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VOL. NO. 328., FEVER INFECTED. ajatvaeav uuwv a -aa -w silia In Chicago. EXPOSED TO TYPHUS.

Seven of Them Found Yester day at Auburn Park. TWO MORE STILL AT LARGE. Typhus, or Putrid Fever, Is Ex ceedingly Contagious. Tha Seven Had Been Huddled In a Tenement with Many More Italian. PROMPT MEASURES NECESSARY.

That dreaded scourge, typhus or putrid fever, is in Chicago. Nine of ths infected Italians brought to this country hy the steamship Massilia were known to be in this city. Yesterday seven of them were discovered by Officers Wineehold and McGuire. The two others are thought to be in Milwaukee avenue but are still at large, spreading the germs of this fearfully contagious disease. It is rightly known as pestilential fever.

The Massilia reached New York from Palermo June 39. Lack of prompt action on the part of health authorities there is responsible lor this invasion. All the pusengers now in the Cast are strictly quarantined. Those discovered yes terday have teen removed to the pest-house, The dieeasaflourishes upon squalor. Overcrowding In tenement houses provides a soil upon which itfeeds.

It was in such a place at Seventy-fir and Lyne streets that Dom inico Gabamori, his wife, and their five chil- dren were foutd. The tenemeit is close beside the Western Indiana Railway tracks and but a few yards from the domiIous region about the Weber fc Abbott carriage factories at Auburn Park. TH BITTIJJI5Q IS C8M is a factory for macaroni and spaghetti. It is also a rtfugeforhundreds of Italians newly rrired. -rbo remain until employment can be secured elsewhere.

About the factory are a number of cottages Jiicli tbe proprietors were forced to erect by local sentiment, so great was the over crowding. Every effort, legal and otherwise, fin Kn made by tbe inhabitants of Auburn Park to have tbem suppressed as a nuisance. But the proprietors stood upon their lease, which has greatly increased in value, and are still there, though the owners of the property Joined in the endeavor to oust them. Officers Winnehold and McGuire were de tailed by the health department as soon as the intelligence reached Chicago, but it was not until yesterday that they learned of the arrival of the nine infected persons at the Folk Street Station. There it was said that they were in charge of an English-speaking countryman.

This tnan was heard to give twb of the foreigners instructions to go to some place on Milwau kee avenue. The others he took in' person to a Chicago and Eastern Illinois suburban train. IT WAS THIS LAST CT.XW which guided the officers to the little room in which the seven unfortunates were found. For the others the search ia going on with the utmost diligence. This fever, which must not be eon founded with typhoid, is, sinch the practical suppression of small-pox, the greatest danger in tern- Derate climates.

Contagious to the last degree, running its course through weeks, there is no time after the incipient period when death is not likely to occur, even during convalescence. The disease requires from a week to ten days for its incubation. Those discovered yesterday were not suffering, nor is it thought that the others on Milwaukee avenue nave yet been stricken down. The danger lies in the ease with which it is carried, and all of the nine have been con taminated. Nothing but the promptest and most thorough quarantine can avert a widespread calamity, especially in the crowded locality in Auburn Park, where the Italians were, and discovered.

THREE STEAMERS QUARANTINED. Saw Yobk, Feb, 14. Special Telegram. Three trans-Atlantic liners, having on board 1315 immigrants, are detained at quarantine and to-morrow many of the number will be taken to Hoffman Island, for they come from the infected districts of Russia. One of the passengers, a Russian woman, was removed to North Brother Island from the steamship City, of Berlin, suffering from supposed typhus.

Tbe vessels detained are the City of Berlin from Queenstown, the Russian from Ham burg, and the Bolgenland from Antwerp. Tho passengers on all are in good health, with the exception of the woman on the Ber- lin. but the steerage passengers are held as a precautionary measure, among them on each- vessel Vare a number of Russians, The cabin people did a great deal of growling at their deten- tion, but the order was not to be violated, and all were held they had been thor- oughly examined and their baggage and the 1- The City of Berlin had on board 16 cabin, 65 second cabin, and 189 steerage passengers. She reached quarantine Saturday night, and this morning when Dr. Jenkins boar Jed her the shin's surgeon.

Dr. Carnegie, told him that one of the steerage passengers, a Russian woman, was very ill with a fever the nature of which he could not tell. The doctor further said that the woman was taken ill some four days ago and that he had her placed in the hospital. He did not con- aider the case serious then, and it was not until the vessel reached Sandy Hook Satur day afternoon and he learned that trohus had been brought into port by Tnsaiana that he became alarmed. The woman was examined by Dra.

Jenkins, Skinner, and Smith this morning. They found her in a high fever, and Dr. Jenkins ays the showed i BVKBT TMTTOM OF TYVHTJS. I He at once quarantined the vessel and had two men sent to North Brother Island. Then an examination of tbe woman's fellow-pas-eengers was made.

Forty-five of them were found to be Russians, and they were at once put in a part of the Teasel by themselves and atriotly examined. No sickness was apparent, but tbe people were found to be of the poorest class of Russian immigrant. The rest of tbe passengers, who are Irish, Scotch, and English, were also found to be ia good health. A party of quarantine employer were-sent SaW" "y- aboard the vessel and "sulphur was heated and with the aid of super-heated steam the i vessel was fumigated. The baggage of the first and second cabin passengers was fumigated, and after -the owners had been examined they were put on board the side-wheeler Fletcher and landed at the Inman Line Steamship company's pier.

All the steerage passengers of the Berlin were held. The steamship Belgenland, from Antwerp, arrived during the morning, and when she boarded at Quarantine, it was learned that among her CSS steerage passen- were seventy-five Bnaniawa All were thoroughly examined, and none were found ill. Navarthleiw. Dr. Jenkins ordered that she be held, and her cabin passengers, forty-four in number, kept aboard until their baggage had been disinfected.

Then they were taken up to the city. The Russian had the largest number of Russians on board, 330 of her 540 steerage passengers coming from that country. They were a hard lot, but a close examination revealed no disease. New Yobk, Feb. 14.

Two additional cases of typhus fever were discovered at 10 :30 to night This makes 72 announced cases in this city. NO TYPHUS IN PITTSBURG. Pittsbusg, Feb. 14. The whereabouts of the eight passengers of the typhus-infected Massila, who came to this city, have not yet been discovered.

So many immigrants arrive here daily that it is practically impossible to locate a small group of this kind after they once enter the city. At the bureau of health nothing was known of any typhus cases in PitUburg. Clerk W. B. Evans said ''There has been no report of any such disease made in this office.

I fuel satisfied that if any cases arrived in Pitts burg they would require medical attention at once, and the physicians would have reported to us as the law requires. It is doubtful whether a person afflicted with typhus could reach this far inland, though some hardy im migrants might. City Physician J. Guy McCandlesa said there had not been any cases reported at the bureau of health up until 4:30 yesterday afternoon. "In case we hear of any," said he, "they will at once be isolated, and every precaution will be taken to prevent the spread of the disease." MUST BE CLOSED, TOO.

A Merry-go-round, on Milwaukee Avenue, Continue the Work of Itala. Mayor Washburne has revoked the license of one of those bad resorts styled carrousels, a second shut up voluntarily to avoid sup pression I yet a third remains to continue tbe work of evil, which seems of necessity to be the special aim and mission of these places. The Milwaukee avenue carrousel, operated by the American Carrousel Company, is still in existence, and until it is closed the good work begun by the Chief of Police and the Mayor will be but half done. This carrousel has a most unsavory reputa tion, and its name is a synonym for a resort of undesirable character of either sex. Police officers and citizens in tbe neighbor hood of the two defunct merry-go-rounds have frequently said that girls of questionable character, who are regular attendants at the Milwaukee avenue resort, made a practice of visiting those places, and these girls are de scribed as being the most immodest of all the immodest ones that frequented the places now closed.

Indeed, police officers of the highest rank have time and again said tbe Milwaukee ave nue carrousel should be closed, as it is re garded as the worst place of its kind in the city. This remark was made last night by policeman wbo is intimately acquainted with the workings of the carrousels in every detail. tbb PiAca was rrtx blast hut night, some 700 young persons being in attendance, divided nearly equally between the sexes. Few adults were seen, the great majority seeming to be under rather than over 18 years of age. Different conditions prevail on Milwaukee avenue.

though a great thorough fare lined with business house, rang ing from the little shops of small tradesmen to great stores for the sale of gen eral merchandise, it is a residence district also from the custom prevailing among the shopkeeper of living with their families above the places where they earn their liveli hood. This gives the environment a respect ability hardly obtainable elsewhere. Most ol those present, il not all, were evi dently employed in the great retail depots down town or in factories. Vice was not openly flaunted, though liberties were occa sionally taken by tbe young- fellows that were reprehensible as tending to load to something worse. The merry-go-round in the center of the hall was in a constant whirl and was well patronized.

The orchestrion sent ouj its regular upt-a-ra-rum, increasing its tempo as the ma chine slowed down at the end of each five minute ride. nvs CZKTS was the regular charge far admission for both sexes alike, and this payment also entitled tbe holder of the ticket to one ride upon the tin sel-covered revolving platform. There were the regular wooden animals and things on it. looking as if a menagerie collected by wood en Indians had broken loose only to be hyp notized into immovability. The young girls with flushed faces, many of them not entirely innocent of artificial calcimining, stood on the outer edge, sway ing backward by the centrifugal motion, and looking calmly on the bystanders.

Occasion ally a callow youth would put out his hand to touch them, but he seldom had the best of it. The establishment opens only on Saturday and Sunday evenings, the hour being at 7:30 o'clock on the former and 4 o'clock on the latter days. Tbe closing hour is uniformly at 10 o'clock, the attendance beginning to de crease soon after 9 clock. Placards were posted conspicuously sign if lying all that not- only orderly conduct would be expected but an observance of the ordinary rules of etiquette. OXa BOBBLIDISOI was labeled "Pick Me TJp" upon his hat, but his evident willingness to avail himself of leap year was coppered by the face a mani- xesuy unawa iuie una rorcco.

mm to wear through life. Ha was left alone. The girls were vastly more prepossessing than the boys. Few faces that could be referred to an ancestry long in America were seen. Tbe evident parentage of almost all was Polish, Bohemian, or Scandinavian, with a sprinkling of If the license of this place ia revoked, after an investigation that shows it to be a place having a bod effect on the community, the city will be freed of three resorts that have done their share of THKKS HATB BUM ffim CABBOrjSSLs in Chicago, but they have all been closed for one reason or another.

Tbe most recent one is the one on State street, between Thirty- nrst ana thirty-second. This place, called the New Casino, was used as a merry-go- round until several months ago. Since that tune it has been used as a roller skating rink, but about two weeks ago it closed its doors for good, owing to the lack of patronage and tbe consequent loss of monev to the nmnru. tors. 1 he place will be used, it is said, by a sign-painting firm as a place to do their Daint- 4 7 CHICAGO, MONDAY MORNING, FJEBOTAiVr 15, WORSE THAN MURDER The Scandalous Deceptions of Unscrupulous Boomers.

A LITTLE FAMILY RUINED. Faith Cure Craze Was the Harbinger of Trouble. Christian Smith Tempted to the HondurasDeath of Father and Child. THE WIDOW PENNILESS. ith husband and daughter dead, broken in health and spirit, with poverty and priva- ion the enly outlook, Mrs.

Dogma Smith ar rived in Chicago last week from Honduras, whither she had gone with her family last October. Her sad story is known to many of her former neighbors, and from them is gathered the facta here narrated. Christian Smith, a thrifty and hard-working cabinet-maker, had acquired a neat little cottage home at No. 944 Washtenaw avenue. and his family of three children and wife were safely housed there, and all looked well.

when a Mrs. Morton, claiming to be a Christian scientist or healer of the sick by the faith cure, came across the path of Mrs. Smith. The latter had been sick for some time, and, in defiance of her husband's wishes, had -called in Mrs. Morton.

Whether any medicine was ever given to the sick woman is not known, but by the peculiar process of the faith cure, with which Mrs. Smith speedily became infatuated, it ia claimed that in a short time she improved greatly in health and was able to go about her daily duties. The Christian scientist method then became a hobby with her, and she began to study it and visit her neighbors when they were sick and ADMIHISTKB TO THEM. The theory of the faith cure is that by the power of prayer and the exer cise of the will, all pain can be eradicated from the body. It is held by the Christian scientists that pain is a mere hallucination of the mind, and the exercise of will power, to gether with devotion to the prayer system will free the patients from bodily ills and renew their strength.

So it came about that Mrs. Smith gradually grew to be a persistent disciple of the Chris tian Scientist Association, and was often called to visit the sick. Last summer a Mrs. Jensen became so im prettied with the theory' that she re- fused all medical aid, although sick until aeatn, ana wouia allow no one near her but Mrs. Smith.

When she died the authorities took the matter up, and an in vestigation by the Coroner came near ending in holding Mrs. Smith responsible for the death. But the matter was not pressed, and Mrs. Smith continued to practice her peculiar methods of restoring the sick. All this time her husband and eldest daughter used every endeavor to get her to cease the practice of Christian science, but without avail.

Along in the early fall of 1891 an agent of Honduras colonization scheme put in an appearance, and began to paint in glowing terms the wonderful advantages of that country. IAWO WAS CBZAF, and everything grew and thrived upon it. The climate was one perpetual summer, and riches and prosperity were to be had with very little labor. Mrs. Smith became imbued with the notion that her field lay in Honduras, and nothing would satisfy her but a journey to that land, nothing her husband could say was able to prevent this notion.

The little cottage and lot on Washtenaw avenue was sold and every preparation made join a party of colonists that the Honduras Government had arranged to forward. Only one drawback presented itself to the scheme, The eldest girl refused to go. She had grown up amid Americans, and had learned look with favor on a young man who one day hoped to make her a happy home, She would not go to a new country and be gin a life that she knew nothing of. The mother insisted, the father pleaded, but Wal-berger Smith would not forsake her country even for her mother. She knew not bow to escape from that dreaded journey, except by a bold stroke, so the day before the family were to leave unicago waioerger hud raoH hsb PAJUirrs, She disappeared and left a letter saying why she bad gone, Subsequent events show that by her flight she had, perhaps, saved her life, and at least is now able to comfort and assist her broken hearted mother.

On the last day of October, 1891, the Smith family bid adieu to all their friends and started on a journey that Droved disastrous Jo every one connected with it. The agent of the colonization company accompanied the party of colonists as far as New Orleans and there handed tbem over to another man, who was to go with them to tbe land of promise and see them settled in their new homes. The vessel sailed and all went well until ship fever broke out on board and many were taken sick. With none but a rough, though kind-hearted surgeon on board and little medicine, the voyagers had a terrible time. r-L It! T- iaitn cure, ana reiuseo to allow the ship sur geon to doctor her two young children.

She vehemently proclaimed her powers supenor to all medical treatment and preached Christian science to all who were sick. Her little daughter lingered in the hot and stifling hold, tossing in pain and moaning out her wants for a week, and then died. She was buried at sea, and the father wept bitter tears as he saw the body of little Nora RISK BEXSATH THB WAVXS. His spirits began to wane, and he brooded over the foolish move he had been induced to make in seeking the new land Then came the climax to all their hopes and the hope of every one of the colonists: The agent had deceived them as to the part he was taking them to in Honduras, and desired to land them at a place where there was nothing but swamp and sand in place of the pleasant groves and green forests they had expected. There came a rebellion of the colonists and people refusing to land, fltere was nothing for the captain of the vessel to do but to put about and return to America.

The long and tedious wait before this could be done in the taking on, of stores and water, reduced the slender capital of many of tbe unfortunates to a mere pittance. To reach, the United States again was their only hope. Once at sea again the dread ship (ever broke out once more, and many more deaths occurred. Kearing the shores of their native land, Mr. Smith was taken down with the disease, and lay at death's door for many hours.

He refused to accept his wife's minis-trations, and relied eg BHrr'e doctob. One day out from New Orleans be died, and the Captain wished to bury bird at eea.bul tbe now almost brokeav-beartaa Wise pleaded to be allowed to carry the retrains to land and inter them in the soil of America. Tbe per mission was granted, and week, ago last Thursday the body Of Christian Smith was laid to rest in the Protestant cemetery of the Crescent City. Lest Wednesday Mrs. Smith arrived in Chi cago with her little boy- Willie.

She bad exhausted the money- that -oottsga bad brought, and the long voyage dm almost De stroyed her stock of furniture. It was in pieces, and her sewing-machine bad been wrecked beyond repeirJ Kind friends on Morgan, street. gave her shelter and one was found whe knew where the eldest girl, Walberger, was at work. She was sent for asd earns at one to aid and comfort her mother. Thnay after three- months of terrible expe rience, in which every HV naaetallen ner, and her substance, the accumulation of a life time of hard work and small saving, bad been swept out of existence ty the false promisee of men who had held out the cup of joy only to dash it from her lips at the lost moment.

It is alleged that the Honduras Colonization Company will be sued by many of those wbo returned from the trip, soiwe of whom gars up every penny they had do earth, and were enabled only to return by the kindly aid of neighbors and friends. It is also as.irted by soms of, Mrs. Smith friends that a large party of Honduras colonists are preparing to leave next month, the scheme being engineered, by the same mm who had swindled the party of last October. DOESN'T FIND WIVES FOR FUN. Pecuniary Reward Hollcited by a Ptttaburg- Mna for Arranging a Manlage.

Pittsbubg, Feb. 14. Special TtUgram. Solomon Golden, a Pittsburg gallant who earns an honest penny now ana wen Dy curing wives for his fneads at so much per wife, has juitt brought suit against L. J.

Marks, a Kansas City, pawn-broker, for money due on account one wedding feast provided, so Golden, olaims, after the mar riage of Marks to Miss Esther Skirble, a former Pittsburg belle, wbuee father now lives at No. 19 Townsend street. Another suit for $150 is hanging fire in a Kansas City court on a claim of Gulden's that tbe amount is due for services in securing a bride for Marks. The romance had its start in Pittsburg in March, 189L Marks was 4aea A bachelor of 27. He enlisted the services of Golden, and Mark came to Pittsburg te pass judgment on the maiden selected by Goldet.

The fimt was Belle Santofsky. She Stated Marks but Marks did not suit her so was dispensed ith. Golden went out ear another search. In the meantime Marks desperate took his case into his own Beads, and com menced a tour of inspectiOBT at tee Pittsburg girls. He walked tbe streets daily eglrog all the beauties be met, as Gotdetf said, until finally be discovered Jhfl girt who afterward became his wife.

The love-making waa fas and furious and the'' marriage was duly 'performed in the Grant street A reception was given at the home of tbe bridefe parents ifo-mediately afterward. Since then the married life, according to reports from Kansas City, has bee as peeee- ful as a Quaker meeting. A week or so ago Golden entered swMber Justice Browne, of "Kansas City, to get judgment for $110, which be claimed was paid for-1 the wedding dinner. Marks claimed hie father-in- law paid the bill, but eeuktat satisfy tbe court that such was He has appealed tbe ease to the Circuit The suit for 1150," which Golden claim ia -due him for services in securing a brido for Marks, will come up in a short time, Mr. Skirble, the falher-ra-law of Mrs.

Marks, was in anything but a pleasant humor when seen at his home last night. He asserted that he had paid the bill for tbe wedding din ner himself. He said Mark had paid Golden for bis time in securing the former a wife. and that at the time the business was satis- factonly settled. ANGRY AT THK FAIR.

Alleged Violations of ike Ktg-nt-Hour Law wmiadi ef Oie Laborer. PrrrsBuso, Feb. li.Tbe American Federation of Labor has a grievance against the World's Fair management, and if it is not settled that organization declare it will boy. cott the exhibition. ice President William A.

Carney, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, returned yesterday from New York, where be bad been attending a meeting of the executive council of the federation. He said some important matters wre acted upon. among which was the discriminatioa now being shown by the World's Fair management against labor unions. In a letter to the council President Kliver, of tho Bro herbood of, Carpenters, allege that no man can get wotk oa the grounds uo less he is employed by agent of the construction department. A representative of any labor union can not get a pa admitting him to any of the buildings.

If he gets in ne at once KJSCTKD BT HB FOUCk. He also alleges that the cighbhour plan is be ing violated, and that a union man can not get employment aa building inspector, gate- The council instructed President Gomters to write to tbe chief of (he department of eon- dtniptjnn fr at hata ibn, 1 Tm tn ol the refusal to do so he ia cm powered to call on all; wdrkfngmen's organi sations amiiatea with the American Federa. tion of Labor consider the advisability of withdrawing 'their patronage from the coming World's Fair at Chiaioi Tbe council has suspicions lhift the Nebras ka eight-hour law is being Violated, and it accordingly acted as follows; -v "The Secretary of the fa hereby instructed to call on ell workingmen and trade organisations of Nebraska to furnish evidence, under affidavit, as fa -the violation of the eight-hour law by' em bio Vers. If such evidence is gathered the executive council will prosecute a final decision. A sum of not more than $203,000 will ba appropriated for that purpose.

5 GAVE THE DYING tyAk A AB. Meaey lor a Manalag lrss 'Akel, lor by a MTer. Chaxfaiqk, IlL, Feb. Tel. Tram.

There was aa 'Occurrence not many miles from this city recently which, if it were not Touched for by honest; and reliable per sona, would appear too absurd, to be believed by any one. An elderly man was on his death-bed. Two friends were by his bedside expecting at any moment tbe sign of dissolution. The mi wife entered the death chamber to make one last request of her dying '-husband. Great was the surprise of the men's friend when she asked him to give her money with which to purchase a black eilk drjess to wear at hie funeral.

It is said that tbelinabaiid and wife had lived unhappily together and thai theDecul iar and inhuman at was done torment kl 1--. -4. A zniM ui ma imat awaraiifc oi fxSOtouanesa 1 8D2- TWELVE PAGES PRAISE FOR BRISCOE. Tommy Morgan's Maudlin Sym- pathy for the Thuar. HIS MOUTH RUNS AWAY AGAIN Carpenters Organizing to lect Their Interests.

Pro- They May Open Their Campaign by Strike Out at Jackson Park. AN ARMY OF IDLE MEN. Bather a phenomenal meeting waa held by tbe old Waverly Hall socialist yesterday in their hall at No. 116 Fifth avenue. A mournful subject came up for discussion.

At times the talk verged upon the revolutionary and anarchistic and at other times it became almost pathetic It was violent and aupine by turns and changed from tragic to comic by invisible gradations. Thomas J. Morgan waa in the chair, and the lecturer of the day was not at hand. But Mr. Morgan was at no lose for a subject.

He had in his inside of Feb. 10, article about pocket a newspaper containing a sensational the army of unemployed. hungry and hopeless men in Chicago. Mr. Morgan severely criticised the action of the Trades and Labor Assembly in' declining to send out a proclamation to the laborers of tbe world setting forth that there were 30,000 idle men in Chicago.

Mr. Morgan then drew a word picture of the situation, in concluding which he said: "Tbe utter helplessness of tbe great municipal and church establishments in this- crisis is wonderfully significant and wonderfully sad. Every night you see poor but honest men pleading with desk sergeant for tbe permission to rest their bones upon the hard stone pavements of police stations, solemnly promising not to come again. In fearful contrast we see equally wretched creatures for the crime of sleeping upon a doorstep or stealing a dime's worth of victuals attracting all tho functional activity of the great munici- He is seized and dragged to prison, where, being in a sense a criminal, he is given bed and a 'duller to eat; whereas the guilt less man is given grudging permission to occupy space on the floor! So. long as be is honest, God help him! Bat let him steal 10 cents worth and be is given food, clothing, and lodging by the State.

"And look at the churches builded in the name of Him who 'bad not where to lay His head open once a Ak to worship God but locked the remainder of the week against thoee poor human beings who had a type in the Man of Sorrows" the lonely Nazarene "If it should oome to violence in this town aiaa, it may 1 should occupy an unen viable position. I would be bated by the rev. olutionists, for I should not be one of them, and 1 should be distrusted by the millionaires, the capital intic classes, for I should not be of them. When I hear of one of these poor hopeless. homeless, 30,000 who has dared to sandbag pneof the dwi Walker of this town in tbe streets.

Jcaq.not I Hag. a ttarob of sympathy for the. poor unhappy wretch, 1 may be speaking unlawfully, but I speak from the bottom of my the feeling which ia burning within me, when I say that I think a man aa imbecile who will starve to death in this town, while there are men walking the streets With money in their sockets which the 90,000 have helped to earn and ought by rights to sharer Mr. Berg then rose and declared that he would buret out in violence if he were in any other country in the world but America. "But I can here," be cried.

"I see the misery of the white slave, and I know he is responsible for his own misery, and if I wero to burst out in violence I should strike down the slave as soon ac the millionaire, for the alave is largely responsible for bis slavery. Mr. Willis, of London, England, came to the assistance of Mr. Morgan and mitigated the apparent violence of Mr. Morgan's speech by referring to the recorded story of Jesus plucking corn upon tbe Sabbath day, pease his hunger.

By tbe light of that story Mr. Willis wrought out a conflicting ethical defense for the mas who steal to satisfy his hunger. Tbe meeting ended with a discussion of the question "Should Aldermen be paid a salary over and above their supposititious 'steal ings The result was indefinite. CARPENTERS vAlL. FIOHT.

ne union carpenters- ol the city are pre paring to enter Upon an offensive campaign against the contractors who refuse to abide by the agreement entered into between the Boas Carpenters' Association and the United Carpenters' Council. The result will likely be a general tie-up of the building trade this spring. Under the existing circumstances the union men must take vigorous action to protect the agreement, or it will fall of it own weight. Chicago ia to-day nlled with non-union carpenters wbo are eager to obtain employment at any rate of wages: It is impossible that a contractor paying his workmen the union scale of 85 cent per hour can compete successfully against those who pay not more than 25 cent per hour. Tbe union men see defeat coming to tbem without having the power to meet it An enort win oe made to draw into the union as many of those mechanics wbo are now classed as non-union men as possible.

This being done, it ia said that committees will be appointed to harass the contractors who do not pay the Chicago knows from bitter experience what this means. While the men may not win, they can make it an expensive season for the contractors. And as matter of protection the union men feel tbey are bound to make a determined stand. An effort has been mad-j to inaugurate the move ment with a strike at Jackson Park. This, it is thought, however, will not be done, as the men recognise that to delay the construction of tbe World's Fair buildings will render their cause unpopular.

Several meetings will be held this week to discuss the matter. Tbe Washburn Bill. Washisotok, D. Feb. li.

Special Telo-gram. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has made arrangements by a sub-committee to give a. bearing this week on the Washburn option bill. It has been somewhat unusual for the Judiciary Committee to give public hearings, but this bill ia so important and- it has encountered such powerful ob jections from leading commercial bodies in the country that the Judiciary Committee has decided to give an opes hearing. At the out set the measure has -'struck a snag in the Senate against.

which Mr, Washburn bad not provided. It is that being a revenue measure it mast receive it first consideration in the House of Representatives. This objection had not occurred to Mr. Washburn or to any ot tbe persons interested ia the passage of the If tbe objection suggested strikes the Senate' Judiciary Committee at having any force it will probably lead to the I suspension of action ia the Senate until the House has disposed of one of the bills before that body. It will be several weeks before the Hatch bill can pass the House.

The revenue feature of the Washburn bill ia found in sections 4 and 5, which provide that dealers in options or futures shall pay to the collector of internal revenue an annual license lee ol and the furthersum of 5 cent per pound for every pound of pork product and 20 cent per bushel for every bushel of grain sold for future delivery. DEBTS AND A liOVER -DESERTED. Creditors mad a CoaOdlag New Yaruer Mourn lav foe a ParMaa Dressmaker. PiTTSBuae, Feb. 14 Special Teteyram.

Madame A. Hodron, of Parisian birth and education, who has been conducting a swell dressmaking establishment on ruth avenue for a year or so, ha disappeared leaving debt behind- amounting to over $3,000. She left a note saying that a friend in New York was very ill; that she had gone to see him and that all mail should be sent to her, care I of general delivery. She did an extensive business, most of her customers being of the wealthier class. She earn from New York to manage the dree making department of Packard Coastre-ceiving $5 per day for her services.

Later she started in business for herself. She left a score of girls in her debt, ranging in amount from 910 to $50. Madame tfudron was to have been married to Frank B. Stanselle, of No. 27 Grand street.

New York, last fall, but she postponed tbe marriage until spring, claiming that she oould not reconcile marriage and its allure ments with tbe cold, reeling blast of winter. Mr. Stanselle came to Pittsburg last November to fulfill his part of the contract, but she bad changed her mind. She has made frequent tripe to New York. Once she said a wealthy relative had just died in France, leaving her an immense fortune.

She lacked the necessary money to go to New York, but succeeded in borrowing $85 from her landlady which has not been returned. Pro minent dry goods merchants, furniture deal ers, chiropodist, report losses varying from $50 to $300. Mr. Stanselle on being informed of tbe Madame's flight writes: "Mme. Hodron will not remain in New York.

She will go to Europe. She has deceived me grossly. I have feared from her letters lately that all was not right, and now I know that she never intended to marry me. She caused me to be come madly infatuated with her by profess ing to love me so dearly, but I will have noth ing more to do with her, and should I meet her in New York I will try to send her back to Pittsburg." Mme. Hudroa is 39 years old, a linguist, and quite prepossessing.

POOB SHOTS, UNFORTUNATELY. Colorado Tongas Wimi Mark Ammunition bat Vail to Kill Any Una. Csekob. Feb. 14.

A shooting affray occurred here Saturday night the particulars of which have been suppressed. As far ai can be learned no one waa killed. --''Louisiana Kid" had been gambling ia "Soapy" Smith's place and had lost his- money. He began complaining that he had been robbed, when he was prompt' knocked on the head with a six-shooter and thrown out of doors. Tbe Kid, thirsting for revenge, laid in wait outside, and soon afterward two of Smith's gsngeaiaa out.

The Twiiaiane Kid' opened ftiwoa the two men, which Ussy were not slow to re torn. The firing then became general, and many bystanders had narrow escapes. Tbe result was that the manager of Mnith place, whose- name can not tie learned, had both, his thumbs shot off, was slightly wounded in bis body, and bad an arm broken. i be Louisiana Kid received three shots, one in the neck and two in the body. None of the wounds are fatal.

No arrests were made. Another Memphis Blaze. Mihtru, Feb. 15, 2:35 a. m.

A fire in Howard row. on Union street, has broken out and baa attained considerable headway, As it is in the thick of the business portion of the city and near a hotel the lose will probably be serious. The building occupied by tbe Standard Oil M. Company, No. 6 Howard row, owned by L.

Meacham, was gutted. THE WEATHER. It Is Likely to Be Cold and Fair with Westerly Wlnda. Forecast tor forty-eicbt hours ending 7 p. Febl: For Chicago and Vicinity Fair Monday and Tuesday colder Hondav and continued eold brisk westerly wind.

For Northern Illinois and Northwestern In diana Ffair and colder fair and eokl Tuesday. rot lilmcua and Indiana Some colder north winds and generally clear weather. For Michigan Generally fair, except Barries of snow akin the lake ahore; northwant winds. with a Cold wave; colder and generally fair Tuesday. For Montana Wanner, south winds and gen erally fair.

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Clear 4 1-s s. Clear .104 A (Clear PKICE TWO CENTS. CHOW IS FOUND The Heroine of the Chinese Ro-' mance Located IN KEE'S RESTAURANT. 5: Has Up to Data Her Husband Dodged the Highbinders. LIN SONG OFF ON A TEAR.

Cow Kil Is Now In a Fair Way to Recover His Wife. Foar of trie Highbinders' Venreane Closes the Mouths of the) Celestials. LOVE OR AVARICE? Chow Fung, the plump little tea picture who created such a sensation in the Chinese circles all over the country by her elopement, was finally located last evening, after a month's search. Her present refuse is at the restaurant of Tee Won Kee at Xo. 322 South Clark street There she is living in retirement, being taken care of by her.

countrymen, while her guilty companion, Lin Song, is having a regular South Clark street tear, in the blind endeavor to get over his disappointment of Saturday evening. Lin had endeavored to entice her away from tbe restaurant, where she is ia charge of friends of her husband, but was unsuccessful, Man-like, be attempted to kill the canker of bis grief by getting gloriously full of rice -wine and losing his money bucking against a game of bung loo. The couple and their escapades are the aH absorbing subject of conversation among the almond-eyed residents of Xew York and Chi- cago. Tbe story of one man running away with another's wife is not a new one, bat to have a Chinaman indulge in such an affair of gallantry, is decidedly out of the common. THIT PASTAKX OF THS TBAOIO.

The Chinese highbinders, that secret organization of assassins, are already thought to have taken this case in hand, and no surprise will be expressed by the Celestials, if some of the principals are found murdered." -Chow Fung is a beauty, that is if a person likes her style. She is short and plump, with a pretty doll face, but hardly the Venus that would cause an American Lothario to steal ber from her aged husband. Cow EUL of Mote street, or to cause the husband to spend a vast amount of money and a month travel to find tbe faithless sharer of hie tea and hop." But Lin did steal ber and retained poa. session of her for about a month. Tbey fled trotn New Tork end eaaae to Chicago, lob -lowed by the distraered Cow KiL When the young 'Don Juan found that be bad been traced to this city', be and his oompanion like the rabbit when pursued by hounds, took the back track and returned to New Tork.

Tbey were again followed, and again the couple returned to Chicago, stopping at Tee Won Kee's house. Saturday Kee's better feelings overcame his regard for Lin, and he would not allow him to see Chew. He decided to keep ber for Cow Kil, tbe husband. Lin begged and. pleaded, and finally tried to abduct ber, and was thrown out of the place.

Henoe his die. appointment. TH WATWAHD WIT ss now detained at the restaurant, and there 1 she will be forced to stay nnbl Caw Ku, wbo is now in Jew Tork, closes up his osmose. He will then return to Chicago and open a large tea store here. His brief visit revealed to him tbe grandeur of Chicago and the vast possibilities for a successful tea trade, and ba has decided to repudiate Gotham and make the World's Fair city his future home.

Hip Lung last evening refused to say much. though he denied that there waa such a so ciety as the Highbinders in this country. "That's lie," said he emphatically, "no f. eh people here." 'Don't bleeve much ia Chow Fung stloi She could go with Lin if. wanted to.

Cow kil was no her hnsban. He bayed her. She was his glirl and not wife, and if she loved Lin oould go with him if she wanted to. If Lin would maily her now Cow oould no take ber away bbe is not Uow'e wife only glirl. Don't like glib you adtisement about her though.

Don't know. Tou go aak Challie Kee." Charlie keeps a cigar store at No. is a bright fellow, having lived in America twenty-fivo yeara. He ia married to a whits woman, and baa twice tried to take out citi' sen'a papers, both times being 'I don think I can tell you anything about the case," said Charlie. "Go ask Chouf TL next door.

CHOCT XI WAS DBtTltK. He refused to say a word, though it was no. ticed that at the name of Cow Kil a dosea or more Celestials gathered around and ex. -changed knowing looks. Three or four of them looked actually frightened.

A confused and excited conversation was taken up in a second, but nothing oould be made of their frightened looks and frenzied gestures. Another call was made on Charlie Kerr, and after a long conversation on various subject tbe Celestial thawed. "Ton can not get any of my countrymen to say anything about the story," said he. "I knew that when I sent you out. It's a bad story, and they wont talk.

In fact, they don't dare to. It wouldn't do." "Are you afraid, Charlie?" "There is not a $100 bill in the world that would make me talk of it It might well, it might settle me." "Are they really afraid of highbinderar Charlie would not answer this question so directly put, but he replied that they all knew too much to speak of such a case, though -they all knew about the case, and it bad been the talk of the settlement for over a week. worq voo, or wob iii'i axsxArmAjrr, when asked abot the case, answered abrup'Uy that concerned only the actors and that he or thea visitor had no-right to interfere with it. -He ten fled into a back room, where the) eloping', wife was, for when the reporter' reached' the door she waa disappearing up." stairs. -Wong Foo barred further progress and refused to allow the woman to be seen ot to talk about the case.

The charge waa also mado against lin Song that avarice and not love had prompted him to elope with the litthr woman. It ia said that them are regular quarters in 8an Francisco-where Chinese women are sold to wealthy Mongolians. 'The Chinese exclusion pet has caused a scarcity in the market, and aa Chow Fung was a beauty, it is charged that Lin Song bad been offered SLOOO to deliver he to a dealer ia Saa Fran.