Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1883 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. THURSDAY. and rain; wanner, followed by colder northwesterly winds on Friday morning'. THE ENORmITaMOUNT 7,830 Is the number of Spring Suits, and 750 Spring Overcoats, we have in stock o-day in our Men’s, Youths’, Boy6* and Children’s Departments. This is tha assortment we offer our spring trade to select from. W HEN CLOTHING STORE. ADIRONDACK MURRAY, He Leaves Texas with #12,000 of Debts and a Young Woman. Boston, April 4.—A special to the Globe from San Antonio, Texas, says that the town is greatly excited over the flight of the Rev. “ Adirondack’’ Murray, who has been,it is said, deeply in debt for some time. His creditors, after having been long put off, at last demand♦id a settlement, and Murray agreed to meet them and make some proposition. A young woman, with whom Murray is reported to have been intimate, left town the morning after Murray wrote his creditors, and the exclergyman, having packed up his goods, set out a day later. About noon last Saturday he was seen to drive out through a back street and take the Sequin road. He .had a pair of horses attached to an army wagon, and in the army wagon were trunks, two or three small boxes and some small articles, all that remained of his once elegantiot of personal property. Driving eastward about eight miles, he forded the Cibole river, and proceeded ten miles further to Sequin Station, on the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio railway. Here he waited for the 5 o’clock express. East-bound, and, leaving the team, put the baggage on the train and was out of the rSuue by boon on Sunday, and in New Orleans on Sunday evening. Here all trace of him was lost. It is supposed that his friend went from Marshall to Longview by rail, and there took a Red river steamer, which would have brought her into New Orleans about the same time that Mr. Murray got there. Murray’s indebtedness in and about San Antonio will aggregate something over $12,000. None of his creditors will suffer very heavily, for their individual claims are small. One man holds Murray’s notes, long overdue, to the amount of $2,500. He is probably the largest creditor. Murray’s sudden leave-taking from Boston, where he was pastor at the Music Hall, and editor of the Golden Rule, was largely due, as is still believed, to debt. But he was also involved in a scandal, which was the theme of talk and comment in church and social circles for many weeks. He employed as stenographic reporter a young lady of most prepossessing appearance, of fine education and brilliant attainments. The tongue of scandal soon linked their names together in a most unpleasant manner, and resulted in hurrying his flight from the city that once honored him and offered him every inducement for a most remarkable future* He left behind him a number of creditors, for the reverend gentleman had a pleasant faculty of borrowing money without limit, and there was great hue and cry to learn the ex-pastor’s whereabouts. For months he wandered from place to place, was seen in the Adirondacks —made famous by liis book—and finally located on a ranch near this city. He started horse and cattle breeding, but it was not a success. Tried newspaper editing and failed. Speculated and lost, and rapidly got again in very straitened circumstances, And endeavored to raise the wind as best he could. His amanuensis joined him soon after he arrived at SaiPAntonio, it is said, and ha3 lived with him ever since. His persuasive powers in the money borrowing line proved as successful there as in Boston, and, after all his other failures, he raised-capital and built a saw-mill, but this did not pay. He then essayed the pulpit again, but his adherents learned his past story, and he was invited to step down and out precipitately. As the story goes, last tall he became so much impoverished that he had to resort to hauling wood for a living. He was then a very different looking man—dressed in brown overalls, tucked into coarse cowhide boots, and a blue and white checked shirt—from the sleek, w’ell-fed, handsomely clad and happy whilom pastor of the largest congregation in Boston. Got His Property Hack. New York, April 3.—The jury in the suit of Cornelius Brinkerhoff against his former wife, Sarall E. Perry, rendered a sealed verdict. The suit was brought to set aside a conveyance made by Brinkerhotf on Dec. 7, 1863, of all his property, worth about sllß,000, to the defendant, then his wife, lie alleged that he signed the deed of conveyance under the belief that it was a trust deed, and that he was drunk at the time. The jury found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. * They find that the deed was not executed to vest the title to the property in defendant; that defendant made false representations to plaintiff to induce him to sign the deed; that the instrument was not voluntarily signed by plainttff; that defendant represented to plaintiff that it was only a trust deed he was signing to save his property from being squandered, and that plaintiff was drunk when he signed the conveyance. Motions by defendant to set aside the verdict and for a new trial were denied by the court Destructive Fire Near Denver. Denver, April 4. —Early this morning a disastrous fire occurred at Greeley, fifty miles north of Denver. N. W. Hall & Cos., hardware pnd furniture, and H. B. Jackson, dry ~*ood)s, suffered serious or total losses. The Unmii bank building, Masonic and Odd Fel-lows-ihftlls, were destroyed. Estimated loss, flso ’VO.

AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Effect of Judge Gresham’s Appointment to the Cabinet. Everybody Greatly Afltonished, but Ready to Give the New Postmaster-General a Warm Welcome. Ex-Senator Windom Elected President of a Mexican Railroad. The Row in the District Hoard of Commissioners—The President Off for Florida To-Day. THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL. The Effect of Judge Gresham’s Appointment in Washington. 6peeial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 4.—The appointment of Judge Gresham was a great surprise to the cabinet makers on the outside. His name had been scarcely mentioned as a possibility, and in the shuffling of the cards he had been forgotten entirely, or very nearly so. When the announcement was made that the plum had fallen to Indiana and that the next Postmaster-general was to be Judge Gresham, a general sigh of relief went up, and everybody wondered why they had not thought of him before. The Indianians in Washington seem to be very well pleased with the appointment, Interviews with General Dudley, ex-Secretary of State Currv, Judge Hogden, Jerome Burnet, Colonel Tom Nelson, and perhaps a dozen others, of more or less prominence, develop u sentiment of general satisfaction not unmixed with astonishment that he should give up a life position for two years in the cabinet. The opinion is freely expressed that in accepting the office the thought may have occurred to him that a cabinet position might not hurt him if he should decide to enter the senatorial field as a candidate for Yoorhees’ seat two years hence. Others have it that he expects to succeed Judge Drummond as Circuit judge, and the President will reinstate him on the bench with higher honors than he now holds before the expiration of his term. This talk is, as a matter of course, the merest gossip and idle conjecture, and it is given merely to show how tongues are wagging and what they are wagging about. If the telegrams the correspondents are sending out to-night is any indication, the Eastern press will very generally commend the President on the wisdom of his appointment. I[| Probable Movements. The new Postmaster-general will probably reach Indianapolis on Saturday night. The following special telegram to the Journal concerning his movements was received last night: Evansville, April 4.—Judge Walter Q. Gresham, of the United States District Court for this State, received official notification by wire this afternoon from Secretary of State Frelinghuysen of his appointment as Post-master-general by the President. He has telegraphed that he will accept the office, and after his court adjourns here, which will be on Saturday, probably, he will go to Indianapolis for a uay or two, and then at once to Washington. He was serenaded at the St. George Hotel, to-night, and will be tendered a banquet before he leaves the city. The appointment, judging by the large number of teiegrurns that are pouring in from friends of Judge Gresham all over the country, seems to meet with universal approbation. Judge Gresham was serenaded at the St. George Hotel at 11 o’clock to-night, a large crowd of citizens being present He was introduced by Mr. Daniel Kumler, from the balcony of the hotel, and briefly thanked the people for the compliment. Speeches were made by Judge Holstein and Hon. J. G. Shankiin. All the speakers spoke in the highest terms of Judge Gresham’s splendid record as a citizen, a soldier and judge, and after speeches an informal reception was held in the parlors of the hotel. Mr. Hatton I’ostniaster-General Fro Tem. Washington, April 4.—As Judge Gresham will not be ready to assume the duties of his new office for several days, the President has designated First Assistant Postmaster-general Hatton to act as Postmaster-general for the period of ten days, beginning to-iuorrow. MR. WIN DOM’S FUTURE. He Is Elected President of a New Mexican Railr ad Company. Fpeclal to tlio Jmlianapolls Journal. Washington, April 4.—The election of exSenator William Windom to the presidency of the Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific Railroad Company will attract renewed attention to Mexican railroad schemes. The Mexican government is suffering from an aggravated attack of the “development fever,” and is offering extraordinary inducements to enterprising men to build railroads and carry on improvements of various kinds. It has carried its liberalitj to an extreme, and has given or promised to give enormous subsidies to nearly everybod> who has applied. The railroad that ex-Senator Windom is interested in i9 a line extending up the coast from Mazatlin to connect with the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe at Guay mas, and to run across the continent from the bay of Topolobambo, a point about midway between Mazatlin and G nay mas, to Del Norte, or some other desirable point on the Rio Grande, from which the best connection can be made to Galveston and New Orleans. The Senator has assurances that the new road will open up a mining and timber country of amazing richness, and he is confident that it will be. a great success. Thus far the Texas, Topolobampo

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& Pacific railroad is only a paper road, but as the government has pledged $8.0G4 per mile for the north and south and east and west lines, in cash, or bonds or customs revenue, about 1,100 miles in all, and the same for branch lines running down to the sea or up into the mountains, it would seem to have good prospects, provided the company can buy or build anything with the money and bonds. WASHINGTON’S GOVERNMENT. The District Commissioners' Row as Good as a Circus. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 4.—The row between the District commissioners has been as good as a circus to the residents of Washington. The fight, so far as results are apparent, is a victory for Judge Edmonds, the newly appointed Democratic commissioner. The Judge is a cold-blooded person, of considerable shrewdness, and General West, against whom he has been pitted, is a testy gentleman, of a rather domineering disposition, who is apt to fly into a passion, and when in that state of mind say and do rash things. As president of the board, the latter assumed airs that were offensive to the other commissioners. They protested against being treated as inferiors, and insisted on less mightiness and a more equitable distribution of honors and duties. The General was stubborn, and when the others proposed to take away some of his powers he threatened to resign. That was what the other fellows wanted, and they aggravated him until he did resign, and Edmonds was re-elected. West doesn’t like his place on the back seat, and not only says he was reduced in the ranks to put a stop to the police investigation, but intimates very plainly that he suspects rottenness in the engineers’ department, over which the civil commissioner, Major Lvdecker, presides, a department which directs the expenditure of $1,500,000 a year on streets and other improvements. Hints at an investigation into the workings of that department are now heard, and as General West is full of fire, venom and perseverance he may yet succeed in getting himself disliked by his colleagues and liked by the public. GENERAL AND PERSONAL. An Indian Writes to His Great Father for a New Eye and a Cane. Washington, April, 4.—The following letter from a Sioux Indian was received at the Indian office: •‘Pine Ridge Agency, D. TANARUS., March 26. "Hon. ComniißHioner Indian Affairs. Washington*. “Sir—lam a friend of the Great Father’s, and am going in the white man’s way. I have noticed white men cutting wood, and I thought I would be like a white man and chop some wood for my wife. A piece of wood flew up and put out my right eye, and now I would like the Great* Father to send me another eye. I can hr.ve it put in here. T have always been a friend of the white man, and am bringing my children up in the white man’s ways. I am getting old, and wish my father would send me a cane. If you send the eye, please send a brown one, as that is the color of my other eye. I hope the Great Father will do as I ask. I shake hands with a good heart. Your friend, (Signed). ‘‘Blue Horse.’’ Rehearing; Denied. Washington, April 4.—Secretary Teller lias rendered a decision denying the motion for a rehearing of the infamous Elsobrante case, of California. In his decision the Secretary says: “The decision in this case, upon its merits, was rendered by my predecessor, on appeal, Feb. 23, 1882. On the 7th of March, 1883, an oral argument was made before me in behalf of the petition for rehearing. The case presented does not bring it within the rules upon which rehearings are generally granted, nor do I think any ground is disclosed that, under the rules and well-established principles relating to new trials, would justify me in opening tne case and directing a rehearing. I have taken occasion to examine the briefs and papers used before my predecessor at the time of his decision, and see no reason to dissent from the general conclusion and result reached, and the motion for a rehearing is therefore denied.” The Collection of Special Taxes. Washington, April 4.—The Commissioner of Internal Revenue will issue to-morrow a new circular of instructions with regard to the collection of what are known as “special taxes;” that is, taxes imposed upon manufacturers of and dealers in malt and distilled liquors and tobacco. The circular provides that where special taxes shall have become due and shall not have been paid by the Ist of May next, such special taxes shall be assessed and collected as other tuxes are, the collector, however, receipting therefor on a form warrant instead of issuing a special tax stamp, as heretofore provided in circular No. 251. Going to Florida. Washington, April 4.—The President will depart for Jacksonville at noon to-morrow. He will be accompanied by Secretary Chandler, C. E. Miller, of New York, and Private Secretary Pruden. A special car lias been placed at the disposal of the party. They will go direct to Jacksonville, and make as few stops as possible. From Jacksonville they will proceed up the St. # John’s river as far as Sanford. They expect to be absent about two weeks. It has not yet been finally determined whether or not the party will return direct to this city. It is likely, however, that a short visit will be made to several of the principal cities on the route. Small Amount of Called Bonds Offered. Washington, April 4.—The total amount of bonds embraced in the 120th call received at the Treasury Department to date, in response to the department’s circulars authorizing their prepayment, is $3,064,550. A prominent official of the treasury said today, in commenting upon the fact, that the amount of bonds surrendered was so much less than the amount that the department offered to redeem that it indicated either that the people who complained of a scarcity of money did not hold called bonds, or the peoEle who held the bonds were in no great aste to exchange them for money. Notes and Personals. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 4.—Telegrams received here to-day stated that Mr. Boutwell was dead, but on inquiry the report proved to be

unfounded. Mr. Boutwell is alive and very healthy, in New York. Reports coming in at the Agricultural Bureau go to show that the reports of damage to the wheat in the Northwest have been greatly exaggerated, probably for speculative purposes. The President has appointed Lieutenantcolonel Anderson D. Nelson, U. 8. A. (retired), deputy-governor of the Soldiers’ Home, vice Major Milton Cogsw’ell, deceased. The Jeannette court of inquiry has adjourned until to-morrow to await the arrival of the questions forwarded by Dr. Collins. Secretary Folger is convalescing rapidly. The inflammation in his eye is now tne only trouble. He received a large number of callers yesterday, and went out riding in the afternoon. He took another drive to-dav. Nothing has yet been settled about his proposed trip to Bermuda, Treasurer Wyman paid the salaries of the members of the House of Representatives foi the month ending the 4th inst. Payment was made upon certificates issued by tne Speaker. Among those paid was Representative Ochiltree, the First Comptroller having withdrawn his prohibition in this case. Payment was, however, refused in the case of Delegates Raymond and Singister, the Comptroller having notified the Treasurer that such payment would be charged against his own account. It is supposed the accounts of these delegates will be settled in a short time. THE TEWKSBURY ALMSHOUSE. — ♦ Some of the Horrors Governor Butler Intends to Expose. Boston, April 4.—The Tewksbury almshouse investigation was resumed to-day. Tli§ chairman asked to have the answer as to whether the bodies had been delivered to medical schools eliminated, as that would not be disputed. Governor Butler replied that he expected to prove that the bodies had been delivered elsewhere, some to be skinned and the skins tanned. He proposed to show that after the bodies had been buried they had ben taken up and sent away, and said he wo ild go into the graveyard at Tewksbury and produce some of the alleged “remain;. investigation was to go on to '*ony which had been given to be absolutely false. The books which had been sent to him as records of the almshouse were not complete. These were copies of the original books. He wanted the latter, embracing those recording the deaths and sale of dead bodies. The chairman said it was claimed that no dead bodies had been sold, hence there w r ere no records to be produced, but the Governor said he would prove the contrary. Mrs. Thomas resumed her testimony, correcting the statement that a pound of butter a week was given the inmates; it should have been a pound a meal. Honora Conners, an inmate, was kept as “show woman,” for the benefit of visitors, who were taken to see her. Thomas Hall, who worked at Tewksbury from 1874 to 1877 f testified that he had all the dead to bury while he was there. He took them from the dead-house under the orders of Thomas J. Marsh, jr., and Captain Manning c Ato come and get the dead bodies, carrying tlivm away hi two nine air tiffhi trunks. During the winters he was there, the bodies taken to Boston averaged sixtyfive to seventy-five; they were not sent in hot weather. No pickling was done while he was there. Bodies received from the State prison for burial at the alms-house were, with one exception, sent away for dissection. When witness left he was paid SIOO for his winter’s work and for handling bodies. He thought Tom Marsh used to collect money from Harvard College. Witness acknowledged that he knew he had been doing something wrong. The hearing was adjourned to Monday. THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. Mr. Sprague Gets Left by Nearly 3,000 Plurality. Providence, April 4.—Returns from the State are nearly complete, and give Bourn about 2,000 majority over all, and about 3,000 plurality over Sprague. The Assembly has at least 84 Republicans of the 108 members. The total vote of the State, according to the Journal’s returns, are: Bourn, 13,101; Sprague, 10,236; Cutler, 707; scattering, 18. Bourn’s majority, 2,140; Bourn’s plurality over Sprague, 2,865. The Republican strength in the General Assembly is about as last year. The total vote of the State increased 8,529 over last year; the Republican vote increased 3,042. A. O. Bourn, Governor-elect, left at midnight to take the steamer for Europe for a brief visit. Samuel P. Colt, Republican, for Attorney-general, ran 453 ahead of Governor Bourn, and W T illiam Sayles, on the Sprague ticket, for that office, ran 229 behind Sprague. The Republican asssembly ticket of this city has 663 majority. Pittsburg Shooting Match. Pittsburg, April 4.—Notwithstanding the fine weather the attendance at the shooting tournament was very small. The day was taken up with the contest with the free-for-all, barring Bogardus and Carver, for a purse of SSOO. There were twenty-six contestants from all parts of the United States entered, each shooting at twenty-five birds at a distance of eighteen yards. The score of the winners was as follows: First prize, divided, R. E. Sheldon, of Cleveland, 24; D. C. Powers. of Cleveland, 24. Second prize, E. 8. Mills, of Washington, D. G\, 23. Third prize, divided, W. G. Bell, of Pittsburg, Charles L. Dick, of Johnstown, C. M. Roafs, of Cleveland, C. A. Calhoun, of Cleveland, each 21. Fourth prize, divided, C. B. Lavett, of Pittsburg, 18: John Lavett, of Pittsburg, 20; W. H. Bradleer, of Bradford, 19. The New York Bay Traffic. &ew York. April 4.—The struggle which has continued for many years terminated yesterday in a revolution in the administration of the Staten Island Railway Company, of which Jacob H. Vanderbilt was former g resident. Erastus Wiman, president of the taten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Company, has been elected president of the former company, and lias chosen his own board of directors. President Wiman also made an alliance with the Iron Steamboat Company, by which almost the entire passenger and excursion traffic of New York bay is controlled. Disastrous Explosion of Sewer Gas. Baltimore. April 4.—A boy threw a lighted match into the main hole of a sewer and an explosion followed, which damaged the street and houses probably $20,000. While removing the debris the bodies of Charles A. McCarthy and Andrew Hintenoch, children, were found in the sewer. They were playing in the street at the time of the explosion.

THE NEWS FROM ABROAD. Louise Michel’s Reason for Surrendering to tlie Police. Dissension In the French Cabinet—ltaly's Belligerent Tone—The Austria-Ger-man-Italian Alliance. Destruction by Fire of the National Theater at Berlin. Trial of the Phoenix Park Murderers Postponed—A French Speculator in Trouble —Condition of the (Jueeu. ■ LOUISE MICHEL IN JAIL. Why She Surrendered—The Tri-Color to Be Supplanted by the Red Flag. Paris, April 4. —A correspondent was enabled to see Louise Michel in the prison of Saint Lazare and to obtain some very decided expressions of her plans and purposes. The correspondent first asked: “What was your object in remaining in hiding in this city until last Friday night? Was it that you were afraid of arrest?” “Afraid,” exclaimed Louise Michel. “I am afraid of nothing that the police or their masters can do. My life is pledged to my work, and whenever it is necessary that it should be sacrificed I am ready. But I do not mean that it shall oe sacrificed in vain. My friends have all along dissuaded me from presenting myself, as I had intended to do long ago, because they said my liberty was necessary for the work of the party.” “What caused you to change your mind and give yourself up to the police?” “It was solely on account of my mother. It was killing her to be hounded from one lodging to another and to be dogged by spies whenever she set foot in the streets. There were many different spies, and they were in many different kinds of dress, but there were always spies and spies and spies. I could not bear it, and I came here.” “It has been hinted tint some facGon of the Monarchists persuaded you to surrenuei, in the belief that it would precipitate an explosion.” “It n false. I have told you my true reason for coming here, and my only reason. It was the poor old mother.” “But you are not credited in the general estimation with having much to do with tender feelings?” “No. That i9 more of the injustice that a woman finds when she lias the courage of her convictions. But you can tell your Americans, for they are true men, that French women have shown many times that they can be brave and they can love. A tigress is brave, but she loves her cubs.” “It has, however, been stated, and on high official authority, that there is a very good understanding between the Socialists and, At least* some suctions of the Monarchists?” “It is false; as false as all that government oiatorssay. They are paid to lie about us, and they earn their money well. Let me tell you this, that the red slug will never accept the white banner nor the vice-stained lilies for its allies. Why, the very reason that the people of this brave Paris have not already swelled our ranks to hundreds of thousands is because they have detected in our demonstrations some Monarchists.” “How did they get there?” “How can I tell you that? They were not nut there by us, for as soon as our friends found them there we refused to march with them. They were put there by some of our enemies. How can I tell by which ones? But this I know, they were put there to discredit ÜB.” “If you are acquitted of the charge on which you are now held, what will you do next?” “Then I will leave France and preach social crusade from abroad. Ido not see why princes should have the monopoly of conspiring against the government irom foreign lands.” “Then you regard your work as a conspiracy against the established order of things?” “Centainly I do, and that conspiracy is legitimate. I is a conspiracy of the oppressed against their oppressors. Believe me, the definitive triumph of the cause I serve is but a question of a few months; I might almost say of days. The economical crisis which is drawing near will shake the old tri-color world with such irresistible force that it will fall, and over its ruins the red flag will be seen waving.”

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The French Ministry of War Still in Grave Dispute. Paris, April 4.—At a cabinet council, Waldeck Rousseau, Minister of the Interior, made a strong argument in favor of the expediency of retaining General De Gallifet as director of the cavalry man tie vers. General Thebaudin, Minister of War, said that on military matters Waldeck Rosseau was illy qualified to give an opinion. President Grevy interposed, and the matter dropped. The Paris says Ferry and Thebaudin have come to an agreement that the groat cavalry maneuvers on the eastern frontier should be abandoned on account of the heavy expenditure involved. De Galliefet will have command, as usual, of the cavalry maneuvers. Henri Rochefort, in an article in his journal, Intransigeant, says the nation relies on the firmness and loyalty of Thebaudin to save the renublic from the misfortune of falling into the hands of De Gallifet Italy's Belligerent Tone. Rome, April 4.-—The story of a triple defensive alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy against France, is made the occasion, by the press of Italy, for many antiFrench articles. Libertasets forth that if the republic assumes arrogant airs in its dealings with other countries of Europe, she will find herself confronted with the unpleasant spectacle of several powers united for mutual defense. The Journal de Rome (clerical) goes still further, and says: “From the Baltic to Sicily the French government has none but enemies, who are ready to attack her if she but moves a finger. She is at the mercy of her enemies if there is the slightest casus belli, and Italy will not fail, when the chief of the alliance gives the smallest sign to find such cause, on a few minutes’ notice.” Burning of the National Theater, Berlin. Berlin, April 4.—-At this hour (3 r. m.) the National Theater is on fire, and tho flames are rapidly spreading. It is feared the structure itself will be completely destroyed, and other buildings go with it. The

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fire department seems wholly unable to cope with the flames. At 4p. m. the theater was completely destroyed, The contents, including the w’ardrobes, theater properties and scenery, were also burned. Nothing was saved. There was no loss of life, and no injury, no entertainment being given in the theater. The damage to surrounding buildings is comparatively small. When the engines arrived tue flames had spread to the auditorium. The iron curtain separating the stage lrom the auditorium was not proof against the heat, and the proscenium boxes quickly ignited. The box was the first to catch fire. A report of the disaster was promptly sent to the Palace, and the Emperor dispatched an aid de-camp to ascertain the particulars. The Queen’s Knee. April 4.—The recovery of tho Queen is less rapid than the physicians had reason to expect. While the injury to the knee was by no means serious, it is feared that it may indirectly affect her accustomed good health by causing her to lose her daily out-door exercise, with which she has been in the habit of refreshing herself. Dr. Jenner, physician in ordinary to the Queen, directed her to take almost complete rest as the best means of preventing the swelling of the injured part, and of reducing the pain. This course will, it is believed, soon reduce the slight inflammation and give Her Majesty the full use of her limb. The Trial of the Plxenix Park Murderers. Dublin, April 4.—The trial of the prisoners charged with the Phomix Park murders and other crimes, which was expected to begin on Tuesday next, will be put off for a few days owing to the fact that sufficient funds have not been raised for the conduct of the defense of the nrisoners. It is the intention of the accused men, when asked oil arraignment if they are ready for trial, to request that they be furnished with counsel. The trials, it is said, will be delayed until, their counsel has been instructed. A French Speculator In Trouble. Paris, April 4.—S. Philipnart, a famous speculator, was arrested here yesterday upon representations made by the Belgian public prosecutor. The charge against him is that he falsified accounts at his bank. The prosecutor, instructed by his governmentdemands that Philippart be handed over o the Belgian authorities to be dealt with dcording to the laws of that state. DavJH’s Opinion of Dynamite. Dublin, April 4. —Michael Davitt has written a vigorous letter to the Young Ireland society of Glasgow, in which he says the dynamite policy can only have the effect of exasperating the English democracy. He declares that it would be far better to work and wait for another twenty years than to play into the hands of Ireland’s enemies by giving rein to despair and revenge. Want to Know if It Is True. Pksth, April 4.—The reported alliance of Germany. Austria and Italy formed the subject of a discussion in the lower house of the Diet to-day. In reply to an interpellation , whether such an alliance really existed it. was- stated that the question would have to be referred to Von Tisza, president of the Council, before an answer could be given. Canada Discerns the Grip of a Giant Monopoly. Ottawa, April 4.—The report cabled from England of an attempt being made to amalgamate the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways lias caused a strong adverse feeling. The subject is freely discussed. The prevailing opinion is that the country will be powerless in the grip of such a huge combination. Notes by Cable. At Nice the principal pier burned yesterday. Loss, $1,000,000. Baron Wertheim, the wealthiest manufacturer in Austria and the celebrated fabricant of iron safes, is dead. Deputies Vollmar and Frohme, arrested while returning from a Socialist congress at Copenhagen, have been released. The Bishop of Bohemia, alarmed at the rapid spread of spiritualism, has declared anyone professing belief in spiritualism guilty of heresy. The official Gazette publishes the decree ordering an examination by the board of health of all American lard packed in kegs or other wooden packages. A cable message announces the discovery of Darresta’s comet by Dr. 1). Hartwig, of the Strasburg Observatory. Predicted time of the return, about April 23. At Vienna, Edwin Booth’s “Othello” was loudly applauded. The closing scenes, although marked by certain beautiful passages, were not satisfactory to the critics. The race'for the great Northamptonshire stakes to-day was won by J. Hanbury Glenluce; P. 11. Cooper’s Son of York, second; Lefeures’s the Glider, third. There were six starters. General Von TTabe Pasha, an officer of the German army who in 1882 came to Constantinople to reform the Turkish army has been appointed aid-de-camp to the Sultan and his master of horse. A dispatch from Paris says Prime Minister Ferry informed President Grevy that the government had decided to take energetio action in Tonquin with a view to establishing a protectorate. The resistance of the Danes of Schleswig to the demands of Prussia that they serve in the army is strong as ever. Thirty of them have just been expelled from the country for refusing to inscribe their names for such service. The Latest St. Louis Murders, St. Lons, Mo., April 4. —The inquest on the body of Joseph Glenn, shot by Albert Wing, the young Kentuckian, ’ Monday night, resulted in finding Wing guilty of killing Glenn, and Essie Davis, the woman with them, of bring accessory, after the fact. Warrants for both will be issued to-morrow by tho prosecuting attorney, A telegram was received here to-day stating that Wing was only recently released from the Kentucky penitentiary, and that there was an indictment against him for shooting a man in Kentucky. A report from the city hospital to-night states that William Lading, stabbed on Monday night by Tom McDonough and reported killed, is still alive. A RavUlier Lynched. Little Rock, Ark., March 4.—ln the suburbs of Eldorado, Union county, Saturday afternoon, a white girl aged eight years, daughter of Colonel John H. Askew, deceased, was ravished by a colored boy, Albert Williams. He was identified by the girl, and in the magistrate’s office confessed the crime. While going to jail a mob ol citizens seized Williams and huug him froiq a tree.