The News and Observer
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 25
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MINISTER TO MEXIuu
BELIEVED THAT THE PLACE
WILL BE LIVEN TO SENATOR
RANSOM.
MR. WILSON DOESN'T WANT IT.
The Vance Memorial in the House
Comes ©IT mi turd ay and " oodard,
Hcudernnu and Craw ford will Speak
—The Williums-Settle Case has been
Postponed Again to Live Way for
the Appropriation llills- -Humors of
Cabinet Changes Again Afloat.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. C . Feb. 20
Thg gosrp about the Mexican minis
tership is gradually dying out. It w
said that Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia
would like to have ti e place, but be said
in a talk with a Mississippi member that
he did not wish to go out of this coun
try.
Nearly every member of the Senate
signed the petition in favor of Senator
Ransom The whole delegation in the;
Hon e did so. and about thirty private
telegrams from members of the House
were sent to the President.
Many people sa\ that Cleveland w*ib
now show to Mr. Ransom bis appreeia
tion for the way the Senator has stood
by him. Many think that Senator Ran
som did himself more injury by his close
stand to Cleveland than by any action
in liis career. The only other probable
name for this position is that of t <ui
gressman Cooper, of 1 udiaua, ex Min
ister Gray's native State.
The Indiana delegation lias sent a pe
tition to the President and the majority
of them here called in person.
The President had a number of call
ers yesterday among them being Speaker
Crisp and senators Jones, \ las. Palmer
Faulkner and Call. The chief subject of
course was the silver bill and its chances,
but it is known from a remark made by
Senator Call that the President men
tioned something about the minister
ship.
Mr. Faulkner admitted that the Presi
dent said “Minister Gray s funeral was
yesterday.”
The President has it in mind and it is
thought to be a sure thing for Ransom.
The report sent out by a Washington
correspondent a few days ago stating
that Senator Ransom had called on the
President was erroneous and was flatly
denied by friends of the Senator.
Injury to Railway Employes.
A bill making railway corporations
liable for injuries to their employes, not
withstanding the old common law doc
trine of co employment, has been in
troduced in the House by Representative
McEUriek, or Boston. * Mr. McEttrick
comes from a State which has for several
years had a similar law on the stature
book and he declares that it has worked
even justice to the railways and th<vso
injured iu their employ. The first de
cisions in the English courts after the
establishment of railways followed the
rule which had been applied to other
employments where the employes worked
together, that the injury of an employe
in such common employment was a part
of the risk o' the employment and some
thing for which his employer e uld not
be held liable in a civil court. This
rule was changed by statute in Great
Britain a doaon or more years ago, and
an elaborate report upon the working of
the English law was submitted to the
Massachusetts L gislature in 1883 by
Charles G Fall The attempt to secure
similar legislation did not succeed for
several years, owing to the opposition of
the railways and other corporations, but
the advocates of the law finally prevail
ed, and similar acts have since been
passed iu other States
Rumors ot Cabinet Changes.
The rumors of cabinet changes are al
ways afloat here, but there seems to be
a littl more persistence to some of the
latest ones than has usually been the
ease. The coming vacancy ou the Su
preme bench, to be caused by the retire
memos Justice Jackson, gives au oppor
tunity for the promo ion of one of the
members of th- cabinet, which will
probably bo seized upon by the Presi
dent. The contest seems to lie between
Secretary Gresham and Secretary Car
lisle, both of whom are pretty nearly
within the limits of Justice Jackson's
circuit. It would be somewhat unusual
to name two justloes trom the same
State, as would t>e the case with Justice
Harlan and Mr. Carlisle on the bench,
but Judge Harlan is practically a resi
dent of Washington and is reported in
the Cong essio .al directory as “Mr.
Justice Harlan, of Chicago, 111 "
Tlie Pooling Hill.
Tt o pooling bill men are becoming des
perate, and they are credited with the
intention to defeat appropriation bills if
necessary. This would cause au extra
session to be needed, ami their chances
for au early hearing in the 54th Con
gross would be much better. The oppo
sitioa to this bill is very hot.
Senator Allen said to day that he
would tight the bill to the finish, that he
always had been opposed to it, and
always will be.
Senator ('handler said to me this after
noon, “1 am thoroughly opposed to the
bill, as it now stands, and 1 will do
everything iu my p »wer to defeat the
bill unless they adopt my amendments,
the chief of which is, as I have already
paid, one to allow the luter State Com
tneroe Commission to agree to the pool
iug rates before they are put into effect
instead of giving them judicial p overs
„ lie rates after they are in force.
‘The general sentiment now is that no
action will be taken, and the disappoint
ment whit li comes to several Senators is
very little
Vance Memorial Day.
The Vance memorial in the House
comes off ou Saturday. It will not be
known until the speeches are delivered
who will make them. The only ones as
yet that I have been told were certain
are those of Messrs. Woodard, Render
son and Crawford. j
Mr. Henderson was quite busy' iu his j
room last night writing his eulogy. Mr. ;
Henderson since he wa- 1 a boy bad known
Mr Vance, and bis speech will be full of
personal recollections.
* * W
The Naval Committee did not finish i
the appropriation bill till this afternoon, .
aud, upon its passage, a motion wots
made to take up the williams Settle eb c
tion case, but the report of the confer j
enee on the diplomatic bill being a priy j
il» ge report was considered, and it is :
understood there will be no objection of j
consideration to-morrow. Mr Bunn asked
unanimous consent to take it up aftei j
disposal of the cons- rence report, but ;
Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, at the re j
quest of Settle, objected.
* * *
The item which your correspondent i
sent about Congressional stationery has
been misunderstood. The $125 a year
which is giveu each member for sta
tionery is meant to be for postage as
well. The items that some men had j
created at the Capitol book store it >s j
true did not amount to more than sl,
but those members bought other sta ’
tionery and paid cash for it.
* * *
Mr. Smith Williams, who held a posi
tion iu the Census office and who was a
most popular boy among his associates,
left yesterday for North Carolina. Mr.
Williams has been studying law during
his stay here. He is a grandson of Judge
Richmond Pearson.
* * *
Mr. Crawford has not yet decided
when ho will go to North Carolina. He
has a manlier of matters to look after
before going home, and it is probable he
will be here for several weeks. Mrs.
Crawford and the baby will both remain
here with him.
Gen Cox, Secretary of the Seuate,
will leave W ashington for North Caro
lina at the close of the session. He will
be off and on here during the summer.
He will go to Raleigh immediately after
adjournment of Congress.
* * »
Among the ladies who will assist in
receiving the guests of the Southern Re
lief Society are: Miss Herbert, of Ala
bama; Mrs. Secretary Carlisle, of Ken
tucky, aud Mrs. Vance, of North Caro
lina.
♦ * ♦
Dr. Albert Anderson, of Wilson, and Dr.
Pate, of Richmond county, who have
been here iu the United States Marine
Hospital studying Bacteriology left this
afternoon for their homes in North Caro
lina.
* * *
The wisdom of killing the Reilly bill
is now apparent. The Pacific railroad
owuers now propose to pay the principal
of the debt, some sixty million dollars.
Arrivals.
Dr. A. G. Liverman, Scotland Neck.
Sol. C. Weill, Wilmington.
J. L. White, Asheville.
A RUSH FOR BIDS.
The New Ho lids Subscribed for Ten
Times Over.
New York, Feb 20. — The subscription
books for the SO2 815,000 United States
four per cent's were opened promptly at
10 o’clock this morning at the office of J.
Pierpont Morgan & Co., and just twenty
two minutes later the subscriptions were
closed
There was little or no ex
citement at the office of Morgan aud
Company, in fact the attendance
thire was about the same as au ordinary
business day. This is accounted for by
the fact that the bulk of the bids were
sent in by mail, aud for this reason to
day's performance was looked upon as a
mere formality, to use the expression of
one of the leading members of the syn
dicate.
The bonds were subscribed for at
least teu times over, and the loan in
I every particular has been an enormous
success. Mr. Moigan is authority for
| the statement that no details will be
given out until Saturday, when the al
lotments are to be made. The bonds
sold at four |>or cent, premium in I.on
don to-day, and 113 was bid on the
streets hire this morning.
A principal member of the syndicate is
authority tor the statement that the enor
mous over subscription of the bouds was
I astounding even to the syndicate The
success of the whole deal abroad cannot
bo measured in the immediate connec
tion with the sale of the bouds. It is
anticipated that it will revive the
interest in American securities and
stimulate an interest in our railroad
securities such as has not existed since
the Baring panic, thus turning the real
balance of exchange in our favor so that
| when exports of breadstuff's begin next
fall the natural flow of gold will once
more be toward the United States. The
strain upon our gold holdings will thus
bo relieved for the first time iu two years.
At a High Premium in London.
London, Feb. 20. — The United States
loan prospectus was issued very late yes
terday afternoon and a regular fight en
sued at Morgan’s for places in the liue
and this morning there was a renewed
rush of subscribers. The loan was sub
scribed for many times over.
The premium at one time this after
; noon reached 4 8 8.
RALEIGH, N. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2\ 1895.
END OF THE JONES BILL
AFTFR CONSIDERABLE DISCUS
SION IT IS REMITTED TO
the calendar.
NO FREE COINAGE MEASURE.
Friends ol the Bill Ask Thai it be Laid
Aside in Order That Appropriation
Hills May be Considered—The Di—
cushion Continued at Some Length—
Indian Appropriation Bill Taken I p
and Two-Third* Disposed Of—Mr.
('handler Criticises the President.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 20:— In ae
aeordance with the order made yester
day, the Senate met to-day at 11 o'clock,
which is to be the regular hour of meet
itig tid the 4th of March next. There
was a fair attendance of Senators in the
chamber when the proceedings opened.
The vice president l aving laid before
the Senate the resolution offered last
night by Mr. Wolcott declaring
it as the sense of the Senate
that a consideration of the silver
bill should not be entered upon
at this session of congress, Mr. Junes
(Democrat of Arkansas) who had charge
of that bill said “ I wish to say that tin
friends of the regular order-the pending
silver bill- have no disposition to incur
the risk of an extra session.
“We so stated at the beginning. De
velopments have shown that while the
friends of the measure have a majority
in this body, it is impossible to pass Up
hill at the present late day of the session
without incurring a very great danger to
the appropriation tills and an extra ses
sion. Under these circumstances the
friends of the silver measure have au
thorized me to say that they will not
further proceed at this session of Con
gress ”
No comment was made on this an
nouncement by any Senator, and no
formal action was taken on the resolu
tion.
Other business having intervened, t lie
silver bill was made the text, for a speech
by Mr. Higgins, Republican, of Dela
ware, who referred to its status as legis
lation let alone, and said that all that
the bill amounted; to—in as much as it
could not become a law—was a declara
tion of policy, and that the resolution of
the Senator from Colorado meant just the
same thing.
The Silver Bill Displaced.
Mr. Higgins’ speech was interrupted
at 12 o’clock by the Vice-President, who
announced the close of the morning
hour, and the taking up of the unfinished
business, being the silver bill.
“Let it be laid aside informally,” Mr.
Jones, of Arkansas suggested, “so as to
allow the Senator from Delaware to con
clude his remarks.”
“I must appeal to the Senator from
Delaware,” Air. Gorman broke in, “as
well as to the Senator from Arkansas, to
cea«e this discussion at this time. All
the great appropriation bills are pending
in the Senate or in committee, aud it
will be almost impossible to have fair
consideration of them unless we begin
now I must appeal to the Senator from
Delaware, in the public interest, # to give
way, and to perm t me to make a motion
that the Senate proceed to the considera
tion of the Indian appropriation bill.”
After further discussion, Mr. Gorman
made his motion, and Mr. Butler, who
desired to goon with the pooling bill,
demanded the yeas and nays. The vote
was taken, and the motion was agreed
to, yeas, 55; nays, 12.
The negative votes were given by Sen
ators Blanchard, Butler, Camden, Cam
eron, Faulkner, Hunton, Jones of Ar
kansas. L’ndsay, Martin, Mitehc I, ot
Wisconsin, Quay aftd Wolcott,
The effect of tliC* voie was to die place
the silver bill—iemitting it to the cal
endar—and to briug the Indian Appro
priation bill before the Senate. On this
bill Mr. Higgins resinned the floor, and
went ou w'tth the delivery of his speech
on the Jones silver bill, and against it.
Bnt the Discussion Continues.
Mr. Chandler next addressed the Sen
ate, not upon the Indian appropriation
bill, however, but upon the silver bill,
and against the Wolcott resolution.
Mr. Daniels replied to the speech of
Mr Higgins, which was, he said, a piti
ful picture of the distress now prevail
ing the iu civilized world. This distress,
Mr. Daniels said, was wide spread He
might say:
“From Greenland's icy mountains to
ludia’s coral strand.’’
While that Seuator had called atten
tion to a starving Manchester and to a
degraded India, he had told the Senator
I but little of the distress which pervaded
his own country in consequence of
| the ill conceived and ill-considered
action of Congress iu repealing the
purchase clause of the Sherman act. Not
a single prophesy of those w hich were
made by the friends of that repeal had
been fulfilled; but the predictions which
he (Mr. Daniel) had then,stated in his
argument against the repeal had been
fulfilled.
He had predicted that ihe uneoudition
al repeal of the purchase clause of the
: Sherman law would be followed by
i a decline iu the price of silver,
!by a further decline iu the
, prices of property, bonds and se
; eurities, and by an attempt to
i retire the greeubaeks, aud all these pre
dictions had been fulfilled. The Demo
cratic party which had pledged itself to
the coinage of both gold and silver, and
to the repeal of the tax on State banks,
bad failed to keep its pledge, and would
now “be deprived of power, without
ever being in power.”
Indian Appropriation Hill.
The regular consideration of the lu
dian appropriation bill was then pro
ceeded with.
In the course of the debate Mr. Chan
dler made a second speech ou an amend
meut to the Indian appropriation bill, to
the point that all the amendments pro
posing ecueral legislation on appropria
tion bills were reported by the committee
on appropriations with the design and
purpose of provoking discussion, pre
venting the pissing of the appropriation
bills and thus necessitating the holding
of an extra session of Congress.
He explained his belief, and hoped
that the President would call an extra
session as soon as possible after the
fourth of March and suggested as work
for that session the passage of a bill to
construct the Nicaragua Canal, rot
through a private company, but by pub
lie money; the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands and a searching inves
tigation into the conduct of the Secre
tary bf the Treasury under the direction
of the President in “the most remark
able financial transaction that ever took
place in the history of the government
by which a loss of nine million dollars
was caused to the treasury and people of
the United Statfs.”
Two-thirds of the Indian bill had been
disposed of when the Senate, at 6:30
o’clock, adjourned.
The legislative, executive aud judicial
appropriation bill was reported to the
Senate to day from the committe on ap
propriatious. As the bill passed the
House it caraied an appropriation of
$J1,825 917, and this amount was in
creased $90,047 by the Senate commit
tee.
In executive session to day the Senate
confirmed the nomination of William L.
lzlar to be postmaster at Orangeburg.
I HE DAY IN THE HOUSE
Naval Appropriation Hill I'hsmil a*
Reported by Committee.
Washington, D. C., Feb 20.—50 far
as the House is concerned, the navy will
be further increased by the construction
of three battle ships and nine torpedo
boats.
At the close of four days’ deliberation
on the bill making appropriations for the
navy, and naval establishment, for the
year ending June 30th, 1896, the House
passed the measure practically as it was
reported by the committee, after having
been refused by a vote of 199 to 67 to
recommit the bill, upon motion by Mr
Sayers, with instructions to strike out
the provision for the battle ships.
An amendment offered by Mr. Sayers
was agreed to, provided that the Secre
tary of the Navy should not contract to
pay a higher price for armor plates or
gun steel than is paid for the same ar
ticle by the same parties or foreign gov
ernments. It was also provided that two
of the nine torpedo boats should be con
structed on the Mississippi river. Efforts
by Mr Cannon, (Rep.), of Illinois, to
make the bill carry an appropriation of
32,000,000 or 35,000,000 dollars toward
defraying the cost of battle ships were
unavailing. In this connection a letter
was read from Secretary Herbert stating
that if the construction of the battle
ships was author zed in tne pending bill,
there would bo expanded in the year
ending June 30, 1893. on that account,
only $513,200.
The Hawaiian Cable.
The naval bill being out of the way,
the House spent au hour or two discuss
iug the Hawaiian cable project upon the
report of the conference over the Diplo
matic aud Consular appropriation bill
Mr. McCreary, Democrat, of Kentucky,
opposed the construction < f the cable as
a government enterprise, and moved
that the House insist upon its disagree
ment to the Senate amendment author
izing the Fres’Ccnt to contract for lay
ing the cable
Mr. Hitt (‘tel)). < f iiiiuoi , 211? <n Qie
CO .ft roes, moved that Cm House concur
in the Senate amendment, and forcibly
advocated the construction of the cable.
Ho road from the annual messages of
President Cleveland iu 1886 and 1888 to
show as far back .‘is that period the Pres
ident advised congressional action to se
cure telegiaphiocomranuication with the
Hawaiian Islands.
The matter w ? as not disposed of when
the Home adjourned x 5:15.
A bill was passed over the unfavorable
report of the committee of the whole,
having b*-* n previously passed by mis
take and local ed from the Senate, to iu
ereese vlie pension of Thomas Corrigan.
A resolution introduced last December
by Mr. Pickier (Rep ), of South Dakota,
and referred to the committee <>a civil
se vice reform, was called up by its
author, that committee cot having
acted upon it, and passed. It directs the
Secretary of ihe Treasury to inform the
House how many old soldiers have been
dismissed from that department since
March 3rd, 1893, aud the reasons for
their removal.
An unfavor ible report was made by
Mr. Richardson, (Dam.) of Tennessee,
from the Committee ou Printing upon
the joint resolution authorizing the pub
lication of the dairy tests made at the
Columbian Exposition The reasons f r
the adverse report were that tb matter
was in no sense <>r coma cion a govern
ment affair, and that the .-v •. o<e would
U* a'out $3,600
Two ( Itilun u Cremated.
Lake City,Mich., Feb. 20.- The home
of Jacob Gaukel, of Star city, was de
stroyed by fire yesterday morning, aud
his two children, ag«d two aud five
years, were cremated. Tne parcuts
were away from home at the time the
fire recurred, and its origin is unknown.
THE MARCH OF BLOOD
DESCRIPTION OF THE ARMEN
IAN MASSACRES BY AN
EY F-W ITS ESS.
NEARLY 7,500 PEOPLE KILLED.
The Butchered Bodies were Either
Burned In Ihe Churches or Lett where
they were Slain l»y Mooshlr Pasha
and 11 is Soldiers—Those who Fs
capetl are now Dying with Cold and
Hunger—Heroic bnt Unavailing Re
sistance of one of the Villages.
80-ton, Mass , Feb. 20. The Globe
publishes the following from Moosh.
Asia Minor, which it says is the first de
-cription by an eye witness of Mooshir
Pasha's “March of blood.” (Mooshir
Pasha is the Military Governor of the
ci y of Etzeijan, and started by order of
ihe Sultan into the Sassoun district last
September. Innumerable burned vil
Itges and 7,293 lives was the price of
this official visit).
Moosh, Asia Minor, January 7.
The number of our dead countrymen
in the four towns visited by Mooshir
Pasha will not be far short of 7.500
This is from the bodies counted and
known to have perished. We cannot tell
how many others there may be.
The first town entered by Moosliir was
Slnnik. It contains four villages,
Shinik, Mtzra, Koogock and Dopy
When our people here heard
of the arrival of the Pasha, Fr
Juhannis, wi>h 240 of the loading
townsmen, went to meet him to beseech
him to have mercy on them. They were
surrounded by soldiers long before they
could get to Mooshir Pasha and every
one was killed. Their bodies wore put
in the church and burned. Then they
proceeded to burn the villages. The
uumber killed from Shinik proper num
ber 623 aud 317 from the rest of the vil
lages. Those who escaped arc now' id
the villages surrounding this town, but
the villagers are themselves very poor
and many go hungry.
Mooshir Pasha left Shinik to go to the
next town in tin Sassum district. This
town is Alyan, aud has 14 villages The
people heard of his coining, and that he
had twenty four companies each of 400
men, besides twenty three cannon. They
knew that it was Useless to appeal to
him, so they fled to the village of Chi,
because of its rocks aud steppes, aud
there they could better escape him. They
stayed in the mountains for almost
twenty days, and when all food was gone
and there was nothing left to do, they
fled as best they could. Two thousand
bodies were left behind at Chi.
Gali-Gazan was the next, aud because
the town has twenty two villages around
it, Mooshir brought Kurds, Abmidieand
irregulars, numbering 30,000. The town
was deserted, for the people with a 1 the
food they corl l carry had lied t<> the
mountains.
They stayed in their fastnesses for
thi ty days, and at last with a frenzy
born of hunger aud despair they made
a terrible rush down the mountain sides,
and attacked the tyrants instead of wait
ing to be killed. Patriot Vartan vas
like a God, and killed nineteen men with
his sword before he fell dead. Fr Bedros
was a soldier, too, aud encouraged his
children, and when he was at last killed,
his body was cut in pieces and given to
the dogs.
Alpag was the last town that the
blood-thirsty ‘tyrant visited and this
place contains eight villages: Verien,
Chaden, Moodavar, Kukik, Kalakaz.
Choroop and Davlorig. The people had
for the most part made thi ir escape, but
when Mooshir and his soldiers went their
ways 1.300 bodies w r ere found even here.
Many more w*>re burned, but their num
ber cannot be known.
Ail bodies wi re left where they wt r.-
barehetvd, and those who would travel
this district must risk their lives tl rough
the pestilential odors that go up from so
many dead. All who escaped fr< m the
Sassoun district came to the villages of
the plains of Moosh, and hungry, desti
tute and broken hearted, they look for
hope and help and sympathy from the
civilized world to w hom the news of
their terrible loss may come.
Fill LA DELPHI \*S VOTE.
The Republican Camlnla'e tor Mayor
Lets a Plurality of 60,889.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20.—Com
plete vote for mayor and receiver of
taxes in yesterday’s election was as fol
lows:
May or Charles F. Warwick, Republi
can, 137,868; Robert Pattison, Democrat,
76 879; John J. Habeker, Prohibition,
1,053; Albunua 8. Airaans, People's 180.
Warwick's plurality 60 889.
For receiver of taxes—William J.
Roney, Republican, 131 637; Sylvester
Bannaff >n. Democrat, 79.475; George W.
Be.»u, Prohibitionist, 966.
Roney’s plurality, 52,162.
Hit. D (NIELS* SUCCESSOR.
Womack, of Leorgia, Become* Chief
Clerk ol Interior Department.
Washington. D. C , Feb., 20.—Secre
tary Hoke Smith to day appointed Em
mett Womack, of Georgia, chief clerk of
the Interior Department, vice Josephus
Dauiels, who resigned to assume the
management of the Raleigh, N. C.,
News ani> Observer.
Womack has for some time been an
assistant attorney of the Interior De
partment.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GENTRY Ti l l s Ills STORY.
He Sa\» lit- (vio Insanely Jchloi»~
W lien lie Shot Madge \ orkc.
Philadelphia, Pa . Feb. 20 Msg is
trate Milligan, accompanied by his clerk
John Moffett-, Miss Lula Clark, the sole
witness of the shooting of Mhs Drys
dale, and Detective Murray, went to the
German hospital at noon and the magie
trate gave Gentry a formal preliminary
hearing, holding him to await the action
of the coroner.
r e murderer was ooi melons of the
proceedings. Gentry then made adepo
sition of the tragedy, which was reduced
to writing by Clerk Moffett, ss follows
“1 was insanely jealous. I had known
Madge Drysdale since August, 1893 We
became friendly and engaged to la'mar
ri« d, and she wore my ring on her finger
She also bought me a ring, which she
paid over sioo for. 1 was to have met
her in New York on Sunday. Her letters
had turned cold, and I had wired her a
number of times to let me know the
cause of the sudden change, which was
not natural, my thinking as much of her
as I did
“Her telegram read: *12:30 p. ra. I
leave hero at 10.’
“I bad journeyed all night from Bos
ton and was very sleepy when 1 got to
New York, and did not get there until
12:43 I arrived there and dal not see
anything of her in the 12:48 boat,
* 1 could not do anything, was a com
plete wreck, and went to her father’s
house arid asked if he had heard any
thing of her coming to him. He said
no; 1 had better go down again; there
was some more trains and I might meet
her.
“I went down again and not seeing
her, bought a round trip ticket and took
a train tor Philadelphia. In the mean
time 1 had been drinking on la ingdis
appointed. On arriving in Philadelphia,
went to Irving House, ar d then to Miaa
Doetrich’s, and h* ai d she was next door.
Went into Zeiss’, met Mr. ZciRS and
asked where was Miss Yorke’s room.
“1 had a pistol in my pocket which I
had borrowed from a man named
Saekett in our company. 1 said, in my
mind, I may have to shoot Romeo in the
foot. 1 fully expected to find a man in
her room, as a little blond fellow. I
went up stairs and walked into the
room when 1 saw her, very much <l**
light* d.
“I said: ‘Well, darling, I have come.
“I had lived on beef and clam broth
fora week previous. Iw • s completely
upset.
I said: ‘Are you glad to see me?
She seemed to bo awfully disappointed
at my appearance. She said: ‘Oh, why,
what arc you doing here ?’ *1 said
‘Darling, won't you kiss mo?’ She said:
‘1 wid not.’ (Asl remember). 1 said:
•You wen’t (' She replied: ‘NoC
“These seemed to be her last words
aud the result followed. 1 was insanely
jealous. I had no intention of shooting
her when I left Boston, but 1 was so en
raged, for 1 loved the woman.”
The physicians under whom Gentry is
being treated, this afternoon gave out
this statement of his injuries:
“Gentry has two lacerated wounds of
the scalp with fracture of the outat
skull. He has one fracture in the ribs,
penetratiug the pleura, the lining of the
chest. He has three slight stab wounds
over the region of the heart and manor
ouscontusions and abrasions of Ihe body.
“The most serious of his physical inju
ries is the broken rib, penetrating the
pleura. The wound permits the air to
enter underneath the skin and produce
emphysema. The fracture of the skull
is not serious. His real condition is
more one of general exhaustion than
anything else. Ilis chances for recovery
are even. If he has the stamina of con
stitution to pull him through, the issue
of course will bo favorable. All depends
upon this. He is suffering from expo
sure more than from actual injuries.”
Nlior HIMSELF \V 1 I’ll A PISTOL-
First Secretary ol the BunkUmi Legit*
tion Takes Ilia Own Life.
Washington, D. (J., Feb. 30:— Y.
Bogdandoff, first secretary of the
Russian legation, shot himself with a
pistol this morning at 10 o’clock in his
sleeping apartments and died instantly
The only cause that is assigned fo*'
the deed is that he hail suffered from
neuralgia sir ee he came to Washington
a month ago.
This morning shortly before tefi o'clock
the maid at his lodgings visited his
rooms and took his order for breakfast.*
When she returned fifteen minutes later
she was astonished to tiuc! him dead,
noise having been heard in the house in
the meantime.
From the circumstances, however, no*
dout is entertained that the fatal shot
was fired by his own hand.
Mr. Bogaanoflf was until recently the
Russian charge de-affaires at Rio de J a
ueiro, Braz l, w here he ably represented
hLs country during the revolution. He
was about 42 years old, and, iu addition
to cors’derable means, had a handsome
salary on account of his position. He
was a bachelor, his family consisting ol
brothers aud sisters residing in Moscow.
Ever since his arrival in Washington*
he has been afflicted with a severe form,
of neuralgia, which he attributed to the
sudden change of the climate of Rio t c f
that of Washington, which has ! atel>
been intensely cold.
Washington, D. C., Feb 20: - Harvey
G. Osgood, of New York, chief clerk of
the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, was strickeued with anpoplexy a
fee minutes before noon today while
at his desk, and died shortly after 2 p.
m. w thout being able to be removed
from the building.