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TVas John Ellis, the man whose body was foi.ml on the railroad I rack' near the Long Bridge Thursday night, struck ai,d killed by a train or was he niurdcrid and his body placed near the track to give to his depth He appearance of having been onatciacntal one? The coroner's Jurj that Investigated the case at the Slth precinct station last Sat urday brought in a verd'et of attidintal death, but there Is coiisidtrable sptcula tloii in police circles as to whtthtr the Jury was not a little hasty In arriving at such aeoncljsiou Tne evidence adduced at the lntuest scarcely warranted such a verdict, as it was In some instances vague and of a cou Hit ting nature. i here are some circumstances conmcted with the man's death which give It the appearance, not of nccidtnt, but of mur der. It will be remembertd that Ellis was discovered lying near the track by a col ored man Irom Jackson City, who was on his way home, and who at first supposed It was a un.iH.en man and so notified the switchman. CHARACTER OF THE WOUND. Closer Imestigation, however, developed the fact that the man had hern struck on the head and was In a djing condition. The two men rcmoed Ellis to the switch house, where he died shortly afterward. This same man testified to the fact that he walked leisurely all the way down ilarylind aenue Irom Seventh street to the bridge that evening, and was positive thi 1 no train passed him going Into the city. 1.HK' condition certainly warranted the btlief tliatJie had been riccntly struck, as lit. was noftlcad when found, and according to the medical testimony produced at the Inquest he could rot have survived such a bliiw as he received but a few minutes. It is puii ted out that if Ellis Lad been struik by the train that passed up J'arj laiHl avenue he would In all probabil lty Lav e been dead before the man reached him. Still aimtl.tr fr.vt which leaves the man Ei r of the man's death lngmvedoubt was tl:eappearance ifthel)od asltlav at the morgue. The autopsy heltl the daj pre vious to the inquest developed the fact that tltath was caused by a concussion of the brain, produced by a Llow reciivtd on the htatl. There was onlv a slight frac ture on the man's head, howeer, which could have ljeen caused by a stone or other deadly we.ipun, and, in Tact, it would np ptarthat if he had lieen struck by an engine the fracture would have been very much largtr than the would he received. POSITION OF THE BODY. Jht re were cry few bruises on tlte botly, and witnesses testified that the skin was slightly torn from one hand, which might liao been produced in a struggle with a possible assailant. bevcnl witnesses un dtr oath testified at the inquest that the botly was found in the caii'tnaj about two feet from the track. Would it lie pos tlblo for a train going at quite a rapid rate of speed to strike an object the size of a human btingnnd noth'irl it a greater distance than two feet from the railroad track? It seems highly probable that the ltotly would have tieen carried to the fence ten feet distant by the force of the blow. Bolh the fireman and engineer of the train which is supposed io hae struck Ellis, and whose duty It Is to keep a sharp lookout, testified that they did not see an object on or near the track that night, near the place w here Ellis was found, although lwth stated in positive terms that It was possible for theni to hae seen at least two hundred feel ahead of the engine, and had a man been on or near the track they 'would undoubtedly have noticed him Both also testified that they felt no shock on or after leaving the bridge, such as is usually produced by au object coming in contact with the engine. and that they had no know ledge of ll e accident until rending of it in the papers the next nin ruing. NO BLOOD ON" THE ENGINE James 11. May. the engineer, also stated that hcniadea ix-r-onaloxaminilionof his engine the next morning, but found no traces of blood or other foreign matter on it, as is usually discovered under similar clictin stances One witness test!!! that he raw Ellis drinking at Jackson City the af ternoon of the da he was killed with sev eral otliern,eii. Ellisis known (o havebeeii eniploed as a polity runner by one of the firms in Jackson City, and to liae occa tioually carried sums of money. No money was found on his iierson when killed. All of these facts are millers of evidence, and can be corroborated. aud while Ihey do not positively establish the fact that a murder has liecn committed, tliey at least leave the tamp of Hie man's death a matter of vmsiderable doubt JUG BATTLE OX. Trench and Hovas in Front, of the Hovu Capital. London, Oct. 7. A dispatch to the Pall Vail Gazette from Antananarivo sas that on September 2D a native mob made a raid upon the British cemetery at the Hova capital and broke open a number of coffins, mutilating the bodies contained therein. The mob also made an attack upon the French observatory, which they destroyed, and for a time menaced the house of the French resident. The two armies are now in sight of the capital, and the firing incident, to their klrmishes can bo plainly beard. Native soldiers are flocking into the town and rcinforecments are being rapidly sent to the front. A number of prominent Hovas have left the city upon what Is supposed to be a diplomatic mission, and it Is the general supposition that their object is to treat with thcFrcn;h representatives with a view of arranging a cessation of hostilities. ROLOFF A GEltMAN". tTnlikely Story Told by Veterans of mi Ohio Regiment. Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 7. At a meeting f the veterans of the Ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, It was announced lhat Carl Itoloif, the present minister of war of Cuba, was a. former member of the regiment, whose name Is Carl Hook. He came here from Germany, enlisted with the Ninth Reglmentin 18G1. deserted October 10, 18G2, and went to Cuba. He was conspicuous in the revolution flSGS. Mr. WIUt at II Is Desk. Assistant Secretary 8cott Wike, of the Treasury, has resumed his duties after a month's absence In Illinois. HEATHS OF A DAT. London. Oct. 7. Miss Ada Cavendish, the actress, died here to-day. Dayton. Ohio, Oct. 7. Rev. Dr. Longs troth dropped dead in the pulpit of the Vayne Avenue Church yesterday while onductlug services. s COMES TO LIFE. Supposed Dead Man Now TJnder Ar rest for Murder. Crown Tolnt, Ind., Oct. 7 Residents of this city have bcllced that on April 20 the body of Harney Ellwanger, the al Icged murderer of his wife, Pauline, at Cedar Lake, April 8, who was lound dead floating In Lemon Lake, was placed In the cemetery, but many people have reason to bchctc it was cot Ellwanger who was buried. Seven dajs ago Sheriff Benjamin Hajes rcceiied a letter irom Jam-s Cougblin, a Denier dcUcthr, stating that he had, Lo yond all douhts, Otto Ellwanger, charged with murder. In custody at Tiller, Col. Yesterday morning another letter was received Irom Cougblin. in which he claims his man: has confessed the whole affair and has almost said he committed the murder. Sheriff nayes says he has forwarded a picture and everything that would help to Identify the man. BATTLE AMONG BOATMEN Canal Men Combine to Prevent Shipment of Lumber. Ciipt. IMillllps and Son llt-Kln to Load at the Low Prices and Are Promptly Murdered. North Tonawanda, N Y., Oct. 7. A dou ble murder was committed on P. W. Scnb ner"s lumber docks at an early hour this morning, and up to the pretcnt time four teen men have bien placed under arrest, and starch is being made for others. Shortly after midnight Captain Phillips, of the canal boat Jennie Graft, and his son, of the boat Jray, Legaii loading up with lumber. Other bcaimcn, who had refused to take loads at the price Scribncr offered, marched down in a body to tLe doc!: and interfered. Phillips, who was armed, drew a revolver and find over the heads of the crowd, probably seeking to intimidate them Some one, exactly whom has not been harned. pullid a gun and fired tint e shots at Phil lips, who fell on the deck of his boat a dead man . The younger Phillips, whb hod taken a hand In the melee, was struck down with a club and horribly beaten. He managed Io crawl into the cabin, where he died at H 15 this morning. The authorities were notified and the police this morning arrested the following boatmen, who are known to haie partici pated In the fatal melee: Mck Wendell, Eddie Done, James Ulley, E. Morgan, G. Hjde, J. Dixon, J. Steiens, M. Cotin.A.'U heeler, J. D. Dixon, A. Lane, B. Warren anJ E. Lawrence. Other arrests will be made during the day. The greatest excitement prevails alon; the docks this morning, and hundreds liae i isited the scene of the double crime. Capt. Phillips was about flftj jeors of age and his son about nineteen. Their lionici were in Burton's Bay. While the fight was in progress the lines of the two crafts were cut and they floated down the ner, but wire intircipted lit Little Island b a tug and brought hack. GEIt.MANY NOT AGGItEShlVK. Minister Continues Afrrcculilo Toward tin Colombian Government. New York, Oct 7. A si ccial cable to the Times from Panama eas. Bogota advices say that the rote or Lulirsen, the German minister, has not yet been prtpartd The Bogota newspapers infer that it villi not be aggressive, because the minister con tinues to lold cordial diplomatic relations with the government. The compromise w Inch runchard made to build a railroad with his own resources or to raise a lean of 1, 00,000 appears to be deceitful, vitleiice showing that Punchard's capital Is not rtgistertd com mercially in London, it being lets than 50,000 The disturbance at Casana Plains, De partment of Boyaca, has Lecifnciried,and the national troops are returning. l'ltOHAIILY FATAL HEATING. What a nxtmlly Good Man Did 1" Drunken Frenzy. Scbrce. Ky., Oct. 7. lcslerdiv nfler usou Dr. Joel Parker In a drunken frtnzy bcat his wife unmercifully, and dragged her through the house by her hair. Neighbors were attracted to the house by Hie screams of the unfortunate young wife and her three sniallchildrcti Mrs. Parker was unconscious when her friends came to the rescue and a doctor was summoned. The extent of her injuries cannot lie stated at present, but It is thought tliey will prove fatal The husband was dis armed and taken to Jail. The house on the inside presents a seere of vvretk. wipdows, costly mirrors and furniture being smashed and broken. Great cxulenjcnt and Indignation pre vails, aud threats of lynching are heard. OLD AND ENFOKTUNATE. Two Hiiisoiw Which Led Goodnovv to Take. Ills Life. Chicago, Oct. 7. Two letters, a hat and a cane, found on the North pier early yes terday morning by Officer Hammond, are mutcevidences of the suicide of E. E. Good- now. One of the letters was addressed to Luther Laflln Mills. Mr. Mills says Goodnow was sixty years of age. He bad helped him at odd times covering a year, and described him as an "intelligent, kindly old gentle man, who was very unfortunate " Mr. Mills knew nothing more of him than that he came from New York. Goodnow had been an Inmate of the county hospital for several months, -where he was treated for the morphine habit. He Is said to have a brother In Detroit. SATOLLI MAY BE CA It DINAL. J. RonieCorrespoiidont Predicts. Tills Ac tion by the Consistory. Paris, Oct. 7. The Figaro publishes a dispatch from Hb correspondent, in Itome which asserts that Archbishop Satolll. papal delegate to thcUullcdStates, together with Mgr. Agtiardl.. papal nuncio at Vi enna, and Mgr. Ferrala, papal nuncio at Paris, will be elevated to the Cardinalate at the next consistory. JONES' BAD DKUNK. He Slashes Eleven Men and Two Will Probably Die. Greensburg, Ind . Oct. 7. "Tanglefoot" Jones got drunk last night and pulled his razor in a crowd and commenced slash ing right and left. Eleven persons were wounded, two fa tally. They are Cash Myers and John Moody. Jones had Just been released from the Prison South, where he served a long term for stabbing a man to death some years algo, - One Peace Proposal. New Yorf, Oct. 7. A. special cable from Buenos Ay res says: A report, which appar ently is well rounded. Is current in govern ment circles to the effect that a proposal has been made In influential official coun cils in Chili to stop the purchase of further armaments if Argentina will agree to follow the same course. The report excites great interest- CHINESE PROMISES SHAM Not Worth More Than the Papsr on Which They Are Written. MISSIONARY'S FRANK STORY llo-tilo Talk Still Continue-, Military Magistrates Are Wholly Indifferent . in Hcjnird to Protection of Teachers and Their Foreo Is Not Sufficient Even if They Were In Earnest. Boston, Oct. 7 The American board of commissioners for foreign missfons has received from Lin Ching, North China, an account of an attack upon its missionaries located there. Lin Ching Is a city in M anuii g, neurthc Junction of the Grand Canal with the Wei Kiver. It has a initiation estimated at 50,000. On theevening of August 27, says the cor responding missionary , we had our first exiierieuce of mob violence in Lin Ching. During the ten years that this section lias been opined we have lelt that we had galnul the good will of the people suffl ticnily so that we need not ft ar trouble from ilitm, but our iecent experience has shown us that we need to be more on uv guard TALK TET HOSTILE. There Is loisidtrablc hostile talk in the streets, and w e cannot tell w hat the future has in store Sonic of our men heard the Sz Omen riots discussed among the crowd waiting to attack us on the morning of the 18th One lesson we havclianied is that our remaining here peace mliy ucpends more on the good w ill of the jiooplc than on any official protection we can expect at present. Iho military magistrate, A Hsith.T'Al, made no attempt, and the civil magis trate no serious attempt, to help us. From all we can learn there Is grave reason to doubt the civil magistrate's ability, even if he were so inclined, to protect us. If we are correctly informed, the force of armed men to do his bidding can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Does this not show, as far as Lin Ching Cho is concerned at least, that the Imperial promise of protection to for eigners in the interior is worth no more than the paper on which It is written? HOW LONG, OH LOUD? Eycn if it be taken for granted that it is made in good faith, which is optv to serious doubt, no adequate preparation Is made for the fulfilling of tliis promise. How long are the civilized nations of the world going to treat this sham gov ernment as a reality? The missionaries located In Xin Ching are Rev. Franklin M. Chapin and wire, of Kecne, N. H.; Rev. Henry P- Perkins and wife, of Ware, Mass ; Dr. Edward R. Wagncrand wlfc.of Ann Ar'jor.MIch. The niedlcal department of the work is of great and growing importance. TWO-FACED VICEROY". lie Makes It Useless to Proceed With Chinese Inquiry. London, Oct. 7. A dispatch from Shi ng hal to a news agency says that the viceroy of Foo Chow is preventing the enforcement at Kucheng of orders promulgated from Fekln. The foreign consul's report that in con sequence of the action of this official it is perfectly useless to proceed with the Inquiry into the recent outrages. British Vice-Consul Allen has left Ku cheng in disgust. NOT YET OBSOLETE. Good Old-Fnshionted Dance Near Hel ena, In Montana. Helena, Moot., Oct. 7. Last night while the neighbors at Avon, a wood camp thirty miles west of here, were having a dance, a man named Jack Caddlck ojiened fire on the room full of people with a re volver. He instantly kldcd Jason Luncerord. a peaceful and respected citizen, and shot Tom Thomas through the shoulder. He fired several more shots that flew wild. Preparations were making tb lynch him when he was landed in Jail at Deer I Lodge, being "rescued by some of the cooler heads. PHYSICAL CULTURE MOVEMENTS. In Progress at the Royal Court CABLE FLASHES. Berlin, Oct. 7 M.DewlUe, Russian min ister of foreign affairs, who has been vis ing Germany for some time past, started for St. Petersburg tcrdjy. Loudon, Oct. 7. The Pall Mall Gazette, It is authorized io slate, that Dr. Nln. the Cruguayau minister here, has btard noth ing from his government in regard to the rc'iort that his recall has been demandd by II r. Ha ring. British minister to Uruguay, or the BritMi consul "at tontcvlde-o; nor has he been Instructed by lilsgovernmeWe as alleged, to protest agaiusUM r. Baring's rcort upon the condlllon'of Uruguayan fliui nces. New- York. Oit. 7 A special cable dis patch rroni Venice says: Stucky's mills aud grain store, on the Island of Gludccca, have been burned to theground. Hundreds of ions of grain have been destroyed. Murder Over a Child. Grrcnslwrg, Ind.. Oct. 7. James God dard and Ills son, laylor.assaulled David Seawrlght in tils house yesterday, and Seawrlght shot the elder Goddard dead. Taylor's w ife, who was Seawrlght' daugh ter, dletl recentlv, leav log a little child, aid the Godilanl's had gone to ceawrlght's house to lako it away. OUR SMOKELESS POWDER Experiments Prove It Superior to Any Other in the World. i-vv port Factory Will Be Duplicated and Powder Made for All the Heavy Guns of tlieNuvy. Newport, R. I., Oct. ".Great results were obtained on Friday and Saturday at the torpedo station in a starching trial of the smokeless iwwder manufactured there. The quality continues to show marked Improvement, and the recent teals clearly show it to be superior to that manufacturiil antl ued by Itussia, France and even Eng land. England's powder hisshown great power and has given astonlsBlng results, but a careful comparison orthovo results with those obtained at the torpedo station last week dimonstrate the superiority of the American powder. Future improvements we believ ed to be possible. Two factories aro how- being put up on the Atlantic coast and'fwo on the Pacific coast, with the expectation that they will produce the powder fo the Navy Depart ment's largo caliber guns. At the station here powder Is being made for small arms and small caliber guns, and later smokeless powder whTbe made here for all guns up to the thirteen inch pieces. SOCIALIST CONGRESS. Sincer and Seylltz-Fuerth Elected I'resldlnjr Officers. Breslau, Oct. 7. All of'the leaders of the Social Democratic party were present at the opening of to-day's Bitting of the Socialist Congress. Herren Singer and Seyliiz Fuerth were elected presiding officers, pnd were wel comed in a song by a selected cbolras they took their teats. The hall "was decorated with red and blue drapery, the red pre dominating. Most of the forenoon -was occupied by the delivery of speeches welcoming the foreign delegates and in (be reading of the party report. MANAGERS ADVISED STRIKE. Advice Which Led Gold Heaters to Ask an Advance. New York, Oct. 7: A general strike or the gold beaters in NeW York and Brook lyn for an increase injvagc is in progress. It includes Philadelphia, but the em ployers there have conceded the demands. The manuacturers who were willing to grant the Increase advised the men to order a general strike-for the demands in the three cities ThU was done and the Philadelphia employers yielded in a few hours. BRUSH SETTLED VV. He Made Restitution and .His Case Was NoIlttvProssed. Edwin Brush, the, .bartender who at tempted to run off with" $50 of Edward L- Jordan's moj'fys jesterday, settled his case this niorn&T&wKboftt going into court. He offered ilS cash?ylo Mr. Jordan on condition that, lie would not prosecute and (be proposition was accepted. Just before the case was to be called this morning it wag nolle prosscd, counsel tor both sides having come lo-an'under-standing. Mr. Jordan cot his money back and Brush went free- in Berlin. VIRULENT KAFFIR FEVER Near Prospect of Its Sudden Outbreak in United States. SEAT OF CONTAGION 0HI0AG0 Looks as Though London Were Ex haunted by Speculation in Kaffir Stocks and That the South Afrienu AniiTlt'iin Investing; and Mining Company Mu,t Seek Greener Fields. Chicago, Oct. 7. Chicago is to have an attack of "Kaffir fever," the disease that Is now playing havoc with London finan ciers and which closely resembles the fa mous "South Sea Hubble." J. F. Webner, a promoter. Is now In Chicago on a prospecting lour, not looking for new gold mines, but for money to de velop those In South Africa. WILL UNLOAD ON AAIEKICA. Defore December 1 "Kaffir stocks," In all probability, will be listed In Chicago, antl llie.Soulh Alrlcan Amncau Investment and Mining CorapaTy, with olflces in Jo hannesburg, Loudon, Chicago and Nj;w York, will be engaged in an effort to float Its stock In America. For two weeks It has been -whispered among bankers and brokers that such an attempt on the part of the South African magnates was Inevitable, and that Chicago would he down with the "Kalfir fevtr" Just as London now is, before the winter was over. The establishment of the South African American, Investment tand Mining Com pany Is certain. Whether Its operations will he begun simultaneously in New York and ChlcagiT-'s a question which the net two days will settle. The gosip, which has been only gossfci. for two weeks, began to take definite form Saturday. The story came from the offices of cer tain bankers who, it is (aid, had decided that "Kaffirs," are a good thing, and will strike Chicago Just as Ihcy did iu London. In two years "Kaffirs" isvuedat one pound have risen in value to nine pounds, and the investments of the different European na UonsandEiiglandamount to nearly $2,100, -000,000. MAY BE THE RAGE. The rage for "Kaffirs" in London is Just now particularly significant, owing to the project of the South African magnates to carry their operations iuto the TJnlteti States, and make Chicago one of the points at which the battle will be centered. If Investors of Chicago and New York go iu for "Kaffirs" with Hie same zest with which they takeup otherpropositioiiswhlch they conceive to be a good thing, it is not improbable that the feverish conditions now existing in London will be repeated here. AGAINST MRS. FLEMING. Arrest of an Important Witness in tho Famous Case. New York, Oct. 7. The fact leaked out at police headquarters to-day that an im portant arrest has been made in connection with tho death of Mrs. Evelyn M. Bliss, who died on August 30, at her home, No. 397 St. Nicholas avenue. Mrs. Alice E. Fleming, Uie daughter or Mrs. Bliss, is in Uie Tombs, under In dictment for murder in the first degree. It is charged that she poisoned her mother. Although tho officials at the Central office declined to give any information this morning, It was ascertained beyond ques tion that Acting Inspector McCullagh has made an arrest, and that the person arrested will be an Important witness for the prosecution in the trial or Mrs. Fleming for murdering her mother. It was learned that the person arrested is named Ferdinand Wllckes.and that he was arrested late on Saturday night. Every effort was made for police reasons to keep secret the fact that an arrest has been made. The prisoner, Wilckes. it is said, Is the man who figured in the case in some mys terious manner. He was referred to dur ing Uio investigation of Mrs. Bliss death as a mysterious man known as "Ferdinand." Movement of Silver The issie of standard silver dollars from the mints and Treasiry offices for the week ending-October 5 was $1.574 ,0'J4. and for tho corresponding period list year was $1, 098,07b. The shipment of fractional silver coin for the month of September was $1, 717,000, and. for the corresponding pe riod last year was $1,505,945. nnd from October 1 to 5 aggregated $330,289. MINE HS BLOWN CI. Had Giant row dor in Cabins and It Exploded. New l"ork", Oct- 7. A Leadvllle, Col., special says: There was a giant-powder explosion yesterday at the head or Stray Horse Gulch. Two cabins there were owned by three miners Fargbar, Lowney and Burt. It Is feared Hurt was In one of the huts. If so he was blown to pieces, as the cabins and surroundings were blown Into hits. There were twenty five pounds of giant powder In the cabins. How it exploded is a mystery. Must Have Open Sewers. Hammond, Ind., Oct. 7. The alarming spread of diphtheria in this city has coo pcllcd the authorities to take measures to closo all the schools in order to check the ravages of the diseise. From one to three deaths have octrirrcd dally for several days. BELGIAOAILWAf CRASH Engine of a Freight Train Crashes into Crowded Passenger Coaches. Eighteen Killed, Many Fatally Wound ed and Upwards of Ono Hundred More or Less Injured. Urussels, Oct. 7. Two heavily laden pas senger trains came Into collision between Wavre and Ottignles, about eighteen miles from this city, last evening, and most of the cars of both trains were wrecked. Ten persons were killed outright and forty were Injured, some or them ratally. Among the passengers were M. lleer naert, prtsident or the Chamber or Dtpu ties: bis wife and her slsttr, ilrre. Moulon. The latter was killed and Mme. Becrnaert was injured, though not seriously. M. Becrnaert was unhurt. Later news from the scene of the rail way accident shows that the disaster was a great deal more serious than the first reports Indicated. It is now ascertained that eighteen per sons were killed and at least a hundred Injured. The list of fatally wounded Is also likely to be Increased, as at least twenty five of the Injured are dangerously hurt. The collision was not between two pas senger trains, as at first reported, but be tween a passenger train and a freight train. The engine or therreight train struck the passengers cars, two or which were crowd ed wilb men and women. Thfe cars were telescoped and a third was thrown on top or them. A rescuing party worked throughout tLe night, tak ing out the dead and injured from the de bris. COLLAPSE OF A DIG STAND. Frightful Disaster nt the Scene or a Conier-Stone Laying. Loralne, Ohio, Oct. 7. A frightful ac cident alien led the laying of the corner stone .for thenew,. SU, jitary'sCathplic, Church In this city yesterday morning which resulted in one person dead and a dozen fatally and many others seriously injured. Fully 5, 000 people were gathered around the foundation for the new structure ami the prieets w. re about to begin the serv ices when a platform constructed of boards and running entirely acroES the area on which were about 1,000 people gave way, precipitating 300 of them into the excava tion. The fourdatlon for the building extended about ten feet above the basement bottom, and on this was erected a platform, where the ceremonies were being htld. Over 1,000 persons were stanjing on the floor when a section of it. containing about 30O people, sank beneath Its burden and pre cipitated them into the pit. The section which give way was In two wings, anl as It sank It formed a death trap lor the people from which there was no chance to escape. The pit resembled an inverted roof of very steep slant, the ends being closed up by stone walls, and Into this were crowJcd men. women and chil dren In one struggling heap. As the floor gave way a great cry went up from the multitude, but in an other second It had fallen and carried in Its ruin the lives of several persons. Those at the top of the mass escaped easily, bat when the pit was partly emptied those victims still entrapped could not ilainlK'rupIhesteepsides.audlhevtranipled over each other like so many wild creatures, the strong getting on top and the weak being trashed beneath the great weight. Although there a thousand people ready to rash to the rescue, they ooild render very little aid to the hclplc-s persons in the pit. and several minuteselapsedlieforeropesand ladders could.be procured. When assist ance rinally reached the unfortunate victims several had already bee-i tramp'cd to death and others ratally injured. The old Catholic church nearby was turned into a hospital ard morgue. Into this were carried those who were killed and Injured. Notwithstanding the shock or the accident, the priests succeeded In quieting the crowd and continued the services. The contractors are said to be respon sible for the accident, poor timbtrs being used for the support of the platform. The mayor and other city officials lent a help ing band in caring for the injured. The town to night Is in deep mourning over the accident. MINISTER TERRELL DENOUNCED Armenians of Chicago Say What Tliey Tlilnk or the Texan. Chicago, Oct. 7 Mlntter Terrell, who represents the United States in the Turkkh court, was denounced unscathingly at a meeting of the Armenian National Union, held at Odd Fellows' Hall yesterday. The union passed resolutions demanding Ter rell's recall. The Armenian residents of Chicago were out In Torce, and they gave strong nnd em phatic announcement of their disgust at Minister Terrell for what they consider his apathy and indifference. There was no mincing or words, and the speakers indulged in positive lieratlngs or the Texan diplomat, who, they say, mis represents this nation Instead of making a firm aud dignified stand for the protection of people who are being pcr-ecutcdaudmur-dcred by the atrocious Turks. BURGLAR IN LOVE. Surrenders That Ho May Serve Sen tence nnd Be F'rco. Boston. Oct. 7. Andrew J. Freeman, postofflce thief, gentleman burglar and highwayman, who has escaped from three prisons' who has time and again held several officers at bay with his revolver; who has terrorized villages and carried off thousands of dollars' worth of booty in the face or pursuers, quietly surrenJt red when a Boston police inspector informed him that he was wanted at headquarters. Andy explained that hejs In love, wants to get married and desires to expiate his crimes as speedily as possible that he may enjoy wedded blisi. New York Consc'Tico.. The Secretary or the Treasi" to-day re ceived In an envelope posti.TLed Sew York from an unknown pcrsmiic sum of $10, whit h has been deposited In the Treas ury on acuount of conscience. THEIR MfUIOKS VANISH Potomac Flats Cases Decided Against the Claimants. WERE ALL THEOWN OUT Justice Ifngner Read the Decision of the Court In General Term It Holds That the Claimants Have No Hljjht or Title in the Terrlf orj In Question. The famous Totomac flats cases hav been decided against the claimants. The decision was rendered this morn ing. Justice Hagner reading it for the court In general term It repudiates the claims of a large num ber or persons to any right or tltli'in the lands affected, ami will probably decide forever the much disputed point as to the title or the made lands or the Potomac ad joining this city. Justice Hagner read the opinion, which was comprised In about 200 type-written pages, while Chler Justice Bingham and Justice McComas, the other numbers or the court, sat beside him on the bench. The scene presented in the courtroom was remarkable and probably unprecedented. There are in all some two score and ten claimants represented lu the large and valuable territory under litigation, and each claimant was represented by one or more attorneys, until the room was filled with an aggregation of the best legal talent or the Washington bar. MARSHALL CASE FIRST. Counsel rilled every seat In the room. Mi. Hugh Taggart, or tLe District attorney's office, the sole proseculing"counsel of the Government, entered the court-room just before the court arrived and teated him seir at a table. Judge Hagner began reading the opinion at 10.15 o'clock. The argument or the caee cunsumed about seven weeks or the terra last spring. It was the suit of-the Government to de termine and protect its Interest in the river front, the river and the "made" land h the Potomac from the G street wharf to the ArtenaL This suit was brought in accordance with an act or Congress or August 5, 188C, di recting the Attorney General to take such necessary steps by instituting proceedings in court to establish how much or the terri tory beloDgs to the Government and how much, U any, to the respective claimants. After a preliminary rehearsal of the his tory of the great case. Justice Harner took up and parsed upon the merits of the reeiccuve claimants, dividing them into seven general classes for convenience. The firpt was the claim or the Marshall helrp. They claimed the river rront, the u-ianus mat nave since been built up, and even the ground itself over which the Po tomac flowp. They traced ti.elr ownership back to a grant made by a charier of Kina Charles H in 1649. .....wTrjr.T.OF, .THE .,T!UI.IG After a long historical review of the in tncate grants and conveyances resulting In, the evolatlon of Maryland Into a State and the disintegration of the tract composing the District of Columbia, Judge Hagner read: "Therefore we detide that the Marshal heirs have no rights, title or interest in any land bordering upon or lying under the waters or the rotomae." A maninir ran throagh theerowded room, and an expression or 'egret, mingled with relief, fell like a pall over the faces of a quartet or more of the attorneys seated aboat. Judge Hagner proceeded anil took up the tlaimof the Kidwell heirs, who assert title to that portion or the Potomac flats west or Long Bridge by right of an alleged grant made by the Government to John Kidwell in 1SG9. The territory Is still known as Kid well's Island, or better as the reclaimed Hats. The Government ilaimed that the alleged pate'it shou Itl be dtt tared mil 1 and void be cause or rraud and deception used in secur ing it. The King had a right over the water ways, and the contention of the Govern ment's attorney, the decision ran, that Con gress, whit h governs the DNtritt of Co lumbia, has nt right to grant patents to the waterwavs. could not lit sustained by the eoirt. The rights of the people are, however, sujienor to those of individuals, and when the improvements of the latter cncro-ich upon the free circumlocution ol the liotly or the people the patent may be annulled, revoked or t ireum-scribcd. At 1:20 o'clock the court resumed the delivery or the opinion, passing on to the third or the seven subdiv isloat. This dealt with the claim made by the Chf sapcake & Ohio Canal Company and Its lessee. Htnry II. Dodge. t"fiparian rights irom Easby Point to Seventeenth street. CANAL COMPANY'S CLAIM. Thee rights, the canal company claimed, had fallen to them through various grants rrom the States or Virginia and ilarytand, beginning with a patent rrom the former State in 1824. Certain accumulations of soil nnd sed meat have forrmil tangible bodies of land in the water over which the company- claimed its early riparian ownership. Whatever rights the Chesapeake & Ohio Caul Company had acquired hi the riparian property, read Judge Hagntr, it got with the full knowledge that It lay in the power of Congress at any time to revoke that right, and the court therefore decided that the canal company's claim was unfounded. Since, said the court, the claim of Henry II. Dodge as lessee, is wlolly depeudtnt upon the right held by the company, it, too, must expire upon Hie annihilation or tb company's claim, aud the court so adju dicated. WHERE THE GOVERNMENT ERRED. At the tlmeor the grant in 1S69, the court said, the Kidwell meadows wre completely under water, and were nothing more or less than a marsh with wild rice growing on Hum. Not a particle or soil came to the surface of the water. Congress, of course, had a right to Issue a patent, but it would have been a breach of the trust imposed in that botly to hav deeded away property that might be avail able in the future growth of the republic's Capital. '1 he Commissioner of the Land Of rice had no right to deliver the patent to the ter ritory for the reason that the land ceded to the Government from MaryUind was for the use of the Government The decision was adverse to the Kid well heirs and the pall that hatl pre viously fallen spread to the faces of other lawyers. At 12.30 o'clock, on the conclusion ol the ruling In the Kidwell case, anil aftet Judge Hagner's voice had grown hoarse with the unbroken reading of "two and a quarter hours, a recess was taken until 1:15 o'clock. The furlh claimo was taken up and passed upon. This, as the three preceding claims, was adjudged a victory for the Government. The contestants, ad verse to the republic's rights, were the owners or lots in the tquarcs along the river west or Seven teenth street. These squares were as fol lows: Nos. 22. 63, 89. 129 and 113 and square suti or square 12. Riparian rights were here in controversy also, de'cendents of the late Robert Peter, an The fifth body of claimants were toa (Continued on Second Page.) X J ie&emsatt!isti&aa3EaBaBtasssaa&& Nii &?'?&.M wua2frfcassflafe ls&&E&k&2i34i&gi ,. msS?2 BiSKW4- n