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THE communications, apparently coming from different sources. They do not know precisely what form the communications may take, but state that, so far as they may have a tendency to affect the value of their securities, they will be found to be groundless and malicious. The Transcontinental Railway Association at San Francisco has finally decided upon the following agreement: The Southern lines are to pay the Northern lines eight per cent. of their gross earnings on through business, and the Northern lines are to pay the Southern lines a like percentage of their gross earnings on through business. The Northern lines comprise all the roads in the association that are feeders to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, and the Southern are those association that teed the Central and Southern Pacitic Roads.

This arrangement will leave a balance in favor of the Northern roads, which they accept as better terms than the six per cent. of the gross earnings of the Southern roads, formerly paid them for noninterference in California traffic. LAWYER FISKE'S JOURNEY. He Leaves Town and Miss Newman Takes Her Departure from White Plains. Mr.

J.D. Fiske, the gallant young Philadelphia lawyer whose generous intentions towards Miss Minnie Newman, of White Plains, New caused considerable comment, left the city rather nnexpectedly on Saturday afternoon. Curiously enough Miss Minnie left her home at White Plains also on Saturday, and the friends of both are very desirious of knowing whether their simultaneous departures were preconcerted. A report from New York states that a carriage drew up in front of Mrs. Newman's at seven o'clock Saturday morning.

Miss Minnie opened the door, showed the driver a trunk and a bandbag. which he picked up and deposited in the vehicle. Miss Minnie followed her baggage and drove to the railroad station, where she took the 7.40 train for New York. Upon arriving at the Grand Central depot she expressed her trunk to the Cortlandt street ferry, where, it is alleged, she bought a ticket for Philadelphia, and at once crossed to Jersey City. Mr.

Fiske spent Saturday morning at his office, No. 403 Market street, and about noon suddenly seized his gripsack and disappeared. He said nothing to any of the clerks about, nor did he return during the day, It is surmised that he received a telegram from Miss Minnie notifying of the step she had taken, and requesting him to meet her at Jersey City, and that he went over on the one o'clock fast express. It is reported from New York that a young man answering Fiske's description met the girl at the depot and that both entered the cars together. From a friend of the young lawyer it was learned last night that the hero of all these adventures is a married man.

He is a native of Massachusetts and married a girl there some years ago. He separated from his wife two years since tor sufficient reasons, it is said, and came to this city, where he established himself. He is a man of superior education and good accomplishments, being possessed of a fine voice. At a party or entertainment in New York city he met Miss Newman, who is also said to be an excellent singer. He became interested in her and having learned her history decided to assist her in completing her education.

This," said the gentleman, "is the whole story. Miss Newman knew that he was married, and he never attempted to deceive her for an instant. He has written to a number of female colleges and educational institutions, desiring to find a place where she could receive instruction in those branches in which she is deficient, without having to take a regular course and pursue studies with which she is familiar. He has received a number of catalogues and letters, but has not decided where to send her. That is all there is to it." Where is he now? "I don't know; I presume if, as you say, Miss Minnie left her home on Saturday she is stopping he is in the city somewhere, too.

1 have every with some friends of his in the city, and probably confidence in the integrity of Mr. Fiske's motives and believe he is acting for the best interests of the young lady." At the Washington Hotel, where Mr. Fiske boarded, it was said last night that he had left on Friday; that he had not returned since, and that he was not expected to return. DEMOCRATIC ACTIVITY. Prospects of a Postponement of the Magisterial Nominations.

The Democratic primaries will be held to to elect delegates to the ward conventions, which meet to-morrow to nominate Councilmen and school directors, and delegates to the convention to nominate magistrates, which will meet at National Guard's Hall on Thursday. To this convention 153 delegates are to be chosen, and on Tuesday night the credentials to those elected will be given out by the ward committees. the present indications are, and in fact it is generally accepted, that the convention will postpone the nominations for two weeks. The bill increasing the number of magistrates is before the Senate, and may pass that body during the present week. The question then arises whether Governor Pattison will approve the bill.

It is hardly expected that he will veto it, as it is a constitutional measure, in spite of the additional drain it will make upon the already overburdened revenues. If the a law the Democratic Convention will nominate seventeen candidates, the same number as the Republicans, out of which they are sure to get nine, making twenty-six magistrates altogether who are to be elected to office can February. The candidates who are contesting for the nomination of the Democratic Convention are William Eisenbrown, of the First ward, a milk dealer: Hugh Collins, Second ward, a present magistrate; Matthew McVey, Fifth ward, real estate dealer; dealer; John Slevin, Seventh ward, liquor James F. Larking, Eighth ward, publisher'g agent; J. Lennon, Ninth ward, a present magistrate; John A.

Cahill. real estate agent; William P. Becker, a present magistrate, Eleventh ward; Albert H. Ladner, Twelith ward, a present magistrate; Andrew Alexander, Fourteenth ward, ex-magistrate; John O'Brien, Fifteenth ward; John Rink, Sixteenth ward, a present magistrate; Thomas Reinfried. Seventeenth ward; Jos.

I. Farley, attorney at-law: John Johnson, fireman, Eighteenth ward: Michael Egan, brickmaker, Nineteenth ward; Ebenezer Cobb, Twentieth ward, real estate agent; Gustavus Harkness, leather manufacturer: Alfred Snyder, ex-magistrate, Twenty-first ward: A. B. Guilbert, Twenty-second ward, attorney-at-law; Thomas H. Clarke, Twenty-fourth ward, a present magistrate; John P.

McFadden, Twenty retired: Richard 1 C. Lloyd, Twenty-ninth railway receiver. DISPERSED IN SADNESS. The Law's Depressing Effect Upon a Sunday Night Wedding Dance. A sorely disappointed and dejected party of nearly three hundred men and women, the latter gayly attired in their "ball room costumes." filed down the stairway leading to Odd Fellows' Hall, at the southwest corner of Tenth and South streets, last evening.

An Italian harpist and his long-tried friend, with the "fiddle," made up the rear of the sorrowful procession. Lieutenant Albright was the cause of the general depression of spirits. But a short time ago the sounds of revelry had been issuing forth from the building on the stall Sabbath air, while from the second story windows streamed a blaze of light. But now had that "scene of laughing, pleasure and bliss unalloyed" been rudely checked by the mighty minion of the law. Such disregard for the Sabbath could not be overlooked, at least so said the police, and when informed that a dance was in progress within his bailiwick the careful lieutenant at once telegraphed to headquarters for instructions as to how be should act.

Upon receipt of the intelligence that a public dance on Sunday would not be tolerated the officer proceeded to enforce the law. Upon investigating the cause of this unusual commotion the lieutenant learned that Albert Rosenthal, living on South street, above Third, and Hannah Silverstein, of Seventh street, below Bainbridge, bad just been united in matrimony. After the interesting ceremony had been concluded the services of the musicians were secured and the guests proceeded to celebrate the event by tripping the light fantastic. Each of the guesta, it is said, was taxed twentyfive cents to defray the expenses, and the fun had barely begun when the lieutenant put in an appearance and ordered them to desist. The music stopped at once, and the party, with a contrite submission to the law's demands, wended its homeward way.

Mining Stocks. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. folio wing are the closing prices of mining stocks: Alta, Belcher. Best and Belcher, .55: Bodie Con. Con, 2.00: Chollar, 1.621: Con.

Cala. .10: Pacific, Eureka 2.37½: Gould Curry, Hale Norcross. 3.62½: Mexican, .35: Navajo, 1.75; Ophir, Potosi, Savage, 2.75; Sierra Nevada, Union Yellow Jacket, 1.25. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1885. THE EMIGRANT FARE TO CHICAGO REDUCED TO ONE DOLLAR.

The Pennsylvania Strikes Back at the Other Trunk Lines -All the Pools Demoralized -Other Railroad Matters. CUT IN RATES. pool rates. Banquet to Railroad Men. Much surprise was expressed by Third street men on Saturday at the announcement by the Pennsylvania Railroad that the emigrant rate to Chicago, St.

Louis and Cincinnati had been reduced to $1. This company has taken no part in the passenger war which has been going on for several months, but has kept on selling tickets at the old rates. such a radical move as was made public on Saturday gave rise to many rumors and caused considerable excitement not unmixed with alarm. No one believed for an instant that the reduction in rates was for the purpose of attracting travel to the lines of the company. The emigrant business has never been eagerly sought for by the Pennsylvania, as it has always preferred to cater to the better paying classes of travelers.

In the pursuance of this policy it has brought its roadbed and equipment to a standard of excellence surpassed by no other railroad in the world, and its facilities are intended for that description of business. It was not in a spirit of competition that the reduction was made, but, as the officers declared, because of the acts of other trunk lines. The immediate cause for the reduction is said to be the action of the New York Central, Erie, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and West Shore Roads in reducing the established rate without notifying the other companies in the emigrant pool as the regulations require. Some time ago one or more of the companies complained of sent instructions to their European ticket agents to cut emigrant rates. This was done so secretly that the first intelligence of the cut was received from foreign agents, and the Pennsylvania people, who had all along been maintaining pool rates.

were, of course, much displeased at the lack of faith of the other companies. It is not believed, however, that the Pennsylvania would have done more under the circumstances than to follow the other companies, if indeed it would make any change in the rates at all, but for complications that arose in freight matters. When the present east-bound freight pool was formed it was believed to be the strongest arrangement ever entered into by the trunk lines. The most stringent rules were enacted prevent rate cutting, and it was even agreed that if any road should carry more than its proportion it should pay the entire receipts from such excess to those roads carrying less than their proportion. Strong hopes were expressed that the new contract would prove binding, and that the seemingly eternal bickerings of the trunk lines would come to an end.

For a few months the plan worked smoothly, Some of the roads carried more than their allowance, and then held off to allow the laggards to catch up, but of late this practice has not been so noticeable. Then rumors gained currency that BoIDe of the companies had backslidden and were cutting rates and violating contracts with the same easy grace of old. From being mere rumors these statements grew to be declarations, and serious charges were preferred against several of the roads. To cure these evils the trunk line doctors prescribed the usual remedy -a meeting of tatives from all the companies. "The Chicago Committee, 88 it is called, composed of representatives from the roads leading out of Chicago, first tried its hand at the business and wrestled with the problem all day Thursday.

No satisfactory conclusion was reached and the next day the presidents of the trunk lines, the highest representative board, tackled the question. At this meeting President Roberts, who represented the Pennsylvania, is reported to have offered a resolution that the pool arrangement, 80. far as eastbound freights were concerned, be suspended. This was debated at length and finally defeated, the Pennsylvania being the only road voting in the affirmative. After some desultory talk the meeting adjourned.

There WaS no talk about altering the provisions of the west-bound pool. This was the meagre report of the proceedings of the meeting that was made public. The action of President Roberta was at once interpreted to mean that the Pennsylvania had become tired of the shilly-shally methods of doing business which has marked the course of the pool all along. It was recalled that some time ago the Pennsylvania demanded that the rate be reduced from thirty to fifteen cents per hundred weight for grain, because of the conscienceless cutting by other lines, and that the same road should offer such a radical resolution was considered ominous. On Saturday morning shortly after business hours had begun the reduced emigrant rate was announced.

A8 about all the lines in the emigrant pool are also in the freight pool, it was recognized at once that the action of the Pennsylvania was intended as a disagreeable notice to the other lines. The question was, what will come next? No one believes that the end has been reached, and as the Erie and New York Central people are reported to be talking rather independently, some fear a renewal of the freight war of four years ago. The European steamship lines are engaged in a desperate struggle, and the price of emigrant tickets has been forced down to $8 from Liverpool to New York. The effect of Pennsylvania's action is reflected in a telegram from Chicago, which states that east-bound freight rates are completely demoralized. The agents are underbidding each other with old time energy, and are offering to carry grain to New York at fifteen cents per hundred.

This is a decline of ten cents from the established In celebration of the recent opening of the Schuylkill Valley branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the city of Reading on Saturday entertained the officials of the company, The banquet was spread in the dining room of the Mansion House. The municipality was represented by Mayor Rowe and most of his lieutenants, and the county by the judges and commissioners. Among the prominent railroad officials present were George B. Roberts, Edmund Smith, Frank Thomson, J. N.

Du Barry, John Price Wetherill, N. Parker Shortridge, H. H. Houston, C. 8.

A. Griscom, Henry D. Welsh, Charles E. Pugh. M.

Prevost, Robert W. Downing, William J. Latta, Max Rubennach, James R. Wood. William H.

Brown, John D. Taylor, John Scott, James W. Crawford, D. W. Hellers, Albert Hewston, James Reed.

Ex-Congressman Ancona presided. One hundred and fifty covers were laid. President Roberta and John Scott spoke in behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and Messrs. Wetherill and Du Barry responded for the Schuylkill Valley Road. A toast complimentary to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company was read, but no one was present representing that corporation, so the chairman proceeded to the next on the list.

Reading's Investigating Committee. Mr. Edward S. Whelen, chairman of the Reading stockholders' annual meeting, has appointed the committee of seven stockholders to investigate the condition and affairs of the company, as provided by the resolution of General Collis, The committeemen are General C. H.

T. Collis, of New York; George Brooke, of Birdsboro; E. J. Du Pont, of Wilmington. Delaware: William P.

Jenks and Thomas G. Hood, of Philadelphia: Colonel James Duffy, of Marietta, and John Taylor, of London, England. These gentlemen are desired to inquire into anything and everything that strikes their fancy. The notices of their appointment have been sent out. To make a thorough examination of the companies would require several months, and some doubt is pressed whether the gentlemen named can find time to attend to the duties expected of them.

Declines a Railroad Presidency, It is reported that Mr. Frank Thomson, second vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been offered the presidency of a leading Northern railroad company. The offer is regarded as a very flattering tribute to Mr. Thomson's ability, who is universally considered to rank among the leading railroad men in the country. It de stated that Mr.

Thomson has declined the offer, preferring to remain with the Pennsylvania Railroad, with which company he was educated and by which his services are bighly appreciated. Reduced Rates to the Inauguration. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has forwarded to the Committee on Transportation, a sub-committee of the Inauguration Committee at Washington, a proposition relative to transporting organizations to the capital. These are the rates: Organizations numbering over 100 persons, from New York city. at $6.50 per passenger for the round trip, and for less than that number at $9 per passenger: from Philadelphia.

$5 per passenger in organizations of 100 and over, and $6 in smaller numbers: from other points on the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, to organizations of 100 and over, one fare for the round trip; for a emailer number, two cents per mile. Notes. The Canadian Pacific Kailway officials state that they have information of an organized conspiracy by parties interested in bearing" the securities of the company to flood New York newspapers for the next few days with alarming OBITUARY. Professor William Wagner -Gillies DallettEdmund About. Professor William Wagner, founder and president of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, died at midnight, on Saturday last, at his residence, on Seventeenth street, above Montgomery avenue.

Wagner was one of the most venerable and remarkable men in this city. He was descended from Bishop Tobias Wagner, a royal counsellor and the author of twenty-one works in German and Latin, all of them in the Royal Library at Vienna. His grandfather was the first Lutheran clergyman who ministered in Reading, and his father was an officer of the Continental army during the Revolution. Professor Wagner was born in this city January 15, 1794. In early south his father's influence secured for him a position in the counting house of Stephen Girard and soon rose high in the confidence of his employer, in whose interests he made several voyages in the then important position of supercargo.

Engaging later on his own account in the importing and shipping business, he acquired a handsome fortune, in addition to a handsome competency inherited from his father. Before he had attained middle life he was able to retire from business with an abundant means, of which he intelligently availed himself in the prosecution of scientific studies, in which he took a profound interest, and which he employed later in founding the free college, which, for higher education, is doing what Girard College is doing for the general and industrial trainingiof its pupils. Having in his extensive travels accumulated an immense and highly valuable collection of minerals, shells, plants, organic remains and ethnological relics sufficient to establish. with the library of eighteen thousand volumes, another Academy of Natural Sciences, he had them arranged in cabinets and placed in a building -planned by himself-constructed for their reception. That others might have the benefit of the opportunities thus created, Prof.

Wagner determined to create a college of the highest class and devote his fortune to its maintenance and development. In purguance of this plan the generous founder obtained, in the spring of 1855, a charter for the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and a supplementary act approved March 30, 1864. Councils, in the same spint in which they made in later years what was practically a grant of land to the University of Pennsylvania, placed at Prof. Wagner's disposal a hall in the city building at Thirteenth and Spring Garden streets, where the free institute was inaugurated May 21, 1855. A faculty was organized and the first term opened on the first Monday in the October after the inauguration.

For four vears lectures were continued at Spring Garden Hall, and were hignly appreciated. The curriculum included mineralogy, geology, anatomy, physiology, palacontology, ethnology, agricultural chemistry, civil engineering and other branches of a higher education, and the institution was manifestly the nucleus of a great free university of the future. During the autumn of 1869 the founder resolved to bring the lecture hall and museum under one roof, and with that object erected on the spacious grounds on the southwest corner of Seventeenth street and Montgomery avenue, a plain, but admirably planned and proportioned building of brick, with stone foundation, which is the present college, the corner-stone of which was laid June 2, 1859. Among the curious and valuable things deposited in that corner-stone was an antique lamp from a tomb at Agrigentum, supposed to be 2750 years old, au emblem of the light which it was hoped the lege was destined to shed abroad. The edifice, though somewhat delayed by the civil war, was completed in 1864, and inaugurated May 11, 1865.

Four years later a laboratory was added and fully equipped with assay and evaporating furnaces and other apparatus. The building and lot are valued at over $100,000, and the total estimate, including the collections and apparatus, is not less than $361,000. On Monday, May 15, 1865, the first course of free lectures began, and from that time for a score of years Prof. Wagner spared neither time, means nor effort to make it a first-class, comprehensive technological college, which ultimately, no doubt, it will become, as he wisely arranged tor a competent Board of Trustees who should continue the work after his decease. Meanwhile health and long life were vouchsafed to this remarkable man, with the respect of the community at large and the veneration and atfection of many friends.

In September last, however, the strong constitution which, for a period far beyond the ordinary span of human life, had sustained the clear mind and generous heart of one of nature's noblemen, gave signs of wearing out In February, 1883, the professor had suffered from an attack of pneumonia, from which, how ever, he rallied, with a strength surprising in one of his advanced age, and, with that exception, his health has been uninterruptedly good up to the period just mentioned. About two weeks ago the infirmities, which had evidently been on the increase ever since last fall, became so serious and complicated that the professor was unable to leave his room and uitimately his bed and some days since it became evident that the worn-out frame could not much longer maintain the unequal contest. Mrs. Louisa Wagner survives her husband, who was greatly her senior, and to whom she rendered most valuable aid in the great work which occupied his life and will pe petuate his name and Gillies Dallett lies Dallett, president of the Penn National Bank, died on the 17th at his home, southwest corner of Nineteenth and Venango streets, after an illness of some months, contracted through a cold. Dr.

Agnew, the attending physician, pronounced the immediate cause of death due to heart trouble. Mr. Dallett was in his sixty-sixth year. Dallett was born in Philadelphia in Sepember, 1819, at the northeast corner of Tenth and Callowhill streets, adjoining the soap and candle factory established there by his father, Elijah Dallett. The property is still standing today, and is known as the Dallett homestead.

Elijah Dallett came to Philadelphia early in the present century, and began the manufacture of soap and candies. He subsequently organized and was elected the first president of the Penn National Bank, which now stands at the corner of Seventh and Market Gillies Dallett grew up in his father's business, and concontinued it up to the present day, at the old location at Tenth and Callowhill streets. At one time several of the factories were located in ditferent parts of the city. A number of years ago Mr. Dallett succeeded his eldest brother, Elijah, as president of the Penn National Bank, and waS re-elected successively at every annual election since, including the one held there a few days ago.

Mr. Dallett was a Universalist, and years ago actively attended the services at the old church on Lombard street, near Fourth. In politics he was a staunch Democrat, although he never took any active interest in political canvass. In private life Mr. Dallett bore an upright and irreproachable character, and of late years acquired the reputation of a munificent giver to charities in a private way.

Edmond About. PARIS, Jan. Francois Valentin About, the widely known French writer and journalist, is dead. He leaves a widow and eight children. The funeral will take place on Monday.

There will be no religious ceremony. (Thus ends the life of the most thoroug'lly French among all French novelists, the most inting of French pamphieteers, the most unlucky of dramatic authors, the most restless of editors, and in politics one of the most disappointed men in France. But he has long belonged to past active history. Of late it has been rare to find the na ne of M. About mixed up with the literary history of his country.

By dint of letting everythi slide in turn "he became a stout and heavy Pacha." But he had managed to make a vast amount of money said to he in the region of a million of dollars-from his novels, essays, newspapers and judicious investments. The last time he was heard of was in uary last year, when he was elected a member of the French Academy by nineteen votes against fourteen for M. Coppee. At an early age he was sent to a seminary in his native province. Next he entered the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris, whe in 1848, he carried off the grand prize for a Latin essay.

On entering the Ecole Normale two years later he was a determined Republican. Ri. studies were concluded at the French school in Athens. At twenty-five he was an accomplished scholar, teeming with wit, malice and His first book, "La Grece Contemporaine," was an immediate success, but, on account its satire. grievously offended the Greeks.

They retaliated two years later when bis three act comedy, Gaitana was produced at the Odeon. Toe entire Greek colony of Paris, aided by contingents from London and Marseilles, visited; the theatre and hissed the play for twe nights, after which it was withdrawn. This was in 1862. A torrent of invective was directed against the amusing and facile writer whom everbody had hitherto compared to Voltaire. Up to that time M.

About's name was never printed in a newspaper without being coupled with that of Voltaire. He was a declasse" or a "Voltaire of the Ecole Normale." but he was always a Voltaire, so exquisite was his wit. After the hissing of Gaetana, M. About continued his career as a political pamphleteer and journalist in the Constitu- tionel. He was petted at the Tailleries and at Compiegne: he glorified the Empire In his volume called he was a table companion of Prince Napoleon; he won the admiration of Saint-Beuve by communicating to him the secret of a certain mixture of rum and curacoa, and was on the point of having his literary reputation ratified by an article from the pen of the great Aristarchus, when the untimely attack upon M.

de Niewerkerke, the friend of the Princess Mathilde, caused him to fall into disgrace at Saint Gratian, and the article never appeared. Then M. About turned to criticising the Empire, and his opinions in politics continued to be vague and diversified until atter the war, when with his friend. the dramatic critic Barcey, he founded the Conservative Republican paper Le About the same time M. About bought the Bottin, or Paris Directory, and what, with the profits of this indispensable publication and the big dividends of his paper, he became rich, fat and lazy, and the father of eight children.

Lately the has declined. Three years ago it had a circulation of some it now has only 10.000. It used to be one of the best paying newspapers in Paris, giving a dividend of forty francs on a par value of 500. Last year the dividend had fallen to one franc sixty centimes, and the stockholders began to kick over the traces. For some years past, indeed, About had neg.

lected its interests, and got colonization on the brain, and left the work of the paper to his sub-editor, though he drew a salary of $6000 a year, with $1600 additional allowance for carriage hire. The life that had begun so brilliantly ended suddenly years ago. For fifteen years he was an active and prolific polemist, pamphleteer, novelist, philosopher and economist. Then suddenly, as if he were cleaned out and pressed dry, he ceased to produce, and disappeared in the hubbub of 1870, only to appear later on as a wornout polemist. As a story teller and wit About has been dead these ten years, and has lived since then as a landed proprietor and stockholder.

As a literary man, as some one has said, "he had blown out his candle and gone to bed." American critics used to be fond of comparing About to Edgar A. Poe. He wrote "Tolla." "Rouge et Noir." Marriages of Paris," "The Man With the Broken Ear," "The Nose of the Notary" and other Obituary Notes, Mr. John T. Bartlett, president of the Board of Commissioners Baltimore county, died on Friday night his farm, "Long Quarter," near Towson, Baltimore.

He was at one time County Treasurer, and was when he died serving his second term as County Commissioner. William Montague Connelly, for twenty years past a journalist of Baltimore, died on Saturday, aged sixty years. He was originally from New York city. Col. Richard C.

Hollyday, a prominent citizen of 1albot county, died yesterday at his residence, near Easton. aged seventy-three years. Col. Hollyday was Secretary of State under Governors Bowie, Groome and Carroll. and was appointed to the same position by Gov.

McLane, but retired on account of his declining health. Henry M. Warfield, a widely known business man of Baltimore, died Saturday night, in the sixtieth year of his age. Mrs. Julia A.

Koberts, a well worker among the poor of this city, and who gained considerable prominence by her management of the "Penny Lunch Room" here, was found dead in bed in her boarding house. at Washington, yesterday. She was a sister of Gen. Phil Kearney. THE STORM STORY.

Trains Running in the West Without Regard to Schedule. CHICAGO, Jan. weather has moderated somewhat, but all points throughout Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin continue to report a low temperature and deep snow, badly drifted. Railway trains without exception are running without regard to schedule, and are all behind time. This is true of all the roads east, as well as west.

In central and southern Illinois the snowfall been heavy, The telegraph service to-day has been improved and communication is now open to all principal points east and west. The following temperatures were reported yesterday: Fargo, 24 degrees below zero; Miles City, M. 51 below; Jamestown, D. 30 below; St. Paul, 8 below; Des Moines, 15 below; Omaha, 14 below, St.

Louis, at zero; Chicago, 7 above; and' Cincinnati, 10 above. All are agreed that no such storm has been experienced since the spring of 1883. The Grand Trunk through passenger train due in Chicago at half-past seven Friday night was stalled in a buge snowdrift at Thornton Junction, eight miles east of Blue Island, for over twelve hours. A large gang of men were employed during the night in shoveling the snow, and it required six engines to start the train yesterday morning. The passengers managed to keep warm during the night, but suffered considerably from hunger.

Freight trains are stopped between stations on the Lake Shore by the wind and several brakemen were blown from the tops of their trains. Live stock when laid out is perishing in large numbers. At Pittsburg. FITTSBURG, Jan. cold wave has checked the rise of the rivers and averted what threatened to be a disastrous flood.

The waters rose steadily Friday night, and a at daybreak yesterday the Pittsburg and Western Railroad tracks, Exposition Park and a large portion of the low lands in Allegheny City were inundated. At twelve o'clock Friday night a terrific storm struck this section, and for several hours the wind blew at the rate of thirty-two miles an hour, doing widespread damage. Telegraph wires are in al: directions, and trains time. At East Liverpool, Ohio, Thompson pottery was wrecked, entailing a loss of $5000, and, the Opera House was partly unroofed. Steubenville property was damaged to the extent of $5000.

A Cyclone Visits Eastern New York. ALBANY, Jan. county, pine miles east of this city, was swept by a cyclone Friday night. Timber and fences were leveled in every direction. On the Helms plantation a barn was blown down and all its contents destroyed or whisked away.

On the adjoining plantation of A. F. Harris the wind entered an open window of the residence, and rushing through the structure carried away the entire side of the bouse. The force of the cyclone was stronger re upon the river two miles further on. Cold Weather in Texas.

ST. LoUIs, Jan. from Texas continue to report great loss of cattle and sheep by the late cold weather in various parts. On many ranges in the northern and western part of the State great numbers of cattle have drifted southward till stopped by wire fencing running many miles east and west, and are now dying by hundreds, and even thousands, from hunger, thirst and cold. The loss is chiefly on ranges which had suffered from drouth, both grass and water being scarce, and cattle in poor condition; but even in more favorable parts of the State a great amount of stock has already been lost by the unusual severity of the weather.

It is estimated that ten per cent. of the cattle and twenty per cent. of the sheep have perished. Arrest; of Colonel McClure at New Orleans on a Charge of Libel, A special despatch to the Times from New Orleans yesterday said: "Mr. McClure and his party arrived here this evening.

Before the train reached the depot a United States marshal entered the car and served a writ upon Mr. McClure, issued at the suit of Maximilian A. Dauphin, who demands the of $100,000, with interest and costs, in atonement for alleged injury done by the editor of the Times to Maximilian's Louisiana lottery business. It is a civil action in the United States Circuit Court against Mr. McClure individually, and is substantially the same action brought against the Times Publishing Company a year ago.

That was dismissed by Judges McKennan and Butler because there could be no actionable injury to an unlawful business in the State of Pennsylvania." Who will be Senator From New York? Perhaps you are just amused and have no interest in the struggle. Perhaps it will be settled before you read this. Perhaps you need another pair of Winter Trowsers, and if so we think there A will be no perhaps about your buying at Oak Hall if you call and see our Trowser offerings. Trowsers to Order of Excellent Cassimeres at $4.50, $5 and $6. Ready-Made Rough and Tumble at $2.65, and some thousands in other grades of cassimeres up to $5.50.

We are accustomed to large operations, but the rate at which we sell trowsers is often a surprise to ourselves. It is the outcome of the pledge to give the Best Bargain every time. U.S. SENATOR Wanamaker Brown EN. OAK HALL, Wanamaker Copyright, 1885.

Brown, S. E. Cor. Sixth and Market. NEWSY NOTES.

Short Despatches of General Interest From All Sections. West Attleborough, Mass. -Three moonshiners were captured near this place Saturday morning. Dubuque, passengers were injured by the accident on the Storm Lake Railroad. United States steamer Shenandoah a arrived at Callao on the 11th, and left on Friday for Mollendo.

St. Louis, Mo. -The local Committee on bound Traffic have reduced the rates on grain six cents per 100 pounde. Pensacola, Fla. -Three residences on the block west of the Continental Hotel were burned on Saturday.

The loss is $7000. regard to the whisky pool some creditors say obligations have not been promptly met, and it is threatened to break the pool. Steubenville, First Presbyterian Church damaged by the storm Friday night, is liable to fall at any moment. It cost $70,000. Mount Vernon, block was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon.

The loss is estimated at $20,000: insurance about $10,000. Wilkesbarre, ice gorge in the Susquehanna river gave way Saturday afternoon, but the ice afterwards formed again near Nanticoke. Rochester. N. Kelly, of the Board of Aldermen, was acquitted of the charge of bribery.

Ex-Alderman Falsinger was fined $500. Vicksburg, -Dan Carnaban, the negro who assaulted Miss Lindergreen on Tuesday night in the lower part of the county, was lynched on Friday. Elgin, Silvia's roller skating rink and two adjoining tenements were burned Saturday morning. The loss is $8000; insurance, $5000. Louisville, Ky.

-James P. McKinney, bookkeeper for Tapp, Leathers who committed suicide on January 3, is discovered to have been a defaulter. Cooperstown, N. jury in the Clayton murder trial brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree. The accused was sentenced to imprisonment for life.

Lake Providence, La. -The mail carrier while taking the mail to the landing on Thursday night was robbed by masked men, and a quantity of valuable matter secured, Petersburg, Va. -Lettie Jones, aged one hundred and ten years, the oldest person in the city, was fatally burned on Saturday morning by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Pittsburg, declaration has been filed in the caso of the Penn Bank for the use of Assignee Warner against the defunct institution, in which the damages are laid at $6,000,000. Trenton.

-The annual report of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics shows the number of deaths in the State last year to have been births, 25,263, and marriages, 8968. South Bend. Ind -The funeral of Schuyler Colfax took place Saturday afternoon. During the forenoon the body lay in state the residence and was viewed by thousands of people. Cobleskill, N.

Y. grand jury has found indictment against Merrett Baker, the absconding supervisors' clerk. J. Degratf, acting superintendent of the poor, has also disappeared. Salt Lake City.

-The Hanauer Smelter seven miles south of this city, was burned on Friday ight, by the upsetting of a slag pot The estab. ishment was entirely destroyed. Loss, insurance. Sharon, Kirsch, a wealthy farmer esiding near Middlesex, five miles from this place, was murdered by a farm hand named Jatnes Hilands Friday night. Hilands was arrested the next morning.

San Francisco, Cal. -The Produce Exchange's semi-annual statement shows that there were 000 tons of wheat remaining in the State on January 1 of the present year, against only 350.000 on the same date last year. New Haven, Conn. -The funeral of Prof. Benjamin Silliman took place on Saturday.

Governor Harrison, ex-Governor Ingersoll, General W. H. Russell and Dr. Francis Bacon were among the close personal friends present. Knoxville, the municipal election on Saturday James C.

Luttrell, Democrat, was elected Mayor. The Hoard of Aldermen stands 15 Democrats and 3 Republicans. There was Republican majority of 500 in the November election. Pottstown, Augustus Atherton, of Abington, while making arrangements for his daughter's recent warriage, was visited by a young man who professed to be a distant relation, and after remaining some time went away, carry. ing off the most costly portion of the bride's trousseau.

Springfield, Saturday the Legislature adjourned at 1.45 A. after a passage of a resolution that the argument on the temporary Speakership should be the first order ot next Tuesday morning, which is considered a victory for the opponents of Mr. Haines. Lancaster, is announced that the banking house of Amos S. Henderson, in this city, is George Smith, of Columbia, who pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in the killing of Henry Struck, was sentenced to five years and three months' imprisoment.

Scranton, Mayer, foreman in the upholstery department of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company's car shop, committed suicide on Saturday afternoon at his residence. coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased killed himself while crazed with liquor. New -The ceremonies of the reception of the pallium by Archbishop Leroy took place on Saturday morning at the Cathedral. Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, presided. Bisbop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock, delivered English sermon, and a Dominican father the French.

Baltimore, gang of bank forgers and check raisers, who have been operating in this city tor a week past, has been broken up by the arrest of three of the leaders. They gave their names as John Gilbert, alias W. Galbraith, James Russell ard John Hannigan. All are from New York. The Howard Bank was victimized to the extent of British steamer Nio collided Saturday morning in Chesapeake Bay with the steamer Bryn Glas.

Neither of the vessels was badly damaged. The mate of the Nio was injured. Chicago. -The Chicago Rubber Clothing Works at Grand Crossing were burned on Saturday, cansing a loss of $12.000, on which there is $5000 inThe special grand jury appointed by the Cook County Criminal Court on Friday night returned indictments against Makin, Gallagher, Shields, Hausbroug, Sullivan, Beebe and Gleason for participation in the Eighteenth ward election V. Bemis, of Chicago, has obtained judgment for $620 against Jacob F.

Studebaker, of South Bend, for damages in connection with the joint purchase of a trotting mare from the Rev. Adirondack Murray, of Boston. NO VACANCY. A Big Fight in the Ninth Ward for 211 Oflice Already Filled. The deadlock in the Ninth Ward Constable's Convention has been broken and John U.

Land, an ex-policeman of the Twentieth district, living at the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Filbert streets, has secured the Republican nomination. Although, after ten ballots had been taken, Wm. Weaver, a watchman in the City Hall, still neld six of the dozen divisions, on next vote being taken George W. Fisher broke from Weaver's ranks, and, joining the opposition, settled the question, that is, it was supposed to. There is a great drawback which seems to have been overlooked.

Lieutenant John M. Myers, of the Twentieth district, who was favorable to Weaver, now calmly informs the citizens of the ward that there is no vacancy in the office of constable, and will to-day also inform the Sheriff of the fact. Lieutenant Myers, whose place was aspired to, holds a certificate of election that does not expire until April, 1886. He was willing to resign in favor of his friend Weaver, but since Land has received the nomination be has concluded to hold on to his commission and accept the $100 from tavern licenses, when due, rather than give it to Land, who, he says, is well-to-do and does not need the cash. After their bard fight Land's friends do not take kindly to this unexpected bombshell.

The lieutenant says he took no part in the Constable's Convention, as it was believed that Weaver would be nominated. The Assault on Harry Ring. The investigation of the assault on Harry B. Ring, in the Ffteenth division of the Twenty-ninth ward, on the morning of January 14, and a hearing of the charges made by Mr. Ring against Sergeant Gardner and Police Officers Boehm, Beers and Hives, took place before Chief of Police Stewart on Saturday.

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