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42. CHICAGO, SATURDAY PITH OF THE NEWS This issue of THE INTER OCEAN consists of sixteen pages parts of eight pages each. Every subscriber or purchaser is entitled to the whole, and should see to it that he receives both parts. 4 Any newsdealer who fails to furnish two parts should be reported to this office. The following is the table of contents of PART SECOND.

NINTH PAGE -In the Business World -Summary of the Mercantile Agencies--Board of Trade Gossip Sought a Bride in Death Railways Washington Matters The Tariff in Wisconsin Effect in New York the In: dorsement of Gresham by the Illinois Republican Convention. TENTH view PAGE Books- King, Engineer (story). ELEVENTH PAGE -Tendencies of the Democratic Party--Woman's Our Curiosity Shop-Sketch of Leon Bouland. TWELFTH PAGE-The American CarlsbadThe Healing Waters of Southern CaliforniaThe American Protectionist-Woman Suffrage and Prohibition--Aurora Bulletin. THIRTEENTH PAGE--In Neighboring IslesSong -The Barefoot of '61-Voorhees' Belgian Rifles.

FOURTEENTH, Trade--Real Estate PAGE-Advertisements-Fi- Transfers. and Home--The Contest for Secretary of FIFTEENTH PAGE and People--Farm State. SIXTEENTH Canoe I. Veteran's Corner -New vertisements. DOMESTIC.

MILTON S. BIBBY, a house painter, shot bimself at New York, because Miss Mary Wilbert refused to marry him. The wound is not considered mortal. THE losses by fire during April reached 326,350, compared with $11,750,000 for the same month in 1887. The losses thus far for 1888 far exceed those for the same period last year.

LATE Thursday afternoon several buildings in this town of Berring, were down in a storm, and James Myers, of Memphis, was killed. Two ADDITIONAL assignments were made at Xenia, Obio, Friday, Henry Farrell, grocer and liquor dealer, and Joseph McCormick, druggist. LEAGUE ball games Friday resulted: Chicago, 11; Indianapolis, 7-Detroit, Pittsburg, 2. Two MEN, names unknown, were killed and several injured in a collision on the Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad, near Sorento, Thursday, between a rreight and passenger train. AT New Orleans Thursday C.

W. Moore, President of the spurious "Honduras Mining Company;" H. Y. Mullen, Vice President; and J. W.

Quayle, its Secretary and Treasurer, were indicted by the United States Grand Jury for devising a scheme to defraud. WINTER wheat in and near Jo Davies County, Ill, gives promise of a splendid yield. There will be an increased acreage of oats and tobacco in that section this year. FIRE Thursday night destroyed the Los Angeles (Cal.) Cracker Company's block and one dwelling, causing a loss of $65,000, with but $10,000 insurance. John Schuler, watchman, 18 supposed to have perished in the flames.

THE captain of the propeller Westover, arrived at Charlevoix, Friday, reported that while at sea the night before. Peter Johnson, a wheelman, fell overboard and was drowned. He was single, and lived in Milwaukee. THE Rev. Father Barth, of the Church of St.

Clements, at Lancaster, Wia, has resigned to take charge of a congregation at Milwaukee, and will be succeeded by the Rev. Father Nebans, formerly Professor at St. Francis College, Racine, but recently ordained. A SCARLET fever epidemic is reported from Nashville, Ill BUSINESS failures for the week in the United States. and Canada number 234, against 223 last week.

THE Southern Pacific freight department was tied' up at Los Angeles, Cal, Thursday, by a strike of switchmen. Ar Laporte, in the trial of Henry Augustine for the murder of Samuel Brown, one the jury became insane Tuesday night, fancying that his fellow-jurymen were going to murder him, and not improving, the judge dismissed the jury Friday. NEAR Arlington, Friday morning, the large, barn of Mrs. Freese, a widow living on a farm near the town, was discovered to be burning, and citizens went out from the town to lend assistance. No one was to be seen about the place, but in raking over the debris of the barn, then nearly consumed, the charred remains of seven people-Mrs.

Freese, her manager, Fred Grateluschen, and the latter's wife, three children and brother Louis were found. There were fifteen horses and cows burned in the barn, and it is believed that the entire family may have entered the barn to save the the stock, and been suffocated. The fact that the remains of the hired man were not found in the barn gives some color to the idea that the family may have been murdered and their bodies dragged to the barn, and the barn burned to conceal the crime. T. P.

MATTHEWS, of Des Moines, Iowa, Western Superintendent of the Dupont Powder Company, died at his home Friday, leaving wife and three children, one son living in Chicago. AT Newberry, Friday, Postmaster Fred J. Stewart and his deputy, Clyde W. Heux, were arrested for embezzlement on the discovery of a $1,200 shortage in the accounts of the office, and are in jail in default of $2,000 bail. Stewart is also County Treasurer.

AT Boston Thursday evening Luther W. Holman, a real estate dealer, was arrested for entering into a conspiracy to procure the murder of his sister, for the purpose of securing the property which she owned. The men engaged to do the job informed the police, and the arrest speedily followed. His bonds have been fixed at $25,000. FIRE at San Diego, Friday morning destroyed the stores of 8.

G. Ingles, hardware; Charles Hamilton, groceries, agricultural implements, and Frederick Hamilton, hardware, and slightly damaged other stores. The total lose was total insurance, 000. SAMUEL L. BLACK shot his brother, John Black, at Virginia City, Friday.

THE depot of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad at Urbana, was set on fire and burned Thursday night, a week or two after an unsuccessful attempt had been made to MORNING, MAY 5. blow it up. The depot was not good enough for the citizens, who claimed that the company had agreed to build a much better one. JOSEPH PATRICK WILSON, salesman, who has wife and two children in Chicago, committed suicide at Philadelphia Thursday morning by shooting. HE exhortations of a woman evangelist, has Scandinavian, in Menominee County, caused great excitement Eight persons have already become insane, and it is feared that unless the authorities interfere, a new lunatic asylum will have to be built FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, filed suit for New York Friday, alleging that her husband, Mr.

Edwin Price, has been intimate with other women. DR. EVERET WAGNER, living near Elmonton, has made a will, bequeathing portions of his body to near relatives. His right hand and arm goes to one brother, his left hand and arm to another, and the dissecting surgeon is authorized to accommodate other persons 1 who may ask for these ghastly souvenirs of the doctor. His estate, valued at $12,000, is given to varions charities.

CONFLAGRATIONS. Losses at San Diego and el Los Angeles--A Depot Burned-Other Fires. SAN DIEGO, May 4. -Special broke out here early this morning, and reresulted in the destruction of the old market building and S. G.

Ingles' hardware store adjoining, and a number of other buildings were scorched, but no serious damage done. The market building was the most substantial structure in the city with massive brick walls and cement floor. It was occupied by Charles Hamilton with a stock of groceries, agricultural implements, etc. His loss is about insurance 36,500. A wing of the market was occupied by Frederick Hamilton, with stock of hardware.

His loss 18 insurance, $25,000. S. G. Ingles' loss insurance, $18,000. and the loss on the market building was only about $5, 000, fully covered by insurance.

The total loss by the fire is total insurance, $85,000. The fire is supposed to have started spontaneously in Hamilton's and oil rooms. WABASH, May Last night at 11 the station of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan) itailroad at Urbana, this county, was destroyed by incendiary fire, the people of that place have long urged the company to erect a new passenger station there, alleging that several acres of land weae donated the company on that condition, though the officials deny this statement. Several weeks ago the inhabitants fired off huge charge of dynamite beneath the building, wrecking it, and it WAS then repaired only to be destroyed last evening. Shiker's business room and Adam Cook's store also caught fire and were destroyed.

The total loss is about insured for nearly that sum. diligent effort will be made by the company to run down the incendiaries. NEW YORK, May Commercia'-Bulletin's "'Fire Record" has reported no less than 228 fires of not less than $10,000 each and in many cases reaching over $100,000 each. The aggregate fire loss estimated 88 chargeable againet April, including fires of under $10,000, shows a total of $11,326,350 compared with $11,750,000 for the same month last year. This is slight improvement, but it will of course remembered that the losses so far during 1888 have considerably exceed those for the same period last year.

Los ANGELES, CAL, May The Los Angeles Cracker Company's block, with a large amount of valuable machinery, and the residence of IL. Webber were burned last night. John Schuler, who sleeps in the factory, is supposed to have perished in the flames. The loss will be fully $65,000. The insurance is said to be not over $10,000.

MARSHALL, Pacific Texas, May Railroad storehouse of the Texas two adjacent boarding-houses here were burned to-day. Lose, $35,000. FREEPORT, May 8. Brubaker's churn and trank factory was burned last night. Loss, insurance, $800.

RAPID RISE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. It Is Three Miles Wide at Winona, Which Is Partly Under Water, WINONA, May last night the Mississippi rose 4 inches, making a registry of 15 feet 2 inches. It now reaches the highest point ever known here. Fears are entertained that the water will carry away the wagon bridge crossing the river from this place to Wisconsin. It has reached the structure, and is dashing against it with tremendous force.

The ferry has suspended operations, as the cable is not long enough to span the breadth of the water, which is now three miles wide. The water is the lake, and the, now backing from below pouring over levee above the city, filling up town into the lake, and every inch of rise in the river makes two inches in the cellars on the south side of the town. The big wagon bridge across Lake Winona is flooded on the south shore. The Milwankee depot can only be reached by skiffs. The Milwaukee and St.

Paul track is washed out above here 80 as to stop trains. All saw-mills are closed down. The Winona Mill closed down this morning, water rising rapidly in the shoe of the elevator, stopping the elevation of grain. Near Schrob Abrens' mills a fleet of boats WaS kept busy carrying their people to dry places, and their mill is entirely surrounded by water. The Winona Hardware Works are completely ourrounded, and all manufacturing establishments and places of business on the North, South, and West Ends of the city are closed and business generally is suspended.

The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company is receiving at the passenger depot, the water in the freight yards being four feet deep. BUSINESS DISASTERS. Two Additional Failures at Xenia-Hotel Keepers -Schedules Filed, XENIA, Ohio, May Farrell, grocer and liquor dealer, assigned this morning to the Hon. John Little, who gave bonds of $20,000. Joseph McCormick, druggist, also failed for $2,000.

There is nothing in the big failure of yesterday except general indignation at the false reports circulated about the standing of the other Xenia banks, which have not in any way been affected by the trouble. TOLEDO, Ohio, May This morning Biossat Grant, proprietors of the Hotel Hamilton, made an assignment to George H. Beckwith, for the benefit of their creditors. The assets are $5,000, and liabilities $9,000. The hotel is not closed, and an effort will be made to keep it open, as arrangements are now pending to enable the proprietors to resume.

NEW YORK, May 4. -H. C. Milliken, stock brokers, filed schedules.to-day showing liabilities, nominal assets, actual assete, $28,494. DETROIT, May 4-Metcalf Brothers retail dry goods, filed schedules to-day showing assets $265,165, and liabilities 160.

THE BLACK FEET RESERVATION. GREAT FALLS, Mont, May interest regarding the immense tract which has been thrown open by the Black Feet reservation bill is very great Major Carroll, commander of the Assinaboine Post, has set aside a tract of timber land at the head of Beaver Creek and some coal land in the Black Coulee. He has also reserved some land on the Sandy River for military use under the new laws. The Secretary of the interior will define the military limits. The land opened will make four or five of the best agricultural counties in Montana, and give great impetus to the prosperity of the Territory.

WANTED HIS SISTER SLAIN A Worcester (Mass.) Real Estate Dealer Conspires to Have a Near Relative Murdered. Fearing She Was About to Marry, He Desired to Secure Possession of Her Property. The Police Informed by a Man Hired to Do the Killing--A Cool Villain. A HIDEOUS CONSPIRACY. BOSTON, May.

prominent real estate dealer named Luther W. Holman was last evening arrested for conspiring to have his sis. ter murdered. The intended victim, Miss Emeline Holman, resides in Worcester, and owns considerable property, and it was for the purpose of getting this into his hands that Holman conceived the plan. He made arrangements with two men to do the job, but they betrayed him to the police.

He was arraigned and placed under $25,000 to answer. In an interview with Chief Inspector Hanscom. Holman said he did not think he was doing anything that would render him liable to punishment. "I thought the the blame would all rest upon the man who did the job," said he. did not think it would get me mixed up in it in any more than HIRING A MAN TO CUT WOOD." The first man that he approached on the subject told the police, and two police officers, disguised as roughs, conducte-1 the subsequent negotiations until they had conclusive evidence against Holman, including a promissory note for $1,000.

Holman declares that the whole affair is a conspiracy of enemies of his, who led him on to these negotiations in order to get him into trouble. He says that certain unnamed persons suggested to him some months ago to have his sister robbed of certain papers; this failed, and then they suggested to him that his sister be killed. They agreed to find a man to do the job, and a few dave ago a well-known faro player of Boston telegraphed him at Springfield that the assassin had been found He came on to Boston, and the negotiations which led to his arrest followed. He said to the detective who W18 playing the part of murderer for hire, he wanted to have Miss Emeline put out of the way. He told the officer where she lived, gave him a key to her room, handed him her picture, told him on which side of the bed she generally slept, she having lady room-mate, and aleo gave him plan of the room.

He also suggested that as there were three goid watches in the room he had bettor take them, so that robbery would be ascribed as the motive, and he also suggested, as an easy way to kill the woman, that a darn1ng needle be run through her heart. The murderer was to receive $1,000. His reason for wanting his sister put out of the way was that he feared she was going to be married, and that he would lose all the property. THE SISTER SHOCKED. WORCESTER, May 4.

-Emeline B. Holman, whose murder is said to have been planned by her brother, Luther W. Holman, in Boston, was seen to-day and professed entire ignorance of the matter. She was aware of no possible motive for the horribie deed, and was greatly shocked at the tidings. She said her brother Luther and his family came to live with her after the death of Moses Holman, the father, in December, 1887.

The family lived there until April 1, when they moved to Golding street. Besides her brother there were his wife, three sons and two daughters. Emeline had had no quarrel with Luther. Mrs. Charlotte Holman, wife of the prisoner, who lives here, was astonished when she heard the story.

Her husband left home last Monday for Boston, and said he would return to-day. There was no illfeeling between him and his sister. She spoke of her hinsband as a good man, of whom no such thing could be truthfully said. A CYCLONE IN ARKANSAS. Houses Wrecked, Trees Torn Up, and Stock Killed.

LITTLE ROCK, May Gazette's Camden, special says a terrific cyclone passed over the eastern portion of Ouachita County late yesterday afternoon. It struck Josiah Herson's place, wrecked his house, and destroyed his fencing, but were lost. The storm traveled from the southeast to the northwest and its track was about a hundred and fifty yards wide. Trees were twisted and torn from their roots and hurled about like straws. Damage 18 also reported at 8.

Blake's and other places in the neighborhood. The Gazette's Texarkana special says: Last evening a heavy tornado and hail-storm passed north of the city unrooting houses and uprooting trees. There are reports of much damage to crops and the killing of stock. The track of the storm was from the southwest to the northeast and it was about 400 yards wide. 'The hail was the largest and heaviest ever known in this section and riddled gardens and stripped trees of their foliage.

UNJUST DISCRIMINATION CHARGED. Connor Bros. Ask 8100,000 Damages from the Vicksburg Meridian Road. ST. LoUIs, May damage suit for $100,000 was entered this afternoon in tho United States Circuit Court by Connor ers, grain merchants of this city, against the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad Company.

They complain of unjust and unlawful discrimination and against claim them that in shipping business rates to points South, their in Southern States has been injured to the extent of $50,000 by a false and fraudulent system of rebates and drawbacks, false bills of lading and fraudulent charges. They also allege that they have been damaged in the sum of $50,000 by discriminations in freight rates in favor of the Chandler Commission Company and the Gratiot Steel Warehouse Company. The suit is brought under the provisions of the interstate commerce law. ALPHA DELTA PHI. NEW YORK, May -The fifty-sixth annual convention of the Alpha Delta Phi, the college secret society, commenced this morning in the Masonic Temple.

The delegates present were from Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Manhattan, Hamilton, Kenyon College, Brown University, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Trinity Wesleyan, Adelbert, Rochester, Williams, and Amherst College. The conference was with closed doors. The society held a reception this afternoon at their club-rooms, and a meeting to-night at the Metropolitan Opera House, at which addresses were made by President J. H. Chonte 00 the Delta Phi, the Embodiment of True American Spirit;" George W.

Curtis on "Ideals of the Alpha Delta Phi," and the Rev. Edward E. Hale, of Boston, on "How to Serve the Commonwealth." To-morrow evening will be spent ever a dinner at Delmonico's, at which prominent speakers will make remarks. CAPTAN PABST ON THE STAND. NEW YORK, May 4.

-In the brewery lock-out investigation to-day Captain Pabst, of Milwaukee, President of the Philip Best Brewing Company, gave a concise account of the cause' growth, and culmination of the Milwaukee trouble. L. T. Myrtle, representing Milwau- kee said malt had house, resort also to spoke of this trick trouble. unbecoming He every business men to get the malt into the breweries.

The investigation was then closed. RAILWAY OFFICIALS NOT SURPRISED. The Action of the Grand Trunk Road Touching Dressed Beef Rates. NEW YORK, May Telegram -The Tribune to-morrow will say: "'The announcement by dispatches that the Grand Trunk of Canada has made a year's contract with prominent dressed beef shippers for carrying their freight to Boston for 45 cents per 100 pounds against 65 cents by the other trunk lines caused no surprise in railway circles here. The existence of the contract was stated positively in dispatches from the West to officers of trunk lines here a week ago, but Commissioner Fink denied that these statements were correct, probably resting upon some technical denial from the Grand Trunk people.

The American roads, however, are satisfied that a contract has been made their and lines for and the who protection of shippers who use can not compete with the Grand Trunk shippers at such a difference in rates, they can not submit to the toleration of such contract. A meeting of the trunk line presidents and the Central Traffic Association will be held under probably next week to take the subject consideration. This contract has been extorted from the Grand Trunk by a combination of Chicago shippers who have refused for weeks to ship dressed beet over the Grand Trunk even at the ditterential rate allowed it by the American roads. By paying higher rates temporarily to the other roads the dressed beef men have secured pledge of ruinously low rates for a year from the Canadian road. The American roads are not unwilling to permit the Grand Trunk to pick up a fair share of the traffic which it has been totally without for long time, but the shippers of the other roads complain that they can not compete at the difference in rates which the foreign road seeks to establish in favor of its FANNY DAVENPORT'S DIVORCE.

The Actress Files Her Suit, Alleging that Mr. Price Been Untrue. NEW YORK, May Telegram, -The differences which have existed for some time between Fanny Davenport, the actress, and her husband, Edwin Price, and which have supplied the basis for a multiplicity of more or less accurate stories that have found circulation among the members of the theatrical profession, have finally culminated in divorce proceedings. It was learned to day that the fair actress had, in approved legal form, sought a divorce from her husband, and that Judge Barrett has made an order for a reference in the case. The grounds which Miss Davenport gives for her suit are the statutory grounds in this State--adultery.

It was stated by the friends of Miss Davenport, who were willing to speak about the matter, that Mr. Price' wiM interpose no defense to the proceedings instituted by his wife, and that she will be allowed to secure the divorce as promptly as the forms of law will permit. Who Miss Davenport has named as corespondent could not be learned this evening. The whole matter has been amicably arranged, and it will not be necessary to have scandal in connection with the case. Mine Da veuport will go to San Francisco next Tuesday, and she may get her divorce before she STRIKERS GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE.

The Edgar Thomson Steel Works win Have Plenty of Men Monday, PITTSBURG, Pa, May The strikers at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works held, a meeting to-day and resolved to declare the strike off. Great indignation was expressed on account of those who had broken ranks and returned to work, and a resolution was passed that all of these men should be considered black sheep. After the meeting was adjourned Master Workman Doyle was seen by roporter. He said that it WaS clearly understood that the Knights of Labor should hereafter n8 heretofore, be recognized- in the mill; that the mill committee would have cognizance of all grievances and have their voice as usual in the settlement of the same. declaration to return to work," said Mr.

Doyle, no surrender on the part of the knights as far as their organization is concerned. We have retreated intact, not in disorder, and the Knights of Labor will be as strong, if not stronger, in the future at the Edgar Thomson steel works than it has in the past." A scramble for the places still vacant is now in progress and by Monday the works will be running double turn. The Pinkerton guards will be withdrawn at once. PROSPERITY PROVED HIS RUIN. also.

LABOR PARTY CANDIDATES. Postmaster Stewart, of Newberry, Arrested for Embezzlement, MARQUETTE, May Telegram. -Postoffice Inspector Stuart has examined the accounts of the Postoffice at Newberry, Mich, and found a shortage of $1,200. Postmaster Fred J. Stewart, who is also County Treasurer, and his deputy, Clyde W.

Heux, publisher of tho Newberry News, were arrested to-day, and are nOW in jail unable to furnisti $2,000 bail, charged with embezzlement. Stewart, a year ago, was one of the most popular young men in the State. He was elected Treasurer in a Republican county, thongh a staunch Democrat Bat he couldn't stand prosperity, became dissipated, and fell rapidly. The accounts of the Treasurer's office have not been examined, but it is believed a heavy shortage will be found there ST. Louis, Mo, May Union Labor party of Missouri held their State convention at Sedalia to-day; 155 delegates were present, representing 12 Congressional districts.

W. H. Noerre, of St. Lows, was made temporary Chairman and Fred Lipscomb, of Springfield, Secretary, The convention then adjourned till evening. On reassembling the committee of resolutions reported platform embracing the resolutions adopted at the Cincinnati convention in 1886.

Delegates at large to the Cincinnati convention were elected as follows: Charles Nolan, George W. Pike, David Cowan and G. B. Debernardi. Convention then adjourned till to-morrow.

NEW YORK, May Progressive Labor party, formed in opposition to the Heury George party, was declared dissolved by its general committee in resolutions declaring that it had accomplished its object with the aid of the withdrawal of Henry George from his party. SERIOUSLY ILL. NEW YORK, May 4-Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, who is lying seriously ill in this city, had a relapse to-day. His physicians say that to-morrow will be his critical dav. WASHINGTON, May 4.

-Dr. D. W. -Bliss, of this city, who was physician-in-chief to President Garfield from the time he was shot by Guiteau until his death, is seriously ill, and his recovery is doubtfal. JUVENILE THIEVES ARRESTED.

EAU CLAIRE, May 4. -Special Telegram, -A gang of juvenile thieves, who have been carrying on a successful series of operations for some time, was broken up by Sheriff Dunn today by the arrest of oue of the leaders. Part of the stolen property was recovered. CHARGED WITH HORSE-STEALING. CHAMPAIGN, May 4-Special Telegram.

-John Banks, well known in this county, WAS arrested last night on charge of stealing horses in some of the adjoining counties, and was turned over to the Sheriff of Efingham HE FIRED THE FATAL SHOT. I All the Testimony Goes to Show that eral Martin Beem. Killed Himself. A General Feeling that His Mind Was Clouded at the Time of the Shooting. The Remains Reach His Parents' Home at Alton, and Will Be Interred To-day.

in their minds. THE BODY AT ALTON. A VETERAN'S SAD DEATH. STANTON, May Telegram.The tragic death of General Martin Beem still continues to be an absorbing and interesting topic of conversation, and facts are shaping themselves so as to convince honest and justthinking people that the deed was actually committed by himself. The evidence which follows was related by a person who was among the first on the scepe, and Wa8 there through all the hearing of the witnesses and the testimony, and is able to give a fair and just version of the affair.

He says: Mr. Case, the first witness, stated that "shortly after dinner, while myself, Mra, Beem, and the General were in the room, he remarked to his wife that she had better go up stairs and take a nap, which she did, the General, following her a short time after, saying he guessed he would lie down too. After they had both gone up stairs, I got up and went to the barn, where my son Gus was at work. Very soon after I reached the barn we heard two reports of a pistol at the house in quick succession. My SOD Gus and I ran to the house and went up stairs.

I found my daughter standing the head of the stairs, with both hands up to her head, looking VERY WHITE AND DAZED. 1 took hold of her band, took her into another room, and the first words she said were, 'Am I 1 thought from her position that she was, and I tried to soothe her." The testimony of Gus, the son, was that, short time after father came to the barn we heard the two pistol shots in quick and I ran to the house, and up stairs. I found my sister standing in the doorway at the head of the stairs, with both hands up to her head. I passed her and went into the room, where I found General lying on his face in front of the bureau, which stands across the room from the bed. He was breathing as though he was choking, and I turned him over and opened his shirt and vest.

He breathed hard two or three times and then he THE TESTIMONY OF MRS. BEEN was that she to her room, as suggested by the General, and lay down on the bed, the General coming in BOOn after. He took book, making remark that be would read awhile. I then fell asleep. I was awakened by bearing a most horrible noise, and jumped off the bed.

The first thing I saw was the General's face, which had the most fearful expression I ever saw. From that time until my father took me into another room I remembered nothing; did not know how I got the door, nor did I see auvthing farther. The revolver was in the bureau drawer." Mra. Case's testimony was that she "was in the room below at the time of the tragedy, and heard two shots of a pistol in quick succession. I assisted my son to relieve the General as much as possible." She also testified to the fact that the General was subject to violent fits of passion, but showed none of it on his visit, everything being exceedingly pleasant THE TESTIMONY OF ALL THE SERVANTS goes to show that there were no signs of any disturbance, or that unpleasant scenes had occurred up to the time of the tragedy.

The son was immediately dispatched to Stanton to notify the coroner, who, with a friend of the family, repaired to the scene. It was thought best not to speak of the subject until after the Coroner had beed notified. No importance should be attached to the fact that the clothes of the General showed no signs of being scorched, as his clothes had been handled and disarranged before the jury had seen them, which would naturally efface all evidence of this kind, and that seems to be the only reason why the jury gave the verdict that they did It was noticed by several citizens of Stanton who had been addressed by the Genaral upon his arrival that his conduct and conversation seemed very strango; and after reaching the ranch where his wife was visiting he had several times asked a revolver with which to shoot wildcats, even after being told that none were known to exist in that vicinity, It is the opinion of many that he was laboring under temporary aberration of the mind. No clerk was appointed by the jury to keep a record of the testimony, and a verdict was reached by summing up the testimony by the jury as retained ALTON, May Telegr -The remains of General Martin Beem reached here this morning on the Chicago and. Alton 5:40 train from Kansas City.

They were panied by Mrs. Beem Quite a number of the friends of the deceased General were at the depot, and assisted in conveying the remains to the home of the grief-stricken parents. General Beem was well and honorably known in this city, having lived here until he was 18 years of age. When the war came on he was compositor in the office of the Daily Courier, 'and responded to the first call for volunteers, and enlisted in a company raised here by Captain Hubbell, and mustered in at the St. Louis Arsenal as Company I of the Fourth Missouri Volunteers.

He was promoted to the rank of captain for bravery. Since Jocating in Chicago he had often visited his parents here. For several years it has been known here that there was trouble in his home affairs. His health has been very poor for several months, which was ascribed to his family difficulties. When the news of his sad and mysterious death first reached Alton his old friends shook their haads.

Mra. Beem, who WAS the only one accompanying the remains seems to be overcome with grief, and refused to talk about the sad affair. The funeral will take place from the family residence in Fourth street to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock and will be largely attended. HEAVY RAINS IN WISCONSIN. CHIMPEWA FALLS, Wis, May 4.

-The rains have only raised the Chippewa slightly, though advices from the headwaters report heavy rain yesterday and last night The wind is changing and, though cloudy, it is hoped that the rain will cease. EAU CLAIRE, May -The heavy rains in this section for the past few days show signs of largely increasing the volume of water in the Chippewa, which had receded to thirteen feet above low water mark. It was the intention of lumbermen to start saw-mills on Monday, but from present indications the water will be too high. More rain is threatened and high water is expected from the rain combined with the melting snow. MESSENGER MESSGNER ARRESTED.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 4. John Messguer, lately express messenger of the United States Company at Duluth was arrested at Brainerd last night, charged with larceny. He had received money for express orders from business men at Duluth, after giving the express. com- pany's receipt, but failed to turn in the money he to the express company. It in believed that has secured fully $500.

He was taken back to Duluth to-day. ANOTHER EMBEZZLING SALESMAN. John Kohlmer Charged with Robbing Franklin MeVeagh Co. John Kohlmer, married, residing at Garfield avenue and Bissel street, city salesman with Franklin MoVeagh WAS arrested last evening by Officers Hartman and Stift, of the detective department, charged with having embezzled $800 from his employer.s He sold goods from a wagon to retailers, and the plan of action he pursued is said to have been to sell first-class goods and charging himself up with lower grade. He is well known young man about town, and member of several pleasure clubs.

He was one of the crack drillsmen with the Chicago Zonaves, and well known as referee in sportive athletic contesta. It is said that his predecessor in the work, a young fellow named Best, defrauded the firm of $500 in a similar manner a year ago and skipped to Canada before he cold be apprehended. The United States Bond and Trust Company. who are Kohlmer's sureties for $2,000, will prosecute the case. OBITUARY.

P. MATTHEWS, DES MOINES, Iowa, May 1 elegram. -J. P. Matthews, a highly respected business man of this city, died suddenly of heart disease this morning.

He has been Weatern superintendent of the Dupont Powder Company. He leaves a wife, three daughters and a two 80D8, one of the latter a resident of Chicago. MRS. HANNAH KIMBALL May Telegram. -Mrs.

Hannah Kimball died here last night. She was one of Elgin's first settlers, coming here fiftythree years ago. GENERAL WARNER LEWIS. DUBUQUE, Iowa, May General Warren Lewis, Recorder of this county. died to-night, aged 82 years.

He was a particular and intimate friend of Jefferson Davis, member of the Territorial Legislature, and bad son in the Confederate army, Colonel Warner Lewis. BROKEN WIRE CAUSES A WRECK. 'Total Collision on the Jacksonville and Southeastern Railroad, ST. LoUIs, May disastrous collision occurred on the Jacksonville and Southeastern Railroad early yesterday morning, near Sorento, Bond County, Ill, between the north-bound passenger train and the south-bound freight. Two men, names unknown, were killed and several badly injured.

The passenger train is a total wreck. The cause of the wreck is said to be a broken telegraph wire. UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS IN NEW YORK. American and European Capitalists Under. take to Furnish the Funds.

NEW YORK, May is officially announced that a syndicate of prominent American capital1sts with European connections, have undertakes to supply the funde for a speedy construction of the proposed underground railway system in this city. The amount required is very large, as a large share of the roads will have to be cut through solid aock. RAILWAY EXTENSION. SPRINGFIELD, May Telegram. -John 8.

Lazarus, the general freight and psssenger agent of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railway, was in the city to-day, and in speaking to a local railroad official of the proposed extension of the D. and 8. from Decatur through Springfield to Beardstown, said that Mr. Hammond had recently returned to Indianpolis from New York, where he had been raisng money for the project. He had met with good success and floated bonds enough to warrant the company in beginning the work.

Arrangements, he said, wore now being made to run the locating survey and for advertising for the contract bids necessary to the construction. It 18 the idea now to push the work so that it will be completed and ready for operation as far as Springfield before cold weather sets in. I the project is carried out as planned, the Ohif and Mississippi and the Wabash Roads will havo another Eastern sea-board competitor, as the D. and S. people have excellent traffic are angements east of Indianapolis.

AN EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES. MINNEAPOLIS, May 4-At Owatonna, burglars opened the safe in P. Sanders' hardware store and secured $300 in currency. Three stores at Royalton, were burglarized, and considerable cash and goods stolen, and at Rochester, an attempt to blow open a safe was frustrated after the burglars had drilled nearly through the door. A gang of burglars at LaCrosse blew open a safe in W.

W. Jones' store and robbed the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad office of several hundred dollars' worth of tickets. FATHER BARTH'S NEW FIELD. GALENA, May -Special Telegram. -The Rev.

Father Barth, one of the best known priests in Southern Wisconsin, has resigned his pastorate at Clements Church at Lancaster to take charge of a congregation in Milwaukee, to which he has just been appointed. He is to be succeeded at Lancaster by the Rev. Father Nehaus, formerly a professor at St. Francis College, Racine, but recently ordained as a priest. MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.

SOUTHAMPTON, May' 4. -Arrived-Steamer Saale, from New York for Bremen, and Westernland, from New York for Anawerp. NEW YORK, May 4. -Arrived Brittanic, from Laverpool; Lahn, from Bremen, and Rhaetin, from Hamburg. QUEENSTOWN, May -Steamers Germanic, Umbria and Scythia, from New York.

CHEERING THE AMERICAN FLAG. NEW YORK, May Telegram.There was an enthusiastic audience at Cooper Union to-night at a mass-meeting called to express approval of Mayor Hewitt's refusal 'to pernit foreign flag to be raised over the City Hall Strong speeches were made and a set of resolutions adopted. The audience cheered iteelf hoarse at every reference to American flag or the American eagle. MONTANA RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. ST.

PAUL, May 4-The Pioneer Press has from Helena, M. an interview with President Harris, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in which he emphatically denies the statement that his road has made an agreement with the Manitoba to make no improvements in Montana this deal year, in adding: Montana this "We will probably build a good NO MARKET FOR TIN. NEW YORK, May this morning the floor of the Metal Exchange was covered with brokers, dealers, and consumers, but, as the tin calls proceeded, not a bid was made, and by 11:30, by actual count, only three operators were on the floor. Nearly everybody had gone away disgusted. The early cables from London showed a further decline of 45 in spot tin.

FROM PENURY TO SUICIDE. NEW YORK, May 4. Special Telegram. -James H. Hunting, Wall street broker, shot and killed himself at the door of Cyrus W.

Field, office this afternoon. Hunting was once wealthy and prominent broker, but recently had become impecunious. It is supposed that he was discouraged by his Anancial prospects and became desperate. SUICIDE OF A SALESMAN. Joseph Patrick 5 ilson, of Chicago, Kills Himself 18, a Ballet at Philadelphia.

A Dying Ph; Fan Bequeaths Portions of His 1 to Covetous Relatives. The Exhor ins of a Woman Evangelist Making Lunatics in a Michigan County, SHOT HIMSELF. PHILADELPHIA, May body of 1a man who committed suicide by shooting in Logan Square yesterday morning was identified to-day as that of Joseph Patrick Wilson, of Chicago. Letters were found in the pockets of deceased addressed to his wife and two children, who reside in Chicago. The body was identified by Miss Mary Wilson, a sister of deceased, who says that her brother came here about three weeks ago from Chicago to seek employment, but he was unsuccessful and had become very despondent during the past few days, Wilson was employed as a salesman in Chicago.

He was about 33 years of age. RELATIONS GET LEFT. LOUISVILLE, May 4-Dr. Everett Wagner, an eccentric physician, living near Elmonton, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, left the following will: "By the grace of God, amen. Everett Wagner, being of sound mind and disposing memory, and realizing the unceriainties of life, do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking any former or other will I may have made.

"I have lived a secluded life, and for that reason I suppose I have not accumulated as much of this world's goods as might have been, but my beloved relatives, knowing that I am about to die, and believing me, as they have heretofore called me, miser, suppose my wealth very large. Although up to this time they have shunned me almost entirely, they can not do too much for me, and nearly every one of them has visited me in these, my last hours, and given me gentle hint that they would like to have a small trinket of some kind by which to remember their beloved relative. "On account of their former treatment and their gentle hints, I row take this method of satisfying their desires and by this, my last will and testament, I will and bequeath to them an follows: I give to my beloved brother, Napoleon Bonaparte Wagner, my left hand and arm. 1 give to my beloved brother, George W. Wagner, my right hand and arm." Similarly he disposes of ears, nose, other relatives, and says that if any be forgotten the dissecting surgeon shall supply the lack, come first The remains are to be buried in the potters' field, and the executor and surgeon each are to have $500.

The residue of his estate is to go to public charities in Metcalfe County. The estate is worth $12,000. A JUROR BECOMES INSANE. LAPORTE, May Telegram The celebrated Augustine murder case came to an end as far as the present trial is concerned, The jury retired Tuesday. and that became night Samuel Brown, jury.

man, insane, and imagined that his colleagues were going to murder him. Not improving any, Judge Noyes this morning discharged the jury, and remanded Augustine to jail to await the next term of court, and a new trial Juryman Brown is in serious condition. Henry Augustine, the defendant, murdered his cousin and injured his uncle SO that he soon died, in 1880. He served five years for the former crime and on his release from the Michigan City Prison was arrested charged with murdering his uncle. His plea was self-defense.

The discharged jury stood nine for acquittal. The uncle was Augustine's guardian, and the crime was the result of a quarrel over matters of the estate. AN UNNATURAL MOTHER. NEW YORK, May -Mrs. Kate Fox Jencken was arraigned at the Harlem court this morning.

charged with failing to take proper care of her twq sons, Purdy, aged 12, and Henry, aged 13. Mrs. Jencken one of the sisters, the original "spirit rappers," who commenced their career in Rochester thirty years ago, and who afterward traveled all over the civilized world, astonishing all those who attended their seances. The once talented, vivacious, and successful spirit rapper is a total wreck. She was held in bail to answer.

KILLED HIS BROTHER. VIRGINIA CITY, May 4. -John Black and Samuel Black, brothers, who came here from Alabama nearly thirty years ago, and had acquired a large amount of real property in this city, had a quarrel to-day, which resulted in the death of the former. Two shots were heard in a building which the brother owned, and then Samuel Black emerged from the house with an iron wrench in his hand, went to the Sheriff's office and surrendered. His brother's body was found in the house with the front part of the skull broken and with a bullet wound.

Samuel claims that he killed his brother in selfdefense. RELIGIOUS INSANITY. MENOMINEE, May 4-A Scandinavian female evangelist has been exhorting in this vicinity for month past to people of her nationality, and that time eight persons have become insane. P. E.

Nelson, a prosperous farmer, and his wife, are the latest victims Unless the authorities take measures to suppress the evangelist it is feared that the county will be obliged to erect an insane asylum of its own. A SHERMAN SPECIAL TRAIN. MANSFIELD, Ohio, May 4. -Special Telegram -The management of the Sherman Club has completed arrangements to run a special train of twenty-five coaches filled with members of the club to the Chicago convention in June The delegates from surrounding towns will join the excursion, so that about two thousand men will roll into Chicago on the special train to boom "Honest John's candidacy. GREAT LOSS OF LOGS THREATENED.

ASHLAND, Wis, May river is rising again and there is great danger of loss to the loggers, who are driving down the swollen stream. It is feared that the boom at the mouth of the river will be broken, when 25,000,000 feet of logs would be lost in Lake Superior. JAMES CARROLL, KILLS NAPOLEON FARR. HEMPSTEAD, Texas, May 4. -James Carroll, prominent cattleman, this afternoon shot and killed Napoleon Farr, another well-known stockman, at Waller Station, ten miles south of here.

A dispute over a stock transaction led to the shooting. Carroil was arrested. A SAW- MILL HORROR. DORCHESTER, May. 4.

Joseph Pongor, head sawyer in Vandusen's saw-mill here, accidentally fell on the carriage, and the saw sliced him lengthwise from head to foot. Before the carriage could be stopped, he was divided into twenty pieces. A STATE OFFICIAL'S SUICIDE. BALTIMORE, May 4. Thomas G.

Woolford, chief clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the State, cut his throat this afternoon and died shortly after. Despondency on account of ill-health was the cause.