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Governor Stone Says Mlsaearl Will FlBbt the Drataaa-e Channel. W. J. Stone of Missouri was in an angry mood yesterday. His ill temper was caused by the new drainage and ship canal.

Mr. Stoce came to Chicago to attend the Jackson day banquet, and among those who welcomed him was William Henry Hlnrlchseo of Jackson ville. After tho compliments of the day had been exchanged Mr. Hlnrtcbsen asked the Governor what be thought of the new canal. "I think it's the biggest outrage ever foisted upon the American people.

That's what I tii ink." be replied. "Well, but don't you know it will give your old river a cleaner, healthier condition, when the clear, blue waters ot Lake Michigan get aown there?" asked Mr. Hlnrichsen. "Be sides, it will fatten you people and make you roDust. After the laughter subsided the Mlsaourian said: "Well, Buck, you fellows did take snap Judgment on us, but we will yet stop that canal lr it possible." Hlnrichsen then told him: "You have been receiving the Chicago sewage for years through the Michigan canal, and should not growl now." "Yes," replied the Governor, "but we did not know It, ana we do now.

It must be stopped. "By the way. Governor," said Mr. Hlnrich sen, "did you make your expenses coming vp? and everybody howled, while Mr. ood son said: "That's a soaker." "I can say this.

Buck," retorted the Gov crnor, "if you had been along I would have done so In reply to an inquiry Governor Stone said he was on his way East, and just dropped to seo Billla Bryan and the boys eat a good meal." ACCUSED OF STEALING WIRE. Santael Feladera- and Barney Kellner Arrested br Kviailon Police. The police of Evanston arrested two men yesterday ho, they think, have stolen much of the wire that ha been taken from street railways recently. The men are Samuel Feinderg, No. 167 Fourteenth street, and Bar ney Kellner, No.

555 South Grinnell street. They were driving a horse attached to a light wagon when arrested, and In tne wagon were several coila of bond wire. It is thought that this wire was taken from the tracks of the Union Traction company in Austin a few weeks ago. The men, who deny that they stole the wire, say they are peddlers and bought it. Vice President A.

T. Frost of the Chicago and Waukegan Railway company has offered a reward of $100 for the arrest of the persons who stole half a mile of feed wire from the tracks between Kentlworth and Winnetka. It Is believed that a large gang of wire thieves has been operating In the city and suburbs. After causing much Inconvenience Thursday night by cutting away several hundred feet of wire from the poles owned by the Chicago Telephone company at Western avenue and Seventeenth street the thieves returned to the same spot later and cut away 600 feet of copper wire from the poles. The same men, it is believed, caused damage bj cutting away trolley wire in Irving park four weeks ago.

and a few days ago appeared In Austin, where 500 feet of wire was cut from the poles. RIOT IN A POLICE STATION. Desperate Straaa-le to Prevent the Removal of a Prisoner. The Maxwell street police station was thrown into a state of great excitement yes terday by the struggles of a prisoner, a po liceman, a sheriff, a lawyer, and several women. A struggling mass on the floor of the general office and the excited cries of the woman attracted the spectators from the courtrooms of Justices Sabath and Dooley.

The commotion was caused by the arrest of L. Warshowski, a Junk dealer at No. 672 Canal street. He was taken in custody by Detectives Thleme and Keefe, and at the police station was turned over into the custody of Maurice Davis, a deputy sheriff from Momence, 111. Davis showed papers which en titled him to take Warshowski to to stand trial on charges of receiving stolen property.

It being alleged that he had pur chased brass stolen In Momence and shipped to Chicago. Attorney Jones objected to the deputy sheriff taking Warshowski, and the struggle fol lowed, in which the prisoner's wife, several other women, and friends, took a hand. Po licemen also took part, and soon there was a mass of struggling policemen, lawyers, and citizens on the floor. With the assistance of the police, however, Davis finally forced Warshowski to the sidewalk, and then into the patrol barn. Later the crowd dispersed.

and tho prisoner was taken to the union depot and to Momence. DEWEY'S VISIT MAY BE PUT OFF. G. A. R.

Committee Asks Mayor to Post pone It Until Assail. The executive committee of the Grand Army of the Republic that has charge of the arrangements for the annual encampment In Chicago, August next, adopted) a resolution yesterday to be forwarded to the mayor, urging that the date of Admiral Dewey's visit to Chicago be postponed- from May 1 to Aug. 27. It Is stated that it Is the earnest desire of the committee that this be done, and that It -is known that the change would be agreeable to Admiral Dewey. The object to be gained Is that the Admiral may participate in the G.

A. R. encampment as the guest of the organization and1 alao be the guest ot the city at the same time. At the meeting yesterday afternoon there were present J. H.

Wood, chairman: F. W. Upham, William H. Harper, J. J.

Healey, J. a. irey, Ed-ward c. xoung, and E. E.

Bigelow. The committee on free quarters reported that a conference ha been held: with President Harris of the board of and that the schools will undoubtedly be thrown open at that time as quarters. The encampment to be held. In- Chicago is the thirty-fourth. On account of the general custom of the G.

A. R. to have the first dny observed as naval day. It was thought fitting that Admiral Dewey should be invited to be present upon that day. WANT SHOPS CLOSED SUNDAY.

Sermons on the Snbject to Be Delivered Today la the Chnrehea. From many of the pulpits of Chicago today the pastors will say a good word in favor of closing the doors of all business establishments on Sundays. By thua calling the attention of their congregations to this matter the pastors hope to help the accomplishment of this movement, which is being actively forwarded by the general committee that conducted the recent revival services at the Central Y. M. C.

A. under the auspices of the five Protestant denominations. This committee consists of the Revs. G. W.

Wright. G. P. Williams, J. W.

Conley, M. W. Haynes, W. E. MacLennan, W.

Craven, J. A. Mulnnger, W. O. Wylle, H.

T. Sell. J. W. Fifleld, E.

W. Darst, Frank Tyrrell, and 3. H. O. Smith, Frederick Wright representing the Central Y.

M. A. on the committee. The strength of this movement for the closing of stores on the Sabath day has been largely added to by the approval of it at meeting of the organization committee of the Retail Grocers' federation, held Friday night at the Great Northern hotel, at which resolutions were passed approving the course now being pursued by the retail clerks and recommending that all the members of the federation close their doors on Sundays. It Is also expected that the Building Trades council and the Federation jot Labor will, at their next meetings, approve the movement.

HER HEART IS HURT Cf if rtfl JL CONTAINS Part Two. Editorial Page VOIi. NO. 289. CHICAG SUNDAT, JANUARY 7, 1 9 00.

PAGES 13 TO 24. PUMPS ARE STOPPED Ijevel of the Canal Thereby Re duced Nearly Two Feet. IT ANNOYS OFFICIALS Stoppage of Bridgeport Engines Not Fully Explained. Plan (or Removal of Campbell Avenue Dam Report on Condition of Sonth Branch. A rather serious condition confronted the city and the drainage trustee yesterday Two of the big pumps at the Bridgeport sta tion were shut down, and, as a consequence, the level In the canal fell nearly two feet.

At the city sewer department it was said the pumps were the night before because five or six firemen had been absent from one cause and another. From another source came the report that the pumps had been shut down for repairs. At Lockport Chief Engineer Jsham Ran- olph spent Friday night and the most of yesterday watching the water slowly rise toward the miter sills. The gates were closed tightly under special orders of the trustees. The water reached the sills late in the after noon.

As soon as the water in the canal reaches the level of the water in the river, the dam ai Campbell avenue will be removed. The re moval of this dam will take away the obstacle tc the flow of the main volume of water. The dam at Joliet, It is reported, will be com pleted by Monday, and everything will be ready for the permit for the opening oi the gates rat Lockport. Oprni.ff Kcdile Avenue Flamf. The contract has been given the Greeu Dredging company for the opening to the full width the flume at Kedzte avenue, which will admit.

It Is expected, fully 100.000 cubic feet. Ten days are given for the completion of this work, and a penalty of $100 Is exacted for every day of delay. The current tn the North branch became so perceptible that Commissioner McGann ordered the Fullerton avenue pumps stopped. These pumps have been pouring about 13,500 feet per minute into the river, but they will not be operated unless the steady flow ceases down the branch. Assistant Engineer Warder of the sewer department made an examination of the South branch, while the Bridgeport pumps were driving about 40,000 feet of water per minute Into the canal, and yesterday submitted the following report: "In pursuance of your request for a report on the condition of the Chicago river and the effect thereon of opening the drainage canal.

I have made observations on the south branch of the Chicago river at Van Buren street, Twenty-Second street, and between there and Canal street; at Ashland avenue, at Western avenue, and at Bridgeport pumping works. Flow la "There Is a noticeable Increase In the rate of flow as indicated by floating ice. at Van Buren street bridge, which I estimate at fifty7flvo to sixty feet per minute and toward the south or drainage canal. At Twenty-Second street, and particularly In the stretch between that street and Canal street, the rate was slower, owing, I thought, to the greater width ot the water way. From my observations there I estimated the rate of flow at' the surface midstream to be about thirty-seven to forty feet a minute.

At Ashland avenue bridge there was a barely perceptible movement of the surface water, which movement may have been influenced by currents of air. "East of Western avenue the channel of the river has a good width, and the movement of the water, though noticeable, is slower than above noted, perhaps about twenty-five feet per minute, but floating objects passing under the bridge, where the channel is narrower, had a speed of about fifty feet pei n'iute. "At the railroad bridge north of Archer avenue bridge there was a barely perceptible movement toward the north; that is. toward the intake of the Bridgeport pumping works. Staa-e of Water Given.

"At the Bridgeport pumping works the stage of water on the river or intake side was between 0.8 and 0.9 of a foot below datum, and on the canal feeder or delivery side the stage of water was at five feet above datum. The tour engines and eight pumps were all in operation and running at about eighty-five to ninety revolutions per minute. The engineer, P. E. McDonnell, estimated his pump-age this afternoon at 39.500 cubic feet per minute.

Very respectfully yours, H. WARDER." Commissioner McGann said the figures of Mr. Warder showed that In future bascule bridges would have to be built over the river. "When the canal Is opened to its full capacity," he said, "center-pier bridges will Interfere with navigation. The current will be too strong for the easy passage of boats through the narrow draws of center-pier bridges." Letter to the Mayor.

Yesterday the direct negotiations for the control by the drainage trustees of the Bridgeport pumping works were begun. Trustees Jones, Wenter, and Kelly, the special committee appointed to make terms with the city, tent the tollown. letter to Mayor Harrison "We are directed by the committee on of the sanitary district of Chicago to Inform you that under a contract recently entered into between the sanitary district and the canal commissioners of the state of Illinois It will become the duty of the sanitary district, after the open leg of its main drainage channel, to maintain the pumping works now located at Bridgeport at the present capacity for four months, and at a capacity sufficient to maintain navigation on the Summit level of said canal after the termination of raid four mouths. "This committee desires at the earliest practical time to confer with the proper corporate authorities of the city of Chicago for tho purpose of arriving at an agreement for the parmanet use. either by rental or purchase, of the said pumping works at and we will be glad to confer with your honor and other representatives of the city common council on this subject at the earliest possible date." Wait to Lease the If satisfactory terms can be made the trustees prefer to lease the pumps, any they believe they will be ready to take charge of the plant within two weeks.

The clty.however.de-stres to sell the works and not to lease them. Caomuilstioner McGann Is preparing a statement of the city's price for the works, which he will immediately forward to the sanitary trustees. "It will greatly lessen the expenses of the city," said Mr. McGann. "to have the Bridgeport station operated by the sanitary district.

The Chicago Congressmen should work to have the whole cost of maintenance placed on the government, for the channel is as much a ecp waterway a a river. The special commission will meet In Chicago next Wednesday to make a final inspection ot the unfinished portions ot the work and draw up a report to Governor Tanner recommending that a permit be issued allowing the water to be turned into the Illinois valley. No more emphatic comedy success In years than Stuart Rebson la "Oliver Goldsmith." Crand tonight. ANGRY OVER THE NEW CANAL -t- Miss Etta Thomas Sues W. H.

Fahniey ior Breach of Promise. SHE ASKS $100,000 The Defendant Is Prominent in West Bide Society. Pair Plaintiff a Meee mt General Joe Wheeler Her Coart Declaration. Suit for $100,000 for alleged breach ot promise to marry was begun yesterday in the Circuit court against William H. Fahrney by Miss Etta Thomas.

Mr. Fahrney is treasurer of Peter Fahrney, Sons tc manufacturers of patent medicines, at Nor. 110-11S Hoyne avenue. The plaintiff is a niece of General Joseph Wheeler. Mr.

Fahrnoy is reputed to be worth half a million dollars, and is a prominent toclety DR." JOHN ALEXANDER man on the West Side; he is 37 years of age. Miss Thomas cozr.es of a wealthy family at Peru, 111. She is a pretty brunette. In her twenty-third year. In the declaration file by Attorney Richard E.

Burke for Miss Thomas, it la set forth that the first meeting of the' parties to the suit occurred In at the home city of the plaintiff. Mr. Fahrney, who is described as being man of expensive tastes and luxurious habits, was then la Peru on business. He appears to have become in fatuated with, the young woman at first sight. Proposals of marriage were made at once.

It Is alleged, and accepted. Then followed a long siege of love-making. carried on in Chicago, Peru, and at various summer and winter resorts, according to the statements of the papers filed. Many Trips Made. The smitten Mr.

Fahrney refused. It is ex ported, to find any pleasure in his recreations and vacations unless miss Thomas was with him. There were tripe to the Northern lakes, to Mackinac, and Lake Superior; inland watering-places of the fashionable class were visited by Mr. Fahrney and the girl, and he frequently, it is declared, introduced his fair companion as his future wife to friends and acquaintances. Twice in the year 1S96, It is claimed, the promise to marry was repeated by the hero of tne adventure.

Tho nrst in that year was made, says the declaration, April 2. Later, in September, the lovers were cruising on the lower Illinois river in a yachting expedition, it having been planned they should continue the outing dewn to the gtUf of Mexico. While in the neighborhood of Peoria Miss Thomas avers Mr. Fahrney became very talkative of their future plans, and discussed freely the coming; marriage. In the absence of Mr.

Fahrney from his he wrote her tender letters, full of be bis to we for of my avowals of affection. These the prosecution promises to show, la court when the trial comes off. Gifts were showered on her, and he was never let lack anything fancy or luxury might suggest. Soon after the meeting In 1S05 Miss Thomas left. Peru to visit Mr.

Fahrney, it is claimed. Her friends were advised of the nature of her trip, and she re-ceisd their congratulations as she parted from them. sabjeet of Rldlcnle. Now she saya they have learned of her rejection by her lover, and she is subjected to ridicule and made the topic ot the wagging tongues of the gossips of the community. On her arrival In Chicago she says she was welcomed by Mr.

Fahrney, and Introduced among his friends as his bride to be. He became so fond of having her in the city that be insisted she should remain here, it is alleged, and she took apartments on the West Side. Later she lived at vsrlous down-town hotels, in particular the Grand Pacific, Great Northern, and the Auditorium annex, at which abe now lives. Last summer, for the first time. It Is said, Mr.

Fahrney showed signs of tiring of Miss Thomas. be went away for the sea-con to the seashore fce bad her remain behind, she going to her old borne in Peru. On bis return he told her be Could not marry her, the plaintiff declares, sod that he must bow to the will of his parents, who had all along kept him from having the marriage ceremony performed. After macy endeavors to induce him to keep bis promise, -Miss Thomas saya she was constrained to sue as the only way get what she felt was due her. Miss Thomas Tells Her Story.

Miss Thomas was seen at the Auditorium annex, where she is In regard to the case she said: "I met Will over five DOWIE. years ago, -when be was visiting Pern oo business. We were Introduced to each other after the theater one evening, and for a time delayed his return to Chicago, and attributed his action to bis acquaintance with me. Before he went home be asked me to marry him, and I agreed. I visited in Chicago frequently after this, and finally made this city my home.

I went every place with him. when he went out of town in pursuit of pleasure, but he was very Jealous of me, and wouldn't take me to a number of places where went tor fear that I 'would meet certain persons. Often I insisted that be should keep promise and marry me, hut he kept telling me that we should wait until his parents died, and I agreed. The last time I urged him to marry me be said that he was going marry.another girl from the East. -1 protected that he owed it to me to marry me, and had a quarrel.

He struck me. He then told me to go home, and he would' see that the rest of my life I would not suffer from want of money. "Heart-broken, I did go home, but couldn't stay away. When I returned he refused to have anything to do with me. He waa very jealous of me, and while he wanted to marry another woman.

he insisted that I should prom ice that I would not get married. I loved him, but I love blm no longer on account of tho way he has treated When asked if she was related to "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, Miss Thomas said: "Yes. General Wheeler is my uncle. My mother was his sister. Her same waa Cynthia Wheeler.

Mother died when I was 2 years old. My father was Joseph Thomas, retired coal operator. He died when I was 13 years of age, and he left myself and six other children an estate of over $50,000. nearly alt which is gone now. In Peru I lived with married sister, Mrs.

David Montrey. I feel that my life is blighted by the acta of Mr. Fahrney. and that is the reaion that I started the suit." MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF ZION CITY. DOWIEITES SEE ZIOH Visit to the Promised Land Is Made by a Select Few.

THEY LIKE THE SITE Farmers in Benton Wonder at the Strange Procession. Testa for Iron Are Hade oa the Lake Shore Peealiar Hymn la Is Ssag, John Alexander Dowle and a delighted band of 100 of his followers literally entered Into Zlon, Benton township. Lake county, II L. yesterday forenoon. They entered in car riages and Immediately drove to a spot near which the promised tabernacle of the Chris tian Catholic church is to be erected, and had their photographs taken.

That being accomplished, the pioneers of projected municipality on the north shore MRS. DOWIE. rode around over the farms that have been bargained for by their leader. They ended the trip of Inspection with a visit to the beach Just south of the Camp Logan rifle range, where the masts ot crest ships are expected by them to break the skyline to the eastward within another year or two. Expressions Of pleasure and astonishment at the apparent advantages of the Zlon's site were unanimous.

Those advantages could sot be lost to the perceptions of any sane observer, and compliments upon the sagacity displayed in engineering the great deal were showered upon the "general overseer," who fairly beamed with satisfaction at the possibilities be bad in mind for development. Part of the Land In vial ted. A ride over the entire site for the city could not be taken in the limited time that was arranged for the excursion, and all of the western portion of the tract was left un-viewed, save at a distance, and through a Wisconsin fog that bore down upon the atmosphere by degrees. But that portion was much the same as the remainder rolling prairie, dotted with second-growth, timber, haystacks, pigs, and various other evidences of rural peace and plenty. The "Christian Catholics" showed no sentiment of remorse in contemplating the destruction of that domesticity, but thought only of the building of bouses and workshops for a modern city.

Farmers of both sexes and of many ages, however, viewed silently the cavalcade that passed their doors as if they were thinking of the relinquishment of their homesteads and the breaking up of neighborly relations, and as a surrender before the march of Industrial progress. One motherly old lady replied to the query. "What do the people around here think of Dowles scheme?" by saying: "Well, there's various opinions. You see. most of the foils 'round have lived here for generations.

Families have intermarried and we're mostly al related. It comes hard on us to give up our homes, especially us old folks, and some won sell at all. We're goin' to keep 1C0 acres and our home, no matter what happens." Oddity the Cavalcade. The cavalcade of vehicles that invaded the restful scene was an odd one, so far as pic torial effect was concerned. It was headed by the handsome coach of Dowle, with his liv ened coachman on the box.

It was ended bv the press equipage, which waa an open milk wagon drawn by a symbolic white colt. The milk cans were empty and rattled loudly with the Joltltg exercises of the colt, but served as seats for the reporters. The colt was held In by "Uncle HI" Ferry, who made tne first contract for the sale of farm land for the so-called Zlon. Between the coach In the front and the rattling milk cart in the rear were scattered a dozen vehicles of varl ous descriptions and stages of condition, all crowded to overflowing, as the farmers of Benton township hadn't expected such an Influx of visitors. Dowie's own coach had Been drawn up to Waukegan the day before by hie spirited team of sorrel horses.

In the coach were Dowle blmeelf, his daughter B. G. Anhley, and a sister of the "faith healer's" wife. In another carriage waa Judge S. M.

Dowle. aged father of the leader of the procession. The son of the leader, Gladstone Dowle, i young man of attractive personality, was in soother carriage. Mrs. Dowie was unable to be there because ot a slight illness.

Prominent la the Liar. Among other prominent members of the organization were: Dr. Spcicher. manager of the Zion home on Michigan avenue; Overseer W. H.

Piper and wife; Overseer G. L. Mason and family, from China; Elder O. F. Stevens of Grand Rapids.

Elder Reed of Benton Harbor, Elder Hammond of Philadelphia, Deacon Rhodda of Cin cinnati, Ohio; Deaconess Sophia Herthrich, and D. F. Robertson, financial secretary of Mr. Dowie. Edwin V.

Wbeelock. the real -estate broker who kept the people of Chicago as well as those of Lake county guessing tor two months as to whom he was buying up land by the section for, was there, and so was G. B. Ashley, Zion's city engineer. They were kept busy-explaining to the enthusiasts the Intric acies cf a surveyor's "blue print" of the land.

Mr. Ashley stat.d that he would be gin the work next week of making a topo graphical survey of the more than 6,000 acres bought or contracted On an elevation covering perhaps sixty acres, almost in the middle of the whole tract, he pointed out the probable location of the Temple of Zlon. The plans of the general overseer are for a magnificent park surrounding the temple building, from which are to diverge broad avenues toward the four points of the compass, and four diagonal avenues lying between them. Around that park la to be de veloped the co-operative community, with the manufacturing center to be on the lowlands of the lake shore. Dampens the Enthaalaam.

The view of the beach Just sonth of the state rifle range brought out the full enthusiasm of the excursionists, or those of them who got that far. On the way down a guily near the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway company one of the carry-alls broke a front axle and dimin ished the number of enthusiasts by eleven. The "remainder rode on merrily, bumping over the frozen lumps of sand at Camp Logan, i which bounds Zion on the north. On the beach another descent from the conveyances was effected, but the photographer didn perform his work, because he waa hunting for a farm wagon to displace the disabled "carry-all." Mr. Ashley, the civil engineer, carried a magnet, and experimented with the aands of the beach, which, were known to contain liberal quantities of Iron.

The iron in crusted the magnet at each stroke through the saad. and the "general overseer" specu lated upon the possibilities of mining rail road engines and bar iron out of the products of the Eastern manufacturers hare speculated upon the same problem, but have given It up. The rise Just back of the beach would de light the eye of a golf player. It has boles enough in which to lose a bushel of balls and natural "bunkers" of all shapes and sizes worked by nature in the sand. Goad Lakeavard View.

The view lakeward is over a body of water that is notable at any season for a kind of wild and barren beauty, and that is deep enough for a safe harbor at Zlon. The excursion returned to Its special train. side-tracked three miles north of Waukegan. at dock in the afternoon. A lunch was served en route homeward by the railway company, represented in person by T.

A. Thompson, the superintendent of the Wiscon sin division. When the train started "Dr." Dowie railed put: "Who saye the site for the city of z.ioH is an ngntT' The answer gave the question to thejLfnrma- tlve side without opposition. Then the faith ful rang a "hymn." In which tile refrain runs: "It doesn't matter what the preachers iy. That ended the pilgrimage to Zlon.

Ben ton township, Lake county. Illinois. FOR CONSUMPTIVE HOSPITAL Anaonnt Collected by Committee lew Aga-rea-ates 11,443. The citizens' committee which is raistnr funds for the erection of a hospital for the treatment of consumptives met yesterday at the office of Secretary George C. Mages, No.

189 Randolph street. The mother superior of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth's hospital, under whose auspices the new hospital will be conducted, reported that the sisters had collected $1,226 from personal friends, as fol lows: Peter Schmitt, $500; Thomas Byrnes, $100; Dr. George Thilo. $50; Dr.

W. C. Sanford, $50; George E. Dixon. $50; John Caesar, $o0; Thomas Gahan.

$50; John Fits- patrick, $25; Miss Annie Graebe, $25; Miss Theresia Scnmit. Mrs. Eva Boedecker. $25; Mrs. Regina Stamm, $25; Troy Laundry treasury, iu; j.

r. uaiiagher. sz5: B. F. Goodrich company, $20; M.

Holzmer, $20; George MIttendorf. $20; Ottoman Cahrey com pany, sis: Jd. f. iioshold. 110: Dr.

D. Cot- trelL $10; Dr. J. H. Lee.

$10: J. H. Burke, $10. August Ernst Wienhoeber, $10: A. Schiller $10; Costra Costa Wine company, $10; John Lulke.

$10: Magle George Mlddendorf, George E. Caugh- ey. T. E. Moran, J.

C. Rustman. $5: Mrs. La More, ss: J. H.

schoii, 35; W. G. Ferguson. total. $1,226.

This, with the sums previously reported, brings the total amount raised up to $11,445. DARTMOUTH MEN TO FEAST. Aaaaal Baaqaet of Local Alamal to Be Held on Jan. 12. The Dartmouth Alumnt association of Chi cago will hold Us twenty-fifth, annual reunion and banquet Friday evening, Jan.

12, at the University club. No. 11S Dearborn street. The committee in charge has pre pared an excellent programme for the occasion. Among the invited guests are President Tucker of Dartmouth, Dr.

E. Benjamin Andrews, superintendent of schools; Professor A. H. Tolman, president ot the Williams College Alumni association of Chicago; Charles F. Mathewson, a trustee of the col lege and president ot tho new Dartmouth club of New York city; John S.

Barrett, ex-Unlted States Minister to Slam; John a Con nor of Cincinnati, and others. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock. The officers of the association are: President Charles B. Webster, '82; vice presidents. William B.

Patterson, "It. George D. Hotton, 7S; executive committee, James P. Houston, '84, Joseph A. Ford.

'85. and Uoais H. Blanc tiara. -7; secre tary and treasurer, W. E.

MeCornack, statistical secretary, wuiisn u. Gardiner, Grand Opera-House Tonight Stnart Hobeon ta "OMver Goldsmith." It's a coaatdy hit. E. J. LEHMAFIH IS DEAD Founder ol the Fair Passes Away at White Plains, N.

Y. HIS UNIQUE CAREER Accumulated a Fortune of in a Few Years. In ISOO He Waa Adjada-ed Insane Sent te Private Saaltarlnm la the East. Ernest J. Lehmana, founder of the Fatr, and the originator of the department-store idea, died Friday afternoon, at 1:50 o'clock, at No.

4b Crand street, Plains. N. Y. He had been for years at a private sanitarium la the His body will be brought to Chi-cago tor interment, arriving this evening. Mr.

Lehmann was born in Germany in 1849. and when 2 years oil he came to this country with his parents, who settled in Manitowoc, where his father engaged In the manu facture of baskets. In a few years he removed to Chicago and followed the same line of business. His son, Ernest, took an active interest in the work and in a short time had acquired sufficient experience to warrant his suiting ia business for himself. He opened a retail store for the handling of baskets and gradually added to his stock until he took Is.

several branches of trade. In ls75 Mr. Lehmann opened a small store cext to the corner of Stale and Adams streets srd called it "The Fair." It was success frcm the beginning, and this fact was attrib uted to the business sagacity of the founder. Mr. Lehmann la survived by a widow, Mrs.

Augusta Lehmann, three sons, Edward, Otto, szd Ernett. and three daughters, Mildred, now Mrs. C. D. Peacock, Augusta, and Edith.

'Mr. Lehmann was a man who deserved bis ealth," said Otto Young, secretary and treas urer ol The Fair, he being very charitably disposed, his hand alwsys being cpea to the needy and unfortunate. When he once called a man his friend he remained his friend al-. v.kys, especially through adversity. He never forgot the smallest fsvor shown him when be made his struggle for fame and fortune In his younger days." Seat to an Eastern Asylaan.

At the time of Mr. Lehmann's affliction his wife, Mrs. Augusta Lehmann, filed a petition in the County court asking for a summons for service on her husband for an inquiry Into his mental condition. The paper was filed and the summons isvued on the morning of April 16, 1890. The came afternoon Judge Richard Prendergast of the County court entered an order in which it is stated that the summons appeared to be-duly served on Mr.

Lehmann. and that after all of the testimony aa to his alleged insanity hsd been beard, the court was ef the opinion that a jury trial at that time would be preiudi- cial to the recovery ot Mr. Lehmann. In the same order it was decreed by the court that Mr. iMmian should be placed In the cus.

tody of his wife and sent by her to the Bloom- icgdale asylum for the insane in New York city. A further provision of the order was that a report should be to the County court every sixty dare, detailing the condition of the patient, and that at such time as it would appear that tbe chances of the patient's re- covery were hopeless he should be taken into the County court of Cook county and be given a trial by Jury. The witnesses who testified In the case be fore Judge Prendergast were: Dr. James H. Elberidge, Dr.

Daniel R. Browser. Dr. George P. Gillman.

Charles Greve. William Arnold. and Christian F. Coltol. The day following the entry of the order In the County court Mr.

Lehmann was taken to the train for removal to the sanitarium in New York. At the train he waa served with a summons from the Probate court of Cook county, where an application had been made by Mrs. Lehmann to be appointed conservator of the estate. While Mr. Lehmann was on his wav to New York an order was entered in the Probate court on the showing made In the nroceed- Ings before the County court, finding Mr.

Lehmann to be a distracted person and unable to manage his estate. Mrs. Augusta Lehmann was appointed conservator for the estate and Charles Greve. a relative of Mrs. Lehmann.

has practically taken charge of Mr. Lehmann's former business ever since. In the Fair building. Mr. Greve has an office for the management of the estate.

John J. Knickerbocker was the attorney whose name appears on record in the County sourt proceedings. Judge Jesse Holdom of the Superior court was at that time associated with Mr. Knickerbocker and was actively engaged in the proceedings. Judge Holdom said: "Mr.

Lehmann's estate is prob- -sbly one of the largest in Cook county. I do not doubt that it is worth over $10,000,000. The order of the Probate court, after the sppointment of Mrs. Lehmann aa conservator, provided that a report of the condition of the estate affairs be filed each year. We entertained a hope at all times of the recovery of Mr.

Lehmann. and I am shocked by the sews of his death." "Wen a anions Libel Swlt. E. J. Lehmann was the complainant in one ot the first large libel suits ever brought against a Chicago daily newspaper.

He pushed the case through the courts and was awarded $25,000 damages. The Chicago Herald was the newspaper made defendant by Mr. Lehmann. and it was almost forced Into bankruptcy before his suits were sealed. Mr.

Lehmann obtained all that he sought. The owners of the paper were forced to reorganise and the working staffs of the Herald were entirely changed. Wbeu this had been done Mr. Lehmann settled bis Judgment against the Herald In consideration of the new owners giving $3,000 to charity. The history of this libel suit and the trouble between Mr.

Lehmann and the Herald is ona ot the most interesting passages In the records or Chicago Journalism. Mr. Lehmann In the early '80s, and about the time the Herald company was organized, waa Just beginning to make his mark in the business life of Chicago. The founders and owners of the Herald were James W. Scott.

Frank W. Palmer. A. M. Jones, and Daniel SbepherQ.

The company was Incorporated in with a capital ot $150,000, and it at once purchased the Chicago Dally Telegram. The Herald frcm its first number took rather a reckless interest in the private Uvea oi prominent citizens and business men, and became very aggressive. Mr. Lehmann was attacked. The Herald stated that be had been a "fakir" of the cheapest order and a "rank swindler" before he settled In Chlcaro and opened the Fair store.

It was alleged mat sir. unmun had made a habit of following country fairs for the purpose of palm- lng off worthless goods on the unwary, and the statement was made that town marshals and county sheriffs were constantly on the lookout, for him. Mr. Lehmann started a damage suit Immediately after the first article reflecting on hie character was published. But this action did not stop the Herald, and Story after story ot Mr.

Lehmann'a alleged past was printed. Before a truce waa declared the Herald was involved In a network ot damage suits which threatened Its ruin. Mr. Lehmann pushed his suits snd the Herald went to great expense preparing a defense. Agents were eent ever the coortry and many town marshals and sheriffs were brought In to prove that the assertions made by the Herald were true.

But the trial ot the cases resulted in verdicts favorable te Mr. Lehmann. and after fights in the higher.