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I. IU ADAMS, Publisher. CAPE GIRARDEAU. MISSOURI The treasury deficit for July, as shown by the statement issued on the 1st, was, 313.125,790.67. The national committee of the peo ple's party, otherwise the populists, will, make Washington the headquar ters of the organization. The president, on the 29th, appoint ed John Sheridan, of West Virginia, a government director of the Union Pacific Railway Co., -vice Fitzhugh Lee, now consul-general at Havana. The executive committee of the Na tional Irrigation congress met in Den ver. CoL, on the 31st, and arranged the programme of the annual meeting to be held in Phoenix, Ariz., December 15, 16 and 17. At Dayton, O., on the 20th, Henry Dipple, a night watchman, threw some water on a fire he had discovered in a frame house, and electricity from a crossed wire passed through the wa ter and killed him. Failures throughout the United States for the week ended on the 31st, as reported by R- G. Dun & Co., were 281, against 261 for the corresponding week of last year. For Canada the failures were 40, against 28 for last year. Mr. Gladstone was waited upon at Hawarden. on tne 30tn, Dy iuu mem lu.i-c nf the PhiladelDhia Manufactur ers' club. lie personally escorted the eUitnn limit the orounds and nar rated the history of the castle to them. The Americans were greatly pleased by the warmth of their reception. A dispatch from Che-Foo, China, on ihe 29th insL, said that the little Ger man gunboat litis was lost in a typhoon on July 23 at a point 40 miles southeast nf the Shantr-Tunsr promontory. Only ten of those belonging to the war ship were saved. All the otners, .5 in num ber, including the officers perished. Col. W. E. McAkthtr. clerk of Representative Herman, of Oregon, was found lying unconscious on the street in Washington, on the evening of the 29th, and died shortly after at the hospital. Cause, sunstroke. Mc Arthur was from The Dalles, Ore., where he formerly published a paper. Ox the 29th Consul-General Fitz hugh Lee telegraphed the state de partment, in response to inquiries made at the instigation of Gen. Miles, that there was no information in Ha vana regarding the reported killing of Pierce Atkinson, who went to Cuba from this country to assist the reb els. William J. Gilbert, the well-known law-book publisher, and for many years a prominent resident of St. Louis, died, on the 27th, at his resi dence in that city, aged 61 years. He was at the head of one of the oldest law-book concerns in St. Louis, and was known to every lawyer in the city. The supreme court of California having- affirmed the judgment of the superior court, S. D. Worden. the railroad striker, charged with wreck ing the railway bridge near Sac ramento, two years ago, and thereby :ausing the death of Engineer Clark and three United States soldiers, must hang. Among the passengers who arrived at the port of New York on the 28th, by the steamer Caracas, from LaGuay ra. was the son of Jose Maceo, who was killed in battle in Cuba recently. The young man is. together with ten other Cubans, on his way to the island to join the rebel army. He first learned of his father's death on land ing at New York. A disi'Atcm to the Madrid Imparcial from Havana says that CapU-Gen. Weyler had issued a decree in which he promises to the captains of vessels the sum of $2,000 for each filibustering steamer, and $9,000 for each filibus tering sailing vessel they seize. The captains making seizures will be freed of all responsibility. It was announced in Madrid, on the 28th, that the shipbuilders of Genoa had repudiated the contract their rep resentatives had made with the Span ish government to furnish the latter promptly with two cruisers of 7,000 tons. Great excitement prevailed in Madrid, as it was added that the ves sels had been purchased by the United States. Th International Socialist Trades tongress, in session in London, met on the 28th and the question of the ad mission of anarchists as delegates, which precipitated a free fight the day before and caused the chairman to declare the congress adjourned, was again taken up for final action, and it was decided by a large majority not to sdmit them. Is the British house of commons, on the 31st., Sir Matthew White Ridley, the home secretary, announced that Dr. Jamieson and the other prisoners who were convicted of taking part in the Transvaal raid, would be treated as first-class misdemeanants during their terms of imprisonment. Under this ruling the severity of their treat ment as prisoners will be greatly mod ified. Ex-Citt Attorney Mokclakd, of Pittsburgh. Pa., who pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling city funds, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary on the 29th. W. H. House, assistant city attorney, con victed of aiding and abetting City At torney Moreland in embezzling city money, was also sentenced to the pen it.ni t-y fur two years and three llH'll s. CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS EI BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A destructive hailstorm struck Cly county, Minn., on the 27th, passing northwesterly across Sabin and as far north as Glydon on the west and Stock wood on the east. In many cases the destruction was complete. While watching a game of ball at Youngstown, O., Oscar Gilchrist was struck in the eye by a foul fly with such force that the eye was knocked into a pulp and fell out of his head. William Henry Smith, late general manager of the Associated Press, died at his home in Lake Forest, Chicago, on the 27th. He had been sick for sev eral days with pnenmonia. James Byers, agent for the Van dalia railroad and Adams Express Co., at Moran, Ind., committed suicide on the 27th. Ryers was short in his ac counts with the express company S300, and with the railroad company, 815. The correspondent of the United Press at Honolulu, writing under date of the 21st, says that the volcano Ki lauea renewed its activity, during the night of the 11 tb, and was worse than ever. The destruction of crops, live stock and farm property in Yankton count-, S. D., by the recent hail storm is now estimated to amount to Si 00. 000. It is rumored in Constantinople that the Turkish government contemplates the issue of paper money. A dispatch from Ruluwayo, on the 28th, said: "A force of imperial troops is being hurriedly pushed to the front from Maolutsie and Mangwe and Fort Tuli. The situation is becoming more serious every day." Reins found guilty in the Rritish high court of justice, on the 28th, of violation of the foreign enlistment act. Dr. Jamieson was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment without labor; Maj. Sir John VYilloughby to ten months; Maj. R. Wright to seven months, and Capt. Henry F. Coventry (son of the earl of Coventry), Col. It. Grey and Col. F. H. White to five months' imprisonment each. They were taken a t once to Hollow-ay prison. Charles Corey and Miss Kate Fil mann, both of Roston, were drowned in the Niagara river, between Grand Island and the Canadian shore, above Niagara falls, on the 28th. The young couple had hired a small boat for a row, and in the rough water the boat became unmanageable. The gold standard democrats of Ken tucky will hold a state convention on August 20, in Louisville, to perfect a thorough organization of their forces and select delegates to the national convention decided upon at the recent conference held in Chicago. The United States consuls at Vera Cruz and Acupulco telegraph the sur geon general of the United States marine hospital service the existence of yellow fever at those points. The fact has become known that the recent flood in Colorado entirely de stroyed the Cat ski 11 branch of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf road, 40 miles in length. Part of the town of Ilfracombe, Devonshire, one of the fashionable and most attractive seaside resorts in En gland, was burned on the 2:4th. Ostt of the three men who partici pated in the recent Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek (Col.) stage robbery, was captured by a deputy sheriff while leaving1 a Denver train at Colorado Springs, on the 26th, but for reasons unknown the arrest was kept a pro found secret until the 29th. Ex-Congressmas Johx T. Brown died suddenly at his home in Fowler, Ind., on the 38th, of heart trouble. He leaves a widow and an adopted child in com fortable circumstances. The notification committee appointed by the Prohibition national conven tion, which met last May in Pitts burgh, called upon Joshua Levering at Raltimore, Md., on the 2Sth, and offi cially informed him of his nomination for the presidency upon the prohibi tion ticket. A committee from the University of Chicago called upon Maj. McKinley at Canton, C, on the 29th, as representa tives of the Republican club of that school to pay their respects to the re publican candidate and to present to him a life-sized marble bustof himself, made by Hans Hirsch, the noted sculp tor of that city. Robert Garrett, ex-president of the Baltimore & Ohio railway and head of the widely-known banking house of Robert Garrett & Sims, died at Deer Park, Md.. on the 29th. Mr. Garrett had been in failing health for several years. Postmaster-General Wilson has is sued an order to all railway mail clerks, directing them not to take an active interest in the political cam paign, such as would be involved in their attending political conventions as delegates, making political speeches or assisting in the management of po litical campaigns. Dr. Jamieson and his fellow Trans vaal raiders are to be treated as first class misdemeanants in Holloway prison. London. They will receive their meals from the outsiae, wear their own clothes and have less dis tinguished prisoners detailed to per form menial offices for them. An express train from Philadelphia collided with a special excursion train of seven cars of Red Men near Atlantic City, N. J., on the 30th, the ponderous trains coming together at right angles, and causing a frightful wreck in which about forty persons were killed out right and twice that number injured, many cf them fatally. The wife of one of the engineers who died at his post, upon hearing the sad news, fell dead from the shock. A powder magazine at Funfkirchen, Hungary, exploded, on the 30th, with fatal results. The shock of the explo sion almost completely wrecked the town hall, and other buildings in the vicinity were badly damaged. More than one hundred persons were in jured, and it was thought that a larjre proportion ol them would die. A body of striking miners went tw the Hymers mines near Sullivan, Ind.,' on the 29th inst Two or three of them covered the night watchmen with guns, marched them to the woods half a mile distant and stood guard over them while the balance of the crowd set fire to the plant which was totally destroyed. Burning timbers fell into the shaft and set fire to the mine also. The boiler in Sullivan's big shingle mills at Cedar, Mich., burst on the 29th. Engineer Scott was badly man gled and scalded, and lived but two hours. Ten other employes were more or less seriously scalded and bruised. Judge Orlady, of the Pennsylvania state superior court.on the 29th, grant ed an allocatur in the appeal of attor neys representing ex-Assistant City Attorney Wm. II. House, of Pitts burgh, who was sentenced to two years and three months in the peui tiary, for aiding and abetting in the embezzlement of city money. The president has issued a proclama tion bearing date of July 27, again commanding citizens to observe neu trality towards Cuba. The proclama tion refers to the original proclama. tion of June 12, 1895, demanding an ob servance of the neutrality laws in re spect to the Cuban insurrection, and gives notice that all violations will be vigorously prosecuted. The commissioner of internal revenue has submitted to Secretary Carlisle a preliminary report of the operations of his bureau for the fiscal year end ing June 30. It shows that the re ceipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregated $146, 830,615 an increase of S3,5S4,.r.:i7 over the receipts of the preceding fiscal year. Mr. Arthur Sf.wai.l, democratic nominee for vice-president, was inter viewed ns to the storv that he intended to resign in favor of Mr. Tom Watson. He said: "Any man who for a moment enterlains such an idea is not worthy of an answer. Father Martinei.li, superior-gener-al of the Augustinians, has been ap pointed successor to Mgr. Satolli, ai papal delegate of the Roman Catholic cnurch in the United States. J i I roil Campbell, one of the iron kins, died at his home at Hanging R ick, O., on the 3lst, aged 86. A dispatch from Bombay, on the 31st, said: Except for the telegraph lines, Bombay is isolated from tlie outside world. Very heavy rains have fallen of late, and the country in the vicinity of the city is flooded. The railroads are so far under water that it is impossible to run trains over them. A hurricane prevailed at Hong Kong, on the 30th, and considerable damage was done to shipping in the harbor. The British steamer Glen Oaladh was totally dismasted. The British steamer MacDuff dragged her anchors and collided with the Nor wegian steamer Brand. Both vessels were damaged. Fire originating in Argull's opera house in Grass Valley, Cal., on the 30th, srpead rapidly until the whole block was ablaze. Twenty-five houses and business premises were totally de stroyed and 12 others partly burned. Total loss, about SI.V1.000. Judge George Carpenter, of the United States district for Rhode Island and Massachusetts, died, on the 31st, in Keswick, Holland, of paralysis of the heart, while on a European pleas ure trip. The Irish land bill passed its secono reading in the British house of lords on the 31st. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese diplo mat, who attended the coronation ceremonies of Czar Nicholas II. at Moscow, as special envoy of the Chinese government, and who has since visited Berlin and Paris, arrived in London on the 2d. His visit to England is to be made as a national guest, the queen, through Lord Salis bury, having invited him to visit the country at national expense. He will remain in England a month. Two fright trains on the North western railroad colliiled on the em bankment approaching the Niobrara river on the 2d. One was awaiting the signal to cross when the engine of the second crashed into it from the rear. The engine and cars were wrecked and the track was torn up for 100 yards, but no one was injured. It is almost a miracle that both trains did not topple over into the river. The statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 1st showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, 8770,790; loans, decrease. 54,704,000; specie, de crease, 59,976,600; legal tenders, in crease, 87,119,900; deposits, decrease, 88,344,200; circulation, increase, $159, 300. The British house of commons has passed on third reading the bill for the construction of a railway from the east coast of Africa to Uganda, the country in the interior recently placed under liritish protection. The public debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed a net incrense in the public debt, less cash in the treas ury, duriug July of 810,857,258. Total cash in treasury, 8851,863,747. Spain, through her consul at the port of Philadelphia, offers a reward of 510,000 for information leading to the capture, within Spanish waters, of a filibustering expedition from this country. The town of Kunkle, O., was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 2d. Twelve business houses and five dwel lings were consumed. Loss, $2S,0O0; insurance, nominal. The coins executed at the United States mints during July aggregated 2,375,910 pieces, of the value of 84.031, 200, of which 82,918,200 was gold and S) ,062,000 standard silver dollars. National bank notes outstanding, on the 1st, aggregated 8225,942,455, an increase during July of 829.495, and since July 31, 1895, of 814,660,547. On the 1st the banks of New York city held 817,728,600 in excess of the re quirements of the 25-ner-cent. rule. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Death or a St. Joseph Millionaire. r Calvin F. Burnes, the m.Uti-million aire, president of the National bank of St Joseph, and owner of large property interests in St. Louis and Chicago, died at Ayr Lawn, south of St. Joseph, the other day, aged 70. Dysentary was his affliction. Col. Burnes was born poor, studied law in St. Louis, and made a remarkable sn.-v cess as a commercial attorney. His wealth is estimated at Sa,O0O.GOO. Col. Burnes had been very ill for two or three weeks. For two weeks he was delirious, and knew very little of what was going on about him. Missouri National Hanks. The banks of Missouri, exclusive ot the cities of St. Louis. Kansas City and St. Joseph, show their average reserve, July 14, to have been 29.57 per cent.. against 29.53 percent, on May 7; loans and discounts decreased from S7.613.072 to 57,347,559; stocks and se curities increased from 8706,633 to 8717,301: gold coin increased from 8314, 310 to 8M33.S22; total specie increased from 8471,886 to 8497.319: lawful money reserve decreased from 8777,457 to 8730, 570; individual deposits decreased from 80,642,121 to 86,441.438. A Desperate Man. Marion Bowman, who was being taken to Springfield, 111., by Sheriff Baxter, of that city, to answer to the charge of abducting a nine-year-old girl named Mattie McKinney, jumped from the window of the Chicago & Alton train at Curryville, Pike couuty, and made his escape, although he was Handcuffed and the sheriff had chained him to the car seat. Accident at the Kansas City Incline. Two cable cars broke loose at the top of the Ninth street incline, Kansas City, and dashed down the declivity into the union depot sheds. The grip cars and those on board escaped in jury, but the trailer was thrown from the track just insfde the elevated sheds and literally smashed to pieces. Sev eral of the occupants of this car were badly hurt. Death of Kx-Congressnian Fjan. Judge Fyandied at Marshfield. after several weeks' illness with chronic diarrhoea and general debility. Rob ert W. Fyan was lxrn in Bedford coun ty. Pa. He served 16 years as judge of the circuit court of Webster county, and resigned to run for congress, serv ing three terms as congressman. Wright Must Hang. Gov. Stone has positively refused to interfere with the death penalty im posed upon William Wright, the Ver non county negro who beat his wife to death with an ax and narrowly es caped lynching at the hands of in furiated negroes. Wright will be hanged at Nevada, August la Too Mnch Wheat. One man crushed to death, another fatally injured and five others more or less seriously hurt was the sum total of accident caused by the sudden giv ing way of the floors in the Regina mills, St. Louis. It is said the accident was due to overloading the floors with wheat. Miss I her be Conzlns. Miss Phoebe Couzins, the well-known woman lawyer of St. Louis and equal susrage advocate, is stopping at Ex celsior Springs. She is afflicted with rheumatism, and is stopping there for medical treatment and to receive the benefits of the mineral water. The Contractor Was Not Ready. lne laying of the corner-stone of Johnson county's new courthouse, an nounced to take place by the Masonic fraternity of the county on August 4. has been postponed on account of the contractor not having the corner-stone ready. Ktoped With His Aunt. oeverai montns ago dim tarey came from Iowa and made his home with his uncle, Y . L. Carey, near Clinton. Dur ing the latter's absence Mrs. Carey eloped witn her nusband s nephew. taking her babe along. Randolph County Teachers. The sixteenth annual session of Ran dolph teachers' institute is being held Bt Moberly under charge of Prof. AVhiteford. superintendent of Moberly schools. There were 85 teachers in at tendance the first day. Slept on a Railway Track. Sherman Greenstreet, a painter, with a wife and four children, went to sleep on the Missouri Pacific track at Seda lia. He was struck by the engine of a passenger train and received fatal in juries. Relieved He Bad a Fit. Edward Hobdy, aged 19, a son of Lawrence Hobdy, was drowned while bathing in the river at Hannibal. The deceased was subject to fits and it is supposed that he was seized with one. Missouri Rankers. The next annual convention of the Missouri Bankers' association will be held at Mcramec Highlands, near St. Louis, or on a Mississippi river steam boat during an excursion. A Fhyslclan Robbed. Dr. H. L. Banks, of Hannibal, was assaulted and robbed by highwaymen in an unfrequented part of the city while on his way to make a call. A Great Holiness RovlvaL The Holiness camp meeting at Lutes ville, which began July 15, has closed. It was the greatest religious revival ever held in Bollinger county. Died From the Effect of Heat. Mrs. Phillip Bryne. 3029 A Madison street, St. Louis, was stricken with heat at a cemetery while attending the funeral of a friend, and oied. Beised With Cramps. Thomas Kelly, son of Judge Henry Kelly, was drowned in the Missouri, at St. Joseph, while bathing. The young man was seized with cramps. JOINT DISCUSSION. Senator Tbnrston. of Nebraska, and a Chi cago Lawyer Open the Campaign In Wis consin Freo Silver the Subject of th Debate The Question Logically ! Learnedly Discussed by til Speakers c Both Sides. Madison. Wis,, Aug. 3L Senatoi Thurston, of Nebraska, for the repub lican party, and Clarence S. Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, for the democrats and populists, contested with oratory and argument for presidential votes yes terday afternoon at Lakeside, the grounds of the Monona Lake assem bly near this city. Mr. Thurston said that it was amonfi Wisconsin people that he grew toman hood and that in the first regiment oi Its cavalry he went out to fight and die, if necessary for his country. The senator continued: We are here especially to discuss cer tain financial theories ancfViews which are disturbingour people. This money question is a new one in this cam paign. I was brought np to believe that the judgment of the man wht had succeeded in life was better t follow than that of the man who had failed; that the word of the man who Had never broken his promise was bet ter to believe than that of the mar who had broken his word. There fore, I think it is safer foi me to keep away from the lead ership of such men as Altgeld and Tillman and Llewelyn and Waite. and follow the lead of Allison and Reed, and that greatest of all Amer icans, William McKinley, of Ohio. Four years ago the issue before th people made, for the most part, by th men who are now presenting anothei issue, was not the issue which the would have you believe bhould be the one on which to go to the polls in 1S96. William J. Bryan made no other argu ment and advocated no other issut four years ago than the tariff. Heanc his associates had no intention ol bringing forth this new issue until they realized they were everlastinglj defeated by the people on the issue oi free trade on which they secured a majority of votes four years ago. Don't yon think, in view of the promises given four years ago and theii default to pay, that it would oe best to ask for a little collateral security on which to back up this new promise! I am an American. Tlie American traveling in foreign lands finds that his silver dollar is taken without one cent of discount. You can buy with it twice as much as you can with the silver dollar of any country which opens its mints to the free coinage ol silver. I do not want to Mexicanize our American dollar or apologize for its cheapness. Gold means free coinage. Did yot stop to think that if free coinage o: silver will increase the value of bul lion, that it will not bring to the peo pie higher wages or give them bettei prices for their product? Free coin age will either lower the standard oi our dollar to the 50-cent Mexican dol lar or else it will double the value ol our neighbor's dollar without expense to them. The senator mentioned that July 11 the Chicago Chronicle had charged Bryan with being the paid agent ot spokesman of the Bonanza silver kings, who had really made the silver issue, and that he had not met the charge. He closed by arguing that cheap money would not help the poor man. Mr. Barrow was then introduced. He did not think the settlement of th I free coinage question would ever give to labor that which labor never had under a democrat or republican admin istration, a full share of the product oi his toil, nor lift from the farmer the great burden of debt and distress under which he lived. Bu t it would do some thing. He repudiated the senator's prescription of four more years of the gold cure administered by McKinley instead of Cleveland. He accused the Cleveland democrats of work ing for McKinley, and asked the people to support what was Maj. McKinley "s policy until he be came a candidate for the presidency. It was the first time that a national party in the United States asked tliat silver money be stricken down and gold alone used by our people. The proposition was so outrageous and un heard of that the men who framed it at St. Louis were afraid to openly ad vocate it, and added the international agreement clause as a sop which they and the people knew to be a trick and a lie. He sternly resented the senator's claim to being an American when he defended the proposition to become the' bond slave of Lombard street and Wall street. The great creditor class had been the blighting curse on thf earth for ages. He created a sensational scene when he declared that if a dollar's worth of American wheat continued to be sold for 50 cent the Englishman will collect his interest from America, as he does from the Egyptians with cannon and with sword. The speaker was vigor ously hissed and several men arose and shook their fists and cried. "Never." The chairman appealed for order and a fair hearing. Senator Thurston, in closing, de nounced the attempt to array class against class, and section against sec tion. There was no such issue under the Stars and Stripes. A party was needed to build up, not tear down. Finally, he said: "The man who holds the key to the tituation is the officer who held the line for Sheridan at Shenandoah, Maj. McKinley, and please God he will be mr next president." AT WASHINGTON. Isnator Jooes and the Democratic) na tional Headquarters. Washisgtos, Aug. 1. Senator J. Jones, chairman of the national ;ommittee, is expected to reach the :ity to-day. It is believed that he will arly settle the question of the 1 oca lion of national headquarters, and will before he leaves Washington an nounce the names of the members oi he national executive committee, a ubject upon which he has been be stowing careful attention since he left Chicago. MURDER WILL OUT. t Nothing Else Happens to Reveal the Crime a Guilty Conscience Will Confess It Strange Mory Told by a Maryland State Prisoner Who Hood After Com mitted Halclde Corroboration. May Save an Innocent Sufferer. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 3. The con vict known as Frederick Whitney, n ho committed suicide at the Maryland penitentiary Saturday, appears to ll a ve added murder to his long list of crimes. Friday afternoon Whitney sought out Warden Weyler and inti mated that he meant to end his miser able existence. '.n the course of his conversation with Mr. Weyler, the man said his real name was Frederick Hildebrand, and that his home was in Detroit, Mich. The hold-up of City Councilman Swindell, for which Whit ney was serving an 18-year sen tence, occurred on March 23, 1895. In his confession he said that while flee ing from Baltimore detectives he killed and robbed a man in Altoona, Pa., in April of last year. "While we were in Altoona," de clared Whitney (or Hilderbrand) to the warden, "1 assaulted a man on the street, murdered him aud robbed him. of his money, quite a large sum. For this murder another man was ar rested, tried and convicted, and was sent to the penitentiary for Ijfe." Was your pal, Williams, implicated in this murder?'' asked the warden. "No, sir; I did it all myself. lam alone guilty aud can stand the strain no longer." The warden tried to gain more in formation from his prisouer, but failed. He set apart an hour for a. further conference with Hildebrand, but the opportunity for which the prisoner had long waited presented itself, and the unfortunate man threw himself from a window and dashed out his brains on the flagging 30 feet be low. The suicide was 35 years of age. When incarcerated in the penitentiary he gave his occupation as a ball player. How Whitney's Confession Is Regarded in Altoona. Altoona, Ta., Aug. 2. If the con fession of the convict known as Fred crick Whitney, who committed suicide at the Maryland penitentiary is true, that he killed Henry Bonneka in this city, an innocent man now wait iug sentence of death for the mur der. There are some discrepancies in the story of Whitney's confession as sent from Baltimore, as to the facts of the murder. Bonneka was. not killed upon the street, but was found strangled to death in his house ! here on April 6, 1895. Whitney was in I Altoona at the time of the murder, was suspected and was followed to Balti more by detectives, but not enough evidence was gathered against him. to warrant his arrest. Three other men fell under suspicion aud finally one of them, Frank. Wilson, was arrested. Wilson, at first admitted having been present when Bonneka was killed. He after : ward retracted his admission and was recently tried and convicted of mur der in the first degree. Fays Hildebrand was Insane When He Made His Confession. Altooxa, Pa., Aug. 2. District At torney Hammond talked with the warden of the Baltimore penitentiary to-day and learned that Hildebrand was insane when he made the confes sion. The news created a good deal of excitement in this city, epecially among the people who believe Wilson and Farrell are innocent, they having been convicted of the murder of the. miser on circumstantial evidence. BRUTAL DOUBLE MURDER. Husband and Wife Brained by m Jealous Lover of the Latter. Philadelphia, Aug. 3. A brutal double murder was discovered in an orchard in the rear of a summer board ing house in the suburb of Narbeth. Ewert McDarnell, aged 36 years, and Mary Brown, aged 25, both colored, were found lying on tlie ground side by side with their skulls crushed in. Tlie woman was a servant in the board ing house aud McDarntll is said to have been her husband, although she was known by the name of Brown. The Wjoman was of a lively and flirt ing disposition and it is supposed some, lover of hers killed the couple. The police claim to know the name of the man they suspect of the murder and expect to have him under arrest shortly. THE DIAMOND MATCH CO. Enjoined from Unjust and Oppressive In terference with the Business of the Improved Match Co. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 3. The Dia mond Match Co. was enjoined Satur day by Judge Donovan, in the circuit court from, unjust aud oppressive in terference with the business of the Im proved Match Co. of Detroit until the latter's suit for 8150,000 damages against the Diamond Co. is decided. Among the sensational charges brought by the Improved company is that of buying and tampering with the complainants' matches by breaking, steaming and otherwise injuring and destroying the quality of the same and again placing them on the market; also the intimidation of customers of the Improved company to secure the discontinuance of their purchases. Officials of the Diamond Match Co. refuse to talk about the case. THE SOUTHERN CONTINENTS. Chili has just had the first presiden tial election in its history without a row. In Central South America eggv tocoenuts and chocolate pass as cur lency of the realm. Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any otherpartof theworld. It is cheap est in China. A fanner in the little settlement of Hay, New South Wales, with the aid of hla three sons, poisoned 16,000 rabbit -in one night.