..,.- “WW‘ WT. .. -m-.. , . a... a." arm-r-‘wj~rv:':- : . Ab:fl7‘.‘m 24,4- A ROSE. ‘ A semi. petal. and a thorn Upon a common summer 3 morn A dash of dew, a. bee or two, A breeze, A caper in the trees—- And I’m a. rose’i -—Emily Dickinson. HE KEPT IT CLEAN. None of us associated with him in the office felt that we had a right to say anything to him about it. It was his right and privilege to wear whai he pleased. As long as it suited him, why-should we concern ourselves in the matter. Truth is, he was becoming more and more genteelly shabby every day. but the careful way in which his shiny . coat and frayed trousers were brushed and cared for was evidence that it was not wanton carelessness of his appear- ance that made him go so shabby. It occurred one day that the weather was exceedingly cold. A regular blizzard was raging, and only those whose bus- iness compelled them to be out ven< tured on the street at all. It was one of Jack’s duties as cashier to go to the bank each day, and when the time came for him to make his regular trip, and he slipped on his light overcoat, the head bookkeeper interrupted him: “I say, Jack, you are not going out in that light coat? Why, man, the very marrow in your bones will freeze.” “Oh, nonsense, old man. I always go this way—dressed warm inside, you know—prefer it that way—not so bulky and clumsy, you know.” And out he went. That night after most of the office force had gone, Mike, the office boy, had to relieve his mind. "I don’t think Mr. Jack is dressed warm inside at all. I saw him roll up his sleeves to wash his hands today, and he only had on a thin cotton un- dershirt. I think he’s dead close wid his money, and some day he will be ownin’ this institootion.” But we ' all knew better than this. Jack was in trouble. “'hy didn’t he let us know what it was? Not a man in the office from the manager down to the office boy that would not have extended a helping hand to him, for we all loved him. 'He was a sterling fellow, always ready to divide on the thirds principle—~you take two-thirds and he one. He had formerly been the Beau Brummel of the office, and what the change was that had come over him was worrying us all. It Was finally decided that we would breach the matter to him in a delicate manner. The head bookkeeper being a man of great tact and delicate per- ceptions, to him was delegated the task. It was some time before the op- portunity presented itself. Spring had even opened, and Jack’s shiny coat and frayed trousers looked the more shabby in comparison with the bright new spring suits around him. “I never saw‘clothes so cheap,” said one of the junior clerks. “My tailor put this up for $20, and I declare it’s quite respectable looking—quite the same thing that I used to pay $35 for.” It was just here that something peculiar happened. A big red bottle of ink standing on the desk near the register had evidently become over heated, and, being corked tight, there was nothing for it to do but explode, which it did with a loud report. Unfortu- nately, just behind it on the wall were hanging all our coats and hats. Poor Jack’s shiny coat was bespattered from collar to tail. Poor fellow! He looked dismayed! We felt sure that next morning we would see Jack again dressed as befit- ted a man of his position. But we were disappointed. The next morning he came down with the same old coat. The spots gave evidence of having been carefully scrubbed, leaving dirty white spots on the shiny black cloth. “I. say, Jack,” said the head book— keeper, “really you are growing care- less of your personal appearance.” “Why, how so. old man? I shave myself with scrupulous regularity ev- ery morning. I really didn’t know I was looking so unfit.” “It’s not that, Jack. I—er—oh, hang it, don’t you see that your clothes are kinder runnin’ to seed? You need a new outfit, old man. Your tailor will starve.” “I believe you are right, Harry. Fact is, an old suit is so comfortable, you know; kinder conforms to on’e’s curves and angles. Really, I feel like I am discarding an old friend when I give up an old suit; but I must see my tai- lor. It will never do to ofiend the ar- tistic eye of my friends. I thank you, old man, for calling my attention to it. Really, a fellow can’t see how his own clothes hang.” ‘ Mike, the office boy, had a great story to tell the next morning. “What wuvar. Jack doin’ up in the second- hand district last night? He’s out of place up dere. Me an’ Skinny Walsh was goin’ along, an’ I sees Mr. Jack goin,’ into one o’ dem second-hand Shee- ney stores. ‘Geminy,’ I says to Skinny, ‘dat’s our cashier. He makes more as 200 cases a mont’. What’s he doin’ in that j”int?’ I peeks tru’ de window, an” I see him bargain wi’ de Shylo-ck for a cheap suit 0’ store clothes. I cud see him hand over a $10 bill, an’ he got change back. ‘Christmas,’ I says to Skinny, ‘but dat’s funny, He cud buy a hull tailor shop if he wanted to. I guess dat’s de way dese ges-ers get rich. Let’s begin, Skinny.’ ” A few mornings after Jack came down with his new suit on. The trou- sers were carefully creased, and the coat was worn buttoned closely around his rather athletic form. But it, took only a casual glance to see that the goods were of the cheapest and had never seen a tailor shop. “All, Jack, you are quite artistic this morning,” said the head bookkeeper. \V E 1331(ij ' “Do you still go to the Fifth avenue tailors? I remember you always said there were no other tailors in the city.’ Jack did not reply. He could not tell a wilful falsehood; but, taking off thc coat, he turned balck the collar and dis played the little tag bearing his old tailor’s name. He had cut it out of his old coat and carefully sewed it to the collar of his new purchase. It was about this time that we began to learn that Jack’s frugality did not extend alone to his clothes, but that he had changed his lodgings, which had been of a luxuriant character, to the meanest kind of quarters in a cheap tenement district. His meals, we learned, were taken at the cheapest restaurants, and the cost of his living must have been inestima- bly small. What could it mean? Was Jack be- coming a hermit? Was he losing all that fine self-respect and pride that had always characterized him? No. Outwardly he was the same high-bred Jack of old. He came of a. good fam- ily, and his father had been at the head of one of the largest banking institu- tions in the city. He died a few years previous, and it wasunderstood that Jack was his only heir, and that he had received not a fortune, but a com- fortable competency. We now remem-- bered that it was about the time of his father's death that Jack’s habits had undergone a radical change. I remember how we all envied him when he was supposed to have come into his money; how we speculated as to what he would do with it, but on one point we all agreed—that he would be the same good old Jack, and we would enjoy many of his little suppers :: 3.:i theatre parties. Had he not al- \.:::;s treated us in that way at least (, ... -. a month when he had nothing but 1- .--. priory? Now that he had come in.» money we could expect many nice . \. mugs at dear old Jack’s expense. ..;..:.4 was not well. He did not look v.1... We all noticed it. "Take a vacation, old boy,” said the hard bookkeeper. "You are not your- all". You are working too hard, and no] guving‘ yourself recreation enough." “CUUHI not think of it, old man. Just a little indigestion. Be all right in a day or two.” But he wasn‘t all right. He looked paler and thinner every day, until one morning he did not come down. \Ve all knew the reason. Nothing but sick— ness and serious sickness would keep him from the office. It was arranged that we should hunt up his lodgings that night and have him cared for and proper medical attendance secured. \Ve found him in a cheap, small, but clean room. On the table, under the one gaslight, we found two or three sets of books of small concerns that did not employ a regular bookkeeper. Jack had been doing their work at night. Jack was in the bed t03sing in the de- lirium of fever. “I kept it clean, father—d kept it clean!” ,he mumbled over and over. Tht doctor shook his head. “Poorly nourished—nothing to him. Evidently been on short rations. In no condition to with stand this attack of fever. We explained to the doctor that, al- though his present environments were needy and poor, he would be paid for the best attention to Jack, and that he must see him regularly and do every- thing possible to save him. The kindly old doctor assured us that he would re- ceive every attention, but said, with a shake of his head: “He’s in a bad way—brain fever, brought on by worry and fatigue. Ev- idently he's been burning the candle at both ends.” We secured a nurse who was to be with him every minute and attend to his every want and communicate with , us in case he grew worse. As we were preparing to leave the room 'he raised up in his delirium and threw his ' arms around wildly. I noticed a pa- per clutched in one of his hands. I took it from him. The mystery was solved. ‘ “Oh, Jack, you noble work of God, you have kept it clean! God grant that itfmay not be at the cost of your noble i el” The paper read as follows: “TO MY SON—Dying I bequeath you my name. It's stained. I am a thief. No living soul knows it. If I could live awhile longer, I would not die with this stain on my soul. We came of a long race of honorable men, Jack. It’s a hard legacy to leave a son, but as you have loved me in life keep my name clean in death. I have kept a strict account of all my p-eculations. You will find it attached. It’s scrupulously correct. No more nor less do I owe the great institution of which I have been the head for so many years. I have kept this account so that I could de- I lude myself into thinking that I was only borrowing from the stockholders. They say all embezzlers do this. Pay it back, Jack, every cent, at 4 per cent interest, and I believe the good Lord will scratch it off his books against my otherwise clean name. God bless and keep you. ~ YOUR FATHER." Underneath, written in Jack’s own hand, was the following: “God bless you, father. I’ve done it. I’ve paid the last farthing today. I've kept your name clean. JACK.” The next day the papers contained accounts of how one of the city’s larg- est banking institutions had received a large sum of money anonymously con- signed. The institution had loug known of the shortage of this amount, but had no idea who the thief was. It was weeks before Jack was able to come to the office again. He never knew, and no soul shall ever know from us Jack’s secret. He is himself again now, and the little tag on the collar of his fashionable coat was sewed there by his own tailors—St. Louis Post—Dispatch. NUKW HIGH PRICED DOGS. MORE VALUABLE THAN HORSES NOW IN THE NORTHWEST. A Great Demand for Them to Haul Sup» I plies to the Gold Miners in the Yukon County in Alaska. Boarding Houses Kept for their Special Purpose. Word comes from Tacoma, Wash,“ that dogs have suddenly become more’ valuable than horses in that section of the Northwest. This state of affairs results from the great and growing de. mand for dogs to be used in hauling sledges in the Yukon country, Alaska. While thousands of horses for which their owners cannot get $3 a head are roaming over the plains of Eastern Washington and Oregon, goodsized dogs are bring- ing from $15 to $30 each in the local market. At Jeneau their value is double what it is here, and on the Yukon River a good dog brings from $100 to $150. To the Yukon mi- ner the dog has become what the reindeer is to the Laplander and the pony to the cowboys of Texas and Mexico—a beast of service and a most valuable one. The sledge dogs are too valuable not to be taken well care of where that is possible. Their ownxers’ first thought in this respect is to obtain plenty of food for them; Their food consists principally of fish, usually salmon, caught-in the Yukon River by the natives. An ordinary dog will eat daily two pounds of dried salmon, which equals seven pounds of fresh fish. At Forty Mile last winter dried salmon sold at from 20 to 50 cents a pound, and bacon that was fit only for dogs to eat sold for 371/2 cents a pound. In some of the larger camps on the Yukon dog boarding houses have been established, where the an- imals are properly cared for at fro-m $6 to $15 a month, according to the season and the price of dog food. The native Yukon dog is much more valuable than the importatious from Puget Sound. The dogs must be ac- climated in order to stand the sever- ities of winter. It is found that dogs taken from Montana and Dakota en- dure the Yukon suffering than those bred in the milder climate of Puget Sound. Two splendid specimens of native Alaska dogs were brought here a few days ago, their owner finding it cheaper to pay their passage on the steamer than to have them boarded at Dyea during his trip here for supplies. The animals weigh. one 82 and the other 88 pounds. The large one cost its owner $117 at Circle City. Both animals are stout, well proportioned and muscled, and have exceptionally short and heavy necks. T’heir ears are short and lifted like those of tfi Eskimo dog. Their coats ' Earl of Erne. winters with less , are dark, and the hair, while not close, , is smooth and heavy enough to form a comfortable protection against the Arctic winters and the Yukon mos- quitoes, by the side of which the fe- rocity. of the New Jersey variety pales into insignificance. A specially pre- pared dog food made out of meal and coarse meat from the packing houses is now being manufactured in the form of a cracker and seems likely to come into general use. .- Buskskin moccasins are provided by many owners to keep the feet of the animals from being worn raw on the ice and snow. They are about nine inches long and made much after the pattern of a child’s stocking. Pack saddles are also coming into use this spring. These are so arranged that dogs can carry a weight of from 10 to '20 pounds besides drawing a sled. The suddlebags fall on either side, and straps are arranged to prevent the pack from sliding forward or back- \\':iz'd.——New York Sun. Persons of Note. Jenny Linvd’s daughter, Mrs. Ray- uluml- Maude, of London, has much of her mother‘s brilliancy of voice, but has always refused to cultivate it for the stage. “i suppose there was too much music at home.” she explained it) a friend. Mrs. Maude has three children, none of whom is musical. Carmen Sylva has received the deco- ration for Arts and Science from the Emperor of Austria. She is the first woman to win this title. ’I‘he anuiversaries'of victories won in the Crimean War are never forgot- ten by Florence Nightingale, in Spite of her 7.; years and her broken health. She always remembers to send a mes- sage to the veterans of the Crimea, and at Christmas time she never fails. to send some token of remembrance to the workers in the institution for trained nurses which she founded at St. Thomas“ Hospital not long after the close of the war. According to the London Court Journal, Li Hung Chang has a most arduous task before him. The story is that. theChinese Emperor, being anxious to learn French, appointed the erstwhile possessor of the yellow jacket as his tutor. But when he dis- covered that his teacher had but a smattering of the tongue, be ordained 11ml 1.: be nicurcerated until he learns .‘il'S. Nansen. Sr., mother of the well- known explorer, Dr. Nansen is ac- credited with having inaugurated the licaiilii'ul pastime for women of tobog- gaping audglidiug on snowshoes. She was the first woman of Norway to become an enthusiast along this line, Will-cl] has since become so popular in that country. Count Tolstoi‘s enthusiasm for chess is unbounded, and it is said that the tables in his house are nearly all ill-.‘il'lied out as chess-boards, and even .he dogs and other family pets have received the names of chess pieces, iiook, Knight, Paivn, and so forth. “Was trampled on and A 1.5: - v, A 7.1+; DEATH OF CAPTAIN BOYOOTT. His Methods Caused His Name to Be Added to Our Language. London, June 22.—Captain Boycott is dead. He was about 55 years of age. and became famous through being the first man subjected to the “boycott” in Ireland. Captain Boycott was a. “small squire” at Lough Mask, in the Wild Connemara. section of County Mayo, in 1880-81. He was also land agent or “factor” for several landed proprietors, notably the The peasantry could not pay their rents, especially in the barren sections wherein Boycott dwelt. But the captain deemed it his duty to col- lect rents at all hazards. He soon found himself at loggerheads with the people, and his name became a synonym for aggressive “rack renting.” Several times he was threatened, but threats had no effect upon him. At length, in September, 1880, Mr. Parnell precipitated the crisis by his speech at Ennis, in which he urged the people of Ireland to abstain from agra- rian crimes and adopt instead a policy of sending landlords, agents and bailiffs “to Coventry.” The idea became popu- lar at once, and the first victim of the Ennis programme was Captain Boycott of County Mayo. His harvest was late that year, and when he tried to engage harvesters he was everywhere met with refusals. Not a man among the labor- ers of his parish or barony dared to work for him. His corn remained standing. But this was not the worst. His servants left him in a. body, and his wife and children were obliged to do all their cooking, washing, etc., them- selves. Then the village grocer and butcher declined to sell him provisions, and when he sent to the neighboring towns for supplies he found it absolute- ly impossible to get anything. In the end Captain Boycott was helped out of his difficulties by the “emergency men,” organized to afford relief in such cases. SHOE WORKERS MEET. They Will Discuss the Conduct of Strikes, Hours of Labor, Etc. Boston, June 22.——The second annual convention of the Boot and Shoe W'ork- ers‘ union of North America opened in this city today. It is the largest repre- sentative gathering of the shoe work- ers ever assembled at one time in the history of the trade. Up to 1896 the boot and shoe workers were organized in various branches. There were In number of local and independent unions, and the majority of the boot and shoe workers, with the exception of the lasters, held aloof from the unions and assemblies. Those who were desirous of seeing the members of this trade thoroughly united finally submitted a proposition that the three central bodies should unite under one general head, and at a. convention held in this city in June, 1896, the Boot and Shoe Workers’ union was formally or- ganized. The International Boot and Shoe W'orkers' union and Trade As- sembly. No. 216, Knights of Labor, im- mediatelyjoined the new union, and in the course“of a few months the-Last— ers’ Protective union wound up its af- fairs and united with the other organ- izations. During the past year nearly 150 local unions have been chartered, and the numerical strength of the pres- ent general union is greater than was the combined membership of the sev- eral associations. The ofl‘icers of the new organizatiOn are: President, John F. Tobin; vice president, William H. Loughlin; secretary, Horace W. Eaton; treasurer, Alvin G. Howcs. A number of important questions will come before the convention. Chief among them will be ways of regulatiing and conducting strikes, regulation of hours of labor and the financial policy of the organization. Postmasters Appointed. Washington, June 22.-—The fourth class postmasters appointed today were: New Jersey—High Bridge, W. G. Simpson; Hamden, Theodore Fowler; Landisville, S. W. Stanpille; Lumber- ton, L. R. VVhitacre; Marksboro, M. R. Lanning. Pennsylvania—Alverton. B. F. Shaw- ley; Armagh, D. R. Mack; Covington, W. H. Wilson; Port Matilda, H. H. Os- man; Sandy Valley, W. J. Boner; Saw- yer City, G. H. Woodward; Shellburg, E. J. Colvin; Somerfleld, P. V. Nedrow; West Lenox, M. B. Coleman; York Springs, J. R. Piank. New York—Athel, Duncan Everts; Central Valley, W. M. Gildersleeve; Gilboa, A. S. Thomas; Hermitage, G. D. Butler; Livingstonville, M. A. Losee; Morrisonville, A. L. Wood; North Phar- salia, E. A. Ball; Oxbow, William Rids- dale; Summit. T. H. Ferguson; West Barre, A. J. Bishop; West Fulton, Irv- ing Reynolds. Found Starving on an Island. San Diego, Cal., June 22.-—When the steamer Carlos Pacheco arrived at Ce- dros islands recently, it found there three starving persons. For a long time Dr. F. G. Powers and his mother had been on the island in charge of the property of the Cedros Island Mining company. They and a sailor had been living on a scanty supply of provisions for some time, but for two weeks be- fore the arrival of the Pacheco they were reduced almost to starvation. Collapse of a Sidewalk. Chicago, June 22.—A decayed side- walk collapsed in front of 545 South Union street, carrying with it 100 per- sons, mostly children. They were pre~ cipitated ten feet. A wild scramble fol- lowed, during which a number of per- sons were injured. Annie Hermann internally in— _ jured. She will not recover. A Little Boy Incinerated. Richmond, Va., June 22.——A special tc The State from Portsmouth says the house of Owen O’Rourke was burned today and the 3-year-old son of O’Rourke perished in the flames. O’Rourke and his wife and two other children escaped. Bicycle Record Broken. Denver, June 22.—C. H. Anderson of the Arapahoe Wheel club has lowered the road record for one hundred miles from 6:31 to 6:30:13. . The former record was made by A. L. Hachenberger last year and has withstood many efforts to break it. One Day’s Government Receipts. Washington, June 22.—National bank notes received today for redemption. $381. 112: government receipts from in- ternal revenue, $812,557; customs, $731.- 522; miscellaneous, $31,426. THE CIGARETTE TRIAL. More Evidence as to the Shutting 08 of Stubborn Dealer-3' Supplies. New York, June 23.—President Duke was again the center of interest at the Cigarette trust trial today. He may have been prompted to come to court by the fact that H. I. Stockwell, one of his agents, would be the oyster the dis- trict attorney would try to open. Mr. Duke evidently wanted to see if his agent exercised the proper amount of resistance to Mr. Olcott’s can opener and if, when opened, his memory was sufficiently blank. Mr. Stockwell had a pretty good mem- ory when first put on the stand yester- day afternoon, but today he showed that his memory is like an oyster in hot weather—it is likely to spoil during the night. When District Attorney Oicott asked him as to the rules of the trust, he hesitated, hemmed, coughed a little and finally said he did not remember any. He had seen numbers on the boxes of cigarettes sent to jobbers, but did not know what the numbers meant. ’He did not remember that he had ever re- ceived any instructions from any of the trust officers and was sure he had not received any “direct” instructions from Secretary Browne. As to the indirect instructions, he could not remember. Then Frederick P. Hier, the Syracuse tobacco jobber, whose dealings in Ad- miral cigarettes were reported by Agent Stockwell, and whose supply of trust cigarettes was shut off, was called to tell of his dealings with Stockwell. “Stockwell came to me and said I must give up all but the trust ciga- rettes. He said if I didn’t my supply would be shut off. I said I would get the trust cigarettes from some other dealer. He said I couldn't, as all boxes were numbered, and they would find out who sold to me and then shut off that man’s supply.” Jam-es N. Whalen, a florid faced, bald— headed tobacco dealer of Rochester told of his trouble with the trust and ex- hibited the contract he had with it. Lynching Causes 3 Damage Suit. La Plata. Md, June 23.—J0hn Grason of Towson, Baltimore county, and Her- bert W. Simpson of Baltimore city, at- torneys for the infant children of the late Joseph Cooking, who was lynched at Port Tobacco last summer, have dock- eted suit in the circuit court for Charles county, against Sheriff George A. Wade and his bondsmen for $25,000 damages, claimed to have been sus- tained by Cocking’s children by the lynching of their father. The Amherst College Troubles. Amherst, Mass, June 23.———The report in circulation that President Gates of Amherst college had resigned or con- templated resigning, as the outgrowth of the resignation of Professor Morse, head of the history department, is giv- en authoritative denial. In the same connection it is stated that it is hoped that Professor Morse’s resignation will not be pressed or accepted. The Confederate Veterans. Nashville, J’une 23.-—In case General Gordon persists in resigning or refusing to be re-elected as commander of the United Confederate Veterans, General Fitz-Hugh Lee will probably? succeed him. General Joseph Wheeler of Ala- bama is also spoken of. The general belief is that General Gordon will be al- most forced to accept again. Strange Howard Benham. Batavia, N. Y., June 23.——Howard Cur- tis Benham is on trial for his life. He appears to regard the matter as a. joke. Judging from his general demeanor, his conversation, the expression of his face, he has not the remotest suspicion that his life will end in the electrocution chair. It will be several days before a jury is obtained. The Last Sugar Witness. Washington, June 23.—Judge Bradley today sustained the motion of the de- fense in the case of John W. Macartney, a. stock broker of this city, on trial for alleged contempt of the senate sugar investigating committee and ordered the jury to return a verdict of acquittal. Sorg Declares For Free Coinage. Cincinnati, June 22.—An interview with Hon. Paul J. Sorg of Middletown, 0., is published here, in which he is made to say that the political fight this year should be made for free silver clean out and alone. He declares him- self fcr unlimited coinage at 16 to 1. Mr. Sorg is a candidate for governor. Blurderer Frantz Must Die. Dayton, 0., June 22.—The circuit court today presented its decision in the ap- plication of Albert J. Frantz, the con— demned murderer of Bessie Little, for a. new trial. The decision overrules the motion and names Friday, Oct. 15 as the day upon which the prisoner is to be executed. p . .. __ _’/ The California Earthquake. San Francisco, June 22.—Late reports regarding the earthquake show that it was quite severe at Salinas, the county seat of Monterey county. The more prominent buildings damaged are the armory of Troop C, which had its walls badly cracked and parted, the Nance building . process of construction, which will have to be taken down, and the Farmers' Union building. in Attempted Murder and Suicide. Waltham, Mass, June 22.——Malone I. Wilson of this city today shot and dan- gerously wounded Maggie Hines, a do- mestic in the boarding house of Mrs. Moulton, VVilson’s mother. Wilson then went into his own room and placing the revolver at his head discharged the weapon, killing himself instantly. Wil- son was about 37. Miss Hines was about 33. The Sugar “’itness Trials. Washington, June 22.—The trial of Allen L. Seymour, a New York broker, charged with recusancy before the sen- ate sugar investigating committee of 1894, began before Judge Bradley today. The judge finally instructed the jury to acquit Mr. Seymour on the ground that Seymour had not been legally sum- moned. Prophesied Her Own End. Boston. June '22.——Mrs. Abby A. Dar- ling, known for years throughout New England. as a clairvoyant and Whose headquarters were at Providence, was found dead in bed mday, she having prophesied three years ago that she would die todav. 'A few days ago she said, “Well, I'll be dead on time.” CONSTANTINO EXECUTED. His Visit to an Italian Dive Led Him to the Electric Chair. Auburn, N. Y., June 23.—Giuseppi Constantino paid the penalty for the murder of his fellow countryman, Pietro Galliottl‘. today at noon at the prison here. The execution was a fairly suc- cessful one. Five shocks were neces- sary to produce death. Constantino entered the chamber ac- companied by the two priests who have been attending him during, his last hours. He walked to the death chair without any show of fear. He carried a crucifix in his hands and kissed it just before seating himself in the chair. He muttered prayers as he walked across the chamber and did not once look about him. His lips continued to move as the straps were being adjusted. He was very pale, but was not trembling. Giuseppe Constantino was a. Cala- brian, and had been in thig country but a few years prior to the time the crime was committed. He worked for a. time in Scranton, Pa... and then went to Utica, where he had a brother living. On the afternoon of Jan. 10, 1896, he went into an Italian dive on Bleecker street, where a. number of his country- men were playing cards. Constantino did not play, but had angry words with one of the players, not, however, his victim, Pietro Galiotti._ The proprietor ordered the entire party out of doors, and no sooner had Constantino got out— side than he pulled a pistol and began firing promiscuously. The Italians scattered in all directions with the ex- ception of Galiotti, who advanced to- ward Constantino, his hands raised in the air to show. that he was disarmed. Constantino waved him off, but as Galiotti continued to advance he shot again. The ball struck Gallotti in the head, killing himinstantly. Constantino was tried before Justice Maurice L. Wright in Utica and con- victed. of murder in the first degree. The case was appealed, but the judg- ment of the trial court was affirmed. A plea for executive clemency was made and denied. Constantino was re— sentenced at the May term of the su— preme court in Utica by Justice Mo- Lennan. Last week Attorney J. W. Rayhill. who defended Constantino, moved for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. but the mo- tion was denied by Justice Wright. American Library Association. Philadelphia, June 23.—-The American Library association began the business session of its nineteenth annual meet- ing today. The session opened with an address by the president, William H. Brett. He recalled the founding of the association with 104 members and about 100 libraries. Today, he said, the mem- bership reached 1,500 and the number of libraries SOO. Weyler Goes to Santa Clara. Havana, June 23.—Captain General Weyler sailed last night for Sagua la. Grande, province of Santa. Clara, on board the Spanish cruiser Hernan Cortes. From Sagua he \will go to Cl- enfuegos and Manzanilla, province of Santiago de‘ Cuba, having previously sent 36 battalions of infintry and a. strong force of cavalry and other troops there. A Schooner Sunk. Baltimore, June 23.—’—The schooner Hattie, Captain J. H. Robbins, from Washington, for Rockland, Me., was sunk in a collision with the Merchants' and Miners‘ steamship Dorchester off Smith’s Point lightship, in Chesapeake bay. Her crew of four men, all from Deer Isle, Me., were saved, but lost all their effects. Clemency From Weyler! Havana. June 23.—The Gazetta today prints a decree, signed by the captain general, pardoning 131 persons previous- ly banished from the island. The Spam ish gunboat Reina Cristina, while rec- onnoitering the river Ste. Anne With her boats, had her sailors fired upon by a force of insurgents. Eventually the gunboat was compelled to landa. force of marines, who dislodged the insur- gents. Charflay Ross’ Father Dead. Philadelphia, June 22.—Christian K. Ross, the father of Charley Ross, whose abduction on July 1, 1874, from his par- ents’ home became a matter of world- wide interest, and still remains largely an unsolved mystery, died early today at his residence in Germantown, aged 74 years. Durrant’s Champion Insane. Portland, Or., June 22.—A. S. Austin, the California-lawyer who asserted that he could furnish evidence that would save Theodore Durrant from the gal- lows, has been adjudged insane and will be taken to the asylum. Another Big Hotel For Albany. Albany, June 22.-—There was incor— porated with the secretary of state to- day the Albany Hotel corporation, with a capital stock of $200,000. The company proposes to erect a new hotel in this city. Politician’s Sudden Death. North Adams, Mass, June 22.—Peter Finlay, a well known politician, dropped dead while at work- here today from heart disease. He had lived here for (0 ygars and was highly resprcted. Phlladelphian Gets 2. Railroad. Saratoga, June 22.—The Ballston Spa. Terminal railway, an electric trolley sys- tem covering several towns, today pass— ed into control and management of Jus- tus Cox, Jr.. iron founder and capitalist of Philadelphia. Wealthy Farmer Drops Dead. Saratoga, June 22,—Peter Ostrom, 80 years old, one u.‘ the wealthiest farmers of Saratoga county, dropped dead at his Clifton park farm residence today. \Vells-Fargo Dividend Declared. New York, June 22.—The directors of VVells-Fargo Express company have de- clared a semiannual dividend of 3 per cent. payable July 15. A Postoflice For a Montague. Washington, June 22.——-The president has nominated Wilfred W. Montague to be postmaster at San Francisco. Boy Killed by a Train. Saratoga, June 22.—John Tierney, 12, was killed.by a Delaware and Hudson train at Mechanicsville today. .i
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