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THE CITY IN BEIEF. A Most Appropriate Design for Hayinarket Monument A Preacher' Tribulations. Ecse'i Gang of Thievaa in tie ToUa A Bogus Land Company Van-t ishes. Offender! Before the Ban of Justice Minor Casualties Around the Hotels Local BreTities. FOR THE HAYMARKET.

There ia a notable absence of idea, pictorial quality, and artistic reeling in tha majority of the deaigtii submitted in the competition for the Haymarkat Monument, in honor of the fallen policemen, Mr. John Mulvaney, the artist famous for hit battle pieces, and especially for his noted one; Custer's Last Bally, has, how ever, designed one which excels in each of these points. It was not entered in the regular competition, but should be. The design prorides for a memorial, monumental in form, which is graceful and solid, and at the some time imposing, its proportions being such that it "piles up" well. The idea the artist haa so ably in terpreted is that of the genius of law and order protected by the police.

Law is represented by a sitting figure surrounded by books, rolls. and ths typical paraphernalia of the courts, while behind her stands Order, with the scales of justice and a defensive shield in a very spirited attitude. Below at each corner of the monument stands an Ideal guardian of the peace in a protecting attitude. There is ornament enough to break the severity of the lines, but not enough to violate good taste, the simplicity of the design in this respect being one of its chief charms. Room is left for tablets as indi cated.

One of the advantages which will recom mend this design to humanitarians overs purely ornamental one is the fact that jutting from the base are four drinking fountains lor horses. dq neiKiu ox uio monument fta uy we design should be twenty-one feet, the height of the policemen seven feet; the shaft to be of tone, and the figures of bronze or white bronze. THEY WANT STRAIGHT GOODS, Since the Rev. Bird Wilkin (colored) resigned the pastorate of Betheada Methodist Church, Sept 19, he has been preaching "independent" sermons in an upper room, at No. 2906 State street Upon an average, he baa received let ters once a week warning him to loave the city or dire results would follow.

Sunday night about 8:30, while he was preaching, someone fired the little frame house in which he and his wife dwelt, at No. 2910 Dearborn street The house was ruined and all the furniture spoiled. The Wilkinses have been living at No. 2900 State street since. Yesterday the following let ter was received: ClTT, Jan.

6. Mr. 'Wilkin We have warned you that you can not preach againet orthodox religion. We believe you are teaching a religion from the devil, and we set your house afire in three places, but it burned in only one. We will, kill you before you shall hurtuswith your new religion.

Our white orthodox churches tell to run von out of this town. and yon have got to go. If yon stay you will do so at the nk of voor life. tell von in time, This is our last warning. We don't want to hurt yon, bat you must leave this place.

Now get out as quick as you can. AS Obthodox. "Are you going to get out?" he was asked. "Well, I guess Dot" I am going to put the case in the hands of the police and Fire Inspector Shay." He said further that he had no law to his persecutors. .1 'y UNFORTUNATE, THOUGH TRUE.

1 The Central W. U. met at the headquarters on LaSalle street yesterday, and passed the fol lowing: Whebeas, We have received from our protec- nvu, 1.1 .1 cuov. M4. outrage are Insufficiently punished by our oourta, we as CbriKtiana enter oar protests against such judicial laxity as is exhibited, especially in the case of Gehring which was actually stricken off by ine juuge at we suggestion oi tee state a Attorney after it had been given to the Jury.

We would therefore urge the voter of our city to see that mea. are placed in office who will deal justly in all case. The case in point was thoroughly discussed, vuu luv uuira wua uiumjaiuua in we opinion that Judge Williamson and ex-State's Attorney Gnnnell deserved to be severely condemned by pnbiie-opinion, because of the leniency shown in that case. Mrs. M.

Henry, the National Evangelist of the union, gave an account of her experience and work, especially in Allegheny City and other places in Pennsylvania where she encountered much opposition because of the Murphy tempt) ran oe movement It was arranged that Mrs. Henry should begin a series of services in this city, and a meeting to make arrangements will be held this afternoon in the first M7 Church. A VERY TART GANG. Mrs. Sarah Evans, who waa brutally beaten by her son-in-Uw, Ormon Bose, Tuesday evening, is still dangerously ill at her home.

No. 3128 Cottage Grove avenue. Boss waa taken hef ore Justice R. H. White yesterday morning, charged with assault with intent to kill, and was held without bail until Jan.

14 for further examination. Bose is tha leader of a gang of thieves which has for some time infested the South Side, paying particular attention to the freight cars on the Lake Shore tracks, many of which have been broken open and robbed of their mora valuable contents. The police were close upon the track of the thieves, and on the morning of tne day Mrs. Evans waa assaulted, Officers Conick and Brown had an exciting chase in the vicinity of Thirty-sixth and State streets after Bose and a companion named William Little. The Utter was caught after a sharp run, but Bose made his escape.

Then came the assault upon Mrs. Evans and her daughter Mar. Willett waa arrested Mi. Rm ivit iu jwsw, wiin ms Drouier at the treatment she nil received and turned in- former, hue took the polios to her house at No. 3008 Bntteriield street, and showed them a fine marble clock and a larae atuntitv rr and cigars, which had been stolen from the Lake Kiiore and Michigan Southern cars.

too omcera that large quantity of household goods had been taken from a barn in the vicinity of Prairie avenue and Fortieth street She said that, be-' sidea her buaband, the members of the gang were William Little, John Crowley, and Dennis Kennedy, tha latter a colored man. All the parties were arrested, and yesterday morning Lk. .1... v-i Yillert wtf bald ja frJ.VVO bonds f9I eon. i KIIHUUW in I 1 i plleity in the assault on Mrs: Evans.

Dennis Kennedy pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary on the Lake Shore cars, and was held to the Criminal Court in $1,000 bonds. Mrs. K. E. Gilbert testified that her barn at No.

4013 I'rairie avenue was robbed, and the goods found in Kose's house were liors. On this testimony Bose and Little were held to the Criminal Court in bonds of $1,000 each. In the cases of the Lake Shore robberies the officers asked for a continuance and the cases were sot for hearing Jan. 14, Little and ltose being held in bonds of $3,000 each and John Crowley in $2,000. Another charge against the men was that they had broken into Alexander Eckdahl'a grocery store, at No.

3800 Butterfleld street, and stolen a quantity of foods. Is this case Little and Rose were held till tha 14th in $1,000 bonds each. Little was also accused of the larceny of THE DAILY INTER OCEAN, FRIDAY MOItOTtfCr, JANUARY 1 888 TEN PAGES. some small articles from a man named U. Orapp, and an extra bond of $1,000 was placed over him for this.

With the capture of this nna- tha notice think the ear thefts will cease. Tha Lake Shore of- icials are unable to estimate the amount of goods taken from their cars, bat the value will be very great, aa the thieves only took the finest goods. The evidence aeainat the thieves baa been furnished almost entirely by the woman. May Bose, in revenge for the brutal treatment she has received from her husband. She ia young, not mora than 23 years of age, and vary handsome, though lame.

She was in court yesterday morning, and while testifyih' against her husband's associates cast glances of hatred at him, and occasionally whispered in his ear that she had hint now and "would fix him." SOLD OUT AND GONE HOME. TTAviKT. T.ks Dec SI. To tha F.di- (or. Pleue nod and read the inclosed advertise-nakt sod inform the readers of your valuable pa per if there is a branch of the St Andrews Hay Railroad Company at No.

ISO Dearborn street, Chi cago, is it tne same mat was run in tiucinnau at No. 211 Main street (I think that is the number)? The inclosed advertisement reads about the same, except that they give the choice of paying for a lot in California or Florida, or, rather, paying for a deed But if they do by others as they did by me when I sent them 1.3ft, why that will be the eud of the affair. They wrote me that I had better send another dollar and take another farm, adjoining the one that they did not send the deed tor but I told them that one farm was all I could work, and to either send the deed or return the dollar. That was the last I heard of the company until I read the inclosed advertisement. If you would be so kind as to tell us in your answers to correspondents it might save some fool his money.

A. ilCi'HEESOH. The advertisement to which reference is made in the above latter is from the Washington Tribune, and sets forth in language remarkable that each applicant will be given, free of charge, one diviaion of property, either in California or Florida each applicant to make his own choice. On receipt of an application a free deed bond will be forwarded for the prop erty selected. The modest little sum of 25 cents is exacted to defray the coat of advertising, postage, etc Five deed bonds will be sent for $1, in cases where a division of property ia desired for various members of a family, and the scale of charges all the waynp to twenty- live deed bonds ia at tha rata of five for Now, these valuable deed bonds can be had at any stationer's by ths dozen for ths sum of 30 cents, and in consideration of the fact that in all human probability the land is valueless, it was unkind, ungentiemaniy.

not to say aosoiuu wicked, of the land company, to re tain the aggrieved jncmerson dollar and net send him 2a cents worth of registration papers. The company, if it is ths same, had assumed a different name when it reached Chicago: it took on the title. "The California Southern Land Association," and had an office at No. ISO Dearborn street For three weeks they did a rushing business down in tha basement but yesterday when Ths Inter Oceas reporter dropped around to buy all that was left of California and Florida, he waa surprised to find that tha entire West bad been sold, and the company had made a flitting. A colored man stood around lingung dollars in his pockets, snd between him and the scribe the following dialogue ensued: "CI aned out, ehf" "That'swat" "Gone long?" 'Bout a day," "Make much money?" "A bit" boas" "A man called Arnold, one of tha biggest real- estate men in California." "Any of the gang in town now?" "Naw: they're all gone to Cincinati." This was very cheering news.

The basement office looked as if a cyclone had dallied with it: nothing could be seen except some old cards. circulars, and a healthy two days' growth of rubbish and the colored man. A gentleman called A. Monser is the one who conducts the legal portion of the business for the concern but he too had folded his adjustable bed and gone. TO CHEAT UNCLE SAM.

The following letter was received yesterday by an Englewood firm and will be turned over to the government officials. It is signed D. A. Browning, Clifton, Passaic County, N. J.

Strictly Dear Sir: Myeonflden rial traveling man, who happened to be in yoar section of the country not very long ago, haa written me that he thinks yon would be a very good man to handle my bills. He says also that yon are in an excellent position to do business for me. and that he does not think that yon are the kind of a man to betray a trust. The denominations are I 'i 6's, 10', and iu's. They are printed from plates that were "secured" from the United States Treasury Department by a former workman in the engraving department, and they can not be told from the genuine until they work their way back to Washington.

If you will answer this letter at once and give ma your solemn word of honor that yon will do me no harm I will explain to you, as a sensible business man. how yon can make large sum of money safely and rapidly, without the least danger and without even your most intimate friends knowing anything about it. In answering sign your name and address on a separate piece of paper, a I have done, or else return the envelope in which this letter is sent, so that either way I will be sure to know, who it is from. If you received any other letters of this nature return them to me, as they will only be from my agent and would have to go through my hands at headquarter. Dictated.

BEFORE THE JUSTICES. As a result of the investigations of Officers Dudley and Little, of the Humane Society, into the condition of and treatment given the street- car horses on nr. xerkes' fiorth Side road, a warrant for the arrest of John F. Kelly, foreman of the North Division atreot-car barns, was sworn out yesterday morning in Justice Jarvis Blume's court Kelly was charged with cruelty to animals.the warrant declaring that Mr. Terkos' servant "did overwork, overdrive, overload, torture, and torment four quadrupeds, to-wit, four horses, and knowingly cause and allow the same to be done." With blood in his eye and a determination to stop the work of building the cable, if need be, to find Mr.

Kelly, Constable Robert Crawford started out in a buggy in the afternoon on a still hunt, but at 6 o'clock had not returned with his prisoner. The case of Captain Decker, the alleged that atrieal swindler, against Pope Wilhoit for nonfulfillment of contract, was dismissed in Juutice White's court yesterday afternoon for the want of prosecution, and judgment was entered against the plaintiff for the costs of the suit Edward Lamport, the sneak thief who stole a sealskin cloak from Grossman's State street store, broke one of -A. G. Spalding's windows, stole five fine revolvers, and waa arrested while trying to pawn hia plunder on tha West Side, waa held to the Criminal Court yesterday by Justice Lyon on two charges of burglary. Lam-pert went to jail in default of $2,000 bail.

Two fresco painters, William Gailing and Jacob Becker, want to get evon with an Italian who had them arrested, accusing them of stealing $20. Becker was working near Paaquale Chile's place, at No. 254 Wells street, and went into the Italian's yard to get some water, Paaquale is a banana seller and leaves bis possessions in his absence under the guardianship of a brindle-colored dog. It was this dog which caught hold of Becker's leg when he entered the yard and held there. He screamed, but the dog only took a fresh hold and chewed the tendons of his ankle.

Becker waa kept from hia work about six wee a and on recovery went down to Paaauale's place with his friend William Gail- tng to ace if the Italian had a license to keep ucn animal. They did not find the dog, but its owner showed them a license, and claims that as he opened his pocket-book to show them the JMkPer t8 bed $-0 and Kersten failed to believe Pasqu ran. Justice Paaquale and dis charged both the painters. A yonng woman with once fair face saddened by sorrow told Justioe Kerstea yesterday morning that her husband waa once kind and attentive, but that whisky had made him cruel and careless. His name is George Lewis and his wife has lived at No.

164 Superior street During the last four years Lewi haa spent all his earnings in drink and most of his time in the BridawaU. lis bad beam out bat few day when Wednesday night he went to his wife's home to find every entrance locked agaiuM him. He waited a moment and then broke through a window and entered the house. He found bis wife and two children in a group together and in his furious anger hurled a chair at them. They escaped to the next room and bolted the door.

While the husband was breaking the lamps and furniture one of his boys want for an officer. In the police court Lswis was fined $-3 and will have to serve out the fine in the Bridewell. Thomas Prytherd. a State street car conductor, was held to Criminal Court yesterday by Justice Lyon in $500 bonds for assault with intent to do bodily injurv. The complainant waa Frank Dennis, a book-'binder.

18 years of age. He said he boarded Prytherd'i car at Thirty-fifth street, and an altercation arose over the payment of his fare. Donnis finally gave the conductor 5 cents, and supposed tne trouble was settled. He alleges, however, that when the car reached Monroe street Prytherd tried to put him off, but was prevented from doing so by the passengers. At Madison atreet Dennis dismounted and was followed to the sidewalk by Prytherd who ays he accidentally ran against Dennis and knocked him down.

Dennis claims that it was no accident, bnt that Prytherd hit him in the back of the head with hia register, inflicting bad wound. A urn bar of witnesses testified to the same facts and tha prisoner waa held over. August Pettllno waa fined S2.1 and eoata bv Justice Kersten yesterday for disorderly conduct The Pettilpo family appears to be a quarrelsome one. The neighbors say the father is the best fighter, the mother next, and the two boys just about even. The father, with the elder brother, August, left the house and the other two members of the family to take oar of them selves anrmg some months.

henever August rot drunk and quarrelsome his father sent him home to annoy the mother and the other boy. The quarrel on Wednesday night waa dne to this cause. August came home, demanded a cigar from his younger brother, and waa refused. In the fight which followed the younger boy was anocKoa aown, aicaod in tne lace, and cut on the band with a butcher-knife as he waa warding off a blow aimed for his heart The Larra-bea patrol carried August to the station, where he was booked for assault to kill, the charge being changed by the magistrate to disorderly conduct Frank Smith was on trial before Justice Ker- sten yesterday morning for highway robbery. The complaining witness waa Dr.

Frank Morse who testified that Smith and another man same upon him at the corner of Belden and South port avenues on the evening of Dec. 6 as he waa returning from a visit to a He claimed they knocked him down and robbed him of a diamond pin, a sealskin cap, and $37 in gold and bills. Tha defense introduced damaging evidence against the physician's character in re- uutiu. vaii as testimony to prove tnai nmiin waa an honest molder who would not steal They dealared Moreen was a barber, and deter mined to doctor because it paid better, but did not take the trouble to obtain any preparatory training. Several witnesses swore'that be never paid his bills, that they wouldn't believe him under oath, and that they had known him a long tune, and never knew him to poaaeaa a diamond pin, a sealskin cap, or any aura of money larger than $5.

On cross-examination the doctor was unable to toll where he got the money or the pin, and the ease against Smith was dismissed. "How are you, Henahaw?" Lieutenant Hen-ahaw looked up at tne elegantly dressed gentleman who addressed him in his ofHce yesterday afternoon. The good looking face with the well-trimmed whiskers looked familiar, but the Chief of Detectives couldn't exactly place it, and shaking its owner' well-gloved hand, asked him to be seated and state hia business. Officer O'Donneil atood back and grinned, and Charlea Ziegler, tha most noted akin game capper in the West, took a aeat and conversed with the Chief, until O'Donneil took him by the shoulder and led him down stairs. The Chief of Detectives said nothing but just looked astonished until O'Donneil came np stairs snd told him how he and Scott arrested ziegler at the Grand Pacific Hotel yesterday afternoon just after dinner.

Ziegler was sent to the Armory and booked for vagrancy. He and Harry MoCloud hare the reputation of being two of the moat successful men in the country in their business of roping wealthy countrymen into "brace" faro and skin" poker games. Both men have been spending the last few months out of the city. A weak ago McCloud re turned and waa promptly arrested for vagrancy and waa fined $2i Ziegler came in Wedneedav and takes hia arraat nhilnantiioan saying that Harry bad to take his medicine and' ne would nave to take hia CORONER'S INQUESTS. Tha inquest on Jhe body of Amelia Leach, the aged woman who died Monday night from inju ries received at the hands of August Saldowski three weeks ago, resulted in the holding of Sal dowski to the grand jury for murder.

The inquest was held yesterday morning at the West North Avenue Station by Coroner Barrett Ed ward Leach, a son of the deceased, testified that his mother was in good health previous to the assault iso one witnessed the affair, although Bertha Arbison, a neighbor, heard the noise of a scuttle and the piteous cries which ahe reoog nizoa aa K'ven oy tne aeceasea, and on running to the scene of the disturbance found the old lady in the ditch. The physicians who at tended her, Dra. J. VYal and Hattorman, aaid tne pounding sne received was the direct cause of her death. Tha deposition of Mrs.

Leach was to the effect that the prisoner struck her without provocation as she got down on the sidewalk in front of her home at No. 64 Ellen street. After the first blow the old lady endeavored to reach the steps to go into the house whenanothar terriffic blow aent her into the ditch where ahe laid until assistance reached her. The jury waa out but two Deputy Coroner Kent and a jury finished the Inquiry yesterday into the cause of the collision on the morning of Deo. 30 on the St Paul Hoad between the St Paul passenger and the freight train at onerm annuo wnicn jean nmitn, the reman oi tne iroignt, waa tuied.

lbs investigation was bald at Shermanville and after an all-day examination of a half dozen trainmen the jury returned a verdict placing the responsibility of the ac cident on the shoulders of Conductor Frank J. Hart, of freight train No. 20, and recommending the Grand Jury to investigate the ease. John Cahill, the engineer of No. 78, said the night was very stormy.

i is train was over an hour late at ohermanvuie. All precautions were taken to guard against a coliion, but Cahill did not sea Hart's brakeman go ahead to flag the in coming passenger, which smashed into his engine, Killing smith. Tha switch waa closed when it should have been open. Con ductor Hart in ms own defense said upon his arrival at ohermanvuie be aeut hia head brake-man to flag anv train which might be eominr. Hart also swore that he went to the depot agent who said all trains could be safelr stoDned bv wire.

If the switch waa closed he (Hart) hail not ordered any one to close it -Conductor Wright and Engineer itobert Kane testified, but no additional facto were An inquest was held yesterday at 351 West Erie street, on Mary Wageuberger, who oiea ixoiu oiu age auu geuenu ueuiuty. 0 BREVITIES. 4tut Humane Society Report, The Illinois Humane Society, No. 113 Adams street, during the month of December, lba 7, investigated 110 cases; rescued and remedied the condition of 91 children; placed 28 in insti- ntioos; prosecuted 9 person' for crueltf: im posed fines of $161 removed 10 hora'oa by am- bulanoe reprimanded 50 persons andteamsters. and shot 12 abandoned horses, It will be noted that one case investigated often Involves )wo or more children or animaljn Xe slippery condition of the streets during the month has called for the vigilant attention in yestigatlng officers.

Particular attention has beeui given to the street-car horses. Additional, horses have been required by the Bociety of the several street railway companies lo.be stationed at the bridge, to assist in pulling, the cars up the approaches to the-. The superintendents have promptly compiled, -with this suggestion of the lijo, Norwood Park School for Boys has been but about six months, HOW over 100 boys" placed there, mostly through the efforts of, tuia from tae ranks of the homeless and dependent atreet waifs, Cases of cruelty to children and animals are promptly attended to by the oiheera. A man waa arrested and fined $10. for using a horse unfit for service.

woman waa fined $50 for drunkenness Tand extreme cruelty to her child 2 years old; the child waa placed in the Home for the man fined $3 for cruelty to his horse; an officer shot this horse by consent of the owner. A disreputable woman was fined $50 sad sont to the Bridewell for keeping her lS-vear-old daughter with her in a house of lU'iamey tha society placed the chUd in the Horn tha Friendless. A 13-year-old girl fined $50 for shop-lifting; led astray by a professional thief; society sent the girl to the Evans ton School' for Girls. A man aned $25 Xgr brutagi to iU horse. A uaa fined $5 for abandoning an old, worn-out mule, I nearly frozen the mnle was shot by officer.

A drunken father whipped and drove hia 12-year, old daughter from home; aouiety placed her in St Joseph" Orphan Asylum. Apparently Without Foundation. It waa rumored yesterday that James D. Carson, the manager of tha( Belt Line Bailroad, would be requested to resign by his father, tha President, and that 0. Winans, city freight agent of the Wabash Road, would be appointed to succeed him, the appointment to take effect Feb.

Diligent' inquiry yesterday failed to find any ground for tha rumor, though two or three railroad men apposed to be posted, admitted that "they bad understood" there might be a change on account of the recent notoriety of a not altogether pleasant kind which Mr. Carson has gained through his divorce suit In response to an inquiry, Mr. James D. Carson said: '-There is not a word of truth in it as far aa I know: this is the first intimation I have had of anvthing of tha kind." It waa found that Mr. John B.

Careen waa out of town, bnt Mr. Wmana aaid that be, too, had heard nothing of the change, and if there waa any ancn promotion in store for mm, it waa aa s-reat a surprise to him sa to anv one. Officials about the Polk street depot, where Mr. Carson's office ia located, were also entirely ignorant of any contemplated or possible change. Saloon Licenses Itevokad, For soma time past Messrs.

Bryan John son, proprietors of the saloon at No. 311 Clark street, have allowed a game of "crape" to be played in their bouse, and minora ware allowed to frequent the' place to 'gamble. Yesterday tha proprietors were arrested on a warrant charging them with allowing tumors to gamble in their Elace, and both were locked up at tha Armory, ater in the day their licenae waa revoked. The ease or Adolpb Ascnor, who keeps a saloon at No, 391 Clark street, waa similar, as be waa ar-reated on a warrant charging him with selling liquors to minors. The Mayor also revoked the license of Fisher Bandol'ph'a saloon at No.

460 State street, where the colored man, Frank Ball, was murdered but Monday night tMt S200. If anybody has found a pocket-book contain ing $200 they will confer a favor by sending it toW. T. Smith, at No. 04 Grant place.

Smith is a poor farm hand, with an impediment in his speech, who haa been saving hia mean for years so that he could eome on here and get the bene fit of medical treatment He arrived Tuesday from Ellis villa. and about 8:45 Wednes day morning boarded a Wells street car at Lar- rabee street to coma down lie stood on crowded. On leaving the vehicle he missed his wallet and contents from hia left-band pants hjv i ui. v. VM pocket Tha money ia in $20, $10, and $5 puis.

lreas Club Election. There was a large attendance at tha annua. election of the Press Club yesterday. Tha fol lowing ticket waa elected: President, James Scott, of the Herald; First Vice President, Frank 8. Blain, of Tax lima OcKaH; Second, A.

Snowden. of the Timet; Third, John K. Allen, of the Sanitary A'twt; Becording Secretary, Homer J. uarr. of tne June; financial secretary, oil B.

Waldo, of the Comtnrrcial bulletin; Treas urer. George Schneider: Directors. Fred Mallery. of the Kevt; Harry V. Bovnton.

of Ths iKTanociAx; upie r. Bead, of ma Aricantaw Traveler; Ervln U. Hawkins, or tha tribune; E. L. Stewart The Weather.

Tha temperature yesterday, aa observed by Maaaeae, optician. No. 88 Madison atreet, waa aa, follows: 8 a. bl, 30; 0 a. 39; 10 a.

35; 11 a. 36; 12 36; 1 p. 36; 3 pi dpi 35. Barontar a. Miscellaneous.

Antique oak sideboards, at lowest prices, at Full-dress suits, silk lined, for young men ana college graduates, 700, at Juy's, ttabaal avenue, corner Jaouroe street. Francis Combs and Thomas Egan were Tester day selected to represent tha new Twanty-nf th ttara in wa utv AJemocrano ientral Uum mittee. The directors of the Traders' Insuranoa Com pany, of Una city, re-elected its present officers tor the ensuing year and made tna usual quar terly aiviaona ot 23 pen cent on tne capital. payaDie ui xutn instant. Collector Seeberger aaid yesterday that be had not yet decided upon the appointment of Fran Hoyne'a aucceaaor, and mignt not be able to announce it for several days yet, and tha numer ous candidates are atul in suspense.

The Canadian branch of the British, Naturalization League, in a meeting at the Urand Pacific last evening, added nineteen new name to the naturalization list Secretary John Amieson resigned, and tlarry Iralick was elected in hia stead. Burglars entered the house of W. 1 Frost, at o. i3 I'ara avsnue, wrong naeeinent window, Wednesday mgnt, and, not deigning to nouce Mr. Frost's choice silverware, entered the servant giti apartment and took C125 in money from her They have not been arreateu.

Burt Button, the young farmer from Mil' ford, who ia suspected of complicity in tha assault on Othcer Cailoran, came up to Chicago yosteiday to answer to the charge against him. The injured officer was a till unable to appear. and Justice B. H. White again continued the case in bonds of $1,000 unul Jan.

2U Justice Wheeler presided at the regular meet ing of the North Town Board yesterday after- noon in Uie absence of the Supervisor. The board adjourned after fixing the usual salaries for the employes in the Collector's office. The chief clerk will be paid $10 a day, tha cashier $10, the assistant cashier $7, and ail ths dop- uuts yi cacju. For the purpose of going on a "bender," which their limited means would not honestly allow of, William Byan, John Farrell, and Pet Kelly, three barrel-house frequenters, sneaked $1UU worth 01 wnisay, wiin cigars to top on on, from the store of airman Levin, at No. 63 Market street Byan and Kelly were arrested for burglary, and arreu is neia aa accessory.

In the trial of Henry UoCabe, charged with the murder of Attorney awe M. Howard, of Yalparaiao, tha lawyers were examining and excusing jurors until 3 o'clock in tha after noon. At mat Uuie tha venire waa exhausted. and Judge Clifford issued a Tenira for fifty more jurors made returnable at 10 o'clock this morning. Gourt waa adjourned at that hour, witu out eignt jurors in uie dox.

The Twenty-first Ward Bepublican Club met last night in Garfield Hall, Garttald and Lincoln avenues The adoption of by-laws for the club was discussed, but final action postponed unul the next mooting, which oocur in the same hall two weeks from last night The club has a membership of 1UO, and is preparing for acuve wora in uie coming spring campaign. The funeral of Henry B. Brush took place yesteruay aiiernoon irom uie lamuy residence. Aa 4 inanipiain avenue, under the aus pices of the bona of America, with William A. Saunders.

State President in charge, and the Kov. Henry G. Perry, state Chaplain, officiating. Mr. Brush was" a member of Washington uamp, aol iu, and tne xunerai waa largely at- tenueu.

xie leaves a widow ana six cuuuren. The burial was at Oak woods. George and James McCann. 12 and 15 rears of age, were messengers in the employ of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. A few days ago tney were discharged for stealing.

Yesterday morning they went to the office aud tooK up twelve or fifteen cable dispatches which were about to be sent out for delivery and walked out with them. On many of the dispatches amounts from $3 to $10 ware due, and tne boys delivered the messages and pocketed the money paid by tha recipients. They were arrested yea- teruay aitemoou and locaea up at tna Armory uu uuargew ui laxoeny. William Eisenlohr. a rood-loo kins? vonne man with a very pretty litue mustache, went into a shoe store on tha corner of Clark and Ontario streets yesterday afternoon to buy a pair of shoes.

He was a trifle intoxicated, aud aaid something to Samuel Bindelsheimer, the clerk, which that gentleman did not like. He retalia ted, then each called, the other a dude, the suit being that Eisenlohr was hit in tha face by a shoe-butt in the hands of Itindelaheimer. The latter waa arrested on a warrant, and gave bonds to appear before Jnatioo ilamburgner in ten days. Collector Soebergt recen'Jy received a complaint from Supervisor of Customa Mr. Laugh- uu, at juuDuque, tnai a certain auipment or dry-goods in bond to a Dubuque merchant had been i found with seals broken, and tha familiar red card of the bonded car not to be found.

Inves-j ligation developed tha fact that the goods, which were only one box in a carload of ordinary stuff, had arrived at Dubuque were all right. i v. wmvt MW that it was a penitentiary offense, had opened uie car, ana lull tne Dondea oox in tne freight house. Mrs. Martha J.

Hall, a female detective. 50 years of age, was stopped by a party of lutoxi- Bdotr vited to takes drink. The invitation waa ao- I eompanied br a forcible attempt to take tha ladv into the place. She had two of the rn mans arrested and locked np at the Deeplainee eireet Station. Ther gave their names as Hermann Harm and Chris Waepteser.

Mrs. Hall lives at No. 10 Morgan street, and says sha was engaged br "Lucky" Baldwin, tha woll-known horsemau and millionaire, to shadow his erratic niece. Verona Baldwin, who ace used him ot betraying hor. At the annual meeting of the congregation of he First United Preabvterian Church, corner West Monroe and Paulina streets, the Treasurer, Mr.

James A. Potter, presented 'his report as follows: Beoeipta for 187, ex-peuditures, balance in treasury, $90. This does not include missionary contri butions Tha society is entirely out or debt snd tha roll ahowa an increase of thirty-two members. Dr. J.

W. Brown and Thomas Burns were re-elected trustees. J. A. Potter was reelected treasurer.

Dr. W. T. Melry is closing ths tenth year of hia pas to rata, The society has never been more prosperous, and its money is secured without tha sale or rental of a single paw. Nona of the Cummlng "boodlers" showed np in the Criminal Court Building reeterday to give bonds Price waa locked up in jail all day and nis friends are unable to secure bondsmen.

Andrew Fitzgerald. Leror B. Mallory. and Dugan and Thompson, tha contractors, are still in hiding. Two friend of Fitzgerald oaina into uie Clerk's office yeeterdar afternoon and offered to qualify as hia bondsmen.

They were unaoie to acnednie tne requisite amount ot property and were refused by the chirk. Fitzgerald has secured Daniel O'Keefe as ons bonds man, and la now looking for the other one. Last evening it waa rumored that Dugan aud Thompson are expected to testify for Uie State, and were permitted to privately give bail Monday to the Sheriff for that reason. A jury in Judge Horton's court yesterday afternoon found William Weber not guilty of larceny. Tha prosecuting witness was William Links.

Links was an old soldier and Weber waa a barber. Both boarded at No. 124 Clvboura place. Last May Linke took Weber downtown with him, and drew $260 pension money. Both wsnt off together, and got pretty well filled with beer snd other misoeUaaeoua liquors and slept together that night in Links room.

When tna old soldier woke in tha morning a $100 bill wsa gone, and so waa hia bed-mate. Several people swore uiey saw vteber trying to change tha $100 bill in a meigboring saloon that morning. but they all swore be wore a red flannel ahirt. Weber proved that he wore a white short that morning, and got off. The threshing machine men have onranireA There are in the United States forty manufacturing concerns Of this number more than naif were represented at meeting at the Sherman House yesterday, at which was organized uie American inreening Macmne Manufactur- Assoeiauon.

ine representation wai almost exclusively Western, and embraced the leading companies of Wisconsin, Michigan. unw, uu muiaus. iui organization was worked up by J. W. French, of Three Bivers.

who was Chairman of yesterday's meet ing. It is the sama old story of overproduction, low prices, and cut throat competition, hen the ore animation was well under way yesterday, it wsa resolved to curtail production 10 per cent for 1SSS, to let prices alone and to have a uniform credit aystem requiring 'JO per cent down, 20 per cent uie louowing December, and tne remainder during the second yesr. A constitution was partially formed and the following officers elected: President, Stephen Bull, of Bacine, Wis Vice rro-juent, j. n. rreoon; executive committee, (1 Fnovl Pin Inn TV.

I ...1.7. W. G. Scott, Kichniond, and Measrs. Bull ana crencik HOTEL ARRIVALS.

At ths Richelieu Mr. and Mrs George F. McLean, and Miss hog era, Pittsburg; it B. For-man, San Francisco: MoCuilacn and Miss McCuilach, England, and CL H. Johnson, St Ignace.

At the Treraont H. Dougherty. Bingham a. uHoaei a. u.

Btaynoi JUlwauaee; Foster. East Saginaw, Mich. W. A. Mo-Langhlin, Minneapolis; A.

Bauer, Cincinnati; sr. and airs. u. u. Aelson, Miller Ogden H.

Randolph, St Louis, and a. au xngen. rew lora. At the Palmer Charles Dudley Warner, naraora, conn. lieu tenant j.

isowian, li. rl. Major a Cairns, Texas; W. W. Man ning, Marquette; D.

B. Moray, St Louis; T. Uwone and K. Yokoyame, Tokio, Japan; J. B.

Speed, Louisville, snd Kile p. Gilbert, Cairo. At the Grand Paclfle The Hon. P. Pwigcrt State Auditor, Springfield: the Hon.

T. Strat- ton, Sprmgneld; It G. Head, Denver; M. L. Sykes, New York; G.

M. Wakefield. Milwaukee: Lewis Williams, Cleveland; Mackenzie, Win nipeg: M. naunman, London; fercy K. Todd.

una unt jar. and Jtrs. w. n. iiamblin.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. W.

C. Bergman, St Panl; Captain and Mrs a W. 0 roes beck, TJ. 8. A.

At the Sherman Mr. and Mm L. EUwood. DoKalb. IiL; Mr.

and Mrs. J. iL Parker. Da venport, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs.

E. D. Tuttle, Ke- noanat is li. a. aim, xtaton lugo, Jja.

r. W. Webster, Nashville, Tenn. A. Evans.

Springfield, Ohio; John McKindley. Duluth, Minn. E. Johnson, Philadelphia. Pa.

T. L. Bice, Winona, Minn. M. Bradley, Pnebhi, CoL A.

Leiberknecht Geneaeo. Id. A. E. Smith.

T.nlin-t fili Jim fi. li; Wis Mr. aud Mrs. EUwood, DeKalbJIll Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Parker. Davannnrt: Mr anl Mrs. F.

a Tuttle, Kenosha, F. W. Web- SC.XDERED HEARTS. Miss Susan larrtlla Will Not Commit auicida, ami rsa axag atsut tor uitois, HEBE is a mistake somewhere. The telegraph stated Wednesday night that Annie Summer- rille, tha actress.

was on her war her in great grief and threatening to commit suicide un less her family dif- israneas wore healed. This ia hardly aa Miss Summer-ills is hers to oontest her divorce suit, but there ia no talk of suicide unless her husband has ideas in that direction. The feminine half of the controversy, who in private life is Mis Edwin1 Taylor Chapman, ia hero for gore. Edwin ia an actor. VP TO TCSTXRDAT Hiss Summerville was with Rica's Corsair" company, now playing in New York.

The yonng gentlemen who are to be found in big shining collars, or behind eye-glasses, snd in the front row of the theater, know her well The playful players were "jined" in 1881, and dodged along moo and homelike for some years. Two children came, one of whom died. and the other, 4-year-old girl, ia quits factor in the divorce auit At tha end of six years cooing and billing Annie, like Ishmael of old. did the "wander act" She left Edwin Tar- lor because he had said by word of mouth that she must support the child and herself. She came to Chicago and cast a glamor on the audiences that nightlr attended "Evanrehna" when that beautiful piece of anatomical sculp ture was nere, getting jpio a wees lor nar aerv ices, bue now earns week.

BOMOB C1II TO HEB ONK SAT and told her that her Edwin was naughtr. Of course ahe didn't believe it, but inadvertently UI.W w. 'V U1IU. The detective did remarkably well, snd in a few months bad drawn up thousand or so reports. stating that "his man" was a gambler, a wine- bib ber, and a gentleman or tne old achool, free with his lores and his nut eta.

The "shadow" further stated that a Miss Lillian Snow was hia companion. Mrs. Chapman wants a divorce and the cus tody of her child. Chapman haa a cross-bill that charges Annie with wifely improprieties, but she gara the lie to these allegations yesterday. A new antiseptic spray diffusor haa been ordered for Judge Garnett's Court in the event of more disclosures at ths continuance of the trial to-day.

SUBURBAN. Iowa of lax. Charles Taggart and J. 0. McConovan, switchmen on a Kickle-plato were- arrested yesterday morning by Police Officer Murphy on a charge, of criminal carelessness.

About 8 o'clock yesterday morning ths men, while In charge of aifsngine, backed down on' several ladiea at Fortieth street and Wentworth avenue. Several of them were knocked down, and a Miss Fox received some bruises. Ths man will be given a hearing to-day. Lasts' 1 1 i 1 BARBED-AYIRE MEN BEATEN Decision Against Washburn and Xoen Girei U. Judge Suiraa at DnnatjMie, Tat Celebrated Glidden Combination Patent Declared Void for Want of HoYelty.

Heary Trading- ia Copper at Adunced Pricea Failures and Other Business Matters. A BURST MONOPOLY. Dubuque, lows, Jan. Telegram. About two week ago tha Washburn A- Moan Manufacturing Company, before Judge Khiras, of tha United States District Court, tn this city, brought suit against ths Bet-Em-All -Harb Wire Oompany, of Waterloo, Iowa, far infringe, ment of a patent issued in 1874 to Joseph T.

Glidden, in which Glidden claimed as hia invention the original barb wire used in fences. Tha testimony consisted of nearly wagon-load of evidence in tha form of printed briefs Tha ease was eloeely contested to a finish, snd Judge Bhiraa has had it ahder consideration foraareral days. To-day ha rendered his decision. Es held that the second wire, twisted about ths fanes strand for the purpose of holding ths barb in place, was an old device, being clearly shown in a patent issued to Michael Kelly in 1808, and that the mods of constructing tha barb shown in ths Glidden combination had been brought into use by Alvin Morley, of Dela ware County, Iowa, as early as 1839. Consequently tha patent issued to Gliddsn was void for want of novelty.

Tha decision of Jndga Bhiraa ia very volum inous. It embodies ths first defeat which the great Waahburn-Moen monopoly, which operates under the Glidden patent, has sustained. The case will undoubtedly be appealed to tha United States 8uprems Court But the decision of Judge bhiraa is thought to foreshadow the final defeat and over throw of thia giant monopoly, which haa exacted such fearful tribute from ths farmers of the West for ao many years. THE METAL MARKET. Kcw Tout, Jan.

5. A revival of interest marked ths transactions at tha Metal Exchange to-day. Ths members of tha exchange, were present on tha floor in nil force, aid the mar ket opened with large export order for copper. One of the largest banking firms on Wall atreet bought several large lota of Lake Superior cop per. Ths extent of their order was said to be 1,000,000 pounds.

Tha representa tive of the firm refused to state tha price paid, bnt within an hour attempted to buy another million pounds at a quarter of a cent advance. Other large buying orders for export carried off from 600,000 to 600,000 pounds spot, snd January delivery went on first call for lC to 16s cents; February for 1C60 cents, and March for 16.70 to 16.75 cents. On tha second call tha market moved upward, and 16.40 cents waa paid, and afterward vainly bid for spot; 16. 50 cents for January which held firm at ia 65 16.63 to 16.75 cento for February, and 16.80 to 16.85 cents for March. Tha total transactions in and out of tha' exchange are estimated at 2,500,000 pounds, of which at least two-thirds was for immediate export After tha Exchange waa closed, large buyers bid 2 to 2I4 cents in advance of the highest prices obtainable during Exchange hours.

Tin waa stronger at 36.00 to 37.32 cento for spot, and 34 to cents for futures, but no sales were recorded. Lead waa firm at 4.05 to 5. 15 cents, and con siderable businems waa dona in iron. Advices from London report that tha market: in Gnili bars opened strong at zs for spot. The French syndicate anxiously looked for sellers, bnt was met with extreme caution.

At the market's clone, A'Kj lOs waa paid and anb- et-quentlv vainly bid for spot, holders standing ont lor ivsu BUSINESS DISASTERS. Fxeeport, 111., Jan. 5. Special Telegram. J.

A. Dirksen, crockery and glass war mere chant of this city to-day confessed judgment to certain of his creditors, whose claims aggregat- $1,200. His liabilities amount to about $3. 500, the balance being claims held by Chicago and Eastern dealers, and tha Aurora Silver Plata Company. The assets consist of ths stock on hand which will probably not realize over at sheriffs sals.

B. K. STOSX, A CLOTHISO MEBCHAKT, has also closed np this week. Bis labilities aggregate $8,000, and his assets will scarcely reach $4,000. He has preferred creditor here to ths extent of $2,800.

The principal losers ars Chicago jobbers. Tons: baxxbupts. Nxw Tobk, Jan. 5. Ths commission house of D.

Da Castro which recently made an assignment, haa filed schedules showing 231,304 liabilities, $1,691,427 nominal assets, and $1,096,758 actual assets. Beecbinor, Healy dry goods, filed schedules stating their liabilities at $73,299, nominal aaaets, $85,206, snd actual assets, $54,551. X. y. OABBK, BCrVAXA.

Buttaxa K. Jan. 5. Special Telegram. Louis lr.

Garbs, dealer in paper-hangings, assigned to-day; preferences, $1,000. COFFEE FALLING FAST. Kxw Tons, Jan. 5. The coffee markot has been the center of a moderate excitement for two or three day because of a decided reaction in that commodity.

Tuesday's decline of forty points, recorded, waa followed yesterday by a further falling off of forty points, the result largely due to unfavorable advices from Brazil, where it ia aaid tha new inventory of Rio on hand show a considerable increase. Ths bull card for soma time haa been ths short stock in view. Cables from Havre and Hamburg show a considerable weakness -in tha foreign market, and tna feeling there influencea tha market here. THAT SPOTTED MAM. Ths Parson TToald Rather Sot Har Told It, bat Sha Was sv Good One.

There waa a peculiar case before Judge Waterman, of th Circuit Court, yesterday. It waa a auit to recover the value of an Arabian mare sold in 1884, and hurt in transport to Chicago from South Bend, Ind. Thia 'mare originally was the property of a Methodist minister, who lived a few miles from South Bend, snd combined farming snd preaching to make a living. The mar ha sold aa a colt, and could put no value on, had been killed ia a railway accident on the Grand Trunk, ha affirmed. Ths plaintiff claimed $3,000 damages, and the preacher affirmed that ha had sold tha mar for "Did yon know that the mars could trot before yon sold her," asked the plaintiff's lawyer, or are you a Judge of raos-horsea?" "Well, not exactly.

I bar sold horses and bought them." "Did you sell this horse to my client?" "Yea. air." "Is it not true that when yon sold this horse It was for ths reason that your boy waa baa ting everything on tha road, at night, in tha oounty with what rou called the spotted mare" "I object," said the railway attorney. Jndga Waterman overruled ths objection, and the parson aaid, while his innate pride in having bred a fast horse showed itself: "WelL ths boys used to tell that drove him, and, generally speaking, I guess that, that 'ar spotted mare finished ahead." Tha jury laughed, so did tha Judge, snd tha impression kind of stole abroad that tha good 4 old parson loved a good horse hisalt; HOPE FOR COXSCMPTIYES. 4 A New Theory of the Dread Disease Which Bon is Very Sensible). In fifty per sent of the eases, eonsnm ption 1 only the symptom of soma other dlioase 1 Th disease, tn such cases, cannot be cured until the causa, whatever it is, la removed.

More than half tha victims of consumption have albumen in tha water. "What does this Indicator Albumen cannot appear in what escapes from the if tha organs which take tha water from the blood are healthy. We drink water in Urge quantities every day. Thia water goes through th body and washes away tha waste matter and decay of th system, and take it to tha If these org an are healthy, this waste In eolation la the water is removed by them. If not, the natural action Is reverted, and, instead of removing tha waste, that poisonous staff remains in tha blood, but the real Ufe-tivlnf element or the albumen escapes.

Fancy the effect! Thia nrie acid Waste fa a rank poison, sad attacks tba weakest orraa first Tbe rump-ton Hospital of London, Enrland. shows is its reports thatovsr par cant of ths victim of consumption are really victims of kidney disease, ths lusg Vroubls being shown by ths presence of albumen in tha blood to be bat the indication of kidney derangement -The. real eanae of pulmonary troubles being so authoritatively shown to be faulty, even though unsuspected, action of tha kidneys, ex-' plain why, in order to master the dreaded consumption, one must rid the blood of tha eric acid Irritant which rnflams and burns np tbe lung substance. For this pnrpos Urns ia BothiBf eqsal to that great specific. War.

Bar's safe ear. This remedy has won tha favor of medical men all over the world, pure-ly on Its merits. We have bo doubt that if tha kidnsya are kept In natural action, consumption and a great many other disease, eauaod by uric acid, will not only be cured, but will beprevented. J. W.

Westlake of Mt Taraon, Ohio, had a sister residing in Michigan who was thought surely te be golnc with consumption. She took ton bottles of Warner's safe cure which he sent har, and he says: "That was the last I heard ef har consnmption. Thousands of sack case are developed every day. Dip your finger in acid every day, and It soon (esters, and ia destroyed. Send acjd-pol-soned blood through tha lance every second -and they sooa siva way.

inis, uin, is tna condition of things that always precedes consumption: First, wak ened kidneys: second, retained nrle amd. poisoning tha blood; the development of disease ia the lungs by tha irritant acids passing throuf them. Then there 1 a Utile coarh tn the morntnr: soon, thick, yellow matter I (pit np. followed by lost of llh snd stranfth with dreadful Bight sweats; and when tha patient goes to his achool physician for help is put on ood liver oil, which bis stomach, weakened also by uric acid in tbe blood, cannot digest Because ther 1 no pain present in the kidney, the patient does not think tbey ar affected, bat tbe kidney acid I dojng Its work every minute, every hour, day and night and by and by tba disease of tha lung baa advanced until pus Is developed, than come, hemorrase. and at last tba (lassy stare of tha eye, winch denote that the end is near.

A post-mortem examination of such cases shows that the terrible uric acid ha com- -pletely destroyed the substance of the lung. It is impossible to cure lung diseases, whan the blood is poisoned with uric scid. ARTIFICIAL RUBIES. Lju-g Gem Mad br Fusing Small Oa How They War Detected. Washington special to Philadelphia Prttt: Among the paper included in ths report on mineral resources of th United States, just issued from the Geological Survey Office, is one by George F.

Kunz, th well-known expert in gems, on precious stones. A portion of this article ia devoted to artificial rubies. It seems that early in summer tha syndicate do laments et pierrea precieueea was informed that certain stones which had been sold as rubies from new locality were suspected to be of artificial origin. They were put upon the market by a Geneva firm, and it waa surmised that they were obtained by the fusion of large numbers of small rubies, worth at the most a few dollars carat, into one fine gem worth from $1,000 to $2,500 per carat Some of thesa artificial stones were examined by Mr. Kune, but be was not permitted to break: them for analysis, to pbeerve the cleavage, or to have them cut ao as to -observe the optical axes more correctly.

It waa possible however, to detect their artificial nature with a mere pocket lens, as the whole structure waa that peculiar to fused masses. Among the principal differences between theee and the genuine stones was ths presence in them of large numbers of spherical Dnbbles. rarely pear-shaped, sometimes containing stringy portions showing how TEX BUBBLES HAD MOVED- When examined individually they always seemed to be filled with. gas or air, and formed part of a cloud, the rest having the wavineaa of a fused mixture. In natural rubies tha eavitiea are always angular or crystallise in outline, and uanally filled with some "liquid, or if ther form part of a "feather," aa it is called by the jewelers, they are often arranged with the lines of growth.

Hence ths difference in sppearano between the cavities in the natural gem snd those in the fused gem is very great, and can readily be detected by the pocket lens. Another distinguishing characteristie is In many genuine rubies there ia silky structure (called silk by the jewelers), which, if examined nnder the microscope, is found to be a series of cuneiform or sncular crystals, often iridescent and arranged parallel with the hexagonal layers of the crystal. When in sufficient number these sdcular and arrow-ahaped crystals produce the asteria or star effect, if the gem ia cut en cabochon form with the center of the hexagonal prism on the top of the cabochon. Mr. Euns failed to find them in the artificial stone or even any of th markings of th hexagonal crystal which often can be seen when a gem ia held in a good light and the light allowed to strike obliquely across the hexagonal prism.

The hardness of these stones waa found to be about th same as that of true ruby, 8. 8, or trifle leas than 9, the only difference being that th artificial atones were a trifle mors brittle. THX SPKCXTIC GBATTTT of these atones was found to be 3.93 and 3. 95. The true ruby, ranging from 3.03 to 4.01, it will bo seen that th difference is Terr alight, and due, doubtless, to the presence of jhe included bubble in the artificial stones," which would slightly decrease the density.

Tne color of ail the stones examined was good, but not on was so brilliant aa a very fine ruby. The cabochon were all duller than fin, true stones, though better than poor ones. Theydtd not differ mneh in color, however, and were evidently made by one exact process or one at a timer Their dull appearance is evidently -do to tbe bubbles. The French syndicate referred th matter to M. FriodeL of the School of Mines, Paris, sup.

plying him with samples of th stones forxam- nation. He reported the presence of the round and pear-shaped bubbles snd determined the hardness and specific gravity to be about the same sa of the tru rubv. On analysis fa found them to consist of alumina, with a trace of chromium for the coloring matter. He states that he himself haa obtained small red globulos with these incisions by infusing alumina by 01 hydrogen light; and, although; having no positive evidence, he believes these stones to be artificially obtained by fusion. On recoiptof M.

Friedel's report the syndicate decided that all cabochon or cut stones of this kind shall be sold as artificial and not as precious gems. All sales effected thus far, amounting to soma ti 00,000 or 800.000 francs, shall canceled and th moner returned to their respective owners. The actios taken by the syndicate haa fully settled the position which this production will take among gem dealers, Mr. Enns says, and ther ia little reason to fear that ths ruby will ever lose the plan it haa occupied for so many centuries. CANADA OX COMMERCIAL CXI03.

An Kxaltad Opinion of th Questloa's im. portsnrs Fnthnslst Over tlia Border. Tonoirfo, Out, Jan. 5. The following ia a special cable dispatch to ths Mail: "Ths Pall Mail Gazette'l travelling commissioner, writing from Toronto, Commercial union ia ths coming question for Canada.

It ia talked about -everywhere, and is a question which will split the Cni" parties, and will determine tha whole relationship between Canada aud the United State for years to come, and affect to a great if not a vital degree th future of th Anglo-Saxon race upon th globe. Both too Globe and th Mail of Toronto, th first being a liberal organ, and the second recently conrertod from conservatism to Independence, ris with each other in the strength of their support My own experience is that outside of Ottawa, which is th center of ministerialism, three out of fir of th most intelligent men I hare met are eu-tituaiaiBa eoimsaxoiai-aiuoiust.".