The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • 2

EVENING NEWS, PLAINFIELD, N. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1 8 90. PLAINFIELD a liftilr tl A TEN CLUB LEAGUE. double action ballot box, which, the Repub WAS JOHN BURIED ALIVE? I WHU nUnUtntU AHUIL SENATE AHDj HOUSE, tfcs BepnbHoM Ussss Coavoatlosv i NabbviLLR, March 4. Many dskntss havs arrived to attend the meeting of publican League clubs in this city.

Goff, of West Virginia, is the most noUbS of the arrivals so far. The eeaveuttei opened at noon la Amusement dent Thurston presiding. The Delaware. New York and New England fielegatiejui reached here this morning. There ars'new about 400 delegates in the city.

Ths Wet) Virginia delegates, headed by Judge Nathan Goff, and -part of the Indiana, Soui Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and stsn tucky delegations arrived last evening. The largest number coming in on any one trsiif so fsr was the Pennsylvania people, IncloX ing the Americaa club of Pittsburgh Boarders Injured at a Fire. Middletowx, N. March 4. Ths Ea, change hotel took fire at 1:30 o'clock ia the kitchen and before it was discovered fcJ gained such headway that the flames were beyond control, and the building, with its contents, were totally destroyed.

Loss, about party insured. LUly Peckfoj Gouverneur, N. a transient boarder leaped from a second story window. She was badly burned about the face, heads, neck, body and lower extremities. Hr re covery is doubtful E.

K. Robin, a brake-man on the O. and W. railroad, occupied a room on the second floor and was renders! unconscious by the smoke. Hs was takes out in a critical condition.

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OIIIUEOI, KDtTOW ASO PKOrUETOB. ft I PI LI VX HSD IT A WHIRS TO AXL PAKTt OF THE CTTT AT TX.t CTtirra A WKI, OR, I AID I AOVA5LB, AT t0O TBAK LOCV BOX I. TXTHOirn 42. ADDRX8S A IX srSIXXSS COMMrWTCATlOJTB TO THM TXAIHFTELD IVXMJTQ Cremating Paupers. An insane asylum superintendent call io tuO wiioiesaic paioiua ot the coil that is taking place in the of cities where paupers are buried In potter's fields.

When they die rapidly, each has not a separata grate, tut they li la trenches eight feet deep, the bodies caching one another. In this position they do not decay quickly, but may lis few years un absorbed by the earth. The law gives the bodies of unclaimed paupers to medical colleges, but there are now so many that the colleges cannot wee them. Even of those brought to the dissecting table, the fragments are gathered and deposited in the trenches in potter's field. In the public burying ground on Ward's island, New York, here are already "3,000 corpses.

Before another generation passes these will be added to at the rate of 10,000 a year. Dr. Hart, the insane asylum superintendent mentioned, recommends that unclaimed pauper bodies be cremated as measure of public safety. The welfare of the liring must bo consulted first, and imperatively demands that the soil around large cities shall not be turned into a vast receptacle for "decaying corpses. Especially Dr.

Hart urges the cremation of the fragments of subjects from dissecting rooms. 4 The cremation of pauper corpses might give rise to a new and flourishing industry, such as it is already said to hare done in a certain city, namely, the trade in second hand coffins. According to report, the superintendent of the crematory there was of a frugal mind: The bodies to be cremated were removed from the coffin and placed upon the bier belonging to the crematory before being consigned to the flames. Thus the coffin was left with both its occupant and its occupation gone. The relatives of the deceased had no further use for it, and thought no more about it.

What was to be done with it? The superintendent finally hit upon a plan. lis is said to hare sold the coffins, in company with some other speculators, and made neat little perquisites thereby. Why not? But an enemy must need grudge it to the speculators, and so told on them. When finally the handsome coffin of a wealthy and pro mine 1. 1 citi-sen was recognised, the whole story came out.

i i Electricity fa the Census, The next census will certainly contain one new feature. That will be statistics of the electrical industry. The electrio lighting companies hare asked congress to appropriate $50,000 to bear the ex panses of a thorough Inquiry into their business. companies themselres, the public. stientiGo men and inventors are all interested in getting full facts with regard so overhead and underground systems.

which is preferable and which is less ex Situ re. The Inquiry will also Include I facts as to electrio motors, how vx how many different kinds there are, which kinds are preferable for stationary engines and which for cars. The dangers to human life would also f.rm a very important branch of the investigation, the ascertainment of bow many deaths had been caused by this agent, and the precautions taken by various companies to avoid accidents. Then a careful comparison of ascertained facts might throw light on a subject about which all tlte world is so lamentably ignorant, yet in which all the world is so profoundly interested. The money could not be better laid out.

A Chinese syndicate have bought in Chicago and shipped to their own country a gold mining and milling plant that cost They say that in the mountains of Tai Shan have been discovered gold mines that yield 700 to the making them the richest In the world. If this is true, it will not be possible to keep Europeans out of that re- sjiun. Radical changes of policy will be forced China. The Chinese in Ameri-T ca became familiar with the best mining and milling machinery for gold, conae ouently they sent to the United States! for their $4,000,000 plant. An unheard of event happened lately.

old Sioux Indian chief Big Head was found one day at Standing Rock, N. hanging from a tree with a rope around ssia steals astd an empty cracker box kicked from under him. He was cut alown only in time to save his life. lie tried to commit suicide because his nwadchiidren had diod and he was lonely and unhappy. An Indian has hardly ret been known to -commit suicide, a Bkmx neves- before, it Is said.

Portraits of Kyraud, the infamous Trench stran-W. bis victim and the detective who found him out have arrived on these shores. They are a striking comment on physiognomy. Judging from tho three countenances, a stranger ss. st first i rk th.

Atatlc for ths murderer. munlere- him-lf for the innocent victim and the real vic- fvT the detective. IH seal can law bill the Ths snd He Hs ths Ms of hs so the the not ths of the in to to I I Is The Maamatos Have Probobly Given Up the Bight Club Idea. Clstelaxd, March 4. The city is full of bass ball men snd everybody is anxious to see what will be done by the League The schedule committee held meeting in tbe Weddell house, but whst was done has not been divulged.

It is hinted, however, that a ten club schedule was a ed. A Brotherhood schedule was laid be. jie ths committee by President Young, who had received it from Secretary Brunell, of the Players' league, but no attention was paid to it. Ths League schedule will be made up just ths same as if the Brotherhood had no existence. It is pretty well settled that there will -be no reduction in the number of clubs composing the League circuit this season.

President Brush, of the Indianapolis club, when ai-ked by a UuiLeu rrosa reporter tf be nad any intention of selling out his team, he replied: "I have not, I shall stay in tbe League this season if any of them do. It may be thit the Brotherhood could be fought harder with sight than with Wn clubs, but I don't feel like sacrificing my interest now for somebody els 3. I have a good clut one that will stand well up in the race and 1 don't intend to give it up This is the season, above all others, that Indianapolis ought to be in the League. We have no opposition, our people are enthusiastic, and tbe indications are that we will have the best season ever known." This is generally taken as Brush's final answer. It was rumored this afternoon that Detroit would make another effort to break into tbe League at this meeting, but thus far no one representing that city ba put in appearance.

It is said by tbe delegates pr-sent that there is no chance whatever for Detroit to obtain a franchise. "If another eastern team could be secured," said a delegate, "we might take Detroit in and have a twelve club league. But Baltimore is the only eastern city that would be large enough for us, and they are in the Atlantic league to stsy." Todsy the regular postponed meeting wss reconvened at noon. About twenty-five ol the visiting baseballists accepted an invitation to attend the Lyceum taeatre last evening. Brotherhood Teams Go South.

New York, March 4. John Ward and hi team of baseball players have departed for tbe south on the steamer Chattahoochee for Savsnnah. The Philadelphia Brotherhood team accompanied them. Tbe Brooklyn Bridegrooms also left at o'clock the steamer Clyde for Jacksonville, Fla. Baseball Briers.

John J. Reidy, who has been a member of the Buffalo International club for the past fsw years, has signed to play third bass focd tbe Jersey City club. VT. P. Potter, of the Pittsburg Players' League club, has stated that the Players league was not going to allow tbe National league to make any stronger bid for public patronage than it.

To this end it bad been about definitely decided to place the price of admission at twenty-five cents, instead of fifty cents, as previously determined upon. Plttsbnra- Swltehsoea on Strike. PrrrsauRO, March 4. The switchmen em ployed in the Pittsburg and Char tiers yard of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad havs struck for an advance in wages. They demand an increase from 91.V0 to (2.10 foi day and 13.30 for night work.

No attempt was mads to move freight trains and considerable difficulty is experienced in getting passenger trains out on time. The striken all non-union men. President Newell is in Europe. The local officials clsim that hey havs no discretion in the matter and cannot concede the demand. Superintendent Holbrook stated that his lines will only temporarily inconvenienced and that new men will take the places of the striken.

About fifty men joined ia the strike. Lottery Men SU1I Aetlve. MixxxAron, March 4. The Jour nal's Grand Forks (N. special says: The following circular has been received heru from Bentlr.

of Bismarck: "There are strong rumors that the infamous lottery bill will reintroduced in tbe legislature March 4 or soon thereafter, and that M. A. Dauphin, president of the Louisiana Lottery company, is now in the city. Forward circulars and protests to ths secretary of this committer at once. Arrange to Lave leadiuM ciUscm ready to come to Bismarck to exert theii influence against the bilL" The citisem here are considerably excited and the senti ment seems to be that the bill will pass li introduced again.

Why Orlntth htrnck Sessions. Jaaucstoww, N. March 4 Tbe Newt publishes a statement by Frank Griffith, who "caned" ex-Congressman Walter Sessions on the streets in this city two weeki ago. In the statement Mr. Griffith allege that the cause of tbe trouble was not an old lawsuit, as Mr.

Sessions gave out to the press, but domestic reasons prompted him to the act, Griffith then goes on to say that fot several years ths ex-congressman bas been trying to get Mrs. Griffith to leave her husband, and whiis at Washington proposed tc the woman that she get a separation from Griffith and he would secure her a govern ment position. It is for this reason, Griffith says, that ha attacked and beat Sessions. Bratlw nu.l Sister o.navnder Fortune. Patxksux, N.

March 4. Rose Mo- Cusker, 33 years old, was found dead ester day in West Twenty-second street. Her death wss pronounced due to alcoholism and exposure. At the morgue 212 wat found in a pocket book tied around her leg. This money was all thst was left of ths legacy which she received from her father's estate last snd which started her on a course of dissipation that ended in death.

Hr brother rtccived a legacy at the same time, snd while drunk was robbed of it in a Peterson saloon. 1 he thief is now in Trenton Jail. What the Fair Coat New Tork. New York, March 4. The final meeting of the World's fair executive committee was held at 2 p.

m. yesterday and the accounts of tbe several sub-committees were passed on. The expenses of the general and executive-committees. It Is estimated, wi. bo about 112 000 and the tntal mr of trrin to get the tair to this city will probably foot up aoout uuu.

i Tho Oraogo Bloasona Caught Cold. St. Acgusttxk, March 4 The weather is still frosty, but is moderating Bananas and early truck gardens are bad damaged. Ornnze trees are bad It ninmul ar rf. ri i in some localities the trees have been killed hero will ua a great loss on next season' crop, at the trees are all in bloom The Emperor and the Socialists.

BERLC, March 4. It is reported that the emperor, speaking at the state council din ner, referred to the successes of the Social tots in turf late elections and said: "I do not fear them. As regards social detnocrscy, it is my auair and 1 sua ready to deal with it alone." licans ssy. was used in this Arkansss dis trict, and enabled the precinct judges, Mr. Outbwsite said, to throw aside the vote of any Republican.

Mr. Outh waits said there wis not a particle of evidence in ths esse to show that such a box was used at the election. Psnding further debate the house adjourned. The bouse committee on puDiic Duiiaingt and grounds has reported favorably bills making appropriations for public buildings follows: Vermont St Albans, New Jersey Hoboken, 15, 000; Paterson, 170,000. Delaware Wilmington, $100,000.

New York Newburg, 1100,000. Massa chusetts Haverhill, Taunton, Pennsylvania York, $90,000. Maine. Lewis ton, 73, QUO. Ohio Youngstown, 000; Akron, $100,000 Among the bills introduced in the house were the follow tng: sat: Indiana Appropriating $35,000 for a monument to the division of regulars on the Gettysburg battlefield.

Tapper Visits the President. Washington. March 4. Mr. Charles Tup- per, accompanied by Secretary Blaine, called on President Harrison at the executive mansion yesterday.

He was received in the library and remained for some time in conversation with the president. Until yesterday the presence of Mr. Tupper in Washington was officially ignored by state da partment officials. FIRE IN A MINE. Sevan Men Cat Off from Escape Have They Perished? WnJCESBARRK, March 4, SeTen men were driving gangways in a long tunnel of the South AViikesherre mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes bar re Coal company yesterday when the driver boy, James Thomas, ignited the gas with his naked light.

An explosion followed and set fire to the heavy timbers in the tunnel, and James, although badly burned, rushed forwsrd to give the slarm. but the fire had made such headway that the men could not get out, and it is thought that all have perished. A great force of men are engaged in fight ing the flames. There is a bare hope that the men have locked themselves in a chamber and may be rescued. There is great excitement at the scene, where the wives and children of the entombed men are weeping snd moaning.

Tbe names of the men are James Thomas, Thomas Williamson, Hugh Dugan, Michael Ferry, Frederick Cull, Thomas McDonald and Janiss Campbell, Grand sodgs A. O. V. W. Rochester, March 4.

Ths Grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of this i tate is holding its seventeenth an nual session here. The report of the grand receiver wss contained in these dispatches last Friday. Ths report of the grand re corder will show the membership on Jan. 1, 1890, wss 31,098, ss compared with on Jan. 1, 1S8V.

The report of the grand medical examiner for 1S8V shows that he passed upon 4,2101 applications, of which he rejected 241. There were S43 deaths during the year and the death rate per 1,000 was 11, as compared with 9.08 in being an increase of 1.99 over the average rate for the past seven ysars. No lef'slstioa of especial moment has thus far been suggested. The chief in terest will center around ths election of officers, as it is understood that ths present grand master workman desires to be relieved, which is without precedent in the history of the order in this state. Taalkeo Expects to Die.

Washtxqtox, March 4. Ex-Congressman William Tsulbee, who was shot by Correspondent Kincaid. is by no means out of danger. All day hs has been losing strength and burning up with fever. An operation was performed yesterday afternoon.

The ball was located just behind the larnyx, but the patient's condition wss such that the surgeons did not dare to remove it. Dr. Bayns said that while he hoped Tsulbee would attimstoly recover, bis chances were not so good as they had been twenty-four hours before. The ex-congressman- belie vss he will not recover and has made bis will. He hss ssnt a message to Mr.

Kincaid that whether hs lived or not that gentleman would not be prosecuted. Ooa. Orabe Will Proaeento. Trbston, March 4. An evening paper of this town hsd sn editorial yesterday saying mat uen.

wudd uss declared that it it is to onv.ct in. men who hvs vio lated ths sanctity of the ballot box in Hud son county, svsry one of them shall be msde to suffer for his crime. It adds: "Gen. Orubb has instructed his counsel, Gen. George M.

Robertson, to spars no expense in prosecuting these scoundrels. While he wishes it understood that hs is not making a contest with Governor Abbett as to who shall occupy ths governor's chair, he says: "But I have a duty to perform to my state. my party and myself, and that is to do all that I can to expose ths fraudulent character of ths voting at ths last election." Tfce Freestone Lock oat. Boero. March 4.

The Freestone lockout still continues and causes much peculation. It is said there is considerable dissension in ths contractors' ranks and that some openly question the advisability of locking out ths cutters. It is also stated that the vote of the contractors wss far from unanimous upon the question of the lockout. Ths contractors deny that a covert attempt is being mads to overthrow the sight hour movement. It is reported that the firm of Knox Dodge hss posted ths lockout notice.

The indications are that ths differences betweeu ths employsrs and their men will be submitted to sr bit ration. Fatal Street Duel In Iowa. Dks MOIXE8, March 4. Constable Skinner, a Des Moines searcher, shot "Dude" Henderson, a negro tongh, last evening The officer had searched Henderson's pine for liquor, and the latter had resisted. Ths result was thst Henderson wss badly bruised and in a lew hours started after the officer, Fa.J I aieeung mm on a public street both men began firing, and three shoU entered Hen derson body, one passing through bis stomach.

The negro's wounds will prove ratal. Holders Leave Their Work. Sak Fraxcmkxv March 4, All the mold ers employed ia foundries represented in the nouloun-Wrs ktwc-wuuu have struck work They number over SdO, and about 700 other workmen are thrown out of work because of the strike. The trout 1j is due to a recent notice that after March 10 the foundries would not recognize certain regulations the union. The Nana of Stanley's Nsw lt'tok.

Loxoo jf, March 4. The publishers of Si ley's book ami. nine- the th- tbe work will be "Darktst Africn ri Quest, Rescue and Ketrent of uin Scribners, of New York, have uers for oO.OOU copim of the look. Weather Indication. Light rain or now.

To-mrrrow it pron -ises to be genor illy warmer anl from parLiv ciouly to cloudy, preceded by fog on tbe coast and followed by rain. The Remarkable Tale of a St. Louis Man. TAKEN FROM A GRAVE BY GHOULS. His Supposed Widow Identified Bis Body at the Morgue and Wss Very Much Surprised When He Turned TJp Again.

Cat by Doctors Knives. St. Louih, March 4. When John O'Connor died last month his good widow buried him in a way that bore testimony to her wifely worth and tbe esteem with which she had regarded her departed lord. Funerals are expensive, but Widow O'Connor did not do things by halves.

She had an apprecia tion of mortuary niceties, and if corpses could see and know, then the dead O'Con nor must have felt a compensation in death. That a man only dies once in a lifetime bai all along been an undisputed truth, but ths case of tbe late Mr. O'Connor bas somf phases about it which will go far to shattei the popular belief. Ber Dead Husband Walked In. Widow O'Connor looked comely in her weeds, but it was a most cruel blow to her when, a few days after his funeral, her hus band walked into the house.

She had been living apart from him before the funeral, and in the shadow of th grim reaper she had forgotten their trouble. Death 4iad breached the rupture over, but the widow little expected such an unexpected phase of the breaching. had forgivec and wept over O'Connor dead, but here he was in fish again. A Remarkable Now John J. O'Connor had died and people who ate and lived with him testified that tbe corpse was that of O'Connor.

Added this the identification of the wife removed the matter beyond all question. But then appears to have been two O'Connors, th same ia name and feature; in fsct, as mUcb alike as the two Dromioa. The questioc which now distresses tbe good Woman whe mourns one of tbem is why one is dead and ons. is living. The case is a remarkable on of mistaken identity as to individuality, and of a similarity of names snd features.

Not Buried by Proxy. There is now some reason to believe that the present John J. O'Connor was not buried by proxy, but in his own proper person. He hss just made public his theory of the affair and points to an empty grave I Calvary cemetery to verify his story, said today that be really believed bad been buried, resurrected and placed on the dissecting table, and that he bad then revived under the knife. He exhibited partly healed wound, extending half way across tbe abdomen.

it is not a random slash, but a scientifle incision, which wat daftly stitched and covered with adhesiv plaster. The Doctor's Had Him. 'I must have been taken for dead by somebody," said the reeurrected O'Connor, and Tin satisfied the doctors bad me, else how did I get the cutf You see, I'm subject to heart disease. I went to bed at tbe very lodging house where the other O'Connor was found dead on the evening of Feb. 10.

That is the last I remember till Wednesday morning, two days later, when I found myself sitting on the court house wall, near Fourth and Market streets wss so sick and weak I could hardly stand. And then when I read about mj wife having buried somebody else for me 1 just made up my mind that I had taken a bad spell of heart trouble in that lodging house and that my folks had gone and buried me for dead, that the doctors had dug me up the same night and bgun cut ting me. I must have come to as soon as little blood had flowed. They Sowed Hlsn TJp. "It is possible that the doctors got scarce and kept me under the influence of chloro form till they could sew me up, then took and set me down on that low stone wal that runs around the court house, just- tc get me off their hands.

If it wasn't me thai wss taken out of that lodging house foi dead and buried by my wife, I would liket know who it was. The description given ol the body in tbs morgue is the description ol my body, clothes and all, and I to anybody deny it. And then there's thai empty grave out there. How do I know it empty! Never you mind, bat I know it." Is the Grove Empty Hs says his mind bas not been exactli right "since be was buried," or rather sine tbe night on which he or tbe other "feiler' died. Wheu referring to dates the resurrected O'Connor says, "The day I died" oi "the day I was buried" in a very matter-of fact manner.

A color of truth is gives O'Connor's theory from tbe fact that th wife first learned that her' husband was is the morgue through the newspapers, and then went there and recognised him beyond a doubt. II tt can be established that really registered at the Third street lodging house on ths night in question and that the grave is now empty, then the story will bt The Ballot Count la Mew Jersey. Tkxxtok, March 4. A queer looking poL book from the Rixth Hoboken precinct wai all the "smoky" work that was found In th eight precincts counted by the senate electkx committee. The registry list, however, seemed to all right, and the count agreed with its registration.

With tbe exception! of slight clerical errors all ths other ftgarei were verified. The committee has thirty two precincts to count this week, and that their work is done. The First Block of American Tin. Pittsbcro, March 4. The first block of ttn produced from an American tin mint has just resched Pittsburg.

The block oi tin weights twenty-five pounds and wai taken from a tin deposit near Hermosa 8. by. the Glendale Tin company. Ii has been examined by experts who pro nour.ee it excellent A Fatsl Schoolboys' Quarrel. AKRoit, March 4.

At Cuyahoga Falls a suburb "of this city, several schoolboyt quarreled, snd George Patterson, sged 1( years, picking up. a atono struck Edward Trautman, aged 8 years, knocking out hif brains and killing him. Patterson hss beet lodged in jaiL A Troy Tramp's Tramp Ended. Nashua, N. March 4.

A tramp wht a ss taken sick with pneumonia at the poliot station Friday, after walking from Ayes Junction, 1mh1 at the city farm yesterday uat before dying he said that he was Geo rat Stanhope, eged XS, and belonged in Easl Troy, N. Y. fottere on Ktrlke. Trentok, March 4. -Fifty-two employes of the Equitable pottery have struck because of th mployment of non-union heir by the firm.

It is thought that the trouble wjl be setiiwl by tbe non-union men joining A Jury Pronounces Chalkley Leconey Not Guilty. THE JERSEY MYSTERY UXS0LYED. Jake Kllraln Receives His Sentence The Paglllst Stunt Pay S)sOO and Pass Two Month In tho Purvis (Miss.) Jail Olhei Interesting Court Notes. Camdkw, N. March 4.

There was great excitement in the court room when Prosecutor Richard S. Jenkins, in the middle of powerful speech closing ths trial of Chalkley Leconey lor the muruer oi his niece, waf prostrated by sn attack of heart failure. The old lawyet wUoiconducted the trials of tbs stat in Camden county for twenty years previom to his succession by his nephew, Wilson H. Jenkins, six years ago, had been given the responsible task ol chalkley LECOMCT. delivering the doe ing argument for the state.

He is of feeblt frame, but great determination. Feeble but Determined. He had fought against illness for the past three day, determined to make this the effort of his closing semi-official life. He started his speech with a quotation from Cicero: "Do not talk of many things but much of one thing." He began st once tc bring in compact form the state's array oi damaging facte against Leconey. The large audience listened with breathless attention.

At the end of half an hour Mr. Jenkins com plained of the ventilation of the court room A few minutes later he was seen to stagger, and but for the assistance of hU nephew the prosecutor would have fallen. He wai led from the court room and Judge Garrison, who is a physician, attended him It was announced that he had en attack oi heart failure, probably not serious, and ths court took a recesa The Judge's Charge. Later the prosecutor, sgreed to let th case go to the jury on the charge of the court. Judge Garrison chsrged that wilful premeditation bad not been proved, and that a verdict of murder in the first degree should not be rendered.

He said verdicts ol either the second degree, manslaughter or acquittal would lay. Hs said the testimony snd conduct of ths defendant alone should grestly influence the jury. The testimony of Smith and Murray, if the jury believed it, left no uncertainty ss "to guilt, but ha called attention to the rigorous attsck made on their veracity. Ths charge lasted forty-five minutes. It wss able and impartial.

Tbs jury then retired. Leconey remained calm and walked firmly out when the court took a recess. "Not Gnllty' the Verdict. The jury was out about two hours, but arrived at a unanimous decision, "not guilty," in less than half that time, and sent in word to that effect about o'clock. Judge Lsmtson, however, did not appear in court until 8:45, when the verdict was promptly rendered.

There was a great crowd present, snd there wss much excitement, but the judge enjoined silence as ths jury filed in. The friends and neighbors of Leconey could hardly restrain their feelings, however, and no sooner wss the decision announced and court adjourned than there was a great rush to congratulate the liberated man. Two Months for Kllraln. Purvis, Miss, March 4. Jake Kilrain appeared in court for sentence in the morning.

After dwelling briefly on the lsws of Mississippi sgainst prise fighting, and speaking in severe terras of tbe invasion of the state by the prisoner and his friends Isst July for an unlawful purpose, the, judge sentenced Kilrain to two months' imprisonment in the Purvis jail, and to pay a fine of $300. Salllvan'a Casa Nest Monday. John L. Sullivan's case, which is an appeal from a sentence of one year, will probably be decided next Monday. Tho Caao Aaainat Miller Dlesataaed.

New York, March 4. In ths court of general sessions, Record Bmith dismissed the charge of bribery against ex-Alderman WiHiam H. Miller, indicted for receiving $30,000 as a bribe in connection with the famous Broadway railway case in 1884. District Attorney Fellows recommended the dismissal on tbe ground that sufficient evidence could not be secured to convict tbe accused. The Plaintiff" Waa Not Beady.

Pfxw Yore, March 4. The complaint In tbe divorce suit of Richard D. Young against Emma Young wss dismissed by Jndge Beach in supreme court, chambers. The case was sot down peremptorily for ths day, but the plaintiff waa not ready to pro ceed. The Deed of a Drmakea Brute.

Boston, March 4. Frank B. Keith, who says be resides in Worcester, entered the bouse of Capt. Griffin, of Hook and Ladder company No. 8, on Tyler street, while in toxicsted, and demanded some soup.

On being refused he knocked Mrs. Griffin down and beat and kicked her. She was ths only member of the family in the house at the time. Keith was frightened away by some one knocking at the door. He was afterward captured.

Mrs. Griffin's condition is alarming. To Dnlld a Worth River Bridge. Albany, March 4 M. H.

Houseman, gen eral counsel for the Maryland Central Rail way company, under date of Feb. 27, writes to Assemblyman Bradford Rhodes relative to the Hnddou river bridge Mil, ia reply to a letter from Rhodes to Senator Quay, of fenmylvaina. Mr. Houseman says that be represents unancmi interests that are pre pared to but a bridge across the Hudson from New York as soon as a bill for the purpose, now pending in congress, becomes a law. Father Keron's Death.

Philadelphia, March 4. The coroner's jury bas f.und a v-rdict that Father Keron's death was caused by pulmonary apoplexy, due to excessive use of narcotics snd alcoholic stimulants The bruises on the body had nothing to do with the death of the unfortunate iniin. The clergy at the Baltimore cathedral say Feron was the son of wealthy parents in Kngland. He member of thv Joseph its order. The Pratt Crop Destroyed, Lancaster, March 4.

At a meeting of the ncaster County Agricultural -ciety reiiorts were r.vid showing that the fruit crop ia the couuty was practically destroy, I the late frost. It was stated that tbwe will be no early fruit at alL Mr. Spooncr's Speech Against the Blair BilL IDCCATION IX SOCTHEUN STATES. Federal Iaterfereaee with. Stats School Systems Cendesaaed by the Speaker.

Mere Salary for District Court Judge. i Yeorheea sad the Aluk ImI Ium. Wasbtjigtox, March 4. In ths senate Mr. Voorbees offered a preamble and resolution (referred to the committee oa finance) re-eitr-g that in the recent less- of the fur islands of Alaska to the North Ameri Commercial company all the forms of had not been complied with, and calling oa the secretary of the' treasury for copies of atl the bids snd all correspondence with bidders, snd directing the seeretary.to refrain from executing or delivering the leas until the matter had been inquired into by ths senate.

Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the eommittee on foreign relations to consider 1 ths advisa bility of raising the Turkish mission to ths second class, and making ths salary of ths Americas minister to that country 113,000. Star Pay for District 4lfn. On motion of Mr. Hoar, ths hill fixing ths salaries of United States judges at 1,5,000 taken up, and after soma discussion was passed.

Mr. Boar explained ths provisions of tbs and advocated its passage, stating that salaries were not uniform, and in many cases were inadequate to secure good judgea bill was passed by a rots of 58 to 1.1 Mr. RMur Ccmplimriili Mr. Blair. Ths educational bill wss than taken np.

Mr. Spooner spoks In opposition to it said he had voted once for ths bill snd once against it, snd now ha again opposed it. complimented Mr. Blair upon hi indus try, courage and ability in his advocacy of bill. Us denied that the Republican party was pledged to ths support of ths bilL could not admit that the Federal band could take jurisdiction of the school system a stats and take it into sxclssive charge.

Speaking of Mr. Blair's allusion to the press being id a conspiracy in favor of ignorance, said, that the newspaper pre could havs Interest sgainst ths general interest of people, ft could not havs an interest against universal knowledge. If it haany special interest on the subject It wasuiThs direction that every man, woman and child should be taught, not only to read, but to read newspapers. I Tka Press and the People. That the press had not used more exten sively Mr.

Blair's able analytical snd ex haustive speeches wss due, he 1 thought, to fact that the psopls of the country were today, as they had been years ago, intensely interested in favoring the bill. In west and south there had been a great change ia public opinion and in the attitude newspapers that bad formerly favored bill. Spooner spoks In terms of praise of the provisions for common school edooation in ths southern states, and said that ths people of thoss ststes had not only been doing well in ths education of white children but hsd been doing well in ths edu cation of colored children. HS had seen, he no stronger condemnation of ths measure than tbs argument of ths president his annual message, and which tbs sena tor from Nsw Hampshire considered argument in its favor. Ths President's Word.

The president hsd said. 6uch aid should be, as it always has been, suggested by some exceptional condition." Were there. Mr. Spooner asked, exceptional, conditions which Justified the appropriation of money for school purposes to Kansas, to Wisconsin, Ifew York, to California, to Illinois, or lows! If congress were to effer to ap propriate six millions for school purposes in Nsw York it would be laughed at. Hs commented upon ths fsct thst this bill did not ooatain a provision which ths former bills had contained, requiring the school books in use to have ths approval of tbs secretary of the interior.

He supposed that Its absence now was to be construed as a conoseaioa to tbs south in order to obtain 4WC tuO Mr. Blair remarked that that amendment had been thrown in by the most persistent Republican opponent of the bill in order to tantalise and assail ths sensltivensas of the south. I Kdyaeatloa la the Seat a. Mr. Spooner continuing, and conclud ing, said he thought education on the installment plan was dangerous, and that tbs effect of the bill would be to stimulate unduly schools la ths south, and that when ths eight years ended (if they ever did end) ths southern states would object to raising by taxation the sums that would then be necessary to keep np ths schools, Hs believed that, with people as with individuals, self h.

lp was ths best help. Hs believed thst ths tendency of ths day was too nineh to paternalism In government, and that the policy of the bill, if entered upon, would never end. All things considered, the step was a dangerous one, unless it were a necessary step, snd hs denied thst it was a necessary step. i Waraaotk's WoealnaMe Coaflrmed. The senate in secret session devoted nearly an hour to the consideration of the nom ination of Henry Warmoth to be col lector of customs at New Orlsana Mr.

Dolph, whe reported the nomination fsvor- sbly from tbs eommittee on commerce, sands a speech In defense of Mr. Warmoth, and said that the committee had not found ths charges mads sgainst him by Louisiana Republicans wsll founded. Ths nomination was confirmed finally by a rote of 89 to 14. A long list of other nominations wss taken np and confirmed. Among ths bills introduced in ths senate wars ths following By Mr.

Paddock (by request) Repealing the long snd short haul clause and the pool- lag section or the interstate commerce set. By Mr. Dolph Providing for obligatory attendance at school of children ia Alaska. Wabrtnqto, March 4, In tbs house, I alt. uonneii, or AiichJgan, presented petition of the Seventh Dar AdvantiKts having 000 signatures, protesting sgainst the enactment of any law in relation to Sabbath observance.

Mr. Banket, of Mass achusetts, secured the suspension of the rules and the passage of a joint resolution authorising ths appointment of thirty medi cal examiners in ths pension bureau. air. reruns, or A-ansaa, moved the suspension o( tho rules to put upon Its passage the senate bill for ths organisation of the territory of Oklahoma, with ths house sub tltuU therefore. Lost.

i Action Ballot Bos. Hr" frBn- cmlIed -Arkansas MWVW HVU of Featu retone vs. Cats. Mr. Outh waits (O.h in farorinc tho eo a testes, exhibited what is known as the An Attempted Bank Robbery.

Rtdgwat, March 4. An attempt was made to rob the Elk County bank ia this borough Sunday night. The burglars cot through the solid walls of the building and were working at the vault when they gay up the yob. They were undoubtedly fright. ened away, as they left a number of their tools lying about the place.

When ths bank was opened Monday morning the clerks discovered about four feet of the wall removed, and brick, mortar, scattered arounA. The vault contained 150,000 which was found undisturbed. The attempted robbery was by experts and caused a great sensatiov in this place. Rtoiii Rouse. BUY A HEW BROOM.

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