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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
TURKEY WANTS SUPPORT
Peace Negotiations Between The sultan
and Greco, Progressing slswly.

The Turkish government has issued
a circular to the powers with a view to
obtain their support in the peace ne
gotiations, but thus far Russia alone
has replied expressing the opinion that
the question of the indemnity and the
Capitulation appear less difficult to
settle than the delimitation of Thes-
sally. This reply Is regarded in Turk
lsh circles as justifying the hope that
Russia will support the retrocession OF
Thessaly.
The "Hestia" of Athens says the ru-
Inors of an attempt to assassinate NJ.
Delyannis arose from the fact of his
having saluted some acquaintances In
the street. who abused him vehement
ly for plunging Greece into disaster.
The paper adds. Public exasperation
against NJ. Delyannis is so intense that
his return to Office would surely lead
to disturbances"
A dispatch to the "Soleil'' from st.
Petersburg. says that Germany Is try
ing to secure the retention OF the
Turkish garrisons I'm Crete. the retro
cession of Thessaly to Turkey, and the
abolition of the special privileges ac-
corded to Greek subjects in the Otto
man empire. Russia refuses to con-
cede these points, the correspondent
says, and adds: And so Germany will
have to WELD"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
TROUBLE In INDIA.
twenty-five Soldiers and two 0ffiosrs Killed
in the Conflict

The Mullah of Powindah. a fanaticat
priest of India, is charged with hav-
ing caused the massacre of 25 British
soldiers and two officers.
Indications are that the affair Is
more than a mere conflict with warlike
natives and that the notorious mullah
of Powindah Is at the bottom Of the
trouble. The latest advices are that a
political officer Mr.. McGee. was visit
ing Shirani with an escort of troops,
when he was attacked at Maiza by
vastly superior forces. The British
troops were compelled to retreat and
were followed for several miles by ov-
erwhelming numbers of the enemy.
The fighting was desperate. All the
British officers were severely wounded.
Capt. Browne. of the First Sikhas. son
Of the late sir James Browne. and
Lieut.. Crookshank. of the Royal Ar
tillery, were killed. and Surgeon Hig-
ginson, Lieut.. Higginson. of the First
Sikhas. and Lieut.. Seaton- Browne. of
the Punjab Infantry. were wounded.
A second dispatch does not mention
the death of Col. Bunny, but from the
fact that II says that Col. Gray, from
Mranshah, has taken over the com
mand of the British force engaged. 1t
Is inferred that Col Bunny Is also
among the dead, as at first announced.
The mullah of Powindah incurred
the displeasure of Great Britain some
time ago for stirring up rebellion
among the natives and was exiled.
Since then he has lived in Afghani-
stan, and been actively engaged i'm
plotting against the English.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided that the three-cent carfare
law is constitutional.
Captain George Tillett, of Riverdale.
Tenn, fatally shot his son-in-law John
Glenn. The trouble arose over Glenn's
bad treatment of his daughter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Japan Complains.

The Hawaiian customs officials are
charged with discriminating against
Japanese wine in favor OF the Califor-
mia product. Japan takes exception to
an order OF the Hawaiian board of
immigration to the owners of planta-
tions requiring them in making con-
tracts for oriental labor to make these
contracts for two Chinese to one Jap
anese in every case, and third COM
plains of an order displacing Japan
ese physician on plantation. The
legation at Washington is informed that
there Is no abatement of the Japanese
demands on account of Hawaii's po-
sition with reference to Japanese i'm
migration.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
WALDORF AsT0R ENTERTAINs.
The Millionaire Gives a Reception to the
Nobility.

William Waldorf Astor gave his sec
ond reception at his home in Carlton
House Terrace. London. 1t was pre-
ceded by dinner party at which for
ty guests were present. including
Prince Alexander of Teck. Ambassador
Hay, Mrs. Hay and Miss Hay. The
mansion, which, even before 1t became
Mr.. Astor's residence. was counted
among the most elegant private mans
ions in England. has been entirely re-
novated. The display of jewels was
simply prodigal and the house was a
mass of flowers. NJ. Paderewski. Nine.
Melba -Planson and other famous art
lists assisted in the musical programme.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
FORGER CONVICTED.
Futile Examination Of His Skull to Prove
Insanity.

Charles n. Cunningham was found
guilty In criminal court at Cleveland
of forging the name OF Judge Il. r.
Hamilton to check for $4,000.
Strenuous efforts were made to prove
that he was insane at the time he
committed the crime. The claim made
was that years ago an indentation was
made in his skull by a fall from a
horse.
His attorneys sent him to a hospital
and had part of the skull removed
during the tendency of the present
case, but 1t availed nothing with the
jury. Cunningham was sent to the
penitentiary a number of years ago
for a swindle perpetrated at Yonkers,
~ Y
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
ALDRICH GOES HOME.
The Senator too Sick to Attend to his Con-
gressional Duties

Senator Aldrich left for his Rhode Is
land home by order of his physician.
He has been confined to his room at
the Arlington almost all the time since
the first week of the tariff debate with
an aggravated attack of Indigestion. He
was able to be present at the first eau
Gus on the sugar schedule. and was
taken with a relapse afterwards. AS he
did not improve, his physician directed
that he should go where he would have
absolute rest and be free from the pos
sibility of any consultation with him on
the tariff.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
ARMS FOR CUBA

The state department has information
that most important filibustring ex-
petition is about to leave for Cuba.
A second carload of rifles and dyna-
mite left Jacksonville on the regular
freight train for the probable purpose
of being transferred to some vessel on
the east coast, probably the yacht VAL
usia. which has been engaged TO trans
fer these munitions from the railroads
to the vessel destined for Cuba. 1t is
probable, that the vessel which will re-
ceive these arms will not come close to
shore.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Pom, Recommends LOYALTY.

Following are the Popc's views with
reference to France. He disclaims all
intention of recommending any prefer
CnCc for either the republican or the
monarchial form of government, but
he observes that practice has shown
that the interests of religion In any
country are best served by loyal sup
port of the constituted government,
and he gently reproves those who pro-
Tossing attachment to the holy see,
SOW the seeds of distrust and create
difficulties by looking askance at or
combating existing governments.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
FORCED TO YIELD.

Minister Terrell cables the state de-
partment that IS Armenian families en-
route to the United States have been
stopped at Sassaoun, and that their
passports have been taken away.
This was a clear violation of the sui
tan's promise to the United States gov
ernment and Minister Terrell protested
vigorously. The porte promptly direct
ed the provincial authorities to COM
mand the detained people to proceed.
The emigration of this party had been
specially provided for by Minister Ter
rell.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
A PITTsBURG BOYS
Murderers arc Permitted to Escape from a
Turkiah Prison.

II IL learned from Constantinople that
two of the kurds who are supposed to
have been connected with the murder
of Frank q. Lenz. of Pittsburg. the hi
cyclist who was shot and killed on the
road between Kourtah and Zahar about
two years ago. while on a tour around
the world. have died in prison at Erze-
roum. and other Kurds suspected of
completely In the murder have escaped
from prison.
United States Minister Terrell has ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court here to
secure the recapture and trial of the
fugitives. In all eleven men were ar
rested on the charge of being connected
In the murder of Mr.. Lenz.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Want an InyaatiRation.

MADRID. June IL. At a meeting of
the dissidcnt Conservatives yesterday,
Senor Silvcla, the leader of the party.
declared that the Canovas Ministry
had signed the death warrant of par
liamentary government. He earnestly
advocated an investigation into the af-
fairs In Cuba. the development of the
material interests Of the island. as well
ms reform In its administration. In
conclusion he expressed the opinion
that II was now absolutely necessary
for Spain to abandon her policy of In
tcrnatiOnal isolation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
fAl0a lHE ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
TREATY DISCUSSED.
Strong Sentiment to Place the Islands under
United States Protsotion.

Since the passage of the sugar sche-
dule of the new tariff, which Is said to
place not less than 5000, 900 year in
the hands of the sugar trust, there has
been n fervent desire on the part of
many congressman to annex the Hawai-
ian islands.
Others declare that a now treaty Is
necessary as the importations from
Hawaii are greater than the export
ations and that the benefits of the
treaty are entirely with the Hawaiians.
II Is also rumored that President Nc
kinley is looking towards the placing
of the islands under the protection OF
the stars and stripes.
Senator Nelson said that the claim
that we owe II to Hawaii to continue
the reciprocity treaty because of the ac-
QUESTION Of Pearl harbor Is not well
founded. as Pearl harbor had been ac-
quired under the first treaty and an
ample price had been paid for that
harbor. He said the United States had
paid Sl50OO,OO only for the Louisiana
purchase. yet in tariff remissions on SUI
gar alone there had been paid s3i, ,0o0, 900
for Pearl harbor. Senator Frye claimed
that President Mckinley Is prepared to
enter upon a negotiation for more mo-
diiied treaty and added that the Haw-
aiians are willing to meet him half way
in the work. Senator Thurston an
nounced himself to be decidedly in fnv-
or of abrogation. though he Is. he said.
believer I'm the wisdom of annexing
the Hawaiian Islands to the United
States. He said that If the present ar
rangemcnt. which gives the Hawaiian
Sugar Trust an annual gratuity of So
900, 900. Is to be continued In connection
with the gratuity voted to the American
trust. which amounted to not less than
81, 200. 900 year. II would be utterly i'm
possible to defend the course of the
Republican party.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Post Office Business.

Nineteen postofIices showed an ag-
gregate increase OF $53.977. while III
showed an aggregate falling off of $685.
414. Pittsburg was one of the Offices
showing an increase, its receipts last
month being s62.2S7; May, 1896. $751;
597; per cent of increase last month,
6.3. Philadelphia, on the other hand,
showed one of the heaviest decreases
last month over May. 1896 the figures
being $219.O3 and 1891 .120. respectively;
percentage of decrease 81
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Object to Northern Professors.

After wrangle the lower house of
the Texas Legislature adopted a reso-
luton TO have a committee appointed
to investigate the charge that there
chairs in the Texas State university,
who We're teaching Republican politics
and ridiculing the history of the lost
cause.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Cadets Must Serve,

Secretary Long OF the Navy has de-
cided that cadets must pay for their
instruction by serving the nation.
Three cadets at Annapolis having
served a four years course at the
Academy desired to resign and engage
in private business. AS the engineer
corps is in need of officers they must
remain. The cadets pledge themselves
upon entering the Academy to serve
the government not less than eight
years.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Objected to Black Gowns.

At meeting of the General Council
of the Reformed Episcopal Church ii
was decided by a majority vote that
only the black gown should be worn
by members of the clergy This action
aroused the displeasure of many in at
tendance, and Bishop Cheney retired
from office. many others following suit.
On account of the action OF the council.
Miss Harriet S. Benson has withdrawn
a trust fund from which source the
church derives a benefit of $4,000 a
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
American Doctor Killed.

Captain Foster II. Winn. NJ. D., of
ST. Louis, a volunteer surgeon with
the cuban insurgents hospital corps In
the field, Is reported to have been
killed i'm an attack by Government
troops upon an insurgent hospital near
QuiviCan, Province of Havana.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Nominations Confirmed.

The senate confirmed the following
New Jersey. to be the consul at Nice,
France; Frank A. Leach. to be super
intendent of the mint at San Francis
co, CAL; Robert 8. Person. of South
Dakota, to be deputy auditor for the
interior department; William Lynch,
10 be assayer OF the mint at New Or
leans.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Starved to De ath.

Hannah Keen, aged So. starved to
death several days ago at Philadelphia,
and her brother. unable to go for assis-
tance, owing to feebleness of mind and
body, had been keeping his lonely vigil.
The old people possessed between them
property and money to the amount OF
100000,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
ANNOYED BY tho Noise.

Miss Leona Goodman was among a
party of serenaders at Rover. Ark.
that went to a house where a young
teacher named Lipp was stopping.
When awakened by the serenaders
I.ipp fired pistol shot into the party.
The bullet struck Miss Goodman In the
neck, causing instant death. The
murderer was spirited away to Dan
Vile by the officers. who feared that an
attempt would be made to lynch him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
General Rius Rivera and Colonial Bacsllao
Court -Martialed

Havana, June IL. The secret court
martial of General Rius Rivera and
Colonel Bacallao. his chief-o stan.
who were captured In Pinar del Rio.
was closed at Cabanas Castle. The
sentences were death I'm both cases and
the execution may occur during the
coming week. unless Washington re-
news its protest.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
CLEVELAND REFUSES.
An offer Of $50, 900 year for his Opinions
on Current Topics.

Grover Cleveland intends to write
history of his two administrations to be
published after his death, Therefore he
will not have time to write on current
topics for a literary syndicate at the
rate of $1,000 for each contribution to
literature or 100000 a year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
100 Worshipper Killed.

More than hundred worshipers
pcrishcd at Tien Tsin, China, late
steamer reports indicate. I'm the burn
ing Of n temple dedicated to the queen
of heaven. a festival was In progress
and the edifce was crowded, mostly
with women and children.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Ten Men Killed.

In consequence of overwinding. a
terrible accident has occurred in the
Gath colliery at Maesteg, Glamorgan-
shire. Wales. The cage was precipi-
tatcd To the bottom of a shaft $50 feet
deep. Ten men were killed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
No Cause for Anxietv.

Stanton Sickles. secretary of the
United States ministry at Madrid. is
quoted as saying there Is no cause for
anxiety regarding the relations be-
tween the United States and Spain.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
To Tax Inheritanoes.

The Democratic members of the sem
ate committee on finance agreed to Of
fer as an amendment to the tariff bill
a provision for an inheritance tax. The
amendment was prepared by Senator
Turpie.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
To Oppoaa tho Standard.

The announcement Is made that
George M. Pullman Is interested In the
syndicate which p. ID. Armour Nelson
Morris. Geo, Swift and the Cudahys
organized some time ago In opposition
to the Standard oil company.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Our Exports.

The statement of the principal artic-
les OF domestic exports shows exports
during May. 1897, as compared with
May. 1896, as follows: Breadstuffs, $l3,-
0S7,0l2. increase $2.6S6l7S.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Iron Market Improving.

There Is a good demand for Besse-
mer pig iron. although prices remain
about the same. There will be no ad
vance until the over supply on the
market Is diminished. Buying was
heavy in Pittsburg. 10000 tons chang
eral weeks ago pig iron was from 50 10
IN so Of
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16

Miss Alger, daughter of the Secretary
of war, has been congratulated by Me-
Kinley on her engagement to Charles
Pike. of Chicago.
The committee having In charge the
Tillman resolution for the investiga-
tion of the alleged speculations In SUI
Dort adversely.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-06-16
Wheat Prospect

The June report of the Agricultural
department makes the acreage of
winter wheat at present growing. after
allowance for abandonments, 94.6 per
cent. of the area harvested last year,
or 500 per cent. of the area sown in
the fall Of 1896. This in round numbers
is q. .562, 900 acres.
More than 100 persons perished at
Tien Tsin, China, in the burning of a
temple dedicated to the Queen Of
Heaven. A festival was In progress,
and the edifce was crowded, mostly
with women and children.
Seven hundred insurgents attacked
Twatutia, a foreign suburb of Tai Peh,
Formosa last month. There was heavy
lighting for two hours, and the Jap
anese captured Sen Sin, a noted rebel
chief, who had long evaded arrest.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26
Xxx
S%ho nooas1or AN Assembled Dancing
MA Teachers View 1t
Z ated Waltz. AE With Sadness.

Cultivated Boston has been enjoying
an object lesson in grace, says the New
York Sun. The American Society Of
Professors of Dancing has just held its
twentieth annual convention there, and
through the columns of the Boston
papers has announced it's views and
representations for the coming year.
Among other acts the professors have
handed down an indictment against
the waltz as it is now danced. 1t is,
they solemnly declare, neither more nor
less than an obnoxious romp.
President M. B. Gilbert who teaches
the terpsichorean art to the youth of
Portland, Me-, and has written text
book upon round dances, had this to
say upon the degeneration Of the waltz:
1.-The waltz has degenerated only in
the position in which it is danced by a
certain class of people. This is the class
who are guilty of affectation N dam
cling. They are no confined to any one
grade in society, though the tendency
to take affected. and therefore un-
graceful, positions in the waltz started
| with the 'spielers. At nearly all dances
now you will see a young man insist
on holding Wemans hand up Under
his left ear. Students seem especially
fond of this absurd position.
This is the most common Of the va
rious false positions in the waltz. 1t is
the result of the man taking the Wo-
mans hand with his palm upward, in
stead of, keeping his palm downward
and holding her hand lightly in his
bent fingers. The woman's hand should
oIc ha =,aoJ,,, a WIFI, +Jo
mans hand upward, and the woman S
resting on it, the natural tendency of
the man is to raise his hand, until in
some cases the man is nesting the wo-
mans hand up alongside his neck in no
time. He may not be conscious of the
impropriety of the position, which is
but natural development of the false
pose first taken.s
''The second false pose that we meet
in the waltz is the side position, in
which the man holds the woman at his
right side, with her arm across his
chest, and rushes h,G all around the
hall, regardless of the time Of the
music and with very little effort at
guiding. The result is a lack of grace
and rhythm and annoyance to persons
dancing the waltz as it should be
danced"
Another official spoke even more for
chilly on this subject. He said:
THE waltz, as danced now, has be-
come only a romp, in which a lady is
run the length of a drawing room by
her partner and then run back again.
This is the, result of the two-step
waltz, which has come to be so uni
versal that there are many people now
who dance nothing but two-step to
everything. This will be done away
with very largely, although just what
will take its place it will not be pos
sible for us TO say until later in the
session. There is no doubt though,
that this is the most important prob
lem with which the convention is to
deal"
In these views the convention hear
tily concurred, and in the discussion of
the subject many suggestions were
made which may be briefly summar-
lied as follows for the benefit of du-
bious walters:
Do not, in Waiting, seize your pary-
ner about the waist with both arms.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-26

reader a sense of the intangible, he
has succeeded; but because ne has t1ied
ito do more than this and has sought
to clothe a subtle suggestion with cor
crete form bounded and expressed at
every point by the actual, one closes
the book with the feeling shat one has
been forced to surrender to the keeping
of a finished book an idea that would
have been simply inexhaustible if the
author had kindly left it as a nebulous
Suggestion AS a short story, a palpa-
BILE glimpse of the almost ilnpalpable,
handled with Mr.. Hardy's purity of
touch, the idea would have lived on.
forever in the readers memory, un-
bounded by time or space.
Jocelyn Pterston is a young sculptor
with a temperament that, for lack Of
q more. exact word, the world calls al
tistic, a temperament that cannot sat
isfy. itself, cannot even find a resting
place for itself in things as they are.
Pierston's own particular form of this
artistic temperament leads him in
quest of the WelI-Beloved, a spirit as
impersonal as Ariel, but lodging for
little space in this woman or that, and
absorbing for the time the womans S
identity-much, apparently, as the
evil spirit of Biblical lore entered into
its victim-the woman ceased to be her.
self and became the Well Beloved.
She was a blonde, a brunette, tall,
petite, svelte, straight-featured, full,
curvilinear, Only one quality remain
ed unalterable, her instability of ten
ure.%s In Borne's phrase nothing was
permanent in her but change.
III is odd" he said to- himself, that
this experience of mine, or idiosyn-
Grassy, or whatever it is, which would
be sheer waste of time for other men,
creates sober business for me-" For all
these dreams he translated into plaster,
and found that by them he was hit
ting a public taste he had never de-
liberately aimed at and mostly de-
SpiSed. He denies hotly the charge
of fickleneSs. Surely tickle is not the
word? FickIeness means getting weary
of thing While the thing remains the
same. But L have always been faith
full to the elusive creature whom
have never been able to get firm hold
Of TO the Well-Beloved he is always
true but not to the mere house she
sojourns in. A certain dramatic unity
is cleverly given by Mr. Hardy to this
conceptions conception that by its
very, nature is fragmentary and en-
ldlIS the lnlIouucllon Oh So many OUT
ward and visible forms for its one
heroine, and so scatters the interest
the reader feels in her-by having the
most important reincarnations of Piers
tons ideal take place in his boyhood's S
home, the Isle of Singers, and, so to
speak, in the direct line of succession.
At twenty, he returns to the isle anu
meets Avice Caro-, beautiful girl
whom he desires to marry. He IS
thrown, however, into romantic COM
radeship with another island girl, the
daughter of his fathers enemy With
fear and trembling he sees in her the