Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 February 1894 — Page 2

She f ifet Countii Democrat M McC. STOOPS, Editor tad ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Mme. Maplesos, wife of Col. Mapleson, the operatic manager, died in New York city on the 21st. IIox. C. II. Buhl, one of Detroit’s (Mich.) inost prominent and wealthy citizens, died at liis residence in tnat city, ont he 23d, after a long illness, aged nearly 84 years. The great imperial porcelain and glass factory at St. Petersburg was destroyed by fire, on the 23d. together with all the machinery and models. The loss is very great. , Judge Coffey, of San Francisco, has made an order granting Mfs. Jane L. Stanford an allowance of $tofcpOO monthly, pending the settlement of the estate of Senator Leland Stanford, her deceased husband. The thermometer at Guthrie, Okla., reached 11 deg. below zero, the coldest weather ever known there, on the 24th. Great suffering prevailed among the new settlers, who were unprepared for such weather. Loris Gerston, a j wealthy stock dealer of McKeesport, Pa., who was a passenger on the limited express en route from Chicago to Pittsburgh, was found dead in his berth when the train reached Pittsburgh on the 26th. * John B. Koettixg, cashier of the defunct South Side savings bank of Milwaukee, was sentenced, on the 25th, to twenty-five years in the penitentiary * for accepting deposits after he knew of the insolvent condition of the bank. First Lieut. Joseph. S. Oyster, Fourth artillery, has l>een relieved, at his own request, as professor of military science and tactics at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Palo Alto* Cal. » ’

Michael Walsh, 28 years old, who in 1882 was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting a constable in Galway, Ireland. has been released from the Mount-joy prison. Walsh is ill and will be taken to a hospital for treatment. ■ The last remnant of racing stock from Fred Gebhard'ii’ Lake county ranch was sold, on the 22d, at auction in San Francisco. Nineteen brood mares brought an average of $475, the highest price being $8,000 for a good mare. The Cauca valley, in Colombia, is inundated. The flood is the most destructive of the century. All of the crops have been swept away, and the damage in other respeets is beyond computation. As a result of revival services at Oskaloosa, lvas., ,T. C."W biting, the principal druggist of that place, ordered a 'large supply of beer, in which he had previously dealt, back to the dealers in Missouri, and destroyed all the liquors in his stock. « Ox the 23d the customs committee of the French chamber of deputies discussed a proposal made by M. Edmond Case, to authorize the government to issue a decree increasing the tax on corn. The proposal leeeived considerable support. ----7The remains of Mine. Laura Schir-mer-Mapleson were taken from New York to Boston, on the 35th, accompanied by Henry Mapleson and Mrs. Schirmer, the mother of the prirnd donna. The funeral services were held at the house of Mrs. Schirmer, on the 26th, Rev. Dr. Everet t Hale officiating. Br a decision of Second Comptroller Mansur, Senator Morgan, Justice Harlan and other members and attaches of the Behring sea commission are required to put in an itemized account of expenses and, unless the decision is reversed, must refund all the money received for which they can not account.

London Truth says; that the princess of Wales has decided to withdraw from society. The prince of Wales, in declining for the princess an invitation to visit Belvoir castle, the residence of the duke of Rutland, at Grantham, Lincolnshire, stated that the princess would hereafter take no part in social events. The rescuing part] run search of Colgate, the missing member of the Carlin excursion party, has been forced to return to Kendricks, Idaho, from their hunt, owing to the condition of the Clearwater river and the heavy fall of snow. All hope of finding Colgate has vanished. His wife has written another letter denouncing young Carlin and his friends.’ M. T. KoTiKosHwrLL, a nobleman from Tiflis, in the Russian steppes, and Miss Jeanne Sorabji., of Poonah. India, have arrived at San Francisco on a visit to the Mid-Winter fair. Miss Sorabji is in charge of the exhibits of jewels and gold fabrics recently contributed by different kings of India to the Columbian exposition. Harry Smith, aged 21, night receiving clerk at the Emporia (lvas.) post office, has been arrested for rifling the mails. Thirty-two dollars in marked bills, taken from registered letters, were found in his pockets with 1160 more, also stolen from the mails. His theft had extended over three months and aggregated hundreds of dollars. He confessed everything. The operative potters passed a resolution at Trenton, N. J.. on the 2Sd. that the reduction in wages announced by their employers is “unnecessary and uncalled for at this time.’1' A Committee, representing all branches of the trade, will be appointed to confer with the employers, and unless a compromise of a 1 literal nature is effected a strike will be inaugurated.

CURRENT TOPICS T3E HEWS IH BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Ik the senate, on the 22d. nearly three hours were occupied in the consideration of the resolution. previously offered by Mr. Peffer (pop., Kas.), declaring that the secretary or the treasury has no authority in law to issue and sell 5-per-cent, bonds as proposed in his published notice. .Mr. Peffer had the floor most of the time; yielding, however, to other senators to interpose remarks A resolution on the subject of civil-service reform was considered in the morning hour and was, after some debate, agreed to......In the house the entire day was given up to the consideration of the sugar schedule. Amendment^ striking out the bounty feature of the Wilson-bill and putting refined sugar on the free list were agreed to. A message from the president on Hawaiian affairs was received. In the senate, on the S3d. the Hawaiian question was further considered by resolution from the committee on foreign affairs and by a speech by Senator Cullom severely criticising the administration.' The Peffer resolution agdinst the lrftHjty of the proposed issue of bonds, was refered to the committee on finance, and Aie house bill for the repeal of the federal elections law - was further considered.In the house, after routine business, the Wilson tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole, and an attempt to take coal from the free list and put a duty of forty cents per ten upon it and twenty cents per ton on slack was defeated. In the senate, on the 24th. after more than usually interesting preliminary business, tbe Hawaiian resolution was taken up. but finally went over without action, and the unfinished business—being the house bill to repeal the federal elections law—was considered at length, after which a number of minor bills -were taken from tbe calendar and passed. In the bouse the Wilson tariff bill was early taken up and the attempt to remove iron ore from the free list was defeated. In the senate, on the 25th. ths Hawaiian resolutions were presented, but were laid aside to give Mr. All^n, t>v» Nebraska pnpuHsf, an op port unity to deliver a legal argument against the authority of the secretary of the treasury to issue 5-per-cent bonds. An hour was spent in an uninteresting discussion of tbe house bill for the repeal of the federal elections law, after which the time was taken up ia eulogies of the late Mr. Chipraan.In the house the day was marked by the filibustering 6f the New York members against the income tax bill. Mr. Morso introduced a joint resolution acknowledging God in tbe constitution. IN the senate, on the 26th. the morning hour was occupied by Mr. Call in a speech condemning the action of the interior department m giving land in Florida to a railroad in violation, as he claimed, of law. The Hawaiian resolution went over until Monday. The bill to repeal the federal elections law was then taken up, and Mr. Chandler s motion to postpone it until next December was voted down. In the house, after an unsuccessful attempt of the New York members to filibuster a-ainst the introduction of the income-tax blH and the transaction of routine business, tbe tariff bill was taken up in committee of the whole.

PERSONAL AND GENERA|_ \ Brice Stewart, aged 83, for sixty years a resident of Clarksville, Tenn., and one of the most conspicuous characters in the history, progress and development of middle Tennessee, died on the 23d. He was one of the first engaged in establishing a tobacco market in Clarksville, operating stemmeries also in Missouri and Kentucky. His wealth is estimated at $1,000,000. Judge E. L. 1Iam4oxd. of the federal district court in Jackson, Tenn., on the 23d concluded the famous case of the United States against G. F. B. Howard by refusing to direct that his writ of error shall operate as a supersedeas and to fix a bail bond pending decision of the supreme court. Howard lias been taken to the penitentiary at Columbus. O. Supt. Stuxp of the immigration bureau, on the 23d, intimated that he would take early acticn in the case of the alleged importation of nearly 200 cigar-makers from Havana to work in the cigar factories at Key West, Fla. It is believed that he will order the return of the taen to Havana, and possibly the prosecution of those who brought them over. Unless the unexpected happens the Kapsas City (Mo.) exposition building will be sold under foreclosure of mortgage. The foreclosure will be made under the first mortgage, which is for about $150,000. The incumbrance was placed on the property by James Goodin when the exposition building was built. The historical exhibits and the other relics from the Vatican, which were loaned to the Columbian exposition, are not to be returned to Rome at present. They are in the hands of Archbishop Ireland and will appear in the Columbus museum in Chicago when that is opened for the public. It is reported that gold ore to the value of $128,000 was taken from the Little Johnnie mine at Leadville, Col., in one daj recently. This beats all Leadville records, the largest previous output for a single day being $110,000 worth of silver ore taken from the Rob

i ert K. Jjee mine. A TB.ua* was found frozen to death on the highway near Pittsburg', Kas., on the morning of the 24th. In Fort Scott and Leavenworth several persons had their fingers and toes frozen, and at other places')there was intense suffering. Coal car robberies were reported at several points. After deliberating for three hours, on the night of the 28d, the jury m the case of John B. Koeting, cashier of the defunct Sou^h Side savings bank, Milwaukee, returned a verdict of “guilty on the second count.” This count charges Koeting as “owner” of the bank, with having received a deposit after ho knew the bank to be insolvent Mbs. William Pheasant, a farmer’s wife near Columbus, Ind., was found %ead in her bed on the 23d. She helped her husband saw wood all the day before. Foul play is suspected. Pheasant had served a term in the penitentiary for an a ttempted outrage six years ago. The new Heavilon shops building annex to Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., recently completed and equipped at a cost of $180,000, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 23d. Loss estimated at $175,000; insurance, $45,000. Mr. William P. Hazex, of the treasury secret service, stationed at Cincinnati, is slated to succeed Mr. Drummond as chief of the secret service. The latter will probably be transferred to some other station. A dispatch was received in London from Rio Janeiro, on the 28d, which stated that efforts were being made to arrang e for the arbitration of the differences between the insurgents and the Brazilian government.

Herman Harms.' of | cica, Minn., who has slept most of tt time for sixteen rears, and whose ca e has become famous, has again awak led and is apparently in a normal sta & He weighs less than 100 pounds, but has a good appetite and is improving- in health. The decrees expelling ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie fi n Servia have been canceled. The building on the Boone county (la.) poor farm, in wh h the incurably insane were confined, was destroyed by fire, on th: night ' of the 23d, and eight of the niir-a inmates were burned to death. Secretary Carlisle ins sent a communication to the sena te showing the amounts due the United States from the territory of Utali on account of costs and expenses <>:’ prosecution. These expenditures began in 1873, and continued ever since, the total amount being $723,555. It ap >ears that the law requires tliat these expenses be paid by the territory, but congress has annually appropriate- the money required. / The Union Pacific is preparing to put in anew schedule of v iges for organized labor, which will be a reduction on all lines. No allow ace will be made for excess mileage and the overtime limit has been extended. By the collision between a heavy freight and a heavy passenger train near Samara, Russia, five .of the passenger coaches caught fire and fifteen persons were killed no - ny of them being cremated. • Riverside hospital, North Brothers island, N. Y., is attempting, under the direction of the board of health, to cure smallpox with red light. The experiment has succeeded in Bergen, Norway. Anarchist Vaillant must die. The French court of issation, which heard the case, has - .ecided that there are no grounds upon which to base an appeal, and it was therefore refu sed. Sir Gerald Hkkukrt Bartel. British political agent a id consul-general at Zanzibar, died in London, on the 25th, from tvphoid fever.

An intimate friend of Attorney-Gen-eral Olney said, on 1 he 35th, that the rumored resignation of Mr. Olney will become a fact very s;x>n. A dead tramp ant: an empty whisky bottlefwere found side by side 9 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 25lth. A majority of the members of the customs committee of the French chamber of dcputie still propose that a tariff of eight francs be placed on corn. > The khedive of 3gypt has yielded to the demand of Lord Cramer, the British diplomatic agent in Cairo, that he publish a formal retraction of the strictures he recen t ly passed upon the army and issue an order praising it's condition and th efficiency of the British and Egyptian officers. Maher Pasha, assistant minister of war, who was charged with inciting the khedive to make his hostile criticisms, has been transferred by the khedive. « The postmastr1 ."-general has appointed commissio aers to make a thorough investigation and report on the needs of the New York and Chicago post offices. The commissioners enter at once upon their work. ** Alderman Jerky Mulvihill, a Chicago saloon-keeper, who was shot in j Hussey’s saloon the previous night by Mike Fewer, an intoxicated saloonkeeper, died at the Presbyterian hospital on the 26th. A further loss of $600,000 in gold was reported by the treasury on the 26th. This retir ed the gold reserve to less than $,7,0QC.0J0. LATE NEWS ITEMS* . the senate was not m session on the 37th.In the house in committee of the whole the debate on the customs schedule of the tariff bill under the five-minute rule was concluded. Only such amendments as were recommended by the ways and means committee were adopted, except in the sugar schedule, in which the bounty provision was stricken out. The time for the wool sc iiedule to go inifco operation was extended in obedience to the exigencies of t rade. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 27th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $6,288,550; loans, decrease, $914,400; specie, increase,S3,265,710; legal tenders,increase, $4,369,900; de osits, increase, $5,888,200; circulation,' decrease, $65,000.

A report is in circulation in all the diplomatic^.: eles in Home to the effect that Mgr. Satolli, the apostolic delegate to the United States, is tq he recalled, owing to the failure of his mission and to his having incurred the hatred of both CathcAics and Protestants. Is the criminal court at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2"th, Judge Slagle refused a new trial in the case of James Newton Hill for he murder of Mrs. Rosa Roetzler in East park, Allegheny, on the night of March 7, 1893, -and the murderer was sentenced to death. Secretak • Herbert received a cable message from Admiral ilenham at Rio, on the 27th, but it contained no reference to his having been asked to act as medi: ,tor between the Brazilian governmec and its rebellious admiral. Premier 'rispi of Italy has prepared for the chamber of deputies a proposition to save by econpmy 7,000,000 lire in the military budget, 4.000,000 on the marine budget, and 3,000,000 in the budget for public works. Mrs. Eli.es Colfax, widow of the late vice president of the United States, has, with her son, settled the claim of the National Bank of Indianapolis aga nst them as stockholders by paying 82;: 000 cash. The imi; arts, exclusive of specie, at the pori of New York for the week ended on the 27th were 86,931.387, of which $1 700,973 were dry goods and $5,230,414 general merchandise. The imi orts of specie at the port of New York for the week ended on the 27th wer; $141,399, of which $112,008 was gold md $28,390 silver. Ox the :7th the New York associated banks he d $109,043,000 in excess of the require] entsof the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A fat al assault was made cn Mrs. E. Williams, residing south Of Brazil, by a yearling call The animal knocked her down and gored and stamped her fearfully. Burglars entered the post office and five retail stores at Star City, a small village near Winamac, and carried off about <5004n cash and merchandise. A wall of one of the Starr Piano factory buildings, Richmond, recently de- ; stroyed by fire, was blown down by the | wind, and Elisha- Mote, a workman, | was caught in the debris. He was j badly injured, his head being cut, shoulder fractured and body bruised j generally. Therk was a terrific gas explosion at the Indiana Iron mill Muncie. which imperiled hundreds of lives and caused a damage of <3,500. Indiana has eighteen special pension examiners. D. Bavgher has been appointed receiver of the Adams Electrical Co., Elkhart. t A young lady of New Albany has collected 43,000 of the 50,000 canceled stamps necessary to get an invalid chair. L. A. Vobeseren was nominated for mayor by the republicans of Marion. He represents the younger element Harry Kern, the 7-year-old son of Allie Kern, of Muncie, is suffering from blood poison contracted from the bite of a rat on his hand. Joseph Martindale, who stole the horse of Frank Mossman at Treaty. Wabash county, pleaded guilty before Judge Shively at Wabash, and was sentenced to two years, in the penitentiary, fined <150 and disfranchised for two years. : : ; Joseph Jones, of Rush county, was arrested at Kokomo by a Rushville officer, being wanted for the shooting of John Barlow, January 2, in the town of Morrow, Rush county.

While workmen were engaged placing an old house upon a new site, at Edinburgh the building careened catching and instantly killing Wilbur Oakes, 15-year-ol# boy, who had t crawledAmder to adjust a foundation stone. A hawk was shot by Albert Newliii, of Lawrenceburg, the other day. When he went to pick the body up ttie bird’s mate attacked him with beak and wing, and finally bore off the body of its dead mate in triumph. Mack Dixon, a colored desperado from Louisville, went to Columbus, the other day and was arrested for drawing a razor on Howard HilL An effort was made to apply the handcuffs, w hen the Negro knocked the constable and his deputy down, raised a window and jumped to the pavement, fifteen feet below, and escaped. James Leaford, an employe of exSheriff E. J. Pierce, of Orange county, living five miles north of Erench Lick, met with an accident the other day that is thought to be fatal. While cutting logs a large limb fell, striking him on the head, fracturing his skull and breaking his leg. The arrest of Miss Lulu Van Slyke, the only daughter of ex-State Senator Van Slyke, a retired Methodist preacher, has caused a big sensation at Goshen. Miss Van Slyke is charged with the theft of a valuable ring, which was found in the possession of her lover. Vernon Young. Young swears he will go to prison before he reveals anything as to how it came into his possession. Miss Van Slyke is IS years of age, of rare beauty and possessed of a mind unusually well cultivated. She is a daring horsewoman, and her skill has made her known throughout Northern Indiana. i Mbs. J. WrATT, of Bowling Green, Clay county, met with a horrible accident that will result in her death. While preparing supper, Mrs. Wyatt’s apron caught on fire- in some manner and in a short time she was enshrouded in flames. Her cries soon brought assistance, but not until her body was burned, to a crisp. Gov. Matthews the other day appointed J. H. Tomlin, of Rockport, a member of the board of trustees of the Terre Haute state normal school to succeed I. H. C. Royce, of Terre Haute Mr. Tomlin is about thirty-five years of age#nd is superintendent of the public schools of Rockport The following fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days ago: J. W. Spear, Alert, vice O. P, McClain, removed, and J. M. Case, Forest Hill, vice Geo. Askins, removed, both in De

catur county. The republicans of Indiana held their district conventions for the election of members of the state committee. The committee elected is as follows: First district*--W. C. Mason, Rockport; Second—T. J. Brooks, Bedford; Third—E. H. Trapp, North Vernon; Fourth—A. E. Newton, Lawrenceburg; Fifth—W. L. W. Lambert, Columbus; Sixth—Geo, V. Cromer, Muncie; Seventh—J. W. Fessler, Indianapolis; Eighth—Nicholas Filbeck, Terre Haute; Ninth—S. C. Shirley, Kokomo; Tenth—Charles Harley, Delphi; Eleventh—Gea A. Osborn, Maridn; Tlvelhh—S. O. Wood, Angola; Thirteenth—F. B. OglesbCe, Plymouth. , Two musicians’ unions are at war in Richmond. At Warsaw Christian Raueher was found guilty of criminal assault upon a fifteen-year-old girl, who resides near Ips home, in Kosciusko county, and was given one year in the state prison. It was asserted by the defense that the prosecution was inspired by personal enemies, hence the short sentence. County Superintendent Avert A. Williams, of Wabash, died at his home at a late hour the other night, of a chronic disease of the liver. Mr. Williams was thirty years old. Dr. J. K. Si sir art, of Fairland, made & postmortem examination the other day during which he inflicted a slight wound upon himself. Blood poisoning has set in and he may not recover. The city of Indianapolis contends that the charter of the Citizen’s Street Railway Co. has expired by limitation, and at the meeting of the city council the mayor recommended that ifie board of public works serve notice: on the fiontnanr to that effect. 1 \

A CARNIVAL OF FIRE. Bath, M>.. Swept by a Terrible Conflagration Entailing a Low of Half a Million t>oU*r*_Several Blocks of Uaniaeoa Hulldlnsrs in Rni is—Scarcity of Wnteic Makes the Fight Against the Flauna a a Hard One. Hath, Me., Jan. 39.—The most destructive fire in this eity for half a century swept away yester.lay a Jorge portion of the business section, block after block succumbing to the flames, and some of the best stores: of the city were in a few hours reduced to ashes and valuable stocks destroyed. The loss is placed at $500,000. The fire, apparently was a smal [ affair when discovered at 9 a. m. sta rted in the stable in the rear of the Sagadaco block. The fire department responded promptly, when, to the amazement of the firemen and citizens, it was discovered that the waterworks was useless, a big break in the main line having occurred Saturday night. When the alarm was given from box 45 at the city hall the water pressure in the street mains was only fourteen pounds. A second alarm was turned in, summoning three steamers which were set at the river, but before getting to work, the stable, where the fire started was in flames, which was spreading on all sides. At the east of the stable and not three feet away was the Granite block, a four-story brick sti*ucture. fronting on Front street and occupied on the ground floor by a dry goods and carpet store. To this store the flames quickly spread. In a few j minutes the Sagadaco house, con tiguous to the Granite block on the south; the Central house, next south of the stable; a forge tenement on the west, and a large storehouse on the north

were in flames. These buildings were I on the north side of Center ami the east side of Front street. In less th^n an hour the lire crossed Front street attacking a wooden and then a brick block. On the Center-street side the firemen made a determined stand and saved the south side, but several b locks were badly scorched. Mayor Shaw sent aspay for aid half an hour after the fink started, Brunswick responding with two hand engines, Portland one steamer, Lewiston one. steamer. The Brunswick firemep were the first to arrive by special train, which made the run of nine miles in twelve minutes. The run from Portland,’ thirty-five miles, was made in fifty eight minutes, and from Lewiston in thirty minutes. The out-of-town fire engines were placed at the river, and were at work' two hours after the fire started.' It was nearly 3 o’clock before the fire was under control. — ; /_- To protect property that had been removed from stores near the firs and to clear the crowd of sight-seers from the streets, Mayor Shaw called out the militia Co. C of the Second regiment early, and subsequently the militia received orders from Gov. Cleaves to patrol the streets last night. The fire swept away the S&gadaco block,containing the largest hotel in the city; the Sagadaco bank, the Marine bank, book store, drug store, clothing and barber shop; Granite blpek.oceuplied by the largest dry goods house in the city, Knight of Pythias hall, and a brokers’ office; Union block occupied by1 a crockery, store; Redmen’s hall, drug store and aw order of Foresters; Savings bank block, occupied by the Peoples’ savings bank, boot and shoe store, doctor's office, book bindery and editorial rooms of the Bath Times; Fuller’s block, occupied by a drug store, saloon and lawyers.’ offices; Central block, in which wer^ the Central hotel, two fruit stores and a barber shop. One block containing a cigar store and a book bindery, with dwelling on the second floor; a large tenement house, occupied by six families; one large stable and a large storehouse; Odd Fellows hall, Jackson's dry goods store; Times newspaper office and several other firms were damaged by water. • - The total loss is estimated at $500,000, on which there is about one-half insurance.

An Important Meeting; of Republican Senator*. Washington, Jan. 28.—The majority of the republican senatorial committee met yesterday in the rooms of Senator Hale for the purpose of discussing the bills for the admission of the various territories to the .union. The disc nssion was protracted, and when the meeting adjourned, the committee, it is said, had agreed upon its line of action only so far as the territory of. Utah was concerned. It was decided that no opposition should be made to the admission of that territory, although there was a division of sentiment as to the wisdom of annexing it to the state of Nevada. It was agreed that owing to the enormous state that would thereby be created it would #be inadvisable to sanction any proposition.looking to the consolidation of New Mexico and Arizona.but if they were admitted at all it should.be as they are at present constituted.9 , Action in the case of those territories*' will be taken at a subsequent meeting. The committee also had up, in an informal manner, the bill to repeal the federal elections law and while no action was taken, it was 'plainly the sentiment of the members present that dilatory tactics should not be pursued, but as soon as the debate has ended, the bill should be permitted to come to a vote. French Occupation of Timbactoo Part of a Colonization Plan. Paris, Jan. 29.—The Liberia publishes a letter from a soldier of a Soudanese contingent who" intimates, contrary to the official announcement, that the French occupation of Timbuctoo is part of the fixed colonization plan of which "the ministers are fully informed. An official dispatch describes: an attack made by Tonaregs on Marine Ensign Aube’s party between Cabra and Timbuctoo, on December 28, Aube, the second mate and twenty-eight natives were killed.

RANK SWINDLERS. % Deliberate Scheme to I>e fcsod > Banka In Various Parta of the -’nontry Eipoted by the IovMH(titl*M »• * Kanmu City Grand Jury-Tbe Manner of Uw Swindle and Its Victims. Kansas Citv, M<x. Jan. 2S.—The grand jury now in session here has for several days been investigating what is said to have been a deliberate scheme to defraud the National Bank of Commerce out of ?CO,OOU, and it is known that two indictments have l»een returned, and that the capiases, for the ; arrest of the offenders are in the hands of Marshal Stewart. The fraud, which has carght the banks in several commercial centers in the United States, was brought to light by its Kansas City rami icationsIts extent, as far as traced, is between f2SO,000 and MOO,000. The {parties charged with the swindle are the lumber firms of J. H. Bemis «fc Co., of Jefferson, Tex., and George W. ■;> Howell «fc Co., of Atchison, Ka*. Banks. * in Connecticut, Missouri, Tennessee,, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois are known to have been defrauded, and the ffill extent of the fraud is not yet fully known. In Kansas City the National Bank of Commerce was caught- _ for 160,000. The manner in which tin: swindle was perpetrated was not a complicated, one. Each firm drew “accommodation” drafts on the other, due principally in thirty, sixty and ninety days, respectively. The firm on which the draft was drawn would accept it. These drafts were issued several months ago, when the firms had good " credit, but were really in failing circumstances, The next step was to go to the banks and, under false pretens^, get the drafts cashed. About the time the drafts came due the firms

failed. ■ -- The fact that the drafts w ere time drafts and not sight drafts prevented attaching the bills of lading to the drafts, as is usual in sight drafts, and covered up the fraud iu regard to the misrepresentation that the paper was for accommodation, and not for the actual sale of lumber. Among the banks whieh got, some ot this bad paper were those in Dallas, Galveston and Houston, Tex.; Memphis. Tenn.; Chicago; Atchison, Kas.; St. Louis. Omaha, and some in Connecticut, by rediscounting western banks’ paper. It is also stated that some found its way to Boston. George W. Howell moved here from Atchison and had an office in the Leith & Perry building and a home on the south side of Independence, near Garfield avenue. He was introduced as defendant in a criminal prosecution for violation of the interstate commerce law and was sentenced to the penitentiary, but was pardoned by President Harrison. Howell’s offense consisted in bribing Edward Tibbitts, a railway employe at Winthrop, Mo., opposite Atcliisop, to make false weight entries on freight consigned by Howell for shipment. Howell was fonnd guilty in the federal court at St. Joseph, July 31, 189:1, and sentenced to the penitentiary December 31, 1S93. Tibbitts was also convicted and was pardoned by President Harrison. * „1 ■ When Bern is became involved, twc years ago, Howells came to Kansas City from Atchison on the morning that the reports that Bemis was involved came out, took a special train at the Union depot, which he had chartered by telegraph, and made a flying trip to Texarkana to lend hi* name :o the aid of Bemis. V THE BOND QUESTION.

The K lights of Labor >nU Against Secretary Carlisle t<> Restrain the Latte* frfoni Issuing Ronds. WAt iixxGTON. Jan. 20,—Very materia' modifications will be made .ia the Knights of Labor petition for an injunction against the issue of bopds by Secretary Carlisle before it is presented in cou rt to-day. The attorneys were at work upon it here until after mid*» night Saturday night and were in consultation again nearly all day yesterday with Gen. Allen, who will open the argument in court at 10 a. m. to-day. The petition as telegraphed from Des M *ines has been changed by join- * ing General Secretary Ifayes and Mr. Magui e with Grand Master Sovereign as petitioners. The petition has beer broade ned and strengthened in many respects, particularly on technical points which, as the counsel anticipate, will make the petitioners’ right to a sta id ing in court clearer and more undeniable. Gen. Alien will be assisted in court by Mr. Mills, of Denver; Messrs. Siddons and Ralston, and the firm of Shellabarger & Wilson, of this city, will act as advisory counsel. Batlneas Record of 1893. New York, Jan. 38.—Bradstreet’s annual analysis of more than 17,-OOC business failures in the C nited States and Canada last year shows a net gain of more than 8,000 in the total business pe nflation in the United States in 1S£ 3, notwithstanding ' panic and depression during seven months of last year. The gain in 1893 iver *■ 1891 was a'xmt 33,000. Lack of capital, direct effects of the inancial crisis, incompetence and fraudulent disposition of property account for 80 per cent, of the failures of last year, and in the year before; the proport on of failures due to specula- ] tion outride of regular business, to personal extravagance, to fraudulent disposition of property, and to undue com- 1 petition was smaller in 1893 than in 1893. No Mention of Alleged Mediation. Wasi ing ton, Jan. 38.—Secretary Herber has received1 a cable message from A imiral Bonham at Rio, but it contain id no referent to his having been as ted to act as mediator between the Brt zilian government and its rebelious admiral. Still less did it embody any statement to justify the rumor th t a settlement of the revolutionary trouble had been effected ^ throng i his instrumentality. The state d partment and navy depart ment concur in asserting that Admiral Ben- ** ham ht s not bees authorized to intervene