The Salina Weekly News from Salina, Kansas • 1

THE SALIM WEEKLY HEWS. VOL. 1. NO. 6, SALJNA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 5 1891.

50 CENTS A YEAH. A FALSE WIFE TORTURED. Foundlaud. He has ordered an inquiry. 11 Mffllffl' A FOOLISH FARMER i 1 A WITNESS MISTAKEN DKTKCTIVES.

Oh lull ul id, the li'velmil Millionaire, Arrested ou Ckurge of Shoving the Queer. Pittsburg, June 4. S. H. Chisholm, A Deflelt In the Peter's Pence.

Bow, June 8. A committee of car dinals is said to have discovered a deficit of 10,000,000 francs in the Peter', pence account. Run on Iluenoi Are. Banks. Buenos Ares, June 8.

The run on tho banks continues. The creditors the new Italian bank will be paid al most in A KOITII DAKOTA CYCLONE. Many Buildings Demolished and Three Persons Killed Near Havel. Hazel, S. June 4.

A cyclone passed three miles southeast of town, taking a northwesterly course, demolishing many houses and barns, including H. Kruger's house, containing six persons, three of whom were killed and one slightly injured. The killed are: M. Hoag, Mr. Kruger and his son.

At Watertown. 7atertown, S. June 4. A cy clone struck the outskirts of this city, but beyond tearing up sidewalks and wrecking barns and out-buildings no great damage was done. Sir John Macdonald Sinking.

Ottawa, Ont June 4. Sir John Macdonald is sinking gradually, prespir-ation of extreme weakness continues and breathing is very labored. He takes no nourishment now only champagne and appolinais. Heart failure may come at any moment. The Mayflower Sin lu.

Duluth, June 4. The schooner-rigged scow Mayflower is at the bottom of Lake Superior with 443 tons of Portage lake sandstone holding her down. She is not an old craft, having been built in 1887 at Sturgeon bay. She was owned by Capt. Sheldon of Houghton and was valued at $4,500.

Her craw consisted of four people, as follows: Captain, Theodore Zeerbst; wheelman, Joe Roe; sailor, Pat Smith of Houghton, and cook, Edward Elliott of Mancelona Mich. She was in tow of the lake tug Cora A. Sheldon. After extreme difficulty all were saved but Capt. Zeerbst, who yelled out "It's no use I am gone," and sank in a few minutes.

The other members of the crew caught hold of some floating wreckage and kept up until the tug managed to reach them. National Trap Shooting Tournament. Saratoga, N. June 4. A national trap shooting tournament began here under the auspices of the Saratoga gun club.

About 100 shots from all over the country wery present. Guaranteed purses aggregating $5,000 will be contested for during the week. First event, 85 entries, was divided between Kelwey of Batavia, N. Y. Wolstencroft of Philadelphia; Hamlin of St.

Paul; Andrews of Batavia, N. Y. Roberts of Rupert, and Ramsdell of Saratoga. rursefw. The second event, 10 singles, $40, forty entries, was divided between "Blackbird" (proper name and residence unknown); "Tee Kay" of New York, and H.

of Texas. each with a clean score. While the third event was being shot a very heavy rain storm set in and stopped the shoot ing. BASE BALL. Te.terday'.

WESTERN ASSOCIATION, St. Paul. 10: Minneapolis. 16. Mitchell, Darling; Mciiaie, mm win.

Lincoln, 3: Denver. 2. Stafford. Wil- son: Keefe. Lohbeck.

Milwaukee, Sioux Uty. 0. Uavles. Bcnnver; Hart, wianer, Strauss. Kansas uity, Umaha, 0.

Smith, Uun son; Clark, sutchne. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Boston. Cincinnati. 10.

Philadelph'-a, Chicago, 0. New York, Clevelund, 6. Brooklyn, 15; Pittsburg, 6. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St.

Louis, Baltimore, 4. Frisky Yale Students. New Haven, June 4. Twenty- five students were summoned by the Yale faculty to answer for their alleged misconduct during the Barnum circus parade Monday, when they showered torpedoes upon the horses and elephants, thereby nearly causing a stampLde amomrthe animals. One of the pro fessors saw the whole performance.

The faculty reirard it as a very serious matter and will probably punish the culprits. After a Lovers' Quarrel, Red Oak, June 4. Charles Baker shot himself through the heart in the depot waiting room while waiting for a train. He had been working for farmer near here and fell in love with his daughter. There was a lovers' ouar rel and the yovng man concluded to go to Cheyenne, Wyo.

He had bought a ticket, but changed his mind just before A. xl a i iruiu time anu snot mmseii msteau. Reduetlou of Wages. Cleveland, 0 June 4. A special from Youngstown, states that the furnace operators have notified their employes of a 10 per cent, reduction in wages.

This action was anticipated when the operators wore worsted in their fight with the coke producers and tho railroads. Kit Open a Vein In His Own Wrist. St. Louis, June 4. Joseph Heisler, who killed a negro named Harrison Jordan at a dance, tried to commit sui cide in his cell at the jail by biting onen an arterv in his loft wrist.

Hn was rapidly bleeding to death when the guards round him. A Shoe Factory Destroyed. Gallipolis, June 4. The Utter man shoe manufacturing plant was de- stroyed by fire. Total loss on stock and Bound, Gagged and Bnrned Till a Con feaslon Was Extorted.

Sedalia, June 3. George Burn- ham, a young railroad man, and his wife, a remarkably handsome woman of 20 years, have loft Sedalia, the latter under a cloud. Friday night when sho supposed he was out on the road, ho saw a strange man leave his wife's presence. Mrs. Burnham was accused of infidelity, but she denied it emphatically.

The husband bound and gagged the woman and, seating her on a chair, drew a unuo rrom his pocket, threatening to cut her throat if she struggled or attempted to cry out. After having seated her in a chair, with her hands securely bound, he nlaced her feet through the rungs of another chair and, tying thein there, seated himself on her extended limbs and proceeded to carry into execution a most ingenious and at the same time horrible method of torture that the brain of a fiend could devise, Lighting one match after an other, Burnham scorched the woman's flesh until in an agony of pain she signified by Bigns being tightly bound and gagged that she would confess. She was unloosed, and told her husband tho story of her unfaithfulness, naming a number of men with whom she acknowledged having been criminally intimate. The husband listened pationtly and when she had finished, instead of swearing vengeance on the heads of the men who had wrought tho trouble. Burnham decided that they would lcavo the town, which they did, returning to their old home in Illinois, where Burnham will leave his wife with her parents.

They Died Together. Galena, June 3. Elmer Foster, young farm laborer, was engaged to Miss Ada Townsend, daughter of a farmer of Rich township. For some unknown reason they resolved to die together, and accordingly, upon returning from a drive late at night, they repaired to the girl's room, where they both took strvchnine. The young lady's mother called her at the usual hour la the morning but received no response, whereupon she burst into the room and was horrified to find her daughter lying half dead on the bed, while the lifeless form of Foster lay upon the floor.

Miss Townsend was still conscious, but died within an refusing to divulge tho reasons tor the deed. Floods In South Dakota. Stcrgis, S. June 8. This vicinity was visited by the heaviest rain storm since July, $189, and from the fact that the ground was already thoroughly soaked the streams, gulches and canyons soon became mighty rivers.

The water tell in sheets, and within an hour's time the business portion of the city waa flooded, almost every mercantile establishment being inundated. Cellars were filled and sidewalks and small buildings carried away before the powerful waves. In the main street of the city the water was nearly four feet deep in the channel. base ball. westeen association.

Milwaukee, 11; Sioux CHy, 1. Vickery, Shriver, Dewald, lilack, St. Paul, Minneapolis, 7. Burdick, Bartson, Darling; Hart, Baldwin. Lincoln, Denver, 1.

O'Day, Rogers; Kennedy; Lohbeck. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg, 3: Brooklyn, 5. New York, Cleveland, 2. Philadelphia, 3.

Boston. 2. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Louis, Athletic, 6.

Washington, 14; Louisville, 5. i Burled Alive. Keokuk, June 3. Word was received from Douds, a town about twenty-five miles from Keokuk, telling of a startling discovery there. Twenty-three years ago a beautiful young woman named Alice Woodward, died and was buried.

Her brother, M. A. Woodward, recently decided to have his sister's body reinterred at Villisca, where he is living. The coffin was opened and Mr. Woodward and other relatives were horrified to find the remains completely turned over, lying face downward.

Tragedy at a Cornerstone Lavlifg. St. Louis, June 3. During the ceremonies of the cornerstone of St. Englbust's Catholic church, Joseph Stogart shot and fatally wounded Aloise Steiner, who had been deputed to preserve order in the assemblage.

Many of the 4,000 people preseut shouted "lynch him." A. rope was procured, and but for the timely appearance of the police Stogart would doubtless have, been strung up. 'The Battlo Creek Sanitarium Scorched Battle Creek, Mich. June 8. Fire destroyed tho Sanitarium printing office and building, with a total loss of insurance $10,000.

The fire spread so rapidly that several employes narrowly escaped cremation. Tfie origin of the fire is unknown, but its rapid spread is ascribed to the use oi crude oil as fuel. Corbett Will Fight. San Francisco, June 3. Jim Corbett, in answer to Peter Jackson's challenge, says he will fight Jackson again but he will have to wait, as he needs rest and wants to learn the result of the Slavin-Kilrain fight before announcing his intentions.

An Iowa County Seat Case. Missouri Valley, June 3. Tho Missouri Valley contest for the county seat removal began with the board of supervisors filling a petition containing 5,000 names asking for such a removal. Logan mustered a remonstrance with 8.500 names. Root and Shoo Failure.

Boston, June 8. Francis J. Emory, boots and shoes, has assigned. LiabiL Hits $300,000. a millionaire iron operator of Cleveland, was arrested by mistake in a hotel here tr passing counterfeit monoy, Mr.

Chisholm sent a messenger from a detective and electric call agency to purchase him railroad and sleeping car tickets home. Hn tendered two new five-dollar notes to tho messenger boy, and the detectives jumped at the conclusion that it was the old dodge being worked by sending a boy oil to rrk off bad money. Mr. Chisholm was shortly after arrested and taken before Inspector McAleese, and upon proving his identity and producing a large sized bundle of the same kind of greenbacks, was promptly discharged. CHIEF JUSTICE HORTON.

I Seleoted br the Fresldent for One of the New Land Courts. Topeka, June 4. It is learned from absolutely reliable authority that the president has offered Chief Justice Horton, of the Kansas supreme court, the judgeship of one of the new land courts erected by the late congress, appointments to which are soon to be announced by President Harrison. Tht chief justice has accepted the offer and even now is preparing to take his departure. He will tender his resignation as chief justice as soon as his appoint-mhde is made public.

His successor will be appointed by the governor to serve the unexpired term, which terminates next fall-. A state election will then be held to choose a man to fill the vacancy. The Shoe Workers. Boston, June 4. The consideration of the report of the committee on credentials took up most of the time of the morning session of the convention of Boot and blioe Workers of America.

The question was, "Should delegates from certain unions who had not paid up their dues be admitted?" The delegates had offered to pay up their arrears. The delegates were finally seated, Frank McCarthy, of the; Cigar-milkers' union, delivered an address, pointing out how the shoemakers could help the cigar-makers by demanding that a blue label should be on all cigars used by them. At the close of his ad dress some routine business was transacted and the convention took a recess. Nobraska Newspaper Men. Oxford, June 4.

A. large and representative gathering of newspaper men assembled here on account of the meeting of the Republican Valley Editorial association. The session was a purely business one. The annnal election of officers resulted: President, J. D.

Stine, Superior Journal; vice president, F. Bert Risley, Culbertson Republican; secretary, L. Lashbrook, Oxford Standard; treasurer, W. E. Smith, Arapahoe Pioneer.

These, with E. E. Brown of The Alma Tribune, will constitute an executive committee. After Twenty Years' Service. Cincinnati.

June 4. At the regular meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants' Exchange, Col. Sidney D. Maxwell, the superintendent presented his resignation, to take effect Sept. 1.

Col. Maxwell entered upon his duties about twenty years ago and was re-elected each succeeding year. He retires for reasons entirely personal. His resignation was referred to a special committee. lion.

Jame. Fox Considered a Spy. i Boston, June 4. A Herald special from North Sydney says great excitement prevails at St. Pierre over the continued presence of Hon.

James Fox, member of the legislature for St, Johns, N. who is regarded as a spy. Mr. Fox denies that he is there in any official capacity, hut refuses to say why he remains. The governor has been asked to expel him, but this he refuses to do on account of the complications it may lead to.

Municipal Suffrage for Women. Springfield, Juno 4. Mrs. Helen Gougar arrived in this city in the interest of the bill granting women the right of municipa1 suffrage. She has been lobbying all day and said: "I expect a strong lobby of influential men and women to assist me in securing the passage of the municipal snffrago bill.

It will com? up in the house this week as a special order and I have every reaaon to believe that it will be finally passed." Connty Warraut. Gone to Protest. Wilmington, June 4. Owing to the abolishment of the office of county tax collectors, and there Deing no way to collect back taxes, the treasury of New Castle county is practically bankrupt and county warrants have gone to Srotest. There are over $00,000 taxes ue the county but it has been necessary to borrow $10,000 to meet current expenses.

Boyer's Sureties Settle. Harrisburg, June 4. One hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars have been placed on deposit in several banks by the sureties of State Treasurer Boyer in order to make good the losses by the state in the Delamater and Jamison failures. First Peach Shipment of the Season. Vacaville, Cal Juno 4.

The first peaches of the current season were shipped to Chicago. This is about ten days earlier than the average of previous years. They were of the Alexandra variety and very fine. To Try Commander Lyons. Newport, R.

June 4. The court martial to try Lieut. Commander Henry M. Lyons for negligence in allowing the tug Triana to go ashore while going to the assistance of the liaiena, was con vened here, Touched by Robbers for a Cool Ten Thousand. SPRING GARDEN BANK WRECKERS.

The Institution Waa Looted by Officials A Race with Lyncher. The New Orleans Jury Briber. Fu.tofflca Robber. Caught Highwayman' Work. Wooster, June 4.

Samuel Rehm, a well-to-do farmer, who lives in an Isolated place off of the main road, in Chippewa township, waa robbed Friday morning last of $10,000, which he kept in the back part of an organ. He had old a piece of land on Thursday for $4,500 in cash to a brother. He was accompanied home by a young man named Harvey Wyre. When he got home his wife got out all the money, and after counting it placed it back in the organ. About 1 o'clock at night Rehm was awakened by a noise in the house.

He seized a revolver and stepped into the sitting room, where he saw three men. A brief tussel ensued, ending in Rehm being overpowered and the escape of the robbers. After the robbers' departure a hasty examination revealed the fact that the money was crone and that the house had been turned upside down in a search lor tne treasure. Milking a Bank. Philadelphia, June 4.

The revela tions in the Spring Garden bank wreck ing case increased the sensation. It has been revealed that President Kennedy overissued the bank stock 200 shares; that Director Wilson T. Evans borrowed $250,000 from the bank on Bunker Hill mining stock as and that the boons were doctored almost daily oy President Kennedy's orders. Small tradesmen's names were used by Kennedy upon which he made notes for large sums of money and then negotiated them. Receiver Fisher attacked Director Evans and verbally charged him with Bharp practices.

There was a fight, and there is talk of arresting JEvans. An effort has been made to find1 the property of Evans, but despite the fact that he poses as a man worth $500,000 he has secreted all his money. It is said on the inside that both Evans and President Kennedy have handed over all their money to their wives. In the face of these revelations the assets of the bank will not amount to 50 cents on the dollar. Daring Highway Robbery.

BiWEST Superior, June 4. A daring highway robbery was perpetrated in sight of the city hall broad day light at 5 o'clock, p. m. NelsLonde was passing an alley when a highway man sprang out and struck him a terrific blow with a billy, rolled him off the sidewalk into the gutter and robbed him of some silver, overlooking a roll of money in his inside pocket. The affair was observed from police headquarters, and after a chase the robber was caught.

lie is exceedingly tough and gives the name of Woods. The injured man has not recovered consciousness yet. Jeanne Weiss' Suicide. OitAN, Wis. June 4.

Jeanne Weiss, who was found guilty of poisoning her husband, poisoned herself with strychnine. The jailers overlooked a handkerchief in which was sewed a strychnine pellet. She put the handkerchief in her mouth and sucked the pellet for a few mo ments. She then called for a glass of water, and, after a few more moments, the poison haviner had no effect, she cried out: "They have deceived me: they have given me quinine instead of Btrychnine." Immediately afterward she was seized with convulsions and was dead in twenty minutes. New Orleans Jury Bribers.

New Orleans. June 4. The parties accused of bribery in connection with the Hennessy case were again brought up and filed another demurrer, based mainly upon, the point that the law mentions grand and petit jurors and not tales jurors. The demurrer was overruled and exceptions taken so as to bring the question before the supreme court. The cases are set down for Friday-and Monday next and will doubtless go to trial.

New juries were impaneled in both sections, Judge Marr not taking the vacation allowed by law, on account of the bribery cases pending. A Race with Lynchers. Cincinnati, June 4. The arrest of Ed Price, the O'Brienville barber, charged with indecent assault on three little eirls was a most sensational one, When the people of the village heard of the charge against Price the cry of "Lynch him," was raised and a rush made toward the onender. lie was quickly hustled into a patrol wagon and the horses started off at a gallop.

Close behind came a mass of outraged hu manity bent on hanging the culprit. They were outstripped, however, and the prisoner was lodged behind the bars. Editor Elliott's Case. Columbus, June 4. In the Elliott case, the panel having been filled by the acceptance of oqe juror, the state was called upon to exercise its remaining fieremptory challenge, but requested deny until the renewal of the defense of the challenge to one of the jurors for cause had been disposed of.

In or der to give time for investigation of the case the court adiourned early. But the peremptory challenge yet remains in tne defense and one to the state, The jnrv will ha completed this week, The Spanish-American Treaty About to Be Made Public. MORE ON BEHRING SEA MATTERS. A Large Increase In the Money Circulation Over Tear Ago, but Less than In May Minister Romero's Recall Rumored Pension Certificates. Washington, June4.

It is conceded on all sides here that an agreement to maintain a closed season in the seal fisheries of, Behring sea will remove all danger of a conflict over tho seizure of poachers during the season, and will indicate an earnest purpose on the part of both Great Britain and the United States to reach an agreement on the main question in dispute, but it is still an open question whether or not they will be oble to agree on the terms of arbitration. The state department has not yet received a reply to Mr. Blaine's counter suggestions for the questions to be submitted to arbitration, and until a reply is received the department must remain in doubt as to the prospects of a speedy settlement of the dispute. It is understood that the question was discussed at the cabinet meeting, but in the absence of information from Lord Salisbury no very certain view of the situation could be had. The only information the state department has on this subject is the announcement in the British par- uament that L-ora Salisbury was about to inaKe a reply to Mr.

Blaine which would probably bring the two countries close together, it the Questions sue- gested by Mr. Blaine to be submitted to arbitration are accented without chancre. arbitration will be had at once and the dispute will probably not long remain among the matters of live interest at the state department. It is thought likely, however, that Lord Salisbury will make changes in the form of the questions to be presented, and vet de partment officers are confident that the countries can get together on the terms or arbitration. The Spanish-Amerl-an Agreement.

Washington, June 4. Gen. John W. Foster, who has been conducting the recent negotiations between this and other countries for reciprocal relations, is in almost daily consultation with the president and the officials of the state department about the publication of the proclamation that is to an nounco tho terms upon which the Snanu: ii-American agreement is lmsed He declined to say whether or not this document will be forthcoming verv Boon, but it is generally thought that in the absence of Secretary Blaine, who is not expected to return this summer, the president will not wait, but will go ahead in the matter, and that the proc lamation will be out by the 1st of July, As a matter of fact the case is so en tirely in the hands of Secretary Foster tnat tnjs presence in the city or Secre tary Blame, who exercises only a supervisory control over these reciprocity ne gotiations, is not at all necessary for the culmination or the agreement or even the conduct of the business. Changes in the Circulation.

Washington, June 4. The treasury department monthly statement of changes in the circulation during the month of May shows a net decrease in the circulation amounting to x25.038.324. There was an increase of in in silver treasury notes and $484,719 in subsidiary Bilver. On the other hand, there was a decrease of $16,766,400 in gold certincates, in silver cer tificates, i $2,315,647 in national bank nnioa S'J 91 if I OOO in nr.1.1 nr.ir 1 QOA in standard silver dollars, and $1,115,872 in united btates notes. The total cir cuiation oi tne country on June is placed at $1,504,278,509, against $1,431.

163,651 on Juno 1, 1890, an increase dur ing the twelve months of $83,084,875. ine secretary or the navy has ap pointed a board of officers to meet at the Brooklyn navy yard June 10 to ex amine applicants tor two positions or master ot tugs. Seoretary bublun's Successor. Washington, June 4. Nothing can be learned at the Mexican legation in this city to confirm the dispatch from the City of Mexico to the effect that Minister Romero had been recalled to assume the office of secretary of the treasury, in place of Senor Dublan, de ceased, ihe secretary or the legation stated that they had been informed of the death or the late secretary or the treasury, and as far as they knew the office was still vacant.

No telegram recalling the minister, he said, had been received. Pension Certincates. Washington, June 4. During the week ended May 25 the pension office issued 6,049 pension certificates of all classes, the average first payment on each amounting to snu.ui. Knights of Reciprocity.

1 Topeka, June 4. The grand lodge of Knights of Reciprocity is hold ing its first annual convention here. This Bession will take steps toward the organizing of the state in such a way that the formations of the party can be dictated to and its platform made, if the order continues to grow as it has within the last six months. Condemned the Sub-Treasnry Bill. Columbia, S.

June 4. Hon. Ben Terrell, national lecturer of the Farm ers' Alliance, and Governor Tollman addressed a large mcetingof farmers at Abbeville. Governor Tollman con demned the sub-treasury scheme in un measured terms and predicted that it would split the Democratic party. England's Future King "You'd" and "Sir'd" in Court AIRING THE BACCARAT SCANDAL Bit Royal nighnes Cross-Questioned by a Juryman Ha Was Banker When the Cheating Whs Done Other New.

front Abroad. London, June 8. When court opened Tuesday morning. Sir William Gordon Cumining, ths plaintiff in the "baccarat case, entered the witness bos, And his cross-examination by Sir Charles Russell was resumed. Tho Prince of Wales was then called.

In reply to Sir Edward Clark, chief counsel for the prosecution, the prince testified he had known the plaintiff, Sir "William Gordon Cumining, for twenty years. Sir Willian had for ten yeirs had been an intimate and had visited him at Sandringham several times. His intimacy with the plaintiff had continued unimpaired up to September last. The Prince said he had first been informed of the circulation of reports degrading to the character of Sir William Gordon Cumming by Lord Coventry. The reports intimated unfair play by the plaintiff.

The Prince then recited how the said event had resulted in the breaking up of a party assembled at Tranbrycroft. The doubts of the audience as to whether the Prince would be subjected to cross-examination were quickly set at rest by Sir (Jharles Kussell rising to question the distinguished witness. In renlv to Questions bv Sir Charles, the Prince said he did not recollect whether Any one of the three gentlemen said anything about withdrawing a portion of the stake, or that Sir William had systematically played on the board a larger stake than had originally been placed there. Continuing the Prince atated that the suggestion that a mem orandum of the affair be prepared and omitted to bir William tor ins sig nature did not come from him. It was simply a proposition made by Lord Cov entry, in which the witness acquiesced.

Tho witness was asked how recently lie had been in the company of the plaintiff. His reply was: "I havo not met Sir William Gordon Camming since the unfortunate occurrence here under investigation. I should consider it more Agreeable not to meet him in the fu ture." Hardly had tho solicitor general fin ished his deprecating sentence when a juryman, after unexpectedly indicating liis desire that the witness should leave the box, proceeded calmly and deliber Ately to examine him as follows: Juryman: "Are the members of this jury to understand that you were acting banker on those two occasions and yet said nothing of the alleged mal practices" Prince of Wales: "It is a very easy matter for the banker when dealing to lose sight of anything ot the kind. Especially is this so when the game is being played in the country house of i riends, where one would not for a moment suspect any person present of unfair play." Back at the heir apparent comes the persistent juror with another question, to which the prince replied that when the charges against tho plaintiff were made with so much of unanimity, he considered he had no other alternative than to believe in their truth. The Prince of Wales glowered when the juryman interrupted him, but to--ward the end he smiled benignly.

The prince went to luncheon with Lord Coleridge, and all the ladies lunched in court except the Coleridge party. Lord Coleridge returned without the Prince of Wales. Sir Charles Russell's cross examination of Cumming was regarded as very successful. His purpose was to extract from Cumming a confession that he only took the proceedings when he learned the facts were getting about. Cumming said at last that ho had acted, nfter living in a fool's paradise, because it would have been taken up by the clubs if he had Hiot.il "That is what I wanted," said Russell.

Sir Charles also suggested that the plaintiff, in despair, had written: "It is all up with me. Nothing is left but to cut my throat. Life is not worth living." Some of these letters and alleged conversations Cumming denied. Sir Charles also brought out that Cumming had retained the 225 won by him. Gen.

Williams wrote to Cumming in Janu-Ary: "You can say you don't know whether you did quite right to sign the document; that your assertion would not have availed against so many accusers. The less notoriety about the affair the better," Sir Charles cross-examined the Prince of Wales with some airiness, saying "you," generally, instead of "Royal Highness," and addressing the prince as "Sir." He was, however.tonder with the royal witness. There was evidently a tacit agreement to obtain nothing from tne prince that any other witness could supply. The prince showed some impatience once when he was asked: "What aid Mrs. Wilson say to you Aoout uumining cneatingr tie an ewered shortly: "Very little." Exempt from Duty In France.

Paris, June 8. The chamber of deputies has voted to exempt from duty rough wools in bulk and feathers for ornaments. The chamber voted to adopt the tariff committee's rates of da ties on colored wools in bulk, and combed and carded wools. French Interference in New Foundland, Paris, June 8. M.

De Freycinet dis believes the statement that a French paval officer has interfered with the aalo of bait by the people of New building, 820,000,.