Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — Page 2

Uljt gmocr fttitSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Jl W. McEWEN, PußLigro,

THE NEWS RECORD.

SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S HAPPENINGS. The Latest News as Flashed Over the Wires from All Parts of the World—Regarding Politics, Religion, Casualties, Commerce, and Industry. THE SAFES FLY OPEN. Remarkable Power of a Young Plumber in Sioux Falls. Minnehaha County, S. I)., has just finished a new ccurt house at Sioux Falls at a cost of $125,000. Over SIO,OOO worth of vaults were ordered In, and now the company making the contract, A. T. Dean & Co., of Chicago, has been notified that the safes cannot be accepted. The understanding was that no one could open the vaults unless he had the combination or was an expert at safe-blowing. Last week 11. Saunders, a plumber not over 17 years old. entered the County Clerk's office while the Clerk was endeavoring to open one of the new vaults. Th combination had been lost, and finally the Clerk gave up the job. Young Saunders, who was s andlng by, said lie could open It. County Commissioner McLeo offeiel to give Saut ders §lO if he could open the safe. The young lad placed his car at the door, listened to the fall of the tumblers, and in a few moments the door swung open. Saunders was turned out of the room and ti c combination was changed. Another trial was given the young genius, and again the door flew open. The Chairman of the County Commissioners has informed the safe company that its safe would not be accepted, and awaits its further orders. Saunders also opened a vault in one of the leading banks of the City as easily as if he know the combination. Tn one of the letters that passed between the Commissioners and the safe company. the latter agrees to forfeit §IO,OOO if the lad can open any vault without first knowing the combination.

A DYING CONFESSION. An Indiana Murder Mystery Finally Cleared Up. About the year 1874 a stock-buyer named Jamison from Ohio made his appearance in Brown county, Ind., the wildest county in tlie State, not even now having a railroad. He was known to carry big sums of money of money with hfjii. He stopped at the residence of Elisha Curry for the night, :|id ■was never heard of afterwards. His mysterious disappearance at the time created considerable stir, as Curry bore an unsavory reputation ami was suspected of many lesser crimes. The matter soon blew over, however, and has been buried in profound silence ever since until one night this week, when T. 8. Flaggott revealed the terrible secret which his been weighing on him for years. Just about ten minutes before his death he stated to those about him that he and Curry and another man had murdered Jamison for his money, and they secured SI,BOO cash off his person. Curry has been dead six years, and the whereabouts of the other man if still living Is not stated. WAS MADE TO BE ENFORCED. Attorney General Miller's Instructions In Regard to the Lottery Law. Attorney General Miller has sent a circular letter to all United States District Attorneys calling attention to the antilottery act, with the suggestion that they carefully examine tlie same, and spare no effort in Its enforcement. He says: “Every violation of this law, either by an Individual or a corporation, iu the dissemination of lottery literature, or in any other way, should be brought to the attention of the grand jury, and ■wherever indictments are found vigorous prosecutions should follow, to the end that this nefarious business may be suppressed. In the enforcement of this law there should lie hearty co-operation on the pait of the district attorneys, the United States marshals and the postofflee inspectors.” Similar instructions have been sent to United States marshals.

Has a Cure for Consumption. The Berlin National Ze it ung announces in a most positive manner that Prof. Koch, vlnse researches as to the existence of bacillus In constmptlo i have already given him a world-wile reputation, is now ready to announce to the wcrld, having concluded certain important experiments, ihat his method for curing that malady 1< by painless Inoculation. Minister Gosser has given him permlssim to abandon his winter course of lectures before the Universlty in order that he may devo e his entire attention to his discovery. Qu’ck Justice In Tonnes ee. As a sample of quick justice, Memphis, Tenn., furnishes the following: At 3:45 in the morning, Charles Davis. James Dallas and Pat G 1 win, three Chicago crooks, robbed a jewelry stole of £4OO worth of watches, and at 4:30 were in the stationhouse. A preliminary examination was held, they were indicted by the grand jury in the as einocn and sentenced to three years’ Imprisonment, left for the penitentiary at 10:10 p. m., and were Inside the walls at Narh .'ille at 5 a. in. Russia and the Jews. The Russian Government is still debating on a scheme in reference tS the Jews, but It is certain that It will be 1 ng before it comes into force, owing to red tape measures. In the meantime, subject to the anti-Semitic feeling of the Government and the public, the existing regulati ms in regard to the Jews will he applied wi.h the utmost vigor. Through Niagara’s Whirlpool. Bridgetender Gilbert of the railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, claims to have seen a skiff containing a man pass under the bridge. The boat was capsized at the first bi e liter and the man was not seen again. Nothing had been seen of a boat at the whirlpool, and no boats were missing from the Canadian side. Why They Want Money. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette lias had an Interview with T. P. O’Connor on matters relating to Ireland. During the Interview Mr. O’Connor said that the O'Brien-Dillon mission to America had nothing to do with the potato famine, which was the business of the British Government. '•Our only concern,” ho.‘-avs, “is to get money for political purposes.” The nrhwi n counts upon getting £IOO.OOO. He himself would probably go to Canada; Dillow »wd O'Brien n>t daring to risk arrest Itetw.

NO LIQUOR FOR iOWA. Judge Shiras Says Original Packages Cannot lie Sold. Judge Shiras, in the United States Circuit Court, at Des Moines, lowa, has rendered an Important decision on the subject of liquor in “original packes,” taking a directly opposite view from that held by Judges Phillips and Foster in the Topeka pase. He said that, with all due deference to Judges Phillips and Foster, he was bound to say that, in his opinion, they had misstated the points in the case at Topeka. If there was any quest! >n that is thoroughly settled by the decisions of the courts It is the absolute and unqualified right of a State to pass prohibitory laws. That question has been forever settled. In repeated cases, carried to the United States Supreme Court, It had been held that lowa and Kansas in passing laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors had exercised powers rightly belonging to them as sovereign States. The original package decision by that court didn't Involve the validity of the lowa law. The question simply arose as to the point at which the State had control of the liquors Imported into it. An officer acting under authority of the lowa law seized some liquor In the hands of the importer's agent and the United States Supreme Court held that the seizure was an Interference with interstate commerce, a subject which the Constitution delegates to Congress alone. Then Congress, in the exercisa of this constitutional power, passed the Wilson bill. But that question didn’t affect the question of the sale of liquor In the original package. It simply made Imported liquors subject to the laws of a State from the time they entered Its borders. Therefore it is not necessary that the Wilson bill ihould work a revival of the lowa lt.w in order to make the law operative. It has been operative all the while. The only question was as to the point where the liquor became subject to the law. and the Wilson bill made it apply to all liquors within the State, whether imported or not. In conclusion Judge Shiras said: “The prohibition law of lowa Is in full and complete force to-day and applies to every sale of liquor made within its purview, tlie decision of Judge Phillips to the contrary notwithstanding.

IS M’KINLEY’S BILL VOID? Senator McPherson Claims to Have Discovered a Fatal Blunder. A letter was recently sent by Senator John R. McPherson to a member of a prominent importing house in New York. This letter is likely to create a sensation in commercial circles all over the country. Following are the-moresignificant passages: I beg to call your attention to conference report and tariff lilll sent you about ten days or two weeks ago—a quarto pamphlet of 125 pages. On page 175 you will find—amendment 449 and Sec. 30—the reading matter relating to drawbacks on tobacco stricken out. Turning over to page 176, sixth line from tlie top, you will find the following: “Conference restores Sec. 30.” Now, In the tariff bill you will find: “Sec. 30. That, on and after the first day of January,” etc., etc., ending with “six cents per pound.” leaving all the rest of original Sec. 30 out altogether. This omission is fatal to the. bilL and in the opinion of eminent lawyers—Senator Carlisle among them—it vitiates the whole bill. It Is an internal revenue section, but being part of the tariff bill passed it stands and falls together. If a host of ■ eminent authorities cited by the New York Herald are correct, tlie merchants of New York and elsewhere, says that paper, may realize that they have been emancipated from the intended effects of the McKinley bill. The President, if the Senator is right, has signed a bill which never passed the two houses of Congress. The bill which did pass the two houses of Congress has not been signed by the President. Therefore the alleged bill under which the Government officials have begun to levy Imposts since Oct. 6 not having passed Congress, is not the law of tlie land.

BLOODY RIOTS IN GEORGIA. Negroes and White Men Engaged In a Serious' Co s tilet. Governor Gordon, o’s Georgia, has received from the Sheriff of Coffee County a call for troops to suppress a riot of negroes, in which four white men have been killed. F. M. Stokes, who runs a turpentine mill, has wired tlie Mayor of Waycross, Ga., for fifty armed men. saying: “We are at tlie mercy of the negro mob. Four men have been killed. The negroes are being led in tlie riot by a.white man named L. B. Varna, whoowns a turpentine still.” Stokes, Thomas Seers and a man named Varna had been in a dispute about a tract of land. Varna put his men to work on the timber when Thomas Seers shot and killed one ot the negroes and drove the others from the scene. Tlie negroes, to hive revenge on Seers, armed themselves and made an assault on the settlement, having tlie men entirely at their mercy. They shot down and killed B. E. McLendon, Frank Seers, and Thomas Seers, and mortally wounded a man named Hendricks. Twelve armed men have gone from McDonald’s to the relief of the settlement. The whites all around are turnlnS out, and tlie danger Is that some hot-head may precipitate a conflict in which many lives will be lost.

MOURE'S NINETIETH BIRTHDAY. Germany Loes Honor to Her Great Field Marshal. Despite the almost continuous rain the Lindens and Konigs Platz in Berlin were the scene of a popular demonstration of love and veneration for the nonoganzrian soldier. Von Moltke, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, without a parallel in tlie annals of that city. The singing society of the Prussian schoolmasters awakened the Marshal at the untimely hour of eight with a tuneful morning greeting. Until sunset and later Von Moltke was at home to a grateful nation. Toward midday, preceded by the King of Saxony and the Grand Dukes of Hesse and Baden, all in lull uniform, the Emperor in anopen victoria, despite the weather, arrived at the general staff headquarters and extended his congratulations to the venerable Marshal. The Emperor then presented the Marshal with a magnificent baton. An endless stream of people continued to call till nightfall. The day ended with a monster banquet at the Central Hotel, given by the general staff.

.'HE WON THE IOACHMAN. A New York Heiress Draws a Prize In the Matrimonial Lottery. Port Dickinson isa charminxl tfl-s suburb of Binghamton, N. Y., and is noted for its many charming young Indios. Prominent among thorn were tlie I brae daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Phelps. One of them, Miss Lizzie Phelps, has fallen a victim to the wiles of Cupid. Unknown to the family there sprang up an attachment between the young lady and her father’s coachinar. Wil iam 81 ittery, that was soon fanned into a llam ) of love. Finding that all efforts t> change her mind were useless, the mother was won over. Not so with tjie father and slst irs. Mr. Phelps and MUs Emma have gone to New York t o avoid

being present at the ceremony, whl’h is to occur in a few days. Miss Phelps is a social belle and one of the wealthiest yonng ladies in the State. She is a niece of the late Judge Phelps, and has a cool §IOO,OOO in cash that w as left to her by her deceased relative. BUSINESS IS GOOD. Fo Says Dun’s Regular Weekly Review of Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Buslncs continues large in volume, and generally profitable. In many branches there Is noteworthy expansion on account of the new opportunities which the revised tariff gives. Sales of wool are rather large, but there is a distinct improvement in the market for woolen goods, and manufacturers are more hopeful. At Chicago there is a marked decrease in receipts of cured meats, dressed beef, lard, butter, and hides, but in cheese and wool an Increase, and the volume of business continues larger than a year ago, with satisfactory collections of dry goods and clothing. It is a remarkable feature of returns this year that the Western cities appear to prosper without the slightest regard to the condition of business on the seaboard. At Milwaukee trade is satisfactory and money unusually active at 6 to 7 per cent., at St. Paul trade is excellent, and at Minneapolis receipts of wheat reach 1,900,000 bushels. At Kansas City trade is healthy and at Denver good. BY BIS FATHER’S HAND. An Illinois Farmer Kills His Maniac Son. A shotgun and a lunatic caused a terrible tragedy at Prairie du Long, near Bolleville, 111. Lewis Ryttenhouse, a young man of 25 who had been confined in a madhouse, but had been release 1 and was considered harmless, was seized with “homicidal mania.” He secured a double-barreled shotgun, loaded it. and betook himself to the barn of Lewis P. Talbot, a neighbor, where he passed the night. In the morning when Talbot entered the barn Ryttenhouse fired at him, producing wounds which will prove fatal. The madman took to his heels and hastened to his father's house. He reloaded his weapon and fired upon his brother, filling one arm and shoulder full of shot, He then turned uyn his father, who was standing near, but before he could pull the trigger | the latter seized a grub hoe and struck the unfortunate fellow a terrific blow over the head, crushing the skull and inflicting fatal injuries. BOUND FOR THE WORLD’S FAIR. Newfoundland People Forming Clubs to Go to Chicago. Although the World's Fair at Chicago is some distance in the future, already interest is developing in Nova Scotia. Mail advices from Newfoundland show that the islanders are taking steps to send a large delegation to visit the great Exposition. Clubs have beened formed at St. Johns, and will be in other places, called “The World's Fair Excursion Clubs.” Each club numbers twenty. Each member pays into a common fund $1 weekly. In the interim any member backing out forfeits 20 per cent, of his money. Counting from the Ist of October, this year, till the 4th of July, 1893, about the time the Exhibition will be thrown open, there are 153 weeks, which will mean an aggregate collection of §2,860, a sum quite large enough to defray expenses. SAD END OF ALL. A Brilliant Young Man Falls In'o Evil Ways and Is Murdered. The grand jury at Danbury, Ccnn.. has indicted Frank McCoy for the murder of William Waltcn. The murder was committed about a week ago. and Coroner Doten, of Bridgeport, who has since been working up the case, has secured strong evidence against McCoy. Walton was a graduate of Harvard. His father is a clergyman in New York, and gave his son every advantage of education. After his graduation Walton went to Danbury, where his father had charge of a church, and at once entered the best society. A year afterward lie became a commc n drunkard and was frequently locked up for the offense. He went rapidly down hill and associated with the lowest characters. It was while on a spree with McCoy that he was killed. Walton contracted a love for strong drink while in college. Millions of Campaign Documents. The two campaign committees have practically finished their work of tending out documents. They are now on hand only to answer letters and meet such eleventh-hour demands as may be made upon them for information. Each committee has sent out enough documents to paper the land over, and if the C 0,000,000 people who make up this nation are not educated on the tariff, the pension, the silver, and the Federal election questions by Nov. 4 it won’t be the fault of the committees. The Republican committee has sent out more documents than the national committee distributed during the last Presidential campaign. It has sent out more than 15,000,000 documents for the enlightenment of the public. Refuses to He p the Workingmen. The Reiehsanzeiger of Berlin announces that, owing to a lack of funds, the German Government is < bligcd to decline making loans to lompanios to enable them to build dwellings for the workmen. Baron von Berlepsch, Prussian Minister of Commerce, says: “While the Government joyfully welcomes all efforts in the direction of providing improved dwellings fer the workingmen, it must, on principle, decline to assist building companies from the coffers of the state, especially as it is confident that there is sufficient capital and public spirit in Berlin to form companies which will be content with moderate profits.” New Tariff iu France. By the new French tariff bill flax and hemp are made free from duty. Agricultural produc s are placed in two categories —the first consisting of cereals, live stock, and meat, and going under a maximum tariff, implying that they cannot be included in any treaty; all other products going under a minimum tariff and being available for treaty purposes. It is understood that official Inquiries are being made by the German Government to ascertain whether goods which have hitherto been obtained from America can be imported from other countries Indians May Make Trouble. A livey time is expected atTebee. the new town in the lowa line east of Guthrie. Oklahoma. next weok. Preparations have been made for a grand barbecue and Indian endian entertainment. The entire two tribes of Indians, the lowas and Kickapoos. have agreed to meet there and indulge in an oldtime war dance. Visitors from adjacent tribes will also be present Fears of trouble between the low us and Klckapo is are entertained, as the hitter are very angry because the lowas sold their land to the United States Govern men'. Statue of Gen, St rk. The bronze statue of Major General John Stark, the hero of the battle of Benning-

ton, has teen unveiled In the State House yard at Conccrd. N. H. The State officers were present. After an address by ex-Gov. Moody Currier, the statue was unveiled by Miss Florence Shelley, of Guffotown. Jas. Patterson, of Hanover, delivered the. oration. A poem by Allen Eastman Cross, of Manchester, concluded the exercises. Says It In a Libel. Ex-Gov. Pattison, Democratic Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, caused warrants to be issued for the arrest, on a charge of criminal libel, of the editors of the Inquirer and the North American of Philadelphia and the Call of Harrisburg. The offensive publication consisted of a charge of bribery against Mr. Pattison in connection with certain legislation when he was Governor. Chapter of Accidents. Six trainmen were killed and seven persons injured in a collision in a tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Railway at Sloan’s Valley, Ky.; two lives were lost and twentysix passengers hurt in a crash on the Kansas City and Memphis near Birmingham, Ala.: and eight men were wounded, one fatally, in a smash-up at Armourdalo, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City. < omuiitted Suicide with Alcohol. W. V. Preston was found dead in his bed at the Union Hotel at Pueblo. Colo. Disappointment in love caused him to drink quite heavily of late. The doctors think it is a case of suicide by pure alcohol. He told his roommate that he would not bother him much longer. A paper was found In his pocket stating that lie had a brother In Vinton. lowa. Indicted for Encouraging ‘ trikers. Nine Indictments were reported at Binghampton. N. Y., against the editors of the Leader. on account of that paper’s attitude during the recent cigarmakors’ strike. Six arc for lite!, and the other three are for criminal contempt of court, in disregarding an injunction issued by Judge Forbes which prohibited all persons from unlawfully encouraging the strikers. Will Watch the Effects of the Tariff. The London Times’ Vienna correspondent says: “The Austrian Cabinet considers it premature to take a decisive step now regarding the new American tariff, and that It is better to wait and see whether American consumers themselves ask for its repeal, and also to see the practical effect of the act.” Gladstone Is Waiting. Mr. Gladstone addressed a meeting ot Liberals in Edinburgh. He said that his paity would not announce its plans regarding home rule until the opinion of the country was known. Lord Salisbury was ciiticised for sending an accredited envoy to the VatU an. Polish Emigra its Shot Down. Three hundred Poles, who were attempting to reach Prussian territory in order to emigrate to Brazil, were halted by the Russian frontier guard and ordered to return. They i efused to obey and the guards fired upon them, killing six men. two women and a child, and wounding a number of others. Must Not Help the Irish. It is reported that Cardinal Simeon!, by order of the Pope, has forbidden the Bishops of the American hierarchy to give any official or overt approval to the Irish Nationalist campaign of Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien in America. Stabbed by a Tramp. A tramp fatally stabbed James O'Hara and wife, living at Smith Creek, Mich., his intention being to rob the house. Neighbors were attracted to the scene, but the tramp escaped. Poisoned His Children. A retired farmer named Gast, who lived in Berlin, Germany, poisoned his five children apd himself. He and three of the children have died and the others cannot recover. Pardo >e<l from Sing Sing. John Hope, the Manhattan Bank robber, was pardoned from Sing Sing. He had served nine years on a twenty-year sentence. Breathed Gas and Died. Jacob Kleiner, of Highland, Hl., was found dead in bed in a hotel in Davenport, lowa, having been asphyxiated by gas from a burner that had been left open. Two Murders and Suicides. Albert Lodermeyer of Casco, Wis., murdered his wife and committed suicide. William Galow of Oshkosh also killed his wife and himself. Horrible Explosion in China. The government powder mill at Canton, China, exploded Aug. 15, destroying 200 houses and killing over a thousand people. A Tax on Nobility. A bill was Introduced in theFiench Chamber of Deputies imposing a heavy tax on crests and titles of nobility. Senator Blackburn Is Petter. Senator Blackburn, who sustained severe internal injuries in a runaway accident, is better.

THE MARKETS.

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STOLE FROM THE NEEDY KILLED BY THIEVES.

SCANDAL IN REGARD TO THE JOHNSTOWN FUNDS. A New York Paper Claims that of the Five Million Dollars Raised to Help the Sufferers from the Great Flood in the Conemaugh Valley, a Uhird of It Was Misappropriated. [New York dispatch.] Under a Johnstown, Pa , date the Herald prints a five-column expose of the manner in which the charity fund of $5,000,000 for the relief of the flood sufferers was placed at the mercy of contractors and supervisors, clerks and employes. Following are the leading paragraphs in the Herald's expose: The great flood at Johnstown, Pa., occurred Slay 31, 1889. It involved the loss of upward of 3.000 human lives and the destruction of §9,000,000 in value of individual property. It left 25,000 survivors homeless and temporarily destitute, many of them crippled or prostrated by exposure and suffering. The sympathy of the civilized world was aroused by this frightful calamity, and within a few days nearly §5.000,000 was contributed in money for the relief of these unfortunates, besides other millions in provisions, clothing, and general supplies. Tbtee million six hundred and sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars- and seventy-seven cents of this magnificent contribution was given as a general fund, to be distributed without limitation or restriction for the immediate relief of the sufferers. Of this vast sum the afflicted people were permitted to receive but §2,225,857 in money. The remaining sum of §1,438.750.77 was variously alienated in passing from the donors to the intended beneficiaries. Nearly §150,000 of it was appropriated by the State Government. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was appropriated without authority. to relieve distress in other parts of the State. Seventy-five thousand dollais was appropriated to build elegant permanent bridges a year and a half after the disaster to replace temporary ones previously provided from this charity fund. Forty thousand dollars went to purchase new steam fire engines for the municipality. Thirty thousand dollars was expended during the present year in exhuming the buried victims of the flood, gathering them from the several burial places in the valley and reburying them in a grand cemetery; and other thousands are to be paid fcr a monument already ordered. Forty thousand dollars was set apart to establish a permanent .hospital after all the injured by the flood had been discharged from medical or surgical care. An undetermined or unannounced sum is appropriated to defray the cost of writing and publishing a history of the great calamity, upon which a professor in tie University of Pennsylvania is now engaged. Other thousands were squandered among contractors, superintendents, overseers and clerks. The record is one replete with evidences of maladministration, political corruption, robbery and jobbery well calculated to heap disgrace upon the State of Pennsylvania and discourage a similar demonstration of public generosity should an occasion for its display ever again unfortunately occur. The Herald then proceeds to show that the fund of $3,664,627 was increased to $1,211,069 by contributions from railroads, churches, secret societies, etc., to say nothing of food, clothing, lumber, medicine and other necessaries. The article continues: Following are the contributions of a few of the great cities: New York contributed $623,976; Philadelphia, §486,696; Pittsburg contributed §255,569; Boston contributed §150,763; Chicago contributed §180,573. And now as to the disposition of the money. No attempt will be made to show the disbursement of what may bo called the private funds—those contributed through the churches, the fraternal societies, the railroad companies, and the Cambria Iron Company, and other similar agencies, but will deal only with what may be tern.el the public tun As—those contribute! for general relief. These, as already shown, amounted to $3,064,627. That money was contributed from the four quarters of the globe for the relief of human suffering and distress. Not one penny of it was given to the great State of Pennsylvania to aid it in discharging an unusually onerous duty. Nor was any part of it given to aid in building bridges, to equip a fire department, or to Improve its public parks. None of it was Intended by its donors to build monuments or to endow hospitals for the benefit of sufferers by possible future calamities. Twelve days after the horrible tragedy and when it became manifest that an immense sum of money would be contributed for the relief of the sufferers, Gov. Beaver created a commission to acquire control of this fund and manage its disbursement. It had no representation from the New York committee and none from the Conemaugh Valley, where the distress existed. This fund of §3,269,167 passed under the Commissioners’ control. The books show that but $2,225,877 ever readied the hands of the sufferers of the Conemaugh Valley for whose relief alone it was given. This astounding statement, taken directly from official sources, shows a‘n apparent alienation of $1,043,310 of the money. The next, material item going to make up this great shortage Is money expended for supplies. The Commissary General of Pennsylvania, who personally superintended the distribution of food supplies after the State took charge, In his officiahreport estimated the money value of the provisions and the clothing donated at §1,250,000, and yet with such a showing Mr. Kremer reports the disbursements of the commission for supplies as §61,533.86. And added to this Mr. Kremer reports a further expenditure of $43,931, which he says was for labor in handling supplies and the hire of teams in transporting them. In addition to this the local Finance Committee charges §5,515 expended from Its funds for supplies, making a total of $110,980 charged to this account. The next Item of disbursement the commission reports is for “buildings, rent, and labor on buildings, $179,033.” Thisopensup one of the greatest scandals of the administration of this trust, regarding which the correspondent has ample data to establish the most flagrant jobbery and robbery. Paid for the burial of the dead and for the removal of the dead to “Grand View,” including the purchase of the plot and the appropriation made for improving the ground, and for purchasing headstones, $30,485. This item the Herald criticises as wrongful, because the victims were all decently buried in the first place. This money was used in exhuming the bodies, recoffining them, transporting them to a swell cemetery, and there reinterring them in newly purchased grounds, placing a heavy marble stone at tlie head of each grave, to be followed by the erection of a costly monument —all this while widows and other survivors were suffering. p The Czarowitz, the eldest son of the Czar, who is about ready to start upon his American tour, is a handsome young man of 23. He has a tall figure, a powerful physique, and is a colonel in the Imperial Guard. lie is said to show considerable talent for the military profession, Ben Butler, who is now careering through the far Northwest in a special car, has never before been west of the Mississippi, and the people of that region think there is soilo special significance in his visit.

DASTARDLY WORK OF TRAMPS AT DESPLAINES, ILL. They Attack an Old Man, Michael BrazelL and Brutally Pound Him to Death—Robbery the Motive for the Crime. [Desplaines (Ill.) dispatch.] Michael Brazell, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Desplaines, was brutally murdered by thieves shortly after 8 o’clock last night The murderers waylaid thp old man in his barn, crushed his skull with a bludgeon, and then robbed him. To get at his money and valuables they had to cut his pockets, and when he was found by. neigh bors his clothes were cut to shreds. His. wife estimates that the robbers got at least SI,OOO and several thousand dollars* worth of papers, as he was in the habit of carrying much money about his person. Mr. Brazell went out to milk hiscows shortly after supper, and when he had finished the job he went into the, barn, which is about a block from his house. He carried a lighted lantern in one hand and a pail of milk in. the other. The three robbers were waiting for him. It is believed that theyattacked him the moment he stepped over the threshold, and tried to brain him with a heavy piece of scantlingwhich was subsequently found in thebarnyard covered with blood. That Brazell made a gallant fight for his lifeeverything in the barn as well as the marks on his body would indicate. A man of powerful physique and fearless, he fought his assailants until, finally overcome, he sank to the floor nearly dead. His arms wc-re torn and lacerated, his hands were covered with blood, his. face and neck were a mass of cuts and bruises, and several of his ribs werebroken. Even the walls of the barn were bespattered with blood. The assault occurred at a time when the streets were nearly deserted, and not until the murderers had secured their booty and were flying for safety did anybody hear the old man’s feeblecries for help. William Haben and hiswife passed the barn just as the murderers vaulted the fence. One of the fellows, who was bareheaded and whose face was covered with blood, collided with Mrs. Haben and sent her reeling into the gutter. He ran on without saying a word, leaving Haben to pick his wife up. The faces and hands ot the other two men were also bloody. Mr. Haben’s first impulse was to follow them, but he was arrested by a feeblecry of “murder,” which seemed to com© from Brazell’s barn. He listened, and again heard thb cry more indistinct than before. Thoroughly frightened and confused he ran to Wicke's saloon, and told Wicke what lie had seen and heard. The two men ran back to Brazell’s place and entered the barn. Lying on the floor, his face covered with blood, which was flowing from a score of wounds, was Brazell. He recognized Haben and Wickes, and in a faint voice exclaimed: “I’ve oeen murdered; I’m dying.” The two men bent over the injured man, who made one or two vain efforts to talk and then died with his battered head resting in Haben’s arms. After covering the body with some bags Haben. and Wicke ran out and gave the alarm to Brazell’s neighbors. In a few minutes a hundred men armed with shotguns and revolvers were scouring the country in search of the murderers. Every nook and glen, every strip of woodland was searched, but the fellowshad left no trail. Word was sent to the police department in the city for detectives, and half a dozen were dispatched from the Central Station to help in the man-hunt, but they arrived at Desplainestoo late to do any good. The only thing the murderers left behind that will serve to identify them was a hat. It was an. ordinary Derby hat, in fair condition beyond the battering it received from old man Brazell’s blows. When the men were last seen, about 11 o’clock, near Norwood, one of them was described as hatless. The fact was reported by two farmers who were driving in from the city, who said the triowas walking along the road in the direction of the city, and they seemed to be anxious to conceal their identity. Word was at once sent to the police station at Jefferson to send out men to meet them if possible. Along the line of the Northwestern at every station between I}esplaines and Chicago officers were searching freight cars as fast as the arrived, and everybody who could not give an account of himself was promptly taken in and locked up at Montrose. Four men were taken from one train that passed through Desplaines. The men were traveling in pairs, and had between, them over SIOO. This, coupled with the fact that they were stealing a ride, gave the officers some hope that they had caught the right men. The three murderers are known by sight to half a. dozen persons in Desplaines. They spent Tuesday night in the railroad station and yesterday sat in Wicke’s saloon, drinking and playing cards. Last evening, just before 6 o’clock, one of them entered the saloon with an empty whisky bottle and asked Wicke to fill it. Thefellow was apparently under the influence of liquor and the saloon-keeper told him he could not have any more. The same whisky bottle was afterward found in Brazell’s barn near the battered; hat. That the trio came to Desplaines for the express purpose of robbing old man Brazell is generally admitted. It has. been known among the man’s neighbor.’ for years that he was in the habit of can* rylng big sums of money, and though hehas been warned repeatedly against the habit he persisted in doing so. At times he was known to have $1,500 in cash i» his pockets. Only a week ago he cashed a check for a friend, paying him S4OO in gold. He did an extensive loan businesswith the farmers, and always carried from one to twenty notes for ranging from SIOO to SI,OOO. When he w-as searched by the police no trace of a. note could be found. Men who knew him well say that the exact amount th er murderers got will probably never beknown. The old man. while conceded, to be wealthy had no bank accounts. He abhorred banks. He believed they wireinstitutions run for the purpose of defrauding people, and always considered his own pocket a safer repository than the steel vaults of the modern bank.

Stray Bits of News.

Thebe are 2,000,000 head of sheep and' goats in New Mexico. A New York firm is about to start a kangaroo farm at Warrington, Pa. The China Sea and the Bay of Fundy are the two roughest seas in the world. Relic-sellers at Gettysburg importwagon loads of Junk from Southern batr tiefields and sell them ror Gettysburg? battle relics.