Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — Page 6

Stye emocratitSentinei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Pubushxb.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Six men were frightfully burned by an explosion of molten metal in the Edgar Thompson steel-works at Braddock, Pa. Johann Most, the ex-conviet and apostle of anarchy, was given a reception in Cooper Union, New York. It was the largest anarchist meeting ever held in that city, the hall being packed. Most spoke in English and German, denouncing the legal authorities who convicted and sentenced him, afld the prison authorities who failed to show him respect He loudly reasserted his adherence to the principles of anarchism, and his remarks were enthusiastically received. Most’s excitement reached the frantic point He asked: “Are you dogs, and will you allow yourselves to be cut into minee meat? The sin-flood will eoon come, and it will sweep the capitalistic band out of existence. Those who do not want to work for the capitalists must go to the gallows.” Fire ia the building at Boston, Mass., occupied by Wright & Potter, State printers, and a dozen other firms, caused a loss of nearly $200,030 A valuable brood mare at Avondale, Pa, is said to be rapidly recovering from the amputation of a broken leg. The operation is said to be the first on record. An earthquake sufficiently severe to create a panic occurred at Burlington, Yt.

WESTERN.

A large party of stock-breeders called at the White House the other day, and invited President Cleveland to attend the national horse, cattle and hog convention to be held next fail in Chicago. Replying to a communication from the American Fisheries Union of Massachusetts, President Cleveland says: “The retaliation contemplated by the act [of retaliation] of Congress is to bo enforced, not to protect solely any particular interest, however meritorious or valuable, but to maintain the national honor, and thus protect all our people. ” St. Louis telegram: “Advices from Fort Gibson, L T., say 'hat James G. Blaine is sick with a severe cold and is threatened with pneumonia. The latost reports say that ‘Mr. Blaine is doing well; only slight fever; pulse good, 80 per minute; respiration, 15.’ ” At Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Jonas Bennett walked out on the bridge over the Whitowater River, and leaped seventy-five feet into the water, expiring almost instantly. She waß a bride of three days. A Huron (Dakota) special says: “Two immense prairie fires have burned over a laige portion of this county. Six houses and many more barns were destroyed by the flames. Eight milo3 south of Huron, Edward Maloney and a young lady named Annie Maron lost their lives by the fire, and Edward Maloney’s sister Katie is so badly burned by the same fire that her recovery is doubtful. All of them occupied the same house, and the young ladies startod to run to a field that had been plowed last fall They failed to reach it, with the results stated.” “Mr. Blaine is still very sick, but his condition is not considered dangerous by tlie attending physicians—Dr. Mudd, of St Louis, and Dr. Berne, the Post Surgon," says a Fort Gibson dispatch of the 11th inst “Tho official bulletin of the examination this morning says the pulse is TO, soft and easy, temperature normal, bronchitis better, but tlie hoarseness has not yet subsided. Mr. Blaine developed eymptons of pneumonia last' night, but rested well during the night, and was for a space of several hours clear of all fever. Dr. Mudd was asked whether both or only one lung had been attacked, and said he did not care about going into -details. CoL Coppinger said tho phvsicianß have ordered that Mr. Blaine be hot moved.”

A SOUTHERN.

Near Harrisville, W. Ya., the boiler in a saw-mill exploded, killing four man and injuring three others. Patrick McCarthy was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of Thomas and John Mahoney. He died protesting his innocence. Shade Scarbrough, who murdered Madison Caesar, both negroes, last July, was hanged last week at Clayton, Barbour County, Ala. 'rhe condemned man spoke very briefly to the crowd from a jail window. He Baid he ■was ready to die. Prayer was offered by a negro minister. The prisoner shook hands with the Sheriff and others present, and met his death without flinching. Nora Brown, a fat negresa of San Antonio, has within seven years become white, with tho exception of her neck and finger-tips. The drought in Texas extends from the western grazing lands across the State 800 miles to tho Louisiana pine region.

WASHINGTON.

As a matter of interest to pensioners, we print the following paragraph, which is sent out by telegraph from Washington: A difference of opinion and practice has for some time existed between the Pension Office and the office of tho Third Auditor of the Treasury as to when the payment of an accrued pension actually becomes con.-ummated. The Second Comptroller has decided that where a pensioner dies after transmitting the usual voucher and before the pension agent has executed and mailed to him a check for his pension, it is clear that there has been, in law, no payment of the accrued pension. But should the pensioner die after receiving tho c .eck it becomes a part of his estate, even though he has not indorsed it. Where the voucher has been executed by the Sensioner and delivered to the agent, and ie check has been mailed by the agent to the pensioner in his lifetime, but was not received by him, the Comptroller does not think that the act of payment

has been so far consummated as to defeat the rights of the widow or minor children to claims for reimbursement under section 4718, and the check cannot in such cases be properly deemed as a part of the assets of the estate of the deceased pensioner. To make a complete payment, two things mnst occur—the receipt of the check of the Government by the pensioner and the execution by him of an acquittance in proper form. The Commissioner of Agriculture has sent to the Governors Of several States a bill providing for co-operation with the Bureau of Animal Industry in stamping ont pleuro-pneu-monia. The act has already been passed in Virginia and Michigan. The report of the Department of Agriculture for April regarding the condition of winter grain and the comparative healthfulness of farm animals compares favorably with the corresponding reports of late years. The President has made the following appointments: Eugene Bemple, of Washington Territory, to be Governor of Washington Territory; Samuel D. Shannon, of Cheyenne, to be Secretary of Wyoming Territory; Edward Palmer Turner, of New York, to be Consul at Mozambique; Marshall Parks, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Third District in place of James Curran, of Maryland, who was twice to that office, and who failed of confirmation each time; ex-Gov. Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania, E. Elery Anderson of New York, and D. T. Littler of Illinois Commissioners to investigate the affairs of the Pacific Railroads.

POLITICAL.

A Lansing (Mich.) official dispatch to the Chicago Daily News says: Members of the Legislature ascribe the wonderful vote for prohibition to the efforts of the women at the polls. Surprising stories are told of how they stood in line snatching ballots with “no” on them from the hands of passing voters, substituting “yes” ballots, and following the ticket up to the ballot-box to see that the voter did as they wished. They were very successful with men of intemperate habits. Representatives who acted as inspectors of election at borne witnessed numerous cases where saloonkeepers and their friends voted for prohibitum. The act of the New York Legislature appropriating $550,000 for the improvement of the canals has become a law without the Governor’s signature. The result of the Rhode Island election held on Wednesday, April 6, is as follows: John W. Davis (Dem.) is elected Governor by 973 majority. Thore is no election for Lieutenant Governor or Secretary of State. Ziba O. Slocum (Dem.) is elected Attorney General by 2,518 majority, and J. G. Perry (Dem.) General Treasurer by 2,009 majority. The majority against the woman-suf-frage amendment is 15,123. The vote for Lieutenant Governor was: Honey (Dem.), 17,285; Darling (Rep.), 15,915; Kimber (Pro.), 1,858. The Senate stands: Republicans, 19; Democrats, 12, and there was no election in five cases. The House will comprise 27 Republicans and 33 Democrats, with twelve districts yet to be beard from. An election for Governor and other State officers, as well as Senators and Representatives in the State Legislature, was held in Rhode Island on Wednesday, April 6. A Providence telegram thus reports the result: Davis (Dem.) has a plurality for Governor of probably 1,500, together with the rest of the State ticket, except the Attorney General, which is still in doubt. According tothe late returns from tho State the House stands 27 Republicans and 20 Democrats, and the Senate 18 Republicans and 10 Democrats, with four cities and towns to be heard from. Resolutions of sympathy with the efforts of Gladstone and Parnell to Becure the rights of Ireland were adopted by the Legislatures of Delaware and New Jersey. Murat Halstead is said to have received from Whitelaw Reid a letter asserting that James G. Blaine moist stand aside and John Sherman must be nominated for the Presidency. The vote on the prohibition amendment in Michigan was very close. A Lansing dispatch says: “The exact figures on tho prohibition amendment are still unknown. Published reports give the major.ty against it from 1,550 to about 0,000. From several counties the reports are conflicting, iu some cases varying 500 to 600 votes, and tho official returns will be needed to Bettlo which is correct The prohibitionists do not yet concede thoir defeat” Another dispatch from Lansing says: “The returns announcing the defeat of the prohibitory amendment are generally accepted as correct here, and measures to regulate the liquor traffic will be brought forward in tho Legislature. One of these measures is copied from the localoption law of Georgia. Another is a copy of the Ontario Scott act. It is believed that no legislation will be accomplished except such as will perfect the existing tax law.” The high license bill was defeated in tho New Jersey Assembly. The election in Rankin County, Mississippi, was carried by the Prohibitionists.

Congressman Springer, in a long interview in a Washington newspaper, favors the renomination of Cleveland. E. L. Pugh of Alabama, a son of the Senator, has been appointed to a clerksh p oj the Interstate Commerce Commission. Michigan Prohibitionists claim that their recent defeat at the pells was accomplished by fraud. A Detroit telegram says: The prohibitionists are working vigorously to establish their claims of fraud at the polls. A new tack was taken this morning in the matter of accumulating evidence of fraud. The following sign posted on the front of headquarters explains itseif: “Wanted—The names and addresses of all ‘ yes ’ voters on the amendment. ’’ It is proposed to take the names of all persons ili Detroit who voted “yes" and compare the number with the official returns. It is believed that this method will reveal a large discrepancy. The Legislature of Rhode Island comprises fifty-six Democrats and forty-six Republicans. A l’rovidcnco telegram says: The Democrats carried tho new elections for Senators and Representatives in Newport and East Greenwich Saturday, and tho Republicans secured one member in Warwick. Tho Legislature now stands: Senate—Republicans, 19; Democrats, 15; no election, 2. Houso—Republicans, 28; Democrats, 41; no election. 3. On joint ballot—Republicans, 47 ; Democrats, 56; no election, 5. The Democrats have already one more than enough members to elect their candidates for Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Sheriffs. State Auditor, District Judges, etc.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

J. M. Vance, of Wheeling, W. Va., was elected President of the Western Nail Association. Trade was reported good.

Over 6,000 carpenters in Chicago went out on a strike for 35 cents an hour and eight hoars a day. The master carpenters, at a mass meeting, decided to ignore the strikers, and to pay only thirty cents an hour for an eight-honr day. . Mr. T. Y. Powderly presided over a delegate conference of Pennsylvania Knights of Labor, at Harrisburg, and made a speech in which he said: “We are charged with being anarchists and favoring measures that tend to anarchy. As chief of our organization, I can say that anarchy finds no abiding place in our midst, but monopolists want to make people believe the contrary. No matter what errors we have committed m the past, we have always aimed at doing right We have pursued a line of policy and found out things that are right and wrong, but we have always kept clear of the one thing that brings odium on our country —anarchy." The J unction iron-works at Mingo, Ohio, shut down because favorab.e freight rates could not bo made with the railroads. The coal miners at Salem, 111., struck because refused an advance of wages.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

Spencer Smith, of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, his been appointed Railway Commissioner of lowa. Members of the Michigan Legislature are said to be highly indignant over the request of the Toledo and Ann Arbor Road for the return of annual passes, especially as it is assumed by the company that passes are illegal under the interstate law. The Illinois Central Road has purchased control of the Dubuque and Sioux City at SBO per share, and now owns all the ines in lowa heretofore leased by it Another big railroad deal is reported, the Richmond and West Point Railroad seeking the control of the Georgia Central of Georgia and Florida Railway and Navigation Company’s system. The Rock Island Road is pushing its Southwest Kansas extension from Topeka across Indian Territory, with the intention of calling no halt until El Paso is reached. The northwest extension is completed to Nelson, Neb., and surveyors are locating a line to Denver.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Interstate Commerce Commission has added several names to the list of Southern points temporarily exempted from the provisions of the short and long haul clause, as also the Grand Haven route to Milwaukee. The Southern Pacific people asked a ruling to enable them to meet tho competition of tho Suez Canal on Chinese and Japanese freight, and were advised that the case must be formally presented by petition. The British steamer Carmen, laden with steel blooms for a Pennsylvania firm, is believed to have foundered, and her crew of thirty-three men, it is supposed, perished. Vessel and cargo, valued at $300,030, are fully insured. Count de Lesseps, a son of the famous French engineer, has roached Chicago from an inspection of the Panama Canal. He states that 10,000 men are kept at work, with the hope of finishing the cut in 1889. In their weekly review of the industrial outlook, R. G. Dun <fc Co., of New York, say: The interstate commerce act causes quite as much disturbance as was anticipated. Shipments in the aggregate enormous for distribution beyond Chicago have to be rebilled there ; merchants and manufacturers find rates raised from 80 to 50 per cent, on many distant shipments ; Pacific lines complain that transcontinental traffic is rendered impossible unless they are exempted; the association of twentyseven Southern roads and lines has already obtained temporary exemption because of consequent interruption of traffic; Northern lines competing with lake or Canadian transportation claim equal needs, and interior roads cite large shipments of flour down the Mississippi because through rail rates are raised. Coal rates increase the costs of fuel $1 per ton about Philadelphia, and changes in iron freights disturb the trade and may close some furnaces. These are but a few of the difficulties which the commission is expected to examine and in some way to remedy, but the question is how far it is able. General business is fairly active, though dullness is the complaint at some points. The output of iron for the first quarter of 1887 is reckoned at 1,668,036 tons, which is at the rate of 15.6 per cent, over last year's production. Dr. McGlynn proposes to turn his notoriety to account, and to this end has arranged a series of lectures to be delivered at the principal points in the country. Theatrical managers have formed a National Association to protect themselves against the evils threatened by the interstate commerce bill, and are preparing a petition for presentation to the Interstate Commission.

FOREIGN.

The Evangelical Missionary Society of Basle, Switzerland, has purchased the Baptist missionary settlement on Ambas Bay, West Africa, and has surrendered the same to the German authorities in the Cameroons, England consenting. The Pope persists that Dr. McGlynn must come to Rome. The extensive infantry barracks at Aldershot, England, wme burned last week. As the tenants on the Irish estates of Lord Lagsdowne refuse to compromise, the eviction of all in arrears will be commenced on April 20. The Swiss Government has resolved to take vigorous action against anarchists. An English civil engineer has gone to Cabul to con-lilt with the Ameer of Afghanistan about the construction of a railroad from Cabul to Herat. The Canadian cruiser Vigilant recently fired a blank shot at an American fishing vessel within tho three-mile limit at Beaver Harbor, but failed to stop her. Mrs. Michael Davitt was presented with a handsome furnished cottage at Ballyrock, near Dublin, by some friends of the father of the Land League. A general feeling of antagonism to the Irish coercion bill is being manifested in England. Mass meetings protecting against the bill are being held everywhere, and the Liberal press is using its best efforts to keep up the agitation. Mr. Gladstone has issued a manifesto to the miners, urging their assistance to defeat the coercive policy of the Tories.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Archbishop Taschereau, of Quebec, has issued the following circular letter bearing on the Knights of Labor question: In September, 1834, the Holy See was consulted by me on the society of the Knights of Labor, condemned it under pain of grievous sin, and charged the BishoDS to deter ttieir diocesans therefrom, as I did In my circular letter of the 2d of February, T 835. After tbe representations made by their Lordships, the Bishops of the United States, the Holy See has suspended until further orders the effect of that sentence. In consequence, I authorize tno confessors of the diocese to absolve Knights of Labor on the following conditions, which it is your bounden duty to explain to them and make them observe: 1. That they confess and sincerely repent the grievous sin which tney committed by not obeying tha decree of September, 1884. 2 That they be ready to abandon this society as soon as the Holy See shall ordain it. 3. That they sincerely and explicitly promise absolutely to avoid all that may either favor Masonic or other condemned societies, or violate the laws either of justice, charity, or of the state. 4. That they abstain from every promise and from every oath by which they would bind themselves either to obey blindly all orders of the directors of the society, or keen a v solute secrecy. even toward the lawful authorities. (See “Discipline,” p. 217.) The anti-coercion meeting in London on the 11th instant was the largest ever held in that city. Mrs. Gladstone, watching the procession from a window in Piccadilly, received an ovation from the men in line. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was offered simultaneously from fourteen platforms, and was enthusiastically carried. The greatest throng gathered at the platform from which Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin and Messrs. Conybeare and 'William Redmond, members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in the course of a most effective speech, asked: “Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the honest, hardworking tenantry of Ireland should be forever crushed down?” A tremendous responsive “No!” resounded throughout the park. The mention of the Queen as about to celebrate her jubilee by signing away the liberties of the people of Ireland brought forth a torrent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain’s name aroused a tempest of groans and hisses, with cries of “Traitor.” Michael Davitt was one of the speakers. H$ said that on the day on which the crime* act should become a law they would either ha re to give up tho struggle that had beeu waged for centuries and lie down as slaves, or rendor the system impossible of duration. They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in the past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; the people would pull it down and ertet a bridge- of love between the toilers of belaud and the honest workers of England. The “Sweney law”—an lowa statute passed by the last General Assembly, which compels all foreign corporations doing business in that State to reincorporate there, and thus be subject to State laws and State courts —has bc-ea declared unconstitutional by tie United States Supreme Court. Judge Heady, in the United States Circuit Court, rendered an important decision at Portland, Ore., as to the scope of the interstate commerce act, which virtually nullifies the long and short-haul clause so far as it affects roads competing with water route?. The 0 udge rules that the interstate commerce act does not apply to all carriers engaged in interstate commerce, but only such as use railway or railway and water craft under common control for continuous carriage or shipment of property from one State to another. Tho case in point was that of the Oregon and California Road, and the Judge rules that as its carriage of certain goods is performed wholly within the State of Oregon, it is, therefore, specially exempted by tho terms of tlio act from tho operation of tho law. The lostmaster General and the Superintendent of the railway mail service left Washington on the 12th insh on a tour of inspection. They will inquire into tlio feasibility of establishing at Cliiea ;o, St Louis and Atlanta depots for the distribution of postal cards and stamped envelopes. Thousands of Washington children rolled Easter eggs in the White House grounds on the 10.li inst, in accordance with an ancient custom, and shook hands with tho President

THE MARKETS.

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SCHWARTZ-WATT.

Progress of the Trial of the Rock Island Train Bobbers at Morris, HL Strong Testimony Against the Accused—A Sermon Causes a Sensation. (UOBBIB (T1.1i.) CORRESPONDENCE.] The trial of Schwartz and Watt on the charge of having murdered Kellogg Nichols, the express messenger on the Rock Island Railroad, m March, lfc'Sj, has been in progress here two weeks, and will in all probability not be concluded for at least another week. The testimony so far adduced, though mainly circumstantial, taken as a whole, makes up a lather strong case against the two accused brakemen. Carl Woods, engineer of the train upon which Nichols was murdered, described the blood stains in the car in which Kellogg Nichola was killed, and gave evidence which indicated that Nichols made a desperate effort to reach and set the air-brakes. W itness gave a detailed account of the appearance of the cars, how they were loaded, how the doors were fastened, and" other particulars calculated to give the jury an accurate knowledge of the circumstances of the crime. It was drawn out that it was not until some time after it was decided to take the two cars on with the train that Watt said : “bet them out; I’m d—d if I want to ride in them. ” Schwartz was asked if he would run the baggage, and replied that he was not alraid, and would do so. Witness gave some testimony to show that there could have been no man on the top of Watt’s car covering him with a revolver thrust through the. transom. Conductor Wagner testified that tho iron jjoker with blood upon it, with which the messenger was evidently beaten to deaih, waa founa hanging behind the stove in its accustomed place. This circumstance is regarded as almost positivo pi oof that the murder was committed by a ti ain man, as no one unaccustomed to the car would ever think of hanging up the poker in its proper place again after the perpetration of the deed. Napoleon Briggs, who was fireman on Engineer Woods’ train, testified to Schwartz’s movements and actions after the crime, and his disinclination to talk about tho matter. Conductor Daaforth gave similar testimony to Briggs, and also told about finding the tell-tale sachet in the car closet on the return trip from Davenport. He usked Schwartz what he thought about tho murder, and who committed it. To that Schwartz threw out liis hands and said: “colonel, I don’t know anything about it.” He did not want to talk about the matter. Witness looked in the ladies’ car closet after leaving Marseilles and thore was nothing in it. At Seneca, the next station five miles on, witness saw Schwartz carrying a sachel. After leaving Seneca wit%k|i opened the closet door and found obstructing the door a sachel, new and of cheap description? and partially torn up Part of the sachel corner-piece v, as stuck fast in the closet aperture. Witness called Schwartz, and both picked up tho pieces. Among them witness found a piece of torn voucher, and remarked that it might have some connection with the robb.ry. The piece of voucher was shown to witness by Mr. Carter, and was fully identified and put in evidence. It was passed over to the jury and examined with great interest. The debris of the sachel was also produced, i I entailed by witness, put in evidence, and examined by the jury. Several other train employee were placed on the stand, but their evidence was not of material importance, beyond corroborating and strengthening the testimony of those who had preceded them.

On Sunday last a somewhat sensational event in connection with this now celebrated trial occurred. Saturday afternoon court was adjourned with a strict injunction by Judge Dobell to the jurors that they should not talk over the evidence in the case among themselves, or Glow any one to refer to the case in their hearlnl- He said they must allow nothing whatevw to influence their minds, but should keep then gtricily in such state that thev could give to eich portion of the evidence as it might be presented the just and fair weight due it Then ne askwi if counsel would have any objections to tlie j ir y attending church in charge of officers. counsel'tor both sides assented to this readily, lit. ie imagining what would result. +1 „1, 10 ,, or o church time w ord was sent to rhmv.wrn;/; HkiUips, pastor of tho Methodist cnuich, that t. e jury would attend at his sanctuary, and scc.rdingly three seats were reserved m the cental portion of the church for its accommodation it was a more than ordiBervi ® e the church by reason of the piesencoof theßev.Dr. N. A. Axtell, the pree„ld f er of the district of the Rock Kivei conference witb,, the hounds of which. Morris is situated. Dr. Axtell preached on tho strength of power and tie important part which little things play in its composition. then, speaking of the practical pursuits of life, he said that success and reputation in them depended not on some one great and brilliant achievement, or the possession of extraordinary powers or ability wnich commanded instant admiration, but on a careful painstaking, and industrious utilization of little suurces of strength, as they might be termed He went on to emphasize tho important part often play»d by little things in tho securing of great results, and referred to the fact that criminals had many times been convicted and brought to their just punishment by circumstantial evidence of itself of the most trivial nature, but which, when combined with other evidence siemiugly equally unimportant, revealed guil. beyond a doubt. He gave an illustration by telling how a man had committed a crime n California, escaped suspicion for a time, and finally went to India. Among artichs gathered up at the scene of the crime which it was thought might furnish some clew to he perpetrator was an envelope containing a daft or paper of like description. The corner hacbeen torn off as if by the teeth Years afterwan there was fbund in the vest, pocket of the tan in India a little piece of paper which httd exactly to the torn part of the envelope, aid the man by that evidence was brought to tial and found guilty. Dr. Axtell told he story with great vividness, and when tellinghow the ranged edges fitted exactly together hid up his hands with the fin-ger-ends interlace!. The strongest evidence ►thus far introduce, in the trial is the finding of ? orner of a ’*nk voucher in the car closet of the tram on whiq Schwartz returned to Chicago from Davenpot, which little piece fitted exactly to a torn vocher found in the contents of the robbed safe. The almost exact identity ot Dr. Axtell s illustration with this was very apparent, and, takeiwith his powerful presentation of the importace of circumstantial evidence steuck many * most remarkable utterances to be made befie the jury The sermon has bei the talk of the town for the past three days. The counsel for the defense held a brief conjitation on the subject just before court openi Monday. Whether to call the attention of _ e court formally to the matter, and demand tH the trial be stopped at once a,nd the jury dismrged, was one of the propositions seriously dcussed. It was finally decided that it would 3 better to say nothing about it and to let the t»! proceed, as in cast a verdict of guilty shoul be returned thede sense could make use, a a way likely to be effectual of the fact in t attempt to secure a new trial or obtain a rowi 1.,; Court. Judge Debell wa 10t disposed ß to talk much about the propriety the jury having listened to such a sermd or the serious con-sara.-dssasasws.'aaj; able and most unfortunate. * Miss Emma Lewis testifi,' that before the murder Schwartz and ■ his f 0 wete Uvincpoor circumstances in Chic 0> ancl that jL Schwartz’s clothing was % emely B h a bbv After Nichols’ death both R>dTer weS apparel became suddenly bet. M vn soon had three or four new dis es ik . lace. Witness visited t^SUrS; throe times a week. After t robbery they got a new Brussels carpet nd fino f v bolstered furniture, lace curti 8 folding and easy chairs, and silver b a e A spopns. Miss Lewis confessed Wui trine in a bit of eavesdropping at Schwa- 8 house hp* tween him and Watt. Thai ai „ ' into the kitchen, closing tt d them. Placing her ear to tfio-eyhole she overheard the following con verbal, . Sr y. wn ii® said to Watt: “Newt, you seem shove all the suspicion on me.” “Well, you are safe, your fathei rich cm,’ could easily account for your mone s said : “Well, why didn’t you give instead of a hundred?” Watt said Z„ a where Re got them, and he took the 7 came to. Witness heard Mrs. Echw~ JJ.JJ back at this point and did not dare li^^longer 8