The Daily City News from New Castle, Pennsylvania • Page 1

4T. -f-i" CITY TO THE INTERESTS OF NEW CASTLE AND LAWBENC 8 VOL. IX 163. NEW CASTLE, APRIL 10, 1889. TEN CENTS A WEEK.

FT7EE DRUaS Always on kud BES OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. FULL UHB or PATENT: MEDICINES: And Toilet Articles. PnnhptteB CareftillT Gonioulel. myi 1 VilT IN WAT OF GROCERIES Can fennd at the tto of KeieUy Fitzgenilil A well-selected of o-zeooszexES, Canned Gbods, Flour, PMDOCB Ett. Prtcen Unquestionably the BST IN THE CITY! ETEBYTHING NEW IIND FRESH.

Alexander! Building, WA8HINOTON STREET. JOHN KENMELLY. J. 0 FITZGERALD. Tbe CUT si New Castle WATER COMPANY WATEK SUPPLIED OB Domestic, Manufacturing AND GENEEAL PUEFOSES.

Bates supplied on aoplieation to the office floor of 6 ml Biiliii MERCER STREET. For the convenience of who can- noTcall 'luring the day, the office will be Itept open on eveniuKH. J. W. TAYLOR, SuPT.

4 OF TlliO Nalional Bank of Lawrence NBW CASTLE. APBIL Bth, 1889. RBMODRCESi. 926 U. 8.

bonds Ifto.MO oe Beal estate oo Bzpense and 5,584 Due froiP 86 614 27 from 9. 00 W0I7 00 61 Total .11,905.920 67 Capital 110,000 00 00 Prsflts SI 1W.MC 00 1,188,805,88 Total ir DIBKCTOK8. B. W.GUimiNGHAM, L. CBAWTOBD, WM.

PATTBE80N, JOHN BLDKB. D. B. EVE A. F.

MOOBK. BOBT.GBAWFOBD, WM.PATTBB80N, BOBKBT CBAWFOBD A. i CBAWFOBD, Yiee Prudent. S. W.

FOUX.K. ABCHITECT (MIcs-Y. 1 C. i. MAH, M(f Cailie.

HTFUns, Spoelfleations and SatlmalM fnmptXj. Work done in medent ti St te aU paita, by caa bi aaeh vair i (ba atlutorata aaM cawplcM art lia Mk ikM ikaaa I DSU St fMV kam.M«aaar Tha ORIGINAL FIVE-CENT Brand of Pure, Floatlnfl Soap for all purposes. A Boautl- fully Colored Picture Book free for Ten Wrappers mailed us. Ciadautiaa Weekly Price Cnrrent -OF- Wm. S.

Emery UBOCfM IICAIO SOODS. 2 cans Sugar can Tomatoes 25c 2 cans can Sugar Corn 25c 3 cans Sagar Corn 3 cans 25c 3 cans Striag Beans 3 cans 3 pounds Evaporated Apples 5 pounds Sugar Corn, dried, 5 pounds Schumaker Rolled Oats 25c 3 pounds Sudsena, for washing. 1 sack Roller Flour Snowflake Lime for whitewashing. California Raisin (cured prunes.) California Silver Prunes. 1 gallon Porcelain Kettle given away.

1 pound of Baking Powder. New arrival Lake Fish. 103 BLOCK. WM. S.

EMERY. 151t6t Wait! Wait! Wait! FOfi THE GRAND OPEHING OF THE ECONOMY House 23 WASHINGTON ST. We will open on or APRIL 1st with a full line of and CLOTHING Furnishing Coods, and. AD our goods arc new and will be sold on the striet'v plau. They are narked at suen figures an ill convince you at a glance that we are not believers in but are coi'tested with small profits.

Try up snd you will find that you cun save from 10 to percent, by patronizing us. OUK otto Fair Dealing, Strictly l-Price. LOUIS SCHWARZ. Economy I Clothing House. All goods marked in plain figures.

150147-i-ly PX.ANTS. Cabbage I Tomato Plants Of the leaaing varieties. Special Rates to MARKET GARDENERS Setdt utf Cit FItwert. W. D.

Fischer Sons, M4ily STBBBT. 0 tiie Report as to the Beoenl Greet Storm Wktflh BsTsced the Shores of Yirfints and Maryland. tliaft Between FIftj and Seventy. Sve Vessels Were Daasnced by tke Nmnsber of Lives Is Net Known. ai timobb April of seWa from storm oontinue ts come In from Cspe Her.inr, and show that It was worst la tea It la hard to the number of liirea lost or the number of vessels asbere or sunk, bat it is estimated that between fifty and five vessels were damaged by the burrlosae near the capds.

The large list telegraphed Monday eight has been increased in number, and much foar is expressed among tbe shipping men that some of the in the gale will never be beard from. The arriyals in this port yesterday were only three ocean ateamera, and one of them had been due three days. The details of the storm are coming in very slowly. The steamship Caspian, from Glasgow, reports that on If oaday morning she sighted a bark sixty miles south west of Cape Henry. Her foremast, maintop-mast and jib boom were gone.

It may have been the bark Albatross, which broke adrift on Saturday and whose crew were landed at Port Royal on Monday by the steamer Stiite of TexM. The Caspian also reports a schooner ashore at Falso Cape and another ten miles below. The steamer Westmoreland reported that in the river a number of wharves have been washed away and the low lands along tbe river covered with water. The wharves are seriously damaged at Tappahannock, Warea. Bowlers, Bayport, Waterviow, Urbana and Burnham.

The New York Silicated at Lyons Creek, in tbe Patuxent, had end tom away by the gale. The schooners Emqaa Jane, Captain Pryor and Eva T. Barnos are ashore at Battle Creek in the Patuxent. At the lacaretto the achoonerMav Queeu had her rigging entirely demolished, her foremast gone and her bowsprit broken by a collision with a large three-masted schooner which was blown into the May Queen. iMriY A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

The Nuptial Knot Tied In Short Order OD Pullman Car In the Kansas City Union Depot. ansas itt April young man, neatly dressed, walked uneasily about tbe Union Depot yesterday morning. He requested conductor McDougal, of the Santa Pe westbound train, to keep that train waiting a few moments after the arrival of the Wabash train, saying he would pay liberally for such a favoi'. tiie Wabash train arrived from the a petite bruoe.te jumped out of the sleeping car and in quicker time than it takes to tell it she was in the young arms. Hurrying the young lady into the Pullman coach of the Santa Fe train, the youn man made a dash for the waiting room and soon reappeared with one of Recorder Hinders deputies and Justice Holt.

A space was soon cleared in the room of the car. Th3 deputy recorder handed Justice Holt the licanse and, hurriedly reading it, tbe itter commanded the two to clasp hands and repeated the cere mony pronouncing i hem man and wife. Before the last words wore out of the lips the whistle sounded and the Santa Fe train lo pull out of the depot, just three miautes after the arrival of the Wabash train. The young name was Lorenzo D. Hickraun, bis afio twenty-five years, and he lives in County, The nanie Emma Hickman, lived in V'iK'o County, Indiana, and she is twenty-lwo years of ugo.

Insures the IClectioii of the Kupublioan State Ticket. PnoviDESCE, April result of election in Newport was a failure to choose the Senator and the second and fifth Representatives voted for, and the present incumbents of th positions therefore hold over, but he Republican candidates for the first, third and fourth Representatives were chosen, and the Republican candidates at Cranston and Bristol were also chosen, giving the Republicans a majority of eleven on joint ballot, with one Senator yet to be elected, and insuring the election of the Republican State ticket. Von der Ahe Yields. ouis April of the striking ball players except King reachei a settle ment with president Von der Aiie yesterday and signed for the season. All claims for last year were arbitrated and settled.

McCarthy, Robinson and Chamberlain reoeive an increase of salary. Last year Robinson received he gets Chamberlain received last year and this year receives an increase. McCarthy re ceived I1.60D last year and will draw $2,000 this year. King was not here. Last year be received and this season he wants InoreMed Freight bw York, April line pros- Idsnts yesterday adopted a resolution recommending the increase of eastbound livestock rates from to 26 cents, and a re- ductton of the car rates; also an increase of the for carrying dressed beef.

Final was deferred until tbe western roads psKMdon the resolution. Tbe pftssenger agents discussed emigrant rates, but took no action. The Inspection Tour. April sanitary commission reached here yesterday. A number of eminent health ofhcers from various parts of tbe oouatry are expected to join them They will make a thorough examination of Florida with a view to suggesting measures to prevent the possibility of another epidemic.

Alcohol Trnst Orgaaiaed. BiNOBAmoH. N. April attves of about tiiirty maattfactttr- MS at wood sIcoImI in New York aad Penii- here yestsrday and orgaalasd vmdsr the auMot the United Stales Add Assoeistiea, tbe isg OTtsel pfsHrtioe aedths fsgntatlae oi wmm. QETTINQ ORITICAL.

Ohio Mine Oretatwrs Ptseess the Sltaut tlea and Befose te Aeeede to Denaaads ia Bogard to Ssr Mke Seesss. CmATMMm, April mesttiw OlUo coal opmratois was here yeiMiK day for the purpeaeof diMUSslngtiie sltuatioa, whidi Is growinf critieal 1a thfi State. Several mesttsgs sf the nlaers havt been held here rsoratljr for the punioss el defining a policy rslativs te the scale ot pricea for next yearns work, which beslBf on Msy 1. The operators deolars be- osnss of western oompetHioB they caa not sflord to oontlnas peying the iMiSient scale while tte miners are loath to sboept any dwtion. Consequently serious strikes in Tsrious parts of the State will be the result unless some definite arrangmnsat tween the operators snd minera is msde very soon.

No positive sgresment cotild be msde by operators restive te the seale queatloa, as the majority of them absolutely refuse to Bake any conoesslons to the miiners. It was, however, decided to aend delegation ef the operators to the joint meeting of the miBers and operators at Flttaburgh, which will be held on Monday next. It Is thought tbst by plscingthe msttor before this oonvwtlon the dispute may be aettted. S500.000 GOES UP IN SMOKE. Freight of tho Boston A Molao Ballroed at Boatoa Destroyed by Ftre, with a Naosber of oston April freight houses of the Boston snd Lowell division of the Boston Maine railroad, situated between Lowell, Minot and Nassau streeta, together with thirty-five or forty oars, many of them losded, were destroyed by fire Isst night.

Loss 1509,000, upon which there is sble insurance. The fire was discovered shout five smong some cotton. Laborers quickly removed one bale into the street, thinking thereby to entirely extinguish the fire, but other balea were ablase and in an incredibly abort time the entire structure was in flames. The buildings were filled with an seribable variety of general merchandise, induding alarge quantity of oil, and the frequent explosions served alike intimidate tbe firemen and cause the rapid the In a portion of the building which was used as an elevator, were stored 90,000 or bushels of grain, besides alarge quantity of flour. At a late hour last night the fire was still burning, but was under BARN BURNERS ON TRIAL.

The First of the Many Cases Pennsylvania Incendiaries Comes tion of a Man Charged with Sending a liOtter Threatvnlngr to Burn a Bara. OETTTSB 0 RO, Pa, April first of the many barn burning cases that are to be tried in this section of the State, came up yesterday afternoon. It was that of Levi Herr, charged with setting fire to his barn near Hanover on February 19. The court room was crowded, for these cases are reorarded with Intense interest. Chief of Police Egger was the first witness.

He testified to place after the fire and the contradictory statements made by the prisoner. Dr. Rice, of McSherrystown, swore that Herr had told him a different story from the one told Egger in regard to his whereabouts on the day of the fire. The case continues to day. In the case of Charles Coe, charpretl with sending letters threatening to burn barns, the jury returned a verdict of guilty last night.

The penalty is three years imprisonment and $1,000 line. LOST HIS MONEY GAMBLING. Joliu G. Thompson, the I'oatal Clerk Ckarifeil With KteaUnf; KesiHterod L.et* ters, liost His Boll In Detroit Oambllng Houses. etroit April Q.

Thompson, the postal who disappeared from Columbus, recently and was afterward charged with stealing registered and money letters, was in Detroit Monday. He denied all charges and he was out for his health. He well supplied with money on his arrival, but lost ii all in gambling Yesterday he was mis-iing. It is Known that he received several telegrams from home, which may have had something to do with his going away. family is one of the best in Columbus.

He has been in several lades, but has always got off, with great cost to his parents. His father was John G. Thompson, the well-known Democratic manager in Ohio, who died in Washington Territory while holding a government position. Treasurer and Missing. Boston, April F.

Trewolf. treasurer of company, has disappeared and Mr. Hoyt believes he has taken with him the proceeds of their two at the Park Theater, to Trewolf was last seen at the theater about four p. m. Monday, but sinc3 that hour whereabouts have been unknown.

An exammstion of his counts shows several discrepancies, he having taken credit for the payment of several bins which prove to be stili unsettlsd. wolf is but tweuty-seven years of age. There is said to be a woman in the case. Incendiary Fires. CoLnMBUs.

April night sn incendiary fire destroyed the residence of Mr. Bchauler, in this city. Late Monday night the firebugs made another raid snd set fire to a number of stables. The electric fire alarm failed to work, and before the fire department reached the scene eight with their contents and a number of out- I houses had been totally destroyed. Loss estimated at no insuranee.

Will to Contested. Brooicltk, N. April 10 will of the late Peter Paul Mahoney, leaves all his property to his widow, whom he four months ago, wUl be contested by his sisters, who claim to have in their a will in their favor, and who allege that, the subsequent will In favor of Mrs. Mahoney was while the testator was by illness from exercising his discretion. Killed Her llusAanil ao Axe.

PoBT JBrrEitsoN, L. April Conkling. a colored man, murdered by his wife early yesterday morning. The murdered man was in a quarrsl his wife, who an sxe sad sttiok la GonkUair'ship. No srrssts Itsff OS yet been aade.

THE SAMOAN QUESTION. Aa Agreeaaeat Beaehed Betweca th4 United Stairs aad OerouMiy by Which No Mere War WUl be Seat to Saasoe Until Alter the BerUa Ooafereaoe. Wasbikqtoh, April Department officials were very reticent yesterday when ssked about the troth or falsity of a report that an agreement had been reached between Germany and the Ualted States that BO war vessels Me to be sent to Bwmoa til tbe result of the Beriia is an- BOUBoed. There is little doubt, however, that both governments are already mltted to such ui agreement. It is that the to leave Ssmosn wsters unguarded by Qer- msBy sad tbe United Ststes, and just as they were after the typhoon bad wrecked SBd dissbled the vessels of both govern- BOBts, esme originally from Prinoe Biardi.

and he promptly met half way by our (Government, aad that the proposl- tioB was accepted. This will lesve matters iB statu quo and the British government alone to polioe those waters snd look out for Oeroian, American and British interests until tbe Berlin conference settles Samoan af- fslrs on new basis. MET ON A CURVE. Two Passenger Trsins Collide on the Atlantic A Paoific Man Killed and a Number Wonnded. Los Akobubs, Aoril westbound overland passenger train on the Atlantic Pacific railroad arrived here yesterday morning many hours late, having been in collision on Monda.v afternoon with the eastbound passenger train near Peach Springs, Arizona, 109 miles beyond the Tbe trains, each drawn by two engines, met on a sharp curve on a high embankm nt, oomlng together with a fearful crash.

The engines were demolished and thrown down the bank into a stream, carrying three cars with tl em. One engioeer jumped on tbe wrang side and fell down a rocky embankment eighty feet. He was terribly bruised and iniernally injured. The other trainmen and the passengers escMped injury, but were badlv shaken up. A laborer stealing a ride on the platform next to the tender was crushed to death.

BASE BALL. Vathlbltlon Games Preparatory for the Championship Contests. Clevbland. Apr.l following games were i)layed yesUnlay: At Columb -Milwa'ikee. Columbus, 6.

At Jersey York, 13; Metropolitans, 5. At Philadelphia, innings. At All Americas, ft. At Boston, 9. At St.

St. Louis, 11. At Washington, 7. At Cincinnati, 2. Louisville, 8.

iVioruioii Cliuroit Salt ke CiTT Utah. April the session of the Mormon eoaferanoe George Q. Cannon read the statistics of the church, whiqih are: Twelve apostles, 70 patriarchs. 3,719 hich priests, 11.8J5 elders, priests, 2 teachers. 11,610 deacons, 81,899 families, 115 915 odlc 'ra and 49,302 children years of ag a total Mormon population of 191,911.

The number of marriages for six months ending April (i, 18S9, wan uirU new members, 483; excommani.it.tions, 113. an- non said that many young men were leaving tlie Te. ritory to take up landeliuwhore, and this scattering inusi be stopped. They Were StranicerH and Tuok Him and 94 ni in. hamokin April Keller, a wealthy farmer livi near Bear tup valley, was robbed of 0 Monday afternoon by two atruniiers who railed on him and commenced dickering for the purchase of his farm.

The sharpers gugod the old gen- tleiuan in a game of card.s and induced him to bet the above sura card. 5Ir. Kaller depo the money on the table, whereupon one of the him with a revolver while the other the tarm- cash up. Both then beat a hasty retreat and madp good tiseir escape. There Is no clue yet to the ah.irpers.

Wealthy Farmer Tortured by Robbers. Gkove City, April one yesterday morning thre; masked men forced an entrance into tho residence of Mr. Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer, living near Centreville, Butler County, Patterson refused the demands for his money whereupon, after repeated threats of hanging, Kh. oting, without effect, the fiends held his f.jet in the tire, roasting them so badly that amputation will be necessary. Tho ransacked the house, securing forty tllarsin money and a gold watch.

A sberifTs pDsse is after the perpetrators. Cliarced with Fraud. New ork April Rothschild A special partners in the firm ot Downs Finch, the shirt manufacturers at 43 and 45 Leonard street, who assigned last week, have begun action in the Supreme Court to set a.ide the assicrnmenton account of fraud. It is claimed that Downs Finch, on the eve of the assignment, disposed of worth of the property. Judge Beach appointed Miles M.

receiver of the property. The receiver gave bond in $50,000 and is now in possession. Suicide of a Book-keeper. Evaksviuub, April F. Schor, sged forty-eight years, a prominent snd estimable resident of this cfty, committed suicide yesterday momlog by hanging himself in tbe baMment of First National Bank, where he had been onployed foy the past twenty-six years as general book-keeper.

The cause of the act was general depression of mind. For the past year he has been in ill health and has also been troubled with in his fsmily. Postmasters Appotatrd. Washixotow, April President yesterday appointed postmaster as follows: Berdan, Charlevoix; B. Williams, Ironwood, Bay City.

J. W. Hostetter, Orrvllle; Q. P. Brown, Camden; Eli Overholt, Wadsworth; CL W.

DawsoB, New Richmond. iadtetoMatia. obk April Saiyth fssterdsjr decidsd that tho Indtotmsats against the JOsotris siwar swiadlsrs sie valid. The trial It sot down for the lattsr part of this Icna. NATiONii mm.

A 0 (mtest inr Hie ITaoeiit Ol'tC Service CommtMlonerahip. Bninors About Appointments Deeision Conceminc fortigu Ckmtraet Labor Lew Boaderod by Beorotary to be fbr IrfMsvtat His Shljp WtOioat FermlselM. WASBlNOToir, April sppesrs to be a spirited oontest in profrress for Democrstic vsoaaoy ob tbe Civil Berviot Commission. Mr. Hugh T.

Thompson, of South Onroliaa, Ists Assist snt Secretary of the Treasury; Judgs Durham, of Kentiiciqr. the prMOBt First of the Tuess- urj, and ftiobsrd McMahoa, of West fiaia, the present deputy secoad ler, are the prinoipsl osadidstes, with several others of less proaiaosce ia the field. All have mors or less and for tbs past three weeks the Protident givea dally iBterviews to Demoemtlc Sesators la behalf of some one of tbeai. Aa from the President last week that he would sppoint no trade Democrats on oomoilf sioas required by law to be mads up of publicans and Democrats, but that la sueli oases he would select proteotloaist Democrats, has created considerable ooBUBoat hMe. This declaration is said to have beea made to a very prominemt Democrat as indication of the policy he will pursue, aot only I the South, but in regard to aatiOBSl appoiaUnents genorally.

The story that has been going the rouodi of the press to the effect that the PreskloDi hsd teadored the position of postmistieetst Lexington, Va, to Mrs. Stonewall JacksoB and that she declined it, and thiU ho now intended to offer her the position ot postmistress at Riohmmd, Va, is uttorljr discredited at the Postoffioe Officials in position to know, say nothiaff of the kind has ever been oontemplsted. Friends of Mrs. Jsckson, while wishlBf hor well, ssy that sbe has never developed say executive ability; in was never in a position to show that she possessed the necessary qualities to battle with the business sflsirs of a postoffice. The published staiemeut tlut Presidsat Harrison does not intend to any man as minister or consul to country of which he was a native seeinis to be wIthoBt good foundation.

Very reOeotly a German Republican who wanted ia Germany called on Secretary Blaine and asked if the report was truoi adding that If it w's it would be to make your on said the Secretary, is no such rule in (his Secretary Windom yesterday made his first ruling concarning the foreign contract labor law by affirming a decision made by the collector of customs at New York ia to a Swiss embroiderer. The lattsr osme to this country to work ia the Newark, N. embroidering works, of which H. Bomemau is proprietor. The Swiss claimed that be had paid his own psMsge to this country, but had secured work with the firm beforj leaving Swltx The collector held that a oontract.

had been made between the embroidering works and tbe Swiss, and on account of the decision he will bring the to the attention of the District Attorney at New York. The Secretary of the Navy has decided to order a court-martial for the trial of Lieutenant Commander George M. Book, snd the detail will be made this week. Rear Admiral Harmony will be president of the court Lieutenant Commander Book is charged with leaving his ship, the Pinta, without permission, and returning to Washington. There are some peculiar features in the case.

Book was commander of the Pinta and as such he applied to the Navy Department to havg the boilers in the vessel repaired before putting to sea from Sitka, Alaska, where the ship was stationed, The repairs, it is said, were refused, and Mr. Book left bis ship in the charge of his executive officer and csoie to Washington to represent the real state of affairs to the department. News From Oklahoma. WiNriELu, April Couch, the Oklahoma leader, arrived here yesterday direct from Oklahoma He says the soldiers have made a clean sweep of tbe Oklahoma country and have driven out everybody excepting those who have authority to remain. Nobody is allowed to alight from a train longer than the Ualn stops at a station.

The bank of Guthrie, I. with a capital stock of $50,0 X) was organised there yesterday. It will open for business at Guthrie on April 22, and expects to be the first bank in Oklahoma. In EfHgy. rookston April la Senatof Sampson was hanged in effigy Monday The imasfo wss suspended to the electrifi light wire across Main and Second streets, dressed in a suit of bUuA clothes with a black csp pulled over its head.

Across the back were tbe words: bribe taker and while upon the breast was a card bearing the following iniknnption: way the citizens of Crookston feel toward the Senatorial barnyard SttfTtfcated In a Vat. Port Horon, April Clemmo, a ship at work Ib one of the vats of the Mineral Bath Works, became asphyxiated yesterday moraingand i Porter, an attendant, called for help and I went to his assisianoe. When relief arrived both meu were insensiblo and they dtod Ib a few minutes. Dr. Stepbenson, the I tor, was also suffocated and seriously hurt I about the head by falling into tho vat.

i Saspend Opevatioiuk Dbnton, April various I of Caroline Couatv have suspended operations and thdir charters have been surrendered to the clerk of the court These are some of the clubs sgaiast which I the Governor directed proceedings oa the charge of vlolatiag the loosl optiOB lawa Woiuan of a Serious CAiao, III, April VleaBtt, Hi CouBty, Mrs. lawler, ol this i thechaqeeot ia boy Bsmed Budsoa to start tiMl 18Sr, i Ib tbelMactof Moeae QKTifSfiB smssBortliof.