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fr1. )l nine IftitiiwL Na so; T17ESPAT EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1888. PRICE THREE CENTS t2 "We "Willi for a few days longer, continue our low prices on Dress Goods. GEORGE DEWALD Cor. Calhoun Columbia 3.: 7 if'S aa milj Yen Lalest Dy pfASMGTON! FOTJB O'CLOCK P.M.

flametwork. The Banding of the YlrIa renltentl Destroyed by Fire The. Head Elsewhere. BicBvoas, Jan: 8t Sooa iftei fire this morning the building, of the Virginia penitentiary, leased by the Davta ahoo company of Boston, and operated a shoe factory, was discovered on fire. The flames spread rapidly and the building! were totally destroyed, with all the machinery and atook; The Ioh to the shoe oompany is estimated from $160,000 to $178,000.

Buildings were itate property. Loss $25,000. 8. Thomas, Ont, Jan. 81.

J. Blackmore hardware and home orniflbing establishment boned to day Lou, lnanranoe, William Hlllers, aged 66, while watching the fire, dropped dead, GOING HAD. The Wild Bavlnji of a Girl Who Had Seen Bitten by a Dog. Chairman Will YTllion Again. jts republican oonnty oentral eommil te met this afternoon and elected Mr, Will Wilton ehalrmari; over hi protest Robert Liggett opposed hltt.

to. Wll on la appreciated by hi party and aspire to be delegate to the national obn ventlon. Massachusetts for Cleveland. Bosto. Jan.

8L The executive com. mittee of the democratic state eonven tion of adopted resolutions stating that "the democrats of this state are a unit in their support of; Pres ident Cleveland and polioy outlined in his last annual message to oongresa: that they believe it to be the duty of demo crats throughout tne unuea state 10 advocate, support and Insist upon the adoption of the principles enunciated therein as the great issue upon whloh the demooratlo party, with its candidates in the approaching election, can achieve an QTerwhCmlng Tlotory at the polls," Death of a Chicago Lawyer, Cmoioo, Jan. 8L Gen. John L. Thompson died this morning from the of a ruptured blood Teasel.

Thnmmon was a member of the law firm of Williams; Thompson, and one the imoet prominent attorney! in the city. He" served with diatlnetion during the war and was recently eleoted president of the Union League olnb. Bank Closes. Jan. 81.

The private 'bank of W. H. Outten, called the Guelph Banking suspend ed payment this morning. The reported cause of the suspension! Is the losses sustained by the winding up of the Federal bank and elsewhere. Station agents of the road in this state are asked to meet in Tndlanspolla on the 15th of February to organise" an Indi an division of the national aasoowuoii.

There are now forty three agents members of the national association out of 1 QOO ATI 111 In this State, the soolation taking in freight as well a ticket agent. An effort is to, be made to make the Indian division one of the largest and most active in the country, Choice of any overcoat inour, house for $12. flam, Pete Mai. 23U Judge Ohapln went to Auburn at noon tohold oourt. Coi, Qaonan BY, PMiinrs, of Nor Ia New England's, most 'remarkable oentenarian; He was .100 years old in August and is still Treasurer of the Norwioh and Western Bail: "road, and performs all the duties' per taining 9 the office.

who is 80 years of age, is also Van1 totive and well preserved old 'Col, Perkins was on Bobert Fulton's first eteamboat Its trial trip on the. Hudson in August Nioe'Tellow New Orleans Bugar 6I0. Good New Orleans Molasses, 85 gal; a V. Barnum. the East Colum bia street livery stable man, I letting funeral hacks tor 13 and they are the finest vehiole in the city.

Call on 01 telephone him. 8tf Removal. a. E. Bhralev Co.

have removed. from 33 West Main street to their new quartet st No. 129, 181 and 183 '01 boon street. 8Q Laroe Yellow Onions, $1 per busb. FBurrHouss, Bkxub, Mica, Jan.

8L While Dr. and Mrs. F.E. Woolsey whore) visiting relative In Bouthern Michigan last August, a dog' ran upon the. veranda, and Lillie Woolsey, the doctor's little daughter, went oni to play witn u.

one ttooDcd over tat his head: when the brute snappea as nex uia oue tooth slightly abraided the skin near the nose. The usual nraaantlons were taken. A few days ego Lillie, who ten years old, showed symptom of hydrophobia, and she is now unable to oontroi ner actions. She ia violent, and when not restrained, runs about biting and snapping like a dog. Bbe glares wiin ue ierooity 01 an angry animal, writhe In agony, froths at the mouth, and is rapidly developing the final stages of the terrible disease.

At times she Is possessed of the strength of two meij and it Is very difficult to restrain Inner calm moments she realise the danger of her parents and bem them to look out while; she is in her paroxysms. She says she feel like biting everybody, and although in her spasms reoognlsing her parents, is unable to oontroi her desire to snap at them. Death must soon relieve the little BLaJHE AKD CLKTELaND. TheTlevnof a Millionaire Eepublieaa on the Two Party. Leaders.

MnramaroLis, Jan. 81. Charles A. Pillsbury, the well known millionaire and pplitloal boss, who knows a thing or two about politics, has Just returned from an extended eastern trip. He sits down on the fond hopes of Mr.

Blaine mna tha Blaine boomer In vigorous stria. Here are some of the things be Jih: "Blaine oan not be eleoted. ana bis nomination mean Personally, I don's want to see him president The young men who do the whooping up do a good deal of talking for Blaine, but the older heads don't agree with them. "Cleveland Is the favorite with his party, and will get another nomination certainly. Very few are sanguine enough to think Blaine could carry New Tork In fact, they rather think it would go overwhelmingly tor Cleveland, The anti Blalne men are good republicans, hnt thev distrust Blaine and hia polioy.

ti the Luna were Blaine or Cleveland, most of them would vote for Conservative repnblioana think that, an entirely new oanm hu mnnt be. nominated some, at present, dark horse, and wltn auon a man at the head of tbe tioket, a good, clean man, there will be no doubt of a republican Tlotory. 1 ininx me tarin reform Is going to out way next fall. Everyone is glad, the issue was forced by the president, bntfor dinerent reasons. A fair judgement, I is that It will almost recreate party lines.

They will be divided on anew basis, and a generous illee will be out from What was Done at the Rational Capital To day The Proeeeolng of Congress. WisanreTox, Jan. 8L The house committee on naval affairs to day ordered a favorable report, oh Representative Bontelle's bill to relieve from the oharge of desertion the enlisted and appointed men in tbe navy and marine corps who served faithfully until the expiration of their terms of enlistment, or "were prevented from1 completing their terms of service, or by reason of disability contracted in the servioe, or by absenoe from oommand at the time they were entitled to disoharge. The house oommlttee on oommeroe has requeeted the inter state oommeroe eommlsslonto Investigate the Boadlng strike. The house eommittee oh oommeroe to day ordered a favorable report on the bill providing for the construction of a crib in tbe lake near umoago.

SKIUTB. Ybe senate has (passed Hoar' Joint molntionfor a oonstltntlonal amendment changing tbe time for the meeting of congress and for the. inauguration of the THE OLDEST HINIBTEB. Bev. David LatbropIInnn Dies In Bnf ftlo at the 'Age ef Ninety height.

Columbus Teacher Suicides. OtxrMhAxv, 0., Jan. 81. Eugene Tafela, prlnolpal of a Colnmbua sobool, who drew about $800 In money due his teachers Friday and disappeared, suicided at the new Johnson house by hnntlno himself throush the head will a revolver. Ue left letter titling inat he had gambled away the money at a room managed be Long, and Wy at, on High stroet, and chose death rather than go to the penitentiary.

A dispatch from Columbus state that Frank Wy at, the gamb er, on learning of the suicide; fcnnWt nn a detective and turned over to him $600 lost Friday by a man supposed tobeTafele, andrequestedthatltbepald to the teachers if it proved he was the Bowno, N.T.V Jan. 31 liev. David Lathrop Hunn, the eldest graduate of Tale oollege, and the oldest clergyman of the United States, died Sunday, after a week's illness. He was slightly blind and deaf, but preserved his aoualtiee almost to the last having pre served his membership in tbe Booheeter Presbytery and preaoned wituin two rears to the erandohtldren of hi former parishioners at Conn. He was first a Oonirreeatlonal minister, but embraced Preaoyterlanlam many years aga uev.

Air. uunn celebrated nis. ninety eighth birthday on November 5 lest, wnen he talked ireeiy wita nis visitors and seemed to take oonslderabU interest in ourrent event. His only an Upathy was to Sunday newspapers. Bine for White; Washhiokw, Jan.

81. Thihg look a little blue for Congressman White, of the Fort Wayne district. The republl oan may stand by him with a solid front, bnt they have rather poor ground to stand on, so far as has been yet developed. White has been unable to nrove. so by the necessary kind of that he was naturalised before he was eleoted to congress.

Even the sot that he served in the. army does not seem likely to prove 01 vaiue to nun in this Foreign New. Dotlw. all Miobael Davltt. speaking at Bathkeale to day, advised the tenants of Lord Qoilimore not to accept the offer made to them to purchase tntir larms, because neavy ouroeus would soon accrue, and mortgage would torn farms over again to other and also because Lord Gullla more had evicted two tenants from Big Cigar Factory, Wst, 81.

Eduardo H. "king of Havana cigar manufacturer," will shortly build in this olty the largest cigar manufactory In the United States. The building I to be oi brick, iron and stone, with a eapaolty of 200,000 cigar a day. The, Cuban trouble, It is said, was one cause of the removal. Two Cowboys Killed.

Eirn Dafci Jan. 81. Tester day two oqwboys named 'and TXniot' attantHtAil in tma Mtik )AH i JL Vbtsif an.naiuavtDU iiui iua hvttip vi Buffalo Gap, a station on the Elkhom road, forty mile south of here, tbe citizen turned oni in lull force and killed both of them. Who fired the shots no one know or wants to know. Ilopklu't TrlsL CraoiSKATi, Jao.81.

The testimony in the of Benjamin E. Hopkins, late assistant oashler or the fidelity bank closed yesterday, and the arguments As the oourt doe not restrict attorneys, the ease will probably not go to the jury before to morrow. Thirty Ore Years. Cmoioo, Jan. 81.

Judge Horton overruled the (notion for anew trial in the ease of Miahael Lynoh, oonvloted of manslaughter for the killing of Officer Balloraq and sentenood him thirty five years in the penitentiary, THE In the Mississippi Ttlver Breaks St. Louis and Crashes Into $1,. 500,000 Worth of Property. Si. Loins, Jan.

31, The Joe gorge in front of the city began to move at niid nl'ght last night, but stopped 'until 10 o'olook this morning, when the January thaw loosened the mass and It slowly oraahed down' upon nearly $1,600,000 worth of property, which it is now slowly grinding into ruins. The ice is piled up from eighteen to twenty feet thlok Several barges have been sunk and. also the steamers' Tamm, Mattie Belle, and Hayes. The Hayes, the large excursion steamer, the property of the anchor line, is a total wreak, valued at $80,000. Tbe Mattie Belle i a flue large freight boat.

The Tamm was a ferry boat. The wharf boat of the Alton and Grafton railroad oompany was swept The steamer City of Monroe snapped her lines at noon and is a wreck. Captain Mason and Mr. Zeeber ger were badly Injured. LOCAL MS; Mr.

GuJ Benner, a prominent lumber merchant 01 dlnoinnatl, is in the oity, tbe gueel of uouncuman ijew rehearsal to niffht Prof. Woolsey requests all to be present, and bring books, a they have all been dis I VMrg.W.D. Pace 'was summoned ldrlan, this morning by a telegram announcing tne senons umess pi her' mother. 1 Come bring your friends to the special aervloes being held in. the Berry street M.

E. churoh. Bervloes at 7:80 o'olook this evening. Stephen ShellenbSrger and Adiine Bohater, Jesse H. Tonng and Laura G.

Smith, John V. and Ida Harvey have been lioensed to wed. In Justice France's oourt yesterday a juror said in reply to a question that he would Deiieve ita ointihu. in preier enoe to O'Connor, the book peddler, He Is a gentleman and a sonoiar. Bev.

E. Brady. S. of Oinoinnatl. is the guest of the Episcopal residence.

The distinguished divine will leoture on "Joismarek," at idbrary nau, to mgni, and a rich treat is in store, for his hear KILLED HIS FATHER. Bat He Was Compelled to do It to Save Other Members of the Family, WiTSBTTLLB, Ms Jan. 81. Teeter day at Center Sidney, a town adjoining Augusta, Edward Wentworth, 40 years bid, was fatally shot. He had a family of thirteen children, all of whom 'were at home exoept one.

He Has very cruel to them. Sunday evening, after beating his wife, he strnok a daughter and threw her down and was choking her: when his wife remonstrated. He leaped up, exclaiming: "I will kill you I I wUi kiU all of yonl Ha started to get a revolver, but one of his eons' grabbed It and put a bullet through hi father' heart Properly Attached. Niw Toek, Jan. 31.

The supreme court lias granted' an additional attachment against the property, in, this itate of Junes M. Vail of Port Wash, ington, ia a suit brought by William Ahlehauaer to recover. $21,000 money deposited, Demand an PrrMBtmaJan. 31, roarp4jiters have notlQed their that on tbe of first May next tboy will demand an adranoe in wage of ten per pent. ENJOINED AGAIN.

Jndge Chipln Sty the Council Shall Not Impeach the Water Works Trustees. As will be seen bv an advertisement, which appears elsewhere in to day's Issue, Boot have, decided to confine their cost sale during the remainder of this week. Their stock comprises everything in, the market, end those who wish to take advantage of their low prioes should visit the store this week. The creat cost sale of Boot and oom pany will continue daring the. balance of the week, owing to their Inability to commence inventory before next: mon dav.

Everv artlole in their mammoth establishment! sold at eost during that time and customers should avail them' selves of this splenald to secure bargains in the best oi journal this morning in Its attack on Dr. J. a superintendent of tbe pnblto schools, does tnat gentle man great injustice, ut. irvnn, en Dr.Stemen tells us. has slmclv complied with' the state law "and observed tbe rules' promulgated by the state board of health.

Dr. Irwin is out or tne oity at present, at the bedside, of hi sick daughter end not able to reply to the Journal article. ye feel tnat our. co temporary will give him an opportunity to set himself right, for he certainly can doit, HELD FOB TKIAL. At four' o'olook last i evening.

Hedekln J. P. W. Meyer and E. ITmiiaVIa tk.

v.fA WA.V. tvnafAAM ttl. plied to Jndge A. A. Ohapln for an order training tbe oity oounou from going ahead with the impeaohment proceed ings it proposed to instituteagainst them this evening.

The question was vigorously argued and taken under advisement until .11 o'olook this morning. The judge, at that hour, reviewed the ease la it Heabsolved the trustees from intended wrong, did the same handsome thing for the ooonoll with a desire to soi ten feeung but because ne, aid not believe the charge against the trustees constituted malfeasance in he denied the oounoll's right to try the trustees and Issued a reetrslning order until February 21, when he expressed to air the oase again. City Attorney Oolerlok denied Jndge Ohapln's jurlsdiotion in the matter and will at onoe appeal the case to the supreme oourt of the state. The oounou win not impeaon anynoay to night, and it is probable that the an controversy maybe oompTomisea. would not be bad.

way out of the difficulty, for it seems there is no end to Injunctions. BIG DAMAGE 8C1TS. Jacob Felger and llenry Bredemeyer Want $5,000. Each. ECHOES OF THE RAIL.

General Manager Williams and Party Tbit the Nickel Plate Sbeps The Newt Bndget. Lewis Hudry.an arnrehtloe bov in the Base foundry, is on the Ick list The railroad tioket agents at cassen ger business is picking somewhat. The Bass works have placed a new six foot grind stone in the machine shop. The Pittsburg, Fort Wavne and. Chicago railroad company will build a now depot at Wppater, O.

Charles Hensell, the resident engineer of the Wabash road at Bprlngflcld, was in the olty yesterday, D.H. Caldwell, of the Nlckell Plate dispatcher's office, is confined to his bed, threatened with an: attack of pluero r. a helper in the moulding rooms of the Bass foundry, is being congratulated over the arrival of a Cirl baby at hi JThe clerk In the Pittsburg worksV (1 have oorapleted their monthlr reports and sent them into Bhop Clerk Meegan's There "are a nnmborvof prominent railroad men who take kn active interest In the Toung Men's Christian aesoola tion. The boys Hue Nickel Plate shops were on their good yesterday when the big moguls of the road passed through. (J.

B. HIggtas, the ehief clerk In Superintendent Law's Is'at home in operating a telegraph Instrument 'and frequently sends his own telegraph Charles Cherry, of Shop Clerk Meghan's office, Is at the desk In tire officer' of the Pittsburg maohlne shops during the absence of J. H. Sloan at Englewood. He Is the acting dark of the department Tjmorrow the Cincinnati, Jackson ana Mackinaw oompanv will move it headquarters from Van Wert to Toledo.

A. H. Johnson will be given (he title of traffic manager and will look after freight and passenger, One bait of the employes of the Wa bash Shops were cSi dnty yesterday and tbe other half to day. The abash la afraid its pay roll will be too large for the mehth and this is tbe reason the men take turns in remaining idle; J. the pleasant olerkin Store keeper Cox's office of the Pennsylvania company, always baa an orange on his desk wnen tne reporter passes through the is a great lover of the fruit Several well known train men started the new year with a temperance pledge and they have been true to it They will be rloher and happier at the end of the year if they keep It and will rise a hundred fold in the estimation of their employers.

Calvin 8. Wheaton, grand ohlef con duotor of the Order of Hallway conductors, Is still in Washington, looklag after the conductor and englnenr lioenie bill. of whloh ha Is the father. He is stidto. be quite oonfident that the bill will pass during this session of congress.

wit 1 This morning, Jacob a Lake township farmer, filed suit against the Peters Box and Lumber oompany to recover $5,000, Mr. O. Heaton I WnAir Jnhi penned tne oompiaini ana relates now arijass irounary and Maonloe works, team of horse belongleg to the oom nterday while he was at work repairing The Tonne Horse Thieve Arraigned In Court; 117ANTEP. A ftrl to da', fsasral house VY wort, middle i4 P'efwredj, ey i4 Moodj's Heelings. fnmviuj.

Jan. 81. Moody has de cided to oontinne bis meetlnga here till February 12. On febrnary ia Moody will leave for Iowa aooompanled by Air. Bankey and evangelist.

Whittle there. Bank President Dead. Pmsmraa. Jan. 81.

John iB, the president of the' Union National bank, aiea suaaemy wis mpf Professor Gray Bosto. Jan. 81. Professor A. G.

Gray, the eminent professor of botany at Harvard oollege died of par alysl In Cambridge last aged seventy The Fuel Famine. Mnrasarous. 81. Some two hundred cars of coal are sent out daily from Duluth. All other freight is stopped until tbe fuel famine is stopped, Chicago Gets Pfeffer.

Cmoioo, Jan. 81, Fred Pfoffer, aeo 6hd baseman of the white stocking team last year, signed a oontraol yesterday afternoon to play with Chicago in r. The Weather. WiawNOTOir, January 81. Indtoa, lUgbUj at the Tea tntofvtne Last night Sheriff Vlberg and hi Wilkinson, came In from Ohurubusoo with Nathan' and Dan Amstead, the young men who stole, a mare from Fred Lehhoke, oi Lake town hip, Snndy night 1 They were arraigned before Justice France this morning and In default of $1,000 ball in each oaee.

they were remanded io jaiiior tney. stole tne wrong animal and olaim that their home in Noble oounty. ''Queen Esther" will be presented, at the Temple the 37th, 28th and 29th of February: The rickbest and most beautiful costume to be found in Wadham's establishment in Ohloago, have been se cured. Sany were permitted to stand untied on alhonn street The animals ran an ay; it will be be recalled, and at the oorner of Main street they ran into trampled upon Mr. Felger while he was orosslog the street' His rib were fractured and he was otherwise hurt.

Henry Bredemeyer; his. at tornev. Mr: W. P. Breeh.BU.es John and Henry Taylor for $5.000.

They rnn the old Jaooby planing mill, where' the claimant was employed to operate a ma ohine. He alleges the company did not give him assistance and In the discharge of his duties, November 29, last the florers and thumb bf his rierht hand were out off by the planer knives. prays for the relief stated: Binoe. writing the above another damage suit is recorded. Adolph S.

Deutsobesnes Well Brother, the hide dealer, to reoover $1,600 damages. He claims that the Messrs, Weil, deceived him in roods thev sold to Ran dall vesey are attorneys for the claimant; Tiokets for "Esther" oan be procured of any of the members of the cantata; orioe. fifty cents. These ean be bought. at any time and exchanged st box Office lor reserved seats witnout extra enarge.

Gallery seats, thirty rive cents. to day The New Circuit Conrt Jory, Tbe followins' iurv was (elected to da; the February, term of the Circuit court, and was ordered to report next Monday William' Sheehan, Monroe township.1 jjyman noble. Adams township. John Mohr, city. DaVld B.

Bowser. Jefferson. township, Jaoob Hoffman, Marlon township. Solomon Chapman, Perry township. Fahlalng, Washington Bornard Tibbetts, Adsms township.

G. A. Starr, Springfield township, Alsnson O. Griffin, Perry township, 'John G. Luhts, Adtms township, John Felger, fiarlon township, Chpipe Bour Krout, joo quart FVporj, the turn table in'' the works a heavy pteoe of timber fell and mashed his foot quite The Injury will confine him to his home for some He.

lives on Oak street J. HlBloan, the clerk In the Pittsburg Shop, reoeived a telegram from wood last night aononnolng that his wife' motler, Mr. Sarih was dying. He left on the first train for her. bed Bide, Mrs.

Hough Is an estimable lady 76 year of age and her home is nt Englewood, Mrs, Sloan has been with' her mother during her The latest returns show that 41.852 freight oars were built In this Country: last year at car shop. The last two reported in Poor's Manual, show six ano a nail ireignt ears per mile of road In this At this rate, the Railroad ffattite, says, to witbT.ew railroad oonstrnotton 103,000 oars should have bnilt last yean This in part aooonnts for. the soaroity of oars during last few months. The largest and fastest; passenger engine ever built Is said to have been turned out of the Rhode Island locomotive works at Providence, for the New' TOrk: Providence and Boston Riilroad oompany. She was; designed to make tbe run from providenoe to a distance of 62.6 mllei.Includlng a dead stop at Mystlo draw bridge, as required by the statutes of Oonnectiont, in just 62.6 minutes, pulling at the same time eight oars, four of them Pullmans.

General Manager Williams, aooom paoled by Superintendent of Motive Power John MoEenzIe, Master Meohan THE MABKEW. Cmoaoo. Jan. 8L Wheat firmer, at .75 13 160, Corn, a shade easier, at uau. steady, jaav.

Hi lo ioa uye, mo, Prime timothy; $2.472.43. Flaxseed, $1.46, Whisky, $1.13. POrkJ steady, at la.07. Lard, steady, 7l Hhnrt rihii 7.7ft. Chioaoo, Jan.

31 Hogs, reoelpta, 46, io H. Lewis and Ki Work, gener 000; rather slow and 10 to I6e lower; 1 foreman of engineers and firemen, heavy packing and snipping, 6.60. Cattle, receipts, steady. Beeves. $3.

005.20... Bheep, reoeipls, 6,000: slow inferior to choice, 82.60 6.00. Lambs, fJ5.008.00.l Judge Allen Zollars, the supreme court, it in tne oity: Buckweat Flour and Staple Syrup. New Buckwheat Flour 13 lb sacks 40c. "WF Maple BTrnpqnartw.

HOW! arrived in the city yesterday on No, 8. Mr. Williams' private car was attached to the train. The party wa met here by Superintendent 0.1)., Gorman, 'who escorted tne gentlemen to tne oompany works. After a close inspection of the departments the party returned to the 1 city, remaining all night Mr.

Williams private car was attached to No, .8 this afternoon; when thedlttlDgulshod party left for Otiloago, at whloh place they will make tour of luspeotfoq the I i'l 1 i wl I Si 1 miiwiiwWi!.