J. THE JOURNAL. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA. OVEB THE STATE. The agricultural fair at Wood River was a grand success. Ha li. county has been redistricted under the Hums law. Fbemoxt's hemp factory has started up on the season's crop. Nebraska farmers are learning" that it pays to plow deep and plant early. Akkaxgkmknts are being" made for big irrigation meeting in Sidney in Decern ber. Ed Ryersox. fell from a third story window in Lincoln, but was not seri ously injured. It cost a Thomas county farmer $5 to recover a yellow dog stolen by a party of emigrants he had befriended. The beet harvest is now in progress in Dodge county, and is furnishing plenty of work to men and teams. The Cedar county fair association is paying its premiums in full and will have a surplus to turn in on old debts. There is room for from five hundred to one thousand small herds of cattle on the divides north and south of Sid ney. Five hundred acres of beets were grown near Wayne this year. Next year one thousand acres will be culti vated. STiie beet fields in Wayne county are yielding from fourteen to twenty tons per acre, the lowest netting the farm ers about S3tf per acre. Two Aixswohth boys, Edward and Frank Kiser, aged respectively 13 and 11, were trotted off to the reform school as incorrigibles. The corner stone of the Methodist church at Palisade was put in place last Saturday, Rev. D. W. C. Hunting ton of Lincoln officiating. A local branch of the Nebraska Cen traL Building and Loan association of Lincoln, has been organized at Raven na and several hundred sales found ready purchasers. The Plainview house was closed under a chattel mortgage given by the proprietor to the bank of Plainview. A settlement may be agreed upon to enable the house to remain open. Ox the 13th inst. the Methodists of Oakland will begin a series of revival meetings. Evangelist D. W. McGregor will do the preaching and I. N. Mc Hose will have charge of the music Ed Smith, an employe of the H. & M. at Plattsmouth, saw an advertisement in an eastern paper and responded. As a result the bride came from Altoona, Pa., to that city, and they were mar ried last week. William Swaxsox was arrested at Syracuse for stealing horse blankets from horses standing in the street. lie pleaded guilty and was punished. Other property found with him is held for identification. The preliminary hearing of Alonzo Moore, charged with being criminally intimate with the 15-year-old daughter of Fred W. Patterson of Rock Bluff, was held at Plattsmouth, and the pris oner bound over without baiL A move is on foot in Weeping Water by which a stock company is being or ganized to sink an artesian well to sup ply a lake to be used for various pur poses, including the city's ice supply. The leading capitalists of that town are interested. David Eaton of Otoe county met with an accident. He was engaged in topping" cane, when a mis-stroke caused the keen edge of the knife to strike his left arm near the wrist, severing the artery and tendons and making a very ugly wound. Charles Mixxey of Ohiowa is much worried about the whereabouts of his son Arthur, who recently left home. The old gentleman says he has no de sire to compel the boy to stay with him, but is only anxious to know if he has procured employment. Judge J. B. Cessn a will leave shortly for New Mexico. The judge is still engaged on the land grant case in which he was defeated before the court of private land claims, but says he will go to the supreme court with it, where he will probably win. Dr. C. E. Coffix, who takes the place as assistant superintendent of the Lincoln insane hospital, made va cant by the resignation of Dr. Greene, is one of the leading physicians of the Loup country, and though a young man, has made a reputation in his cho sen field. G. Ik Martixdale, living near Exe ter, has a contrivance for getting water out of his well by means of horse power. His children were draw ing water when his daughter, Maud, got her hand caught on the rppe at one of the pulleys, and it was fearfully lacerated and burned by the rope. F. J. Hale of Battle Creek started into the bee business last spring with fifteen stands of bees. He now has forty-five stands, an increase of thirty stands, and has taken over 1,500 pounds of very fiine honey from them, which he values, with the increase of bees, at $400. Mr. Hale feels very proud over the success he has, had with his bees this season. A curious state of affairs, says the Rushville Democrat, exists in a great many counties of the state in regard to the work of destroying Russian thistles, which falls to the lot of road overseers. Rather than to be subject to fines for not . performing their duty many overseers have resigned. Iu counties where there is much vacant land the most trouble has been experi enced. No one seems to be responsible for the cost of destruction, and the counties will be unable to collect the cost. The county recorder's statement of Otoe county for September shows twenty-two farm mortgages filed, amounting to 833,909, and twenty-four released, amounting to 23,034.50. There were fifteen city mortgages filed showing $12,620.28, and four released,' amounting to 53,630.20. The grain dealers at Sidney are making extensive purchases of wheat, rye oats and barley from the farmers, and most of the small grain has been raised on the high divide, where one must dig from eighty to 200 feet for water. The grain is of excellent quality, free from weeds. j Second Wife of an Old Man. Nebraska City dispatch: In July of the present year an old man named Horace Howard, whose wife had died a few months before, came to this city in I search of another wife. He offered a bonus to any one procuring one for him, and as he was worth about $50. 000 he was successful, marrying a wo man named Delaney. It is said he presented her with a large sum of money prior to and after the marriage yesterday. James Brown, a son-in-law, came to the city to investigate. He claims that the woman was never divorced from her first husband and is consequently guilty of bigamy. He also claims that there is a big conspira cy to fleece the old man, who is over SO years old, out of his his wealth, and he proposes to cause several arrests as soon as he procures some additional ev idence. Mr. Howard is well known in this county. liooming Milford's Gold Find. Lincoln dispatch: Owen Prentiss, an attorney from Cripple Creek, Colo., was in Mil ford today looking over the alleged gold fields. He represents a number of Colorado capitalists. He says that if he finds anything to justify the belief that there is gold in this dis trict there will be plenty of capital forthcoming to work the mines. Today David Nefsky went out to his property to commence operations with a drill. Grocer Taylor, who recently made the S12.0C0 investment, is preparing to do the same. Arrangements were made with the railroad to stop the traiu to day and allow the Lincoln delegation to the Milford soldiers home dedication -o inspect the "gold fields." .Suggestions to Teacher. State Superintendent Corbett com mends to the careful attention of all persons interested in educational mat ters a circular oa the subject of Library day. For Nebraska public schools Library day has been set for Monday, October 21. A suggestion is the teachers: "One of the ways is to program in which teacher, made for prepare a children and some of the patrons take part. Another is a program in which every family represented in the school pre sents a story, an essay, a recitation, a declamation, or snmftthincf for the pii- I , - o tertainment of the people of the com- munity wno are invilea ior me even ing. A third is for the teacher to pre pare a talk or lecture on the books selected for the pupils' reading course by the Reading Circle board and give this on the evening of Library day to as many old and young, as can be in- ducedto come. A fourth plan is to give out five or six of the Pupils Head ing circle books to a number of the most earnest and intelligent men and women (one to each) in the district on educational matters and ask each to make an eight or ten minute talk on Vhat I found in the book for chil dren. These talks with music by the school, or by some of the people of the community, in connection with the talk of the teacher, would form a pleas ant and profitable evening. Ask the school authorities to buy a part or all of the set selected by the Reading Circle board for the pupils, as the needs of the school and the ability of the dis trict may demand." Wanted for Seventeen Year. Sheriff J. P.Wetherford of Oskaloosa, Kan., was in Lincoln last week to pro cure requisition papers for Jim Daugh erty, who is wanted in the Sunflower state for assisting in robbing a bank at Nortonville, Kan., in 1882. Governor Holcomb granted the papers, and the sheriff left yesterday afternoon for Falls City, Neb., where he has located Daugherty. The crime for which Daugherty is wanted was committed by him. Poke Wells and another pal. Wells was shot dead by a watchman. Daugherty and his other pal were captured. While in jail Daugherty got possession of two revolvers with which he held up the jailor and made his escape. Since that time the officers have been following him to get the $2,000 reward i offered for his apprehension. He was j located in Kansas City once, but he got wind of the pursuit and escaped before the officers could land him. He was tracked to Falls City by Sheriff Weth erford. Daugherty is a desperate criminal, and the sheriff expected trouble in arresting him. Wisner Woman Commits Suicide. Wisner dispatch: Mrs. W. T. Grimes died at her home, two miles north of town, last evening from the effects of a dose of Paris green taken yesterday afternoon with suicidal intent. The deceased had been confined in the Nor folk asylum for the insane for several months, but was much improved in her menial condition, and was allowed by the authorities of that institution tore turn home with her husband Friday. She appeared benefitted by being with her family, but in a relapse used the drug to end her life. She was highly respected by this community, in which she had lived for eighteen years. She was a member of the Christian church and of the Woman's Relief corps of this place, whose members attended her funeral in a body, which took place this afternoon from the Methodist church. For C'otner Medical College. On the 8th the State Board of Health took financial action in the matter of the Cotner Medical college, the med ical school of Cotner university. It was decided to grant certificates to practice to the class graduated by the school last June, but a warning was served on the present senior class and the faculty that facilities for clinical instruction in medicine must be provided better than those now at hand. It was held that the school had complied at least with the spirit, and that in f ture both letter and spirit must be observed. The church social is a serious thing for young men of limited means in all sections of America, but In Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia It is pos itively dangerous. Hardly an affair of the kind Is held in the rural regions that at least one man does not give up his life not to religion, but to one or another of the thousand feuds of that section. Whether it is a case of the office seeking the man or the man seeking the office, the search is a diligent one nowadays over a great many states. THE GOVERNOR SAYS NO. CORBETT AND FITZSIMMONS CAN NOT FIGHT AT HOT SPRINGS. HIS ULTIMATUM ISSUED. The Fighters and Their Manager Notified That Any Attempt to Fall Off the Mill In Arkansas Is Just Ho Much Time and Energy Wasted The Chief Ex ecutive's Warning:. Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 1 1. Gov- i WAVT AUA n, fTliW uuj uccu cAaiuiuiu the law closely touching the guberna torial power to prevent prize fighting, has outlined his intentions in commu nications addressed to officers at Hot Springs and the principals of the pro posed fight. The governor will hold himself ready to co-operate with Judge Duffie, of the Hot Springs district, to prevent the fight, should it appear that the local authorities fail to im press upon the fighters and their back ers with sufficient force the propriety of declaring the fight off. In his letter to Judge Duffie, Governor Clark says: "I beg to assure you that you shall have my prompt and cheerful co-operation in any effort you may make to suppress the proposed prize fight at Hot Springs. Any order that you may make in this connection shall not prove ineffective for want of power to enforce it. I say this with confidence, because 1 hold in the highest respect the fidelity and courage of Sheriff Uoupt. I feel sure that his active as sistance can be relied upon, but it is said that even Jupiter sometimes nods. If it shall, c ontrary to my expecta tions, become necessary to proceed without the valuable aid of the sheriff, I stand ready to supply all that may be necessary. In addition to notifying President Stuart of the Florida Athletic cljib by mail of his determination to prevent I man i ne g ght. Governor Clark telegraphed to Corbett and Fitzsimmons as follows: "I am advised by the press dis patches that it is your purpose at an early day to engage in a prize fight in this state. The purpose of this is to inform you that such an act is a viola tion of om law and an affront to the I sentiment of state pride entertained by our people, "It will, therefore, not be possible for you to accomplish any such pur pose, and any attempt upon your part to do so will subject you to penalties and to treatment that I am sure will be highly distasteful to you. In the present state of public opinion, which at least is the force that influences penalties, prize fighters have no rights which those in authority are bound to respect. But there is no lack of law to make it now my duty to do all that is here indicated. As this is the only communication that I shall address to you, I have been somewhat more em phatic than would be the case if the matter were open to discussion." Dr. Parker Writes the Pope. London, Oct. 14. Dr. Joseph Parker has written a letter to the pope in answer to the pastoral letter advocat ing a reunion of Christendom, in which he says: "Were this a personal matter, I could hardly forgive myself for seek ing to approach a presence so august and venerable. But inasmuch as you have appealed to all sections upon the questions which affect the standing of the soul before God, I have embold ened myself to bear witness to the headship of the blessed Christ and to decline communion with any man or church that would officially or pre frcriptively come between me and my Savior."' Mr. Holllilay Accepts. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 1 4. Charles K. Holliday who was recently nominated by petition for chief justice on the Independent Free Silver Resubmission ticket, has addressed a formal letter of acceptance to Colonel W. I. Tom linson, Oscar Bischoff, L. T. Yount and others. Mr. Holliday enters into a lengthy discussion of the money question from a free coinage point of viewand scores the national adminis tration. Frank Goodale Demented. Coffey ville, Kan., Oct. 14. Frank Goodale, the merchant of Gridley.who went to Kansas City to buy goods about three weeks ago, and had not been heard of since, was captured in this city yesterday by Deputy Sheriff T. L Reid and J. M. Wilder of Yates Center, Kan., and D. L. Goodale of Aurora, 111. He is in a demented con dition, and was in the act of boarding a Missouri Pacific freight for the West. Four Men Killed. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14. Fout men were killed and seven others fatally injured as the result of an un explained accident at the Cleveland rolling mills at 9 o'clock last night. The furnaces were carrying heavy fires and the casting department was work ing a full force. Without warning, and in a manner wholly inexplainable, the casting house, the largest building of the plant, collapsed, burying many of its occupants in the debris. The President's Vacation Ended. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Oct." 14. President Cleveland and Private Secre tary Thurber left last night on board the Oneida, Commodore E. C. Benedict's steam yacht, for Washington. With favorable weather the party should reach their destination on Monday. Mrs. Cleveland and the children will leave Gray Gables for the White house earlv next week. Cuban Day at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Oct 14. Cuban inde pendence is to be recognized at the exposition, the directors having de cided to have a Cuban independence day during November. The Cubans of the United States interested in the revolution in Cuba will be invited here, and several prominent men are to be asked to address them. ELOPERS FAIL. Sedalia and St. Joseph Couples Forced to Return Home Unmarried. Quiscr, 111., Oct. 14. Leonord Men efe, aged 18, and Lulu Yuchs. aged 16, left their homes at Sedalia, Mo Thursday and came "here to be married. They were taken in charga by the po lice on their arrival here and were sent back home last night. They eloped onee before, going to Kansas. They met the same , fate that they have encountered here. Both express their intention of trying it again, and hope that the third effort will prove a charm. St. Joseph, Ma, Oct. It. J. Will Gray and Miss Mary Frances Judson returned from St. Louis yesterday un married. The girl is a daughter of VV. R. Judson of the Turner-Frazer Mercantile company and the would-be groom is a salesman in a shoe house. Tuesday the young lady went to Atch ison, ostensibly to visit" friends, but instead was met at that place by Gray and the two left for St. Louis. As soon as they arrived there they applied ior a license, out were refused because Miss Judson is under 18. After ex hausting all efforts they gave it up and returned here, where Gray made another effort to secure a license, but failed again. By this time the par ents of the girl captured her. The re sult is 3'et in doubt. TROUBLE IN COREA. Two United States Warships at Chem ulpo The Queen Probably Slain. Washington, Oct. 14. Admiral Car penter, in command of the Asiatic squadron, cabled to the navy depart ment to-day that "he had dispatched the gunboat Petrel from Che Foo to Chemulpo, the seaport nearest to Seoul, the capital of Corea. The York town had already gone to Chemulpo, ao that the United States will have two ships near the scene of the re ported conflict. A cable cipher from the admiral said that affairs in Seoul were in a very disturbed state and that officers of what is known as the "King's par ty" had taken refuge in the United States legation building. It was re ported, the admiral went on, that the queen of Corea had been assassinated At the urgent demand of the United btates charge d affaires at Seoul the marine guard of the cruiser Yorktown was sent to Seoul for the protection of me legation and American interests generally. CARROLLTON INCENSED. urutai Assault on a Young Woman May End In a Lynching. Carrolltox, Mo., Oct. U. Yester day afternoon about 4 oclock. Miss Lena Bratvogel, while on her way nome near here with her half-sister, at: : T"-ii , limine n.iuKe7, was met oy a young negro at a lonely spot on the road and insulted by him. The girls started to run, when the negro caught Miss Bratvogel, dragged her into a corn fleld and brutally assaulted her. Her screams attracted the attention of ebster Calhoun, who ran toward the place, but the negro managed to es cape. Calhoun took the girl home and then came to town and gave the alarm. Officers immediately began a search and so far have arrested four vounc negroes. The people are deeply in censed and if the girl identifies any of the prisoners there will almost cer tainly be a lynching to-night. Sattley's Case Delayed. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. The ap peal case of Elmer C. Sattley, the con victed cashier of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, was to have come up before the supreme court of Jefferson City to-day, but the attorneys for the defense have asked for a continuance owing to the illness of John O'Grady, senior member of the counsel, and that the case be placed at the foot of the docket. If this is done the case will not be heard for fifteen days at least. , Pulitzer Opens War on Jones. New York, Oct. 14. As a result of the injunction obtained by Editoi Charles H. Jones of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the World and of five-sixths of the Post-Dispatch stock, ordered Thurs day night the severance of all rela tions between the two papers. Here after, so long as Jones in in control, no World news or feature will be al lowed in the Post-Dispatch. A Feeling of "Unqualified Regret." London, Oct. 14. The Chronicle says this morning on the subject of the pamphlet history of his diplom atic experience in the United States, issued by Lord Sackville, former min ister at Washington: ;The feeling ex isting with reference to the appear ance of the Sackville pamphlet is one of unqualified regret. This finds itf sirongest expression, perhaps, in diplomatic circles." The , Everest. K an.. Bank Falls. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 14. State Bank Commissioner Briedenthal was to-day notified of the failure of the State bank of Everest in Brown county and will go there to take possession. The officers are: John Lyons, president, and N. F. Hess cashier. The July statement showed a capital stock of 912,000, deposits $29,067.85, cash assets 57,102.28. The Black Hills Shaken Up. Lkad City, S. D., Oct. 14. At 7 o'clock last evening the Central and North Central ' portion ' of the Black Hills felt an earthquake shock. Win dows rattled, doors slammed, houses rocked, dishes were rattled, but as far as head there was no serious damage. The shock was felt over a region thirty-five miles square. A Ball Player Guilty of Murder. Fkeeport, 111., Oct. 14. Frank W Harris,' the professional base ball player, who murdered Charles W. Bepgel last May, was found guilty to day and sentenced to be hanged. An engineer was fatally and two brakemen badly hurt in a Monon fre.'ght wreck near Francisville, Ind. The number of Armenians dead, wounded and missing, as the result of the recent riot, is 700. CUBA'S INSUERECTI0N SPAIN TO ACT PROMPTLY CRUSHING IT. IN Sensational Rumor Concerning Warnings of Uncle Sam The Spanish Minister at Washington Said to Have Notified Ills Government that This Country Will Act Unless the Cuban Rebellion is Soon Suppressed. , . Madrid Much Excited. Washington, Oot. 12. A cable mes tage from Madrid received here early this morning said that it was reported there on the best of authority that the American government had notified the Spanish 'minister at Washington that it was necessary for Spain to act promptly in crushing the Cuban in surrection, and that the report caused a profound sensation m Madrid. The truth of the report cannot be confirmed at the state department. The officials, when approached, would neither affirm nor deny the story, though their manner would indicate disapproval of its accuracy. It is be lieved quite probable that representa tions may have been made to Spain of the wisdom of aggressive and active operations against the Cuban insurg ents, but it is thought that the United States government did not make these suggestions, and that, if made, they came from Minister DeLome and were based on his personal views of the situation and on his observation of the trend of sentiment in the United States and his knowledge of the pur pose of the friends of the insurgents to press their cause vigorously soon after the assembling of congress. Daily events point strongly to a de termination to force the question on the attention of congress in the belief that the legislative channel affords AL. a. a. i i iuusb pracucaDie route to the ac complishment of something in behalf of Cuban independence, the executive branch of the government, in the very nature of things, being more con strained in its action than the legisla tive department. Senor DeLome left here to-day on a very early train, and therefore no in formation could be gained from him concerning the Madrid dispatch. THE TOLlCr OF THIS COUNTRY. Senor DeLome, the Spanish min ister, had a short interview with Secretary Olney yesterday, and in the course of their conversation the min ister, perhaps in answer to the secre tary's inquiry, made a statement that operations in Cuba would be conducted with greater vigor hereafter. As the president must certainly make some reference to the insurrection in' his annual message to congress when it meets in December, it would be but natural that Secretary Olney, upon wnom ne must rely for his in forma tion, should take steps to gather data upon which to base a judgment of probable future events. While it is true that President Grant did, as indicated in his messages to congress, entertain a belief that inter vention in the then procressiner rebel lion in Cuba would be justifiable, this view was never acceptable to Secre tary iish, and it has not secured the adherence of international lawyers, The whole weight of authority is de cidedly adverse to the assertion by a neutral nation of a right to say when war between two combatants has progressed to a point where it must be stopped. It may be recalled vnai some sucn proposition was made during the last stages of the China-Japanese war, but it never went further than the exercise of the good offices of the interested nations to bring about peace, which function is entirely distinct from direct interven tion. lhe question is also separate from that of the recognition of the belligerence of the insurgents, which. according to American policy and practice, must be determined "purely Dv the tacts in each case. DEBS CONTRADICTED. Che Illinois Federation of Lnlior Not Against Hallway Brotherhoods. Peoria, 111., Oct. 12. At the meet ing of the Illinois Federation of Labor this morning the resolutions commit tee reported adversely a resolution de claring the convention is in entire sympathy with the action of E. V. Debs in his work of the strike of the American Railway union against Pull man and the Railroad Managers' asso ciation, but issuing a protest against any expression by him declaring- that trades unions were inadequate. This elicited a stormy debate, last ing two hours, and finally the follow ing was adopted as a substitute: Whereas, Eugene V. Debs has stated that the railway brotherhoods had been repudiated by organized labor, be it Resolved, That the Illinois Federa tion of Labor deny such assertion, and extend to the railway brotherhoods our approval and assurance of con tinued esteem. Resolutions were adopted boycott- Inc the Washburn-Crosby Milling com pany of Minneapolis and the Werner Printinir company of Akron, Ohio, and unanimously and heartily indorsing Governor Altgeld and his administra tion. . Child Elopes With a Negro. Hwvfr Col.. Oct. 1 2. Mattie Younc. a srirl 14 years of age, of Lex- Ineton. Ma, was arrested last evening noon advices from Kansas City, Mo. The girl was attending school in Lex ington and in the same city lived a neirro.bv the name of DanCoates. He m,a. a. friend of the child's family and, notwithstanding his 40 years, made love to the child. On September 22 n elopement was successful. rbe Wife of the Heathen King Believed to Hare Been K 11 led in an Uprising. Yokohama, Oct. 12. Count Koumou ra, director of the political bureau, has forwarded from Seoul, the capital of Corea, a report upon the recent upris ing there. It is now supposed that the queen of Corea was killed by the anti-reformers who. headed by Tai-Ron-Kin, the king's father and leader of that party, forced an entrance into the palace at he head of an armed force, which I caused the Japanese troops to take possession of and guard that building 1 to restore order. FORTUNE IN A ROOM. Over a Mil.Ioi Dollars Left ft Bebd 12LM1. by a Recluse. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. Sarah Coolidge, for thirty years a re cluse in a secluded house here, died of apoplexy Wednesday. She always passed as a woman of moderate cir cumstances. When the undertaker' disrobed the body preparatory to era- balming it, he found various assort- ments of gold coins tucked away in " concealed pockets in her clothing. This led to a search of the room and it proved to be a , veritable gold mine. In vases and in other pieces of bric-a-brac, in shoes, in bureau drawers, and in every conceivable nook and cranny the searchers found $20,000 in cash, mostly in gold coin. In one dilapi- uuiea nana Dag was a roll of bills ag gregating 83.800. On the shelf in her closet were bank books representing 6cores of thousands more, with securi ties and deeds showing a valuation of over a million dollars. One document showed her to be the owner of prop- j - - - v iioautuituu a u li Avon streets, Boston, which pays a rental of 31,000 a month. In addition to the money and the bank books there were dresses of the most stylish and expensive goods, covered with jewels and old laces--Many of these gowns would, easily re- ceive a valuation of 51,000 each. All the chamber closets and wardrobes were filled with these expensive gowns and none of them have ever beeiK worn. a lie hrrvji 11 r si wppn Titxrat nArmiririfi to enter the room in which the treas ure was found, though there was no special effort to secure protection from thieves. There were over $30o, 000 of negotiable securities in that room guarded only by an old woman and four women servants. Nobody dreamed that it was there, so the vast sum was secure. MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER She Airs Iler Domestic Diilloaltles In the Newspapers. New York,' Oct. 12. Mrs. James Brown Potter has made public her reasons for leaving her home for a life on lhe stage. In an interview she said: "I have never for one moment re gretted going upon the stage; neither have I ever cast one longing look back at the old society days, nor even thought with pleasure of the so-called social triumph I was said to have made. I look upon those things as hollow and utterly vapid; they mean absolutely nothing. It is nine years since I left New York, and I have lost all interest in the city's social set. Indeed, I care as little for them as they care for me. First of l11 1.1 .1 4. T I me aay iiidt j. was mucn amused at something said in the papers a few days ago about Mr. James Brown Pot ter s posing as a saint, keeping his home ready for my return at any time I chose to come back. It is very nice of Mr. Potter to express such sickly sentiment. That house and home hap- A pens to be mine, as well as everything in the house. It was given to me by Pierre Lorillard for the successful work I did in getting people to join the Tuxedo club. "My ideas of life and those of the Potters were at variance. I was brought up to think that life was real and that love ruled the world. The Potters lived only for outside show, always seemed to be afraid to appear natural and were always at swords points with one another. There was nothing natural, nothing genuine in this new life I was leading. All was conventional, all surface. My enthusi asm and naturalness were chilled by the Potters. My success in private theatricals paved the way to some thing belter, and one day, sick and weary of all the mockery, tired of the constant fault-finding to which I was compelled to submit, tired of going out with a smiling face and a breaking heart, tired of tha snubs of the Pot ters, who are always jealous of each other, tired of genteel poverty, I walked out of that home Mr. Potter is keeping for me and left everything be hind me. I have never been permitted to go back to get my belongings, and not even as much as a pair of sleeve buttons has ever been sent me. I sac rificed little to gain the glorious her itage of honest indenendeneft." DURRANT'S GREAT NERVE. Goes Back On Him Just Once During Cross-Examination. Saw Francisco, Oct. 12. Under the rigid cross-examination of District At torney Barnes, Theodore Durrant made a number of answers that are regarded as decidedly incriminating. inasmuch as they appear to be in di rect conflict with well established facts. He gave an explanation of a clue regarding Blanche Lamont's disap pearance, said to have been received by him, that was so palpably a false hood that everybody in the room laughed aloud. The stifling atmos phere of the overcrowded court room came to Durrant's rescue and he was enabled to recover from his confusion during the short recess that followed. When he again came to the stand ne remained calm during the most trying ordeala The prosecution was, never theless, well satisfied with the day's work, for it had accomplished what had never been done before Durrani for a moment had lost his wonderful self-possession, and had been caught in a number of barefaced untruths. JUDGE COOK FALLS DEAD. The Republicans of tho Eie-htnth mi. nols District Lose Their Candidate. Chicago, Oct. 12. Cyrus T. Cook, a leading Republican politician of Ed- wardsville, fell dead at the Great Northerh hotel to-day. where he was attending a meeiinsr. Ex-Chief Brooks Passes Away. Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. IS. James J. Brooks, ex-chief of the United States secret service department, but of late years in charge of a local detective agency, died this morning of heart disease at his residence in this city, aged 76 years. Democratic Business Men. Nkw York, Oct 12. The Democratic business men of the City of New York will probably next week issue aa drestes to the people of the state of New York urging the support of the whole Democratic ticket in the coming election. can V" m'6' in fact. leases have Ueen cam