Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1895 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, KE13KUAKY 20, 1895.1

the commission to reorganize the department. He did not think it would be wise to show too much distrust. If, however, it came to an open breach, he would stay by his friends. Both Mr. Piatt and Governor Morton denied that uny conversation was had over a State power of removal bill. .

WAITE'S BOARDS MIST GO. Xew Fire nnd Police Cumminlontri anted for Denver. DENVER, Col., Feb. 19.-Governor McIntyre has appointed new police and Are boards for this city. Although there may be a legal contest over the possession of the offices between the old and new boards, there will be no repetition of the disgraceful scenes that attended the removal of the members of the fire and police boards by Governor Walte a year ago. President Mullens said this afternoon: "We will retain this office until courts decide who are entitltd to it. ..e claim our term of office does not expire until the second Tuesday In April and intend to remain here until then unless the court decides otherwise." Chief Armstrong, when interviewed, said: "I shall recognize the old board until courts decide who are entitled to the offices." "Which board will you recognize In the event of both boards giving orders?" "I will recognize tielther board in any unlawful act. I will have nothing to do with a repetition of last year's affairs at the City Hall." Thlef Armstrong ordered the removal of two officers who had been detailed in his absence to guard the board's office. Anti-Oleo 11111 Passed. LINCOLN. Neb., Feb. 19. The anti-oleomargarine bill was on In the House to-day, hot, fast and furious. The gallery was filled, every seat ; on the floor was taken and additional chairs were placed for ladies in the aisles. The strong point made by the Omaha men was the prohibitory character of the measure, they claiming that it was merely intended to suppress Omaha creameries. It was finally passed. If it becomes a law it will suppress a big Industry in Nebraska. I. oral Option In Xeiv Jersey. T KEN TON, N. J., Feb. 19. The Senate borough committee gave a hearing to-day on Senator Rogers's local option bills for boroughs. Over .two hundred ministers and representatives of church organizations were present to advocate the measures. The trend of the talk was that the bills were In the line of local self government and some of the speakers warned the Republicsns that if they did not pass them, the Republican party would pay for it at the polls. . o More 'Hlnner.' JEFFKRSON CITY,' Mo., Feb. 19. The bill making it a misdemeanor to Introduce "ringers" on race tracks now needs only the Indorsement of the Governor to be come a law. It was passed by -the Senate to-day with an, amendment making the offense a aiisdemeanor instead of a felony. . laury Luwii It open led. GUTHER1E, O. T., Feb. 19. Both houses f the Legislature passet an act repealing all usury , laws and leaving the loan of money to free contract and competition without any legal limitations save where there is no contract, legal Interest shall be 7 per cent, per annum. Anti-Chinese Measure. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 19. Mr. Campbell has Introduced a bill in the Senate making It unlawful for any male person to wear a queue. The penalty is a fine of flOO to $300. The object of the bill is to flrlve out the Chinese. Woman Suffrage. Bill Passed. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 19. The woman suffrage bill passed the Assembly of the State Legislature this afternoon toy a vote of 45 to 29. Ballots for Senators. DOVER, Del., Feb. 19. Two ballota were taken in the United States senatorial fight to-day. The result was:- Higgins, Republican, 9; Addicks, Republican, 6; Massey, Republican, 3; Wolcott, Democrat, 9; Tunnell, Democrat, 1; absent, 1. SALEM. Ore.. Feb. 19. In to-day's senatorial ballot the antl-Dolph Republicans changed from Williams to Lowell. The vote stood Dolph, 40: Hare, 10; Raley, 6; Cogswell, 1; Lowell, 29; absent, 4. BOISE, Ida., Feb. 19. The vote for United' States Senator to-day was without change Ehottp, 20; Sweet, 19; Claggett, 15. TELEGKAIIIC BREVITIES. Rev. A. C. McCabe, Ph.' D., formerly editor of the Maryland -Churchman, accepted a call to the rectorship of Christ Church, of Springfield O. Veneensls Nino, a barber, yesterday cut his wife's throat from ear to ear in a New . York tenement. The deed was committed in the presence of the couple's two children. The Arkansas and Missouri Yellow Pine Lumber Company is the name of a new organization preparing to open offices in St. Louis, but those interested deny that it is a lumber trust. Colorado burglars wear bullet-proof coats. Thomas Cook, a merchant at Elmora, attempted to kill a safe "cracker," but the bullet, though striking the burglar's shoulder, fell flattened to the floor. The Electrolytic Copper Company of Ansonia, Conn, in the business of refining ores, made a voluntary assignment yester- " day with unknown assets. Frank and Edward Smith conducted the business. Canao Bralco, alias "Frank Charley," of No. 125 Ewlng street, Chicago, who, on Sept. 13, 1894, murdered Dominic Buonana In Chicago, was captured in New York yesterday, liraico Is seventeen years old. The John Moran Packing Company has given a deed of trust on all property in St. Joseph, Mo., John Donovan, jr., being named as trustee. This action was caused by the depression in business for some months past. At Denver, Col., yesterday Justice Cowell dismissed the case against Rev. Frank Spalding, principal and five members of the faculty of Jarvis Hall Military Academy who were arrested, last week for severely, flogging two unruly cadets. The carriage manufacturing establishment of McLear & Kendall, of Wilmington, Del., one of the largest in the country, was closed by . the Bheriff, yesterday, on local judgments amounting to $3.1.000. Henry C. McLear, senior member of the firm, is secretary of the Carriage Builders' National Association. . The Yale Freshmen Debating Union has been challenged by the Harvard freshmen union to a debate to take place within three months The Yale and Princeton debating societies have chosen this subject for their -debate at New Haven on May 10: ' "Resolved. That the income tax of 1894 was a justifiable measure." Charles W. Mouk, manager of Overholtz & Co.'s distillery at Bradford, Pa., was murderously assaulted Monday night by two men. Mouk was the principal witness' in the charges brought by Pennsylvania Congressmen against E. P. Kearns, internal revenue collector, and to this Is attributed the assault made upon him. Another Oblo OH Gusher. 'TOLEDO. O., Feb. 19. Near Glbsonburg, In Sandusky county, to-day, Klrkbride. Brothers, of this city, who have had phenomenal luck lately with their oil operation, drilled in-- well good for twenty thousand barrels a day. With the exception of the Klrkbrlde-Jones well, which came in good for thirty thousand barrels, their latest producer is the biggest well known to Ohio oil men. Mlnn;lLv? b ATS Quaker Oats makes the muscles stronger, the bones harder, the brain, brighter. Sold only In 2 lb. Packages.

THE KUHN POISONING

BBGIX.MXG OP A SENSATIONAL TRIAL AT GREESI$inG. Shelby County Widow nnd Relatives Chanced with 91 order Ex-Audi tor Cole's Shortage Indiana News. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind.. Feb. 19. Mrs. Margaret Kuhn, charged with killing her husband, Edward Kuhn, was placed on trial today in the Circuit Court. The case comes here from Shelby county. Fourteen attorneys, seven for the prosecution and seven for the defense, appeared In the case.. The defendant appeared in the court room in deep mourning and walking with a cane. She was suffering with a severe attack of rheumatism, affecting the knee. She is twenty-three years of age and has black hair, dark eyes and the appearance of a woman of refinement. She has heretofore borne an excellent character and is a member of the Baptist church, having become a member several years prior to the death of her husband. Her maiden name was Midklff and her mother, a widow, and two brothers are jointly indicted with her for killing her husband, Edward Kuhn, by strychine poisoning. The Midklff s and Kuhns lived near the village of Melser, Shelby county, and the parents of both branches are farmers and wealthy. Opposition sprung up in both families against the proposed marriage of Edward Kuhn and Miss Midklff, but the young couple had their own way and were married In September, JS92. , On the 9th of last June, after eating supper and retiring for the night, the husband became violently ill with convulsions and died. Soon after his death charges were made of foul play and an Investigation followed as to the cause, which led to the arrest of Mrs. Kuhn. Mrs. Elvira Midklff. John MIdkiff and Alvln Midklff on a charge of murder in the first degree. A jury, consisting of the -following-named gentlemen was secured without much delay: Job L. Coil, Frank P. Sharp, Matthew McCormick. Alfred C. McCoy, Oliver Goddard, Frank M. Thompson, Strauther V. Pleak. Charles Remy, Thomas Edmeads, Albert Smith, Hayden S. Magee and Amos Eddleman.. Dr. Inlow was the first witness for the State. He was called, he said, to attend Edward Kuhn in his fatal sickness. When he arrived he found him in convulsions, which recurred every minute or two and he died in a convulsion. He asked Edward if he had ever been bitten by a snake or a dog and he said no. Maggie Kuhn wanted to know why he was so particular and the Doctor replied that he asked the question in order that he might be able to give proper treatment. She told the Doctor that before retiring that night she took a quinine capsule and so did her husband. The sick man told him he had taken quinine. About nine months before his death Edward Kuhn brought the Doctor a drawer of a coffee mill and in It was a white powder which was -intensely bitter. The State considers this as a very strong circumstantial point, but the defense claims that they will be able to show that the husband and wife were together and not at home until late in the evening and that the powder was put in the coffee mill in their absence. The court adjourned with the witness still on the stand, being cross-examined by attorney Smith, who was testing his knowledge of strychlnal poisoning. COLE'S SHORTAGE. ! Ilia Bondsmen Trying: to Settle How : the Ex-Auditor Operated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CORYDON, Indl, Feb. 19. Johm Martin, of Palmyra, one of the bondsmen of exAuditor Charles W. Cole, is in town today for the purpose of settling Mr. Cole's shortage. Cole admits that he is short $5,200, but claims that his deputy, Mr. C. C. Jordan, received $l,?0O of the money. Cole illegally Issued orders to himself to . the amount of $2,000 and the remainder of the shortage consists of school fund interest and principal which he collected and failed to pay to the treasurer. School fund borrowers ignorantly paid Cole their interest when they should have paid it to the treasurer, and Cole gave a receipt in each case and issued a quietus, which he had no right to do without the treasurer's receipt. Jordan claims that he receipted for a considerable amount of this interest, but that he turned the money over to Cole. Mr. Martin, the bondsman, is Cole's brother-in-law, and is quite wealthy. IIIIICK. WORKS, BURNED. Ad ants & Root Suffer a Lom of $25,OOO at Sherltyin. Special to the Indianapolis journal. SHERIDAN, Ind., Feb. 19. The Sheridan brick works, owned by Justus C. Adams and O. H. Root, of Indianapolis, were destroyed by fire. this morning. The loss is $25,000; insurance about $10,000. The fire was discovered shortly before last midnight by Harper Teter, the watchman. The superintendent, Rolla Staley, and citizens generally did all in their power to save the buildings, but the dryness of the timbers, owing to the great number of gas fires in the sheds, caused such a hot blaze that the chemical extinguishers, with which the factory was liberally supplied, were useless. The entire buildings. Including machinery, were soon a mass of ruins. The sheds contained, it claimed, nearly one hundred thousand green bricks, all of which were ruined. This factory wa3 erected about three years ago, and has been very beneficial to the community, especially the laboring class, as it was run steadily all winter. Usually the factory employed about one hundred men. The matter of rebuilding has not yet been decided. A SENSATIONAL KILLING, Having' Its Origin In the Railway Strike Troubles of Lout Summer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 19. Lying In a small room in a house in Ogden street, in west Hanimont, is the body of John Kvojak, of No. 2868 Kelley street, Chicago, shot through the heart by John Piotrouski, late of Company F, Fifteenth United States Infantry, who also shot Klyrame Kovkoskl through the calf of the right leg. The shooting occurred about 4 o'clock this afternoon, and, according to the murderer's story, which is corroborated by a number of witnesses, was done in self-defense. Immediately after the shooting Piotrouski walked to the office of Judge J. P. Davis and delivered himself up to the authorities. Piotrouski, who was discharged from the army on Feb. 5, came to West Hammond yesterday, and last night was married to Katie Lusula, of that village. He was seen tonight at the office of Judge Davis, where he is held by the marshal of the village, awaiting the arrival of the coroner of Cook county. He did not seem to be much excited over the shooting, and talked freely to the reporters. He said that he first met Kvojak several weeks ago in Chicago, and was recognized as one of the United States soldiers who was on duty during the railway strike last summer; that Kvojak told him that if he ever got a chance he would kill him; that last night, while attending a reception given in honor of his marriage, Kvojak, in company with Kovkoskl and three other men, came to the house and tried to carry out his threat, but was frustrated, although they succeeded In breaking up the party. They went to the prisoner's house this morning, but were again driven away, only to return again this afternoon about 4 o'clock. They then broke into the house and went up stairs where the prisoner lived, and, after assaulting hta wife, tried to break through a door into the room where Piotrouski had gone to secrete himself. While they were doing this the prisoner shot twice through the glass in the door, one of the shots striking Kvojak in the left breast, just -over the heart, the other wounding Kovkoskl in the leg. Kvojak staggered into the kitchen and fell In a chair, saying that he was fatally hurt and would die, vhich proved true. The other members of the party fled. Kovkoskl coming to this city, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. E. O. Johnson. WELL-KNOWN CRIMINAL. Record of Chnrlea Pat lemon While Confined in the Frankfort Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT. Ind.. Feb. 19. Charles Patterson, now on trial at Lebanon, and whom John Scxson implicates In his confession as being the real rrurderer of Hiram McDonald, killed at Thorn town last August, Is well known in this city, where he has u unenviable record witt. the police. Pat

terson was confined in the jail here for six months, serving a sentence for assault and battery. In which he.ue-3 a knife with almost murderous results on a Colfax man. While confined he organized among the prisoners what he termed the Kangaroo court, whose mission it was to try every new prisoner. Patterson acted as judge, and the verdict of the court was invariably "guilty." The culprit being sentenced either to so many lashes or to pay a fine of tobacco, cigars, or both. When a tramp was admitted for lodging and breakfast he was always sure to get a good bath, Patterson ordering his assistants to carry the fellow to the wash room, where he was given a thorough scouring, no matter how hard he fought. While in jail here Patterson claimed to have "reformed" and was used by the officers in obtaining admissions of guilt from other prisoners. His cunning made him an adept at this, and several fellows now in the Prison North owe their sentences to misplaced confidence in Patterson. The officers here say that Patterson is as smooth a villtan as they ever came in contact with, and that the story Sexson tells is in keeping with the methods of that notorious crook. The Ilrazii Coal Situation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Feb. 19. The coal situation in this district 13 growing more serious dally. The conference held here between the operators and officials of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway accomplished nothing. A' prominent operator sald this afternoon that the principal object of the meeting was to consider the appeal made by the officials of the C. & E. I. to the operators to reduce the selling price of coal and thus aid them In competing with the Wabash and Illinois Central. A majority of the operators was not In favor of this, and the situation Is more complicated now than ever. It is claimed that the C. & E. I. must haul coal from this field at 25 cents a ton to compete with the .Wabash and Illinois Central.

Suits for False Imprisonment. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 19. Last fall City Marshal Sparks and deputies raided the gaming rooms of Charles Skotski, a South Harrison-street saloon keeper, and captured Skotski and several others. Prosecuting Attorneys Wray and Campbell drew up the affidavits, but in the last term of the Circuit Court they were overruled and the defendants dismissed. To-day Skotski filed a suit for $20,000 against Sparks and his bondsmen for false imprisonment. Daniel Bumgarner, who was captured at the same time, has also brought suit for a similar amount. It is generally believed that the Retail Liquor Dealers Association is back of the suits, as Sparks and the officershave been making a vigorous attempt to enforce the law. Bloomington'R Fortnightly Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 19. The annual dinner of the Fortnightly Club was given last night at the Hotel Gentry, and was one of the most interesting literary events of the year. Dr. Joseph Swain, president of Indiana University, presided, and a paper was read by Judge D. D. Banta and Father M. H. Bogemann gave the topic of the time, taking for his theme the tendency towards socialism and the probable causes. An elegant banquet followed, at which Prof. Sampson acted as toastmaster. Responses were made by Mrs. Joseph Howard, Prof. William P. Rogers and Dr. Gustaf Karstens. The club has a membership of thirty and has been doing successful work for the past three years. Oil Found nt Parker City. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PARKER CITY, Ind., Feb. 19. While drilling for gas here a fine flow of petroleum was struck. It is a fine quality of crude oil and the company will take Immediate steps to put in an oil plant. The well is 1,000 feet deep. Speculators and oil men are here investigating and buying land. The well will be "shot" in the morning, at which time it is thought a flow of fifty barrels can be effected. Oil was discovered last night and prices of real estate have advanced 75 per cent. To-day has been a great day here. Fully five hundred people from outside towns will be here to see the well "shot." This opens a new oil field in Indiana and, with the gas boom, Parker City promises to grow rapidly. Secured Money on False Pretense. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind.: Feb. 19. Miss Annie Williams, of Jeffersonville, was arrested in this city this afternoon on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. She joined several churches In this city in the past few days, and has obtained considerable money from the ministers on the plea that she had moved here from Columbus, Ind.; and was a little short of the amounts necessary to pay the freight on her furniture. Among the preachers who contributed were Rev. J. J. Wicker, Rey. A. D. Carlisle and Rev. J. W. Clokey. She was sent to jail to await trial next Monday. Pythian Castle Dedicated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KNOX, Ind., Feb. 19. Knox Lodge No. 296,1 Knights of Pythias, dedicated its new castle hall this afternoon and evening by a reception and banquet to visiting knights and their ladles from Plymouth, Argos, Walkerton, South Bend and other points. The new Pythian temple occupies a half block and is three stories in height, costing $9,000. Captain Sears, of Indianapolis, and Rev. S. W. Goss, of South Bend, delivered the principal addresses to-night. Eight candidates were initiated into the order, teams from Argos and W'alkerton assisting in the work. New Gas Well nt Munele. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 19. Yesterday a very strong gas-well was drilled on the Roach farm, just north of Muncie. for the city. The well shows a rock pressure of nearly three hundred pounds and the Increase is steadily raising as the well goes deeper into the Trenton rock. The supply promises to be as great as any wells yet drilled In the belt. This well is only one instance of the wells that, are being drilled in this county weekly and it is an undisputable fact that there is plenty gas where the first was found eight years ago. Relic of W. II. Harrison's Campaign. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCKPORT, Ind., Feb. 19. Mrs. Jane Wallace, aged seventy-two, of Dale, this county, owns and has in her possession a badge or pin worn by General William Henry Harrison during his famous Presidential campaign. On the pin is engraved the old log cabin occupied by the General on the banks of the Ohio. It is a complete representation of the log cabin of that day, with clapboard roof, weight poles, door with old style latch and string hanging on the outside, with cider barrel under the window. . Peculiar Malady In Shelby County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 19. People in the southern part of this county are suffering with a peculiar malady, which, for want of a better name, is called "pink eye." The disease attacks in the same manner as la grippe, but soon settles in the eyes, in a short time the optics were highly inflamed and suffused with blood. Entire families were incapacitated and scarcely any one in the entire neighborhood escaped. Pension Checks and Cash Stolen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 19. The eafe in William H. . Ott's general store at Boston, on the Alr-llne, west of this city, was broken open at an early hour this morning by unknown burglars. Fourteen hundred dollars in pension checks and $1,300 in cash was taken. The postofflce was also robbed but Postmaster Gilmore does not know his exact loss. Nearly all the stock of stamps was taken. Asphalt Streets for Muncie. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 19. At the City Council meeting, last night, it wa3 decided to pave with asphalt Washington street east, from High street to Boyce avenue, and Mulberry and High streets south from Gilbert street to the railroads, .lelrerson, Jackson, Adam!?, Charles and Pearl streets will also be paved. The Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company will do the work. IndorMed by Ministers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. lD.-The Ministers' Association of this city has indorsed the Nicholson bill and request the members of the Legislature from this county to support the measure. Explosion In an Elevato?. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. McCORDSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 19. The boiler of the large grain elevator of J. G. and J. P. McCord blew up at 12:30 to-day.

About one-half the boHer was hurled a distance of two hundred yards or more. The engine room was completely demolished and the engine is a total wreck. The proprietors were In the main building at the time, but escaped injury. Loss about III Parents Live in Indiana. HOLYOKE. Mass., Feb. 19. An unknown man, supposedi to be Lafayette Cummings, of Fort Adams, R. I., was struck by a passenger train in this city, to-day, and killed. Letters in his possession were addressed to "B. 4, Light Artillery," and mentions a wife and young son in Sidney, la.; also, father and mother living in Eaton, Ind. The man was about thirty years old. He was walking-on the tracks when the engine struck him. Suicide in Knox County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 19. George Anderson, of Sandborn, thi3 county, while brooding over business disappointments, committed . suicide, yesterday evening, by hanging, in his brother's field. Anderson had repeatedly threatened to take his life, but had been so closely watched that he did not get a chance until yesterday. He leaves a wife and two children.

Death of Albert Gilford. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Feb,, 19. Albert Gifford, aged sixty-five years, died here last night. He was born In Fayette county, Indiana, and came here as an engineer early in life. In December, 1856, he married Martha A. Bosley, who, with a daughter, Mrs. Cass Sitzmann, of Anderson, survives him. Schoolboy- Killed by an Engine. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind., Feb. 19. Willie, the fifteen-year-old son of Thomas Kavanaugh, of the Wabash road, while on. his way to school this morning was run down by a locomotive in the Wabash yards and killed. This is the second boy killed In, the railroad yards here this week. Indiana Notes. A revival meeting is in progress in the M. E. Church at Wilkinson, in charge of Rev. S. F. Harter. Forty-five persons have been added to the church. Jacob Mullendore, a farmer living near Rockfield, attempted suicide Monday for the second time. He inflicted a gash in his throat with a rusty knife that took twenty-seven stitches to close, and is in a critical condition. The Gas Belt Torpedo Company has been organized at Knlghtstown. The capital stock has been subscribed and officers elected. Mr. J. D. Whitted is president, J. H. Bennett manager, and Mr. C. Beard secretary and treasurer. The pocketbook and money of Bernard Hamel, whose body wa3 found at Logansport, was discovered yesterday, hidden at his late residence. This dispells the theory of foul play. Coroner Downey rendered a verdict of accidental death. The revival meeting at Alexandria, conducted at the Christian Church, by J. V. Coombs, is creating great interest. Sunday forty people professed conversion. Four services were held. The house was crowded at the special meeting for men and women. A new Christian church was dedicated at Allison, Knox county, last Sunday. Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, conducted the dedicatory exercises, and raised sufficient money to pay all indebtedness. The new church 13 one of the finest rural edifices in the State. Bernice Lodge, No. 120, K. of P., of Noblesvllle, last night .celebrated the thirtyfirst anniversary of the founding of the order. The hall was elaborately decorated, and a programme of high order, both literary and musical, was rendered. The principal address was by Rev. Fred M. Stone, of the M. E. Church. A CO-NSTABLE'S MISTAKE. .Shot the Cashier of, a (California Bank Instead of a Robber. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 19. Details have been received f?om an attempted bank robbery at Aius'a, Cal., early this morning. The bank was entered a week ago and an attempt made to open the safe. Falling in this the robber took from the counter a satchel which contained money put up to pay the Azusa Valley Fruit Association. At the time of the first entrance bookkeeper Anderson, who was sleeping in a rear room, heard the robber, but, having no revolver, did not go out.. Last night cashier Daniels and bookkeeper Anderson, who were sleeping in the rear room, heard the burglars enter. They jumped out into the bank, .Daniels with a shotgun and Anderson with a revolver. The robber Jumped through a window and escaped. Daniels fired at him. At the time when Daniels fired at him constable Stevens was passing the bank and supposing that the robber had tired from the window, opened fire. His first shot struck cashier Daniels in the left shoulder. Constable Crawford ran up at this time and gave chase to the robber, capturing him. His name is Ellsworth Myers. He came to Azusa last December from .Colorado and has been hanging around here ever since. He claims he did not fire a shot. Excitement runs very high on account of the attempted robbery and the careless shooting by deputy constable Stevens. Daniels is reported to be in a precarious condition. Myer3 says he had no confederates, but this is not believed. OBITUARY. Col. William Millar, Who Opened the Battle of Shlloh. TEXARKANA, Tex., Feb. 19. Colonel William Millar, a central figure in the late war, is dead, aged seventy-one years. It was Colonel, Millar's company that opened' the battle of Shlloh and 'did most of the severe fighting in that memorable contest. Colonel Millar was a civil engineer and at the time of death was surveying for a new branch of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railway. He contracted pneumonia and was ill but a few days. He was at one time city engineer of Kansas City. Ell Marks, a Noted Gambler. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 19. Eli Marks, probably the best : known gambler in the South, died here this afternoon. For years he made gambling a business and acquired a fortune, but recently he had reverses and died practically reduced to poverty. He was a member of Morgan's famous raid through Ohio and southern Indiana during the war. and was universally known and loved for his many acts of kindness and charity. Captain Marks leaves a widow and two sons. He was forty-nine years of age. Other Deaths. LEXINGTON. Ky., Feb. 19. Major Thomas H. Shelby, collector of internal rev enue for this district and father of John T. Shelby, Colonel Breckenridge's law partner and counsel in his famous suit, died this morning of paralysis of the throat, in his sixty-sixth year. He was a grandson of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky, and was related to leading families of Kentucky, Virginia and Missouri. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 19. W. C. Barber, aged eighty-four, died here today of old age. He was formerly a capitalist in Worcester, Mass., but lost his fortune during the panic of 1873. In his early days he was well acquainted with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Mr. Barber leaves a widow in Worcester, who is almost as old as himself. He also has several sons and daughters in the East. PARIS, Feb. 19. M. Auguste Vecquerie, a well-known French literal ar and editor-in-chief of the Rappel, a Radical Republican organ, is dead. He was born Nov. 19. 1819, at VUlequier, Department of Slene-In-feriure. He was the author of a number of works of prose, poetry, and also wrote several dramas. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 19. Colonel Robert P. Pepper, a wealthy stock breeder and the owner of the famous stallion Onward, died at 11 o'clock to-day. after three weeks' illness with Bright's disease CHICAGO, Feb. 19. Colonel J. P. Martin, adjutant-general of the Department of the Missouri, died at the Chicago Beach Hotel to-day. He had been ill for some time with kidney disease. LONDON. Feb 19. Dr. Hulke, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, is dead. - Lectures Boycotted by Students. TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 19. The threat of the students attending the Toronto University that if Professor Dale was not reinstated and an investigation into the management not granted all lectures would be boycotted was not an Idle one. All but five of the seven hundred students kept away from the building to-day and the professors had a holiday. The government will not yield. It is said the students will march to the Parliament buildings and demand redress for their alleged wrongs. Students of all demonlnatlonal colleges will co-operate with the 'Varsity boys. Losses by Fire. PITTSBURG. Feb. 19. An explosion of benzine and linseed oil at the Iron City foundry, on Twenty-third street, at H o'clock this morning, caused a fire that destroyed the works. William Schultz, a painter, was fatally burned, and John Bolage, a. workman, was seriously hurt. The loss was $40,000; fully insured.

T&UESDELL'S ARREST

CAREER OP A NEWSPAPER MAS 'WHO FELL INTO EVIL WAYS. W. R. Hollo -ay'M Experience nith a Former Friend Now in Jail on a Charge of Forgery. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19. The Examiner says concerning the arrest of Frank Truesdell in Emporia, Kan., for attempting to swindle banks by means of forged checks: "That Truesdell was caught in such a crime will not surprise those who knew him best. He had a weakness for uttering fraudulent and worthless paper and had several narrow escapes from being sent to jail while here. Some of his transactions that came to light, and most of them were never heard of, show that he was a skillful operator combining a splendid nerve with a plausible address and a pleasing appearance. Though in receipt of a fair income most of the time, he seemed to be in ai chronic state of bankruptcy and 'hardupness.' In fact, he brought with him from Wisconsin a legacy of debt incurred by questionable means. He was then on the staff of the Chronicle, and the ever occommodating Richard H. McDonald, of the Pacific Bank, advanced him $230 on his personal note. He arrived here nearly four years ago, coming from Elmira, N. Y., where he had been connected with the Sunday Telegram. He brought letters from J. Sloat Fassett, then recently defeated for Governor of the Empire State, which served as a passport in certain quarters here. When ex-Senator Fassett came out the following season he took Truesdell under his wing and spoke of him in the highest terms. This strengthened his position. The first crooked transaction brought against him here came from San Jose, where he had issued a valueless check and realized $G0. He escaped prosecution toy claiming it to be an error and no crime intended. He forged the name of William H. Mills, land agent of the Southern Pacific Company, to a promisory note for $100, having met Mills on Ian editorial excursion. Truesdell's pathetic story of his needs and his repentence secured him immunity from prosecution. He also passed a worthless check for $130 on a (wholesale Hquor house. His besetting sin went to 'skinning' bankers in poker, but he is not intemperate. Refuse to Talk. EMPORIA, Kan.. Feb. 19. Hartwell P. Heath, or Frank W. Truesdell, the swindler arrested yesterday with numerous bogus drafts In his possession, and who had Just attempted to pass one at the Citizens' Bank, still refuses to talk to any one. He maintains his usual self-possession, and to all questions gives the invariable answer, "See my lawyers." Marshal Fleming" to-day received a request from the chief of police of Syracuse, N. Y., saying Heath was wanted there on two charges of forgery, and asking the prisoner's detention. County Attorney Simpson thinks Lyon county will not care to incur the expense of bringing witnesses from California in order to convict the prisoner, but local bankers say the witnesses will be here, nevertheless, and that Heath will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Heath to-day very reluctantly sat for a picture for the rogue's gallery. W. Tt. Holloway' Experience. Truesdell was connected with the United Press Association at Washington during the eighties. He visited Indianapolis in 1886, called at the Times office and renewed his acquaintance with W. R. Holloway, who he asked to introduce him to hla bank in order that he might draw on the Bank of the Republic, at Washington, for $40. Mr. Holloway did so, and was out that amount. Truesdell also asked another well-known citizen to introduce him to a bank, as he wanted to draw for $100. The citizen promised to do so if he would call later, as he was busy at that time. He returned after he obtained the $10 on Holloway's indorsement and said he had just received a remittance and did not need the accommodation. He traveled over the country, fleecing his newspaper acquaintances out of considerable sums, then fled to Europe, where he remained about two years, when his creditors consented to his return. ALBERT WHIPPLE'S CAREER. Development Ilea-ardlnjr an Absconding? Nebraska Banker. OMAHA, Neb., Feb.- 19. Nebraska and Iowa people were startled to-day by developments which indicate that Albert Whipple, the absconding banker, merchant and army contractor, of Crawford and Hyannis, now a fugitive from justice, with creditors left In the lurch for $15,000 to $20,000, and Albert B. Whipple, who was sent to the Fort Madison prison, in Iowa, in December, 1S86, are one and the same man. Whipple was the agent of the "Q" at Coin, la., at that time, and, though a young man, soon attracted attention by the rapidity' with which he grasped business proposition, and was slated for an executive position with the company, , when, a gigantic scheme involving the forgery of a vast number of the company's tickets were traced to him. He had succeeded in disposing of a large quantity when arrested and sent to the Iowa penitentiary. A young woman of Coin, who was desperately in love with him, enlisted the sympathies of Congressman Hepburn and others so that they interceded with Governor Larrabee for his pardon. He went West when released and vowed never to return. While in prison, Whipple mastered shorthand and upon his release secured a place with an army officer and later became a clerk to a 'quartermaster. He was stationed as transfer agent of the government at Rushville and Bordeau, Wyo., and finally got army contracts at Fort Robinson. He opened a store at Crawford and one at Hyannis, and later a bank. One day his bank at Crawford was entered and ' robbed, he claimed, of $3,000. His stenographer had been sent on an errand and W'hlpple was alone at the time of the alleged robbery. Some one passing heard haif smothered cries and found Whipple locked in the vault from which his stenographer soon released him. It was thought impossible for him to have locked himself in until Charles Grable, the banker, investigated and found a fine wire leading inside by which Whipple had been enable to throw the bolts. One stockholder learned he was about to leave Crawford and went to the bank with a gun and compelled Whipple to buy his stock, paying cash therefore. The audacity of Whipple, who could not have obtained bond even as night telegraph operator if he had applied for It, and who yet became a banker and merchant and was trusted to the extent he was; leads his relatives, who are among some of the most eminently respectable people in the West, to believe he was insane. ' Novel Frnutl at Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Feb. 19. The system in vogue here of banks lending money to packers on receipts fcr goods in warehouse has received a shock, and the Second National Bank, the Bank of Baltimore and the Canton National Eank are said to be out several thousand dollars. William W. Crozier, of the firm of H. S. Lanfair & Co., killed himself some weeks ago. For twenty-five years he had been known as an upright business man. An inquiry by the firm into its condition showed 50,000 cases of canned goods placed in. warehouse by Crozier, the receipts for which he had hypothecated with the banks. The banks started an investigation, and the result is that among the 50,000 cases 5,400 cases, supposed to contain cove oysters, were found to contain tomatoes, string beans and corn. All these cases were stenciled cove oysters and the piles were faced with cases actually containing oysters. Must Take Up Its Track. CINCINNATI Feb. 19. The Board of Administration to-day issued an order which, if carried out literally, will wipe out of existence about $600,000 worth of property. It is an order directing the Cincinnati Inclined Plane Railway Company to remove from the streets its tracks within one month, and its inclined plane within two months, except such portions of the track as is composed of full girder rail. This action is based on a judgment of the Supreme Court that the franchi.se of this comnanv has ex l pired by limitation, and the company has deeiinea to accept tne terms offered by the Board of Administration for a renewal Of the franchise. Barbed AVIre Acrtisn the Track,1 BROOKLYN. N. Y.. Feb. 19.-As the trolley car that leaves the Grand-street ferry at 11:30, for Maspeth. was speeding along near Malvlna. last night, it struck a barbed wire that had been stretched across the road and securely fastened at either end. Motorman . Scott Radcliffe was caught by the wire, the sharp barbs of which tore his face badly and almost hurled him from the car. Fortunately the wire broke and the car was stopped before any further damage was done. It was found, however, that Radcliffe had been severely Injured, lie was removed to the hospital.

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m 11,1 mm . 1 1 ' HE MERELY SNEERED HARRY 1 1 AY WARD UN" DA I'XTED BY THE CRY "HANG HIM!" Molt nt Minneapolis Voice Its Feelings Toward the Alleged Murderer of 311s Catherine Gins. MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. 19. In the Hayward murder trial to-day Frank Erhart, who was summoned by his brother when the body of Catherine Ging was found, gave evidence which seemed to impeach the evidence of Blixt In one Important particular. He swore that he had found in the dirt near where the body lay a heel mark and then a toe mark of a lady's shoe. There was also the trace of where the foot had been dragged to where the body lay. This evidence went to show that Miss Glngs body was pushed out of the buggy feet first, instead of head first, as the murderer testified. Of course this would overthrow the theory that the fracture of the skull and the contusion were caused by the fall from the buggy and would help to impeach the evidence of Blixt. George Grindall was an important witness for the defense. He was standing on First avenue north between Fourth and Fifth streets at 7 o'clock or thereabouts on the night of the murder. He had an appointment with a young woman at that point and was waiting for her. Standing some distance away from him was a man "like that man there," said the witness, pointing to attorney Sweetser. Grindall saw Miss Ging drive up. The man he had seen waiting there entered the buggy with her and they drove away. This point is about a block from the West Hotel, whence Miss Ging started on her fateful ride. The description given by Grindall of the man who joined her does not at all fit Harry Hayward. There was a wordy quarrel between the lawyers over Grlndall's testimony, each side intimating the other side was manufacturing evidence. The elusive "third man" whom the defense has been so earnestly chasing, thus bobs up again in evidence, but in a different guise from the descriptions of him hinted at heretofore in the defense's evidence. Crtndall resumed the stand this afternoon. He said that efforts had been made to influence his testimony by an attorney. Charles Ebert. Ebert, he said, described to him what he must say on the stand, trying to have a short man substituted for a tall man. Ebert had been representing himself as one of Erwin's men. The witness said he did not find out until last Saturday that Ebert was working for the State's side of the case. Then, he declares, he allowed him to go on. Last night for the first time he informed Mr. rwln of Ebert's operations. Julia E. Walker, of St. Paul, testified this afternoon to having seen Miss Ging several times in St. Paul with a middleaged man who wore an iron gray mustache. Here is the third man again. The descrip-, tion given by this witness does not tally with that of Wilson- or Grindall. Several other witnesses were heard, but nothing of importance learned. The State's representative at the hearing in Illinois is in the city, and states that the State has nothing to fear from the insanity depositions to be read to-morrow. He says the whole country near where the depositions were taken in peopled with distant relatives of the Haywards. The antecedents of the family were traced back as far as 1736, covering hundreds of people, and only six cases could be found. In his opinion the family has a first-class record. In many of the cases, in fact In all but one, it was found that the insanity was not hereditary, but was brought about by disease and accidents. After the adjournment to-night there was a big crowd waiting outside the court room to see Harry taken to the jail. They waited until the prisoner was brought out in irons, and then there was a demonstration. After he had passed into the street the cry went up from the top of a lumber wagon in a hoarse voice, "Hang him! Hang him!" i'he crowd had only been waiting for the cue, and from all sides, from hundreds of hoarse throats, the cry went up, "Hang him! Hang him!" The prisoner looked over his shoulder at the crowd and smiled with that peculiar sneer which he knows so well how to assume. The yell had not "phased" him, and he went to his prison cell as gay as ever. ' WILL SUE FOR DAMAGES. Brother of a Victim of the Elbe Disaster Wants $50,OOO. BUFFALO, Feb. 19. An action for damages against the North German Lloyd Steamship Company will be brought by Siegmund Frank, the brother of Jacob Frank, the Buffalo ticket broker, who was lost m the wreck of the steamship Elbe. The damages specified will be $50,000. The first steps in the proceedings were taken yesterday in an application to the surrogate for limited letters of administration. Siegmund Frank gave bonds and qualified as administrator. Affidavits have been obtained from two of the survivors, Carl Hoffman and John Vevera, - La GnscoR-ne Ready to Sail. . NEW YORK, Feb. 19. La Gascogne's machinery having been submitted to as crucial test as a dock test permits, she has been pronounced safe and sound and the now celebrated steamship will sail to-morrow afternoon, wind and weather permitting. La Gascogne has already received a full general cargo and 310 passengers are booked. ,Of these half are steerage passengers. Thirteen Seamen Rescued. NEW YORK, Feb. 19. Thirteen shipwrecked aeamen reached this city on board the White Star steamer Tauric. They were Captain Jones and crew, of the British ship Rlalto, and were rescued on Feb. 10 in lat. 5L01; long. 19.27, their ship being then unmangeable in a heavy storm. The rescue was effected with great difficulty and six hours continued effort. Movement of Steamers. NEW YORK, Feb. 19. Arrived: Tauric and Servia, from Liverpool; Ardan. Rose, from Kingston. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 20. Arrived: Teutonic, from New York, and proceeded to Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 19. Arrived: Aurania. from New York; British Prince, from Norfolk. ' Benton Sent Back to Prison. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Feb. 19. Judge Allen In the federal court to-day issued an order recommitting Daniel Benton, alias William Newby to the penitentiary and Deputy United States Marshal Richie left for Mill Shoals, White county, to take Benton back. Benton was convicted of fraudulently impersonating WMlIiam Newby, a union soldier, killed at Shlloh and of making a false claim for pension for injuries clainwi, amounting, including back pension, to $20,000. Pending the result of an appeal in the United States Supreme Court, Benton was released from the penitentiary, but the ,'y.preme Court dismissed the appeal. , , Chtcaigo Receivers N'amed. CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. 19. The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company, through its president, J. G. Schmidtlap, having resigned as the Cincinnati receiver of the American Distilling and Cattle-feeding Company, Judge Taft, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, to-day appointed the Chicago receivers, Messrs. McNulta. Lawrence and Mitchell, as receivers also for the Cincinnati district. The New Convert. Washington Post. Col. Henry Watterson's sudden awakening to the character of Lincoln seems to parallel the case of the sailor who happened to har of the part the Hebrews took at the time of the crucifixion. Aid to Legislation. Philadelphia Record. The Berks county woodpeckers, which have eaten the heart out of wooden telephone poles, have done more to bury the wires than have all the legislators who have been pecking at the matter. Judge Baker's Decision. Chicago Dispatch. Judge Baker's decision will have a sanitary effect on banking methods It will

fulfill? 1 1 1 1 cause bank officials to be more - careful about making sworn annual statements which do not tell the whole truth. It will make carelessness costly It will warn bank directors to know 'what they are signing. It will make a bank director something more than a mere figurehead. And it will afford additional protection to" depositors, r MISS YORKE'S SLAYER if--FOIXD INCONSCIOIS ON A DOORSTEP IN PHILADELPHIA. ? ' ' He Had Tried to Kill Himself and Was Suffering; from Wounds in the Lungs and a Fractured Skull. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20. James B. Gentry, the murderer of Madge Yorke, the actress, was found unconscious on a doorstep at Thirty-third street and Columbia avenue shortly before 1 Vclock this morning. A patrol wagon was summoned and he was taken to the German Hospital, where he soon afterwards gained consciousness, disclosed his identity and acknowledged himself the murderer. An examination by physicians revealed two wounds penetrating the lungs. Gentry explained these by saying that he had attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself with a pen knife, but the knife broke or he would have persisted in his attempt. He had on nis wrsnn. tint sairi had had nothing to eat for two of being arrested. He was wandering about the parks since Sunday night and had ffaileni in the corner wher he was found, from sheer exhaustion. Gentry is also suffering from a compound fracture of the skull and is severely bruised and wounded. These 1 n 1 1 1 ri l ho cava Va ri...!,-. . 4m 4mI.,m from the fire escape in the rear of the Zeiss Hotel after the commission of the crime. The physicians at the hospital all say that he is in a very dangerous condition. He freely gave his name as James B. Gentry, aged thirty-eight years, of Richmond, Va. In one of his pockets was found two telegrams, signed "Madge." One of these said: "Will meet you in New York; unable flo come to-day on acount of rehearsal." The other told him that she would be in, Chester, Pa., on the 14th inst. and in Philadelphia on the 16th. Both were signed: "With love, Madge." After . his admission, to the hospital Gentry started to tell the physicians a, rambling story and it is their opinion that he is simulating insanity. , A dispatch from Cincinnati says: "Gentry Is a Clnclnnatian by adoption, being by birth a Virginian of good family. He came Jiere when a stripling. His first venture was with the Itobinsoa circus as a ticket seller. Then he went on in the concerts; In a black face act. He drifted to New York, and with one Johnson, joined the Irwin Brothers, doing a white face act. He toured New England with a circus and! finally became a successful artist." Voorhees nnd the. Wool Market. Philadelphia Press. . ' , The Hon. Daniel W. Voorhee. of Indiana, ex-tall Sycamore of the Wabash, late tariff statistician and wool expert in ordinary to the Cleveland government, and now chief promoter of a bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, staked his reputation (God wot!) some time since on the fact that XX Ohio wool would not sell below 181,. cents per pound. A modest Philadelphia merchant offered to sell Mr. Voorhees a certain large amount of wool at the price named. It was never given out whether Mr. Voorhees really wantedi to go into the wool market or not, but tf he did he must have lost money, for the price fell to 16', cents last week. The new tariff bill has failed to put up the price of wool, either here or abroad. The average price per bale of Australian wool in London in 1893 was $60 per bale, in 1894 it was $55, and at the end of the last year after Mr. Voorhees's statutory stimulus hal been in operation four months it was $50 per bale, the lowest price on record. Criticism of a New. Play. Washington Post. . We do not wish to appear captious, but ft KPfvmq tn list that "The. fiirV alun .hnma a superfluity of lingerie. In fact, at times - .yifn. 1r it ijuicc i crummy iue ul nuiiic jjl uuuu vbui-. Q m Q Vtir'a "Parla tVi-!io-Vita'' i r tVi Ka,naln counter line. In the first act the youna doctor thoughtlessly washes his hands without first looking round for a towel. He is extricated from the dilemma by a demure little prairie maiden who frankly offers her underskirt as a towel. This is very generous and likewise ingenuous of her, but it seems to us that the doctor might have utilized his own coat tails with equal efteci iroin a uramatic U. nui liuui a spectacular standpoint, and at the same time spared Eastern ideas of etiquette the shock they receive at this bit, of Western freedom. The Stransre Sight' They See. Washington Capital. The ladles of the receiving line, when there Is a reception at the White House, see some queer people, and sometimes have not a little difficulty in keeping a straight face wben they are doing the honors. At the last reception a woman wearing the American eagle on her head passed through, the blue room and shook hands in the most solemn fashion with the President and the ladies. No doubt she intended the headgear to be in compliment to the occasion. ' In a- Bad , Way. Detroit Tribune. The President is in a most lamentable position. He Is at the head of a political army too divided and impotent to advance and too wanting in manliness and courage to retreat. He is between the upper and the nether millstone, and scatms likely to be ground up. Well might he exclaim, In the word which Milton puts on the lines of one of his distinguished personages: "Me miserable! Ah. whither shall I flee? Which way I fly is hell! Myself am hell!" 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