless. BE was always seen in q
complete suit Of black broadcloth, the coat be-
Ing the long.tailed frock which is still considered
full dress in some parts OF the country.
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FLOOD SUFFERERS.

Five Thousand People Around Arr
kansas City, Ark, Homeless.
ARKANSAS CRY, Ark. Special.-This is
the center of the worst flood on the Missis-s
sippi river between Memphis and
Vicksburg. The town is completely
under water, and half of the population
has deserted it. The water now is two feet
higher than ever known here before. This
is due to the great volume pouring out OF
the Arkansas river. Capt. Tallinger thought
that 5000 people We're homeless within
thirty miles of this place. They have no
shelter but shanties made of wrecked houses.
@EEEAe-eeIeed people III the town have taken
possession of the box cars and live in them.
The white people are living in freight
houses. A party Of ttfaekmen on the Iron
Mountain railroad, two miles south of this
city, yesterday found the bodies of
several fugitives who had probably
fallen from RATS or boats and been
drowned. They notified the coroner, who
told them they had better leave the bodies
where they were, as the cemetery was I'M
der water and there was no dry land on
which to bury them. The river began TO
fall to-day and the worst is thought to be
over.
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Rlvallng the Blenders

ENlNalHtB IH1G 59fuGE9s
Judge Betram of Atwood, Kan, has sen,
fenced Gracian Cllleborad to fifty years. in
the peniteLtiary for murder -Chleb6rad lie
about thirty years old, and viii probably
not livet serve bis time out. The crime OF
which he was convicted was poisoning his
younger brother Joseph last December.
Strange to say, although there was proof
positive of strychnine in the dead mans
stomach, and every circumstance pointed
to Gracian as. the murderer, the
jury returned verdict of murder in the sec.
ond degree, aequitting Mrs. Chleborad, his
wife, who was indicted with him. The Judge,
however, made amends for the jury's action
by pronouncing sentence that virtually
amounted to life imprisonment. IL the evil
dence of Chleborad's naighbors ia TO be be-
believed, the poisoning OF Joseph Chleborad
was the last of O series of murders that, il
vestignted, will prove as horrible as the In
infamous Bender crimes. The Chleborads
lived on O claim that was originally
settled by Mr.. Shaw. who myster.
iously disappeared. Evidences indicated
money :and his body thrown into an
abandoned well on tina "dividen not far
from the Shaw dug-out. After while the
Chleborads, consisting of q man and his wife
and three sons, Of which Gracian was the
Oldest, took the claim. In the course OF
time Mrs. ChIeborad died mysteriousIy.
and her place of burial was never known.
The event ocGasioned comment, but this
people seemed to be afraid of the Chleborads
and 1t was never investigated. It was gen.
orally believed, however, that she was MUIR
dered and her body thrown into the well,
Later the old man died suddenly and the
| neighbors again suspected poisoning. This
was followed by fresh burial in the we'll.
This crime was charged to Grncian Chlsbo-
rad and his wife, May. A few months later
one OI his brothers disappeared and GraciaB
said that he had gone 20 Nebraska, but the
boy never came back, and 1t is supposed the
well received another victims. Last December
young Robert was poisoned, and the mur.
derer was detected by q party Of neighbors
who met Gracian with the body Of the boy
well. he was arrested and the murder
proved.
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CUSTOMS UNION.
Report Of the Committee on That
Subject Adopted by the Pam
Americans.

Report OF the Committee on That
Subject Adopted by the Pam
Americans.
WASHINGTON, Special.-The interna-
ional American conference to-day adopted
the report of the committee on customs
union, which recommends that reciprocity
treaties be negotiated between the several
republics of the American hemisphere, each
making tariff concessions SO that the pc
culiar products of them all may be intro
duced free into the others. This report is
in the same line of the amendSae,,t;- ssCg-
gestSS by sl /. Elaine to Che committee on
and means of the house The con-
ference also adopted the report of
the committee on port dues. The commit
tee recommended that all port dues be
merged in single one to be known as tom
mage dues; that this be assessed upon the
gross tonnage; each government to fix the
rate of tonnage dues with due regard to the
policyof the conference which is to facilitate
and favor navigation; that dues under I'M
expired contracts with private companies
be excepted from the provisions of article 1;
and that vessels of less than twenty-five
TONS transports and vessels of war be ex-
empt Gom tonnage dues. The report of
the committee OH banking was discussed at
great length. The committee believes that
commerce could be extended greatly by IA
cilitating direct exchanges between the
money markets of the countries represented
in the conference. The merchants of the
United States now importing goods
from South and Central Ameri-
ca make these importations almost
without exception through the use of En-
glish bankers credits. The committee does
not think the governments themselves
should afford financial facilities. The best
OF 1ng M ing acaIP ~
the United States of law incorporating an
international American bank with ample
capital, with the privilege on the part of
the citizens OF the several countries in the
conference to take shares in the bank pro-
rata to their foreign commerce. This bank
should have all the powers now enjoyed by
national banks of the United States, except
ference did not conclude consideration of
this subject before adjournment.
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Land Decisions.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
Assistant Secretary Chandler, of the in
terror department, to-day reversed decis-
ion of the general land Office allowing the
contest of A. J. Iahane against the heirs of
Helen Il. Hartwen for q homestead in sec
ton s, township 10i, range 81, in the Mitch
ell Is. d. district. He also modified the
land Office decision In the case Of James
Quinn against the United States to allow
further proof to be accepted for Quinn's
homestead in section %, township III, range
40 of the WATERFOWL district. A similar
order was made in the case of Lewis Daw-
son, John Cummings, transferee. involving
q homestead in section %, township lib,
range 50, In the Huron aistrict.s -
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Ex-Private Dell Wild, now in st. Paul,
Eatd relative to the sentence imposed upon
Lieut.. Steele that lie did not think it
severe enough. IF / had struck him in re-
turn would have got ten wears ar hard
labor, said Wild. The ex-private was sur
rounded by an admiring crowd of young
men and women who seemed to regard him
as hero and to whom he announced that
he would leave for Chicago Saturday night
lie has an. engagement next week in Chi
cago dime museum and says that while in
that city he will commence suit against
Lieut.. Steele for defamation of character.
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SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
Catholics Must Support Their Insti-
tutionS of Learning,

Catholics Must Support Their Insti-
tutions Of Learning.
KINGSTON, Ont, Special. Archbishop
Cleary has issued circular letter to the
clergy in his diocese respecting the relation
of Roman Catholics to separate schools
which has created decided sensation. The
archbishop charges the priests to call upon
every rate payer who delib erately, chooses
to side with the enemy for the'gradual de-
struction of Catholic education in this
province and announce to him in the name
and authority of the bishop that his action
is rebellion against the church, and the
archbishop reseryec to himself alone. or III
his absence to the administrator; all power
of absolving such rebellious Catholic from
his sins unless he shall have signed a writ
ten declaration that he heartily repants ct
having injured the church and scandalized
his neighbors by his withdrawal of his
taxes from Catholic education, and sha.I-
n rvs promised to become supportta1rof fhe
separate scfo1el at the eagliessss opportunity.
On receipt of sucn written declaration any
priest OF the diocese may grant absolution