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VOL, XL
BY FIRE_AND FLOOD,
A Great Thunder, Lightning
and Hail Storm Visits
Virginia.
The Water in the Harbor at
Norfolk Much Higher Than
Ever Before.
Slaking Lime on a Wharf
Causes an Immense Con
flagration.
The Ship Pensacola Sinks—
The Storm in Other
Parts.
Nobfoek, Va., April 7.— The storm
of thunder, lightning and hail which
broke over the city yesterday morning
changed at 10 o'clock last night, turn
ing into a cyclone, the wind blowing at
the rate of fifty-four miles an hour until
5 o'clock this morning. The wind came
from the northeast and blew into , the
harbor and its tributaries, a tide '.which
at high water this morning at 1:36
o'clock, was eighteen inches higher
than ever recorded before. The lower
part of the city was flooded, and fire
broke out on Water street, caused from
slaking line on the wharf of John O.
Carnage and Son. The entire block,
with the exception of Savage, Son
6 Co.'s, commission merchants,
was in flame. The old cotton exchange
building, containing about 300 bales of
cotton, and the warehouse of J.W.
Perry & Co., containing about 000 bales
of cotton, were totally destroyed. Santos
«_: Bro., coal dealers, lost everything ex
cept their office building. Batchelder
& Collins, coal, lumber and lime, are
damaged to the amount of $4,000. John
A. Gamage's loss, including building,
is $10,000. The loss on buildings and
stock destroyed in this block is esti
mated at $150,600, partly insured. It is
probably that the losses sustained by the
wholesale grocery merchants from the
water forced into their warehouses by
the unprecedented tide will reach nearly
equal this amount. Hundreds of barrels
of sugar, flour and other goods
are ruined. During the storm the
roofs of the opera house, Masonic tem
ple and many dwellings were torn off,
and the Virginia Beach railroad depot
Is badly injured, and the track for
hundreds of yards is seriously damaged.
In Portsmouth, fire destroyed the lime
and lumber yard of Trugie & Hill. The
United States ship Pensacola sank in
dry dock last night, where she was
being repaired for sea. Her sea valves
had been opened for inspection, and
another one was being cut. The tide
flooded the dock, and she filled with
water, and, getting off her keel, sank
before she could be gotten in position
again. A diver will have to be sent
down and her valves stopped up and
the ship pumped out. The Simpson dry
dock was flooded and the damage may
reach $40,000. The wires along the coast
are all down. No reports can be had
from shipping. It is feared that serious
damage has been done, as there was no
warning of the storm given.
Chablottesville, Va., April 7.—
The snow storm which began early yes-
terday morning continued through the
night. The telegraph wires are badly
broken down along the Chesapeake &
Ohio and the Richmond & Danville
railroads, and all trains are delayed.
Richmond, Va., April The worst
storm of the season prevailed here yes
terday. It commenced with thunder
and lightning, and was followed by
rain, hail, snow and high wind.
Winchester, Ya., April 7.— A furi
ous snow storm and blizzard prevailed
here all day. Yesterday the snow fell
to a depth of fourteen inches, as much
as has fallen during the entire winter.
At 10:30 yesterday morning, while the
snow was falling so rapidly as to be al
most impenetrable, a loud clap of thun
der from southeast startled the citizens.
The winds were high all day. Tele
graph wires are clown in all directions.
Alexandria, Ya., April The
Baltimore steamer Sue reached here
ahead of time last night, having been
prevented by the storm from making
her usual landings on the Potomac, and
so came straight up the river. Capt.
Geoghenan reports that he never saw
such a sea in the Potomac river. Capt.
McKenney's fishing schooner Daniel
Augusta was wrecked on the ledge of
rocks at the mouth of Quautico creek.
Almost all the fish were swept away on
the Potomac.
West Point, Ya., April 7.— fatal
wreck occurred on the York river
branch of the Richmond & Danville
railroad, about two miles above this
place, about 9 o'clock last night. The
heavy rains of yesterday washed out a
culvert and a part of the dam between
the tank pond and the river, and an
engine and seven freight cars plunged
into the washout. Two men, a
colored brakeman and the fiieman, a
young man named Durvin were buried
under the cars and killed. The body of
the fireman has been gotten out, but the
colored man has not yet been found.
The engineer, named Lynch, was ter
ribly scalded, but managed to crawl out
of the wreck. During yesterday a thun
der storm raged here, while the wind
blew a gale and the rained poured. The
high tide of last night submerged the
lower part of the town, and did consid
erable demage to property.
ALONG THE COAST. "^
The Storm the Worst in Many
Years.
Baltimore, Md., April o.— The storm
yesterday seems to have done consider
able damage all along the bay as far as
Cape Henry. As yet telegraphic com
munication has not been restored, atd
it will be impossible to get much
news from the bay until to
morrow. Vessels destined for this port
may pass the capes without the fact
being known in Baltimore, owing to the
prostration of the wires. A number of
vessels, which left here Friday and Sat
urday, were anchored in the bay afraid
to venture outside, and the only infor
mation to be obtained from the capes is
by means of reports from incoming ves
sels. AH the late arrivals report the storm
in the bay the worst iv many years.
Old Chesapeake fairly humped herself
aud made things howl for a time. The
storm blew all day yesterday and late
into the night. It was accompanied by
rain, hail and snow,, and made the.
decks of vessels dangerous. The Nor
folk-boat Georgia, which was due here
early yesterday morning, had not put in
an appearance up to a late hour to-night.
The steamer Baltimore, from West
Point, Na., did not arrive here until 10
o'clock to-nignt. Capt. Nichols says the
storm was the most terrific known on
the York river. All the houses on the
lowlands along the river were sub
merged, and the river is covered with
floating cord wood and debris. All the
fish ponds— a hundred or more — the
flats at the mouth of the river were
destroyed, entailing heavy loss. Above
Yorktown a two-masted schooner and a
three-masted schooner loaded with rail
road ties are ashore. A small two
masted schooner is sunk about eight
miles east of Windmill point.
Washington, April 7.— The storm of
yesterday gave place to-day to bright
sunshine and a fresh, bracing wind.
The storm badly interrupted electrical
communication, and workmen were
busy all day repairing damaged
telegraph and telephone wires.
The telegraph situation is par
peculiarly bad south of Washington,
'here are 384 poles down between Al
exandria and Fredericksburg, Va., and
150 of them are in a stretch of country
about five miles in length. Communi
cations for southern cities are being tel
egraphed to-night via Cincinnati.
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EXULTANT BOULANGISTS.
They Claim the Patriotic Leagne
Verdicts Were a Government
Rebuff.
Pabis, April 7.— France demands
the expulsion of Gen. Boulanger. All
the newspapers admit that the re
sult of the trial of the leaders of the
Patriotic league is a rebuff to the gov
ernment. The Boulangists are exultant
over the outcome of the trial. The
Temps counsels the government to con
sider well the responsibility involved in
the trial of Gen. Boulanger. Boulang
ist journals assert that all the members
of the Boulangist national committee
will be tried by the senate. Senator
Montesquieu-Fezensac declines to sit as
a member of the exceptional tribunal.
London, April 7.— Tne Times cor
respondent in Brussels says that Prince
Victor Napoleon visited Gen. Boulanger
Saturday, and that the two held a long
conference Sunday in a restaurant in
the outskirts of the city.
STARVING CHINESE
Who Are Giyen no Attention by
Their Government.
San Fbancisco, Cal., April The
following comment was received here
by steamer, and is made by the North
China News, on the apparent negligence
of the Chinese government in leaving
to foreign missionaries the relief of
the starving people in the Northern
provinces: "Almost the whole mis
sionary staff in the two famine dis
tricts is engaged in the work of relief,
and yet they report that they are only
able to touch the fringe of the disaster.
This can be averted for a time
at the eqpense of something less than
half a penny a head a day, and there
is no permanence in it. Every bit of
this work should be done by the Chinese
government. In the great famine of
twelve years ago there was some excuse
foa the people being allowed to starve,
for the districts afflicted were prac
tically inaccessible. There is no
such excuse now. The famine
disricts are perfectly accessible
to the foreign missionaries and their
wives, and. a fortiori, to the Chinese
officials. There is plenty of food in the
country, ship loads of grain are going
away every day from Anhui and
Kiaugsu-to the south in the ordinary
course of trade, but not one load of them
goes on the government account to the
famine districts."
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Loaned Him $5,000.
special to tne giodc.
Fergus Falls, April 7.--The city
council and chamber of commerce have
made 0. F. Collier a loan of $5,000 for
five years, at six per cent interest, and
Mr. Collier has gone to Chicago to buy
the machinery for a drying kiln and
other extensive additions to his wood
working establishment. A large num
ber of citizens are opposed to this loan,
and it is thought that there will be
vigorous opposition to any further bo
noses or loans of the city's money.
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Sebastian Gets It.
Chicago, April 7.— lt is officially an
nounced that John Sebastian has been
appointed general passenger agent of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail
way, vice E. A Holbrook, resigned.
There has been an understanding
ever since Mr. Holbrook's resignation
several months ago, that Mr. Sebastian
would get the place, but the appoint
ment was delayed pending the con
solidation of the management of the
Rock Island lines east and west of the
Missouri river.
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Health in Florida. .
Washington, April. 7.— dozen or
more sanitarians from the North and
West left Washington late to-night for
Jacksonville, pursuant to a resolution
of the Florida legislature, inviting
public health men to visit the state and,
with the Florida state board of health,
look into the sanitary condition of
Florida. They expect to spend a week
in travel and inspection throughout the
state.
The Scripmeu Win.
Marquette, Mich., April 7.— The
great land fight between the soldiers'
scrip entrymen and the actual home
steaders, which has been on trial for
some time, was decided last night in
favor of the scrip entrymen. The land
lies on the limits of the Marquette,
HoughtonJ& Ontonagon grant, and con
tains pine valued at $2,800,000.
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It Failed to Swim.
Boston, April 7.— The Boston Advo
cate, a journal of the colored people of
this city, owned and published by John
D. Powell Jr., has suspended publica
tion. Cause, failure of many persons
to pay money owing to the paper. It
was Republican in politics.
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Will Continue the Strike.
St. Louis, April Fifteen hundred
striking carpenters held a meeting to
day and decided to continue the strike.
The offer of the master builders was re
jected until the journeymen carpenters'
union is recognized by them.
m
No Duel, Thanks.'
Paris, April 7.— -The trouble between
M. Rochefort and M. Thiebaud has
been amicably settled by friends, and
the proposed duel between them will not
be fought. _" - ■ * . '
They Walk at Rochester.
Rochester, N. V., April 7.— There
were no cars run to-day. The strikers
are still firm. * ..--. '.
Oil and Gas.; :
Andoyer. N. V., April 7.— -Three
new gas wells have just been struck in
the Audover field, and it is said that oil
. has been foun-eL'^fea^BK
HALF A MILLION GONE
Destruction of the Hubbard
Axe, Shovel and Saw Fac
tories, Pittsburg.
The Entire Plant, With Its
Valuable Machinery, a
Mass of Ruins.
Story of the Terrible Death of
a Woman of Eighty in a
Burning: House.
Five Persons Drowned by the
Sinking of a Barge—
Savannah Fire.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 7.— The ex
tensive ax, shovel and saw factories of
Hubbard & Co., located at the foot of
Forty-eighth street, were completely
destroyed by fire this morning, entail
ing a loss of fully half a million dollars.
The fire was discovered in the shovel
factory about 10:30 o'clock this morning
and spread so rapidly that in twenty
minutes after the fire department ar
rived the four immense buildings were
in flames. The two main buildings
were each 326 by GO feet, and the
other two buildings were formed as
"L's," each being about 150 feet long
and 50 feet wide. The buildings were
all frame, and being more or less sat
urated with grease, burned with such
rapidity that the most -heroic efforts
put forth by the firemen failed to stop
the fire in the least, and in less than
two hours and a half the entire plant,
with its valuable machinery and stock,
was a mass of ruins. Only a small sec
tion of what had been used as the office
was left standing, and this was so badly
scorched and damaged that it was in
danger of falling at any moment. The
wind was
BLOWING A STIFF BP.EEZE
and it was feared the adjoining foun
dry of McConway, Torley & Co. would
go also, but after a noble fight, the fire
men saved it and prevented the flames
from spreading further. Mr. Hubbard
states that the loss of the buildings,
machinery and stock will be fully $500,
--000 and that it is nearly covered by in
surance, but in what companies he
could not state, as - the insurance was
placed by a local agency. Mr. Murphy,
the general manager, stated that there
was an immense stock of goods on
hand, which had been piled up during
the winter, because of a lack of orders,
and that 950 dozen of axes were boxed
for shipment to-morrow morning. The
firm employed 350 men, who will be
thrown out of employment, pending the
rebuilding of the plant, which will be
done immediately. The large plant of
the firm at Beaver Falls will also be
forced to close down, as the stock for
the ax factory there is furnished from
the works in this city. The origin of
the fire is a mystery. Mr. Huobard
stated that no fires were burning about
the works.
MET AN AWFUL DEATH.
A Widow of Eighty Dies in the
Flames in Ohio.
Steebentilee, 0., April Bridget,
widow of the late William Kelly, living
in a small house between here and Ali
kanna, was burned to death last even
ing. She was about eighty years of
age, feeble and childish. Her grandson
left her alone to come into town. Patsy
Powers, a boy, saw smoke issuing from
the windows, and gave the alarm. . Eu
gene Galviu and some hands from the
Alikanna mill went inside. They found
the poor old lady lying on the floor,
with her feet close to the fireplace aud
her body burned brown and to a crisp.
ne ciotniug ami nair were ournect on.
The stench was sickening. The rag
carpet was burned and smouldering
around her for some distance. The
cloth upon the table, where she had evi
dently attempted to get her supper to
gether, was burning. W hen they tooK
hold and carefully lifted her on the bed,
their hands stuck to the burned flesh,
and yet she was alive and moaning, liv
ing for an hour in terrible sugering. It
is a strange coincidence that her mar
ried daughter, a Mrs. Yocum, was
burned to death in the same house a
few years ago.
DEATH TO FIVE.
Loss of Life Through the Sinking
of a Barge.
Philadelphia, April 7.— The barge
Sunrise, bound from Norfolk for New
York with coal, was towed to the buoy
of the Brown (Del bay) and anchored by
the tug B. W. Morse for a harbor yes
terday afternoon during a heavy gale,
and at midnight foundered and sunk.
The captain, his wife, and two children,
also one seaman, was lost. Jos Coyle,
the remaining seaman, was holding the
barge's skiff alongside for his com
panions to escape, when the painter
parted and he was unable to reach the
barge's side again. He drifted down
with the tide and the gale drove his
boat ashore near the iron pier (Dela
ware breakwater), where he was picked
up by the Lewes life station patrol.
DRIFTED TO DEATH.
Drowning of the Postmaster of
Dakota City, Neb.
Special to the Globe.
Sioux City, To.. April The
drowning of Henry Herweg, postmas
ter at Dakota City, Neb., in the Mis
souri river a few miles below this city,
was a peculiarly sad event. Deceased
was one of the prominent men of that
section and well known in trade circles.
In company with M. O. Ayers and W.
C. Dibble, he went to a sandbar in the
middle of the river to hunt. He shot a
water fowl that fell in the middle -of
the stream and went after it in a boat.
While returning the boat was -* over
turned, and his cries brought his com
panions. Ayers stripped and plunged
into the cold water, but was overcome
by the cold, and barely managed to get
back to the shore completely exhausted.
All this time Herweg clung to the over
turned boat and drifted the length of
the bar, over a mile, his companions all
the time urging him to make an effort
to swim or push the boat to the bar. He
was greatly frightened, and after the
boat drifted 300 yards below the point
of the bar, he let go. and at once sank
out of sight. Herweg leaves a wife
and two children. .;..„-*
Her Body Recovered.
Special to the Globe.
Grand Forks, Dak., April 7.— The -
body ot _■___, Snetziaser, who was
SAINT PAUL, MINN., MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1889.
drowned Friday, night, was recovered?
to-day. It was six miles down the
river. No inquest will beheld. The :
funeral occurs to-morrow. :"-*;:
THE SAVANNAH BLAZE. \''"j
Additional Details of the Fire in
the Southern City. .-;.■?;:,;
Savannah, Ga., April 7.— ln addition
to the property mentioned as burned out
by last night's fire, four stores, running
west from Barnard street and facing
north on Broughton street, were de
destroyed. Three of these buildings
were the property of J. D. Weed, and
were nearly fully insured; the corner
store was occupied by J. T. Cohen,
dealer in general merchandise, whose
loss is from $15,000 to $20,000, with light
insurance; G.W. Allen, crockery dealer,
in the next store, loss, $17,000, but is
three-fourths covered by insurance;
Cornwall & Chipman's stock of stoves
and household furnishing goods in
the next store, was completely de
stroyed; Lindsay & Morgan, furniture
dealers in the next store had a stock
valued at $55,000 and carried an insur
ance of about three-fourths : that
amount. The building was occupied by
the last-named firm and was owned by
the estate of Edward Lovell. -The total
number of buildings burned is esti
mated at fifty. The present prospect is
that the larger and finer ones will be re
placed by new ones equally as good as
those destroyed. The sites of many of
the inferior structures now gone will be
covered by buildings that will be a
great improvement over the old ones.
The loss of the Independent Presby
terian church and chapel, the guards
armory, the Odd Fellows' building, the
Hanley building and Hogan & Doug
lass block, however, are greatly to be
regretted. No loss of life or serious in
jury to person occurred, and last night's
dispatch covered the conflagration so
fully that little or nothing is left unsaid.
At midnight the total loss is estimated
at $750,000; total insurance, $500,000.
The handsome residence of H. Krous
koff. in the southern part of the city,
was burned to-night. The fire started
from sparks which lodged in the roof
during Saturday night's fire. The total
loss is $15,000; three-fourths covered by
insurance.
SIMPLY DROWNED.
The Body of Adam Heilbrun
Found in Lake Erie.
Ebie, Pa., April 7.— The sea gave up
its dead to-day, and explained away
the mysterious disappearance of Adam
Heilbrun, the missing butcher, who"
was supposed to have been mur
dered in the vicinity of Girard
last fall. Heilbrun's horses were
found drowned in Elk creek at the
time. His body could not be found,
and as he was known to have money,
and his papers being found on the
shore, the circumstances gave ground
for the suspicion that he had met with
foul play. Heilbrun's body was found
five miles from where he lost his life,
and in the lake. His watch, jewelry
and a good-sized sum of money were
still on his person. His family, in Pe
ducah, Ky., have been notified.
The Car Tipped Over.
New Yobk, April 7.— Several hun
dred men, bound for City island on a
fishing trip, got off a- Harlem River
branch railroad train at Barstow to-day.
They then got oh six - ordinary horse
cars and two flat cars on the Pelhara
Park railroad. One of the flat cars, on
which sixty men were standing, while
being driven rapidly along a sharp
curve near Island City, was overturned.
The passengers were thrown in every
direction, and several were caught un
der the car. Fifteen men were hurt,
several severely. Jacob Hafelfiuger's
condition is critical. ■;.-* -.* ;
Ate Wild Parsnips.
Special to the Globe.
Febgus Faces; April The two
children of R. Moore, who lives on the
Blackie farm near Lake Lida, were in
tbe woods playing, and dug up some
roots which they ate. The roots were
of some poison plant, supposed to be
wild parsnip, and one of the children, a
little boy, died shortly afterwards, be
fore medical aid could be obtained, in
intense agony. The other child, a girl
a year or two older, is still alive, but is
in a very dangerous condition.
Discovered In Time.
Special to the Globe.
Baldwin, Wis., April 7.— About 2°
o'clock this morning au attempt was '
made to fire A. J. Bockus' jewelry store j
and the American Express company's
office. One of the rear corners ot the
building was saturated with kerosene.
The fire was discovered Gy Policeman .
Woolsey, who, after firing two shots at
the retreating incendiary, extinguished '
the flames.
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They Are Destitute.
Panama (via Galveston), April 7.— "-
Since the suspension of work on the
canal over 8,000 laborers have been re-"
patriated from the Isthmus. A consu
lar investigation shows that there are j
still over 3,000 persons on the line of the;
works who are in a destitute condition. ;
Some deaths from starvation have al
ready been reported, and it is feared , ■
that many more will occur if prompt
measures are not taken by the West :
Indian governments to send the people
back to th=ir homes. Negroes and \
women and children are the . worst
"sufferers. Despite the great distress
good order prevails.
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Bad Place to Quarrel. ;a~| ;
St. Louis, Mo.. April 7. Larry Mc- f
Donald and John Schneider, govern- j
ment employes working on the Misssrs-.
sippi river improvement commission,
quarreled in a small skiff in the middle
of the river to-day. The men clinched,-* -
and a terrible struggle followed.". ; Mc- \
Donald proved the more powerful, and/ ;
seizing Schneider about the waist, threw !
him headlong into the river. Schneider ;
was drowned. McDonald rowed ashore
and escaped. ■'■ ■ \ -1
Ridicules Our Navy, s f A
Shanghai, April 7.— Wou Kwang
Pei, formerly of the Chinese embassy I
at Washington, advocates the expulsion
of every American in the service of
China, as a reprisal for the exclusion of
Chinamen from America. In . a memo
rial on the subject he refers with con- '
tempt to the American navy, which he
declares would be powerless iv an ag- '
gressive movement^
Acquitted of Murder. . "A
Special to the Globe. - ■<
Ashland, Wis., April 7.— -Benjamin .
Lombard was acquitted of murder at
Bayfield in the circuit court. Evidence
showed that he killed his man during a
drunken fight. -r.;-|
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A Decreased Output. A . Z
Augusta, * Me., April 7.—Logging ;
operations in the Maine woods \ are •
closed; The cut of the Kennebec lum
bermen shows a decrease, as compared,
with last year, and ■ the same ■ may be
said of the Penobscot product. AY : '•■
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The Loss Nearly $1,000,000. s.»
London, April 7.— A dispatch^ from
India says that hundreds of houses have ~
been destroyed by fire at Surat.
loss ia placed at £200,000. .. A'A'a'AA;- I
MORAN IS NO MORE,
The Terror of the Flat Top
I Coal Region Is Now Cold
in Death.
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-His Last Fight Doubtless the
j?i Fiercest in Which He
I Ever Engaged.
He Falls Pierced by Twelve
Bullets, Dying Without
Uttering a Word.
A Woman Fires Five Shots
v Detectives Hit by Eight
%U Balls. .
1 Bbamweee, W. Va., April 7.— The
details of the killing of Bill Moran, the
terror of the Flat Top coal region,
which occurred last Tuesday at a point
about twenty miles from Pocahontas, in
Bramv.ell county, Virginia, shows the
fight, which ended in the death of the
outlaw, to have beeu one of the most
exciting and desperate ever known in
•this part of the country. Moran has
for a year past been a veritable terror to
the people along the border between
the two states, and for the past three
"months he has been especially ob
noxious, openly defying the au
thorities, running things pretty
much as he pleased, and declaring at
'.every opportunity that he would never
be taken alive. He kept his word in
that particular, only giving up the
ghost after he bad" been pierced by a
dozen revolver balls, and fighting to the
last, • although confronted by three
armed men. The particular circum
■ stances which led up to the killing of
Moran dates back about two weeks. At
that lime he got on a big drunk at Falls
'Mills, W. Va.. shot into the depot sev
eral times, causing the occupants to
flee FOB tiieib lives,
: broke windows, threw the switch lamps
into the river and promised to kill any
lone offering to interfere with him. He
.was let alone for the time being, but the
railroad people determined to put an
,end to such outlawry and sent for
•Detective Baldwin, of the Eureka
agency, headquarters at Charleston.
•Baldwin swore out a warrant for Moran
-March 31 and, accompanied by Detec
tives Wallace and Robinson, start
ed in search of Moran. They
r located him in Tazewell county,
{"Virginia, Monday night last, and
the following morning about 5
o'clock the officers went to the house
'-.where. he was hiding. Baldwin went
■up to the door and asked for a drink of
tw^ater, and Wallace and Robinson, com
ing up about the same time, Baldwin
! s"aid: "He's here; I'll make a break for
-him and you two follow quick." Bald
win at once sprang through the door
, into one of the two rooms, and, seeing a
man in a bed in one corner, supposed it
was Moran, and called to him to sur
render. Just then
MOBAX APPEAEED
at the door of the other room, and fired
two shots at Baldwin, one passing
through his coat, on a line with his
heart, and the other striking him in the
arm near the wrist. By this time Wall
ace and Robinson were in the house,
and the firing became general. Wallace
went down with one shot in the mouth
and two in his light arm, and Robinson
fired five shots at the outlaw, when his
pistol was knocked from bis hand
by a bullet ; which cut off one
of his fingers. A woman in the
house also fired five shots at Moran and
then fainted. Moran shot all the car
tridges from his two revolvers and then
fell. He died in two minutes, and
when examined twelve wounds were
found on him, six being in his body.
The three detectives received eight
balls. Wallace is lying at the point of
death at a house near the scene of the
shooting, and Baldwin rode twenty
miles for a doctor for him before he
would have his own wounds dressed.
Moran never spoke after the firing be
gan. There is general satisfaction at
his death. -"...'
at*
REDS FEEL BETTER.
Sitting Bull and Gall May Yet
Sell Their Lands.
Special to the Globe. -
Bismarck, Dak., April The re
port that the commission would soon be
appointed by the president to confer
with the Indians for the. opening of
the great .Sioux reservation is received
with much interest among the Indians
at Standing Rock, who are headed by
Sitting Bull, Gall, John Grass and the
other notorious chiefs. The Indians
are pleased with the action of -the gov
ernment in increasing the price
to "be paid them from 50 cents
per . r acre *to - $1.25, and many
of them have already expressed
their willingness to accept the terms of
the treaty. Even Sitting Buli and Gall,
who were so bitterly, opposed to the
treaty submitted last year, have given
utterance to friendly expressions, and
there is little doubt of success. A re
cent arrival- from the Standing Rock
agency says he is positive that Sitting
Bull "and" Gall will accept the treaty,
but: that- the commission should be so
selected that it will know how to deal
with the Reds, which was not the case
with the commission of a year ago that
was controlled by Capt. Pratt.
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GOING TO OKLAHOMA.
Chicago Roys Who Want to Live
on a Farm. '
. Chicago, April 7.— A meeting under
the auspices of tlie "Chicago Oklahoma
Settlers' association" was held to-day in
a little hall at 208 Blue Island avenue.
The purpose was to organize a colony to
locate in the ■ newly-opened territory.
Nearly 200 men crowded into the room
eager to enlist in the | project, and were
received as members of the association.
Philip Sunfield acted as chairman ofthe
meeting and M. McGuire as vice presi
dent- .McGuire said "it was the inten
tion lof the association to 1 organize an
Oklahoma colony composed of Chicago
boys, willing to face hardships for the
. chance.. of; getting a homestead. . The
new territory r> is to '■ be -i thrown open
April 22 for settlement, and applicants
for homesteads will be required to make
affidavit ■ that }. they were 'i not within
Oklahoma previous to that day. >' Conse
quently it is intended to start the ; mem
bers of , the colony . from ' this - city April
a).'* They will reach the line of -the In
dian territory the ; evening "of April 21;
and enter Oklahoma at noon the next
day. - McGuire gave a glowing descrip
tion of the new territory, and ended by
stating that he was bound to be on hand
when the land was parceled out if he
had to walk the whole distance and make
tbe jpurney alone. Frank Taos, a cow
boy, who had been across the territory
several times, described the land and
spok of the danger the new settler will
have to avoid. * He. said some of the
country was well-watered, but that a
great deal of land would have to be irri
gated. Others spoke, declaring that
there were already more men waiting to
enter the territory than there were
homesteads of 160 acres each. A news
paper clipping was read, which stated
that there would be much fighting be
tween settlers and squatters, and that
murder promised to be as common as
pre-emption. Notwithstanding these
discouragements, almost every man in
the room manifested a willingness to
join the colony. Among them were
clerks, small storekeepers, idlers and
workmen, but all alike seemed pos
sessed of the boom spirit.. *""".;
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.THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA.
A Newspaper Syndicate to Do a
Little Exploring.
Evansville, lnd., April 7.— A strong
newspaper syndicate, composed of some
of the leading and greatest dailies in
America, has just been consummated
by Mr. A. J. Miller, of this city, for the
purpose of a scientific exploring expe
dition to the unfrequented portions of
Central - America. The syndicate is
composed of such papers as the
New York Sun, Louisville Courier-
Journal, St. Louis Republic, and others,
including the Tribune, of this city, of
which Mr. Miller is the present
editor. The expedition will consist
of Mr. Miller as manager; Prof.
Thomas Darragh, naturalist and texi
dermist: Prof. J. Roy Brown, geologist
and archeologist, and William H. Ven
able, of Atlanta. The will be joined at
Belize, British Honduras, by Dr.
Thomas H. Ross, who precedes the
expedition to make certain preliminary
arrangements. The expedition will sail
from New Orleans on May 1, and first
visit Northern Guatamala and the
region of Lake Petin, the ancient
home of the Mayas and Itzaes. From
thence they will visit all of the five
republics. The primary object of the
expedition is to explore those por
tions of Central America which have
heretofore remained a terra incognita
to the outside world. A special
effort will be made to discover the
source of the Rio Wanka, in Honduras,
and determine its possibilities as a
commercial highway. To this end they
will receive the moral aid of the gov
ernment of Honduras and the new king
of the Mosquito territory. The explora
tion of this great stream has been un
successfully attempted by the late
lamented E. G. Squier and other travel
ers, but the savage tribes of that sec
tion have always proved an insurmount
able barrier. But more favorable con
ditions now. exist, and Mr. Miller is
sanguine of success and bringing to
light all of the resources of this
section to which the recent death of
old Mosquito king removes the chief
impediment. The expedition expects
to complete its work- in six months.
This is the second journey made by Mr.
Miller through Central America, and
his experience, familiarity with the na
tives, their language and cifstems will
be valvable to the present enterprise in
exploring America's '-dark continent."
■**-*»
ENTIRELY "WITHOUT CLOTHES
Race of a Nude Girl and a Chi
cago Policeman.
Chicago, April 7.— Last night at S
o'clock Miss Clara Miller,aged nineteen,
a daughter of Millionaire John Miller,of
Austin, 111., escaped from a private in
sane asylum—located in the vicinity of
Lincoln Park, in this city— where she
was undergoing treatment. The girl fled
through Lincoln Park, and, as she
ran divested herself of her seal
skin coat, hat, etc., which she
threw away while running like a deer.
Having darted hither and thither,
through the wending pathways of the
park meanwhile tearing off the re
maining clothing, Miss Miller fin
ally succeeded in divesting herself
of every particle of clothing, even to
her shoes and stockings, and in this
condition continued to flee through the
„„vt in a southerly direction, startling
the few people who happened to
be around in the park 'on . so
chilly a night and frightening the
i-a-,rospq of belated pleasure riders
homeward bound. Police Officer Belle
islp saw her as she rushed madly along
and gave immediate chase. On the
form sped, spreading terror. Wl en di
rectly east of the park engine-room it
darted straight toward the building
nnri with a tremendous bound went
in at an open window, falling into the
engine i- Officer Belleisle caught
a -lance of the flying form, and with a
?rv of horror darted forward in the
dark to catch it. He soon brought
the fireman in with the exclama
tion-"'Great heavens, come quick, its
_ woman and she has no clothes on at
•_*,r» »Ye& I'm a girl, but don't tell
anybody " answered the woman, whom
the policeman had caught, and was too
astonished to let her go. "I. want to
sta? here to-night, and don t
want any one to know where I am."
-But you have not any clothes on
n?t evel shoes or stockings," said Offi
cer Bel-isle, "and you are cold. Where
are your clothes?'' -They are about a
mUe from here up in the park. I
?u fed them all off, so 1 could
ou run the doctors and the nurses,
and so people would not know me. I
d"d out-Sin them, and people got scared
of me and ran away; and the horses
a l™ot scared, too, and I ran in here
and am going to stay, too." The
Sneer's old. stiff and greasy over-
SSI were produced by the fireman, and
now shivering girl was induced to
nut the? on .Then the old coat was
hrmJht and wrapped around the slen
der" fora and buttoned up to the chin.
A li°lit was brought and both men
were astonished to see before them
? talf, Sender, delicate-looking
wom>!n 'with skin as white as
suow, an oval face with eline nt
culture, and intellect showing in every
lineament, dark gray eyes, with a
sparkling, alert expression and black
hair. The .North Halstead street patrol
wagon was called and the • girl was
taken to the East Chicago avenue sta
tion, but an hour later was returned to
the sanitarium in charge of physicians.
Movements of Steamships.
- New York, April 7.— Ar.ived:
Steamers La Gascogne, Havre; Lake
Huron, ■■ Liverpool via Boston; Exeter
City, Bristol. .-.'-
London,- April 7.— American line
steamer Lord Clive, from Philadelphia,
March; 27, - for Liverpool, arrived at
Queenstown to-day.;
■■'. - San ; Francisco, April . 7.-— Arrived:
Steamer City of Sydney, Hong Kong.
mt
■ Entertained , by. the President. -_
■.'. Washington, April 7.— The .- presi
dent and *; Mrs. : : Harrison ; entertained
Gov. and Mrs. 'Alger," of : Michigan, and
the First Assistant [ Postmaster General
and Mrs. Clarkson at dinner at the
White house this '~^£gM3£3£L\
JOINED M COLONY.
Cashier Pratt, of Anoka, Flies
to Canada With a Load
of Long Green.
He Robs the First National
Bank of About One Hun- J: J
dred Thousand.
A Pretty Widow and a Griev
ing Wife Add Interest to
the Case.
The Sioux City Criminal As
sault Case Growing Ex
ceedingly Torrid.
Special to the Globe.
Anoka, April 7. — The circumstances
under which the doors of the First Na
tional bank were closed Saturday even
ing were first promulgated here to-day.
The announcement that Cashier P. T.
Pratt is proDably in Canada is a start
ling broadside to the citizens of Anoka,
and especially those having accounts
with the bank. Pratt is gone, and with I
him about $100,000 of the long green.
On Friday last, the bank officials
were startled by a notice from the Mer
chants' National Bank of St. Paul that
the account of the First National was
overdrawn $20,000. Investigation
proved that Pratt had drawn $8,000 due
the bank and about $20,000 on his cash
ier's check. The bank examiner was
notified, and, after a hasty overhauling
of the accounts, told the story against
Pratt as a defaulter to the amount of
$100,000 or over. Pratt's whereabouts
unknown to the bank officials, the bank
was placed in the care of the examiner,
who will
APPOINT A BECEIVEB
to settle the affair and close up the
bank's business at once. The bank will
also lose about $10,000 in an overdrawn
account of H. S. Sparks', who. It seems,
was a side partner of Pratt's, investing
in the grain market to a large loss
Pratt allowing Sparks to overdraw his
account. ; v; ,'.:"-
Pratt is charged with fraudulent dis
position of the bank's stock left with
him for sale. He sold his $10,000 worth,
but no record of such sale can be found
in the books. A previous scandal is
another link to Pratt's villainy.
Last summer the people of Anoka
were shocked to learn that
Pratt had been criminally intimate with
a grass widow of doubtful shade. His
wife, an estimable lady, left for Boston
to avoid the chagrin of a brewing
scandal and disgrace. Pratt's enamored
widow went to Minneapolis, and -it is
now learned that she has a bright-eyed
youngster of uncertain parentage. H.
C. Ticknor is president of the bank.
He is one of the pioneer citizens, and
has $8,000 in stock and about the same
amount on deposit. Through Pratt's
', rascality he will probably be called
upon to sink
SEVERAL MOEE THOUSAND DOLLARS
before be can wash the wreck from his
responsibility. The capital stock is
$50,000. Most holders were local busi
ness men, the heaviest losers being A.
C.Tran man, E. Reed, C. T. Wood
bury, W. Hammons, D. C. Durham,
and M. Peck, of Minneapolis. All the
money taken in on deposit Saturday
will be returned, but that previously
deposited will have to await the settle
ment. The depositors will probably be
paid in full, unless matters are worse
than expected. A reward for Pratt's
capture will be offered at once, but hav
ing a week's start, he is probably in
some safe retreat in Canada. Pratt a
short time ago disposed of . all his real
estate.and leaves nothing but defrauded
victims, who can ill afford to lose so
much money. —;■-**
BAD FOX BLODGETT.
Mary Said Tells a Pretty Serious
Story Involving Him.
Special to the Globe.
Sioux City, 10., April 7.— The arrest
of Attorney O. J. Blodgett, of Correc
tion vi lie, for criminal assault on Mary
Said, his client, continues to cause a
sensation here, where Blodgett is well
known and stood high in legal circles.
As particulars of the case come out it
looks very bad for him." Blodgett was
Miss Said's attorney in the seduction
case that she had brought against the
son of Mr. Petty, in whose employ she
had been as a domestic. She came here
with her father to attend court aud
stopped at the Hotel Booge, where she
had room 209. Her story, as told to her
father, is as follows: I saw Mr. Blod
gett in the hotel parlor, wnere we con
versed about the case in court, and as I
turned to go, he asked to go to my* room
with me. I told him 1 had quit such
business, and left him.
- ABOUT MIDNIGHT
I was awakened by a rap at my door.
I got up, and, going nearly to the door,
. asked who was there. Blodgett said it
was he, and said he had something to
tell me. I suspected that he was not
telling the truth, and said I would see
him in the morning. He said Petty
' and his lawyer had come, and I must ,
see him at once, as something new had I
developed, and it was important that he
should tell me. I unlockedj the door,
and he came in. He at once turned the
key and grabbed me by the waist, pull
ing me on to his lap. 1 struggled to get
away, but he would not let me go, and
1 finally : carried me to the bed and ac
complished his purpose. Since his ar
rest, some of Blodgett's friends have
admitted that defendant told them of
his intercourse with Miss Said, and that
she fought like a tigress.
UNION MEN DID IT.
The Mystery of a Dynamite Ex
plosion Cleared Up. •'.-; *■',
New Yokk, April 7.— The explosion,
presumably of a dynamite bomb, which
occurred on the evening of Feb. 8 in the
area of David Stevenson's brewery, .
■which occupies the west side of Tenth
avenue ' from Thirty-ninth to Fortieth
•. street, has been found to be the work
' of labor union men, four , of whom are
jj now in custody at police ' headquarters.
; The explosive was placed in an area on
the Thirty-ninth • street side, and - tore
away a large piece of the wall, but the
solidity of the masonry prevented : ex
tensive damage. By the arrest of the
. perpetrators, Inspector ' Byrnes got -. to";
[ : ■ the ■ bottom, and one of the four men he
■_- ' has in charge ' has confessed ;■ his com
i ; : plicity with, s and j" told '■ of -* the guilt
I'^of : the other three. The informer is
NO. 98.
Henry A. Fitzgerald, formerly walking
delegate of the Ale and Porter Brewery
Employes' Protective association, who
compose Local Assembly $390, embraced
in District Assembly 49, Knights oi
Labor. The men whom he implicates
in his confession and . who are in cus
tody are John O'Connell, president of
the local assembly; Patrick F. Closa
and Thomas Reardon, members of th*
executive committee of the local as
sembly. O'Connell was president of
the executive committee and reduced
its. members from nine to five when he
undertook to bring Stevenson to terms,
Stevenson having discharged
ALL UNION MEN
and refused to re-employ any but those
who severed their connection with the
union. The four prisoners constituted
the executive committee at the time ofl
the explosion. According to the story,
gathered from the informer's state
ments, this committee went about to in
vent some scheme whereby Stevenson
would be made to recognize the union,
by re-employing its members and dis«
charging the scab workingmen. Tho
first plan approved by the committed
was to send union men to the brewery'
to apply for work and state that they
were not attached to the union. The
men who might secure employment
under this disguise were to
place grease in the beer and
ale vats ' whenever an opportu
nity offered, and in this way destroy the
brew. Several applicants, thus advised,
visited the brewery, but were not given
employment. At a subsequent meeting;
of the executive committee it was de«
termined to appropriate $50 to continue
the fight against Stevenson. The union'
ratified this action. Now the conspira
tors in the executive committee, mad*
furious by failure of their first attempt,
conceived the plan to blow up the brew]
cry. Reardon and Close were delegated
to see a person whose name, though in
the possession of the police, is withheld,
for instructions as to the destructive
element to be used and the method in
which it should be operated. These two
men followed instructions, and reported
that they had succeeded in learning all
that was necessary in the
USE OF AX EXPLOSIVE
with which they had been provided,
The engine of destruction, it wax
planned should be exploded in the en«
gine room. The opportunity to reach
the engine room was not afforded tha
conspirators and they became involved
in a quarrel among themselves which
delayed the use of the explosive. In
carrying out the boycott against tha
brewery, Fitzgerald was charged with
inactivity, and was threatened with sus
pension arom the position of walking
delegate, which yielded him $27.50 <*
week. He finaily was ordered to bo
suspended, but anticipated tha
action by resigning. The explosion
followed. Central "office detectives
who have been on the case
learned recently that O'Connell, who
had been succeeded by Reardon as pres*
ideut of the union, stated at a meeting
that it was"one thing to blow up a brew
ery and another to prove it." Inspector
Byrnes, after securing Fitzgerald's con*
fession, took him before the grand jury
on Friday, where he repeated his con
fession. Upon the evidence presented
the grand jury found indictments
against O'Connell, Reardon and Close,
and bench warrants were issued for
their arrest. O'Connell was taken from
work in the Long Island brewery;
Brooklyn, last evening by Detective
Sergeants Yon Gerichten and Handy.
He describes himself as a married
man, thirty-four years of age.
and a resident of No. : 317
Bergen street, Brooklyn. The other two,
who were arrested at their homes, are
entered on the police books as Patrick
S. Close, forty years old, married, of
No. 3-11 East Forty-first street, New
YorK, and Thomas Reardon, thirty
three years, single. No. 301 West Forty
sixth street. The pedigree and resi
dence of the informer is kept concealed'
by the police. He is at present an in
mate of the house of detention, held as
a witness. The case will be called up
in general sessions court to-morrow,
when the men will be called to plead to
indictments charging them with felony.
About Six and Six.
Special to the Globe.
Helena, Mont., April 7.— Sheriff
O'Neill, of Choteau county, yesterday
arrested Charles and William Farrell,
Jeff Pruitt and another man on the
Marias on the charge of stealing sixty
horses from the Canadian mounted po
lice. The Farrells drove these horses
into the Northwestern territory to
sell. The Canadian custom officers
claim the payment of duty was evaded'
on them and they confiscated the whole
band. The Farrells and Pruitt sup
prised Lee's camp on the night of Feb.
16, recaptured the horses and ran then,
back to the United States.
Killed With a Winchester.
Bessemeb, Ala., April 7.'— Last night
about midnight Policeman John Man
ning went to arrest a negro named
Sandy Jones on a warrant. When Man-,
ning said "Sandy, I want you," the
negro replied, "No, you don't," seized a
Winchester rifle and shot Manning
dead. ' Sandy fired through the door at
three other policemen outside, and then,
dashed off to liberty. He has not been
found.
Originated in Whisky.
Evabt, Mich., April 7.— Frank Doty,
a brakeman on the Flint & Pere Mar
quette railroad, was shot and instantly
killed last night by Frank Baily, the
son of a farmer living near here. Baily
was arrested. The . shooting was tho
outcome of a drunken quarrel and ap
pears to have been done in self-de
fense. ■
Suicide at Seventy-One.
Pittsbueg, Pa., April Mrs. Annia
Lawrence, aged seventy-one years,
living in the Thirteenth ward, Alle
gheny City, was found by her husband
in the yard this morning with her
throat cut from ear to ear. She had
left the . house during the night and
committed suicide.' There ; is no causa
assigued for the deed.
Encouraged Desertion.
New Yobk, April 7.— A boarding
house runner named August Anderson,
was shot and instantly killed to-day on
board the Norwegian bark Emring
(Capt. Hansen, from Brazil), by tha
mate of the bark, Osmond Tholsen. It
is said the murdered man was trying to*>
induce the sailors to desert. .'•'■""
The Carrie Dingle Sunk. '.
London, April The schooner Car
rie Dingle came into collision with' the
steamship Nbrdland off Beachy Head
to-day and was sunk. The Nordland's
bow was stove and she has discharged
part other cargo in order to make neo»
essary repairs. -
Blaze at Aberdeen, Miss. *
Abekdeen, Miss., April 7.— Fire this
morning , - destroyed A eight % . business
houses on Meridian street with a total
loss :of about v $30,000. The ''■ buildings
were frame structures, fire-proof, so
called by reason of sheet-iron fronts
and roofs, and were cheap concerns.' '
School f Destroyed.
'-. San Francisco, April' 7.— The Oak*
land high school, valued at $70,000, waj
destroyed by fire last evening.
