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WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN.
The death is announced of the Mar
quis Dan Murphy of California. The
title, which was bestowed by the Pope,
is hereditary, and there is doubtless a
Murphy left to perpetuate the distinc
tion. But is a “Marquis” Murphy al
so an American citizen ?
A bank director writes to the New
York Tribune, suggesting that all in
stitutions which employ, paying tellers
and other persons tempted to embez
zle, should keep photographs of them
on hand, ready to be turned over to
detectives the moment the guilty men
start for Canada.
There does not seem to be much ap
prehension of a visitation of the chol
era, this year, as was at one time en
tertained. It is raging, however, in
Spain, and it may be that we will
have a visitation before the summer is
over. At any rate it is a good thing to
clean up and keep clean.
The court of claims at Washington
has decided that the North Carolina
Cherokees have no right to the mon
eys, stocks, proceeds of lands, or funds
held in trust by the United States for
the Cherokee Nation. The court de
clares that the status of the Cherokee
Nation is such that the United States
cannot interfere with it or take away
its vested rights.
The pension appropriation act,
passed by the last congress, and which
becomes operative on July 1, provides
that after that date no vacancies oc
curring in the clerical force of the pen
sion bureau shall be filled by appoint -
ment or promotion until the numeri
cal force, as it now exists, shall be re
duced 150. This practically directs a
reduction of the present force, and,
after July 1, further appointment to
the pension bureau cannot be made
for at least one year.
There is an insect known as the
elm-tree beetle that has quite general
ly attacked the elm trees of our East
ern States. The United States Agri
cultural Department has issued a re
port on the habits of the insect and
the most effective means of protecting
the foliage of the elm against its rav
ages. The eggs are deposited on the
under side of the leaves in groups, and
the larvae subsist on the leaves for
about two weeks, when they fall to
the earth and change to pupa?. But
there are several generations each year,
and the trees are liable to their rav
ages from May to August. Several
modes of extirminating them have
been experimented with. The one rec
ommended as the most simple and
satisfactory is to syringe the trees
with Paris green or London purple,
the latter being preferred as less in
jurious to the trees. Three-fourths of a
pound of the poison and three quarts
of flour to a barrel of water will make
the mixture of sufficient strength.
A convict in a Pennsylvania peni
tentiary killed his keeper, and his
counsel, in default of any better plea,
tried to save him from the gallows by
the claim that he was of unsound
mind. There was evidence enough
that the man was not in a perfectly
normal mental condition when he
committed the murder, and experts
were ready to testify that he ought
not to be held responsible. But the
court ruled that “mere moral obliqui
ty of perception” should not protect
a person from punishment for a delib
erate act, and that “moral insanity”
is not a sufficient defense unless it be
shown that it is potent enough to
“subjugate the intellect, control the
will, and render it impossible to do
otherwise than yield.” In other
words, a man may labor under delu
sion, hallucination or partial insanity,
yet if he understands the nature of
his act and knows that it is wrong, he
must be held responsible.
How the conquerors of one genera
tion become the victims of the next!
Says the New York Times; No more
need our Western farmers blanch and
tremble before the multitudinous grass
hopper. Nay, we ought now rather
to hail his approach, to sigh for his
coming. For here comes Prof. Riley
of Washington and proclaims that
your grasshopper is not only a long
neglected edible, but a forgotten dainty,
a delicate, toothsome morsel capable
of being saute in hot fat to brownness
and crispness, or stewed in milk, like
the gelatinous oyster. Let him—not
Prof. Riley, but the grasshopper—
come, then! Armed with nature’s
own weapons we will turn out to the
fray. What matter if he eat our
wheat fields to-day if we with vengeful
consuming jaw devour him to-morrow.
Vast possibilities open before us. If
he proves so delicious a morsel fresh,
why should he not be good salted or
pickled, or canned, or packed in oil
like a sardine? Verily the world
moves; there is hope for progress still.
Nature is a grand conservator. As the
lobsters and shrimp disappear, the
grasshopper may skip in to supply
their place, and thus the equilibrium
of nature be preserved.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
French Cholera Quarantine.
Owing to the presence of cholera in Spain
the French authorities have ordered all
arrivals from that country quarantined for
three days.
A Mexican Mine Explosion.
A silver mine with an unpronouncablc
name, near Zacatecas, Mexico, was totally
wrecked, on the 11th, by the accidental ex
plosion of 500 (.uses of giant powder. Ten
men were killed outright and a large num
ber injured.
The New Ministry.
The announcement was made in the Brit
ish Parliament on the 12th that the Queen
had accepted the resignation of the Glad
stone cabinet, and that Lord Salisbury,
leader of the opposition, had been called
upon to form anew one.
An Important Decision.
The Ohio supreme court rendered a de
cision on the 9th to the effect that money
paid by saloonists under the Scott law,
previous to date when it was declared un
constitutional, cannot be legally returned
to them. The amount involved is about
§2,000,000.
It Was Fate.
Recently, the husband of Mrs. Mary
Krechner, of Erie, Pa., met a violent death.
The hearse conveying the body to the ceme
tery ran over and killed her only child. She
was about returning to her father in Ger
many, when she received news of his death
by drowning. On the 13th inst. she com
mitted suicide.
Everybody Out.
Owing to the defeat of the budget offered
by the Gladstone misistry in Parliament,
that gentleman announced in the House of
Commons on the night of the 9th that it
ha and been deemed ad visable that the present
cabinet cease to hold the reins of govern
ment. The resignations have been forward
ed to the Queen.
Train Wreckers.
News reached this country on the Bth of
a terrible railway accident nearKostoff, on
the River Don, in Russia. A bar of iron was
placed across the track by robbers and a
passenger train thrown from the track and
demolished. The number of killed and
wounded is reported at seventy. The rob
bers, who were waiting for the smash-up,
then plundered the train, no resistance
being offered.
Damaged by Wind and Rain.
Considerable damage was caused in lowa
by a heavy storm on the night of the 12th.
At Pulaski four persons were instantly killed
and two fatally hurt. Numerous personal
injuries are reported from other points.
Scores of buildings were wrecked by the
wind and lightning. Trains were blown
from the tracks and several bridges were
destroyed. Towns and villages were flooded,
and many miles of railroad track submerged.
Considerable damage was inflicted upon
growing crops.
A Destructive Waterspout.
A dispatch from El Paso, Tex., under
date of the Bth, says: “Yesterday a water
spout burst on the mountains about eight
miles from Lagos, Mex., near the dividing
line of the states of Guanajuato and Jali
seo. Immense quantities of water swept
down the mountains, and left desolation
and ruin in their wake. Already 100 lives
are reported lost and the list is being con
stantly swelled. A large number of houses
were swept away and the surviving occu
pants rendered homeless.”
Outlaws Captured.
News received from La Fayette County,
Ark., announces that Sheriff Coney arid
posse have surrounded and captured a
band of desperadoes who, for a long time,
have been operating in that and adjoining
counties. Members of the gang murdered a
negro named Richards, recently, throwing
his body in Red River, where it was subse
quently found. Other persons were robbed
and killed. Two of the outlaws are re
ported to have been killed by the posse,
and it is expected that those captured will
be taken from the officers and lynched.
Suspected of .Being Dead.
The St. Petersburg Novosti (newspaper)
reaffirms its statement that the Ameer of
Afghanistan is dead. It says rumors are
being received continually both from the
Caucasus and the Afghan frontier of the as
sassination of the Ameer. The Novosti
adds that the people of Afghanistan are in
a state of great excitement, the rumors of
the death of the Ameer having reached
them, followed by the other rumor that
Ayoub Khan, a former ameer, now in Per
sia, will take the place of the murdered
ameer through the machinations of Russia.
A Possible Canard.
A dispatch from Cairo, under date of the
9th, says: “Some excitement has been cre
ated here among the English officials and
residents by the arrival of a Coptic mer
chant from Khartoum. He states that he
witnessed the capture of Khartoum, and
that immediately after the massacre of the
garrison the Mahdi demanded the head of
Gen. Gordon for a trophy; but his warriors
produced the head of the Austrian consul,
Mr. Hansal. When the mistake was dis
covered, a second search was made for Gen.
Gordon, but the Mahdi’s followers were un
able to find any trace of the hero of Kh ir
toum. They found several other Europeans,
but no other documents were found on their
clothes to show that either of them was
Gen. Gordon. The Copt says that it is
possible that Gen. Gordon, seeing that all
was lost, escaped south.”
A Court-house Wreck.
At Thiers, a town in the Department of
Puy-de-Dome, France, a murder trial had
been in progress for some days. On the
10th, the last day of the trial, the court
house was crowded with men and women
anxious to witness theclosingscenes. When
the people were leaving, immediately after
the adjournment of the court, and were
jammed upon the stone stairway leading to
the street, the lofty staircase fell. The
scene that followed was appalling. Immense
masonry from above crashed down upon
struggling people below, grinding through
their flesh and bones and maiming and
mutilating them in a horrible manner. The
crash of the falling staircase and the
shrieks of the people lying helpless in the
ruins caused a panic in the court-room, and
there was a rush for the now wrecked exit.
Those who were in front were unable to
withstand the pressure from behind, and
were hurled down upon the men and women
crushed in the fall of the staircase, and
whom the people in the street were already
striving to rescue. When, at length, the
panic had exhausted itself, and the immense
stone steps of the fallen staircase had been
removed, twenty-four persons were taken
from the ruins dead. The injured numbered
not less than IG3, and many of these will
die of their injuries.
Deeds of Blood.
David Anderson, a Norwegian carpenter,
while temporarily insane, committed suicide
at Chicago on the 13th, by cutting his
throat.
telegrams received by the war depart
ment confirm the reports of an attack by
Apaches upon Lawton’s camp, near Gauda
loupe Canyon, in which five soldiers were
killed.
A mob at Osgood 0., shot and killed
Turner Graham and wife, colored, who made
themselves obnoxious by drunkenness and
quarreling.
A desperate street fight took place in
Geneva, Switzerland, on the 141 h, between
a procession of clericals and a mob of
roughs. Knives, clubs and stones were
freely used. One man was killed and a
number wounded.
There has been a renewal of agrarian out
rages in Ireland. A farmer was killed on
the 14th in Millstreet, County Cork, his
skull being smashed. On the same day a.
farm laborer was shot near Tipperary but
not fatally.
A party of men got into a row in the
saloon of Louis Klipfel, on South Clark
Street, Chicago, on the morningof the 10th,
and one of them, named Shank, knocked
the proprietor down, whereupon the latter
shot Shank dead.
A saloon-keeper, at Newport, ILL, named
Joseph Renson, while suffering from de
lirium tremens on the 10th, went into his
cellar and threw a lighted match into a
keg of gunpowder. Renson was killed and
the building totally wrecked.
At Bonham, Tex., early on the morning
of the Bth, a mob of 100 masked men sur
rounded the jail, took out Eli and Sam
Dyer, brothers, and hung them to a tree in
sight of the jail. The two men were desper
adoes of the first water, being accused of a
number of murders.
The trial of a couple of men charged with
murder at Pine Level, Fla., resulted in
the discovery of a regularly organized band
of assassins, under the title of a vigilance
committee.
At London, Ont., on the Sth, Mrs. Mary
Ann Simmons refused to give her husband
money to buy whisky when he drew a knife
and stabbed her in the breast, killing her
instantly. Simmons was arrested.
Smoke.
At the Dorrance shaft of the Lehigh Val
ley Coal Company, on the night of the 13th,
a miner’s lamp set fire to a gas blower, and a
conflagration ensued which necessitated the
flooding of the mine. No lives were lost,
but 200 men were temporarily thrown out
of work.
A fire at Wesson, Miss., on the 14th,
which started in the Masonic Hall, caused
a loss of about $35,000.
The mill of the S. Y. Beach Paper Com
pany at Seymour, Conn., burned on the
14th. Loss SIB,OOO.
Fire broke out in the Indian museum an
nex of the International Exhibition of In
ventions, London, on the 12th. The
museum was filled with exhibits of the hand
icraft of natives of India, mostly very in
flammable, and notwithstanding the efforts
of fifty engines the entire exhibit was de
stroyed. The loss in dollars cannot bo es
timated.
The Randleman cotton factory, in Ran
dolph County, N, C., burned on the 12th.
Loss, $150,000.
The steamer Joe Fleming burned at
Princeton, 111., on the 12th. Loss, $30,000.
A fire at St. Cesaire, Quebec, on the night
of the 9th, destroyed Senator Chaffee’s res
idence and a number of other buildings.
Loss $150,000.
Chinatown, San Francisco’s suburb, was
the scene of a $05,000 fire on the night of
the 10th. The Chinese theater was de
stroyed.
Fire on Frankfort Street, New York, on
the 10th destroyed propertv valued at
$45,000.
Two stores on Canal Street, New Orleans,
were destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. and
several others damaged. Loss, $50,000.
Fire which began in the tin and sheet
iron factory of John A. Smith, Syracuse,
N. Y., on the 9th inst., destroyed property
to the value of about SIOO,OOO,
Minor Mention.
The brakemen on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, to the number of about 300, re
fused to work on the 13th, on account of a
reduction of the force, making it necessary
that two men should do the work of three.
Only one train was sent out of Newark dur
ing the day.
Jacob M, Smith, an old resident of Atchi
son, Kansas, having been arrested on the
charge of tiring his own pork-packing estab
lishment, confessed his guilt. His object
was to secure money from the insurance
and railroad companies.
The entire Chinese collection at the New
Orleans Exposition has been presented to
the University of Michigan. President
Angell, of the university, was minister to
China several years ago.
A construction train on the Cincinnati
Southern Road was thrown from the track
on the night of the 11th, two .nilet north of
New River bridge, 0., by striking a cow.
The caboose and seven cars were ditched.
Five laborers were killed, and Foreman
O’Donnell and ten or eleven others were in
jured.
There Avere 185 business failures in the
United States for the Aveek ending on the
12th.
Lewis Cooley, an insane prisoner at
Joliet, died on the 12th of starvation. He
had refused all food for several days.
Gen. Sparks, United States Land Com
missioner, issued an order forfeiting the
bulk of the notorious MaxAvell land grant.
This act opens up about 1,500,000 acres of
land to public entry.
Reports continue to come in of further
earthquake shocks in the Vale of Cashmere.
The towns of Berramulla and Sopur have
been utterly ruined, and 400 persons killed.
Many cattle and sheep have also been
killed.
By the caving of a railroad tunnel on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near New
River, Tenn., a construction train was
crushed and six persons killed and twenty
wounded.
Later returns from the scene of the recent
destructive waterspout in Mexico, make the
loss of life and property much greater than
first reported. Over 200 lives were lost in
the Lagos district, and in Guanjuato the
damage to property is estimated at |3OO,
000.
The remains of the late Alexander H.
Stephens were taken from the vault at At
lanta, Ga., on the 10th, and interred with
appropriate ceremonies near his old home
in Crawfordsville.
The statue to Darwin, the scientist, was
unveiled in the Museum of Natural History,
London, on the 9th, Prof. Huxley de
livered the principal address.
Superintendent of Police Walling, of New
York, tendered his resignation on the 9th,
to avoid being retired on a pension, under
a law recently passed by the legislature.
Montreal has a small pox epidemic. Fif
teen cases were reported within two* days
last week, and the medical authorities de
clare the disease to be epidemic in the city.
The cloud which hangs over the Western
iron trade has lifted a little. The pro
prietors of the Union Rolling Mill, Chicago,
signed the Amalgamated scale, on the Sth
inst.,and 350 men went to work the follow
ing day.
Standing of the Base Ball Clubs.
The tables below give the standing of the
various clubs in the different leagues on the
13 th inst:
WESTERN LEAGTTE.
Won. Lost. Won Lost
Milwaukee 19 12 Cleveland j V 6
Indianapolis..ls 4 Toledo 0 18
Kansas City..lo 11 Ke0kuk......... 2 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
m,- WO o n o , Won. Lost,
Chicago 22 6 Buffalo 9 17
New York 22 5 Boston 917
Providence....lß 8 St. L0ui5.....” 8 19
Philadelphia..l6 13 Detroit 5 24
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Won. Lost. Won. Lost.
St. Louis 28 9 Baltimore 15 22
Pittsburg 24 15 Athletic [il6 22
Cincinnati 22 17 Brooklyn ~14 22
Louisville 16 19 Metropolitan. 13 24
HAIL, WIND AND RAIN.
The Southern anti Western Portions of
Wisconsin Visited by a Terrific Hail
storm Windows Smashed, Hoofs
Blown Oft’ and Cattle Killed—Many
People Rendered Homeless.
Shortly before noon on the 7th, a
violent storm of wind and rain and
hail, coming from the Northwest,
struck the Southern Minnesota Rail
road at Ramsey, 100 miles west of La
Crosse, traveled along the road fifty
miles, then southerly across Caledonia,
New Albin, la., to Victory, Vernon
County, Wis., and thence into the
state, gradually expending its force.
In the various towns on the Southern
Minnesota Road no great damage was
done by wind, but from the hail the
damage was very severe, the extent of
which may be seen from the fact that
three car-loads of window glass were
ordered by telegraphthefollowingday.
Some fields of grain look as if they had
been newly harrowed, not a green thing
being visible. In others the grain is
beaten to the ground, but will recover.
Nearly all the fruit in the narrow
belt of the storm is destroyed. At
Spring Valley a hail stone was picked
up weighing 1 0 ounces and 15 inches in
diameter. At Caledonia hail fell in
solid masses,breaking all the windows
exposed, beating down fruit trees, gar
dens and ail growing crops, doing very
serious damage. At New Albin the
schoolhouse, a frame building, two
stories high, was demolished. It cost
$4,000. The elevator was piled in a
mass of wreckage upon the main track
of the railroad. Seven residences were
totally wrecked, twenty unroofed and
many others moved from theirfounda
tions. Four children were severely
bruised, but no deaths have been re
ported. As showing the fury of the
storm, it is mentioned that boards
were driven by the wind completely
through the walls of buildings as
though fired from a cannon.
In Richland County wheat, oats,
corn and every growing vegetation
w’ere literally pulverized and driven
into the ground. Hail-stones fell that
by actual measurement were six inches
in circumference. Many sheep, hogs
and calves were killed, and cattle and
hogs badly bruised by the falling hail.
Roofs of buildings were splintered and
shattered so that reshingling will be
necessary. In many instances the
hail-storm went clear through roofs.
Thousands of lights of glass on the
sides of the buildings exposed to the
storm were broken. The storm raged
with great fury for over hour, and at
its cessation the hail covered the
ground in many places to the depth of
several inches. The wind also did
great damage by unroofing buildings,
uprooting trees and destroying timber.
Lightning struck and burned a house
in the town of Rockbridge. None of
the occupants were injured. It is im
possible to estimate the amount of
the damage done throughout the
county, but it is gi eat.
At Victory, Vernon County, a little
town on the Mississippi River, the
damage was most severe. The storm
reached that place at 1:35 p. m. A re
port from there says: “ One fierce
windstorm came from the northeast
and another from the southwest, and
at once the town was enveloped in
thick darkness. Lurid flashes of
electricity, coming from all directions,
would for an instant swallow up the
gloom, and then the darkness was
made more terrible by the roaring of
the wind, and the crashing of falling
buildings would intervene. The
storm lasted only about thirty
minutes, and the return of sunlight re
vealed a terrible state of affairs to the
people who emerged from their cellars,
where they had taken refuge. Their
eyes beheld fifty buildings in a heap of
ruins, dashed to pieces and tangled in
a mass of debris. Trees two feet in
diameter were torn up by the roots.
Not a house wholly escaped damage,
and barges and boats along the river
bank were sunk like egg shells.” The
principal losers are; G. C. Clark, gro
ceries and dry goods, roof torn off,
windows blown in and stock destroyed
by water or blown away, and house
wrecked and twisted so as to be worth
less. The big stone warehouse, belong
ing to Mrs. Cook, of Lyons, is badly
wrecked. A hotel was blown down
and the bedding scattered over the
country for a mile. There are some
100 families without shelter of their
own.
Considerable damage is reported
from other counties in the southern
and western parts of the state.
A BALTIMORE SEXSATIOX.
The Mysterious Death of a Young Lady
to be Investigated.
Baltimore, Md., June 11.—Anna
Wills, aged 19 years, died here last
week under suspicious circumstances
and it is now thought that she was
poisoned. She had been visited sever
al times by Mrs. Elizabeth Bean and
the latter claimed the girl’s effects soon
after she died, showing a document
naming her as the dead girls benefi
ciary. Mrs. Bean’s name had previous
ly figured in various courts of this
city as defendant in suits instituted
to set aside deeds of trust in her favor
made by parties without being rel
atives who had known Mrs. Bean only
a short time before they expired. It
is rumored that Miss Wills was soon
to have come into possession of $27,-
000. The police ha/ve seized all the
effects of Miss Wills that they could
find in Mrs. Bean’s possession, but a
large amount of money and clothing
is still missing. The case is being in
vestigated.
GREATJLY ENCOURAGED.
Four Firms Sign the Amalgamated Scale
this Week.
Pittsburg, Pa., June .9—The new
developments in the iron strike to-day
were all favorable to the strikers.
Two more firms have signed the scale
and the Sligo mills in this city, which
were started with non-union men yes
terday, are idle to-day, the firm not
being "able to secure enough men to
keep them in operation. The iEtna
mill, which the owners confidently ex
pected to have running non-union this
week is still closed down, but it is
claimed will be in operation to-mor
row. The additional signatures to
the Amalgamated scale were; The
Standard Iron and Nai! Company, of
Clifton, W. Va., employing 500 men,
and the Reeves Iron Company, of
Canal Dover, 0., employing 400 men.
So far this week, four firms have signed
the scale, and the strikers are greatly
encouraged.
nxEcvrjsj} nv vigslaxtks.
Two Desperados Ifam-orl 7>y a Mob at
jßoithniM, Texas.
Bonham, Tex., June O. — A lynching
occurred here about 8 o’clock yester
day morning. At the hour named the
jailer of the county w r as awakened by
someone rapping gently at the front
door. Hearing no unusual commotion
outside, the jailer opened the door,
and was surprised to find ovef 100
masked men standing before him. As
he opened the door the leader of the
mob grabbed him, and thus they
gained entrance. Once inside the jail
the mob had the jailer at their mercy.
Under the influence of a couple of
six-shooters the jailer gave up his
keys. Proceeding to the cells oc
cupied by Sam Dyer and his brother
Eli Dyer, white men, the murderers of
Sheriff Ragsdale and Demity Sheriff
Buchanan, of this county, the vigi
lantes identified their men and then
stuffed the prisoners’ mouths with
pocket handkerchiefs, and tied their
hands. They then hurried them out
side, where the main body of the mob
stood. The jailer says scarcely a word
was spoken during this proceeding.
With 1 he prisoners at the head of the
column, the vigilantes marched to a
spot only 300 yards from the jail,
where the leader gave the order,
“Halt, Texans!” Under the boughs
of an oak tree dangled two ropes. The
handkerchiefs were removed from the
months of the doomed men, and the
leader of the mob asked them if they
wanted to pray, or had anything to
say, Sam Dyer begged piteously for
his life and fell on his knees, moaning
and w’eeping. He said he had been a
very bad man but that Eli had kilh and
both Ragsdale and Buchanan. Eli
maintained a bold front, and would
say nothing except “It’s no use.”
Neither would pray. The prelimina
ries over, two large men came forward.
Each raised one of the murderers from
the ground while the noose was being
adjusted, and then they simul
taneously let go, and the des
peradoes were kicking and struggling
in the air. They died from strangula
tion. When the bodies were found,
this morning, they almost touched the
ground. The mob quietly dispersed.
The coroner took possession of the
bodies and laid them out in the court
house, where perhaps 2,000 people
viewed them to-day. The verdict of
the coroner’s jury was: “Death by
strangulation at the hands of
parties unknown.” An uncle of
the murderers came into town,
this evening, and took the bodies
home. The crime for which they
were lynched was committed on May
10 last. For two years Eli Dj’er had i
been the head of a gang of about|
twenty cattle thieves. Sheriff Rags
dale, with Deputy Buchanan, at the
head of a posse, learned that a por
tion of the gang were some nine miles
south of town, rendezvoused in a
small house. Arriving at the spot.
Ragsdale and Buchanan approached
the house, leaving the posse behind.
As they reached the door the gPing dis
covered them, and Eli raised his rifle !
and killed Ragsdale at the first shot. 1
Buchanan was mortally wounded, and I
died the next day. Eli was also
wounded by a shot from Buchanan’s
pistol, Sam Dyer escaped at the time,
and fully 500 men were hunting him
for several days. He was finally found
hiding under a corn-crib.
It YS TE RIO US 01S€ OVER Y.
A Brown Pocket-Book Stuffed With
Wealth Exhumed in Texas.
Fort Worth, Tex., June 12—In ex
cavating, yesterday, workmen ex
humed an old brown pocket-book in a
good state of preservation which con
tained papers covering transactions
aggregating nearly SIOO,OOO. Among
the contents are certificates of deposit
in the Waco National Bank and
Hill County National Bank amounting
to several thousand dollars, also
a. promissory note, canceled, aggregat
ing over SIO,OOO. Besides these were
bills of exchange amountingto $3,000.
The certificates of deposit are in favor
of A. Treadwell. The bills of exchange
are also drawn in his favor. Tread
well is a prominent cattleman of this
(Hill) county, and at the time of los
ing or being robbed of his pocket-book
was on his way to attend a
cattlemen’s convention at St.
Louis, for among the contents
of the pocket-book is a round-trip
ticket issued by the Missouri Pacific,
and dated November 30 last, and used
only as far as Fort Worth. The find
is shrouded in mystery. If Treadwell
had lost such a valuable package, the
query is, why was the matter never re
ported to the police? The pocket
book had certainly been buried. Ten
thousand dollars could easily be real
ized on the certificates and bills, and
experts x>ronounce them genuine. Tele
grams have been sent Treadwell.
EXCITING BURGLARY .
A Detroit Judge Engages in a Fusilade
with a Thief,
Detroit, Mich., June 11. —At 2
o’clock this morning the house of
Judge Henry B. Brown, of the United
States circuit court, was burglarized.
The Judge and wife were awakened to
find a masked burglar with revolver
and dark lantern beside the bed, who,
by threats, kept them quiet while
he secured money and jewelry in
all amounting to S7OO or SBOO. While
the burglar was going through a dress
ing case the Judge secured his revolver
and fired, the shot being returned but
neither shot took effect. The robber
then ran down stairs pursued by the
Judge, both firing, but the burglar
finally escaped through a window, so
far as known being uninjured.
A valuable bit of knowledge is that
bent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking in water
a few hours, then drying them.
AJfIJHI CA X Si AXSi f? US.
Programme of the Next Convention at
Chicago.
Nkw \ ork, June 12.—The next con
\ en. ion Gi the American Bankers’ As
sociation x\ ili he held at Chicaco Sen
(ember 23 and 24. It, i ,l,&d to
make tne discussions this year practi
cnh the addresses brief and the reso
lutions fruitful of good results. The
coming convention has already elicited
an extensive correspondence, and im
portant topics have been suggested
Prominent upon the list are the silver
problem and its labor aspects with
the remedial expedients, and the fun
damental conditions of final adjust--
ment or temporary solution; ’ the
causes and control of panics, the
safeguards against los’ses by defal
cation; the decline in the rate of
j interest, with its effects on the
1 banks and business of the country;
the basis of bank circulation; the re
cent and prospective floatations in the
metallic reserve of the treasury; the
I practical means of sound bankruptcy
! legislation; the strength and the weak
; ness of the banking system at present,
| as compared with former periods, for
the statistics and indications of clear
ing house movements throughout the
country. The headquarters of the ex
ecutive council will be at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, and on Wednesday
evening, September 23, from 7 to 9
; p. m., the usual reception will be held,
! all the delegates being invited to be
, presented to the President and execn-
I live council.
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sojji rnx ceu em oxies.
Funeral of Archbishop Kourget at Mon
treal To-day.
Montreal, June 12. — 1 tis estimated
that at least 10,000 people were in the
i Church of Notre Dame this morning.
The ceremony was most impressive.
The dead Archbishop lay in a magnifi
cent coffin, his head resting on a pillow
of satin slightly raised so that his
features were exposed to the gaze of
the faithful thousands. His" mitre,
i stole and cross lay at his feet. The
j whole was elevated on a magnificent
I catafalque surrounded by hundreds of
! lighted tapers. Throughout the night
I members of the adoration nocturn re
; mained with the body reciting prayers
! for the dead. Punctually at 0 o'clock
the services were begun. The officiat
ing clergymen were Bishop Will
iams, of Boston, Bishop Wadham, of
Ogdensburg, Bishop Fabre, of Mon
treal, and Bishop Duhamel, of Otta
wa. Archbishop Tache, of Winnipeg,
preached the sermon. After the serv
ice at Notre Dame the funeral proces
sion formed and proceeded to the
Church of Notre Dame de Pite. where
the remains of Mgr. Lartigue, the first
bishop of Montreal, had fiiin. These
were exhumed yesterday and have
ever since been exposed to the adora
tion of thousands. The procession,
headed by two hearses, containing
the bodies of the Archbishop and
Bishop, then wended its way to St.
Peter’s Cathedral, where another im-
Xjosing ceremony rook place, after
which the remains of the two;bishops
were laid to rest within the same
vault. The streets through which the
procession passed were heavily draped
in black and gold, the pontifical col
ors. The city is crowded with vis
tors.
IXTEU-STATE COJiJUJEXCE.
The Select Senate Committee at Vr'ork in
Chicago.
Chicago, 111., June 12. — The United
States Senate select committee on in
ter-state commerce began a session
here this forenoon. Senators Cullom.
Harris and Platt were present on be
half of the committee. John I. Rina
ker, president of the state railway
commission, was before the commit
tee, and favored the appointment
of a federal commission, but was
opposed to the proposition of permit
ting railways to charge less for a long
than for a short haul. He believed in
requiring that rates should be given
publicity. He thought any law pre
scribing rates should be elastic rather
than specific. Marshall Field believed
in a government commission, but
thought it should devote its attentions
more to new roads than old estab
lished ones. He believed in legalizing
pool contracts, and believed that rail
way pools wereabenefitto merchants,
E. C. Lewis, another member of the
Illinois Railway Commission, believed
in a federal commission to work in
conjunction with the state commis
sions.
How Cyrus Field Does Business.
Most people have an idea that Cyrus
W. Field is a rich stock operator.
This idea has been made more general
of late by his great effort to ad
vance Manhattan. Field is not an ac
tive speculator at all. His plan is en
tirely different from Gould's. He buys
a lot of stock outright, and then
booms it to sell it outright. Ido not
think he has ever been a bear in the
ordinary sense. He has not made 'a
practice of selling stocks short to se
cure the profits of that side of the
market. He has, however, been known
to employ means to depress the price
in order to buy a stock and then hold
it for the subsequent rise. Field is not
an enormously wealthy man. On
paper his fortune foots up something
like $3,000,000. His personal char
acteristics are striking. He likes to
shake hands with one finder, and if he
particularly wants to impress per
son with something, he will throw his
arm around the person’s neck and be
gin. “Now, my dear Christian friend.”
He has a reputation in the “street”
for slamming office doors. On enter
ing an office he will give the door a
slam that threatens to shiver the
glass, if there is a pane in it, and on
leaving the office he will give the door
a second slam that nearly pulls the
screws out of the hinges.
In the Duraznilla hacienda, ITes dis
trict, Mexico, a horrible crime was
perpetrated recently. Four unknown
parties secured Eduardo Arvizu, ad
ministrator of the hacienda, and pro
ceeded to hang him. When they con
sidered him dead they cut him down
and proceeded to mutilate him. He
survived and was succored, though he
is still in a very critical condition