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THE EfiD CLOUD CHIEF.
A. C. HOSVEK, Pabllaher.
BED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
SMOKELESS POWDERS.
Jtaptdly
for Snsll
Cornier la Dm Both
Arms aad Artillery.
The first general information obtained
ta regard to the smokeless powders was
in connection with the Lebel rifle, the
new small-caliber repeating arm of the
French, jrhioh created such as excite
ment a few years ago, and practically
dictated reconstruction to small arms
throughout Europe. At that time
neither the Austrian iMannlicher rifle
nor the Gorman repeater used smokeless
powder. It is understood, of course,
that the words "smokless" and "noise
less" are used in a comparative sense,
as there is some smoke and some noise
in nearly all these powders. It has
been said, however, that the report of a
single Lebel rifle can not be heard at
a distance of more than twenty or thirty
yards; that it. may be said to mako
no smoke, and that the re
coil is of no consequenco what
ever. The powder is said to
be a secret compound of gun cotton and
collodion, and its exact composition is
perhaps the only secret now remaining
in regard to tho Lebel rifle. The Ger
mans began with tho use of tho Duttin
hofer semi-smokeless powder, and have
also made imitations of tho French pow
der as nearly as it can be found out.
The Russians have tried a new powder,
made by the Ochtenski factory, in imi
tation of tho Duttinhofer, and its manu
facturers insist that it is superior to tho
latter in ballistic properties; but it has
a litt'e higher initial velocity weight
for weight, with less pressure on tho
bore. This may be the reason why tho
Russians havo come to the uso of the
Vmall caliber, which could only have the
Yoquired efficiency with one of tho new
compounds, as otherwise the bore would
foul too rapidly.
, The English also have obtained a
smokeless and noiseless powder, invent
ed by tho well-known artillerist, Cap
tain Noble, of the Elswick Works, at
.Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A British mili
tary authority says that its use has al
most loon decided upon, both for email
arms and for machino and quick-firing
puns. It speaks of the powder as "a
curious, grayish-looking material, in
long threads or a whipcord-like form,
presumably from tho shape it assumes
under hydraulic pressure. Its aotion is
most startling. At three hundred yards
range not a sound is heard when a volley
is fired with it, and only a faint liazo
arises, which is almost imperccptiblo,
while a shower of bullots is seen to fall
upon tho" targets, an effect produced
seemingly without a cause." Careful
experiments will bo made with it at
Lydd. In their quick-firing guns tho
British at Shocburyncss havo used
tho Chilworth smokeless powder
with groat effect, obtaining a very high
initial velocity. In rapid-fire cannon,
as in magazino small arms, tho value of
rmokolcss powders is obvious, because
' he peculiar advantages of theso weap
ons might otherwise bo largly counter
balanced by smoke. Of all tho new
powders Schultze's is perhaps tho best
known. Nearly or quite all appear to
depend on the union ef nitrous com
pounds of some sort with other sub
stances. Somo will not keep in all cli
mates, and some give out an unendura
ble odor. Their introduction will per
haps call for some new studies in tactics,
as certain movements new depending on
the cover of smoke can not hereafter rely
oa this protecting mantle. But just at
present the tactical considerations soom
to be loss important to our own country
than the procuring of powders as effi
cient as tho new ones which are finding
favor in Europe. Washington Letter.
QUAKER "LONGEVITY.
It la Due to Qaiet Habits aad Disciplined
Modes of Life.
It is quite true that many "Friends"
live long. It is equally true that certain
circumstances in their history militate
against long life. Among these latter
intermarriage is, perhaps, the most im
portant fall. The followers of George
Fox kaveJ.never been very numerous,
but aatUjhtto years thoy have been ex
tremely exclusive Tho inevitable re
suit of that has been extensive inter-nar-iago
throughout the whole
community. Tho consequences of the
frequency of intermarriages have been,
and are still, very evident. Quakers, as
class, are not muscularly robust; many
of them are decidedly anaemic, and not
few are mentally feeble. Yet, ia spite
ef these practical and serious drawbacks,
the Friends, as a class, do more than
their proportion of the world's serious
business, and thoy manage to attain to
a high average of longevity. Now this
is exactly tho kind of fact that true
medical science likes to get hold of, and
to interrogate and learn from. What is
the reason, asks tho sensible man. whr
Quakers, with so many undoubted dis
advantages, attain to such a high aver
age f success in all that constitutes
CURRENT COMMENT.
The abolition of the French lan
guage is likely to cause trouble in
Manitoba.
A party of Arnauts have plundered
the Servian monastery of Detchan. The
monks fled.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
Ex-Emtkess Frederick of Ger
many and her daughter nave left
Athens for Italy.
An expedition with stores has gone
from Zanzibar for Bagamayo to meet
Stanley and his party.
Fire at North Middletown, Ky., re
cently wiped out the principal stores.
This was the second destructive fire in
ten days.
Watson B. Dickerman, of New
York, has been appointed receiver of
the Norfolk Southern railroad.
Charles n. Turner, the ice man,
has been nominated as the Tammany
candidate for Congress in the Sixth
Congressional district of New York.
The Women's Indian Missionary
convention, Before closing its session
at Newark, N. J., indorsed Commis
sioner Morgan's Indian education plans.
The Tradesmen's National Bank at
Conshohocken, Pa., which was robbed
of $80,000 by Cashier Cresson, has re
suniedbusiness with diminished capital.
The City Council of Quebec unani
mously adopted a resolution favoring
Chicago as the site for tho World's
Fairin 1692 in preference to New York.
The London and Faris rumors cabled
to Havana of a revolution existing in
Cuba were without any foundation
whatever. The island, politically, was
entirely tranquil.
TnE President has sent instructions
to the Post-office Department that no
more Presidential postmasterships were
to be forwarded to him until after the
opening of Congress. He has ninety
seven cases before liiui now.
The Governor-General of Cuba dis
claims that he in any way aided the
striking cigarmakers of Key West.
Many of them, it seems, asked to be
returned to Cuba, and for that reason
a gunboat was sent to Key West to
carry them back to their former homes.
Patterson, member of Parliament
for Essex, Out., had au interview with
the Governor-General of Canada, re
specting the oppressive manner in
which the American Alien Labor act
was enforced at Detroit against resi
dents of Windsor employed in that city
by railway companies and other corporations.
The board of directors of the Marine
Association of New York adopted a
resolution that Congress be respect
fully urged to establish a Department
of Commerce, with a Cabinet officer as
chief, to foster and promote our ocean
earning trade, foreigu and domestic,
and our internal commerce by water
and rail.
A revolt occurred recently among
the convicts in the Lavoulute prison,
Tunis. The prisoners succeeded in
freeing themselves from their chains
and in procuring firearms and other
weapons. They then made a fierce at
tack on the jailers, who were unable
to quell the revolt, and troops were
summoned. When they arrived at the
jail a desperate fight took place and
many of the prisoners and soldiers were
killed.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage and his
party were in Athens on the 22d. Dr.
Talmage has secured a corner stone
for his new church in Brooklyn from
Mars hill, where St. Paul preached to
the Athenians. Dr. Talmage preached
there to many people, taking ;is his
text Acts xvii. 22. Later in the day
Dr. Talmage had an interview with
Premier Tricoupis and an audience
with Queen Olga and ex-Empress Vic
toria of Germany.
worthy life, .and also succeed in enjoy
ing their success to an exceptionally old
ge?"
The reason, we are convinced, is to be
found ia thuir quiet habits and disci
plined life. An ordinary doctor, or even
layman, would probably have felt much
more interest in the subject at this point
if we had been able to affirm that the
Quakers owed thoir success aad long life
to certain drugs, as, for example, to ar
senic, phosphorous, strychnia- and the
like; or to certain methods of feeding,
as vegetarianism, or meat eating, or
fruit eating, or wine drinking, cr teeto
talism, or smoking, and so on. But we
submit that that shows a want of real
mental capacity. For what, after all, is
The United States district attorney
at Norfolk, Va., has been instructed to
bring suits against certain English cot
ton brokers for violation of the Alien
Contract Labor law, provided he is sat
isfied such suits can be maintained.
The suits are to determine the legality
of the practice of certain English cot
ton brokers of employing in the States,
particularly Virginia, clerks or graders
whose business it is to classify cotton
for English markets. These men are
specially trained for this business and
are sent to this country from England.
TnERE was a remarkable scene in
the German Reichstag the other day.
During the debate on the budget of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs Herr
Richter, the Liberal leader, re
ferred to the reports of the influence
of Count Waldersee with the Emperor,
and amid many indications of
disapproval from members, insisted
upon knowing what truth there was in
these reports. Amid great excitement
Count Herbert Bismarck rose and,
turning to Herr Richter, declared the
question was insulting to the army and
throne. The Emperor, he said, direct
ed foreign affairs, consulting those only
who were appointed to advise his
Majesty.
The first Republican convention ever
held in Alaska convened at Juneau
November 5. Delegates were present
from all part of the Territory except
from Westward and the Yukon river
country, a memorial to f 'ni.iTMi w.-m
the true importance of the subject? Does passed asking that the Territory be
auuweu a ieuaie 10 congress; mac
Homestead laws he extended to Alaska
in modified form; that the laws relating
to the cutting, of timber be so modified
it not consist in the undoubted charac
ter of the results? The results are
really tho things to bo considered. As
a matter of fact tho Quakers are suc
cessful in life. As a matter of fact they
do live long. Then, surely, true science
will not curl the lip of scorn because
these results are obtained by what may
as to permit its "befog used by canners
for packing fish and for furniture and
other articles actually manufactured in
the Territory and for the creation of a
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instead of bj elaborate preparations aai ,,.... rna a iTi,-
the Territory
froMbe-wa7 methods.--Jitai.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
By common consent one of the
United States Senators was from the
east and one from the west division of
the State of Washington. On the bal
lot for the East Side Senator the vote
in the House stood: John B. Allen, 46;
George Turner, 14; T. H. Brents, 1;
Charles S. Voorhees, 8. In the Senate
the vote stood: Allen, 26; Turner, 6.
TnE annual banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce took place
on the 19th. Among the guests were
ex-President Cleveland and General
Sherman.
J. P. Allen and W. C. Squire, Re
publicans, have been elected United
States Senators by joint ballot of the
Washington Legislature.
Henry George will get tho bequest
of $30,000 left by a New Jersey farmer,
the Court of Appeals reversing a de
cision of a lower court, Chief Justice
Beasley declaring that Mr. George had
made valuable contributions to the
study of social and political economy,
and that his books were not contrary
to law, religion or morality.
TnE commission appointed last Jan
uary to select the most desirable loca
tion on the Gulf of Mexico for navy
yard and dry dock have retried at last
in favor of Algiers, La., opposite New
Orleans.
Ross Guffin has been appointed
Government surveyor at Kansiis City,
Mo.
Captain Wissmann telegraphs that
nenry M. Stanley and party arrived at
Mpwapwa on November 10.
TnE Austrian Reichstag has been
called to meet in Vienna December 2.
The Brazilian Consulate is on the
look-out for shipments of arms from
New York to Rio Janeiro. Consulate
officials say that if any fighting occurs
it shall not be with guns from New
York like there was during the Hay tian
rebellion.
Mrs. ELizAitErn Clementine Kin
ney, mother of the New York poet,
Edmund Clarence Stedman, died at
Summit, N. J., recently, aged seventy
nine. Isaac Schuler, the noted coffin
manufacturerot Amsterdam, N. Y., has
assigned with S75.000 liabilities.
Captain Wissmann, the German
East African leader, has been made a
Major in the German army in recogni
tion of his services.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
made a new division, of which his son
will have charge.
The Secretary of the Interior has re
quested and received the resignation of
H. A. Phillips, chief of the middle
division of the Pension Office. Ho is
one of the re-rated pensioners whoso
cases were recently overhauled by the
Secretary.
Dr. F. B. Nofsinoer has been ap
pointed postmaster of Kansas City, Mo.
The President has appointed Thomas
Clay McDowell, of Kentucky, to be
collector of internal revenue for the
Seventh district of Kentucky, vice
William Cassius Goodloe, deceased.
McDowell is the son-in-law of Mrs.
Goodloe.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TnE collector of customs at Detroit,
Mich., has been ordered by the Treas
ury Department to prevent Canadian
laborers from working in Michigan.
Miss Ada Tanner, of New York,
confidential clerk to the Commissioner
of Pensions, has resigned. Miss Tanner
is the daughter of ex-Commissioner
Tanner.
A serious wreck occurred in the
Washita canon, near Dougherty, I. T.,
on tho ISth, by the breaking of a flange
off a wheel of the engine, detaching the
engine and five loaded cars and in
stantly killing Engineer Wilmarth and
Brakeman Wier and seriously injuring
Fireman Elain.
Mrs. Lena Haertel, in a fit of
desiHmdeucy, attempted to commitsui-
cide at Louisville, Ky., recently by
taking laudanum. She recovered, but
the drug was fatal to her live-months-old
child who received it in the mother's
milk.
The British East African Company
has conveyed to the German Govern
ment, through Lord Salisbury, its re
grets for the disaster to the Peters' ex
pedition and an offer to do every thing
possible to discover and punish the
murderers.
Claude Marks and Sidney Wolfe,
proprietors of the Mining Record and
Financial Times of London, have
been indicted for blackmailing mine
owners.
The county clerks of Kansas met in
annual session at Topeka on the 19th.
U. E. Patterson, of Harper County,
was elected president and J. C. Atkin
son, of Cherokee County, secretary.
Lieutenant Hardeman's detach
ment of cavalry has returned to San
Carlos, Ariz. He struck some of the
Apache hostiles near McMillinville and
captured their camp. About twenty
shots were exchanged with his scouts,
our, me nosiues maae gooa tneir es
cape and the trail was lost in the
mountains near Black river.
An English syndicate has asked for
an option on the great watch works at
Elgin, HI. The plant is valued at $12,
000,000. It is reported that the Emperor of
Germany intends to build a new palace
on the avenue Unter den Linden on the
site of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Emilk Olivier's new book has just
been published in Paris. He contends
that the best form of government is a
monarchy. He predicts that a Csesar
will yet arise in America unless she
"mitigates her omnivorous Democ
racy," and tiJAt still more surely will
one arise in France if the state is de
livered over to the "cynical voracity of
politicians."
A mass meeting was held at Lake
Providence, La., recently and a sum of
money raised to employ detectives to
Judge Foster, of the United States I
District Court at Topeka, Kan., has '
decided that the Texas court has juris- i
diction over crimes committed in No-!
Man's-Land. The prisoners charged
with the murder of Sheriff Cross and
posse were considerably upset by the
decision as they expected otherwise.
Justice Day, of the Parnell Com
mission, was run over by a cab in Lon
don the other day while ou his way to
court and badly hurt.
The Knights of Labor ended a short
and peaceful session at Atlanta, Ga.,
on the 20th.
The trial of Caleb Rucker, on the
charge of aiding the escape of the Bald
Knobber prisoners from the Ozark
(Mo.) jail, closed with a verdict of not
guilty.
The heaviest verdict for damages re
turned by a Kentucky jury for years
was given recently at Louisville in the
suit nf M Tifimpv nr.iinst th St.iml-
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I ard Oil Company. The jury gave the
plaintiff 25,000. Tierney was a Louis
ville & Nashville freight conductor and
wits hurt by the explosion of a car load
of naphtha belonging to the defendant
company.
The two women charged as beingold
Mrs. Bender and her daughter Kate
have been held at Oswego, Kan., with
out bail, to await action by tho grand
jury-
There was a bad fire recently at
Bahlwinsville, N. Y.. the Upson block
being destroyed at a loss of $2.'O,O0O.
Seven miners wero buried under
rock in a mine at Negaunee, Mich., re
cently, but five escaped. Ono was in
stantly killed and the seventh fatally
injured.
Elmer Starkey, tho boy matricide
of Eaton, O., who was to have been
hanged, hits been given a new trial by
the Ohio Supreme Court.
The United States steamer Rosedale,
loaded with 38,000 bushels of wheat,
was recently aground near Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich., in Canadian waters.
Jake Buzzard, one of the famous
Welsh mountain outlaws, died in the
Eastern Pennsylvania prison recently.
The chief of the Millo Lacs Chippe
wa Indians in Minnesota is in Little
Falls, Minn., to endeavor to induce tho
Government to drive white squatters
off their reservation, a large portion of
which was lately given up.
The Crane & Waters Hosiery Manu
facturing Company, of Millburg, Mass.,
h:is assigned with unknown assets aud
liabilities.
The National Palace of San Salva
dor has been completely destroyed by
lire. The Government archives were
totally consumed. No lives were lost.
The Provisional Government has is
sued a decreo establishing universal
suffrage throughout the republic of
Brazil.
Fire in Osceola, Iowa, destroyed ten
frame business houses, causing $20,000
loss.
The Chicago gas trust has secured
40,000 acres of gas lauds in Indiana and
proposes to supply Chicago with natural
gas.
Postmaster-General Wanama
ker has directed that the free deliv
ery system be established on January
1, 18'JO, at Jefferson City, Mo.; Green
Bay, Wis.; Washington, Pa.; Iona,
Mich.; Santa Rosa, Cal.,and Creston,
Iowa.
The Federal Steel Company, a gigan
tic corporation, formed for the purpose
of combining all the wire, wire nail
and barbed wire manufacturing plants
of the country and controlling these
three great industries, has been formal
ly organized at Cleveland, O.
THREE AMERICAS.
The Brazilian Delegate ta the Pan-Am
caa CotiRrcM Receive Credentials Front
the New Republic A Resolution Wel
coming the United States of Krazll lata
the Sisterhood of Republics Almost
Unanimously Adopted.
Wasiiixotox, Nov. 22. Secretary
Blaine called the International Congress
to order promptly at 1 p. m yesterday,
and the conference proceeded to consider
the report of tho committed on rules.
A DESPERATE WOMAN.
She Wrealcs Terrible Yengwitiioe on Her
ltrntal Betrayer Shot l)nn la the
Crowited Streets or New York Story of.
Her Wrong.
New York, Nov. 2;. Stephen Pet
tus, secretary and trwisurur of tho
Brooklyn elevated railroad, com mis
sion merchant and member of the Cot
ton Exchange, was shot down in Ful
ton street yesterday morning about
ten o'clock by Hannah Southworth.
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gress AT WASUIXOTOX
placo as presiding ollicer. Discussion
of the rules was soon interrupted
by tho appearance of Dr. Valente, tho
Jtrazilian Minister and also a dclegnto
to the conference, who announced that
he and his colleagues were now ready
to tako their seats in the conference,
and .submit their credentials from tho
republic of Brazil. This caused a sen
sation in tho conference, and Mr. Hen
derson, the American delegate, at once
prepared and proposed tho passage of
the following resolution:
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
TnE cloud on the laud titles of Guth
rie. Ok., has been lifted.
Frank Foster, who left a wife and
three children, attempted to shut off
an electric light with a wet iron guff at
Gloucester, Mass., recently and was in
stantly killed.
The Quiunebaug and Juniata, which
have been condemned by the board of
survey, have Iteen stricken from the
list of vessels of the navy.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended Novemtor 21 num
bered 277, compared with 26o the pre
vious week and 200 the corresponding
week of last year.
Stephen Pettus, secretary and
treasurer of the Brooklyn elevated rail
road, commission merchant and mem
ber of the Cotton Exchange, was shot
down in Fulton street, New York, tho
other morning by Mrs. Hannah South
worth. It was stated that Pettus some
ago drugged and mined the woman aud
then mocked at Iter after delaying
reparation until criminal proceedings
were barred by the statute of limitation.
Edward Cunningham, wealthy,
aged seventy, shot by an Italian poacher
on his One property at Milton, Mass., is
dead.
TnE constitutional centennial cele
bration at Fayettevillo, N. C, closed
on the 22d, Senator Vance addressing
20,uou people,
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.Aruiiis irom me uniieu aiaies lor j duration is commendable in an assembly of
tre year ended uctober, 18S, were republicans. ior myst-ir, i am willing to
$798,468,752 against 8678,428,844 in 1888,
and imports .6o,413,777, against $722,-
988,Z4d in I8S8.
Slosson has signed the billiard
tourney agreement
C. B. Wheeler, a seventy-year-old
bachelor of New Milford, Conn., was
recently found dead in the woods. He
was rich, had much cash when last
seen and is believed to have been mux-1
Secretary Blaine, as soon as business who emptied live chambers of :i ,'W-c;iI-
was fairly started, vacated the chair, and 1 iber Smith & Wessou revolver into
Pettus head and body.
Fulton street was full of persons
whose number was swelled by tho
crowd just coming in from the Fulton
ferryboats. A man who saw the shoot
ing said that lie had noticed the woman
acting strangely on the loat ;is though
laboring under great excitement. As
Pettus was walking up Fulton street
the woman suddenly sprang forward
until close behind him, so near that
she might havo struck him with her
hand. Then she fired five shots from
a new silver-plated revolver, each :hot
taking effect.
Pettus staggered and tried to run in
the nearest doorwav. IJut the self-
cocking pistol of tho iuftiriated wouum
i was too quick for him. Covered witlk
blood he fell against tho door, which
swung open with his weight, ami tho
dying man ran inside, rushed behind
tho counter, out again, and fell dead in
a bloody heap at tho foot of the stair
way leading to the next lloor.
j Mr. Pettus was forty-two years of
. age and lived at 4!) Eighth avenue, cor
ner of Union street, Brooklyn. His
, wife is an invalid and thuro are no
cliildren. His busiuos associates are
j shocked beyond measure by his death.
The cause of the tragedy as stated by
, an acquaintance of Mrs. Southworth,
I who has known the particulars of the
1 troubles between them for somo years,
dates back to .an outnigo committed by
i Pettus upon the lady, and which hud
' been concealed from any one except a
very few of her most intimate friemL
ior a long time. li appears, as is
alleged, that tho acquaintance with
Mr. Pettus was developed into friend
ship ou account of the intimacy of Mrs.
Southworth's woman friend with him.
The story goes that tips lady was in
the habit of attending theaters aud
taking lunches with Mr. 1 Vitus and
upon tueM expeditions w:is in the habit
of taking Mrs. Southworth with her
from time to time.
Tho natural result of this kind of as
sociation led to an invitation at the
close of amatiueeoueafteruooii in New
York Citv, on tho part of Mr. I'ettus
to Mrs. Southworth to call at a certain
residence near by. upon the pretext of
seeing a friend of his. As the house
was in the neighborhood and in a re
spectable part of the city, after some
explanation on the part of Mr. Pettus,
calculated to quiet the lady's appre
hensions as to the strict propriety of
tho proceedings, Mrs. Southworth con
sented. They wero ushered into a parlor,
where, to Mrs. Southworth's consterna
tion, they were met by a colored man,
with the air of a waiter, from whom
Mr. Pettus ordered a bottle of wine.
Mrs. Southworth, being frightened at
hor surroundings, demanded an ex
planation, and w;is re;issured by Mr.
Pettus that every thing was all right.
In the meantime she was urged to take
a glass of champagne, which she did.
having been accustomed from child
hood to the uso of wine upon proper
occasions. In a few moments she lost
consciousness and knew nothing more
of her surroundings until the follow
ing morning, when she waked up, find
ing herself in bed in this strange house,
with no ono ulnmt her, with no one
within call whom she had ever known.
She soon discovered that she had
been wronged while unconscious, and
she had been abandoned to make her
way upon recovering consciousness as
best she could. Overwhelmed with
shame sho returned home, and giving
some excuse as best she could to her
family for her absence, she attempted
to conceal her disgrace by keeping it a
secret.
In the course of a few weeks, how
ever, to her consternation, she discov
ered that some one must le taken into
her confidence and that absolute secrecy
would soon become an impossibility.
In her extremity she appealed to
Pettus to assist her and still save her
good name. In time she decided at the
instance of Pettus, in order to protect
the name of her widowhood, to consent
to malpractice. She w:ts sent to an in
terior city in this State, where at a
hotel, among utter strangers, sho was
attended by a physician under whose
caTe she lay for weeks, hovering be
tween life and death. H:e was at length
restored to a shadow of Tier former self,
covered with shame, her life wrecked
and her physical health irretrievably
broken. In ortler to avoid exosure at
the time of the outrage Pettus, it is al
leged, made the most profuse promises
of substantial provisiou for her.
Upon her recovery, after about a
year, she reminded her betrayer of his
promises, but was only met with de
rision. Pettus thon attempted to rid
himself of her by circiduting stories
that sho was his discarded mistress.
She then employed attorneys to prose
cute him, but foimd to herdismay that
the statute of limitations prevented a
successfid prosecution. In her despe
ration she determined to avenge her
own wrongs, with the terrible result
above given.
Resolved, That this conference Joyfully wel
come the United States of Krazil into tlic sis
terhood of American republics.
The delegates from Colombia and San
Salvador thought tho proposition pre
mature. Senor Komero, tho Mexican Minister
and delegate from Mexico, believing tho
resolution could not be adopted unani
mously, moved to lay it on tho table.
This brought Mr. Henderson to his
feet, who in a short speech eloquently
and forcibly explained the motives and
feeling which prompted him to otter tho
resolution. He said:
The motion to lay tne motion on the tuMa
ia not debatable, untl I do not wish to ay
any thins except by way of pemonal ex
planation.. I offered the resolution without
con-ultin with my colleagues from the
United States, because I saw the gentleman
from Rrazil here and suppoxed they had au
thority to act for the Republic of IZrazil.
Here he was interrupted by Senor
Valento who said the delegates from
Brazil had just presented their creden
tials from the republic.
Mr. Henderson continuing, said:
If that 1m; the case, then. Mr. I'reMdent.that
completes the circle or American republics.
We have no differences here, we are all Re
publicans, lam sorry that anyof my friends,
who represent other governments should
be placed in any cmlmrra.-i.-m atti
tude regarding this matter. So far as I
am individually concerned. I diotdd hail
with equal pleasure the announcement that
Spain, or England, or Kussia.or any other
European nation had adopted n republican
government. To me nil places are proper,
and all times convenient for the enunciation
of my faith in republican institutions. I am
not afraid to announce it now and here, ami
I am only sorry that any representative of a
republic must hesitate to give the annouiu c
ment his most cordial approval. In this caso
I see especial cause for action. If I under
stand the situation in Rrazil. the revolution
is complete and perfect ; and better than all.
it has been carried to success without blood,
but with the united voiceof the people. It is
now an accomplished fact the greatest and
the most benelicient of all achievements of
the kind on this continent. The changes of
government in all other cases on this hemi
sphere have been attended with long and
bloody struggles. In the case or Rrazil the.
republic comes full - formed, pledged
to the observance of contracts,
the preservation of law and order. nii
the protection of civil and political rights.
5Iy proposition is that, at this moment of
time, when the Rrazilian delegates have re
turned to us bearing the credentials of their
republic, when every delegate here repre
sents a free people, we shall clieerf.iliv tea.
tify to our Joy and give evidence of the faith
which animates us as Republicans. Do wo
honestly believe in our governments? Do
we believe that republican institutions best
serve the welfare and happiness or the peo
ple? Would it bring us real joy that the peo
ple under other forms or government should
Join us in the experiment which we have.bv
the blessing or Providence, carried to sue- i
ccsonthis continent? If so, we dare not
hesitate when a great movement like this
shall be made. Our sympathies will not be
needed after ISrazilian patriots shall have
Hindu their Government as strong as ours.
They need the words of cncouragi ment now.
If wc have faith in our own professions wo
shall not hesitate, ir the revolution be aa
accomplished Tact, our declaration of sym
pathy is due to Brazil, and can not harm us.
If the movement be weak, it is nevertheless
in the right direction. It h:w no stain of
blood on Its skirts. It points to more beneli
cent institutions. It promises larger liberty.
It promises government of the pcople.by and
for the people; and now is the time to give
this simple approval which may bring hap
piness to untold millions in the future. In
all such struggles I am against the favored
few, and in favor of the musses; and. in my
Judgment, there are no occasions when a
declaration of that fact can bring harm to
man.
I can not withdraw the resolution. If
others here resist it they must take the re
sponsibility. It is, thank God, the expres
sion of my own heart. I do welcome tha
coming of Brazil, and with equal joy I should
welcome the coming of nil others. The de-
dered. His brother is ex-Secretary of
the State of Connecticut.
The Glasgow Iron Company, of Bead
ing, Pa., lias given all its puddlers
twenty-five cents a ton increase in
wages.
Work has been begun on the excava
tions for a $180,000 gymnasium for
Yale University.
Tiik barge Waubaschine, thought to
have been wrecked in a storm, has
reached Toronto, Ont., all right.
Tub American Institute of Archi-
proclaim it wherever I may be whether at
home or abroad, whether in field or forest,
whether as a private citizen or a member of
this International congress."
The following dispatch to the Bra
zilian Minister, dated Rio de Janeiro,
November 21, was then read and re
ferred to tho committeo on credentials:
The Provisional Government confirm the
powers given to Your Excellency and Senors
Pereira and Mendonca.
Signed BrCAYWA,
Secretary of State for the Provisional Gov
ernment of Brazil.
After somo expression of vi-.vs from
different delegates favoring postpone
ment, the motion to lay on tho tablo
prevailed Uruguay and Venezuela
alone voting against it.
The Brazilian episode over tho con
ference resumed consideration of tho
report of the committee on rules, and at
half-past four o'clock, after adopting
some of the rules, reported, but with
out finishing them, adjourned until
Monday. The congress agreed to a
rule reported by the committee fixing
teets, in session in Cincinnati, have
elected BicharaM. Hunt president and Wnndnr-a uvonesHav and Fridava or
ferret out the parties who flred into Henry Van Brunt, of Kansas City, each week, from 2 until o. m.. for
the Jewish firm' stores. second vice-president. ' their session.
Reward for .Murderer.
Jekfeiox City, Mo., Nov. 23. A
proclamation offering a reward of $250
for the apprehension of V"ilson Howard
and William Jenuings, has been
issued. The two men enticed
"William McMichaels, a deaf mute of
Nodaway County, who was visiting in
Maries County a deaf mute friend
from the house under pretense of being
detectives, and killing him for $80. A
few days later his lifeless body, riddled
with bullets, was found in a lonely
ravine. The murderers belong to the
Howard faction, which has been
usingsomuch trouble in Kentucky.
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