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The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
WAR NOT ES.

La Patria and FL Liberal. Spanish
organs of the extreme Filipino party
with offices in Manila, have recently
been publishing articles inimcal to the
military government. Gen. Otis has
suppressed the former journal for sedi-
ton and imprisoned the editor, at the
same time issuing a warning to the
members of the extreme party that
they should observe greater modera-
ton.
Many white Cubans announce their
intention of organizing an annexation
party. They say they would prefer the
Cuban flag, but they are not willing to
submit to Negro control.
A meeting conveyed by the various
political factions at Santiago, with a
view of affecting an agreement on can
didates for the approaching elections,
broke up in riot.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
A Negroes Horrible Crime.

A Negro, Tom Jones, commonly
known as preacher" Jones, on the
morning of the 22d murdered Ella
Jones and her oldest daughter Ida, and
then set fire to the beds in which lay
the bodies of his victims and four
sleeping children ranging in age from
a babe one month old, to the largest
boy who was not more than five. The
crime was committed at Gamers, lit
tie town, five miles east of Raleigh,
n. c., and the work was done with an
AK. The murderer, according TO the
story of little 7-year-old Laura Jones,
who escaped with her younger sister,
deliberately struck the mother four
times and then made two cuts into the
body of the oldest child. He then fred
the house and it was completely de-
stroyed. The body of Ella Jones and
that of Ida, the 13-year-old child, were
burned beyond recognition.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
T|CKINGS OF THE TELEGRAPH
News of the Day as Told Over the
Slender Wires.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS
A North Carolina Negro Commits n HOr-
rible Crime and Then Fires the
Buildng-Messrs. Frick and Carne-
gle VIII not Air Their Trouble In Court
Sultan Yields to the Cz,r.

Russia's demonstration against Tur-
key deserves and is receiving the most
serious consideration of Lord Sails
bury. The czar has successfully forced
the hand of the porte for the immcd
late granting of the railway conces-
sions in Asia Minor. Authoritative
dispatches from Constantinople an
nounce that the Turkish government
has yielded to st. Petersburg in all the
essential conditions of the Russian pro-
posal. In accepting Russia's demand
for exclusive railway concessions in
Asia Minor, the sultan has virtually
placed that part of his empire in the
same category with Manchuria, where
the Chinese have turned over all rail
way franchises to the car. This step
was not taken by the porte until the
Russian government had thrown off
the MASK and revealed itself ready to
resort to arms if necessary to attain its
objects. Well informed circles at Con-
stantinople learned about fortnight
ago that the Russian war Office and
ministry of marine had issued joint or
ders looking TO a general mobilization
of the land and sea forces, should GER
tain contingencies arise.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Fifth Day.

1t is expected that the next sensa-
ton in the military fraud case will be
the arrest of Samuel n. Bicllerstalf,
the principal witness for the prosecu-
ton in the trial of Gen. Marsh. For
some time it has been rumored that if
Bickerstaf swore that he paid any of
the alleged conspirators any money
either in Grand Rapids or Detroit as
profits of the alleged fraudulant deal,
the defense would have him arrested
on criminal charge, based on that
transaction. This testimony was given
by BicIerstaff on the 23d, and it is
stated on absolutely reliable authority
that Marsh himself stated that he
would have to spend certain day in
Detroit in order to assist in carrying
out this plan. He furthermore stated
according to this authority, that both
Gov. Pingree and Prosecuting Attorney
Frazer of Wayne county had been CON
suited concerning the matter. by
placing BicSerstaff under arrest the de-
tense evidentally intends to break the
force of his evidence as much as posi-
BILE.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

The new United States naval hospital
at Mare island has been completed and
is ready to be turned over to the gov
eminent.
The separating house of the Hercules
powder works at Lamotte, Mo-, blew
up on the ODD and Peter Bucks and Ed
mond Carter were blown to atoms.
Both men were married and leave fam
lilies. The cause of the explosion is not
known.
In the heart of the town of Ripley,
Tenn, the body of Negro, Louis Rice,
was found dangling from limb of a
tree on the morning of the 23d. At
the trial of another colored man, for
the murder of white man named
Goodrich, Rice testified in favor of the
prisoner.
Frank Erne, of Buffalo, successfully
defended his title of lightweight cham
pion of the world against joe Cans,
colored, of Baltimore, before the Broad
way Athletic club in New York on the
evening of the 23d. In the 18th round
Cans eye was gouged out by a right
swing from Erne,
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
MICHIGAN NEWS SUMMARY.
Doings of the Week Recorded in a
Brief Style.
CONCISE AND INTERESTING.
Manual Training In Our Public Schools
Is Favored by the Superintendent of
Public Instruction-A Crosse Pointer
Meets IA Horrible Death.
Manual Training in Our Schools.

State Supt. Hammond, of the depart
ment of public instruction, has been
devoting considerable attention recent
ly to the subject of manual training,
and he has now issued circular on the
subject, The principal idea of the cir
cular is that over 30 per cent of the
working population of the United
States earn their living by their hands,
and that, therefore, the body should be
trained in the public schools as well as
the mind. The last census shows that
the intellectual pursuits, which are
those of clergyman. lawyer, lecturer,
physician. author, teacher, editor and
reporter, We're followed by 32,426 per-
sons in the state of Michigan, while
the pursuits requiring the exercise of
manual labor were followed by 714,5
persons; and it is argued that the in
terests of the larger number are many
times greater than those of the more or
less professional class.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

1t was learned on the 22d from one in
close touch with the Carnegie Co. that
the new organization will be capital
lied at $3.50, OOO, 900. This cannot be def.
nitely confirmed, but the authority is
considered reliable. The same gen
tleman says Mr.. FriclI will remain in
the new company in the same relative
position he held just previous to the
bringing of his suit. JAS b. Dill, who
is said to have acted as legal adviser,
mediator and referee during the Allan
tic City conferences between the Car
negic and FriclS interests, left Orange,
n. j., on the 23d for Pittsburg. 1t is
said he took with him the articles of
the new company, which is to merge
all the FriclI and Carnegie interests.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

The Republican members of the sem
ate spent two and half hours in eau
Gus on the Goth in an effort to reach an
agreement upon the Puerto Rican legis-
lation now pending in the senate. The
caucus was apparently, however, with
out material result, the only accom-
plishment being decision to proceed
with the general bill as it now stands,
without separating the tariff feature
and to discharge the harmony com
mittee from further efforts.
The senate on the 23d adopted the
conference report on the Puerto Rican
relief bill by vote of 35 to Is, practi-
cally a strict party expression. No
Democrat voted for the report, but Mr..
Stewart (Nev.) voted with the Repub-
LEANS
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Fourth Day,

S. n. Bicllerstaff of the Henderson
Ames Co., Kalamazoo, and Col II. a.
Smith, assistant quartermaster-gen-
eral, were the star witnesses for the
prosecution in the Marsh trial on the
fourth day Smith testified regarding
the 5000 wedding present he received
from Marsh, Sutton and White, and de-
clared that he was repeatedly warned
to keep silent before the grand jury.
He materially strengthened the prose-
cution's case. To the surprise of all,
the defense decided not to cross-exam-
inc him. Bickerstaff related in detail
his connection and that of his firm
with the alleged fraudulent deal; how
White haggled over the profits to go to
his firm; how this point was finally
settled; how the goods were shipped to
Chicago and back to Kalamazoo, re-
tagged and sent to Lansing; how he
carried the states cash to Grand
Rapids, delivering it to Gen. White,
who gave Gen. Marsh bunch of bills.
The various meetings of the alleged
conspirators and their connection with
the deal" were related. Bickerstaff
may not be cross-eXamined.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Third Day.

Owing to the necessity of establish
ing the guilt of Gen. White as a neces-
sary adjunct to the Marsh trial, rather
slow progress was made by the prose-
cution on the 22d, as much of the time
was taken up with placing in evidence
and reading to the jury the correspond
ence that passed between the quarter
mastcr-general's Office and the Hender-
son-Ames Co., in connection with the
fake sale to the Illinois Supply Co.,
and the subsequent buying of the same
goods from the Henderson-Ames Co.
Col. Smith was the only witness on the
stand, and he gave some interesting
testimony regarding the methods that
were employed in selling and buying
the goods, and the somewhat intricate
details that were worked out in order
to cover up the fraud.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Met an Accidental Death.

Paul Reno, of Crosse Pointe, met an
accidental death on the night of the
23d. Reno was Il widowcr and resided
alone. During the afternoon of the
tragedy he drank sufficient amount
of whisky to make him drunk, and
could scarcely walk when he left the
saloon en- route for home. When he
reached home the theory is advanced
that he lit his pipe and lay down on a
pile of straw which was in the kitchen
to sleep off his jag. A spark from his
pipe set the straw on fire and the I'M
fortunate man was overcome by the
combined effects of drink and smoke,
so that he was unable to help himself
when he was aroused by the pain of
the fire.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
s1s7,oOO Gold Statue.

The gold statue of THE American
Girl" which is to be exhibited at the
Paris exposition, was successfully cast
on the 21st. Miss Maude Adams, the
actress, was the model, and Mrs. Bessie
Potter Vonnah was the sculptor. The
statue mounted on its base will be six
feet in height, the figure being of Miss
Adams own height. 1t weighs 719
pounds, and the bullion used is valued
at $751; 900.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Discovery of a New Mineral.

A 15-inch assure vein of copper ore
recently discovered crossing the lode at
the Mohawk mine and first thought to
DC copper sulphurets, proves to be alb
solutely a new mineral never before
determined by mineralogists Prof.
Geo. A. Koenig, the eminent scientist
of IIoughton, whose authority is recog-
nized in Europe and America, has con-
Quoted extensive experiments with the
mineral and pronounces it hitherto
unknown combination of copper, nickel
and arsenic. possessing great value.
lie has named the mineral Mohawkite
from the mine where found
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

A "board of trade" otherwise n
bucket shop, was established at Albion
several weeks ago, but the residents of
that good Methodist town are evidently
not believers in speculation in stocks,
for lack of patronage compelled the
closing up of the shop last week.
The blockade of Pere Marquette
steamers was raised at noon on the
22d, when the car ferry and No en-
tered port after n siege of 60 hours.
This was the longest delay the boats
have experienced in many years, and
the first time the car ferry was ever
bafiied.
Miss Isabella Wood, aged 90, of De-
troit, mysteriously disappeared late on
the afternoon of the 23d, and all
efforts to locate her by her friends and
the police have proven of no avail
Her relatives and friends can assign no
reason why the young lady should
leave home in such strange manner.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
Kentucky's Secretary of state on Trial

The preliminary examination of Sec
rotary Of State Caleb Powers, charged
with abetting the assassination of VIM.
Goebel, began at Frankfort, KY, on
the 23d before Judge Moore. The court
house was guarded inside and out by
the militia and scores of deputy sher-
ifs armed with Winchester rifles, to
prevent possible interference from
mountainous, who were reported on
their way to the city, but their pres
ence was unnecessary, as the noun
taineers failed to appear and no disor-
der occurred.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
STATE GOSSIP.

The Presbyterians of Alma are to
build new church.
The Methodists of Hudson will build
a new SIS, 900 edifice.
Grace Temple, the Peoples church,
was dedicated at Battle Creek on the
25th.
The dam at Pinkney went out on the
night of the 10Th, entailing a loss of
81, 800.
John Shook, of Coldwater, committed
suicide by the laudanum route on the
night of the 10Th.
The next meeting of the Eastern
Michigan Press club will be held in
Detroit, Friday, April Il.
The Catholics of Cadillac have de-
cided to erect $4,000 brick edifice
during the coming summer.
A movement is on foot at Midland to
organize business mems association
to whoop 'er up for the town.
Yale will probably have another bank
as soon as new building can be erect
ed for its accommodation.
the proposition to convert the present
town hall into a modern opera house.
The Pottawattomie Indians in the
vicinity of Hartford have decided to
sell their claim to Chicago property for
S45, 900.
Rev. j. J. Axtell, of Royal Oak, has
hired out as farm hand, which occu-
patton he says he intends to pursue in
the future.
A large foundry and machine shop,
giving employment to a number of
skilled worlSmen, is in prospect for
Iron Mountain.
According to conservative estimates
not less than 100 new houses and other
buildings will be erected in Dowagiac
the coming season.
The public schools at Sebewaing
were closed on the 22d on account of
scarlet fever epidemic. Ten cases are
reported, and two deaths.
Brighton has hopes of a canning fac
tory. For So 900 bonus, which the
new village dads are talking of giving,
it is believed one can be had.
Peach growers around Saranac say
that the fruit is all right in favored
localities, but on low ground the buds
have been quite gene rally injured by
| frost.
The auditor generals office received
taxes from county treasurers at the
rate of $4,000 a day during the past
week. Nearly all of the counties have
settled.
Sparta's schools are so crowded that
no new pupils can be admitted at the
beginning of the spring term, but will
have to wait until next September to
come in.
2The people of Ludington will vote
next week on the proposition TO change
the name of the city back to Pere Mar
quette, as it was originally known
years ago.
More building operations have been
planned at Belding than the local car
penters can attend to, and it is likely
that outside mechanics will have to be
imported.
The treasurers of the different town
ships and the city of Hillsdale have
made their reports to the county treas
urer. They return sl,6ls.s1 of taxes
uncollected.
Rural free delivery will be established
1T st. Johns. Length of route, 81
miles; area covered, II square miles,;
population served, 1,795. Two carriers
will be employed
Allegau's prospects for a pickle fac
tory this season have gone glimmering,
as the farmers of the vicinity not hav-
ing shown enough interest in the mat
ter to make it a go.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
substantiates Macrum's Charges.

A special from Washington says:
Lord Salisbury has apoligized to the
United States for the opening by the
British censor at Durham of mail adj
dressed to ex-Consul Chas. Il. Macrum,
at Pretoria The apology will be sent
to the house committee on foreign af-
fairs by Secretary of State Hay, when
Mr.. Macrum's case against the state
department is heard.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
sixth DaY.

The defense sprung n sensation in the
Marsh trial ON the Goth by drawing
from President Hunter Of the Hender-
son-Ames Co. the fact that confer
ence was held in his room in the Hotel
Downey ON March 6, Prosecutor Tuttle
and 5. n. Bickerstaff being present.
The object was to show that futile
coached them as to the line of testi-
mony TO be given TO bear out his theory,
and that they were promised immun-
ity from prosecution. President Hun
ter denied all these claims, and Prose-
cutor Tutle, in examining him, drew
out the fact that no conniving of the
nature claimed had been made. The
defense also attempted TO show that
Col. Sutton. Col. Pope, Gen. Marsh and
Attorney Speed were in the next room
and heard the conversation. Attorneys
for the defense disagreed as to the adj
visibility of raising this question.
President Hunter went into the finan-
cial transactions between his company
and Gen. White.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
STATE MILITARY SCANDAL.
The Trial of Gen. Marsh was Com
menced March 20.
GEN. WHITE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
eraI Attempts to Have the Case Con-
tinued but Judge weist Turned Them
Down-A bfief synopsis of the Trial.

The trial of Gen. Arthur +. Marsh,
of Allegan, charged with being an ac-
cessory with Gen. White in the cmbez-
element of funds from the state, was
commenced at Lansing on the Goth and
received good start. A jury was ac-
cepted by both sides at $3.50 o'clock,
after 20 ont of a panel of 20 had been
examined
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

The several mormon colonies in Mex
leo have been increased in population
by the arrival of over 5000 mormon
emigrants from Utah during the last
two months. The colonies were estab-
lished under concessions granted by
the Mexican government.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

BY gasoline explosion at the resi-
dence of Jas. Weaver, of Columbus, o.,
on the 10th one person was killed out
right and six injured, five fatally and
one seriously.
Just 100 convicts have had the bene-
fit of the parole law, and out of that
number 10 broke their pledges and
were returned. Whisky was the gen.
eral cause of their downfall.
The James NiclSum saw mill, six
miles southwest of Muncie, Ind, was
destroyed by fearful explosion on the
23d. Three men ARE dead, one more
will die and three others were injuredl
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
GRAIN, ETC.

sDetroit-Hay No. Timothy, sls % per ton.
Potatoes, 4Jc per ou Live Poultry. spring
ducks, los. Eggs strictly fresh, i4c per dozen
Butter, best dairy. ~ per 10; creamery, 2o1
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

There are already 40 exhibits in the
Marsh case, and many more are TO fol
low. The record will be enormous.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-12-01
RApID-FIRE GUN TESTED.
General Miles and Others Inspect th e Burlington Carriage-Reaulta
 Yet Unknown.

Final tests were made at Sandy Hook, N. J., the other day to prove the relative merits of rapid-fire guns mounted, respectively, on the old fashioned coast-defense armament and the disappearing carriage. These tests were witnessed by the board, comprising Gen. Miles, Gen. Buffing- ton, chief ordnance officer; Gen. Rog- CTS, colonel of the Fifth artillery; Gen. Wilson, chief engineer. and Mir Hen derson. the civilian officer of the board.
 The tests were the outcome of a discussion that had been started by Gen. Miles regarding the use of the Burlington disappearing carriage. Gen. Miles contention being that a gun mounte,. on this carriage cannot fire with sufficient rapidity. Gen. Miles. upon the boards return, refused to discuss the result in detail. but said that ten shots each were fired, from the five-inch gun and the six-inch gun on the disappearing carriage. When asked if a report would soon be pre- pared, Gen. Miles replied:
 "A report will be made, but there may be no decision for year or two" :"
The St. Johns herald., 1900-12-01
ANGoRA CAT KILLS A SNAKE.
PsunOes Upon the Reptile and Finally Succeeds in Breaking
 It's Neck.

A large Anchora cat, belonging to Dr. J. Hammond Bradshaw, of Orange, N. J.. killed a snake the other after noon that measured five inches around the body and was three feet two and a half inches long. The combat was witnessed by Mrs. Margaret Haugh- wout, Dr. Bradshaw's sister-in-law. Mrs. Haughwout says that the cat crouched and sprang upon the snake. which was coiled in the roadway in front of Dr. Bradshaw's residence. The cat bit the snake in the back and jumped away before the snake could strike. At this point Mrs. Haugh- wout stepped in and picked the cat up, thinking it would be hurt. The cat resisted, and Mrs Haughwout de- cided to let him go again. The cat then made another attack upon the serpent, which succeeded in coiiing itself about it's antagonists neck. Tom was nearly strangled, but man aged to seize the snake by the neck and succeeded in killing it in few minutes. The snake was said to be of the variety known as the house adder.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-12-01
SECURES FINE RELICS
American Museum of Natural He
 tory Adds to Its Exhibit.
Excavations on Long Island Bring to Light Many Interesting and Valuable Reminders 0s
 Prehistoric Days.

When the many relics of prehistoric days which have recently been un- earthed at Weir Creek Point, near Throgs Neck, are exhibited in the Amer ican Museum of Natural History, that institution will have come into posses sion of an archaeological collection of great scientific value.
 Raymond Harrington, who is in charge of the museums local field work, has met with unexpected success in his latest investigations at Weir Creek Point, between Fort Slocum and City Island. Skeletons, argillite, imple- ments of antique shape, stone cooking utensils, pottery beads and pipes have been found in shell heaps since Sep tember Is, the pieces of broken pot tery and stone implements discovered at the bottom of the excavations being much more crude than those near the surface. This difference, MT. Harring- ton says, tells of the progress made in the handicraft in hundreds of years All of the relics come from period of distant antiquity.
 Twenty skeletons. which have already arrived at the museum, were found at Port Washington, on Long Island, where excavations were before the sci entists began to dig at Weir Creek i, Point. They were found in pits about four feet deep, which had been filled with dirt, shells and broken pottery The skeleton of a dog was found under the skeleton of an adult in one grave A stone arrow point between the ribs tells how the canine died. There were fractures in the skulls of two skele- tons, probably warriors, found in a single grave, and the bones of three children were unearthed together
 Mir. Harrington's most important dis coveries at Weir Creek Point have been soapstone cooking utensils, rolled copper head. telling of probable contact with Lake Superior Indians, argillite implements, arrow points, stone knives, bone implements and split bones. A stone ahl, used in a bow drill in the manufacture of wampum, is regarded as a valuable find
 MT. Harrington expects to find skele- tons near the borders of the Weir Creek Point shell heap. He believes the Indians of that village had more respect for their dead thaD~to bury them in the piles of refuse which the shell heaps ultimately became.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-12-01
YIELD HEAVY TAX.
York State Bring Gold Into the Treasury.

Returns of the death tax in New York to tate Controller Gilman show that 1900 was "hoodoo" year for millionaires. To the state from New York county alone for inheritance taxes will be paid over S4,OOO,G00. AL ready $3,2OO,O GOO has been collected. There was never such a profitable year since the transfer law went@nto effect. Every month has recorded the death of a millionaire, and the re- ports to Controller Gilman show a large number of estates valued form $500, 900 to $500, 900.
 This has meant a rich harvest for referees, who have collectea over S1,2 100000 in fees from the state.
 The passage of the New York mill lionaires means also snug pickup for City Controller Coler. He will re- ceive this year about $40,O00 for his part of the death tax. lie gets one per cent. of all collections and the state receives 23a per cent. The con- troller's annual salary from the city is S1O,O0O.
 Here is the tax roll of the .12 months. returnable to Controller Gill;