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VOL. VII. NO. 41. FROM EGG TO AX. SONG OF THE THANKFUL TIME. We think of Thanksgiving at seeding time: lv the swelling, unfolding, budding time,. V.'l.n 'lie heart of nature ami hearts of men Reioko in the earth grown young again. We ,heam of the harvest, of field and vine, ' And granaries full, at Thanksgiving time, Ye ti:iik of Thanksgiving In growing time: In the time of flowers, and the: vintage rheu palms of the year's strong hands with frui f tage, with grain, and with sweets WheftiSdfeam of hope Is a truth sublime Ihen our hearts make room for >theJthankru^ time. r; f i J ?Dv V'li fed We think of Thanksgiving In harvest time, In the yKUllug, gathering, golden time; Wh-n ii. ' sky Is fringed.with a hazy mist.- . : Au UK- blusfilms maples by frost Up? kUscd. When I'.ie bums are full with the uaiust And -lie crowning, thankful day draws near. We think or Thanksgiving at resting time: The circlo completed is but a chime In the song of life, in the lives of men!. We harvest the toil of our years, and then \- We wait a the gate of the King's highway For the dawn of our soul's Tuauksgniug day. / , -Rose ilartwick Thorpe. ■.-,;■.■...-■.• - jistTntime ■ for dinneh. A SIDE from sonio noted criminal A prosecutions sonic noted criminal uroeecutkMM winch I conducted several years . ago, ; the ; incident which I am about to relate was one of tie most interesting chapters in my pro fessional life. It had been a stormy No vemher day. Daring the morning the ram had come down in torrents. Toward noon j the water began to crystallize as it de scended, and all afternoon the snow had. been blowing 'and: drifting in a very un comfortable way. *It grew dark early. IVrhapi It was because of this that I de cided to go home an hour earlier than usual. I say perhaps; because I have al ways thought that providence-had some thing to do with my going out on to the street at that moment. Passing-up, Broad way I turned into Fourteenth street to cross to the elevated railroad station. Nt ii the corner I encountered a \ crowd of men and boys, in the center of which stood a bluecoat with a prisoner. Stand ing on tip-toe, I saw that the prisoner was a young lad with a remarkably hand some face and gentlemanly manner. A call had been sent in for a patrol wagon, and the policeman was waiting the re sponse. The boy looked thoroughly fright ened. As I reached the spot he was pro testing his innocence and begging to be released." "I tell you honestly, sir, it is a mistake. I know nothing of the jewelry. lam in nocent, sir; I am, truly." •*~;; •%s?£*£ "That's all rights you young rascal, the policeman replied. "Nobody that's ar rested ever steals" anything. But when we get our clutches on 'em they don't generally turn out such innocent* as they claim." v"*' -J^.:'- ■ '-,•? ;f ?'■ Just then the patrol wagon dashed up, two officers alighted, and the boy was quickly hustled- up the. steps of the wagon and driven off. ;/ "What station?" I asked as they drove off toward the south. There was no re ply. but by walking rapidly in the direc tion taken by. the officers T soon brought op at the Mercer street station, where, as an attorney, I soon obtained an interview, with the lad whose face had so greatly Interested me. When I was shown to his cell he was weeping bitterly, and appear ed to be in absolute dsepair. ■'•' -I ■ ; "I saw jou at the patrol box," I said by *ay jf introduction, "and thought I would like to find out a .little more about your <*«•. I am a lawyer; and if you are in nocent, as I think you must be, I ; will see caD be done to get you out of this. My name is Lawson, what is yours?" r r ; "Frank Orr," he said promptly, as a vave of gratitude and hope swept over his face. r;hen he added: "This is very kind of you. sir. Th» whole miserable business |s a mistake.. I never took a bit of .the jewelry; not a bit." '^.vM+sl: '^v l-"^^ Then I sat down on the cot>beside Frank and asked him to tell me TaH about is trouble. , *" • ' . <**•" - His home was in ' Westers Vermont, • he «aid, and he had been in New York about a year. He had come here to get a ; start 'a the world. While his snecess had not been all that his fancy used to paint ' it, yet, considering the hard times, he had done very well. t? Once a month he had able to send a I little money to his pother, who needed his help sorely. { For B'i months 'past* he bad been employed in tiie shop of a manufacturing jeweler. That day twenty valuable rings and some oth er articles had disappeared from a show- : case. They 1 were missed just after the &0011 hour. During that hour the work men were always out at lunch, and Frank •nd another young man named Lerch *tre usually m^haj-ge^Bot to-day Lerch * as, tick «t home, rud Frank was in the »Ikjlj alo«e' -'•■'■ -•>:■■■ ■ - ' ' l>id you see no one about the premises •urhig that hourr I asked. / ~ : f^^Ki Pfyfl| B^B^l^^^BhNi \^B^B\ \/^fy^v If V^Bfii/ i/^^^. FRIDAY HARBOR, SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTQJif THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1897. "No one but Hogan, the janitor.** "Was he in the room?" "No, I am sure he was not." "Did you see him at all between twelve and one?" "Yes,' said Frank, "he came to the rear door and called me to go back and look at a team of fine horses in the alley." "How long were you out of the room?" I asked. "Not more than two minutes." "Could a person come ftom the front hall during that time without your know ing it?" "No, indeed," said young Orr, earnestly; "I locked the door before I ran out to look at the horses." "Then if the jewelry was taken while you were in charge it could have been taken by no one but yourself," I said somewhat severely to see what effect the conclusion would have on the prisoner. "It looks bad for me, sir, especially as one of the rings was found in my overcoat pocket." "That last feet counts for nothing," I remarked, and added: "Tell me candidly, Orr, have you no thoory upon which the thing can be explained?" "No, sir, I have not; it seems very strange; I can't understand it," he said, his voice trembling perceptibly, and his eyes again filling with tears. "lt is a trifle mysterious, my young friend," I said, rising. "But I somehow believe you are not the guilty < party. I will ask the sergeant to give you a more comfortable place than this for the night. In the morning I will see you again." ■ 1 When ihe ca«e came up at the Jefferson Market police court next day I secured an adjournment. Then I.went to work vigor ously to hunt down the thief. I started out on the theory" of Frank's innocence. Then, it was" clear that the janitor could not* himself have stolen the goods. He might • have had an accomplice, however, who may* have been concealed somewhere in the room, 0 f and - carried | off the : jewelry while Frank taking his two-minute view of the horses in the alley. This iTiief might have dropped the ring into Frank's pocket so -a«* to point -suspicion toward its owner. -; v, x".--- i ■'"-^ 7: "■■",■ , My theory proved correct. A guarded talk with some * people' living ; near ; the home of Hogan, the janitor, ( made me ; ac quainted ? with his character and : habits. What I learned .was/not to -his credit. I also came into possession of the fact that i he had been the previous night at a I Bowery saloon m company with a fellow i named Tingle,;who had done time . at Sing | Sing, and ! who was now J under surveil lance by the police. I went to the saloon named, but learned that the 1 men had only been there a few minutes earlier in the evening. '' * '- ■ ;.;- ■:.-,.: .-'-•'■'„ "They had no money and were sober, !tie bartender explained, "so guess they ain't been into no crooked tvork of . late. ; * The fact r that they were not spending money made me believe that if these men were really the thieves they had not yet sold their plunder. .V So I decided upon a bold moywnen*. Securing the aid iof a trusty detective who had : once .; served me in somewhat JBinaila««M»^-I, went to % gan's ■ house. A r«a*fated tfomao admit ted :. us. "Mr. Tingle left some .rings and other jewelry with you for safe-keeping, I said in confident tone, purposely refrain ing from giving any hint that also rested \ upon ; her husbaad.%is '^^M^ "The property is not J*r. Tingle's, and if you wisfi to save yourself frwM»uWe you will delSrer it up to th^iMßcer wt once," I added. £.. - The womaa turned pale an* hesitate*. A threat to place her under attmt brought her to a decteian, aiid; *:ipNt*l Warning the plunder wm placed ia my At the police court next day Hogan aod Tingle were confronted with the evidence of their crime, and Frank On*, eyes danc ed with joy whet fh« jo&t «*K»l**£ gret that ao serioua a mkfakehad heen om4* «ad *U *ta kt in» ftttfbMtir. * It was » now - noon of the day before Thanksgiving day—the day toward which Frank Orr had been looking forward joy fully for many weeks. But since his un just arrest he had abandoned all hope of going, and a message had been wired to "his mother, "announcing that unexpected circumstances would & prevent his being there. "Now, off for Vermont," I said as we came out of the court room together. "You will not have much.time to lose, but you can . make your train and reach home ,in time for dinner! yet. Come back as soon as you can," T said, when we parted, "and . come Straight to my office. No more work in a jewelry shop for you, Orr." ;. ■ ' ' •. ;■ Zj . "Z V~ '* . In this little.sketch I have told you of the remarkable- ; circumstances | j under which I became acquainted with my pres ent law partner. The neat sign ov«r our office door now reads: . n ; . ' - • * • LAWSON & --n * • • *\ • . ATTORNEYS. ~ ~ • • * -■^ Frank Orr has spent many. pleasant Thanksgiving days since he came to New York, but he still declares that none have been half so delightful as the day he.rum bled over the snow-clad hills of Vermont, ran up the old lane under the apple trees, greeted old Nero with a shout that woke the echoes, and burst into the dear old home just in time for dinner.—Lawrence I>awson. Unc' Ephraira Gives Thanks. ; "fj I t'anksde Lawd fo' de crispy air *s ,f r '*-; ' An' de spahklln' cms' on oe snow, -.. ■...;.... Fo' de life dat frobs In ol* dalikey's veins, \ Ez Novembah breezes blow. . j, . , Fo' life an* lub I tanks de Lawd, ' •N' shall wile 'c gibs me bref— t . - V: 'N' las' : night, fo' sho', "- .; . ; rEt de hen house do', ? "., •; • ' ' .'; __ i-.:)jEz:l stepped In •". *'; « ;7; • •;.; . ."•"j '■-,■• ■ - .' Fo' ter do my mahketln »"■/;'," :. * , ■>,-.; Er-tremblln' like Fo' feah my Ike ■-■ . ' -V- An* ol* Deakin Green ; , -* ~ Hed swep' de roostses clean— % - Fnm er swellin' breas* I tanked de !4iTra Ter fln'. dey was sebberal lef! '_ I;.;.";.„.. , The iTory God. i: U •. . ,;: The ivory god has taken the place of the Dresden statuette and the dainty and fragile ; filigree toy. A few years ago every man's ambition was ■to have a sufflclent'number. silver trinkets to : fill va'"silver < table," and this ■ piece of ostentation held ;a; place s. In \ the affec tions and the drawing-room of every whimsical woman of ? fashionable pre i tensions. Some of these toys were use ful, such as the wee boxes and trays for desk or dressing table, the minia ture candlesticks and the dainty calen dars and photograph frames, but moat of them were wholly frivolous and as impractical as they were diminutive. One woman whose soul delights in. tiny things—from lap dog to w«ll-nigh ; invisible timepieces—draped her piano with*scarf of thin silk. ;It was arAng ed In soft folds, each fofa held in place Iby * a little piece of Dutch j silver. The collection, which was strewn; all over « the top of the piano, included a violin, a cradle, chairs, a clock and other arti ; cles of "bigotry and virtue." Each - was beautifully chafed and carved. Thanksgiving. The shades of nigSt were tailing faat I As tnrk#y» fat went flying past :*o find the tree* where they cpulfi stay Until the night bai grown to day. The? rang&kloag &»• lower urn*. According to tfcett ▼»rt°™w"»?*' Except one old one. "Ah," «ald he. "I iruess I'll also climb a tree, For since ThankicJvlng'a come nnjooaed. . Yob bet yoor ET* going to roost Excelatorl" : : A graceful and honorable old age to the childhood of Umuortality.—PladJur. FIRST THANKSGIVING DINNER, Indian Chiefs Were Hospitably Enter taiiled by Pilgrim Fathers. The first Thanksgmng was appointed by Got. Bradford, at* Plymouth, Mass., in 1621, the year following the landing of the Pilgrims, in order that the Colonists in a more special way could rejoice to gether at having all tilings in good and plenty, writes CliffoiraT Howard in the Ladies' Home Journal. In preparation for the feast "gunners were sent into the woods for wild turkeys, which abounded there in great numbers; kitchens were made ready for preparing the feast —espe- cially the large one ia Dame Brewster'a house, which was under the immediate direction and charge of Priscilla slolines, she who afterward became the wife of John Alden —while a messenger was dis patched to invite Maisasoit, the chief of the friendly tribe, to attend the celebra tion. "Early on the morning of the appointed Thursday—about the first of November— Massasoit and ninety fit his warriors ar rived on the outskirts «f the village, and with wild yells announced their readiness to enjoy the hospitably of their white brethren. The little settlement, which now consisted of seven dwellings and four public buildings, was soon astir with men, womeD aod children, who gave the In dians a bearty welcome as thej filed into the large square in front of the Governor's house. Soon the roll of a drum announc ed the hour of prayer, for no day was be gun without this religious service. Then followed a holiday of feasting and recrea tion, which continued not only that day but during the two succeeding days. The usual routine of duties was suspended; the children romped about in merry play; the young men indulged in athletic sports and games in friendly rivalry with the Indians; the little American army of twenty men, under the leadership of Miles Standish, went through its drill and man ual of arms, to the great delight and as tonishment of the natives, while the wain en busied themselves in the careful pre paration of the excellent meals, which were eaten in the open air." A Thanks zlrlng Hymn. We thank Thee, Lord, for daily food. For all received of dally good; For sunshine and the songs of birds And melody of loving words. We thank Thee for the books we read. And for the books of books we need; For hopes of earth so sweetly given. And for the higher hopes of heaven. For children's voices full of love: For the bright clouds that float above; And for the tears we've sometimes known For sorrows other than oar own. For loved ones here and loved ones gone. Who still, with Thee, keep loving on; For spirit tones that softly call. And for the cross that's ever all. Just the Season. I "Wbere are you going;- »jT«keyM»r "I mitfcotni a-walkliw. tlr!" rte said/ : _^ «*J?hadbetier be careful, m, Turkey «*l4. Or aome one wiU mx you, ml—." be ■•**• ■ Caaned Salmon, tt is oompwted tliat 20,000 toaa of canned salmon ar« conmnned annaaUy la tsfa country. NEWS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the ; New and Old World. , ' BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Comprehensive Review of the Import s+'*■*[ ant Happening! of th« Cur- *-° '• i£ <jt.; ' ib ■ c rent .Week.- '':<■..-.'\ : .l" *- ~ The bubonic plague shows ,no abate ment in the Poonah district of India. Within 48 hours there has been 134 new cases and 94 deaths. — --— .: The official vote for governor at . the Ohio state election, is thus recorded: Bushnell, Rep., 429,816; Chapman, Dem., 401,715; Holliday, Pro., 7,558; Coxey, ! Pea 6;54; Dexter, Nat. Dem., 1,661; Watkins, social, 4,242; Lewis, negro protect., 476; Liberty, 3,170. Bushnell'fl plurality was 28,101.?. V * The final act upon the part of the government in the ratification* of b the treaty adopted by-the recent universal congress was taken Tuesday, when ' President McKinley signed/the formal convention or treaty and Secretary of State Sherman I- had * the government seal affixed. :, Postmaster-General Gary had .already signed , it. ,The treaty takes effect January 1, 1898. At a session of the Knights of Labor council, at Louisville, it was voted unanimously to set apart the last San day in June as labor memorial | day. \ This day will be observed , ; by all the j district i assemblies in the United States, j i '. It was expressly stated that the day should not be regarded in the light of, a holiday. It was fixed < upon Sunday so it could not be made a holiday, with; its attendant festivities. tj • •' • \ '•■! An : immense ; claim, embracing 7,000,000 acres of land in the North west, including the cities of Minneapo lis and St. Paul, has been brought be fore Commissioner Hermann, of ■ the "general land office, and the assistance of the government in , securing official data is called for. i The claimants are C. ;B. Holloway, of Hoi land, 0., and A. "Gunn." of Momee, O. They are making an examination of the general . land office records with a view i; to secur ing copies uof certified paper, which, they assert, will establish their title to the lands claimed by them. Their ancestor, through whom they claim title, was Jonathan Carver, an English man, a well known explorer in the last century. ; : . ," . . . -; Political excitement is intense in Brazil and martial law is in force. Koon Sang, a Chinese priest, was killed by highbinders in San Francisco. J. R. Sovereign, the recently retired master -workman of the Knight? of La bor, has declared his intention to run for prebident of the United States in 1900. The blue and gray have met again on common ground. Military triumphs were honored at Orchard Knob, Term., Monday, and monuments to the achievefnents at Chickamaugaand Mis sionary Ridge accepted. A. J. Sage, a well-known rancher, living a few ns-iles below Sand Point, Idaho, was shot and instantly killed while out hunting. An old acquaint ance, named John Snyder, who went out with him hunting, and who became separated from him for a short time, seeing what he supposed to be a deer moving among the trees, fired at it, and upon reaching the spot was horrified to find that ne had shot his friend dead. Rev. Myron VV. Reed, pastor of one of Denver's leading churches, during his discourse Sunday created somewhat of a sensation while discussing the kill ing of the Ute Indians by deputy game wardens in Colorado recently, by de claring that he intended to see that Warden Wilcox and his deputies are tried for murder. He also denounced the preachers who have remained silent in the matter. Fifty-two families have arrived in North Yakima, Wash., from Polk county, Minnestota, to make new homes. Many have already selected lands along the Yakima valley canal, west of the city, and others will locate in the vicinity of the Moxee artesian wells. The colony is made up almost wholly of French people, and they will be the means of bringing many more settlers to Yakima county if their ex perience proves satisfactory. The state supreme court of Montana has sustained the constitutionality of the inheritance law passed by the last legislature. The law imposes a tax of 5 per cent on bequests to any benefici ary, not a relative, where the estate amounts to over $100. The tax on es tates directly inherited,where the value of the estate is over $7,500, is 1 per cent. It is estimated that the decision will yield the state $40,000 from es tates already in process of settlement The Wyoming supreme court has de cided that foreign-born citizens must be required to read the constitution in the English language in order to vote. One hundred and fifteen Finn«§, who voted the Republican ticket at the re t»nC election in that state, could not read the constitution in English, but their votes were accepted, a* they could read it in their own language. The decision will put the Democratic can didate in office, and settles an import ant constitutional question. Bishop Doan, in his annual address to the clergy of the diocese of Albany, N. V., in speaking of the relations of America to England in the Lambeth conference* was very intense in his con demnation of what is called "jingo ism." Speaking on (be subject of in ternational arbitration, he sa«l th« spirit of* hostility, so openly expressed on this side ol the water, was 'present, though latent, in England, sad we should be direful how we arouse thif feeling to aotire hostility. RECENT EVENTS IN THE ORIENT Rich Gold Discoveries Reported in the Chineae Province of Chiinsi. Victoria, Nov. 19.—The steamship Empress of China has arrived here from the Orient. Among her passengers was Bishop Hoffman,of the Catholic church. He says that gold discoveries are being made in Chansi, in Northern China. The Chinese government, to encourage mining, has tjegun the building of a railway from Hankow to Peking, pass ing through a richly mineralized coun try. Other advices are as follows: A small revolution has broken out in Northern China caused by dissatisfaction with the war settlement with the Japanese. A Chinese pirate concerned in the murder of Captain Rosso, of the Pegu, has been hanged at Edi Bdsar. Another pirate confessed to taking part in the murder. j^The Japanese man-of-war Fuso ran on a rock near Nagahama, after having been in collison with another ship, I taking part in the naval maneuvers, | and sunk on the 29th of October. There \ were no casualties, and it is expected that the ship can be raised without much difficulty. On October 31 a conflagration oc curred at Nagoaka Machies, over 350 houses being reduced to ashes. The Japanese government has de manded the sum of $200,000 in gold from Hawaii by way of indemnity in connection with the emigration affair. This sum includes losses suffered by the immigrants to whom admission was de nied, as well as by the companies who sent them and the expense of sending a warship to Honolulu. The Japanese papers consider the demand moderate. TO COME WEST. Foftr Thousand Families Are Ready to Emigrate. Denver, Nov. 19.—Charles Kuharich, secretary of the Croatian Consolidated Company, of New York, is now in Den ver, making his headquarters with the Colorado Immigration & Development I Company. He reports ahout 4,000 fam ilies that are now ready for Western immigration, with many more to follow, j The Croatians are industrious and j frugal. They are of the Slav race of ; southern Germany, Croatia being one j of the provinces of Austria, and the j language is similar to that of Russia' and several of the other provinces of southern Austria. The people Mr. Kuharich represents prefer fruit, vege tables aad grape lands, in the cultiva tion of which they are among the most expert people in the world. The largest colonies of these people now in this country are in Pennsylva- j nia, Illinois and New York, number- j ing several thousand, and many thou- j sands more are now in Europe await- j ing arrangements to be made for their removal to this country. NEAR A SETTLEMENT. The Behring Sea Conference Comes to a Close. Washington, Nov. 19.—The Behring sea meeting, in which representatives of Great Britain, Canada and the United States have participated, came to a close tonight, the seal experts making a unanimous report concerning the condition of the seal herds, and the diplomatic representatives of the re spective governments reaching an Un derstanding, by which, at a later day, they hope to effect a final adjustment, not only of the Behring sea question, but of other pending border contro versies. For the present, however, no final action was taken as to the suspen sion of pelagic sealing. The Canadians urged that other questions be embraced in any plan of settlement, and suggest ed an international commission to ac complish this end. This proposition •was fully discussed, and an agreement reached " that the Dominion officials should put their views in writing after returning to Ottawa, and submit them to the authorities here. All parties concerned say the outlook is favorable to a satisfactory adjustment. ' In Defense of the Boycott. Butte, Mont., Nov. 19.—The state trades and labor assembly today adopt ed resolutions condemning the interfer ence of the United States court with the Chinese boycott here and other boy cotts elsewhere, on the ground that the boycott of organized labor is a defen sive instrument, an expression of the right to extend patronage to those who, by employing union labor, patronize labor. The boycott is declared to be merely the right of a man to choose his own assistants, to go wheresoever he wills upon the public highway, to work for whomsoever he may desire, to pat ronize whom he pleases, and to prose cute his business in a competitive way, even to the injury of another's busi ness, provided in so doing he is not guilty of defaming another citizen. Panic im » School. Cincinnati, Nov 19.—A panic was caused in St. Andrew's school today by the upsetting of a stove. Some fright ened children jumped from the win dows, While oth«rs were thrown down by the maddened efforts of the stronger ones to escape. The fire and police de partment responded to the calls. The fire was quickly subdued, and four seri ously injured pa pits were sent home. Lonain, Nov. 19.—A dispatch from Constantinople says the Turkish gov ernment has agreed to tbe demandf of the Austrian government; fcbatthe vail of Andanaand Meraina have been de posed; that the rictim of the outrage will be indemnified, and that the nil tan haa consented to pay the claims of the Oriental railroad, which waa oper ated by an Austrian company, paying $1,250,000, being tbe balance dwrthe company for the conTeyance of Turtoah troop* during the recent war. PKICE 5 CENTS. THE COMPETITOR CREW Blanco Has Received Orders • ** to Release Them. *&$ HOPE FOR CUBAN INSURGENTS Urged to Keep . fTp the Struggle for • Three Months Longer—General : , Weyler's Coming Reception. .^ ■'■'■■ Havana, Not. 19.— 1f is ; reported that Marshal Blanco has received cable instructions from Madrid to release the prisoners captured on board the Ameri can | schooner Competitor in April, 1 1896, by the Spanish gunboat Mesagera, and that they will sail today for the United States. It is reported that the instructions, to the governor-general di rect the return of _ the captured arms, ! and of the vessel f to the owner. ; " '^ Admiral Navarro, it is 'said| was at | first inclined to disobey this instruc- I tion, and, with other naval authorities, I was disposed to resign before carrying them out. ? * * \^. i* ... Rtf Hope for the Cubans. Havana, Nov. 19. —The new secre tary-general for Cuba, Dr. Jose Con gosto, formerly Spanish consul at Phil adelphia, continues to make himself unpopular. He has had a dispute with a prominent conservative, Senor Fran cisco de las Santos Guzman, a former president of the congress, and he has also had a misunderstanding with Senor Cuerto, a prominent autonomist, with the result, it is understood, that let ters have been written to Madrid call ing attention to the alleged eccentrici ties of the secretary general, and dwell ing npon his peculiar political senti ments. In fact, the dispute between Dr. Congosto and Senor Guzman be came so heated that it nearly ended in a most disagreeable manner, and their conversation becoming generally I known, has been much commented [ upon, and haa had a very unfavorable | effect upon the Spanish residents. It is believed here that there will be ; great excitement in Spain so soon as the i American congress meets. The letters found on captured insurgents show that they were recently advised to keep up the struggle for three months longer, i pointing out that the first act of the , Sagasta government would be the re moval of Weyler, and adding that war would be made on the Spanish minister at Washington, Senor de Lome. It is charged that Senor de Lome and Dr. Congosto are to blame for the spread in the United States of the sentiment in | favor of autonomy, and it is even alleged j that they have induced American newspapers to advocate this policy. There is much excitement here at ! present over the news of the landing of ! another filibustering expedition by the Dauntless. FINAL TRIAL OF THE IOWA. Inspection Board Will Recommend That the Government Accept Her. New York, Nov. 19.—The battleship lowa arrived at Brooklyn navy-yard this afternoon, after concluding her | final trial trip. The report of the in spectic n board will be sent by telegraph ito Washington, and it is said the per ! fonnanoe of the lowa during the trip was in every way satisfactory, and that the board will reoommend that the gov ernment finally accept the vessel. Captain Simpson states that the ves sel was under natural draught during I the 30 hours of her trial. During a two ! hours' run at her maximum speed, she | attained 18>£ knots, or about 85 pel cent of the maximum attained under natural draught was 94 revolutions. | These results are considered satisfac tory, as the vessel has not been in dock for over seven months. On the return i trip all the guns on board were fired. Mn. Walkup'i Career. Emporia, Kan., Nov. lfl.—The death in Chicago o* John Ketchum, shortly ! after marrying Mabel Wallace, the {widow of John Walkup. the man for whose murder she was tried here 12 years ago, recalls the sensational end ing of the case, in which Mrs. Walkup's powerful testimony secured an acquittal just as everything seemed to be against her. The prosecution claimed that Mrs. Walkup had purchased arsenic while en route to Emporia, while on ' her wedding trip, and that she pur chased quantities of poison while in Emporia. The sentiment of the town was for conviction. The climax of tb« case was reached when Mrs. Walknp was placed on the stand. She was very beautiful and well schooled, and before she finished giving testimony the law yers, jurymen and judge wept, and the stenographer's eyes were blinded so that he could not see to write. The girl who had been befriended by only one man, captured the hearts of all who were directly interested. A verdict of acquittal was rendered. . Committee to Go to Wasninftoa. Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 19.—A meeting held at the city ball today to protest against the proposed abandon ment of Fort Walla Walla was attend* ed by a large. number of prominent business men and citizens. It waft de cided to send* committee to Washing ton to present the matter to the war department. W. D. Tyler and Judge W. H. Upton were appointed, and will take the matter np at once. J riiiwur Trala Ditched. Cleveland, O. t Nov. lfl.-rA paaaeß jer train on the Cleveland, Canton A Southern railway wa« derailed ihto morning at the approach to a bridge, jver Pettibone brook. Two psweager.. joaches rolled over the embankment into the ditch. f Sixiy pe«m«^«»oa; board, bat only three were injwred. ; ;W; : : Detectives detailed to look alter pro fessional shopliften alwaya took to see if their suspects axe wearing glove* ..