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FLOOD SUFFERERS.
Five Thousand People Around Arr
kansas City, Ark, Homeless.

Five Thousand People Around Arr
kansas City, Ark, Homeless.
ARKANSAS CRY, Ark. Special.-This is
the center of the worst flood on the Missis-
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 were homeless within
thirty miles of this place. They have no
shelter but shanties made OF wrecked houses
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 tFacknlen OF the Iron
Mountain railroad, two, miles south Of this
city, yesterday found the bodies of
several fugitives who had probably
drowned. They notified the coroner, who
told them they had better leave the bodies
where they were, as the cemetery was un-
der water and there was no dry land on
which to bury them. The river began 10
fall to-day and the worst is thought to be
over.
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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 amenaA4ell Ell stig-
gestTapp By slz4-5sIalne 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
policy OF 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 /;
and that vessels of less than twenty-five
tons, transports and vessels of war be ex-
empt flom tonnage dues. The report of
tH6 COlllnlLLCG OH WAS ulSCuSSc(l at
great length. The committee believes that
commerce could be extended greatly by fa-
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
means OF remedying the existing difficulty,
the the ned se thfSs m tne ey
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
power to emit circulating notes, The con.
ference did not conclude consideration of
this subject before adjournment
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which he received. was warm and cor.
dial.
Once, when the doctor returned home,
haying' been over iare another neighbor-
hood to poison q patient, he found the
preacher and Julie engaged in earnest
conversation, but too brOaff.minded to
show evidences of jealousy. he seized
Mr., Gray by the hand and said; "Alt dc
tine ~|6lc0T.s at~my house, bruder.
One evening ,uUon reaching home the
doctor did not find Julie to welcome
him. He walked about the house, SEEM
ingly attempting 10 convince himself
that nothing was wrong, but at last,
finding that her clothes had been remov-
ed, he looked INTO the "cobbord" to see
if be gould find anything to eat and re-
marked: ''She is dun gone"
The next day; while tho doctor was
standiugin front of his house, q white
man rode up, and, stopping at the fence,
said:
''Bluke, old man, you have my sympa-
thies."
"Whut is I doin' wild 'em, sah?"
why, | heard that your wife hac run
awav with the new preacher.
Eyes, sab, reckon you'se vered dat,
an I reckon de preacher thinks dat it is
er fack. Er-haw. haw, it tickle me when
! think O. dat man. Lemme tell you
suthin. I had er sort O a relation libin'
ober in de Blue-Smoke curmunity-er
neice or suthin O dat sort. Mr.. Gray he
uster preach ober dar, and 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 sent fur de chile an
tole her dat eff she wanted him would
ser lat she got him. Wall, tole my
wife all er about 1t, an sent her way
frum home, fotch &c preacher over one
day, did, an let on dat Julie wuz my
wife. l knowed dat de scounel gwine
ter bito at dat bate, or haw, haw.
Knowed dat he jes nachully couldn't
hep it. Oh, yas. dat gal is dun. married
ter him now, ter he he. Po' fool thinks
dat he rum CT way wild my wife; but
lemme, tell you, it takes er man ter run
awSE Wild shcr. Dat lady weighs mos
three, hundred pounds, -Qpie p. Read,
in N X Kpgld, : :,
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GUILTY OF MANY CRIMES.
Confession of Two Men on Trial
for Robbing an Express. Messen-

Confession of Two Men on Trial
for Robblng an Express. .Messen-
ger.
DALLAS, Tex, special.-one of the most
sensational cases ever OH trial came up i'll
the district court to-day. The prisoners in
the dock were Charles and Commodore"
Miller, indicted for robbing an express
messenger on Texas & Pacific train at the
Santa Fe crossing near this city one year
ago. Months afterwards Charles and COM
modore Miller were arrested on the charge
of perpetrating O series of startling crimes.
Charles Miller turn ed states evidence, and
not only confessed that he and his partner
robbed the Texas s. Pacific express messen-
ger, but also confessed that they had as
saulted white woman, robbed stores and
residences and held up pedestrians on the
public highway. relieving them of their
valuab1es. 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 hot only
all the crimes in which Charles had turned
states evidence of but, more. On receipt Of
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Ex-Private Dell Wild, now in St. Paul,
Eaid relative to the sentence imposed upon
Lieut.. Steele that he did not think it
severe enough. "If had struck him in re-
turn would have got ten wears aG 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 aime museum and says that while in
that city he will commence suit against
Lieut. Steele for defamation of character.
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INCITES TO CRIME.
A Wax Figure Of Mrs. Maybrick In
the Act ofGiVing Poison.

A Wax Figure Of Mrs. Maybrick in
the Act ofGiving Poison.
LONDON, Special.-A numerously signed
petition, to which is appended the names
of many leading physicians, clergy
men and officials of life insurance
companies, has been presented to
the lord chamberlain praying his
lordship to revoke the license of
wax work show now exhibiting
in the provinces working model of Mrs
May in the act of giving poison. The
petition alleges that the modern question
has demoralizing influence and inCites to
crime, especially among the lower class of
women. Several cases of poisoning have
resulted from the exhibition, women hav-
ing administered with fatal effect to
their offspring, the incentive being to obtain
insurance money on the lives Of the chill
dren. Attached to the petition is a printed
copy Of the sermon on the subject of child
poisoning delivered by the Episcopal bish-
op of Peterborough, Ill which the reverend
gentleman denounced the system OF
child insurance as one of the great
est social evils of the. day. He knew
to undertake the NJ al care OF children
whose lives were insured. The crimes re-
sulting," says the bishop, "were appalling
The parent who by a sudden and swift
stroke destroyed an infant was paragon of
mercy, comp ared with the parent who
could slowly do child to death and see it
daily pine and waste away until its little
lie Of misery was ended by an unlimited
but too long death"
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SHOULD BE PROTECTED.
Innocent, Third Parties in Lane
Cases Not to Be the Sufferers.

Innocent Third Parties In Lano
Cases Not to Be the Sufferers.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram
Secretary Noble to-day. refused to
recommend the attorney general to begin
suit to annul the patent issued to-G. T.
Dickinson for his entry in section %, town
ship lib, range Is in the Huron district. The
land was sold before the patent was issued,
though not until j. after a final
proof was made. The claim was
made that one entry was not made
in good faith. The secretary says that evil
dence of bad faith should be strong enough
to fairly overbalance. the testimony on
which the proof was established before the
government should interfere when once q
patent has been granted. He quotes a de-
cision from the United States supreme
court on this point, and believes that limo.
cent third parties should be protected, even
If the original entry man weTs not entitled
to the land,
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TOBE REPRIMANDED.
Decision of the Court-Martial in
the Case of Lieut.. Steele.

Decision of the Court Martial in
the Case of Lieut.. Steele.
WASHINGTON, Special. The verdict of
the court martial which tried Lieut. Steele
for assaulting Private Wild is a reprimand
and confinement three months to the limits
of his post. Much care has been given to
the case at the war department. and the ev-
idencc in the light OF the law and army reg
ulations was closely scrutinized by Acting
Judge Advocate General Lieber and Maj:
Gen. Schofeld. The official indictment
charged him with conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman and the principal
specification was an assault OH Private
Wild Gen. Schofield, as commander of
the division ofthe Missouri, after consulta-
ton with Secretary Proctor, approved the
findings of the >Sourt and will prepare the
reprimand of Lieut. Steele St se1 ee.---
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THE DUO D'ORLEANs that they are so
commonplace AM prosaic; they excite
no enthusiasm because they run no risk.
There is something fne about the prince
ly boys sudden apparition before the
startled ministers demanding to be al
lowed the honor of serving France as a
private soldier. Of course he knew it
would be in vain. The law is precise.
Not only does 1t forbid him to stand on
French soil, but separate article de-
clares that the members of any families
which have reigncd in France shall ba
unable TO enter Ihn army
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SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
Catholics Must Support Their lnsti-
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 dclib erately chooses
to side with the enemy tor 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 reserve 70 himself alone or in
his absence to the adnliniztrator; 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 scandalised
his neighbors by his withdrawal of his
taxes from Catholic education, and shat
nissSSe sIS;e promised to become SupporttSrof the
separate scir00Gel at the eaEliesS Opportunity.
On receipt of sucY written declaration any
priest OF the diocese may grant absolution
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Land Decisions.
WAsUTNGTON Sr

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
Assistant Secretary Chandler, of the in
terror department., to-day reversed a decis-
ion of the general land Office allowing the
contest of A. J. Labane against the heirs oil
Helen i. Hartwcll for a homestead in sec.
ton s, township 1O1, range 81, in the Mitch,
ell (S d. district. He also modified the
land Office decision in the case of James
further proof to be accepted for Quinn's
homestead in section q, township III, range
40, of the Watertown district. A similar
order was made in the case of Lewis Daw.
son, JOHN Cummings, transferee, involving
a homestead in section 26, township 113
range go, In the Huron district. -
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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Richard Proctor, aged twenty-five, only
son of the late famous astronomer, L. A. Proc
tor, has become insane at st. Joseph, Mo,
and it has been decided to confne him in an
asylum.
An Legitimate son ofJudgo A. J. Davis
the Montana money king, who recently died
at Butte City without leaving a will, has put
in a claim to his SIP, 600. 900 worth OF prop
erty Heirs in Springfield. Mimi, have sent
Judge Gideon Wells to Montana to represent
them, and heirs in New York have also EN-
ployed distinguished legal talent to so out
in their interests
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Some Bright School Girls.

If there is such thing in existence
as school-teurher's note book con-
tanning the unintcntionally funny say
ings of children tho melancholy man
would do we'll to borrow it for the
solace of his duller hours. The remark
of Il little girl, that ''the earth is round
like an apple, and the North Pole
sticks out Of the top and makes the
stem," should doubtless be included
among its gems, together with the fol-
lowing 2 anccdote, told by an old school
teacher, in the San Francisco Eran-
i1ler: g..
When was country pedagogue in
the State of Maine, l was one day hear
ing my class in spelling, aud gave out
the word ''cutic!e" to n, big red-haired
girl, Slowly she drawlcd out:
"C-u, GU. ii, cuti, Gle. cu-tick-le." :"
corrected her pronunciation, and
asked her to define the word. She
looked about blankly, as if in search
for something to spur her memory,
and, after o moment or two Of silence,
l said:
why, what Is 1t tAa. covers your
hands and face:'
She looked quietly At es0h hand, and
her face frightened.
"Oh, yes" she replied, "frockIes!"
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son Of comte de
Paris. He is. there.
fore, direct heir to
the crown of the
country which he
has demanded per-
mission to seBve as
a private soldier.
He was arrested
for his pains and is
Dc the con-
| {son
-, AamOlfs IN tbs
annals OF France as
hllmalnham in the
recent history of
Ireland. The young
prince has, how
. ever, done well
from a d pl0matic
standpoint. T h G
deadly sin of roy
allies nOMndavS Is
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KEMMLER's ELEcTRocUTloN.
Arrangements Being Perfected to
Inflict the New Capital Punish
ment.

ALBANY, N. Y, Special. There was q
consultation of the prison authorities here
to perfect the arrangements for the electro
cution of Kemmler at Auburn prison. The
admission of representatives of the press
was the hardest part to arrange. The in
ficting of q new method of capital punish
of the execution. The pressure, however,
of newspaper men, scientists and doctors is
so great that it was decided to go SO far as
the law would allow. Two newspaper men
one representing the United Press and the
other the Associated Press-will be admit
ted. The two press men will be sworn as
jurors, and il the newspapers publish the
details of the execution the warden and
prison officials will not be the ones that
will break the law: There will be i've as
sistants to Harold Brown, the executioner.
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EPlTONLE OF NEWS.
A Choice Collection of the
latest News Greatly
Condensed.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

? A report gained wide circulation at Wash
ington that it was probable duel would be
fought between Congressman Phelan of Mem
phis Tenn, and j ohm NJ. Fleming editor ofthe
Knoxville (renn.) Sentinel 1t was said that
Mr.. Phelun had sent II telegram to Mr.. Elem
ing which would probably induce the latter
to issue u challenge
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HON. S. J. RANDALL DEAD.
He Passes Peacefully Away at Hi:
wncIoir0tHp Anppo

He Passes Peacefully Away at His
Washington Home.
WASHINGTON, Special. 1t was q sad and
touching scene at the Randall residence on
Capitol hill when Congressman Samuel J.
Randall expired this morning just as the
bells of neighborinS church were tolling
s o'clock Mr. Randall's death was pain
less, and he was unconscious during the
greater part Of his last hours. There were
intervals when, from the intelligent and
steady gaze which he directed at those
about him, he must have been conscious,
but he seemed unable to speak, and the
word Mother" was the only one he
uttered for hours preceding his death
Samuel Jackson Randall was one Of the many
distinguished sons of Pennsylvania. He was
born in Philadelphia, Oct. 10. 1928, the son of
an eminent lawyer OF that city. His mothers
maiden name had been Ann Worral, and she
was the daughter of James Worrall, Demo
cratic leader in the days OF Jefferson, so that
the ex-spesINsr may he said to have been tradi-
tionally Democrat as we'll as by conviction a
member OF that time-honored party. BY mar mar
riage, Mr.. Randall was connected with New
York State, his wife being daughter OF Gen.
Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing His first position
council Ii'C Of Phiiadelphis' Wherein he showed
marked ability and was soon transferred
to the senate OF his native state The beginning
OF the civil war, Ill his thlrty-thlrd year,
prompted Mr.. Randall to patriotic military
service IN the Light Horse of Philadelphia His
service under Gen. George H. Thomas for ninety
days, and under the command OF Gen. Robert
Patterson followed, leading to his promotion
first as quartermaster of his company and then
as cOrnet q rank corresponding to that OF
captain i'll the regular army. In the terrible
year 1868, Cornet Randall was among the
troops advanced to Harrisburg as the result of
Gen. Lees invasion of Northern territory.
When Gen. Couch announced to Cornet
Randall, commanding, that Gov. Curtin
would accept the active services of
his troops without swearing it's members, he
said: II know we can trust to the honor Of
the corps without any oath" In the summer
of the same year the cornet made a brilliant re-
conuaissance, in which he captured several
nrisoners and established the nresence of the
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DONATIONS FOR STATES.

A Bill Which May Put MANY Dollars
into State Treasures.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
The senate to-day passed bill which
will, if it becomes law, make q number
of the Northwestern states richer by several
hundred thousand dollars each. 1t pro-
vides that the act which settled certain ac-
counts between the United States and Mis-
sissippi shall be made applicable TO
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way bearing huge JOHN STEPHENSON.
placard informing the public that This
is the way one bankrupt paws 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 lie had paid of. one BY
one, as fast as b, was able, the other so
cents TO all his creditors but Jordan L.
Mott, who slubborDly refused to accept
bis debt, telling Stephenson that the
failure had been an h0nest one and that
his Indebtedness was legally and morally
wiped by the Bankruptcy proceedings.
Stephenson could not force Mott to taEe
the money, but when Mott ordered
truck from Stephenson the latter built
it and delivered it according to ord 2rs,
and then sent the bill indorsed ''Receiv-
cd payment by bankruptcy debt. John
Stephenson" 1t was Mott, then, VINO
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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History will have TO get up pretty
early in the morning. and hustle until
away into the night to s!ickcr job Of
revolutionizing than that just perform
ed by the BraZilians. On the whole
we begin 10 think that the Rio coffee 10
q better drink than that v!zvxfjzky sorA
of stuff the Russians drink. RashiaQl
toR Posi-, >.
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Thomas escaped, settled in Daviess county,
Ind, became prosperous, and married again.
After the war Mrs. Thomas No. l hunted him
up For her Thomas built u house on his
farm, where she has since lived in harmony
with wife No. 2. Recently desiring that
her children should inherit n share OF
their fathers estate, she brought suit to quiet
title to the farm. The suit was decided against
her, the court holding the slave marriage II,
legal. Thecase will go to the supreme court
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illustration of the first strcet-car ever
built; it was the conception of John
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The Imprisoned Due d'orleans.

The young due d'Orleans, over whom.
all Paris is lust now raYine- is the eldest
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this intelligence action in the case of both
prisoners was deferred until the 18th, when
more sensational developments are ex-
pected
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MIR. Stephenson car
ried it. He has prob
ably for q full half a
century been t h e
m st notoriously
honest man in the
City of New York.
1t was almost fifty
years ago that a
huge truck drawn by
four horses paraded
up and down Broad
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Ene gm11.
JOHN STEPHENSON, cAR-eULOER.
Interesting Gossip of the Honest Old Man
Whose Name Is on Most Street-Cars.

Whose Name Is on Most Street-Cars.
John Stephenson has for seventy.
eight Of the eighty years of his life been
a citizen of New York and for at least
sixty of them conspicuous and highly
esteemed, not to say successful, citi-
zen. He has another motto that he
adopted before street-cars ever were
heard of and which his friends say be
carries out as persistently and conscien-
tiously as he does his determination to
see that every nation shall be able to
ride in its own streetcars; that motto is.
Never turn out bad piece of work."
not such an unusual motto for o man to
live up to in his business, but one that
is seldom carried into every day family
and social life, at least to the extent that