Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1884 — Page 1

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FOREIGN FANCIES.

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Royalty in Danger of Violent Death in Germany and England. ...

A Mysterious Stranger Captured in the Smperor's Box at tho Opera House.

The Prince of Wales Heavily (guarded in Traveling front Bristol.

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AFTER THE KAISEK.

A Mysterious Stranger found In thk fcmperor'g Box at the Opera Hbuie, VIENNA,January 31.—Yesterday the attendants at the Court Opera house heard strange noises near the emperors box in the opera house. It was quite dark, but (hey thought they saw a man in the house and at once lighted the gas. The police attendants finally found the stranger in the toilet chamber adjoining the imperial box. He had barred the door and would not let anybody in, but alter a short struggle was arrested. He said that at the previous night's performance It was so dull he had fallen asleep-, and when he woks up lie found himself locked in the box, Mathematical instruments. "Up& measures, wires fcc., were found on him. He is from Bavaria. The police pretended to have evidence to show h* \tas reconnoitering in connection with a plot to kill the Kaiser. The opera house is now strongly guarded by soldiers and police, and there is much excitement.

-''Scaring the Prince of Wales. BRISTOL, January 31.—The Prince of Wales started on his return to London, to-day. A large crowd assembled at the station to see the departure, and cheered him enthusiastically. The Bristol police warned the prince, yesterday, not to walk on the suspension bridge after dark for fear he would come to harm. The train from London to Bristol, upon which it was known a Fenian was traveling, was watched along the entire route by detectives. The mayor of Bristol received letters threatening death to the royal family. A farmer who bought a gun with which he avowed an intention of Bhooting the prince, and who was arrested here, Tuesday, has been sent to an asylum.

THE WHITE ELEPHANT.

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LONDON, January 29.—Continuing the controversy over the genuineness of the sacred white elephant now in quarters at the Zoological gardens, Mr. Davis, the London agent of Mr. Bariiuuj, has written a letter to the newspapers stating that the adverse criticisms of Prof. Flower and others were immediately cabled to Mr. Gaylord, the agent of Mr. Barnum, at Calcutta, who replied to-day as follows: "The sacred white elephants of Siam and Burmah are not so designated because of the amount of pink color. They must also possess certain other peculiarities. Prominent among them are extreme softness of the skin, redness of the mouth, an expanded forehead, a brotched trunk tinged with pink the entire length, a very square chest, hazel or amber-colored eyes, and five white nails on each foot.

Mr. Davis, with Mr. Bartlett, superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, upon the re-reipt of the cablegram, minutely examined the elephant, and compared, point by point, the peculiarities indicated by Mr. Gaylord with those possessed by the animal. The distinguishing marks were found to agree exactly. They also discovered additional points peculiar only to Bacred elephants, among which are unusually large ears and an extraordinary length of tail.

Mr. Davis niaiutains that Mr. Gaylord's telegram has completely demolished tfie critics and entirely set at rest all doubts of the genuineness of the elephant's claims to sacredness, and offers £40,000 to anybody who will produce an elephant having similar points, landed in London from India.

A Splendid failure.

LONDON, January 31.—The Stock exchange is astounded at the disclosures following the failure of D. W. Thomas' Sons

& Co.

Business is almost at a

standstill. The firm owes, inside of the Stock exchange, £35,000, and to customers £800,000. The assets are believed to be nil. The Cornish Bank and Insurance company are heavy sufferers.

Colored Convention Called. CHICAGO, 111., January 31.—A committee appointed at the recent convention of the colored voters of Illinois and known as "the colored men's state central committee of the state of Illinois," has issued a call to the colored voters of the states of Kansas, IllinoiB, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia, for a conference at Pittsburg, April 29,1884, to unite in an appeal to the loyal, patriotic sentiment of the country to speedily and effectually determine whether in a time of peace, questions of public concern are to be settled by ballot or by bullet in other words whether the shot gun policy now in vogue in the south is to be recognized and sanctioned as a legitimate mode of political warfare. The address declares the conference also will cousider the line of policy the colored voters will pursue in the next national canvas. a

Called Out to Be Harried. ROCKKORD, III., January 31.—Willie Salisbury is a youth whose chin has ne'er yet felt the draw of a razor, son of respectable people who live iu Beloit. Xanuie IVersen is the buxom daughter of a rppve?table Swede in this city. The boy w:th the beardless chin aud the beauty bn.l It-en friends and sweethearts. To-day the father of the girl received a confession from her and

In had his son hitch up the sleigh. All three got in, and on the way to Beloit took in a preacher. They drove to Salisbury's house and called out Willie. He speedily became a husband and Nina at the same time became a bride. Old man Salisbury refused to recognize Nina, and the preacher has got a law suit on his hands for performing the ceteinony.

A WIIJD ANIMAL,

The Terror of Montgomery to be Bunted by One Thousand Men on Saturday, Special to Uie Express.

CKAWFOHDSVILLE, Ind., January 31.Tlie people of Newmarket, seven miles south of here, on the Terre Haute & Logansport railroad, are greatly excited over the appearance in that vicinity of a strange "wild animal which has been carrying off sheep, pigs and chickens. For several months the farmers have been annoyed at the frequent losses of their sheep, especially, but there was no accounting for the disappearance until within a week or ten days. About ten dayB ago a farmer beard a strange howling and an •investigation shortly afterward disclosed the fact that he had one less sheep in his fold. The howling waB very loud and like the roar of a lion. A few nights afterward another farmer discovered the strange marauder in a tree. It was a moonlight night andthe farmer, who by the way is thoroughly reliable, says he could see the animal plain enough to make out its size. He compares it to a big yearling calf. Others also claim to have seen it and the reports have greatly excited the people ior mile around. It is thought the beast makes its hiding place in the pine hills west of New Market. A grand hunt or drive has been organized for Saturday for the purpose of capturing the stranger. Bills have been printed and distributed in the surrounding country giving the programme for the hunt. A chief marshal and three aids have been appointed and it is thought fully one thous, and persons will join in the chase which is to be conducted upon the idea of forming lines which are to converge and by closing in at a certain point scour the county.

ROWEL RELEASED

JSnil of the Batavia murder Trlal--Pal-mer Burned In Effigy. BATAVIA, N. Y,, January 31.—The trial of E. Newton Howell for the murder of Johnston L. Lynch closed tonight with a verdict of "not guilty," on the ground of self-defense. The verdict was received with wild enthusiasm. Rowell was given an ovation at the court house. In the latter place he received the congratulations of friends. Palmer escaped being mobbed by getting into the hotel through the back window while the crowd was in front of the hotel. Palmer was again burned in effigy to-night.

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late hour last night, Palmer who has figured in the Rowell-Lynch murder trial, was hung in effigy in full view of his place of business and of the window of the room occupied by Judge Haight, at the St. James hotel. On a board fastened to the effigy were the words: "Sneak Palmer, author of the crime."

Big Fire at Peoria.

PKOKIA, 111., January 31.—A block in Adams street burned this morning, entailing a loss estimated at $50,000, partially insured. Among the firms burned out are Schmidler & Radcliffe, hardware A. M. Weaver, furniture Kock Brothers, notions.

The burned block was owned by Hine & Jack. The losses are as follows: On building, $25,000, insurance $13,000 Koch Bros., notions, $25,000 insurance $13,000 B. Cowell, crockery, $30,000, insurance $12,2000 Schrobly & Rowelclifle, $10,000, insurance, $2,500 A. M. Weaver, furniture, $15,000, insurance, $10,500. The Clark house adjoining was destroyed by falling walls, loss, $4,000, insurance, $2,500. The Peoria Bicycle club, lost $4,000 worth of property. No insurance.

Telef^Aph Consolidation* Naw YORK, January 31. The Western Union company reported tor*ay that nothing was known of the contemplated lease of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph lines by the Western Union company. An officer of the company said that while no overtures had been made to the Western Union company there was little doubt that the Baltimore & Ohio company are in the market ready to sell out, or lease their lines, whenever a favorable chance is presented. It was not generally know n, he said, that the Baltimore & Ohio company, a year and a half ago, were extremely anxious to lease their lines to the Mutual Union company.

Forfeiting L»nd Grants/"

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 31 In the house the committee on public lands decided to report a bill declaring the forfeiture of the land grant of the Oregon Central railroad, a line pro posed between Astoria and Portland. The forfeiture will be declared on the ground that the main line of the road and for which the grant was made, was never constructed. There are 148,000 acres in thegrant.

The house took up the bill declaring forfeited the Texas Pacific grant and it passed by a vote of 259 to 1. (Barr, ofPennsylvania.)

Public Sentiment at Work. TKOY, N. Y.. January 31.—In deference to public sentiment the police commissioners took measures, this morning, to break up the union mould era' patrol of the vicinity of the Malleable iron works, where non-union men were employed. Tho police charged the patrol, and made five ar-

There is much excitement

rests v:-*'" .»• A Ghastly Find in Chicago

CHICAHO, III., January 31.—Three human bodies, encased in hay, and compressed inM two ordinary whisky casks, came to this city from Baltimore yesterday, by the American Express,

One barrel contained the bodies of two adult white males, and the other that of a colored man. The police, on making the discoveiy, arrested John Carlson, a veterinary surgeon, who paid the express charges, and the driver of the express wagon in which the ghastly freight was hauled to CarlSon's place of business. The barrels were addressed to Fawcett, Barnes & Co., a supposititious firm, and it is thought that the bodies were intended for one of the medical colleges of the city.

THROUGH A BRIDGE.

An Air Line Train Plunges Into the River at Indian.aw .appHa.

Sii fersfo& Killed, One Fatally Injured and Ten Less Seriously.

The Bodies of he Dead BurneA to Crisp—Entire Destruction of the Bridge and Train.

Indianapolis News. The awful Salem' bridge calamity of last month, on the main line of the L., N. A. & C. road was duplicated at Broad Bipple, eight miles north of this city, on the Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line division. The south bound accommodation, due in this city at 10:45 a. m., went through the bridge over White river, causing a loss of seven human lives and of thousands of dollars. The train was moving at fifteen miles an hour over the bridge the engine hsd just cleared the first span when the bridge behind it broke in two places, letting down the entire train of three cars into the river. TheJ wreck took fire from the stoves in the cars, and all the cars and the remains of the bridge, together with those who went down and could not be extricated, were consumed. The killed were as follows: John Brewer, engineer, Lafayette J. E. Ricketts, baggagemaiter S. E. Smith, express messenger George Lowry, brakeman, Buena Visla Thomas Parr, superintendent of bridge repairs, Delphi, John Bray, Deming, Ind., passenger Lynn Clark, Westfield, passenger, fatally injured.

The following are the injured: W. P. Houk, Westfield, Ind., head cut and bruised WilliaTbl A. Lemons, ex-sheriff of Hamilton county, arm broken, face cut, side bruised William

Swiirgart, Carmel, skull fractured and hip hurt B. J. White, bridgeman, bruised Charles Parker, bridgeman, face and head cut Mrs. Sullivan and baby, wife and child of section boss, bruised J. B. Horton, slightly scorched and bruised.

The bridge went down at 10 o'clock, and at 10:10 a train was ready to start for the rescue. Doctors Wands, H. Jameson, Eastman, Sutcliffe, Coulter and Conner Maxwell, and many train men, in charge of General Agent Brecount, were aboard. An effort was made to exclude reporters from the train, but representatives of the Journal and News found their way aboard and were soon landed at the scene of the disaster. The sight which presented itself in itself was enough to confirm harrowing rumors which had reached the ears of those on the relief train. One-half of the Howe truss bridge, a 120 foot spann, was in the river and in flames. Nothing but the wheels and other iron portions of the cars remained.

A half a score of men were vainly trying to quench the flames with buckets of water. A strong line was made, and buckets of water were rapidly thrown upon the wreck, cooling the debris, so that the work of recovering bodies was successfully begun. The dead were in the ruins of the smoker and baggage car, and there, one on top of the other, were in deep water, near the middle pier. A skiff was pressed into service for ferrying to the Bkiff the charred remains. It was a sickening and heartrending work. Six charred trunks, formless and unrecognizable, were dug from the ruins.

Associated Press Account. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., January 31.— The scene at the wreck was extremy distressing. The dead were in the ruins of the smoking and baggage cars and these were on top. The others were in deep water. A Bkiff was used for ferrying to land the remains of the d«*ad. B. J. White was working under the bridge when the trian went over. He says he thinks the rods pulled through the nuts, letting tho bridge down. To all appearances one break occurred within fifteen feet of the pier and another about midwav of the span. AVhite's

escape

was truly marvelous. Standing

on the ice the falling bridge and cars struck him on the head, drove him through the ice and down to the very bottom of the river. The timbers did not rest upon him, however, and he swam out more dead than alive, covered with bruises but able to walk. The newsboy of the train says be could have extinguished the fire with one bucket of water, but it was not to be had.

C. C. Loder and J. B. Horton were in the smoking car. At one end lay a man with his skull crushed, and life extinct. Across him, close to a red hot stove, lay Lynn Clark, a heavy timber binding one leg immovably. Loder tried to find an axe, with which the express car is provided, but it was on the other side of the car, in the water. "For God's sake, don't desert me!" cried Clark. "We did not desert him," said Loder, "until the flames scorched us anl we almost smothered with smoke. Before leaving I kicked out the window close by Clark, and left him in his agony. Soon the flames burned the timber in two close by Clark, and he crawled out of the window which we had broken for him. "In five minutes after the train went down," said Conductor Losey, "the whole wreck was wrapped in flames. In less time than that all who had not got out already were drowned. Frightful screams came from the ruins near the pier, but with two buckets and no boat we were powerless, and all that we could do was to close our ears and pray for death to relieve our comrades."

A patch of gray beard led to tne identification of John Bray. A train

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order in the vest pocket led to the belief that a handful of bones to which Were hanging a few shreds of roasted flesh were the remains of Engineer Brewer. A button or a spared half inch of shspender or undergarment led to the identification of others. It is believed that all the killed liave been recovered, except Thomas Parr, who was working on the bridge, whose remains are supposed to be at the bottom of the river. The bridge and train were entirely destroyed.

ILLINOIS G. A. R.

The Annual Kucampment—Prominent Persons Present. DKCATUR, 111., January 31.—The eighteenth annual encampment of the Illinois department of ihe G. A. It. is now being held in this city. Over 600 of 876 delegates elected were present. In the meeting were noticed General R. J. Oglesby, whose appearance was the signal for vociferous applause, Majors McCartney and McClaughrey, Generals McNulta, Black, Reece, Elliott, McClernand, Pavey, and Rowett, Chaplain Rutledge, of the Joliet penitentiary, Colonel Dickason, Captain Clem Clements, Colonel Roberts, and Major Woods, of Joliet. Governor Hamilton arrived this afternoon from the east. His appearance was warmly acknowledged. Reports showed that the membeiship of the organization, which was only 6,524 January 1,1883, increased during the year 10,818, with 330 posts. There is quite a scramble in the department ranks as to who. shall he commander, The .fight is between Lieut. Col. Dickason, of Danville, and Major McClaughrey, the warden of the Joliet penitentiary. The friendB of Oglesby and J. L. Bennett are for Dickason, while the Hamilton men are for McClaughrey, who was made warden by the governor.

BRUTAL MURDER.

A Cincinnati Drunkard Kills His Wife and Unborn ChUd. CINCINNATI, O., January 31.—Patrick Hartnet, aged thirty-nine, a laborer living at No. 25 Walker street, Mt. Auburn, killed his wife this morning, and endeavored to chop her body to pieces, and hide it under the floor. He has been addicted to drink, and was very quarrelsome. This morning he ordered his wife to lie on the bed while he went into another room. Fearing violence she attempted to escape through a window, when he entered with an ax and struck her one blow on the head, causing instant death. An alarm was given by the children, and the patrol wagon called, but Hartnet, entrenched within the house with theax for a-weakon, defied the police. They obtained a heavy scantling, jammed him

There seems to be no doubt the murderer was insane. He ha» been burning "holy candles" in his house for some time, and praying before them. He ordered his wife to kiss the floor before he struck her. After the murder he played a jewsharp and sang and prayed.

Perils of Firemen.

MILWAUKEE, Wis., January 32.—The floors and walls of Vogt & Fitzhugh's box factory fell in during the progress of afire to-night. Albert Smith, foreman of the fire company three, Adam Schmidt and Joseph Nock, pipemen were precipitated three Btories and buried in the burning debris. Their comrades rushed to their assistance and saved Smith and Nock with slight injuries but Schmidt was burned badly remaining under the blazing timber nearly twenty minutes. Chief Foley and another company of firemen had just left the roof when the building fell. This is the fifth time the building has been on fire during the year.*

Buried Under Seventy Tons of Steel. PITTSBURG,Penn.,January31.—A distressing accident occurred here at the Linden steelworks, by which two men were killed and another received injuries which will result in death. The men were engaged loading a piece of steel known as fish plates on cars, and were standing on the platform tn which there were from fifty to seventy tons of fishplates, when the platform gave way and the men fell to the ground with the metal on top of them. John Butler and Thomas Lmey were killed instantly, and John Roach is not expected to live till morning.

His Baggage.

FORT WAYNK, Ind., January 31.— William Bennett was airested this morning while claiming a trunk at the Pennsylvania depot. The officers compelled him to open Ihe trunk on account of the strong odor. The body of a nude white man was disclosed. Bennet is a medical student. He satisfied the officers he obtained the body at Lima, 0.,in a legitimate manner, ana was released. x-,

A Scott Law for New York

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wall, and after a fierce fight disarmed him. He was so badly injured that he was taken to the hospital. Mrs. Hartnet was the mother of five chUdren and would soon have given birth to the sixth. She was an estimable woman. An inquest of lunacy was had on Hartnet last spring, but upon the the testimony of some of his neighbors he was declared sane.

ALBANY, N. -Y., January 31.—It is generally understood that a bill will be introduced iu the legislature to morrow, similar in its provisions to the Scott liquor law of Ohio. This explan ation is given for the presence of a large number of Republicans, including a large delegation from New York dty..agL &

National Notes."

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 8.1.— Delegate Raymond, of Dakota, said, yesterday, that the president had promised to appoint Hon. John Cobnrn governor of Dakota.

The correspondence in the state department relative to the O'Donnell affair has been refused the house committee or foreign affairs. This lets Hewitt out.

Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, addressed the senate committee on postoffices and poetroads in opposition to the proposed government control of the telegraph.

Secretary Frelinghuasen has addressed to the president a communication, which he nas transmitted to the house of representatives, in response to the resolution asking for papers relating to the exclusion of American hog products from foreign countries. He recommends that no immediate action be taken on the proposed retaliatory legislation.

ICE GORGES BREAKING

gteamera ud Barges Wrecked by the .Having Ice. |5PITT8BURG, Penn., Jannary 81.—Early £his morning the ice in the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers broke and has been running oilt since. The steamboat Oella was swept from the landing car at Browniville, and twelve barges owned by Walton & Co. were carried away from the third pool. All but three were recovered. The tipple of the Iron City Coal company went down. The Pittsburg, McKeesport & Yonghiogheny railroad bridge at Bradford is pronounced dangerous and iB expected to go down to-morrow. The bridge at West. Newton was carried awa£ to-day. The Allegheny river is still closed but rising, and the ice ^ill break within twenty-four hours No great harm is expected in this city.

CINCINNATI, O., January 30.—Navigation has been resumed on the Ohio rive# by the departure to-day Of all the regu^r packets, both up and down the

CihrttLEsTON, W. Va., January 31.— W. Bradford's boom in Elk river broke this evening, letting out over 2,000 logs, besides many rafts. Loss, $15,000.

ST* LOUIS Mo- January 31.—No further movement oi the ice* occurred to-day. A good part of the harbor below the bridge is clear, and the ferry boats are running. The ice above the bridge is indefinitely firm. Advices from German, on the Missouri river, state the ice (in

the lower Gasconade

river is running out, but whether it has force enough to break the gorge in the Missouri is doubtful.

Moving ice at St. Louis Wednesday night sunk the steamer Salvo No. 2, stove a hole in the Minneapolis, and badly damaged some barges. Great destruction.of property is feared when the iOQ goes out.

College Pranks, Indeed."

PtfiLADELrHiA, Penn., JanuafjS' 31.— During the annual Bone Breaking at the university of Pennsylvania, this morning, the students got into the street apd destroyed considerable property. Some of them had their clothing torn. The police arrested one student and wore followed to the station house by his comrades who were pelting the the officers with bricks, stones, etc. In front of the station house another

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dent was arrested. The howling students numbered fully 500. During the disturbance four pistol shots were fired and one'man was shot in the hand..

JAIVObituary.

Q., January 31.—George

W. Jones, president of the Miami Valley Insurance Co., died this evening of pneumonia. He has been prominent in the exposition, musical festivals and other public enterprises of Cincinnati.

ALBANY, N. Y., Jamiary 31. —Dr. Elisha Morris, secretary of the state board of health, and long the princial member of the board of health of ew York city, died this morning.

Another Telephone Company. BALTIMORE, Md., January 31.—The Globe Telephone company filed a certificate of incorporation. The Globe owns the Shaw patents.

THE GAY HEAD INDIANS

How They Showed Their Generosity and Bravery in Rescuing the Dead and Dying.

Enough has not been said in tribute to the matchless heroism and unbounded generosity of the Gay Head Indians, says the Boston Journal. More than they have done none could do. Freely they threw their lives in the balance against the cruel death that was fast claiming the few who clung to the stranded vessel. Nearly every able-bodied man in the little settlement was included in the

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death in a task that seemed hopeless. Half a dozen nearly perished in an attempt to put off in a wlialeboat which could not live in the angry sea. Twen-ty-two lives they saved amid such perils. And those who reached the barren headland alive were greeted with boundless though humble hospitality. Nothing that the limited resources of their noble-hearted lescuers could supply was held back. Food, drink, missing articles of clothing were freelv given, and then men and women began the sad search for the dead. This was in progress when the first communication with the outside world was established by the Boston and New York newspaper men on Sunday, who found these poor people regretting only that they could not do more for the shipwrecked survivors. The reporters entered several of the dwell inns, and primitive places of abode they are. Everything was neat, but there were uo luxuries and few comforts. The thin, nnplastered walls were a poor protection from the icy gale. Entire families lived together in one or two rooms and aloft reached by a ladder. The"people were scantily clad. Women came down to the land ing in the blustering snowstorm wearing their calico dresses, but they seemed not to know it was cold. In collecting the dead upon the beach the body of one poor woman was found entirely nude. Another had scarcely any covering. One of the Indian women had at home two sheets, which were treasured as luzu ries seldom to be used. She sped to her home and fetched them, weepii as she pitifully said it was all she coul give to cover the dead. And the bodies were quickly' sewed up in these winding sheets. This and much more have these people done without asking even thanks in return. In fact, all tha any one of them has asked after what have been to them great sacrifices has been a salvage interest in the few trunks that have washed ashore. This trifling recompense belongs to them by right of law, but we misjudge the people of Boston and of New England if the generosity of these poor Indians is not made up to them a hundred, yes, a thousand fold:

The Kick of Horses and Males A recent coincident may be of great service toward lightening the load of slander long borne. by the patient mule. On the same day that the Marquis of Hartford was fatally kicked by a horse in the hunting field in England, a mule kicked William Madden, a St. Louis blacksmith, in the head and although he hurt him considerably, Mr. Madden will recover. Perhaps, of the two animals, the horse is r.eally the more dangerous.

CHARLES WOERISHOEFFER.

A Stock Manipulator Who Has Loomed Up Suddenly—Who He is and Where He Comes From—His Genius for SpeC' illation and Intuitive Guesses at the

Market—Appearance and Traits of the Man, One of Which is Open-Handed Generosity. Special to the Commercial Gasette.

During the recent bear rade on the Villard stocks a broker, formerly well known on the street, loomed suddenly into prominence as an extensive and daring trader, and forged [ahead as the nervy and skillful leader of the downward movement that squeezed a number of powerful bulls. This was Charles WoeriBhoeffer, head of the firm, of Woerishoeffer & Co., of Exchange Place. The names of giltedged kings who engineer gambling resolutions on Wall street are reasonably well known to the public, but the natural question comes now, "Who is this man Woerishoeffer that is matching swords with old knights in the stock board tourney?"

His career, despite the interesting glamour which always surrounds phenominal success, has been full of flat generalities no thrilling episodes of any kind, no dime-novel romance. But it does conclusively prove the wisdom, so far as the world goes, of slicking to first instincts, and working a natural gift for all there is in it. Charles Woerishoeffer, a German of good family, landed in this country in 1854, when he had just turned his majority. He came from Frankfort-on-the-Main, the home of the German money kings for centuries, and possibly imbibed a financial instinct from the Frankfort air. His first steps were directed toward the money street, and he obtained employment in the well 'known house of von Hoffman & Co., where his natural aptitude for speculation soon became clear.

After serving an apprenticeship at desk work he became associated with the firm of Speyer & Co., brokers and dealers in foreign securities and ex* change. In the course of a few years his elders began to consult and respect hiB judgement on turns in the market, and the large German brokers, wielding heavy capital, intrustred him with their brokerage. For some time he confined himself strictly to the legitimate business of commissions, in which he earned an enviable reputation for his aciiteness and honorable promptness in making returns. At length, feeling his own strength, and fully confident of business from his German constituency, he branched out for himself, and for the past eight years he has been known as trader on his own account as well as broker. This arrangement is liable to confuse the street as to a man's personal dealings, for the reason that he gets the credit of dealB which are merely handled on commission. His very remarkable and successful intuitions about the market brought him a rush of business, and lie stands to-day in a position to command the entire German strength of the street. When, he does move, it therefore means for more than the personal deals or the ersonal capital of WoershoefFer fc Co. ometime8 on the bull side, again on the bear, always shrewd, generally successful. His latest dasb has been on the bear side in Pacifics, where he cleared a fortune in a few weeks.

He was in peculiar circumstances to acquire the facts on which to work and trade for instance, he was a trustee in the Oregon Transcontinental comDany, which natnrally gave him a full nsight into the affairs also of the Oregon Construction company and the Northern Pacific. His information was utilized when the crash came. Similarly he was a trustee in the North River Construction company, and this was so closely identified with the West Shore and Ontario & Western, that his knowledge cf this triplicate concern enabled him to trade advantageously on the board.

What sort of a man is he What are his personal traits? Well, to look at Woerishoeffer, you would probably take him for a solicl and satisfied German merchant, without a great deal of trouble on his mind, medium height and size, quiet eyes, reserved and affable demeanor, a remarkably even temperament for one carrying the details of intricate problems in his head. There is absolutely nothing about his exterior, if we expect perhaps a peculiar shrewd curl of the mouth, to indicate unusal financial instincts.

But he is a genius in telling you everything you don't want to know, and nothing that you do. A1 *-ays polite and generou?, full of good humor, courteous and unruffled, he will laugh and joke, slap you in the back with German heartiness, agree to everything yon say but when you try to bore into him for news he will blandly say in his blandest brogue, "You go to Cammack he understands these things better as I do." Cammack, by the way, is the shrewd broker from New Grieans who figures with Woerishoeffer in his deals. Every evening about 8 o'clock you can soe the German speculator saunter quietly into the Brunswick, and hold a protracted confab with Cammack. Personally Mr. Woerishoeffer has entirely witndrawn himself from the stock board, bis appearance there being by deputy, Mr. Sum merhaus, a junior member of the firm.

In his social and business relations Woerishoeffer is extremely popular, chiefly among his clerks, who often experience his kindness. Often, when one of them looks played out with hard work he will quietly receive a good sized a good sized check and an accompanying order to take a trip and build up. In case of any trouble or family affliction the same sort of con siderate help is extended unasked. ThiB makes the boys swear by him.

In his domestic relations Mr. Woerishoeffer is most happily fixed. A few

yearB

ago

married a daughter of

Oswald Otiendorfer, the Staatz Zeitung proprietor, and they have one child,

Vanderbilt, or

Gould,

or, a

Sage, but he figures in the millions.

Sending His Treasures to Heaven An Illinois man had accumulated a few thousands, and his health was such as to convince him that he had not much left of life. He picked out the scriptural clause, "Lay up treasure in Heaven." and believed that he could obey. The process that he invented was to convert his wealth into paper money and burn it prayerfully on an altar. He went so far as to build the altar and kindle a sacrificial fire, but he had burned Only $10 when his relatives forcibly deprived him of his religious liberty.

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V.-.'II-SR®4* •W'-^:

A LIBEL SUIT.

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Webb Bayless Sues the Express, A airing for $15,000 Dam-: ages for Libel.

A Long Complaint Setting Forth tlie Grounds Upon Which the Salt Is Brought.

Tho Throe Articles

The complaint given below was filed in the circuit court yesterday. It explains itself.

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STATE or INDIANA, ssf' COUNTY or VIGO. igo Circuit Court, February Term, 1884.

DANIEL W. BAYMCSS 1 [LibeW (.TEOBGE M. ALLEN, Paragraph 1. The raid plaintiff, Daniel W. Bayless, complains of the defendant, George M. Alien, and says:

That he, the plaintiff, was born and raised in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county, state of Indiana. That on the 6th day of October, 1883, the dead body of a woman was found concealed in a private place in said township, county and state, which bedy was supposed to be that of Mrs. Susannah Nelson, who had been supposed to have been murdered and robbed. That this plaintiff was then, and now is a tall man, and then sad now does wear a black mustache. That he had largely figured in the matter of ferreting out the supposed murderer or murderers of the said Susannah Nelson. That the said defendant was prior to the 6th of Octoler, 1883, and was then and now is the publisher of a newspaper called "The Terre Haute Express," at the city of Terre Haute, said county and state. That on the 25th day of November, 1883, the said defendant published in the said "Terre Haute Express," he then and there being the proprietor and publisher thereof, the following false, wicked and malicious libel of and concerning said plaintiff. "Here Mrs. Nelson met her death aud was robbed. The Terre Haute woman has had several appointments with Mania, but be has failed to keep them. The Anderson Star says that Man Is la not alone suspected, and he is not tbe only man who will have a chance to prove his innoeence. There is a man in Terre Haute who Is spoken of as a tall man with a black mustache who will be arrested In a few days. This is the man who is supposed to have carried the body to th« jlace where It was found. Tbe Star's In'orniant has mentioned tbe man'tt name, under promise that the identity of the inaushallnot be nioda public until :th£. arrest Is made. He is a man who has figured in theaffalr a great deal, and l't Is the general opinion of the people of Terre Haute thait he knows much more than he has told."

Thereby meaning, and being understood by those who read said article to mean that the said plaintiff was and had been guilty of the killing and robbing of the person whose body was so found in said Sugar Creek township, and supposed as aforesaid to be tne body of the said Susannah Nelson, and thereby meaning and being understood by those who read said articles to mean that the said plaintiff had murdered and killed the person whose body was so found as aforesaid, he the said defendant, well knowing at the time he made said publication, that the same would be applied to this plaintiff, and that said publication referred tahim,and to no other person, and would be so understood by the readers of said naper he, the said defendant, well mowing at the time he made said publication that thesame was false, wicked, malicious and libelous. Wherefore plaintiff savs he has been damaged in the sum of five thousand dollars, for which he demands judgment.

Paragraph 2. And the said plaintiff further complaining says: That on the 6th day of October, 1883, the dead body of a woman was found in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county, state of Indiana, whicliwas supposed to be the body of Mrs. Susannah Nelson, who was, prior to that time, supposed to have been killed and robbed. That the plaintiff is now of the age of years, and was bom and raised in said township that the said defendant, George M. Allen, prior to and on the 30th day of November, 1883, was the proprietor and publisher of a newspaper in Terre Haute, said county and state, called "The Terre Haute Express." That the said defendant on the said 30th day of November, 18S3, published in the said newspaper, of the plaintiff, the following false, wicked and malicious libel, that is to say: "The Anderson Star says that 'When the fact was made public that Mrs. felson was murdered and the Bronnenberg family offered a reward for the apprehension of the murderer, the money was made payable to Bayless, the saloonkeeper living near Terre Haute, the man who claimed to have found the policy. Later developments have thrown a cloud of suspicion over this man, and since H. J. Bronnenberg has returned from Terre Haute to-day the reward bas been withdrawn. or at least will not be paid to Bayloss under any circumstances. Mr. Bronen berg, when asked why this was done, simply replied that he believed tbat Bayless was a guilty party to the murder, and be did not feel like paying a man anything for unearthing one of his own crimes, it will now be In order for Bayless to come to the froftt, but unless he gets to the front very rapidly he is likely to be arrested as an accessory before the fact. At least, »o says Mr. Bronnenberg.'"

Thereby meaning tbat the said plaintiff wa3 and iiad been guilty as accesbefore the fact of murder, and

sory

thereby meaning that the said plain-

tiff had aided in the killing and robbing of the person supposed to be the Baia Susannah Nelson and bidden her dead body at the place in said township, where thedead body was so found as aforesaid he, the said defendant well-knowing at the time he so made said publicotion, that the same was false, wicked, malicious and libelous.

Wherefore plaintiff says he has been damaged in the sum of five thousand dollars, for which he demands judgment.

daughter. His home on Thirty-hihth street, near Fifth avenue, is the abode of contentment, hospitality and the choice luxuries of wealth. His actual wealth it is hard to compute. He is not

Paragraph 3. The said plaintiff further complaining of said defendant savs: That on the 6th day of October, 1883, the dead body of a woman supposed to be the body of Susannah Nelson was found concealed away in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county, Indiana That this defendant was born and raised in said township, and has' resided therein all his lifetime that he is now aged 31 years that the said person whose body was so found, was supposed to have been killed, murdered and robbed tbat shortly after said body was so found, and at and near tbe place of such finding, a policy of insurance was found in a hollow stump, which policy proved to be ft policy of insurance on the property of one Susanna Nelson that on the 4th day of December, 1883, and prior to tbat time and ever since the said defendant was and has been the proprietor and publisher of a newspaper called "The Terre Haute Express,

DaDy Established la 1861.

'That on the said 4tli day of December, 1888, the said defendant published in tho said newspaper, of and concerning the .plaintiff, the following false, wi-ked and malicious libel, tmt is to say .r

THK NELSON MURDER.

POMCY KIN UK a BAYLESS TllajtS IP THJt KXVKLOPE WHICH HK1.D THK POI.1CT.

eslerday Webb Bayless, the Macksvllie saloonkeeper, who elaims to have found thc,pollcy in a stump, brought to Sheriff Cleary the envelope which contained tha

§o.icy

Which He

Asks for $5,000 Each, or „v $15,000 in All. 1

when found. Jf the readers of the is press could see tbat envelope it would 8*1 them thinking. It is an official envelope, and Is torn into three or four pieces. Along the edges, and almost In the center of tbe pieces, are blood marks —genuine blood marks. Bayless says he has- had the envelope in hfs possession evi-r since the policy was found. The giving up of the envelope will cause many to wonder bow blood could have gotten on the Inside folds of the polloy. Bayless. in his conversation with Vanaever, stated that, in his opinion, the old lady placed the policy in her bosom. When the fatal blow was struck the blood trickled down the policy. When the policy was in the envelope It was in a folded condition, Mow, will Mr. BayleeSi or any other detective be so kind as to u-

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lain to a carious public how it was that trickled down her bosom, throagb the envelope and on the inside folds of the outsida of tbe absur of such a thing will

Thereby meaning that plaintiff was id had been guilty of robbing and killing Susannah Nelson, and of hiding

her body at the place in said township where said body was so found as aforesaid, and thereby meaning that sskl had feloniously, wilfully, purposely and with premeditated malice killed and murdered the person whose dead body was so found as aforesaid, and thereby meaning that the said plaintiff had taken the said policy from said bodv, after he, the saia plaintiff, had so killed and murdered the person whose body it was, and concealed the said policy in the said stump, and jthen pretended to have found tha Hame, and that he thereupon brought the same to John Cleary, sheriff of Baid Vigo county, with marks of blood thereupon tbat this plaintiff, at the time the said body was so found, and at the time said publication was made, was commonly called and known among his acquaintances, relatives, and friends, and among the people of Vigo county generally as "Webb Bayless," ana "Bayless he, the said defendant well knowing at the time he so madecaid publication, that the same was false,. wicked, malicious and libelous.

Wherefore plaintiff says he has been damaged in the sum of five thousand dollars, for which sum he demands judgment.

Pierce, Davis & Davis and McNutt McNutt, attorneys for plaintiff*^

Cornell's Mummy.

Chicago Tribune. Cornell University lias ordered a mummy fromThebes. The'mummy was once a Mr. Penpi, who was buried during the twenty-third dynasty in the Necropolis. What there is left of the gentleman is covered over with symbols and hieroglyphics to such an extent that Cornell is ccitain it has secured a person who must have been of great consequence in his day, though of little use now except for old junk. It is hardly creditable to- Cornell that it had to apply to Brugsch Bey to decipher Mr. Penpi's pedigree and establish his identity. Inasmuch as most of the time in modern colleges is given to the dead languages, some of the Cornell professors ought to have been up in hieroglyphics sufficient to read the story on Mr. Penpi's cadaver. Taking mummies on trust is poor business. But this is a matter of little note as compared with the question which will rise in the public mind, why a college wants to bring a mummy clear from Egypt at all when it has mummies of its own, and live ones at that, and just as dense, conservative, %nd bloodless as the late Mr. Penpi.

The Woman and the Burglar. Mrs. Martin, of Omaha, didn scream when she unlocked her room and saw a burglar. On the contrary, she marched him to the police station. The Omaha Bee sketches the scene: "A big, strapping fellow, six feet high, with broad shoulders and heavy frame, came marching up tbe street with his head hanging and looking decidedly sheepiBb. Right behind him walked a little woman, of average height and slim build, but in her eye wae a determined look, and what looked more determined was a five-shooter revolver, which she carried in her right hand, with the muzzle in a direct line with the big fellow's head. The pistol was cocked, and the prisoner knew from the look in her eye thai a misstep meant leaden pills for him. After the lady had turned her man over to an officer she put away the pisto1-"

,,«^8A Whopper. la discussing the late unpleasantness, the Mt. Vernon Star says:"Some gay it was so cold that the oil in lamps that were left burning during the night froze solid, while Mr. E. E. Thomas (who has a widespread reputation for truth and veracity) says that when he arose from bed on Saturday morning he made three or four unsuccessful attempts to blow out a lamp which was standing,on a table burning brightly. Upon a closer examination it was found that not only the eil in the lamp, but the blaze also, had frozen solid during the night." pi*#*

Large Incomes.

The entire income of the University of Cambridge is put dowji at £231,26-» 8s. 2d. Oxford has at least -£100,000 more but the two together makeup but little more than half what Lord Dudley has received in one good colliery year, or what the Dukes of Devonshire and Northumberland together annually receive on an average, wbiH Mr. Yanderbilt's income would pretty nearlv cover the receipts of Oxford. Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, ^ale, Harvard and Princeton combined.

Kejortorial investigations into the condition of tbe London poor have bad some curious results. One reporter got

the

porter got

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seen at once. An

other thing is very curious. This envelope is toru and rubbsd into a mass of limp, dirty paper. This being the ease, wliy was not the policy in the same condition Why was not the potloy, If It was on the inside of the envelope, torn just like the envelope?

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smallpox, Mother was

the

smallpox, another was

garroted, and a third was brought beFore a police magistrate for perambulating as an amateur beggar.

Among the gifts received at a pound party held for the benefit of the home for the aged in Concord, N. H., was a pound of silver dimes. One half-dime hid to be added to make exact weight, and the amount was $15.29.

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