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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-01-02
Special to the RECoRD-UN1oN.

'0t''Nis'I W Inc tECORD-UNION.
BERLIN, Jan. 1.-The attempts Of sew
eral papers to smother in ridicule the
Guelph fund scandal has not succeeded.
Inc details given by the VOorwderPs ar
ucIe concerning the distribution Of money
were too minute to he dismissed as mere
fabrlcations. Although Withholding for
OBVIOUS reasons the names of the recip-
tents OF brides, ToorUuert indicates the
occupations and politics with exactness.
len men who were benefciaries, it says,
are officials of the empire, eight generals,
three judges, eleven journalists and
twenty-five members OF the Reichstag.
The Deputies in question are mostly Ma
uonal Liberals and Conservatives, and
received sums varying between 81, 800
and u, each. Three principal bene-
hclaries OF the fund are believed to have
been intimate friends of the King OF Ba-
varla. The heaviest bribing, says the
I0O1qcdert, was done in 1886. The in
formation supplied to the VOo1qraert is
believed to have been gained for the So
claI Democrats by August Begel. Should
Begel be as dIslngenuOus as he usually is.
the investigation viii be exceedingly
perLOus. Inc whole matter will prob
ABLY lie over until the Reichstag reas-
selhbIes, when the Social Democrats will
bring 1t up by means OF resolution or
Interpolation.
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AFFLICTED WITH CHAMBERS.
A Los Angeles Man Lying at Deaths
Door With the Disease.

"a LOS Angeles man Lying at DEATH S
Door With the Disease.
Los ANGELES, Jan. lon Western
avenue, about one mile from the Agri-
cultural Park, there is a man named
Peterson lying at deaths door with
CHAMBERS. He has been under the care of
DIR. Pratt of the university for two or
three weeks, but not until the last few
days has the case assumed peculiarities
which led him to believe that it was due
to CHAMBERS.
On Thursday last he called in Drs.
Wise and Bicknell, who confirmed his
diagnosis. Later in the day DR.. Whittle-
sey, veterinary surgeon, examined a
mare owned by Peterson for the last two
years, when it was found that the animal
had been working mate of a horse owned
by neighbor, which had subsequently
been killed for having the CHAMBERS some
time during last spring.
1t Is only two or three years since that
a man at Long Beach died from the CLAN
ders, leaving large family, mortgaged
farm and three glandered horses. A boy
died from CHAMBERS on Main street in the
southern part of the city last winter. Two
Chinese died from the same disease in
Vernon district about a wear ago
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against ill-advised strikes or hasty action
of any sort. The orders interested are
the conductors, switchmen, firemen,
trainmen and telegraphers. AS the
engineers voted at the last convention
for federation, with the same fundamen-
tai principles, it is thought that they may
eventually come in. Some members Of
the conference were not authorized to
act for their respective orders and the
details of the plan will not he made pub
lie until they have secured ratification.
The members of the conference were
given banquet by the grand officers of
the conductors and left for their home on
the late trains
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VISITED A COOKING MAIN,
And Now Several of Them Are Nurs
ing Broken Limbs.

1AA0 ANOW several Oh 4Heul are n ITS
ing Broken Limbs.
NORWICH Comm, Jan. While a
cock-fight was in progress last night in a
third-story room Of the Miantonomah
Hotel. a squad of police surrounded the
house and demanded admittance to the
room. Then ensued a panic and fight
on the part of 100 men to escape without
a moments hesitation. The whole COM
pany plunged through the door at the
rear OF the room amid sounds of crash
ing panes of glass and splintered sashes,
and drove headlong three stories to the
ground. Some fell on the tops Of car
rlages, and three or four on the backs of
frightened horses. Most of the men
escaped serious injury and fled down
the country road and across the snowy
fields, but some lay helpless on the
ground. One Edward Walsh struck a
projecting ledge and his skull was
crushed in from above the temple to the
lower Jaw bone. lie died instantly. An
other man had his arm broken, and four
others are nursing broken legs The
police arrested seven men, including the
cripples, but most of them were released
on bonds,
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MORE FATAL THAN CHOLERA.
Disease Killing OF Convicts at the Al
kansas PeniteEtIary.

Disease Killing OF Convicts at the Ar
kansas PeniteEtlary.
DALLAS Texas, Jan. III. II. Petit
bone of Little Rock, Ark, is in this city.
In reference to the reported existence OF
cholera among the convicts in the peni-
Tertiary Of that city, he says the disease
has symptoms of cholera, but is more
swiftly fatal than cholera. 1t first ap-
peared among a detachment of convicts
at work cleaning out sewer on the Iron
Mountain road. The uncovering of the
sewer liberated a gas which seems to have
generated the disease. Eight convicts mt
work in the sewer died i've and half
hours after they were stricken down.
From the sewer the disease was conveyed
10 the peniientiary. The disease has
created something like panic in Little
Rock
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Special to the RECoRD-UNIoS.
HELENA (Mont), Jan. There now
seems every reason to believe that the
Democrats will organize both houses of
the Legislature tomorrow. They con-
troll the Senate to 7. The Choteau
County Canvassing Board has not yet
recounted the vote of that county and the
Republican contestant has no title to the
office whatever, so the Democrats will
have q votes, one more than the required
number. 1t is now almost foregone
conclusion that the Democrats will con-
troll both houses of the Legislature and
will have majority over all on joint
ballot for United States Senator.
PoPULIsTs IN KANSAS.
TOPEKA (kan.), Jan. There are
fears among the Republicans Of the State
that the Populists will endeavor to organ
lze the House over the Republican major
ity of three. This belief is strengthened
by fiery editorial which appeared in the
last edition of the Kansas POpuhst, the
Peoples party paper published here.
DEMOCRATS AND POPULIsTs COMBINE.
Boise idaho, Jan. 1.-The Democrats
and Populists in the Senate have COM
blned to control that body. y caucus
held to-day resulted in the selection of
temporary officers.
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REDUCTION IN RATES
On Several Lines of Goods to Eastern
Points.

On Several Lines of Goods to Eastern
Points.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 1.-The Southern
Pacific Company has started the ball of
competition with other transcontinental
roads rolling. 1t has issued notices that
on and after January 9th the rates on
beans, canned goods. wine and horax
will be 80 cents per 100 pounds for car
load lots from this city to New York and
20 cents for the same commodities from
al interior points to Chicago. The price
hitherto has been 81 on ali the commodi-
ties named, except beans, ON which the
rate was 81 TO- What effect this will
have on the interior remains to be seen.
The announcement is an unexpected one
and comes without the usual ten DAYS
notice, which the Transcontinental Asso-
citation always required. The cut is being
made to meet seaboard competition and
will speedily be followed by west bound
cuts.
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RAIL WAY EARNINGS.
Income and Expenditures of Many
Lines the Past Year.
LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS OVER
PREVIOUS SEASONS.
Twenty-Eight New Cases of Typhus
Fever Developed in New York City
Yesterday, a Majority of Which
Came From One Lodging-House-
Ex-Secretary Blaine Reported to Be
Much Improved in Health,
Special to the RECORD UNION.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The prelimi-
nary report on the income and expendi-
lures of railways for the year ended June
30, 1882, compiled by the statistician to the
Interstate Commerce Commission, will
be made public soon. The gross earnings
OF l2o,349.S9 miles of railway were shown
to have been S95l, OPS, 159, from which the
gross earnings ofthe entire railway system
Is estimated to have been 81, Dds, III sos, an
Increase of Sl25, $3.50. BOB over the earnings
OF the previous year. or an increase of
sos per mile. The operating expenses
for the year were ssh, ~, 0S2, an increase
OF S., o34, lS9, which leaves an increase in
the net earnings of S44, 116, ia, or S2.472
per mile. The actual increase in revenue
from passenger service was S3l, 500, OBS, or
4247 per mile, as against an increase in
revenue from the freight service of SOL
5O6,61l, or 9j49 per mile of line.
The railways Of which the largest in
crease in gross earnings per mile are the
lines connecting the wheat-growing ter
rltory with the seaboard, and in the
southern States bordering on the Gulf of
Mexico. 1t is Significant, however, to no.
tlce that on these railways their increase
III operating eAp6nSSS Is NEARLY equdl 10
the increase in gross receipts.
The report shows the aggregate gross
earnings Of siXty-two roads to be S794,-
1881, being an average income of $l2,-
Sl4,l7l. Average gross revenue per mile
for all the roads, $3.50. The classification
of the sixtytwo roads in question shows
that eight receive each an income in ex-
cess Of $40, 000, 900, per mile between 81, 443
and $1,000, while the income for each of
the remainder is less than 81, 443 per mile.
The density Of passenger and freight
traffic is also given for the roads whose
gross revenue exceeds S3,000,000. From
what appears in some parts of the coun-
try there is a healthy expansion of trade
during the last two years. while in other
1892 does little more than balance the loss
of traffic in 1891.
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PANAMA CANAL.
Conditions Imposed IN Granting an Ex-
tn.asin1a OF --....---.--

Conditions Imposed IN Granting an EX-
tension of Time to the Company.
PANAMA, Jan. l. The Government
will impose the following conditions in
granting an extension of time to the
Panama Canal Company. The debt to
the Government, amounting to G,5O0, 900
francs, is made 100000 francs, and is to
be paid in four equal installments, the
first payment to be made in May, 1888.
An inventory is to be made Of all prop
erty now possessed by the company on
itself not to transfer or dispose of any of
it without consent Of the Government.
Any disputes which may arise is to be
settled by the Supreme Court OF the re-
public.
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places for anchorage, but they are mostly
open roadsteads, affordlng shelter only
from certain winds, and they are all en-
tirely incapable of being defended by
shore batteries.
Even the harbor of Honolulu itself
cannot be defended from the shore. 1t is
a small harbor, lying seward from the
land, and is only protected from the sea
by outlying coral reefs. An enemy could
take up his position outside the entrance
to the harbor and command the entire
anchorage as well as the town of
Honolulu itself.
This harbor would, therefore, be Of no
use to us as harbor of refuge in war
with powerful maritime nation.
With one exception there is no harbor
on the islands that can be made to satisfy
the conditions necessary for a harbor of
refuge i'll time of war. This is the harbor
of Eva on Pearl River.
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LAID AT REST,
Funerals of Justice Sharpstefn and
Loring Pickering.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-The late JUS
tice Sharpstein was buried yesterday, the
funeral services being conducted at the
First Congregational Church. A large
number of members of the bar were pres
ent, as were also a few Superior judges
and the late associates of the derd jurist on
the Supreme bench, The services were
very simple and elaborate floral tributes
were omitted.
Loring Pickering was buried from
Trinity Church. a large concourse of
friends were present at the services,
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PACIFIC COAST FAILURES.
Nine Hundred and Eighty During the
Past Twelve Months.

Nine Hundred and Eighty During the
Past Twelve Months.
SAN Francisco, an. 1.-The Bradstreet
Mercantile Agency reports $50 failures in
the Pacific Coast States and Territories for
the year 1892, with assets s., 454, S25 and
liabilities $6,753,9l1, as compared with
1872 for the previous year, with assets at
S4,3O6,5l1 and liabilities $40, 100.
The failures for the past year are di-
yided as follows among the States and
Territories: California, $40; assets, S2,9l3,-
406; liabilities. $4,OO7, 253. Oregon, 1913:
assets, $S3l, l44 liabilities, SI,49S, O6l
Washington, l66; assets, $685., S25; liabili-
ties, 81, lz0,53I. Nevada. 6; assets, 81, 700;
liabilities, S46,86S. Arizona, 81; assets,
81, 100; liabilities, SSI, 400.
The following are the causes assigned
for the failures: Incompetency. 80;
inexperience, 1873; inadequate capital for
the business undertaken, 303 injudicious
credit, 10; complication of Indebtedness,
q; personal extravaganza, Is; neglect OF
business and bad habits, 35; excessive
competition, %; unfavorable circum-
stances, floods, fires, etc., 20; speculation,
.; fraud, 81,
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-01-02
HER INFIDELIrY EXPOSED.
The Wife of a Prominent Real Estate
Man Suicides.

SEATTLE (Wash.l, Jan. Mrs. Nellie
Brundage, wife of C. N. Brundage, a
prominent real estate man, comm tied
suicide in the room of her paramount,
S. X. Clute, an attorney, at the Grand
View Hotel early this morning by shoot
ing herself. Clute, on realizing what the
woman had done, made an unsuccessful
attempt to end his life by the same
means. The climax was the result of in
toxlcation and an article in a Sunday
paper telling of her actions on Christmas
night, but mentioning no names. The
full affair. Clute is an attorney from
Montezuma, Iowa, and the Brundages
came from Canandaigua, New York.
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SHOCKED TO DEATH.

n 1ounS CoIle2e Students Playful
Freak Costs Him His Life.
EUGENE or, Jan. l.-Clifton D. Stew
ems, young man about 20 year 5 old, stu
dent of the State University, was killed
about midnight last night by shock from
an electric light wire. He was with a
number of others returning from watch
party, and playtully jumped and swung
his weight on a cable which suspends an
arc-light. His weight raised the lamp so
as to turn the circuit into the cable which
he was holding. When he touched the
ground he was killed instantly.
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shooting ARRAY at PlacervflIe.

PLAOEa VILE, Jan. IA shooting
ARRAY occurred here last evening, where
in an old man named William AIcock
was shot through the right arm bv
Charles Peterson. The latter was en-
ployed as cook at restaurant and
Alcock is an attache of The building.
An alteration took place on the side
walk in front of the house and Alcock
assaulted Peterson with q rock. The
latter, thinking that his assailant had
deadly weapon, pulled his pistol and
shot twice. with the effect already stated.
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wyoming Regulator Cases

DENVER, (Col.), jar. Ia special to
the Republic from Cheyenne, Wyoming,
says about fifteen defendants in the case
against the Johnson County Regulators
are now here. The trial is docketed to
open at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
1t is understood move will be made and
probably allowed for a postponement of
the cases until the May term of the court.
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FOUR LIVES LOST

BY the Wrecklng of n Snow P1ow On
the Great Northern.
SPOKANE (Wash.), Jan. 1.-Particuiars
have been received of d wreck of a snow
pillow on the Great Northern. and the loss
of four lives. The disaster occurred near
Java Station. The dead are: A. L. Nor
den, brakeman; John Benin, Western
Union linenan; fireman, name nm
known; and an italian Conductor. Peter
Lemieu, was seriously injured. The
snow pillow was standing on the track and
was struck by an avalanche which came
down the mountain.
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ReY. DE-. NIcGIvnn.

New York, Jan. DIR. McGlynn
spoke at the Anti-Poverty Society meet
ing at Cooper Union tonight, and re-
affirmed his belief in the doctrine of the
society preaching which led to his ex-
communication. He spoke with all his
old-time force, and set at rest all his
apologizing before he was restored to
priestly functions.
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BLooD-HoRsE MEETING.
Saturdays Racing at the Bay District
Track.


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-Yesterdav
was the thirty ninth day of the Pacific
Coast Blood-Horse Association MEETING
The weather was clear and pleasant and
the track lumpy. There were fully $500
people present.
First race, four furlongs, all ages, purse
S400-Lottie ID. won, Gypsy Girl second.
Charmer third. Time, 0:5l3.
Second race, selling, three-year-olds
and upwards, purse S400-tIarcia won.
Initiation second, Carter b. third. Time
1:4S3.
Third race, handicap, mile and three
sixteenths, all ages, purse SI,0O0-Mari-
gold won, Democrat second, Little Es-
peranza third. Time, 2:09
Fourth race. selling, five furlongs, all
ages, purse S400-Cbarger won, Queen
Bee second, Prince third. Time, Los.
Fifth race, handicap, six furlongs, all
ages, purse S5O0-Misty Morn won, Joe
Cotton second, Iris tilly third. Time,
l:lSi
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the range. The boat would have left at
1:3O for Iiburon with another large load
OF passengers, and had the fire broken
out few minutes sooner or later than it
did frightful catastrophe would have
been the result.
LATER.-The damage to the ferryboat
IS now estimated at $4,000, fully covered
by insurance
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Panic in a Church.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IAN insane
man caused an incipient panic in the
Roman Catholic Church OF st. Thomas
Aquinas, this morning at mass, by at
tempting an assault on the rector. A
number of women tainted. \ stampede
for the door, which would probably have
resulted in serious bodily injury and per-
haps loss of life, was narrowly averted.
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A Warming to Poets

Ell DORADO (Kans.), Jan. IA local
accommodation train on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad was wrecked late last
night by broken rail. Two coaches
were ditched and several passengers pain
fully hurt. Only one was dangerously in
Jured, Hattie Hall, a Kansas poetess.
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BROTHERHOOD OF TRA1NMES.

Railroad Employees Agree Upon a Pro-
visional Plan of Federation.
CEDAR RAPIDS Iowa, Jan. IA
system of federation was agreed upon
yesterday by the conference of organized
railroad employees. The term means that
the members of the various orders on
any one system will be left to decide for
themselves whether or not they will
unite, and such union will be binding
upon them alone. The conservative
members of the conference feel they have
gained a point, and wherever the new
plan is adopted it will serve as a cheek
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-01-02
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Democrats Will Probably Control
the Montana Legislature.
COMBINE AGAINST THE REPUB-
LICANS IN IDAHO

Bold Robbery at Veroqua, Wisconsin,
Two Strangers Relieve a Safe in the
Courthouse of Five Thousand Dol
lars-Disastrous Wind-Up of a Cock
ing Main at Norwich, Connecticut
Efforts of Participants to Escape
Arrest Results in Providing Good
Fees to Many Physicians.
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GUELPH FUND SCANDAL.
Efforts of Newspapers to Smother
1t in RidicuIe Do Not Succeed.
HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE GERMAN
EMPIRE IMPLICATED

Disease Among Couvlcts o. the state
Penitentiary at Little Rock, Arlan-
sas, Which is Said to BE Moro
Swiftly Fatal Than Choiera-British
Vessels Seized by Our Naval Ves-
sells In BehrinG Sea Released With
Paltry Excuses by Officials at Vic
torla.
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TYPHUS FEVER.
Twenty Eight New Cases reported in
New York Yesterday.


NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Twenty-eight
cases of typhus fever were developed
to-day, the majority coming from a
cheap clearinghouse at 81 Bayard street.
from which three cases were reported
Saturday. All the persons afflicted were
removed to the Riverside Hospital, ana a
quarantine established at all the places
discovered. The typhus cases reported
to the health authorities within the past
three days now number forty. Every
precaution is being taken to prevent a
spread of the disease.
RAvAGEs OF THE FEVER IN MEXICO.
EAGLE PASS (Tex.), Jan. I.-William
Divine, who arrived to-day from the in
terror OF Mexico, reports that the accounts
of ravages of typhus have not been exag-
gerated. The mortality is estimated at
10 to % per cent. of those stricken. The
wealthy classes do not appear to have
any immunity from the disease, suffer-
ing equally with the poor.
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Death of Wayne Macveagh. Jr.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-Wayne Mac
Veagh, Jr., son of x-Attorney-General
Mac eagh, died to-day at his fathers
residence in this city of heart disease.
He was a member of the senior class of
Harvard College and % years of age.
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A PRIEST sUFFoCATED.
Overcome by Smoke in Fire in
Jesuit College.

Jesuit College.
New YORK, Jan. IA fire invaded the
Jesuit College of st. Francis Xavier, on
West Sixteenth street, to-day, and Rev.
Thomas Gormley, S. j., was overcome
by the smoke and died within few
minutes after he was rescued. Messrs.
Mccarthy and Buell. were burned about
the face and head, but escaped without
serious injury. The fire was extinguished
after the theater and rooms above it were
Quilted. The damage is estimated at $780,
900; insured.
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REPUBLIC OF CHILE.
Effort Being Made to Maintain Oufet
IN That Country.

EHort Being Made to Maintain Quiet
IN That Country.
VALPARAISO, Jan. 1.-The Valparaiso
Herald prints an authoritative statement
OF the general internal and foreign pol
icy Of the Government. President Montt,
Congress and the Cabinet, are engaged, it
says, in framing laws which Will tran
quillize Chile and re-establish the country
on firm basis and maintain quiet,
Chile, it is announced, will never act in
an aggressive manner toward her neigh
bors, but will always be ready to aid
them IN preserving autonomy. and place
them in such a position as viii be free
from the wild outbursts Of revolution 70
which many of them are now liable. Tho
laea OF war between Argentine and
Chile is said 10 be absurd.
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Death of a Noted Chemist.

BosToN, Jan. Professor Eben Nor
ton Hosford, the noted chemist of Har-
ward, died suddenly at his home in Cam
bridge, of heart disease, this afternoon.
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FERRY BOAT BURNED.
just After Landing a Large Numbe
of Passengers.

of Passengers.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 1.-The ferry
boat Tiburon. one of the largest on the
San Francisco Bay, was totally destroyed
by hre this afternoon. The loss is S140,-
OOJ; insurance $4,000. The Tiburon con-
nected with trains of the San Francisco
and North Pacific Railroad at Tiburon,
on the Marin County shore, and had ar
1ved rom lloaron at 1910 p. M.with
large number of passengers. Att O'Clock
fire. was discovered. The flames spread
rapidly, and nothing could be done to
save the boat as she lay tied to the wharf.
1t is supposed the fire started in the
boats kitchen, as there was hot fire in
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ChoIera Rioters sentenced.

LONDON, Jan. IA Times dispatch
from st. Petersburg says twenty AS
trakhan cholera rioters have been SEN
fenced to be hanged, and twenty-five to
hard labor. Ninety We're acquitted.