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THE CASEOFMILTON WESTON The Convicted Capitalist Engaged in •Closing Up His Business Affairs, Preparatory to Returning to Pittsburg to Kecsive His Sentence— Sent to Prison by Rival Business Men. Chicago, Jan. 17. —Mr. Milton Weston, who stands convicted in Alegheny City, Pa., as accessory to murder, returned to Chicago yesterday to clooo up some business affairs, prior to returning to Pittsburg to roceivo his sentence of four years in the Riverside penitentiary. Mr. Weston's reputation here has been beyond reproacb, hoth as a business man and socially. He has a mother, wife and children residing in this city, all of whom are highly esteemed. “You are shaking hands with a convict,” said Mr. Weston to a reporter. “I am able to bear all this, but when iny sons and daughters place their arms around my neck, and cling to me and weep, shedding tears that well up from the heart, it unmans me. For forty-three years I have lived here and done business, and no man can place a black mark against my character anywhere. I have always endeavored to do justice by my iellow*man, and God knows that in all the years of my prosperity I never allowed a feilow-being to suffer if I .knew it and could relieve that suffering. Yet, here I am, convicted of a crime which I never committed. This thing has cost me $200,000, besides $15,000 forlawyer’sfees—over s3oo,ooo,and all the fortune that I had. Even my wife has mortgaged her farm and pledged her diamonds to help mo out of trouble. But lam still here, though the victim of cruel conspiracy. Tho story has never been told. It wa3 for me to buy land and discover the value of natural gas as in illuminator, and its utility for fuel. I was attacked, robbed and cast into prison, 1,051 acres of land in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. I bought the land of H. J. Brunot. I paid $20,000 to Brunot for the tract, and $40,000 to remove a cloud from the title. After I made the purchase I received a deed from Brunot, wherein he agreed to give me good and sufficient title, free and clear of all incumbrance, for forty-four leases, which werecontained in the 1,050 acres. I made the first payment, winch I acknowledged and receipted for in my deed, which is on record. Before the second payment came duo I was notifie 1 by other owners of the leases that Brunot did not own them at all. I immediately took steps to possess myself of these leases, which 1 succeeded in doing for 909 years, and I placed them on record at Greeusburg. The leases conveyed to me by Brunot having lapsed by their own conditions, every lease or renewal of lease was placed upon record lv myself. Regardless of these facts, and in violation of the sale to me, Mr. Brunot sold the same to another gas company, ail my titles being then of record. He sold to P. W. Emerson & Cos., a corporation in which he was a large stockholder, and it, through him, attempted to dispossess me. At that time myself and wife were living on the land, and for several days and nights before ray wife had been there almost alone, having but one lady companion in the house. Mr. Haymaker, who was unfortunately killed, was the agent of Brunot and his corporation. In the melee that ensued, in the effort to dispossess me. Haymaker was killed, aud that kiiling was eharged upon me, when the fact is, he was killed by some of his ovvn.men by a shot which was intended for my foreman. I was living on the property with niv wife, and she was 600 feet from where the fight occurred, and witnessed the entire affair. But why should I detail further? I shall go back to Pittsburg and face my sentence and serve it, if necessary, feeling that I am an innocent man—innocent, before God and the world. My reputation cannot be blackened by such cruel aud infamous persecutions.” Mr Weston’s friends here and in the East will make a strong effort to secure his pardon in case he is Bent to the penitentiary. The Chicago Times recently gave the subioined summary of Mr. Weston’s case: “Milton Weston, of Chicago, was convicted of complicity in the Murraysville riots and as accessory to the murder of Obadiah Haymaker, resulting therefrom, and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary at Riverside. Mr. Weston is designated in Pittsburg as a Chicago millionaire. This is an error. Several years ago Mr. Weston was a noted railroad contractor, who had succeeded in accumulating considerable money. About five years ago her conceived the idea of building a belt-line railroad around Chicago to connect with all the roads centering in this eity. The Western Indiana Railroad Company, however, preceded him, and he and his friends lost considerable money by the failure of his scheme. Mr. Weston then went into the Butler, Allegheny, and Westmoreland county ‘ regions, in western Pennsylvania, where some gaswells had been bored, and which were then for the first time being utilized for fuel in running rolling-mills, in Pittsburg and Allegheny City, and for illuminating purposes. He .ocated a large tract of land near Murraysville, :i Allegheny county, upon which lie obtained a contract for its purchase from parties who, he supposed, were the owners. The title, however, was in dispute, and Mr. Weston came back to Chicago By advice of his counsel he returned to Pennsylvania and erected a cabin upon the land, taking there a force of about a dozen men, whom he armed to protect his interests. One Slight, about two years ago, a gang of men, under the lead of Obadiah Haymaker, endeavored to dispossess Mr. Weston and his party by armed force, and, in tho fight that ensued, Haymaker received several bayonet wounds, from which he died a short time after. Mr. Weston was arrested and indicted for riot and murder by the grand jury of Allegheny county. Back of the parties opposed to him were great corporations and many wealthy men, who were anxious to secure a monopoly of this great and valuable gns belt, and they used every mean3 that money could secure to convict Weston, who had placed the greater portion of his fortune, approximated by seme at $150,000, in this class of property. Mr. Weston was tried twice. The first time he was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, but he managed to Recure anew trial, which occurred a little less than a year ago. Contrary to all expectations, he was again found guilty and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. He appealed the case to the State Supremo Court, aud succeeded in getting a stay of execution, bail being demanded in $15,000, which he promptly furnished. The Supreme Court decided the case, sustaining the judgment of the court below. Mr. Weston is a man of about forty years of age, and very intelligent He 13 brave and generous to a fault, but decidedly determined in that which he undertakes.

A New St. Paul. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 16. —Romulus Sturdevant, a well-known man who lives in St. Mary’s township, about six miles from this city, has a son, John, sixteen years old. The boy told his father on Thursday of last week that he had received a divine injunction that he must preach the gospel to all nations of the earth, and that in order to inspire the people with confidence in his call he would be made blind for two days and a night. Iu accordance with this prophecy the boy was stricken blind on Wednesday night He says that he will be restored to sight to-night. It the people do not believe in him he says that God will send another test. The case has created bo much excitement here that yesterday N. B. Broughton and John E. Ray. two prominent men of this place, wept out and made an examination of the boy. They found him blind, and heard him preach last night. While he preaches he lies on bis right side and appears to be in a trance. His sermon was to l,i!00 people, and was taken down by Ray and Broughton and will be published in fall to-morrow. It is said to be ft remarkable production. Great anxiety is expressed to know if John receives his sight toLigb t. _ National Photographers’ Association. St. Louis, Jan. 17. —The executive committoo t the National Photographers’ Association have held a meeting here and decided to hold their next Annual convention in Music Hall, this city, commencing June 22. In order to encourage displays of photographic art, the committee have

decided to offer ten gold medals as prizes, six for the best display of portraits, two for the best display of views, and two for the best foreign exhibit A prize will also be given for the best paper on any technical subject LABOR MATTERS. Employes of tho Edgar Thomson Steel Works Reject the Company’s Proposition. Pittsburg, Jan. 17. —At a meeting of the striking employes of the Edgar Thompson steel works, this afternoon, liev. Fathor Hickey, of the Braddock Catholic Church, submitted a proposition from the firm, offering the men a 10 per cent, advance and twelve hours work a day, or no advance and three “turns” of eight hours each. Tho proposition wus unanimously rejected, ana the men resolved to stand out for the wages of 1884. Later, however, another meeting was called for to-morrow, at which it is thought there will be a reconsideration of today’s action. A Strike Adjusted. Philadelphia, Jan. 17.— An amicable agreement has been reached between an arbitration committee of the Knights of Labor and the proprietors of the Gloucester City, N. J., gingham mills, and 250 of the 400 strikers will resume work at that establishment to-morrow morning. The remainder of those who went out on strike have removed from tho citv or obtained other employment. Tho company would not grant the 15 per cent increase demanded all departments, but conceded an increase ranging from 7to 16 per cent, in the different departments. The strikers agree that the 100 nonunion men employed to fill the places shall remain. Bricklayers Vote fur a Nine-Hour Day. St Louis, Jan. 17.—The National Bricklay ers’ and Masons’ Association, which has been in secret session here for several days past, adjourned last night to meet again a year henco in Washington, D. C. Tho following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Alex Darraeh, St. Louis; vice-president, J. P. Carr, Pittsburg; secretary, Thomas Odea, Cohoes, N. Y.; treasurer, Patrick Murray, Albany, N. Y. The eieht-hour law was the subject of long discussions during tho sessions, and a compromise was firitelly effected by the adoption of nine hours for a day’s work, and this rule is Jo go into effect throughout the country on tho first of next May. Tronblo Expected at Mount Pleasant. Pittsburg, Jan. 17.—A Post (Mt. Pleasant, Pa.) special says serious trouble and perhaps bloodshed is expected at the Standard and Moore wood coke-works to-morrow. The striking Hungarians have been drinking all day, and they threaten violence to any of the men who may go to work. Tho coke companies have secured a number of workmen, and will endeavor to start their works again to morrow morning. A posse of twenty men was sent from Greensburg to-night to aid the workmen and protect the company's property.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. ) Office of the Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, Jan. 18, la.m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Hours from 7 A. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Slightly warmer, cloudy weather, and light local snows. For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —lncreasing cloudiness, followed by local rains or snow, slowly rising temperature, falling barometer, variable winds. For the Lower Lake Region—Fair weather in the western portion, followed during the night or on Tuesday by local snows, slowly rising temperature in the western portion, slightly colder this morning in eastern portion, followed by slowly rising temperature, winds becoming variable. For tho Upper Lake Region—Cloudy weather with local snows, slowly rising temperature, failing barometer, variable winds. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Cloudy weather and local snows, generally warmer, varible winds, falling barometer. For the Missouri Valley—Cloudy weather, local snow’s, “winds becoming variable and generally shifting to easterly, generally warmer, lower barometer. Local Observations. , Indianapolis, Jan. 17. Time. ! Bar. | Thor. Hum. j Wind.| Weather Rain. 6a. m.. 30.24! 9.6 85 !West jdear 10 a. m- - 30.29 13.0 80 .West 'Clear 2p. M.. 30.23 19.8 j 76 I Surest-Cloudy, 6P. M-. 30.*20; 20.0 176 !South!Cloudy 10 P. M.. 30.14* 22.0 i 80 |South|Cloudy Maximum temperature, 25.0; minimum tempera tune, 8.4. General Observations. War Department, ) Washington, -Tan. 17,10 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stationsw 33 #1 SJ • g r g *g- t a 3 P* cr g; STATIONS. §0 '• g 2 ? 1 1 2 3 ? • ft • ' V- • ■ : New York City |30.04 28!Nwest Fair. Washington City... 130.15! 33]North Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 130.04! 37|Calm Cloudv. New Orleans, La... 30.02 44; Hast Cloudy. .Shreveport, La '30.00 37; North .39iLt. rain. Fort Smith, Ark... i30.03 27jS'east| .26,Clear. Little Rock, Ark... 30.08 30 N’east ICloudy. Galveston, Tex .-29.88 52!East | ‘Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn 130.05 32j Nwest) ‘Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn 30.08! 33 N’east! Fair. Louisville. Ky 30.16; 30 N'eastj jClear. Indianapolis, Tnd... 30.18 21 South ' (Cloudy. Cincinnati,!) 30.19) 27jS'east! 'Fair. Pittsburg, Pa |30.21l 22 Nwest Clear. Oswego, N. Y 130.061 23'NwestI . ....Lt snow. Toledo, O ,30.24 18;West Cloudy. Escanaba. Mich (30.25 lljNorth .01 Cloudy. Marquette. Mich. ..130.21 10 West | Cloudy. <Chicago, 111 30.17; 19 South ;Cloudy. Milwaukee, Wis 30.19i 12 West .02 Lt snow. Duluth, Minn 30.23! 8 West Cloudy. St. Paul, Minn *30.19 3 Calm .03 Lt snow. L. .Crosse. Wis 30.17 11 North .03 Lt snow. Diver port, la 30.18 lOS’east' .02 : Ltsnow, Dos Moines, la 30.17 7 N’east .04 Lt snow. Keokuk. Ia ;30.15 lllS’east Idloudy, Cairo, 111 30.12 23 N’east 'Fair. Springfield. 11l [30.11; 20!South jCloudy. St. Louis, Mo 30.14 jl9 S east Cloudy. Lamar, Mo 30.11 18'East (Thret’ng Leavenworth, Kan. 30.16; 12;North .021 it snow Omaha. Neb. 130.18: 0 North* .03 Lt snow. Yankton, Dak (30.20; —5 Nwest ‘Cloudy. Moorebead, Minn..(30.24 —10 Calm j (Fair. Bismarck, Dak 130.23 —lB Calm Clear. Fort Buford, Dak..(30.22 —23. South Fair. Ft.Aksiniboine,M.T 30.20'—15 Bwest! Clear. Fort Custer, Moat. .130.14—28 S’east Fair. Deadwood, Dak * North Platte, Neb..'30.06 5 East Clear. Denver, Col )29.84j —4 South Cloudy. W. Las Animas. Col 29.88! —3 East Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan Fort Elliott Tex... 29.98 17 S'east ; Cloudy. Fort Sill. Ind. Ter..! Ii Fort Davis, Tex '29.88 48 Swest! {Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.86 50 West ] 'Cloudy. Salt Lake City, U. T. 29.66; 20iCalm • ,02jLtsnow. How to Take Hold of the Bull. New York, Jan. 17.—1n an address, to-day, before the Christian Temperance Association, in Chickering Hall, Joseph Cook, of Boston, said: “Wo are the most drunken race on the planet, and the palm for red noses should be awarded to Irish, Germans, and Americans.” To make the knowledge of alcoholic effects on the human system compulsory in schools was the way to tako the bull by the horns. Mr. Cook had not lost all hope that the Republican party would yet lead a crusade against the liquor interests. An Alleged Daughter of Joaquin Miller. Chicago, Jan. 17.—Last Thursday a yonng woman, apparently about twenty-one years of ago, called at the office of the Elder Publishing Company and asked for the editor of Literary Life. Mr. Elder, the publisher, answered in the absence of the editor, and to him she presented a mauuseript which she wished to sell. She told a touching story, how she had left New York with a dramatic company, hoping to secure a place in the profession and earn her own sup*

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port; how the company went to pieces finally, and how she at last found herself alone and penniless in Chicago. The girl bore evidence of education and culture. She concluded her story by saying that her name was Maud Miller, and that she was tue daughter of tho poet, Joaquin Miller. Mr. Elder supplied Miss Miller with money and introduced her to several kind-hearted ladies, by whom she was cared for until last night, when she was put aboard a New York train comfortably equipped for the journey. INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Callings from Correspondence and Gleanings from State Exchanges. Indiana Notes. Arrangements are in progress fora type setting contest at Terre Haute. Mrs. M. Ehrmann, of Terre Haute, fell down stair receiving severe injuries. Bohemian Oats notes are turning up in Wabash county, and are offered at a discount. The Free Press, published by George Winter, at El wood, is to be removed to Anderson. Wm. T. Guffin, of Warren township, Huntington county, an old and esteemed citizen, died suddenly on Thursday. Miss Ella Abbott, while roller-skating at her home, near Seymour, fell and broke her rigUt leg just below the knee. • Rev. William Lacy, a well-known Wesleyan minister, is conducting an oxtended revival in Rich valley, Wabash county. Wm. Dance, of Vincennes, seventy-five years old, is a blacksmith, and the sturdy old man works every day at the forge. Roann is greatly interested over a revival at the Unitarian Church in that place. Everybody attends the nightly meetings. Jesse Starr, of Philadelphia, contractor for water works at Wabash, will be ready for active operations on the works by April 1. Tho beer bottlers over Indiana are arranging for a State champion contest in fast bottling, to take place about tho 15th of February. At Jeffersonville, while asleep in front of a grate, Mrs. Wm. Bowman fell into the fire and narrowly escaped being burned to death. It costs only $11.50 to whip one’s wife at Jeffersonville, that being the amount Fred Boyd was fined for such marital divertisement. Philip Schneider, an employe of the Evansville water works, fell from a scaffold, a distance of twelve feet, and it is feared he is fatally injured internally. The Odd fellows of Kokomo intend to erect an I. O. O. F. building in the spring, which will be a credit to the order and a valuable improvement to that city. A candidate for county clerk ia Wabash county carries marriage licenses about with him on his electioneering tours, thus saving prospective Benedicts the trouble of a trip to the county seat Lightning-rod swindlers are working Wabash county. Jo Carlisle, a farmer who cannot read or write, had a Darn covered with cheap copper rodding at an expense of S9B, Jefferson Berry was also victimized. Tho new postmaster at Rich Valley, in Wabash county, is being boycotted, many of the office patrons mailing their letters elsewhere, so they are put on trains. The new postmaster claims to be a Republican. Miss Grace Power, of Evansville, has been invited by Madame Nevada to accompany her on a visit to California, when the vocalist returns from her Eastern engagement. The fathers of the two ladies were friends and schoolmates. Peter Paschong, a saloon-keeper at Laketon, entered a church where his wife was attending a revival meeting and brutally forced the woman to leave. He then made a speech to the congre cation, saying that he would part from his wife. Evanavitle+s endeavoring to arrange fora TriState fair, in which Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky will be interested, the fair to be held at that place. It is estimated that $50,000 will be necessary to secure the ground and place the project on a fair footing. Mrs. Oscar Markley, a teacher in the public schools at Wabash, and a lady well known in the southern part of the State, an icy sidewalk Friday and fractured herrkulr. At last accounts 6he was lying unconscious, and fatal results are feared. Last winter L. D. White, a teacher at Elkhart, was ordered by the trustee, J. W. Kellogg, to close school a week during bad weather. He refused, and was forcibly ejected by the trustee. White sued for $5,000 damages. The case was given to the jury, who rendered a verdict for S4OO damagos. John Garrity, proprietor of a meat store at Jeffersonville, has discovered that he has been swindled out of $63 by the driver of a Louisville meat wagon. The proprietor of the meat store sent over bills for the amount of meat sold to Garrity, and the driver tore them up and substituted bills of his own. At Rensselaer, for alienating and debauching his wife, Philip Haas yesterday recovered a judgment for $2,000 against Francis Phelps. The defendant is a bachelor, about fifty years of age, and lias been boarding with the plaintiff. Phelps has absconded, leaving behind him a fine farm and a large amount of personal property. Hornung’s brewery, at New Alhany, was stoned by negro laborers who had been employed by Mr. Hornung in storing ice. They claimed they had contracted with him at $1.50 a day. and when pay-day came be offered them only $1.25, which they would not accept. A number of the rioters were arrested. The laborers have brought suit for their wages. Two months ago the Democrats of Corydon fired one hundred guns in honor of the appointment of Joseph M. Graves, a Democrat, as postmaster at that place. Up to this time he has not received his commission, and there seems to be no likihood that be will receive it. Mr. F. E. Reynolds, an uncompromising Republican, still holds the office, and the Democrats are daily losing confidence in the administration. At the annual meeting of the Wabash County Agricultural Society the following officers were elected for tho ensuing year: C. C. King, president; John Chinworth, vice president- Fred J. Snavelly, secretary; John B. Latchem, treasurer; Enos Powell, marshal. Directors—H. S. Tinkenbiner, T. R. Porter, John Harper, J. Q. Elliott, Jacob Schuler, J. F. Reahard, John Rogers, Thos. McNamee. The fair will begin on Sept. 14. Ten years ago Sarah Conners, of Boone county, was married to John F. Riley, who soon after abandoned her. Last November, concluding Riley to be dead, she married John Lane, a well-known gravel-road contractor. Recently she has discovered that Riley is still alive, and she and Lane have appealed to the Circuit Court at Lebanon that their marriage may bo declared null and void. When this is "done and a divorce procured from the absent husband, she and Lane propose to marry again.

Illinois Items. John Dumphy, quarrying stone near Saxanda, fell over a precipice 100 feet high and was instantly killed. The Salvation Army, thirteen members, has been again arrested at Joliet, charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace by a street parade. Dr. John J. Nowatney, forty-six years old, of Hodges Park, died from an accidental overdose of chloroform, self-administered. He was sr.fferiner from stone in the bladder. Hamilton A. Forman, cashier of the Duquoin bank and city clerk at that place, has received his commission as National Bank Examiner for southern Illinois and the entire State of Missouri. placing 100 national banks under bis supervision. Mr. Forman is a leader of the Morrison Wing of the Democracy in southern Illinois. Shot in the Pack and Killed. Woonsocket, R. L, Jan. 17.—About midnight, last night, Mike Doner was shot in the back by one Lacoste, and seriously injured, dying this afternoon. Lacoste escaped. The men were returning home from an evening party, and. on the way Doner tripped Lacoste with his foot, whereupon the latter immediately shot him. Burned to Death in Her Home. Wallingford, Conn., Jan. 17.—The house of John Conlon was burned last night Mrs. Conlon was so terribly burned that she died while being removed from the building. Marvelous and magical are the effects of St Jacobs Oil on rheumatism and neuralgia.

A PAGE OF ENGLISH HISTOBY An Old-Time Fenian Tells of the Plot to Kidnap the Prince of Wales. The Cause and Object of the Proposed Kidnaping—The Conspiracy Thwarted by the Explosions at Clerkenweli.

New York Herald. An “old-time” Fenian, who is now in business in Chicago, has been in New York a few days on the affairs of his firm. A Herald reporter hearing that he could toll a little bit of history, if he would, obtained an introduction to him, and yesterday drew his attention to the man Magee, who has pleaded “guilty” to an attempt to blackmail the Prince of Wales, on the pretense that his Royal Highness’s life was threatened.. Gradually the subject uppermost in the - reporter’s mind was approached, and this old revolutionist was asked if he would give a sketch of the Fenian attempt to kidnap the Prince of Wales some years ago. “Oh, that little affair,” said he laughing; “that was in 1867, and I had almost forgotten ail about it. Well, lam not in that business now—Parnell has monopolized it; I mean the agitation business—and I don’t mind telling you, as it is very ancient history. Only four men know of it besides myself. It was a well-laid plot, and had it been carried out would have created a sensation in the world—more even thau the killing of a king. The Clerkenweli explosion, however, spoiled it. because it brought to tne surface some informers who had knowledge enough to put the police on the track of the men who were guiding the Fenian movement in Blngland. “The four other men who were in this scheme never fell into the hands of the police; the}* were too smart for the conceited English detectives. One of them was a wheelwright, born iu Dublin, with a face the very counterpart of that of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was a smart, brainy young man, and wa3 tho trusted lieutenant of James Stephens. Another was a cork-cutter, who had served in the Tenth Hussars, the Prince of Wales's regiment—in fact, in several other regiments—and deserted fromstkem all, and at the outbreak of the civil war in this

country crime here, landing in his hussar uniform, and immediately enlisted in the Union army. He joined a light cavalry regiment corps, by his dash and gallantry rose to the rank of an officer, and after the war, in 1864, went to Ireland to take part in the contemplated rising. He was the man who shot Colonel Aylward, subsequently the leader of the Boers, on the banks of the Royal canal, ’ in Dublin, mistaking him one dark night for an informer. Aylward acted nobly under the circumstances. This soldier of fortune had a face guiltless of hair, was one of the quietest-looking nien you ever saw, but nevertheless was a terror —he had shot I don’t know how many inlormers and policemen. “A third was an ardent, courageous Kerry - man, ready at any moment to lay down his life for the good of the cause. He had a soldier’s instinct and never inquired the reason for anything he was required to do. The mainspring of the plot was a remarkable man, who had traveled all over the world. He was full of courage and daring, and fertile in resource. His name is well known. In a subsequent Irish movement he has achieved a reputation as a successful organizer, and as a man who can play with alleged leaders just as an expert billiardist can with the ivory balls. “The cause and the object of this kidnaping scheme were these: The Fenian organ, the Irish People, had just been seized by the government. Its editors and publishers—O’Leary, Luby, Rossa and others—Burke, Devoy, John Boyle O’Reilly, Costello, Warren and a host of other well-known Irish patriots, had been sentenced to long terms of penal servitude. We wanted these men released at once by hook or by crook I and the ‘successful organizer,’ whom I will call No. 4, talked the matter over, and No. 4 hit upon the scheme of seizing the Prince of Wales some nieht while leaving one of his haunts and holding him as a hostage until the government released our friends. “Perhaps at no time has the Prince been so popular with the people as at the period I speak of, and we felt confident that his mother's fears and the love of the people would prevail with the crown officers and compel them to grant our demand. We well knew that the officials cared less about the Prince than about the ‘upholding of the majesty of the law,’ but we relied upon the two forces I have mentioned to gain our object. “We did not underestimate what we would have to contend with. We quite understood the hue and cry that would bo raised, the lavish expenditure of money and the employment of the keenest intellect, and the best talent in discovering the whereabouts of the Prince. But we drew our plans accordingly. Our own safety and the absolute success of the plot depended upon keeping the remotest suspicion of it from all but the five men engaged in the scheme. On this account it was hard to get all the money necessary. We could not expect much, from the Central Council, because they would ‘want to know, you know.’ We managed, however, to scrape together sufficient to carry us through. The wheelwright, who had been working at his trade with an Irish Nationalist, rented a small house and shop in the busiest part of one of the suburbs. Had we gone to a quiet place the advent and movements of strangers would have beed noted by the gossips of the neighborhood. The ex-hussar and the Kerryman were both ‘handy men,’ and were supposed to be the wheelwright’s assistants. The wheelwright was married and had one little child. His wife wa3 a model woman. She never asked any questions. She knew only that her, husband was Kn active Fenian, was devoted to him and silently obeyed him. “It was in this house that the Prince was to be imprisoned, and it was our intention to furnish the two apartments designed for him in the most luxurious manner possible under the circumstances. He would have had the best of wine, food and cigars at his disposal, and if the cooking, excellent cuisiuiere though the wheelwrights wife was, would not beeq and to what the heir apparent was accustomed to, still he would have found it not so very unpalatable. He would have had all the periodicals Ife wanted, and some good books. The minutest details were thought of. We contemplated getting him before his capture a good stock of linen. Had he cared to play cards or chess with his jailers he could have been accommodated. But the most serious discomfort to him would have been the lack of exercise. We could afford to give him exercise only in the halls and at night. He would have been treated with the utmost respect, and were he to attempt to escape or struggle with his custodians no more force would be used to restrain him than was necessary. Our idea was to show, in the event of success, that Fenians were not the ruffians the London press asserted they were. “As soon as the capture was effected I was to start for Paris, see one of the members of the Fenian Directory, tell him what had been done, but without giving him any idea as to the location of the prison. The Centrat Council would then negotiate for an ‘exchange of prisoners.’ To prevent the possibility of a clew being obtained, I was to hold no further communication with any of the directors. My business then was the manufacture of rumors as to the safety or danger and the location of the Prince, just as circumstances mieht dictate. Our first idea would be to convey the impression that the Prince had been carried to Ireland in a fishing smack or some such vessel, and secreted in one of the populous towns. Another, that he had been conveyed on board a mysterious vessel that had some time previously left the shores of America for the purpose, and that the Prince had been or was to be hidden in one of the cities of this country. You may look upon them as wild ideas, but they would have answered the purpose, in those times of excitement, of throwing the hunters off the scent. “Only when onr friends were released was the Prince to have been given his liberty. His release would have been managed in this way. A carriage would be procured in the afternoon from a livery stable by a couple of men, who would not know the Prince’s whereabouts, and the party driven to a public house in Holborn, kept by so Irish Nationalist. There the driver was to be made ‘blind drunk, put to bed, and so secured for the night. In the meantime the Kerryman or the ex hussar would drive off with the carriage, and when night had fallen take it to the wheelwright’s yard. Late At night the Prince would

be blindfolded, put in the carriage, driven to a certain place in Kentish Town, a remote suburb of London, and there left by three of his captors. They would hurry down a lane, jump into a cab waiting for them, remain till morning at a friends house in another part of London, and then take the early morning tiain for Liverpool, where they would await an opportunity to sail for America. “I don’t think we would have had much trouble with the Prince, for I am convinced he would have regard* 1 it as one of the rarest pieces of fun that had ever fallen or could fall in his way. I have no doubt he would have ‘handled the ribbons’ himself and have driven to the home of one of the Ministers to astonish him. “How were we going to capture him? At that lime be was a very gay young man. fond of seeing life. I and No. 4 had often mot him about town, and occasionally in queer places. He was not an infrequent visitor at Evans’s, in Covent Garden, then a famous resort for young ‘bloods.’ I was present at the ‘little racket’ which commemorated its last hours in 1879. At this place the wheelwright and the Kerryman had an opportunity to become familiar with the face and appearance of his Royal Highness. We had a cabman who owned two vehicles. He was the only Fenian Jehn I ever knew in England. This man used to drive us about. We told him we were on the track of the informer who had betrayed the Irish People office, that we desired to capture him, try him by jury and give him a ‘legal’ death. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, powerful physique and a devoted Fenian. When he had delivered the Prince at the place of concealment he was to take his horse and cab home, be brought back, let into the secret and bo made one of the jailers. Like the rest, he would never leave the house until it was either raided by the police or his Royal Highness conveyed from it. It waa his cab that was to wait in Kentish Town lor the bodyguard on the night of the release. “The Prince never went about London alone. There was our chief difficulty. He was always accompanied by one chum, sometimes two. now and then three. Our hope was to catch the Prince with one companion in a quiet place, suddenly chloroform the pair, bundle the Prince into the cab and drive off with him, and leave the other wherever he had fallen. We were all well armed in case of emergency, but had not the remotest intention of harming the Prince. We relied upon the chloroform making things easy for us. “But the Cierkenwell explosion put a sudden stop to the progress of our plot. That was an insane attempt by a discarded faction of the organization to liberate Richard Burke from the House of Detention. Two scoundrels arrested for complicity in the explosion told all they knew about the Fenians in London, disclosed my identity to the police, and I was arrested. So w too, was the ex-hussar. No. 4 had a narrow escape and had to fly with the rest, and this ended the well-laid plot to kidnap the Prince of Wales.”

THE DOG-BITTEN CHILDREN. Two Letters Which the Boys Wrote from Abroad to Their Mother. Newark, N. J., Jan. 16.—The following letters were received from two of the boys, Patsey Reynolds and Willie Lane, two days ago: “Dear Mother —l like it very well in paris i got a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes and under cloths and a hole lot of things and i will be homo in 2 weeks how is tommie (Tommie Finnegan) i hope to see him waetin for me at the Dock and a man gave me a bottle that be made and i am going to bring it home to you and i lost a pair of drawers i will be glad when i get home to you and i will have a nice time and that is all i know to tell paris is a nice place we all had to sleep in one little bed and i get nothing to eat and that is all i know i will write soon write again soon to you. Your loving son Pat Reynolds.” “I like it very well in Paris everything is so cheap. I have a present for mama and a present for papa and a present for Ida. These two cards (fancy) advertisements are for you, papa, mama and Ida, I will he home in a week. The first thing that I saw' when on ship was land far off, then the ship passed through a place called Havre bay, we did not land at Paris we landed at a city called Havre and we got on cars, they had an engine on it and we went through tunnels abought eight or nine of them. Wo will be nearly across the ocean when this letter reaches you. We have been m three or four hotels and the first place we could get nothing to eat and the 2 place we had half eooth to eat and 1 bed and 3 place is a first class hotel and have all we want to eat. * * * I would like to stay in Paris all the time if you were with me. I saw a great deal and will be home on January 13 and that is all I know. We each have a little room and a nurse to take care of us. I will bring home some french money. Your son ‘ ‘WI liLi. ” Losses by Fire. Bay City, Mich., Jan. 17.—The Westover block, containing the Opera-house, Second National bank, Postoffice, Sirmeyer & Edward’s clothing store, and a number of offices, was totally destroyed by fire at 10 o’clock to-night. Nothing was saved. The loss is placed at from SOO,COO to $70,000, with an iusurauce of about one-fourth that amount. Philadelphia, Jan. 17.—S. H. Morrison’s saw and planing mill was burned this evening. The building was owned by the Camden Land and Improvement Company, whose loss is $12.000; insurance, SB,OOO. Morrison’s loss on stock and machinery, $30,000; insurance, $20,000. Provincetown, Mass., Jan. 17.—The Puritan shirt factory was totally destroyed by fire this evening. The loss is not given. Sixty operatives are thrown out of employment. Buffalo, Jan. 17.—Early this morning the ■works of the International Starch Company, at Black Rock, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $55,000; insurance, $35,000. Montreal, Jan. 17.—Henderson’s lumber mills were damaged by fire to-day to the extent of $30,000; insurance, $25,000. Obituary. Louisville, Jan. 17.—Gen. Wm. Harvard Irwin, a captain in the Mexican war, died here to-day, after a lingering illness. Pittsburg, Jan. 17. —James W. Murray, editor of the Legal Journal and one of the brightest young lawyers at the Allegheny county bar, diod in jail, to-night of delirium tremons. Steamship News. New York, Jan. 17.—Arrived: Republic, from Liverpool. Boston, Jan. 17.—Arrived: Catalonia, from Liverpool; Stockholm City, from New Castle, England. * HE PAWNED HER CORK LEO. Resort of a Depraved Husband to Get Money for Drink, New York Star. At the corner of One Hundred and Eighteenth street and Madison avenue, perched high on a pinnacle rock whereon the enterprising advertising sign man has writ weird legends, stands the home of Mrs. Mary Johnson. People thereabouts who live in brick and mortar residences denominate Mrs. Johnson’s abode a shanty. Anyway, she made it with her own hands, and she is proud of it She is also proud of her goats and her cork leg. The leg is a greater care to her than all her other earthly possessions—Mr. Johnson included, for the county takes care of him eleven and a half consecutive months out of twelve. Mrs. Johnson’s other leg grew there, and is consequently fast. Most of the good old lady’s time is taken up in hunting the other, for when the genial Mr. Johnson returns to the bosom of his family after one of his rustications be invariably detaches Mrs. Johnson from he? artificial limb and drinks It up—that is, he pawns it, and lays out the proceeds in liquor. When the leg first came home it was regarded as a bigger thing than the telephone or the phonograph by the neighbors, and was exhibited on the parlor match-shelf. It created envy in the breasts ot several ladies who had to get atong with their natural members, and, the neighbors dividing on the subject, a bitter feud resulted: but time, which heals all wounds, cured this difficulty, and the fact that the patent leg was a job lot, several Bizes too large, and a real impediment to locomotion, helped the reconciliatian amazingly. It is related that the railway company which amputated Mrs. Johnson’s leg bought the new limb at auction aud presented it to her. It was quite a shock to Mr. Johnson when ho returned from Blaokwell’s Island and beheld for

the first time the cork leg gracing the mantelA piece. He imagined it was the plaster sac-simile of a ballet girl’s implements, and asked his gentlemen fnends to step in and admire it Then he wrapped it carefully in a newspaper, and left it at a pawn-shop, and went over to the island that night. It cost Mrs. Johnson the proceeds of two weeks’ washing to redeem the ornament M hen Mr. Johnson, who, by the bye, is known only as “Jack Sport” by his intimates, came home again the leg was strapped to Mrs. Johnson, but he set upon her while he removed it Now Mrs. Johnson only wears her limb while hew amiable husband is in jail. When his time J abont up she sends it over to a neighbor’s anil gets along on crutches. t Two of Mr. Johnson's friends sought to emulate his example the other night. They didn’t take tho trouble to come in at tho door, but kicked a hole in the side of the shanty and proceeded, after Mr. Johnson s well known plan, to remove the artificial limb; but as Mr. Johnson was expected home, she had left it with the custodian, and they were disappointed. They were displeased, very naturally, and said so so emphatically that Mrs. Johnson could not get out of bed for two or three days, and when she did she complained to Justice Gorman, i a Harlem Court, and had Owen Kane. Dennis Kerley and Wm. Brown, all friends of Mr. Johnson, put to the inconvenience of explaining the matter to his Honor, who insisted on locking them up for want of $2,50# bail. Mrs. Johnson’s cork leg has caused her so much annoyance that she contemplates selling it at a discount or swapping it for a dog. It is sat# that Mr. Johnrfbn is inclined to discountenance the familiarity of his friends, Kane, Kerley and Brown, toward ?Jrs. Johnson. i It Was Used. Lafayette Comet. “I thought you said you were goimr to use that poem of mine," said one of Lafayette’s amateur bards, breaking into the Comet sanctum the other day. “Yes, so we did," calmly replied one of the weary intellectual giants at the desk. “Where; I didn’t see it?” exclaimed the bard, excitedly. “We used it to kindle the fire with this morning. Please write on larger and more inflammable paper next time.” A Puzzle to All of Us. Pittsburg Chronicle. M One thing most difficult to understand is happens that only the most “lovely and accomplished” girls do all the eloping with coachmen, rinksters, and others of tho nobility. A Kansas farmer-editor tolls about a gocd*rrangement for plenty of clean water in a hog lot, on an upland farm, where water is thus: Stand a barrel of water in a square box or pan, three inches deep. A small hole boreu in the barrel near the bottom hoop will let the water into the box only as fast as the hogs drink out of the four corners of the box. When hogs stop the drinking, the water stops running. The hogs can’t make the water unclean, and can’t waste it Os course, it is understood that both barrel and box must be water-tight. The application of tho principle can be enlarged for oattle or reduced for the poultry yard. / ——9 A strawberry-grower says some strawberry plants are naturally barren, and should be pulled out ana treated as weeds. He goes ovey the patch when tho plants are in blossom anal pulls up all plants that have not blossomed. .Pure blood is absolutely necessary in order to enjoy perfect health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the biood and strengthens the system.

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