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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-08-07
Better Than He Expected,

"The question is" said the Turkish
Minister, ''how much indemnity Greece
will pay"
IS that it?" asked Abdul Hamid cheer
fully. 81 thought the question was how
much indemnity Greece would owe. -
u liz.
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SOUTHBOUND p. M.

'Daily. SUNDAY only. Except Sunday
Stops on signal or notice to conductor
stops to let Off passengers.
All trains leave Philadelphia from b. ~ O.
Depot, oath and Chestnut streets; and Camden
Station, Baltimore.
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LITERAL.

The Hescuer-How did you come to
fall in?
The Rescued didn't come to fall in, |
came to lish.-Harpers Weekly.
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week days and Sundays. sSundays only.
Stops only on notice to conductor or agsn
or If passcnge rs are to get Off.
Stops to let Off passengers.
Stops on notice to agent to take on pas
scngcrs for points east Of New York.
Trains leave Port Deposit for Perryville al
8.48, 1872. 1904 and 10.12 III, and at l340, 335,
T.35 and 80 p. M week days. Leave Perryville
for Port Deposit at 6.35, $40, 80 and IL % u m
Los and els. 4.05 and 6.lS p m week days.
j. b. HUTCHINSON, j. r.. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. G.P A.
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DNouenr AND FOREST rlREs.
Great Loss of Property and Intense Suffer-
ing in Arkansas.

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 7-Drought
and forest fires are doing great damage
in Arkansas and the situation grows
worse daily. Thousands of dollars
worth of valuable timber and other
property has been burned and stock in
nearly all sections of the state is suffer-
ing from the scarcity of water, while
in some places there is not even drink
ing water for the people.
From all sections reports of disas-
trous fires are being received. Miles of
fences have been destroyed, saw mills
burned, cabins gutted and in some in
stances the flames have been communi-
Gated to large fields of open cotton,
which was destroyed. In hundreds of
localities wells and springs have en-
tirely dried up and residents are haul
ing water in barrels from the nearest
streams, which in SOME sections are
twenty miles distant. The people in
many localities are holding meetings
and praying for rain.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08
WHoAEs4LE HYNCHING AyERTED.
Mob Menaccs Eleven Prisoners Accused OF
AssaultinE u Woman.

Cincinnati, O., Oct. An angry
crowd gathered about the court house
and Jail in Newport, Ky, to-day upon
the announcement of most shocking
assault by eleven men upon the young
wife of sWitchman recently married.
The sheriff was obliged to clear the cor
ridor, and threats of vengeance were
made.
Thomas Gleason and his wife started
out on the Alexandria road to visit a
friend last night when two men with
reVolvers and representing themselves
to be officers, separated husband and
wife and dragged the shrieking woman
into q field where eleven men assaulted
her.
The rutlans were brought to prelim-
mary trial before Judge Bennett, who
held them all to answer to the grand
jury without bail. The idea of a special
grand jury was abandoned as the regu-
lar jury meets October 10.
When the time came for the removal
of tha ten prisoners to the Chesapeake
and Ohio depot to take the train to
Maysville, there was such a menacing
crowd about the Jail that the sheriff
called out the entire police force to pre-
serve order. 1t was with difficulty that
the men We're taken to the two wagons
which conveyed them to the depot and
the crowd followed close after. At the
depot and before the train arrived the
situation grew more threatening. The
police force finally had to charge the
yelling crowd to prevent rush at the
prisoners. Fortunately the train soon
came.
The prisoners are aged from nineteen
to thirty, mostly without employment.
Two or three are peddlers and all are
known to the police as gang going to-
gether and often found drunk and dis
orderly. Their names are Meiner, Greer
Miller, Hending, Frank Bushmiller, Har-
ry Bushmiller, Shannon, Heiner, Duh
foss and Schorle. The one last arrested
and who is still in Jail awaiting identi-
fication is William CroXton. He will be
brought before Mrs. Gleason tonight.
The other ten were recognized by Mrs.
Gleason in the crowded court room.
The men exhibited the most reckless
bravado one or two being drunk while
in the court room. They used vile Ian
guage and displayed total Indifference
and unconcern.
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TRIAL or GOYERN0R's JrIFE.


Wheeling, w. Va, Oct. IA special
to the Intelligencer from Glenville, w.
Va, says:
Up to this time twenty-seven wit
nesses have been examined by the
prosecution in the Atkinson forgery
trial in progress here. A dramatic in
cident in the trial was the introduction
of John Norris, a blind man, very old,
but intelligent, as a witness for the
prosecution.
Norris stated that he was a neighbor
and friend of Owens, who is jointly
indicted with Mrs. Atkinson; that in
conversation he had with him some
time after Judge Camden's death Ow-
ems stated that he had been to see Mrs.
Camden, now Mrs. Atkinson, and had
fully adjusted his land matters and
received from Mrs Camden a receipt
for $40 more than the price of the land.
The witness was followed by others,
who related conversations with Owens
in which some statements We're made.
The receipts mentioned are the ones
alleged to have been forged by Mrs.
Atkinson and used by Owens.
The session to-day was devoted to
the examination of witnesses as to the
pecuniary condition of Owens for the
purpose of establishing the fact that
Owens at no time could have paid the
amount of money shown by the re-
ceipts.
A sensation was sprung by the prose-
cution when they introduced George w.
Davidson and offered in evidence re-
sceipts purporting to have been given
in the name of Judge Camden to Da-
wilson in 1889. Davidson stated that
the receipts were written, signed and
delivered to him by Mrs. Atkinson
about three years after the DEATH of
Judge Camden.
"A. D. Healers was called and stated
that some time before Judge Camden's
death Mrs. Atkinson offered to write
and deliver to him receipts in Judge
Camden's name similar to those of the
alleged forgery for which she is being
tried.
The state will probably close to-mor-
row.
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Regular En- 'erprise Formed to Manu-
facture Bogus Money.


Boston, Oct. 7.--Antonio and Eliza
beth Volpe, who were arrested last
night, charged with making counterfeit
money, were held in $500 each for the
federal grand jury by United States
Commissioner Fiske to-day. The prin-
cipal evidence against the prisoners be-
sides the coin and implements found in
the room occupied by the defendants,
was written and signed contract to
make and deal in counterfeit coin, in
which the name Of one of the arrested
persons appeared as principal.
According to the terms of the docu-
ment, each was to contribute $500 to-
wards capitalizing the enterprise. Ac-
counts were to be strictly kept and the
work conducted according to pre-ar-
ranged plan. In case of detection of
any of the three principals named, the
others were to look out for themselves,
1t was a secret contract and, there
fore, affords the police little assistance
in their efforts to trace the other par
ties to it.
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TAxAYI0N IN MAssACH UsETTs.
Changes Recommended bv a Special C9m.
mittee Appointed to Consider Subject.

Changes Recommended bv Special C9m-
mittee Appointed to Consider Subject.
Boston, Oct. THE special commit
tee on taxation appointed by Governor
Wolcott has made majority report,
which is signed by Judge James r.
Dunbar, Professor Frank w. Taussig,
Hon. T. J. Coolidge and ex-Councillor
Barrus. A minority report by the re-
naming member, George q. Mcneil,
will be submitted later.
The changes recommended in the tax
system of the commonwealth are sum
married. by the commission as follows:
First-An inheritance tax levied with
out respect to realty as well as to per-
sonality, at the rate of per cent, with
an exemption for estates not exceeding
$4,000, and an abatement of $4,000 on
estates between $4,000 and $4,000; the
revenue from this tax to be distributed
from the state treasury among the sew
eral cities and towns, one-half in pro-
portion to population and one-half in
proportion to assessed valuation.
Second-A tax in proportion to house
rentals, only the excess over of $400 of
rental being taxable.
Third-Abolition of the present taxes
on ineligible personality, such as stocks,
bonds and securities, and loans on
mortgage incomes; the taxes recon-
mended under the first and second Sec
tions being relied ON to yield at least
as large a revenue as is now secured
by the taxes to be abolished.
Fourth-Assumption by the state
treasury of county expenses.
Fifth-Appropriation by the state Of
the revenue from taxes on the corpor-
ate excess, now distributed among the
several cities and towns.
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NO SITE DECIDED UPON
For the Contagious Disease Hospital
Last Nights Hearing.

The special committee appointed to
select a location for the contagious
diseases hospital held a hearing last
evening in rooms 10 and II city hall in
regard to the two proposed locations,
the old Bancroft property on Lancrott
street in Fair Haven and land on Jewell
street in Westville. The first to appear
in opposition to locating the hospital
on Jewell street was Walter II. Prem
tiss of 20 Jewell street. His objections
We're that the location of contagious
disease hospital on Jewell street would
cause a depreciation in the value of
nearby property and that contagion
would endanger nearby residents. 9th
ers who appeared to oppose the Jewell
street site were Abraham Peck of 2OS
Blake street, F. l.. Edwards Of 21S
Blake street, Z. Fl. Culver of 1874 Blake
street, Isaac T. Levere of 1877 Blake
street, Thomas 8. Robertson Of Alden
street and T. HI. Stowe of Hobart
street. Selectman Robert e. Baldwin
appeared and proposed that the hos
pital be located on the town farm.
Only one Fair Haven resident ap-
peared at the hearing. He was James
Manning and said that the only objec-
ton to locating the hospital on Lam
craft street was among the oystermen.
He said that property owners in that
section did not object.
The committee then went into execu-
tive session and after a half hour ad-
journed without having reached a de-
cision. The committee is composed of
DR.. Lambert, Dr. Fleischner, DR.. Mad
Ter, Dr. Hawkes. and DR.. O'Connor.
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GOES TO HIRV1BD.
Championship in the Tennis Doubles De-
cialai Xasinrda n Sin.x o-day

cInPu leSterOay-Sing es O-uaV.
AS the result of Yesterdays contests
in the intercollegiate tennis tourna-
ment, all the Yale men are out of the
race. The last bne was Hooker, who
made a game fight for supremacy over
Thomson Of Princeton, but was unable
to win out. The playing was brilliant
from start to finish and the spectators
We're furnished with plenty of chances
to become enthusiastic.
Thomson defeated Hooker two
straight, ga, 81. The two Harvard
men, Forbes and Whitman, played the
last game of the semi-fnals in the sin
giles. Because Whitman had defeated
Ware on Wednesday he was confidently
expected to win yesterday, but he
couldn't stand the fast playing of
Forbes and was defeated. The score:
6-4, 81.
The finals,in the singles will be played
tomorrow morning by Forbes of Har-
ward and Thomson of Princeton. This
match will be very hotly contested, as
it decides the championship in the sin
giles.
In the finals Of the doubles yesterday
afternoon Ware and Whitman defeated
Ward and Davis, all of Harvard by the
score of Sc, rs, 81.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08
DISSOLUTION OF TIE conrEs.
1t Way Precipitate Serious State of Al
fairs Between Spain and This Country.

Ii way FTeClpltatc d oth.C VA HhA-
fairs Between Spain and This Country.
Washington, Oct. THE state de-
partment has not yet been officially in
formed of the purpose of the Spanish
government to dissolve the cortes in
December, as indicated in the Madrid
cablegram. 1t was expected, however,
that it would be found necessary for
the cabinet to go to the country in or
der to secure the support of a majority
for the liberal policy towards Cuba, in
asmuch as the present cortes has q
clear conservative majority whenever
that party's elements can be brought
together.
Disappointment is felt at the remote
date set for the convening of the new
cortes, for it is presumed that any new
programme for the settlement of Cuban
affairs must be ratified by the cortes
and if it is not to meet until next
March, the long delay, it is feared, will
give rise to irritation and perhaps be
beyond the powers of endurance of the
present administration. 1t is possible.
however, that a prompt declaration Of
policy towards Cuba, couched in such
terms and made public in such fashion
as to bind the government, might avert
serious results.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08
A FRIEND OF GEN. GRANT
j. L. DOTNS or CLEVELAND 1T
TElIPYS SUICiDE.

Evidently Demented-Stumped the Coun-
try for Bryan-Tools the Latter's Defeat
Keeniy-General Ticket Agent for the
Chicago and Northwestern at St. Louis
for Several Years-Once Very Wealthy.
New York. Oct. IA we'll dressed
man, siXty-fve years old, supposed
from papers on his person to be j. L.
Downs of AS Lincoln avenue, Cleveland,
shot himself in the head with a 3S-cali-
bre revolver at $50 o'clock this after
noon i'll the middle of Central park He
was taken to the Presbyterian hospital.
The man will die. Park Policeman
Dobson heard the shot and when he
came upon the man he was uncon-
scious.
Two small memorandum books We're
found in the mans pockets. The books
contained a lot of data relating to the
Rothschild family and their connection
with American finance, and indicate
that the suicides mind was unbalanced
on the money question. Several ad-
dresses We're also found among others
Freeman Barnum, clerk of the Gerlach
hotel; George ]. Dealy, Charles A. Ros-
kopf, Cleveland, O., and the Single Tax
club, New York.
Mr.. Barnum was seen at the Gerlach
hotel and told of Downs attempt to
kill himself. He had been notified by
the police a little while before and had
been handed a letter left for him by
the suicide. 1t contained the unfinish-
ed sentence: "Will you have the kind
ness to -"
Mr.. Barnum went to the hospital and
identified the dying man as an Old
friend.
Il knew Mr.. Downs for years. said
Mr. Barnum. HE was close friend
of President Grant and a schoolmate of
Senator Jones, the chairman of the ma
tional democratic committee. He was
also an associate of George M. Pullman,
the palace car magnate. He was rad
ical free silver man and stumped the
country for Bryan When Bryan was
defeated he seemed a changed man and
/ think never was mentally strong after
that.
He spoke for Carter Harrison last
spring in Chicago and was at the Henry
George meeting Tuesday night. He
was an enthusiastic George man and l
though he was to take the stump for
him. He was for years general ticket
agent of the Chicago and Northwestern
railway at st. Louis and was once en-
! gagged in the manufacture of firearms
| at that place. His factory was de-
| stroyed by fire. He was well-to-do I'M
! til few years ago. His wife and a
promising son Of twenty-one live in
Cleveland"
The police later in the evening gave
up the letters left by Mr.. Downs. One
was the letter mentioned as addressed
to Mr.. Barnum and the other was ad-
dressed to Louis Lange of the United
States Crematory company asking him
to take charge of the body and have
it cremated. He states in the letter
that his life has been insured for thirty
five years in the New York Life Insur-
ance company; that the amount is S4,-
900, fully paid and that the company
will pay the money for the expense OF
/ crama tiOn
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FAIR CUBAN REBEL ESCAPES
SENORITA CISNEEOS MAKES HER
var TO FREEDOK.

When Prison Omcials Searched for Her
Yesterday Sho Was BIissing-Iron Bars
III Room in Which She Was Con-
fined Had Been Filed and Bent Outward
Havana, Oct. THE beautiful little
Cuban patriot, Senorita Evangelina
Cossioy Cirneros, heroine of the adven-
ture with the Spanish governor OF the
Isle of Pines, escaped last night from
the Casa de Recogidas, where she had
been confined for several months on
charges of conspiracy against the
crown of Spain and of an attempt on
the life of Governor Bercs, governor of
the Isle of Pines.
According to the statements of the
jailers or attendants she made her es-
cape some time last night. At this
MORNINGS roll call she was missing and
when search was made for her, the at
tendants found that one of the iron
bars of the room in which she had been
confined had been filed and bent out
ward. The bar could not have been
moved except at great outlay of
strength, and all the circumstances go
TO prove the cooperation of outsiders
in her escape.
The authorities have not yet secured
any clue as to the whereabouts of the
girl Several of the employees of the es-
tablishment have been arrested.
Madrid, Oct. IA cabinet council, at
which the queen regent presided, was
held here to-day. When the ministers
/ separated the premier, Senor Sagasta
announced to the newspaper men that
nc final decision had been taken in re.
gard to the reply which Spain will make
i to the note of the United States handed
to the Duke of Tetuan, when he was
minister Of foreign affairs, by the Unit
ed States minister, General Stewart l.
Woodford.
The Impartial, however, says that i
learns that the reply of Spain will sat
Il isfy Spanish susceptibilities in makins
clear to President Mckinley the reso
lutte attitude which Spain maintains il
regard to Cuba.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08
NIGHT SCH OOL PRINCIPALS
Named Yesterday-No School Week
From To-day,

Named Yesterday-No School weoIs
From To-day.
At the meeting of the committee on
schools yesterday afternoon it was vot-
ed to close the schools on Friday, the
18th, as many of the teachers will at
tend the State Teachers convention to
be held in Hartford on that date and
the forenoon of the following day. An
extra day will be added to the school
year in June to make up for the lost
time.
The following were appointed princi-
pals of the various night schools: NAL
colin Booth, Hillhouse elementary;
Hubbard E. Gregory, Boardman ad-
vanced; Eugene Del Gregg, Hamilton
street; John Greenspun, Cedar street:
A. J. Verdi, Whiting street; Benjamin
Cook, instructor in mechanical art at
Boardman; Miss Lillian Gladwin, in
structor in freehand drawing.
The night schools open next Tuesday
night. The Hillhouse and Boardman
branches will be open for applications
for admission on Saturday and Mon
day. The schools are run for one hun
dred nights.
Mr. Booth receives So. so per night and
Mr.. Gregory $3.50. The other teachers
receive 50. There are between thirty
and forty other appointments vet TO he
decided upon.
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SENSATION TRIAL ENDED.
Karl Drummer Acquitted of an Alleged

harl Drummer Acquitted OF an Alleged
Assault Upon niss Ida Lathrop.
Lisbon. N. H., Oct. THE hearing
in the murderous assault case of which
Miss Ida Lathrop, a tailoress of this
place was the alleged victim, and in
connection with which Karl Drummer,
we'll known business man and Miss
Lathrop's employer, was arrested, was
ended to-day by the discharge of Brum-
mer Judge Westgate deciding that
there was not sufficient evidence to hold
the defendant for the grand jury.
The case was opened last Tuesday,
when, for the first time Miss Ida
Lathrop, the victim of the assault, told
her story to the public. 1t was to the
effect that Brummr had threatened to
kill her if she disclosed to a young wo-
man to whom he was paying attention,
the improper relations which, Miss La
throp claimed had for about two years
existed between Drummer and herself.
The prosecution rested it's case yester-
day.
Hon. Irving Drew of Lancaster. who
case was the first of it's kind ever noted
in the state and pointed out the fact
that no severe blow was struck, as the
skin was not broken, which, he said,
tended to show that Miss Lathrop in
tiicted all the injuries herself, although
she might have been in an irresponsi-
bic condition, and said the woman had
shown every symptom Of hysteria
Moreover he believed this to be one of
the most extraordinary instances of
this sort in nervous trouble.
Six witnesses were then called, all Of
whom testified to seeing Karl Brum-
mer at various times between and 8
O'Clock, on the night of the affair, and
the state admitted having no evidence
to show that the respondent returned to
the shop after going home about 8
o'clock
The case was submitted without ar
gument and Judge Westgate immedi-
ately ordered the discharge of the de-
fendant. The decision was greeted with
a burst of applause from the specta-
tors
The alleged assault occurred several
months ago. Miss Lathrop was found
lying in coal bin in the cellar of
Brummer's tailor shop, in which she
was employed, with her face bruised
and hands tightly bound with hand
kerchief. She had gone into the shop
the evening previous to get her button
hole cutters and claimed to remember
nothing after entering the place. Brum-
mer was arrested after Miss Lathrop.
who was in critical condition for sew
eral weeks, had recovered sufficiently
to tell her story to the district attor-
ney.
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PISTOL GUITE4U USED.
Washington Police Believe That They
Have Recovered the Weapon.

Washington, Oct. THE police have
recovered what they believe to be the
pistol with which Guiteau shot Presi-
dent Garfield and have put it in the
cabinet at headquarters for safe keep
ing. 1t is an ordinary British bulldog
revolver of 44-calibre and of cheap
make, the handle being set with pieces
of wood instead of bone or ivory.
Property Clerk Sylvester said that it
had been obtained from a citizen who
had had it in his possession for a num-
Der of years. The pistol was taken
from police headquarters July 2, 1881,
the day President Garfield was shot, by
Colonel George B. Corkill, then district
attorney. Subsequently it disappeared
mysteriously and trace of it was OBJ
tanned only recently.
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HARvARD ELEYEN TAKES Il BRACE.
Ex- Capt. Waters and Mackie OF '91 As
sisted in Yesterdayss Coaching

LX-Capt. Waters and Mackie OF '91 As
sisted in Yesterdays Coaching.
Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 1.-THE Har-
ward football team took a great brace
in it's practice to-day, thanks to the
brisk coaching of ex-Captain Waters
'94, who succeeded in working the men
out Of the lethargic condition in which
they had fallen. Mackie '94 was also
on the field and gave the guards the
benefit of his experience in the line,
while the general improvement in team
work and spirit has given the prospects
better look than they had after tine
games of the past week.
Harvard hopes have been dampened
by the apparent weakness back of the
line. Dibblee's heroic work has proved
& too much for him and he is suffering
A now with q strain in the side that pre-
vents him doing anything but signal
practice. In the practice to-day the
] first eleven SCORED a goal from the field
I and one touchdown in fifteen minutes
] aof regular play.