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HOLMES RECORD.
One of the B0Jdest Sc0tsndrets Ever Ar
rainged for a Crime.

One of the BOIdest Sconndrels Ever Ar-
rainged for Crime.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 15.-With
the finding of the bodies of the Pietzel
children in Toronto, chapter in the his
tory of one of the most sensational Grim
inal cases III the annals of this country is
closed, and the net of the law is being
drawn more closely about one of
the boldest scoundrels who have ever
been arraigned at the bar of Justice.
Herman Mudgett. alias 81. H. Holmes, is
in the County Prison here awaiting sem
tence to the confessed charge of conspiracy
in defrauding the Fidelity Life Association
of Philadelphia out of $4,000 by palm
ing off upon it bogus body
as that of Benjamin F. Pietzel,
policy-holder of the company. The case
exceeds in interest the most sensational
novel ever written, and has so many sides
to it that it is difficult to even outline it in
the ordinary length of a newspaper dis
patch.
In July, 1889, the Fidelity Life Associa-
ton issued a policy for $4,000 upon the
life of Benjamin Pietzel. Shortly after
this, man giving the name of B. A..
Perry rented house at 1919 Callowhill
street. this city. In September of the
same year a fire, shown to have been
caused by an explosion, occurred at the
house and the charred body of Perry was
found.
A short time after this Jephtha B. Howe,
an attorney at st. Louis, presented claim
to the Fidelity Company for the $4,000 on
the life of Pietzel, alleging that the man
found in the house at 1919 Callow-
Alice, the 13-year-old daughter of Pietzel
and Holmes, the arch conspirator in the
case. The body of the supposed Perry had
beenburied in the potter field, but was ex-
humed, and Alice and Holmes positively
identified it that of Pietzel. The money
was paid to Howe and the party returned
to st. Louis.
Mrs. Pietzel was in st. Louis at this
time, and through the representatio ms OF
Holmes that she could aid her husband in
furthering his interests, had consented to
become party to Holmes scheme to de-
ceive the insurance company by passing
off upon it bogus body as that of Pietzel.
Holmes told her that he and Pietzel had
procured corpse in New York and had
had it up in the house at 1919 Callowhill
street and that this was the body found.
Mrs. Pietzel believed this story, and to aid
her husband consented to take part in the
deception.
The insurance company became sus-
picious, and setting detectives upon
Holmes track built up case against him.
and in November last year Holmes was
arrested in Boston.
A few days after Holmes arrest Mrs.
Pietzel was arrested in the same city and
Howe was arrested in St. Louis. Holmes
offered to relieve her of the burden
of the three children. The oldest and
the youngest child remained with Mrs.
Pietzel and Holmes took the other three.
Alice, Nettie and Howard. After parting
with her children, Mrs. Pietzel has never
been able to obtain from Holmes any def
mite knowledge of their whereabouts.
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similar vessels of their class, they promise
to be all-around the most useful ships be-
longing to the United States Government.
By act of Congress, approved March 2,
1895, provision was made for the construc-
tion of six light draft composite gunboats,
the individual constructive limit of cost
being $230OO0, exclusive of the cost of arm
ament. From this authority Chief Con-
structor Hichborn and Engineer-in-C Chief
Melville have drawn designs for entirely
novel types of warships, involving for the
first time in Government vessels the prin-
ciple of composite construction, the franz
ing being of steel and the hull wood.
The essential reasons for the construc-
tion of vessels of the composite type are
that they are largely independent of dock
ing facilities and economical in the use of
fuel. The exfoliation of the copper causes
the barnacles, grass, ETC., to be released
just as soon as the vessel is put in motion,
and the bottom is made comparatively
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and 13 have finer lines than the other two
and carry spread of 11,00O square feet of
convas. Under sail alone they will make
ten knots with stiff wind and fairly
smooth sea, while in the trade winds for
long voyages they can be relied upon to
make long cruises at the rate of SIX or
eight knots. When going under sail alone
the engines of the single-screw boat will be
uncoupled, allowing the shafting and
screw to revolve simply by the action of
the passing water; and so slight is the re-
tarding influence of the screw thus disen-
gagged that there is every reason to expect
sailing speed fully equal to the possibili-
ties OF the steam power conditions. The
engines in each type are designed to de-
velop the same horsepower and to induce
the same speed, that of twelve knots,
differing only as regards shafting, number
of screws and the incidental division of
motive force.
For the twin-screw gunboats the engines
will be rights and lefts, each in separate
water-tight compartment, and will be OF
the usual vertical, direct-acting, triple
expansion type, with high pressure cyl
inders of II, 1917 and % inches respectively,
hdN1AS d SIIOhc VI 10 AASAooy
capable of developing 800 horsepower with
200 revolutions minute.
The engine of the single-screw boats will
also be of the triple-expansion type. with
cylinders of the following diameters, 15H,
2315 and 36 inches, with common stroke
of 80 inches, and to run at $50 revolutions
minute when developing the required 800
horsepower. Each boat will have two
single-ended "Scotch" boilers, with two
corrugated furnaces, each feet in dame
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suit for divorce brought by Mrs. James J.
Corbett against her husband. The prize
fighter appeared in a new role to-day, that
of defendant in divorce suit brought by
his wife, Mrs. Ollie Lake Corbett. The
story of Corbett's marital infelicities has
been told at length.
When it became known that Mrs. Corbett
had laid the facts in the case before Howe
& Hummel. with view of starting a suit
for divorce, Mrs. Hattie Clark was singled
out as the prospective correspondent. Mrs.
Clark has had many beaux in this city and
Chicago. One of the most devoted Of her
admirers was Corbett, who narrowly es-
capped a shooting earnestly promised by
Max Blumenthal, bookmaker, who con-
sidered Mrs. Clark his sweetheart. At the
time that Mrs. Corbett consulted Howe &
Hummel, Mr. Lake, her father, told re-
porter that his daughter was unable to
longer endure Corbett's attentions to the
Clark woman. Mr.. Lake told of certain
discriminating evidence, and the theory that
Mrs. Clark was to be named as correspond,
ent was strengthened.
Some time later, however, Chicago
paper printed story duplicating Vera
Stanwood, or Stanley, and the heavy
weight champion. Letters from Corbett
were reproduced, and the idea was con-
veyed that it was Corbett's intention to
secure a divorce from his wife and marry
Miss Stanwood.
These are two of the women mentioned
in connection with the suit, and previous
to the hearing this afternoon before Ref
~ he o%
was said that third woman was mixed
up in the case. Corbett's attorney is David
A. Sullivan. and Mrs. Corbett is repre-
rented by Abe Hummel.
1t was just 2 o'clock when Mr.. Sullivan,
Mr.. Howe, Mrs. Corbett and woman
friend entered Referee Jacobs Office. Mrs.
Corbett was showily dressed in a blue
striped shirt waist, dark skirt, tan shoes,
black club necktie, sailor hat, veil and yell
low gloves. She is a handsome young
woman, plump and of medium height,
with hazel eyes and curly blonde hair. She
wore large diamond earrings and carried q
black parasoi in natty manner. Her
companion, also young woman, was
brunette and pleasing. Mr.. HummeI an
nounced that she was member of the
Corbett Theatrical Company, but refused
to give her name. hs said, however, that
she appeared as Mrs. Corbetts friend and
as witness against the pugilist.
Counsel Sullivan wanted the hearing
held behind closed doors. He said he had
promised the fighter that the proceedings
should not be made public. Mr.. Hummel
said he had been obliged to agree to this,
too.
~ won't permit" promptly declared
Mr.. Jacobs in positive tone. "There shall
be just as much publicity here as in a
courtroom, where everybody may come p
But have promised Mr.. Sullivan that
the proceedings shall be held behind closed
doors," pleaded Mr.. Hummel, "and am a
man Of my word"
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ter. Each boiler will have a diameter of
10H feet, length of 10H feet, with .39
square feet of CRATE surface and 1850 feet of
heating surface, making total heating
surface of 25O0 square feet and total CRATE
surface of 7S square feet. They will have
moderate forced draught induced by two
blowers for each boat applied directly to
the ashpit. The boilers will be placed side
by side in the same compartment, with a
common freroom.
The armament, being identical in both
types, will consist of six 4.inch, four
4-pounders and two 2-pounder guns, all
rapid-fire. The character of the services
for which these gunboats are particularly
designed requires that they be exposed to
musketry fire, and the housing of the ma
ior part of the battery by an unbroken
deck. besides adding materially to the
stiffness and strength of the vessels, gives
admirable protection to the guns crews in
action. The necessarily exposed position
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ATTACKED BY ASSASS|NS.
Ex-Premier Stambouloff Is
Fatally Wounded at
Sofia.
Stabbed and Shot by Unknown
Men While Returning From a
Club.

SOFIA, July 15.-While ex-Premier
Stambouloff, accompanied by NJ. Petkoff,
was walking home this evening from the
Union Club, he was attacked by four un-
known men, two of whom shot him with
revolvers, while the other two stabbed him.
NJ. Stambouloff fell to the ground groan-
ing. He was removed to his residence and
physicians were summoned.
After an examination of the wounds
the doctors announced that there was little
hopes of his recovery.
M. Stambuloff was injured in more than
twenty places. He raised his hands to
guard his head and his wrists were nearly
severed. Both hands had to be amputated.
M. Pelkoff was slightly wounded. One of
the assassins has been arrested.
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ALL DATES CANCELLED.
Cornelps Gtee Club Not In Demand IN
EylGEand.

Cornelps Gtee Club Not In Demand IN
England.
LONDON. ENG, July ia. L. Puente,
manager of the Cornell Club, in an inter-
view concerning the management of the
Cornell crew says:
Previous to the race I had received
many letters requesting dates for concerts
for the Cornell Glee Club and bookings had
been made in different parts of Great
Britain. Since the race I have received
letters and kilograms canceling these en-
gagements. Nothing could have been
more unfortunate for us than the result
of the race that the umpire gave to Cor
nell. think the Cornell crew should have
given the Leanders another chance. In
any event our chances are killed in Eng
land on account OF the fiasco. 1t must have
cost 5000 to send the crew here, for it cost
US at least $4,000 to bring over the Glee
Club"
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RIVALS DAKOTA COURTS.
Oklahoma a New Mecca for
Those Who Would Be
Divorced.
A Syndicate That Makes Business
of Furnishing DEGREES
on Short Notice.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 16.-A hand
some suite of Office rooms has been fitted
up by five Oklahoma lawyers, who propose
to secure divorces while you wait" The
scheme, which is the very latest to relieve
the terrible congestion Of misfit mar
riages, is under the control of syndicate.
While Washington is to be the central
Office for this part of the country, there
are branch Offices in Pittsburg, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore, the move gradually
making it's way to New York, and even
Boston.
The law OF Oklahoma provides that citi-
zenship may be acquired in three months.
At the expiration of that time divorce
may be applied for, and in case there is no
defense, or the defendant does not appear,
divorce may be granted in less than four
months from the time the applicant
leaves Washington. Defendant may
not even be apprised of what is going
on. A wife disappears. The husband
does not know, and perhaps does
not care to know. She has simply
gone to Oklahoma. If she is well off, she
stays at one of the hotels. If she is not
we'll off, the man who wants to marry her
if divorced foots the bill.
When they file their petitions for divorce
the only notice to defendant necessary is
publication in his or her home paper. If
he or she sees it, they may go to Oklahoma
and defend the suit; if they do not see it,
the divorce proceedings go on just the
same. and the lady is declared free.
The attorney in charge here said that
there were about forty to fifty clients who
had applied for divorce. He mentioned
among these the cases of two society peo-
pie, but declined, on their account, to give
their names at this stage Of the proceed
ings
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THREE FIENDISH CRIMES.
The Notorious II. II. Holmes
Accused of Taking Their
Lives.
RECORD OF MANY KILLINGS.
1t Is Thought the Insurance SWIM
dler Had Murdered the Elder
PietzeI.

TORONTO, ONT. July 15.-The bodies
of Eta, Alice and Hettie Pietzel, the miss
ing daughters of Benjamin F. Pietzel,
were found by Detective Cuddy of Toronto
and Detective Greyer of Philadelphia, to-
day, buried in the cellar of the house
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NOVEL WAR YACHTS.
A Fleet of Pigmies for
the United States
Navy.
TO PATROL THE RIVERS.
Craft of a Strange Type to
Be Constructed on the
Composite Plan.
MOVED BY WIND AND STEAM.
Two of the New Vessels VIII Be
Built on the Pacific
Coast.
TO PATROL THE RIVERS.
MOVED BY WIND AND STEAM,

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 15.-Six
magnificent steam yachts such as could be
owned only by the lucky possessors OF
many millions of dollars will be built by
the navy during the current fiscal year,
and although they are to be finer than
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GAY GENTLEMAN jim,
Mr.. Corbett's Escapades
Aired in a Divorce
Court.
LOVED THE FAIR VERA.
Manahar nf Lie Canananx,
LOVED THE FAIR VERA.
A Member of His Company
Tells of His Dual
Life.
REGISTERED AS HIS WIFE.
Miss StanWood Named as Co-Re-
spondent In the Plaintiffs
Complaint.

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 15.-Vera STAN
wood or Stanley is correspondent in the
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Gofna 70 Constanttnople.

ALEXANDRIA. EGYpr, July 15.-The
Khedive sailed from here to Constantine
pie to-day.
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clean, thus permitting the vessel to main
tain her designed speed with minimum
consumption of coal.
The docking expenses, whether at home
or abroad, and the cost of fuel, are two
very serious outlays that these vessels are
counted upon to minimize, while their ac-
tivity, range of action, and general eff
cheney are greatly increased.
The six vessels will be of two radically
different types; one type carrying full sail
power and propelled by single screw; the
other type having steadying sails only,
and propelled by twin screws, actuated by
two separated engines. Their principal
dimensions are as follows:
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Continued on Second Puoe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-14
MAHER AND O'DONNELL.
They Will Settle Their Little Differences
in New York Tomirrow.


New York, Nov. 1O.-Tomorrow at the
aroma of tho Enon;ro A+hIot;a o,,,,, tI,e
- INC i.inpiie A'niellc cup the
iIuGn talked OF meeting between Peter
Maner ana steve ODonnell will take
praGe' ms contest mas aroused gen
era era in.erest tnroughtout the country,
anu ne b every sporting man of promi-
t uenGe mas come 10 new York to witness
'he Gaetie.
M, Mane ,;T ana Donnell should and prob
AZ aoly WIN pun up notly contested tight,
T.; Tue n rilen pslng e9uaiIy matched and both
Al T Sp,en uro eonuilio4.
Ihey are regarded by good experts as
e ewo vi Tue PEST heavy-Weights, now be-
n aure Tue pubic, Deing classed as sec
Hnu Only 10 tne retired champion. A
ialse conllngent' including Jim Corbett,
t anu h nIS cQtefie OF trainers, are hrm IN
tne pehef that ODonnell will win the de-
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TOUCH AND GO.

No attention should be paid to that
Philadelphia man who says "the presi-
dent does not want third term" In
Philadelphia they think jefferson is
president.-Chicago Tribune.
And Holmes sobbed and wept for n
period of ten or fifteen seconds yester-
day. That pumped him dry, and he had
to quit before the audience was visi-
bly, affected.-Detroit Journal
Candidates Campbell and Coxey are
alike in one respect. They depend on
their imagination for facts and vitupera-
ton for effects.-Philadelph Press.
Coxey says it has cost him $75 per
week since his entrance in the Ohio
campaign. 1t was not worth the price
of admission. -Times-Herald.
Bill Nye denies that he was rotten
egged in New Jersey. Possibly the eggs
were fresh compared to some of VIII
liam's iokes.-Chicago News.
Spain now proposes to compromise
with Cuba on n basis of administrative
reform, but Cuba has tried that before
San Francisco Call
The Democratic party has most to be
thankful for this year in States where
no election is to be held.-Globe-De
crat.
In training the pugilists of the future
less attention will be paid to muscle and
more to vocabulary.-Post- Express.
Electricity is to take the place of gas
at the National capitol for lighting pur-
poses only.-St. Louis Republic.
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rnpIOs an run nav

Since 1887. when the mines in South
Africa first began to be developed, TO-
10000 tons of ore have been extracted,
yielding 6,554,5S ounces of gold, which,
worth about $17.50 an ounce, would
yield in money about $110,000,O00. This
is the yield in eight years and yet it is
claimed that the man Barnato has by
manipulating stocks, or what are called
haftirs, made in the last few months a
sum exceeding the entire output of the
South African gold mines, and there are
others who have also made fabulous for
tunes. Plainly, the owners of South At
rican gold mines are dealing extensively
in futures.
Massachusetts statistics show that of
the 301 female graduates of colleges in
that State who responded to questions
proposed, six are paid less than S25 n
month; SO from $25 to $50; Ia from $50
to $40; 81 from $75 to 500; 20 from
500 to $500; two from $500 to $500 and
two in excess of $500. A glance shows
that the greatest proportion of these col
lege bred women receive an annual COM
pensation above 5000 and not more than
$9OO. There are no statistics at hand
by which these salaries of educated
women can be compared with those of
the uneducated, but the chances are
greatly in favor of the educated. Wage
workers among uneducated women who
receive as much as 5000 per annum are
rare. The great majority of them will
be found to be paid from SO to So per
week.
Water is so scarce in Kentucky that
baptizing by immersion has been post
poned for the present, but all the rest
OF the business of the State moves along
as usual.
The ,deiicit-breeding tariff keeps stead
lily reducing the available cash balance
and thus bringing nearer another bond
issue or the passage of n law to increase
the revenues.
Calvin s. Brice is the issue in Ohio this
year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-14
LOOKHART LOCALS

Lockhart, Tex, Nov. 10.-(SpeciaD-
The Boen-Howard meeting, which has
been going on for more than week and
which has done some good, will doubt
less be stopped, for WHILE at any rate,
on account of the rain, which began fall
ing last night and is still pouring down
this morning.
There was a temperance lecture de-
livered at the Methodist Episcopal church
last Sunday to a large and appreciative
audience by Mr.. Adams. Forty dollars
were given him by the crowd.
l.. b. Wells and N. B. Bozant have
bought an interest in the mercantile
business of J. T. Lewis.
Messrs. Hillyer & Dibrell have bought
the Thompson-Tucker lumber yard at
this place.
L. ]. Parker, brother of City Attorney
Parker, returned to his home in Ten
nessee Thursday.
Mrs: James L. Storey, Mrs. w. Dony,
rick, Mrs. M. G. Kelley, j. M. Blanks,
@. A. Ploryer and @. II. Royal attended
the regatta at Austin this week.
George Noble has returned from the
Dallas fair.
Misses Lula and Dainty Atkinson of
Gonzales came up on visit to relatives
and friends last night.
Miss Crews of San Marcos is over at
tending the Boon meeting.
w. A. Prescott and wife of San Anto-
MO and ID. M. Earnest of Houston have
been visiting the family of Il. B. Nc
Dowell this week.
Mrs. r. f. Connolly, who has been on
visit to Fort Worth for some time,
returned home one day this week.
Miss Jennie Darlington of Buda is Wis
iting in town.
District court adjourns today, though
there are many cases yet undisposed
of. Alvi Barnhill, who has been on trial
for the last two days, was acquitted last
night. Judge Teichmuller will leave for
his home at Lagrange today, and Mon
day will take up the docket there. Dis
trict Attorney Storey will follow him
soon to continue his labors as a prose
cutor.
DR.. Holt. who has been quite sick, is
now up.
Rev. ]. A. Biggs, who has been unable
to fill his pulpit, was seen on the streets
yesterday.
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for work in China and India. The pro-
portion of women who take this rigorous
and Rlf-denying work on themselves is
far geater than that of men.
In Argentina the preservation of meat
by electricity is to be tried on large
scale by an English company that owns
the p}tents. 1t will set up six establish
ments in Buenos Ayres, Entire Rios and
Bandl Oriental to kill $500 cattle per
day.
A wenty-year-old printer of Brixben,
namea Delago, recently scaled the west
ernmost and highest of the Rosengarten
Dolonites in Tyrol and came down safe
ly. The peak is $3.50 feet above the sea
level, rising almost perpendicularly.
In England credit over the counter of
public house is not recognized by law,
and the publican who allows his custo-
mer to drink without paying for what he
orders can not subsequently recover the
amount.
A strange custom prevails in Siam
when funeral is passing. The female
observers take down their hair, and the
men feel in their pockets for piece Of
metal to place between their teeth.
Tank-cars are now being used for the
transportation of wine in bulk by some
of the French railways.
In Hamburg the authorities tax dog
according to its size.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-14
MEXICAN NEWS BUDGET.

Mexico City, Nov. 10.-The new issue
of 10000, 600 5 per cent silver bonds is
merely for the convenience of the hold
ers of miscellaneous claims against the
Nation so they may convert them into
security, readily marketable in Europe.
The Italian assassin of Kolbeck the
American railway conductor, claims he
was defending the good name of the
Queen of Spain, when the American beat
him, and that that led to the murder. A
Spanish newspaper here has sent a bed
for the Italian now in prison and furnish
es him with his meals. The Mexican pa
pers demand that the assassin be tried
on strict legal basis whether it was a
crime of homicide or not, and that the
question of nationality shall not enter
into the matter, and that the case shall
be divorced from all consideration wheth-
er the American and Italian were disput-
ing over Cuba.
General Francisco Mena, the chief of
the Mexican military commission in Eu-
rupe, will arrive tomorrow. Many polit-
ical rumors regarding him are current
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-14
LONDON FINANCES.

London. Nov. 10.-The critical position
of the different European bourses during
the week has compelled discount brokers
as a measure of precaution to advance
money rates slightly. The week on the
stock exchange proved so disastrous that
the settlement commencing tomorrow is
anticipated with the greatest anxiety.
1t is almost certain that some failures
will then be announced. The fall of
London consols and other gilt edge Sc
curities has been all the greater because
they had already been forced abnormally
high. Decline in prices in almost all
of the speculative markets range from 2
to 3 per cent. Dealings in mining Sc
curities are very limited. A comparison
with the prices of a month ago show how
serious the fall has been, even in the
best reputed stocks. The greatest col