'- ; FAURE FOR CLEANLINESS. He Upset l’rovincial France with His De- mands'for Bathtubs. President Felix Faure devotes special and unceasing attention to,clean1iness. He is doing more to spread the use of the bathtub in France than: any other Frenchman of these or former times. A, Paris correspondent says that wher- ever the President goes for a week or ten days .there must b’e,a bathhouse with all modern improvements. He iefuses to stop even over night in a ‘house or hotel that has no bathroom. His hobby causes many persons incon— venience, for the bathroom is not a universal institution in France, as in this country. In fact, the provincial French towns are as barren of private bathtubs as most prairie villages in this country. Nevertheless the Pres- ident holds fast to the bathtub as a condition precedent to his visit to any town or castle. ' In the P1esidential palace in Paris and in the castle at Fontainebleau, M. Faure had elaborate bathrooms fitted with the latest appliances and luxuries. In the castle at Ramboillet last year the President caused 100,000 francs to be spent for bathrooms which he might 11 e d111111 g his three or four weeks’ res- idence theie.. . The President’s passion for clean- linesshas been a source of much vex- ation and industry at all the provincial prefectures which he has visited since succeeding M. Carnot. ' Usually on his excursions through the land he lodges at these prefectures, and, as none of them was provided with bathrooms when he began his tours, there has been a great bustling about to make good the deficiencies. A large bath- house was built last year at the pre- fecture in Renne‘s, preparatory to his brief sojourn there, and a similar house was erected at the prefecture in Valence this year in anticipation of his visit. The vigor with which the Pres— 1' dent is leading his movement for bath reform is said to have brought him many converts and to have given the neglected bathtub industry a great boom in the republic—New York Sun. Led a German. Mr. Bacon—Did your friend ever lead 1 german? Mrs. Egbert—Well, I should rather say she did! She married onel—Yon- iters Statesman Killed by a. lilillionaine. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 19. —Dr. Charley F. Simmons. a. reputed millionaire shot and killed Emil Davidson on the street yesterday. Simmons was airested. He says he killed Davidson for a wrong done to his daughter. This is Sim- mons’ third deadly affray in which he has been involved. Several years ago he stabbed a brother-in-law and also stabbed a bookkeeper some time ago. Lady Sykes 21 Forger. London, Jan. 19.—The trial of the suit brought by Jay, the money lender, to recover the value of two_ promissory notes alleged to have been signed by Sir Tatton Sykes and cashed by his wife, Lady Jessica Sykes, was ended yesterday. The jury brought in a ver- dict for the defendant, which implies that the signatures to the notes \\ e1e forged by Lady Sykes. Slayer Escapes Gallows. . Newark, N. J., Jan. 19.—For kicking his wife to death and hacking her body with a knife George Clark, of Belle- _ ville, was yesterday sentenced to twen- ty years in State Prison. Upon the slender thread of a little daughter‘s testimony would have hung the fate of the prisoner if he had been brought to trial for mu1der in the first degiee. A 31111161351251; ’éuse ‘3 Seattle, Wash., Jan. 19.—Nothing de— veloped yesterday tending to con- firm the rumor that the steamer City -of Seattle went aground on her trip to Alaska. It is believed that story was circulated in the interest of a clair- voyant, who predicted the loss of the ship. Forty Dead in a Russian Mine. St. Petersburg, Jan. 19.—Forty per- sons were killed and eighteen injuied by an explosion of gas in one of the mines of the Donetzaer Company, in the Taganrog district on the north shore of the Sea of Azov. ° NEW’SWN B‘RIE’F. -' Nansen, the explorer, has received the degree of doctor of laws from Knox College One man was killed and another bad- ly injured in an accident in Fairview l‘unnel, Arizona. The miners of the_Lafayette district In Colorado have struck for a restora— tion of the old schedule of wages. A woman in Arizona placed her child on a saloon bar, exclaiming dramati- cally that her drunken husband should have its worth in whisky. 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If it had been yours and others had read it, how much “j J " good it might have done. » and we will a”. the rest. Send in your adv , Rates on application. 1 ‘ of Diana, a well-known Spanish 'Gen. Blanco’s [Enemies Aim to Overth'row Him, READY TO SEIZB HAVANA And 'Deport the Captain General-lThe Conspiracy Discovered by the Chief of Police and Checked by, Prompt Action --Situation is Very Grave. Havana, Jan. 20, via Key West.~——Ha- vana ‘is in tremendous excitement caused by the news of a formidable conspiracy among the volunteers to overthrow Gen. Blanco. The conspir— acy was discovered by the Chief of P0- lice. . The plotters intended to armed revolt by the 20,000 volunteers now in Havana and to compel Gen.‘ Blanco to leave the island as they did Captain— —General Don Domingo Dulce in 1869. A Simultaneous assault was to be made cm the torts surrounding Havana, especially on La Cabana, and the troops now stationed at the strate- getical points of the city were to be overpowered and compelled to surren- der. The success of the conspiracy was nearly assured by the complicity GEN. 31.11100. ‘ ' of many officers of the army, the gym- pathy of the Spanish regular infantry, and of the military police, with the volunteers and ,the riotezs of the past week. As soon as the news reached the Palace Gen. Blanco summoned a coun— cil of the staff officers. Gens. Arolas, Solado, Gonzales Parrado, Marsto and Col. Paglieri advised the Governor; General to assume an energetic atti- tude and punish severely the colonels of the battalions of volunteers if they were found to be guilty. The news spread rapidly in town that Senor Calderon, Lieut- Colonel of the Fifth Battalion of Volunteers, was at the head of the military conspiracy. Gen. Blanco summoned to his palace all the colonels of the volunteers in Havana. Not a single one failed to be present. A stormy scene ensued. Blanco upbraided them severely, say- ing that ’it was hard to believe that “patriotic Spaniards wearing the honorable uniform of the Spanish army” desired to raise disturbances against the Government of Spain at ”the most critical period for the Spanish cause in Cuba. He also threatened them, as the representative of the Crown and the Comm'ander-in- Chief of the army, with severe pumshment ’for the crime of treason. The Governor- General’s words great- ly impressed the colonels. The Count 1r- reconCiliable and the oldest among‘the colonels, was selected by them to re— ply. He said that the Loyalist Span- whole lives to preserve the sovereignty of Spain in the island, r‘were not satis- fied with the new regime. Here Blanco interrupted him in a. thunderous voice, saying that he would not permit the least reflection on the Government by colonels under his command and subject to military dis- cipline. The Count of Diana then yielded and protested against what he said was a calumny on the volunteers. He avowed that the volunteers are most loyal to their Queen and their flag. Blanco made all the other col- onels one Why one ratify these” final words of the Count of Diana. The opinion here is that the situation is very grave. If the conspiracy of the volunteers has been averted by Gen. Blanco’s opportune interference, it is not the less certain that theirha- tred against autonomy is growing, and as the regular army is in a. state of great discontent and demoralization, a serious military outbreak is. to be ex- pected at any moment. \V. J. Bryan :1. Witness. Jacksonville, 111., Jan. 20.—William Jennings Bryan appeared as aiwitness ‘in a murder trial here yesterday. He caused a great stir when he took the stand and testified that C. L. Draper had previous to the commission of the offense for which he is on trial had borne a good reputation. Mr. Bryan said he was four years in the same law office with Draper and found him an honest man. Draper, when caught stealing real estate abstracts from the killed Hastings, The defense is insan— ity. . 1;" ’ Gladstone Not Critically Ill. ' London, Jan. 20.—“There'is not the slightest ground for alarm,” said Mrs. HenrysGladstone, a daughter-in-law of the Grand Old Man, to a correspondent at Whitehall Court. “Mr. Gladstone is suffering again from acute neuralgia in the right side of his face and head, causing loss of sleep, but beyond the fact t31at any illness in one so old is se- ri‘ous in a measure, there is no cause for anxiety.” -Mrs. Gladstone spoke sincerely, being more surprised than disquieted by the alarming story pub- lished i1'1 some. evening papers that Mr. Gladstone’ 8 condition was critical. 1‘ The Right of Suffrage. Stone, of Pennsylvania. has introduced :1 the Senate an amendment to the F onstitution of the Uni-ted States hich provided that no State shall -‘\ 1111 11.01 WAS NIPPED g_ start an - iards in Cuba, who had devoted their‘ office of Charles Hastings, stabbed and Washington, Jan. 20. ——-Representatlve rant the right of suffrage to any per-' 2;? not a citizen of. theAUnited States, ’ BOY CONFESSES MURDER. 5111111111 Henderson Tells How He Hacked loony; 111.01. ky ear t0' Pieces. Philadelphia, Jan. 19.-'—“I killed Peter Lockyear," was the startling confes— ;1_cn‘ made yesterday by'Samuel Hen- derson, the 15-year-old degenerate, who Lia ked voung Lockyear to pieces. “What made me do it I cannot tell. -I was always fond of reading stories of Jesse James and about those fellers in the \‘Iest. Of course, my mother didn’t know anything about this, because I aways hid the books, and when she asked me if I ever read such things I told. her no, and she believed me. last Friday I was coming along the street, \vhenI saw Percy Lockyearvand Willie‘Anderson. I said: ‘Hello, boys! Where are you going?’ They told me they were out to play, so I said that if they would come to the woods I would, cut them .‘piggies.’ You kn what ‘pi/ggies’ are. We use them play a game with. I “I don't know how it-was, but just then the thought came into my mind that my chance had come. Well, we got down to the woods, and I grabbed Percy, and he screamed, ‘Oh, oh!’ He said: ‘Let me go!’ I stabbed him, and he tried to wiggle out of'my arms. My, but he seemed scared! It was as good as the \Vild West. “He made so much noise, and I was so excited to think that at last ‘I had killed my man,’ that I . stabbed him again and again. I don’t know how many times, but he bled a lot. ~ “After I had stabbed him, I thought to myself, ‘the cops’ll get on to me if they find his body’ This got me kinder scared, so I tied a handkerchief around his throat and dragged him to tho stream. W hen I threw him in a whole lot of little bubbles came up. “I looked at him for awhile, and then I said to myself: ‘Sam, you have killed your man.’ With that I thought I might want to find the body again, so I put the heavy stones on the back of his head and behind his knees. Then I- knew his body would stay where I left it, and I went home.’ During the whole of his narrative, thrilling as it was, from beginning to end, the boy remained cool and col- lected, and never once expressed regret for his cruel act. His only sorrow seemed to be that he had not killed the other boy as well. c1331 IN THE HOUSE. Armand Offers an Amendmnt to Diplomatic Bill. VV ashington, Jan. 19. -—The House took up the Diplomatic and Consular bill yesterday afternoon, and as soon as the enacting clause was read Representa- tive De Armond (Dem., Missouri), of- fered an amendment to recognize the belligerency of the Cubans. ' Mr. Hitt, in charge of the bill, made De the point of 01der that it was not ger-. mane, and Mr. De Armond then took the floor and delivered a speech in favor of his amendment. Congressman Colson, of Kentucky, the only Republican representative from that State, during the debate on De Armond’s belligerency amendment, aroused the House by his statement that action on Cuban belligerency was delayed too long. tain the Chair this time, but I warn my Republican colleagues,” ued, most impressively, “that if the Committee on Foreign Affairs does not give us a chance to argue Cuban bel- ligerency, I will join in the most revo- lutionary methods to secure an oppor- tunity to express our sentiments." At 4.15 Chairman Hitt, of the Foreign Affairs Committee, moved that the de- bate close, and the motion was carried ~13!) yeas,,1,12 nays. Cuba Discussed in Cabinet. “’ashington, Jan. 19.—Yesterday’s session of the Cabinet was briefer than any time since President McKinley was inaugurated. The Cuban situation oc- cupied a few minutes of attention only. Telegrahns- received from Consul- Gen- eral Lee were read. They showed that the excitement had ended for the time being. No dispatch from Gen. Lee was received yesterday, and this was taken to mean that order continued £1 ’Ha- vana. . .. Police Gazette’ 5 Publisher Arrested New York, Jan. 19. —P.ichard K. Fox, proprietor of the Police Gazette, and 'his manager, Robert W. Urban, were arrested yesterday afternoon at the in- stance of Anthony Comstock, upon a complaint charging them with having sent “an indecent paper through the mails.” The paper complained of was the National Police Gazette and its “Living Picture Supplement.” Fox and Urban were arraigned before Com— missioner Shield, who held them under $2, 500 bail each for preliminary exami- nation. Mr. Fox said that the pictures objected to were simply reproductions of living pictures presented in theatres in this city. .___. Funeral of Commissioner Butterworth. Washington, Jan. 19.—The re- mains of Commissioner Butter- worth arrived in,Washington from the South yesterday. Funeral services will be held in this city this afternoon, and among those who will attend will be President McKinley, who was a warm personal friend of the Commissioner, they having served together in the same regiment, and also later in the House of Representatives. The re- mains will ultimately be taken to Ohio, but for the present will rest in a vault at Oak Hill, Georgetown. More COunterfeit Bills. V’Vashington, Jan. 19. —The Secret Service Bureau, Treasury Department, has received a number of the counter- .feit ten dollar silver certificates put in circulation at Mobile, Ala., recently. The notes are of the series of 1891, with Hendricks’ portrait. They are prob- ably made by the photo- -etching proc- ess, and' are very poor imitations. Sev- eral men were arrested at Mobile, sup~ posed to be connected with their manu- facture and circulation. Fourth-Class Postmasters. Washington, Jan. 19.—Postmasters have been appointed in New - Jersey and New York: New J er— sey—Branchville, Sussex, George Phil~ lips. New York—GeorgetOwn, Madi- ' son, W. Albert Hare, Maltsville; Sara- toga, Louis Le Doux;. Thomson, Wash- ' ington, Charles J. Cameron. _ Will Blanca Resign? Key West, Fla... Jan. 19. —It is stated .' in Havana. that Gen. Blanco will soon ._ resign, as the Government at Madrid ; is dissatisfied with his policy. Havana 3 is still much alarmed, and all- streets leading to the park have extra guards. ‘ " . . . ,r‘. “I will vote to sus-“ he contin- ._ _- T HE EVE N lnG G AA Err 1., ‘ " IBY FOR THE iANDI: N. Y.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. a One ’ — Dollar! BOTH P APERS Sent " to anv Ad dress EFOR ,
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