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GOVERNOR IN A HOLE. CASE OF CLEAR GRIT. PRICE TWO CENTS. OF I qv part( iTribunr. LAST EDITION MORRILL OE KANSAS IS TO BE ARRESTED THIS MORNING.

MANY ARE EMPLOYED IN THE VARIOUS CHICAGO YARDS. CHICAGO, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1895. Remarkable Rise in Life of a Former Chicago Man. Weather for Chicago today: HE GIVES A MILLION Generally fair; warmer; southerly winds. Sups rises, SIM sets, 6:35.

Moon 13 days old; sets 3:31 a. in. IL M. RYAN THE PERSON. Children Also' Compelled to Help Their Parents, Who Are Mostly PolesCharge of the Trade and Labor Assembly Proved TrueThe Weber-Labahn Company Blamed by the Manufacturers' Association for Not Paying the Union scaleoffer to Debate the Question.

POLICE ORDER WILL LET OUT 400 MEN. It Will Relate to Patrolmen Only and Will Be Issued Today. Unless there is some hitch in the program General Superintendent Badenoch of the Police Department will issue his first order to. day shaking up the force. The order, as has been previously announced, will only relate to patrolmen, but it will let out somethmg like 400 officers.

The Superintendent and his assistant, Alexander Ross, as well as Secretary campbell and two or three confidential clerks, have been working on this order almost every night until 12 o'clock for two weeks. The work was practically completed late last night, after which Mr. Badenoch had a long conference with Mayor Swift. It Is understood there are still a few men whose records will be verified today and after this has been done the order will be issued. The 200 second-class patrolmen now on the force and all substitutes, about eighty.

five in number. will be let out. The balance of the men who will lose their places are officers against whom flaws are found in their records. The record of every patrolman on the force has been carefully examined. Reports were first made by commanding offi INDEX TODAY DIPOATANT NEWS.

Seth Low's Princely Gift to Co lhmbia College. Once lie Was Known by the Sobriquet of Cabbage." Ile Is Charged with Paying Ante-Inanguration Expenses with Vouchers Drawn on the Contingent Fund of the Executive Does Not Deny It Complaint Is Sworn To by Warden of the State Penitentiary Now Being Investisated for Alleged Misconduct. Topeka, May Morrill will be placed under arrest tomorrow morning charged with having obtained money froth the State Treasury under false pretenses. The complaint was sworn to by S. W.

Chase, Warden of the State Penitentiary, who is now undergoing an investigation ordered by the Governor for alleged misconduct in office. The charge made against Gov. Morrill grows out of four vouchers issued to him In March against the contingent fund of the executive department to pay indebtedness in IN HONOR OF HIS FATHER, MRS. M. E.

LEASE A SKILLED HYPNOTIST The Noted Kansas Woman Gives an Exposition of the Mystic Art. Topeka, May 6.Mrs.Mary E. Lease, orator and politician, has asumed a new role. She is a hypnotist, and a first-class one at that, as shown by an exhibition given by her here today during a petty investigation now proceeding against certain officers of the State Insane Asylum. During the Proceedings Mrs.

Lease, without announcing her purpose, walked across the committee room to where J. L. Flint, an attendant, was sitting, and remarked, with a pass of her hand before his eyes: Mr. Flint, you look weary. Your testimony of yesterday must have been trying on you." Mr.

Flint attempted to disclaim any such weariness, but Mrs. Lease made another pass of her 'hands and Flint went dead asleep." Mr. Flint," said Mrs. Lease, did you read the report of your testimony in the Capital?" No," said Flint, I did not." Well, you did not testify to any such things as the Capital said you did, did you?" handing him a sheet of writing paper containing only a list of names. No, that's all wrong.

I did not testify to anything of that kind. The Capital has got it all mixed up." See," said Mrs. Lease, how stiff your arm is getting." Flint's arm drew up and became as rigid as a tent pole. "And your limbs, too," said Mrs. Lease, and straightaway one of his legs was stiffer than it ought to be.

For ten or fifteen minutes Mrs. Lease played with her subject, tO the vast entertainment of the spectators. She made him do all sorts of things, ridiculous and otherwise, and finally brought him out of his trance with a few passes of her hands. BEADS LIKE A ROMANCE. The statement made at the Trade and Labor Assembly Sunday that women and young children worked in Chicago's brickyards appears to have a foundation in fact.

A visit was made to the various brickyards yesterday. and although only one woman was found at work this was simply because the yards quit work at 10 o'clock in the morning. No one connected with the industry denies that women work in the yards, but they say it is not true that they either dig clay or make brick. Their work is mostly what is technically called "hacking" the brick. This Eril liant Financiering Saves Millions in Mines.

Trustee Sehermerhorn Follows with Another of $300,000. 0 HIS FIGHT WITH JOHN BECK. TO ERECT NEW BUILDINGS. Pages. 1 Rise of a Chicago Women Employed in Chicago Brickyards.

Gov. 3Iorrill to Be Arrested. Gives 81.000,000 to Columbia College. 2 William G. Beale Is Corporation Counsel James Adams Shot at by a Woman.

Damage by Rain and Hail Storms, 3 Arguments on Income Tax Cases. Court-Martial Findings Upheld. Representative Miller D.Aen Is Ills Bill 4 Two-Cent Break in tie Wheat Market. Northwestern to Issae Boni Affairs in the Insurance World. 5 3Ime.

Reline Makes a Hit in." Sans-Gene." News of the Social World. 7 Revolt Immineat in Japan. Corruption Rules in Cuba. Tribate to Mrs. lieurotin at Des Moines.

8 Delay in the Prof. Swing Case. Chicagos Shut Out the 1Vas1iingtons. Is the Best Bicycle Made. 9 Decrease in Chicago East-Bound Freight Harrison Telephone Company Love Feast.

11 Roby Track to Be Raided Today. Horses Race la Heavy Mad at Hawthorne. Ilalma Wins the Kentucky Derby. 12 For a Yacht Harbor at Lincoln Park. Civil Service Fight on Healy Ends.

New Democratic Daily June 1. Metropolitan Road Opened to Traffic. President Reserves the Right to Name Some Scholarships. GENERAL NEWS FROM NEW YORK. CONSCIENCE DESERTS HIM AT THE END.

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Confesses to Murder at a Salvation Army Meeting but Runs Away Again. Naperville, May Saturday night a stranger wandered into the Salvation Army barracks at this place. During the meeting he was spoken to by the Captain. Miss Peterson, concerning his soul's welfarC. He replied that before he could be saved he would have to make a confession.

He said his name was George Bullock and that he and a man named Esty, who is now serving a 23-year sentence at Joliet, killed Policemen Grant and McNitt at Geneva the night of Aug. 7, 1888; that he escaped, was arrestect in Kansas for a crime committed there, and while serving his time in the penitentiary in that State wrote to Supervisor Mann of Kane County, saying if he would help him to his freedom he would tell him all about the murder of Grant and McNitt. He never heard from Mann. After serving his time he left for Europe June 2, going as a ship hand. Returning from there four weeks ago he visited a brother-in-law in Riverside and was now on his way to Geneva to give himself up to the authorities.

He was taken there by several of the young men upon his own request and again related his story. After arriving at the jail at Geneva and while the boys were trying to awake the jailer to turn over the culprit he gave the boys the slip and escaped. Butte City Treasurer Kills Himself Because of a $30.000 Shortage. Butte, May 6.Special.--City Treasurer Simon Jacobs committed suicide at 8 o'clock this morning in an abandoned blacksmith shop west of the city by shooting himself through the head. The cause turns out to be that he is short in his accounts with the city fully 830,000, and today he was to have turned his office affairs over to his successor.

He had made out a statement, which he sent to the Mayor, showing he should have $60,375 in cash on hand, but the facts developed are that he has less than $10,000. His bondsmen believe the shortage covers a period of three or four years and was lost in the pool-rooms and in a losing private business. He has been a heavy plunger on horse races. He also -spent a great deal of money last fall in an effort to be elected County Treasurer. Jacobs was a single man, 34 years of age, and has been City Treasurer continuously for seven years.

31.AN-v- TUTORS SPOIIA TIIEi PUPIL, I HERSHFIELD FAKILY TROUBLES ENDED. New York, May 6.Special.iPresident Seth Low of Columbia College has given that institution $1.000,000. He made the announcement today at a meeting of tho trustees of the university, saying he would assume personally the cost of erecting the new library building of the college at Ono Hundred and Sixteenth street and Morning. side Heights. He said he wishe4 the library to be a memorial of his father.

Abiei Abbot Low. a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia.College stands." The estimated cost of the building is $1,000,000. By resolution the clerk of the board was instructed to convey to President Low the trustees' thanks for the gift, unprecedented in the scale of its generosity and affording fresh evidence of his unbounded devotion to the college's interests." A special corn. mittee, consisting of Bi-hop Potter, the Rev. Dr.

Dix, the Rev. Dr. Chambers, and S. P. Nash, was appointed to recommend suitable action for acknowledgment of the gift, which it was decided to accept with all the condi.

-tions expressed. These conditions are three. fold. It is -President Low's desire, in the first place, that the gift shall be this means of extending college privileges to some of the boys and girls of his native city, Brooklyn. Accordingly twelve Brooklyn, scholars-hips for boys will be established in Columbia and twelve Brooklyn scholarships for girls in Barnard College.

The scholarships are to be awarded by competition. three a year. President Low also desires to show his interest in advanced university work and, accordingly, eight President's university an. nual scholarships will be established. The President also desires to associate the name of his class with a university fellowship.

The class of "70 fellowship. therefore, will come 1, 1805. Following Presidenl Low's gift came one of $300,000 from Chairman William C. Schermerhorn of the Board of Trustees. He said he made himself responsible for the tional Science Building or for any other building or part of a building to cost that amount.

A vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Schermer horn. Besides this building thus provided for there are needed immediately at least three other educational buildings, a dining hall, a university theater, and a gymnasium. The estimated cost of these necessary structures is $1,500,000. F.

Augustus Schermerhorn, one ot the trustees, next presented to the college the Townsend Library of National, State, and biographical war records. This work, begun in December, by Thomas Townsend of this city, when complete will consist of 90 large folio volumes of clippings and extracts chronologically arranged and of a digest of about, ,30 large folio volumes of manuscript, arranged by topics, indexing the matter of the printed statements. Mr. Schermerhorn also gave $4,000 for the complete indexing of the library. On the recommendation of the National Academy of Science the trustees voted to make the first award of the medal for the most important discovery in physical or astronomical science to Lord Rayleigh, the discoverer of Argon, a constituent of the at.

mosphere. This medal is awarded every five years for meritorious service to science." The citizens of all countries are included In the competition. consists of turning the bricks over and piling them up in rows. It does not sound like very hard work, but when it comes to either stacking or turning over bricks it will be seen that the task would tax the back of many a man. Most of the rough labor In the yards Is done by Poles, and it is said this is mostly the race which allows Its women to work in the yards.

Contrary to expectation, It is neither widows nor single women who do the work, but the wives and mothers of families who labor in the yards right beside their husbands. Not much can be learned from the employes themselves, but the police who have traveled around the yards tell bad tales. They say it Is no uncommon sight to see little girls turning bricks who are so tired that they crawl on all fours from one pile to another. Their backs are bowed and bent, and they cry when they try to stand up straight. The women, for their work, are paid a week.

The children get $3--or rather their parents get it. Owing to the hours in the yards the school inspectors can do nothing, because most of the children attend afternoon school. Work at the brickyards be CHORUS GIRLS WADE IN THE Policemen Spoil Their Fun and March Them off to Jail. Logansport, May of the chorus girls of Eddie Foy's the Earth," which closed its season Saturday at this place, who were having a general good time before going their several ways, got in trouble here at an early hour this morning. They left their hotel, accompanied by male members of the company, and removing their shoes and stockings went wading in the Wabash.

They had evidently been "rushing the growler" previously and were boisterous. Two policemen placed them under arrest and without allowing them to put on their shoes and stockings marched them to headquarters. They cried and pleaded to be let go, but the officers were relentless. The night chief, however, yielded and released them on a promise to return to their hotel. cers, gone over by the Inspectors, and then reported to the Chief and his assistant.

These reports, it is said on good authority, were in every instance verified, and in cases where the second report did not agree with the report made by the comtnandmg office and insilector an exceedingly careful investigation wa mats. flow many reports of commanding officers on men were rejected is not known, but it is understood that Lieutenants and Captains who attempted to throw down their subordinates on account of personal dislikes are now in more or less danger themselves. It is said on good authority that polities has in no way entered into the investigation and the examination of the records of the men has been purely one on a a question of merit. The question as to whether a man was a Democrat or a Republican has not been inquired into, and how a man has voted in the past or will vote in the future has not been thought of by the Superintendent. The next order, it is understood, will not be issued for a week, and will deal with Serge.

ants and Lieutenants, and possibly Captains. It may be that such changes as are contemplated among the Inspectors will also be included in the next order. Helena Banker, Now Living in Chicago, Gives His Wife 830,000 Alimony. Helena, May 6.Special.--All the troubles that have beset the house of Hershfield by reason of the rich Hebrew banker's mavriage, with the poor Irish girl two years ago are at an end. The case gained national notoriety by the sensational trial at Fargo, in which Aaron Hershfield sought to have his marriage with Dell Hogan annulled on the ground he was not mentally fit to contract a marriage, and in which he attacked the character of his wife.

He lost his case, however. Mrs. Aaron Hershfield had a suit in the courts in this city against L. H. Hershfield and his wife for alienating the affections of her husband, asking $75,000 damages.

The case came up today and was postponed, and it soon devMoned a settlement had been agreed upon. Mrs. Aaron is to apply for a divorce, which can easily be secured. as Aaron has been absent more than a year, now living in Chicago. Alimony has been agreed upon at $30,000 and Mrs.

Aaron will withdraw the suit against her brother-in-law. Mrs. Aaron will retain possession of her baby, the daughter of Aaron Hershfield. A decision of the Supreme Court of Utah has brought to the surface in a most admirable light a Chicago man of once none too honored a reputation. His name is Henry M.

Ryan. by which name few will remember him. But many will recall him vividly when they learn that this ia the man who for a long time went under the sobriquet of Cabbage Ryan." Ten years ago a man would have been thought insane who had predicted that Cabbage Ryan" ever was, ever would be, or ever could be any earthly good to himself or any (me elae. But when a man of pure grit sets about to reform himself much may be expected, and Ryan has set a shining example to thousands of worthier men. Mr.

Ryan some years ago turned his attention to silver mining, and began to operate in Utah. He was regarded there as a Chicago interloper, and atter being laughed at for awhile became cordially envied and hated for his remarkable successes. Many proofs of his surprising ability as a mine manager might be given, but none better than the affair which led to the lawsuit which Judge Merritt of the Utah Supreme Court has just decided in his favor. John Deck Calls. One day in September, 1893, when Ryan 'was sitting in his office in Chicago, he received a call from another distinguishel Utah miner.

This was John Beck, who had a rocket-like career, and had apparently come down like a stick. He had been the owner of a group of minmg properties known as the Bullion-Beck and Chatnpion and Caroline silver mines, which were worth at least 000,000. For a while he was honored as only a silver king can be in that country, and the miners fought among themselves for the privilege of shaking his hand. But he was not equal to the test of administering such a vast property, and little by little it became involved in a network of debt which could be neither discharged nor comprehended. His creditors tried their hands at it.

George Q. Can non, the virtual head of the Mormon Church, was one of the most deeply involved, and he tried his best to straighten out Beck's affairs, but he bad to give it upon in despair. Meanwhile Beck lost his financial standing and sunk into the depths of poverty. With a debt of $750,000 hanging over him, and shunned by the people who used to flatter and adore him, he was at last brought up in a Commissioner's court on supplementary proceedings, and there his watch was taken out of his pocket by a butcher to pay his meat bill. The money-changers within the shadow of the Mormon Temple had tightened their grasp on his financial throat until the gurgle of dissolution was heard in it.

Ryan Ills Salvation. But at this point it was again shown that it is darkest just before dawn. It occurred to Beck that there was just one man on earth capable of extricating his property from its fearful embarrassments, and that was Henri M. Ryan of Chicago. Then he asked himself why it would not be a good plan to get Ryan to undertake the work and it was not long before he and Cannon were on their way to Chicago to grasp at this straw of financial salvation.

"Will you go to Utah and take charge of the Bullion-Beck and Champion mines and of the personal affairs of John Beck?" was the question they plumped at Mr. Ryan as soon as they got Into his office. Mr. Ryan was as well equipped with decision of character as they, and promptly replied that he would do so on two conditions. In the first place he was to receive $30,000 a year, the same salary as the President of the United States.

Second, he was to have supreme control not only of Mr. Beck's property, but also of his personal conduct. Beck winced, of course, but saw no other way open to him than to accept these terms. No time was then lost in putting Ryan in control. Contracts and powers of attorney were drawn and siszned by which Beck was effaced.

The $50,000 salary was the thing least thought of. It was a desperate remedy, but the disease was desperate. and Beck and Cannon went back to Utah satisfied that they had grasped the only hone left of saving the mines. Mr. Ryan went to his post of duty in November, 1893, taking with him Lawrence P.

Boyle, in whose hands he placed all his law business. He then discharged every employ6 who was inimical to Beck's interest, and with a small army of trusted clerks and shrewd lawyers he defied Beck's enemies, and began the herculean task of neraveling the vast financial tangle. Acted as Dictator. He dictated to Beck the choice of his associates and the matter of his conversation. Though strongly opposed and bitterly fought at every step, it was only eighteen months before the mines were freed from every claim against them and John Beck was again a znithoeaire.

Then Beck, intoxicated with the joy of deliverance, lost all gratitude and all sense and quarreled with his deliverer. Ile went to Mr. Ryan and told him be needed him no longer and asked him to turn over the.property. Mr. Ryan was ready to do so when a balance of $72,000 due on his salary was paid.

Then a diepute arose as to how much was due and ended in Beck suing Mr. Ryan for an account and seeking to enjoin Mr. Ryan from negotiating Beck's check for $30,000, which he had in his The court granted a temporary injunction, but on the facts of the management of the mines found in Mr. Ryan's favor. This caused Beck to weaken, and then the case was settled out of court, one Point being the payment of $35,000 to Mr.

Ryan as a balance due on salary. Mr. Ryan having in eighteen months made $2,000,000 for Beck, wnile he was making in other ways 8500,000 for himself. at once became famous in mining circles, where he is regarded as the greatest mine manager and one of the most brilliant finauciers in the West, He is, however, a remarkably modest roan, and when complimented on his achievements quietly remarks: "There are a dozen men in Chicago compared with whom I am tot in it." SAYS THEOSOPHY IS A WICKED HUMBUG RECEIVER FOR A CHICAGO COMPANY. Columbia Straw Paper Concern in Bad Financial Straits.

New York, May 6.Special.W. G. E. See was appointed by Chancellor McGill in Jersey City today receiver of the Columbia Straw Paper company of Chicago. The concern has indebtedness of outside of its bonded liabilities.

It has defaulted recently in the payment of interest. The available assets are not more than $50,000. There is also a mortgage against the company held by a trust company which has been foreclosed. The stockholders say the corporation is hopelessly insolvent. SULLIVAN'S TRUNKS SOLD AT AUCTION.

curred by him prior to his inauguration. For two months before the expiration of Gov. Lewelling's term of office, Gov. Morrill occupied an office in a building in this city and employed a corps of clerks to take care of the correspondence heaped upon him by office-seekers and others who had expected to have buslaess with him after his inauguration During the time that he occupied these offices he prepared the lengthy message which he sent the Legislature immediately after assummg the duties of Governor. These vouchers, which are on file in the office of the State Auditor, are as follows: J.

L. Bristow, Secretziry, salary for the month ending Jan. 14 and commencing Dec. 15 Miss Kate Adams, clerk 00 Charles Hull, 83 Office rent, telegraph and office 85 These vouchers were paid March 7 and were audited without question by Wiley Cook, Assistant Auditor, in the absence of his chief. When Auditor Cole returned to the city he examined the vouchers, and, questioning their legality, requested an opinion from the Attorney-General.

The reply was promptly made that the warrants were issued without authority of law and that the money must be turned back into the Treasury. The Governor's attention was called to it, and nearly a month later, when Private Secretary Bristow's and the other clerks' salaries became due for April, they did not draw them but caused the amounts to be turned back into the Treasury to cover the amount which had been previously illegally drawn. This morning Joseph Waters, the attorney who is defending Chase in his trial by the investigating committee that had been ordered by the Governor, paid a visit to the Auditor's office and made copies of all of the records in connection with the vouchers. He then drew up tne complaint, which Chase afterwards swore to. When the discovery of the illegal vouchers was first announced in a local paper the Governor said he had offered to pay his employes their salaries out of his own pocket, but they insisted that the work they had done had been done for the State and that the State ought to pay for it.

In compliance with their wishes be had sworn to the vouchers against his own judgment, but that as soon as practicable after the opinion of the Attorney-General had been received the money was covered back into the Treasury and he had paid it out of his own pocket. The amount for rent and offica supplies had not been paid in this afternoon. Each voucher is signed by the Governor, who also subscribed to the following affidavit: I do hereby certify that the within was contracted for the State under authority of law and that the amount herein claimed is correct according to such contract and is unpaid." 1 1 IF: 1 ---Fir: .1 6-----------t- P. '4, .1. 1.7 741 .4,, IL 111 11--1T 11,14 gir'-i ..7 I Knocked Down to the Highest Bidder to ray Oir a Debt.

jacksonville, May Are there any diamonds in the trunk?" "Is tile diamond belt insider' "Say, do I get a Sullivan jag with those goods?" A crowd of 200 men began to guy Deputy Sheriff Thomas when he mounted the block in front of the county court house this morning. It was regular "legal sales day," and the last act in the comedy played by John L. Sullzvan, the ex-champion pugilist, who made a free exhibition cf himself in this city two months ago by getting on a b'g jag, was closed by the selhug of his two trunks, which had been seized by the Sheriff under an execution secured by Viola Armstrong, one ot the members of his company. The bidding was not brisk. W.

G. Toomer opened by offering $5, and both trunks wore finally knocked down to R. ii. Liggett for $100. Liggett is Miss Armstrong's attorney.

The ex-champion's wardrobe is said to be worth three or four times the amount paid. TAKE PARTING SHOT AT THE MAYOR. GIRLS NAMED AFTER GROVER'S FAMILY. Sends 11500 to a Farmer Who Had a Triple Addition to 1tit4 Home. Decatur, May 6.SpeciallA few Weeks ago the wife of Albert Zerkles, a poor farmer residing three miles north of here, gave birth to three children, all girls.

Acting On the suggestion of a friend they were named Frances, Ruth, and Esther, and the father wrote Grover Cleveland. telling him of the event and asked him to buy them each new dresses. The father was considerably surprised last week on receiving a check for saw, signed by Grover Cleveland. Dr. Elliott Cones Calls Bill" Judge a "Psychological Bunko Steerer." Washington, D.

May My compliments to the theosophists of North America or as many as can be found," said Dr. Elliott Coues this evening, and I want to give them some sound, wholesome advice. First, those who wish it can remain fools; secondly, let them get unfooled if they can; and, third, turn fakers if they must. These three heads sum up all I can say to gullible, easily-duped people who have been influenced by Bill Judge, a psychological bunko steerer who keeps a bucket-shop of divine wisdom in New York City. This agitation of the doctrine of theosophy or universal brotherhood is lacking in one important particular, and that is harmony.

Because I have happened to differ from some of the chosen few, as they style themselves I am Informed I have been expelled from the Theosophical Society, whatever that may be. From all I can learn my offense consisted In speaking slightingly of the blessed masters, as they are called by their disciples. This is too comical for serious consideration, and I am dignifying these people by taking notice of their attacks or permitting them to sling mud at me. It makes no difference what names I may call them; there is no attempt made to refute my statements, but they endeavor, like the famous sea fish, to stir up the mud so their movements may be obscured. I have investigated the question of theosophy, both in its psychological and ethical aspects, and the conclusion I have reached Is It Is a vile, wicked humbug." COMPROMISE ON THE SCHOOL QUESTION BURGLAR AT BAY FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE.

Manitoba Dispute May Be Settled Before the Legi si at ore Winnipeg, May is reported tonight that a compromise on the Manitoba school question may be effected before the meeting of the Legislature Thursday. Premier Greenway bad a conference this morning with Schultz on the matter. It lasted over three hours. MURDERS THE WHOLE SCHOOL BOARD. MM.

MAVEN GOES TO PHILADELPHIA. Defends Himself in a Hotel Boom in a Lively Interchange of Bullets. St. Paul, May Camp committed a burglary in Cumberland, Saturday and was tracked to New Richmond. Deputy Sheriff Fuller went' to the burglar's room at 'a hotel, but was driven out at the point of a revolver.

The officer formed a posse to aid in the capture. In the meantime Camp proceeded to throw through the window a quantity of silverware into the river close by; then he placed a lot of papers in a grate and set them on tire. This caused an alarm to be turned in. fireman with the hose presented himself at the window and found himself looking into a pistol. He got down in haste.

By this time a crowd had collected with guns outside. Camp saw a man with a rifle and fired upon him. His fire was returned and a general fusillade followed. Camp held his own until men in the hall began firing in through the door and cross-firing through the transom, when he surrendered. He was taken to county jail in Hudson.

WOMAN AT WORK IN MILLER'S BRICK YARD. gins at 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the morning and is over when the sun gets hotabout 10 o'clock. Then the little children can go and play or go to school. The mothers can go to their housework. They have earned a dollar and a half.

Where Women and Children Work. The yards in which women and children are employed, according to a list given by labor leaders yesterday and afterwards confirmed, are the following: John Labahn, Diversey and Ashland avenues. Becker Runge, Western and Grace avenues. John Willard, Western and Addison avenues. Fred Zapel, Noble street and Ashland avenue.

F. J. Sutter, Grace land avenue bridge. George Foss, Webster avenue bridge. Semmering Diversey and Clybourn avenues.

Toll Meyer, Western avenue bridge. Otto Zapel, Hoyne and Welligton avenues. Charles Schneider, Western and Addison avenues. Burmeister Elston road and Western avenue. William Mueller, Diversey and Ashland avenues.

The only woman found working was in the yards of William Miller at Diversey and Ashland avenues. She was a stout, motherly appearing Pole, and her three children and her husband were helping her. The children were busy turning bricks over to the sun, while their parents stacked them in layers. A policeman volunteered the information that the daily output of the yards was 50,000 bricks, and that the five people would handle them all before 3 o'clock. None of them spoke any English.

There is one man who is utterly untroubled by the strike. His name is Bach, and under the name of Bach Sons he runs a yard at Grace and Western avenues. The output is daily, and he has all the help he wants. He pays them what he wants to and the union scale has no terrors to him. This is simply because he is blessed with fourteen husky sons, and they all work in the yards.

Some of them have grown-up children, too, and the entire working force of forty persons is said to be blood relations. This is why the strikers keep away from the yards of Bach Sons. One of the strikers was asked 'yesterday what yards were working and replied: "None; that is, none but Bach's, and that ain't. a yard; that's a happy famay." Bounced Tammany, Police Commissioners Write Bitter Letters. New York.

May 6.Theodore Roosevelt. Col. Fred D. Grant, and A. D.

Parker were sworn in today as Police Commissioners to succeed Messrs. Martin, Kerwin, and MurI ay. When the new board, which consists of four memberamet later in the day in Com. missioner Roosevelt was chosen President. Commissioner Andrews was elected Treasurer, Commissioner Parker was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Elections and of the Committee on Pensiona; and Colnmissioner Grant was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies and also Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Discipline.

Before relinquishing his office Commissioner Murray sent a letter to Mayor Strong refusing to comply with the request for his resignation. In concluding the letter Mr. Murray said: The party of which I am a member and Which prior to your election as Mayor yolk were identified with, through its represent-, atives in the Legislature. with mistaken confidence in your discretion, fairness, and Republicanism. conferred upon you an trary power of removal.

This power should not be used with vindictiveness nor exercised for the purpose of building up factional Republicanism or causing Repunlican disorganization or dissensions. The spirit of this act you have violated. The exercise of the power by you, however narrow. capricious. or unjust, I cannot prevent.

If you think you can aVord to employ this power do so. I can afford to be made Its innocent. victim." Mr. Kerwin today gave out a second letter to the Mayor in which he went into more detail in regard to the alleged violation of ante-election pledges by Mr. Strong.

Both Mr. Kerwin and Mr. Murray are Platt Republicans. In this later letter Mr. Kerwin says: The record proves that you were false to every promise you made, and in the face of overwhelming evidence you have not dared to deny your wanton treachery.

The patient people of this city, my dear sir, will not fcrget that you remained silent in the face of charges of the most damaging character. directly crediting you with being untruthful In your statements and false to the pledges subscribed by you. They will not soon forget the puerile explanation you made when you startled the community with the false declaration that the city's finances had been tampered with. Least of all will any respecting citizen forget your conduct in going outside of this city for persons to conduct the affaire of the Municipality. In dos Discussion Over Text Books Leads to a Triple Tragedy at Tarryall, Colo.

Como, May the Tarryall District school-house, nine miles east of Como, Benjamin Ratcliffe today shot and killed Samuel F. Taylor, L. F. McCurdy, and Geo. D.

Wyatt, constituting the School Board, at the annual school election. Wyatt, who survived four hours, said Ratcliffe opened a discussion over text-books for the district and then accused the board of slandering him And his family. Ratcliffe accidentally fired his rifle, the ball entering the floor at Taylor's foot, doing no damage During the exciting discusion following Ratcliffe took aim at Taylor and fired, Taylor dying instantly. Ratcliffe then shot McCurdy, striking him in the back, causing instant death. He then shot Wyatt in the back.

Ratcliffe surrendered. He says he did his best, and what he thought was justifiable homicide. Ratcliffe is 63 years of age and an invalid. Ill-Health Causes a Prominent Insurance Man to Take a 11-swation Maj. C.

E. Bliven, manager of the Western department of the American Fire Insurance company of Philadelphia, is suffering from nervous prostration and has gone to Philadelphia to seek recovery. The company has granted Mr. Bliven an indefinite leave of absence. The office has been placed in charge of a special agent, and the department may be abolished.

Maj. Eliven has been in the insurance business many years and stands well with his business associates and Grand Army and Loyal Legion friends. Concerning the Major's illness his son said last night: Father is simply worn out. He has stuck close to business and hasn't taken a vacation since the war. He is suffering from nervous prostration and has gone to Philadelphia on an indefinite leave of absence.

I do not know whether the office will be closed." SPARKS FatOM mirk; WIRES. The census of the City of Buffalo, taken May 1, showed the population to be 335,709. In attempting to cross Denton Creek, near Now Orleans. Peter Haronson. his wife, and daughter were drowned.

Leads Kingman, late City Engineer of To-peke. has been appointed Chief Eagineer of the Mexican Central railroad. Edward N. Deady, son of the late judge Deady of the United States District was arrested in Portland. charged with forgery.

The Executive committee the Indiana Operators' Aasociation has been called to meet at Terre Haute tonight to again consider the wage scale. In the Duestrow insanity case at Union (Mo.) the State opened its onslaught on the expert testimony given last week to prove the millionaire murderer insane. Charles H. and Henry. Delany, arrested In connection with the blind pool at Pitts.

burg. a few months ago, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. A stock company to give theatrical per. formances has been organized at Forty Mile. on the Yukon River in Alaska, the northernmost settlement on the continent.

Among the notorious criminals to be tried at the May term of the United States Court at Fort Smith. are Henry Starr. the train robber. and Cherokee Bill the Indian territory bandit. The of Georgia has been asked to call.

out the militia to be at Andersonville, Sumter County, Decoration day, to preserve order. In times past they have utterly disregarded the laws of the State and openly defied its officers. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford has filed in the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco a demurrer to the suit brought by the government against the Stanford estate to recover 000 advanced by the United States for the construction of the Central Pacific railroad.

The demurrer sots forth that the only relief open to the government is the confiscation of the Doraticao a TRAMPS TAKE POSSESSION OF A TOWN. NIGHT WATCHMAN HEIR TO MILLIONS. Capt. John Rowland of San Francisco to Get Fart of Iletty Green's Fortune. San Francisco.

May John Howland, a night watchman on one of the wharves, and his brother, Jotham Howland, a farmer of Napa. win each inherit a large share of held in trust for them by Mrs. Hetty Green during her lifetime. Mrs. Green's father was Edward Mott Robinson.

The Rowlands were nephews of Robinson's wife. Robinson, more commonly known as Black Hawk Robinson, was a wealthy dealer in ship's stores of New Bedford. Mass. He left absolutely to his daughter, Hetty Green, and $3,000,000 for life. and after her death to the Howland heirs.

Robinson had made his first success in life through the assistance of his brother-in-law, Gideon Howland, and it was tude for this that prompted him to make theo-nlyretui-n-in-Ins power by remember: Ing 145 relations in his wills I IS A SETBACK FOR THE FAIR CHILDREN Sett Francisco Judge Decides the First win Has Precedence in Consideration. San Francisco, CaL, May 6.In the fight for the Fair millions the executors of the first will, which so mysteriously disappeared from the County Clerk's office, will have a decided advantage. Judge Stock today ruled the first will must be disposed of before the later will, produced by Mrs. Nettle Craven, can be considered. The first will filed will therefore be the first contested.

This is considered a matter of great importance to the proponents, for the tactics of the Fair children were to evade the forfeiture clause under the first will by supporting the second, the provisions of which were more to their likinKm Hold High Carnival for Five Hours at Granger, Mich. Niles, May band of fifteen tramps marched into the little Village of Granger, ten miles from here. at noon today and took forcible possession. With stones and clubs they drove the residents within doors and then looted a saloon and grocery store, breaking all the windows, drinking all the liquor. and eatmg everything at hand.

At 5 o'clock a number of vitlagers armed with rifles succeeded in driving out the but could not arreat tut of them' Directors of the Mexican Central Chosen. Boston, May 0.At the meeting of the Mexican Central Railroal Directors today. President C. E. Perkins and General Manager Charles J.

Paine, both of the Chicago, Burlington 8.nd Quincy railroad, were made members oft Lbe board 1Continn4 on seventh svgs..