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trnT TT-ir-n t-v THURSDAY. FEBRUARY II 1892-TWELYE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. BULLETIN OIT JAMES COUCH KILLED. NEW ELECTRIC R0AB.

WSHMAMCK LAST EDITION. THE TIONEEPw LOSES HIS LIFE IN A STREET ACCIDENT. ONE IS NOW FLANNED TO EUN TO JEFFERSON PARK. EID HUCH-DAHAGE. An Engine Collides with a Crowded Street-Car.

While Attempting to Board a Car He Is ELEVEN PEOPLE INJURED Warren Springer Eas Another Queer Explosion. BUT HE HELD UP THE WRONG MAN. Sam Heed, a Footpad. Picked Out a Detective for an Fasy -Victim. Officer Schlinger of the West Chicago Avenue Station was shadowmg two pick pockets, who he thought were concealed in the house opposite the alleyway between the houses at 47 and 49 Union street, last night.

He had followed the two men down' Milwaukee avenue and Union street, and hen they entered a doorway he awaited in the dark alley opposite for their reappearance. About 9:30 o'clock Sam Reed, accompanied by a woman, sauntered by, and seeing a man in citizen's clothes standing in the alley thought he had found an easy victim. Facing about he grabbed the officer by the throat and pushed him against the wad of a building. "Just give me what ye got, party," said the footpad. Then he fell under a blow from the butt end of the officer's revolver.

As Reed reeled in a dazed condition against the wall he caught sight of the officer's star, which had been exposed a3 he pushed back his coat fo get his revolver. "I beg. a thousand pardons," said the humbled and astonished footpad. "I never meant to hold up an officer of the law. Youll excuse me?" But he "was not excused.

Schlinger dragged the man to the nearest box and went with, him to the Desplaines Street Tour of the Passengers Receive 1 Dangerous Hurts. ITS CAUSE IS A 3IYSTEBY Thrown Down and Run Over by a Heavy Truck Sketch of His Career-He Built the re mon House, the' First Great Hotel in Chicago, in the Face of Public Ridicule The Couch Burial Vault- in Lincoln Park. James Couch, a pioneer settler of Chicago, and owner of the Tremont House property, died last night from injuries which ho received, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, by being thrown from a street car and run over by a truck at Lake and State streets. Mr. Couch was 92 years old and quite feeble.

Yesterday morning he left the Tremont House, where he 6pent the night and started for his home. No. 2545 Indiana avenue. When within a short distance of State street he saw an Indiana avenue car comins and It Will Connect at Southport Avenue and Addison Street with the Chicago and Evanston Electric Railway Plans of the Promoters of the Enterprise Explained Right of Way Said to Be Already Practically Secured How the Cara Will lie Arranged and Heated. People who ride in cold, uncomfortable cars and carettes of the cross-town lines will, before another winter comes around, be envious of the-citizens of Jefferson Park and other suburbs along the line of Elston avenue.

The Jefferson Park and Chicago Electric railway has obtained the right of way to operate an electric street-car line on Elston avenue from Jefferson Park to Addison street, and from that point east to Southport avenue, where it will connect with the Chicago and Evanston Electric railway, which will run between Chicago and Evanston. The promoters of this enterprise areE. E. Gordon, W. W.

Lowe, J. H. McAllister, George R. Allen, and Frederick H. Doty, who are real-estate men and capitalists having large ONE DIES OP HIS WOUNDS.

One of His Largo Buildings Partially Wrecked. CHICAGO, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1892. Fair and Colder. 1, Eleven Tersons nnrt in a Crossing Accident.

Plans for a New Electric Road. James Conch Killed In an Accident. Warren Springer's Latest Explosiou. 2 Stron? Protest Against HilL Iowa Republicans Stand by Prohibition. Indians and Cowboys Fight.

Villard Will Resign His Presidency. 3 Overrun with Young Thieves. CoL Rend indorses the Anti-Smoke Society. Judge Collins a Candidate for Governor. 5 Wedding of Miss Mitchell at Paris.

Execution of Spanish Anarchists. 6 Saloonkeeper Lifebre's Peculiar Case. Campbell-McArthur Nuptials. Prot Albion W. SmaH Comes to Chicago.

7 Allerton and Axtell to Trot Three Races. Crowds at the Bench Show. 8 To Commemorate Lincoln's Birthday. Senators Nervous About Anti-Option. 9 Secretary Blaine WU1 Not Resign.

A Council Order Not Obeyed. New York Biscuit Co. Stockholders Meet. Cooley Voted Down in the Drainage Board. 10 World's Fair Invitations Delivered.

Banker Tolman Denies the Charges. Tlrirty-first and Stewart Avenue Scene of the Disaster. FLAMES FOLLOWED F0ECE. hurried to catch stop, and Mr. jump on.

He and was thrown it. The car did not Couch attempted to missed his footing, back, striking his head Tenants Put to Great Inconvenience and Loss. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHWESTERN A Fort Wayne passenger train running thirty miles an hour crashed into a Thirty-first street cross-town car filled with passen-. gers yesterday noon. against the pavement.

Coming toward him at a rapid gait was a heavy truck owned by Gee Bros, of No. 204 Kinzie street, and driven by Edward McEwen Before the driver could stop his team and before Mr. Couch could get up the horses were upon him. The GAS HAD BEEN ESCAPING FEEELY, Eleven passengers were injured and one killed. Killed.

MAYIAN, JOHN, No. 23 Elburn street. Tlie Injured. BOKTEB. ANDKEW, No.

314 Washington, boulevard; bead, and body bruised; taken home. Howe, John, No. 3713 Wood street; driver of the car; bruised about head and left leg wheels the truck passed over Mr. Couch's left leg, crushing it in several places. The truck also passed over and cut off the fingers of his right hand.

He was still conscious when a policeman and Beveral citizens tenderly picked him up. He showed great fortitude and requested to be taken to the Tremont mm. nxii ii i ii i xV ft II t- avjc mcf If lj in i 1 1 1 1 1 1 xiWfe8 ii irnr II T- L'. 1' Irv XT. XX i 5e 5 xx si i 5 V2 2 Xf 5 WXJlX 1 5 NX i 2 0R JAMES COUCH.

House. Dr. Tallman arrived immediately and MR. HATCH STILL IN THE CONTEST. He Has Not Changed His Position in the Least on the Anti-Option Bill.

Wasbixgtojt, D. Feb. 10. Representative Hatch of Missouri, when informed tonight that reports had reached Chicago that he had withdrawn his Anti-option biU and changed his views somewhat on the general subject, said with emphasis: The statements made are groundless, sensational, and unqualifiedly false. I have neither weakened nor changed in word, phrase, or sentiment, my original position.

I am earnestly, zealously, and vigorously contending for the substantial principles of the bill introduced and which is now under consideration by the committee, and that is to tax out of existence all illegal and fictitious rates of farm produce and at the same time to preserve and protect tho legitimate sales, transactions, and business operations of the Boards of Trades in the United States. The adjournment of the hearings to Saturday was mads in the interest of and for the convenience of the committee, who have been in daily session for more than a week. The bill will not be withdrawn from the committee untd reported to the House. MORE OF BENEFIT THAN INJURY. sprained.

Hasxas, Mas. Eli-ex, FBAXK tryanck. No. 3003 State street two bad cats on head, spine injured, and injured in ternally: may die. 3003 State street, 19 years old, daughter of Mrs.

Ellen Hannan slightly bruised on face and shoulders. Leutestz, Jcxics. No. 2S33 Fox street collar bona fractured and hand crushed; taken to Mercy Hospital. Maxlej.

Jctia. domestic, No. 2933 Prairie avenue; lower jaw fractured and spine injured; tak-en to Mercy Hospital. Metcheb, John, No. 25 Memphis street slight braises ou limbs.

11 ETZEsr. E. Wixlaed, No. 442S Dearborn street injured internally. Suez.

Thomas, and Laurel street fane and head cue taken to Mercy Hospital. Striyinstt, Jcxics, No. 2833 Fox street collarbone broken, face cut. Four Dangerously Hurt. Four persona are believed to have sustained dangerous injuries Andrew Borter, No.

314 Washington boule PROPOSED JEFFERSON PARK AND CHICAGO ELECTRIC LINE. A mysterious explosion shattered the basement of Warren Springer's new six-story manufacturing building, Nos. 171 and 173 South Canal street, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. It set fire to the building, and the Fire Department was called to extinguish the blaze, No knowledge of the explosion reached tha Police Department, because Warren Springer and his superintendents asked the officers of the Illinois Electric Lamp company, which occupies the basement, to say nothing about it. Every pane of glass in the basement, including the plate glass in the front windows, -which are a quarter of an inch thick, was shattered.

Tissue paper inclosing electric bulbs was' burned, the plastering was torn from the walls, chairs $nd furniture were scorched, and the old basement cat, Tewel," was killed. His hair was 6inged off close to the hide. Had the explosion taken place an hour later all the men employed in the room would have been in great peril of their lives. The fire appears to have burned up from the Bubcellar, as the rafters under the floor were all charred and burned. The damage to the building was not over $300, but the loss of the Illinois Electric Lamp company will run up into thousands of dollars, as it is practically prevented from filling orders until its business apartments are placed in proper shape.

This company had no insurance. The origin of the fire, the "cause of the explosion which started it, is a mystery. Max A. Bichter, Assistant Superintendent of the electric light company, said: The city gas-pipes which were put into the building ten days ago were defective. The odor of escaping gas was so strong that I gave orders to the employes to open the windows and ventilate the room every morning before lighting matches or starting fires.

I believe it was a gas explosion, but as to how the gas becams ignited I do not know." Pipes That Are Unprotected. J. G. Nolan, general traveling manager for the company, said: The hot-air pipes under the floor are run at a pressure of sixty pounds. They have neither asbestos or any other covering.

The floor space is- 50x110 feet and when the fire was discovered it was breaking through up all along the floor. It' may be that the plumbers or gasStters, who have been working nnder the floor, dropped a spark which smoldered along until it caught tha rafters, then sprang into a blaze which ignited the escaninff f.is and caused the exnlosion." Station, where Reed was booked for assault and attempted robbery. The woman fled while Reed was making his apologies. OFFICES J. B.

COLE FATALLY WOUNDED. interests in the real-estate through which the proposed line will pass. The right of way for the entire line has been obtained, it is said, with the exception of an undivided tract of forty acres of land on the east side of Elston avenue, between Montrose and Irving Park boulevards. The road will have a doublo track and its cars will be propelled by means of electro-hydraulic motors. They will be supplied with the most improved running-gear, which will almost entirely do away with all vibrations while in motion and will, it is claimed, enable the passengers to converse in moderate voices.

There will be no shaking and rattling of windows. The seats, which will be arranged after the manner of railway-coaches, will be upholstered. The cars will be heated by a hot water system. Water heated by a stove which is placed at the head of thejear will be conducted in pipes through the car and will also be placed beneath each Beat to insure a perfect foot-warming medium. In short the accommodadons on this line will be all that could be expected of an ideal transportation line.

The running time between Jefferson Park and the terminus in the heart of the city, a vard; Julia Manley, No. 2933 Prairie avenue; E. Willard Met-zen, No. 4428 Dearborn street, and Mrs. Ellen Hannan, No.

3003 State street, both of whom sustained internal injuries. There are ten tracks lit the Thirty-first street The a fc rack is used by northbound passenger-trains and next to it is the track for south-bound JAMES COtfGBXIX. He Receives a Bullet from a Revolver That I Accidentally Discharged. Officer Jasper B. Cole of the Desplaines Street Police Station received a fatal wound in a singular manner yesterday.

He was sitting in the window of the station talking to Officer Welbasky The subject of conversation turned to the recent attempt that Frank Henderson made to shoot his mother and sister and Welbasky remarked that he had the revolver in his overcoat pocket which Henderson had used. "Eet me see it." said Cole, as he reached into the pocket to take the weapon out. Wel-basky's hand was also in the pocket, and as Officer Cole seized the revolver it was accidentally, bufiet hia right eye and lodged in" the back of his head. The wounded man' fell to. the floor unconscious.

The report of the rsvolver brought Capt. Mahoney into the room in an instant and Officer Cole was carried into the drill-room. Dr. Bausmann was called, but he said the wound would prove fatal. The officer did not regain consciousness and died a few minutes before 6 o'clock in the station.

His remains were taken to the Milwaukee avenue morgue. Officer Cole was 28 years old and was first put on the force in 1888. He was given star No. 1,692 and assigned to a beat in the East Chicago avenue district. During the switchmen's strike last fall he had some trouble wjth the railroad men and was temporarily relieved from police duty.

He was afterward reinstated, however, as a second-class patrolman and assigned to duty on the West Side. His superiors always considered him an officer of untiring diligence and exceptional bravery. Officer Cole leaves a widow and three children at No. 73 Tedder street. No blame is attached to Welbasky, who was not placed under arrest.

pieces. In less than twenty minutes the small boys in the neighborhood had carried off a good portion of it. The pieces were gathered and taken to the Twenty-second street shed in- three trucks. The shock broke the dog holding the horses to the car and they rah away, the driver having been injured in the accident. The horses ran on Thirty-first street as far asHalsted before anyone could Btop them.

Then the driver of another car caught the m. James Coughlin, the conductor of the street-car, and Frank Tryanck were arrested by Officers Rodney and Dohney shortly after the accident and were locked up at the.Thir-ty-fifth Street Station. John Howe, the driver, was also locked up at Thirty-fifth street. Saw the Gateman Eating. Peter Venema of South Holland," I1L, said last night; was walking west, on Thirty-first street at the time the accident happened.

The snow-6torm was fierce and the wind blew from the south. I saw the south-bound train pass and the gates were raised. Frank, the gateman referring to Frank Tryanck, was eating his lunch the shanty. He must have caught sight bf the north-bound train as it was near Thirty-first street, for he ran out and let the gates down." "Are you positive the gateman was eating lunch after the south-bound train had passed the crossing?" Venema was asked. "Yes, I am certain, for I saw him eat bread, which he held in his hand," Venema's business calls him to the vicinity of Thirty-first street daily.

He is acquainted with the gateman, and knows him by his first name only. William Griffin, a bricklayer living at No. 2849 Union among the uninjured passengers. He said: I was returning from Sixty-third street, where I had been work, and was sitting at the front end of the car. I was facing north, so I did not see any other train coming after tha south-bound had passed.

The horses had ju-t got on the railroad track, though, when' I saw the gates coming down again. At the same time a young fellow sitting next to me jumped up and said excitedly, Get out. The rest of the passengers seemed to become aware of the danger about the same time, and all made a rush for the front door. The fellow who called out to me to get out and I were the only ones I thought that got out before the engine struck the car. We jumped over the dashboard and ran across the tracks.

I couldn't tell what track the tram was on cr which way it was coming, but I kept running till I wa3 out of breath. "There may have been ethers that got out safely, but I didn't know of it. There was a big young fellow, a laborer, who would have got through the door in time if he hadn't turned back. He remembered he had left his shovel under his seat and started back after it. His face and head were badly cut up with broken glass and he was hurt besides, I think." The Driver Story.

John Howe said-he could not possibly fix the blame upon any one because it was impossible to see an approaching train until too late to avoid the accident. Coughlin, he declared, was a careful man on all occasions. He declared also that the were not lowered until after Coughlin signaled him to hold the car for the south-bound tram. Car Conductor James Coughlin said I orward to the crossing as usual and saw that a train was coming. The snow and the smoke from the passing train were blinding and I saw no sign of another train.

don't believe the flagman, saw it, either. I was standing in the center of the crossing and the first thing I knew of the accident was the crash. The train came to a stop when it bad crossed the street, and ran over and lifted up the driver. The horses had broken away from the car and went in the direction of the stables. Several persons helped lift the car and liberate, a woman who was pinned under it.

Her name, I think, was Mrs. Ellen Hannan. After we had done what we could, for the persons whd were hurt I went up to the engine and asked the engineer for his name. He said it was Tully. Those passengers who who were in the car whose names I asked gave them willingly and said no blame could be attached to me in the matter." Coughlan was afterward visited by officials of tne railroad company, who held a fifteen minute conference with him.

What the Gateman Said. Mason K. Starring, claim adjuster for the Chicago City railway company, was seen last night and said the following statement was made to him by the gateman; "The train was running at a high rate of speed and I could not see well on account of the storm. I let tbe gate down, however, and it struck the horses." To this last statement the company objects on these grounds If the gate had been let down bo as to touchthe horses it would have been shattered by the car in passing through for the top of the car is much higher than the horses' backs. The gate, on the contrary, remains intact and shows no signs of having hit the car.

James E. Breen, conductor on the Fort Wayne accommodation train. No. 37, said The accident happened at 12 :18. Our train was on time and was running at the usual speed for the city limits.

The engineer was Thomas Tully, an old man who is considered one of the best and most experienced engineers the road. -The car rushed across the tracks so suddenly that he did not have time to reverse or put on brakes until he struck the car. Then he stopped in three car lengths. When the stopped the old man got down out of his cab and cried like a child when he saw what his engine had done. He was so much overcome that we had to let him cut off at Sixteenth street and run in behind a switch engine.

Matt Walker was fireman and a piece of debris flew through the cab and struck him, inflicting an ugly flesh wound. Two others of the injured were section hands who were working at the crossing. They were injured by flying pieces of the car. Of the passengers of the street-car three women and a man were injured, but one of the women only slightly. I could not take time to get names, as there were other trains coming up 'behind us and we had to get out of the way.

Telley has been always known as a careful engineer, who gives more than ordinary warning before reaching a crossing. In fact his hand is never off the whistle cord. I did not notice whether the farther crossing gate was up or down. I have always been afraid of that crossing, because there are so many people always on it, but I never thought we would strike a. street-car there.

There were no freisht-cars on tracks near the crossing. The track is straight and clear, with an uninterrupted view dear down to Fifty-fifth streetj. I don't 6ee how the gate man, etreet-car conductor, and brakeman could have failed to both see and hear our train coming." Conductor Short, who was in the car behind Conductor Coughlin, came up a few minutes after the accident happened. He did not see the driver of the ill-fated car. He says the people inside the car were all huddled together grasping each other.

John Carlson, No. 3020 Fifth avenue, told the story of his narrow escape as follows: I was on my way to Englewood. I sat in the center of the car. At the moment we were crossing the Fort Wayne track I saw the gates behind us descend. I concluded something was wrong and made for the Just as I jumped from the car the train almost struck it As I made my way out of the car some yelled, It's all right, but I did not heed the advice and jumped for my life." Carlson escaped uninjured.

He saw three young men and a young woman jump from the car. A worn an' 50 years old endeavored to follow their example, but owing to her age did not succeed in reaching the door in time Continued on sixth age. J. F. Schacfer.

Superintendent of the Elec tric Light company, said that when Carroll D. Wright on the Introduction of Labor-Saviner Machinery. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor of Washington, D. concluded his course of lectures on Statistics" before the political economy department of the Northwestern University last night by a lecture on The Relations of Inventions to Labor." Mr.

Wright said substantially The influence of inventions upon labor has been felt economically and sociologically. The economical has always been in two but diametrically opposite ways firet in the displacement or eoit-traction of labor, and second in the expansion of labor. In agricultural employments, brickmak-ing, labor has been displaced temporarily by the introduction of machinery. We are apt to look at the displacement of a finality, and such displacement causes frreat distress at times. To the man displaced by a machine no satisfactory answer can be given.

Bat labor abstractly is greatly benefited by the introduction of power machinery and labor-saving inventions. This is through the expansion of labor, as shown by the increased consumption of all raw materials, and the increase of the number of persons engaged in gainful occupations, such increase being largely out of proportion to the increase of population itself. The increase of population between 1870 and 1S.S0 in the United States was 30 per cent, while the increase in the number of persons engaged in all kinds of employment' was 39 per cent. This figure alone is a complete answer to the argument that labor on the whole is displaced. Very many modern inventions have created em-' ployment Where nono existed before.

The whole department of electricity, electric lighting, the telegraph, and the telephone are examples. In a sociological Bensemachinery has brought witlrft a new school of ethics. It is the representative of the civilization of this period because it embodies, so far as mechanics are concerned, the clearly wroughjt-out thought of the age. While books represent thought, machinery is the embodiment of thought. We are living in the age of mind, which today is king, and machinery is the king's prime minister.

Wealth of mind and wealth of purse struggle for the mastery, and the former wins and gives the crown to the Huxleys, Darwins, and Tyndalls, and to the Proctors, Woolseys, and Drapers, rather than to the Rothschilds and Astors. JANUARY WAS A DISASTROUS MONTH. I ii i I trains. At 12:20 west-bound cross-town car Xo. 403 approached the tracks.

The gates were down to allow a south-bound train to After it had passed the gate-man, Frank Tryanck, raised the gates, which was notice to teams and street-cars that the track wa3 clear. At the same moment Conductor James Coughlm signaled the driver of the street-car to go ahead. Cough-lin wa3 standing on the tracks when he gave the signal. The driver, John Howe, started the car, but had scarcely got his horses by the cates when they were let down upon the car by the gateman, who saw a north-bound passenger train approaching and attempted to shut the car out, but too late. The inbound train, running thirty miles an hour, crashed into the rear end of the streetcar like a shot from a cannon.

The car was lifted up and landed fifty feet away, a total wreck. Some of the passengers had seen the train coming and made a wild rush for the front door of the car, but only two or three succeeded in getting out before the crash. The rest i i I THEY SAY THE BILLS ABE EXCESSIVE. nrst noticed tne escaping gas ne notineadr. Springer, but he paid no attention to it" Wa have rented this floor for ten 71a rs at $200 a month," said Mr.

Schaefer. By the explosion of the boilers in January we lost a month's time. By this explosion we will lose another month. I do not know the cause of the explosion." Fire-Marshal Campion, the first fireman to reach the scene, said It was a pecul iar fire. I don't know the origin of it.

There aro several mysterious features about it. The watchman, as shown by the district telegraph register, pulled the box in that room at 5 o'clock, less than an hour before the explosion, indicating that everything was then all right in the building. The rafters under the floor were so heavily charred that it is almost impossible tBat he did not smell smoke when he made his 5 o'clock pulL When I reached there I kicked on the door and a man from the inside opened the door and then disappeared. Now who that man was or where ho went I cannot say. My firemen poured in after me and for the life of me I cannot tell what became of that fellow.

There had been a heavy explosion. It may have been hot air or gas. That part of the building was well riddled. Had any one been in there at the time of the explosion it would have meant death to him. I am inclined to believed it was hot air, but in fact the entire affair is surrounded by mystery.

The force of the explosion was tremendous. If it came from defective gas fitting it is a matter that should be investigated." WERE NOT SEEKING CHARITY. after a hasty examination he said there was no hope of Mr. Couch's recovering. He was too feeble to undergo the operation of amputation of his leg, necessitated by the injuries.

Mrs. Couch was sent for, arid, she arrived at noon. She remained with her husband until 6:30 o'clock, when he died. He had been unconscious all afternoon, and the faint spark of life went out almost imperceptibly. At his bedside at the time were: Mrs.

Couch, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Eden, and Mrs. Sanger, an old family acquaintance.

He had been attended constantly by Dr. W. Lewis Tallman, the Tremont House physician, the proprietors of the hotel, and friends. The physician had left the bedside only shortly before, in the impression that the patient would live all night. For an hour after the accident Mr.

Couch retained his full consciousness and talked coolly of his injuries. About noon, however, reaction set in and he lost consciousness. Ira Couch, a son of the deceased, is now on his way from New York. As soon as he arrives arrangements will be made for the funeral, which will probably be held Saturday Sketch of a Long Career. James Couch was born in August, 1800, at Fort Edwards, on the Hudson.

He received his education at the schools of Chautauqua County, and when 20 years old became clerk of the Johnson House at Fredonia, N. where he was engaged. for several months. After his return to his home with his brother George he took charge of the Stage House, a hotel which stood onr the lake-shore 'road, at that time the thoroughfare from Cleveland, through Erie, Portland Harbor Maysville, and Jamestown to Pittsburg. He next engaged in the lumber and distilling business.

In 1836, with his brother Ira, he came to Chicago, and in July of that year they visited New York City to purchase goods. On their return they separated at Albany, Ira rejoining his family at Jamestown and James proceeding to Buffalo by canal with the merchandise. He was unable to secure a steamer, and finally chartered a schooner. After a voyage of five weeks he reached Chicago with his cargo and found Ira awaiting him. The goods were placed in a small building on Lake street, the property of Capt.

Seth Johnson. In the fall of 1836 the brpthers purchased the Tremont House. Tne hotel was destroyed in 1839, and they lost nearly all they possessed. They immediately leased the corner lots where the present hotel stands, and began the erection of a better building. The second Tremont House was a frame structure three stories in height, with a frontage of 93 feet on Dearborn street by 100 feet on Lake street.

Its construction was commenced late in December, 1839, and it was completed during the following spring and opened in May, 1840. The house was controlled by the Couch brothers until it was again destroyed by fire uly 21, 184L In the meantime they had purchased the property on which it stood, and at the time of the Becond fire they owned 140 feet on Lake street by 180 feet on Dearborn street. The Building; of "Couch'a Polly." They then designed a magnificent brick building five and one-half stories high and covering the whole of the area mentioned. The magnitude of the scheme excited ridicule and before it had been completed it was styled 44 Couch's folly." Even the soundest businessmen thought such a building was not called for by the demands of the times and that it was a hazardous undertaking. It was completed, furnished, and opened to the public Sept.

29, 1850. The cost of the structure was $75,000. Three years after th9 house was opened the building was leased and the furniture sold to David A. and George W. Gage of Boston.

It was again destroyed in the great fire of 1871 and again rebuilt by James Ira having died in 1856. He also erected a number of large business blocks in various parts of the city and began the construction of the Commercial House, which building was finished by others. Mr. Couch was always a public-spirited citizen, and invested the money he had made in Chicago in erecting buildings that were a credit to himself and the city. He married Miss Elizabeth C.

Wells of Stratford, in March 1847. They had two children a son and daughter. The latter died in 1853, when 2 years old. The son, Ira, was born in 1848, and was educated at Albany, N. where he studied law.

He was admitted to the bar in 1869. There is another monument to James Couoh in Chicago besides the Tremont House and his many public buildings. It is a massive stone vault erected in Lincoln Park as the last resting place of his brother Ira. Of the stones and memorials which once marked the resting places of the countless thousands buried in what is now Lincoln Park the tomb of the Couch family alone remains. Every attempt to have it removed has been resisted, and the vault, surrounded by great trees, stands there in the park, a subject of curiosity to visitors, and a reminder at the same time that the beautiful grounds in which the living now seek rest and recreation was once the resting place of Chicago's dead.

Edward McEwen, driver of the truck, was arrested and locked up at the Harrison Street He says he did all in his power to stop his team when he saw Mr. Couch falL but his horses were going too fast and the pavement was slippery. Minnesota's Skatine Championship. St. Pal Minn Feb.

10. The one-mile sk ating contest for the amateur championship of Minnesota was won by John S. Johnson of Minneapolis, time 3 2-5; Ed Pannell of St. Paul time K. Bird of St.

Paul third, time 3d! 1-lJ. The track was six laoa to the mile. FT.AN OS CAB. A Windows. Motor.

Position for operator. Stove. Dotted lines, pipes, Seats. distance of eight miles, will be forty minutes. Ground for buildings and roadbed will be broken this spring, it is claimed, and it is expected to have the road in active operation before fall.

Comparative Statement of the Ravages of Contagions Diseases in Chicazow "There is an improvement this week in the Ranitarv condition of the said Acting Az ill vrjjzryr U. II 111 i I Health Commissioner Hayt yesterday. Wo ELLIS AVENUE RESIDENTS INDIGNANT. Large Numbers of Kickers Do Some Talking at the Gas Company Office. It was an angry crowd that gathered at the complaint window at the gas office at No.

2 Madison street yesterday morning. Every one had a bill, and from all indications they proposed to do some tall talkmg before paying. Nearly every one's bill for January was more than for December, and several claimed their bills were double. One man's bill was four times as much for January as the proceeding month, although he declared he had not burned any more gas. J.

H. Parker, who lives at No. 45 Pine street, received a bill for $10.75 for January, while his bill for December was but $1.25. He made a vigorous complaint, and two men will be sent to examine his meter. He stated that he did no! use any more gas during January than he did during December.

James L. Hurd lives in the Allen Flat's on Thirty-fifth street, and he received a bill for 75 cents for December, and for January his bill was $3.50. He had not been home for two weeks in January, he said, yet his gas bill was four times as much as the one for December. The company promised to examine the meters where the bills appeared to be excessive. Over 100 meters will have to be examined, and many bills will probably have to be greatly reduced before the company can receipt them.

The complaint clerk stated yesterday that it seemed natural for people to kick about gas bills, and that every month the gas bill fiend was on hand. BLOODY WORK BY MOONSHINERS. Colored Pythlans Indignant Over a Pro. posal Made by Warren Pprlneer. Lodge No.

5 of the Colored Knights of Pythias recently appointed a committee to confer with Warren Springer witn a view of securing a settlement of damages claimed for the deaths of John Lee and Arthur Hall, victims of the Springer boiler explosion. Mr. Springer said yesterday that be would give the families of the dead men $1,000 aiiiece, not because he considered they were entitled to that amount but as a gift ofchari-tv. The cp remittee is highly incensed at Mr. Springer's reply, and the Knights of Pythias will begin suit at once to recover $3,000 damages in the case of each victim.

House-Movers Block the Street and Dam-ace Property. 1 A two-storied frame house ha3 been blocking up Ellis avenue, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, since last Monday night. In their attempt to drive through the teamsters have broken an iron hitching-post in front of R. J. Taylor's residence, broken one of the stones forming an entrance to his driveway, and are now using the sidewalk as a thoroughfare, thereby ruining the grass-plat between the sidewalk and street, and damaging the premises materially.

What right anybody can have to move this dilapidated deathtrap into the fire limits is more than the residents of that neighborhood can tell. The work stands at a halt now on account of Mrs. Tabor's protest against their lopping off a large branch of a tree on her property which obstructs the further passage of the house. Meantime police protection seems of no avail and the destruction caused by driving teams over the sidewalks goes on. It is said that a funeral procession was obliged to drive over the lawns in order to get through the street.

hope for a satisfactory report this montn. Ana report last month was far from encouraging." The following figures bear testimony to this: In January, 1891, 270 cases of scarlet-fever were reported. In January of this year there were .623 cases. In January, 1891, the number of eases of diphtheria reported was 189. Last month 372 cases were reported.

Typhoid-fever cases were not reported last year," said Mr. Hayt. They will be reported hereafter under the new rule based on the amendment of the Sanitary ordinance last Monday on motion of Aid. Noble." But though the cases of typhoid were not reported the burial permit reports indicate how matters stand this year as compared with last year. From these it is learned that the deaths last month, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, from diphtheria, typhoid-fever, and scarlet-fever were as follows: JanlS9U Jan ll Diphtheria Typhoid-fever 5U Both Hen Had Aliases.

Justice Hotalling beard a queer attachment ease yesterday at No. 31)00 State street. Michael Kelly swore ont a warrant of attachment on a horse held by Frank Anderson to satisfy an alleged debt of $125. When Kelly took the stand be was compelled to tell that he bad another name, Barney McKenny. and that he bad served time in prison.

He also swore that Anderson was an ex-convict. When Anderson took the stand he denied that he had served time, but said that in business he was compelled to assume the name of Michael Roach at times. The men are engaged in the horse-trading business, and, as Kelly said, occasionally skinning suckers. Justice Retailing, on hearing tha evidence, quashed the attachment but rendered a judgment for FOSITIOS OV 6TBEET-CAB AFTEB ACCIDENT. were bruised, cut with glass, and crushed so that they were badly hurt internally.

Some who proved to be only slightly hurt were so stunned by the shock that they had to be assisted to rise. Mrs. Ellen Hannan of No. 3003 State street was found pinned down beneath the weight of the street-car, which rested on her shoulder. Her face was growing purple before her situation was noticed.

A dozen men, those who escaped unhurt and some passers-by, joined in lifting the car soihat the unfortunate woman could be released. Her spine was injured and she received internal hurt which may prove ataL With her was her daughter escaped with some bruises. Both were taken to their home in a carriage. Aiding the Injured. Within a few minutes a great crowd had gathered, and the work of assisting the maimed and injured to drug stores in the neighborhood was begun.

The Thirty-fifth Street Station was notified, and the wagons from this and neighboring stations were soon there to carry the injured to their homes or to hospitals. Three, all of whom were slightly injured, were taken to Mercy Hospital. They were Julia Manley, a domestic at No. 2933 I'rairie avenue; Julius Led vestz, and Thomas Smug. John Maylan was taken to the County Hospital.

The rest were taken to their homes. Besides the eleven persons injured there were the following passengers on the car who escaped unhurt: Stephen Golden, No. 217 Aberdeen street; George Taylor, No. 633 Twenty-eighth street xertrHde Walderson, No. 443) Dearborn street John Carlson, No.

3020 Fifth avenue; Michael -urran. No. 3121 Butler street William Griflin, 2M8 Union avenue. The car, which was an old one, was completely demolished. An hour after the accident several laborers arrived and' attempted to pull the car out of the ditch with an engine.

Aa 8toa as the engine started the car fell to Firgil Yenne, 25 years old, was thrown on a saw and instantly killed at llaSTm Station, yesterday. Farmer Einil Peterson, of Waosa, Neb using dynamite in a sand pit was ataliy injured by a premature discharge. The funeral of Adjutaui-General William McClelland took place from the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg yesterday. The Norfolk and railroad has made arrangements to secure at once $... K) needed to insure the early completion of the Ohio extension.

Two ChinamenLee Wong and De Mong bad their throats ent from ear to ear at the Parqua Ualla, mining camp. The object was robbery. The Boston court has refused to grant the preliminary injunction against the sl of the Huron Muting company's etock and ruled that the case mint be beard on its merits. The American steamer Hutchinson, Capt. Baker, bonnd from New Orleans for Havana, ia agnHind one mile from the entrance to the latter harbor.

It went athore during a thick fug. Richard Clark son, alias Cronin, giving hia nddrese as Brooklyn. S. has been arrtd in Philadelphia for swindling A. ti.

Lindar of WrightovUle. Ga by means of the green-good game. Mrs. J. Mason of Leadville, took a fatal dose of strychnin, after vainly tryiS to induce her husband to leave a variety tneater, where she found him in company with another woman.

Two of the school trustees gave the right to a traveling Methodist minister to hold metine in the New Hartford, Miun school bouse. Iba i against the wishes of many tax-payers of tha district. There is some talk of an iiijuiiCtiaa if the meetings are not stopped. Two Hen and a Woman Shot Down in Cleburne County, Alabama. Birmingham, Feb.

10. News has reached here of another bloody assassination in Cleburne County by moonshiners. Recently Lafayette Anderson, an old man and a government witness, was shot down. A few days later J. W.

Sweatnam, residing near Ladonia, testified against three moonshiners. East night his house was surrounded while he was absent and called to the door. His son Jim, 9 years old, appeared instead and was riddled with bullets, dying instantly. His in bed, was fatally wounded by stray balls. A posse is after the murderers, who if caught will be lynched.

Tore the Warrant Up. John, alias "Red." Corbet, a. West Side rough, adopted a poor course last night to avoid arrest. Officers Koeppen and McGuire went to his boarding-house, No. 73 Tilden avenue, to serve a vagrancy warrant on him.

While Officer McGuire was reading it to him Corbet 6natched the paper from his hands, tore it into pieces, and threw them on the floor. "That's all the use I have for you fellows and your papers," he said, as he turned to strike Kcppen in the face. The oili-cers, however, seized him and took him to the station. A Cedar Rapids Attorney in Trouble. Cedar Rapids.

Feb. 10. Charles C. Woods, a prominent attorney, was today arrested and bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $500 on the charge of -obtaining money under false pretenses. Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern.

Cincinnati, Feb. 10. The annual meeting of stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railway was held today. The following were elected directors for the ensuing year Edward R. Bacon, H.

W. Poor, New Smith. W. P. Harvey, Baltimore; W.

T. AlcClin-tock. Amos Smith, Chillicothe Patrick Buchanan, George H. Hopkinson, London W. Peabody, Lowe Emerson, Fred II.

Alms, Cincinnati. Officers for the ensuing year were elected aa follows E. R. Bacon, President; W. W.

Peaiody, Vice-President William E. Jones. Treasurer W. W. Pea-body Secretary.

The annual report showed pross earnings, $2,500.594 operating expenses, Net earnings, an increase of $125,530. Income from other sources, 1.538. After payment of fixed charges, taxes, there was a balance of $379,144, out of which the directors ordered a payment of 5 per cent interest on the first income bonds and 1 per cent on the seconds, payable March 15 at the Farmers' Loan and Trust company. New York, and Brown, Shipley London. Bandit FltxsimmonS to Be Cremated.

New Orleans, Feb. 10. Special. Charles H. Fitzsimmons, brother of the dead Pittsburg robber, arrived in town late tonight from his home in Brockville.

Ont. Charles Fitzsimmons will obtain a permit from the Board of Health for the removal of the body. He will send it to Cincinnati to the crematory and thence remove the allies to Brockville for final interment. Fined for Attempting Suicide. Thomas Hartford of Anborn Park was fined $10 and costs by Justice Caldwell for disorderly conduct yesterday.

Hartford's son was recently killed by tha cars and since then he has been drinking heavily. Yesterday he threw himself in front of a Western Indiana train at Eighty-first street, but was pulled out by aa Ulcer before the train reached him. Ball to Stop nwlen. At Battery Wednesday nicht Parson" Da-vies will give an athletic entertainment. Jinx HaU will be the center of the show, and will meet Mike Bodan and probably the St.

Joe Kid. Hall will attempt to stop both men in a limited number of rounds..