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Tf"S "i" ,s?-? ifT"''i-t'0 5" ' The Clrcnliilon of THE TISII3 Te3t'erday WAS ( COPIES. thc L WEATHER PROBABILITIES. imt .For the District of Columbia and Mary land, fair; cooler; north to northeast winds. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY MOBNINGr, MAY 22,01897 EIGHT PAGES. JST). 1,159. GNJE CENT. F v n -IFBip 06QDDD8Qgd AT ANY -PRICE 1 ME have to announce that our entire stock of Summer Clothing was damaged by the re cent fire. Our insurance covered the loss, but we are ghing to sacrifice the entire damaged stock at any price zue can get for it. This is an opportu nity to purchase fine cloth ing at far less than cost that is seldom offered. i$m (BDODttflDflODi nDsRelliirinoi u csuu uwu s;n 407 1th St. GDHBHESSIIMI BADLY HUflT Representative Tongue of Oregon Struck by a Street Car. CUT ABOUTTHE DEAD ANDFACE He Unci Just Returned From a Trip to Montlcello and Was Trying; to Board a Car at Sixth and the Avenue Heuioved to Providence Hospital. Hon. Thomas H. Tongue, Congicssmaa from Oregon, met with a serious accident last night while attempting to board a Cap'tal Traction car at Pennsylvania ave nue and Sixth street. He is now at Provi dence Hospital, suffering from painful cuts and bruises about the head and face. Mr. Tongue had returned shortly before S o'clock from Monticello, the home or Jef ferson, wnere a party of fifteen Senators and .Representatives, including Senators Dehoe, Gallinger, Turner, Jones, Kerry, Butler, TJawley, and others had passed the da; with Mr. Jefferson Levy, the present owner of the grounds. The train reached "Washington a few minutes before 8 o'clock, and as the party ca me out of the depot the majority boarded cars for their homes. Mr. Tongue, however, remained standing at the corner of Sixth street, in conversa tion with Representative Pierce of Tennes see, who was also a member of the party. Mr. Pierce had just left his fellow Congressman and boarded a car going east. Mr. Tongue was waiting for a car on the Fourteenth street line, which had stopped on the opposite side of Sixth street. When it had started ahead the Congressman ran to catch it and in doing 0 was struck by ear No. 13 of the Fourteenth street line, going east. In his haste to catch the west-bound car, Mr. Tongue apparently did not observe the approach of the train going east, and ran directly Into the grip car before Grlpman Bonifout could set the brakes and bring the train to a stop. The corner of the fender struck both his iect just above the ankles, and instead of picking him up, he was hurled forward everal feet and struck heavily upon his head A crowd gathered around the un fortunate man, and he was picked up un conscious, and taken into Dr. Harper's drug store, adjoining the Metropolitan Ho tel, by rolicoman Elliott and Conductor J Jones. SeaatorHawley, who had alsobeen waiting for the car, recognized the in jured man( and a call was sent for the Emergency Hospital ambulance. In the meantime, D r. G. R. Lee Cole, of No 424 Seventh street southwest, who was upon the scene-was called in and administered a temporary dressing to the wounds. He found the Congrosinan suffering from con cussion of the brain and a number of painful abrasions and lacerations. Sergeant-at -Arms Russell, or the House, and Capt Gardner, chief of police of the Capitol, took charge of the Injured man, andlnslstcd that he be taken to Providence Hospital, to which place he was removed In a carriage. After reaching the institu tion Mr. Tongue partially regained con sciousness, and late last night was reported as doing fairly well. Mr. Tongue Is serving his first term 1n Congress, as a Representative from Ore gon, having been elected In June, 1S9G. Be resides at No. 1014 Fifteenth street northwest. No member of his family is in the city. Ivy Institute Business College, 8th andlC Unexcelled summer course, $5: day or night- 22-Inch Boards 1 Cent a Foot. Frank Libbey & Co., 6th st. andN. . ave. CONFERRING HUT CUBA The President Sounding Sen ators on the Situation. RIIED'S POWER IN THE HOUSE The Speaker Said to Have Promised Mr. MeKinley to Sidetrack tlio Morjrnn Resolution Hints of a Veto Should It Reach tho lixecri tJve Talk of a tJaiieus. There were several Important confer ences yesterday on the Cuban question. Early in the day Senators Hauiia, Spoouer and Kairhaakb, who were three of the dozen Republicans who voted against the Morgan resolution, met at the Arlington and had a longtaikoverthe situation. Sub sequently they went to the White House and baw the President. During Hie morning two distinguished members of Congress also vi.sttedtlie White House by appointment, but at different times. One of them was Chairman Davis, of the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela tions, and the other Speaker Reed. The object of I heir vibitcau be easily guessed. The President" is endeavoring to get at the real feeling of Congress. It is understood that he was very much surprised at the one-sidedness of the vote in the Senate and the lunguage used by Senator Hanna is but a leflectiou of the sentiments of the President himself. Mi. McKinley had been led to believe by Mr. Hanua that the resolution would surely be referred to the committee In the lutetr nevs of his disappointment, Mr. Hanna says: I deplore the Senate's action. It was inopnortuue. It was inexpedient. It was uncalled for, in view of the fact that the President and the State Depailment arc now using every means m their power to fenn out and unravel the Cuban situ ation The Senate's action really assumes tne appearance of discourtesy to the Ad ministration. A Cuban policy hab been promulgated by the Piesident, and is being closely followed. There was no need for the Senate to step in and take a hand In the matter." The President was portlculaily anxious to have a conference with the Speaker, for in the power of that individual is his present chief reliance. The l'leaideiit does not want the Senate resolution to pass the House until he is ready fur it, if that moment should ever arrive. Mr. Hanna says: Gen. Grosvenor says: Chairman Hitt says, in fact, all the Re publican leaders of an Administration stripe, say that the President has formu lated a policy and is working it out, but none of them take the public Into their confidence and tell AVhat that ilicy is. The reason appears to be chiefly because they dare not let it become known. Mr. Hanna says that policy has been 'pro mulgated," but just what Interpretation the junior Ohio Senator puts upon that word is not understood. Of one thing there can ba no doubt. The President does not want the belligerency resolution to pass. It would put him n a predicament from which lie could hardly extricate himself. According to the authority of one of the twelve Senators who voted against the resolution, it was given oqt last night, privately, that if this resolution should happen to reach r,he Piesi dent, he would veto It. This statement can hardly he credited, but It comes from a Senator who ought, If anybody does, to know the Presidential mind. It is understood that Mr. Heed assured the President that there was no danger of the resolution passing; that the Com mittee on Rules was loyal and would do his bidding. On this point the President "was especially solicitous and felt relieved when he learned that the Speaker believed he had the House well In hand. At the same time there is a chance of the House' rebelling. There were murmers of dis content yesterday and talk of a caucus of Republicans to consider the matter. This caucus idea has evidently not taken shape yet, for late last night Gen Gros venor, chairman of the caucus, said that he had not been requested to call one. It only takes twenty-five members' to assemble a party caucus, and something in this direction may be done between now and Monday. Meantime, the President appears to be pursuing ids own policy, whatever that may be. When asked the question direct last night, .what that policy was, Gen. Grosvenor declined to soy. He intimated that the public would beinformedlater on, but certainly not until after the Presi dent had hard from Judge Calhoun. It was suggested by one of the Admin istration men yesterday that it was not a necessary result of the statement that the President was negotiating with Spain, that he was negotiating for the pur chase of the islands by the Cubans through the assumption of the island debt. He might, this person said, be In com munication with Spain for the purpose of requiring that government to permit American citizens to pursue their usual avocations and permit them to leave the towns where they have been herded. This theory is not tenable, however. The consensus of opinion Is that the Presi dent's much-talked-of policy contemplates the independence of the island through the payment of the debt a scheme that will not be approved by the American peo ple, and which is already attracting the attention of men in public life, who are denouncing it In unmeasured terms. If this is the policy of Mr McKinley it ulU meet with the most vigorous resistance in Congress, many of those who denounce it most bitterly being men of his own pnrcy. It Is believed It was for the purpose of as certaining the opinion of Senator Davis on this proposition that the Senator was called to the "White IIouec yesterday. It is understood that Senator Davis does not t.-ke kindly to the idea. The President might be able to whip the Members of tlu House into line, but he cannot control the Senatet and that is the body that -would deal with the subject whether it came up in the way of legislation or by treaty. SPOKESMAN GROSVENOR TALKS. He Says the House Will Not Act on the Morgan Resolution. New Tork, May 21. The Brooklyn Eagle today published the following dispatch from Its Washington correspondent: Senator Mark Hanna, Congressman Dolliver and Congressman Grosvenor had n long in terview this morning at the latter's hotel in regard to the attitude of Cue House on the Morgan resolution. At its close Mr. Flooring 6, 8, 10 Inches wide, $1.25 per 100 ft. libbey & Co., tin aadN.Y. ave. 1 Grosvenor made the following statement in the presence of Senator Kauna, the lat ter concurring in tile sentiments therein contained: "There is no Committee on Foreign Af fairs in the House, and the only method by which the Senate joint resolution can get before the House would be by a rule from the Committee on Rules, of which the Speaker Is chairman. I have uoofficial information from any member of that com mittee, but I don't believe there will be any rule adopted to biing the measure up at present "Tlie action of the Senate yesterday and the outspoken expression of the House in dicate a very d(ep sympathy in Congiess wit'.i Cuba and her ultimate independence. "But it is known that the President with in twenty-four hours after his Inaugura tion took hold of the Cuban question and has been considering its relations to the Americans In Cuba, the trade interests of thlscou ntr v wl tli the Island and the great question of humanity involved in the war itself. The President lias already made great progress In these matters At his request or demand fifty-odd American cit izens have been released, court-martials for American cicizens have been abandoned and Spain has consented to the relief of the suffering American citizens so that it can now be said the American flag, even in Cuba, carries with It protection to every American citizen. "The President is rapidly acquiring the fullest infoimation In regaid to the other questions involved, and while lie is preparing to act, if deemed advisable, it is no pait of statesmanship in Con gress to attempt to supersede, to develop his puipose, or to foice his action. There fort, it b my. judgment that the Re publican majoilty, which will not be di hen one inch from its chosen line of action by the efforts of the Democracy, will staud behind the President and act in conformity with his policy " Speaker Reed has intimated to his dose followers that the policy of the House will be practically to wait till It hears frofn President McKinley before acting on the Senate resolution. Before leaving town last night, to a close personal friend, a member of Congress, from New Yoik, the Speaker said: "I was in favor of passing the Senate resolution appropri ating $50,000 to be expended in ghing relief to suffering Americans In Cuba This is as far ns I think the House will go at present on matters relating lo Cuba.' ' SPANISH STATESMEN FIGHT Dnkc of Tetnan Boxes a Liberal Senator's Ears. Passage by the Senate of the Bel ligerency Resolution Caused the Trouble. Madrid, May 21. An altercation took place today in the lobby of the Cortes be tween the Ttuke of Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs, and a Liberal senator, in reference to a statement the foreign minis ter had just made in the Senate regarding the resolution adopted yesterday by the American Senate, recognizing the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The two states men used very warm language, and finally the Duke of Tetuan boxed his adversary's ears. This caused a great commotion in the lobby, and, the fact becoming known in the Senate, it led to much excitement, amid which the sitting was suspended. The Liberals immediately assembled to consider the situation, and a summons was sent to Senor Sagasta, who, however, was absent. The Ministerialists also met and sent an urgent summons to Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo, but he, too, was absent. After a conference with his colleagues, the Duke of Tetuan resigned his office, the portlolio of which will be taken ad interim by the prime miuister. The senator whose ears were boxed was Senor Comas, who had raised the question of the action of the American Senate. In the Chamber of Representatives Senor Moret questioned the prime minister on the subject of the resolution. Senor Canovas declared that the government entirely ap proved of Capt.-Gen. Weyler's policy, and accepted responsibility therefor. It had full confidence in his statements concern ing the decline of the rebellion. The government, the prime minister added, had no diplomatic Information to communicate to Parliament. Its exchanges of views with the powers regarding Cuba had always been unofficial. The powers maintained great reserve In the matter, but their attitude induced the belief that they would not offer effective Intervention. The exchange of communications with the United States had been friendly, but Spain had refused the proffeved.American mediation and had declared thatsho would not admit foreign interference. Senor Moret pressed Senor Canovas for definite information regarding the bel ligerency resolution. Senor Canovas re plied guardedly.. The Liberal members of the Senate have decided not to attend the sittings of that body until the Duke of Tetuan gives satis faction to Senor Comas and the Liberal patry for tbe Insult he lias given him and it. RUIZ WAS ASSASSINATED. This Is the Opinon Calhoun Has Arrived At. Havana, via Key West, May 21. Mr. Calhoun has arrived at the moral certainty that Dr. Ruiz was assassinated by the Spaniards la the jail at Guanabacoa, but the case will never be proved to the sat isfaction of the Spanish government. Much private testimony has been given to Mr. Calhoun of the murder of Dr. Ruiz, but in no case was the informant willing to let his name be made public, because of the fear of persecution by Fonsdeviella and the Spanish authorities. Mr. Calhoun has the report of the au topsy on the body of Dr. Ruiz, made by the American surgeon, Dr. Buigess. Dr. Blinds, 1 f Inch thick, any size, $1 a pair. Libbey &, Co., 6th aad-N. Y. ave.. tf Burgess says that the wounds in the head and forearm, which the body presented, could not have beenVJnflicted to himself by Dr.Ruiz, because of their position. The head of Dr. Ruiz was evidently struck by another person wjth some hard instru ment, probably of iron, which fractured the skull and caused hemorrhage of the brain. The .wound in tiie forearm and the marks iu the hand, Dr. Burgess thinks, indicate that the murdered man tried with his hands to protect his head against the assault of somebody armed with a heavy club or piece of Iron. The declarations of the officials of the jail of Guanabacoa are considered worth less by the American) consulate. The counsel for 'tlie Spaniards, Senor Enrique Roig, says that the message of Dr. Ruiz to his widow and children, written on a chair in his prison, appears to be a "fake." Senor Roig is a young man, un der twenty-five years of age, who is do ing all iu his power to thwart and delay the investigation. A well in formed person told "your corre spondent today that the end of all will be that the parties will never come to a con clusion satisfactory to both, for which reason Mr. Calhoun will be obliged to give up the investigation and report to his Government. About the general 'situation in the island, Mr. McKInley's' commissioner has received much evidence that the war will be endless unless the United States in terfere, and that 'such interference is the solution desired" by all the business men )n the island Consul General Lee's report about the distress in Cuba has' been confirmed fully by Mr. Calhoun, as well as theimposstbiiity of Spain's quelling tiie revolution by force of arms. Mr. Calhoun will send a long letter to President McKinley tomorrow, emlK)dyingaUheknows about thesttuatlon. An official report in extenso w"iH be made later. J AN AMERICAN MONTE CARLO Palatial Gambling House to Be Erected at Tia Jnana. Jesse Grant Interested in the Con cession Obtained for It From the Mesican Government. San Francisco, May 21. It has leaked out here that the concession obtained by Jesse Grant, and his associates from the Mexican I'l.vcrnincut for lands surround ing the famous hot springs of Tia Juana, across the boundary, covers also a privi lege Toi running a lottery and gambling devices. It. is said ti,at Grant does not intend to enter the business, but that Eastern people are prepared ii take control of this feature of the concession, while Grant attend ro the colon iz.uion and the development df the mineral waters. The identity of the Eastsrn people. -Is- not known, but it is learned that the- Dwyers are liguring on the purchase of the Rierson and San An tonio ranches soie miles below Tia Juana, to be used for raising racing stock. A local real estate man who is handling the matter for Grant and his appelates is authority Jor the. statement Jha't the In tended purchasers will build the finest gambling hous- iri the world at thesprings. to cost $2,000,000, to run every game of chance known, including a lottery. The deal Is to be closed this week. Fhiorlncr . R, lO Inches wide, $1.25 per 100 ft. libbey & Co.. 6th and N. Y. ave. GRATITUDE'S 'TSAR. I! FEMALE BUHGLAH CAUGHT May Yamlevere Locked Up at the First Precinct. STOLE MOW AND JEWELS The Housebreaker Entices a For mer Benefactress From Home. Rons Her House of $1,000 Worth of Diamonds Gets Drunk on Lnud aniim and Lands in a Cell. A female housebreaker who for ingenuity, cleverness of design, and bravery of exe cution could give cards and spade3 to the most successful professionals of the male sex, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detectives Ilelan, Boyd, and Hartigan, and is locked up at No. 1 station. Her nameis May Vandervere, alias May Winf ield, May Driscoll, and May Vane. She Is about twenty-eight years old, and was once pretty. For several years past she has led a fast life, and shows signs of dissipa tion. The crime with which the young woman is charged, and which she admits, with little apparent concern, was the robbery of the residence of Mrs. Frederick Me rtins. No. Ill Sixth nreet northwest, last Thurs day night, when she succeeded in enter ing the house and carrying off nearly $1,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valuables. The woman came from New York two years ago, and through an employment agency she secured work in the family of Mr. Mertins. About a year ago she Jelt the place and -went to live in a bouse in the Division. Last Thursday morning Mis. Mertins re ceived an anonymous letter from some one purporting to be her friend, requesting that she come at 9:30 that night to an address given in South Washington, where she would there meet a person who, the letter represented, would give her some informa tion concerning her husband. Mr. Mertins was at that time and is still in Cumber land, Md., on business, and this Miss Van dervere apparently knew. The latter further requesttd that Mrs. Mertins come disguised, and that she leave all her money and jewels at home, as the neighborhood where she was to -neet the unknown party was a dangerous one. Mrs Mertins boarded a car and got olf in South Washington, near where she expected to find the addrtss stated in the letter. Finally she reached the place where the number should be. It was a vacant lot, and no one knew anything or the place or the party she wished to find. After an hour or so she returned home, only to discover that the house had been broken into. Her first thought was of her jewels. Running up stairs, she found that all her much-prized diamonds and precious gems had disap peared. Then she saw through the trick, and lost no time In reporting the robbery to police headquarters. Detective Ilelan ran down the thief and secured all of the stolen property, except $3 in money While she slept the detectives searched th2 room and found the stolen gems .Then she was awakened and taken to No. 1 station and locked up. She admitted having written the mysterious letter and to having entered the house by smashing the rear door with an ax. The officer found a man who lives across Nice WMp Pine, dressed, 2 cents a foot. Libbey & Co., 6tn' and N. Y. ave. the street, who bad seen a young woman leave the house at about 10 o'clock, and gave a description of her. It answered to that of Miss Vandervere. The officers, after a long search, located the young woman in a house on C street, between Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets, sound asleep under the influence of laudanum, to the use of which she is addicted. Miss Vandevere had spent only S3 of the money. Mrs. Martin identified all of the property, and is happy over its recovery. A PETITION FOR HOME RULE. Victoria Asked to Grant It as an Act of Grace. Dublin. May 21. Patriots here are in terested in a movement to get signatures to a gigantic petition to be submitted to Queen Victoria, begging that home rule be granted to Ireland as the chief of the graceful acts commemorating her record reign. DUEL OH AN ELECTRIC CAR A Highwayman Pays for His Crime With His Life. After Uelnpr Mortally Wounded He Fires Thrice and Hadly Injures His Assailant. Tacoma, Wash., May 21. A thousand people are crowding around the morgue tonight trying to identify the remains of the giant robber, who held up and robbed an .electric car on the Steilacoom su burban line at 7:30 o'clock this evening .rive miles soutn of ine city the ur stopped to take oa a roughly dressed man, who pulled a blue calico mask over his eyes as he (stepped on the fiont platform. Ileimniediate'.y drew a bigrevolver, shoved itlnto the racesof Motorman Howard Well man and Superintendent Dame, andordeied them to the rear of the car. They backed into the rear compartment used for baggage. "Throw up your hands and the ladies sit still," shouted the robber, as he step ped iutn the car, revolver in hand The ear contained five men and two women. Con tractor George B. Evans was quickly re lieved of his purse, gold watch and dia mond ring. W. E. Hacker was the next passenger to be robbed As the robber began going through Hack er's pockets, Supt. Dame pulled out his revolver, laid it across his left arm ami quietly pushed his way into the passenger compartment He waited a few moments for an opportunity, and then placing his weapon over Hacker's shoulder fired. The lobbcr whirled around and fired- Dame Ghot again and the robber twice more Then the robber backed out to the front platform and fell over on the track dead. One of Dame's bullets passed through the robber's right arm and the other througn his left arm. both entering the region of the lungs and heart. The robber's first shot enteied Dame's left arm and eutlrely shattered the bone just below the elbow, and his arm must be amputated The second bullet struck Jcwctt Smith In the leg, breaking a bone and severely injuring him. The third bullet went through the car partition and struck Motor man Wcllman on the left breast, Justpvr the heart. The wound Is slight, anil he was able to bring the car Into the city. Best- Elgin Butter, 20c; 5 Ins., 05'. Gibbous, Center, Riggs,K6t and N.E. mkts. 1 t.cm Door,Any Slzel y. Inches Thick, .1. Frank Libbey & Co., 6th st. andN. 1 ave. SUICIDE OF G. L JORDM The Well-Known Real Estate Agent Ends His .Suffering. PUTS A BULLET IN HIS-. BRAIN He Had Been a Sick 3Ian for Sev , eral Mouths and Tills Appears to Have Prompted the Deed Gave No One an Intimation of His In tendon. Despondent because of ill health, and while pobably suffering from temporary mental aburration, George A. Jordan a lawyer and real estate broker, of No. 1417 F street northwest, shot himself through the head at the Howard House yesterday afternoon He was found unconscious and removed to theEmergency Hospital, wnere he died at 10:30 last night The weapon with which he committed the deed was a 32-caliber Smith -V. Wesson revolver. Mr Joidan has been a sufferer from grippe since last fall, and the disease so impaired his physical condition that ho has never been a well man since. Yesterday morning, shortly after 8 o'clock, lie left his residence, No. 1517 P street, to come down town, as was hsa da'ly custom. Hts family did not observe anything peculiar in his manner, and he gae no hint of any intention to end his life He- seemed to feel no worse than usual, and left the house apparently m gtod spirits. After remaining at his of fice for an hour or more, he went .over to Judge Weed's office, in the Corcoraa Building, and remained twenty minutes or half an hour. He had no particular errand, but, as Judge Weed is a roonser at lib house, Mr. Jordan frequently dropped In to see him during the day. From Judge Weed's oflice Mr. Jordan must h.ivc gone directly lo the Howard House with the deliberate intention of committing suicide. It was aUiut 11 o'clock when he walked up lo the de-ic in that hot?l and regi-tered his name, "U. A. Jordan, city."' He then asked to bo accommodated with a room, and Clerk Mitchell assigned him to No- 50, on the second floor front He was not knowa at the hotel, and, having no bairpigejfhg paid for his room in advance, and waa shown up at once. After that, no one remenibeied having seen him about the lobbby during the re mainder of the day, and he did not tae dinner in the dining-room. Shortly after 3 o'clock one of the colored bell boys, who was on one of the upper floors of the house, came running down to the desk and informed Manager Maynard that he had heard the report of a pistol in room So. 50. The boy had not ventured to look Jnside and when several of the attaches of the house went to the room they ftmiid the doon unlocked and Jordan lying piostrate upon the floor. The smoking weapon wa3 still clutched in his right hand, and blood was oozing from an urfy wound in lua head directly over the rizht ear. Ke wja completely dressed, except for his eoat which he had taken off and hung over tfce back of a chair. The man had evi dently stood up deliberately In the middle of th room and aimed at his temple. nt3 hand had probably faltered and the ball went an inch shy of where he had intended it should. The room was otherwise in fairly gcod order, but so far as could be learned the suicide had left no farewell message or letter. A telephone call was at once sent Xr tne Emergency ambulance and Jordan was removed to the h'pital, where Dr. Turner. Dr. Bahr and Dr. Juenemana probed the wound and located the bullet on the left side of tiie skull just above the left ear Tne lead had plowed its way through the brain and left a terrible wound, fn.m w'llch cerebral hemorrhage had resulted. lr Van Renssaleer, of the attending staff, wa also called in, but could do nothing further. After the wound was dressed he was removed to one of the wards, where hi wife and three daughters visited him. He remained unconscious, however, from the time he was found, and did not r? vive to recognize his friend. Mr Jordan was about fifty-five yeara of age, and has lived in Washington the greater part of his life. He was, for twenty venrs prior to the first Cleveland administration, chief of the Division of Abandoned and Captured Property of tho Treasury Department. After having left the Government service he emberked .a the real estate business, and so far aa known, was successful, and had no finan- lial troubles. He was a Mason of high, degree, a member of the Hoyal Arcanum, and a number of other secret and benevo lent societies. A "BL5TE GUM" NKGHO HANGED. He Murdered six Persons, Among: Them His Wife. Helena, Ga., May 21. A genuine "blue gum" nesro, named Elijah Morton, a desperado, whose bite was popularly sup posed to be as poisonous as a rattlesnake, was hanged at McRae today. Two month3 ago he murdered his father-in-law. mother-in-law. shot his wife while sne w-,s suckling her infant baby, killed two other negro men and a boy, and fired into a group of children. He had to be Shot through the lung before hu submitted to arrest , On trial Morton told tllSfhidg' that if he could murder him, the district attorney and six others he could die contentedly and bo burned. Tefore the execution the condemned man's aged father and mother went Into the cell and prayed with 'ii:n. Shrieks and groans rent the air. A spir.i, of religious ecstacy seized them and the doomed man stood up and swayed his body to and fro. Indicative f intense excitement Four sheriffs of various counties pre ceded tlie murderer to the gallows. Be fore mounting it he made a short address, hut his voice was hnsky and tbe words scarcely audible. Ue sai'd he had mido his peace with God and was ready to die. The sheriff bound ciis hands, adjusted ;ho noose and black cap. and as the aged par cntsstood looklngat their son and wcepim and uttering piercing cries, Sheriff Ali good shook Morton's hand, saying: "ilood by, Lije. May God have mercy on your poor, soul," and then placing his hand on the lever said- "Good-by," and the nexf Instant the trap was sprung. "Welland Canal Damaged. St. Catherine's, Ontario. May 21 The Cleveland steamer Outhwait, west- bound, tore tluveloek gates out or section "ottne Welland Canal this morning, blocked the trafficand caused the flooding or a mdo and a quarter or adjacent flat land. Tho damage is heavy. Alnhamn Flooring:, all one color, 3a i a foot Libbey & Co., 6tn and N. Y. ave. .Sb .e- AJTj-.Cf-Vr