Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — Page 2

®lje DcmocraticSenttnei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 3. W. McEWEN, ... Publishes.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Pennsylvania Railroad officials claim that not over $15,458 worth ofc spools were stolen by their trainmen between Pittsburgh and Columbus in 1888, and that the thefts on the Pan-Handle Division were comparatively no greater. The failure is announced of George Clark, a millionaire land-owner and hopdealer of Springfield, New York. There are SIIOO,OCO in judgments standing aga : nstliim. Old “Spot,” the horse which Gen. Kilpatrick rode in his famous expeditions during the war, died at Deckertown, N. J., a few days ago. Ho was S 3 years old. A paper-mill boiler at Paterson, N. J., blew up, injuring twenty persons. Orders have been issued to the Police Captains of New York and Brooklyn to rigidly enforce the Sunday-closing law. “Doc” Levi Wilson, who is widely known through Ins famous suit against Philip L. Moen, the barbed-wire manufacturer of Worcester, Mass., attempted suicide in his rooms at a Providence hotel, by taking laudanum. Medical assistance was quickly summoned and his life was saved. Wilson’s wife recently began divorce proceedings against him, and refused to allow him to see liis children. This greatly depressed Wilson, and is the probable cause of his act

WESTERN.

Natural gas has been discovered near lit. Ambassador (record 2:21) has been purchased by 8. A Brounot <t Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich., for SIB,OJO. The grand jury at Ozark, Mo., has indicted eleven of the Bald-Knobbers for murder. A natural-gas company, with a capital of $2,500, has teen organized at St. Joseph, Mich., where boring will commence as soon as a contractor can be found. A company composed of pupils of the Chicago Conservatory is playing this week at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, and the local press is unstinted in its praise of their work. Tho Morning News says: “No unprejudiced observer can help admitting that the work of these young people is a vast improvement on that of many professional companies which ask the support of theater-goers. From what we have seen of the company’s work we can freely say that it cau be submitted candidly as a counter-attraction to anything else in the city.” A varied repertory has been selected, and it is chosen with tho idea of bringing out the best material that exists among tho pupils of the school. L. Y. Halifield fatally shot his wife at Mortimer, Kan., and killed himself She was recently a servant girl, and he had promised to put SIO,OOO worth of property in her name. A shocking railroad accident is reported by telegraph from Washington Territory. A west-bound train on tho Cascade Division of the Northern Pacific Boad, pushing a flat-car loaded with laborers, was going around a curvo leading to a trestle at a good rate of speed when it ran into an engine going east, tender first The flat-car Was pushed half way through the tender and crushed up against the pilot of the west-bound train, on which were two men. The unfortuates were crushed to pulp, only a foot and one hand being left by which to identify them. The engino was knocked eighty foot F.ve men were killed outright and one has since (lied. The scene of the accident, as described by those present, beggars description. Blood was scattered in every direction, and neighboring rocks bore evidence of a fearful carnage. Tue accident was caused by the failure of one of tho train’s crew to flag as directed Sam Jones and Sam Small began revival meet.ngs in the Exposition building at Minneapolis, Minn., last Sunday. Over three thousand people attended tho first meeting and hundreds were unable to enter the building. Details of the destruction wrought by the recent cyclones in tho West and Southwest indicate that the loss of l.fo was much greater than first reported The storm ravaged a strip of territory about SJO miles long and fri m half a milo to a mile wide. A tornado in the vicinity of Mount Carmel, 111., caused $53,000 damage to property. John H. Wirth and Lowis Kcr3tein, were killed, and Harvey Higgs, two sons of a Mr. Hutchins, Miss Maggie Wirth, aud Mrs. John Keller were seriously hurt. James H. Knott and Scott Selby were killed by a cvcloi e which passed near Hazelton, lad. Great damage was done to property. The small village of West Buena, Vista, Ind., was seriously wrecked, only two houses remaining uninjured An Evansvillo dispatch says that a email black cloud suddenly appeared ,in tho west, moved east, and when directly over the farmhouse of Lemuei—Stansberry it exploded with a terrific force, and what appeared to be a hall of wind attacked the house with terrific fury, blowing off tho roof, tearing out one section of the nouse, and playing liavoc generally. Leaving the house, it tore down the eastern fence and then died away. There was no rainfall or lightning with the cloud-burst

SOUTHERN.

A genuine case of leprosy has Ijeen discovered in Louisville, Ky. John Haskins, the pationt, contracted the disease in Honolulu throe years ago. At Rolling Fork, Miss., hailstones larger than hens’ eggs fell for fiiteen minutes, riddling the roofs of houses and stripping trees of their foliage. John E. Elaine, an army paymaster, brother of the Maine statesman, died at Hot Springs.

Tbe rains in Western Texas, by filling the dry channel of the Brazos River,, brought down from the alkali country a mass of cattle carcasses that threatens to cause disease. The Apache captives taken from Arizona to Florida, numbering 45J, are about to be transferred to Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, not far from Mobile. Gcronimo and seventeen warriors w.ll continue to work at Fort Pickenß, under guard.

WASHINGTON.

A. Lusk & Co., of San Francisco, have telegraphed: “The fruit interests of this State, which are of great and growing importance, are seriously jeopardized by the workings of the interstate commerce bIL Inasmuch as this interest can not avail itself of water competition, we respectfully ask that section 4 be suspended, that these interests be not entirely paralyzed and great loss ensue. President Cleveland appointed Edward F. Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to fill the vacancy eaused by the death of Chief Justice Cartter. Judge Bingham was born in New Hampshire in 1829 and moved to Ohio in early life. He has for tbe last fifteen years been Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Columbus district, and in 1881 was the Democratic candidate for Supreme Court Judge of the State. He was prominently mentioned for the United States Circuit Judgeship, to which Judge Jackson was appointed la°t year. President Cleveland has mitigated the sentence of dismissal against Major F. W. Ben teen, of tho Ninth Cavalry, to suspension for one year at half pay, on account of long and faithful service.

POLITICAL.

Tbe New York Assembly has passed a bill providing for a holiday on tho first Monday in September, to be known as “Libor Day,” and making Saturdays half-holidays. A large number of disgruntled Democratic polit.cians, says the New York Times, have wisely concluded that the next Presidential nomination by the party will be worth very little if not given to Mr. Cleveland. The Legislature of West Virginia has commenced an extra session. Balloting for Senator will begin on May 3. Appointments by the President: Samuel F. Bigelow of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Henry F. Merritt of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Cherani z. , The New York Assembly has passed a bill to permit betting on race-tracks, 5 per cent, of the groBS receipts for admission to be paid to the State Comptroller, to be disbursed for prizes ou live stock. The Illinois House has passed a bill to prohibit idiots, insam persons, and inmates of prisons from marrying. The Democratic primaries in Kentucky point to the choice of General Buckner as a candidate for Governor. President Cleveland’s Private Secretary has sent out a denial of the story that the President would not under any circumstances be a candidate for re-election, and some of the President’s friends even went so far as to say that he not only wanted an indorsement of his administration, but was working to that end. Ex-Lieut Gov. William Dorsheimer states that the President recently wrote a letter declaring that he would not be a candidate for re-election, but its destruction was secured by a personal appeal by Mr. Dorsheimer.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Pacific Eailroad Commission has organized, with Gov. Pattison fo>r Chairman. A month will probably be spent in preliminary work in Washington. Boston and New York will next be visited, and then work will commenc.o in the West The St. Paul Road has made special arrangements with tho Signal Service Department for frost warnings from May 1 to Oct 1 each year for tho special benefit of tobacco and cranberry raisers along its lino 3. The Illinois Central Eoad has let a contract for a st.-ol bridge at Ca.ro, to $8,5:0,000. The Kentucky Central Eoad has been sold for $1,505,500 to part e s believed lo represent C. P. Huntington. Eobert Garrett, after stating that his negotiations with the Ives syndicate are almost completed, remarked that the combination of the Jersey Central, Reading, Lehigh, and Pennsylvania Itoads rendered it necessary for the Baltimore and Ohio to build from Philadelphia to New York, with Staten Island as the terminus, for.which purpose he had boon tendered ample capital.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOO

The New York manufacturers of gold and silver have locked out all thoir employes who are connected with the Knights of Lalior. A manufacturing firm iu Cincinnati has arranged wall its employes a p an for sharing profits. The carpenters of Milwaukee will lierealter work nine hours per day. Tho cigarma iters of Detroit threaten to strike against a reduction of wages. Tho closing of the stove foundries at Cincinnati means idleness all summer for several thousand men. Tlie Knights of Labor organization in New York h threaten d with disruption, the immediate cause of the trouble being, the persistent refusal of tho E\oeu live Board to give the Knight) of the Montank District a charter. Other districts have taken up tli.i fight, and tho result of it all will be, it is said, that 100,0. H) men will leave the order. The printers have taken sides with the Montauks in the quarrel. Silver mauufaciurers in the East have notified their men to withdraw from the order. The lock-out of the journeymen silversmiths in New York still continues.

REGULATING THE RAILROADS

The manager of a Chicago manufacturing house, in a letter to iho Interstate Commission, complains that he is now compelled to pay his fare, whereas former.y ho rode upon a pass. He asks that section 22 be sua-

pended for tbe Chicago 4 Northwestern Road. Mr. Taft presented a communication to the Interstate from Sutton 4 Ca’s dispatch line, setting forth that the action of the transcontinental roads toward the shipping interest via Cape Horn has been of the most violent nature. They had exerted every effort to annihil&to the shipping interest of the country. They had taken the long-haul traffic at a los<, which they must make up from charges on the short-hanl traffic. Complaints against unjust discrimination and excessive rates were received from several dairymen of Orange County, New York, and milling firms of Atchison, Kan. J. Searies, Jr., representing the Eastern sugar refiners, entered a protest against granting the petition of the San Francisco refiners. He recited the history of the Hawaiian sugar trade, and showed how, by a combination with the railroads, San Francisco refiners could lay this foreign commodity down in New York at prices their Eastern competitors could not meet. Ralph W. Thatcher, a miller of Albany, N. Y., told the Commission he had a contract for certain favorable terms of transportation, under which he had built an elevator. The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company refused to carry out the contract since the interstate law went into effect, and his business was at a stand-still. He wanted an order directing the company to fulfill its contract A “sufferer” from Mankato, Minn., writes that for the last five years the people of that vicinity have been paying their fares to the conductors, thereby making a goodly saving. Suddenly tho conductors have experienced a change of heart, and ara charging schedule rates, evidently fearing the effect of the new law. He asks the aid of the commission for a return to the old system. Justice, Bateman & Co., wool merchants of Philadelphia, in a letter protest against suspending Section four as regards transcontinental lines. Tbov say the protests against the section come from parties who have been enjoying great benefits from cut rates, and instance tho case of wool. Last year San Francisco merchants had a rate of 50 cents per ICO pounds, while parties several hundred miles farther east had to pay $3 to $4.50. There is woo', they say, now in Philadelphia, grown in Montana, which the railroads forced to be sent thence via San Francisco, making a haul of 4,000 miles, while if shipped direct it would have traveled only 2,000 miles. The object of tho discrimination was to give the San Francisco merchants an opportunity to exact toll before it reached its natural destination. Hotel proprietors in Chicago are complaining that the interstate commerce law is working serious injury to the hotel business. The operation of the fourth section of the interstate commerce law has been suspended for seventy-five days on the Northern and Southern Pacific, Atchison, and St Louis and San Francisco roads.

MISCELLANEOUS. The constitutional amendment - allowing two successive Presidential terms lias passed the Mexican House of Deputies, and now goes to ilio Senate, where it will probably bo passed without debate. This is said to mean tho re-eloction of Diaz. The National Council of Administration of the Grand Army of the Republic has adopted resolutions approving o’s the order of General Fairchild requesting posts not to make an official expression of opinion on the subject of pension legislation by Congress. Canon Wilber force aud wife have arrived at New Y 1 >r c from England. The Legislature of Ontario, by & vote of 53 to 28, adopted a resolution of sympathy with Ireland, aud expressing regret that coercion is about to be resorted to Henry G eorge, in the last number of bis paper, the Standard, says ho was the first person to tell Davitt, Dillon, and Parnell about the Phoenix Park butchery. He got a telegram from Dublin concerning the crime. Ho says: I immodilitely made what haste I could to tho Westminster Hotel, and, waking up Davitt, showed him tho telegram. Springing up with intense emotion, he at once sent for Messrs. Dillon and Parnoll. All three, as well as other members of the Irish party who were subsequently sent for, were deeply pained and grieved at the news. Davitt seemed so much “out up” by it that I really felt for him, but the man who seemed stirred most was Parnell—ordinarily the most undemonstrative of human beings—aud on the tirst impulse he talked of immediately resigning aud leaving public life forever. There could bo no question of the real feelings of these men—especially Parnell. It is well known that G iorgo does not feel kindly toward Parnell since the latter condnnnod tho Goorgo nationalization scheme. Tho te timony is ail tho moro valuable on that account.

FOREIGN.

Six residents of St. Petersburg have been sentenced te d.-ath for complicity in the plot to ass 'Siinato the Czvr oa March 13. The London Times pronounces Lord Salisbury’s offer to settle the fisheries question “generous and almo -t Qu xotic.” It is officially stated in London that Lord Salisbury, in a dispatch sent to Washington March 21, sai t tlial tho British Government, uudcrsian ling the action of the United States in denouncing the fishery articles of tho treaty of Washington to be in a great degree the result of disappointment at being called upon to pay £l,l O,OUO under tho Halifax fisheries award, offers to revert to tho old condition of affairs without pecuniary indemnity. Througliout France much excitement prevail;; b cause of the arrest of a special French commi s.iry by G-rmaa officials on the frontier near In were unfavorably affected by the announcement. The number of emigrants from Ger-„ many who pas e i througn Hamburg, Bremen, and Stettin during the year 1880 was 66,671, or a decrease of over 2.’,'00 from tho previous year, when 88,900 persons left tho empire. The German Commissioners to whom was delegated the duty of investigating the case of the arrest of M. Helinaebels, the French Commissary, report that Sclmaebels was arrested on Oormau soil. They also assert thit the evidence against the prisoner i$ overwhelming. There are numerous charges of high treason against him.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William J. Vickery, of Indiana, has been appointed as fourth assistant examiner in the Patent Office; George W. Morgan, of Arkansas, has been appointed chief of the preemption division in the General Liu# Office; Robert Kenny has baen appointed storekeeper at Chicago in the First Illinois District; Thoa. G. Rsames, Postoffice Inspector on mail depredations at Portland, Oregon, has resigned. The President has appointed these Postmasters: Michigan—Greenville, Charles L. Hocox; Manistee, James Dempsey, Sr.; lowa—West Liberty, Thomas P. Mitchell; Nebraska — Norfolk, Charles B. Durland; Sterling, Chas. C. Ellis; West Point, Mary O. Sullivan; Wahoo, Charles J. Harrison. Col. Dorshe’mer denies that be has seen a letter from the President positively declining to be a candidate for a second term. The Indians in the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations are said to have put on war-paint, and mean trouble. For some time they have been holding war dances and singing war songs. Chicago elevators and vessels contain 13,630,184 bushels of wheat, 12,538,415 bushels of corn, 1,245,065 bushels of oats, 141,687 bushels of rye, and 70,614 bash els of barley; total, 27,626,161 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,226,620 bushels a year ago. A five-story brick building on Dearborn street, Chicago, occupied by Schniedewend 4 Lee, manufacturers of and dealers in printers’ supplies, was completely gutted by fire. Tho loss on building and stock is estimated at $120,000; insurance, SBO,OOO. The Chicago Daily News, commenting editorially upon the verdict in the SchwartzWatt case, recently tried at Morris, 111., says: Within forty-eight hours after the Sioux City disagreement a fury in Grundy County, Illinois, rendered a verdict which commands the respoct and confidence of every unprejudiced observer of the developments of tho trial. The case was much more complex and obscure than that submitted to the Woodbury County jury. The evidence was purely circumstantial, and involved the examination of over a hundred witnesses, occupying two weeks and a half in testestifying, and the defense was conducted by five able lawyers. A week was consumed in selecting the jury out of upward of two hundred individuals summoned; but the character of the community from which they were selected may be fairly inferred from the fact that the State used less than one-half of its peremptory challenges, while the defense failed to exhaust those to which it was entitled. There was no prejudice or bias for or against the accused of which it was necessary for either side to be wary. When the twelve good men and true were sworn both prosecution and defense were satisfied that an honest verdict on the evidence would be rendered. With unwearied patience these twelve men sat and attentively listened for fifteen days to the testimony of luti witnesses, weighing carefully, impartially, and intelligently the evidence of each, and at the close they had arrived at a positive conviction of the complicity of Schwartz and Watt in the murder of Kellogg Nichols. The mauy casual readers of disconnected scraps of the evidence are not competent judges of the tax made upou these men. Nothing short of an earnest desire to faithfully discharge a sworn duty, operating upon minds alive to tho sacredness of the law and free lrom sickly sentimentality upon the one hand and sympathy with the criminal classes ou tbe other, could command such concentration and fidelity. Their verdict js more than the avenging of Nichols’ murder.” It is a reflex of the moral sentiment which dominates , the community in which they live. A Washington special says the Canadian Pacific is carrying sugar from the Pacific coast to St Paul at lower rates than prevailed on American lines before the order of suspension. The Yosburg Manufacturing Company’s building at Brooklyn, N. Y., was burned, creating a loss of $2(40,0,0. June 22 is officially set apart as tbe day for observing the royal jubilee in Canada. The nephew of a high official in the Russian army has been arrested on suspicion of having informed the nihilists of the movements of the Czar. The Glasgow (Scotland) Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution declaring that the system of trade bounties and protection adoptod by other countries has so injured English trade that there is justification for asking Great Britain to revise her fiscal relations. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions affirming unabated confidence in free traefe as the best national commercial policy.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle § 5.00 @ 5.75 Hogs 5.75 @6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 95 @ .96 No. 2 Rod. 93U@ loiiA Corn—No. 2...... 49 "@ .51 Oats—White 38 @ .42 Pork—New Mess 16.00 k, 16.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @5.50 Good Shipping 4.50 @ 5,00 Common. 3.75 @ 4.30 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.2 > i«i 5.75 Flour—Winter Wheat j. 25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83 .84 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .88 V! Oats—No. 2 27V,@ .28!^ Butter—Choice Creamery 20 @ .22 * Fine Dairy 18 @ .20 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .1394@ .1414 Full Cream, new 13943! .14% Eggs—Fresh 11% .12 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 75 @ .80 Pork—Mess 20.50 (321.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat —Cash 79 @ ,80 Cohn—No. 3 38 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 White 32%@ .33 Rye—No. 1 62' @ .63 Pork—Mess 15.20 a. 15 75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 8S .84 Corn—No. 2 40V@ . Tt OATf. ..' 30 'o. .32 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.50 Wheat—Michigan Red .81 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—White 33V, tS [34 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 80 @ .81 Corn—Mixed 35 @ 136 Oats—Mixed 28 @ .28(3 Pork—New Mess . 16.50 @17.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 @ .84 Corn—No. 2 ,41 its .42 Oats—No. 2 30 ,1* .32 Pork—Mess 16.00 @16.50 Live Hogs.. 5.00 @ 5.75 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 89 @ .89^ Corn—No. 2 Yellow 45 icu .45% Catile J. 4.50 @5 00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.75 @ 5.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Sheep 8.50 @ 4,75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 81 @ .82 Corn— o. 2 37%@ .38 Oats-Mixed 29 @ .30 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best j 5.00 @ 5.25 Fair 4.75 @ 5.00 Common 4.25 @ 4.50 Hogs 5.75 @ 6.00 Sheep >. 4.50 @6.25

A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

Alexander Mitchell, the Milwaukee Millionaire, Expires in a New York Hotel. Bronchial Troubles and Heart Disease Cause His Death, Which Is Bather Sadden. [New York special. I Alexander Mitchell, President oE the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St- Paul Railroad, died at his rooms in the Hoffman Houses in this city, on Tuesday afternoon. He had been been gradually losing strength, for two months, but the illness which resulted in his death began only a week agoMr. Mitchell some months ago determined to withdraw from active business pursuits, and Dec. 1 last, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Kean, his old pastor, he started from Milwaukee in his private car for a trip to his winter home, in Florida, whither Mrs. Mitchell had gone 6ome time before. At his magnificent place, “Villa Alexandria,” just at the head of the St. Johns River, he devoted himself to the pleasures of a winter resort, spending much time ont of doors and getting far more exercise than he had ever had before. Yet, although he seemed to be in the best of spirits, he steadily lost flesh. He had always been one of the most methodical of men, and the change told on him. Three weeks ago Mr. Mitchell and DrKean left Florida, reaching this city April 2, and going immediately to the Hoffman House. Two days later Mr. Mitchell complained of feeling unwell and developed feverish symptoms, but he soon recovered and was able to go down town, although the feverish condition returned at intervals. His son, John L. Mitchell, had joined him in the meantime, and with his son and a a party of friends Mr. Mitchell heard Patti sing at the Metropolitan Opera House last Wednesday night. Sitting in the front of the box be was probably exposed to a draft, for before the last act he complained of illness and left the opera house. So weak was hewhen his carriage reached the hotel that he had to be assisted to his room. After that he never left his bed. Dr. Edward Bradley, bis physician, found that he was suffering from a malarial trouble and bronchial pneumonia, from which he failed to rally. He sunk into a state of coma Monday evening and never recovered consciousness. Death resulted ffomasphyxia, caused by bronchial pneumonia.

Alexander Mitchell was born Oct. 18, 1817, in the parish of EJlon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father was a farmer, and the early days of the future financier were passed in tho same avocation. For two years he studied law at Aberdeen, and then went into a bank at Peterhead and remained there until he came to Milwaukee in May,, 18:19, when, in company with George Smith, of Chicago, ho organized the Wisccnsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company, an institution that was in reality a bank., although not called one on uccount of the law then in force. The bills of this company were the only reliable paper currency the Territory had for many years, 'yet despite the times every dollar was redeemed when 1 resented. It is as a managt r and promoter of railroads that the deceased was best known to the world, he having been for years at the head of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Bt. Paul Company, a corl>oraticin that controls more miles oi road than any other iu the world. Politically Mr. Mitchell was originally a Whig, then he joined the Republicans in electing Lincoln and prosecuting the war, afterward joining with the Democrats in support of President Johnson. Since then his party Bent him to Congress in 1870 and 1872, and would have continued him there had he not declined further office. Ho was one of the delegates that nominated Mr. Tsiuen, and was one of his most ardent supporters. Iu 1879 the Democrats wanted him to be a candidate for Governor, but ho declined. Mr. Mitchell is survived by a wife, a son, John L., an adopted daughter, Mrs. Dr. Mackie of this city, and a sistei* and brother living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Mr. Mitchell s estate is variously estimated at from $15,000,000 to 525,000,000.

FOUND GUILTY.

The Jury Believe that Schwartz, and Watt Killed Kellogg Nichols. Such Is the Termination of the Prolonged Express-Robbery Trial at Morns, 111 !Morris (Ill.) special.] After a trial lasting thirty days, Schwartz, and Watt have been declared by a jury of twelve good men and true guilty of the murder of Kellogg Nichols, aud their punishment fixed at imprisonment for life m the penitentiary. When the jury retired, ou Tuesday afternoon, it was the general opinion that there wouid be a disagreement. After a seclusion of a little more than five hours word was sent toJudge Dibell that they had reached a conclusion. A few minutes aiterward they filed into court. When Judge Dibell said:. “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed! upon a verdict?” E. H. Robinson, ihe oldest juror on the panel, arose and handed the verdict to the Sheriff, who passed it up to the court. Judge Dibell scanned it, and then read it: “We, the jury, find Newton Watt guiitv of the murder of Kellogg Nichols in the manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his penalty at. imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life.” The verdict as to Schwartz was then read. It finds him also guilty in the manner find form, charged, and fixes his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for his natural life. Each juror then in turn fhtified the verdict. There was a death-like silence in the court-room. Walt was sitting near his brothor, with his arms resting on the table, still gazing steadily at the jury. Schwartz sat near his father with his hands clasped across his breast, gazing away from the jury, seemingly insensible to their presence and veredict. Neither of the men manifested the slightest emotion. Watt talked with his brother aud smiled when spoken to by his attorney. Schwartz was more serious when his counsel approached him, but a slight, reluctant smile gathered on his countenance. * The Court thanked the jury for the attention during the trial and dismissed them. The murder of Kellogg Nichols, for which Schwartz and Watt were convicted, occurred the night of March 12, 1886. Nichols was express messenger on the Rock Island train running out of Chicago. He was killed in bis car, near Morris, and the safe oponed and rifled of a package of money containing about $20,000