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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-23
!, ~ Richmond Saturday. Dec %, 1885,
1pb(0HFN COHEN'S
lG,>n,nNh Distributing Power
V.MrANl Of Holiday Gifts is
n', !, "tn East Broad working with an
enthusiasm that has charmed every
woman, man, and child in the city.
The power Of endurance that has stood the
rush and scramble Of the past week has but one
explanation QUANTITY!
Backed by millions in the number Of art-
Giles and by acres Of flooring for accommodation,
the great collection Of Stocks might stand the
SCuflGS and bother Of another Christmas and yet
bear the banner to victory as the greatest, most
varied and most superior stock Of Holiday MeF-
chaldSe ever offered to the people Of Richmond
The number Of BARGAIN TABLES to-day MEANS
PRICEBREAKS. Tl0Y will tempt and force You 10 take
away a great SURPLUS and articles that should be sold
rather than remain Oh our hands beyond this day.
Some HALFPRICE,, some TNOTHIRDS,, others da
50 to say, gVGaVaT price The latter applies more SDGt
ally 10 TOYS that are to be sold without reserve
A few Of the tempting value:
are marked like this:

A few of the tempting values
are marked like this:
Parlor Table Lamps. finished all over
In gold, complete, for $50
Table Reading Lamps, silver finish, be L
burner complete S2.2j.
French China Pudding Sets, richly deco
rated 3 pieces, value $275 10 s., for
SL7j a choice Of all the lot.
French China Fish Sets. II pieces, fish
decorations. value price $l34s. for 1919.
Decorated. same sets. ~ pieces, Cars-
bad china value price $3.50, for 1915
set.
% Ice Cream Sets. French china. value
price $3.50 to $780, a choice will be
given on any In the lot for 81.
Decorated French China Teapots, best
Sl50 value for 75c each.
All HALL LAMPS and LIBRARY
LAMPS win be closed out at a third
off the marked prices.
p dozen Decorated oyster Plates, Carls-
bad real china, value az least s. a
dozen. for zoe each or S22j Il dozen
IS Standing. Hanging. and Folding Mir
rors. all French plate, at exactly one
half the prices they have been marked.
Old price, $3.50 TO 5lj; new price, $l.25
to $50
%A'+AI+.'+tiN AA'ii'A t'inNA' AA-NAf ~ ID 80
inches high. were s. a pair, for sl.25
each.
Most Of the above wares were
ordered in quantities far in excess
of our selling-hence these reduc-
tons.
SIS Normandie Jardenieres, Nile
body, inlaid with coalpert blue, 27-
inch circumference, regular price
has been S2.I9, for 81 each.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-23
EDITORIAL COMMENTS

Nav York World: The new AM
bassador TO Italy is not lifelong
Democrat. but he possessed the cour-
age 10 turn his back on the Re-
publican party when he became con-
WINGED that IL was not being rnanaved
In the interest OF the people. 1t is 10
such men the Democratic party owes
IT'S successes.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-23
CUPS AND SAUCERS.

A special lot Of one thousand
assorted Cups and Saucers in COT
lfees, After Dinners, and Choco-
ates will be found on two coun-
tiers and sold at the warehouse
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-23

Mobile Register: Let every man put on
his thinking cap, and try 10 solve the
question IL dishonesty isn't dishonesty
on any subject For instance, isn't IL dis
honest TO steal and forge I'm elections? IL
seems 10 US that II is-Kolb's Days Gap
organ. Is seems % US that way.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-23

Philadelphia Times: II would be a
grand thing II all over this great coun-
try the only skeleton at the Christmas
feast were the turkeys.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
NEW JERSEY LAWS.
Measures Of Importance That Have Bess
Signed by Governor Werts,


TRENTON, March Ex-Governor Werts
signed forty house and two senate bills
which still leave for consideration in his
hands about hundred acts Those of i'm
portance which he has approved include
the following:
Making the percentage necessary TO,
minority parties to file petitions of nomi
nation instead of per cent. of the
total vote cast; authorizing health boards
to destroy personal goods endangered by
contagious diseases and to pay for the
same; authorizing finance boards of cities
to nix the rate of interest on past due taxes;
authorizing the issue of additional road
bonds i'll Union county; exempting all real
estate owned by exempt fremen's assecia-
tions from taxation; giving electric light
companies power to use country roads for
erecting poles upon the consent of the
property owners; providing that firemen
permantly disabled while In tho discharge
OF duty BIO retired on half pay; prohibiting
the sweating system anywhere in the state;
providing for the appointment by the
mayor of tax assessors in second class
cities; placing all assessment insurance
corporations under the control of the state
commissioner of banking and insurance;
authorizing law judges to call special elec-
tions in boroughs; repeating the act per-
mitting counties to acquire lands for public
parks; making the National Guard con-
form to the United States militia tactics,
and providing for the election of three
majors in each regiment; authorizing po-
lice justices to sentence prisoners to the
county workhouse for any period of not
more than six months; appropriating $500
to the state labor bureau; authorizing
boards Of freeholders in second class coun-
ties to fill vacancies for unexpired terms;
fixing railroad rates for carrying peaches
and small fruits In New Jersey.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The City Flour mill, at Jordan, Mimi.
was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000
Hugh Blanc, one OF the leading chemists
of the United States, is dead in Pittsburg.
The big boa constructor in Central Park,
New York, refuses to eat, and is being
kept alive by involuntary baths in milk.
Celeste Chiesa appeared in the Barnum.
Bailey parade in New York on Saturday
scantily attired. Yesterday she died Of
congestion of the lungs.
A coal oil lamp upset in the home OF
County Clerk Fletcher at Knox, Ind, Sat.
urday night and exploded Fletcher was
badly burned and considerable damage
done to the house.
An interesting lace exhibit will be dis
played at the Worlds fair in connection
with the exhibits of the Smithsonian in.
stitution. 1t will embrace nearly all the
laces of famous make.
What is to be done to compel railroads
to haul coal at fair and equitable rates is
the principal question for settlement at
meeting of bituminous coal operators to
be held at Terre HaHte Ind, March %.
Joseph Miller, an installment agent, was
arrested at Youngstown, o., for extensive
forgeries, and on being searched Bible
and certificate of membership in the
Epworth league was found in his pockets.
Regarding the statement that President
Cleveland is not satisfied with the make
OF the senate committees, it is anthorita-
lively stated that the president has not
had time to see list OF the new commit.
tees.
The Freedom Manufacturing company,
concern organized by colored men to
give employment to their race, has been
opened in Washington. Frederick Doug
lass Is the president, and the officers in.
clude some of the leading eolored men in
the country.
The bureau of American republics is in.
formed that the government Of Nicaragua,
to induce immigration, has issued adecree
authorizing the grant to each married inn
migrant of 100 manzanas of land and to
each unmarried immigrant sixty man
zanas A manzana is little less than two
acres.
As the result of certain notifications
and changes in the work of the bureau Of
animal industry, Secretary Of Agriculture
Morton has made considerable reduction
in the number of persons on the roll of the
bureau. The total monthly saving eff
fected by these dismissals and furloughs
amounts to S10,5l1.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
CAPTAIN VANDERBILT DEAD
The Commodore's Brother a Victim Of
Congestion of the Lungs.

NEW BRIGHTON s. l., March 20.-Captafn
Jacob Hand Vanderbilt, brother of the late
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, died
at his home on Crimes Hill, Staten Is.
land, last evening. He had an attack OF
congestion Of the lungs two weeks ago.
He recovered from that attack, but was
left in very weak condition and did not
rally
Captain Vanderbilt was born on the
east shore of Staten Island. Sept. 2, 1907.
The village of Stapleton has been built on
the old homestead farm. He received a
common school education, but early in
life began to sail In his fathers boats on
the waters about New York. When only
IL years old he commanded q steamboat.
For nearly forty years he commanded
steamboats, plying between New York and
ports on the Hudson, Long Island sound
and in New Jersey
When the East Shore railroad was built
on Staten Island, running between Clifton
and Tottenviile, he became president of the
road, and gave his time to the manage
ment of that road and the ferries to New
York until the railroad passed into the
hands OF the Rapid Transit company, or
ganiz, by Erastus Wiman In 1884. He
retired then from active business, and has
since lived quietly at his elegant home
which overlooks the upper and lower New
York bays. He married Euphemia Maria
Banta, descendant of General Ira Put
nam, in 1884. She died In 1877. Three
children survive him-Ellen, Mrs Herman
ID. Cesar; Clara, the wife of James Nc
Nance, both residents of Staten Island,
and Jacob II. Vanderbilt, Jr,, who is un.
married and lived with his father,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
A sAcRILEaIoUs MOB.
They Attack a Church, Eject the
Priests and Destroy Furniture.

PARIS, March 90 Socialists at Rop.
baix yesterday stormed a hall in which the
Catholics were holding private meeting.
When the rioters had broken in the doors
several Catholics tried to bar their pro-
gress into the meeting. The rioters threw
them down and forced their way to the
platform where the priests had raised an
altar and placed a crucifix. They spit on
the crucifix, broke it into fragments and
tossed the pieces into the congregation.
The priests were attacked, knocked down,
carried to the doors and thrown into the
streets. While some Of the rioters drove
out the men, women and children of the
congregation, others smashed the furni-
ture in the hall. Many women and seve-
raj men We're severely injured by being
knocked down and trampled while the
rioters were ejecting them. The police did
not arrive in sufficient force to control the
mob until after the hall had been emptied
of the Catholics and all the furniture had
been destroyed. Numerous arrests have
been made and more are expected to fol-
low
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
DEDICATED TO PEACE.
A Large Tract of Land Where
Quarrels Can Never Come.
HOME OF THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.

DIR. Gnrdner's Magnificent Gift, Protected
by the Treaties OF Forty Nations, Con-
secrated to the Work of Bumanity--Miss
Burton's Graceful Tribute to the Giyer.
WASHINGTON, bfarch 90. - Miss Clara
Barton, president of the American Ma
tional Red Cross, in accepting the mag
nificent gift of between seven and eight
hundred acres of land on the borders of
the blue grass region, In the state of In
diana, rendered the association last month
by DIR. Joseph Gardner, of Bedford, Ind.
writes:
This land, as the property of the
American National Red Cross, will be the
one piece of neutral ground on the western
hemisphere, protected by international
treaty against the tread of hostile feet. 1t
Is perpetual sanctuary against invading
armies and will be SO respected and held
sacred by the military powers of the world
Forty nations are pledged to hold all ma
terial and stores of the Red Cross, and all
Its followers, neutralin war, and free to
go and come as their duties require.
while its business headquarters will
remain, as before, at the capital of the
nation, this gift still forms realization of
the hope so long cherished = that the
National Red Cross may have place to
accumulate and produce material and
stores for sudden emergencies and great
calamities; and IL war should come upon
orr land, which may God avert, we may
be ready to fulfill the mission that our adj
hesion to the Geneva treaty had made
binding upon u.s.
Twill direct that monuments be erected
defining the boundaries of this domain,
dedicated to eternal peace and humanity,
upon which shall be inscribed the insignia
of the treaty of Geneva, which insignia all
the nations of the earth are bound by
solemn covenant to respect.
Not only our own people, but the peo-
pies of all civilized nations will have pub
lished to their knowledge that the Ameri-
can National Red Cross has home and a
recognized abiding place through all gem
erations.
For this have striven for years, mainly
misunderstood, often misinterpreted, and
1t is through your clear intuition and hui
name thought that the clouds have been
swept away and my hopes have been
realized.n
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20

SCRANTON, Pa, March a0.-At Jermynn
Thomas McAndrew, aged 80 years, who
has been despondent owing to misfor-
tunes, bid goodbye to friend who stood
by him near the Ontario railroad track,
threw himself in front OF an approaching
passenger train, and was cut to pieces
Patrick Welsh, aged IL years, was picking
coal beneath gondola car when the car
started up and cut off his head On the
keyser Valley branch of the Lackawanna
road Frederick K. Vickery 10 years old,
fell beneath coal cars he was trying to
b. ard and was cut to pieces.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
CORBETT and MITCHELL
The Death Of Squire Abingdon
Will Not Affect the Fight.
A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR GIFT.

Tho Sporting millionaire Presented His
Pugiiistio Friend the Money with which
to Bind the AIatch for the Great Con-
test Between America and England.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Charles Mitchell,
who IL staying at the Gedney House, read
carefully the biography of his deceased
friend and bscker, Squire Abingdon Baird,
who died suddenly of pneumonia at New
Orleans ON Saturday. To any of the
published statements Mitchell took de-
cided exception, particularly that which
represented the squire us q sort of person
about whom prize fighters were wont to
hang and the inference that might be de.
duced concerning his own connection with
the deceased millionaire sportsman.
Squire Abingdon and l." he said, "have
been friends, might say pals for seven
years, but never in my life have been
under any obligation to him, either finan-
cially or otherwise. He accompanied me
to this country at his own solicitation. 1t
was not necessary for the squire to find
money for me to bind this match with
Corbett My father-inlaw, Pony Moore,
put up $4,000 to make the match for s10,000
. side ten weeks prior to any intimation
that the squire would back me.
Nov want to make clear the way in
which the squire came to present me with
$4,000 to back myself In this fight with
Corbett. On arriving at New York we
were mot with the exorbitant demand Of
Corbett that l should put up $4,000 at
once, and in one deposit, to secure q match,
or else shut up. OF course that was rough
on me. but the squire at once came to my
assistance and said: 4 will give you the
money and as much more as they want to
hpt + fhanIaI Al.
$4,000 would be sufficient He put the
$4,000 In my hands and remarked in ths
presence of forty people: Here is the
money; make your own match. / want
nothing to DO with it. If you win take ID
ALL The money was therefore q wholly
voluntary gift, which l all the more ap-
preciated. as was not in condition to re-
fuse it.
Il also want to say that have never
been indebted otherwise to anybody In my
life for dollar. have always been able
to earn my own living, and never was
eadger."
In talking about the offer of Jim Cor
bett to fight him for the purse and honor,
without any side bet if necessary Mitchell
said 1T is the only good thing have
ever known Jim to do or say. or course |
appreciate his kindness, though think his
charity comes little too late. The only
time l want Corbett to treat me nice is
when we are In the ring, and then the bet
ter he treats me the worse will use him.
Mitchell said that Hall was ready to
hight Fitzsimmons at the middleweight
Limit IN the same week and before the
same club in which the fight between him
and Corbett would come off Squire
Abingdon had been willing to put up s1o,.
oo0 to bind this match and the money is
still ready and will be put up at any time
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Jumped to His Death,

WILKEsDARRE, Pa, March 2o.-A. B.
Schooley, prominent resident of Edwards
vile. aged 80, jumped from the North
street bridge into the Susquehanna below,
distance Of nearly a hundred feet. The
leap was witnessed by nearly thousand
people who were enjoying Sunday outing.
The body was recovered He is said to
have lost heavily by the failure of the
Rockafellow bank.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Sheriff Killed and Murderer I,vnobed.

JELLIco, Tenn, March 90. Deputy
Sheriff John DAFT arrested man named
White, but was rescued by Jesse Jones and
John Smith, who are notorious characters
In this part of the country. The Smith
boys boarded the train on which the
sheriff and his deputy had taken passage,
intent upon revenge. In the fight which
ensued one of the desperudoes was killed,
as was Sheriff Burnett, while DAFT may die
from his wounds. Jones killed the sheriff,
was taken from the Jail at Jacksboro by q
mob and swung to gatepost.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
FLAsHHs NY oARLH.

The elections in Sarl, Spain, have re-
suited in a sweeping victory for the Mon
archists.
The Brazilian minister in Paris denies
the truth of the reports that there is fight
ing in Rio Grande do Sui
The body OF jules Ferry was this morn
ing removed to the great hall of the French
senate, where 1t will lie In state
The operative cotton spinners of Man
chester, England, offered to resume work
forthwith II the reduction of wages be
limited to ~ per cent They struck five
months ago Tor DE eanA innrsaaa
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Cochran Eulorixes the church.

BALTIMORE, March 20.-Bourke Cock
ran, member of congress from New York,
before an audience of more than 1900 pco-
pie, last night, in Harris Academy of
Music, an eloquent lecture for the benefit
OF the funds of the employment bureau Of
the United Catholic Literary societies of
baltimore. Cardinal Gibbons and many
of his clergy occupied chairs upon the
stage, and they We're treated to a fervid
eulogy of the Catholic church.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
swedesboro,s warning church REACTIONS,

SwEDEsBoRo, N. j., March o0.-The war
ring factions Of st. Joseph's Catholic
church remained true to their chosen
friends yesterday and rebellious Father
Treacy and Father Leahy each celebrated
mass to about the same number of persons.
Neither priest obtained possession of the
church. the edifice still remaining In the
clutches of the law as personsified by
Deputy Sheriff Garrison, and the masses
celebrated by Fathers Treacy and Leahy
were chanted in the parlors of two of their
respective adherents. Father Treacy an
nounced himself as the true pastor of St.
Joseph's. and denied the power of either
the bishop of Mgr Satolli to unfrock him.
On Sunday next Bishop o'Farrel will visit
Swedesboro and inquire personally into
the matter in dispute.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20

DENVER, Colo. March 20.-J. E. B. Nor
daunt was arrested here on telegram
from Inspector Ross, of Chicago. Nor
daunt is under indictment for embezzle-
ment. The arrest was most important
one as the sum named is S55, 900. Nor
daunt Is 25 years old, with boyish face.
He was employed as confidential book
keeper by Smith & Webster, big plumb
ing supply company of Chicago.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20

CHICAGO, March 2o-Miss Bessie boo.
little will leave Chicago in palace car on
Wednesday night at 9:30 She will 90 to
Portland, Ore, to the City of Mexico, to
New York, to Hartford and back to
Chicago, and is not to get out of the car
during the entire circuit. Railroad men
undertake to send the young woman as
practical demonstration of the convenience
and luxury of modern travel.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20

WASHINGTON, March a0-There is said
to be an unprecedented crush of appli.
eants for the various consulships, especi.
ally those which are reported to be desir-
able from a financial point of view. The
best of these are in Great Britain, where
the consuls are enabled to retain the
greater part of the fees received from the
administration of en- hs. Paris is said to
pay not more than $4,000 or s12, 900 year,
aud it is the best consulate on the CON
nnent, while London is credited with be-
ting worth four or five times as much.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
To Demnnd nm Accounting,

MERCER, Pa, March 2o.-There will be
meeting in the court house at Mercer,
March "a, to take united action against the
Economical Mutual Benefit association, Of
Sandy Lake, Pa, of which Samuel B.
Griffith is now receiver. The treasurers
and other books of the association were
burned by the officers, and the members
are unable to learn the exact standing Of
the COMPANY.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Back from the Jaws of penth,

BALTIMORE, March 2o.-After struggle
with the elements for forty-three days tho
schooner Calvin +. Baker, Captain Edison
Chase. from Rockport, Me-, with cargo
of ice, has arrived. The vessel had been
given up for lost. During terrific hurri.
cans the vessel went 800 miles out of her
course. The conpanionway was smashed
while the deck was cleared of everything
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20

NEw YORK, March 20.-A A Cadwalla-
der, the absconding president of the SUI
perior National bank of West Superior,
Wis, is passenger on the Brazil mail
steamship seguranca, due here this week
from Rio Janeiro He is prisoner in
charge of Detective Charles Il. Henry. 1t
is alleged that he made away with more
than sIn 0no
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Model Of the worlds Fair speot,r,e

CHICAGO, March 2o.-Yesterday after
noon large party of press representatives
and distinguished people was taken to the
workshop of Steele Lackaye, on Thirty
seventh street, where working model Of
the Worlds fair spectatio was exhibited.
The model is about one-twentieth the size
of the completed work. In it was shown
facsimile Of scenes to be depicted on the
spectatorium stage during the fair which
embrace the entire period of Columbus
IA
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
A Prisoners Cunning Ruse.

CHICAGO, March co. Charles Parsley
was locked up in the county Jail on the
charge of larceny. In the cell also was
Sherman, who was held pending an in
vestigation of the grand jury on two
charges of larceny The grand jury re-
turned mo bill'' in the case of Parsely
and instructions were given to discharge
him from Jail The guard on duty went
to the cell and called for Charles Parsley.
Sherman came out of the cell and an
swered the questions tho guard put to him
so accurately that he was allowed to 20.
Parsley was still in his cell, and rs his dis
charge had been ordered by the grand
jury he was released.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-20
Two Harrisburg Fatalities

HARRISBURG, March 20.-Frank Threis-
enger, of South Front street was struck by
the day express on the Pennsylvania rail.
road and instantly killed. He leaves a
family. John c. Hummer, an employe of
the Pennsylvania Steel works was caught
In an elevator shaft and crushed to death.