I
LEFT THE BIG METEEE
The Peary Party Cc—luldn’t Get It
Aboard the Good Ship Hope.
A RATHER QUEER OVERSIGHT
The Derrick and Gear XVhioh W113- Taken '
to Hoist the FOrty Ton Mass Aboard
the Vessel Vi’as Found to Bo
Unfit For the Task.
/
NORTH SYDNEY, C. 3., Sept. 28.—’I'he
Peary, Cornell university and Massachu-
setts Institute Lot Technology expedition
steamer Hope, Captain John Bartlett,
which left St. Johns, N. F., on July 10
last, touched at Halifax on July 16 and
later left that place on her way north with
Lieutenant Peary, Professors Alfred Bur-
ton, George H. Barton, Ralph S: Tarr and
A. C. Gill and others on board, bound on a
northern exploring trip, arrived here yes-
terday. Captain Bartlett reported all Well
on board; but, it was added, the main ob-
ject of the expedition, that of bringing
to the United States the 40 ton meteorite
discovered by Peary at Cape York upon
the occasion of his last stay north, had
not been accomplished.
The huge meteorite was found as indi-
cated by Peary, and every effort possible
was made to ship it on . board the Hope.
It was found, however, that the derricks
which could be rigged up from the Hope
and the gear which that steamer could
furnish were not of sufficient power to en-
able the meteorite to be handled, and it
was reluctantly left behind.
In spite of this, all the scientists on
board have obtained great results from
their voyage, having collected large num-
bers of animate and inanimate objects,
which will add to the riches of several mu-
seums as well as considerably increasing
the scientific and philosophical records of
arctic research.
All on board express themselves as be-
ing delighted with their trip, although the
meteorite was not brought home and in
spite of the fact that unexpected ice difl‘i-
culties compelled the party to return ear-
lier than expected. The expedition touch-
ed at a number of points hitherto unex-
plored, scientific observations were made,
and valuable records were obtained from
the investigations of the different mem-
bers of the party.
The Explorers.
With Lieutenant Peary were two parties
of five members each, one led by Professor
Ralph S. Tarr, professor of dynamic geolo-
gy and physical geography of Cornell uni-
versity, and the other headed by Professor
Alfred Burton of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute Of Technology.
With Professor Tarr were Professor A."
C. Gill, professor of minerology and pe-
trosraphy;
J. C Martin, entomOIOgist.
. Accompanying Professor Burton were
Professor George H. Barton, Russell W.
Porter, artist and photographer; George;
H. Putnam, assistant inthe United States
coast and geodetic survey, and F. L. Wat-
son, student of geology.
There were other members of the expe-
dition who took part in it in an unofilcial
capacity, and all tell the same story of
success in research in spite of the failure
of the main object of the expedition. It
was originally intended to return here
about Oct. 15; but, as already stated, on
account of ice difficulties the Hope put
back much sooner than expected.
The Hope is a steam Whaler of 350 tons.
She can make about eight or ten knots
under favorable circumstances, and Cup-
tain Bartlett, who commands her, was
the captain who took the Kite north dur-
ing the summer of 1895 for the relief of
the Peary expedition, and who accompa-
nied Dr. Hayes to the arctic regions in
1869. The Hope is bark rigged, and with.
the exception of the Proteus is‘the most
suitable vessel for the purposes she has
been put to that can be found anywhere.
She carries a crew of 17 men, including
Captain John Bartlett, master, Captain
William Smith, chief officer; John Pome-
roy, second officer; James Bradbury, chief
engineer; Frederick Martin, second on-
gineer; William Goldley, cook; Henry
Deveraux, steward, and James King, as-
sistant steward.
Peary Disappointed.
The Hope, when she left St. Johns, had
on board provisions sufficient to last the
party for over 12 months. She carried nine
boats and had a heating apparatus which
was well tested during her stay in the icy
regions. ‘
. Everybody on board seems to have im-
proved in health and to have benefited by
the trip. Lieutenant Peary, however, is
reported as being considerably put out at
his failure to bring back the prize he went
after. On the other hand, it is suggested
that he might have assured himself before-
hand that the Hope carried gear, derricks
and other appliances of suflicient power to
hoist the 40 ton stone upon her docks aft-
er it had been moved for that purpose.
Nearly all the members of the expedi-
tion party have prepared or are preparing
long reports of their researches, and con-
sequently when questioned today they
were not inclined to furnish full particu-
lars of their work to the public, contenting
themselves with touching briefly upon
their success in their different departments
of science. '
The only incident experienced by the
party out of the ordinary was the damag-
ing of the propeller of the Hope by ice,
but the speed of the ship at no time was
less than five knots and seldom less thanf
six knots.
On Aug. 7 the Cornell party was on the
peninsula of Nugsuak, where it remained
while Lieutenant Peary ”went farther
north. It remained a month and made a
study of the large glacier which Professor
T2111 and 1115 p rty (l1scove1cd This glacier
Was named the Cornell glacier, after the
university which he represents. Several
miles inland they discovered a mountain
ti‘sing through a field of ice. This they
named Mount Schurman, after the presi-
dent of Cornell.
Three Babies Cremated.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—-Fi1-e yesterday
destroyed the house of Mrs. Carrie E,
Dodson, a negro woman living beyond the
Catholic university, and in the flames
perished Gussic, Mary and Baby Dodson,
children of Mrs. Dodson and all under 4
years of age
Husband and \Vife Drowned.
GRAV‘ENHURST, Ont, Sept. 28.—Yester-
day Mr. Torrance, a young divinity stu-
dent. accompanied by his wife. went. for a
sail on Sparrow lake. Immediately after-
ward a squall struck and capsized the
boat. Both its Occupants were drowned.
The “'eather.
The i ndications are far cooler weather
and very likely lain.
Advertise in the China
E. M. Kindle, paleontologist; ',
J. A. Boncstecl, assistant ingeolog)’. and -
GORE SOAKED ARMENIA.
Miss Francis “’iliard’s Earnest Appeal to
the Home Against the Bin-em.
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—A'cablegra-m from
London says that from the international
offices of the World’ a Woman's Christian
Temperance union in that city Miss
Frances E. Willard has sent out the fol-
lowing call to the 10, 000 local unions
in the United States:
MY COMBADES—The cup of wrath is
full. In these two’ terrible years, when
the massacre of the innocent has gone on
I under the eyes of our paralyzed rulers in
Christian lands, we have thought that
men alone could help. But it is women
who are dying two deaths in the bloody
east, and we, their sisters, cannot longer
wait. You have nobly responded to my
earlier appeal, and in the name of Christ
and humanity. of the home against the
harem, I earnestly and tenderly call upon
you to organizeimeetings in every locality,
urging our government to 00- operate with
England in putting a stop to the massa-
cres and giving protection henceforth to
Armenian homes. Let these meetings be
addressed by the pastors, the business
men and the most capable women. Let
money be raised by systematic visitation
as well as by collection and forwarded to
our national treasurer, Mrs. Helen M.
Barker, the Women’ 5 Temple, Chicago.
And may God deal with us at last as we
deal with our Armenian brothers and sis-
ters and their little ones in this hour of
overwhelming calamity. Yours for God
and home and every land,
_FRANCES E. WILLARD.
MAY BE A BIG RAGE.
A Trotting Match For a. Stake of 830,000
In Fair Prospect.
NEW»YORK, Sept. 28.——Dr. G. S. Slate
of Sydney recently offered through the
Chicago Horseman to match his trotting
horse Fritz against any harness horse in
the world for $10, 000 a side.
I1. C. Tewksbury of this city, who owns
RobertJ, the pacer, has sent a letter to
the Chicago publication accepting the
challenge on what may appear to be lib-
eral terms. He ofiers first to give odds of
$20,000 to $10,000 if the owner of Fritz
will bring his horse to America to race
and will allow all expenses if the visitor
is defeated. if, however, Mr. Slate insists
that the race be contested in Australia, he
will ship his horse on or before Dec.1
from New York for that place under the
following conditions:
That the challenger place up $10,000
before Nov. 14; that within three days
after the race the full sum of 820, 000 be
paid to the winner, that a forfeit of
”$5,000 be paid by the party falling to start
on the date fixed for the contest; the race-
to be in harness at mile heats, best three
in five, fair day and ,good track, date to
be within six weeks afterarrival of Bob-
ert J in Australia. “Other. conditions of
,minor importance‘are set forth.
1.1 IS GRATEPUL.
He‘il‘hanks Our Government and People
For His Cordial Reception.
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 28._—'-Li Hung Chang
has made formal acknowledgement of the
reception accorded him by the government.
and people of the United States in terms-I
that do credit to his high diplomatic tact.
Before leaving Vancouver be instructed
Yang Yu, the Chinese. minister atWash-
ington, by telegraph to’vlsit the state/de-
partment in person and express his high
appreciation of the courtesy and hospital-
ity which had been shown him by . the
United States, saying that nothing could
exceed the warmth and cordiality of the
reception accorded him on all sides by the
officials and the people. ‘
He also expressed his great pleasure
with all of the arrangements made for his
comfort and convenience and that of his
suit,»while traveling throughthe United
States. In conclusion the minister was
directed to conveyrthe personal thanks of
Li Hung Chang to General Roger, Colonel
Bliss and the other officers of the army
for the eflicient manner in which they had
performed their duties and contributed to
the pleasure of his sojourn in this country.
THE TEMPLE our SERIES.
Baltimore Declines to Play Any of the
Games In Plttsburg.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 28.—The manage-
ment of the Baltimore Baseball club hav-
ing declined to play‘any of the Temple cup
games in Pittsburg, Captain Tebeau of
the Spiders has wired Manager Hanlon at
Baltimore as follows:
“As long as you don’t want to play any
games in Pittsburg, we will play the
three games in Baltimore as you suggest
———Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct.
1, 2 and 3—the remainder to be played in
Cleveland the following week, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Saturday, Oct. 7, 8
and 10, if necessary.”
Mr. W. C. Temple of Pittsburg, the
donor of the cup, has been invited to at-
tend the games here and will come as a
guest of the local club.
Dclxnrred From the Bluffs.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.-——Thc postoil‘ice
department has issued a fraud order deny-
ing the use of the mails to the Home In-
vestment company, which claimed offices
at Cleveland, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica,
Batavia, Phenix, Elmira, Cortland,
Corning and Clifton Springs, N. Y. It is
a bond investment scheme. A fraud or-
der has been issued“ also against several
persons operating under the name of Glass
ner at Peekskill, N. Y
The Toronto-Suicide.
ITHACA, N. Y.,' Sept. :28. —— Charles
Wanzer of, this city believes the man who
registered as “H. Hanta, New York,” in
the Queen hotel at Toronto and who com-
mitted suicide Wednesday night is his
adopted son, Edward C. Wanzer. Ed-
ward C. Wanzer left Ithaca about ten days
ago and has not been heard from since. It
is alleged that there was a reason for his
. sudden departure from this place.
Mounted Paraders Rode Down Spectators.
ALEXANDRTK, Ind., Sept. :38.—Because
a crowd of workmen cheered for McKinley
at Orestes, near this city, they were ridden
down by a body of mounted men, who
were in a parade. Many were injured in
the crush to escape and trampled upon by
the horses. Several warrants have been
issued.‘
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Turkey's Crown Jewels In Danger.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 28. ——-Great con-
sternation prevails at court on account of
the discovery of a subterranean passage
from the palace of Dolma Bagdsche lead-
ing to the part of the Yildiz Kiosk in
which the crown jewels are preserved.
The Sudan Campaign.
CAIRO, Sept. 28.——'l‘he sirdar, Sir-Egg
bert Kitchener, is sending the First Staf-
fordshire regiment back to Kosheh, en
route to Cairo, which seems to indicate
that there will be no. further advance up
the Nile for the present at least.
Advertiselin the Guard;
I
STELE ALL ITS. MENEY
Renssalaer County Fleeced by Its
Treasurer, George H. Morrison.
HE GOT AWAY WITH $250,000
Lodged In Jail and His Bail Fixed at
840,000—He Was Popular, Influen-
tlal and \Vealthy and Supposed.
ly the Soul of Integrity.
TROY, N. Y., Sept. :28.—County Treas-
urer George H. Morrison, until now one
of the most influential and popular men
in Troy, a man in the prime of life and
reputed to be worth $300,000 in his own
name, is behind the bars in the Rennsa-
laer county jail charged with the embez-
zlement of $250,000, or practically all of
themoney belonging to the county that
is available at the present time. ‘
For some days past rumors have been
flying around. the city that the county
treasury was in a bad condition, but little
attention was paid to them because of the
supposed absolute integrity of the county
treasurer, who for a number of years had.
been cashier of the national bank, which
has been declared insolvent within a week
past. but from which Mr. Morrison sever-
ed his connection more than a year ago to
take the county treasurership.
It was not until Saturday that these ru-
mors gained any credence, and when it
was found that George Morrison had em-
bezzled nearly every cent in the county
coffers, his friends, for he had no enemies,
were struck dumb, and the first questions
they asked were, “Why did he do it?” and
“What did he do with the money?” and
the only person who can answer these
questions is the embezzler, George Mor-
rison.
The Discovery.
David Morey, the Chamberlain of the
city, is responsible for the discovery of
the embezzlement and also the arrest f
the embezzler. For some time past these
has been due the city from excise collec-
tions $36, 000. The city Chamberlain has
repeatedly tried to get the sum, but was ‘
unsuccessful until the firstlof last week,
when he succeeded in getting 810,000.
Not satisfied .with this amount, Mr.
Morey pressed his claim for the balance,
and not being able to get it he placed his
case before the board of _ supervisors, and
that body appointed a subcommittee to in-
vestigate the failure of the county treas-
urer to pay over city money.
This investigation was begun at once,
and it resulted in findin': but 8168 depos-
ited to the credit of 11‘ 1e county in all
banks in Troy and but a small sum in the
county treasurer s safe. As near as could
be hastilyiigured, more» should be at the
disposal of the 0011.. 1y nearly $300,000. In
the insolvent national bank there is a de-
posit of $40,000, but none of this will be
available for some time yet to come, and
Rennsalaer county today has possibly $200
for current expenses.
Sobn after the embezzlement was found,
a warrant was issued on the complaint of
the city chamberiain, and Morrison Was
arres'ed and taken to police headquarters,
Where he was sent to jail to await the ac-
tion of the grand jury. His ball was fixed
at ‘— ‘1‘ 000, and as yet not one of his many
friends has come to his aid.
'~ As county treasurer Morrison was placed
under a bond for $100,000, with ten sure-
ties, who qualified at $20, 000 each. His
bond’smen are Francis ‘A. Fales, ZOph F.
Magam, Louis S. Crandall, Thomas Dick-
son, John Duke, Samuel Bolton, Jr. ,
John Magill, Leonard Morrison, John L.
Manny and the embezzler himself.
Iiis Property Transferred.
Late in the afternoon by deed and
transfer Morrison turned over all his prop-
erty, valued at $806,000, to his bondsmen.
The real value of his property, most of
which is real estate in Lansingburg, is
said to be but 50 per cent of its face value,
but at that his bondsmcn will not lose a
cent.
«lie
has held the county treasurer’ s chair in 25
years, and his term of of 1109 began on
the 1st of last Ianuary. The board of
supervisors will hold a meeting at
once and, as empowered by law, will elect
Morrison’s successor. It is said that the
president of the board, Mr. Richard A.
Derrick will be unanimously elected to
the office.
Morrison was born in the town cl
Brunswick, Rennsaluer county, in 1850,
and when he was six years of ago his par-
ents removed to Troy, where he was edu-
cated and has lived ever since. In 1866
he entered the national bank asaclerk
and filled every position in the bank dur-
ing the course of ten years until he be-
came cashier. He studied law at night
during his first year‘in the bank’s service,
and in 1885 he was admitted to the Rons-
salaer county bar. He was elected county
treasurer in 18 ‘4 but did not take office
until Jan. 1, 18%
The Bacon-Conefl: Bane.
LONDON, Sept. 28.——-The Referee says in
an article upon athletic events: ‘l‘lt is
safe to say that no previous athletic event '
in this country has ever roused such in.-
terest as the proposed Bacon-Conch” run-
ning races scheduled for Wednesday at
4:30 11. n1. at the Bulls bridge track, ‘Dub-
lin. Coneff is in fine condition and ex-
pects to run a great 1:1cc.
'Iiie Ilia Grundc :ii'aslmnts.
DEMER, 119111;.1.‘S.—-The washou 1.5 on
the Rio Grande and Western milroad west
of Grand Junction, Colo. , .8 much more
severe than was imagined possible when
the news first reached the headquarters Of
the railway in this citv. The latest is-
ports show that the Rio Grande and VV ost-
ern railroad will have to be practically re
built for a distance of 15 to 25 miles.
I was a sufferer for eight years from Eczema, but
now am entirely cured. l‘he palms of my hands
were covered and badly inflamed, little white
blisters appeared then would peel off, leaving
a red, smooth surface, which would burn like
fire and itch. 011 the inside of the upper part of
my 11mbs, reat red blotches would appear, and
as soon as E became w arm, the burning and itch-
ing would begin. Night afttr night I wool id lie
awake and scratch, and almost 20 wild. I got a
box of Commons, and a bottle of Cu'rxcuaxg its
SOLVENT, and after a few applications I 11: dead
the redness and inflammation disappear; before 1
had med one boa: there was not a sign ofEczema
left. I can truthfully assert that $2.00 worth of
01111011111. REMEDIES cu redm
JOHN D. FORTE. Pittsburg, Pa.
‘ Spun! C1111: Truman. —Warm bulbs with Cu-
nouns SOAP. gentle fpglicuiion» of Concern (oint-
ment). and mild acres 0 1511001111 stopvsxr,greateai
of humor cures.
Sold throughout the world Price, Cancun. 50c. ..
Soar 25c.- , Bxsotv our 51Ic.and sl. Porraa 1)qu
Aim Cu“. Coma, Solo Prnpn.,801t
aa- “ How to Pcnnanendy Cure Eczema." mailed free.
Morrison is the second Republican who.
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OUR SPECIAL RUN FOR THIS WEEK IS LACE CURTAINS.
We have bought 500 pairs of Lace Cur-
tains from a party who needed money.
It IS needless to say that we bought them
cheap, and that we are going to sell
he m oif cheap.
W e shall sell you
$9.50 Irish Points for -
38.00 Irish Points for -
$6.50
$5.00
$6.75 Irish Points for . -
$5.00 Irish Points for - $3. 50
$5.50 Tambour, hemst’ched, for $3. 50
$5.25 Nottingham Point
De‘sprit for - -
$5, 00 Nottingham Point
De’sprit‘ for ~ -
$2.98 32. 25 Nottingham Lace for
$3. 98 $4. 50 Nottingham Point-
De’ Sprit for - - $2.25
33. 50 No tingham Point
Dc sprit for - 3] [98
32 7c Nottingham Fish Net for $ | .49
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You never saw such a bargain before.
$2_ 7’ 5 Come early and get the choice ones.
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A POINTER...
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If not, call on me and
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it case
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