Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 August 1887 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER S BUADFITTE, - - Pubijshkr.

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RED MEN CITIZENS. Commissioner of Indian AffiUrs Takes the Vint Step Toward Declaring Indians Citizens. The Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, says a Washington telegram, has taken the first step to declare Indians citizens of the United States tinder the allotment bill. On Aug. 13 an election is to be held at Niobrara, Neb,, over a county seat matter, and the citizens learning that the Indians at the San tee Agency were determined to exercise their right of franchise under the allotment bill appealed to the Indian Office to prevent it. Gen. Upshaw replied to a telegram from A. D. Holbrook making this protest stating that nnder the laws of Nebraska all citizens of the United States who have resided for six months in the State, forty days in the county, and ten days in the ward and precinct had the right to vote; and that under the allotment act the Santee Indians were citizens of the United states, and must be granted the same privileges as other citizens. ExSenator Van Wyck telegraphed here also to ask if Indians were to be allowed to vote, and was informed by tne department that they were. Agent Hill was telegraphed by Mr. Upshaw not to try to influence the Indians in any way. MR. CLEVELAND'S PROGRAMME. He Will Be in St Louis Oct. 6 and Chicago Oct. 8. A Washington dispatch says: "Col. Lamont has measurably satisfied public curiosity in regard to the President's route On his prospective Western and Southern trip. The details of the affair have not been entirely arranged, but the general order of proceedings is pretty well settled . The President will leave Washington about Oct. 1, and intends to return not later than the 20th. Between those dates he will cover a good deal of ground and will have to do some lively traveling. The plan is to go direct to St. Louis, perhaps making a brief pause at Indianapolis en route. He will certainly be at St. Louis October 6th and will remain there two or three days. He will then go at once to Chicago, arriving there probably on the 8th. Thence he will journey to Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City, and then will probably strike across the country to Memphis, Nashville, and Atlanta. The southern portion of the trip has not been conclusively arranged as yet." CHICAGO'S BOODLERS. Seven of Them Are Arraigned and Sentenced. The convicted Cook County Commissioners were taken into court at Chicago on Thursday, and Messrs. McClaughrey, Oliver, Casselman, Geils, McCarthy, Klehm, and Lynn were sentenced. McClaughrey was" sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary at Joliet, the others being fined $1,000 and costs each. McClaughrey was taken to Joliet. Boodler Klehm wept copiously when arraigned. He read a written statement to the court in which he rehearsed certainimportant services he had rendered the public in his capacity of a County Commissioner, and asked to be dealt with as mercifully as possible. State's Attorney Grinnell spoke a good word for Klehm, in view of the assistance he rendered the State during the trial, and at Mr. GrinnelTs suggestion a fine of $1,000 and costs was imposed. BASE-BALL The Contest for the Championship in the League and Association. The following tables show the standing of the clubs in the two leading associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. PercentClubs. Won. Lost. age. Detroit 51 30 .629 Chicago. 48 32 .600 New York 46 37 .554 Bontoii 44 36 .550 Philadelphia 43 39 .504 Washington 32 43 .4 26 Pittsburg 32 47 .405 Indianapolis 25 56 .306 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. PercentClubs. Won. Lost age. St. Ixrois 65 23 ,738 LouisvUi 52 38 ' .577 Baltimore 48 39 .551 Cincinnati 51 43 .542 Brooklyn 43 43 .500 Athletic 43 46 .370 Metropolitan. ?8 57 .329 Cleveland fc2 66 .260

Stupendous Failure. Henbt S. Ives & Co., of New York, have made an assignment to Sullivan & Cromwell, the announcement causing intense excitement on the Stock Exchange. The liabilities are figured at between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000, with the as

sets slightly in excess of the latter amount, j

Bulls and bears seemed overjoyed at the news, believing that the stock market would show an immediate improvement. Sparks from the Wires. The London Times construes Lord Salisbury's recent speech as an emphatic condemnation of the policy of tolerating the Irish National League It is predicted that Eussia, now that Prince Ferdinand is about to assume the reins of government in Bulgaria, will adopt a more -vigorous policy in regard to the affairs of that country. Extensive preparations are being made in Bulgaria to welcome the Prince.

EAST, New Yobk dispatch: "Dr3. Fitch and Fields, examiners in lunacy for the Department of Charities and Correction, today reported that they had examined Thos. J. Mooner, the alleged dynamiter, who set fire to the National line steamer Queen, and found him to be insane."

WEST. The memorable Chicago boodle trial was brought to a close on Friday, tLe 5th inst., and resulted in a verdict of convicjtion. A pnnisLment of two years in the

penitentiary was imposed upon each one of the defendants except Commissioners Casselman, Geils, Oliver, and McCarthy, who escape with a fine of $1,000 each. A Chisago dispatch tells how the verdict was received: An anxious crovd of attorneys and newspaper men kept Juc.ge Jamiesou'B room crowded titl late last evening after tho jury in the groat boodle case had retired at 3 o'clock to consider its verdict. The room was almost packed with bailiffs and police officers in citizen's clothes ready to secure the dofendanta in case any resistance was attempted. It was expected, iX first, that the jury wo aid not be long in arriving at a conclusion, hut a the hours drew on and 8 o'clock was reached nnd still no verdict, people began to thin t that there would be a long siege and tho jurcrs would have some difficulty in making up their minds. Tho officers wore just beginning to prepare for an all-night session when Chief Ilaili;! Cahill ran into Judge Jaimeson's private room and shouted: You'll all have to get out of here. Make room for the jury." In a momtmt every seat in tho courtroom was occupied. JuUgo Jamie son ascended tho bench, the defendants came in slowly and occupied their seats one after the other, and finaliy the jury was led to its seats, Foreman A. I.. Brown preoodinjj his colleagues with a scroll of paper in his hand. Judge ilaruieson turned to tho jury: "Gentlemen, have you ngreed upon a verdict?" "We have, your Honor, "replied Mr. A. V. Brown. Chief Baililf Cahill took the verdict from Mr. Brown' hands and handed it to tho Clerk. "Head tho verdict, Mr. Clerk," ordered the Judgo. And amid breathless silenae Clerk Lee read in a voice that It required fall his will power to mako audible : We, the jury, find the defendants Adam Ochs, Michael K. I.eyden, James J. McCarthy, Daniel J. "Wren. John K. Van Bolt.

Michael Wa&sermun, Harry A.Varnell, Richard M. Oliver, Christian Casselman. Christian GeiU, Richard S. McClaughry, guilty of conspiracy as charged in the indictment, and fix the penalty: Ki chard S. McClaughry, at two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Adt m Ochs, at two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Michaol K. Leyden, at two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Harry A. Vamell, at two years' iraisonmenfc m the penitentiary. iohn E. Van Belt at two years' imprisonment ir. the penitentiary. Daniel J. Wren at two vears imprisonment in the

penitentiary, Michael Wassennau at two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Jnmos J. McCarthy at a fine of $1,000. Kiehard M. OHver at a fine of $1,00.. Christian Casselman at a fine of 1,000. Christian Geils at a fine oj' $1,000. Dubing the month of July there were 2,107 deaths in Chicago, against 1,415 during the corresponding month of last year, .... Six laborers were killed and one dangerously injured at Minneapolis by the failing of one of the walls of the recently burned St. Anthony elevator. The Northern Pacific crop report indicates a yield of wheat throughout tho territory embraced of from one-half to twothirds of a crop. The weather in Illinois during the week was warmer than that of any corresponding week during the past ten years. Only six counties report an average rainfall Ogle, Livingston, Shelby, Montgomery, Fayette, and Wabash. Light rains were reported in twenty-one counties. In a large section of the State the drought continues with unabated severity, and the corn prospects are even less favorable than the previous week. An Ellensburg (Washington Territory) dispatch says: "Fifty tons of rock fell in the eastern end of the Cascade tunnel, now building by the Northern Pacific Railway, killing four men and wounding several others. A piece of rock tore out John Sullivan's bowels, and he died in half an hour. Andrew Jones, a Welshman, was crushed to death; he leaves a family in Wales. John Myers, nicknamed "Jumbo," aged 35, was "instantly killed. Henry Schmidt, a German, was injured internally, and died in four hours. A Milwaukee dispatch gives particulars of a distressing accident at the launching of the huge steamer Win. H. Wolf, at Wolf & Davidson's ship-yard, in that city, by which three persons were killed outright, several fatally injured, about twenty badly hurt, and a large number of others less seriously iniured. About one thousand people had gathered to witness the launch. The docks were lined, vessels were crowded, and every scow and lumber-pile was black with spectators. Directly opposite the cradled vessel was the large coaldock of the Northwestern Fuel Company. It is a roofed dock, with huge derricks for unloading coal. Upon the roof of this coal-shed a large number of people had assembled. The view from that point was a fine one, as the vessel moved directly toward the dock. As the Wolf struck the water her port bulge was buried deeply in the black water of the slip ; thou she recovered and rolled heavily to port. The water displaced by her hull rose lixe a tidal wave ana swept over the coal-dock and up toward its roof, causing a cloud of coal-dust and spray. The supports of the dock were insufficient to withstand the force of the wave, and about forty feet ot the shed went down with its living freight. Instantly the shed went down there was wild excitement on the deck of the steamer. A scene of indescribable confusion ensued, but a few cool-headed people at once Bat to work to rescue the people thrown into the river and those buried in the debris of the plattorm. Patrol-wagons were summoned, and express wagons turned into ambulances, and the dead and injured were carried away. A Milwaukee dispatch says the stockholders of five Gogebic iron mines, known

as the Burton properties, transferred them to the Bessemer Consolidated Iron Company of New York, of which ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey was elected President, Jesse It. Grant Secretary, and ex-Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury Charles E. Coon Treasurer. All of them were present. The price paid for the five mines was $2,3ii0,1100. The consolidated company has a capital 6tock of $7,500,000, and has made a five-year contract with the Great Lakes

Steam-shipping Company, which will build j fifteen steam-vessels to carry ore from j Ashland to Cleveland at $1.50 per ton, ; the present rato being 82.50. The com-!

pany contracts to ship oUU,uuu tons per annum. An Evansville special reports n terrible accident near Duff's Station, Dubois County, Ind., on the Louisville. Evansville tt St. Louis Air Line Railway. As a construction-train with a crew of twentyfive men was approaching Duff s Station a cow attempted to cross the track before the train, when the engine struck it with such force that the entire train was thrown from the track. Nine of the construction crew sustained serious injuries. Five of them cannot recover. The wheat crop in Minnesota and Dakota proves to be the largest on record, and superior in quality to any gathered since 1683. South Carolina crop" reports are favorable. The largest yielc. of cotton on record is expected, aud the samo is true of corn. There will be a full crop of rice and sorghum sugar cane, and potatoes promise well. Corn piospects in Dakota and Minnesota are excellent. Fokest fires are again raging in Northern Michigan and "Wisconsin, says a Chicago special. A vast amount of timber and other property has been consumed, and many towns and villages are in d auger of destruction. Thousands of men are lighting the names. Unless rain soon falls, the losses will reach an appalling aggregate. James Reynolds, a tramp who assaulted a woman near Leon, Iowa, was pursued by a party of aimed men for two days. He was captured ner.r Decatur City nnd lynched, aiter confessing the crime. Miss Conger was met by a tramp, who made insulting proposal, at (he same time draw inp a revolver. The frightened girl started to run, but was knocked insensible by the tramp, and assaulted. A mob of .'too men started from Decatur and Union Counties in pursuit. The villain was corralled in the bush near Afton. This is (he third case of the kind in Decatur County within a short time, and the people of that county were exasperated to the higheot pitch.

Brownsville (Neb.) telegram: "Hiram Scboonover shot Mrs. Sloss, his mother-in-aw, dead the other nilit whilo she was taking corn from Lim without leave, nnd has been held in the sum of $1,000 for trial on the charge of manslaughter, lie says he mistook Mrs. Sloss for a polecat." "south" Parson Harris, a colored man, liv ig near Helena, Ark., was killed by his 'c with a shotgun, which she emptied into him while he was beating her. A Macon (Ga.) dispatch says that "CapL and Mrs. R. F. Woolfolk, their 6ix children, ranging in nges from 1(1 months to 20 years, and Mrs. Yest, aged 00, an aunt of Mrs, Woolfolk, were murdered in their homo on Friday night. Thomas G. VoolfoJk, son of the captain's first wife, who was sleeping in the house at the time, has been held by the Coroner's jury for the crime. He says that some time before daybreak Saturday morning he was aroused by groans and the sound of blows proceeding from his parents' room. His half brother Kiehard ran into the room which adjoined his, and, thinking that murder wras beiug committed, he (Thomas) jumped from a window in his night clothes and bare feet and rau to the house of a negro, three or four hundred yards distant, to get them to arouse the neighborhood. He says he was afraid to return, fearing that he himself would be murdered; but wont back after half an hour. Ao help had arrived, and he went in to see if the family had been murdered. He found thorn all dead. He stepped in a pool of blood in passing and left footprints on the floor. He found his stepmother lying 60 that her head was on the floor and iter

body on the bed. He raised her up aud placed her on the bed. He then changed his clothes. By this time a crowd had arrived and soon after he was taken ii to custody. The funeral of the nine victims

took place at Hose Hill Cemetery, Macon, on Sunday. Three thousand people attended. The services were brought to an abrupt termination by the arrival of Mrs. .Edwards, own sister of the murderer, who was in Athens at the time of the commission of the crime. Heartreuding scenss followed, bringing tears to the eyes of every spectator. "Woolfolk was carried to Atlanta for safe keeping. Ho denies his guilt. " A dispatch from Lexington, KyM says:

"John Clay, the only remaining son of !

Henry Clay, died at his farm, near this city. He left the city in his usual health, going home, and after dining went out to superintend repairs on a pump. While giving instructions to the workmen he fell dead without any premonitions, of heart disease. Mr. Clay was 07 years old. He had no children. John Clay possessed but a few of the characteristics of his illustrious father, being a plain farmer, devoting much time to raising thorough-bred horses. He became a Catholic twenty-

years ago

their works, and the threatened trouble arising from the new State law requiring corporations Jo pay their employes stunmonthly is likely to be averted, and the semi-monthly pay generally observed. RAILWAYS? A Salt Lakf Utah) special says: "J. D. Negus, the nding spirit in the proposed Vtah & Wyoming Eastern Railway, which iias been ready for grading for three years, left Ogden recently with two four-horse teams, proposing to drive through to Sioux City over his projected road. He was accompanied by a director of the Illinois Central and an experienced surveyor. A big deal is undoubtedly being, ru9jnged. It is said on good authority that the Darlington & Missouri will reach Ogden and Salt Lake within two years, and will make a bee-line thence to Loei Angeles." GENERAL.

WASHINGTON. The President has been invited to visit almost every city in the West and South, including San Francisco, New Orleans, and Galveston, says a "Washington telegram. He has about made up his mind that he will not go farther weSt than Kansas City and very little, if any, farther south than Atlanta, lie does not desire to be absent from the capital more than

twenty days, but delays and unavoidable j circumstances may prolong his absence live j

or ten days more. He will begin the preparation of his annual message to Congress upon his return to Washington, and other important matters which will than claim his personal attention will prevent his extending his visit much beyond November 1. Tse applications received at the Treasury Department up to Tuesday for prepayment of interest on registered bonds were as follows: Four per cents, 2,408,250; Eer cents, $2,715,000, and Pacific Railroad onds, $88,000; total, $5,209,250. The sum of $5,462,000 in 4J bonds was offered for redemption on Wednesday at the National Treasury. The Secretary accepted the offer of the Suffolk Bank, of Boston, for $200,000 registered bonds at 1.10 flat. All the other proposals were rejected, as the rates were not considered favorable. POLITICS. Ax Associated Press dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says: "Returns (not official) received from 507 voting precincts in the State bhow a majority of 93,045 against the prohibition amendment, and iadicate that the amendment has been defeated in the whole State by over 125,000 votes." A New York special says: fcThe Socialists are concentrating their efforts o"i an attack upon Henry George and 'his pet land theory, and they expect, by holding him and his theories up to ridicule, to crush him aud gain control of the Labor

party. They make no secret of the fact j

that they had planned to take htm up last fall because his theory was among the elementary doctrines of Socialism. They now intend to handle him without gloves, and will show the workmen that he is net the prophet and Messiah that ho would have them believe." The President has appointed the following-named Postmasters: Ambrose- W. Mullen, at De Bmet, Dakota, vice J. H. Carroll, resigned; G. W. Farrelly, at Chanute, Kan., vice J. B. Beatty, resigned; Lee H. Way, at Luverne, Minn., vice Charles O. Hawes, resigned; John Goetz, at ireencastle, Pa., vice H. P. Prather, resigned. William T. Figg has been appointed postmaster at Hawthorne, Iowa. Geokge M. Swaim of Jowa, Arthur A. Holmes of Indiana, Lncian M. Turner of Illinois, John S. McKirnan of Pennsylvania, and John P. Stout of Ohio have bet n appointed special examiners in the Ptnsiou Office under ci vil-service rules. A statement prepared at the Interior Department shows that from Jan. Ki, 18i, to July, 1887, there were 2fJ7 civil-service appointments made in that department, ex clusive of 27 trausfe: s and I reinstatement. Of this number 24 were from Pninsylvim ;i, 12 from New York, 21 from Illinois, ji from Indiana, 11 irom Ohio. 11 Irom Tennessee; Maryland and the District of Columbia, lo each; Massachusetts, Kentucky, Iow.i, Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia, and "Wisconsin, 7 e.u-h; Mississippi, Michigan, Alabama, and Texas, (1 each. SiiVENTy-EKiHT Virginia Republicans, of whom only two were colored, had n conference at Senator Mahone'ri house in Petersburg to arrange a programme i'ortho fall campaign. It was derided to hold no State Convention. A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the Republican oters of the Male. Senator Mahonc made a speech in which he urxeti further attempts to otVect n compromise with tho foreign creditors of Virginia. LABOR

Walter M. Gibson, the deposed Pr: me Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, vt-ho was accused of robbing tho public treasury, has escaped to San Fracisco. He talks freely of the new Constitution and Government, Mooney, the man who attempted to blow up the English i3teamer Queen at New York, the other day, is well known to the London police, who say that he caused the explosion of the Glasgow gas-works in 1882, and attempted to blow up the Parliament buildings at Ottawa, Canada. He was once an accomplice of the Fenian i'cI'ermott. It is stated that at n conference held on board the United States flagship Richmond, r.t Halifax, N. S., Mr. Foster, the Canadian Minister of Fisheries, declared it to bo the intention of the Canadian Government to capture tho Ataerican schooners Argonaut and French whsrever found. To this Hoar Admiral Luce and Consul General Phelan dissented, emphatically stating the United States wot.ld never permit those vessels to be taken outside of Canadian territorial waters. Senator Stanford, before the Pacific Investigating Committee at San Francisco,

Cal., put his share of the Central Pacific lines down at $13,000,000. Finn losses in the United States and Canada during July aggregated $li,020,500, double the average loss for July in the past twelve years. The total loss for the past seven months is 7ti,y-28,lUf against $GW00,000 for the first seven months of 188G. Lloyd Tevis, Preside at of the WellsFargo Express Company, testified before the Paciiic Commission, at San Francisco, that by the terms of the consolidation of the express companies tho Central Pacini Company leceived no consideration, but oae-third of tho Wells Fargo stock wan transferred to Stanford, H. D. Bacon, Charles Crocker, Hopkins, Huntington and himself. Tevis also stated that; since the consolidation the Wells Fargo company had the exclusive express business over the Central Pacific. Tevis admitted that he w as asked to take titock in the Central Pacific and in the Contract and Finance Company, but declined. "Why did you not accept?" was asked. "I looked at it from a business point of view," 6aid he, "because I thought it would lead to embarrassments, and further, I was apprehensive that if the load did not go through I would be liable to my pro rata for debts." An oath-bound labor organization, known as toThe Brotherhood," is said to hav 3 gained a large membership in New E:a.land. It was founded in May, 1886, and its objects appear to be substantially the same as those of the Knights of Labor, except that its policy is opposed to strikes. T.ae names of its officers, the location of its headquarters, and the extent of its ramifications are carefully guarded secrets. FOREIGN At Paris M. Agnier fought a duel with M. Heinach and the latter was wounded. They are rival editors, and dropped the pen for the sword. The Ferry-Boulanger dtiel, so much talked of, appears to have dropped out. The German and Austrian Emperors slobbered over each other very profusely at Gastein. Judging from the amount of emotion displayed, the touchiness, so to speak, of the parting scene, and the demonstrative protestations of mutual ejection between the two sovereigns, a European war, with Austria and Germany or. opposite aides, would . seem to be imminent. AitcHiiisHOP Walsh, in an interview, takes a hopeful view of the Irish situation. regards the new land act as a measure of great value to the tenantry, and does net apprehend a rigid enforcement of the coercion act. Within a yew or two he expects to see an Irish Parliament at Dublin. MARKET REPORTS, NEW YUUK.

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ROGUES CONVICTED.

An Interesting: Account of the Close of the Great Conspiracy Trial at Chicago.

Tiie VenHet DeinoiMl rates that Bribery and Corruption Are Punishable 0;TMises.

There Yet Remain Sixty-eight Boodler Indictments on the Cook County Calendar.

CHICAGO TELEGRAM. The apparently interminable trial of the Cook County Conn.issioners, charged with conspiracy to rob this county, came to t.n end on .Friday with a verdict which hardly meets popular expectations. Leyden, Ochs, Van Pelt, Wasserman, Vamell, Wren and McClaughry are sentenced to State's prison for a t;rm of two years each, and Casselman, Geils, McCarthy and Oliver are each mulcted in a line of $1,000. So completely convinced have the public bee a of the guilt of these conspirators that probably nothing i.ess than a prison sentence for every man of them would have been accepted as satisfying the public sense of justice and adequately indicating the enormity of their oifcaBe. The vigor and earnestness which have characterized the prosecution of this rin& and the satisfactory verdict obtained in the cases of Mc(arijie and McDonald had led the people ot this county to look for nothing less thai: tie transfer of every one of them to the Joliet Penitentiary. The verdict which allows four of them, who in the public mind were not less guilty than the rest, to escape that fate, does not give full satisfaction. 3't is sufficient, however, to show that th3 law and the courts

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THE ELEVEN COX aCTED BOODZitlBS. are still adequate ngoneies for the prosecution and punishment of sr..ch offenders. The case was given to the jury at 3 o'clock p. m.. Friday, and when they retired their first; action was to elect A. L. Brown foreman by a unanimous vote. There was very little desultory-conversation at first, ballots being at once prepared on the question of guilt or innocence. The first vote on. this question resulted 11 to 1 for guilt. One raoie ballot settled i;he question of guilt in the case of each defendant, and the matter or! the penalty to be affixed came up fo:r consideration. Foreman Brown discouraged general talk on the question and a test ballot was take a. This resulted 9 to 3 for three years in the penitentiary the

heaviest punishment that can be imposed;

unuer lue uiuiuie. ijjh mue juivra who voted for the extreme penalty were very firm ia their convictions, and they labored with, the other three earnestly and long. Considerable feeling was demonstrated. At last the foreman called for another ballot. It resulted i.he same as the first, but after some more general discussion and debate in groups two of the three who held out for the imposition of a tine upon all eleven defendants were won over. The thud was taken in hand and argued with for nearly tin hour. This wa:3 J. D. Clark. He stoutly maintained thnt tere was not enough testimony of a character that was worthy of consideration to w arrant sending ar.y one of the defendants to the penitentiary. He was as obstinate in his opinion as were the others in theirs that three years in the penitentiary was too Ood for all of them. He would stand a fin for all of them, bat no penitentiary. And this was just where matters stood when "he jurors were informed that the court had reconvened. Finally some of the eleven began to show signs of weakening. They were very much opposed to a disagreement, and in thiE Juror Clark agreed with them heartily. Otters of the eleven became less firm, arid the first signs of a compromise b-i'g in to b'3 apparent. As the others weakened Clark fctrew firmer as to Geilsf Oliver, Casstdman, and McCarthy. It began to look as though if they granted him these four his pvr oso as to the others: might bo hi .iken. Several were at thrst very much opposed to a compiomise on this line; but thoy at last uubmitled, stipulated for seven for tbe penitentiary, and the maximum fine for the other lour. Then there was a season of labor with Clark, who thought that two years was enough penitentiary for the wsret of them. The suppers had not yet como, and the jurors were getting hungry. Some Dody proposed another ballot, which was agreed to. This, to tho surprise of som? and lhe delight of all, resultetl in the a reemeat as read in court The report tf tbe foreman was drafted, nnd it had no sooner been signed than a bailitf opened the door and inquired if the gentlemen were ready for their suppers. They fell to with a will, and.jhnving fated sumptuously with apetites sharpened by the certain of their speedy reiea3e

from their long confinement tUey sent word that they had found a 'reffdict and forthwith filed into court. At 8:40 tho jury notified Chhrf Bailiff Cahill that they h ul agreed, and Cahill at once reported to tftt Judge, who was wait ing in his private loom, "-indge Jainieson took his seat on the bench and ordered th jury brought into court, lie also notified Sheriff Matson to bring in the defendants who h id all been kept prisoners m their

! private, room or in tbevicinity of the courtroom pending the return of the iurv. The-

jury filed in at one door and tj defendanteat another. The buzz and crush of about: fifty newspaper men, who at once swarmed to the front, created son confusion for a. moment. About fifty others, mostly detectives and bailiffs and personal friends of the defendants or jurors, stood up outside the railing. Bailiff Cahill rapped for ord?r when the jury came tiling in and were seated, and. Judge Jamieson at once began proceedings. "Call the jury, Mr. Clerk," wa his curtr. order, and the tame old form waa repeated for the last time. "Are all the defendants present in court,. Mr. Sheriff?" was the next question. Mr. Mataon was there behind the back of chairs to auswer "Yes. Turn in? to tho jury, the Judge asked: "Gentlemen, have you agreed upon yourverdict?" One or two of them answered "YesH in an undertone, while Mr. A. L. Brown, the foreman, rose in his place wi h the formal answer, "We have, your Honor," and banded the document over to Bailiff Cahill, who in turn passed it up to Clerk Le. Mr. Lee spread out tLe document a eh-?et of foola-

: cap and began reading slowly and dig tinctly: "We, the jnrv, find tne defendant.

Auam uens, eic. mere was death-like-silence in the room until the name of Back McCarthy was reached w$l, 300 fine' and then there was a faint atte.npt at ap plaitse from somebody in the rear of t)ie-conrt-room. At the conclusion of thereading there was another attempt at applause which was promptly squelched by ft. ran from the Judge and a rush by the bailiffs and policemen gathered there. Directly after the verdict was announced each one of the defendants was asked whathe thought about it. As the replies were brief they are given in full: Casselman It is something I didn't expect. Leyden I've got nothing to s ly. Oliver- I'm so much surprised that I don't know what I do think a bo at it. Wren I think the verdict is an outrage Wasserman I do not care to express an opinion now. McCarthyI haven't much to say, but como to me in the morning and perhaps 111 give you something worth printiag. Ochs I don't care to say a word. Van Pelt I can live through the twoyears, and when I get ba::k hero I will live long enough to get even with the - who have worked so hard to pui me in thie hole. Vamell I don't think anything about the verdic t at all. I can't think. McClaughry I ain't saying nothing. I ain't goingj to express no opinion. Geils The verdict is a disappointment to me, but it is no more than I might have expected. Lawyer Sullivan was asked for his opinion of the verdict. He said: "I co not think the testimony justified any such verdict and my opinion is that we will get a new trial. It is one of those unjust verdicts which result from an excited state of public opinior. Now, I don t see how Wasserman and Ochs were found fmilty with the others for their terms of office expired a year and a half before the indictment was found, and it seems unreasonable to

punish them. Xor can I see how MoClaugbry is pur ished with imprisonment when so many others were punished by fine." Mr. Grinnell arid his assistants went back to their room after the verdict, where they were followed by "Buck" McCarthy and one or two others. A reporter congratulated McCarthy on his escape. "What in do you mean?" asked Buck, with an assumption of dire wrath. "I shouldn't have been fined a goll-darned cent. I sav it's an outrage." uAnd III say," said Mr. Grinnell, "that you should have got three years, Buck, and I make no bones about saying it, either. I would like to see yon in McClaughry 'e place and McClaiurhry in yours. Yon should havd got the two yearn and McClaughry should have got the fin-3 that is, if either of you had to get off w:.th a fine. Buck then left the room. "If it hadu't been for Clark the verdict would have been all we asked for or could possibly get," said Mr. Grinnell. "However, we are satisfied nnder the circumstances. This verdict is, of course, immeasurably better than a disagreement, and a disagreement was the only alternative. M. But there is another class of indictment wherein the plea would be of no avail Leyden, Wasserman, McCarthy, Ochs, Wrren, Van Pelt, Hannigan, McClaughry, and Lynn ere all indicted joiatly witik Michael Cotitello in what are known a the coal cases. Here the charge is not conspiracy but bribeiy, and that being distinct offense no plea of previous conviction can bs set up. There are no new developments in regard to McGarigle, who at last account

W. J. M UAKIOLE, TJIK 'VUlHii" OP TBI! BOOLB GANG. was at St. Catherines, Canada, lie! ia no likelihood of securing his extradition. Detective Mooney, in a lengthy interview, tells about his connection with the boodle cases. He says M-G angle's escape was due to too much parsimony in the management of the case, and that the i-ame is true of the acceptance of Clark as juror, thtso being the two big blunders of the whole business.

Men are not apt to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearance, but by the character of their lives, their con' versationa, and their works. 'Tis better a man's own works than tha another man' words should praise him.