St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 2

St. iTonis ost-ispa Utonbajj, icbruarji IS, 1892. TH CJTIL COURTS. MINISTERS' MKETIRQS. capital, $10,000.

J. Shepara Mercantile Co. McFall, Gentry County capital, $12,000. Little Klver Halting A Booming Morehouse, Sew Siardld County; capital, $5,000. Increase of capital.

Meramec Hlsrhlands CRIMINAL HEWS. Gang- ot Counterfeiters and Bothers Unearthed Bad Kecords. Guthrie, O. Feb. 15.

When ttfa police raided a half-dozen farm houses on Saturday and found nearly a car-load ot stolen goods Geyer avenues ran away and threw Mr. Brach out. His head struck with great force against th curbstone. Ha was picked up in an unconscious condition and removed to his home at 1115 South Jefferson veou, where it was discovered that his skull was fract-uraa, his nose broken, both knee caps broken, his jaw bone fractnred and ha was also Internally injured. The physicians in attendance consider his injuries fatal.

it 1 1 GOT, BOTH. A Grand Ovation Tendered Him toy Ne-braaka, Deaaoaratav Ioscolk, Keb.t Feb IS. Probably the most enthusiastic Democratic meeting that ever occurred In Nebraska took place here to- Cay. The occasion was a public demonstration in boaor of Gov, Boyd's em try into th high Office to wkfctt Be had been elected by the people, but which he had been wrongfully prevented from assuming oy John 11. Thayer.

After some preliminary addresses the Governor was introduced and spoke as follows TUT. GOVXKXOR'S ADDRESS. LT.OW Citizens: It afford me ureat pleasnra to ts permitted to make a personal acknowledgment to MIrgBinnlir of my gratitude to the people of Ifenraaka, who have stood by me so len aat loyauy in sncurrag to me tna restoration to my rihl as a citizen and to ttte people their choice aa ad priilejreof which 1 was temporarily iitepirveti by the majority el a partitas, supreme court, and feeileva me 1 am deeply grateful to all in this magnificent demonstration. I am Xiorernor tf Nebraska, put there by the sovereign will of the people, expressed by them through the ballot box. and vindicated from the highest tribunal- of the evo alorioa republic.

The Terioti of serTice remaiBiaff to me as an executive 1 limited, but I hope, ia the few mouths remaining, to be still able to do something as a vindication of the expressions of yeur will. There are still grave expressions of public moment to be dealt with, and i promise yoo here to exercise every honorable effort ia your in meeting them. I must to a personal to myself in the restoration to me of those rights which 1 esteem above oltice. the powsts and privileges of aa American citizen, i nave never bee a a uiiizeu ol any oilier narioti thin the United States. want no woader distinction than to bo known as a citizen of the foremost republic iu the world.

I have been unbjocten to the epithet alien hurled at jue i partisan madness by political opponent, bnt I have nevor deserved it. all lua years of my manhood, from the pioneer days when I with others began to lift Nebraska from a sparsely settled territory to the splendid achievement of its present statehood, 1 have ever had in mind the deepest con" Yirtious of the responsibilities of citizenship, i bave ever tried to discharge the duties and the requirements ofthat citizenship to the honor and credit ot each and have acquitted myself, I believe, to my own aatisfaetiosi and yours, 'lhe suspense of the few months during which an attempt was made to spread a doubt upon my right to exercise the fnnc-tions of that elti.ensfvip, has been more severe upon me than any of yon can fully appreciate, and when the suspense was lilted from me by the almost unanimous dictum of the Supreme Court of the United States, greater gratification was bestowed npon me. than even when the election returns proclaimed me to be your choice to the ln-hut ottice within your gift. 1 believe that the incidents attendant a poo this unprecedented controversy and its nasi result will have a far reaching effect upon our politics, and i thinit its effects will be beneLciai to the cause of democracy. The representatives of the cause, myself anil those most nearly concerned, in resisting the efforts of our opponents to eommit great wrong have been guided throughout by the determination to abide absolutely within the law, to act conservatively in all measures taken, with the view to urjholdi'ng the A Suit Brought by Ed Dameron for Real Batata Other Matters.

Judge Dillon is engaged to day hearing the suit ot Edward C. Dameron to have an alleged agreement enforced to convey an interest in the Linden estate to him. It IS set forth in tne petition in tne case that on Dec. 23, 1879, Will iam F. Ferguson acquired the title" to an Individual one thirty-sixth interest In certain real estate and personal property be longing to the estate of Jesse G.

Llndell, subject to the life estate of Mrs. Jemima Lln dell, the Interest having been devised by Jesse G. Llndell to Jesse G. Llndell, a nephew of Jessie G. Llndell, whose will was probated In 1853.

On the same date of acquiring the title It is alleged that Fer guson delivered an agreement In Writing to William C. Jamison whereby Ferguson agreed to hold the property as security for the payment of $10,000 and interest from Jan. 1, 1880, and that whenever Jamison should pay the $10,000 the property should be conveyed to him. Jamison, It Is averred, paid the interest from time to time, and on Aug. 6, 1884, conveyed his Interest to Logan D.

Dameron, who conveyed the Interest again to Edward C. Dameron, who 16 now prosecuting the claim. It Is further set forth that Edward C. Dameron on April offered to pay the $10,000 to Horace Gfjfselln, administrator of W. F.

Ferguson, vvTio had died In the meantime. together with Interest from Jan. 1, 1883. Gniselln refused to accept the money, but It Is alleged agreed to accept the sum with an additional sum of $1,000 and Interest on the to the date when the administrator should at the June term of the Probate Court lust year lie authorized to execute a deed, on April 21, 1891 Dameron alleges he paid the The order to execute the deed was made by the Probate Court when the matter was ap pealed to tne circuit Court. Benjamin Spelbrink's Will.

The will of Benjamin Spelbrlnk was ad mitted to probate to-day. He leaves to his wife, Lena Pettan Spelbrlnx, In addition to her statutory right, the sum of $1,000. After payment of the $1,000, the rest of the estate is Is to be divided according to law between the wife and children. The latter are Louis, Henry. Frank.

Benlamln nnn lienrcs snl- brlnk, and Louisa Mueller, Lena Kenibus, Emma Mueller and Lottie Uaak. Suit for Divorce. Lettie Churchill filed a suit for divorce today against Alexander Churchill on the ground of desertion and failure to support. They were married Aug. 7, 18S6, and lived together until Jan.

20. 1890. There was one child born, named Alexander, aged 8 years, Whose custody Mrs. Churchlil asks. Court Notes.

Letters of administration were granted today to Louis H. Lohmeyer on the estate of John F. C. Eyser, which is valued at $12,000. The Campbell Manufacturing Co.

filed an attachment suit for $326 to-day against M. J. Boylan A the Olive street furnishing house which was seized by the Sheriff on Saturday. In the case of Thomas J. Farrell against the J.

K. Webber Molding Co. Judge Wlth-row made an order to-day affirming the Judgment of Justice Sheehan In favor of Farrell for $soo. WALT WHITMAN. Hla Last Days to Be Brightened With Oitta of Flowers.

Camden, n7 J. Feb. 15. Walt Whitman was told on Christmas last that he could not possibly survive the day. He refused to take medicine thee, as he had declined before and has since.

He would not even trear the verdict of the physicians, and when his faithful attendant urged him to swallow some stimulant or prepare to die, he answered, after thinking a little while: Warry, we will fool these doctors, yet." He kept his word. By sheer force of will he recovered the use of his lungs, both of which had been closed after last November's attack of pneumonia, and when seen yesterday he said that It would not surprise him ir he saw his 73d birthday. He has been confined to his bed since last October. Paralysis has seized all his limbs, excepting the right arm and hand, so that he writes a barely decipherable His voice Is weak and bis sentences spoken by faulty respiration. His strongly marked features are less pallid than should be natural under the circumstances.

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy In contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard. In his little home the bedchamber Is plainly, almost scantily furnished. It lacks flowers which the poet loves so ranch, it was suggested to Mr. Whitman yesterday that the Eeople of the country get up a fund to buy im flowers till he diesT He nodded his head pathetically and half smiled as if the Idea was a pleasant one to him. The plan was mentioned to-a few of his friends who Indorsed It by buying forthwith a fine collection of roses and sending them up to his bbme.

It will probably grow into quite a fund. LABOR KEW3. Fan-Handle Machinists Discharged-Strlke News. Indianapolis, 13. Allot the Pan-Handle striking machinists were discharged this morning.

It is claimed by the blacksmiths that they bave received a communication from the Union officials in which they are Instructed to strike upon the employment of the first "scab" by the company. Master Mechanic Swanson states that the men make higher wages at piece-work than at regular wages, and that they have struck because It individualizes them, when It is the object of the Union to put all the workmen on the same plane. The company has not as yet employed any non-union men to take the place ot the strikers. time reduced. Susquehanna, Feb.

15. The extensive locomotive shops of the New York, Lake Erie Western Railroad will to-day be placed on eight hours' time, a reduction of one hour per day. RESUMED WORK. London, Feb. 15.

All the coal porters who were on strike last week resumed work this morning, having gained the terms they asked for. REAL ESTATE INTERESTS. Fancy Pricea in Westmoreland Place- Bales of the Day. Mr. B.

the dry goods merchant, has purchased the vacant property on the north side of Westmoreland place, 192 foet east of Lake avenue, from Charles M. Hayes at $190. This Is an indication of Mr. Nugent's appreciation of the enhanced value of that property, for It has not been more than three years since he was saying $75 a foot was a bagh price for the property. Kutledee KllDatrlcK reiort the sale of ion feet of ground on the south side of Morgan street, 100 feet west ot Sarah at $ii a foot from Joshua Huston to 11.

Flowers, represented by Zlnk A Co. lcuueage KUoatrlcx also report toe our- chase from Robert M. Noonan of 50 feet of ground on the north side of olive street, east of Vandeventer avenue, at $81 a foot, tor Catherine Krause. EAST BT. LOUIS.

Goignon A Greenwood report the following sates of East St. Louis property for Thomas P. Burke. Broadway Southwest side, east of Sixth street, 100 feet of ground for $1,200, to Joseph Maurer, who Is going to Improve the site with a residence. Bond avenue Southwest side, west of Tenth street, 50 feet of ground to Mrs.

Mary Copley for $500. Broadway southwest side, east of Sixth street, KW feet of ground, tor $1,300, to Mrs. Lena Kdlnger. liond streetNortheast side, east of Sixth MarIlackeTt KrouQd' tor to Mr' PRBSONALS- Methodist Uivtnes Dlaouss the Utility ot Creeds. The minsters of the Methodist Episcopal Church south, at their meeting this morning in the St.

Louis Christian Advocate Building, considered "Th- Use and Abuse of Creeds." Kev. Dr. Chappell of Lafayette M. the discussion, the system of E. Church opened lie believed that creeds which obtains Is not an unmixed evil.

among Christians Like part lo tn pol- Itics. creeds In religion were productive or good. Dr. Chappell thought. He said that all Christians stood one Platform, the "Apostles Creed." and from this point the lines of divergence were only Incidentals.

The other ministers expressed the same views, all agreeing with Dr. Chappell on the Importance of creeds. When the renorts were called for Rev. Dr. Finney, P.

E. stated that he preached at Union, yesterday; Itev. Dr. May, P. 'reached at Caledonia in the morning and at ronton in the evening.

Rev. Dr. John Mathews of St. John's Chttrcb. Twenty-ninth and Locust streets, reported that the young ladies of bis church, who have been helping the disabled and deserving poor In many parts of the city, were going to rent a large house, and there give lodging to the Indigent.

They hope by this means to accomplish more good, and in a more systematic manner. Dr. carradine re ported that he preached at im-ruanuel Church, Benton, last Friday to a large audience. Presiding Elder May stated that the love feast at Centenary Church last Wednesday was well attended. Dr.

Finney. P. E. then read the report of the St. Louis district for the first quarter since the conference.

Within that time there were three hundred and twenty-nine accessions, eighty-four professions of faith, or the accessions two hundred and forty-five were by letter, ana one nunareu ana six were irom St. Louis. He announced that the new Marvin Church would be dedicated at a p. m. next Sunday by Bishop Hendricks, assisted by the pastors of the St.

Louis churches. Kev. or. If. Early, the pastor of the new church, has been very busy In the work of preparation.

and he now has the programme completed. A morning Sunday-school will be organized at 9 a. m. next Sunday. Kev.

B. M. Messick will preach at 11 a. m. and the dedication services proper will take place at 3 p.

m. In tne evening at 7: so p. m. itev. or.

s. li. oer-leln will preach. There will also be sermons every evening during the week, at which ministers of all denominations will speak. The ministers of the M.

E. Church met at Bowman Hall," and in the absence of the President, Dr. Harris, Rev. T. H.

Haggerty was chosen chairman pro tern. Kev. Dr. C. E.

Mandervllle of Chicago was introduced, and said that a new M. E. church was erected every month in the year. Bishop Bowman spoke of "Clerical Church Politics," and the meeting adjourned after Presiding Elder C. M.

Martin made a favorable report for the quarter. The Presbyterian ministers discussed "Sabbath Evening Services." Kev. Dr. K. G.

Brank and Dr. S. J. Niccolls opened the discussion. They admitted that evening services were not so well attended as those of the morning.

They did not see any remedy, and only hoped that a more interesting programme would bave the desired effect. At the meeting of the Baptist ministers. Rev. E. H.

Sawyer of Kirks vllle, was a visitor. He gave an interesting account of the centennial missionary meetings at Hannibal, Moberly, Clinton and Springfield. Kev. J. K.

Keed of St. Charles delivered an address on the study of the Bible. There will be a centennial mission-meeting at the Third Baptist Church, Grand and Washington avenues, next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. J.

W. Ford will speak of "Judson." and Rev, Dr. S. H. Ford will deliver a panegyric on Spurgeon, with whom he was well acquainted.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Marriasre Licenses. Emile P. Mneller Louisa V. Lyons Joseph H.

Burke 2 Mary Pluempe Axcel W. Erikson i Augusta M. Jonson Michael Kujawskl )Magdalena Albert Fach Sophie E. A hi born William Strauss Rose E. Cohen 5 Michael Roidinger Marie Hopes J.

Jacob Studt. Jr Jane E. Wotring East St. Lonis, 111 East St. Louis, Hi 1430 Salisbury st 1436 Salisbury st 2731 Clark ay 2731 Clara av Jefferson County, 111 1409 N.

7th st 3919 Illinois av 3131 Laclede av 3419 Laclede av ..1002 Mississippi av 1B12 Calhoun st 1315 I'icotte st Creve Coaur, Mo Creve Cotur, Mo Burial Permlta. The following burial certificate were lssned by the Health Department to-day: Mary McCartney, 38 3753 Cote BrUliante consumption. Anna P. Schweigart. 2412 S.

3d consumption. EieJa Ulsas, 7 2210 Menard st. hydrocephalus. Lucius L.Scammell, 72 3805 Pine at cerebral apoplexy. Cora M.

Caraois, 2 yrs. 723 N. 14th maras- BerthaE. Wyatt, 1 1215 ST. 23d pneumonia.

Peter R. Richardson. 2 2911 N.Broadway: bronchitis. Stephen Conroy, 61 1933 North Market st congestion of lungs. Eva Mattrock, 6 days, 313 Wright trismus neonatorum.

fever' IiardeI1, 25 yrs 2739 Morgan typhoid Fannie D. O'Brien. 33 1951 Carondelet av. chronic nenhritis. Mary Morris, 22 136 Soulard congestion of brain.

Dora Uardner. 1 day, 4146 Grove aneuceph-aius. John P. Danne, 4 2149 Victor pneumonia. Willie Kinderman, 10 1950 Ilebert st.

Sister John Ranrist Canniff Ri v. Convent, Minnesota av. and Kansas st. heart uis- Allen S. Brown.

7 6115 S. 9th con gestion of lungs. PUKE 18-KT GOLD WEDDING RINGS. MEB.MOD 4 JACCARD JEWELRY Coa. beoadwat and Locust St.

Deaths. BRITTON Climmik, Infant daughter of E. J. and Clemmle Britton, at 4:30 a. Sunday, the aged 4 days.

Funeral private from residence, Howard street, Sunday at 2 p. m. Our darling has flown to Heaven. Chicago papers please copy. CANNIFF On Feb.

14, 1892, at St. Joseph's Convent, Carondelet. Mo. Sister John Baptist (Cajj-kiff), in her 62d year and 4 2d of ber religious life. May she rest in peace.

Qulucy (III.) papers please copy. DOWLING At 11 o'clock a. in. Monday. Feb.

15. James S. Dowlinq, aged 63. at bis residence 3632 Cook avenue. Due notice of funeral.

KEMPA. Anna, nee Hopraann, beloved wife of Adolph Kempa, died February 13, at 10:45 p. m. iuneral will take place Thursday at 1:30 p. m.

from family residence, 232S Benton street. Rela tives Invited to attend. LANDAUER Sunday. Feb. 14, 3 p.

LEO, be loved son of Henry and Pauline Landauer, nee nbourg, after a short illness, aged 8 years, 1 month and 25 days. Funeral on Tuesday, Feb. 16. st 1:30 p. rom residence, 3763 Cook avenue.

Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans and Brinkley (Ark.) papers please copy. MALONEY Feb. 11.1892. at 8:30 a. ROBMT 3.

Malonet, aged 29 years and 11 months, son of Maurice Maloney. Funeral. Tuesday, 16tu, at 2 o'clock p. from late residence, street, to St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church, thence to Calvary.

Friends are Invited to attend. MCDONOUGH On Sunday. Feb. 14. 1892, In Philadelphia.

RtCHAun McDolrocGH. son of the late Patrick McDonough and brother ot Miles and Ellen McDonough. The funeral will take place from family residence 1233 North eighteenth street. Due notice of time will be given. KENARD Ctui.1 A.

Rkhabd. after a lingering Illness. Saturday. Feb. 13, at 10:30 p.

aged 75 years. Funeral Tuesday, 2:30 p. from late residence. 4243 Washington avenue, to Belief ontalne Cemetery. menus oi me lamny invitea lo attend.

Helena and Butte City (Mont.) paper please copy. 8ULLTV A Died Bandar evening. Feb. 14, p. Maboabbt, relict of Tbomaa Sulilvan and beloved mother of Mrs.

John Boyle ana E. J. Sullivan. Funeral services from residence of Mrs. Joha Boyle, 6871 Maple avenue, Tuesday, Feb.

16, 2 p.tsu JLouls; increased trom iu siw.uuj. TE0T73I.es IN ALASKA. The Chilkats Threaten to Exterminate the White Settters. Chicago. Feb.

15. Capt. J. J. Healy, one the leading men ot Alaska arrived at tue Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday.

Capt. Healy 13 on his way to Washington, lie represents the Interests of Southeastern Alaska, and he Is going to the National Capital to warn the Secretary or the Interior that unless the grievances of the Indian tribes of the 'i'hllnket Nation are redressed there Is flanser of an Indian uprising there. Last July several ot the tribes threatened the whites, and the United states steamer PInta and a force had to hasten from SltKa to Chlitcat 10 sup press tire uprising, td inaians again threaten trouble, and It is to avoid it that Capt. Healy Is now on his way to Washington. cunning monopolists are sala to nave out raged the rights of the natives, and are sup ported in their aggressive policy against tae Indians by the government officials in Alaska.

The whites are alarmed, and as they are praetlcally defenseless, they are in great danger, capt. iieaiy says tnat as me result of a law passed by the last Congress there Is danger ol Indian trouble in Alaska, the law referred to being that which per mits a land patent to be granted for land for business or manufacturing purposes. "Un der that law," savs Capt. Healy, "men have applied ror surveys ana patents for Indian lands which have never been ceded to the United States, and the whltos have seized these lands against the protests of the Indian owners. But the Immediate grievance of the Indian tribes is that the canneries that have sprung up threaten to destroy the salmon, the staple food of the Indians.

If the uprising starts It may be genera). the Indians of this nation take for their owu use every year hundreds of thousands of salmon, which they dry and store. In the Chllkat country, where I have a trading post, there are three big canneries, In Chllkat Inlet. It is the finest salmon stream In Southeast Alaska and the salmon run there for four months. All the Indians of those parts depend on the salmon of the Chllkat for their food, but the canneries are destroying that natural source of the food supply for the natives.

These canneries are a curse to Alaska. They seize even the smallest streams. Then they carry up a load of Chinamen and Fins from Victoria or Portland to do the work. Tnese men sign contracts that prevent them from receiving a dollar In wages until they return from Alaska. The companies carry up the supplies for them, and the people of Alaska don't receive a penny's worth of benefit from the canneries.

Capt. Healy will also urge while at Washington that Congress help Alaska to be suitably represented at the World's Fair. isdiass as soldiers. Chicago, 111., Feb. 15.

Capt. W. L. Pitcher, of the Klghth United States Infantry, is stopping at the Leland. The captain Is stationed at Fort Washskle, Wyo.

The fort is in one of the most Inaccessible regions of Wyoming and 160 miles from a railroad station. When ased what he thought of Secretary Proctor's scheme of making the Indians into United States soldiers, capt. Pitcher grew enthusiastic. "I think," said he, "that tne scheme is a grand one. and the only solution of the Indian question.

I am pretty well Qualified to Judge of the workings of the scheme, as the first regular company of Indians was established In my regiment. The com pany consists of sixty Shoshone and Ara pahoe braves. vf course I cannot tell how they would perform In actual service, but in everything else they make splendid soldiers. They are taken into the service on the same footing as the white men. The great difficulty Is In teaching them English, but several of the soldiers understand the sign language and so can get along very well.

You cannot Imagine how proud these Indians are of their position, and how they vie with each other In keeping their uniforms and arms in good condition. No, the men are not leaious or tnt-m. ana oiten engaze witn them in friendly wrestling bouts and races." The Captain tells a tale of a wonderful hot spring. "We call It," he said, "the great hot spring. It Is near our camp and about 100 yards In diameter.

The perpetual temperature Is 110 deg. above zero. Otten In the winter I have come home from a cold journey, when the thermometer was 15 below, and taken a swim In the springs. It is a line sensation to go swimming In a tempera ture oi no aeg. above while your head 13 exposed to a temperature of 15 deg.

below zero. i nave often seen the soldiers take a swim In the spring and follow It up with a roll In the snow. It almost makes a Turkish bath." ALICE MITCHELL'S LETTEE3. They Will Form an Important Part ot the Evidence at the Trial. Memphis, Tenn.

Feb. 15. The motion in the Mltchell-Johnson-Ward murder case to compel the Attorney General to produce cer tain letters In his possession written by Alice Mitchell to Freda Ward, so that counsel of Miss Mitchell could from them prepare cer tain hypothetical questions to be submitted to medical experts on Insanity, was argued before Judge DuDose of the Criminal Court this morning by Gen. Luke Wright and Col. George Gantt for the defendant and by Attorney-General Peters for the State.

Judge Dubose took the matter under advisement and will announce his opinion to-morrow morning. The motion has created additional Interest in the case on the part of the public, and it Is hoped that the letters can possibly be secured for publication should the Judge decide in favor of the motion. Attorney-General Peters has taken possession of all the letters written by Alice Mitchell during recent months that he can get hold of by personal effort or through the operations of the Memphis Police Uepartment. The contents or these letters is kept a close secret, and they must have an lmnortant bearing on the case, as the lawyers for the defense are making strenuous efTorts to get a sight ot them. The letters printed In the Post-Dispatch yesterday will.

It is understood, be called for by the State. There is a rumor that Miss Mitchell attempted to commit suicide Saturday night, but her father denied the report this morning. PEACEFUL LOUISIANA. Salutary Effect of the Presence ot Win chesters. New Orleans, Feb.

15. A week ago both wings of the Democratic party were arming and war to the knife was the cry. To-day placid peace seems to have come and a compromise seems to be the coming event. The Mctnery State Central Committee met in session at noon to-day and the Foster Committee meets to-morrow. AH the strong men of the Democratic party are here, and the popular demand is so unmistakably for union that no candidate can atford to stand In its war.

'l here is a vigorous element of antl- lottery Democrats in this city, represented by the xch7 irtiia, uoaiiirove any compromise that will involve the retirement or Foster from the head of the ticket, but it is doubtful If tney can noiu out against an almost unanl mous country sentiment In favor of a new ticket, tne next forty-eight hours are preg- I t. uuu i nim iiucicskiujs eveois. VOTED TEE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. A Woman Who Passed Oft for a Man for Many Years. Milan, Feb.

15. The mystery sur rounding the life of Henry Armstrong, who for twenty-five years lived at Junto, in the disguise oi a man, ana wuo was in reality a woman, has been solved. In looking over the effects left by the strange person, a diary was found that shows that when a young girl Armstrong loved (not wisely but too well) a heartless villain who betrayed and left her. How woman-like sha still loved her betrayer, and to be near him disguised her self and followed him into the late war and. unknown to her iormer lover, was ms com panlon around the camp-fire, on the march and midst the strife of battle.

When he was struck down she nursed him while his Ufa blood ebbed away. The woman's nam was Myra Lawrence. She was 60 years old, paid pou-iax aau voiea tue vemocnuc ticket. they knew they had unearthed the gang of thieves that had been operating In the whole territory, but they did not know uutil to-day that they had raided the ren dezvous of the worst gang of counterfeiters In the West. Charles and Oliver Bates were arrested last night and Mrs.

Hsramell, the wife of one of the farmers, states tnat tney are metnhRr of an active gang of counter feiters who have put thousands of dollars of spurious money in circulation, are out for a half dozen others. Warrants A BRCTAt IBT9BAND. Chicago, Feb. 15. An infuriated husband beating his wife Into unconsciousness by re -peatedly striking her head against the pave -meat was the sight witnessed by a crowd lata last night near the corner of Monroe and Green streets.

Just as the woman was about to enter a street ear John Hough stepped forward, grabbed her arm and dragged her away with him. To those standing near who remonstrated he said: "She is my wire and is very drunk. I am going to take her home." After proceeding a short distance he threw her to the ground and with one knee on her breast held her down, belzlng her head in his bands, he repeatedly struck her bead upon the pavement. When the police interfered and arrested him the victim was unconscious. She became conscious long enough to state that her husband had threatened to kill her.

Her skull Is fractured and It is not thought she can recover. Hougn says he wanted to kill her because she was unfaithful to him. MRS. GRAHAM ACQUITTED. Richmond, Feb.

15. The case of the State vs. Mrs. Elizabeth Graham has been on trial at this place for several days. She was charged with killing Mrs.

Elizabeth Evllslzer, an aged lady who lived alone on her farm In the north part of the county. Mrs. Evilstzer was found dead in her house about the 20th of July, 1891, supposed to have been dead about five days. No marks of violence were found upon her person, except slight abrasions on the breast and neck. The evidence against Mrs.

Graham was wholly circumstantial. Xo motive was shown and no evidence of a damaging character produced the case was warmly contested, and long arguments were delivered by the counsel on both sides, but never at any ttme did the evidence appear to justify a verdict of guilty. Indeed it was a surprise to many that such a case was even brought to trial. On Saturday evening Judge Sandusky delivered his instructions to the Jury and they Immediately retired to the jury-room, and after balloting that night and all day Sunday a verdict of not guilty was handed in this morning. The Jury from the first ballot stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction, and It remained in this shape until late Sunday evening, when the above verdict was returned.

A KANSAS CITT TRAGEDY. Kansas CftT, Feb. 15. A. J.

Brink, a livery-stable employer, found the dead body of a young man, presumably Joseph H. Coulters, in a deserted brickyard at Third and Broadway yesterday afternoon. There was a bullet hole In the forehead of the corpse, and a 32-caliber revolver laying under his right hip, one chamber being empty, suicide was at first suspected, but later developments contradict this. There was a contusion on the right side of the head, evidently caused by a heavy blow, and there were no powder marks on the man's face as there would be if the deed had been committed with his own hand. Nothing is known about the murdered man except that he is a switchman and came here ten days ago.

One year ago the dead body of Albert Albright was found in a brickyard one block from the scene of last night's tragedy. There was a bullet wound through the heart and a pistol bestde the body. The question of murder or suicide in this case has never been settled. MT8TERIOUSI.T MIS9INO. Nashville, Feb.

15. Honor Powell, a highly respected river man of this place, who has for some time been employed as a watchman at the government dock above the city, has been missing nine days. He was an ex-Federal soldier, and at the time of Ills disappearance he had Just drawn lils monthly pension and his week's wages. Two men have been arrested and Jailed on suspicion of having murdered him lor his money. EVIDENTLY A MURDER.

Palestine, Feb. 15. Dock Wright, a colored man, living at the old Duke place, about four miles west of here, unearthed evidence of a cruel -murder yesterday. In a clump of bushes in the garden he found a large Dlece or sheet iron witn a rocs on it. On digging beneath the spot the decomposed body of a child was found with Its entire skull crushed In.

The body was buried so long it was impossible to tell its sex or color. A DETECTIVE MISSING. San Francisco, Feb. 15. Detective James II.

Brown of Columbus, O. welljtnown on account of his connection with the Sidney Bell case, is reported missing. He has not been seen by friends in this city since last Thursday, and they are apprehensive that he has met with foul play. KICKED TO DEATH. Nashville, Feb.

15. William C. Summers died to-night after a week in bed. He claimed to have been kicked out of Will-lam McIIugh's saloon a we9k ago. A coroner's Inquest was held and several severe bruises found all over his body.

The verdict returned was that he came to his death from cerebral congestion caused by unknown means. 1 SHOT FIVE TIMES. Stillwater, Feb. 15. C.

II. and Charles Countryman, cousins, quarreled about the ownership of a race-horse here yesterday. Words led to blows and in the fightCharles drew a revolver and shot C. H. Countryman five times, killing him In stantly.

OBITUARY. Death of Mayor Milton L. Morrill at Nauvoo. Carthage, 111., Feb. 15.

Milton L. Morrill, recently Mayor of Nauvoo and a prominent attorney or Hancock County, died at Nauvoo yesterday, aged 71. Mr. Morrill was a brother of the late Gov. L.

L. Morrill of Maine and was a member of the Illinois Legislature for several terms. COL. E. F.

DRAKE. ST. PArL, Feb. 15. A telegram received here this morning announces the death from heart disease at Coronado Beach, of Col.

E. F. Drake, a millionaire of this city, who had gone to California for his health. Mr. Drake was a native of Ohio, coming here from Xenla, and has been prominent In Northern business circles.

TOUSO FAIR 8 FUNERAL. San Francisco, Feb. 15. The funeral of James G. Fair, Jr.

took place yesterday afternoon. The remains lay at the" Lick House and a very large number er people passed In to take a last view. Flowers were in great profusion and beauty. The Interment look place In Laurel Hill Cemetery. D1METRI MINDELOFF.

San Francisco, Feb. 13. Dimetrl Mlndeloff, a Russian and the Inventor of ter-rorlte, an explosive more powerful than dynamite, is dead. As a chemist he had more than a national reputation, and several of hl9 Important Inventions have been patented, among them being a new method ror the reduction of cobalt and nickel ores, and the destruction of phylloxera by means of I'yruiigiieous acia. FREDERICK ALEF.S HANKET.

London, Feb. 13. Mr. Frederick Alers Hankey, member of the House of Commons for the Chertzy Division or Surrey, died today. In politics he was a Conservative.

Injured In a Runaway. At I6V45 o'clock this morning a horse attached to a farmer's wagon and driven by James Brach, when at Second Carondelet and THE CHINESE MUST GO, Bovcott Acrainst Celestials and Those Who Employ Them. Helena, Feb. 15. Pung KwaneYu, Chinese charge ad Interim at.

Washington, has complained to the Secretary, of State of the treatment of Chinese residents of Butte, and the matter was referred by Mr. Blaine to Gov. Toole. For some time a boycott has been In force In Butte against Chinese and all who employ tbem, and the information upon which the complaint Is made comes from the Chinese Consul-General at San Francisco. It is that various citizens of Butte "have been obstructing In their lawful business and outrageously treating the Chinese subjects resident In that place.

In November last various labor unions of Butte City passed a regulation prohibiting the people In the said city against trading ana dealing with the Chinese subjects resident there, and at the same time placed guards at the front or the Chinese stores to arrest and punish any native who should be found to Infringe the regulations. Subsequently the labor unions forbade the native landlords to hire any more of their houses to the Chinese and ordered them to raise the rents of their houses already tenanted by them. They further required the Chinese laundrymen to register their names and attempted to extort from them $10 each for the same. Upon their refusal to comply with their demands the lawless people fired at them and assaulted some of them about the head with their pistols, so grievously wounding them that their lives were Imperiled. The newspapers of Butte have published Isolated cases of outrages upon Chinamen by hoodlums, but It is not credible that they were Instigated by the reputable citizens of that place.

A few days ago a burly rough in Kutte assaulted a Celestial on one of the main streets, knocking him down and cruelly beating blm, knocking him through a window, then dragging him out again across the broken glass. Wednesday night Ah Sam, a suburban lanndryman, and his crew came to Butte to participate in the New Year's festivities and left the wash house unguarded, and when they returned the establishment was a total wreck. It had been visited by a gangofbovs and men and bombarded with stones so effectively that the doors and furniture were smashed and the clothes scattered and ruined. During the proceedings a large crowd of lookers-on cheered the work or destruction and announced that the Chinese must go, peaceably If they would, but go they must. The laiwrlng men of Butte are circulating a memorial to Congress, In which they say: Your petitioners, representing the wage-workers of the State, are especially and vitally concerned for the promDt solution of this most important question.

The immigrants are forced upon us In great multitudes. The situation is alarming. We are being deprived of the opportunitv to earn our daily bread. The conditions are too hard to be patiently withstood. We therefore prav vor honorable body to give us prompt relief by the enactment of laws clearly designed to restrict immigration and exclude Chinese.

FIRES. A London Dock and Shipping: In Flames Other Losses. Liverpool, Feb. 15. The cotton shed on the Bramleymore dock here was completely gutted by fire to-day.

In the dock was lying the Spanish steamer Kanion De Larrlnaga, Cart. Echevarrla, from New Orleans. Her rigging caught fire, owing to the Intense heat. The smoke was so dense that it was impossible to let go her lines and get her out of danger. A detachment of the fire brigade got aboard of her, however, after a time and extinguished the Hames.

Two of the firemen were overcome by the smoke and were removed to the hospital. Capt. Echevarrla leaped to the dock while the fire was In progress, and in so doing fell and injured his thigh. i FLAMES AT FULTON. Fulton, Feb.

15. At 6 o'clock this morning fire was discovered In the three-story brick bulslness house on Main street, occupied by II. I. Glllfoy as a mllltaery and fancy goods house, and In a few minutes the entire Interior of the building was a solid mass of flame. The fire company quickly responded and saved the adjoining buildings.

The second-story was occupied by Mr. Glllfoy and family as a all of tne goods and furniture were totally destroyed. Mr. Glllfoy's loss on goods Is $5,000, Insured for on building $1,000, fully Insured. Godfrey Gerhardt's loss on furniture Is about J2.C0O.

Tne fire was caused from the explosion of a coal oil lamp which had been lelt burning on the counter of the lower room. BADLT DAMAGED. Memphis, Feb. 15. This morning at 1:30 the building occupied by the Standard Oil Co.

No. 5 Howard Row, owned by M. L. Macham, caught fire, and the third story was guxteu oeiore Deing controiiea. Loss, $3,500.

furniture burned. New York, Feb. 15. Charles Lench's furni ture factory on East Seventeenth street has been burned, causing a damage to stock of to building $30,000. The origin of the lire is uuluowu, FLAMES AT ALLERTON.

Cortdon, Feb. 15. Fire has destroyed the business portion of Allerton," six miles iroui nere. about SAVED BY A HERO. An Imperiled Ship's Crew Rescued by Murdock Willis.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Feb. 15. A thrilling story comes from St. John's, Newfoundland, of the rescue of the crew of the Prince Edward Island schooner Avenger. She was driven on the rocks twenty miles from St.

John's in a blinding snow storm. While she was pounding to pieces the boat was launched and Immediately swamped. Murdock Willis volunteered to swim ashore with a life line. He was carried ashore on a big wave but could not land, the coast being so precipitous. He was drawn back on board the vessel, where he rested an hour and tried again, and landed safely.

He drew himself up from one point of rock to another until he reached a place where he could fasten a line. Then he drew ashore a larger line, by means of which the Captain and crew all got sarely to shore. A STEAMBOAT SUNK. Memphis, Feb. 15.

The 6teamer Eugene, plying between Memphis and Pine Bluff, struck a snag five miles north of nelena. this morning and went to the bottom of the river. No lives were' lost. The boat was the property of the Memphis A Arkansas River Packet Co. and was worth $18,000, and was uninsured.

Four hundred bales of cotton and several hundred bags of cottonseed were the cargo. The cotton will be taken out at once. THREE MEN KILLED. Denver, Feb 15. A frightful accident occurred in the Mollie Gibson mine at Aspen, this morning, through which the following th.

minora were killed: Michael Eggers, leaves wife and six children, i. ouurpe and M. Caples, unmarneu. EATEN BY WILD DOSS. Two More Victims of the Eerocioua Ant mala in Northwest Kansas.

Wichita, Feb. 15. John Pratt and nis -year-old daughter, who lived near Leonard, are the latest victims of the wild aogs, which infest that extreme northwestern corner of the State and which at this season are particularly ferocious. Pratt and his child were in Leonard yesterday afternoon and left for home a little before dark. Their remains, horribly mangled, have been found about a mile from home, ana the carcasses of several dogs snow that a fierce battle was waged before Pratt was overcome.

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B. McCune, an old resident of St Louis County, has been appointed general salesman for Greenwood and t-hrewsiiurr Park, the suburbs managed by Farrar Tate. IN COMPLIMENT TO STAFFORD. Why the Washington University Students Can Drill at the Armory. The boys In the various branches of the Washington University will be permitted to drill at the Armory Hall once a week under the instruction of Lieut.

Stafford of thereg-ular army, detailed for that purpose. Hut In allowing the boys this privilege a very rtel. cate yet significant distinction hns been drawn. Permission to use the Armory was granted Lieut. Stafford, but was retuted the University.

The Washington University at the beginning of the school year established a drill corps and secured from the Government tli services of Lieut. t-taftord as drill master. The drill master and the drill have proved an unqualified sucreis, and the Lieutenant has become very popular with all with whom he has had dealings, a short time ago, acting for the University, he asked for permission to use the Armory once a week for drill, and the matter was submitted to the Armory Board and permission Immediately granted, the question of payment for the useof the hall being deferred until a later day. When the question of paying for the use of the Armory came up the university sent word that there was no fund available for the purpose, and that thi money could not be had. The university salJ furthermore that as the purpose was to train future citizens In the manual of arms, loyalty to the Hag, the use of the Armory should be given free.

The Armory Hoard Ulil not look at It that way. They tooi the ground that the Armory was mainly maintained my private subscription, and gut nothing from the State, and that the Washington University charging Its pupils a fee for tuition Including the drill could very well afford to pay a Small amount. 1th tha university boys drilling there once a week, they would use the hall as often as any slriKie company in the regular militia and It did not look like a fair thing In the eyes of the Armory Board that the school should be given the use of the hall free. It was decided finally that unless the University paid a reasonable amount the permission would not be given. Then rlRht In the face of this the permission to use the place onre a week was granted to Lieut.

Stafford to show that all his efforts to aid the militia had heen appreciated. So as the matter nov stands the boys of the University are drilled at the Armory by special privilege granted to Lieut. Stafford. A Woman's Revenge. Detectives Kelly and Scully ot the headquarters staff raided the cigar store of William Vogel, 1136 Washington avenue at 12 to-day and seized 2.

000 lottery tickets Issue 1 by seven different lottery companies. In connection with the raid, a very peculiar story was developed. It seems that a woman who was a regular purchaser of lottery tickets from Vogel struck one recently which she claimed was a $00 prize, fcbe attempted to collect the money through Vogel, but the latter claimed that It was worth but $25. A discussion ensued which was ended by ogel forcibly ejecting her from his place, r-he then gave the police information which resulted In to-day's raid. HEUMATISM THREE YEARS.

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jniimaiia, rni 11P EMUXT Q01m3S8 SPECIAL K0TICE3. rraiK annual masting of tha io .1 Height Sub-dUlalon will ha held Ait. log, March 7,1. at 7 a'cKx-a In wt and of tin ton Park. Tbrae trutr will J1- A.

T. BTKl'Hfc-Nft. rrra'arv. Children Cry fee FITeM AGTORIA wisp f'l i 5 i i. i it 1 if I honor and credit of our party and the fair fiiue of the State.

It is not alono democracy which has been vindicated, but the principles of good honest government. i see hero to-dav men of various ehade9 of political bolief, representative Republicans and Independents as well as Democrats. I have the right lo construe their presence as testimony to the satisfaction in seeing the grave question which arose in oar State affairs settled wholly wtthin the law, and to the rendering of full Justice and the triumph of right. I consider the presence of you all, not as personal tribute to myself, so much as to the vindication of the right of the majority to rule. The tumult of hate and partisan malice is hashed lu the presence of snch a Iilgb office of year will ami sentiment.

We ean all uieet and greet one another upon the enduring platform of a citizenship held in common as equals. And while I stand upon a platform of principles enunci ated by my party, none wiil claim that any of those principles contemplate willful harm to the crate. I belfeve that on many questions. Democrats can co-operate with and accept co-operation from men of all parties. We agree absolutely upon certain questions relating to public matters and it a more conservative.

less radical spirit can be brought to temper action upon ideas hJkl in common, great good can be accoinmished. we JLIemocratfc party i nledired to trie brinrinz about of those principles enunciated in it platform. Upon tliese principles I stand in the discbarge of my official duties, and I appeal to ail good citizens for their co-operation and S'fpport in the onerous duties of the executive oltice. In addressing yon to-dav. It has not been my purpose to make a speech, rather to extend to you an expression ot my appreciation of your kindness and hearty acknowledgment of my thanks, therefore I shall be pleased to meet ypu personally in the ex ecutive apartment and extend you a cordial in vuation to enter.

THE AUE0KA B0KEALI3. Causa and Extent of the Northern Lights Not Clearly Defined. Washington, i.C, Feb. 15. Prof.

William JJarkness of the United States Xaval Observatory, in speaking to a reporter about the brilliant aurora borealls Saturday night, said that although the sight was very fine, yet the greatest display of this character he had ever witnessed was In 1856 or 1857. when the lights were seen as far sooth as Havana, 'ilany theories," he continued, "have been advanced as to the cause and extent of the auroras, but after fill it Is pretty much guess work. It would seem easy enough to determine whether, when the lights are visible at the North Pole, they are visible at the fouth Pole, vet this point has never been settled. If tbe'theory that the lights are caused by electric currents thrown off from the poles be true, they should be visible both and routh simultaneously. We have records of observations as early as 502.

think It Is a fact that auroras come In cycles, say every ten or twelve years, and the elec-irlc hypothesis Is the usually accepted one. It Is pi8slble yes, I will say probable that more auroras will come In the near future. The recent magnetic disturbances were great. The magnetometers In the Observatory were affected. LIEUT.

TOTTEJi'S PREDICTION. New Haven, Feb. 15. Speaking of the remarkably brilliant aurora borealls of Saturday, night, Totten, who holds 'somewhat peculiar views on the "signs of the heavens," said yesterday: It is nndoubtedly doe to the big son spot, which Is directly due to the perihelion of the planets. We are only at the outer edge of the beginning of these things.

They aJways appear in periods of from eleven to twelve years, along with earthquakes, cyclones and all sorts of disturbances. This is the first aurora I bave seen for years. The last one, as pretty as tids, was way back in 1S68, a period that many will remember for its collateral religious ajtcite-ment. Kvery one of these things comes from solar conditions. I look npon them as Just as natural as the most materialistic philosopher.

I only differ from him in the belief that the universe ia wound up to ring out a chime on every bell at the time of the end. I believe that the world is on the threshold of a period of trial the like of which has never before risen seen. It will try onr surplus; those who have It stored ap will survive; they will be fittest. Those no haven't, be they nations, races or indi viduals, will pay the debt to the utmost far thing. The lllble expresses this iu its own way.

Take, for instance, the expression of shaking iiiv mcifu out ur laying iiotu oi me enus oi the earth. This is a subtle reference to one way in ttihlrh 111, thlnif will anvlmw end of the earth are its poles. The earth Is nothing bat an enormous magnet. A magnetic storm upon the sun which rules our system literally lays hold of the earth at the polea and shakes it to the core and everything npon it. Of course the thinr ih.k.n breaks at its weak point.

Nations on the nolna of anarchy become insane; men in the last' stages of disease succumb; localities wherein germs of disease are larking become plague centers, and so on, aft EDISON AND THE BtJTX SPOTS. Pbw tohk, erj. in. inventor Edison was aa Interested observer of the aurora borealls He said yesterday: I see by the tiaper It affected the teleirranh wire. between New York and Albany.

I well remember nce when 1 was an operator there was so much elec tricity about it that it burned the silk insulations off tne wire la some of the otiices. 1 made some estimates on the amount of electricity there was there on tnat occasion, ana 1 loitnd there was more than 2.000,000 horse power, if I that was not as bri(hl an aftalr aa tne one last taught, either Edison's telephone line, which Is to renro- duce the disturbances on the sun In sound on the earth is to be built In the spring, Edison says. It will be put In position around his Iron mine In Morris County. The poles ars to be made of metal and are to set in the solid rock. The row will reach around the big mine and then the finest and most expensive copper wire that can be had is to be put up on tbem.

The disturbances will reach the varth on waves of electricity a little more than eight minutes after they have occurred, having traveled at the rate of about 190,000 tulles a second. They will be changed Into sound when they reach the copper wire, and then they may be transferred to wax and worked oC in slot machines at a nlcklo a listen. Incorporated. Jeffebson Citt, Mo. Feb.

is The Secretary of Stat today Issued certificates of Incorporation toths tollowlng firms: Diamond Brick TUa Kansas City capital, $3,000. Midland Building 4 Loan Association, 6t. Louis; capital, JGO.000. The Jones-Nelson Pasturage Kansas City, $50,000." Farmers' A Merchants' Bank ot riedmont. Jriedmont; asoses Jri uu niurasu nome lastfaii rP' wnre ba tea luce early K.

B. Wolff has gone to Philadelphia. Jestuaj. Wade has returned trom a bust, ness trip to New York, a nomas A. Scott, wbr has been In Chicago Greenwood.

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