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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-5, Page 64150111018111:010010010100910aernn SlatiallainalinUlianalnal•IMOOMMI11011111000MalWaleillet A PARISIAN HORROR. Terrible Crime of a Commercial Traveller— Murders Bi s Mistress, A Petrie cable Bagel : Pale heti been litartled by another sensational crime, this time committed in the Hotel des Mathurins et do New Pork, 33 Rue des Mathurins. This is one of the quiet, ehady, rather narrow streets that lie behind the Boule- vard afeleslaerbes, selected by Gaboriau eo the soene a one of his most mysterioue orioles. The cireurestances attending the latest addition to the criminal annals of tlae quarter are of yory pentilim oharaoter. Since the exhibition a commercial traveller named Blevineki, mithilineged man of Polish extraction, veho et one time held a cominiesion in the latuseian army and whose mother has been a lady of honor at the court of the Czar, hen been in the hided of putting up at the Hotel des Ithnrin overal times a month in a front room on the second floor, usually re. served for this valuable client. During each of his stays in Para) M. Blevinslti nsed to receive a visit from e good-looking woman, slightly over 30 years of age, who was supposed to be his mistrese. It is now knoven that this visitor was Mme. Jeanne Wolooskoy, wife of an agent de chance. Mme. Wolooskoy lived on the best terms with her husband in comfortable apart. inente in Rue Brochant, and M. Blevinsky was a friend of tho family. On Thursday afternoon between 2 and 3 o'clock Itime. YtTleMoekoy called for Blevinsky at the hotel and the pair shut themselves up together in the latter's room, and Mine. Woloorthoy was Dever again seen alive. This morning about habnpast ten, 131evinsky was met by a gareon as he was leaving bis room. "Dont Abut the door," said the latter," I am going In to arrange the room." "No, no," cried Blevineky, "I forbid you to enter," and he dammed the door behind him excitedly. The garcon, surprised at the inexplicable burst of anger, forthwith con. Ailed to the landlord that he suspected something was wrong. The landlord and a servant went upstairs together. On entering the landlord's eyes fell upon the half -naked body of Mme, Wolocskoy lying on the floor beside the bed. A great quantity of blood oozed from a bullet wound in her breast above the heart, and had trickled down to the floor. Blevinsky was arrested as he was quietly walking along the Rue Roque Pine. When con- ducted to the police station the prisoner coolly begged theconamiseary not to fatigue him with questione, as he was wounded. "I assure you," he went on, "that I did not kill Jeanne. She committed suicide. Because I could not give her the money she required he shot herself twice -with my revolver. I tried to recall her to consciousness, but when I saw that she Wee dead I wanted to put an end to my own life," and Blevrasky showed the com- missary that part of his ear had been shot away. M. Cszianeuve, who bad, on receiv- irg information of the crime, proceeded to make a brief examination of the room where it was committed, pointed out to the prisoner that all the evidence he had col- lected pointed to the falsity of his etate. ment. The table had been overthrown and a champagne bottle and glasses were broken. Shrugging his shoulders, Blevin• sky replied, "Why should I kill Jeanne? I have known and loved her for seventeen years. You will zee from my letters to her how much I adored her." Blevinsky was taken to the Hotel des Mathurins in the course of the afternoon, and was confronted with the corpse of his eupposed victim. He bore himself calmly, and maintained his assertion that the woman had committed euicide. TO BOOM DETROIT. The C. P. R's. New Railway Scheme In the United States. A Detroit despatch says: A railway project, startling for its magnitude, and yet one which has been for some time entertained by its projectors, has been put upon its feet by the Wabash management. To -day surveyors have started on the pre. liminary survey of a new route, straight west from Montpelier, 0. to Chicago, which will make the sho;test line from Detroit to the metropolis of the west. Ample funds have been secured to con- struct the new road, which will reach a maximum cost of $2,500,000. When the read is completed it will belong to the Wabash Railroad, although it is thought the Canadian Pacific is one of the backers of the great project. This route lies nearly in a bee line from Montpelier, through Northern Ohio and Northern Indiana, until Lake Michigan is approached, when it deflects northerly to reach Chicago. The Wabarth is built to Montpelier from Detroit. Montpelier is a station on the Butler Road, as the Detroit connection of the Wabash is called. When completed, the new road will extend 150 miles from Montpelier and make a continuous line of 272 miles from Detroit. The line of the Michigan Central measures 285 miles, leaving a distance of thirteen miles in favor of the new route in point of length. This great work, when finished, will bring a large extent of territory in Indiana tribut- ary to Detroit in the way of trade, and also add a small fraction of Ohio. UP IN A BALLOON, Tests of the Spencer Military Air Ship in London, England. A. London cable says: During the past week the Spencer war balloon made several ascents from the grounds of the Royal Military exhibition at Chelsea. On each of these occasions the company included your correspondent, and his experiences 6,000 feet in the clouds have attracted great attention. Yesterday the famous balloon ' made another ascent, and again your cor- respondent had a eeat inthe basket. When the balloon started out a high wind was blowing, and after traveling several miles the whole concern became unmanageable and was finally driven against a stupendous tree at Henley.on-the-Thames, where the balloon was torn to pieces, and the occu- pants narrowly escaped end(lert death. They had to elide down the trail rope at a distance of 80 feet from the ground, after having been knocked and tossed about in space for several minutes. Her Money for His Title, A Paris cable Faye : The Prince and Princess Caramati-Chinaay, nee Miss Ward, are occupying their Chateau de Chiming, in Belgium. The bride made a settlement on the Prince a few days previouri to her mar. riage of $100,000. Francis Janleta who WW1killed by a wounded elephant in the Gaboon oorintry, was a most adventereus traveler in the Dark Continent. He was only 38 and cencluoted all hie expeditiond at his own temente), —A sick oat is not even up tie the A Firemen's Union in New York de. mends eight hour. —May is one of the dullest monthe for Wedding.otike salee. NEWFOUNDL kND'S OSE. Delegates SeMtre an interview With the British Colonial Secretary. A Saturday's Loadon's cable says : The Newfoundland delegates had au interview yesterday with Lord Knutsford, the Colonial Secretary, at which the fishery question was fully discussed. The dele- gates will have another interview with the flolonial Secretary after Whitsuntide. The Chronicle palniebee an account of NS interview with tlae Newfoundland delegan $ on the fishery queetion. In the opinion of the delegates, a settlement might be arrived at by France aboliebieg the bounty system in return for the repeal of the Bait Act. In this way, they ergued, the value of the French shore claims as a lever on the bait question would be destroyed, and the way would be paved to the buying out of the French claims which matter oould be ar- ranged by arbitration. d he delegates pro- tested against Britieh officers aiding arid ' defending Frenoli aggression. They declared that there would be no thought of annexa- tion to the United States unless England neglected colonial interests. The delegates further declared that it was a fallacy to suppose that France valued the shore as the nursery of her navy, because the naval training ground was really on the high seas in the vicinity of the grand bank. The real point aimed at by France, according to the delegates, is to secure unrestricted access to the bait supply. A London cable says: The delegates from Newfoundland at present in London to lay the grievances of their countrymen before the British Government are: Sir James Winter, Q. C., R. 0. X. G., At. torney-General ; Mr. P. L. Scott, Q. C., ex•Speaker and Mr. A. B. Morino, M. P. They repudiate altogether responsibility for the tone of the address voted by the Legislative Council. This address was prepared by a joint select committee e.p• pointed upon the motion of Premier Sir William Valiance Whiteway, snd ia there- fore the deliberate expression of the atti- tilde of the Government and Legislature. The delegates and the address agree that the present condition of Newfoundland affairs is intolerable, and in refusing assent to any arbitration upon the lobster ques. tion, both affirm that such an arbitration would only continue a radically unju state of things. Both also agree in attribut- ing much of the trouble now existing to the enormous bounties given by France upon, fish exported by the Frew% fishermen to foreign markets, and both assert, though in different ways, that a settlement of tee difficulties between Great Britain and France which does not include the ma e ter of boundary is out of the question. To delegates say that so long as France p e- sesses any right mien any part of the cot, t Newfoundland's difficulties will contieu and they therefore ask that the attuned should be made to procure a surrender of those rights upon reasonable terms. They admit the improbshility that France would surrender these rights upon the meet of Newfoundland until she had in some man- ner procured from Newfoundland the right to purchase bait on the coasts of the colony, and they say, on the other hand, that Newfoundland would never concede this right until and unless the French bounties upon fish were either whollyabro. gated or so materially reduced as to permit of a fair competition between the fisher- men of France and Newfoundland. The delegates claim that their contentione, although earnestly urged, are calm and conciliatory, while the address is hot and irritating. No good can practically accrue to Newfoundland, BO the delegates say, from language calculated to incense the French, and they hold that the attacks upon the Government of this country muet also have an adveree effect. The language wbich the address uses towards Her Majesty's Ministers is considered to be unduly severe. A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Narrow Escape of a Philadelphia Man from Death in the Niagara. A Niagara Falls despatch says : Another life came near being added yesterday to the already long list of Niagara's viatime. Joeeph R. Wilson, an Englishman, now residing in Charymont, Philadelphia, and stopping with hie wife at the Prospect House, took a carriage yeeterday morning for a drive to the whirlpool. As they were walking along the edge of the pool Mr. Louis Sinclair, of Daydann, Netherall Gardens, South Hampseead, England, ,passed them, kft the path and scrambled over some rocks below the pathway. He was so ambitious to obtain anunobstructed view that he jumped on a large rook a few feet out in the river, not aware of the treacherous nature of the current. He had no sooner gained his position than the water boiled up about him and had risen above his knees, threatening to sweep him away. The situation was terrible. The poor man was spell.bound. Mr. Wilson rushed to the rescue. Be pulled off his overcoat, twisted it and threw one end to Sinclair, who caught it and was pulled ashore. The excitement was so great that congratulations were not thought of. Mr. Sinclair returned to his hotel, changed his clothes and called on Mr. 'Wilson at the Prospect House to sincerely thank him for his deliverance. Ha said, no one at that terrible moment could imagine his feelings. He never expected to see his wife and three children again. Mrs. 'Wilson is ill from the excitement. A New York Central Freight House and Contents Destroyed. An Albany despatoh of last night says One of the quickest, hottest and most ex- citing fires of recent years occurred here todeight in the burning of one of the New York Central freight houses near the river. About 7.15 people all over the oity heard a deep, dull boonainti report, and almost inetently a great cloud of thick black smoke, flame and sparks shot a hundred feet into the air. A moment later the alarm was given on the whiotles of all the steamboats and locomotives within sight, and within two minutes the bells were calling the fire department to the scene. The burning building was the middle one of three and was of wood. The other two aro new brick structures and were only scorched. How the fire started is a mystery ; but the blaze is generally attributed to some form of spontaneous combustion. When final; dig. covered it was a small blaze, but before the alarm could be given the fire reached the oil barrele and the explosion occurred. Within three rainntes the building was a newel of roaring fire. It is impossible to get any accurate idea of the loss. No one can tell to -night what consignments there were in the house, but they are roughly estimated at a100,000. —Half a dozen on -tidbit chopped into lin% bite and boiled a couple of hours with carrots, onions and such things as that make a tasty result. The meaning of the word advertise, "to make known, explains Ito importance. Make known what you haver to sell or what you wish to tiny. The benefits are so far. reaohing that yen cannot tell where they will and. Like the ripples of water caused by a stone, they extend Ur beyond the sight. INDIFEERENGE CONDEMNED. Stanley Doesn't Tillie tbe Way Eland Deals went'. African Questions. A London cable says t Dlr. Stanley made Some trenchant remarks on England and Germany M Africa last night at tlae ban- quet tendered him by the London ehamber of Commerce. Speaking of hie travels he remarked that in 1870 it was reported that Dr. Livingstone was lost, and the New York Herald Sent the speaker to find hire. He (Stanley) am so, and returned to Zanzibar iand England. What was done? They said he was au imposter, eeneationalist and forger, but time disproved these accuse. tions, and Livingstone's last journale proved that he (Stanley) had done what he had said, but became he was a mere jour- nalist and a pumps -liner it was supposed that all pennpadiners were eensationaliats. In 1874 he was sent baek again to Africa, Stanley then described his travels and pointed out that although so much ha been done by English travellers to open the dark regions of Africa yet this country failed to take advantage of their discoveries. In a bantering manner Stanley stinkenof the great interest the Germans bad manifested in the flora and fauna of Africa, whilst On the part of this country there was an indifference as to what aotually was occurring. A number of his friende, however, had come together to try and do something in regions which they had said slamild be the English part or a portion of the British posseesions some time., They had raieed a capital of half a million, but what was the ooneequenoe ? Instead of being permitted to make a road which, without deviating to the right or to the left, elaould go straight to the promised land, they were compelled to equander some thousande of pounds in fighting the Govetnment. If it were merely a clues. tion of rivalry between the Engliele and German company he ehould not mind; but when the Government backed up the German company it was not a fair fight, and that capital which would have made the railway right up to Victoria Nyanza would be wasted, instead of people, in two year' time, being able to take tickets to Victoria Nyanza, (Laughter). For the money there would be nothing to show except a bushel of treaties; but to the Germans there was nobody to say even " boo." He could speak very forcibly, but he was restrained. lf the faireet portion of Africa were to be given up to others and only the sterile lands be left, he would he one of the first to adatenenthe British oompany to retire. He thought -he had said enough, a word to the wise was enough, and he hoped they would remem- ber and ponder over the suggestions in what he had said. FIVE DAYS ADRIFT. Terrible Experiences of Two Seamen on the Grand Banks. A Halifax despatch says : The Nor. wegian barque Concordia, which arrived from Liverpool, brought two seamen, Spencer Decker and Eugene Bourke. They were picked up on the banks on May 191h, having lost their vessel in the fog five deers previously. The men belong to the Amen- oan fishing schooner Nellie G. Thurston. They drifted about for five days and nights without food or water. The men were attending their trawls when the fog set in and shut them out from their 'vessel. After rowing about for a day in an attempt to find the vessel they decided to make the Newfoundland coast, a distance of some 200 miles. Their sufferines from thirst, hunger and cold became hitense. On the fifth day out the men became very weak, their came breakicg out in sorestqww continual splashing of salt spray upon them. Their feet and lips became swollen, and it looked as though their last hour had come. To their great joy a ship was seen about a mile off, which proved to be the Concordia, and that vessel bore down on them and took the men and the dory on board. FIRED NINE SHOTS. , Wounded His Wife and Mother -in -Law and Killed Himself. A New York despatch says: Frederick RomaEo, a burley Italian blacksmith, lived with his wife and four children in the tenement at 27 Mulberry street. Recently he became insanely jealous and left his family. Tbe wile worked to support her- self and the children and her mother, Mrs. Arado. The blacksmith thought she was being supported by a fellow -countryman, and last night visited the house armed with two revolvers. Rushing into the bed -room where his wife was, he blazed away at her. The wife fell to the floor wonnded, and when her mother hurried to her aseistance Romano shot her in the right breast. She, too, sank to the floor. Romano returned to the larger room and shot himself time and again in the neck. It is said he fired five bullets into himself. He discharged nine shots altogether A panic ensued among the tenants. The police arrived, and the three wounded persons were taken to the hospital. Romano will doubtless die, but his intended victims will likely recover. Big Storm in Paris. A Paris cable of Sunday says: Paris was vieited this afternoon by one of the most violent and deetruotive storms on record. In the park at Monceau the hail came down and (limply out the leaves off the trees and gent them down in showers below. In the evening, in clubs and in cafes, in restaur- ants, and, in fact, everywhere, the talk of Paris was of the awful storm and the acci- dents and damage which it had caused. Old men gathered together and tried without avail to remember the time when they had known anything like it. The general con. Banana of opinion is that such a violent storm has never been seen in the French capital, and the damn e it has occasione must mount into very high figures. RaM Spoils a Sensation. A Sunday's Chicago despatch says: It as discovered yesterday morning that and attempt had been made to blow up the Haymarket monument and the =round- ing building e with a gigantic charge of dynamite. A policeman found at the base of the monument a can charged with dynamite, the fuse having been lighted, but it was probably extinguished by the rain last night, The charge of dynamite was enough to blow up several blocke. The machine was probably placed there early in the morning, and the rain extinguished the burning fuse. An exploeion would have znade terrible havoc. Mrs. Thimplery Ward's new book dealo with a young !nen wbo settles down to the quiet contentment of the Elernere brother- hood after tiring of the fads and crazes of the thought of life and finding them of the indistinot order. Stanley's chosen bride Was the subject of the Amami painting " Yes or No 2" Arid it happened oddly that he didn't get the "Tee" until his etioond proposal, —A skirt•lifter for muddy crossing(' is out. -*A, baked haddock should be stuffed with the sumo herbs and thing° ae chicken. THE BIG owl =rime. uncle Same; Cannon aiot Much Account for eiteavy Shooting. A Utica deepen:Ai says: Fully 1,500 people gathered at Perryville, Madison county, this afternoon to witness the third and pablic test of Dr. Justin's dynamite cartridge. The attendance comprieed both men and women and the aides of the pretty ravine were lined with crowd e of people. The cartridge, as heretofore, wail fired from a twelve -ton Blakely rifle of English make. Six shells bad been made for this trial, differing slightly in construction, the walls of the steel ehell and the inner brass cylin- der being one -sixteenth of an inch thinner then before. The service charge of powder was used, shell was about 48 inches long, and held nearby 30 pounds of hexagonal grain powder. It was nine inches in diameter. At 3 p. ne. the gun was loaded with one of the shells containing 16a pounds of highest power dynamite with a bag of 30 pounds of gunpowder back of it. The shell, including bullet and dynamite, weighed 290 pounds. The regular service weight for this gun is only 250 pounds. Dr. Justin applied the fuse, tho crowd being scattered to a safe distance, except the newspaper mens who took refuge behind large trees. There was a flash and roar, succeeded by a sharp ()racking sound as if of heavy thunder and lightning, and then tho air was filled with huge pieces of iron, some of them weighing a ton or two. The huge gun had burst. Fortunately no one was hurt. The muzzle of the gun was thrown a hundred feet forward. A piece of the jacketing, weighing about three tone, was thrown 500 feet to the rear, almost to the dynamite etorehouses. The shell had evidently burst at the rear end, not where the dynamite was, and no indications of dynamite or of the brass inner eleell were found near the gun. On the contrary, a piece of the brass shell, and a piece of leather with dynamite still on it, were picked up near the target, and a aection of the steel bullet till hot was bronght down from the neighboring villewe, where it had bnried itself. It is therebfore be- lieved that the inner shell oentaining the dynamite and the steel bullet was thrown from the gun and exploded at the target, the exploeion throwing the bullet up over into the village, about a mile away. A number of spectators say they saw the shell strike and explode at the target. If so the experiment wae a moons in spite of the exploeion of the gun, and the latter was caused by imperfections in the gun and the explosion of the powder alone. Dr. Justin will make further trial with a new Mee' gun, using a thioker shell. GUILTY OF INTIMIDATION. Two Striking Gurney moulders Convicted at Toronto. The intimidation case at Toronto egainst Wm. Duplex and Thomas Potter occupied the attention of the court all day yesterday, and a verdict was not reached until a late hour loot night. Mr. alurdooh, the criminal lawyer, appeared for the defence and he had for an opponent Mr. J. W. Curry, acting for the Crown Attorney. The case arises ont of the lookout of the moulders at Gurney's foundry, and the complainant is Henry Edgecomb, a young man who labored under the hallucination that at every corner and behind every street lamp a menaber of the Moulders' Union was awaiting him When he would go out for a walk at night the sidewalks were blocked with moulders, who were desirous of getting him ant and thus ending the strike. " I'm trying to," he eaid, when Mr. jldardoch asked him if he was running the •Gurney works. Many witneeses were ex. amined. Mach interest is taken in the case, and the ultimate outcome will be watched for with intereet. Edgecomb was once a member of the Moulders' Union and had taken the pledges and vows incumbent to a membership thereof. Duplex and Potter were acquitted on the charge of using threatening language, but were found gulty of intimidation by following the complainant around. PROHIBITION DEFIED. The U. S. Supreme Court's " Orighaal Package" Decision Consequences. A Pittsburg despatch says : "Original Package" houses were opened in Apollo and Leechburg, both local option towns, on Saturday by William Silverman, agent for a Cincinnati brewing company. A car- load of beer in packages of from one- eighth to one-half barrel each arrived at Leeohburg, and in less than two hours the contents of the car had been sold, and "Original Packages" were travelling in all directions on the shoulders of men and boys. A committee of citizens was ap- pointed at a general meeting on Saturday, and they decided to enter suit against Silverman for violating the State liquor laws. The authorities will also enter suit for maintaining a nuisance in the borough. Silverman says he will refuse bail if arrested, and if the case is decided in his favor he will hold the committee for damages. As a result of the sale of original packages the streets were filled with drunken men Saturday night. There is great excitement, and sentiment is pretty nearly evenly divided. Damage Caused by a Cloudburst. A Cleveland despatch says: A rain etorm, much in the nature of a cloudburst, swept over north-weetern Pennsylvarda yesterday, doing much damage to property. At Corry, the etreets were converted into rivers, in some places two feet deep, tearing up sewers and washing oat the roads. The railroad yards were completely inundated, the floods waehing some of the side tracks. At one time the water between the Wells. Fargo and American Express office and First avenue was six feet deep, flooding both offices and the large platform on both 'Ades of the Union depot, the water reaching the waiting•rooms. The railroads east and west of the city sustained serious derange. The valley from Corry to Irvinton, a dis- tance of twenty miles, is a complete lake of water from one to three miles wide. The loss will probably reach over a100,000. The highways in the surrounding country are nearly impassable, and it will be a week before travel can be resumed. It Ilea been a fashion to make bookcases highly ornamental. Now books want for and in themselves no ornament at all. They aro themselves the ornament. Just ate shops need no ornament, and 110 ODO Will think of or care for any structural ornament if the goods are tastefully die. posed in the shop window. The man who looks for society itt hie books will readily perceive that, in proportion as the face of him bookcase is occupied by ornament, he IOSOS that society; and, conversely, the morn that face apptoximates to a sheet Of book baokri, the more of that society he will enjoy. And so it is that three great advantages come hand in hand, and, as will bo aeon, reach their naatinium together; the sooiability of books, minitnam of cast in proViding for them, and ease of access to therta—Nineteenth Century., James Whitcomb Riley has been stied for $1,600 by his former manager in muse. (pence of his last Settoon'e break. NEWFOIJNOTANITS TROTiBLES. A French Schooner CarrieS 011 an Officer -- Brutal Treatment of a Wrecked Schooner's Crew—Lost at Sea. A despatch from Channel, Nfld., says Another French outrage, on the way to the so-ealled French shore, Imo been aim. matted. A daring French captain named Bischell, of the eohooner Marie, while ooming into Port au /3aeque last Fridey, carried a poor old man's net away. As the occurrence was witnessed by many, the owner went on board to seek recompense, and was nearly carried out of existence. Then the Magistrate was appealed to. He promptly issued a summons whioh waa served on Bisahell, but he did not appear. Judgment by default was given against him, and a warrant for his arrest issued. The constable promptly boarded the vessel with a warrant while the schooner was under way, but so far Blotted is gone with sum- mons, warrant and conetable. The Magis- trate telegraphed the Mote to the (lona- mender of the Indre and also the Govern. meat. The former replied that the matter would be investigated. A despatch from Benavistes says: The schooner Advance, with no fish, arrived from the banks. She presents a pitiable appearance, having lost her bowsprit, jib. boona and outwater. In fact, everything forward of the bulkheads has been carried away. The disaster occurred by a collision with a French banker. The Frenchmen barbarously treated the crew of the Advance. Inetead of rendering or even offering anistance the Frenchmen flung at the Newfoundlanders iron belaying pine and everything else capable of being used by them as missiles. A wreck has been discovered at Lawn Point. It is the brig Louis, front Gran. ville, France, bound to St. Pierre. All the orew are supposed to be lost. Parts of the vessel's boats were found in the cove near the wreck. Her maetheads are just out of water end close to the cliff. Some of the clothing belonging to one of the crew has been found tied with a man's belt to the top of the mast. No bodies have yet been seen. It is suppose(' that the men must have been on the master, the vessel sinking too euddenly for them to launch and man the boats. The Newfoundland sohoouer Margaret M. buena() a total wreck yester- day near Little Lorraine. She was from Sr. John's, Newfoundland, bound to Syd- ney. At the time it was very foggy, with heavy sea. VP.aiiT. HEAVE SEAS. A Paesenger on the Circassian Killed by a Heavy Sea. A Quebec despatch says: The eteamehip Circassian, which arrived here last night, encountered a very rough passage on the way out, and the sea ran very high. On Tuesday last, hor sixth day out, the weather was unusually rough. Four cabin passengers, named D. Valpy, a resident of Gaspe, Que.; J. Greig, a readout of Ot- tawa; Lieut. Warder, R. N., and 0. Freohette, Spanish Consul, Qnebec, were standing on the head of the etairs leading down to the saloon, gazing out at the rough sea, when a tremendous wave struck the ship, washing her deolts and striking the house at the gangway, where the four above-mentioned gentlemen were standing. It burst in the house, which is of wood, and knocked the four passengers down the stairs on to the floor of the saloon. All were unconscious when picked up. The ehip doctor haetened -co the scene and found tnat Mr. Valpy was fatally injured, his body being terribly bruised and his ekull smeshed in. He lingered a short time in an unconscious condition and then died, and was afterwards buried at sea, the usual service for the dead being reed by a minis- ter who was ma board. Mr. Greig, of Ottawa, had his collar bonebroken and was otherwise bruised. Lieut. Warder was badly bruised about the body and face. Mr. 0. Prechette escaped with only a severe shaking and some elialat bruises. The ship's doctor did all in his power for the three last mentioned passengers, and they were doing very well under his care when the ship arrived at Quebec, and they proceeded to Montreal on board the vessel. The sad death of Mr. Valpy cast a gloom over the passengers and crew on board the ship, and the burial service was attended by all. Down on Rennan. A Springfield, 0., despatch says: Wil- liam H. Dunster, a resident of Russia for thirty years, sld present American Vice - Consul -General at St. Petersburg, is in the city. He takes a decided issue with George Kerman, whom he calls a sensationalist given to exaggeration. He said yesterday: "1 heard Kerman recently in his lecture on the Siberian exiles. Some of his portraite thrown on canvas were of women who had plotted against the Government, and who were exiled in consequence. He made no mention of the fact that they were Anar- chists. Kennan is utterly wrong in hie attempt to influence the American mind by exaggerating the evils and criticizing the methods of the Russian Government for its protection. Why, he has got Americans nervous about going to St. Petersburg or travelling through Russia. St. Petersburg is it safe, admirably -governed city." A Husband Who Could Shoot. A Jeesup, Ga.' despatch says: A. tragedy occurred here atmidnight, resulting in the death of Dire. B. P. Littlefield and Comity Surveyor McCall at the hands of the woman's husband. McCall came to Jessup from Brunswick about 10 p.m. and stopped at the Littlefield House. He retired to his room one hour later, but came out, went downstairs in his night clothes and asked for Littlefield, whom he could not find. He then went to Mrs. Littlefleld's door and knocked. She admitted him. Littlefield was in the front porch wistohing the pair and rushed through the window into the room and shot his wife just over the eye, killing For instantly. He then shot McCall four timee. McCall died at 2.20 pm. A Noted Desperado Caught. A Clayton, Mo., deepen% says: Manefield King, the selfmonfessed murderer, horse. thief and allwound criminal in jail here, has been indentified as the man Wells who forced earthier Moffett, of the First National Bank of Denver, to hand over $21,000 in cash in Marcb, 1889, at the point of a revolver. King has nonfood that he robbed Moffett. The act was very bold. King compelled Moffatt to alga it cheque in his private office at the bank, get the money on it from the teller, and then bring the cash to King. The latter then walked out of the bank and escaped. A young lady has evolved the following reflection on naaectiline Waehington : The saddost words of tongue or pen, Thero aro toe many women and not enough men. -Washington Post. In the formation of it single locomotive steam engine there are nearly 6,000 pieces to be put tdgether, and these require to be se accurately adjusted 69 the worke of 'watch. - Major 16a°a13 t ratir wij tneha bBasiynfil ettishiholietd1 eh°ehtni shr eat Oi nitmrlomaf eed.r leotttree in England, BEMMLER Atha Dua, The (env 9ueetlou Now Is Who Execute Ulm, A Washington deepritoh says regarding. the Reminder case : The court saY0 it JO, urged itt Kemralerai behalf that the 141h amendment is a prohibition on the State ef the imposition of ortiel end unusual punishment. The origiu of the phrase, the court said, was in me English Act of Settlement of 1683, and rement that bar- barous methods of punishment should not be inflicted. Is MeaM that s men should not be eentencod to death by torture, but did not mean that the death penalty itself was cruel. The ()image in form of death WU within tho legitimate ephere of the legislative power of the Slate. The Legis- lature of the State of New 'York determined that it am not inflict cruel and unusual punishment, and its courts have sustained that determination. This court 06411100t see that the prieoner has been deprived of due process of law. In order to reverse the judgment this court would be compelled to hold that the Court of Appeals had coin. mitted an error eo gross aii to deprive the prisoner of his constitutional rights. The court lase no heeitation in saying it cannot 'do this. An Albany despatch eays : The next step to be taken in the courts in the Remnder case will be the argument of the, appeal from the decision of County Judge Corlett, of Cayuga county, denying a writ of habeas corpus, asked for on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the power con- ferred on Warden Durston in the exeou- tion of criminate, which power is olaimed to be veeted in the eheriff of the county wherein the conviction is ltd. The appeal will come up before the General Term at Buffalo June 3rd. Title appeal does not affect the death penalty itself, or the crime, or manner of the execution and it is ex- pected the General Term will dispose of it itt titne to allow it to be carried to the Court of Appeale at Saratoga June session. Another issue in the case will be the re. quest for Judge Wallace to vacate the writ to habeas corpus greeted by hint at Byre. cuse, but on the condition that he would revoke the writ in nee the United States Supreme Court denied Lawyer Sher man's., application for a writ of error. This writ is returnable before Judge Wallace at Canandaigua June 17th. WILL SALI_SBURY FUNK ? Yankees Propose to Assume Very Large Powers in Behring Sea. A Sunday's Ottawa deepeteh says: The " proposals " made by the British Minister to the Washington Government, and which the American Cabinet rejeoted, were the provisions of it modus vivendi to govern Behring Sea pending the settlement of the, differences in regard to the respective rights of American and Canadian seal hunters in those waters. As soon as it had been determined to appoint it commission of experts to agree as to and report on the Note, it was seen by the English and Cana. din negotiators that such an investigation would take it considerable time, and mean- while conflicts might arise in Behring Sea. It was thought well, therefore, by them that some provisional arrangement should be mutually agreed upon. They drew up such an arrangement, in which due deference was thonght to be paid to the position the Americans heal hitherto taken in the question. it seeme, however, that it did not go far enough to snit Secretaries Blaine and Windom, and it was conse- quently rejected. Following, this comes the despatch of the Bear to the sealing grounds with instructions to board foreign vessels, seize their log, seelaltitts, and any appliances for the capture of seed, and then let the vessels go. tt would be ueeless to conceal the serioueness of the situation thus created. After the stand taken by Sir Julian Pe.uncefote and the virtual admis- sions of Secretary Blaine thet the United States' title to sovereignty over the sea is only one asserted for convenience, and the rejection of pacific overtures for it tem- porary arrangement, Such an aot towards it vont of a friendly power would be nothing short of a declaration of war. The sealers of British Columbia have been watching the mune of events with keen interest, and have gone to see with the belief that any- where within Behring Sea more than three miles distant from Alaska or the islands is the high sea, and under these circumstances, if the orders of the captain of the Bear are what they are said to be, peaceful people in the two countries may well look forward to the seal -hunting orison with apprehen- sion. ANOTHER SEWER T'IND. The Body of a Man Found In a Chicago Sewer. A Chicago despatch says: The body of, it large man, who had apparently been choked to death, was undoubtediy thrown into the Wallace street sewer at Sixth street some time on Saturday night. The Englewood police have to -day discovered evidence sufficient to show that a foul crime has been committed, tilthough they have not yet found the mutilated corpse, which was washed down the sewer when Lieut. Healy endeavored to extricate it. Investigation shows that there are waggon tritoke in the dust in the street leading up close to the manhole. Tide morning a board cover, that looke like the cover of e. long box, was picked up two blooks north of the catch -basin on Wallace street. It was lying in the ditch at the side of the street. There were no•spote of blood upon it, and whether it will throw any light on the. mystery cannot now be discovered. STANLEY IS A. JINGO. He Talks Back at Salisbury Through, the Thunderer. A London cable says The Times prints, a long and caustic letter from Mr. Stanley in reply to the recent utterances of Lord, Salisbury. He says that if the German colonial demands be granted it would be more economical \to make Germany a gift of the whole British sphere in Africa. Then British investors might obtain so, many shillings for the pound they so cred- ulously have been victimized out of.. He bolero that the German sphere is the finest in Africa, and adds, "Still thole cry is Give I give ' If yon think they are better adapted than the English to civilise', Africa do nothing half.heareedly ; yield, all, inoluding Egypt. Excessive amiability may b000me an infirmity, and the infirmity of negligence, like other diseeees, growe till it ends in chronic senility." An Australian physician recommendie flute playing as a cure for phthisis. It might be a good plan to quarantine patiente several miles from any dwelling while practising this healthfni exercise. 13ret Herta the novelist, is a most care- ful and faetidious man. He recently Jelled a waste basket in tho office of a friend be here the work on which he was engaged sa‘t,isTfihend alagiem. d sage is in an air ship hot above the World. Aronnd him all 10 Still and dead. 13elow him lie the clouds and busy cities, He he frightened by hie own, voice. But around him ie spread s heaveni"—Jean Pala,