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NEW CODE OF RULES.
PUNISHMENT FOR MEN CONVICTED
BY COURT-MARTIAL.
Sentence VIII Be Less Severe Than
Under Those Formerly
Imposed.
Special to the RrcoRp-uN1ox.

special TO the RECoRD-UNION.
NEW YORK, Feb 15.-A Tribune Wash
ington special says: A code of punish
ments for enlisted men convicted of
court-martial has at last been prepared at
the War Department, and will soon ap-
pear as general order. 1t mentions
nearly every otfense possible under the
several articles of war, and prescribes a
maximum punishment for enlisted men
and non-commissioned officers.
The nature of punishment is, in gen.
eral, less severe than records show as
being usual. Hereafter the fact of pre-
vious conviction will be taken into con-
sideration.
The order prescribes a maximum limit,
and eNtenuatlng circumstances are sup
posed to grade down the punishments
accordingly. Equivalent punishments
are announced. Thus a detention OF paw
may be substituted for four times the
amount OF forfeiture OF pay, two days'
confinement at hard labor, for 81 of for
feIted pay, one days solitary contine-
ment on bread and water or two days'
confinement at hard labor, for 81 of for
telted pay, provided that no man shall be
placed in solitary confinement for more
than fourteen days ut a time, or more
than eighty-four days in one year. nor
shall such confinement be repeated with
i'll fourteen days.
A similar code will be prepared for the
navy.
Nothing has been received lat the War
Department from General Miles regard
ing Colonel McKeever, against whom the
former has declared his intention of pre-
ferring charges. 1t is advanced in some
quarters that the Secretary's approval of
Colonel Forsyth's action viii discourage
Mixes making further charges. Me-
Keever says he will go to Chicago. where
he is ordered as Miles AIljutant-G General,
and the Secretary is quoted us al encour-
agement OF no reversing orders.
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THE CAPTURE oF 1rAsDouD.

Starving Arabs Said TO Hove Been
Shot by British, Troops.
LONDON, Feb. 15.--Ihe recent dis
patches from the British Coinnlandant at
Suakim announce that the attack and
capture of Handoub was in punishment
for 4 raid of Dervishes who carried off a
number of cattle from under the walls of
the fort.
ltnow transpres that this excuse was
an attempt TO make creditable military
operation out of what was dubious one.
Facts as Just received are these: The
nelghborhood OF Suakimi has, recently
suffered from terrible famine, and the
people have been dying Of starvation.
The officials forbade the natives to
come to Suakin TO buy food. but this re-
striction, it is said, was to be relaxed and
the efforts Of unofficial persons TO stem
the famine were to be encouraged, but
tins was not done, and a handful of Starv-
ing Arabs made descent upon the only
town within reach in the hope of obtain
ing good meat by little cattle lifting.
The response Of officials was raid upon
the Arabs, with as much slaughter as the
usageS OF war permitted. The Governor
General telegraphed 1.-THE rebels We're
completely defeated; that forty prisoners
and the cattle had been captured, and that
the enemy were driven out OF Handoub
with heavy loss to the latter
The matter will be brought before the
House Of Commons in few DAYS. when
the Government will be asked to adopt one
of two policies: either to 90 away and
leave Suakim to the Arabs or to run up
the British flag With its accompaniment
of justice and fair dealing. The policy of
holding the place for the Sultan of
Turkey, who does not want England
there, or the Khedive, who has no busi-
ness there, and of refusing TO let either
law or order prevail, brings discredit
upon the British name.
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OF the National Guard, S. n. c., dele
cations from civic societies.
Ihe citizens department of the q. A. r.
VIII be under command Of General Clark
son, the National Guard under General
Fitzgerald and the regular escort under
Colonel Langdon.
General Howard, in command of the
military, has designated General Butter
fleld as marshal i'll charge of the columns.
Veterans of the Seventh Regiment, and
those OF other regiments, viii be assigned
posIilons at Desbrosses street ferry to re-
ceiVe the cortege on its arrival there. At
the New Jersey end Of the ferry there
Will be stationed post veterans from that
State.
The pail bearers will be General
J. NJ. Schofield, General o. o. Howard,
Thomas l.. Casey, General j. C. Kelton,
Professor II. L. Kendrick, General Jo-
seph E. Johnson, General H. w. Slocum,
General Daniel +. Sickles, General Z. L..
Dodge, General j. NJ. Cross, General
Wager Swayne and General S. 1. Wood
ford.
General Clarl!son expects to have 1O,-
0oo soldiers IN line from New York and
brooklyn and ., 800 from New JERSEY.
Generals Howard and Slocum were
asked by the family to take entire charge
OF the funeral and accompany the body
to st. Louis. The enterment will be in
Calvary Cemetery, ST. Louis The fu-
neral in st. Louis will be strictly military
in character.
On account of the expressed wish of
General Sherman when alive, it was de-
li Glded not to comply with the request OF
President Harrison, that the body be
taken to Washington and there lay in
state for day. 1t will not lay in state
anywhere.
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RUSSIAN BARBARIsAI.
A Jewish Physician ESiIed Seeking Re

a Jewish Physician ESiled Seeking Re-
dress for an Outrage Committed
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 15.-Rabbi MUIR
Gus, a Jewish physician and chassand-
witch, living in Gaodno, has been ar
rested and eXiled for two years for send
ing to the Government, in behalf of the
Jewish community, petition demanding
redress for an outrage committed by a
Russian doctor named GranoloSki, who
is charged with having branded the
words thief in three languages upon
the forehead of a Jewish boy who was
accused Of having stolen u small quantity
of fruit.
The petition sets forth that the case
would excite Indignation in the civilized
world
Ultimatum of the Shipping Federation.
LONDON. Feb. l5.-The Shipping Fed
Grafton has issued an ultimatum which
declares that the dictation OF unions is
unbearable, and that the Federation will
refuse to employ any man unless he
pledges himself to embark on any vessel
with which he signs articles, whether the
remainder of the crew he unionists or not.
The Federation disavows any intention to
interfere with the ullions or to reduce
wages.
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HOSPITAL N FLAMES.
A Fireman Killed by the Falling of
COInice

a Fireman Killed by the Falling of a
Cornice.
ROCHESTER On. ", Feb. ia fire
broke out late tonight in the east wing OF
st. Mary's Hospital, a large three-story
building covering an entire block. The
fire spread rapidly, but owing to the
distance from the center of the city the
Fire Department was slow in getting to
the scene. There were $50 inmates in the
building, but owing to brick partitions
they all escaped. During the excitement
Libbie Nursinger jumped from win
dow and was badly bruised. Fireman
Jayne was instantly killed by cornice
falling on him. The fire is still burning,
but is under control.
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The passage of the Charleston to Homo
lulu was a very pleasant one, as the
weather was very good. There was a
great deal of interest taken by the officers
and men in the speed of the ship. For
two or three days a speeg of fifteen knots
an hour was maintained, and at times six
teen knots swere run, much to the satisfac-
ton of all. The whole passage of 2,lO0
miles was made in six days and four
hours. Had it not been for slight acci-
dent, the Charleston would no doubt have
beaten the records of all previous trips.
The fourth day out the drain cock of one
of the boilers was accidentally opened,
and this made it necessary to steam at a
reduced power for.siXteen hours.
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DISASTROUS FIRE.
Half a Million Dollars Worth of Prop
erty Consumed Fatality.


SEATTLE (Wash.), Feb. ia New
Westminster special to the Post I1,tclh-
geacer OF this city says: This city was to-
day visited by disastrous confiagration.
which destroyed in the neighborhood of
S500,O00 of property and caused the death
OF j Ohm McCannon, a member of the vol
unteer fire brigade.
At 5 O'Clock this morning a fire broke
out in the rear OF the premises occupied
by Z. Striskey, a. matchmaker and lew
eler, in Columbia street.
The hre brigade turned out at once.
but 1t was twenty minutes before IL stream
could be brought to play. BY this time
the whole block of buildings was ablaze,
along with the stables i'll the rear of the
Telephone Company's buildings. and
private residences.
For two hours the firemen fought the
flames, and We're just getting them under
control when an explosion in the rear of
one OF the stores occurred. lt brok e
almost every pane of glass within radius
of half a mile, and burst ali the hose
pumping on the fire.
The Masonic Temple, next adjacent,
had up to this moment been considered
absolutely safe, but the brealSage of the
windows caused n draft, which sucked
the flames inwards, and in a moment the
whole interior was afire. 1t was a four
story brick building, with a stone front,
valued at $50, 600. Nothing was saved ont
OF the building but few papers.
While fighting the flames at one of the
windows Of the western wall the whole
side OF the building fell in, and fireman
named McKannan was buried under two
tons OF brick. lie was taken out, but died
tonight. Another man is reported to be
buried beneath the ruins.
Floods of water were poured on the
Masonic block continually, but ten times
the amount would have but little effect
on the fire.
Herreng's drug store caught about this
time, and blazed with dazzling light.
Everything that bravery and the strength
OF men could do was done by the firemen,
but to no avail. Their streams turned to
steam almost before they reached the
skirts OF the frightful sea of flames The
whole sky was flame with the lurid re-
Election.
1t was stated that the light was seen at
Blaine and far up the Frazer Valley and
out on the gulf.
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ILLINOIS SENATORSHIP.
An Effort to be Made to Elect Labor
REPRESENTATIVE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-It is stated that
three members of the Illinois Legisla-
ture-Cockrell, Tankenish and Moore
who hold the balance of power in the
Senatorial contest, have succeeded in get
ting number Of Republicans and DEM
ocrats to support John Pope Hodnett.
President OF the Labor League of the
United States. He holds his residence in
Chicago, but is now here attending to
business eff the league. 1t is claimed that
Hodnett is quietly pulling some wires
here in the matter. He will be remem-
bered by many Californians as having
organized a number Of labor societies on
the coast in 1886.
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Leanue Directors, Meetiur.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ia meeting
OF the California Baseball League Direct
ors was held to-day 20 consider the sched-
ule OF games. After the adoption OF the
constitution. which was ordered printed,
the shedule matter was taken up. The
four managers each presented docu-
ment, and after two hours discussion no
agreement was reached. The Directors
adjourned to next Sunday, when they
VIII meet at the Hotel Vendome, San
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Special to the RrcorD-rrSrox.

New York, Feb. IA Sun Berlin
cable states that the late Prince Frederick
Charles and the hereditary Prince Of Sake
Altcnbourg were engaged in fraudulent
sales Of title and certificates Of court pur-
veyors to trades people. The Red Prince
carried on regular business III selling
the use OF his nane 10 trades people, and
even placed at the disposal OF his regular
agents dozen or moro signed blank di-
plomas i'll consideration OF Il lump sum
whenever he was short Of cash The Sit
uation is not OF in1requcl,t occurrence.
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Serious Hallway Collision.

COLUMBUS, Feb. 15.-Owing to dense
fog, passenger train on the Columbus,
Hooking Valley and Toledo Railroad
dashed at full speed into freight train to-
night. The engineer, named Boutwell,,
and two brothers named Johnson, We're
probably fatally injured. The passengers
were badly shaken up.
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Santa Cruz in Darkness.

SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 15.-The city is in
tered the wheel pit OF the incantlescent
electric light works, and in consequence
the lights could not barn. Recourse was
had TO candles and kerosene lamps, which
she'd but II titful glnner, while the
streets were inky black.
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SIOuN INDIANS.
Forty-Two Chiefs Pay "a Visit to the
(;,rliSIc SCHOOL


CARLISLE Pa.), Feb. 15.-Forty-twe
Sioux chiefs, Interpreters, ETC, were
brought TO the Carlisle Indian School
yesterday 70 visit their children. They
were met by Captain Pratt, Superintend-
ent, and the faculty. In the assembly
hall the pupils gave an interesting pro-
gramme OF exercises, which was received
with many signs Of satisfaction and
pleasure by the visitors An interesting
feature, was an essay ON ''The Indian
Messiah" by Chauncey yellow Robe. a
Sioux boy.
American Horse delivered an address
OF nearly an hour. He praised education,
but said he desired the Sioux pupils to
use 1t in detecting the frauds of the
whites.
Captain Pratt said the Indians i'm
proved in this climate, and when he
stated that the pupils OF this school have
over Sl1 900 in Carlisle banks, earned by
their own labor. great pleasure was man
Tested by the Chiefs
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Showing in Montana.

BozEMAN Mont, Feb. 15.-I4ast night
1t commenced to snow and fell necessarily
for seventeen hours, and this evening
there is over two feet on the ground, and
it is still showing.
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Killed by a Highlander.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.-Wong All
Wah, highbinder, to-day shot and
killed his employer, Jaw Lang. Wah
claimed that Lang owed him So but the
latter did not have the money, so Wah
shot him as he laid in bed. The muir
derer escaped.
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IoNya Indian Treaty.

GUTHRIE Il. IT,, Feb. 15.-The chiefs
of the Iowa Indians met at Tohee to-day
and drew up memorial to President
Harrison, praying that their treaty with
the United States for the sale of lands be
ratified and the lands allotted them be-
fore spring, so they can make ready to
put in their crops
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Haswell Released From Custody.

DELANo, Feb. 15.-f2xpress messenger
Ilaswell, who was indicted by the Grand
Jury charged with the killing of fireman
Radcliffe ut the Alila train robbery, was
to-day released from custody on the yer
dict OF the Coroner's Jury, which stated
that Radcliffe came to his death at the
hands OF the train robbers.
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Free-for-au Fight.

OMAHA, Feb. ia number of ice
cutters got into dispute this morning,
which resulted in free-for-all fight.
Tom Wallace was stabbed through the
heart with a butcher knife, and two others
received numerous stabs and are III a
critical condition. A number Of others
received cuts, but the injuries were not
SeriOuS
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Han Looking for Fitzsimmons.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.--Jim Hall,
the Australian middle weight, arrived
here to-day from Australia on the
steamer Alameda. Hall insists that he
has whipped FitZsinmons in three
rounds, and that the object of his visit to
this country is to fight him again.
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THE DYNAMITE PLOT.
Secretary Gibson Leaves Peoria for
Chicago.

Chicago.
i CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-President Creenhut,
OF the whisky trust, emphatically denies
the story of Secretary Gibson's flight
from Peoria. ''I have positive knowl-
edge" he said, THAT Gibson was in
Peoria on Saturday night. / received a
bundle of letters this morning from Glib
son postmarked PEORIA
A number of directors of the whisky
trust are in the city to attend the regular
business meeting of the trust, which will
be held tomorrow. Some reference to
the Gibson matter will undoubtedly be
made.
GIBSON EN- ROUTE TO CHICAGO.
PEORIA, Feb. 15.-Secretary Gibson
left here at IL o'clock last night for
Chicago.
The announcement that Gibson had
gone created considerable excitement.
One prominent whisky trust man says
Gibson has gone to Europe or South
America, while another equally promi-
nent says Gibson left Saturday night for
Chicago, in response to telegram from
President Greenhut. telling him to bring
his report and lay it before the Directors
meeting tomorrow in Chicago. Gibson's
wife is still here, and says her husband
has gone to Chicago.
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THE DEAL MADE.
l.. j. Rose Trades California Land


Horseiesh.
New York, Feb. 15.-The SIN states
that l.. j. Rose, of Los Angeles. has made
deal with w. II. Wilson of Abdallah
Park, Kentucky, who owns the stations
Sultan, who sired Stamboul and
helped the Californian up many
rounds in fortunes ladder, and
George Wilkes horse Simmons, sire
of Simmocolon, and will take either of
the horses named above and their entire
product, giving in return California land
on which Wilson will transplant his
Kentucky breeding interests, and make
that State his home in the future.
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A Receiver Appointed.

New YORK, Feb. 15.-A Herald Lon
don special says: For several weeks
there have been unfavorabie reports cor
corning the Hansard Publishing Union.
As consequence, ordinary I0-pound
shares We're quoted as low yesterday as
2 to =. Yesterday it became known that
a receiver had been put III possession OF
the Office of the company
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of them was lost. The escape was diseov-
cred about fifteen minutes after the men
started, and mounted guards are securing
the hills for them.
Johnson was sentenced to five years
from San Francisco, and had 13 months
yet to serve. Burns killed a Chinaman in
Santa Clara County, and was sentenced to
four years. He had IL months more to
serve.
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Farewell Bachelor D;nner

New YORK, Feb. 15.-John Jacob AS
tor gave farewell bachelor dinner at the
Knickerbocker Club this evening. Only
chosen few were invited, but still it was
one of the most elaborate entertainments
OF the kind ever given in this city.
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The whitechapel Murder.

LONDON, Feb. 15.-Saddler, who was ar
rested on suspicion of being the man who
murdered 'Carroty Nell' in WhitechapeI,
was conveyed, heavily guarded, to the
Arbour Squadron Prison to-day He
was lately a fireman on the steamer Fcz,
from Turkey. a fOrmidable-looking
knife has been traced to his possession.
lie will be formally charged with murder
tomorrow. Startling revelations are ex-
pected
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TEE LATE KING KALAKAUA.
Arrival of the Body of the Dead
Monarch at Honolulu.
UNIVERSAL SORROW AT THE KINGS
SUDDEN DEMISE.

Princess LiIiuoka1ani is Proclaimed
Queen of the Hawaiian Islands-No
Change to Be at Present Made in
the Personnel of the Cabinet-Reso-
1utions Expressing Gratitude to the
United States and California for
Attentions to the Late King.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Two Princes Charged With Fraud.
ulent Dealing in Titles.
A JEWISH PHYSICIAN BXILED FROM
RUSSIA.
British Troops Char

British Troops Charged With Shoot
ing Down Starving Arabs at Sua-
kim = The Shipping Federation of
London Issues an Ultimatum to the
Uniouists a London Publishing
Union in the Hands of a Receiver.
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Death of n Dinnner

WATsoNvILLE, Feb. 15.-Robert Cal
lagher, q pioneer, died to-day Of heart
disease, leaving a wife and five children.
He leaves an estate valued at 100000.
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THE BIRDS HAVE FLOWN.
Two Convicts Escape from San Quenti
Prison

SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 15.-Charles John
son and w. Burns, two convicts, escaped
from San Quentin Prison this morning.
With other convicts they were brought to
the outside kitchen to prepare break fast
for the guards. While the other convicts
were working, Johnson and Burns
slipped through the side door into the
store-room, and out the rear door, which
they broke open. They then made for
the railroad at Greenbrae, where all trace
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Decd of a Drunken Man.

WTLKEsBARRE Pa.), Feb. 15.-At the
village of fShermersyille Edward McMul-
len, mine laborer, while in drunken
frenzy, attacked his wife, who was also
drunk, with a redhot poker, infiicting
terrible burns and mutilating her body
horribly. She died in terrible agony.
McMullen was arrested.
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TIE STORM.
Rain Still Falling Throughout
the State.
GREAT BENEFIT TO AGRICULTURE
AND HORTICULTURE.

Two Convicts Make Their Escape
From san Quentin-A Chinese En-
ployer Killed by Highbinder.-
Meeting of the California Baseball
League Directors Santa Cruz in
Darkness
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northwestern saeneerb,,n,

Northwestern Saengerbund's Society.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 15.--At meeting of
the Northwestern Saengerbund's Ex-
ecutive Committee to-day, Professor c.
Mayor Of this city was chosen President,
and it was decided to raise a fund Of
$4,000,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-09-30

Guests to he Dreaded.

THE people whom l most dread al
guests" remarked q woman noted fos
her generous hospitality, "are those who
have no capacity for small pleasures. ''
Any reader who is accustomed to enter
tain much will easily recognize the class
to which the speaker referred.
They are the persons who are restless
unless something is continually "goina
on" as they express it. They cannot
seem to enter into the quiet enjoyments
of the family in which they are visiting.
A walk, with no special object in view,
Is to them the tamest sort Of recreation.
They cannot understand another's de
light in finding n new flower; they won
der why you go out on the yeranda to
view fine sunset; the success of a new
stitch in embroidery or a new receipt in
cooking; the pleasurable excitement in
tracing a quotation; the arrival OF new
book--al these are trihes beneath theii
notice.
II there are children in the household
they pay no attention to their little am.
billions and accomplishments. Mary'G
amateur playing or Johns crude at
tempts ut painting have little interest tC
the visitor who has no gift for finding
happiness In small pleasures, but to find
1t thus is gift well worth eultivating
Exchange.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-09-30

We had what we called library par,
ty, where every young lady dressed In
some costume that suggests the title of a
book. There were librarian and pages
to wait upon the readers. Each gentle
man came TO the librarian and obtained
READERS card" which had his name
written across the top.
When gentleman drew u book-in
other words, a young lady-the librarian
wrote her name ON his card, and In the
course of the five minutes during which
he was allowed to keep u book out he
must guess from her costume the title OF
the book she represented, and write that
title opposite her name on his card.
When tho hour for closing the library
came the cards were taken in and com
pared, and the one who had guessed thu
largest number of books correctly re-
ceived prize. 1t is much easier than at
first 1t would seem to prepare the cos
tunes. sa fss s.
] would suggest some for illustration,
but that would reveal the secret, which.
of course, must be kept from the gentle
men who are likely to take part. This IL
u splendid device for getting people &C
quainted, because the librarian may givl
any book that happens to be in to tina
gentleman who is calling for one.-Coli
Christian Union.