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BAPTIZED IN CHAINS. ,
The Ring of Tom Condemned Murderer:
Washed Away in the Big Muddy. I
There was a baptism by immersion in
the Big Muddy, near Murphysboro, Ill.
It was such a novel one that thousands
of people were there to see it. There
were only two candidates, but they
were in chains, and the solemn core-g
monies were conducted in the presence ,
of an armed guard in command of the
sheriff. The two repentant sinners seek- j
ing for forgiveness were Jeffrey and,
Henderson, convicted of murder. I
The men professed repentance and I
their request to be baptized was granted
by the sheriff.
About 4,000 people were at the river I
bank. Women in their Sunday clothes,
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men in carriages, 1n wagons, and on.
horseback, and in canoes in midstream, ’
and scores of children. A crowd of
mechanics, clerks, preachers, business
men and laborers, on a few minutes’ no-
tice, gathered to see what condemned:
men recently converted would say and
do. -
The people had gathered at the upper
ford, but the sheriff and his posse, with.
his converts in a carriage, drove to tho
lower ford 200 yards below. As a sec-
tion of the crowd on the far side of the
river rushed scattering along the side to
the lower place, a war veteran said:
“Look, there is a very good picture of
how we appeared in the charge at Mis-
sion Ridge.”
The prisoners were driven to mid-
stream. There were two sets of shackles,
one on their feet and one set chaining
their feet to each other. The Rev. Mr.
McBride and the Rev. Mr. Bagwell,
Baptist evangelists, waded out in the
stream, while the Rev. Mr. Gordon and
his choir sang a hymn on shore. Ve— E
hicles and horsemen crowdedthe sheriff’s ‘
carriage in the river. l
J eflrey’s wife first stepped from the
carriage into the stream and was bap-
tized. Then J efirey and Henderson, in
clanking chains, but with cleanly shaved
faces and serene countenanccs, stepped
in and knelt. One preacher took hold
of the shackled man, and in a loud voice .
said:
“Upon profession of thy faith, my
brethren, and in obedience to the com-
mand of my heavenly father, I baptize
thee in the name of he Father, Son and
Holy Ghost.”
Both converts went under and came
up together. Then, still in chains, they
crawled into their carriage between the
officers and were hurriedly ( rivcn back
to their quarters in jail. They spoke no
word during the ceremony except to the
ministers. The spectators stood by in
silence. The sherili.’ stood on the car-
riage front, surrounded y a well armed
posse—ChicagoInter-Ocean.
SURVIVORS OF, THE COMMUNE. I
All Paris Trembles at Each Recurring
Anniversary. .
Each year something happens to re-
mindthe Paris public of the bloody days
of the Commune in 1871. On the 24th
and 25th of May—the anniversary of its
fall—the police are all afield to prevent
manifestations with the red flag at the
foot of the wall in the cemetery of Pere-
Lachaise. There the last Communist
soldiers, shot down by the National
troops under General do Galliffet, lie
buried in deep trenches. On the same
days religious people wander undis-
turbed in the quiet garden of the Rue
Haxo. There the Communist leaders
exercised their last act of authority by
shooting, before their own turn came,
the hostages who were in their power—
priests. civil ofiicers and National .
soldiers.
After twenty-four years the Commune .
has become sober and respectable. Its
urvivors have made their way every
where. since the amnesty of 1878 allowed
them to return to France. The revolu- .
tionary. Socialist party, with its forty "
members of Parliament, celebrates the
anniversary after the approved fashion
of politicians. A few months ago, when
one of their number had to be disci-
plined by the President of the Legisla-
tive Chamber, they use in :1 body to
the cry of "Vive la Commuxr-l” Ordi-
nary mortals had a moment of" painful
surprise. Joan Volders, the leader of
the Belgian Socialists, just l.-3f01‘e he
became crazy, explained with a. uthority
what his comrades meant by profit-ssion of
solidarity vit-h the Commune: “ ‘Vive
1a Commune!’ is the war cry of the So-
cialists of all nations, just as the Mar-
seillaise is the hymn of the social revo-
lution. All those who march behind the ,
red flag, whatever their race or lan-
guage. sing it as their hymn of deliver-
ance.” \
A Diamond in 21 Floating Bottle. I
While fishermen were hauling; a net
for shad in the upper Delaware, near
Lambertville. N. J., they took a sealed
bottle, with a long, narrow silk ribbon
about the In the. botfle
note:
“This bottle was starts"; from Ding-
man’s Ferry, Pa. W‘ ill the finder com- '
municate with one of the undersigned,
stating when‘and whore foruid. Ann 11.,
Gertrude G. and Emily L., April 15,
1895.”
The fishermen were about to cast the
bottle aside when one of them discovered
something bright and sparkling in the
bottle. It proved to .be :1. diamond,
which has since been found to be worth
$100. It is supposed in placing the note
in the bottle. one of the young Women
dropped the precious stone from a ring
she wore.
neck. was this
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. A woman who lives near anont Ciro
ole having punished her little boy, said
to him: '
“Rudolph, aren’t you sorry now?”
“Yes," replied the boy, “I are—sorry
that you panked me."——Washington :
Post.
“’as Sorry.
' Transported.
“Well,” said the monkey to the organ
grinder. as he sat on top of the organ. 5
“I'm simply carried aWay with the mn- »
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' All Government Departments Pre-
paring for Impending Gunfiict.
new MORE here or re:
.
Plans All Made to Bush Troops to Cuba,
and Soldiers on Their Arms Ann. ‘d'uit-
1‘13: Only for Telegraphic Orders l’rmn
‘vls':_x.~:liiugtnn to Strike. from the. Gulf
toast—l)iplonlntic Bonds Are Ready to
Svnar, and filinistcr \‘t’codi'ord Notified
It; the I’m-pared to Leave l‘tlmirid.
*‘s'.’;:::hington, April 4..——'.l“alk of peace
.' .1 every move made by the President,
.1. 1...,‘.»_’~.;-.nct, army ant. navy officials
members of Congress shows that
y believe war not only to be inevi-
but that the firing of the lirst
.L is 21 matter of only 2-. few days.
livery department that will figure in
the conflict is being brought to a point
of high eliiclcucy, and everything noc—
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~‘~\ to protect Luitcd States citi-
zens in Spanish dcmznions is being
rhino.
Diplomatic negotiations between
Spain and the United States have ccas~
ed. All our Consuls in Spain and Cuba.
have been ordered to hold themselves
in readiness to come home at a mo-
notice. All United States con-
sular ofllces in Cuba, exeept that of the
0.1115111 General, have been ordered
closed by the State Department, and
in charge of them have been di-
d to go to Havana at once, so that
. .ir departure may be made speed-
and easily when hostilities bezin.
\‘t‘oozlford Ready to Leave Madrid.
(ilencral Stewart L. W'oodford, Minis-
er in Spain, has been notified to be
and}: for a hurry call to return, and
advices have been sent to American
citizens. in Spanish territory to put
themselves in positions Where they can
be protected by representatives of
other nations, preferably those of
Great Britain.
From Home comes the information
that Pope Leo has determined to make
an effort for peace and that he has
sent to Archbishop Ireland, through
Archbishop Keane, an expression of
his earnest desire that Monsignor Ire—
land use his inlluenée on President Mc-
Kinley in favor of a. pacific settlement
of our diliiculty with Spain.
Army Resting on Its Arms.
General Miles asked Saturday that
he be allowed to put the troops in mo-
tion at once, but Secretary Alger, still
clinging to the President in his hope
for peace, begged for twenty-four
hours more. General Miles determin—
ed to be ready for rapid work, and
troops in the interior department of
the East, on the lakes, in Dakota, Mis—
souri, Colorado and thc neighborhood
M, rr
' of the Gulf are waiting 0:11ch with all
their effects packed up.
One hundred thousand men can he
landed on the Gulf coast within twen-
ty—f-our hours, General Miles declares,
and thousands of others could follow
within ten hours.
Secretary Alger has nllotetl another
’ million dollars for coast defenses, and
much of that sum will be spent for
mines, New York city receiving partic-
ular attention from experts who have
hurried there from Schenectady to
Work with the army officials in placing
mines in the harbor.
L'..:mnudol‘e Schley’s flying squad-
run is kept at anchor in the James
lilvev. but steam is up, and the ships
(.82? ln: oil" at short notice. The cruis—
er ('ulllnlllla has been added to the
s;1~«:-n§;th of the fleet, and other vessels
will soon reinforce it.
Spain “'as Not Strategic.
Naval officials who were angry be-
cause they believed that Spain had
stolen a march by getting her torpedo
flotilla to Porto Rico breathed more
lively when they learned that these
v.11? ships had advanced only as far as
the Cape Verde Islands.
l‘flnv they consider the flotilla easy
prey for Commodore Schley’s flying-
squan-on in case of war. Spain’s over-
caution, they say, has lost to her a.
valuable position for oilensive and de-
fensive operations against the United
States. The flotilla. is now 2,000 miles
from Porto Rico, and it cannot reach
the harbor of San Juan in less than
ten days, before which time the flying
squadron could destroy it. Once in
the harbor of San Juan, Spain would
have a splendid strategic point for her
torpedo boats, for they could dodge in
and out among the islands and get to
Havana. with ease.
Spain’s royal family, according
adv-ices from Berlin, fears for itself,
to
as
. well as for its country in case of war
with the United States. The German
Ambassador at Madrid reports to his
Government that the Carlists are tak-
ing advantage of the situation to be-
come active, and that everything is
prepared in the royal castle for flight.
King Alfbnso will be taken to' a. port
where a yacht is in readiness. The
Queen Regent asked the intervention
of theEurop-ean powers, but the replies
were unsatisfactory.
Secretary Gage and Chairman Ding-
léy, of the House Committee on VV-ar
and Means, are planning for the filling
of the national war chest and are con-
sidering how money could be raised in
the internal revenue department.'Con-
gress probably will be asked to put a
tax of four cents a pound on coffee,
which would yield about $29,000,000 a
year, and a. tax of ten cents a pound
on tea, which wouldbrlng $11,000,003.
Another request that Will be made will
be that beer be taxed from $1 to $2 a
barrel, which would make a revenue of
$36,000,000 a year.
Another Cruiser Purchased.
London, April 4.——LieuLer.ant Com-
mander Colwell, the United S ates na-
val attaches here, has purchased from
the Thames Iron Works for his; gov—
ernment a. cruiser of 1,800 tons
placement and capable of making: 145
knots. The vessel carried six 4.7-inch
guns and ten smaller ones. She is fitted
with twin screws and has a protected
deck. The vessel will go to sea within
three days. Lieutenant Commander
Colwell says the price paid was very
reasonable.
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prnctit-ally ceased in "\R’ashington,
THE s'PANisi-l ”FLOTILM. ‘ a“
' Will Be Reinforced by Cruisers and Join
Torpedo Boats at Porto Rico.
‘Madrld, April 4.—The Spanish Cabi-
net decided that the torpedo flotilla is
to remain at the Cepe Verde Islands
until further orders. The flotilla will
be joined later by a squadron com-
? posed of the armored cruiser Carlos V.,
f 099,235 tons; the cruiser Alfonso X111,
; of 5,000 tons; the armored cruiser In-
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fanta Maria. Tresah of 7,000 tons, and
the armored cruiser Cristobal Colon,
of 6,480 tons, which will accompany
the torpedo flotilla to Cuba.
It has also been deemed by the Gov-
ernment to send the armored cruisers
I- Visoaya. and Almjranlte Oqu-endo, both
of 7,000 tons, back to Havana. They
will receivegorde'rs to this effect as soon
' terview,
as they slglht Porto Rico.
A national subscription to strength—,
on the Spanish fleet will be organized
by a royal decree, but the decree will
not be published before a. declaration
of \var.
Looks Upon “Tar as a Certainty.
Madrid, April 4.—The Cabinet, which
met at eight o‘clock Saturday night,
discussed ‘the situation until midnight.
At the close of the conference it was
declared that no official news had been
received at that 'time from Washing—
ton. But it was admitted that the
Ministers were filled with gloomy im-
pressions.
One Cabinet Minister declared that
he had received private information
confirming the extreme gravizty of the
situation.
The Minister of W'ar, Lieutenant
General Correct, submitted for the ap-
proval of the Cabinet elaborate plans
for the organization of the military
forces of the kingdom.
The Minister for .the Home Depart-
ment, Don Ruiz y Capdep-on, in an in-
declared that everything
pointed to war.
The Cabinet has examined proposi-
tions for the arming of merchant ves-
sels as privateers, but it has been de-
cided to await events before coming to
any decision on this subject.
Finally, a telegram from the Spanish
Minister at Washing-ton, Senor Polo y
Barnabe, was read at the Cabinet
meeting, in which Senor Bernabe said
President McKinley will be overruled
by Congress.
Officials here now frankly admit that
the situation is delicate m the extreme.
They consider war as being imminent,
and it is popularly believed Presdent
McKinley will address an ultimatum to
Spain next week.
All parties are offering aid to the
Government. Even the Carlist chiefs
are presenting themselves to Premier
Sagasta, proffering their services in
. the emergency.
The newspapers are denouncing the
Bishop of Barcelona on account of the
letter which he wrote proposing the
abondonment of Cuba, provided Spain‘s
commercial and religious Interests are
guaranteed. Other bishops are calling
on the Government to resist the United E
States, and are offering money to aid
the military and naval preparations.
Fitting Out Another Torpedo Flotilla.
Madrid, April 4,—A flotilla of torpedo
boats and torpedo—boat destroyers is
being" prepared for active service at
Cadiz.
PREPARING TO SEIZE HAWAII.
Japan \‘Vill Take ,Advantnge of a. War
\Vith Spain to Acquire the Island.
Washington, April 4.—Even at this
critical juncture, when all our ener—
gies toward girding up our Joins for the
expected bout with Spain, the irre—_
pressible advocates of the annexation i
of Hawaii are endeavoring to play a
telling card in favor of the immediate
absorption of the Island Kingdom.
The ambition of Japan is the shimm—
lcth. leports of a secret treaty be—
tween Japan and Russia are exploited
to scare Congress into the belief thI:.-‘.E
in the event of war between Spain and ,
the United States the Hawaiian islands
would be seized by Japan. “-
Upon .115
ground certain advocates of annexation
declare that the only proper course for
the United States to pursue is to an-
nex the islands as soon as possible and
hoist the Stars and Stripes at Honolulu
which would effectually stop Japn n.
A friend of an attache of the Japan—
ese chation says that the attache
stated to him confidentially that a
Russo-Japanese treaty really exists
and the seizure of Hawaii by Japan is
contemplated.
A prominent naval official, speaking
about the alleged secret treaty between
Japan and Russia, stated that he had
grave doubts of such a. treaty being in
existence. He said that if there was
such a treaty it had been negotiated
very recently, and that this Govern—
ment had no knowledge of such an al—
llance.
Enormous Contracts for llIeats.
, Young Samuel IIends-rsun Found
Chicago, April 4.—Li’bby, McNeil &
.Libby have received an order from the
United States Government for 750,000
pounds'o-f provisions, including mess
pork and canned meats, to be shipped
at once to the Navy Yard at Brooklyn.
The Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Com-g
pany of Kansas City have also rec—
c'eived a government order for 780,000
pounds of provisions for immediate
shipment to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
To fill this order the plant of the com- .
pany has been put at work both night
and day. Other huge orders have been
prepared by the Governmentcand will
be placed under contract within the‘
next fm'ty-eight hours. All railroads
are m giving preferences in move-E
inc-ht and time to government supplies
ovcx‘ all ulnar traffic except mails.
Arranging for War Taxes.
\l'zasliingtttm, April 4.—-The Treasuryl
Du;~1i:‘.l:ill'1:'llt has a force of clerks hard '
:it work preparing statistical matter
in l-“litlé-cilnn with the war tariffs of:
60'
[.10 Ml
U.) 111:: dose of the Civil War. The mat—
uttcr to be transmitted to Congress by
:u-retary Gage to-morrow, provided
-.':11' becomes inevitable. The letter will
cco‘t‘i'ztcnd the radical amendment of
he tariff law to impose taxes on tea,
.ea-r and other artiéles of domestic pro;
due-Jon on a. basis similar to that
which existed during the dperiod of the
late-war. _ E
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p;- in prennration will be used in aE
200‘ “View BE LOST
Shaveneetown, lll., Suddenly En-
gulfed in Water.
NO WARNING or DISASTER
\Vater Breaks Through the Louie and In-
nndates the District for Five Rules—All
1 Communication Shut Off—Aid Prompt“
ly Dispatched m the Suffering City.
Girard, 11L, April 4.—A telephone
message was received here from Shaw-
neetown, 111., saying that at 4.30 P. M.
yesterday the levee above the City
broke, and the city was inundated. The
water had backed up for five miles and.
rushed down upon the city like a tidal.
wave.
After the message was received, tele-1
phone and telegraph communication
with Shawneetown was suddenlvcut
off. '
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Chicago, April 4.—-A.£ 12.30 :this morn-—
ing the operator in the Long Distance
Telephone Company’s office, at Mount
Vernon, Ind., informed {the Associated
Press that the estimate or the loss of
life at Shawneetown was at that hour
200. Mount Vernon is only thirty miles
from Shawneetown, and the informa-
tion on which the estimate is based is
believed to be reliable. '
The operator said that the company’s
wires to the stricken city failed soon
after 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon. At
that hour it was known that the dam
was giving way, but it was not thought
that it would go to pieces quickly
enough to cause loss of life.
By 8 o’clock it was known in Mount
Vernon that many persons had been
drowned, the estimate then being 100.
A relief boat bearing food, blankets
and surgeons was started down the
river, and was expected to reach Shaw-
neetown before morning.
Gradually the reports of loss of life
increased the estimates, stories com-
ing from various points. near the scene
ofr-the flood, showing clearly that the
disaster was far more serious than at
first believed.
Persons from Mour't Vernon and the
surrounding country bsieged the tele-
phone and telegraph offices frantic for
tidings from relatives and friends in
the flooded town. .
No attempt at an accurate list of the
lost was possible, however, and the
crowds stood all night before the bul-
letin boards, on whidh were posted the
meagre reports being received.
SPAIN PLANTS FORTY MINES.
Two Lines Placed in the Channel at the
Entrance to Havana ]I:n'bor.
Havana Harbor, April 4.—Forty' float-
ing submarine mines were secretly
planted in Havana harbor last .W‘ed-
‘ nesday night by the Spanish Govern—
ment. This information comes from
I official sources and is absolutely cor—
root.
The mines were laid in the narrowest
part of the channel between Mom) and
Punta. in two lines of twenty mines
each. They are spherical and float about
twenty-four feet under the surface.
Each is attached by an anchor chain
to a. heavy cable anchored on the bot-
tom. The detonating wires run up the
chains. There is sufficient force to par-
alyze the biggest ships afloat.
But if an entering fleet should use
counter mines or bow torpedoes on ap-
proaching the narrowest part of the en-
trance to the barber the mines could
be exploded.
Havana is in a state of tremendous
but supprhssed excitement. Var with
the United States is regarded as cer—
tain. It has been rpm-ted 3‘; the palace
for a week. The steann r I-Jnscottc was
crowded Saturday with uses of the
mfore timid sort.
English, French and German-busi-
ness houses have called their represen-
r ‘ \‘.' 3. l'.
tatives to prepare
BOY MURDEREF‘. CONVICTED.
Guilty
of Killing a 5-}Tcur—Uld Child.
Philadelphia, April 4.——’€amuel Ilen-
derson, the fifteen—year-old boy who
killed little Rony Lockycr, a live-Year—
old child, on January 14, “21:3 convicted
on Saturday of murder in the second
degree. Assistant District Attorney
Barlow, who tried the case, pressed for
a. conviction in the first degree, which
would have meant capital punishment
‘ for a. flf-teen-year-o-ld boy, or life ini—
prisonment.
Every one that has seen Sam Hen-
derson has but one impression of his-
moral responsibility. He has the ap-
pearance of a. partial idiot. But the
Commonwealth brought expert testi-
mony into the case to prove him sane
in spite of his looks. The jury seemed
to accept this view of the case doubt-
fully, but they convicted the prisoner.
The extreme penalty under this con-
viction is imprisonment for twenty.
years. The judge reserved sentence for
the present. 1
The little victim of this boy mur-
derer was cruelly slain. He was vic-
iously stabbed four times with a. carv-
ing knife and beaten into unconscious—
ness. Then his body was thrown into
' a creek and a.‘ stone rolled over it.
Young Henderson’s crime created a
sensation in Philalelphia. He had been
a reader of cheap novels, and it was
believed he wished to show himself
competent to join any band of des-
perutloos.
lig Steel Conlbine.
(iclevland, 0., April 4.——Announce—
ment is made of the reorganization of
Johnson Steel Company with a
m; 3:le of $14,000,000, consisting of five
won first mortgage 5 per cent. gold
3'19. $3,000,000 of preferred stock and
v....!;u of common stock. The re-
- .;1112.21ctl Company will beknown as
Ltraine Steel Company and its
. ,;.~t. will be practically those now in
- nus... of the Johnson Company. Work
.- rmumenced at once on mam—
. 21t- \\ furnaces and coke ovens.
LEA.)
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(W Nicholas Hannen, as arbitrator,
. ache} that Siam must pay $200,000 to
{It same of Dr. Cheek, an-American,
for seizing his elephants and other
property. :
Norwalk Chronicler