Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 27, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 June 1885 — Page 2

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TOPICS OF THE DAY News from Everywhar.

TBRSOXAl. AND POLITICAL. All the personal property of tke mother of Farntdl, th Irish agitator, has been at. tacked at her home rnw Bordentown, N. J. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, sister of Odium who leaped from Brooklyn bridge, blamed "the low sjiorts" for hlsleath. Mr. Valkntink P. Snydkr, of Nevf York, who Is at present acting as prlv-t secretary to Secretary Manning, will le appointed chief clerk of the Treasurer's ofllce, Thb Caar of Russia is going to visit the King of Denmark. A .noted counterfeiter named Jacob Stadfelt died at Dayton, O., on the 3)tb. Christopher Robinson, Q. C, has been selected to prosecute RleL The President reviewed the Decoration Day procession at New York. General Grant Is better. He stood at bis window and reviewed the Decoration

xay procession. Pkok. Youmans comes to the defense of Herbert Spencer on the charges of literary piracy made by Frederick Harrison. Jekf Davis thinks ''elements of disintegration and disruption are at work In our system of Government," and that the Constitution has been made "a rope of sand." The Parisian authors and journalists are raising a subscription fora bronze or marble representation of Victor Hugo. The Russian Commissioner, M. Lessar. has left London for Afghanistan to assist in making the frontier line. J. Parker Veazey has assumed charge of the Baltimore (Md.) Port-otHce. Thomas Sixons, United States Assistant Attorney-General, has resigned. Commissioner Sparks makes soma Interesting disclosures concerning the public domain. After the usual consultation

the physicians reported no change in General Grant's condition. The President speut Sunday qule'.ly at the house of Secretary Whitney In New i. ork. He did not go to church. Minister Foster is negotiating with the Spauisk Cabinet for the establishment

i a general treaty, Including Cuba, Porto Rico, the Phillipine Islands and other Spanish colonies. Is sending his card and -wreath of Immortelles to be placed on the coflln of Victor HuSo, Karl Blind, the German revolu-

uonisc, wrote: "That which has latterly

ni, m estrange ucrmans

rrenenmea, can not restrain the Of those who SDnreciata renin

Secretary Lamar has recovered from his illness and is at his desk again. A. J. Hathaway has been appointed Consul at Nice, France.

ON the 1st Colonel

from

feelings

Swltzler. nf ui..

ouri, took charge of the Bureau of Stat-

IHIICS. Beach's acceptance of Hanlans challenge for a race for $3,000 is expected. Isaac Maynard, of New York, has been ppointed Second Comptroller of the Treasury. Miss Cleveland's forthcoaiiag book will be entitled, "George F'lot and Other Studies." Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, kas been appolsted Surveyor-General of riew Mexico. On the eveaiag of tke 1st Secretary Bayard left Washington for Lawrence, Kas., where he will deliver aa address before the literary societies of tae'Kaasas State Ualversity. He will also attead the commencement exercises of the Missouri State Ualversity. According to the Washington Post the request of Bayllss W. Haana, of Indiana, to be transferred from tke Persian missloa to that of the Argeatlae Republic will not be granted by the President The report of the death of Baum, the Texas cotton swindler, at Chatham, Cana

da, hi wen connrmeo, Flannaoan, who wanted to know "What are we here for?" will be succeeded by It M. Henderson as Collector of Revenue la the Fourth Texas District The fnaer&l of Victor Hugo on the 1st was the graadest demoastratloa of the kind Paris has ever wltaessed. The solemnity of the oecaaioa aad the words of the orator seemed to awe even the Communists iato decency, aad there was no rioting or exhibition of disorderly coa-duct,

The select Senate

Diate CO!fHerC6 hag arranl

A very sih-Ioih fir occurred at Medtord

wis., onthitk. Kirk destroytnl twelve buildings at Phc six, Aria,, on theSSt!. At Kvansvitle, iudo the2&U, a cloud bwrt causwd a loi of $),(k)0.

ti.vMKH i.kk was caught on the 2?Hh la

me act or Imitating Odium's leap from tke

Brooklyn Bridge, aad was locked up.

hy the bursting ot an emery -wheel,

josepa jiUHKeimp was killed at Wheel Ing, W. Va on the 23th.

w. me ,hh a nve-year-oM chit l was fatally beaten by four other children, all

wauer iwoive, at I'lttslHirgh, Pa.

On the 38$h C. O. Gray, of Maruuelt.

Mich., Auditor of the Marquette, Houghton & Outouagon Railroad, committed

suicide

By the sinking of a French fishlnir bark.

ruu down In a fog on thj Banks of Nowfoundland by the steamship City of Rome,

twenty -two lives were lost.

bEKious depredations and a number of

murders haveleen committed by Indians

uear Oliver Uity, . M. Fire destroyed the implement factory of John Elliott & Son at Loudon, Out., on

tne 29tu.

Charley Cash, a boy rider at the Terre

Uauto (Intl.) races bad his back broken on

tne sum by a fall. Marion M. Oodkn, a reporter at Pitts

uurgu, ra., has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy. Arthur E. Marsh, the embezzler, who

ausconuea iroin ew York, was arrested on arrival of the steamship at Queenstown. A destructive firo occurred in thedum.

ber yards of Studebaker fc Bros., at South Bend, Ind., on the 20th; loss, $10;), 000. A white man was killed by lightning at Big Spring, Tex., on the 9tb, and a negro was seriouily injured. Achilles Oxofri, who killed his stepdaughter at Philadelphia, Pa., was convicted of murder in the first degree. Nemedi, a vlllago In Hungary of 23) houses has been destroyed by fire. The people are destitute. John Terry, colored, was hanged at Barnwell, S. C, on the 29th, for the murder, in May last, of the Rev. John G. Sessions. His neck was broken and life was

pronounce! extmcl iu twenty minutes. Ho made a tonfession, attr'.buting the murder to whisky. While sitting in their tent at Hrilr.

abad, Southern HIndostaa, recently, two Hussars were killed by lightning. On the 31st Mrs. Preston Smith was killed by an accidental shot at Portland, Ore. , On the nicht of the 30tU Richard Hands a drug clerk In New York, was murdered Ly burglars, whom he Interrupted robbing his employer's store. Louis Reume, a maniac, took possession of a train on the Wabash,St Louis & pacific Railroad on the 31st, and on arrival at Chicago killed one officer, fatally wounded another and seriously wounded several citizens before he was captured. O.v the 31st Charles Harold, a resident of Chicago, fell from the pier at the foot

oi west orty-fourth street, New York, and was horribly crushed between a canal

uoat and the dock. He was taken to Roose velt Hospital.

O.v the 1st James T. Hurt, of Rushvllle,

ma., was isuieu uy tne cars at Chamois,

W6 Hear and his IhiIImhs gavu the CPittN 'uT Hght HXW Ht Several of the nail and Iron mills at CiuclHuatl, Pittsburgh, CWelaud and other puinta aro clewing. The Chicago Farmer Jitvlcw says the wheat outlook is the gloomiest known at this season for ten years. Russia Is pushing work on the Central Asian Railway, Late advices from Sin-Jon say It Is reported that the Russians have objected to the Afghans occupying Karawul, Khana, where the Mannerd rtwd branches oir half way between Maruchak and Balamurgknus. For May the decrease of the National debt was $4,223,000. As the English leave, the Arabs around Suaklm grow more aggressive.

HIE police authorities of Loudon are

again stirred up over tht Irish-Amerlcuu dynamiters.

The Court of Claims at Washington ha.

adjourned until October.

It is said that Russia Is verv an if.

Prussia for thoreoent wholesale oxnnUtmi

of Pules.

It is denied that tlier are anv rmu.

hoppers in Kansas or Colorado.

Piiosi'ECTS for an immediate adlust-

meut of tho Iron labor troubles ara not

over bright.

The statement from Earl Granville tht.

tho Afirhan iMnmlurf nm i.. .. ..

settled, has disconcerted tho Liberals, ami

iuu lunes are corrosjtondlngly jubilatit. The freight handltrs of the IConttirW

Central Railroad aro ou a strik at ni,.

ciunati.

On tho 1st the International Tvtiofrrnnli.

leal Union began its annual session Iu New York.

IORINO May tho coinaze of

mints was $1,0.15,437,

was in standard dollars.

The authorities at Montreal. rn.

seized au Immense consignment of patent medicine", shipped by J. C. Ayer & Co.', Lowell, Mass. The firm is rlmrmui ix-ttu

defrauding the Canadian Government in the matter of duties.

A strong effort is in contemnlatifm hv

the citizens of Dakota to Induce the Pros!-

uent to reconsider his decision to exclude settlers from the Crow Creek or Winnebago reservation. On tho 1st a $2;),OO0,050 mortgago given by the.South l'otmsylvanla Railroad was recorded at Pittsburgh.

IJ tUe closing of the Bay view rolling mills at Milwaukee, Wis., 1,.W men are made i lie. The recent failure of the Shackamaxon Bink at Philadelphia, Pa., prove to have len a bad one. Liabilities about half a million.

WEEDING OUT. Mead of D. jwrt ihphI. Ih WaNhlHgtei VrrHrtrlHK to .Make Chittiee Ih the l'oriuu.

el of Their Olerleut Koree A Whwlnoile KxiHlua IVom the I'hIoh llepiirtHtcHt iHipemllHg, Wasiunoton, 1), C, June l.SIst ot tlie Cabinet oIIUxts have already asked the heads of bureaus iu their respective departments furconfldentlal communatlous made, tip of lists uf clerks whose services can be dispensed with, or whose places ean be. tilled by civil service atpolntmenls with advantage, to the Oovwont. These lists, no doubt, will be ready for use uext

inoimi, aim oesldo the bare mention of names, will contain what is known about the clerical fitness, offensive jiarttsan. Bhlp, offensive habits and mannera of

cacit lniiiviuual lneutlontd. The pose, evidently. Is 'to use this

lormauon in nmklng removals from civil service classes, In order to open the way for new appointments through the Civil Service Commissioners. A member of the Cabinet Is reported as saying that .ho expects to dismiss ouo-quarter of bis force of clerks this summer, but thatuonc would bo dismissed who did not deserve It, and that he meant to rely upon Republican testiniony mainly In making up his mint! who should go.

IXWNJO DEATH. .Another Tragedy nt the Southern Hotol, St Loula.

lU.u.lnr f Hi.; TrraHry Kcj hi.I.U T.tUr h Il.'u.l. r IVom th Tlilnl riimr to the It.it hii.Ih Il.-Iow hhiI li l'lcketl ITp a Corino.

pur

tho various

of which $2,401,837

Washington, D. c, June 2. It is laid that upwards of two hundred clerks aro to be dismissed from the Pension Olllcc, and that the list of names of those who arc to be invited to

step out is nearly completed. The last pension appropriation bill contains a clause which will reduce the force for the next fiscal year about one hundred and fifty men Whether the two hundred nicutioned as being booked for dismissal are in addition to the 150 which will have to go under the terms of the pension appropriation bill, can not be olllclally ascertained as yet. OlJlccrs of the department admit that a large number of changes are to be made, and do not deny that the lists are nearly completed, but they evade answerlug direct questions by saying that the matter will be made public at the proper time.

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

Item Trom the .Monthly Tr.MiHiiry Stat.incnt The It.'Vi-nuo K.m pIiiI Con.I.lrn.

Itolow the i:tlm:it.

lily

Mo.

It Is believed that whisky Is responsible

iur iue insanity developed by Louis

Keaume at Chlrauo. He Is eettlnir hi.

bhu win proiwmy be tried for murder.

ihe cuierojc the Post-offlcj Inspectors

oeeu iniormea that Postmaster L N. Hlbbs, of Levlston. Idaho, issued

orders to the amount of $15,0(tt or $2),000, payable to himself, ordered banks ia dif-

lerjnc cities to cnlect th?m and forward

tne money to him, and then absconded. He was last heard from at Victoria, llrit-

fsh Columbia.

MISCELLANEOUS. People are leaving Dongoia, expecting a great massacre, by the Mahdl's troops. Overdrafts caused the suspension of the Shackamaxoa Bank at Philadelphia,

committee on later-

.oaiCT to ( bus arraageu a programme for the month of Juae. It BAt

meeting will be held In Chicago oa the 12th last, four days; In St. Louis, two beginning on the 17th ; two days Jn Des Moines, beginning on the 11th; two In Omaha, beginning on the 22.1, and two In St. Paul and Minneapolis, beginning oa the 24th. A TVPE-SETTtxa match is annouueed to take place In New YorK on the 4tb Inst., between Joseph McCana and Ira Somera for iM a side. Much Interest Is maul4 Aa t A .... j A I- a. .

Hxiiuug iae crait, ana the contest will be witnessed by the delegates to the International Typographical Untoa. CHIMBS AND CASUALTIES. Bv the burning of a New York furniture factory on the 27th, damage to the extent of $W,00) was caused and 500 workmen made Idle. AT Charleston, W. Va.. oa the ?7ih. rn

miners were killed by the snapping of the brake band of aa inoJiue, letting: the oar

at great spsed. On the 27th William Preatls kill, m.

father at Orange, Mass. The maa was

aruHK aau, fHaetag a cup oa Ms bead, orsleretl the hoy to sheet at it,

A Rcssian aaval officer has been arrested at Croastadt on suspicion, it is reported, of being connected with a plot to acquaint England with the method of the closing of the harbor of Cronstadt with torpedoes. T he bill to make ten hours a day's work has passed both houses of the Michigan Legislature. The measure does not apply to farm labor, but to all other kinds, and is mainly directed toward workmen In the lumber region. On the 80th the Presbyterian General Assembly was In session at Cincinnati, O. Memorial Day was more irenerallv nh.

served thaa ever oa the 30th, reports from all parts of the country giving details of interesting ceremonies. In many porHons of the South Confederates jolaed with Federals, and the Blue and the Gray

visa in tiolng hoaor to those who had fallen In defense of their opinions. The Apaches cmtiuua their outrages la Southern Mew Mexico, The Republic Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa., signed the Amalgamated Association scale.

Russia Is said to have agreed to the En. I

gnsu proposals to keep the Tory party from going Into power. The Botphore Egyptien has made a savage attack on Englishmen In Egypt, and there U more talk of suppression. On the )th, the priest at Milford, Mass., forbade the G. A. R. entrance to tho r.it,.

olic Cemetery to decorate the graves. The New York Grand Jury returned a presentment against the Board of Health for inexcusable delay ia suppressing nuls a rices in tenement houses, The Mayor and seventeen prominent citizens of Cincinnati, who borrowed $103,. 000 for the city, for which the Legislators failed to provide, are (exercised over the prospect of having It to pay. An explorlag party from Canada hare seat to Quebec full acceuats of Lake Mistassinl la the Northwest. It Is said to be as large as Lake Oataria. Firry removals are to be ktiaae lamed!ttlv ia tks Pesuiaa Bar

The monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the 1st, shows the decrease of tho public debt during the month of May, according to the old form, to be $i,425.4S4.0I; decrease of debt since Juue! 18S4. 54.500,7:4.j0; cash In the Treasury $47S,o70,400.27; gold certificates outstanding, $140,C,G7C; certificates of deimsit outstanding, 7,204,000; refunding certificates outstanding, $'J40,700; legal tenders outstand.ng, sf24C,r91,010; fractional currency, not Including amount estimated

as lost or destroyed, $0,l(tt,S0i83.

LATE NEWS ITEMS Tannery employes aro on" a strike at

Alleghauy City, Pa.

bl'AiN Is eudeavorinz to float a iil.uOO.-

DOJ loan.

Pleuro-I'neumosia has "been entirely

stamped out in Oiiio.

The Italian Has has been hoisted at

Suakim.

The Interlaken Hotel at Saratoga Lake

was burned on the 2d. Loss. rJoueOJ.

Phince Charles Antoine of Hohen

zoliern, head of the Catholic branch of the

family, is dead.

Dr. E. E. Lov killed Harry Chamnlln.

his brother-In-law, at Ciuclnnatf, O.. on

tho night of the 1st It was a case of self-

defense.

Anti-Jewish riots have again broken

out at Vienna, and terrible excesses have

been the result.

A Pittsburgh (I'a.) drug clerk was

fatally hurt on the 2d by the explosion of a soda fountain.

Italy has concluded a commercial treaty

with Zanzibar.

Tin: Universal Peace Union held its

nineteenth anniversary at Philadelphia, Pa., on tho 2d.

A C'hixese Imperial drcree orders the

Black Flas to evacuate Touquln.

31. IL H. W ittek, of St. Iiii. Mo.. M as

re-elected President of ihe International

Typographical Uul n.

A I'okm In honor of Mr. Lowell has leJn published In the Loudon J'ttHch, An engineer was killed,' several train men hurtnnd ninny cars wrecked by neo -Union in Delaware, ou the 2d. N attempting to arrest three outlaws at Jasper, Ind., the Sheriff and another man were mortally wounded. The outlaws escujied. England has made n free gift of tho ;

Berber Railway plaufc to the Government

or Cyprus. The Indians in Arizona have le-u dt-

rented by tuu troow and the ilium body of them captured, Some estauod into

Mexico. CaSHM-rk, in India, has been terribly shaken up by earthquakes. Many people were killed and a vast amount of proixirty destroyed. It is stated at Washington that the Postal Telegraph Company has obtained control of the Bankers' and Merchants' Hues. John a Oault will on July 1st, bocotno general manager of the Cilieliiuati.

New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway.

vice John Scott, resigned. Cardinal Guibkrt, Archbishop of Paris, inds a formal protest to the Gov

ernment against the decree secularizing the Pantheon.

The total exports of mineral oils durlnc

the ten months ended April 80th, 18S5, were 4S,760,148 gallons; during the corns-

Pspondlug petlod last year. 410,074.43) gal

toss.

v ashinoton, 1). C, June 2. The reduction In the public debt during the month of May, according to the revised form of statement, amounted to $3,350,833. The total debt yesterday, less cash in the Treasury, Is Sl,4H4,:UI,0li, of which 81,200.774,4(12 is Interest bearlns. The Treasury now h.dds a h:ibimn nf

8115,810,533 lu gold coin and bullllon and $ 00,257,812 in sliver, against SI 18,000. 000 gold and 54, 000, 000 tdlver on Mav 1st. The Treasury has now 30 0J3,0-'l, against 23,!)57,421 reported a month ao. Customs receipts for May 614,312,773, or nearly as much as lu May a year ago. Internal revenue receipts 812,300,601, a falllmroff of nearly 82,000,000 compared with last year. Altogether the receipts from all sources for the eleven months of the current year aggregate 82t5, 133,-

nuiuu is auoiu 9-,i)w,vW) less than for the corresponding eleven months of the last fiscal vear.

Indications now point to a total revenue during the present fiscal vear of 8316,000,000 or 8320,000,000, which would be 810,000,000 or 812,000,000 less than Secretary McCulloch's estimates sent to Congress last December. Mr. McCulloch estimates a revenue of 185,000,000 from customs; 8115,000,000 from Internal revenue, and 830,000,000 from miscellaneous sources. It now looks as llionsh customs receipts for tlieyearjwlll reach about $180,000,000; Internal revcuue about 8112,000,000, and miscellaneous receipts about 827,000.000. VCTORrHUGO.

The ItfiimliiH aT tlir Kmlnrnt frenchman Lalil to ItoM lu Ihe I'HiithiMiii A Trrrlhte Crush r Spectator,, Paris, June 1. The streets in the vicinity of thu Arc De Trlomphe, where Victor Hugo's body lies, were thronged all night. After midnight rain fell, but this did not apparently diminish the. crowd. Toward morning a great deal of revelry was Indulged in; men and women singing on the pavements In all directions. Good humor prevailed, and police Interference went no further than occa

sional warnings to some knots of rovsterers who were a little noisy. Shortly before ten this morning prominent per

sons directly connected with the ceremonies of the day btrgau to arrive. Previous to movement of the procession, speeches were made. These were interrupted by vnices from the crowd, but the Interruptions were few and of a charac

ter not calculated to excite the nasslon

of Anarchists present. At 11:20 precisely the procession started for the Pantheon. The day Is warm, the sun shining brilliant. As the cortege moves the throng falls into Hue without demon

stration and everything thus far Is nulet

and orderly. Nouv. ,1 ust before the procession left the Aic do Tilnmpbc a few nelsons who attempted to cany led Hags were arrested. This was done so quietly by tho police that thfi incident was not noticed by most of (hose present. Up to this hour no disturbance has occurred. Tho funeral procession, owing to the almost unprecedented throng which lined the streets, moved slowly. The catafalque bearing the remains arrived at the Pantheon at two o'clock, and the ceremonies were begun at once. They proceeded without Interruption. The dense mass of people in .the Pantheon listened to the addresses with respectful attention, and order was maintained without any effort on the part of the authorities. The ceremo

nies were concluded at three o'clock. A large number of persons arc reported to have been severely hurt during the progress of the funeral. At many points on the route spectators became panic stricken at the fearful crush, and is their efforts to free themselves many WOHKa sad ckildren were Injured.

Sr. Louis, Mn June 2. At six o'clock this morning the .Southern Hotel was the scene of the sensational death of R. M. Reynolds, of Washington, I). C, First Auditor of the United States Treasury. Mr. Reynolds arrived at the hotel at about eleven o'iock last night. He was assigned to room 272 upon the third (1 or, and retired to bed almost immediately. The last seen of him until this morning was hv th Loii

boy, who showed him to his room. At the minutes to six this momlag tho clerks, bell boys and early birds In the rotunda of the hotel were startled by the dull, heavy sound of a humau body falling from a great distance upon the flagstones of the floor. It was the body of R. M. Reynolds, who had jumped or fallen over the railing on the third floor around the owning over the rotunda. J. II. Long, one of the hotel porters, who saw the body in ILs gyrations through the air, ran to Reynolds' assistance. He picked him up and seated him In a chair. Dr. P owers. who vri

immediately sent, for, made a hurried examination, which developed that Reynolds had broken his back, fractured, his skull ou the right side, and broken his right leg at the thigh. Restoratives were seat lor, but before they arrived IIIIYNOLDS WAS IlKiD. The jwllce were uotlticd, and an ambulance rattled up to the door of the hotel within a short time in which the body was conveyed to the Morgue. J. H. Long, who witnessed the fall from the third story, speaking to a reporter, said. "I was slttini? In a hif.

directly to one side of the opening over the rotunda leading a paper when I heard a rushing, whizzing sound. Looking up I saw Reynold.-,' body flying through the sir at a rapid rate. At the secoud story the body turned a half somersault, increased in velocity, and struck the Hag. stones of the floor horizontally on h?s right side. I picked blnuup and carried him to a chair, a doctor was sent for immediately, but Remolds explted wlthia two miuutes 3fter he fell. In appearance he was about sixty years old, gray and bald, with small mustache an I scanty chin whiskers. He

weigneu auout two hundred pounds and wan well dresed in a grayish woolen Milt oi well-iltting clothe. Mr. 11, C. Lewis, the manager of the hotel, was seen at the Southern, immediately after his return from the qtie-a of Mr. Reynolds' friends. "It was just ix o clock," .said he, When he was awakened and told that omc oi the guests had kdiid himself. I went at once to the -room on the third floor where .Mr. Reynolds had pas-d the night and found it full oi ga.s, so full that It wa almost impossible to breathe lu i. This was tlie more remarkable as the gas was turned off In the loom and was not leaking, the bed had been slept upon and the toilet

stanu snowed that Reynolds had untied and dicssed but a few in'mire before. The soap uas still wvt. I tuen went and examined the body There U an air shaft or skylight hic!- cuts through each floor of the hotel iu.t which Is caielullv railed. Mr. Reynold had either leant l over or climbed over tills railing on the third floor and fell to the mtiuida pavement. Of course the shock killed him at once. The noise of the tall Is said to have been very loud. It startled the night clerk and the nisht watch aad was heard by people in distant parts of the hotel. It was a mot horrible thing. A medical examination was made by Dr. Power, who rooms at the hotel, and It was found that Mr. R.-y-noldO skull was fractured and one of his legs badly shatteied. It seems that he

icii rattier oh his side, uc must have turned iu the air. Tne bast? of hU skull was also badly crushed and he was bicedIiik from his ears. He was, of course, picked up at obco a-i 1 evervthlng doae for him that could be done, but he was dead." "Von found some letters on his person?" 1 "Vcs, but they were turned over to the Coroner without examination. There was this address, however, scribbled oa a piece of paper: 'C. II. Alters, 103 X. Third street.' I got Mr Albets' house address out of the Directory ami went out there at once. Mr. Albers knew R. M. Reynolds well. He was the First Auditor of the United States Treasury, and bis home was in Washington, D. 0. He was lu St Louis on his way to Kansas, where lie meant to buy some lands." "How old a man was he?" "About sixty years, I should say. I don't think, under the circumstances, that It can be suicide. As far as we caa

tell at this hour there would be no reason for It. He may have fallen over the railing accidentally." IIIM OFFICIAL IHHITION. Robert M. Reynolds was First Auditor of the United States Treasury Department and Ills name was recorded lu tho Blue Book of Federal oillcen published In 1881. He was born in Ohio, and was appointed from Alabama. His salary was 83,000 a year. Inquiry at the Internal Revenue office shows that his name Is very familiar with all Internal Revenue men, as his special duty was to audit all beer checks and all drawbacks. The place where R. M. Reynolds dropped to bis death is not fifteen feet away from the cigar stand In the front of the hotel. He cither fell or jumped through at the southeast corner of the shaft on the third floor. The distance which he fell Is about sixty feet. At seven o'clock all trace of the tragedy had been removed, and were It not for the excited group standing about the place where the death happened there would be nothing to tell of It. Nothing, that Is. save the damp markings of the mops which had scoured sway the blood from the marble.