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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
TOOK ARSENTC IN WHISKEY.
Patrick Havey, Who Attempted Suicides Resting Comfortably.


 Resting Comfortably.
 Patrick Havey, who lives at the cor ner of Ashmun and Webster streets, at tempted suicide by taking arsenic Sat- urday night. Havey lost his wife about six weeks ago and since that time he has been Respondent. He walked into a saloon across the street from where he lives and ordered a glass of whis- key. When it was set before him he poured something into it that he said was quinine.
 Tke proprietor became suspicious and notified the police of the Di1well ave- nle station. It was ascertained that he had taken arsenic and the ambulance was sent for. He was taken to the hos- pital, where he was pumped out, and as he took but small doze of the poison he was in no immediate danger. Last night at the hospital 1t was learned that the man was resting comfortably and Wae, in a fair way to recover.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
CHINA ACCEPTS THE TERMS
HER ENTOYS ORDERED TO SIGN
 THE JOINT NOTE.
Foreign Ministers Informed-Tho De- cision of the Emperor Unexpectedly Qufck-'Instructs Li Hung Chang and
 Prince Ching to Ask Suspension of HOstiltties-PrObabIe Return of the
Court Soon.

Pekin, Dec. 30.-The Chinese plenipo- tentiariee have been unexpectedly or dered to sign the preliminary joint note and have notified the foreign envoyS to that effect.
 The Chinese themselves were greatly astonished at receiving the imperial in- structions. Neither Il Hung Chang nor Prince Ching had expected success in persuading the court under ten days.
 The emperor's instruction are to agree fully to the note but to endeavor to get the best terms possible, particu larly in the matter of limiting the num- Der of legation guards and as to the places where these are to be located.
 The plenipotentiaries are instructed to endeavor to limit the number of army posts along the line of railway to as few as possible and finally to re- quest the powers not to destroy the forts, but merely to disarm them.
 Li Hung Chang's health is bad, and it is doubtful whether he will be able to do more than atfix his signature to an instrument delegating his powers to Prince Ching until another plenipoten- tiary has been appointed. He was dressed this morning and carried in chair to the residence of Prince Ching, with whom he held a long consultation. Prince Ching then called upon the doyen of the diplomatic corps, the Spanish minister, Senor De Cologan, and requested him to notify the other anvoys that instruction had been re- ceived from the emperor to sign the note
 Paris, Dec. 30.-The Havas Agency f1as received the following dispatch from Pekin: Prince Ching and Lii Hung Chang have communicated 10 the foreign envoys an imperial edlct in which the emperor declares that China accepts the joint note and authorizes Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang to negotiate and to ask for suspension Df hostilities."
 Prince Ching and Lii Hung Chang, according to the another dispatch to the Havas Agency, say that Emperor Kwang Su expressed a desire that the court should return to Pekin at the end of February.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
BRITISH PRESS HOPEFUL,
Not Dnunted by Bad News on Closing
 Day of XcHr.

London. Dec. 31,-While Lord Kitch- ener sends bad news for England on the closing day of the year, the press continues to take surprisingly hopeful view Of grave situation and o1 revela- tions of an enormously wide field of Boer activity. General Dewet is still at large. Kimberley is isolated. The Boers are in force enough to have cap- tured a strong position at Helvetia, in the Lydenburg district, while judging from Lord Kitcheners very recent ad- vices no progress is being made against the Boer invaders In Cape Colony.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Rebels Worse Than Ever.

West Superior, Wis, Dec. 30-In a letter written from the Philippines just before the recent election to his rela- tives in this city Captain Harry New ton says that at that time the encroach- ments of the natives were worse than they had been at any time during the year previous. As one instance of their ferocity he writes: Just the other day they jumped on detachment of our Twenty-fourth, numbering twenty-two men. and captured sixteen of them One of them was found terribly mutilated, showing signs of being skinned while yet alive"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
DEMOCRATIC CREORG4NIZATIO
Committee yyHI Remain ns It
 IsUnttl 1904.

Kansas City, Mo. Dec 30.-J. D. Johnson, chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic National committee, who passed through this city to-day en route from Chicago to his home in Kansas, said:
 q am not in position to say what will be done toward maintaining the Democratic organization perfected dur ing the last campaign, but l will say that there will be no reorganization of the national committee. The committee Is organized until 1904 and will remain as it is until that time. I believe that the present precinct organization can be maintained and made entirely self supporting"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
NEW HAVEN MIN LOSES FOOT
Thomas j. Palmer Falls Under a Car at
 New London.

New London, Conn.,. Dec. oO-Ihomas J. Palmer of 3o6 Congress avenue, New Haven. a piano maker, this morning fell beneath the wheels of freight train which he was trying to board it. and had his right leg crushed at the ankle MT. Palmer came here Saturday night and in company with several others, intended to jump" the freight for Providence to-day. All the others succeeded in getting on the moving train in safety, but Palmer lost his foot ing and was thrown under the wheels. He was taken to the hospital and his leg was amputated above the ankle. To- night he Is doing well.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
MRS. NATION DEFER RMINED
When Released from Jail She Will
 Again Smash Saloon Fixtures.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. S0.-Mrs. Carrie Nation, the w. c. T. U. woman who broke mirrors and destroyed valuable painting In a Wichita saloon, has re- fused bail secured for her by her CO., workers. She now says that under no circumstances will she step out of jail until cleared of the charge against her, and the w. c. T. U. has practically abandoned their efforts to secure her release. Mrs Nation says that if she is released from imprisonment she will de- molish saloon furniture in other Kan sas cities.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
A Christmas Tree Fire.

Bridgeport, Conn.,. Dec. 30-A $500 fire occurred at the house of Daniel Walker of this city tonight through the ignition of Christmas tree that had been prepared for MT. Walkers three year-old son. The fire was started by the lighted candles on the tree and suined the interior of the lower floor before it would be brought under con-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Germany Not Negotiating.

Copenhagen, Dec. 30.-In Danish off, cial circles the report that Germany is negotiating to purchase the Danish An tillies Is denied. "If the islands are to be sold," said a high official to-day, the purchaser will be the United States, and no other power. All will be sold, or pone,"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Elected from Lun ch Cart.

Putnam, Dec. 30,-Patrick Roach was elected from a night lunch cart In which he was making a disturbance last night, and in falling to the side walk sustained a fracture of the skull. He was taken to the Day-Kimball hos ptal and will live.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31

COTTON HOLLOW CASE.
Hostler at the House Taken Into Cus-
 tody Yesterday.


 Naugatuck, Conn.,, Dec. 30.-At the close of to-day's investigation of the Cotton Hollow Road house mystery, Assistant Coroner Pond placed under arrest William Murray, or William Fitzpatrick, as he is known to some, the hostler at the establishment where Gerald Melberg met his death a week ago last Saturday night The charge against Murray is not known. as no record has been entered on the books of the Naugatuck police station where he is confined, and neither Mir. Pond nor Detective Leete gave out any informa- tion in regard to their action. Murray is said to have come to Naugatuck from Wacpinger's Falls, N. Y, but fur then than this nothing is known about him. The other inmates are still at the house under close surveillance.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Schooner Reached at Saybrook,

Saybrook, Dec. 30.-The two masted schooner Anna A. Chesboro, 150 tons, was beached here this afternoon after springing a leak She was bound for Bridgeport,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
BUNCoED OUT OF s4,ooo,
MIDDLETO TN WOMAN TICTIATIZED
 T"GREEN GOODSo GAME.
Mrs. John Hubbard Enters Into a Bar gain With two Swindlcrs and Now She Has Lost All Her Hard Earned savinxs-First Money She Received Passed Without Trouble.

Middletown, Dec. 30.-Mrs. John Hub bard, of this city, states that she has been buncoed out of $4,000 of her saw ings by the old familiar "green-goods" game, and in consequence of her state ments the local police are looking for Benjamin Manowitch, of this city, and Ferris Abrahams, of Boston, who, it is alleged, were the perpetrators of the scheme. Mrs. Hubbard is the proprle- tor of small truck farm and has for some years past done business of some proportions with the neighboring marketmen.
 she says, and was approached some days before Christmas by two stran- gers whom she describes as being the two missing men. They told her, she states, that they would furnish her with $100 in their article of green goods' for $75, and she made bargain. Finding that the money that she received from the two strangers passed without any difficulty, Mrs. Hubbard entered into further negotiations, which were to re- suit in great profit for herself. How much money she obtained does not appear, but her statement is that the price of her experience was $4,000
 Neither of the men wanted have been seen in this city since Christmas, and the local police know nothing of their
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 30, via Haytien Cables)-Genera Uribe, the chief of the Colombian revolution who was recently de- feated at Corazel in the province of Bolivar, as death blow to the revolutionary move
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
ROOSETELI AT CARNEGIE HALL.
Speaks to mn Audience of Young Men
 Tint Filled the House.

New York, Dec. 30.-Governor Roose- welt spoke this afternoon at Carnegie hall before an audience of young men that completely filled the house. It was a mass meeting for young men, ar ranged by the Y. M c. A. of the city, but it was somewhat unique in the fact that the chief speaker was in way addres sing more than hundred other audiences throughout the country. It had been arranged so that copies of Governor Roosevelt's address had been secured in advance and sent to secre- taries of associations through the coun- try and it was said that the address was read aloud at more than 100 other meetings at the same hour.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Superi ten dent of the Capitol,

Meriden, Conn, Dec. 30.-Comptroller Chamberlain last night appointed Francis Stephenson of this city super intendent of the capitol at Hartford, and reappointed as assistant Superin- tendent John L. Wilson of Suffield.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Twelve Families Made Homeless.

New York. Dec 30--Twelve families were made homeless in Hoboken to-day by fire which destroyed a number of frame houses. There were several nar- row escapes. The property loss was small
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Hiram Hitchcock Dead,

New York, Dec. 30.--Hiram Hitchcock, the last of the founders of the Fifth Avenue hotel died at the hotel this morning after a few days illness from pneumonia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
MONTHLY BOROUGH MEETING.
VIII be Held in West Haven Te-morrow
 Evening.

The board of warden and burgesses of West Haven will hold it's regular monthly meeting tomorrow evening and 1t is expected that there will be considerable business that will come up before the board on that night. The question of lighting the borough will receive proper attention and 1t is said that several companies propose to put in bids for the contract of lighting the town. It is also probable that the fire committee trouble will be taken up and appointments made. Other fire matters may come up and received considera" tion, one of which is that of the sale of the chemical machine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
Ashanti RehelIiom Ended.

London, Dec. 30.-Colonel Willcocks has cabled the government that the Ashanti rebellion has ended, all of the rebel chiefs having surrendered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31

London, Dec. 31-Scandalous scenes oc- curerd at a Dowie Zionist meeting in Ber- mondsey town hall last evening, the dis- turbances eliminating in free fghh
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
METHODIST DEBT RAISED
YESTERD1Y BY THE TWENIIETH
 CENTURY WESLEYAN LEAGUE.
Last So,o00 ofthe Debt ofs75, ,OOO Pied ged in the First Methodist Church-In- formal Addresses by the Oficers-Con- ditionaI Pledge of S5,UOO Fulfilled The Last Five Dollars.

With final effort the Twentieth Cen tury Wesleyan league of New Haven yesterday lifted the debt which has so long burdened the Methodist churches of this city. The meeting which closed in the First Methodist church, corner of Elm and College streets.
 H. H. Benedict, president of the league, delivered an informal address on the work which had been done, sketching it's history since its organza- tion two years ago, and said that it's mission had been accomplished only
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31

The address was read at the Y. M. c. A. meeting at the Grand opera house yesterday afternoon, and is given in full in the account of that gathering on page 12.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
PRISONERS SET JAIL ON FIRE.

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
CAZHOL1C TURNS JEWESS.

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The age-herald., 1900-03-26
GENERAL WHEELER

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
 General Wheeler Is entitled to all the hon. ors his government can give him, but 1t Is not clear that he should accept brigadier generalship, If such were offered him, in order that he might go on the retired list. General Wheeler is in no need of a govern ment pension and he should not accept one. He is well-to-do and can take care of him. self He should retire gra cefully to private life and husband out lfe's taper to it's close among his friends and acquafntances. He has served his country well and has earned all the glory that it is possible for him ito earn with the present exiguity of op- portunbties He is now nearing the allotted period of three score and ten and it Is time for him to step aside out of the swirl of lifes activities, give way to a younger quiet dignity becoming his years, watch the procession as 1t passes in review before him. For General Wheeler. the chase for further glory would be quest of the pot of gold at the base of the rainbow's arch. He has won so many laurel crowns that to strive for more would be to pile Pelion upon Ossa. His eeuntrymen admire him and his name will shine in history with luster that can only be dimmed by his acceptance of reward from the federal government for what he has done, or by exhibiting an exigent craving for continued prominence by persistence in office-seeking. To be hero of two wars is enough.
The age-herald., 1900-03-26

empire If they can advance the prices or their own products. They have all the traits and selfishness of the Dingleyites In this country. Even commercial war with this country they do not fear, just as our tarifiites are waiting retaliation by voting to reject the reasonable and moderate reci- proefty treaties. and are even ready to over throw the constitution in order to main- tain the robberies of the Dingley bill.
 The bill in the German parliament Is al- most wholly anti i-American, and as the president now has the power to strike back commercial war between this country and Germany is not improbable. The trade between the two countries Is very heavy, but public sentiment will not permit Ger many to shut out our meats while we take from her beet sugar, wines and wide va rety of manufactured goods. The oppor- tunity to retaliate is ample, and 1t will doubtless be exercised in case the meat bill becomes a law.
The age-herald., 1900-03-26
County Uniformity as Second Choice.

If uniformity in text books In the present state of educational progress and book trust activity be impossible, as the recent effort of Mississippi goes to show, then in- deed let the trownship trustees be given the power to initiate movement towards county uniformity. Even the book trust should not be permitted to block the pas sage of law similar to the new Iowa law, for that law is essentially local and essen tially of a popular nature.
 Under the Iowa law when one-third of the trustees of a county so ask the ques- ton of uniformity of school text books must be submitted to the voters of the county, and If majority of the voters voting say "yes," uniformity becomes law in the county, and the county superintend- ent is charged with it's execution. Adjacent counties can thus by cooperating minimize the evils of varied text books, and almost rise to the economy and good sense Of the states that enforce uniformity within state lines. Tennesse is such a state.
 At present in this state the whims of every teacher determines the text books that scholars must buy. Removal from one locality to another means a new set of text books. Each teacher gets up dicker with the first agent of the book trust that reaches him, and for all books in this state two prices are paid-that is to say Ala bama children pay twice the price in each purchase that Tennessee or Indiana child ren pay. The children and their parents arc helpless against the exactions of the book trust The fault lies in legislation If we cannot rise to state uniformity-if the book trust will not permit that because of the rocl1-bottom prices it involves, then let us have county unifority on the Iowa local option plan. The present plan is simply one to promote robbery by the book trust to an extent that shuts the poorest children out of school altogether.
The age-herald., 1900-03-26

joy in that old Virginia mansion that night, can tell youi"
 E. O. Miller of Isincoin. Neb.. Is at the Morris. He is accompanied by Mrs. Miller
 c. l.. Norman, the Atlanta architect, is in town. He has almost completed the plans for the proposed first-class hotel in Mobile.
 Hon. A. H. Aston of Barbour, the states supernumerary judge is in Birmingham Judge Alston has been holding circuit court in Lauderdale and Jackson counties. He proceeds this morning to Montevallo to hold the Shelby court. From Shelby he goes to Choctaw county to hold court; and from Choctaw will come north to hold the Blount court. Several judges have been recently il or otherwise disqualified for holding their respective courts. This has necessitated the appointment of one or two special judges the demand upon Judge AL stons time being more than he could meet
 Congressman Stallings was in town yes- terday. and left in the afternoon for But Ter, Choctaw county, where he will deliver political speech today. Owing to mis- understanding as to the time of departure of a certain train, MT. Stallings was obliged to go to York station, Sumter, from which point he will drive to Butler, distance of 35 miles
The age-herald., 1900-03-26
German Neat Inspection.

The reichstag has practically adopted under vigorous inspection, thereby excud- ing portions of them. and that absolutely excludes all foreign meats after December a1, 1903. The bundesrath has not acted on the bil, but 1t is believed 1t will accept if with the provision for total exclusion stricjS- en out. The bill thait the compact and in- tensely loyal, but not large, body of Agra rians is pressing to passage has long way to go yet, and no one can say what form it will take at the end No one urges on the bill except the Agrarians, because it will increase the cost of living. thereby de- ranging industries and commercial inter- ests. The trade of this country with Ger many in meats is about s2OOO0.OOO year.
 The law the Agrarians desire is aimed directly at importations of live cattle. It and for another after slaughter. Certain prepared meats and canned meats, of sau- sage and other chopped or ground meat cannot be imported at all if the pending bill becomes a law. Importations of ba- con. lard. ham and oleoma rgarine are not prohibited in the bill.
 The object of the bill fs ostensibly to
 
 ts to boom the products of the Agrarians themselves. It is class legislation of the tariff sort. The Agrarians do not care what becomes of the other interests in the
The age-herald., 1900-03-26
Imitation of the Currency.

The political cunning that is tied up in the republican party is very large, and the adoption of the currency imitation measure eight months before a presidential election is proof of the fact. Tn fostering their pet banking system upon the country they pro- vided for an increase of circulation in sev- eral ways. In the first place the issuance of currency up to the par value of bonds deposited is in itself an imitation of s24,0OO,- GOO, no inconsiderable sum in itself.
 But this will be but drop in the bucket. The new law readily admits of increases in circulation through the deposit of bonds. One bank in Macon has decelded to in- crease it's circulation $45 ,OO0 to $13O000, and the Bank of Commerce in Memphis that now has only s45.OOo in currency notes out standing will hereafter have S5oO00o. The Nashville American expresses the opinion that every state bank in that state will within six months become national bank, increasing in many cases their capital, and taking out all the currency they can. In the small towns there is also a fever for establishing s25.0oO banks.
 Since the gold~standard bill became law forty-one associations have been authorized to organize banks. Sixteen of this number were banks of s25.0oo capital each in small towns, and ten had been state banks. All in all the various movements promoted or authorized by the new bin will doubtless go on until the circulation is increased fully $50, ,0oe, 900. This is a conservative estimate, one wholly within known developments and tendencies.
The age-herald., 1900-03-26
HRyAN,s RUNNING MATE

From a South Bend, Ind, Dispatch.
 Indiana free silver democrats regard Ex- Congressman Benjamin F. shively. who is mentioned as William Jennings Bryan's running mate, as an ideal candidate for vice president.
 In any respects Mir. Bryan and MT. Shfve- ly resemble each other. The Indianian is more than six feet tall, and is fine look ing He ds a natural orator, and is re- garded as one of the most eloquent and is a favorite with the popu'lists and with certain clements of the Iaboring classes. He is also warm personal friend of Mt. Bryan.
 Like the free silver leader, he is a lawyer, and good one. He has served four terms in congress. In 1892, when his last term ended, he wrote T open letter to his con- stituents announcing .hat he intended to retire from public life, and that he would accept no further nominations for office. He has adhered to this up to tho present as to whether he would break 1t if the vice presidenttag candidacy is offered to him.
 MT. Shively is f years old, and a native of Indiana. He began life as a farmer; be- came successiveIy school teacher, ap edi- tor and congressman. After his first term he took up law. and since 1892 has devoted himself to its practice.