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double the size OF the caster appeared on
the port She opened Gre with heavy guns
but did not have the range. Gunner Welsh
rammed another shrapnsl into the gun on
the PROV and yanked the lanyard. The shell
few straight for the Gun boat and burst
directly over her. 1t was answered by a
stll heavier thunder from the gunboat re-
turning shell for shell. The shot from the
Spanard disabled two Of the landing boats
OF the flibuster. but did no other damage.
The Hotchkiss was again loaded with shrap-
mel and the next discharge struck the
cruiser amidships. Then the Three Friends
put on steam, leaving the warshp. possibly
disabled, but at all events silent and de-
feated out Of sight behind a point Of land.
"As the cargo OF the Three Friends wss
being landed the Spanish coast patrol came
up and a fierce fight eneued between them
and the Cubans sent by General Gomez to
escort the cargo into his camp. After two
hours of fighting the Sl,anards were driven
off and the cargo was landed and safely
carried into the interiAf. The vessel then
lay to for several days in a secluded cove
and started for Florida last Monday. She
was pursued by several gunboats as she
entered the windward pass. and ball from
one of them tore hole in her bulwarks
A barrel of oil on the furnace fires soon
ran up the steam and the fast craft crept
away. Emerging from the Keys, two cruisers
were found waiting for her and a race
ensued The Spanish vessels fired on her
for half an hour. Captain Lewis then ran
among the keys and escaped from the Span
ish war vessels and reached American
waters near Miami Fla
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
ANNA HELD SINGS ON FIFTH AyENUE
French SOnEstress Raises Money for
sweet Chmrity.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 24.-Anna Held the
beautiful French chanteuse who is filling
an engagement at the Grand opera house
with the Evans & Hoey "A Parlor Match"
company, introduced, for the first time in
America, the French Christmas custom OF
street singing for Sweet charty's sake"
Her effort was successful beyond expecta-
tlon and lie Grand White, who had the
concert" in charge, turned over TO the
Humane society $SO3. the proceeds of the
unique entertainment The lower portion
Of Fifth avenue was peoped by dense
throng when the fair singer made her ap-
pearance and the substantial applause in the
way of bills and silver given her rendition
of II Want Yer Nah Honey" wac generous
In the extreme. The principal clubs were
afterwards visited where Miss Held, on re-
quest, auctiCned her photographs, some of
them bringing as high as $40
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
PARDON FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Hugh o,o.,n Kansas wife MUIR
dcrcr, t0 ~Tt 1Lcnscd from Jail.

TOPEKA, Kaur ,s94.-Hueh o'Ncill,
tho Marion county " 1erer, who is
serving a twenty-five yea 70 in the
pcnitentiary, will receive his IT. omor-
row as Christmas present, II is the prac-
ticc of the governors OF the state TO grant
one pardon each Christmas. and this year
ONcll is the lucky one. The pardon will
be received by Warden Lynch tomorrow
and ONeil will be sent home. There is
one condition attached to his pardon, and
that is IL O'Neill again INDUCES in the
liquor habit which got him in trouble In
the first place he will be sent back to prison
to serve out his uneXpirod t.rm, In 1891,
when O'Neill was convicted Of the murder
OF his wife. he was rcputcd to be wealthy,
having for many years been a successful
rancher and drover of Marion county, Now
he is penniess. Both O'Neill and his wife
were addicted to drink and frequently en-
gagged in bitter Quarrels Mrs. O'Neill was
found dead in her house with her skull frac-
tured and her body badly bruised The
same day O'Neil boarded a train for Flor
ence and on the following day he was ar
rested at Cottonwood Falls. When tried for
the murder he insisted that he knew alb
solutely nothing of the manner of his wifes
death. His defense. however was ON the
ground of alcoholic insanity. Eishty-one cit
izens OF Marion county recently signed
petition for clemency, In which Ii was set
forth as more than probabls that Mrs.
O'Neill was killed by fall down stairs,
GUTHRIE, OkL, Dec A,Governor Rem
frow today pardoned j. W. Crawford, eX-
county attorney of Lincoln county, who was
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
for official eXtortions Suit was brought
against Crawford by H. c. Stewart, who is
now serving a two-year term in the Kansas
penitentiary on a charge OF embezzlement,
brought by Crawford in retaliation. Both
are lawyers of prominence in western Kan
sas
COLUMBUS. O., Dec. 2i.--Governor Bush
nell tonight pardoned Isaac Smith of Pike
county, who was sentenced to be hanged
in 1889 for the murder of his cousin, stephen
Skdmore. Smith was nine times repricved
and his sentence finally commuted to life
imprisonment Once he was led out on the
scaffold. the officials Withholding the re-
pricve until the last minute in the belief
that he would confess. He always asserted
his innocence and subsequent developments
have shown that he did not murder Skid
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
COODMANSON GOES TO JAIL
Court Binds the Fender Dentist Over for
Trial Without Bail,
FINDS SOME EVIDENCE OF WIFE MURDER
Close OF the First Chapter OF the
Criminal Case in which Many
People in Northeastern Me-
brnsln Are Interested.

PENDER, Ncb Dec. 24.--(Special Tele-
gram)-Court convened at 9I5 a. m, today.
Spectators began to arrive as early as $40,
many women being present
DR.. Rolph, who attended the deceased
Mrs. Goodmanson, during her late sickness,
was recalled by the defense, His testi-
mony suggested that chloroform was among
other medicines used in case Of heart trou-
bes, as well as strychnne poisoning.
The defendant theroupon filed motion to
dismiss on the grounds that there was not
sufficient proof to hold the prisoner over for
trial, thereby gaining the advantage of the
opening and closing arguments.
Attorney Ira Thomas, on behalf OF the de-
fense, reviewed the case fully and the law
applicable to preliminary examinations and
made an earnest appeal, alleging no proof
under the law to further deprive the pris-
oner of his liberty.
Nell c. Jay, on behalf of the state, pic
tured to the mind of the court the death
room scene, at which he characterized tho
actions of the defendant as these Of an un-
feeling and unnatural husband, having al
luded to the circumstance that the doctor
had not made anv effort to obtain immedi-
ate help for his dying wife.
As a closing speech A. G.. Kingsbury ar
ragned the community for the gossip and
the part they took in creating a prejudice
agains. the accused, and condemned in un-
mistakable terms the fault of not having
a corOners inquest at Ponder at the time
of death and before the body was moved
for shipment Appealing to the court as an
officer of the law not to be swayed by pub
lie sentiment. he urged that under the evil
denCe he would be justlfed In releasing the
prisoner.
The court, briefly reviewing the testl-
mony, particularly the transaction that
Cured at the doctors room said II was
his opinion that there was sufficient evidence
to hold the accused for trial.
Thus ended one of the most remarkable
cases in northeastern Nebraska, of which
much interest has been manifested by peo-
pie of the surrounding towns, where the
doctor frequently visited professionally,
WIFES PROPERTY INVOLVED.
AS a sequence to this whole proceeding
another case is pending in tho county court
for the administration of the estate of Laura
Goodmanson deceased. she having real and
personal property in which the husband and
the relatives of the deceased are very much
interested. There are decisions pro and con
in the courts of the country as to whether
person standing i'm the relation, as does
DR.. GOodmanson to this proceeding, can in
herit his wifes property under the law.
The defendant was bound over to the
March term of the district court without
bail. All witnesses in the case are under
bonds. Goodmanson spends his Christmas
nil
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WILL coNrrNun ro PAY THE bonus.
Carnegie steel Company issues "a
welcome Christmas Notice.


welcome Christmas Notice.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 2i.-Notices were posted
in all the mills of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany. limited today, notifying the workmen
that the same wage scale that was paid last
year would continue during 1897. The scale
affects from 1900 to $1,000 tonnage men,
day men and turn men The scale now in
effect was made in 1895, and on May IA, of
that year, a voluntary increase of 10 per
cent was granted by the company. This
scale. with the bonus, was paid during the
remainder of the year and throughout 1896,
in the face of unfavorable trade conditions.
The present state of the market is anything
but fattering and consequently the con-
tnuance of the present wages Is received
with favor by the men. The company in its
notice posted today saye:
THE present condition of the iron and
steel business does not warrant this con-
tinuance of the payment of the bonus but
we hope that early in 1897 there will come
such improvement as to do so. and it is the
hope which has led us TO continue it's pay
mpnt' -
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR VERDICT.
Harry IL. I<utner Receivers from Pres
IIeut nf thc Exnresa CnnInmnN.

Harry III. kutner Receivers from Pres
ident of the Express Company.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2i.-Harry II. Kutner,
who sued to recover $4,000 damages from
James C. Fargo as president of the
American Express company, for malicious
arrest and Imprisonment obtained verdict
in his favor today for 10000. Kutner, in
July, 1893, while clerk in the employ of
the defendant, was arrested on charge OF
having stolen a parcel containing watch
and chain, of the value of $27.5O. consigned
to r. McAlester, White Plains. His trial
in general sessions resulted in a verdict Of
acnnittal.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25

At New OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
from Rotterdam. sailed'-fatria, for Ham
AT Southampton--Arr -Arriyed-Spree, from
New York for Bremen Sailed-Aller, from
Bremen, for New York.
AT Amsterdam-Arrlyed schicdam from
New York
AT Queenstown--Salle Britannia from
Liverpool for New York.
sOUTHAMPTON, Dec. A--The North
German Lloyd steamer Spree, Captain
Mer, from New York on December 10, for
Bremen. via this port, which arrived to-
day at II a. m, had an experience similar
TO that of the American liner st. Louis
which arrived here early this morning.
after encounterlng very, heavy weather
In and she was completely covered with
snow and frost.
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counterfeiters Are Found Guilty.

the case of George Sands alias DR., Clarke,
and Mary Knapp, tried In the United States
district court for passing counterfeit money
In Hoboken, rendered a verdict this after
noon Of guilty, after being out one hour.
Mrs. Knapp received the verdict with
smiles, but Sands brpke into tears. Judge
fixed January l for sentence
to be imposed Tho prisoners were then
taken back TO the Mercer county jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
Permit for BrooIsIyn Tunnel.

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 24-The State Rail
road commission today granted the appli-
cation of the New York & Brooklyn Rail-
way company TO construct tunnel rail-
way under the East river from New York
City TO Brooklyn. The granting of the APP
pication will not interfere with the rights
of the New York and Brooklyn Tunnel
company and the Brooklyn, New York and
Jersey City Terminal company, which COM
panies at some future time may make sim
liar applications.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
DIR. ButIer Is Recovering.

NEW YORK, Dec "a. --Dr Charles But
Ter, the president of the corporation of the
Union Theological Seminary and the cor
poration of the University of the City of
New York, who had been seriously Ill with
pneumonia, was reported as much better
today. DR.. Butler Is 60 years old.
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nnnfhii of IA DnN,

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Captain symes
Baker. captain of the Lone Hill life saving
station, died at savllie. L. l., today Of con-
sumption. Captain Baker has been con-
nected with the life saving service for
twenty years and had made many heroic
rescues OF shipwrecked crews during his
career. Among the foremost was that OF
the survivors OF the Louis n. Placey, which
came ashore on February ~, 1895. Captain
Baker was 40 years OLD.
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DOUBTFUL OF GUILT
Possibly the Would-be Gathers
burg Murderers Not Caught.
SUSPECTS TAKEN TO BALTIMORE
They StrenuousIy Deny knowledge
of the Crime.
NEARLY A YNCHING

Detectives Weldon and Horne went to
Gaithersburg again this afternoo on to re-
sumo the investigation of the attempted
" wholesale murder of the Buxton family.
They Were morally certain that the men
in custody now are not responsible for the
horrible tragedy. They think that the
would-be murderer or murderers are still
at large, and that the people of Mont
gomery county Should not yet abandon the
search. Randolph, who is spoken of as a
tramp negro, they think may have entered
the English house, but they have no idea
that he is the man who welded the ak so
numerically and wounded so many peo-
pie.
The man vino committed the crime they
imagine must have blood stains on his
clothing, and should any stained clothing
be found 1t will go far toward fastening
the crime upon some one. There should
be a search made Of the woods for the
coat of Randolph. 1t is true that Randolph
claims his coat was stolen in George
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UNSETTLED WEATHER,
The Conditions Favorable for Show
ers and ThunderstOrms.

The Conditions Favorable for Show
ers and ThunderstOrms.
Forecast till pm. Wednesday-For the
District of Columbia, Delaware and Mary
land unsettled weather, with conditions
favorable for showers and thunderstorms
tonight; Wednesday, probably fair; cooler;
westerly winds.
For Virginia, unsettled weather and prob
ably thunderstorms this afternoon or to-
night; Wednesday, partly cloudy weather;
coo ler tonight; southwestery winds, be-
&C ming northwesterly.
Weather conditions and general forecast:
The storm central Monday morning in
northern Minnesota has moved eastward
to the lower lake region and now covers
the Saint Lawrence valley, the lakes the
ONO and the upper Mississippi valleys 1t
mas caused severe local storms and thun-
derstorms with high winds throughout the
lake regions and Ohio valley. The baro-
meter is highest south of Newfoundland
and an area of high pressure covers the
gulf states central over the Florida penin-
sula. The pressure remains high over the
northern Rocky mountain districts and
relatively low the southern and middle
slope. The barometer has fallen decidedly
IN the lake regions and the Saint Lawrence
valley and generally throughout the At
lantic states, also in the Pacific coast dis
tricts. 1t has risen in the upper Mississippi
and Missouri valleys
The temperature is higher this morning
in the middle Atlantic states and it is
colder in the upper lake region, the upper
Mississippi and Missouri valleys and on
the middle Rocky mountain slope.
Rain or showers and thundcrStorms have
occurred in New England, throughout the
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lake regions, the Ohio and upper MISSISSIPPI
pi valleys and North Dakota, with occa-
sional showers in the east gulf states.
Shower and thunderstorms and possibly
local storms are indicated for New Eng
land and the middle Atlantic states this af-
ern portion Of the gulf states with cooler
and clearing weather in the Ohio valley.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
inches was reported:
During the past twenty-four hours
Springfield, Mo, 1.64.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of water at s
am.: Great Falls, temperature, 81; condi-
ton, 10; receiving reservoir, temperature,
30; condition at north connection, 20; con-
dition at south connection, Is; distributing
reservoir. temperature, ~; condition at in
fluent gate house, 80: ef11uent gate house, 81.
Tile Table.
Today-Low tide, l: oG am. and 1: 80 pm
high tide, 7:D7 am and 1:34 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 80 am. and $40
pm; high tide, 7:57 am. and 500 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Sun rises, 4:39; sun sets. 7:15.
Moon full 90 pm. today.
The City Lights.
Gas lamps all lighted by SAG pm; extin-
gushing begun at $40 am. The lighting
Is begun one hour before the time named
If clear less lighting may be ordered.
Naphtha lamps all lighted by S:46 pm.
extinguishing begun at 3:25. The moon
schedule does not apply to naphtha lamps.
Range of the THERMOMETER.
The following were the readings of the
S am, IS; pm, so; maximum, SO; min
imum, Ga.
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BENT ON VENGEANCE.

Montgomery County Excited-Pris-
oners Removed From Rockville.
Special From a Staff Correspondent.
ROCKVILLE, May 26.-Some of the
younger and more hot headed of the peo-
pie were undoubtedly in favor yesterday of
taking summary action with Sidney Ran
dolph and George Neale, the two men who
were arrested on suspicion of numbering
the Buxton family, but wiser counsels pre-
vailed.
to take EN- OUT
Not word was heard about bringing the
proof before a jury and Judge; not a
word about trial by the course Of law
Everybody knew the tribunal that would
try them would be their executioners as
well.
AS the day wore on, the feeling grew
stronger and stronger. There was no ahso-
lutely direct evidence connecting either
Neale or Randolph with the crime, but cir
cumstances here and there Joined together
began to form a close net around them
These circumstances were carried by word
OF mouth from one to another, and quickly
al the county Knew OF 1t. The country
hereabout has an admirable system of tele-
phones, and every subscriber who was not
in person at Gaithersburg. or helping to
search the country, had his mouth, full of
HldTkS, Slueu 70 Inc neIlO
hole. So the rumors and facts flew over
the miles. and men grew more serious look
ing and wives and daughters uttered SEN
tentious suggestions.
Collecting the Evidence.
Horton Thompson, deputy sheriff, had
found the tracks of barefooted man
leading from the Buxton house through a
plowed field in the direction Of George
Neales house. He took Neale after his ar
rest by Preacher Lloyd and placed his
bare feet in the tracks. They fitted ex-
actly, according to Mr.. Thompson, even to
the toe-nail marks. Neale assured me
while in Jail that his feet stuck out over
the tracks two inches He probably
'inched up" as the boys say when playing
marbles. Later on two boys were found.
They were Joe johnson and his brother.
who lived in the same house with Neale.
These two lads had told persons mile
apart that George Neale and a woman
named Emily had come to their house
early in the morning and asked for a shirt
for a man whose shirt was all bloody.
Randolph had on no outer shirt or coat
when apprehended; so here was another
connecting link. The youngsters were held
as witnesses, and taken to Jail at Rock
willie, where their father was afterward
sent, and the woman reached the same
place later. Previous to all this the in
centive for the crime was looked for. In
yesterdays dispatches 1 mentioned that
Neale had served term in the peniten-
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STICKING TO THEIR STORIES,
Randolph. and Neale Persist in Deny.
ing Connection With the Crime


ing Connection With the Crime.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE, May 26.-Sidney RAN
dolph and George Neale, the two coIored
men suspected Of attempting the murder
of the Buxton family at Gaithersburg who
were brought here by Sheriff Collier of
Montgomery county to save them from
prospective lynching, We're placed in Jail
upon their arrival last night, and will be
held here to await the action of the Mont
gomery county grand jury. AS this body
does not meet until November the pris-
cners' stay in Baltimore will be a long one
Two deputies from Gaithersburg were at
the jail this morning, and closely questioned
Randolph and Neale, but the men both
stuck to the stories told at the time of
their arrest, and declared they had moth
Ing to do with nor were in any way con-
Eectcd with the crime of which they are
suspected.
In addition to the blood spots on Ran
dolph's SKIRT In front, it is believed blood
stain has been found on the back, where it
would have been difficult for his wounded
hand to reach.
A colored man iIamed Jennings who
bears a very close res emblance to Ran
dolph, was arrested in Baltimore this
morning on suspicion of being one of the
perpetrators of the Gaitkersburg crime,
and was locked up in the central police
station. A great deal of interest is felt in
the appalling crime by all classes of peo-
pie
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Ex-Goy. MeIIette Dead

A. c. Mellette, ex-governor of South Da-
kota, died yesterday at his home at Pitts
burg. Kan, after an illness of about five
weeks. The remains will be shipped to
Watertown, s. D., for interment The de-
ceased moved to Pittsburg about a year
ago.
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town, but this may not be true. and if
his coat should be found in the woods
" here he had hidden it and it should hap
pen to be blood stained, then there might
be some reason for a change Of opinion.
When the officers reach Gaithersburg today
they will prac tically begin their investiga-
ton anew, unless the county authorities
have learned of something additional since
last evening.
Inspector Hollinterger has received a
number of supposed clues concerning the
the police in the outlying precincts have
been given what little description there is
to be given of the man seen in the Buxton
house.
The mounted officers in the county, es-
pecially those who are duty north of
the city, have been given strict inStruc-
tons to look out for suspicious looking
colored people and arrest them. Today
about noon a suspicious-looking colored
man was seen walking along the line of the
railroad between Forest Glen and Silver
Spring. He was in his shirt sleeves, and
was carrying his coat on his arm. Several
persons who saw him thought he was pos
sibly the criminal wanted, and when they
started toward him he ran. One of the
citizens boarded the train and came to this
city to tell of what he had seen, and, as
already related, told of the affair to In
srector Hollinberger. The man, he said
had on old shirt, in which new sleeves
had been sewed.
Inspector Hollinberger listened to his
story, but as the officers had already been
notified to look out for suspicious persons,
no additional message was sent out.
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