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The Courier -Tournal. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1887. NEW SERIES, NO. 6,858. LXXII.

LOUISVILLE, NEWS AND COMMENT. THE WEATHER. Indications for Monday in Kentucky are The rains, followed by fair weather, light cooler, light to fresh southerly winds, shifting to northerly. THE Washington Capital, failing to hear the buzzing of a beei in the speeches of the President on his present, tour, asthat he will not renomisumes nation, and suggests Secretary WHITNEY as his successor. The Capital reread the BALLARD SMITH inshould above all, remember that terview, and, it would be in the worst possible taste for the President of the United States to conduct a personal electioneering tour the country.

Mr. CLEVEthroughout LAND's and conduct have been conservative and excellent during his so that even the Republican press has tour been compelled to accord him praise. THE Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington has received a telegram from Deputy Collector SPENCER, of Tampa, saying: "Twenty-six cases in all; two deaths; questionable as to cause of death of the two; majority of sick convalescing; town depopulated, and very little material left; doctors disagree as to whether disease is dengue or yellow fever." Dengue is more commonly known as breakbone fever and comes from the West Indies. It is not necessarily fatal unless complicated with other diseases. MRS.

CHARLES SHAEFFER, of Breslau, Long Island, was shot and instantly killed last Saturday by GEORGE GAEBLEIN, who was lying in wait for the purpose, and who had prepared a grave in which he at once buried the body. Later on the husband of Mrs. SHAEFFER came the same way and was also shot by GAEBLEIN, receiving a slight wound. The shooting was the result of difference of long standing, arising from the use by the SHAEFFERS of a path through Gaebleix's property. The murderer i is in jail.

Exota ARBOTT-she of the famous kiss -created a sensation in Nashville yesterday by rising in church and delivering a somewhat strong rebuke to the pastor, Rev. W. A. CANDLER, just completed a sermon which attacked theater and theatrical people bitterly. Miss ABBOTT declared there were just as good people on the stage as off it, and referred to JENNY LIND, ALBINI, Mad.

MODESKA and herself as living examples. She defied any man to say one word against her character. NATURAL gas has been struck at depth of 700 feet in a well being bored at the intersection of Weissinger avenue with Third street, in this city. The company owning the well is composed of Louisville men, who will continue the work until a depth of 1,000 feet has been reached, unless a sufficient supply shall have been reached sooner. THE President and Mrs.

CLEVELAND spent the day quietly yesterday as. the bome Postmaster General VILAS, not even attending church owing to the unpleasant weather. They leave at 9 o'clock this morning for St. Paul, tarrying for twenty minutes at La Crosse, where they will take a hurried drive through the town. W.

J. TURPEN, a former well-known newspaper correspondent of Indiana, better known as "JAP" TURPEN, died yesterday at Washington of consumption. He will be buried Senator VOORHEES, Congressman MATSON and to other prominent Indianians acting as pall-bearers. AT Mechanicsburg, Sunday night, JOHN POTTS stabbed ORA NEER to death, and at Ironton, in the same State, ANDREW CLAY killed THOMAS FAHAY by shooting him through the head. Several precincts in the back counties of the Foraker domain have not been heard from.

WM. VANMETER, living five miles from the city on the Preston-street road, died yesterday from a pistol shot wound inflicted by WM. BOWLES last Friday. It is claimed that the shot was fired in self-defense, VANMETER having gone to BOWLES' home seeking a difficulty. GEN.

RUFUS SAXTON, in charge of the Government Depot at Jeffersonville, in speaking of the appointment of WALDEMAR WOLFF as Superintendent, says that arrangements will stand as they at present exist, so far as he is concerned. THE alarming rumor comes from Washington that GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN will soon visit Louisville. Mr. TRAIN was married in this city many years ago, and used to boast of the fact that Mr. PRENTICE gave the bride away.

THE Ladies' Suffrage Committee of New York, learning that many ladies desire to vote in that State, has announced that all who will call at headquarters will be instructed how to proceed according to law. JOSEPH KIDD, the colored porter for WHEELER, PARSONS HAYS, jewelers of New York, stole $15,000 worth of jewelry from the firm, melted it and sold the gold. He was arrested and confessed. KILRAIN, who is known as America," has gone over the seas to of fight JaM SMITH, of England." The cold each of these pugilistic characters is a wild Irishman. EX-SENATOR MAHONE is so fond of his old Committee Room in the Capitol that declines to remove his effects therehe from.

Perhaps he will get out after the election in Virginia. NEW YORK Republicans are coquetting with ROSCOE CONKLING, seeking to secure his assistance in Col. FRED GRANT'S canvass. EXTRA session talk has broken out again in Washington in the absence of anything else to discuss. against MONTGOMERT, bas quarantined Tampa and all other infected points in Florida.

THE PRESIDENTIAL BEE President Cleveland Gives No Intimation of a Desire For a Second Term. Friends of the Administration Booming Secretary Whitney For the Succession. Death of W. J. Turpen, a Former Well-Known Journalist of Indiana.

Workmen Arranging the Capitol For the Approaching Session of Congress. GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. For sometime past number of persons about Washington have been booming Hon.

W. C. Whitney for President, in the improbable event that Mr. Cleveland would not again be candidate. In this connection the Washington Capital of to-day has the following: "In regard to the Democratic nomination we will remind our readers that it is by no means certain that Mr.

Cleveland will desire or consent to be a candidate for reelection. Let anyone pursue his Western speeches and discover if he can any evidence of Presidential 'Bee' in them. Mr. Cleveland will most assuredly not accept a renomination, unless he is convinced the public welfare demands his continuance in office. If his own party is not united in supporting him in his own State, be will not allow his name to go before the national convention.

He will be well satisfiled to leave the White House in March, 1889. In that event we have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Wm. C. Whitney stands very good chance of being his THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.

It is learned from Secretary Lamar that the present Prohibition movement in the South is not of such recent growth as the demonstration of its strength appears to indicate. There has been a strong temperance sentiment in the South for over half century. It formerly found expression in various societies, in the Washingtonian movement and in general temperance work. Secretary Lamar himself entered public life for the first time through a division of the Whig ranks on the temperance question. The Whigs had 600 majority in the legislative district in Georgia where he ran for member of the legislature in 1853.

They had become divided on the temperance question, and through that split Secretary Lamar was enabled as a Democrat to carry off the prize. SEEKING CONKLING'S HELP. The old- liners of the Republican party in New York are coquetting with Lord Roscoe Conkling on account of Fred Grant heading the ticket, and Platt, making the old Republicans naturally expect the support of the brainy and beautiful Roscoe. MR. RANDALL AT ATLANTA.

Mr. Randall disclaims that be will make a tariff speech at Atlanta. He intimates that be will talk on earth and good will toward and earnestly pray that the two wings of the party will flop together in the next House. Amen. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.

Congressman Crain, of Texas, will spend the last two weeks of this month speaking for the Ohio Democrats. Tom is a good, homespun Democrat, and he can make as good a speech as any one, and just the kind that the boys in the trenches like to hear. COLLECTOR SALTONSTALL, the Mugwump Collector of the port of Boston, has finally concluded to support Mr. Lovering, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. This is rough on Lovering, but there is no help for it.

He bas to stand it and go in an make the best fight he can. AT THE CAPITOL Workmen Preparing the Chamber For the Coming Session of Congress Officers to Be Elected By the House. WASHINGTON, Oct. -Workmen are busy about the capitol building, preparing for the coming session. The fresco painters will be through with their work by the end of November.

The new carpet for the Senate has arrived, and will be laid this week. The floor of the House of Representatives will also be covered with new carpet, but it has not arrived as yet. These are the only new carpets that wore purchased. The committee and other rooms have the same carpets as last year. The only change in committee rooms is the moving of the Appropriation Committee to the Speaker's room.

It is expected by the employes of the Senate that there will be many changes in their ranks this winter on account of the great pressure on Republican Senators for positions. Senator Mahone will not move his effects from his late committee-room till December. He seeins loath to leave. On the House side the general feeling is that all the principal officers, with perhaps the exception of Doorkeeper Donelson, will be re-elected. There are two candidates for the place -Clerk Barnett, of the House Library, and Mr.

A. B. Hurt, Chief of the Mail Division of the Post -office Department. Mr. Barnett hails from New York, and is said to be well backed, though the delegation is not solid for bir.

Mr. Hurt is from Mississippi, and has the entire delegation of his State. Col. Donelson, the present Doorkeeper, is from Tennessee. The delegation from his State is pronounced for him, and he has a good following from the South, while a great number of Northern members are counted or him.

DEATH OF W. J. TURPEN. A Former Well- Indiana Jourmalist Dead In Washington, WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.

Death's pale flag was planted in the humble home of an Indiana family here and the love and life of the head of the household went out to return again no more. The man who died was William J. Turpen, better and more familarly known as Turpen. He was a newspaper correspondent, and has been for years intentitied with the press of Indiana. He started his newspaper career as the editor of the Tipton Times, and George Harding introduced him to the public as "Jap Turpen of the Tipton In later years be has been connected with the Minneapolis Sentinel, Cincinnati Enquirer and New York Sun.

On all of these papers be did good and efficient work, and made for himself a good newspaper reputation. He was a warm and devoted friend and admirer of the late Vice President Hendricks, and it will be remembered by many that it was Mr. Turpen who obtained from Mr. Hendricks the famous interview of 1884, in which the latter announced that be would be willing to again run for Vice President on the ticket with Mr. Tilden.

Mr. Turpen at one time obtained from Mr. Tilden an interview which attracted a great deal of public attention. He was a hardworking, honest, and conscientious man, and one of the best soldiers in the Union army and the army of the Indiana Democracy. He was my friend and the friend of every Indiana Democrat.

About one year ago his health failed him and he was forced to give up his newspaper work. He was poor man and in pressing need of money to support his family. Then it was that his Democratic friends at Washington tried to get him a comfortable place under the Administration that he had worked so long, hard and faithfully to place in power. For three months did few of us plead with the powers that be to give poor "Jap" a place, without success. Finally, after seeing that our efforts were fruitless, we got him to study up and prepare for a civil-service examination for a place as pension examiner.

In the first examination "Jap" failed, but he buckled down to his study again and on a second trial passed by a scant margin and was appointed to a place. His disease was consumption, and he had hardly got well fixed in his place before he was taken sick, and has been slowly dying for the last six months. He leaves a wife and daughter, who were with him when he died. He also leaves an insurance of 88,000 on his life, which is indeed most fortunate. The funeral of the deceased will take place to-morrow afternoon from his late residence on Capitol Hill.

The following Indiana gentlemen will act as pall-bearers: Senator Voorhees, Congressman Matson, ex-Congressman Thomas B. Ward, Col. W. E. McLean, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions; Hon.

John S. Williams, Third Auditor of the Treasury, and your correspondent. GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS. The Skin of an Ethiopian Changes to That of the Caucasian-Extra-Session Talk-George Francis Train Coming to Louisville-The dent and the Postmaster General. WASHINGTON, Oct.

9. The scriptural inquiry, "Can the leopard change his spots, or the Ethiopian his skin has received a strange response, which comes from the State of Iowa. A member of board of pension examining surgeons there reports as follows in the case of a colored applicant for a pension for one of the diseases incident to camp life: years ago-about 1875 -this man was a very black negro; to-day he is nearly a white negro and yet he is not an Albino. All the pigment cells, except those about the eyelids, some points on the shoulders and small patches on the back have disappeared. The remainder of the skin, hands, face, abdomen, legs and the surface generally, is clear-cut white.

I have marked and noticed this man for several years, and the change from black to white has been unusually rapid. At first only a spot of white here and there, on the hands and face, was observable. Today his bands, arms and legs are white as the fairest Caucasian. His face is clear white, except the eyelids, and the blush on his cheeks is as bright and red as that on the face of a school-girl. The hair of the head is what we find in the African, black and but the man is EXTRA SESSION TALK.

The gentlemen of the press about Washington who have industriously applied themselves since last April in announcing and booming the extra session market are still keeping up the music. The World correspondent here now predicts that the extra session will be called immediately on the return of the President, and that Congress will convene the first Monday in November. This is nonsense, CORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. It is said that George Francis Train will go from Chicago to Louisville to visit relatives. He will doubtless take a band in the mayoralty campaign.

PERSONAL. Mr. Joseph A. Humphreys, of Lexington, is soon to be wedded to accomplisted Miss Mary Taylor, of Tennessee, grand-daughter of Gen. James Taylor, of Newport, Ky.

Mr. Humphreys is a nephew of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana. Miss C. K. Bragdon has returned to her home on Capitol Hill from a visit to New Albany, Ind.

YELLOW FEVER OR DENGUE? Doctors of Tampa, Unable to Accurately Diagnose the Discase Prevailing There. WASHINGTON, Oct. Marine Hospital Bureau has received a telegram from Deputy Collector Spencer, of Tampa, of which the following is a copy: "Twenty-six to cases in all: two deaths; questionable as cause of death of the two; majority of sick convalescing; town depopulated, and little doctors disagree as to whether disease is dengue or yellow fever. Dr. George W.

Stoner, Chief of the Quarantine Division, says that if it is dengue, there is no cause for alarm nor necessity for rigid quarantine, but, if a doubt exists, it is proper to act on the side of safety. Dengue, or. as it is sometimes called, -bone fever, is a very distressing infectious desease- -not contagious in the usual acceptation of the term, and rarely fatal, unless complicated with other diseases. Dengue prevailed in the West Indies and many places in the South about fifty years ago, and was prevalent in eral Southern cities in 1850, especially in Charleston, where about fourfifths of the population were attacked, but only a few deaths relatively occurred. In yellow fever, on the other hand, the mortality is sometimes as high as 75 per cent.

Dr. Stoner believes the disease at Tampa to be yellow fever. The Acting Surgeon General has received the following telegram from Tampa: will be made to fumigate mails between Plant City and Lakeland, on the line of the road. Through 1 mails from Havana and Key West are fumigated on board ships, the same as has been done ail Montgomery Quarantines. MONTGOMERY, Oct.

Reese issued a proclamation to-day quarantining against Tampa, and all other infected points in Florida. A SLICK JEWELRY THIEF. A Colored Porter Steals $15,000 Worth of Goods Before He Is tected. NEW YORK, Oct. valued in all at $15,000, has been stolen piece-meal in the last three years and a-balf from the jewelry manufacturing firm of Wheeler, Parsons Hays, at No.

2 Maiden Lane. The firm employs a large number of men. Private detectives were engaged, and every effort made to discover the thief, but without result. length Inspector Byrne's aid was called on, and two of his detectives were detailed to the case. Their suspicions were fixed on Jos.

G. A. Kidd, a negro porter, who had been in the employ of the firm since 1881, and whose honesty had been unquestioned. They found that his family lived in Brooklyn in a style that his wages of $10 a week would not justify: that be bad deposits in several banks, and that be was a frequent policy player. Althougn not detected in stealing anything, he was arrested, and contessed that be had taken the missing jewelry, melted it down and sold the goid.

At the Police Court day Kidd was held for examination. Little Rock's New Outlet. LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 9. -Contractors of the Altheimer branch report work progressing rapidly, and say they expect to have the road in running order at an early day.

The company is experiencing some trouble about an entrance to this city, as the street up they purpose to run the road is one on which several wholesale business houses are located, and the men claim the road will stop much of their trade, and object to it on that account. TRULY A DAY OF REST. President Cleveland and Party Remain Indoors and Gather Strength For the Week. Something About the Little Town Which the Chief Magistrate Is Honoring With His Presence. MADISON, Oct.

President and Mrs. Cleveland have remained in their quarters at the Vilas mansion all day, resting in preparation for the fatigues of another week of journeying. It was expected that they would go to church. this morning, and the Vilas pew in the Episcopal church WAS reserved for them, but the heavy, threatening sky and the raw, chilly wind, fresh laden with spray from the lakes, the mud in the streets, and the clouds of falling leaves from every tree, were forbidding, while the grate fires in their parlors were very tempting. They have seen no one except their fellow-travelers and the members of the Vilas family, including the mother and brothers of the Postmaster General, who were invited to a family dinner with the President and Mrs.

Cleveland at 4 o'clock. They could not have been freer from interruption at the White House or at Red Top than in Madison. A little group of a dozen or more individuals have been seen nearly all day in front of the mansion, waiting 8 possible glimpse of them, but the towns people for the most part have respected their wish to be left in quiet. The house is well situated for the purposes of seclusion and rest, standing well back from the street, and being surrounded by an ample stretch of green sward, clean shaved and well shaded. The structure itself, though not a pretentious one, is a good specimen of the villa of a dozen or fifteen years ago, square-shouldered and wide-spreading.

though rendered light and agreeable in outer appearance by verandas, bay windows and a conservatory of flowers. The town of Madison is a phenomenon in its way. It is perhaps the only place in all the broad West where the inhabitants admit that business is not and that things are quiet. Its quietude is not that of stagnation by any means. but of rest and competency.

It is the home of a class of well-to-do conservative people, who find among these low-rolling hills and beautiful -water lakes a choice retreat from the stir and bustle of the larger Western centers, and who would not have a boom' if they could. In fact there is not room for much growth, for lakes hem the place in north and south, their shores being hardly a mile apart. Its thirteen or fourteen thousand inhabitants spread themselves over as much area as three times their number would require in a New England town, but they are indisposed for the most part to build closer together, and would find themselves crowded if required to do so. It is a beautiful spot, its trees opening vistas between lofty shade trees down to and across the cool blue waters to the purple and yellow ridges beyond, miles away. It shows little other reason for existence than the fact that it is the State capital and the location of the State University.

It might be a popular summer resort, for its twin lakes, Mandota and Mohave beauty spots upon every knoll and projection, and the younger generation are becoming restless, and whispering about for the purpose of securing change. but the time has not yet come. Gray squirrels--monstrous fellows, half as large as cats, and fully as tame--play about the streets, and even in the houses, and no urchin or dog in all the place is so lost to a sense of the proprieties of life as to disturb them. With all this, there is nothing prosy or commonplace about Madison. Its State Capitol, occupying the middle of a large open square which forms a focus to its systein of streets, 1s a creditable structure in size and architecture, and its University buildings are commanding in form and situation.

Its inhabitants are up with the times in ail that makes progressive citizens and good fellows. No approved long waits a market here, and whatever contributes to make city life comfortable is to be found in its hotels, stores, and dwellings. Its hospitality is boundless, and if there lies beneath it a desire to advertise anything, one must remain longer than the Presidential party has been here to discover the fact. With the subsidence of last Friday's ebullition, affairs assumed their -day aspect, and there is a promise that the visitors shall depart to-morrow morning without more of a demonstration than would be accorded to any other honored guest. The special train leaves at 9 o'clock for St.

Paul. A concession has been made to LaCrosse, at which point the train will tarry about twenty minutes to-morrow noon, and the party will take carriages to see the place and be seen by its people. TROTTING AT LEXINGTON. The Fall Meeting to Commence To. Day- -Three Races Programmed.

LEXINGTON, Oct. meeting of the Kentucky Trotting -horse Breeders' Association will begin in this city to-morrow, County Court. There are now more than double the number of horses at the track that were ever present at any previous meeting. Already a number of prominent horsemen have arrived, and nearly every room in the hotels has been engaged. The meeting will continue five days, and will be called promptly at 1 o'clock each day.

The first race to trotted is the 2:23 class, for a purse of $500, with ten entries, composed of a better class of horses than was ever gotten together in a 2:23 race. The second race, the Kentucky Stakes for three-year-olds, is estimated to be worth about $500, while the Stallion Stakes for the 2:35 class is estimated at about 8900. The track is in splendid condition and everything indicates that the lovers of the trotting horse will witness some of the finest trotting ever done on any race-course. The probable starters in the races to be trotted to-morrow are as follows: 2:23 CLASS--PURSE $500. W.

C. France. Lexington, bik. mn. Mary Powell, by De Witt Clay: dam by Young Cardinal.

G. C. P. Cecil, Danville, gr. g.

Charley by Gov. Sprague: dam Martha, by Rothschilds. W. A. Welch: Russell, dam Danville, b.

g. Jeremiah, by Wm. Lady Goorge, by Corbeau. E. S.

Muir Son, Dunerail, b. 11. Mollie Wilkes, by Young Jim; dam Augusta, by Allie West. Budd Doble, Chicago, ch. m.

Roxie McGregor, by Robert McGregor; dam Roxie, by Komulus. b. J. Bryan, Prince Edward, Windom, for F. Calloway, h.

by King Rene; dain by Japhet. J. T. Shackelford, Richmond, blk. m.

Lizzie Wilkes, by George Wiikes; dam Laura, by Jue Hooker. C. Hamiin's J. He mlin, Almont. Buffalo, dam N.

b. m. Justina, Black Goiddust, by by Hamlin's Patchen. Noble, Grand Rapids, gr. h.

Alcryon, by Aleyone; dam by Mambrino Patchen. J. H. Couklyn, Urbana, 0., bix. h.

Civilization, by J. H. Weich; dam Shirley, by Flying Cloud. H. P.

Wade, Jefferson. 0., b. b. Reveille, by New York: damn Fleet, by Kearsarge. KENTUCKY STAKES FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS.

L. E. Simmons, Lexington, b. c. Billy Sayre by G.

Young C. Jun; dam Tansy, Danville. by George Wilkes. P. dam Cecii, b.

f. Jeane by Nutwood; Delia, by Adminstrator. Palo Alto Stock Farm (Village Farm, Fast Aurora, N. br. c.

Chimes, by Electioneer; dam Beautiful Bells, by The Moor. STALLION CLASS. L. T. Yeager, Danville, b.

h. Danville Wilkes, by Lyle Wilkes: dam Flora, by Skedaddle. A. 4. Kitzmiller, Lexington, bik.

h. Ellerslie Wilkes, by George Wilkes; dam Aileen, by Mambrino Boy. Morebead Salter, Ducker's Station, b. b. Guyon, by Princeps; dam Roma, by Golddust.

V. C. Cromweli, Lexington, by V. d. Cromwell, Lexington, 5.

Dictator, George dam by Edward Everett Jr. by Edgehill Dictator; Stook dam Farm, by Almont Georgetown, Gen Wilkes, by George Wilkes; dam Gracie Goodman, by Peacock. Bowen, Danville, b. h. Hammond, by C.

F. Tom Scott; dam by Hambletonian Bashaw. J. W. Fitzgeraid, Maysville, blk.

h. Alcandre, by Aleyone; dam Lady Carr, by American Clay. R. G. Stoner, Paris, br.

h. Baron Wilkes, by George Wilkes; dam Belle Patchen, by Mambrino Patchen. Extra Races at Lexington. LEXINGTON, Oct. will be two extra days of the Kentucky Association races, four races each day.

For the McGrathiana and Citizens' Handicap the weights have just been given out and are as follows: McGrathiana Handicap. one mile: Panama 110, Jim Gore 109, Nick Finzer 98, Littrol 100, Florimore 101. Wary 116, Valuable 105, Poteen 106, Andelia 90, Kirklin 108, Clarion 105, Llera 97, Calcutta 90, Little Minch 119, Jacobin 114, Procrastnator 98. Florence 104. Terra Cotta 118, 85, Minnesota 85, Jaubert 85, Bonita 102.

Citizens' Handicap, one and a quarter miles: Bonita 101, Jim Gore 108, Nick Finzer 97. Littrol 99, Florimore 100, Long Slipper 100, Lungalight 100, Elgin 110, Spaulding 110, Brrokful 110, Macola 105, Panama 110, Terra Cotta 112, Nellie 98, Wary 115. CRIME IN OHIO. John Potts Kills Ora Neer In a PoolRoom at Mechanicsburg A Free- All Fight at Ironton Ends in Death. is holding MECHANICSBURG, Oct.

murder of Ora Neer last night, by John Potts, this village has been one of anxious excitement. Soon after the flight of Potts posses of men formed and departed in all directions to try and capture him, but up to this hour he is still at large. At about 1 o'clock last night he was at the house of his brother-in-law, James Manesfield, about seven miles east, and persuaded Manesfield to go to Potts' house to get his clothes. Mansfield was on his way to Potts' house, when a posse stopped him and learned that he had just left Potts at his house. The party took Manesfleld in charge and went back, but Potts had fled, and nothing further has been heard of him.

The murder was in cold blood. Neer and Potts, with a number of others, were at William Clancy's pool rooms. Both Neer and Potts were somewhat under the influence of liquor. and were seated close by each other, when Neer said to Potts: "Potts, you give me a chew of tobacco." Potts rave him the tobacco, and while Neer was biting off the tobacco, Potts stabbed him four times, once in the right breast, once in the left breast, once in the left shoulder and on the left arm. Neer did not complain, and no one seemed to know he was hurt until he fell from his chair behind the stove, some three minutes after being stabbed.

Potts was still in the room at that time, but immediately fled. Neer died of fifteen minutes. He was the support of a widowed mother and a brother, but had become very dissipated, and it is reported that there was ill-feeling between them on account of a girl of loose morals. The Town Council will undoubtedly offer a reward at their meeting Monday evening for the arrest of Potts. Coroner Dowell an inquest.

The Ironton Free- For- All. IRONTON, 0.. Oct. Fahay, aged -one, was shot through the heart at 9 o'clock last night, in a free fight at a flying dutchman located near the city water-works, by Andrew Clay, a young man of previous good character, who was a spectator when the fight begun, and took a hand to defend a man who was being worsted. Fahay died in ten minutes.

He was a nail feeder in the Belfont mill, and one of the boys of the town. Clay was arrested, and is now in jail. Witnesses say Clay shot in -defense. He is much bruis -1 and cut about the head, and pau of knucks, with which it is supposed the chief wound was inflicted. were found on the ground this morning.

C'lay is a driver on the Ironton and Ashland hack line, and stopped at the flying dutchman on his way home from the stables to see the sport. He has a nice young family and is known as a quiet and peaceable man, whose connection with such an affair is surprising. The fight arose about the payment of a nickel for a ride on the flying dutchman, and when Clay engaged in it he was soon the under man in the fracas, and fired the fatal bullet indiscriminately in the thickest of the fray. Fabay was one of the participants. The shooting terminated the tight and Clay walked home and awaited arrest.

The lamentations of Fabay's parents and brother when they arrived to view the body were heartrending. The Death of a Good Man Mourned. NEW YORK, Oct. were held at Chickering Hall to-day in memory of John B. Finch, the temperance advocate and bead of the society of Good Templars, whose funeral took place this afternoon at Evanston, Ill.

The stage, a vacant chair and a portrait of Mr. Finch were draped in mourning. Rev. Dr. Bidwell offered prayer.

Eulogistic speeches were made by Joseph A. Bogardus, President of the Board of Managers of the American Temperance Union; Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, President of the National Temperance Society; Gen.

Clinton B. Fisk, Dr. D. H. Mann, Grand Chief Templar, I.

0. of G. of New York; Col. B. S.

Chevis, Grand Chief Templar, 1. 0. of G. of Kentucky: Mrs. Mary Burt, President of the New York State Women's Christian Temperance Union, and others.

Whitecaps In Missouri. MARSHALL, Oct. number of burglaries have been perpetrated in this town, and a few days ago four negroes were arrested as the perpetrators of the crimes. On Friday night rumors of taking the prisoners out of the jail and whipping them caused Officer Coiner to attempt to remove them to the county jail, but on the way he was met by a dozen armed men, who took the prisoners away from him and drove them some distance out of town, where they were all severely whipped and ordered to leave the locality. They have not been heard from since.

ou Monday. Rattlers On the Rampage. DAYTON, 0., Oct. dry season has Job Printers Will Strike. NEW YORK, Oct.

book and job printers of the city on Thursday' demanded an increase in the price of composition from from forty to forty-three cents per thousand eins, and that all the offices become strictly ing firms involved, which include the large the advance in the price of composition, but made strictly card offices. About one thouunion offices. Representatives of the printrejected the demand that their offices be publishing houses, met a to-day and acceded to sand will, therefore, probably strike at noon brought increased numbers of rattlesnakes into the marshy lands along Mad river, and within the past. month reports of several people being bitten have been brought in. On Huffman's prairie, five miles east of here, Saturday, a large rattler bit Frank Huffman's four-year-old French Norman colt on the nose, and to-night the splendid animal is, dying in horrible suffering from suffocation, bis head being swollen to the size of a fourbarrel and his throat almost entirely closed.

A Chance For the Ladies. NEW YORK, Oct. Ladies' Suffrage Committee having been informed that many women desire to register and vote, have announceu that all who call at their headquarters will be informed how to proceed according to law. A Small Wreck. MONTGOMERY, Oct.

southbound train on the L. and due here this morning, collided at Shade Creek with freight train. No injuries and little damage. The train came through to night. LANDLORDS MUST GO.

Nationalist Healy Proposes to Deal With Them as He Would Rats In a Haystack. A League Mass- at Which a Member of Commons Speaks His Mind. The French Government Proposes to Exercise More Caution in Apply. ing the Espionage Law. Charles Dickens, the Son of His Father, Embarks at Liverpool For the United States.

SYMPATHY FOR CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. DUBLIN, Oct. League mass meeting was held at Longford to-day. During the proceedings the platform collapsed and Government reporter was injured. Mr.

T. M. Healy. M. chaffed the reporter on his first trial of a plank bed.

Continuing, Mr. Healy said that there would soon be no landlords left in Ireland. He would deal with the landlords in securing their rights as he would in driving rats from a haystack. The landlords were more bothered by the plan of campaign than they were by the killing of bailiffs. The deadliest place to hit them was their pockets.

He hoped that the mortgagees of Lord Granard would not leave him brass farthing to bless himself with. The Irish were strong enough to subdue the paltry Loyalist crew. They Stood By Their Image, ST. LOUIS, Oct. special from the City of Mexico says: "'There were very exciting times in the suburban village of Gaudeloupe Hidalgo yesterday, over the report that an architect had arrived at the Collegiate church with the intention of removing of the Virgin of Guadeloupe, concerning which there is much superstition.

The native population became alarmed; groups of Indians armed themselves with knives, clubs, and when the architect, Mr. Eg-a, entered the church the multitude followed him, threatening his life, and could only be pacifled by his withdrawing without the coveted image. The populace are guarding the church singing, Death to the Sacreligious. Arresting Foreigners For Spies, PARIS, Oct. consequerice of the ararrest of many foreigners suspected of being spies, the Government has instructed the department officials to exercise great caution in applying the espionage law, and not to make arrests except upon serious evidence.

Several more arrests have been made in connection with the Cafarel case. A Senator, a General and Count Duudlau have been summoned. Misplaced Sympathy. LONDON, Oct. 9.

-The London Radical clubs are making arrangements to hold a general meeting to urge another trial of the Chicago Anarchists, and to consider the advisability in of behalf sending of a the delegation condemned to America men. Several Radical clubs at meetings toadopted resolutions condemuing the sen- tences. Charles Dickens Coming. LONDON, Oct. Dickens, Mr.

Howson, Henry Irving's agent, and Harry Paulton, of the Dorothy Company, are passengers on the Aurania, which sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for New York. Orderly Elections In Sofia. Sofia, Oct. elections to-day were orderly. Soldiers patrolled the streets and guarded the public buildings, NOT ON THE BILLS.

Rev. W. A. Candler, at Nashville, Preaches Against Theaters and Those Who Attend Them. Emma Abbott Arises From the Congregation, Denounces the Censure and Defends Her Profession.

NASHVILLE, Oct. city is very deeply excited over a sensational scene at McKendree Methodist church this morning. Rev. W. A.

Candler, the pastor, preached a sermon on -going and used very strong, denunciatory language in connection with theaters and theaterSpeaking of actors and actresses, he spoke of them in the most uncomplimentary manner. He concluded by saying the stage could only be reformed by burning down all the theaters. Emma Abbott, who was in the audience, rose trembling with emotion and very pale. She announced her name. and then said she bad been on the stage since she was eight years old, and had always tried conscientiously to the best of her ability to do her duty before God at all times, and that she would defy any one in the world to say one word against her fair name.

She said she would speak of such noble women Jenny Lind, Albani, Modjeska, and countless other lights of the stage, who had led exemplary lives, who had devoted themselves to doing good deeds, and who were noble wives and mothers. The minister bad made objection to prayers being sung in the operas, but when she knelt down to sing the prayer in and the Girl," those words came right from her heart. In all the operas given last week there was no impure or improper allusion, and because one occasionally finds vice in the pulpit or upon the stage, there is no reason tor such wholesale denunciation, which, in her opinion, was entirely false and uncalled for. Before the deafening applause that followed Miss Abbott's words had ceased, Mr. Candler said: will not undertake to reply to the lady, as she is a lady, but such a performance is more suited to the theater than the house of '1 ABBOTT INTERVIEWED.

The COURIER-JOURNAL reporter called on Miss Abbott after her return to the hotel, and tound her at dinner with ber husband, hastening through it in order to catch the afternoon train to Chattanooga. She was evidently much wrought up and was suffering from a feeling of injustice. Her woman's soul had been deeply wounded. she said, "I have humbly tried to do my duty. My father and my mother know if I have been a true, womanly daughter to thein, and I defy any one to say they ever heard aught against Emma Abbott.

have had a week's hard work here and, after two fatiguing performances yesterday. I got up earlier than usual to-day, to be able to attend divine worship. I am a member of the church and always attend if possible, I went humbly for comfort and to ask God's help to carry me through safely. I love congregational singing and I love church music. I joined in all the hymns and enjoyed thein.

I took my seat near the door, as I always do. In his sermon at first the minister gave utterance to anecdotes and illustrations. That I thought entirely irrelevant to the pulpit. Then he began to speak of theaters and theatrical people, and made a wholesale denunciation of every one of them. I could hardly contain myself.

He did not make an exception, and how could I keep silent. Emma Abbott prizes her reputation as a woman as much as she does her reputation as an artist." EXTRACTS FROM THE SERMON. Following are some sentences from the sermon: treats sacred things profanely. A woman comes along and prays on the stage, making prayers for amusement, and the Christian people go there and pay to have that woman get down and make a mock of "The whole thing exists under a law of degeneration. Anybody who has been to the theater knows what I say about it is true, and anybody that denies it is bard pressed for argumeut.

"The theater is an unchaste place. Its plays the double meaning attaching to certain phrases and the witticism that grows out of those double meanings all make up the charge I state. "Such an institution can only live by supplying the demand for sensationalism. chapter would not be complete, unless we were to say that the members of McKendree church had spent nearly $1,000 in one week in opening a new theater. I ain not going to watch you, but it will be known if you go to the theater again.

The toughest part of the sermon was the reading of some fifty extracts, embracing about all the uncomplimentary things to be found in literature concerning the theater. MR. CANDLER REFUSES TO TALK. Rev. Mr.

Candler declined to be interviewed, but said if he had gotten up in a theater and attempted to express his views policeman would have put him out. The incident caused the greatest excitement. When the incident became generally known, large number of ladies, who had known Miss Abbott socially. called upon her and expressed their commendation of her spirited but ladylike defense of herself and her profession. Miss' Abiott's company left for Chattanooga this afternoon.

IS ROBERT GARRETT INSANE? A Wild Rumor Flies Through New York That the B. and 0. Man Had Lost His Mind. An Interview at Baltimore, Which Appears No More Irrational Than Former Statements. Baltimore.

What Mr. Garrett Says. BALTIMORE, Oct. 9. -Mr.

Robert NEW YORK, Oct. 9. rumor was circulated early this morning to the effect that Mr. Robert Garrett had been suddenly taken ill from mental trouble and had been conveyed to Baltimore under the charge of two physicians and two keepers. The report spread through the clubs like wildfire, and the members gathered together in groups and discussed with bated breath the ominous news.

Later in the day the hotel corridor gossips had it on the tips of their tongues, and soon the whole town whispered mysteriously of the millionaire's sad visitation. The story, as it went, recived ready credence, the more so owing to the recent difficulties which have encountered Mr. Garrett in the Baltimore and Ohio deal. At the Brevoort House, where Mr. Garrett has been stopping, the clerk said: "Yes, Mr.

Garrett left this afternoon, with Mrs. Garrett, Gov. Gorman, Miss Frick, Mr. and Mrs. J.

S. Frick and W. F. Frick. They left about noon.

I saw Mr. Garrett several times during the He looked perfeotly well, and talked in a rational manner. I saw nothing strange about him." do not my name in print," said James C. Jenkins, brother of the paymaster of the Baltimore and Ohio, there are times when friends must stand by one other. I deny the truth of this report entirely.

Mr. Garrett is no more insane than self or any of us here." Mr. Garrett breakfasted at the Brevoort House this morning with his family, and shortly atterward was visited by several of the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and telegraph lines. At 11 o'clock, Col. Tom Ochiltree and another gentleman were shown to Mr.

Garrett's room, and at about noon they went with to Delmonico's to luncheon. Mr. Garrett did not purpose leaving for Baltimore until to-day, but meeting Senator Gorman at Delmonico's, who was leaving for Baltimore in the afternoon, Mr. Garrett remarked that he did not see any good to be gained by staying in New York all Sunday, so he also decided to leave this afternoon. He invited the Senator and his secretary to accompany him.

At 2:15 they left Deimonico's for the Brevoort, and shortly after 3 the party, consisting of Mr. Mrs. Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. J.

S. Frick. Mrs. Frick, and Senator Gorman and his secretary, leit on a special train for said to a Sun reporter to-day, with regard to the stories published in the New York papers about the Balimore and Ohio telegraph deal: "No reporter or any other person has been authorized to say anything as coming from me, and most of the statements which I have seen are either false or are much garbled versions of remarks made by me in accidental private As to making statement with regard to public matters affecting himself and the railroad company, Mr. Garrett said that after he had looked into the details of various matters he would be willing and desirous to give an account of the company's affairs, present and prospective, and he hoped it would be satisfactory to his friends, the public and all concerned.

MORMONS IN CONFERENCE. Plea For Admission Into the Union -The State of the Church. SALT LAKE, UTAH, Oct. was the third day of the Mormon conference. Wilford Woodruff, President of the Twelve Apostles, read a long epistle referring to the state of the Church and the Mormon people, and to the death of John Taylor, saying the Church was now in the hands of the twelve, which was supposed to mean that they will not elect a President at this conference.

The epistle was very long, and devoted mainly to church affairs. He bears personal testimony to Joseph Smith's transmitting to the Aposties tie keys of priesthood and powers and the ceremonies of the Latter Day authority. The Mormon Constitutional convention also reassembled yesterday and shaped memorial to Congress praying for the admission of Utah into the Union, declaring their good faith and purpose to carry out the provisons of the Constitution as adopted. As one inducement for admission, Congress is informed that by admitting Utah the nation will be relieved of troublesome questions. Breaking the Record.

NEW YORK, Oct. the Pastime Athletic Club to-day W. J. M. Barry broke the record in throwing the tweive-pound hammer, throwing it 122 feet.

The previous record, Frank Lambrechts, was 115 feet inches. He also broke the record of 95 feet for a one-hand throw, covering 114 feet. Throwing in the Irish style with one turn he covered 189 feet 11 inches, beating the record nearly twenty feet. With one. hand, Irish style, he threw 120 feet inches.

E. A. Jordan broke the records for hundred yards run with 2 feet 6 inch and 8 feet 6 inch hurdles. His time for the first was 18 4-5 seconds and for the second 18 4-5 seconds, MEN WHO THUMP EACH OTHER. Kilrain and Smith the Lions of the Hour In English Sporting Circles, American and British Champions Who Are Natives of Down-Trodden Ireland.

NEW YORK, Oct. Herald prints the following London cable this morning: The prize ring, as represented by Kilrain and Smith, has taken the place in sporting gossip vacated by the Volunteer and Thistie. Each gives an exhibition to- and a prominent clergyman announces a sermon for to-morrow morning--presumably about themn-on "'The Pernicious Influence of Two weekly religious journals also deprecate the possible restoradion of the brutalizing ring. Several newspapers publisted editorials on the prize-ring. The most piquant article, which is ascribed to Clement Scott, appears in the current number of the Dramatic Review, the following extracts from which will doubtless be of intercet: "'Kilrain is tall and upright, about six feet in height.

His complexion one can not denominate light. He looks full of fight and money, and if all right, I should think he could smother the White Chapel wight. These prize fighters, though, are such terrible fellows that one never knows when business is really meant. Smith is a very coarse person, and I sincerely hope he will get a good thrashing. He wants it badly.

Before he attained his present notoriety he was respectful, modest, unassuming and very much pleased to be given a glass of beer or be spoken to by gentlemen. Now he drives dog-cart, wears enormous diamonds, drinks dry champagne and belongs to the Pelican Club. But with all this adventitious aid, Mr. Smith can not conceal the lowliness of his origin. He reeks of White Chapel.

We are indeed driven to a sad pass for champions when we are obliged to make a hero of such an individual as Jem Smith. affords food for reflection that Mr. Kilrain is described as the 'American and Mr. Smith as the 'English champion, while they are both Irishmen. History repeats itself even in pugilism.

The two famous gladiators of twenty years ago, Heenan and Sayers, claimed the same titles respectively. and they were both Irishmen also. We are very proud of the memory of Tom Sayers, and he is continually alluded to as 'the famous The majority of people, perhaps, are nt aware that the game little fighter was pure Irish, though born in Brighton. His father and mother had emigrated from Limerick a few months before his birth. amusing fact is that Mr.

James Carney, who has just departed for the States to encounter the doughty Mr. McAuliffe, another Paddy, for the light- championship of the world, is hkewise distinguished as 'champion of It is unfortunate that Mr. Carney is a native of Cork. must be confessed that this state of things is somewhat humiliating. We take everything from the unfortunate Irish nation, including its liberty and its champions.

In return we give them buckshot, abuse and Mr. Arthur Balfour." Another writer in a weekly paper says: "These champions are momentarily greater than the Czar, Bismarck, Salisbury or the Bulgarian Prince, for they are disturbing the peace of Europe. Every country is uncertain upon which State they will descend with ropes, sponges and A TERRIBLE NEIGHBOR. An Enraged or Crazy Man Kills Woman and Buries Her, and Then Attempts to Murder Her band. NEW YORK, Oct.

little village of Breslau, L.I., was thrown into great excitement to-day over Saturday night's brutal murder. The victim was Mrs. Helen Schaefer, age eighty, who was shot in the head and her body run through with saber by George Geablein, neighbor. After the murder the body was taken to a grave, which had been previously prepared, and buried without a coffin by her murderer. Having done this, Geablein attempted to kill his victim's busband, Carl, who is about the same age as his wife.

An examination of the body revealed the fact that the woman had been shot through the head, and that a saber had been run clear through her body. This weapon, still stained with her blood, was found only few feet away from the grave. It was an -fashioned military saber, which Geablein had had in his possession for many years. The murderer was taken to Gleste's Hotel and locked up. There be made a confession, stating that he had lain in wait for the old woman to kill her, and he had intended to kill ber husband also.

These two fanrilies, although next-door neighbors, have had a long-standing dispute concerning the boundaries of the land which they owned, and it is supposed that the ill-feeling so long nurtured caused the murder. Coroner Woodend, of Huntington, viewed the body and impaneled a jury. It was certained that the murderer had attempted to commit suicide by taking some sort of poison, the nature of which has not yet been discovered. The physicians in charge of him expect to save his life. The enraged people of the village threaten violence against the murderer.

In Geablein's confession he stated that be bad dug the grave before be kitled the old woman for the purpose of burying her so quickly that her body could not be discovered, He tumbled her into the grave, after sure that she was dead, face downward, and making then shoveled the earth over her and trampled it down. Geablein lived alone, his time family ago. having It is suddenly disappeared some supposed that they were all murdered. A search will be made for some trace of them, and it is fully expected by the villagers that their bodies will be found buried sowewhere in thas neighborhood, New Military Organization. CHICAGO, Oct.

preliminary meeting to organize a command in Chicago in the so-' ciety of Veterans of the Regular Army and Navy, was held last night in Grand Army Hall, effected and soon. a permanent organization may be The association, besides benevolent tentures similar to the G. A. inlaws by will organized efforts to obtain such charged soldier, or sailor of the regular seras secure to each honorably-disvice, or his heirs, a warrant for 160 land, to acres of regular soldiers or sailors receive laws; just that dues the equalize the bounty in this respect. Cattle Thieves In the West.

Grand TUCSON, Jury, in Oct. The United States session bere, has that cattle organized from cattle thieves discovered los ing reservation the Indians on the San have stealeral prominent citizens the are implicated. Serduring white men who stole the cattle, The Indian brands into their own, changed the purposely thought made that to closely much of the in which had been trouble to this Indian.