Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ' <3. E. MARSHALL' - ~

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Supreme Coart of Pennsylvania has held an express company liable tor the fall amount of a lost package, having given no explanation of the failure to deliver.... By the explosion of a dynamite cartridge in a 'shaft of the new Croton fqueduct at Merritt’s Corners, New York, two men were killed and five others were seriously injured. A Nkw-Yobkkb has invented a “vacuum car" with which to navigate the air.... George Clark, the millionaire land-owner and bop-dealer of Springfield, Otsego County, N. Y„ has failed. The police in New York arrested 300 storekeepers and clerks for sweeping dust into the street. Each was fined or severely lectured. A story comes from New York to the effect that the death of Eliza Weathersby. the wife of Nat Goodwin, was the result of the doctors' blunder, the allegation being that they killed her by an unnecessary operation. The case will probably be developed in the civil courts, Mr. Goodwin having refused to pay the doctors’ bi 115.,.. Twenty pereons were injured by the explosion of a rotary rag-boiler in a papermill at Paterson, N. J. One is dead or dying, and seven others are very seriously hurt. _________

THE WEST.

At Galena, 111., the proprietor of the De Soto House ordered from the diningroom a colored man who had accompanied the National Guard Company of Freeport to Galena, and who was breakfasting with the men. The military guests left the hotel in a body and went to another hostelry. Gas was struck at Shelbyville, 111., at the depth of 916 feet and 51 feet in white Trenton rock....A jury at Morris, 111., pronounced Schwartz and Watt guilty of the Rock Island train robbery and the murder of Messenger Nichols, and sentenced them to imprisonment for life.... Another partial cure of consumption bv the Bergeron method is reported lrom Teire Haute, Ind., the patient being Richard Jay, a nailer, whose death was momentarily expected. He is reported to be rapidly improving. Leading citizens of St. Paul are organizing to bring about a centennial celebration of the passage of the Congressional ordinance organizing the Northwest Territory. .. Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine, accompanied by Mrs. Blaine, Miss Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Miss Hattie Blaine, and R. C. Kerens, of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, arrived in Chicago April *2O. The party came from Fort Gibson by the way of St. Louis. Only one or two newspaper reporters and Mr. Blaine’s two sons, Walker and Emmons, were on hand to welcome the distinguished visitors. Mr. Blaine was looking extremely well, and seemed to have grown much stouter than he was when last in Chicago. Details of the destruction wrought by the recent cyclones in the West and Southwest indicate that the loss of life was much greater than first reported. The storm ravaged a strip of teiritory about 500 miles long and from half' a mile to a mile wide. A tornado in the vieiuity of Mount Carmel, 111., caused $50,000 damage to property. John H. Wirth and Lewis Kerstein were killed, and Harvey Riggs, two sons of a Mr. Hutchins, Miss Maggie Wirth, and Mrs. John Keller were seriously hurt" James H. Knott and Scott” Selby were killed by a cyclone which passed near Hazelton, Ind. Great damage was done to property. The small village of West Bnena Vista, Ind., was seriously wrecked, only two houses remaining uuinjured. An .Evansville dispatch says that a small black dond suddenly appeared in the west, moved east, and when directly over the farmhouse of Lemuel Stansberry it exploded with a terrific force, and what appeared to be a ball of wind attacked the bouse with terrific fury, blowing off the roof, tearing out one section of the house, and 'playing havoc generally. Leaving the house, it tore down the eastern fence and then died away. There was no rainfall or lightning with the cloud-burst. The Mann Boudoir Car Company has shed the Pullman Palace Car Company for $250,000 damages for infringement of patents in the new Pullman "vestibule” train. ... .Elder Baker, of Utah, arrived in Chicago, with his three wives and eight children, and registered at the National Hotel. It was too mnch for the hotel man, who subsequently had the Mormon arrested for bigamy.. A terrible accident oenrred oil the Cascade Division of the Northern Pacific, four miles beyone Chelum, Washington Territory. A west-bound train, pushing a flat-car loaded with laborers, was going round a curve leading to a trestle at a good rate of speed, when it ran into a hog-engine which was going east, tender first. The flat-car passed half way through the tender, and crushed up against tbe pilot of the westbound train, on which were two men. The unfortunates were crushed to a pulp, only a foot and one hand being left by which to identify them. The hog-engine was knocked eighty feet. Five men were killed outright, and one has since died. The injured number eighteen. • The scene of the accident, as described by those present, is horrible. Blood wap scattered in every direction, and neighboring rocks bore evidence of the fearful carnage. The accident was ihe fault of one of the train’s crew neglecting to flag according to orders. -

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Waco, Texas, says: “The glorious rains of Western Texas that hare filled the heretofore almost dry channel of the Brazos River have brought with the current a mass of polluted cattle carcasses that offset the a 1 vantages of the rain and give promise of disease. The carcasses are evidently from the alkali country, as they are entirely devoid of hair. The 6tench from the floating carcasses is dreadful. The people are no less delighted at the volume of water than disgusted with the pollutifln 11 Map John R Blaine, brother of the Hon. James G. Blaine, died at Hot Springs, Ark. Miss Mary Garrett, cf Baltimore, offers to endow Johns Hopkins University with $35,000 per annum, on condition that the institution be removed to Clifton and that it sustain, a scientific school.

WASHINGTON.

Sigourney Bctleb, of Boston, has been appointee! to be Second Controller of the Treasury. .. .Edward A. Moseley, of

Boston, bsa been elected riecretaty of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Attorney General has been instructed to commence suits against parties in various sections of the country charged with unlawfully removing timber from the public domain... The work of commencing the gathering of statistics about marriage and divorce, ordered by Congress, has been entered upon. Major F. W. Bexteen’s sentence to dismissal from the army for drunkenness has been commuted to one year’s suspension from rank and duty on half pay.... Edward F. Bingham, of Ohio, has been appointed by the President to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Caitier. Judge Bingham is a personal friend and associate of Allen G. Thurman, who warmlv recommended his appointment, as did all the members of tee Supreme Court of Ohio.

POLITICAL.

A high-license bill, intended to cover tbe objections raised by Gov. Hill to the Crosby bill, has been introduced in the New York Legislature. It divides all saloons into two classes, the first comprising places where all kinds of liquors are sold, and the second where malt liquors, wines, and cider only are sold. The rates established j are as follows: New York and Brooklyn, ; first class SSOO, second class sloo*. fluff*- j 10, first class S3OO, second class S6O; all 1 other portions of the Slate, first class SIOO, i second class S3O. Tiie West Virginia Legislature met in | extra session last week. May 3is the dav J set apart to begin balloting for United j States Senator... .The President has made tbe following appointments:, Samuel F. Bigelow, of New Jersey, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey; Henry F. Merritt, of Illinois, to be United States Consul at Chemnitz. Col. Lamont and other prominent Democrats, who can speak semi-officially for Mr. Cleveland, deny that the President ; has declined a renomination. The Colonel i sayß that the President has never said that he would or would not refuse a renomination. The President, Col. Lamont says, denies emphatically that he made the statement attribnted to him or that he had even given any thought to the matter of a second term. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsbnrg, a prominent Democrat and an intimate personal friend of the President, says, however, that Mr. Cleveland will not again be a candidate, and that Hill will be the stand-ard-bearer of the party in 1888.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Proctor & Gamble, tbe well-known Cincinnati soap manufacturers, propose to share their profits with their employes. The plan is to appoint three trustees from the employes who shall, twice a year, after allowing 6 per cent, interest on the capital employed and reasonable salaries to the members of the firm, divide the remainder of the profits for the previous six months between the firm and the employes in proportion to the capital and the wages earned. The employes have accepted the proposition with thanks, and resolved to allow no outside influence to disturb the relotipns between them and their employers. Nearly three pages of the last issue of Bradstreet's was devotetj to a review of the remarkable boom in real estate in the Soufh and West during the past six months. The article says: “The activity in real estate w ithin six months has been very conspicuous, the first four months of 1887 witnessing an extraordinary increase in the speculative interest. The greatest activity has ruled in the more recently settled regions of the West, and in those portions of the South which have shown marked progress in manufacturing. ” Harmon’s cotton mill at Cohoes, N. I\, has shut down, throwing 600 men out of employment, on account of their interference in the management of the mill.. . The card rate has been reduced by the Pittsburgh nail manufacturers from $2.70 to $2-.25, lowering wages about 5 per cent.

THE RAILWAYS.

A table showing the earnings of twentyone roads for the second week of April, the first complete week iu which the railroads have been operated under tbe interstate law, is furnished, showing In many cases a decided falling off in the amount of business. Compared with the corresponding week in 1886 there was a decrease in the earnings of $166,392. Lansing (Mich.) dispatch: “Since the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad requested the return of legislative passes a week ago, legislators have been hinting about railroad legislation,, lowering of passenger tariff, etc. To-day the passes were returned to the legislators.” For the third week of April the freight shipped eastward from Chicago amounted to about twenty -nine thousand tons, a decrease of one-sixth under the interstate commerce > law. Passenger business is abnormally light, especially to the eastward. .. .Parties supposed to represent C.' P. Huntington bought the Kentucky Central Road for $1,505,500... .Thomas J. Potter of Chicago has resigned the office of Vice. President of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (o accept a similar position with the Union Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Navigation Company, with headquarters at Omaha. Mr. Potter was receiving $30,000 a year from' the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, but it is said a larger salary induced him to go to the Union Pacific. :

INTERSTATE CMMISSION.

A Chicago man has written to the Commission asking that Section 22 be suspended for the Chicago and Northwestern Road. He complains that he now has to pay his fare, whereas formerly he had a pass.... Counsel for the League of American Wheelmen complains that the Covington and Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Company compels bicyclers to dismount and walk over its bridge, and yet to pay an extra charge for their bicycles. The bridge has street railways over it. hence the writer assumed that it falls under the provisions of the interstate commerce act.... Several petitions have been received fri>m California business men asking for relief from heavy overland freight rates..... Representative Payson, who is strongly interested in railroad matters in the House, said to an interviewer at Washington that he was disappointed and disgusted at the state commerce law. He declared that the Commission had no warrant for the suspension of the long and short haol clause, and exceeded their authority in suspending it. The arguments upon which they acted in doing so, he said, were the same that were made against the bill in Congress, -and were then overruled. If there was anything Congress insisted on, it was that clause. He thought that at the next Congress the friends of the bill would propose to repeal the clause which gave the Commission any discretion at all in the matter, and he thought Congress would insist thf,t

the long and short haul clausa be given a trial. Geoboe Gbat, attorney for the Northi ern Pacific Railroad, appeared before the j commission and stated that on an examination of the fourth section be had reached tbe conclusion test the railroads could not J take it upon themselves to determine what constituted "similar circumstances and conI ditions.” The traffic officers and the managers of the road had prepared schedules to be submitted in an honest effort to comply with the law. He filed s petition substantially similar in purport to those presented by the Southern Pacific. Gen. William Belknap, representing tbe St Louis and San Francisco Road, presented a petition setting forth tee circumstances infiu-‘ : encing the company’s through traffic, and asked that the fourth section of the act be suspended. James F. Goddard, Assistant General Manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, was sworn, and in reply to inquiries by counsel substantiated under oath the matters set forth in the petition mentioned above. He was informed that since the new rate went into effect the steamships had raised their rates materially, keeping just enough below those of railroads to take the traffic. A. T. Britton, attorney of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, read a petition setting forth that tho road and its connections were engaged in transcontinental traffic. In an honest endeavor to j comply with the law it had put in operaj lion new schedules, which, while they in- | creased the thrdugkftates, largely reduced Ihe rates lo intermediate points. The average reductions were from 5 to 30 per cent., according to the class of freight carried. While this had not resulted in increasing the way traffic, it had entirely destroyed the through traffic. Charles H. Tweed, of New York, addressed the commission in behalf of the prayer of the Southern Pacific Railroad for a suspension of (he fourth section of tbe law in its behalf. A telegram was received from the manager of the New Almaden quicksilver mine at San Jose, Cal., the largest in the United States, saying that the present transcontinental rates shut his industry out of the New York market. The operation of the fourth section of the interstate commerce law has been suspended for seventy-five days on the Nortnern and Southern Pacific, Atchison, and St. Louis and San Francisco roads. A box factor}* at Swanzey, N. H., is to suspend operations on account of the interstate commerce law.

GENERAL.

The Western Union Telegraph Company has increased its capital stock $1,200,000, making the total capital $81,200,000.... Lieutenant John Danenhower. of Arctic fame, was discovered dead in his quarters at the naval academy at Annapolis, with a bullet hole in his right temple. He was found lying in front of his fire place with a tag tied to his button-hole saying: “Send to my brother at Washington.” Although he has had mental troubles since his return from the Arctic regions, what immediately led to the suicide is thought to be the recent grounding of the' Constellation on its wayto Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had a fear of being court-martialed. A letter from Rudolph Schnaubelt, the much-looked-for anarchist and alleged thrower of the Haymarket bomb, has been received in Chicago. Schnaubelt, about whom hundreds of most contradictory stories made the round' through the daily press; whose corpse was upon one occasion located in Lake Erie and shortlv afterward found in a Connecticut village; who was seen in New York, New Orleans, Mexico and California, but never was. captured, is heard from at last. He turned-up in Christiania. Norway, and it is from these that his letter is dated. Schnaubelt denies throwing the Haymarket bomb, but says be is sorry he didn t do it. and only left because he knew it wasn't safe for him in Chicago. The Mexican House of Deputies has passed, by an overwhelming majority, a constitutional amendment which would give to President Diaz a second consecutive term of office.... A sensational newspaper of New York prints a letter from Havana stating lhat a band of Cuban outlaws laid their plans to capture Senator John man on his recent visit, and only failed by being five minutes late. It js said that English detectives are in this country investigating the Clan-na-Gael and other Irish organizations ;;. Mexican advices (dated Nogales, Arizona, April 24) say that cholera is raging at Mazatlan, and has also broken out at Guaymas. People are leaving the infected district in Jarga ... .There is a-flood-tide of immigration just now at Castle Garden. It is estimated that tbe total immigration this year will reach 400,000. The class of immigrants landed is much better than in former years.... A City of Mexico dispatch says that Lieut. Col. Lunoz. of the Eighth Battalion, and M. M. Savalla, Musical Director attached to the command, quarreled in a saloon in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where they were stationed, and a challenge was accepted at once. Tbe two officers, accompanied by a Captain of the regiment, were driven to a retired spot, and at the word both shot at pnee, and both fell dead.

FOREIGN.

Advices from Bournemouth, England, say that ex-Secretary Manning is greatly improved in health... .Buccaneer, the famous stallion owned by the Austrian Government, for which SIOO.OOO was refused in 180 S, has been shot on account of his old age. Several Gladstone Liberals, 6ays a cable dispatch, desire to Lave Parliament issue a summons to the editor of the London Times calling him before the bar of the House of Commons to answer foe breach of privilege in accusing Mr. Parnell and other members of the House of complicity in crime, or that Mr, Gladstone propose, the appointment of a committee to examine the 'limes’ charges. The Parnellites have been consulted, and their leaders opposed the proposition. Mr. Biggat will sue the Times for libel, and make that paper's articles on “Pdrnetlism and .Crime,” of the series of which tbe Parnell letter was the culminating part, the basis of the action, r FiiFNCH manufacturers ask their Governi ment to postpone the International Exhibi- , tion to a more favorable date than that of 1889.,. .The Vatican, in answer “to ini qniries as to whether the Pope was in favor ! of having a reconciliation effected..jsitlL.., ‘ Itsdy «e tfig"BSSis of a rehtihciation of the i Papal‘-claims to the temporal power of the ; Porie, states that the Pope desires peace ■ with, Italy, but has never thought of i abandoning the rights of the Church hr the Papacy. The French have occupied the Wallis Islands, in the South Pacific, for a coaling station A chorister in the Military Academy Church in St. Petersburg eommitted suicide. It was then found that his house was a Nihilist rendezvous. Leo Hartmans, the nihilist, has been identified in New York as a soap-peddler.

He has be*n making a poor living for mouth#, under an assumed and quite unknown to tbe police; but he was tempted to make a speech in a recent meeting denunciatory of Secretary of State. Bayard for arranging a treaty with Russia to extradite assasins of the Czar and recognition has ensued . The arfest of Schnaebels on the Franco-German frontier is the sensation of Europe. Conflicting stories are current relative to Bismarck’s alleged authorship of the affair. It is generally believed that Schnaebels was decoyed to German soil, and lhat tbe German Government will back up Ihe action of its police.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Chicago Daily News, commenting editorially upon the verdict in the SchwartzWatt case, recently tried at Morris, 111., says; i , Within torty-eight horns after the Sioux City disagreement a jury in Grundy County, Illinois, rendered a verdjqt which commands the respect and confidence of every unprejudiced observer of tho developments of the trial. Tho case was much more complex and obscure than that submitted to tho Woodbury County jury. The evidence was purely circumstantial, and involved the examination of over a hundred witnesses, occupying two weeks and a half in testestifying, ana the defense was conducted by five able lawyers. A week was consumed ip selecting tho jury out of upward of two hundred individuals suimponed; but tho character of the community from which they were selected may be fairly inferred from the fact that the State used less than one-half of its peremptory challenges, while the defense failed to exhaust those to which it was entitled. There was no prejudice or bias for or against the accused of which it was necessary for either side to be wary. When the twelve good men and true were sworn both prosecution and defense were satisfied that an honest verdict on the’evidence would be rendered. With unwearied patience these twelve men sat and attentively listened for fifteen days to the testimony of loti witnesses, weighing carefully, impartially, and intelligently the evidence of each, and at the close they had arriv ed at a positive conviction of the'Complicity of Schwartz, and Watt; in the murder of Kellogg Nichols. The mauy casual readers of disconnected scraps of the evidence are not competent judges of the tax made upon these men Nothing short of an earni st desire to faithfully discharge a worn duty, operating upon minds alive to the sacreduess of the law and froe lrom sickly sentimentality upon the one hand and sympathy with the criminal classes on the other, could command such concentration and fidelity. Their verdict is more thaa the avenging of Nichols’ murder. It is a reflex of the moral sentiment which dominates the community in which they live. Electricity as a motive power has been successfully tested on the Washington avenue road in St. Louis, and will be adopted at an early date... A dispatch lrom Pierre, Dakota, says: “There is the greatest excitement on the Winnebago and Crow Creek Reservations. The evicuons of settlers at Big Bend have begun. Indians, covered with war paint and armed with Winchesters, are on the road, mounted and 'following the troops. The news that the soldiers would drive the settlers from the laud is known to every Indian tepee, and the chant of the squaws and braves is heard all night long. Sheriff Harris says there are over three hundred actual farmers still residing on these lands. Many have plowed over fifty acres and put in seed, all of which will be destroyed. The number of settlers that came under Cleveland's ousting proclamation was 800. The settlers have resolved to make no resistance to the soldiers, but to return ns soon as the soldiers are gone.” In the case of the Chickasaw Nation against the United States, in which the Indians claimed over $600,000, with interest, by reason of alleged improper disbursement of their funds held in trust by the Government, the Court of Claims has decided that the Indians should have., credit on their accounts for $240,108.. The details of the internal revenue collections for the first nine months of the fiscal .year are of considerable interest. As compared with the corresponding nine months in the previous fiscal year, the decrease in collections from grain spirits was no less than $3,696,622; the decrease from fruit spirits was $179,903, and the decrease from special taxes on retail liquor-dealers was $3,927,736. On the other hand, the increased collections from beer and ale at $1 a barrel were $1,520,502. The tobacco taxes showed a substantial increase. The gain on cigars and cheroots was $5i)1,464, on cigarettes $115,043, on manufactured tobacco $571,850, and the net gain on all classes of tobacco taxes was $1,306,275. In spite of this substantial gain and the fact that since Nov. 1 oleomargarine has paid $481,216, tee decreased revenue from whisky was so much greater than the increased revenue from beer that the total internal revenue receipts were less than in the same nine months of the year before by $575,780. Prince Bismarck expresses regret that the arrest of Schnaebels, the French Commissary, was ordered without consulting the Chancellor... .The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution declaring the. protective system of other countries injurious, to British trade, and asking that England revise her fiscal relations. The Manchester Chamber affirms its unabated confidence in free trade as the best commercial policy.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle $ 5.03- @ 5.75 Hogs 5.75 @6.00 Wheat —No. 1 White 95 @ .96 No. 2 Red .9355@ .91}$ Corn—No. 2 .49 @ .51 Oats—White .38 @ .42 Posit—New Mess ‘......... 16.00 V 16.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @5.50 -. Good Shipping 4.50 5.00 Common,. 3.75 @4.50 Hogs- Shipping Grades 5.25 @ 5.75 Flour—Winter Wheat.....i.... 4.25 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring.B3 .84 Corn—No. 2.‘ 38 @ .38>i Oats—No. 2 27 C,@ ,289 j Butter —Choice Creamery .20 @ .22 Fine Dairy .18 & .20 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar:. .13aj@ .1454 Full Cream, new...... .J3?4<5 .1454 Eggs—Fresh i .11'.., .12 Potatoes—Cbpice, per bu ... .75 @ .80 PoRK-Mess..\ 20.50 (3 21.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash „■■ y .79 @ .80 Corn—No. 3 y. 38 @ .40 Oats—No. 2 White ,32)2@ .33 Rye—No. 1 Pork—Mess..... ......... . ... 15.25 ■ 15.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2. .......... .83 " .84 Corn— No 2.... 40's@ .41 Oats briTC. 30 _ .32 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @5 5.0 J Hogs 1 4.03 @ 5.00 Sheep '... 4.25 ft 5.50 WheAt—Michigan Red. .84 @ —.B5 — CpRN—No. 2 .41 jk .42 Oats—White 33'A@ .31 —— ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 9. 5....80 @ .81 Corn—Mixed. 85 @ .36 Oats—Mixed 28 ?<• .28,‘», Pork—New Mess 16.50 13 17.00 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 81 @ ,84 Corn—No. 2. . ■■ .41 @ .42 ! Oats—No. 2 30 .32 •yeßS = ;MftM-m3g£asgrrrrrrrrrrr-ia^»7<^l£ak~r Live Hogs .. 5.60 vi 5.75 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard Corn—No. 2 Yellow 45 (F. .455 j Cattle ........ 4.50 @5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.75 @ 5.25 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 28ed..... .81 @ ,82 Corn — v o. 2..................... .37V,@ .39 Oats-Mixed .29 .30 , EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best j ? 'SXO ip 5.25 Fair......j............ 4.75 {«. 5.00 Common 4.25 @ 4.50 Hogs 5.75 @ 6.00 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.25

A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

Alexander Mitchell, the Milwaukee Millionaire, Fxpires in a New Tork Hotel. Brouchial Tronb'.es and Heart Disease Cause l.Ys Death, Which Is Rather Sudden. • [New York special. I Alexander Mitchell, President of the Cl icago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railroad, died at his rooms in the Hoffman House, in this city, on Tuesday afternoon. He hud-been been gradually losing strength for two months, but the illness which resulted in his death began only a week ago. Mr. Mitchell some months ago determined to withdraw from active business pursuits, and Dec. 1 last, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Kean, his old pastor, he started from Milwaukee in his private car for a trip to his winter home, in Florida, whither Mrs. Mitchell had gone some time before. At his magnificent place, “Villa Alexandria,” just at the head of tho St. John; River, he devoted himself to the pleasures of. a winter resort, spending much time out of doors and getting far more exercise than he had ever had before. Yet, although, he seemed to be in the best of spirits, he steadily lost flesh. He had always been one of the most methodical of men, and the chance told on him. Three weeks ago Mr. Mitchell and Dr. Kean left Florida, reaching this city April 2, and going immediately to the Hoffman House. Two days later Mr. Mitchell complained of feeling unwell and developed ftverish symptoms, but he soon recovered and was able to go down town, although the feverish condition returned at in'ervals. His son, John L. Mitchell, had joined him in tie meantime, and with his 6on and a a party of friends Mr. Mitchell heard Patti sing at the Metropolitan Opera House last Wednesday night. Sitting in the front of the box he was probably exposed to a draft, for before the last act he complained of illness and left the opera house. So weak was he when his carriage reached the hotel that he had to be assisted to his room. After that he never left his bed. Dr. Edward Bradley, his physician, found that he was suffering from a malarial trouble and bronchial pneumonia, from which he failed to rally. He sunk info a stale of coma Monday evening, and never recovered consciousness. Death resulted from asphyxia, caused by bronchial pneumonia. Alexander Mitcholl was bom Oct. 18, 1817, in the parish ol Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father was a farmer, and the early days of the future financier were pasaed in tho same avocation, ior two years he studied law at Aberdeen, and then went into a bank at Peterhead and remained there nntil he came to Milwaukee in May, 18(9, when, in company with George Smith, of Chicago, he organized the Wisconsin Marine and lire Insurance Company, an institution that was in reality a bank, although not called one on account of tho law then in force. The bills of this company were the only reliable paper currency the Territory hail for many years, lyet despite the times every dollar was redeemed when presented. It is as a managsr and promoter of railroads that the deceased was best known to the world, he having been for years at the head of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, a corporation that controls more miles ot road than any other iu the world. Politically Mr. Mitchell was originally a Whig, then he joined tbe Republicans in electing Lincoln and prosecuting the war, afterward joining with the Democrats in support .of President Johnson. Since then his party sent him to Congress in 1870 and 1872, and w ould havo continued him there had he not declined further office. He was ono of the delegates that nominated Mr. Tilden, and was one of his most ardent supporters. In 1879 the Democrats wanted him io he a candidate for Governor, hut he declined. Mr. Mitchell is survived by a wife, a son, John L., an adopted daughter, Mrs. Dr. Mackie of this city, and a sister and brother living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Mr. Mitchell s estate is variously estimated at from tie,090,000 to 525,000,000,

FOUND GUILTY.

The Jury Believe that Schwartz and Watt Killed Kellogg Nichols. Such Is the Termination of the Prolonged Express-Robbery Trial at Moms, 111 [Morris (HI.) sp9cial.] After a trial lasting thirty days, Schwartz and Watt have been deelared by a jury of twelve good men and true guilty of the murder of Kellogg Nichols, and their punishment fixed at imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. When the jury retired, on Tuesday afternoon, it was the general opinion that there would be a disagreement. After a seclusion of a little more than live hours word was sent to Judge DiLell that they had reached a conclusion. A few minutes 'alterward they filed into court. When Judge Dibell 6aid: “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?” E. H. Bobinson, the oldest juror on the panel, arose and handed .the verdict to the Sheriff, who passed it up to the court. Ju4ge Dibell scanned it, and then read it: “We, the jury, find Newton Watt guiitv of the (murder of Kellogg Nichols in the manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fix his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life.” The verdict as to Schwartz was then read. It finds him also guilty in the manner and form charged, and fixes his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for his natural life. Each juror then in turn ratified the verdict. There was a death-like silence in the court-room. Watt was sitting near his brother, with his arms resting on the table, still gazing steadily at the jury. Schwartz sat near his father with his hands clasped across his breast, gazing away from the jury, seemingly insensible to their presence and veredict. Neither of the men manifested the slightest emotion. W T ntt talked with his brother and smiled when spoken to by his attorney. Schwartz was more serious when his counsel approached him, but a slight, reluctant smi:e gathered on his countenance. The Court thanked the jury for the attention during the trial and dismissed them. The murder of Kellorg Nichols, for which Sohwartz and Watt were convicted, occurred the night of March 12. 18.%. Nichols was express messenger on the Rock Island train running out of Chicago. He waß killed in his car, near Morris, and t: e sa;e opened and rifled of a package of money containing about $20,e00. A,, COOK, once xepliad.tn aiady-wlia was always complaining of the dirt in the kitchen. “Well, mum, it’s that nasty ’orrid sun as makes all the dirt. In my last place we bad a snug kitchen down-stairs and never seed the son, and it never were dirty.” Lightning conductors were first set up for the protection of buildings by Franklin shortly after 1752. Bees were introduced in Boston in 1670, and have since spread over the ‘ American continent. 'T-

BASE-BALL

Lirfrly Times Predicted for the Seasan of 1887 on the Green .. \ w Diamond. J ' . ■ Hard Hitt'ng and Active Base-Running Among tlje Products of the Nevr Rules. [CHICAGO COBREBPOKDENCK. j The American Association (cams played 1 (he first championship games of the baseball season of 1887 on the 15th of April, and on the 28th of April the first championship games of the present season will take'place between the teams of tne National League. Thus within a few days both the great base-ball organizations of the country will have launched upon their season'd contest for the capture of their respective pennants, with every indication that the games will be Attended by even a more remarkable degree of interest than has marked the progress of the contests through any seasons past. As in past years at thelcommencement of the season, speculation is rife among admirers of tho game everywhere as to the relative strength, the ..probable position of the teams at the end of the season, and the character of the they will make, with a strong favoring, of course, of the team belonging to the city from which such admirers may hail. There is a good deal of speculation among players, as well as patrons of the game, regarding the probable effect of the new rules. As a rule the players, particularly pitchers, condemn the new pitching rules. They render the pitcher’s work harder, make more work for the fielders, and prolong the length of the game. aiders, however, seem pleased with the new arrangement. Spectators who pay to witness base-ball games like to see plenty of action. They like to see plenty of hard hitting . and lively base-running. From every indication they are likely to get a surfeit of both this season. Heavy batting and daring base-running will be the feature of the games, and large scores will be the result. The lovers of the game will seldom see any scores like 2 to 1, or any “Chicagos.” The new rules were made so that the whole nine might play ball and not the pitcher. Last season the fielders had very little to do, and seldom won any applause, which made them feel that they were no more than automatons. Now they will have a chance to show how nimble they are. The games will take more time to play than they did under the old rules, because the pitchers can verv . seldom retire the three men in one, two, three style. The twirlers will have to work very hard to earn a record, as they must either allow a man to hit the ball or give him a base, but which will count just the same as if a man had knocked the cover off the ball. What most of the players grnmble at is the four strike system, which they say will help to make poor batters’ records as large as those who handle the bat freely. The heavy hitters of the League say that if a man can’t hit a ball in three trials he ought never step to the plate. Threr strikes and out is a regular household word, and it will be a long time before the people will get acquainted With four strikes. The patrons of the game will find that time rules were adopted to show the energy of each and every man on the team, and if they are given a fair trial they will suit everybody. President Kick Young, of the National League, was asked not long ago if he anticipated any trouble wi h the new rules, and he promptly replied: “I do not. These rules were not formulated until they’ were thoroughly discussed in all their bearings by the managers and the most prom nent. players in the profession. Of course they will be experimental to a certain extent, but they are in many respec ts superior to the old rules, and will conduce very materially to make the contests more exciting and attractive. If, however, after a satisfactory trial, they should prove a failure—'which I do not expect—they can be easily changed by a special meeting of tho League committee, which has lull power to make whatever changes may be deemed expedient.” In Spalding's Guide, which has just been issued in this city, President Young is allowed two pages to give Bis “Points on Scoring.” The points arc in the nature of the advice which the teacher of a kindergarten school usually gives bis pupils, and to infant scorers may prove valuable.

home About a dozen ideas are abroad regarding the prop- ! ; er position of a pitcher under the new rules. The .......... correct style is illustrated. plate. The general impression is that the pitcher must keep both of his feet firm on the ground from the moment he takes bis position until the bail has been deliv- ; pitcher’s will be seen by the accom- [ box. : pauying diagram. ; No. 1 is the pitcher’s po- ; ■ : sition for right foot. ; ; No. 2is the pitcher's po- ; 3 : sition for left foot. ; .. v : No, 3is the place he ; 2 I makes his step with the ; 1 ; left foot when delivering A right-handed pitcher stands with his left foot a little to the left of his right, which must rest on the rear line of the pitcher’s box. The ball has to bo held in plain view of the umpire, then the preliminary arm motion is brought,into play, and, as the ball is delivered, the step from No. 2 to No. 3 is taken. Notes of the Game^ Spalding’s Offieinl Base-Ball Guide for 1887 surpasses all of its predecessors in the great amount of valuable information it contains. It is embellished with cuts of Vresident Spalding. M. J. Kelly, Boger Connor, James O’Bonrke, Dan Breathers, and A. C. Anson. The Guide enters upon its second decade as a standard hand-book pf the national game. It may be said to open up a new era in (he history of the game, as it presents for the first time a new code of playing rules which govern every professional club in the country. A feature of the Guido for 1887 is the explanatory appendix to each class of rules of the new code. Another specialty is the monthly records of the championship contests of the two leading organizations of the country. The grand stand of the Athletic Club of Philadelphia is fitted Up with opera chairs, and the stand looks very much like a theater. The profits of the Chicago Club last season were a Utile ihuiu tliiui ?10,UQO; ~iAdd - to this $13,000 realized from sale of players nnd the treasury has about $30,000 from which to declare a dividend of 20 per -cent, and leave enough to ran the club for awhile. . The interstate commerce law makes it cost the League clubs about $2,500 more •for traveling expenses. Morkill, of the Bostons, is a church member; White, of the Detroit*, is a deacon in an Ohio church; Badford, of the Metropolitans; O’Rourke, of the New Yorks; and Sunday, of the Chicagos, are all church members, and will never enter a ball-field or club-room on Sunday.