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Mexican Briefs.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. IA Republic City of
Mexico special says: Colonel Hernandez.
who was recently condemned to death,
attempted to escape yesterday and was
shot by the gendarmes.
1t is stated here that Prince Iturbide
has decided to postpone his marriage ow
ing to his mothers recent death.
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THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.
It's Horrors Brought to the Attention
of the State Department.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The horrors of
the Russian famine We're to-day brought
to the attention of the Department of
State in a report from Minister Smith at
st. Petersburg. He says in part: ''Cold
as well as hunger causes terrible suffer-
ing. In some neighborhoods large num-
bers of persons huddle together in houses
most conducive to warmth. Barns are
torn down and the boards used for fire.
wood. Even matched roofs are torn off
and straw made to feed the dying en-
bers. Clothing is given away for bread
and horses ana cattle sacrificed at "a fifth OF
their value. Fodder is as scarce as human
food, and in some cases horses flesh is
sacrificed Tor sustenance. During the
winter there is no work and fathers have
left their wives and children to fight the
battle of want alone because they could
do nothing, and their absence left fewer
mouths to feed at home.
1.-The bread which many are eating is
composed of wild arrack, potatoes, cnatf
and leaves, and these terrible conditions
inevitably produce disease. Within a
radius or one mile there are 13O cases of
typhus fever. Pestilence is decimating
the people. An official estimate of the
mum Der of those without food or means
OF support who require aid is given at
fourteen million persons, and this is
probably below the true number. The
loss to Russia by the famine is estimated
at S500,000,000. Up to the present time
there have been few contributions from
abroad, but the Government and people
OF Russia are deeply sensible of the spon-
taneous offers made in various parts of
the United States.p
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Russell sage, Jr., at Deaths Door.

NEW YORK, Feb. Russell Sage, Jr,
is dying. 1t is not considered probable
that he can live more than few hours.
Late tonight dispatches were hurried to
the Western relatives summoning them
to the dying mans bedside. Sage is a
nephew of the famous Wall-street mill
ionaire Of the same name, and he has been
regarded as likely to become his chief
heir
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Refused to Lend Assistance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.-The Board of
Supervisors tonight refused to appropri-
ate $1,000 to assist the California Miners
Association.
The Executive Committee of the
Miners Association of California has
sent an address to the Chamber of Com
merce, State Board cf Trade, and the San
Francisco Bar Association, asking assist
ance and support for the delegation to be
sent to Washington to urge suitable legis-
lation upon hydraulic mining.
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. Chean Girls,

The unpleasant phrase 'cheap girls
has arrested my attention more than
once, and have wondered what sort of
girls they are, writes Mrs Lyman Abbott
in the Ladies' Home Journal. Are they
those whose loud laughter and talking
draws TO them the attention of every one
in the car? Are they those whose voices
call us to the window as they pass ? Do
they wear skirts so narrow, shoes so
tight, waist SO small, that their gait is an
amusement or q marvel? Do they puff
up their shoulders above their ears, and
piece their skirts down from the top in
order that they may sweep the streets? l
wonder are they the girls who place
themselves in the way of young men?
Who "make errands" which Will carry
them into the business streets, and call
frequently on girls who have brothers?
How easily their finsy device is seen
through, and what sneers it occasions.
Dear girls, don't be cheap. Don't makea
bargain counter of your church vesti-
bule, and offer your smiles and your vi
vacious talk to the young man whose per-
son and manners have pleased your
fancy.
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Another Land Loan Bill.

WAsH1NGToN, Feb. 1.-Representative
Simpson to-day introduced bill to pro-
mote and encourage agriculture, by au-
thoriZing the United States Government
to lend money on farm land at two per
cent Der annun
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Heavy Rainfall in the Southern
Portion of the State.
LIGHT FALL OF SNOW IN NORTH
ERN ARIZONA

Jacob P. Leese. Who Claimed to be
the First White settler in Cali
fornia, Having Arrived at San
Francisco in 1888, Died Yesterday
at the Age of Eighty-Two Years
Result of Chico's Municipal EIec-
tiOu
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Fatal Saloon Fight.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Wm. Tagney was
killed and Andrew Gallagher seriously
wounded tonight in a saloon row by
Charles Mcclure. The fight grew out of
practical joke. All the men were Of
hard reputation.
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Attempt to Break jail.

DENVER, Feb. l. Peg Leg" Eldridge
and Burt Curtis, the two Rio Grande
train robbers, sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the United States Penitentiary,
and who are in the County Jail here, last
night made a desperate but futile attempt
to eScaDe.
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Behrlng Sea Controversy.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. = Sir Julian
Pauncefote, British Minister, called at the
State Department this morning in COM
pany with the British Behring Sea Com
missioners, Powell and Dawson, and ar
ranged with Mr.. Blaine certain prelim-
inaries for joint conference to be held.
1t being practically conceded that arbi-
tration cannot be concluded in time to be
effective during the coming season, steps
were also taken TO secure renewal of the
3nOo9LS 7,i2P9ldi
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Alaska boundary Line.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Secretary Blaine
has, through the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury, asked Congress for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to complete the pre-
liminary survey of the boundary line
between Alaska and British Columbia.
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A Miner Killed.

PANA Ill.), Feb. 1.-Peter George, a
miner, aged %, to-day while placing tim
bers at the mouth of the shaft, slipped
and fell to the bottom of the shaft, seven
hundred feet. His body was frightfully
mangled.
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IN FOREIGN LANDS.
The Princess of Wales to Visit
the Partisan Capital.
EMPEROR WILLIAM MEETS WITH
AN ACCIDENT.

The Medical Attendants of tho lEm-
press of Austria Very An, us as
to the Eff 1.er Mother Death
Will Lave Upon Her In 'rirce
Bismarck the Receipt, OF a Very
Handsome ana Valuable Present.
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Fruitless search.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-The ocean tug
Luckenbach returned to-day after fruit
less search for the missing scow No. 3,
and no further effort will be made to res
cue the two men aboard her.
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sealers Preparing to Go North.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.-Several of the
sealers are almost ready for sea, and will
leave this week, while the balance of the
San Francisco fleet will be at sea before
the month is out. So far as known now
only four war vessels will be dispatched
to Behring Sea this season. They are the
Bear, Mohican, Corwin and Rush. OF
these the Mohican and Rush are ready
for sea. The Corwin is undergoing re-
pairs and the Bear is still in winter quar-
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Gnhes in Great Britain.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-Gales prevail to-day
off Holyhead in the English Channel and
along the eastern coast of England and
Scotland. A number Of coasting vessels
have been wrecked.
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Death of a Distinguished Greek.

LONDON. Feb. 1.-The death is an
nounced, in his SD year, of Alexander
Rios Rangabe, the Greek poet, arch8-
ologist and statesman.
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Sunocated bv Gas.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-Arnold Denaro
and Rossorio Valastro were found dead in
bed this morning in Brooklyn. They
had been suffocated by escaping gas.
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Another Attempt at Train wrecki

KEARNEY (Neb.), Feb IA dynamite
bomb was found on the Union Pacific
tracks near West Kearney this afternoon
just before the East-bound passenger was
due, and III such position that it would
have exploded when struck by the train.
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CaIifornia's Oldest settler Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Jacob P.
Leese, the first white settler in California,
died here to-day, aged 81 years. He came
to California in 1888, and built the first
house in San Francisco in 1886.
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Sentenced TO be Haneed.

PENDLEToN orr, Feb. frederick
Zern, who was convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing his wife, was to-
day sentenced to be hanged. An appeal
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VICTORY FOR BOYD.
His Title to the GOvernorship of
Nebraska a Settled Fact.
THE SUPREME COURT DECLARES
HIM TO BE A CITIZEN.

Decision Rendered by Chief Justice
Fuller and Concurred in by All the
Justices Save Justice Field = The
Decision of the Nebraska Court
Reyersed-The Anti-Lottery Act of
the Last Congress Declared Con-
Stitutionnl
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chapel in the cemetery. Mrs. Spurgeon
is bearing up well under her great sor-
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The New Khedive.

CAIRO, Feb. 1.-The French Consul to-
day invested the Khedive with the Grand
Gordon Of the Legion of Honor.
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Claim for Indemnity.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. IA brother and
two sisters of John w. Riggin, the sailor
killed at Valparaiso, will send to Wash
ington tomorrow formal claim against
the Government for indemnity.
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The Late Rev. spureeon.

MENToNE, Feb. 1.-The remains of the
Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon are lying ON
the bed on which he died. The bed is
almost hidden from sight by the number
of floral wreaths sent by relatives, friends
and admirers OF deceased. The features of
the dead minister show, not the slightest
signs OF death agony. The body will be
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Arbitration of a Labor Trouble.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-The Board of
Arbitration this morning rendered de-
cision in the late street-car strike salts
factory to both sides.
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In proportion to its size Colorado
Springs is probably the richest town in
the United States. One single street con-
tains residences Of twenty-one million
aires.
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DRUGGED AND CARRIED AWAY.

An Editors Daughter Abducted. but
Finally Makes Her Escape.
JACKSONVILLE (Ill.), Feb. 1.-The little
daughter Of w. d. Hinrichsen of this
city, formerly editor of the Quincy Her
aid, was accosted by a stranger while on
her way to Sunday-school yesterday and
drugged and carried away. When she
regained consciousness she was two miles
in the country with her abductor. who
threatened death if she made an outcry.
He was under the influence of liquor,
and sitting down to rest, went to sleep.
The child ran away and followed the rail
road until she came to Alexander, twelve
miles distant, where her grandmother
lived. The abductor has not yet been ap-
pretended. The little girl says he told
her he had a grudge against her father.
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Secretary Foster.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Secretary Fos-
ter spent short time at the Treasury De-
partment to-day, but will hardly be able
to resume the actual direction of its af-
fairs for at least one week yet.
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Three Deputy Marshals Attacked
by Garza's Men.
ONE OF THE FORMER KILLED AND
ANOTHER MISSING.
senator Quay's Maligners Sentenced
to Serve Six Months in Jail and
Pay Fine-Two Persons Fatally
and Four Seriously Injured While
Endeavoring to Escape From Ten
ement-House Fire.
Special TO the RrcoRp-uxg
ement-House Fire.

Special TO the RECORD-GNIoN.
SAN DIEGO (Tex.l, Feb. 1.-Justice of
the Peace Walls, at Befavides, seventeen
miles south Of the Mexican National
Railway, wires that a scouting party Of
Deputy Marshals--Guellaer, Moreno and
Glover-acting as scouts. yesterday were
attacked, supposedly by Garza's men,
one of them (Aioreno) being killed. Mo-
reno's horse was also killed. Guellaer
reported the facts to Walls. Guellaer
knows nothing of Moreno's whereabouts,
and he may also have been killed or cap
tured. Guellaer was on his way to Sue
den, where the United States soldiers are
camped, and had rode the whole distance
during the night. The Deputy Marshals
left Beravides this morning with posse
bound for Wells, where the fight occur
red.
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Could Not Knock Him Out.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-At Battery DIS
armory tonight Jim Hall, the Australian,
failed to fulfill his contract to stop Mike
Boden of Philadelphia in four rounds
with four-ounce gloves. He was, how
ever. plainly Boden's superior, and made
him look pretty sick. The Philadelphian
employed wrestling tactics.
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WorId,s Columbian Exnosition.

CHICAGO. Feb. National Worlds
Fair Commissioner st. Clair and Direct
ors Walker and Peck and President
Baker held an important conference to-
day on the Worlds Fair appropriation
bill to be presented to Congress. 1t is
understood, as a result of the conference.
that budgets for Congress will be pre-
pared tomorrow by the conference, and
these budgets will be intrusted solely to
Mr.. st. Clair and his committee on special
legislation. The basis of this action is
said 10 be that an agreement was reached
whereby any funds which Congress may
appropriate for the exposition will be
placed under the control of the National
commission and not the Chicago Direct
Orv
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FIRE IN a TENEMENT HOUSE.
Two Inmates Fatally and Several Seri-
OMslN Injured.

Two Inmates Fatally and Several Seri-
ously Injured.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-At late hour to-
night an overturned kerosene lamp on
the second floor of a tive-story brick
tenement house, at 50 Hester street,
started a blaze which in a few minutes
had spread through the upper part of the
building. The tenants were panic
stricken. Some unfortunates Jumped,
and others were knocked off the fire es-
capes to the stone court yard below. Two
were fatally injured and four others are
suffering from broken limbs and other
injuries.
Gastave Kaufman and Fanny Levy,
who lived on the third floor, were cut off
from the staircase by the flames ana the
crowd kept them from the tire-escape.
They Went to the roof, from which they
jumped, lockedin each others arms, to
the courtyard. They We're picked up
bleeding and insensible Soloman
SohnSky tried to save the Levy girl by
catching her in his arms, but her weight
crushed him and he fell to the ground
with leg broken. Ida Goldstein threw
her eightean-monthS'- -old child out of
window and it was fatally injured Re
bekah Penerantz fell from the fire-escape
on the fourth floor and broke her back.
She will die.
The tiremen soon got the flames under
control.
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Labor Troubles.

OMAHA, Feb. 1.-The Grievance Com
mittee of the trainmen and conductors of
the Union Pacific are irritated because of
their failure to receive reply from the
officials, and intimate strongly that the
Union Pacific must accede to their de-
mands, and declare that the strike, if it
comes, will stop every wheel in the entire
system.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA meeting of the
electrical engineers of the Edison Illunli-
mating Company tonight agreed to order
a strike tomorrow in all buildings on
which work is being done by the Edison
company. This will affect twenty-five
different jobs and 200 men. The cause is
the refusal of the company to reinstate
nine men who struck on the building
where one non-union man was employed.
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SIIrnr pnrchaanr

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Treasury
Department to-day purchased 100000
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Arra;gned in Court.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 1.-Alice Mitchell and
Lille Johnson were arraigned in court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-11

The Fight the Trolley I'm New York.
Mayor Grant Of New York has signed a num-
Der Of ordinances granting extensions to the
Houston, West Street and Pavonian Ferry Com
pany Of that city, but has returned 20 the COM
mon council for amendment the franchise al
lowing an extension northwardly on 9th ave-
nue.. This was the one about which the New
York papers have said so much. They claimed
that II was the company's intention TO establish
the trolley system on that thoroughfare. The
company denied this and passed a resolution
declaring that only the cable would be laid.
Mayor Grant said in his letter TO the aldermen
that he would have considered this resolution
suftcient had II not been that the franchise was
70 De sold at auction and II any one but the
company in question secured il there would be
nothing 10 prevent such persons from introduc-
ing the trolley. The committee railroads
OF the common council having requested him
TO return the resolution for amendment the
mayor accordingly did so, intimAting that il
would be approved If an amendment providing
for the use of the cable were added. Mayor
Grant said that he would approve no bills
authorizing the use Of the trolley system IN
New York
Atyesterdsy's meeting Of the common eoun-
cn in New York the mayors message of Satur-
day requesting the board 20 recall the 9th ave-
nue. surface railroad resolution for the purpose
OF amendment was read. Alderman Harri.
iuoNeu luek lne rtsOlluOl should be passed
with the following addition:
And this consent is given upon the further
and absolute condition that nothing therein
shall be construed a consent. grant or per-
mission to use the motive power designated
ana known a. the trolley system. and that no
motive power operated by means Of electricity
through an overhead wire shall be used"
Alderman Morgan seconded the motion.
President Arnold did not think the amend
ment covered the ground. 1t was finally re-
solved that the resolution should be amended as
follows: After the words ito be operated by
power other than horses or locomotive steam
power, to be inserted the words, 'or the power
known as the trolley system or any motive
power operated by means Of electricity through
an overhead wire"
Alderman Harris then moved that the reso-
luton as amended should be adopted Alder
man Morris could see no reason for such haste,
and proposed that the matter lie over for a
week. After wrangle of several minutes the
against 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-11

The United States Representative At Three
Rivers Guarded by Police.
Col Nicholas Smith. Uuited States consul at
Three Rivers, Canada, has aroused public in
dignation there by his criticisms Of the SANTA
ton Of that place. Last month he made q re-
port on the precautions against the introduc-
ton Of cholera at Three Rivers and used
the following language: ''Sosp as q detergent Is
practically unknown, and q thrifty housewife
would as soon think of tearing the boards from
her house for fuel as Of bathing her offspring In
winter. The Greeks thought amounting with
oil prophylactic, but a. a defense against both
disease and cold the French Canadian pins his
faith to crustaceous integumsnt. Indeed, 1
have sometimes thought that. like the Hindoo
fakirs, they believe in the holiness Of dirt A
large portion Of the people 60 to bed hungry
every night in the year"
There was more In the same strain. or course
when this report reached Three Rivers there
was one unanimous protest. A mob threw
stones ct the consulate and the consul had to
be given police protection. Col. Smith was
burned in effigy in the public square. Col
Smith recall Is demanded by the Canadian
press.
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FIGHTING FOR CROSS LIFE.

His Counsel Propose to Garry an Interest,"
Ing Question to the Supreme Court.
The next date for the execution Of the death
sentence in the District is Friday, November
III, and the doomed man IL VIM. Douglass
Cross. convicted Of the murder Of his wife near
G and 7th streets southwest on the night OF
October 10, 1889. Another effort will be made
to save his life through a writ Of habeas corpus
sued out by his counsel, Messrs.
G. Maurice Smith and Joseph Shillinston.
Cross has been twice convicted and sentenced
to be hanged In March, 1890, he was con-
victed and sentenced to be hanged on January
9, 1891. The case was taken up on appeal and
a new trial was granted On the second trial
he was. on July 80, 1891, sentenced to be hanged
on January % last, and the second appeal being
taken the Judgment was affirmed In General
Term and an appeal to the Supreme Court OF
the United States was taken, the General
Term fixing the day for execution
June TO- The Supreme Court Of
the United States declining to take Jurisdiction
Cross counsel then sought his release. alleging
that the order Of the General Term postponing
sentence TO June was without warrant, and as
January %. the legal day for the execution,
had passed, Cross must be considered legally
dead and could not be held. The General Term
dismissed the writ and remanded the case to
the Criminal Court, and on June last Justice
Cox fixed November ii for the execution. The
counsel now propose to carry the question as to
the legality Of the sentence to the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
The case Is In some respects, aside from the
many legal points raised. peculiar one. Cross
had grown up in South Warrington and when a
boy caused the death Of a companion by kick
ing him while fighting, and being convicted Of
served a short sentence in Jail.
Whom he grew up he was employed as driver
in a coal yard. He was married few months
before the tragedy and lived with his mother
in-law on 9Th street southwest, and on the night
Of October 10. 1889, when he came from his
work he dressed himself. saying that he was go
ing to the theater. To this the wife demurred,
stating that she would go out with him.
Upon this 1t Is alleged he threatened her.
He left the house and she followed him,
he ordering her back and she persisting. When
on @ near 7th street it is alleged he put the
pistol to her head and fred, and as she fell he
caught her. When some young men came up
he first ran to her mothers house and informed
the people there and then to his fathers on Az
street, and coming back was arrested. Cross
has persistently claimed that he did not fire the
shot, and that she being jealous, finding that
he would not return with her, shot herself
Since he has been in Jail he has been a most ex-
emplary prisoner.