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been taken five or ten years previous TO the
commission OF the crime. Within month
after we sought TO secure him he might be
arrested in San Francisco for a minor Of
tense. In the meantime he has shaved his
face. tanned his complexion. dyed his hair.
AMI otherwise altered his Appearance to the
extent that Is possible. He gives an alias.
and when his photograph is taken and com
pared with the one we have sent the
authorities there no resemblance can be
traced. He serves "a short sentence. at the
ex piration of which he is discharged, the
officials net knowing that he is the individ-
ual for whom the whole police force OF the
country is on the qui vive."
But wherein" asked the reporter. is the
Bertillon method better than the oldF
You must understand, continued the
chief. that when u criminal is captured in
any OF the cities where this system Is in
vogue he is subjected TO series OF
measurements such as will be shown as we
proceed.
Ordering one OF the operators TO strip
10 his trousers. two OF the others. alter
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COMPLAINT FROM STANLEY.
He Objects to Certain Newspaper Com
ment and Explains His Course.

ment and Explains His Course.
London cable: Sir Francis de VIM
ton has made public long letter written
to him by Stanley from Usalala, Aug. 81.
In it Stanley objects very strongly to tho
tone of batch of newspaper cuttings he
had received commenting upon his expe-
dtion. He dweIs upon Emin Pasha's
indecsion, which cost him journey,
otherwise unnecessary, of l. 800 miles for
Barttelot He justifies the payment of a
salary of $50 a month to Tippoo Tib as a
means of avoiding desolating war, and
declares that if both parties are honest in
the N aintenance OF their agreements peace
may continue for an indefinite period He
rebukes those persons in England who had
lost con fidence in his steadfastness OF pur-
pose TO such a degree as TO give credit to
rumors that he was marching in the direc-
ton OF Khartoum
Stanley dwells at much length upon the
case Of Barttelot and removes the impress
sion produced by previous letters reflect
ing upon the ma jor's conduct. He says
that Barttelot only needed, TO extricate
himself from his dilemma, qualities that
will not be gained save by long experience
in Africa, and eulogizes his courage and
high qualities. He knew the major was
a man of little forbearance and had in
tended to keep him with himself, but
necessity compelled the change that caused
him TO leave him behind. Barttelot was
ignorant of the language OF the people,
and his interpreter may have been false
and occasioned the GOODNESS between the
men and the major, which was never over
come and led TO his death
Stanley recites in detail the Instructions
given TO Bart eliot and finally denies with
much emphasis the alleged Congo afro
cities of the Manyema, the cannibalism,
and story of Photographic women dur
ing execution. During the whole expedi-
ton he executed only four men.
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EMPEROR WILLIAM has completely re-
covered from his recent illness.
THE Russian Imperial Academy Of Arts
has decided to exclude Jews from men,
bership.
The captain of the British ship Fri
minta, which went ashore near Stranrenr.
Scotland, has been suspended for one
year and the .hate for three mouths.
A CONDUCTOR on Pittsburo local
train found n pocket-book recently con-
taing Sl2, 900 in money and papers. The
purse is believed to belong to sea cap.
tain named Morris.
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Got Used 10 IL.

"Can use your telephone minute"
she asked, as she ran into neighbours
on Second avenue with a shawl over
her head.
"Oh, certainly"
Il am going to give a party next
week. and / want to invite a few
friends"
Yes"
ut is to be very select party"
"Yes?"
"Onlv my friends"
@Yes 2"
"And, therefore, you you won't,
be-"
ANGRY if / am not invited, nor won't,
consider it cheeky if you use my tele-
phone to invite others? oh, no. Any
one who keeps a telephone in the house
for use of the neighborhood soon gets
used to anything. Why, a man came,
in here the other day and used the line,
to call my husband mp from town and.
dun him Tor bill Gro ahead and call
up the sub-oifice. - Detroit Free
Press.
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fronting the police force o. "A large city like
Chicago" said Chief Hubbard TO an Inter
Ocean reporter. lis the control of that class
OF men known as 'habitual criminals 1t
is made up OF men. women. and a large
number of children. who are the product OF
inherited criminal tendencies through sew
-eral generations, and on VIII ON the ordinary
methods are entiI ely thrown away. As a
stream can never rise higher than Its
source. it is useless to expect that a man
whose ancestors were criminals. and who
was born into and has always lived n life
of crime. can come 10 anything but Grim
inal end. Our State prisons were originally
intended for reformatory "a we'll as cor
receive institutions. Owing to the difficulty
that has always existed OF separating the
older and more hardened criminals from
those who have committed their first o.
tense, perhaps through some momentary
'thoughtlessness or lapse from virtue. MANY
a man who. IL let 10 his own remorse and
'self-communing. would leave its walls re-
g olved 10 regain and maintain his lost
manhood, comes forth TO be menace to
society and a continual expense 70 the
State through association with the des-
perate characters that are so numerous
there.
III the police. on the arrest Of an in di-
-vdual on suspicion. or for the commission
OF any crime. can know for certainty
whether that individual has ever before
been guilty of any criminal proceeding,
whether he has ever undergone sentence,
where that sentence was served. his char
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places. and a classified description made OF
all marks and scars upon his person to-
gether with tho fermentation Of his eyes
and the contour and appearance OF his nose.
they are recorded on card prepared for
the purpose. which is then forwarded to the
Bertillon Bureau at Chicago. where II is
placed on record. the original entries still
rem aiming at the local office. Should this
be first offense the criminal is entitled TO
what leniency the law allows. and when
sent to hson. instead OF being placed in a
cell with an old and hardened criminal who
would soon overcome what little moral
sense he has remaining, he has for cell
companion one wi o. like himself. Is in re-
pentant frame OF mind and capable Of ref
ormation. In case the arrest should occur
in Boston or Philadelphia. the chief OF police
woul telegraph TO Chicago. using private
code OF words which stands for certain
measurements. and which are sent in the
order i'm which the measurements are taken.
"By this means the cost OF lengthy de-
scriptive telegram is saved. as IL all comes
within the regulation ten wo ds. On the
receipt OF this message at the Central
Bureau the records are examined, all pre-
vious arrests, convictions, sentences. SER
vices and escapes noted and forwarded TO
the inquirer. placing the authorities In full
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VIII Maintain Order.

The Brazilian legation in London
has just received cable dispatch
from the government at Rio Janeiro
instructing the representatives here to
guard the public against erroneous re ports
concerning events in Brazil. The dis.
patch says that the report spread yester.
day of a mutipy among the troops arose
from the fact that some soldiers who in
the absence of their officers had been
drinking had revolted. They, however.
Immediately surrendered and the incident
ended. The government says that order
will be firmly maintained and that justice
will be done to all.
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A nisinferested Lover.

Are you going to break off your en-
gagement with Miss Prentice?" in
quired Merritt. Il hear she will be a
cripple for life through that railway
accident"
intended to break it off at first"
returned his frieHd, "but / have juts
heard that the company has offered
her twenty thousand in settlement. y
Epoch.
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acter as a prisoner. and whether. through
his escape from jail or the officers OF JUS
tice. there is an unexpired term of punish
ment that he should serve they are fully
prepared TO treat him according to his Just
deserts and better enabled TO protect
society. With this knowledge in their DOS
session there Is no danger OF their releas-
ing man whom they feel morally certain
is n desperate character and guilty OF many
misdeeds. but whom they can not convict
simply because they cannot prove his per-
sonal identity with the author OF other
crimes. and are therefore compelled to give
him the benefit OF tho doubt BY the
method usually pursued by the police they
were compelled to rely upon photograph
and verbal descriptions that more fire.
quently served to confuse than to aid in
their search.
Formerly Il was extremely difficult TO
detect criminal by means Of the descrip-
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OWN at the Armory Po-
lice Station in Chicago
there il a little room. the
|contents OF which are OF
great interest To any in
'dividual who may DO in
vlted to enter IL. A small.
square table: "A 10 W.
square foot stool: an up
right board. eight feet
high. fastened TO the
wall. with a horizontally
graduated scale marked
upon IL. About three
feet 10 the right OF this
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board another vertical strip OF wood. and
20 the left about the same distance is what
seems like blackboard with an infinite
number of fine lines crossing its surface In
n vertical direction. In one corner stands
n Photographic camern. in another are two
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These are again subdivided by three by the
height OF the trunk. again by the length
anu width OF the head. and so on through
the remainder of the ten measurements
until we are brought down to a particular
number. Turning TO n case in which the
rhotos aye arranged. 200 in each case. we
find u front and side view OF his face. and
opposite his number; in u book. kept for the
purpose. is his complete history. with a
close and mathematical description OF all
marks, scars, or special features that would
be purely personal and individual. Tho
nose is classified into three divisions az to
length. thr ee as to protu berance. three as
10 outline. and three as TO inclination OF
base. Thus IL will be seen that although II
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THE BERTILLON SYSTEM.
HOW THE FRENCH IDENTIFY AND
DETECT CRIMINALS.

The Plan Tested with Good Results In
Chicago and Eisewhere-How the Meas
urements Are Taken-The Instruments
lTSed.
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tions we sent out. Those descriptions
would give the height. apparent weight.
color OF his hair and eyes. and an attempt
az q description OF his features. accom-
panied by q photograph which might have
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GOD nj o II MN,
young feller," said
Uncle Jerry Todd, a
thin faced, grizzly
haired, raw-boned old
Westerner, address
ing the new teacher
of the Big Wolf Prai-
RE school, in the
western part of KAN
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and the manner OF taking some OF the
measurements.
The reader can see by the four portraits
OF "Mollie Matches" about the most adroit
criminal of his class in the country. the
unrelability of the photograph. Who would
recognize the digniiled. intellectual indi-
vidual with the professor like beard in the
smooth shaven tough. but they are one and
the same person, photographed on the &C.
casion OF different arrests.
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ExPERIErcE in business teaches a.
man that 40 many debtors don't pay.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-30
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A ROBBERS cave has been discovered IN
Flint district of the Cherokee Nation. III
was well stocked with a large amount OF
plunder, the proceeds of numerous recent
robberies Gordon Sanford and Lewis MAD
dox, respected white men, were captured
bv concealed watchers on entering.
| jim STARR, the noted desperate, who was
shot while being arrested by the Deputy
United States Marshal near Ardmore, l.
T., is diving of his wound in the United
States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark.
| THE thirteen distilleries of I. q. Meglb-
oen, who was buried at Louisville, KY, on
the 25th, have shut down. Meglbben ap-
pointed no administrator and there was
nobody to take charge. About 3Oo men
will be thrown out of work.
TYPHOID FEVER is raging at Morganheld,
KY, with awful results. 1t originated near
Waverly, Ky. Fifteen persons have died
and fifty are now sick, fully one-half OF
whom will die. Adults invariably are at
tackled.
ABOUT 500 North Carolina emigrants ar
rived at Vicksburg, Miss, ON the 10th.
Seventy -seven left by rail for Port Gibson
and Natchez. The remainder took passage
on the steamer Pargoud for points IN Iexas
and Concordia parish.
THE President ON the 25th commuted to
Imprisonment the sentence of Charles d..
Bullard, of Arkansas, who was to be
hanged. He also denied pardons to ID. A.
fairfield, of North Carolina, sentenced to
one year for counterfeiting, and George
Tobler of Arkansas, sentenced to be hanged.
]. B. HAWKINS, Judge of the County
Court of Cannon county. Tenn, Alb wv.
Finley, an attorney, and VIM. McMahan, a
pensioner, have been arrested on the charge
of forging pension papers and collecting
money on the same from the State. The
amount involved is about $1,000.
FRANK ROGERS, 14-year old son of An
drew Rogers of Cleveland, Tenn, died
very suddenly on the Goth. He woke up
his brother, with whom he was sleeping.
and said he wanted to get up and go to his
mother down stairs. Before lamp could
be lit he fell back on the bed dead. 1t was
pronounced rheumatism of the heart.
THOUSANDS of INDECENT negroes are
moving out of North Carolina to the low
lands of Louisiana. The cause OF this
exodus is failure of the crops in North
Carolina and the miserable condition In
which the negroes have been left.
A NUMBER of negroes in the lower part OF
Pulaski county. Ark, after making ar
rangements to remain with planters another
year with whom they had had worked last
year, have broken their contracts and LETT
the county. Many Of the families have de-
serted plantations on which they been iiV'
ing for ten or twelve years,
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Personal AND POLITICAL.


IN his inaugural message to the New
Jersey Legislature Governor Leon Abb
bett comes out flat-footed in favor of
ballot reform.
THE President and Mrs. Harrison gave
a state dinner on the 21st to the diplo-
matte corps. Covers were laid for forty
seven persons.
| The New York Legislature has unani-
mously adopted resolutions petitioning
Congress to locate the coming World S
| Fair in New York.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent to the
Senate with a memorial a message urg-
: ing legislation to prevent the rapid and
needless destruction of the forests of
the country.
DAVID r. WATERS, United States Mar
shall for the Western district of Michi-
gan, has resigned.
MORRISON MUNFoRD, of the Kansas
City Times, has interviewed eX-Presi-
dent Cleveland and reports him ready to
run again for the Presidency.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
| lations has ordered an adverse report to
| be made on the Call resolution request
| ing the President to open negotiations
| with Spain for the purpose of inducing
that Government to consent to the es-
tablishment of republic in Cuba.
Hon. JOHN MCSwEENY, a noted Grim
| inal lawyer of Ohio, died at Wooster re-
| Gently of acute pneumonia.
: Hon. FISH PHELPS, exEState Senator
and Representative, and a prominent
Republican of Michigan, died at his resi-
dence in Grand Rapids on the 22d from
injuries by fall. .-..
WILLIAM l.. BYRD, Governor of the
Chickasaw Nation, in communication
laid before the Senate, protests against
the establishment of a Territorial form
of government in Oklahoma as viola
ton of the treaty made with the In
dians in $780,
MICHAEL DAvITT, in lecture at Cork,
Ireland, declared his steadfast loyalty
to Parnell.
ADAM FoREPAUGH, the veteran circus
manager, died after an attack of influ-
enza at Philadelphia on the 22d. He was
sixty-eight years of age and left valu-
able property.
EX-SENATOR RDDLEBERGER died at
Winchester, Va, on the Gath. lie was
born at Edinburg, Shenandoah County,
Va, October 4, 1874.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE called on Mr..
Gladstone at Hawarden on the gath and
spent the day with him.
SAPovoNARo, head chief of the Tn
compahgre Utes, died on the reservation
near Price Station, Utah, January IL, of
abscess of the liver. Charley Shavenau
was chosen head chief in his place, He
is quite intelligent.
THE German Reichstag has refused ot
reduce the tariff on coal.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

THERE is a great effort being made by
the State Medical Association to have re-
pealed law enacted four years ago which
required each physician of the State to pay
a tax before he could practice his profes'
sion. This, they claim, is unjust, and
almost unprecedented. They say that the
tax is onerous to many physicians. There
are a number of them overburdened with
the demands of charity practice, whose
time is frequently devoted to professional
service without the hope of reward other
than the consciousness of having some
suffering piece of humanity cured. They
believe that the State can get along with
out taxing the few dozen physicians now
nracticing in the State the fee of $40.
SUPERINTENDENT MCFARLAND, of the
Vicksburg Water Supply Company, noti-
fed Contractor German last week to stop
work on the tunnel through which the
company's suction mains run to the river,
and fill up the excavations. After taking
legal advice, German ceased work and the
excavations were filed. The cause for this
notice is the apprehension that the COM
pany's pump house foundations may bs
impaired if the work is prosecuted at pres
ent, as heavy rains have fallen and the
excavations are near the building.
A BILL is before the Mississippi Legisla'
ture to form jefferson Davis county out oi
a part of Warren, Kinds and Claiborne
| counties and make Briarfeld. the planta'
tion home of Mr.. Davis, the county seat.
| MARSHAL PorTs, of Corinth, and j. ID
Saunders captured Reese McAlister
colored, an escaped convict, at Bethel
Tenn, recently. McAlister escaped from
the Mississippi penitentiary about thre'
months ago and reward Of $50 was offere'
for him. He went from Tippah county ol
a charge Of grand larceny.
MISS ROSE TUCKER, of Chickasa'
county, was elected by the joint conven
tion of the two houses as State Librarian
on the second ballot, with four competitors
Miss Tucker is the daughter OF the lat
Gen. w. s. Tucker, of Chickasaw, who dis
tinguished himself as soldier, Statesman
and civilian. She defeated Mrs. Mar
| Morancy, who has most creditabiy nile
tue position for the past fourteen years.
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HE KILLED JOHNSON.
william Vaughan Claims That 1t Was AL
Done in Self Defense.

william vaughan Clalns Inat III WAS All
Done in Self Defense.
OZARK, Mo-, Jan. 25.-Yesterday week
William Vaughan, living near Rome,
Douglas County, who had an old diff
Guilty growidg out of land trade and
later dispute about a roadway, with
Geoge johnson, neighbor, was met by
johnson, who was drunk, and followed
him to his home. When Vaughan
reached home he began to unload
hi wagon when Johnson dismounted
from his horse and threw rock at him.
Vaughan threw a rock back at Johnson,
hitting him in the mouth. johnson
then drew his pistol and fired at
Vaughan. The report of Johnson's pis-
tol caused a horse which was hitched
to the back of Vaughan's wagon
to break loose. Catching the horse
Vaughan protected himself behind the
animal and drawing his pistol returned
Johnson's fire. johnson threw his head
down to dodge Vaughan's fire and re-
ceived three fatal shots, each ball
penetrating the brain. Vaughan i'm
mediately surrendered himself to the
sheriff of Douglas County, claiming that
he had killed johnson in self defense.
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TO BE HOMESTEADED.

Congressman Perkins Bill to Open Certain
Portions of the Indian Territory to Set
tIement.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The House
Committee on Indian Affairs yesterday
authorized favorable report on Con-
gressman Perkins bill to open to home
stead settlement certain portions of the
Indian Territory.
This bill, which Judge Perkins is de-
termined to press to early consideration,
provides as follows:
Section l. That the lands in the Indian
Territory ccdeI by the Cherokee Nation of
Indians by treaty dated July l9, 1866, except
such as have been granted to other Indian
tribes by act of Congress or by treaty or
which have been set apart for Indian occu.
pancy by executive order, be and the same
are hereby declared to be public lands of the
United States and subject to entry under the
Homestead laws only, and it shall be the
duty of the President to issue proclama'
ton opening said lands to settlement as
aforesaid, and he is hereby authorized tC
establish a land offiCe ut some suitable point
on said land and appoint therefor under ex'
isting laws a register and receiver for said
office.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to appoint person learned in
the law to confer with person to be ap-
pointed by the Cherokee Nation of Indians
to determine whether said Indians are
legally or equitably entitled to any further
compensation for so much of the lands ceded
by them to the United States by said treaty
of July 19, 1876, as are embraced in the above
described domain, and If so how much, and
all matters of disagreement between said
persons shall be settled and dertermined by
the President of the United States, who shall
make report to Congress of all proceedings
under this section for approval.
Sec. g. That all acts or parts OF acts of
Congress inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed and the sum of $4,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby ap-
propriated out of any money in the treasury
to carry out the provisions of this act.