Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL. - - Pmujsmtn-

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Miss Shafer, the possessor of * luxuriant head of hair, was seized at her boms in Pittsburg by a peddler, who compelled “her to inhale chloroform, and while she was unconscious cut off her tresses close to her head. The Bethlehem Iron Works Company of Pennsylvania has been awarded the contracts for furnishing to the Navy Department 1.400 tons of steel gun forgings and 4,500 tons of steel armor plates, at a total cost of f 4.512.938. Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, the Boston female of 'Woman's Bank fame, has absconded with $50,000 belonging to other people. A MOB broke open the door of the Chrl •office, at Troy, N. Y., and wrecked the place. The mob smashed everything. Type was strewn about the room, frames broken, and forms wrecked. The raiders had their faces blackened so their identity could not be ascertained. Charles B. Conant, the editor, was pounded and kicked after the office had been sacked. Recently the Girl has been noted for the virulence of its attacks on the Knichts of Labor, and Conant claims that he recognized several of the attacking party as members of the order.... Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches in New York—Grace and Trinity—are to have free pews. The pews already sold are to be purchased by the churches and opened to the public.... The Mayors of Pittsburgh and Allegheny have refused to license John L. Sullivan's exhibition.

THE WEST.

A large number of land entries in the Oberlin, Kansas, district have been canceled on the ground of fraud.,,.A little over three-fourths of an average yield is expected from the great wheat bell of 111in0i5..... Des Moines' big distillery has been sold to the whisky pool, and will be closed May 18. Six HOfDREP and SIXTY-FOI H crop reports from 747 townships in Michigan report the wheat fields looking “bare and brown,” but express the hope that the roots have not been hurt by the unfavorable March weather.... Messrs. Clapp A Davies, jewelers, of Chicago, failed for something near a hulf a million dollars. The immediate cause of the failure was the argent demand made upon the firm for money by creditors, mainly William B. Clapp, to whom they owed $65,1)00..... George Werner, teacher of a school near Milwaukee, punished a refractory pupil named Henry Seugbusch by apply.ng a ruler sharply to his wrists, and the latter fell back in his seat unconscious. Supposing that the boy hod fainted, he threw two pails of water over him. but the pupil was dead. "Werner fled, but afterward returned and gave himself up. William Kissa"xe, according to a private dispatch received in New York from San Francisco, has fled to Victoria, B. C., in order to be beyond the reach of the law in case the indictments held over him are not dismissed.... A premature blast killed six men and wounded seven at the camp of Kyner, Higbee A Bernard, near Buena Vista, Col. While working in n sixtyfoot cut on midland grade, a twentyfoot hole had been put down to blow off the face of the cut, nnd sprung with twenty kegs of black giant powder. The foreman was loading the charge, and when he had filled the. ten kegs the charge prematurely exploded, throwing masses of rock into the cut where thirteen men were working, instantly killing six and wounding seven. The wounded included Mr. Barnard, one cf the firm. The names of the killed are: Tim Sullivan. William Conway, W. S. Corcoran, William O’Neil, William Hopes, and an unknown man.

In the case of John Arensdorf, tried at Sioux City for the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, the jury was discharged because of disagreement. Eleven of its nicrnbers were firm for acquittal.- The* trfffl' lasted twenty-five days. .Gov. Adams, of Colorado, has issued a quarantine proclamation against the importation of cattle from Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, “New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Missouri, ■ Kansas. Pennsylvania. and the District of Columbia A conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio, Hoad, whose emigrant train was caught in tire cyclone, reports the birth of nine German babies between Bellaire and Mount Vernon... E. F. Clurn was hanged at Cassville, Mo., for the murder of-Miss Elia ! Bowe on the Bth of July last. Fully ten thousand people from the surrounding country gathered to witness the execution, j Clam was greatly affected amt cried bitter- ; ly. At times be would try to cbeer himself by singing hymns..A wheat corner j has been established in San Francisco, i ffm. Dresbaeh, the President of the Board : of Trade, and leading bankers are alleged to be the principals. All the surplus wheat crop of California is said to be cornered. The first genuine cyclone ever witnessed in the immediate vicinity of Wheeling, W. Ya., says a dispatch from that ,city, oc- 1 curred on Friday afternoon. It wrought devastation over a section of country ex- : tending from St. Clairsviile, Ohio, ten miles west, to a point as far- east as Wheeling. At St. Ciairsville many houses were demolished, and horses hitched in the street were blown about like chaff, and the vehicles demolished—A scantling sailed through the air for a mile, and cut as clean a hole ra the two walls of a brick bouse as a cannon ball would. Shingles were driven throu.h board.ng like arrows. The damage to property in • St. Ciairsville is placed at $200,000. Martins Ferry suffeied even more severely, and other towns in the' neighborhood felt the effects of the blow. When the storm struck the Ghio Kiver the water shot up in a perpendicular wall about twenty feet, and tnen fell back in frothy, seething foam; and simultaneously a shower of fence-boards, shingles, posts, and timbers, with some large sections of houses, fen in a sheet on the turbulent water. The river for miles is strewn with wreckage. The total damage wrought by the tornado is estimated at SI,OM,tHKi. Fortunately no lives were lost, though many narrow escapes from death are reported. 1

THE SOUTH.

Ok tie Louisville race track Charles Taylor, a jockey, while exercising the bay colt Asphallus, struck Lim on the head with the bu tof his whip. The colt fell to his knees, breaking one of his legs, and also crushing the jqpkey, who is dangerously hurt Asphaltus was shot. Aih the prisoners in the Charleston f'W,

Va.) jail escaped by tunneling out... .The Attorney General of Louisiana, in behalf of that State, has entered suit against the Cotton-seed Oil TruM, which owns every mill in the State, asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of its property and business, as it never has been incorporated. The Southern Bivouac, of Louisville, Ky., a magazine devoted to war papers and Southern character sketches, has been purchased by the Century Company, of New York, and hereafter the periodical will be issued from that hous#. The Century Company becomes the possessor of the cuts, etc., belonging to the Bivouac, and will fill out the unexpired subscriptions under the former owners.... Texas is again suffering from a drought, and the local committee of Son Antonio reports four thousand families in destitute circumstances. The crops are said to have been ruined in certain districts, and appeals for help have commenced to l>e sent out. ....The City Council of Laredo, Texas, has granted to a Mexican mining company ten acres of land and five years' exemption from taxation, conditioned upon the erection of a smelter to cost $1,000,000.

WASHINGTON

Since the interstate commerce act went into effect the number of , personal npplb cants for appointments under the administration at Washington has diminished very materially. Tbeie Las been a marked falling off in the number of cullers from the various States nnd Territories. An officer iu the Interior Department said to a newspnper correspondent tLe other day: “The withdrawal of railwny passes Las pretty effectually stopped the coming of delegates and of individuals to urge appointments and press claims. Before the interstate law went into effect there wasn't a day passed that we did not have delegations and individuals- here for one purpose or another. They would come from the Pacific coast nnd the far Northwest. But now, since free passes have been canceled, we don't have many such callers.” The Bureau of Statistics reports the exports of wheat for nine months at 73,000,000 bushels, against 34,000,000 during the same time last year. Flour, 8,000,000 barrels, against 5,000,000 last year.

Twenty or more pages of the quarterly report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics are devoted to the consumption of distilled, and malt liquors and wines, and estimates made by recognized authorities are given upon various features of this subject. In round numbers, the consumption of distilled spirits, domestic and imported, in this country, is shown to have increased from 43,000.000 gallons in 1840 to 72,000,000 in 1886; of wines from 4,800,000 gallons to 22.000.000, and of malt liquors from 23,000,000 to 042,000,000. The consumption per capita during the same period decreased us regards distilled Bpirits from about two and a half gallons to about one and a quartetgallons, and increased as regards wines from twenty-nine hundredths to thirtyeight hundredths gallons, and malt liquors from less than one and a half to more than eleven gallons. The present average expenditure in this country per annum for malt and spirituous liquors and beer at retail is $700,000,000. The drinking population is estimated to be (in 1886) 14,020,417, making the nvernge expenditure per capita $15.90. James A. Webb, of New York, furnishes a statement to the effect that only ten per cent, of distilled spirits consumed by this country are used for medicine and manufacturing purposes, ninety per cent, being used as a beverage.

Jpdlio R. Santo’s, of Maryland, who was illegally imprisoned by theEucadorean authorities, and released only after several of Uncle Sam’s war vessels had been dis--patched to Ecuador, has filed a claim with the State Department lor $390,606 indemnity. ... A. R. Lawton, of Georgia, has been appointed Minister to Austria, and N. W. McConnell, of Tennessee, Chief Justice of Montana. Gen. O. B. Wilcox has been placed on the retired list Chief Justice David K. Carrier, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, died at his home in Washington lost week, in the 75th year of his age. He had been in ill-health for some months. Judge Carrier was born in Jefferson County, New York. June 22, 1812, and when a mere boy was apprenticed to the printing trade in Rochester, under, Thurlow Weed. This, however, he soon gave up to attend school. Later, he entered a law office in Rochester, was admitted to the. bar iu 1832. and m 1836 he removed to Akron, Ohio. In 1818 he was elected to Congress and served two terms. He was a member of the National Republican Convention at Chicago iu 1860, and was one of the three men iu the Ohio delegation who turned their votes from Chase and insured the nomination of Mr. Lincoln- He was Minister to Bolivia by Mr. Lincoln’s appointment, and on returning to this country iu December. 1862, was appointed Chief Justice .of the Supreme Couitof the District. He accepted the office in 1863. and from that time to the present devoted himself exclusively to the duties of his positiou.

POLITICAL.

The Anti-Prohibitionists of Texas will hold a State convention at Dallas on May 4, and John Hancock will state his views. Three months later the people will vote on the temperance amendment... .The Governor of New York vt toed the high-license bill for New .York and Brooklyn. The Pennsylvania House passed the Brooks high-license bill. At an election in California on the adoption of three proposed amendments to the State Constitution, the result was adverse to all Jof the propositions.... A committee of the Bepubliean caucus of the Michigan Legislature has been appointed to report a high-license bill, ranging from S3OO to .S7OO r * - Th<? Pennsylvania Senate passed the ■ joint resolution proposing a- woman—suffrage constitutional amendment by a vote of 27 to 10. The ladies’ gallery was crowded during.the vote, and upon the announcement that the resolution “hadpassed its occupants arose and waxed their handkerchiefs. ‘is: The House resolutions for a protective tariff were adopted by the Connecticut Senate. 12 to 7, but one Democrat voting in the affirmative. Senator Coke, of Texas, has written an open letter protesting against the Democratic party, as such, taking sides on the prohibition question in that State... .Prominent Democrats attribute their victory in Rhode Island to the tariff question, and to the fact that the demand for free wool brought the party the support of that interest. __ .

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Drought in Wabash County, Indiana, is killing the wheat plant, and the meadows are reported brown ahd bare. In Central Illinois the absence of rain is alarming the farmers. The stock wells and streams are drying up. " The Sam Mitchell iron mine at Negaunee, Mich., has been sold for $225,000 to

the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company of New York. Vhe ore will be shipped to Erie for smelting.... The strike of journeymen tailors in Chicago has proven almost a failure. The master carpentere have projiosed to the strikers a settlement based upon 30 cents per tour as the minimum, and the right to employ non-onion men. Tirrr month of March, says Bradatrerl'n, shows an increase in the number of strikes taking placet throughout the country as compared with February, but a material decrease in the number of strikers involved.

THE RAILWAYS.

Judge Cooley, of the Interstate Commission, explains that the order granting relief to certain Southern roads can be annulled at any time. A high official of one of the large Western systems states that the effect of the law has been to almost suspend interstate business. A company has been incorporated at Springfield. 111., with rt capital of $1,000,■900710 bnild a railway from the Indiana' State line to Kankakee, Wilmington, Marseilles, Aleiulota. and thence to some point on the Alississippi River. Henry Ihmkk, the oldest locomotive engineer in the United Statos, has just died in Whistler, Ala. He ran the first engine over the Charleston and Hamburg Railroad, the third railroad built in this country. The drivers of the engine were of hardwood. The N.ckel-Plate Railroad will be sold atnuction at Cleveland, 0., Alay 19. Sixteen million dollars will be accepted as the purchase price, and $100,1)00 must be paid in cash on the day of sale.

GENERAL.

Largely attended meetings, called by Irish-American citizens to express sympathy for Ireland and protest against the coercion bill now before the British Parliament, were held in various cities of the United States on the 14th inst. In Washington City Congressman Springer presided over a gathering that tilled Alasonic Temple. Speeches were made by Congressmen Springer, Crain of Texas, and Snively of Indiana, Gen. llosecrans, Gen. Broderick of Virginia, Gen. George A. Sheridan, ex-Senator Van Wyok, and others. Letters expressing sympathy with the object of the meeting were read from Senators Sherman nnd Sabinand Congressman Cox. Strong resolutions were adopted. Gov. AlcGill presided at a mass meeting in St. Paul. Speeches were made by Congressmen Wilson and McDonald, State’s Attorney Gen. Platt and others. Sympathetic letters were read from Senator C. K. Davis and Congressman Knute Nelson, nnd resolutions were passed which strongly condemn coercion. There were similar meetings in New York, Baltimore nnd other cities, at which the usual resolutions were passed and sent to Air. Gladstone.

The Governor General of Canada, at the opening of Parliament, expressed the belief that the fishery negotiations will end in an arrangement honorable and satisfactory to both nations, but stated that provision had been made to protect inshore fisheries. In the Dominion Parliament, Mr. Weldon said the Canadians relied not upon their military strength for a settlement of the fishery dispute, but upon the good judgment of the people of the United States. Mr. Blake, leader of the opposition, censured the govommnefit for keeping the country in the dark as to negotiations in progress. The Interstate' Commission is being deluged with reports of grievances, real and fancied, and petitions for relief. The theatrical managers of Chicago have received a reply (o lhe effect that the commission refuses to define the law until some actual case in point comes before it. ....The Maner confectionery establishment at Erie, Fa., was burned, with a loss of $70,000... .Fires destroyed the Central Railway dock at the foot of Sixtv-seventh street, .* New York; fourteen buildings at Kennebunkport, Me.; and Rudolph Steeclur’s cooperage at St. Louis.... Henry Willio, a professional magician who has been searching over the continent for a dozen years for two children he lost in Jamaica, discovered one of them in the Industrial School at Rochester, N. Y.. the discovery being effected by the aid of the Chicago Humane Society. The new-found child is. a promising young woman of 16. The other child is still missing. The children happened to be left temporarily without pratectiou, and were taken by male trapeze performer.

FOREIGN.

- Mr. Pabnei l and other Irish leaders are endeavoring to form at Dublin a woolen manufacturing and exporting company, with a capital of $500,000. The first day of April being Prince Bismarck’s seventy-second birthday, the Chancellor received numberless tokens of esteem from all pans of Germany. After receiving personal- congratulations from Princes William, Henry, Alexander, and George, the Chancellor went to the palace, where the Emperor awaited him. In his Jiassage along Enter den Linden Prince tisiuarck received' a hearty welcome.... Three persons who attempted to assassinate the Czar With dynamite bombs were hanged in St. Petersburg last week. ItrssiA is collecting large commissary and other stores on the northern border of Afghanistan... .The tin-platers in Wales, after a strike of six months for an increase in wages, have returned to work at the old rates. Germany has purchased for $*250,M0 a balloon-steering invention.... A servant discharged bv Count Andrassv, of Hungary,, administered arsenic to a large number of his horses, five of which died.,Dr. Jo—seph Parker, pastor of City Temple, London, will Y;bit America in June and probably deliver, the Beecher eulogy.. .. .The packet, steamer Victoria went ashore on the rocks near Dieppe in a dense fog. Twenty of the passengers aud crew were drowned, i ... . .Emigrants are coming to America in [ droves'. A cable dispatch froth Queens-’ i town says: “The arrivals here of emigrants on their way to the United States are at present enormous. The railways-are running special trains to accommodate this class of travel. The number of emigrants now awaiting, steamers to carry them to their destinations is already greater than can be housed in the hotels and lodginghouses, and many are camping in. the . streets."

Sentiments Uttered by Joseph Chamberlain in a speech at Ayr have called put numerous letters warning him that he 4ijl not leave Scotland alive. It is understood that he will hereafter be attended by a private guard. A hotel in the central portion of Amsterdam. crowded with strangers witnessing the festiviiit s connected with the King's birthday, took fire during Thursday night and was wholly burned. Four lives were lost, and many persons sustained serious injuries. '

The British Government has ordered the customs officials to observe a strict watch over all ships arriving from American or European ports, with a view to prevent the landing of dynamiters., ~ A London cablegram reports the burnin'g of the Salvation Army headquarters in that city. .... It is reported that the Russians are moving by slow stages toward Zulficar, which place is about 140 miles northwest ot Herat... .It is thought that the Saun-dersou-Healy affair will do mere good than barm to the home rule cause. ... A number of anti-coercion mass meetings are being held in various parts of England.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Stove-molders in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns refused to work on the boycotted patterns sent from St. Louis, and went out on a strike. In Pittsburgh fifteen foundries and over seven hundred men are idle. Nine hundred stove-molders at Cincinnati struck' ugainst the boycotted patterns. At Cleveland 500 went dnt, and at Louisville 500 quit wofk. The Bridge fc Beach Alunufaeturihg Compafiv, of St. Louis, whose pattoms have caused all the trouble, started up their foundry again last vyeek. In Smith County, Virginia, the house of a man named Brewles was destroyed by fire, in which two of his daughters, aged 19 and 21 years, were burned to death and three other persons so badly injured that they cannot survive. The lire was caused by-defective flues.... About fifty New York city dealers in oleomargarine pleaded guilty of violating the law, and were fined from SSO to SIOO each. A company of United States troops has been dispatched from Fort Sully to drive out settlers on the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations in Dakota. It is Btated that orders have been issued the military to u-e powder and lead, if necessary. The greatest excitement prevails among the settlerß..Patrick •). Egan, who was Deputy Recorder of Votes last November, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by the United Stntes Court at St. Louis. He was convicted of falsely registering names of voters. .. .Alartin Schneider, an Alsatian who fought under Napoleon I. at Leipsie and Waterloo, has just died at Fort Wayne, Ind.. aged 102. Up to a few days ago lie enjoyed good health, and had walked two miles tvi ry week to get shaved. ... .Petroleum has been discovered near Herscher, Kankakee County, 111., and ex- ■ perts irom Pennsylvania have leased all the land obtainable in the district; A decision was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States in what is known as the Maxwell land-grant case, thus settling finally a matter that has been in dispute before the Interior Department ami the courts for nearly twenty years. The court confirms the decree oi the United States Circuit Court, and estate lishas the validity of the grant for 1,700,0C0 acres of Jand located in Colorado and w WSVt ! ' Mexico.... A statement just prepared by the Treasury Department shows that the number of distilleries running April 1 was 656, with a capacity of 311,936 gallons. Alarch 1 there were 634, with a capacity of 301,736 gallons. Tho number running in Illinois is twenty.... William J. Allen has been appointed to the Southern Illinois Judgeship, made vacant by the death of Judge Treat.. ..Col. AVesley Merritt has been promoted to a brigadier generalship, to succeed Gen. O. B. Wilcox - , retired. As the result of a recent trial at Posen, Germany, nine socialists were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment... .An elegantly dressod Frenchman called on Marshal Bazaine, in Aladrid, and after conversing with him a few' moments suddenly drew a poinard and cut the Alarshal about the head. Shouting “J’ai venge mapatrie” he fled, but was afterward arrested. The prisoner’s name is Nillair, and he claims to be a correspondent of the newspaper Courtier de Rochelle. He says he went with the intention of killing Bazaine, and IBafc 1 "' his dagger was poisoned. Aledical men believe that he is insane. The following cablegram from Rome has been received at New York: “The Pope has decided the question of the Knights of Labor in favor of that organization. This decision will stand so long as the present method pursued in furthering their aims prevails. 1 The document of Cardinal Gibbons has been indorsed. The Pope further decides that in Canada, where a mandament had been issued against the knights, the members of the order shall receive absolution on promise of obedience to luture decisions of the Holy See. If the knights identify themselves with the theories now being disseminated by certain agitators, this decision iu. their favor will be revoked.”

THE MARKETS.

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BILLY KISSANE.

Interesting Incidents in the Life of a Somewhat Remarkable Man. His Adventures in Cincinnati, New York, Nicaragua, and California. * i. -■ . It is now about sixty-two years since “Billy" Kissane was born to increase the distress of a poor Irish family. Exactly how or when he crossed the Atlantic has not yet been made public, but 'somewhere in the ’3(;s ho turned up jn Canada. He did not stay there lone, for within the next decade l.e made his appeasance in Cincinnati, It was at the latter place that “Bidy” Kissane engaged in the plot to bum the steamer Maltha Washington and collect an enormous insurance upon a fictitious cargo of lard and other freight shipped in barrels as brandy. The steamer, bound from Cincinnati to. New Orleans, was burned near Helena, Ark., on the night of January 14, 1552. There weie eighteen lives lost, but enough of the cargo was throwp overboard and saved to expose the plot that had caused such a horrible loss of life, and Kissane and Hubbard, the clerk of the boat, were arrested and tried in Ohio for the murder. The Ohio courts declined to assume jurisdicricn over a crime committed in Arkansas, and Kissane was carried -to Helena, There the prosecution fell through for want of funds after several attempts had been made to kill Sidney C. Burton, the principal witness against the prisoners. Kissane was next heard of in New York, where in August, 1854, he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to Sing Sing for forgeries on the Chemical Bank of that city. Between his escape fiom the clutches of the law in Helena and falling into them a: am in New York he must have visited Cleveland, Ohio, where thirty-four years ago he married a lady, who is' still living. The couple lived together five months, when he left her, and after his departure plates of $1 and $5 bank notes were all that she could find among his effects to remember him by. The deserted wife procured a divorce and secured SI,OOO ali'mony, which she may collect now if Rogers proves to be her long-lost husband. A daughter of Kissane still lives in Cleveland. She has never seen her father, but if the wealthy Californian should be he Bhe will be an heiress in spite of all his wanderings and his wire and children in the Sonoma valley. Before the expiration of his sentence Kissane was pardoned out of Sing Sing upon condition that he would testify in the insurance cases growing out of the burning of the Martha Washington. He made a written confession of his share in that horror, but upon his release he violated his promise to the insurance companies and fled to Nicaragua, where under an assumed name it was reported he was shot. The efforts of Burton to bring the Kissane gang to justice provoked its deadly hatred. He was said to have spent $50,000 and traveled 150,000 miles in nis task of hfinting down the Kissane conspirators, but according to the report they finally got the best of him by poison. Every movement of Burton in the United States and Canada was dogged by the emissaries of Kissane until in the fall of 1835 they succeeded in smuggling a subtle poison into his loodthat ate away one of his lungs, so that he died in terrible agony in December of that year. Thirty-two years ago Billy Kissane disappeared from view'. Whether he had gone to Brazil or to Nicaragua or the north pole no one appeared to know. The insurance companies could not find him; MS' associates did not want to find him. The less known about his whereabouts the better it was for them. They covered his disappearance completely. It was in the year 1855-that the black sombrero of the “famous filibuster chief,” the “gray-eyed man of destiny,” Walker, led his troop of dark-browed, bearded adventurers upon his wonderful, daring, and cruel ride through Nicaragua. With Walker in that baud rode one Col. W. K. Rogers. He was one of the bravest. Of him D. B. Wolf, a well-known Californian, says: “I have known him intimately for thirty-one years. We were together with Walker in Nicaragua, and he stood like a lion where bullets flew thickest. He became the Minister of the Inferior under Walker, and was one of the men chosen by our chief to accompany him on the United States vessel when the fates went against the .United States.” Thirty years ago “Col.” Rogers parted ! company with his chief, “ whose heart was blacic and whose hands were red,” at Panama, and sailed for California, where he arivecl in and where he began a new life. According to his friend Wolf, hq had not a cent when he landed. But it is scarcely to be credited that “Col.” Rogers, who subsequently developed such financial shrewdness, wasted all his opportunities as Walker’s minister of haciendas, and left Nicaragua empty-handed. At all even s; he began his career on the Pacific slope as a merchant in Sacramento, subsequently turned his attention to the Comstock mines, and now lives in prosperous ease on a rich Sonoma ranch. About twenty years ago “Col.” Rogers married a beautiful young lady, tweuty years his junior, who is tne 6ister-in-law of Lloyd Tevis, once a partner of Ilaggin, the millionaire horse-breeder. He is also a halfbrother of Reuben Lloyd, one of the most prominent lawyers in San Francisco. All these facts and their attendant inferences have come to light through what appeared to be au innocent motion of a San Francisco lawyer before Recorder Smyth in New York to have a nolle proseqni entered on the indictment against William Kissane for forging a check for $12,060 upon ihe Chemical Bank in 1854. There are features about the proceedings thnt make it appear not at all incredible that “Colonel” Rogers is none other than“Bi:ly” Kissane, nndttiat he wished to have the old cloud removed from his life before venturing to join the colony of California millionaires iu New York. If so. he is probably now sorry that he was not content to die honored and unsuspected amid the beautiful surroundings of his Sonoma home.

He Was a Shaver.

Merchant —Do you call that fellow a shaver? Wby, be is six foot if be is an inch. I said I wanted a small boy to ran errands— a little Rbaver. Bookkeeper—l didn't understand about the errands. This fellow is a shaver. He keeps a barber-shop down the block. A Boston firm publishes u work entitled “A Girl's Rootri.” Tbs average giri’s-room is two 6eats in a horse-car. —Sew Haven Xeica. If a man borrows u»=ey he does not care to have it talKed about. He wants to be quietly let a loan. —New Orleans Picayune. ~ ~ Men are much as circumstances make them, but he is a hero who rises superior to circumstances. One might as well be out of the world aa be beloved by nobody in it.

THE MESSENGER MURDER.

Progress of the Trial of the Two Bock Island Brakemen at Morris, m. The Work of the Detectives in the Case —Some Interesting Testimony. (NORRIS, (ILL.) CORRESPONDENCE.] The Schwartz-Watt trial is now In Ha fourth week, and is believed to be nearing the end. The prosecution rested its case several davs ago, and the defense has been introducing testimony for nearly a week. A number of witnesses have i een called for the purpose of impeaching some of the prosecution's witnesses £r*tl establishing the good character of the two defendants. Among the witnesses examined during the week , by the prosecution was Frank Wind, a Pinkerton detective. Who has been braking on the Bock Island Koad since August last, and who was placed on the road to chadow Schwartz and Watt. He told an interesting story of his experience. He roomed witn Schwartz in Davenport, slept with Bob Watt in Chicago, and sometimes with Newt. Ho said he came to Chicago from Philadelphia to continue in the employ of Pinkorton. The lirst development he made was a conversation heheard between the prisoners at Davenport. Schwartz called Watt aside and told hhn ho could not make it. Watt said: “When can you make it?" and Schwartz replied : “I will try it next trip.” Schwartz, at a subsequent time, said thut unless the company raised his wages ho would start in business for himself, and added that his father had offered him $2,000 for that purpose. About thiß time Watt told the witness that his father-in-law was going to receive JfI.HOO on hack pension, and that it would bo divided equally between his (Watt's) wife and her Bister. When they afterwards bocurn • better acquainted Watt told him that soma day. when he felt better, he would tell him all about the talk that was being circulated ; he also told him he would be better fixed in the spring. Later in the month, in Chicago, Schwartz said that ho intended to go to Kansas in the spring and buy a stock ranch. About Oct. 11, in a Chicugo saloon, just before Schwartz started lor Philadelphia, he and Watt withdrew to the rear of the saloon and told witness to "keep away” when he came near them. While they were talking witness stepped behind a hoard Eartition which set off a portion of the room and eard a part of their conversation. Watt said to Schwartz, “I want you to be very careful of yourself when you go East; don’t give up anything.” Schwartz exclaimed: “My God, Newt, I thought you knew me better than to think that; I would not even tell my wife.” Schwartz said he understood all the detectives were still after them; that the company had hirod new men, and that Pinkerton’s forces had been withdrawn ; he said he could take care of himself and that they could not trump up any charges against him. Schwartz afterward toli witness that when he went to Philadelphia he would have plenty oi “stuff,” and when ne came hack they would all haVe a night in Chicago and Davenport, he didn't care what it cost. William J. Gallagher, now serving a sontence in tho Joliet Penitentiary, testified to conversations he had with Schwartz while the two were prisoners in the jail at Chicago. Scnwartz told witness about tho $5) notes that he won playing laro at a gambling house at No. 125 Clark street, and that he got the bills changed by buying meals at restaurants and ammunition at Spalding’s. One day, while they were playing casino Schwartz stopped playing and asked him what SI,OOO of American money would be worth in England. At another time Schwartz told him that when he got out of jail he was going to Kansas, buy land, and Bettle down. In Januiiry last Gallagher had u conversation in the jail with Schwartz, who asked him if he could get $ ',OOO in large bills changed into $5, $lO and 420 Dills. Gallagher said to him, “Where did this money come from? is it connected with the Rock Islaud robbery ?” Schwartz said it was not, and then said that a braseman on the fore part of the train going out to Davenport saw a Jew get on a Pullman car with a sachel, which he placed urnffer the seat 4 this sachel, Schwartz said, contained a large amount of money. When the train arrived at Daienport the brakeman took tho sachel and left the train, and the Jew continued on to Kansas City without missing his sachel. Detective William A. Pinkerton was examined at great length concerning conversations ho had with benwartz and Watt. W itness told Schwartz he talked with his wife, and she had said he had found a package containing over 47,C00 in the baggage-car coming from Davenport, anil that he had brought the money home without counting it. Witness said he knew it was a portion of this money he had been spending. Witness said Schwartz apparently disbelieved what he said about his wife's confession, and doubted her presence in the city. Witness then sent for her, and when she arrived deiendant said: “Ella, I understand you have been talking with Pinkerton about this matter.” She answered in tne affirmative, and he said he did not want to talk about it. (Then ensued the scene as related by witness when examined by counsel for the defense, as stated above.) WitHesS tlieiYtold the deiendant he knew he had sent a box weighing about a pound by tho Baltimore and Ohio Express to Philadelphia directed to Harrv Mayhew, in care of J. S. Schwartz. Defendant denied that there was money in this package, which he claimed contamed meerschaum pipes. Schwartz said if he were to tell anything about the money it would not agree with what Ella had 6aid, as she had made several mistakes. Witness thon asked for his version, and defendant" replied he did not find it in the express car; that if he had ho would have known whose it was. He did not find 47,000, and did not know how much he found. He found it the night ho left Davenport with Mulligan: found it under a seat in the smoker. There was a brown wrapper around the package, on which was marked “0.00D.* Schwartz reached Philadelphia ahead of the box he had shipped, and 01 ui covering that he was bein" shadowed he burned the money up except 41.30. Witness then asked Schwurtz where the balance Of the money was, and defendant said he would get it tar him, Imt that ho’ did not want to got the party in trodble who hod it, as he was entirely innocent. After much questioning he finally admitted that he had given it to Watt. Witness Baid he saw Watt at witness’ office

in l hicago the following day and asked him where tho package was. He did not "reply for some time, and then said Schwartz was a liar if he said he had given him any package. Mrs. Schwartz was present at the interview and called Watt's attention to the fact that she went down town the day he received the package, and he must recollect that. The following day Watt and witness came to Morris andwenttothe jail. Witness told Schwartz the result of his interview, and Scliwartz laughed and said: "Give me a chance to talk with him, aud I will get him around all right.” Watt was then brought into the presence of Schwartz, and the latter said, “Newt, don’t you recollect the package I gave you wrapped in brown paper?” Watt replied, “Mo.” Watt .said, “Harry, don't try to mix me up in this thing; yon know 1 am inno’pnt.” Schwartz replied: “Newrt, if you looked in the parcel and found that it contained money, and. becoming alarmed, destroyed it, say so, and I will have to make the amount good.” Newt answered : "I don't know where It ls.“ Witness - told Watt it was in his house Dec. 11, 1886." Schwartz replied: “Don’t you see he knows more about it than we thought, or I ever told him?” Witness said: “Why can’t you got it?” to which Watt repliod that he could not if be was hung. Witness said that Schwartz said the package conta ned£st)/aud 8100 bills. For the defense Jonas D. Mead, of Paxton, HI., father-in-law' of the prisoner Watt, was the first witness called to the stand. He testified to receiving back pension of 81,907 in June. 1886, and deposited it, less commissions, in the Ford .County Bank at that ulaco. November 11 he sent a' draft for S.OJ to Watt. Ho identified Watt’s indorsement on the back of the draft. The hair cut from Nichols’ head after death was identified for tho State by A. L. Lapete, an undertaker's assistant. Walker S. Turner, and Mrs. Nieholß.'" The hair and that found in the dead hand of Nichols were then admitted in evidence. - Quite an array of witnesses, many of them from Philadelphia. Chicago,’ and other points, testified to the good character of Schwartz and Watt . '

CHICKEN FEED.

The golden mean—a miner. Fightin'g chants—War songs. In at the breech—The cartridge. Letters of credit —I. 0. U. A. V. Expensive habits—Toper’s tights. Men of mor-bid tastes —Auctioneers. Things to be pushed—Wheelbarrows. An old soar—The first balloon ascension. Bound in Morocco—The Sultan’s prisoner. ■'■tA grate agitation—Shaking down a coal stove. i ■