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1896 January 10

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• PAUL VERLAINE IS HUSHED.
• PATRIOTIC FATHER'S FIVE LOVED SONS; He Gave Them All that the Union Might Live.
• WARLIKE AIR IN BRITAIN; Grave Maritime and Military Preparations Hurriedly Made. CONTINENTAL CENSURE OF RHODES Government Accused of Having Been Well Aware of Jameson's Raid When It Was Projected. ANTI-BRITISH EXPRESSIONS IN GERMANY Rumors that the Boers Will Insist on the Abrogation of the Suzerainty -- Portugal Remains Neutral.
• JOLLY KINGS COUNTY WHEELMEN.; A Pleasant Entertainment at Their Clubhonse, in Brooklyn.
• MR. NORMAN'S WORK.; It Is Believed in Washington that Much Good Will Result.
• THE FIRST ASSEMBLY BALL; Held in the Waldorf's Empire Dining Room -- The Cotillion Led by Elisha Dyer, Jr., Who Danced Alone.
• GRAND JURY AND EXCISE CASES.; It Is Reported that Some Action Will Be Taken Against Saloon Men.
• COL. WARING'S MEN STRIKE; About One Hundred Drivers Refuse to Work Until Paid. POLICE CALLED TO PRESERVE ORDER Disturbances at Two Places, but No One Is Hurt -- Workmen Lose Their Places -- Statement of the Commissioner.
• Terminal Charges in Chicago.
• LONDON'S GREAT PLEASURE GROUND; Memories that Cluster Around Hyde Part -- Its History from Saxon Times Up to the Present Day Pleasantly Recorded.
• To Uphold the Monroe Doctrine.
• HOW DIVORCES ARE GRANTED AT FARGO; The Laws of North Dakota Make It Easy to Secure Release.
• THE SUCCESS OF THE LOAN.
• PEOPLE'S BATHS WELL PATRONIZED; Nearly Five Thousand Persons Used Them Last Month.
• ENGLISH NAVY SUPERIOR; Germany's Army, However, Far Out-Numbers Great Britain's. COMPARISON OF THEIR WAR FOOTING Fatherland's Immense Military Strength Overpowering, but at Sea the Advantage All Lies with the British Forces.
• This Is Really Most Amusing.
• MIGHT HAVE BURNED TO DEATH; Narrow Escape of Four Railroad Men from Cremation in a Car Fire.
• WHO CINDERELLA REALLY WAS; Her Story Is Very Ancient and Appears in Sacred Hindu Books.
• LENGTHY ACCOUNTING FOR $600,000; James L'Hommedieu's Executor's Report Occupies 1,500 Pages.
• LOSSES BY FIRE.
• MET AN UNKNOWN OBSTRUCTION; STEAMER RICHARD PECK DAMAGED OFF NORWALK ISLAND. Capt. Hardy Believes She Struck a Sunken Wreck -- Her Passengers Not Even Awakened.
• WARLIKE BRITISH PREPARATIONS.; Flying Suadron, More Torpedo Boats, and Drill of Troops.
• THE CHICAGO MARKET.
• RUMORED DEMANDS OF BOERS.; Abrogation of Great Britain's Suzerainty over the Transvaal.
• Horse-Show Men to Dine.
• SALISBURY STILL STUBBORN.; Report that He Has Not Changed His Views as to Venezuela.
• OBITUARY RECORD.; E.B. Wight.
• THE COST OF COAST DEFENSES; The Bureau of Engineers Tells Congressmen Something About It.
• Kittens.
• NO EXTRA WORK IN SNOWFALL.; Hundreds of Men Get Cards at Cooper Union, but Were Not Needed.
• RAILROAD MEN AND MATTERS.
• Victor Hugo and Politics.
• OUR NATION IS FEARLESS; Gen. King Says the President Has Shown We Dread Nobody. TAUGHT A LESSON TO ENGLAND " National Issues" the Topic Before the Brooklyn Democratic Club -- Tariff Bills and Re- publican Legacies.
• A BACKWARD STEP.
• MR. ROOSEVELT'S THREATS; They Depend on What Mr. Byrnes Is Reported to Have Said, and Mr. Byrnes Says Nothing.
• Editorial Article 1 -- No Title
• An Ex-Postmaster Arraigned.
• PLANS OF THE EX-CHANCELLOR.; Bismarck Will Attend the Celebration of the Empire's Anniversary.
• MORE TIME GIVEN TO REPORT; A MONTH GRANTED TO SPECIAL RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION. Engineer O'Rourke's Examination Continued -- His Estimates Coin- cided in by G.W. McNulty.
• Marriage Announcement 1 -- No Title
• MR. KIRKWOOD'S STORY THE BEST; He Wins the Prize Offered by the Nassau Literary Magazine.
• THAT CYCLE RACING QUESTION.; How Chief Consul Potter Proposes to Have Racing Men Governed.
• PARKWAY DRIVING CLUB.; A Flourishing Condition of Affairs to Please the Members.
• GENERAL ARBITRATION DESIRED.; Members of Foreign Affairs Committees Send Their Views to England.
• IMPOSITION ON MILLERS; The Brua Patent Used to Extort Unearned Royalties. PECULIAR METHODS OF THE KEIPERS Suits Alleged to Have Been Ended by Collusion to Aid the Scheme of Frightening Millers into Settlement.
• Opposes the President's Position.
• CHRISTMAS FOR WORKING GIRLS; Entertainment by Their Society at Bethany Chapel -- Addresses by Miss Kyle and Chauncey M. Depew.
• JUSTICE BARRETT'S JURY BILL; HE SAYS IT IS THE RESULT OF EXPERIENCE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS. Framed to Secure Juries Quickly in Sensational Cases -- Commissioners to Select "Special Jurors."
• FEW GENERALS LEFT FOR THE NEXT WAR; And It Must Come Pretty Speedily for Them to be Available.
• MAYOR GIVES A CHECK FOR $100; He Is Anxious to Have the Democratic Con- vention Meet in This City -- Fund Now About $50,000.
• GEN. GRANT BEFORE THE WAR; A Story of How He Dined at the First Table.
• CITY AND VICINITY
• HEAT AND LIGHT FOR TRAVELERS.
• FUNERAL OF COL. THOMAS A. KNOX; Many Well-Known Men Attend the Services at St. Luke's.
• AN ENGLISH VIEW OF KRUGER; The Transvaal's President Declared to be Mercenary and Untruthful.
• VACCINE SUITS IN BROOKLYN; Health Commissioner Emery. Who Has Lost One, Is Now a Defendant in Two -- Prospect of More.
• Competent Witness.
• Has Been a Policeman 42 Years.
• SOME CYCLE SHOW NOTES; Improvements Shown in Appliances for the New Bicycles. STERLING ELLIOTT'S LITTLE JOKE A Catamaran That Is Worked on the Bicycle Principle -- Where Vis- itors Got Silver Ring Souvenirs.
• REBUKE TO PARTISANS; Letter from the President to Senator Caffery. HISTORY OF THE BOND CALL Indignant Denial of Unfounded and Absurd Statements. NO CONTRACT WITH A SYNDICATE No Conference with Financiers nor with Bankers About the Proposed Issue. A POPULAR LOAN THE THING WANTED The President Amazed at the Mis- representations Made in the Senate Debate.
• THE JOCKEY CLUB STEWARDS.; The Men Who Will Govern Racing the Coming Season.
• PHILADELPHIA PRICES.
• CHAMBERLAIN THANKS KRUGER.; Harmony Between British and Dutch Necessary to South Africa.
• Strange Adventure of a Letter.
• H.S. JEWELL'S STATEMENT.; The Brua Patent Not Worth the Cost of the Powder to Blow It Up.
• HISTORIC SPOTS MARKED; Visitors to Westminster Can Now Tell Just Where to Wax Enthusiastic.
• HERE ARE LEXOW FOLLOWERS.; James Matthews and George W. Chauncey of Brooklyn.
• THE SOCIAL WORLD.
• The Year's Mortality in Boston.
• SAW A GHOST ON A BICYCLE; Members of the Fenhurst Owl Club Saw It -- Was of Tremendous Size and Awful Appearance.
• GERMANY AND ENGLAND.
• RAINES BILL DISCUSSED; Chamber of Commerce Committee to Look into the Measure. MAY FAVOR THE EXCISE CHANGES What Mr. Fulton of the Reform As- sociation Says -- Would Have Higher Fees -- How They Have Increased.
• A Montauk Club "Smoker."
• POLICEMAN SLATER ON TRIAL; CHARGED WITH NEGLECT OF DUTY IN THE HALLENBACK CASE. Said to Have Failed to Search His Prisoner -- Conflicting Testimony from the Robinson Brothers
• SAYS IT IS A CUBAN TRICK.; Colombia Consul General Denies Reporting Plans Against His Country.
• FEES IN CROTON CASES; A Bill to Permit Commissioners to Exceed Legal Rates. MR. HUSTED SAYS INJUSTICE IS DONE Under Justice Barnard's Decision Witnesses in Condemnation Cases Cannot Be Allowed More Than Fifty Cents per Day.
• Obituary 1 -- No Title
• NO MORE CHAINS FOR BOYS; Their Use Ordered stopped in the Westchester Home. INVESTIGATION OF SUPT. PIERCE The State Board of Charitie Acts Promptly on the Report Made by Commissioner Litchfield.
• BOWELL WILL TRY IT AGAIN; If He Cannot Organize a New Cabinet by Next Tuesday the Canadian Premier Will Then Resign.
• INTERESTING FACTS FOR CYCLISTS.; James B. Townsend Deals with New- York Division Matters.
• Penny Fund for a Statue.
• Each Team Won a Game.
• THE DIPLOMATS RECEIVED; Most Elaborate Decorations the White House Ever Saw. MR. AND MRS. CLEVELAND VERY HAPPY One of the Most Brilliant Recep- tions Known in Washington Given by the President Last Night.
• COLLAPSE OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE; Two Trainmen Killed and Another Fatally Hurt Near Cleveland.
• AFRICAN CHARACTER STUDIED; Conclusions Reached by a Woman Explorer Who Has Been Among the Negro Tribes -- A Defense that Hardly Defends.
• RUMORS OF MR. PLATT'S PLANS.; It Is Said He Seeks Control of Police, Fire, and Health Boards.
• MR. GILROY HEADS THE COMMITTEE.; Chosen on Tammany's Delegation -- Local Political Significance.
• IN THE REAL ESTATE FIELD; Where Mortgagees Wanted the Actual Gold -- Combination Among Bidders -- To- day's Auction List.
• Gen. Harrison's Reported Engagement.
• "ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGES TO UNPOPULAR MONOPOLIES."
• THE VIEWS OF MAYOR STRONG.; Opposed to Turning Portion of Excise Money Over to the State.
• MAYOR WURSTER'S SELECTIONS; Men Who Say They Are to be in His Cabinet -- W.C. Bryant Is to be Fire Commissioner.
• Has Rendered the Country a Great Service.
• CHARITY IN WILLIAMSBURG; Work of the Brooklyn Bureau Among Poor Men and Women. WORK TO PRESERVE SELF-RESPECT Women Sew and Take Pay in House- hold Goods -- Men Saw Wood and Often Find Employment More Remunerative.
• CUBANSHEAR FROM GOMEZ; He Writes to Revolutionists of Three Victories in One Day. REPORTS OF REVERSES DISCREDITED Delegates to Washington Say the Pros- pects for Recognition of the In- surgents by the United States Are Good.
• CHECKING AN EXPORT ABUSE; SUCCESSFUL WORK BY A MERCANTILE EXCHANGE COMMITTEE. Shippers Who Sent Butterine to Southern Countries as Butter Called Sharply to Account.
• LEXOW GAINS HIS POINT; Greater New-York's Prospects Are Decidedly Blue. SENATE FAVORS THE INVESTIGATION The Resolution May Be Rushed Through the House Monday Night -- Grady Scores Lexow. PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS CUT A FIGURE A General Impression that Platt Is Behind the Movement to De- lay the Consolidation. LEXOW GAINS HIS POINT
• A BICYCLE COMPANY'S PROGRAMME.; Some of the Inducements Offered in Capt. Stanbach's Command.
• STRENGTH OF ENGLAND'S ARMY; The Number of Men in Each Arm of the Service and Where They Are.
• THE MONEY MARKET.
• THE BRIDE WAS A FIGHTER; Remarkable Prowess Shown by a New-Jersey Woman -- Kicked a Judge of Westfield.
• Miracles in French Canada.
• HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE; Gen. Alger Talks About Republican National Politics -- McKinley Strong in Michigan.
• Ernest Augustus Sterneberg.
• NEW MEN WON THE ELECTION; " Regular" Ticket of Company I, Seventy-first Regiment, Carried Through -- The Lieutenants Chosen.
• EUROPE NOT LIKELY TO AGREE.; Senator Wolcott on the Prospects of Bimetallism Across the Ocean.
• CRITICISED BY EXCISE BOARD.; What Messrs. Murray, Woodman, and Harburger Say of Raines Bill.
• TO REORGANIZE THE NAVY; A Remarkable Bill for Presentation to the Congress. OUTLINES OF THE PROPOSED MEASURE No Financial Injury to Officers Phys- ically Able to Perform Du- ties Possible Under This Bill.
• CUBAN BATTLE IMMINENT; Opposing Armies Near Each Other and Spaniards Are Eager. A FIGHT OF FOUR HOURS AT LUCIA Bands Led by Maceo, Miro, Zayas, and Nunez Dispersed -- Eight Men Killed and Thirty-two Borses Captured.
• FOR THE DEFENSE OF COAST CITIES; Suggestions Made to the Navy Department by Zealous Citizens.
• AMERICAN ART SCHOOL FOR AMERICANS; Why Should Our Students Go Abroad for What They May Have Here?
• TWO DOLLARS A WEEK FOR NINE; Pitiable Condition of the Greuner Family -- Father Sick and Neither Food Nor Fuel in the Rooms.
• THE BALTIMORE IN A TYPHOON; A Painful Experience in the China Sea Which Proved Fatal to a Boatswain and to a Carpenter.
• ATHLETICS AT WILLIAMS.; Capt. Hickey Goes to Princeton -- The Relay Team Chosen.
• THE FINANCIAL MARKETS; Disposition of Traders to Await the Development of Events. IRREGULARITY WITH SMALL NET GAINS Foreigners Inclined to Liquidate -- Sterling Loans Negotiated -- Divi- dend on Panhandle Preferred -- Leather Preferred Depressed.
• KHALKHAL RENT BY EARTHQUAKE; Eleven Hundred Lives Lost by the Destruction of Zanzabad, Smaller Villages, and the Town of Goi.
• THE GARBAGE QUESTION; PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEWS ON THE SANITARY PROBLEM. Is of Opinion That the Public Ought to Co- operate with the Health Board -- Import- ance of This Department's Work in Past Years.
• THE NEW-YORK CATHOLIC CLUB; Annual Meeting Held in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
• PICTURES AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
• PROSPECT HEIGHTS ASSEMBLY; Second of the Season Given at the Pouch Mansion, Brooklyn -- The Ballroom Elaborately Decorated.
• A POPULIST-REPUBLICAN FUSION.; Mixed Ticket Nominated by the Louisiana Convention.
• OBITUARY NOTES.
• DIE WALKUERE IN GERMAN; Small Attendance at the Metropolitan Opera House -- Orchestra, Under Mr. Seidl, Excellent -- Singing Disappointing.
• EXCISE BOARD NOT IN HARMONY.; There May Be Two Reports Made by the Commissioners.
• MERCHANT TAILORS SOCIETY MEETS; Officers Elected -- Plans for Exhibition and Banquet.
• Martinez Campos Not to Resign.
• ANOTHER BRIDGE WANTED; Proposal to Join Twenty-third Ward and Queens County. A BILL BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE Little Business in Either House -- Free Transit for Bicycles over the Bridge -- Many Bills In- troduced.
• POLICEMEN NOT PUNISHED; Indiciments Found Against Them Said to be Defective. DENIED IN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'SOFFICE Mr. Lindsay, Who Drew the Papers, Says They Are All Right and Cases Were Dismissed, Good Evi- dence Being Lacking.
• Disapproves at Police Methods.
• Sociable Indians.
• CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKETS.
• GAMBLERS PLOTTED A REVOLUTION; An Offer to Restore Queen Liliuokalani if They Were Given an Island on Which to Establish a New Monte Carlo.
• Good Roads Association at the Show
• Taxpayers in Boston.
• CHARGES AGAINST A PAWNBROKER; Edward Eden Thinks W. Glover Is Responsible for Loss of His Ring.
• A DAY'S WEDDINGS.; Stevenson -- Reimer.
• OIL PAINTINGS AT AUCTION SALE; Ortgies & Co. Will Dispose of Mr. Levy's Pictures at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries.
• BANQUET OF HOTEL MEN; An Enjoyable Occasion with Distinguished Guests. MUCH SPEECHMAKIKG AND FUN President James H. Breslin's Welcome -- The Rev. Mr. Twing Witty in Perverting Scripture Lessons.
• LIBERATION OF THE COAL AT PITTSBURG; An Immense Accumulation Through Many Months of Drought.
• NEWS OF THE RAILROADS; An Action to Annul the New Joint Traffic Agreement. ON THE GROUND THAT IT IS A POOL United States District Attorney Mac- farlane Files a Complaint -- Mo- tion for an Injunction to be Made on the 17th Inst.
• A Card.
• TARIFF IN THE SENATE; House Bill Still Held by the Finance Committee. THE DEAD-LOCK NOT YET BROKEN It Is Expected, However, that Jones of Nevada Ultimately Will Give the Republicans the Vote that they Need.
• TO SAVE THE PALISADES; Report of the Two Commissions Appointed on the Subject. BOTH BODIES AGREE IS THEIR VIEWS A Bill in the Legislature to Transfer the Land to the United States Under Certain Conditions.
• WATERVLIET WANTS MORE MONEY; The Appropriation Must Be Increased or the Force of Workingmen Must Be Reduced Largely.
• TREND OF AFFAIRS AT OORFA.; Pillaged Shops Unopened and Christians Imprisoned at Home.
• HOUSE COMMITTEES ORGANIZE.; A Contest from Queens -- A Crush of New Bills.
• PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY; Grades Given in the Official Register for This Year. MANY OFFICERS IN A HIGHER RANK Rear Admiral Brown the Senior of the Line -- The Juniors Fare Well -- Changes that Have Been Made.
• Greenport to Have Sleighing.
• SECRETARY CARLISLE HOPEFUL.; The Belief Expressed that the Popular Loan Will Be a Success. REBUKE TO PARTISANS
• To Revive Cross-Country Sport.
• FIRE IN THE HOTEL BUCKINGHAM; Guests Driven from Their Rooms Up Stairs -- Damage About $1,500.
• CANADA WOULD BE DEFENSELESS.; A.M. Bailey, Canadian Banker, Tells How This Country Could Take It.
• IN THEIR NEW CLUB HOME; The Harlem Wheelmen Have an Enjoyable Housewarming. LOCATED OPPOSITE MT. MORRIS PARK Something About the Big Uptown Cycling Organization and the Success of Its Men in Midnight Races.
• NO REBELS IN VENEZUELA; Every Man a Patriot and Standing by President Crespo. PEACE PREVAILS IN THE COUNTRY Statement Made by Ex-Minister Peraza -- English Colonial Office Denies That Cannon were Sent to Cuyini.
• Pennington-Thompson.
• HE HOPES TO OUST GLEASON; John P. Madden Thinks the Decision Against the Battleaxe Ballot May Help Him.
• NO CORNER IN COLORADO GOLD.; It Could Only Be Successful by Purchasing the Dally Product.
• Dr. James A. Blanchard.
• ORIGINS OF CELTIC ART; It Was Not Original, but Seems to Have Been Derived Directly from Greece and Egypt -- Proofs from Many Graves.
• AN INEQUITABLE PLAN.
• Irving Place Theatre.
• BROUGHT HELPLESS INTO PORT; Steamship Bayonne, from Venice, Picked Up by The Chester, Savior of the Seas.
• SCHOOL FIGHT IN PORT RICHMOND; Another Move in the Attempt to Oust Principal Hoag.
• MARTINEZ CAMPOS'S DECREES.; Proclamations of State of Siege and Control over News Reports.
• LITTLE WORK IN THE SENATE.; Judicial Nominations Confirmed -- Many Bills Introduced.
• BURDEN THIEVES HEARD FROM; An Offer to Return the Stolen Property if the Reward be Paid and Immunity From Arrest Guaranteed.
• THE COMMERClAL WORLD; Moderate Speculative Demand, wilh Prices Unsettled. AGAIN INFLUENCED BY THE WAR TALK Wheat at the Close Was Firm -- Corn Was Easier -- Provisions Higher -- Cotton Lower -- Cof- fee Higher.
• BEN FRANKLIN NO AID; Instead, the Principal Objection Against Mrs. Humphreys. ALAS! HIS MORALS NOT JUST RIGHT So Thought Mrs. Van Rennselaer, and His Descendant Was Not Welcomed to Society of Co- lonial Dames of America.
• THE BOSTON MARKET.
• INQUIRY TO BE THOROUGH; The Venezuelan Commission Will Get at Exact Facts. ENGLAND WILL SUBMIT EVIDENCE The Work Will Hardly Be Completed Within Three Months -- A Meet- ing To-Morrow to Arrange Preliminaries.
• New Indian for Massachusetts.
• GORDON CONTRADICTS HIMSELF.; He Says on Cross-Examination that He Does Not Know What an Oath Is.
• The Fire Walk.
• Change in a Havana Banking House.
• NORTHERN PACIFIC.; Two Receivers Resign -- Mr. Burleigh Now in Control West of North Dakota.
• The Mrs. Norton Story a Falsehood.
• MRS. LALOR ACCUSED OF MURDER; Calls Heaven to Prove that She Did Not Kill Her Son.
• TROLLEY AND STEAM IN OHIO.
• PREPARATION FOR THE IHPETONGA; The Most Important Social Event of the Season in Brooklyn -- Patronesses and Subscribers.
• GERMAN AND ENGLISH NAVIES.; Sea-Going, Armor-Clad Warships of the Two Countries.
• BREAD THROW ON THE WATERS; It Has Returned to Barney Fountain After Many Days.
• BAD FOR POST OFFICE THIEVES; Discharged in the Police Court But Warrants Awaiting Them.
• UNION LEAGUE CLUB'S ELECTION; Gen. Horace Porter Again Made President -- Inquiry into Alleged Fraudulent Republican Enrollment Approved.
• St. John's Park Bill.
• The Roman Campagna.
• JOHN BROWN FARM FOR STATE; The Property Conveyed by Henry Clews Trustee for Those Who Bought It in 1870.
• The Smith Family Gives Liberally.