Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1889 — Page 1

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WRECKED BY THE STORM.

WIND AND RAIN DO GREAT DAMAGE. Farmi Washed Oat and floasea, Fences and Trees Swept Away Five Persons l)rownJ-Many Others Narrowly EscapeLightning Plays Hbtoc. PnrsBCT.G, May 11. Reports of damage by last night's terrible storm are coming in to-day from all parts of Allegheny county, and, in fact, from nearly every place in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Farms were washed out, houses, fences and trees along the banks of streams were swept away and land slides occurred on nearly erery road leadin? oat of Pittsburg. Two children of Conrad fcfebaefier, aged three and eight years, respectively, of Sprincr Gardenborough, north of Allegheny, were swept away by the flood, and Mr. and Mrs. Schaener narrowly escaped from meeting the same fate. Their house stood near Butchers' run, the scene of the frightful disaster of fifteen years ago. when 200 persons were swept to death by the angry waters. When the banks overflowed last night, the Schaefier house was moved from its foundation, and the family left the house and took shelter under some trees. In running out of the house the children, both girls, were caught by the current and carried away. Mrs. Schaefier became so frantic on seeing her children in the run that she got in the water, too, and was almost drowned. The bodies of the children were recovered. A physician was called to see Mrs. Schaefier, who was removed to a neighbor's house, but it is not thought she' will recover. Two other children in the family were saved. One, a boy of seventeen years of age, who had his leg broken two weeks ago in Walker's soap factory, was compelled to remain in the house. Another boy escaped from the house, and wns saved by holding to a fence. This rooming East-st. and Madison-ave., in the Butchers' run district, are complete wrecks, while the numberless cross streets are completely filed with debris. Cars are lying on the tracks unable to be moved and completely hemmed in by banking and rubbish. The water in the run ran so fast that the residents feared a repetition of the disaster of 1S74, and as soon as the first shock passed away and the terrified inhabitants caught their breath they immediately made preparations to vacate the J remises. Every effort was made to save the urniture on the first floors while the water washed and splashed in the cellar below. Rivulets, brown colored and dirfy, dashed into tne cellar windows in miniature torrents. A large number of butchers were heavily damaged, their slaughter houses were ruined while their stocks or meat were destroyed. The same tale of terror and destruction comes from Saw Mill run, Woods run, Chartiers valley, the west and south sides, Pleasant valley and Lawrencevide district. The liehtning played havoc all night long. A stable belonging to Fred Ilampke, on ML Oliver, was struck and consumed. Fourteen horses and two cows were cremated. The loss is $10,000. A south-side street-car causrht a bolt. The pasngers were electritied but not seriously hurt. Telegraph and telephone wires were deranged throuzhout a large section of country. This morning's trains were late on all the roads. The rainfall was nearly three inches in three hours, and the Ohio river rose three feet in as many hours. The bodies of two men, victims of last night's flood, were found this morning. The remains of John Dougherty were discovered at the mouth of a culvert at Woods Kun, wedtred in between some Io?s. lie left his home shortly after midnight to see how high the water was and had gone but a short distance along the banks of the swollen stream when he was struck and carried away by a bridge which had been swept away from its foundations. lie was fifty-two years of age and married. The second fatality occurred in the Butchers' run district. John Kocher went down in the cellar of his house during the storm and did not return. When the waters had subsided his body was found lying in the coal vault. Intelligence of the thrilling escape of two women and four children about 11 o'clock last night comes from Nine-mile run, near Saltsburg, up the Baltimore Je Ohio roa 1. Joseph Blume, his wife, niece and four children lived in a large shanty-boat, moored about a quarter of a mile from the Monocgahela river. At this point a Baltimore fc Ohio bridge crosses the run. Last night Mr. Blame went to a meeting at Port Perry and at an early hour the women and children retired to sleep. The risiug water tore the boat from its moorings and carried it down stream. A big Newfoundland dog awoke Mrs. Blame by its barking. Discovering her position, she undertook to catch projections with a line, but failed, neither could people on shore to whom she called for help, render any assistance. With death staring her and her young children in the face, the brave woman calmly waited until the boat neared the bridge, hoping it would clearthe piers. Suddenly there was a shock. The boat struck and was shattered almost to atoms. Before it went down, however, she threw two children ashore and taking the two youngest in her arms followed. Miss Travers, Mrs. Blume's niece, also escaped. A moment afterward the boat disappeared. The dog which had saved their lives by giving the alarm was killed in the wreck. A great deal of damage was done in Pleasant Valley, Allegheny county, as the rain poured down over the hillsides, converting the wtreets into channels fortnrbulent rivers varying from a few inches to several teet in depth and reaching from wall to walL Wrecks and debris were on the streets by the wagon load. A number of street cars were unable to get to the stables, but were stopped on Taggart-st. by the immense amount cf earth dumped on the tracks. A number of passengers returning from the theaters and elsewhere, in order to keep out of drenching rain, had gone beyond their accustomed stopping places expecting to return in the cars. They had a strange experience. Where the cars were blockaded the water was nearly two feet deep and it poured in through the door-ways and over the floors. The unfortunate passengers took refuge from the invading waters by standing on the seats. The ladies were in a state of great alarm. The drivers and other employes of the road were wa ling about in water above their knees while they were being soaked above by the drenching rain. The cars were delayed for two hours. At McKee-port the storra did tho'mnds cf dollars' worth of damage in the Crooked Hun district. Fifty houses were moved Irom their foundation. and several toppled over and were demolished. People had to seek the hillsides to escape drowning, while larire numbers of Lorses and cattle were drowned und many children were taken out of bedj floating in the second story of houses and their lives saved. Twenty-five cars-loads of debris are lodged at the iron bridge, blockading Fifthave. It consists of luniber-wagons and household goods. No lives were lost, but there were many narrow escapes. On the Pittsburg, McKeesport fc Yoogtiiougheney road a freight train was wrecked, by running into a landslide, and Patrick Miskell, a brakeman, was killed. This makes five deaths directly attributable to the flood. The names are: JOHN DOL'GHERTY, Woods run, carried eff from his home. JOHN KOCHER, drowned in s cellar on Butchers' run. GLRTRL'DE SCIIAEFFER, three years old. Fprin? Garden. LOCISA fcCHAEFFEP, aged eight years, Fprinsr Garden. PATRICK MISKELL, a brakeman, killed in a wreck. At Ridgeway, in Elk county, Mrs. W. N. McNeill and her children were killed by light nine. Mm. McNeil lived with her husband and children in the suburbs of the boron eh, and when the storra arose she t"ok her children into the cellar for 6afety. The deadly fluid trick the house and passed into the basement, instantir killing the mother and her three babies. While no definite figures can be given on the loss at this time, it is safe to say that it will reach a half million dollars in this vicinity. Four Miners Killed. PlTTrnrRG, May 11. An explosion of fire damp in the mines of the Chanters' block company at Tom's run, this coun',y, this morning, ciued the death of four Hungarian miners.

THE SMOKER LEFT THE TRACK.

A ratal Railroad Accident in Cleveland, O Two Persona Killed. Cleveland, O., May 8. The north-bound passenger train on the Valley railroad, which was due here at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, entered the city limits on time, and was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour when the smoker left the track. It turned to the right and collided with a car loaded with coal on a side track. There were fourteen passengers in the smoker at the time, two of whom were instantly killed and four of, whom were painfully injured. The front end of the smoker was demolished, the roof being over the coal car and the floor beneath it after it had settled. The dead and injured are as follows: Killed: E. DOBEUT of Akron, O., son of a wealthy coal operator, twenty-two years old.. GEORGE J. KEMPF of 24 Erin-ave.. Cleveland, traveling salesman, twenty-six years old. Injured: Lawrexce O'Coxnell of Akron, left leg fractured. Mns. Caroline Citesea of Cleveland, rib broken. William Clark of Brooklyn, X. Y., agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad, left leg bruised. James C. Taylor of Cambridge, O., accountant and paymaster of the Cleveland Sc Marietta railroad, cut in the face. Young Dobtrt was on his way to this city to witness a game of base ball between the Cleveland md Indianapolis clubs. The smoker was the only car that left the track. CORRECTED HIS STATEMENTS. Mr. Parnell Says He Referred to Uibbonism Sot S-cret Conaplracy Generally. London, May 7. The Parnell commission resumed its sitting to-day. Mr. Farnell said he desired to correct that part of his evidence in relation to the statement made by liiui in the house of commons concerning the non-existence of secret societies in Ireland. Upon referring to the Hansard reports of the proceedings of the house of commons he found that his remarks referred particularly to nhbonisru and not to secret conspiracy generally. His remarks, therefore, were a fairly accurate statement of the fart9, as ribbonism at that time practically did not exist in Ireland. Referring to his speeches made in America as reported in the Iruh, WorM, witness said he could not accept the reports as correct. Mr. Ford garbled the speeches in order to suit the taste of the readers of the JrUh Wvrhl. Witness had never made this statement publicly before because it was not necessary. Recurring to secret societies, Mr. Parnell said he considered that a person who joined the league and continued to be a member of the Clan-na-Gael acted to the injury of the league's policy. Any member of the league who would advocate the use of dynamite would be a traitor. COL, NEW BANQUETED. The 'er U. S. Consul-General Makes Ills First Speech in London. London, May 12. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome gave a banquet this evening in honor of Mr. John C. New, who succeeds ' ex-Gov. Waller as U. S. consul-general here. Among the guests were ex-Gov. Waller , T. P. O'Connor, M. P., Mr. Frederick C. Penfield, Max O'Rell, Mr. Hardy and many prominent members of the American colony. Mr. New made his first speech since his arrival here. In the course of his remarks he refcrred to Mr. Waller as an able statesman and an honest officer, an Achilles in strength and a Solomon in wisdom. He would be contented, he said, if he made a "good second" to Mr. Waller. He concluded by proposing a toa.st to Mr. Waller, whom he said he admired for everything except his politics. Mr. Waller made a humorous response, in which lit at- 1 tnbuted his recall to Mr. Aew's political management in Iudiana," "God lorgive him," he added. A CINCINNATI TRAGEDY. Moritz Blanc KilU His Wire, Iiis Little Daughter nnd Himself. Cincinnati, May 12. This morning, at 8 o'clock, on W. Seventh-st., Moritz Diane, a workmau in Diehls fire-works factory, shot and mortally wounded his wife, shot nnd killed his seven-year-old daughter and then suicided by shooting himself. Jealousy, supervening upon domestic trouble, was the cause. Mrs. Blanc is olive but will probably die before morning. , Blanc was weil ou. She stole a Horse. Kansas City, May 7. Clara Graham, a beautiful girl of eighteen, was convicted in the criminal court here yesterday of horse stealing. When placed on the stand she confessed that on Feb. 13. while out of work, she hired a horse and buggy and started out for a drive. While out she met Frank McCoy on horseback, and he joined her and proposed an elopement, 6he to eo to Joseph. !he went, and when he did not come, she drove to Horton, Kas., and, being out of money, she sold the horse and buggy. The jury fonnd her guilty and gave her two years, bhe is the only woman ever convicted in Missouri of horse stealing. Minnie Must Hang. Birmingham, Ala., May 11. In the criminal court yesterday Minnie Moses (colored) was found guilty of murder of an old Turkish beggar woman last falb The jury assessed punishment at death, and there is not likely to be any appeal, as the evidence was so clear I that the prosecution admitted all the points of i law made by the defense which gave them no chance to except. Minnie killed her victim with a razor and mutilated the body in a horrible manner. Minnie will be the first woman hung in Alabama since before the war. Will Aid the Farmers. Springfield, 111., May 7. Some time ago the state peniteutiary commissioners were instructed by the state legislature to report on the feasibility of assisting the farmers of the state in their flsrht against the binding twine trust by manufacturing twine in the state peni- ! tentiary. They reported to-day that it was ; entirely feasible, and that a plant which would ; empioy sevency-nve convicts could manufacture one-third of the twine used in the state at a cost of i cents per pound. The );.l ISnom at Terre Haute. Terhe Haute, May 12. Special The oil boom here is assuming big proportions, the experts from the eastern oil regions, who hur- 1 ried here during the week, havinj pronounced the oil to be of a superior quality and the well continuing its ontput with no diminution, there is a rush for land on which to sink wells. 01 jess man twenty siock companies are ionaini, several being manguraed to-day to fsiuk wells. It is the belief now that gas will alio be found Llbby Triton Wrecked. Maysville, Ky., May 7. The freight train which was transporting the famous Libby prison from Richmond to Chicago, was wrecked several miles eas of here yesterday by the breaking of an ajle of one of the cars. Theremains of the war relic were profusely scattered about and people flocked to the scene all day to secure old bricks and lumber at mementoes. No one was hart. An Incendiary's Work. Tiffin, O., May 7. An incendiary set fire to the farm residence of Mathias Worm at 3 o'clock this morning, and the house, barn, granaries and all outbuildings were destroyed, i The family escaped with their lives, but could save nothing. The horses, cattle and other stock perished. Loss, 13,000; insurance, $2,000. A Centennial Victim. Wilmington. DeL, May 10. John Ponde Salisbury, secretary of state, died this morning in Dover. He had been ill since his return from the New York centennial celebration. He was the eldest son of Chancellor Willard Salisbury, who was U. b. senator from Delaware during the war.

THE Dil. CRONIN MYSTERY.

SOME STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS. The Driver of the Wagon That Carried the Trunk to the Park Placed Cnder Arrest He Makes a Decidedly Sensational Confession. Chicago, May 10. The most startling information on the mysterious case of the missing Irish-American, Dr. P. II. Cronin, came out tonight. A bulletin from the city press association issued this evening reads as follows: "Frank G. Woodruff, the horsethief arrested at Twelfth-st, has made a full confession. He sneaked a horse and wagon out of Dean's barn. No. 406 Webster-ave. early Sunday morning, and met Dr. Cronin, William King and Dick Fairburn at the barn in the rear of No. 52S N. State-st. A trunk, containing the body of a woman, was placed in the wagon. Woodruff drove, King and Fairburn rode with him, Cronin remained behind. WoodruS left the body and his two companions in Lincoln park and then drove with the empty trunk to the place on Evanston-ave. where it was found. From conversations between Cronin, King and Fairburn which WoodrufToverheard, he judged the body wa3 that of a woman killed by an abortion, perhaps performed by Dr. Cronin." Thursday evening the Twelfth-st officers arrested a young man who was trying to bell a white horse and a wagon in a livery stable near the police station. The young man offered to part with the rig for the snia of 10 and the suspicions of Foley the liveryman were im mediately arcused. He telephoned the station and the horse-trader was taken into custody. He gave his name as John Brown, and alter answering the routine questions always addressed to prisoners, his face blanched, his hands began to tremble and he fell in a dead faint. The officers wondered at the time that the prisoner should appear so much concerned, but the reason was apparent this morning when he sent for Capt. O'Donnell and said he had something to tell him. lie was taken into the captain's ofUce, and, in the presence of several officers, voluntarily unfolded the story of his connection with the trunk mystery. To-day policemen investigated his story and found it corroborated by many circumstances tending to show its truthfulness. Brown said his real name was Frank G. Woodruff; that he was working for Dean & Co., livery-stable-keepers, at Nos. 404 and 406 Web-6ter-nve. His story, told in his own words, is as follows: "Wednesday nieht a week ago I was in the Owl saloon on tate-st. and met a tnnn there I had been very well acquainted with several years before. The man was Hilly King. His real name, I think, is William II. King, although when I first met him he called himselt Harry Botsworlh. We had a number of drinks in the saloon and then started together to Madison-st. We exchanged confidences, and among other things I told iiim I was out of money. I told him how I had lost considerab e money playing cardu a great deal more than I could anord and that I wanted to get something to do that would pay rne better than working in the livery stable. He said to me: 'I can put you on the way of makiug some money, and that easily, too.' I asked hira what it was, but he paid he would not tell mc then, but would later. Just before we separated he said that he would call me from the stable some evening and tell me how we could make the stuff. "Saturday evening at dusk, I was in the front of the stable, when he walked past and motioned to me. I went out and walked down the street with him. Hi asked me if I could gut a horse and wagon out of the stable without any one's knowing it, and told me be would give me $2" if I would do it. 1 told him I could, nnd we agreed upon a place of meeting at 2 o'clock. I went to bed as usual, about 11 o'clock, in the room over the stable, but as soon as the boys were asleep I got out of bed as noiselessly as I could and walked down the stairway to the floor where the horses were, carrying my shoes all t',e way in my hands. I had taken the precaution to leave the wagon out doors in the alley in the rear before going to bed, so all I had to do was to get the horse out of the rear door. 1 chose the white horse, because I knew it was a good roadster. I muffled its feet carefully and walked it out over the sawdust, opened the rear doors and had it iu the alley without making the least noise. I found King waiting for me at a corner on State-st. He got in and we drove to a barn in the rear of a big house on State-st. We drove up the alley between State and Dearborn-sta. to the barn doors. King said very little to me while we were together in the wagon, but I remember that he was smoking at the time, and seemed very anxious about something. As we wheeled up iu front of the barn, the door was shoved open by some one inside, and two men came out. One was Dick Fairburn. I know Dick quite well, and have known him for a number ofears. The other man, I am sure, was Dr. Cronin. Although it was quite dark at the time, I had several opportunities to look closely at his face. He had a mustache and a little goatee, and answers Dr. Cronin's description in every other way. I never had seen Dr. Cronin to know that it was he, and I did not hear any other men address him as Cronin. They called him 'Doc.' The three men went into the barn together and returned with a trunk. They lifted it into the wagon and then two of them climbed in, leaving 'Doc' at the barn. We drove straight througti the alley to the first cross street, turned on that and then went up Dearbora-st. to the park. As soon as we reached the park we turned into the Lake Shore drive and started north. I kept the horse on a run all the time. I heard several expressions in the conversation between the men which convinced me that there was a body in the trunk. In -the first place, I noticed that Cronin was anxious for us to hurry. -Two or three times he 6aid, 'Get out of here, boys; get out of here quick;' and each time Dick answered: 'That's all right, that's all right, Doe; we'll hurry up when we get started.' "I noticed the trunk smelled ns if there was decaying flesh in it, and when the horse got a whitt he snorted. We drove nearly to the north end of the park, then stopped a minute near some bushes. King and Fairburn were with me when we left Cronin at the barn. I remember ns I looked at him that one of his eyes wns blacked as if be had been hit with a fist. At the bushes we lifted the trunk out and I held the horse while it was opened. I then saw that my suspicions were correct and that there was a body in the trunk. They lifted it out in several pieces. I cannot Eay positively whether it was the body of a man or woman, except from one circumstance. I heard King say: 'Here is where we leave Allie.' Fairburn answered: 'Yes, and if you had let Tom alone we would have had Doc in here with her.' "These remarks passed while they were carrying the contents of the trunk back into the bushes. I noticed that each piece was carefully wrapped up in cotton, or something that looked like cotton. King lifted the trunk into the wagon, took out his pocket-book and counted out $25 from a large roll. He passed me the money and told me to drive on and get rid of the trunk and get the horse back in the barn. After I left them I began to feel rather shaky and whipped the horse into a gallop, but had gone not over a block out of the park before some one yelled at me. I did not answer, but instead urged the horse to do faster work. I don't think 1 was over fifteen minutes on the run. Finally I dumped out the trunk and turned back. It broke open as it fell, but 1 did not wait to see in w hat manner it lay or how the pieces were placed. 1 returned to the barn. "Where did you first meet King?" was asked of Woodruff. "I first met him at Port Huron, Mich. I think he had been following the races. He looks to be thirty-two years old, always goes neatly dressed. Fairburn is an altogether different sort of a fellow. He is plucky but without honor or confidence. He is a thief and has served time in the penitentiary. He is forty, five years old, five feet, four or five inenss high, stoat build with a mustache turning gray and grayish hair, but bald on the top of bis head. lie was dressed, that night, when I saw him last, in a rough tweed suit. I saw King on Monday on Wabaih-ave. and talked with him several minutes. From expressions that be then used, I feel sure that Cronin is iu the city, and that King knows bis whereabouts.

am that if King can be found he will tel where Cronin is. The prisoner was taken out of 'the station with Capt O'Donnell Thursday night and again to-day. He pointed out the place where be left the trunk, and fixed the identical spot where it was found. lie pointed out the barn, which proved to be in the rear of No. f23 N. State-st. The officers entered it butcouldfind no evidence tor or against the story. Woodruff says he suspects from the conversation be overheard between Cronin, Fairburn and King that the body in the trunk was that of a woman whose death resulted from an operation, perhaps performed by Dr. Cronin. He draws this conclusion not only from what he overheard, but also from the anxiety evinced by the doctor to get the body out of the way, and from the fact that Cronin had apparently been recently struck by some one. A pretty brunette named Allie or Alice Villavaso has been missin g from the neighborhood near which is located the barn where Woodruff is said to have met Dr. Cronin and the tatter's companions. Toronto, Out, May 10. A man alleged to be the missing Dr. Cronin of Chicago was seen here to-day. lie left town this afternoon in company with another man and woman. Chicago. May 13. Capt Schaack is fully convinced that the corpse supposed to be connected with the Cronin case tor which his men have been dragging the Lincoln park pond was buried beneath the waters of I-ake Michigan, lie has had some trouble in making converts to the theory and to-day an attempt was made to explode it by starting the story that Anderson's boat said to have been taken from the foot of Diversey-st. early Sunday morning. May 5, was really stoleu two weeks before, and that there were no oars obtainable by which it could be operated. Anderson insists, however, that his boat was stolen that Sunday morning and there were a number of broken paddles, which had been thrown away as unserviceable, lying near the boats which might have lcen used in such an emergency. Further evidence was derived this afternoon from Frank Kock, a fisherman who has a hut on the lake shore two blocks north of Diverey-sr. Hock was awakened about 2 o'clock that Sunday morning by a noise from his boats which were on the shore near his hut Dressing hurriedly he rushed out, and in the darkness saw three men moving around his boats trying to unfasten one of them. He drove them away. They went south in the direction of Anderson's house. Kock says that two of the men were small of stature, and the third is a large man with a tall hat. He could not distinguish their features. Where Anderson's boat was usually moored is the spot where the prisoner Woodruff says the supposed body of the woman in the Cronin disappearance case wns left After Woodruff drove from the park with the trunk he says a man shouted to him. The man who did the shouting was a Lake View policeman. The police claim to have discovered that Woodruff was implicated in a murder in Colorado some time ago. The stories regarding Cronin's presence in Toronto are not generally believed. "I'LL KISS YOU LATER."

Refused a Kiss, George Ward Kills Iiis YV.fe and HimsMr. Memhils, Tenn., May 13. At Mrs. Anderson'n boarding house, 31 Marshall-ave., George Ward, aged twenty-eight, an engineer, shot and killed his young wife and himself. Ward has exhibited symptoms of jealousy recently, although he had been married only four months. On coming home to dinner to-day be repaired to his wife's chamber and asked her for a kiss; 6he, however, noticing an expression of wildness about him, left the room, saying she would kiss him later. He followed her into the hall and emptied three shots from a bulldog pistol into her back and shoulders. Having committed this frightful deed he ran to a room fifty feet away and there sht rirpself through the head. Mrs. Ward had. attempted to prevent the husband from shooting his wife, and was shot at while he waa engaged. Mie bravely sprang in front of the murderer and exclaimed: "Kill me and spare my sister," but her efforts were useless. Mrs. Ward and her daughter are from Sardis, Miss., and came to Memphis 6me six mouths ago. The murdered woman was named Cora Ward, fche was a first cousin to her husband and murderer. Ward courted his wife for six years, but never could gain the consent of her mother to their union, which resulted, four months ago, in a runaway marriage. ON REPUBLICAN GROUNDS Gov. 11.11 Vetoes an "Australian System" Election Bill. Albany, N. Y., May 15. Gov. Hill to-day vetoed the 6o-called Saxton electoral reform bill on the grounds, first, the requirement that none but an officially printed ballot shall, under ordinary circumstances, be voted; second, the requirement that each ticket 6hall contain the uames of all the candidates of all the parties and parts of parties and irresponsible combinations pretending to be a party, who choose to certify that they have made a nomination. ' The governor says these provisions are cumbersome, would be ineffective and unconstitutional. WILL COME TO INDIANAPOLIS. The Tarsen' Teachers Seminary to be Removed From Milwaukee. Danville, 111., May 13. Special. The Indiana Bezuk's eighteenth annual convention was held in this city Saturday, Sunday and today. Delegates were present from Evansville, 'lerre Ilaute, Indianapolis, Lewisville and other Foints. The next convention will be held at ndianapolis in May, 1800. It was also determined to remove the teachers' seminary from Milwaukee to Indianapolis during the coming summer and to recommend at the general convention, two years hence, the rees'ablishment at Indianapolis of an orphan school for the benefit of the order throughout the United States. Dr. Klrnan To He llounced. CHICAGO, May 13. The board of county commissioners this afternoon passed a resolution naming a committee of prominent citizens to recommend a suitable person to be appointed medical superintendent of the insane asylum, to succeed Dr. Kirnan, whose management has been so severely animadverted upon recently. Took Let: Bail. ST. Lon?, Mo., May 13. Adam Niebcrt, the republican sergeant-at-arms of the lower house of the municipal assembly of this city, who was indicted last Friday for aiding in the fraudulent naturalization of a large number of foreigners previous to the late city election, has skipped the town and the U. S. marshal is hunting for him. Iteleaseil From Prison. Amur., N. Y., May 11. James D. Fish, ex-president of the Marine bank, was released from prison this morning, and, in company with his two daughters, started for New York, lie is in the bet of health and refused to be interviewed. Dropped Dead on the Street. New York, May 13. W. II. Chatfield of the firm of Chatfield & Woods, paper dealers, Cincinnati, dropped dead on the street to-day. Death was caused by heart failure, lie was stopping at the Fifth-ave. hoteL They May Be Defeated. TALEQTAn, L T. May 13. Chief Joel B. Mays refuses to convene the Cherokee legislature to approve the sale of the Cherokee strip to the United States. His action is liable to defeat the object of the commissioners. It Most lle. Hancock Democrat. The school-book trust dies hard, bat die it must, and no friend of our free school system should have any tears to shed over the downfall of a wicked and corrupt monopoly. Kntal Boiler Explosion. O.ETELASD, 0.,May 13. Edward Hartshorn and Amos Early were killed and four others hurt by the explosion of a boiler at the sawmill of Seward Davis, near Payne, O., to-day.

A L0XG LITIGATION ENDED

BY THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION. The Kxecutors of the Will of Myra Clark Gaines In the Celebrated Suit Against the City of New Orleans Awarded the Sum of 0370,000. Washington', May 13. In an opinion by Justice Bradley, the supreme court awarded the executors of the will of Myra Clark Gaines the sum of $.576,000 against the city of New Orleans for the use of property sold by the city, but recovered by Mrs. Gaines after long litigation. The judgment of the lower court awarding the executors $1,300,000 for the use of the unimproved property sold by the city was not concurred in. This case probably has been the most interesting, the hardest contested and the most prolonged known to the judicial history of this country. Over thirty years ago Justice Waite of the supreme court said that when the historian of the American bar should come to write up the case it would be registered as the most remarkable in the history of our courts. The case had then been before the supreme court five times in one form or another, and has now been decided as many times again. The first suit in the case was brought by Mrs. Gaines (then the wife of Gen. Whitney) m 1831, and ßince that time decision has followed decision in regard to it until it has become a by-word that there was always a Gaines case pending. The first suit sought to recover was what was known as the Evariste Blanc tract in New Orleans. Blanc bought the tract for about $1.500 from the executors of Gen. Daniel Clark, a prominent citizen of New Orleans. He sold it and Borne other lands to the city of New Orleans for $45,000, and the city subdivided the tract, and 6old it to a number of persons for between six and seven hundred thousand dollars, agreeing to defend all questions of title, Mrs. Gaines having a few months before claimed it. The grounds upon which Mrs. Gaines set np her claim were that she was the child of Gen. Clark by i 6ecret marriage between him and Zuline Carriere, a woman wellknown in the city, and that Gen. Clark had left a later will than the one uuder which the property had been gold. This secret marriage formed the axis on which the litigation revolved and the case was fought with bitterness by both sides. It was not until a few years before that Mrs. Gaines was finaily declared to be the legitimate child as well as the lawful heir of Gen. Clark. Even then the city of New Orleans did not surrender, and after the war Mrs. Gaines was compelled to bring a suit for damages. In 1881 the circuit court of the United States for the Louisiana district gave judgment in her favor for Jjd.lrJö,667, and it is on an appeal from this judgment that the case to-day was decided. The present case, it is conceded, exhausts all the resources of the law and is regarded as a final settlement of the litigation. Mrs. Gaines, fighting to the very last tor her rights, is dead, and so it is believed are all her immediate relatives, except her daughter-in-law, Haitie L. Whitney, in whose name, as administratrix of the estate of Mrs. Gaines, the case stands on the court docket. Justice Bradley rendered the decision of the court, which was unanimous. Justice Lamar and Chief Justice Fuller were not members of the court at the time the case was argued and took no part ia the decision. "The Terry-Miaron C.ise. Washington, May 13. The supreme court to-day affirmed the judgment of the U. S. circuit court for the northern district of California in the case of David S. Terry et ai., appellants, vs. F. W. Sharon, executor, etc. This is a suit brought by Sarah Altha Hill Terry. The court holds that in the original cases the citizenship of parties being in different states and the object of the suit the cancellation of a forged instrument being one of the oldest heads of eouity jurisdiction, the case presented was ono of prima-facia jurisdiction, and if there were any errors in the original decision they must bepresented on appeal from the decree in that case, and cannot be considered in this case, which is an appeal from a decision reviewing the action in the name of the executor of the deceased Sharon, and that the objections urged to that decree of reviver are Irivolous. Opinion by Justice Miller. The Colleges Are Fallare. Washington. May 8. W. O. Atwater, in charge of the experiment station established by the agricultural department, is preparing a bulletin in which he shows that the purpose for which agricultural colleges were established in the various states has not been realized. The colleges do not educate men for the farms but for professions, and the tendency of their teaching has been to draw young men from the farms instead of fitting them for work on them. The curriculum, in roost cases, is too extensive for the average farmer's son to undertake, and in most cases, also, the expenses are too great for the average farmer's son to meet. The consequence is that the class for whom the colleges were designed have received almost absolutely no benefit from their existence. Three Appointments Settled. Washington, May 11. At the conference between the president and Secy. Windom, Thursday last, three gentlemen were selected for appointments as auditors of the treasury. It was not settled, however, whose places they should take. There are five audittorships available, the incumbents having resigned. The positions most likely to be filled first are the first, fourth and fifth auditors, now held respectively by Messrs. Chenewith, Shelley and Eickhoff. The latter has been appointed fire commissioner in New York City, and left here last evening to assume the duties of that office. Third Auditor Williams has strong influence, and probably will be the last of the democratic auditors to be disturbed. Returned From Their Outing. Washington, May 13. The president, Mrs. Harrison, Secys. Windom and Rusk and Senator Haw'ey returned to Washington this afternoon at 3:15 o'cloch after a cruise in Chesapeake bay in the U. S. S. Dispatch. They enjoyed the trip very much, and it is more than probable that it will be repeated in a short time. All the party are much browned by exposure to the sun and wind. Huston In Clmrce. Washington, May 13. Judge Matthews, who succeeds Judge Durham as first comptroller of the treasury, and Mr. Huston, who succeeds Mr. Hyatt, as treasurer of the United States, entered upon the discharge of their new duties this morn in tr. There was no ceremony beyond taking the oath of office and the usual introduction of officers and employes of each of the bureaus to the new chiefs. Taking nn Outing. Washington, May 11. The president left Washington this morning on the U. S. S. Dispatch for a cruise on the Chesapeake bay. He was accompanied by Secys. Windom and Rusk, Mrs. Harrison and Master Benjamin II. McKee. The party will return to Washington Monday evening. Ilia Fi rut Official Act. WASHINGTON, May 13. Public Printer Palmer took charge of the government printing office to-day. His fir?l oicial act was to an. Eoint V. II. Collins of Illinois chief bookkeeper, vice F. V. Booth, resigned. The Law Is All Klg-ht. Washington. May 13. The supreme conrt to-day affirmed the validity of the law excluding Chinese laborers, known as the Scott exclusion act. Preparing For tVar. PANAMA, May 4. The Journal De Com. mtrcio, published in Rio De Janeiro, declares that the Brazilian government is preparing for war with Bolivia.

CONDITIONS OF TRADE.

Some Branches of Business Are Doing; Well, Others the Ueverse. New Yoek, May 10. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: It is the most prominent characteristic of the present situation throughout the country that the usual consistency of commercial action is lacking; transactions and results for some branches of business are highly satisfactory, and for others much the reverse. Many iron works are closing, for example, but many are doing remarkably well; many woolen mills are idle, but others are working full time with fair profits. The approaching transition from one crop year to another, the recent change of administration, the changes in the interstate law and the rapid development of manufactures in the South are producing eSects which cannot be fully measured. Iron production has beenn to decline, the output weekly of anthracite and bituminous May 1 being only 133,714 tons, a decrease of 4,3'3 tons weekly since April 1. But the announcement of the Thomas iron company that it will supply No. 1 foundry at $lo50 at tidewater, and Grey forge at $15 or lower, if necessary, to meet southern competition, is expected to accelerate the reduction of output. The largest Vircinia concern has reduced its price $l.5u in return, and Alabama iron has previously been selling here at $1(1. .Prices are lower at Pittsburg also, but there is a better feeling in finished bar iron there and at Philadelphia, aud the demand for plate, pipe, sheet and structural iron continues satisfactory. The coal market is still unsettled. The wool market goes lower while waiting for adequate new supplies, and the average of 104 qualities May 1 was 24.3c against 24.c April 1. The future depends upon the state of the dry goods market which is not now encouraging. The cotton manufacture is active and healthy. The trade in- drugs and chemicals has become quite active with collections excellent, but dye-stuffs are dull. A speculative movement in bread-stuffs has developed again, apparently based on the theory that, although the coming crop may be very large, there will be enough actual scarcity in July, before new wheat comes forward freely, to enable traders to unload. Wdeat has advanced lKc, corn and oats lc with an ad vance of 15c per 100 pounds in hogs and lard. Oil has declined 'ij'c and cotton a sixteenth, with sales of 678.0UO bales here for the week. A speculative movement lifts rubber to 65 cents for parafine; it is not supposed to have lasting force. The grocery trade has been active. In sugar the demand is confined to actual needs. In spite of some speculative advances, the general average of prices for commodities is a little lower than it was for ?iay 2. The stock market ends at exactly the average of a week ago, the default in the St. Louis & Arkansas being the more prominent caue of recent weakness. But the larjre exports of d, which began a week ago, aud the absorpt jn of $4,0(10,000 by the treasury since May 3, also have some efiect. A harp demand for money at Cleveland causes slight stringency. The outlook in the Northwest is regarded much more confidently since the recent rains. Everywhere the er p prospects are encouraging, with the seaso.i more advanced than usual, and the acreage in wheat considerab'y increased . The business failures number 227, as compared with 214 last week and 213 tb.e week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 2ui. TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES. A Large Portion of the Homestead District I In Michigan Burned Over. Marquette, JJ ich.. May 9. Terrible forest fires are still raging in this section. Miles of i flames are spreading throughout the home- ' stead district, Bruce's Crossing and Matchwood have been destroyed, the refugees seeking safety in ditches and cellars, and many homeless. All the telegraph wires around Marquette, Mich., have been down for two days. Reports are now arriving of terrible forest fires in the country settled by the new homesteaders. The flames started at ft a. m. Tuesday, and swept over miles of dense forests until they weie checked by rain in the evening. Many homesteaders are burned out. Great su Bering is reported to have taken place among the women and children who could scarcely breathe on account of the suffocating smoke. Many reached the railroad tracks and others sought shelterin the swamps, where by burying themselves in the mud and lying face downward they managed to survive the heat and smoke. Relief parties are out to-day to look after those who are known to have lived in the burned district. It is feared that many have perished. Great damage has been caused at Anthony, a lumbering town in the homestead country. Vulcan lost a large eng'ne house, several thousand cords of wood and twenty bouses, the homes of miners. Norway fought fire on all sides for eight or ten hours, and was just on the point of surrendering when rain came and saved the town. Fears are entertained for loss of life in the towns remote from the railroads. A Tillage Burned. St. Johnsbcet, Vt., May 9. The business part of the village of Danville was wiped out by fire in one hour this afternoon, only the bank and hotel escaping. Twenty-three buildings were burned and twenty-seven families are homeless. A high wind prevailed and there was no water supply. The loss is $40,000 to .50,000; insured for about $20,000. The postoffice was burned with all the mail. Three horses were burned, including one worth $1,000. A Load Call on Uncle Dick. N. Y. Times. We do not understand why the Panama railroad company permitted the Hon. Richard W. Thompson to retire from its board of directors. A man who has been able to earn $25,000 a year as chairman of the Panama canal company's "American committee" since l'NHO.while remaining in the seclusion of Terre Haute, has talenu that are of great value to somebody, and we should not think that this railroad company would not willingly have suffered the loss of the services of such a person. It has not been announced that Mr. Thompson has withdrawn from the service and the salary list of the canal company, but we venture the prediction that he will not continue to give the support of his name to an organization whose reckless extravagance in fields not covered by the "American commitmittee" has been revealed, and which no longer has money with which to pay the modest stipends of its faithful employes. When he shall have severed his connection with the canal company he will, we presume, prepare for publication a statement showing in what manner the "American committee" under his direction lias expended the $2,4J0,000 appropriated by the company for its use. A Youthful Murderer. Belytdere, N. J., May 11.. At Mountain Home, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, on Friday JeQrey Harrison, aged eleven years, shot and killed Sophia Everett, aged ten. While the two were playing toeether at Harrison's home they quarreled and the boy ran upstairs and got a shotgun. The little girl became frightened and ran to another room. The boy forced his way in and fired. The girl fell, badly mangled and scon died. The youthful murderer is in custody. Three New Towns. Kino Fisher, Oklahoma, May 13. Town site filings for the new towns of Harrison, Frisco and Reno City have been made at the land office. These towns are situated in the valley of the North Canadian, Reno City at the east line of the Ft. Reno military reservation and the others about eight and sixteen miles respectively from it Flections have been held and officers chosen. . Seventy-five buildings are erected at King Fisher and many more contracted for. A Monument For Eugene. NEW YORK, May 8. Emma Abbott has contracted with a Philadelphia firm for a monument to her late husbend, Eugene Wethereil, that will cost $85,000. It will be erected at Gloucester, Mass., and will be composed of various species of marble.

TEX INSTANTLY KILLED.

A FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MINE. The Case In Which the Miners Were Ascend Ins the Shaft Strikes a Car Poshed Over the Top With Terrific Fore sad Is Hurled Down. Pottsville, Ta., May 9. At Kaska, William colliery, near Middleport, this evening the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shaft and had reached a bight of about sixteen feet from the bottom when an empty car was pushed over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it to splinters and instantly killing every one of its occupants. The names of the vi tims are: MICHAEL BOYLE, assistant inside foreman. HUGH CARLIX. Patrick Mcdonald. GEORGE BEXNDEL. JOHN PFTLAVISCII. FRANK STRATKO V1SCIL JOHN MORRE. ALBCHT DWYER. EDWARD KURI7L STEPHEN MATSON. The cae with the ten victims was hurled into the "sump," a hole at the bottom of the shaft where the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for some time. The mine is operated by the Alliance coal company. It is an old working mine and the shaft is 6uO feet deep. Boyle leaves a widow and seven children. IS was not his turn to ascend, but be exchanged with ayoungman named Hoolihan. Putlaviscb. leavesawife, but no children. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. l'utlavisch, who, with Agnea Katch.was murdered about a year ago by Pietro Raranoviski, now awaitin? execution here, and was the intended husband of Miss Katch. All the other victims of the accident were single men. WILL LOSE THEIR MANAGER. The Chairman or the Wisconsin Republican Committee Offered a Fatter Job. Chicago, May 13. If negotiations which arc now in progress are consummated, the republicans of Wisconsin will lose their campaign manager. Henry C. Payne, chairman of the republican state central committee, will in all probability become a resident of Chicago and retire from politics. The inducements which are offered to him to leave the state is a salary of $12,(100 a year and a position at the head of what is represented as one of the greatest enterprises in the country. The corporation that wishes Mr. Payne's services is the Bell telephone company, and the position offered ia that of president of the Western consolidated companies of the Bell company, with headquarters in Chicairo. The enterprise, as outlinedt would mark a new departure in telephoning, and will consist of a long distance system connecting Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. The center of this system will bo Chicago, and through that station New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington will be connected with ail the other points. The bell companies embraced in this great consolidation will be those of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Missouri. Wisconsin alone will not be in the consolidation, as the Bell company does not control iL Henry C. Payne is now president of the Wisconsin company, and would resign that position ia case he took the presidency of the consolidated companies. A HITCH IN THE PROCEEDINGS. The Bee Line-Big; Four Consolidation May Be Postponed. Cleveland, O., May 13. A motion was filed in court-room No. 1 to-day asking that an injunction be granted in the case of Judge Stevenson Burke of this city against the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad company, to preventwhat is known in tha railway world as the Big Four combination. Before a decision was given the attorneys for the company asked permission to allow the meeting of stockholders to be held on May 15. and also to permit them to vote on the plan of consolidation. This proposal was submitted, and Judge Stone allowed a temporary injunction, except as to taking and recording the vot of the stockholders at Wednesday's meeting. A hearing on the motion for a permanent injunction will be had on Monday, May 20, at 1) o'clock in the morning. This prevents thestockholders from ratifying the proposed consolidation of the Big Four until the court hear the motion. ATTACKED BY AMBUSHED MEN. A V. S- Army Paymaster Rohhed of 919,000 Several Soldiers Wounded. TCCSON, A. T., May 11. Maj. J. W. Wham, paymaster TJ. S. army, with Celrk Gibbon and an escort of eleven soldiers, were on the way this afternoon from Willcox to pay the post at Ft. Thomas, and when in a narrow gorge, a few miles north of Cedar Springs, they were attacked by a party of ambushed men. A constant fire was kept up for nearly half an hour, when eight of the escort were wounded, five dangerously. The robbers succeeded in securing f'.fKX) and escaped into the mountains. Maj. Wham was uninjured, but Gibbon's clothing was torn by shot. A troop of cavalry has been sent out from Ft. Grant to watch the mountain passes fro that the highwaymen may not escape. The number of tha latter is not known, but it is believed to be seven or eight. The Southern Baptists. Memtttis, Tenn., May 13. The southern baptist convention chose the following officers: Foreign Mission Doard, Richmond Ya. President, IL II. Harris, Virginia; corresponding secretary, IL A. Tupper; assistant corresponding secretary, T. P. Reil; treasurer, J. C Williams: recording secretary, A. B. Clarke; auditor. H. C. Burnet. Home Mission Board. Atlanta, Ga. President. John P. Stewart. Georgia; corresponding secretary, I. T. Tiobenor; assistant corresponding secretary, J. William Jones; treasurer, A. I. Adair; recording secretary, A. C Briscoe; auditor, B. F. Abbott. The Strike in Germany. Beklin, May 13. The strike at Dortmund ia spreading. A number of strikers at Castrep attempted to make a riotous demonstration, but were charged upon and dispersed by dragoons and lancers. There was random firing between the strikers and militia at that place all night The miners in the Lsen district have struck, and the total number of men who have quit work now is 9J.O00. Shot at a Iance. FORTSMOrTII, O., May 13. During the progress of a dance at Twin Creel:, near here, Wilson and Amos Cooper and Henry Nichels became involved in a quarrel. The latter pulled a revolver and tbot and killed the two Cooper boys. An Aeronaut Killed. HorsTOX, Tex., May 13. Trof. SL Clair, the aeronaut, in attempting to give his "leap from the clouds" at the fair ground park lat eve ning, lost his grip on the parachute and fell 30J feet to the earth. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Mr. Dickinson Dead. PlTTSTON, Pa., May 13. Mrs. Mary E. Dickinson. mother of Susan 'E. Dickinson, the writer, and Anna Dickinson, the well-known lecturer, died at her home in West PittMon yesterday morning. She was over ninety years I of age.