Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1890 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1890.

or Treasury officials to expand or contract the currency to meet the demands of sDecnlators in property or money 'l'ue seneral tenor of the- whole interview is that the silver men want silver recognized as a monv metal and that they do not consider the Windom bill such a measure.

ETiP OF A GKBAT SCANDAL. ln.T.trtrlc SniU Acalnst Garland and Others" Dismissed by a Court. Epfcial to the Indianapolis Journal. WAsmxfiTox, April 21. Tho great scandal of the last administration was laid to rest to-day. Tho District Supremo Court dismissed the hill that was broncht against ex-Attorney-geueral " (iarland. Senator Harris of Tennessee and others to compel tbem to carry out their agreement with the at one time, notorious Pan-Electric Telephone Company. The judges unanimously declared that it was their duty to Bay that the charges of fraud and pertidy made in the bill against the defendant was unsnpported by the facts in the records, but that on the other hand there was , nothing developed in the proof that in any way reflected upon the nigh character of the defendants for honor and integrity. The facts were, briefly, these: A wellknown crank in Washington, a poet and inventor, named Dr. 1'odger, persuaded Attorney-general tiarland and others to join him in organizing a company to promote an invention, which he called the panelectric telephone. They afterwards discovered that the contrivance was worth- . . a. ? , less ana rem sea xo pay in any more money, but not until Mr. Garland had ordered a soit brought against the Bell Telephone Company to test the validity of tho patent, which Dr. Kodger claimed to be an infringement upon his. Garlaud is said to have acted innocently in tho case, but it awakened a tremendous amount of gossip at the time, which will be well remembered. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. renslon Commissioner Has a Right to Exercise His Discretion la Certain Cases. Washington, April 21. Tho United States Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Bradley, to-day affirmed the judgment of the District Supreme Court in refus ing to grant writ of mandamus to Charles II. Miller, to compel the Commissioner of .Pensions to grant him an increase ox pen sion. It was alleged that the Commission' er refused to comply with the instructions of the Secretary. The court holds that the Commissioner followed the instructions. and then exercised his discretion as to matters left open, as he had a right to do. The decision has been waited for long and anxiously by many pensioners and claim agents. " Some two or three years ago Miller applied for an increase of pension. and presented evidence which, ho claimed. showed him to be entitled to more than double the amount he was receiving under the law. The Commissioner refused to grant the increase, and a writ of mandamus was applied for to compel him to do so. A number of claim agents who had similar cases combined together and raised the fund to carry the case to the Supreme Court, which, as noted above, refused to issue the writ. If the decision had been otherwise thousands of similar cases would have been brought in the courts. ' In an opinion rendered to-day, by Justice JJlatchford, alarming the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern district of Illinois, in the case of the Commercial Manufacturing Company, appellants, vs. 1 he rairbauk Canning Com pany, the United States Supreme Court holds that t he patents granted by the United States to Hippolyto JUege for the invention of a process of manufacturing oleomargarine expired with tho expiration of his Anstrian and Bavarian patents. The last reissue of patents, it therefore holds, was invalid, and that consequently the Fairbank company aro not infringers. ADDRESS TO FARMERS. Secretary Rusk 'Will Explain the Causes of Depression In Agriculture. New York, April 21. -A special to the World from Washington says that Secre tary Ifusk is abut to issue an address to the. farmers of the country explaining how the depression in agriculture can be remedied. He attributes tho present state of affairs in part to carelessness in culture, and says that in these days of world-wide compe tition a successful farmer must be as well trained and careful in business as ,the storekeeper, and his equal in intelligence and general education. The Secretary also thinks that the farmer does not study the market reports as carefully as he should, and recommends that he avail himself of the information anpplied by tho Agricultural Department. He thinks that farmers should not acquire more land than they can proutably culti vate. Alter touching upon the anesticns of farm mortgages, transportation, the middleman, gambling in farm products and combinations to control the market, tho Secretary makes a long argument in favor of higher duties on farm products. Ho gives the tables to show that our imports of agricultural products amount to $20,. 273.7;S. the greater part of which, probably jJoO.ow.DW), might be, with proper encour agement, produced on onr own soil. Ho thinks that the problem can bo solved by the imposition of r.igh rates of duty on ag ricultural proQucis. MINOR MATTERS. Vrotest Against the U of Automatic Air- - Brakes on Railway Trains. Washington. Aorii 21. The House com mittee on railways and canals to-day had nnaer consideration the bill introduced by Representative Flower of New York, regulating railway appliances, and was addressed at length by J. Warren Couiston and J. E. Loghrcde. of Philadelphia, representing a brake and coupling company. They strongly urged legislation to compel the use of automatic brakes to insure safety of life and limb of railroad employes, but took exception to that section of the hill which requires tho u&e of -automatic air-brakes, ou the ground that it would contine the roads to a device made by one company operating under a patent, prevent competition and development of such devices and endanger tho lives of employes, as from tho complexity of the device they were frequently required to go beneath and between the cars, and, in fact, to get into just such positions as the patent couples were intended to make unnecessary. Junketing Trip Suddenly Ended. Washington, April 21. The Secretary of State this morning telegraphed Captain Bourle. in charge of tho special train that was carrying the pan-Americans on their Southern tour, to return to Washington from Richmond. This was done because so few of the delegates desired to make the excursion. Thirteen of the foreign delegates accepted the invitation, but only two of them Dr. Martinez Siiva, of Colombia, and Dr. Zegarra, of Pern left Washington with the party. The others sent letters of regret, giving various reasons for withdrawing their acceptances. . Some were detained by important business, some were called to New York by telegraph, others had decided to sail nt once for their homes, and the rest were ill or too tired to make the journey. Several promised to join the excursion at Richmond to-day, but were unable to do so, and the Secretary of State decided that tho number of those going would not justify the expense of the journey, winch would cost as much as if, the entire conltrence had goue. Kincaid Admitted to Hal). Washington, April 21. In the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia, Charles E.' Kincaid. the correspondent who has been in jail here, waiting trial for the killing at the Capitol of ex-Representative Tauibee, of Kentucky, about two months ago, was to-day admitted to bail by Judgo Bingham in the sum of 20,000, which was promptly furnished by Mr. R. J. Wynne, of Mie Cincinnati Commercial Gazette; E. A. FJichardion, of the Baltimore Sun; D. A.' Windsor, jr.; R. Young ami John Paul Jones. The ground of motion for bail was that, owing to his ill health, close confinement in jail pendiug his trial would result lisastrously and perhaps fatally to the defendant. Mr. C. Maurice Smith and Jere

"Wilson, of Washington. Senator Voorhees,

of Indiana, and General Grosvenor, oiunio, represented Mr. Kincaid. Wants Sub-Treasurlea Abolished. Washington, April 21. Senator Farwell to-day introduced a bill to repeal all parts of the -Revised Statutes relating to the appointment of assistant United States treasurers,' and to provide that all the revenues of the government now on deposit in the treasury and sub-treasuries of the United States, and all revenues hereafter collected shall be deposited in such national banks ana other banking institutions as may be from time to time selected by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary shall receive from such banks and institutions ample and adequate security for the safe keeping of the public revenue. . Democratic Steering Committee. Washington, April 2L The caucus of Democratic Senators this morning lasted an hour and was largely attended. It is stated by chairman Gorman that the proceedings were simply a conference tipou the course of business, and the only action taken was the adoption of a resolution to appoint a committee to take charge of the interests of the minority in the matter of legislation. The committee has not yet been selected. General Notes. Epf rial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 21. Laura Tislom was to-aay appointed lourtn-ciass post master at Gero, Gibson county, vice A. V. Tislom, resigned. The Presiden snt has apDroved the joint resolution in regard to tho tunneling of the Detroit river near Detroit. Colonel Elliott F. Shepherd, of the New York Mail and' Express, has purchased all of the chairs nsed by tho international American conference at its sessions and will keep them as mementoes of that important gathering. They were shipped to him at New York to-day. The District of Columbia Society of the Sons of American Revolution was organ ized to-day. I he ireasury Department to-day pur chased &S2.000 four per cent, bonds, at 1.22. and .yjoo iour-and-a-nair per cent, bonds, at 1,031 . TELEGRAPiTIC BREVITIES. J. Isbell. the farmer near Bowling Green who has had hydrophobia since a week ago Friday, died last night. . Temperance people of Gutherie claim that the prohibitory law of Oklahoma Ter ritory is being flagrantly violated, and have informed Secretary Noblo to that eflect. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company will run a line of steamers between Tacoma, Yokohama and Hong Kong, the citizens of the tirst-named place having promised a subsidy of $75,000. Jeremiah O'Donnovan Rossa, the exFeuian. was on trial at New York yester day, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, on a charge of criminal libel. Patrick Sarsheld Cassiday, a newspaper man, is the plaintitl. Rear Admiral Brown says the trial trip of the cruiser Charleston was the most successful ever made by a new war-ship. With the ten and six-inch guns two of the targets were destroyed at a distance of 1,500 feet. The fight between tho Esher and antiEsher factions of the Evangelican Church have finally got into the Chicago courts. Mr. etters ejectment Sunday from the pulpit to which he was assigned apparently precipitated the long-threatened resort to law. The indictment against Frank Woodruff. alias Black, charging him with complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, at Chicago, has been dismissed by consent of the State. An indictment for horse-stealing still stands against him. Subsequently, by order of the state's attorney, the indictment against John Kunzo for complicity in the same 'crime, was also stricken off the docket. Nathan Doll, of Chicago, a Gorman shoemaker sixty years old, tried to beat his eleven-year-old son Willie to death Sunday night. ( When the officers entered the place they discovered the boy unconscious upon the floor. Blood trickled in tiny streams from his nose and mouth, and his back, sides, arms and limbs were one mass of black and blue bruises. The father was intoxicated. At tho session, of the Troy Methodist Conference, at Saratoga, N. Y it was decided to oppose abolishing the corps of army chaplains and to ask that it be enlarged and to provide better facilities. The conference was informed that the United States Senate had removed most of the obnoxious clauses from the Chinese exclusion bill, whereupon the entire audience arose and joined in singing the doxology. SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED. Panic Among the Children Averted by the - Coolness of the Teachers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Frankfort, Ind.. April 21. Much excitement was caused in this city, shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon, by the burning of the Third-ward school building. The lire was not discovesed until it had broken through the first floor from the basement, and it spread so rapidly that it was proba viy iiiiiv uy wju presence oi mina aispiayeu by Professor Hamilton and his corps of teachers that a panic was averted among the SoO children. As it was they were quietly marched out. many or them taking their books with them. The building is in ruins. Loss, 13,000. The insurance is asfollows: Home of New York and Farmers' of Pennsylvania. 2.250 each; Williamsburg. City of Brooklyn. North America Insurance and Phcenix of New York, 81,750 each; London and Liverpool and Globe. fcl.DW. Other Fires. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, III., April 21. There was a live-thousand-dollar tiro at Odell. Livingston county, on Saturday nijrht. Among the losses aro Kepbart's grist-mill, Mrs. Eggerberger's hotel and Morgan's saloon. Louisville, April 21. The littTe town of Harrodsburg. Ky.. was almost wiped out by tire last night. The damage is estimated at $150,000. The origin of the tire was in the opera-house, and the supposition is that it was set on lire by some small boys. Moline, 111., April 21. Fire brok out in the wood-working department of the Molino Buggy Compauy yesterdaj' afternoon, and, after destroying it and the blacksmithshop, spread to the wood-work department of the Zechler Carriage Company, which was also damaged considerably. Tho loss is $20,000; fully insured. Chicago, April 21. A two-story building at Van Buron street and Washington avenue was destroyed by lire this morning with a great part of the contents, entailing a loss of $o4,500, as follows: On the building. $7,000: O. F. Childs. furniture. $8,000; the Optical Instrument Company, $10,000; Chicago Bicycle and Piano Company, $5,000; Henshel. photographer, $3,000. and other smaller losses aggregating $1,000. Four persons who occupied a part of the second floor as sleeping apartments were taken out of the building in an unconscious condition, but will recover. Business Embarrassments. New York. April 21. Assignee Murphy, of John F. Plnmmer& Co., has brought suit against Emma and William S. Darling to recover certain lands in Fort Washington. The complaint alleges that Darling took from the tirm sums aggregating 150.000 and appropriated them to tho use of himself ai;d his wife. That on March 12. 1887, he conveyed to his wife twenty-two lots on Oue-hnudred-and-eighty-fonrth street for $1, that this property was purchased from the moneys of the tirm. when tho tinn owed large sums to creditors. The property is declared to belong to John F. l'lumme'r & Co. in equity. New York. April 21. Ancustns P. l?ockwell, furrier , No. 731 Broadway, made an assignment to Horace G. White to-day, without preferences. En raj;ed Newfoundlanders. St. Johns. N. F.. April 21. The peonle here are still much excited over tho imperial government outrageous concessions to French fishermen on our coast. Native iirshermen aro arming, and will resist a French advance. Delegates have started for England. Canada and the United States, who will solicit for the colony the moral support of press and people. A strong and earnest annexation leeling pervades the community. Tho Governor and the local government are much blamed for the present state- of atlairs. Tho Premier is openly charged with betraying tho country.

PABNELL ON TIIE LAND BILL

IleMovcsthcRejectionofCalfour'sMeasuf e and' the Substitution of His Own. The Former's Bill, lie Thinks, Will Sot Be Supported by the British Tax-Faycr Cretans About Readv for Revolution. IRISH. INI BILL. Mr. Parnell Compares the Balfonr 3Ieasnre with Ills Own Proposition. London, April 21. In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Parnell moved that the Irish land-purchase bill be rejected by the House. Speaking in support of his motion he said that the measure justified the claims that the Nationalists made nine years ago. Ho welcomed Mr. Balfour as the latest recruit to tho ranks of the land reformers. While accepting the govern ment's recognition of the principle of the land for the people, Mr. Parnell declared that he could not admit that the bill was a satisfactory solutiou of the land question. The initial question was how far the British tax-payer would go in tendering credit to the Irish landlord. The experi ment gained by the discussion of Mr. Glad stone's land bill inlSS6 showed that the tax-payer wonld not go far enough to finally settle the land difficulty. The presentbill was in the meantime simply to enable one-ninth of the owners of laud in Ireland these being the larger absentee landlordsto sell out at exorbitant prices, leaving their poorer resident brethren in the lurch. t Mr. Parnell objected to the bill on the, ground that it did not provide for carryiug: out what it proposed, while it exhausted the only Irish credit available. The bill.' ho declared, was unsafe to the imperial tax-payer, the guarantees and counterguarantees it provided being illusory and insutlicient. According to Mr. Balfour's figures, relief would be provided for only three-fourths of the tenants. Mr. Parnell further objected to the bill because it would exhaust the Irish credit without the consent of the IriBh, and without any local control in the application of the money to be distributed umler the provisions of the bill. Again, while coercion is applied as it is now, tho tenant can never bo a free, agent. His own proposal, he said, was the same that he made in ISSl with a few modifications. ' Dealng with the insufficiency of the bill, Mr. Parnell said that the land question was not so large na many people supposed, but they could make it large by tho method of purchase proposed. If adopted, the bill must make the . question a larger question. The principle of the bill was to buy whole estates, and 40,000.000 was a ridiculously inadequate sum for the purpose. Ireland contains fourteen million acres of land, the poor law valuation of which is '.,000.O0O, J amounting at 18 years' purchase, to 106,500,000, which amount wonld be necessary to provide a solution of tho land question. Otherwise, three-quarters of the question would do leit untoucneu. mino-iemns oi tho landlords would have no prospect except to continue the strife with tenants trying to obtain tho same treatment as the. favored minority. Continning, Mr. Parnell said a true test of the worth of the gnarantees provided would bo for Mr. Goschen to take them to the London market and try what ho could realizo upon them. "The securities," he said, canuot bo real unless they eflect a complete settlement of the question under local authority. Otherwise the bill is a parody on land purchase and a swindle on the ifnglish tax-payer. iCheers. If .von adopt tho limit of teuants not exceeding 50 valuation, von reduce the amount' needed to 55 per cent, of the sum mentioned ' j in the bill. Mr. Balfour proposes to give the landlords so many years' purchase for reducing the rents of judicial tenants to a satisfactory standard. The landlord may use the money so obtained to pay off the most onerous enenmbrances. thus effacing tho heavy arrears of interest, while the tenants will get the SO per cent, reduction they clamor for, without which peaceable agrarian relations are impossible. Hear! Hoar! In a typical -'case, a landlord at 100 yearly,' who1 is encumbered to the extent of 1,000, is loft, under the best conditions uuder this bill, w ith his present income of 40 reduced to 27 10s. Under my proposal he gives a reduction of SO per cent, on 55 worth of the net annual value of his estate. I assumo that he will only have to deal with 55 per cent, of the area of his estate. The reduction amounts to 10 10s yearly. He has then left on the security of the funds Mr. Balfour proposes, twenty years purchase, or 320. You may treat this either as a permanent loan oras a sinking fund. I prefer to treat it as a.loan. The new income then will be 31, with a sinking fnnd, against 27 10s under Mr. Balfour h system. Without a sinking fund it would amount to 31 10s. or a loss of onlv 1334. ner cent, on the original income of 40, instead of a loss of 8212 per cent, under Mr. Balfour's scheme. In such tpyical cases Mr. Balfonr saya be requires 2,000 to settle tho question. I only require 3S0. That is why in this system you only require one-sixth of the sum that Mr. Balfour requires in older to secure a reduction of SO per cent, in the cases where, uuder tho purchase system, you only secure a reduction of 20 per cent. The Daily News has sprung a mine under the Unionist camp by printing extracts from the speeches of thirty Unionist members of the House of Commons, condemning Mr. Gladstone's laud-purchase bill of 1880. At that time those gentlemen were follow-' ers of Gladstone, and aro on record as having, in the strongest terms compatible with their rhetorical attainments, commended tho bill as a measure framed in equity, launched in justice, and securing by its operation tho greatest possible benefits, not only to Ireland, but to tbo rnole kingdom. To these gentlemen the News protlersthe advice that they would do well, in order to avoid stultifying themselves, to compare their utterances on that occasion with those of which they have delivered themselves in support of Mr. Balfour's 6cheme, and hasten to make the necessary rnodiiications. TueParnellites are divided in their opinions on Mr. Parnell's motion. They think an explanation is necessary. CIYIIi WAR IN CRETE. : Oppressed Chiistlans Getting Ready to Revolt Against the Brutal Turks. London, April 21, Thero is every reason to believo that the first shot of a new civil war will be tired in Crete within a Jew days at Ambellos, where all the preparations for such an event have been made. Tho Cretans are being deliberately driven to desperation by the Tutks, with a view to undoing the freedom gained in fifty years of struggling, and to restoring the unlimited Turkish rule of the last century. The Turk j had the advantage of being able at the beginning of last year's disturbances to put the Cretans in the wrong, and at the same time to gain a military hold on the island. The powers are embarrassed; first, because they cannot contest the right of the Turkish government to repress what was plausibly represented as an insurrection, and, secondly, because strong pressure on Turkey might upset tho existing combinations. The Turks have before appealed to Russia for help, and might do so a train. Tho powers are even more cautious by their own present grouping into two camps, and by the dread of precipitating a conUict between them. But this very hesitation involves the greatest risk. The Turks will probably bo unable to conquer tho Cretans. In the struggle of l$M-bS Turkey spent &0.U00.000 and lo8t fjO,000 men without succeeding. If a similar erlort should again be required, Turkey can make it only upon condition that she has no distractions elsewhere. But at this moment the Sultan has to face a strained situation alike in Asia and in Europe. The outcome of his latest attempt to coerce Crete cannot be predicted, but there will probably be some interference by tho powers to put a stop to the butchery, not so much in the interest of tho Cretan sntierers as in that of Turkish bondholders, who do not want to see tho Ottoman revenues wasted in a doubtful and useless warfaro. CiENKUAL I'OHEIGX NEWS. The Scheme for Establishing a Universal Catholic Iiauk Not Yet Dead. Nkw Yokk, April 21. A Paris dispatch says: G. W. C. Lcybourn, who ob-

tained considerable notoriety lately in New York in connection with a universal Catholic bank, is in this city, engaged in floating the enterprise. He says he is organizing a board of directors here to take charge of tbo French branch of his bank, lie also asserts that the New York ecclesiastical

authorities labored under a misapprehension when they condemned the -banking venture. Since then, according to Mr. Leybourn, this misapprenhensiou has been cleared away, and his conipanj' has been organized in New York, with W. H. Phillips, a prominent lawyer, at its head. The JXalser Lays a Corner-Stone. BERLIN. April 21. Emperor WTilliam arrived at Bremen this morning. He received an enthusiastic reception. The Emperor was driven in a carriage through decorated streets to the port, where he inspected the quays. He also paid a visit to the exchange. Later in tho day he laid the foundation-stone of the monument to his grandfather. Emperor WTilliam I. When this ceremony was concluded, the Emperor proceeded to the noted Kathaus Keller, where he gavo a toast to the prosperity of the city. In the evening the city was illuminated in honor of the visit of his Majesty. In laying the foundation stone, the Emperor said that the monument would be 'To the departed, a memorial; to tho hviug a remembrance, and to the future an example to emulate." The Emperor was received with great enthusiasm at Bremer Haven. Chicago Dirorce Not Recognized In Britain. London, April 21. The suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Detchgoyen against her husband was decided in the probate, divorce and admirality division of the High Court of Justice to-day. The petitioner averred that she was married to the respondent in the United States, but quarreled and separated. Mr. Detchgoyen subsequently obtained a decree of divorce against her from a court in Chicago, on the plea that she had deserted him. He then married a woman named O'Leary. Mrs. Detchgoyen based her action in the English court on the grounds of bigamy and adultery on the part of her husband. The court granted her a divorce. Floods in New South Wales. Sydney, N. S. Wr.f April 21. Tho Darling river is still rising. A large expanse of country is flooded. Several buildings in the submerged town of Bourke have collapsed. Hundreds of the inhabitants have taken refuge in the railway depot, the custom-house and the .postoffico, which are protected by dams. Beheading Contest In Dahomey. Paris, April 21. The Gaulois says that the Dahomians have made two vigorous assaults upon tho French positious in Dahomey. Four French soldiers stationed at outposts were captured by the Dahomians and beheaded. The French retaliated upon the Dahomians by beher.ding live of the warriors of the King, who had been captured. Fifteen Persons Drowned. London, April 21. The steamer Bilboa from Grinsby, Anril 8, for London, has been lost in tho North sea. Fifteen persons were drowned. Traitor to Be Shot St. Petersburg, April 21. It is stated that Colonel Schmidt, who sold plans of the Cronstadt fortress, has been sentenced to be shot. Cable Notes. President Carnotof France arrived at Ajaccio, Corsica yesterday. Allof theCorsi-' can communes sent delegations to the Prcsi-: dent, with expressions of the pleasure afforded the people of the island by his visit. Mr. Conel Brace, of London, a noted member of the turf and breeder of the horse St Gatren, the winner of the Derby at the Epsom meeting in-1884, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. M. Markoff, Assistant Minister of Justice of Russia, has resigned his office, and the resignation of M. Manassin, Minister of Justice, is expected daily. This is the result of difficulties encountered in executing the reforms proposed by Count Tolstoi. Mr. Wm. O'Brien's novel, which he wrote while he was in prison, has just been issued by Longman. Green & Co. The book, which is entitled "When We Were Boys," is an historical story, and deals specifically with the Fenians. A number of IrishAmerican characters are brought into tho plot. - Tho Crown Prince of Italy, who is now touring in southern Russia, met with an accident yesterday. As the train on which he was traveling was leaving Vladiakakas, the chief town of the Terek district it was thrown from the traik by the breaking of ft wheel of one of the cars. The Crown Prince was severely shaken up and received several contusions. DUPES OP A MINING SCHEME. Kesidents of New Brunswick,?. J., Victimized to the Extent of $200,000. . New York, April 22. A morning paper has the folio wing dispatch from New Brunswick, N. J.: Several capitalists in this city have aged perceptibly within the past week, and will carry lighter bank accounts and much more experience than for several years. Report has reached them that a glittering scheme into which they entered two years ago had come to ' grief. In fact, the whole thing had been a. myth, and they are poorer by some 8200,000. Farly in 18S8 one John Ilalaey came here and talked up a silverminingschemewhich had blossomed in Colorado, llalsey readily boomed his mine and actually sent his eminent relative to Colorado to make a geological examination of the mine. Pay-' ing quartz was found, and when Dr. Cooll returned with the evidence, local capitalists fairly tumbled over each other to get a slice of the stock. The New Brunswick and Colorado Silver-mining Company was immediately formed. lialSey generously took $40,000 worth of stock, City Treasurer Wilson took $20,000 worth, and C. J. Cartner subscribed the same sum. C. L. Haruenburgtook a block worth $40,000, and Miss Elizabeth Mintnrn subscribed for 810,000 worth, llalsey secured subscriptions from John T. Hill, John Waldron, Isaac S. Manning, John Manning,Charles Elkins. Col. J. Rutger and J. N. Cartper for smaller amounts. Then Halsey disappeared, and no amount of diligent search has since revealed his whereabouts. It is believed that Halsey had salted the Colorado mine and has victimized bis many dupes. The mining company exists now in name only, although they own an unknown quantity of barren rock in Colorado. BAGGING PROBLEM SOLVED. A Georgia Lawyer Invents a Machine to Make - Cotton-Stalks Into Strong Cloth. 1 Augusta, Ga., April 21. Mr. William E. Jackson, a well-known lawyer of this city, has solved the jute bagging problem that has agitated cotton circles for so long. Mr. Jackson, it is asserted, has perfected mechanical appliances for making tho bagging from the cotton-stalk, and has just returned from New York with a roll of bagging. Expert cotton men say that it is in every respect equal to cotton bagging.. He will utilize the bare stalks. Ouu annual stalk yield will bale three years of cotton crop. The machinery comprises heavilyweighted corrugated rollers with vats of running water, carding-machines and bagging-looms. It is estimated that in making bagging from cottonstalks two millions of dollars annually will go into the pockets of farmers for which it is now cleared from the land as rubbish. Srovements of Steamers. llAMnuno, April 21. Arrived: California, from New lork. Southampton. April 21. Arrived: Eider, from New York, for Bremen. Nkw Yokk, April 21. Arrived: Rhetia, from Hamburg; Ems, from Bremen. It Will AUo Ilreak Up Family. Philadelphia Beconl. A drug clerk says the persistent use of onions will break up malaria. .

Highest of all in Leavening Fowcr.

LUCKY l'OUNG FKEXCfl GIRL Willed 5360,000, l)j a Kich Californian, Provided She Adopt3 the Testator's Xame. New York, April 22. A little Parisian romance was brought to light yesterday by the tiling with the surrogate of the will of Francis G. Cunningham, an old Californian, and the brother-in-law of Darius Ogden Mills, of this city. Mr. Cunningham was a wealthy old bachelor whodied at Nice on March 14. His will is a very peculiar production and provides for the education of a young girl who is to take his name. Upon the young woman's coming of acje, she is to receivo a handsome fortune. The mother, an Italian, is also well provided for. There is a legacy to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the testators niece. D. O. Mills. Ogden Mills. Heber R. Bishop, Frank and James Cunningham and others are made trustees of a fund of $300,000, which is to be held for the benefit of Marie R. Fellippini, of Rue Perguoles, Paris, France, and her daughter, Gabrielle Francis. The last clause of the will reads: "I authorize Gabrielle F. to assume and use the name of Gabrielle F. Cunningham. Mine. Filleppini is to get S3.000 annually and R000 until Gabrielle is of age for tho latter's proper support. After she reaches eighteen, Gabrielle is to receive $0,000 annually until she becomes twenty-one. Then she gets $9,000 annually, which she is to enjoy for life. If the mother dies then her annuity of $3,000 is to be added to the daughter's portion. At the death of the girl the principal of her trust is to go to her children, but, if she dies without issue, then tho fund is to become a part of the residuary estate. The residue of the estate is to be divided among Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Reid. Ogden Mills, Frank Elizabeth and Mary M. Cunningham." James and John M. Cunningham, C. W. Cunningham and Frank C. Cunningham, Mary C. Bishop, a sister, who lives at No. 821 Fifth avenue, is not mentioned in tho will. She is named. as one of the heirs in the petition. A GALLANT DEED RE CALLED. Bow the Gun-Boat Carondelet Ran the Rebel Batteries at Island No. 10. Washington Letter In New York Sun. A resolution just introduced into tho Senate, ottering the thanks of Co.ugress to Rear Admiral Henry Walke, now of the retired list, and to the oilicers and men formerly under his command on the Carondelet, is based on one of the most daring of tho naval enterprises of the civil war. ' Twenty-eight years ago Island No. ,10, situated in the Mississippi, below Hickman, just about where the bouudaryline between Kentucky and Tennessee strikes the river, was one of the centers of public attention. This island, then of such importance and interest, no longer exists. The great river gradually wore it away, and what is now known as Island No. 10 is a new creation, formed nearer the shoret while the main current of the Mississippi flows over the site of its predecessor. But in the spring of lSGJ the famous tenth island of the series below Cairo was still in midstream, with a channel on either side; and when the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donaldson, in February of that year, caused the confederates to evacuate their stronghold at Columbus, which was their iirst great fortified point commanding tho river below Cairo, they moved thoir stuns down the river and placed them on Island No. 10, and fort i tied, also. New Madrid, in the horseshoe bend of the river next below, on the Missouri shore. At Island No. 10 the river, after running southerly, turns westerly, so that the island also lay nearly east and west, being about two miles long by less than a mile wide. Its works mounted twenty-three guns, aided by a floating battery in the river, carrying, perhaps, nine or ten more, and by thirty-two guns on the Tennessee shore. NTew Madrid, though below, was further north, as the river at Island 10 turns sharply in that direction, making a complete loop. Genoral Pone, then in command of the land forces operating there. Iirst 'capture.' Now Madrid and next proceeded to placi his batteries on the Missouri shore f urthet down the river, so that he commanded the only practicable retreat from Island No. 10. which, was toward Tiptonville, the swamps barring other exit for troops and trains. Then the lleet arrived under Hag officer Koote, and f or several weeks bombarded the works on and near Island No. 10. while Pope was cutting a canal through the bend on the Missouri ah ore, and so securing a waterway for light transport steamers without running the fire of the batteries. Commodore Foote had declared on the 20th of March that whenever enough was to be gained by running the fire of the batteries he should not hesitate to do it. The steady work of the army soon suggested that the, time had probably come for this exoeriment, especially as General Pope was busily getting ready Hoating batteries, to be manned by his troops. Commander Henry Walke volunteered to take his gunboat, the Carondelet, past tho formidable batteries, and the Commodore, on March SO, gave him permission to make this intrepid attempt ou the first dark nipht and the instructions for executing it. The decks of the Carondelet were covered with stout planks; chain cables were hung over the parts most needing protection from hostile shot; cord-wood was piled about the boilers and a heavy hawser coiled around the pilot-house. 1 o aid the experiment, on the night of April 1 a boat carrying fifty men of the Forty-second. Illinois crossed to tbo Tennessee shore and spiked the upper battery, while on the 4th the gunboats and mortars so severely cannonaded the floating battery at Island No. 10 that she cut loose from her moorings and drifted down the river. Ou the night of the 4th. accordingly, aided by these adantages, the Carondelet, having taken aboard twenty soldiers of the Forty-second Illinois to help her crew in repelling boarders, drew back her guns, closed her ports, put out her lights, and with a barge loaded with bales of hay made fast to her port quarter to protect her magazine, steamed slowly down the river. The moon bad gone down at 10 o'clock, and she slipped along unsuspected. But it had been arranged to conduct her escaping steam through tho wheel-house to avoid the usual putting noise in the pipes, and the soot in tne smokestacks, no longer moistened, caught fire, and a flame shot out. It was controlled, but another flame, coming from the heavens, was beyond human management, A thunder-storm, foretold in the hazy atmosphere of the sunset, broke forth in fury, ana. the lightning reveled the presence of the gun-boat to the confederates, whoso shouts and orders were plainly heard on the Carondelet. .Their guns opened upon her, but without effect, although she was retarded by the barge in tow. Captain Mahau, of the navy, thua describes the scene: "On deck, exposed alike to the storm and to tho enemy's tire, were two men; one, Charles Wilson, a seaman, heaving the lead, standing sometimes knee-deep in the vater that boiled over the forecastle; the other, an officer, Theodore Gilmore, on tho upper deck forward, repeating to the pilot the leadsman's muttered "No bottom," The storm spread us sheltering wing over the gallant vessel, bailling the excited efiorts of the enemy, before whose eyes sho iloated like a phantom ship; now wrapped in impenetrable darkness, now standing forth in tho full blaze of the lightning close under their guns. The friendly flashes enabled her pilot, William R. Hoel, who had volunteered to share the fortunes of the night, to keep her in the channel. Once only, in a longer interval between them, did tho vessel get a dangerous sheer toward a shoal, hut the peril was revealed in time to avoid it. Not till the firing had ceased did the squall abate. The passage of the Carondelet was not only one of the most daring and dramatic events of the war; it was also the death-blow to the confederate defense of this positiou." There were more famous runuiuirs of batteries later in tho war, and tome uudvr cir-

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Ticket Offices No. 20 South Illinois street and at Union St&U x National Tube-Works WroagU-Iroa Pips FOB Gas,Steam& Water Boiler Tubes, Cast and Mallcablo Iron Fittings (black and ral vaulted). Valves, btop Cocfca, Entfiia Trimmings, Steam G 11 tuca, ripo Toiik. 11 r Culture. Vises, ecrew Tlates aud Dies, Wrenches, Hteaui Traps, Pumps, Kitchen inks. Hose, Belting. Babbitt Metal, Solder. White and Colored Wiping Wasto. and all other supplies usnd In oonnictlon vrlth Gar, hteam and Water. Natural Gas Supplies a specialty, eteam-beatinc Apparatus forPubltc Bulldiufre, Storerooms, Mills. Sboxis. Factories, Laundries. Lumber Ury-boupfts, etc. Cut and Thread to order any plze W'rouKht-lron Pipe from inch to 12 Inches diameter. KNIGHT A JILLSON. 7o fc 77 .Pennsylvania st cumfitances which gave tbem moro celebrity, ainco it was the good fortune of the Carondelet not to be touched by the enemy's shot. But it is to be remembered to the credit of Walke that he ran tho batteries of Island No. 10 alone, with no vessel to divide the enemy's lire, and that this was done three wejks before Farraut'e famous exploit at New Orleans. In the council of captains and commanders before the attempt. Walke was the only one who advised it; and, indeed, not until later in the war was the possibility of doing this in channels cleared of obstructions demonstrated by experiment. The report of Commodore Foote nays a merited tribute to Commodore Walke. Now. after more than a quarter of a century, the attention of Congress is asked to the exploit in order to give it fuller recognition. i FOR TIIE SAKE OP A CHILD. A St. Louis Woman's Strange Efforts to Keep a Tattle Girl. St Louis Special. A romance of a stolen -child, with some of the most remarkable features ever known, has developed here. Mrp. Margaret King called at police headquarters and told a story to the effect that her little girl, seven years old, had been stolen from her. She said she and her husband had been separated, and sho being unable to properly care for her child had left it with Mis. Stephens, a woman with whom ahe aud ber husband had boarded. Last Tuesday two ladies called at Mrs. Stephens's house and carried away the child, one of tho women eaying if the child's mother would call at No. 1112 North Eleventh street she could get all the information she wanted. Mrs. King said she called there, but could learn nothing of her child, ribe knew her husband had not stolen tho child, because it was not his. Here is tho strange part of her story. Sho said the child was illegitimate, was born to her before she was married, and before she ever knew her husband; that its father was a mau named Shelley, and then sho told the story of her betrayal in detail. Investigation this evening developed the fact that Mrs. King's story is false. The woman who carried oil' the child was Mrs. Margaret Bnrmhoft, whose home is in Staunton, III., thirty miles from St. Louis. The child is hers, and was stolen from her over four years ago bv her divorced husband, who lives in St. Louis. His name is Martin Grapn. lie married again. He brought the child to St Louis, and gave it to the Kins folks. The child's father to-night said that Mrs. King had no claim on tho child, except thai born of her affection. She had cared well for it. and her desire to keep it led her to manufacture out of whole cloth the false story that stained her own character. Sb had never had a child, and to his knowledge was an eminently respectable and virtuoui girl, and had been a good and true wife to When seen, to-night. Mrs. King stubbornly sticks to her story, and maintained that if she could hud the man Shelley sho could prove her claim to the child. Gas Compaoy with 850,000,000 Capital. New Yokk, April 2i A Philadelphia dispatch to the Times says: Financiers in Philadelphia, lioston aud New York are quietly at work placing stock for a strong AngloAmerican syndicate, which is being formed to absorb th United as Improvement Company of this city. The amount of capital of th new concern will be fcTO.OOO.coo. of which $00,000,000 will bo cailod in at the start Tho company's business is the operation of gas plants all over tho United States. It owns gas-works in Kansas Citv. Memphis, Omaha, Savunnah and many New England towns, and in this State. It also owns valuable ' patents, including a process of making water gas. The assets thus acquired are valued at $1-V 000,000. The capital stock is 5.000,X), the par valMfi of the shares being 00. The Flrt Thounand Dollars. O. W. CMMa, in Philadelphia ina. Up to tho tim whe u I was swventeen years of age that is about 1S1'-I had earned 110 more than SOW a vi-ar. That was my salary, and I was then employed in n book store. It doesu't seem no much just now an it did then. Hut it was vrenlth enough for me. 1 managed, bv economical living, to save my lirsl thousand dollar from that ii;comc; and thousand dollan in the proper hand 14 us good as a fortune.

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