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women to Hold a convention.

Washington, Feb. 17-To-morrow will witness here the beginning of the great est gathering of representative women ever held in the United States, or, in deed, in the world, and Washington ho- tels and boarding houses are filled with those who will be in attendance. The second triennial of the National Council of Women of the United States is the name of the convocation and it includes all the national organizations of a pe- c11liarly feminine character. These or ganizations have total membership of nearly five millions. The president of the national council is Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indianapolis.
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q. 4. IF. ENoAMPMENT.
Annual State Encampmont Opens TOD

 Annual State Encampment Opens To-Day.
 Bridgeport, Feb. 1.-The annual en- campment of the G. A, R. of the depart ment of Connecticut will be opened in this city at o'clock tomorrow af- ternoon. National Department Com mander S. G. Blakeman of Hunting ton will preside. Governor Coffin and his staff will also be present, together with Department Commander Lawlor of Chicago, H., with his staff. The afternoon business meeting will be held at the Y. M. c. A. building and in the evening there will be a camp fire in the Park City theater. Judge A. B. Beers of this city will preside in the evening and there will be speeches by Mayor Bostwick, Governor Coffin Judge David Torrance of the supreme court, Corporal James Tanner and Mrs c. E. Wright of New Haven, the presi- den of the Women's Relief Corps of the department of Connecticut About 400 delegates are expected. The de- partment will probably take no action towards abolishing the so-called House of Lords" which the Massachusetts veterans are endeavoring to accom- plish.
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The Stamford Suicide.

Stamford, Feb. 17-The remains of Miss Minnie E. Hawley of Brooklyn, N. r., who committed suicide here Thurs day by taking a dose of carbolic acid, is still at the undertaking rooms of White & Son here. The relatives of the girl have decided not Ito have the re- mains brought to Brooklyn, but the services will be held here tomorrow morning, and the body will afterwards be taken to Hartford for interment.
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WILL FIGHT MAYOR STRONG
THE PLATT MEN HOLD 4 SESSION
 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

There Were Fifteen of the Leaders at the
 Conference-AIl Bills Advocated by MT.
 Strong Will be Side-Tracked or Killed
 in the Legislature.
 New York, Feb 17-The conference of republican, state committeeman and state leaders called by ex-Senator Thomas c. Platt at the Fifth Avenue hotel was held to-day behind locked doors. Enough of the proceedings leak ed out to indicate that from this time on the followers of MT. Platt are to wage war against Mayor Strong be- cause of the latter's appointments. It was calculated by MT Platt's followers that at least 100 republicans would re- spond to the call, but there were only thirteen invited guests present and with MT. PIatt and his son Frank the total number at the conference was fifteen.
 It is stated that Edward Lauterbach acted as Mir. Platt's spokesman. He made a long speech in which he detailed the reasons why Mir. Platt found fault with Mayor Strong. He outlined the methods employed by Mayor Strong and his friends to get the power of re- moval bill passed and then said that his appointments under the bill would have an injurious effect upon the party.
 After the situation had been thorough discussed it was decided to hold another conference at Albany next Tuesday.
 MT. Platt will be there, and those present to-day and as many other legis- lators as can be induced to attend. It was practically decided to-day that no further Legislation advocated by the committee of seventy will be enacted at Albany this session. that the bill to abolish police magistrates will be hung up, and that all bills advocated by MT. \ Strong will be sidetracked or killed. On Tuesday, if the sentiment up the state will warrant it, a special meeting of the state republican committee will be call ed to repudiate the appointees of Mayor Strong and to condemn his action in naming democrats.
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Ininred in a Rint.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 17.-The min ing village of Midvale was the scene of a riot last night. Saturday was pay-day at the mines and the Huns, Slavs and Poles drank freely. During +he night the Slavs and Poles engaged in a pitched battle in Michael Oldfelds saloon. The Poles drove the Slavs from the place and then assaulted the proprietor. They wrecked everything in the place and carried the safe into the street, where they broke it open. The proprietor says it contained over s1 500. which he drew from a bank on Friday to make a payment on some property. Eight men were seriously wounded in the fight. John Molenski will probably die,
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4 PHEASANT EVENT.
President Macdonald of the Aldermen
 His Forty Fourth Birthday.

President Macdonald of the Aldermen
 His Forty-Fourth Birthday.
 President James H. Macdonald of the board of aldermen was rendered sur prise party at his residence on Saturday night it being his forty fourth birth day. The party were members of the Young Mems Republican club. most enjoyable evening was passed, during which MT. Macdonald was presented with a solid gold pocket match safe. The presentation speech was made by Senator Lyman H. Johnson. MT. Mac donald responded in his own happy vein. During the evening music was furnished by an orchestra and ban- quet was served. Among those present were President F. B. Farnsworth of the Young Mems Republican club, Senator Johnson, F. l.. Averill, F. A. Betts Ed ward Merrill, Fred Hotchkiss, w. C.. Murphy, w. A. Schappa, John Gaffey, MT. Hull, A. McC. Matthewson, James A. Howarth, MT Perry, R. H. Turner, MT. Bates, w. H. Preston and MT. Mac Lauchlan,
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GI1BoY IS INDIGNANT.
He Spoke Bitterly of the Levity of the
 Newspapers.

He Spoke Bitterly of the Levity of the
 Newspapers.
 Paris, Feb. 17.-The United Press cor respondent called upon ex-Mayor Gilroy of New York to-day to get his statement as to the report that an indictment has been found against him by the New York grand jury. MT. Gilroy said that he was more than indignant. He spoke bitterly of the levity of the newspapers, which gave publicity to an absurd and incomprehensible rumor concerning his administration of the department of public works.
 The only investigation during his commissionership, he said, was conduct ed by the Cassett committee in 1890. With eleven men working for six weeks the committee had been unable to re- veal anything except what was favora- ble to his administration.
 MT. Gilroy will start for Italy to-mor- row evening unless developments in New York change his plans.
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MArR0N RESIGNS.
Appointed TWO Years Aro.

Hartford, Feb. 17.-Mrs Elizabeth Cusick, who has been matron at the state prison for two years past, handed in her resignation ito Warden wood- bridge yesterday. Mrs Cusick was ap- pointed to the position by Warden Woodbridge. The only reason given by Mrs. Cusick for resignlng is that she was dissatisfied with her duties.
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Last Night,s Fire.

The building known as the old paint shop, which for many years past has been somewhat of an eyesore in the neighborhood just beyond Winchester's on Newhall street, was burned to the ground about 9:30 o'clock last night. There is very little doubt but what the blaze was of incendiary origin. The building was unoccupied. During the war it was used for the manufacture of cartridges and later by the Consolidated road as a car trimming shop. For about three years up till two years ago it was used as paint shop. The building was very old and the loss is not more than $500.
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QUANTITIES. OF LUMBER.
The Ship Constance Sailed Through Miles
 of it.

New York, Feb. 1.-The ship Con stance from Dunkirk, reports that on February Il, 22O miles southeast of Sandy Hook she passed through large quantities of pitchpine lumber railroad ties and square timber, covering the surface for miles. She was all the fore noon passing through the floating lum- Der.
 The ship Susquehanna, of Bath, Me, from Hong Kong, 1O2 days out, reports that she had fine weather to Hatteras, where on February she took west and northwest gales, during which she hove to. On February 13, during northwest gale which had commenced on the 8th and increased to hurricane force and was accompanied by severe cold, one of the Japanese sailors fell from the main yard into the sea and was lost Two others were washed about the decks and somewhat injured.
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Eleven narsn nrerhno

New York, Feb. 1.-The steamer City of St. Augustine, which sailed from Jacksonville for New York, is now elev- en days overdue. The length of time the City of St. Augustine is overdue and the fact that her cargo would be identi- cal with the material reported afloat in such large quantities by the ship Con stance from Dunlirk go far to strength en the theory that the missing steamer has foundered.
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OLD MEN TAKEN HACK.
In a Short Time All of the Strikers VIII be
 at Work.

Brooklyn, Feb. 17,-For the first time since the strike began in Brooklyn uni formed men were not riding on any cars of the Brooklyn Heights system to-day.
 Early this morning a number of the old men applied at the various depots of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad com pany for work. Some of the men were successful in getting their old places. A number of extra cars were run out of the stables, so that some of, the old men could be put to work. President Lewis said that probably in couple of months all of the men who went on strike would be back in their old places,
 The cars of the Atlantic avenue line were running to-day as they have been for the past week. number of colli- sions were reported, but none of them was of Q serious nature.
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PbiIantbropist Hopored

Georgetown, Mass, Feb. 17-Three Protestant churches united at the Mem orial church this evening, where a com service was held in honor of Teorge Peabody, the banker philan- thropist. The church, which cost $tOO,- poo and was the gift of MT. Peabody, vas erected in 1867 in memory of his mother
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A Physician Dies Suddenly.

Stafford Springs, Feb. 17.-Dr. A. L. Bronmessette, well known physician of this place. who came here recently from Lowell. Mass. died suddenly at his home here to-day of pneumonia. He had been i'll but two days. He was thirty years of age, and was single. The remains will be removed tomorrow to Lowell, Mass for interment.
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Death of a Newsboy,

Canton, Mass, Feb. 17.-John F. Elem ing, the newsboy who was shot by Everett Ellis, companion, Saturday morning, died at 7:O5 this morning at the home of his parents. Ellis will be arraigned in the district court Monday morning.
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Died of His Injuries.

Stamford, Feb. 1z-Joseph Paight, aged seventy-two, a veteran of the Mex ican war and the civil war was struck by the Washington express early this morning while crossing the railroad. One arm and one leg were cut off and he died during the day.
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Heavy snow in Italy.

Rome, Feb 17-A heavy snow has fallen throughout central Italy. Three trains which left Ancona for Rome last night were able to proceed but forty miles. They have been fast in the snow nine hours.
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Asnhvxintlon caused peatI.

Brooklyn, Feb 17.-Henry Knoope aged eighteen, and Henry Seimis, aged twenty, of Hoboken, N. J., were found dead in a room in Miller's hotel, Will liamsburg, to-day. Death was due to asphyxiation. The police suspect that the young men committed suicide.
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Alcoholism Killed Him.

Hartford, Feb, 17.--Edward B wood- ford of New Britain, who was serving a sentence for drunkenness and breach of the peace. died at the county jail here today of alcoholism. He was thirty-bwo years of age.
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POSTPONED.
,Dessauer-Troostwyk Concert.

Dessauer-TroOstwyk Concert.
 The soiree musicale by the Dessauer- Troostwyk trio, which was to have been given tomorrow, has been un- avoidably postponed, Professor Samuel Sanford being i'll. News of his illness was received last evening. It is thought Mr. Sanford will be able to fill the engag cement in a few days.
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Iaan nHnnnrarv NIemher.

Berlin, Feb. 1.-The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Prince Bismarck an honorary member. The German colony in Vienna will give him a silver medal of St. Stephans cathedral tower on his birthday.
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Consolidated Their Business.

New York, Feb. 17.-Flint & Go. and Crosby & Ames have consolidated their business under the new style of Flint Eddy & Co.," with a capital stock of $3, 100000. They have done large busi- ness for many years with the Latin American countries.
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The Emneror is Better.

Berlin, Feb, 19.-The emperor has al- most recovered from the attack of in fluenza which kept him in his rooms yesterday, and to-day he has received. the official reports as usual.
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Big Fire in Buffalo.

Buffalo, Feb. IS, 2 a. m.-Music Hall, the largest place of amusement in the city, is burning. A second alarm has been turned in.
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Personal.

Recent arrivals at the Windsor, Jack sonville, Fla, include H. H. Benedict and G. P. Alling.
 MT, and Mrs J. T. Stevens and J. Eb Minor are among the latest arrivals at the St. James. Jacksonville.
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very appreciable growth of sentiment in
favor of making general highway con-
struction duty upon all values taxable
within county, instead of being visited
wholly upon agricultural lands, since 1t
is quite generally conceded that towns
are equally with rural sections interested
in the maintenance of good, permanent,
swift roads.
The capacity of haul on the average
poor road in California has been demon
strated to be so low, compared with what
the average haul will be on smooth.
permanent road, that it is astonish-
ing the people have not before investi-
gated the subject. For instance, with the
cost of hauling by wagon to market. or
rail, at seven and half cents a ton a
mile. the draft on the average horse is 200
pounds to move 1,400 pounds eighteen
miles in one day, when he should move
1000 pounds the same distance and speed
with draft of but forty-six pounds. So
that what energy the farmer GAUGES to be
expended now in moving 1,400 pounds,
ought, under right road conditions, to
move between 5000 and 5000 pounds. 1t
requires no mathematical expert to con-
vince any one who thinks a moment
upon the figures, that the California pro-
ducer is handicapping himself at fear
full rate, and that true economy bids him
change his policy as rapidly as it can be
effected, with due regard to capacity to
meet the cost.
All these and several other subjects,
such as the Massachusetts and the New
Jersey road systems, and also the matter
of California representation at the Good
Roads Parliament to be held at Atlanta,
Ca, in October, 1895, will come before the
approaching convention. Our people may
reasonably expect also to gain much val
liable information from the official vista
ton of General Stone as the representa-
tive of the United States Department OF
Agriculture. The press of the State
should conserve the movement to have
the convention reassemble, and to have
every Board of Supervisors, all agricult-
ural associations, all colleges. all muni-
cipal governing boards, all commercial
boards and bodies. all county engineering
officers. all scientific bodies and all hui
name and Wheelmen societies repre-
sented. General Stone should be met in
Sacramento in February by a thoroughly
representative body IF Californians of the
progressive type, and we doubt not that
he Will be.
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of all cases of consumption can, if taken in
the earlier stages of the disease, be cured.
This may seem like bold assertion to
those familiar only with the means gener-
ally in use for its treatment as, nasty cod
liver ell and its filthy emulsious, extract
of malt, whiskey, different preparations of
hypophosphites and such like 4aklfatiges.
Although by many believed to be incura-
bic, there is the evidence of hundreds of
living witnesses to the fact that, in all its
earlier stages, consumption is a curable
disease. Not every case, but large TER
ceEtQ9e Of cases, and we believe, fitlly oS
per cent. are cured by DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ-
ing tubercular natter) great loss of flesh
and extreme ernaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease? YOU need not take
our word for il. They have, in nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis-
representing tSem, and who were often
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of Golden Medical Discovery"
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy enulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried ii nearly all these
cases ard had either utterly failed to bene-
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the hypophos-
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain
The photographs of large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred naladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book of 100
pages which will be mailed to you, on re-
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps
ESu can then write those cured and learn
their experience.
Address for Book, WORLDS DIspRNsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
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FAMINE IN THE WEST.

The New York Christian Herald, of
which Rev. f. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., is
editor, in it's last issue has over page
article with numerous illustrations re-
citing in narrowing details the suffering
and distress of people in Nebraska and
Kansas. The sufferers are almost all
ruralists, whose crops have failed. and
who have been left without food and
fuel or means to procure them.
According to the Herald, which has
organized relief for the sufferers, and Sc
cured volunteers to go out and distribute
food and clothing, there is in many dis
tricts condition of absolute famine, and
the sufferers are numbered by the thou
sand. 1t is asserted that while in twenty
counties in Nebraska and Kansas this
condition obtains, it extends also to parts
of Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. AS
no taxes have been collected in these
parts, the County Boards of Supervisors
are unable to furnish relief. The houses
of the victims are said for the most part
to be poor affairs, and the suffering from
extreme cold is added to those of hun
ger, need of medicines, clothing and bed
ding. Fuel is even farther beyond reach
than food. In many cases families have
denied themselves in order to save
head or two Of stock. but in the main
most of tie horses and cattle are suffer-
ing equally with the human beings.
The appeal for help comes most
strongly from PaIisade, Anselmo, Shell
ton, haywood, Holdredge, Barley,
Kenesaw, Hazard, Alliance, Hayes
Center, Bird City, Lemley, Berwyn and
Merna, Nebraska, and from Ransom,
Place. Chapman, Dighton, Bird City,
Macon and st. Francis, Kansas, and
| Flagler, Flemming and Burlington, Col
orado though it is asserted there is
score of other sections equally as desti-
tute.
To this date the Herald publishes the
names of some sixty volunteer distrib
utors, for whom it vouches, who will
see to supplies any people may send
reaching the most needy. In addition
the American Sunday School Union
has put missionaries into the field who
are acting as dispensers of food, clothing
and fuel especially Cor children, but the
! demand is greater than the supply.
The strange thing about all this is that
very little or nothing of news of these
conditions has come to us through usual
news channels. So detailed and per-
sonal are the statements of the Herald,
however, and so fortified are they by let
ters from aid distributors in the stricken
districts, that we cannot doubt the cor
rectness of the recital. II it is only half
/ as deplorable state of affairs as the
! Herald represents, the winter has in store
suffering for thousands of people i'll the
far West of the bitterest kind, that
appeals to the humane impulses of
every one who has the ability to con-
! tribute to alleviate the distress.
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THE WEBER MURDER.
Apparently No Clew as Yet to the
Arch Fiends.


Arch Fiends.
Coroner Clark says he will not hold the
inquest in the case of Mr.. and Mrs. F. II.
L. Weber, who were SO foully murdered
on Saturday night, for several days yet.
So far as can be learned there have been
no new developments calculated to throw
any light on the mystery surrounding
the identity of the murderer or MUIR
derers. The officers, however, are work
ing assiduously in their efforts to get some
clew that may result III the apprehension
OF the fiend who did the bloody deed.
The murderer left the place covered
with the blood of his victims, and it is a
mystery how he could have gone any
distance, or have disposed of his blood
soaked garments without having been
seen by someone.
There is just possibility that either
Mr.. or Mrs. Weber made some resist
ance and that their murderer was
wounded, although it is difficult to un-
derstand how either could have done so
If the murderer's first onslaught was
made with the AK. Perhaps, however,
the ak was not resorted to AT first, but
that Weber was assaulted with the knife,
and the ak used to complete the hellish
deed.
Either the murderer must have been
or was himself wounded, for on the rail
OF the fence by the front of the store there
IS big spatter OF blood, 1t is not stain
made by a blood-soiled hand, but by a
drop that fell upon the plank. From its
position 1t would appear to have fallen
from someone on the edge of the balcony
above, or it might have fallen while the
murderer was climbing over the fence on
leaving the premises.
How ever the drop of blood got there,
the Indications are that it flowed from
wound, or else-as above stated-the muir
derer's hands or clothing were literally
dripping gore.
IL has been decided to have the funeral
Oh the victims take place "Wednesday
afternoon from the Ninth-street Baptist
Church. Members of the Odd Fellows
and OF the Legion of Honor, of which Mr.
Weber was a member, will attend. The
services will be participated in by four
Baptist ministers-Revs. Banks, Reider,
Sturtevant and Herrick.
REWARD FOR THE MURDERER.
District Attorney Ryan yesterday ap-
piled to Governor Mark ham for the offer
ing of reward for the murderer or mur-
derers. The Executive promptly re-
sponded and liked the amount at double
the usual sum. The State will pay 81, 900
for the arrest and conviction of the nends.