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imti NUMBER 3125. PHILADELPHIA, FHIDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1884. TWO CENTS. A REPUBLICAN SCANDAL. KILLED BT A FRIEND.

MBS. LANDIS' DEATH RECALLED. PERIL IN SCHOOL HOUSES MARK TWAIN IN A RAGE. THE VIENNA DYNAMITERS A MURDERER'S LAST DAYS HOW JOHN COYLE, PASSES HIS TIME 7 Preparations to Have Prominent Twenty Ninth Ward Politicians Indicted. From two to five Republican politicians will figure before the grand jury, if not before a criminal court, to answer for alleged fraud and attempted bribery.

A report accusing them was prepared last night by an investigating commit tee appointed at the convention on the day after the primaries ot the division delegates of the Twenty eighth Rcpresentattvedistnct, consisting of the Twenty ninth ward. During the eonven tion, it will be remembered. District Attorney Graham called a halt on the vote about to be taken between Amos S. Atkins and John S. Wetter, who were candidates to represent the district at the State Convention.

Mr. Graham said Charles E. Roberts, of the Ninth division, who was expected to vote for Atkins, was absent and he thought there was something wrong. On his motion business was suspended to allow time for a visit by a committee to Mr. Koberts' house.

Ho was not at home and after appointing a committee to ascertain how he was kept away the elec tion proceeded and Wetter was successful by voto of 17 to 1,1, the chairman, J. Taylor Bailey, voting for Wetter, after he had already received 16 votes.or a majority. Had Roberts been present the vote would have been a tie. The committee of investigation included Dis trict Attorney Graham at first, but he retired in favor of Harry Biug, the committee then con sisting of John H. Brown.

Harry King and J. Taylor Bailey. These three have made a thorough Investiga tion and last night prepared their report, which will be laid before the convention which will be reassembled on the call ol the chairman in a few days. The convention will refer the report and cvuience to tne grand jury. The names In the report were generally known last night.

Two prominent politicians of the Twen ty nj I ward are 1st I net ly charged with of iering money ui iwo ueiegaies.wno reiuseu auu others are accused of ottering Koberts a political position to aid in the election of Wetter. A Councilman and a Custom House officer are also named. The committee called on Roberts yester day and lie said ho would have voted for Atkins had lie been present nt the convention. If the election of Wetter is set aside it Is hardly probable that there will be any attempt to re verse tne action oi tne lourtn congressional delegation which on Wednesday night elected W. Ellwood Kowan and Alex.

Crow delegates to Chicago. Had Atkins been elected, however, District Attorney Graham would have been in the Held against Kowan. DEATH OX A BUUN1NG STEAMER. The Kebecca Everliigham Destroyed and a Number of Lives Lost. Columbus, April 8.

The steamer Rebecca Everingham, Captain George Whiteside, was burned to the water's edge, at Fitzgerald landing, on (he Chattahoochee river, forty miles below this city, at 4.15 o'clock this morning. The fire originated in the stern of the steamer and it. is thought lroman electric lamp spark. The passengers who were saved escaped in their night clothes. The following is a list of the lost: Mrs.

Aven, of Luthbert, Miss Simpson, of Fort Gaines, Julia Anderson, chambermaid; Richard Coleman, pantryman Adolnh Thomas, fireman A. Stephens, deck hand; Randolph Singer, deckhand; Bob GriilHh, stevedore. Among the missing are a colored woman and child, names unknown; two white men, unknown, and D. D. Williams, of La Grange.

Captain George H. Whltesides, commander of i.ne vessel, was painituiy uurneii. All tne oincors did their duty. The conduct of Pilot George L. Laphnm and his son, a lad of fourteen years, is especially commenaeu.

iiiey remained on board and materially assisted in landing the passengers. Three hundred and seven bales of cotton and a small miscellaneous freight was burned. The boat was valued at and Is a total loss, with no Insurance. There were sixteen cabin and nine deck passengers on board. The vessel belonged to the Central Line and plied on the Chattahoochee river, between this city and jipaiacincoia isay, on tne uuii coast, j'ne passengers tliat escaped have reached this city and sviue oi uitfia are severely Durucu.

Dissatisfied Church Members. At the recent Conference in Camden of the Methodist Episcopal Church ot New Jersey con siderable discussion took place over the applica tion or tne itcv. J. DoWitt Miller, who wished to be appointed to a church. It was slated that he had written for newspapers articles commenting favorably on certuin theatrical plays.

The Itev. William S. McCowan was assigned to St. James' Church, New Brunswick, which is the place of worship Mr. Miller wished to be nastor of.

The Conference, however, refused to qualify him. Mr. McCowan lias preached there two Sundays and yesterday the officers of the church refused to provide suitable accommodations for him or to maintain him In his pastoral relations. Mr. McCowan yesterday asked Bishop Harris to release him and ho was transferred to Freehold.

The Kev. Mr. Wight, of the Third Street Church, Camden, was sent to New Brunswick. The members of the church at Freehold obected and the result last night was that the Itev. McCowan was transferred to tho Newark Conference nnd the Kev.

Mr. Crawford to the St. James' Church at New Brunswick. Tho Indian Appropriation Bill. Washington, April 3.

The House spent the greater part of the day in committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill. The pending question was ou tho appeal taken from the decision of tho Chair yesterday declaring in order the motion made by Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas, to strike out the clause appropriating $12, 500 for the pay of five Indian Inspectors and to Insert a proviso abolishing the offices of Indian Inspectors and authorizing the Secretary ot War to detail five officers of the army not under the rank of captain to act as Indian Inspectors. The Chair reiterated the decision made yesterday and was sustained by a vote of 114 to 14. After considerable discussion the motion was carried by a vote of HI to 67.

An amendment directing the Secretary of the Interior to organize within the Indian Bureau a division of Indian education was ruled out on a point of order. After concluding the consideration of forty six ot the fllty two pages of tho bill the committee rose. Eating Sixty Eggs a Day. Special Dispatch to Thk Times. New York, April 3.

Ou Monday Charles rearsalt, employed nt the Fulton Fish Market, said ho could eat sixty eggs a day for five days. John Boss, who keeps the restaurant whero Pc arsall dines, bet that hecould not and a mutch was made for Pearsall to start In ou Tuesday and cat thirty eggs at a sitting twlco a day for live days, lie gets twenty five dollars If he succeeds, lie Is a good looking young fellow, weighing 1 10 pounds. The fishermen all bet on him and outside sports are betting against him. Ho has his eggs soft boiled and emptied Into big soda water glasses. These glasses hold thirty eggs.

He does not appear to he at all Inconvenienced by his unusual meals and, if his liver continues in working order, will probably win his money ou Saturday. Tho Syracuse Abduction Case. Sybacusk, N. April 3. The alleged abduction of Bertha, the tlllecn ycar old daughter of Kev.

Anson G. Chester, by a strange woman, who Invited her to ride, makesa lively local sensation. The girl's statement, which she pertinaciously adheres to, Is that tcu days ago, nt evening, she was Inveigled by a woman unknown to her to visit a disreputable house, from which, on recovering fromho eirccts of drugs given her, she was threo hours later released. The police having vainly endeavored to solve tho mysiorv, discredited the young lady's story. Tho Chester family suppose that some man attempted the young girl abduction.

All Quiet In Cincinnati. Cixcisxati, April 3. Matters continue quiet every where in the city. Portions of the barricades in Sycnmoro street, nenr the Jail, remain as rallying points In case of any further attack. Tho lower portion of the Court Houso will soon bo protected by boards to keep out the crowds.

The militia on duty, tho Seventeenth Itegimrnt, patrol the sidewalks all around the Court Houso nnd Jutland keep everybody from approaching nearer than 1 lie curbstone. Although almost every building In the vicinity Is marked by bullets, which ordinarily would draw crowds of slght seers, there are comparatively few people about and they keep moving. Kev. Mr. Peck's I'nbrotherly Conduct.

Scranton, April 3. A slight amendment should be made to the report regarding the caso of Kev. George M. Pock, who wns tried by tho Wyoming Conference upon charges of un brotherly conduct and dishonesty In his capacity as executor of the estate ol his father, tho late Kev. Dr.

George Peek. The complainant, his sister, derided not to press the latter charge. In roporting to the conference the chairman of the convnlttce which tried Hie case said the oharge of dishonesty was not sustnlncd, but the evidence showed that the defendant had exceeded bis powers as executor. Brothers Hanged for Killing an Old Man. Winnipeg, April 3.

A dispatch from Hcglnn, Northwest Territory, says: John and George Stephenson Wero hanged hero this morning nt 8 o'clock, for tho murder of an old llian nuilind John McClirfhv. nLTmv fin lltn 1 Jt I. of June last. Tho prisoners mado a full confession of their guilt and acknowledged tho Justice nf tho sentence. The punishment, even by tho Indian and half breed population, Is considered Just and will produce a most salutary elloct, Boycotting Ituna arhtn Miners.

pwlnl Iflspatch to Tn a Tium roTTHVIM.r, April 3. The mine boves today served notice on tin Hungarian laborers employed nt tho breakers to move on. It has been resolved to boycott thoss n'ready In the region nnd ri'fiiMj employment to the constantly arrlvlnit greenhorns. The region Is overcrowded Willi laborers and the rates at which tho freshly Imported Huoinrlnna work mrm tnlimtia In natives. A Seventeen Year Old Boy Blows Out a Man's Brains.

"Look out, Mac, I'm going to shoot your pipe," said James J. Knox, a lad of seventeen, who stood In the office of Gustavo Storm's glass Market 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He held a breech loading rifle belonging to the office In his hands. It was pointed directly at the head of William McLaughlin, an engraver In the works. "Don't do that don't began McLaughlin.

It was the last word be ever spoke. The gun went off and a bullet crashed into his skull through his left eye. He was taken to the University Hospital, where he died a few hours later. Knox, who is an assistant book keeper In the office, and Townsend G. Hlmes, an errand boy, who was the only other person present, dashed Into the street, crazy with fright and screaming for assistance, while McLaughlin lay bleeding on the office floor.

A man came in from the cigar store next door and supported the dying man until a Sixteenth district officer arrived. "I didn't know the hammer was up," said the frightened perpetrator of the homicide to the policeman. "I Closed the chamber and I thought I had let down the hammer." McLaughlin was removed to the oigar store next door and thence to the hospital. Knox was taken to the Sixteenth district station house. A visit from his father, with whom he lives at 713 Selfridge street, seenied only to increase his excitement.

McLaughlin was twenty eight years old, unmarried, and boarded on Second street, below Bainbrldge. COTTON MEN IN COUNCIL. The Southern Manufacturers Besolving to Curtail Production. Augusta, April 3. A meeting of the owners of cotton mills throughout the South was held here to day for the purpose of discussing the question of the supply of and demand for cotton goods.

J. F. Hanson, of Macon, was elected president, and A. H. Twitcher, of Clifton, S.

secretary. Tho president stated that the cotton manufacturing industry of the South was in such a condition as to call for vigorous action to prevent serious consequences. A number of letters from prominent manufacturers were read and the subject was discussed at great length. It was resolved to form an association, to be kuown as the Southern and Western Manufacturers' Association, and to curtail the production of yarns and cloth pending definite action by the committee having tho matter in charge. This latter committee were instructed to formulate a plau for reducing the production.

The convention adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman. This was the largest and most influential meeting of cotton manufacturers ever held in the South, and the capital represented was upwards of 810,1100,000. The result shows harmonious and determined action for a curtailment of the production. WHY HEADS WERE DUCKED. Henry Simon Called on in Court to Identify Men Addicted to Poker.

Heads began to duck in the Central Station when Henry Simon, of 81 South Ninth street, was asked if he recognized any one in the room as having played poker at Lazarus Kanncwas ser's, 710 South street. 'Squire McMullen walked composedly out as the witness' glance began Its round. It finally rested on Councilman George Hoffman. The legislator did not wait for the witness to speak. "Do you mean to say that I played poker there?" he shouted.

I didn't say so," replied the witness, meekly. Afterwards he said that Chris Gallagher had played there and said that he could name twenty five well known men who did the same. Mr. Simon was a witness In his own behalf In a casein which Kanuewasser had been arrested on his complaint for keeplnga gambling house. Simon swore that he had paired nt the place for several years and that in the last sixteen months he had lost His total losses were 82,800.

The gambling was generally on Sunday. On one Sunday he had lost 11.40. He admitted that Kannewasser had visited his house and played poker with him there. Magistrate South continued the hearing until the Hth, holding the accused meantime under iWOj ball. Mr.

Livingston Suspended. Special Dispatch to Tiik Timics, New Yokk, April 3. Last night a full meeting ofj tho Board of Governors of the Union Club was held to take action concerning tho offensive languago used by James Hoggs Livingston to rredenek Gebhard. It was stated that Liv ingston had called Gebhard a "coward" and a liar" in the presence Of several members that he was under the Influence of liquor; that ho subsequently refused to tell the governing committee his reasons for using the lungungo and hud not attempted any defense: that he declined to make any apology to Mr. Gebhard.

The governors do ciueu io suspend iur. Livingston from the club for five years a sentence only second to exiiul. sion, which cuts him off Irom all privileges of me cmo lor mat periou. Livingston Is a man of large wealth and has a fine estate on the liuason. lie is forty five years old and joined me iiuu iiiiceu eaisagu.

Congressman Elliott on the SIck Llst. Special Dispatch to Tun Tim hs. Washington. April 3. Cougressman at Large of Pennsylvania, was last evening prostrated by a bilious attack and.

although much better, will go home on Saturday lor recuperation and to attend to legal business. Ho dues not expect to attend the Democratic Con vention, lneotner Democratic members from Pennsylvania, it is probable, will attend in a UUUJ. Iron Men Strike Against Lower Wages. SltARP.sviM.E. April 3.

The iron works ia mo uougias urnace oi I'lorce, Kelly mo mieiLriiiiLii ii fin I fimnnnv ann iiia iniwi furnace, Perkins have all struck because of reuuciiou oi ten to miecn per cent, on laborers, iron rjirrierK. Tlia iron nM allege that the condition of the market forced the i nt, wunters at iuiuuiesox nave ao cepieu ine reuuciiou. Tho Erie's Cut In Coal Kates. Bl'I FAl O. April 3.

The Erie Railroad Company has given notice of a cut In conl rates from 81.50 to SI.15 to shippers along he Allegheny Valley Railroad. This Is regarded as the first blow at the Rochester and Pittsburg, but the officials of that company say they can draw coal ten cents cheaper than tho Kilo and they will undoubtedly "IJahe" Jones Hanged at Pittsburg. Fin snuno, April 3. George, alias Bahe," Jones, tho colored boy murderer, convicted of Killing John osier, also colored, was hanged in the county Jail yard hero this morning in the presence of several hundred spectators. The doomed boy met his fate unflinchingly.

Knocking Down the Jailer and Kscaping. Aithusta, April 3. Five prisoners es caped from the Jail at Lexington this morning. When the Jailer wonttoglvc them breakfast one of them knocked blin down with chair and all live escaped. Illossbiirg's Coining Foot Race.

NEW Yokk, April 3. William H. Steele, of Hlossburg, and T. C. Herbert, of Cincinnati, have signed articles of agreement foraten milo race, to tie run at Blossburg on May 8, for a purso of 410,000.

4 Mother nnd Daughter Dead front Trichinosis. Latrohe, April 3. Mrs. Galle and daughter, victims of trichinosis, died nt Loynl haiiuii, tills morning, and Hie fat her iind another daughter ure not expected to rocover. TKJLKGKArillC TAPd.

Horr Kurnndn, the Austrian Journalist, is dead, aged 73 years. Tho Minnesota Democratic Convention will meet at Ht. l'oul May John Bright Is suffering from a chill and a slight congestion of the lungs. The body of tho Into Mlnlslor Partridge, who committed suicide lu Spain, bos arrived st New York. Lieutenant John W.

Danenhower has been or dered to the training ship Minnesota, at New York, April 1U. It Is soml offlolally stated that tho French wilt enter t'liina and collect an ludeuiulty from the Cautou customs. The losses by the Are In Paternoster Row, Lon don, arc enormous, but are covered by ao Insurance of The Crown Prince Fredorlck William of Trus. sis lias arrived la Loudon, to attend His funeral of rlnce Leopold. The royal steam yacht Osborne has arrived at Portsmouth from Cherbourg, bearing the remains ot tho Duke of Albany.

In the Rhode Island Slate eloctlon tho com plete vote fur Governor lloufne Itep.) was 16.1)01, and tl.f.UOi Scott, 10. Gounod's Redemption" was produced at tho Trocadero, In Parts, lust evening. M. (lounod conducted and Urns Alblni and M. Kniire sang.

Charles Rendo, the novelist, who has been pass. Ing tho winter at Cannes, bns returned to London In Very III health and is said to bo rapidly sinking. There was a general observance of Fast Day throughout New Knglanil yesterday. The Inclement weather prevented the customary outdoor snorts In ftoston. Tho witnesses examined by tho Danville com ml It tee jreatprriar were mostly Democrats and they testified to the Intolerant conduct of their political op ponents, Tho Republicans of the Seventh Congressional dtMrlct of Missouri have elected Tlino.

lireure and M. (I. Reynolds delegates to tin National Convention, unln structeiL Taloner, of Chicago, Frank Rossnllon, James Iloflsalmn. James (laloway ami two others were killed by a blasting accident at I'vrt Arthur, Manitoba, oa Wetiuewiay. Several others were Injured, Henry H.

Coles Arrested on a Charge Dating Back to 1883. The dead body of Mrs. Mary G. Landis was found floating in the Delaware river at Snyder avenue wharf on the morning of Angust IS, 1882. She was a widow 50 years of age, whose husband had left her 5,009 in government bonds, and before she changed her.

investment she lived comfortably at 835 South Second street. Some time before her death she sold out the bonds and put her money in various wildcat enterprises. These schemes. In which all ot her money was lost, were the supposed causes of her death. One of them was the MachineTool and Steam MotorCompany of Henri H.

Coles, in which she sunk $700. The facts of the case made grounds for the Issue of a capias for Cole's arrest on the charge of false pretences, but he fled tho State before it could be executed, while Mrs. Landis went to her death, which she chiefly dreaded on account of Hie publicity of a Coroner's inquest. It turned out when the latter was held that the poor woman had attempted to obtain a physician's certificate of death from epilepsy to hide what she thought was the shame of suicide. Recently Coles ventured back to this city.

John Wr. Land is, a son of the dead woman, was apprised of the fact and swore out a warrant for Coles' arrest. He was captured and yesterday held under S1.500 ball for court by Magistrate Mc Clintock. THE POST OFFICE NEWS STANDS. Rivalry as to Who Shall Occupy Them Two Applicants in the Field.

John Trenwith is waging a hot contest for the news stand in the new Post Ofllce. As long ago as December last he made formal application lor the place, offering to pay 81,000 for what has of late years been given away as party patronage. He addressed the Post Office Department directly. Recently he received a letter from Postmaster Huidekopcr announcing that he had decided to have two stands in the building, each tenant to pay 81,000 rental. To Major Ryan, who had occupied a place in the old office, the first choice would be accorded Trenwith could have what was left.

The news dealer again carried the matter to the Post Office authorities, and an active correspondence is now In progress. Major Ryan Is hopeful that lie will get both the stands. He at least feels certain of the one under the Chestnut street stairway. Puppy Sweepstakes at Pastime Park. Much interest has been excited among sporting men by the puppy sweepstakes races which take pluce at Pastime Park next Monday.

Many of the fastest dogs in the country have been entered, among tliem being Arthur Chambers' Puffer nnd Prussian, John Gallagher's Lucy, Joseph Fletcher's Spring, Joseph Acton's Plunger, Robert Sherlock's J. Ridge well's Robert the Devil, Hugh Hail's Polly, James Hatfield's Lemon, James Sykcs' No Name, oamnei Kerry Hamlet, Hoyle's Tug Wilson Thomas Evans' Bend Or, Ned Leery's Old Ned, Fred Bancker's Ike. D. C. Ashbv's Genera! Ashby.

All dogs will bo handicapped according to their weight. The first prize will be seventy five per cent, of the total receipts, the second fif teen per tne unrci ten aim tne lourtn a special prize of SS0. It Is claimed that the races will he the most Important of their kind ever run in this country. The first race will be called promptly at 3 clock, ruin or shine. Why Ho Wanted to Die.

Alfred Zahn, who committed suicide on Wednesday, left the following, written in a note dook: "io whom it may concern: Alfred Zahn, hereby state that there wero parties from my boyhood up to now who try to allay my growui ana nappiness oi minu and Dociy. inow, something like this seems to most neonle tiroh nbly very funny nnd strange, but It seems that oy a certincate ot confirmation from a Roman Catholic Church in Now York, dated 1871, was also found in Zahn's room. His naturalization papers were dated 1877. His electric tools wero worm A Denial by Representative Campbell. Special Dispatch to The Times.

Washington, April 3. Representative Campbell, of Pennsylvania, Indignantly denies the statements made by several Pennsylvania papers In reference to nn alleged cook up between himself and Senator Longenecker in regard to the Congressional nomination in his district. Mr. Longenecker, jie says, was here only by euunce nnu no consultation wnatover was neia between them. He does not, even know that Mr.

Longenecker will be a candidate for tiie place auu is lucunca io believe to tne contrary. A Threatened Strike Averted. Toronto, April 3. The authorities of the Grand Trunk Railway Company havo come to an amlcnblo understanding with their men for the present. Mr.

Hlckson says he will not reduce the men wages for March or April, provided they agree to listen to a compromise after wards. The men have decided to work so long as there is no reduction, and Mr. Hlckson hav ing met them as they say, half way, the proba uniiics are umi mo ainerences between the management and the men will be settled. Farmer ltissell's Desperate Resistance. Vatkuiiury, April 3.

Benjamin Bis sell, a farmer, was stopped by three teamsters at Torrlngton on Monday nnd assaulted for blocking the road. He defended himself with a cart slake and whipped all three, being himself badly beaten. James McCone, one of the teamsters, has since died nnd was found to have ills skull fractured tn many places by llissclrs blows. Bisscll is sick in bed and the inquest has been uujuuincu uuui ne.i inesuay. Minors Much Agitated.

Special Dispatch to The Times. Ashland, April 3. The miners of the Schuylkill region aro agitated over the conflicting reports regarding the continuance of full time nt the mines. The official announce ment of tho coal combination is anxiouslv looked for. Business throughout the county is depressed, and unless the halt time system is discontinued there is every reason to nppre ueiiu irouuio umong ino miners.

A Spoiled Sensation. Samuel Kegerisc, the Keinholds Station man whose disappearance was thought by the Lancaster authorities to solve the mystery of tho bagged corpse found in the Wlssahlckon, turned up last night at Trenton on his way home. Ho was Journeying towards Philadelphia In order to find out who said ho was murdered and arrived here last night. Ho said that ho had spent 'toO iinti ueeu loooej oi it, win during a jaunt through iiuw lorn, iiu icii iiomo uu only joy. A Strcet Car Priver's Corpse.

Ceorjje Smith, a discharged driver of the street Line, wns last seen by his wife Wednesday morning on Gray's Ferry bridge. ino samo afternoon the body of an unknown man was found In tho marsh nt Point Hreezo. Papers found on the corpse yesterday Identify It as siminrs. no wns out of work and Is supposed to have committed sulcldo. He was 35 years old mill Iii ut 1117 ii I.

I I vjiiij avbiij i mi VI. Rev. Mr. Humphrey Under Hall. New Yoisk, April 3.

The proceedings brought by Laura C. Jones against the Rev. Griffith II. Humphrey, of the Welsh Presbyterian Church, to compel him to acknowledge the paternity of her child, were ended to dav. Tho Court required the defendant to furnish bait to pay Miss Jones 0.5a week.

Mr. Humphrey will tuko his case on appeal to a higher court. Cuba Overrun by Dandlts. HAVANA, April 3. Reports from all pnrts of tho Island describe the situation as dally growing worse.

New bands are reported to have risen. The government will soon bo obliged to fight such a number of scntlerod parties of bandits that, the troops available will bo Insufficient. A feeling of distrust and alarm Is spreading. The Walsli Donuvlu Fight. Walsh nnd Dounviu were lo have boxed in this city on Monday night next and sporting men looked forward to the event with interest.

Captain Albright, in tho absence of Mayor elect Smith, yesterday notified tho malingers of tho iiintch that the men would not bo allowed to spar In Philadelphia. Supporting Their Candidate. The petition of Thomas B. Gould, contesting tho election of Daniel J. Gallagher ns School Director, was rend before the Twelfth ward Democratic executive committee lust evening.

A resolution pledging the aid ol the cominitice to Mr. Galliiglior In his contest was udopted. Driven to Death by Losses. Shrevkport, I.a., April 3. Major C.

O. Thurmond, a prominent member of the Cotton Exchange and a well known cotton operator, com in 1 1 led suicide last night by shooting himself through tho head. The act was caused by financial embarrassment. Woman Suffingo In New York. A l.n any, April 3.

In tho Assembly to day tho bill granting sufTrngo to women wns reported upon adversely and alter wranglo the report was disagreed to and tho bill ordered sent to the oommlttco of tho wholo. Ocenn Steamship Arrivals. At New York France, from London Sillier, from Bremen. At I ondon City of Chester, from Now York. Passed the Llsard Grecian Monarch, from New York for Loudon.

The llriitiil Fox Hunters. Tho Gloucester comity grand Jury hag failed to Indict tho men nt Wllllitmstown who brutully Ill lined a log at an alleged hunt last winter. CAMAC BUILDING IS FINALLY CLOSED. A Conference Between the Local Board and the Board of Education Committee on Property Further Action by Health Officer Selfridge. Although the Camac pnblic school house, at Thirteenth and Susquehanna avenue, was closed on Wednesday afternoon.

In accordance with the resolution of the Board of Health declaring the premises a nuisance, all the teachers and eight hundred of the pupils wero present at the opening hour yesterday morning. Health Otllcer Selfridge, a Sheriffs olllcer and President William McMurray and Joseph K. Davison, of the local board of the Twenty eighth Section, were also there, and after a short conference the school was formally dismissed until the Board ot Health gives permission for a reopening. Since his former visit General Selfridge had armed himself "With the papers required by law, being a warrant addressed to the Sheriff directing him to abate the nuisance. The warrant was issued by Magistrate It.

It. Smith on the allidavit ot Sylvester H. Martin, of 191.5 North Twenty first street. Chief Inspector of the department, and Charles F. Kennedy, of 823 North Sixteenth street, assistant inspector.

They swore that "by reason of the foul condition of the wells and the wrant of proper veutlation the school is unfit for habitation and Is a pnblic nuisance prejudicial to the health of the children; that many children are now sick from the obnoxious gases, and that the Board of Education refuses to abate the nuisance." TO HASTES A KEOPESISO. Before the children were dismissed the two members of the local board who were present notified the girls who are preparing lor tho Normal School that they must report at the Towers School, No. 2, at Eighteenth and Diamond streets, this morning, where they will be taught for tho present. The boys In the High School class were told that room will be made for them to day In the Kinderton School, at Fifteenth and Westmoreland streets. President William McMurray, of the local board, and E.

P. Michencr, Charles Davis and H. H. Hubbert, members, agreed during the morning that they would appear at the meeting of the property committee ol tho Board of Education In the afternoon and do all possible to secure a prompt reopening of the school. Their idea was to get the committee to order the promises to be thoroughly disinfected and to go with them to the Board of Health to see if some compromise could not be made.

To close the present wells and make new ones further from the building would require a good deal of valuable time. The regular course would be for the property committee to advertise for bids for the construction of the wells according to the architect's plans and then to open the bids before the Councils' committee on schools. THE PROPERTY COMMITTEE. At 4 o'clock the members of the local School Board appeared before the property committee at the Board of Education building. They were Introduced by Charles F.

Abbott, who stated that they were anxious to make some temporary arrangement by which the children of Camac School might be taught. President McMurray suggested that the Board of Health be given such assurances as would prevail on them to permit the school to be reopened, but Chairman Edward Lewis interrupted him to say that the matter should be considered from the beginning, which was the notice of the Board of Health, which he read. Everybody was familiar with it. The chairman also read a letter from J. H.

Taylor, which said that the pupils had only 100 square feet of air each that this air was tainted from tho wells, and that the only ventilation was through the windows. In regard to tho ventilation Chairman Lewis wanted to hear from tho architect of the board, David Evans. Mr. Evans said he examined the building yesterday morning and found that besides the windows there are registers that veutilaie the rooms from below when the furnaces are in operation. Two of the furnaces were red hot and the day was warm.

The rooms were badly overheated. The Janitor, Edward Osborn, could not bo found on the premises or in tho neighborhood. WHO IS TO BLAME? Architect Evans said in reference to the filthy wells lhat tho main difficulty was that the laui tor did not keep the premises clean. Several of the local board, however, came to the defense of the Janitor, speaking highly of his diligence, with over five hundred very small children he could do no better than he had done. The wells wero cleaned a year ago, and the nuisance was not cured.

Chairman Lewis wanted to know of the mem. bcrs of the local board of the Twenty eighth section whether they had ever asked specifically for any renei in tins matter. "The nuisance was reported a year ago," said President McMurray, "Are we to tell this board what to do?" The property committee unanimously shook Its head. It did not remember any such renort. Mr.

McMurray, continuing, said that Councils appropriated 52,100 for the Twenty eighth section and he would like the committee on property to take steps to use some of this money say S900 to meet the requirements of the Board of Health. But the indictment of the Board of Health is against the whole building," objected one of the committee. Yes," said Isaac H. Sheppard, of the committee, the Board of Health has put the matter bo ioro the public in such a way as to bring odium upon the Board of Education, when tho whole trouble is the neglect of that Janitor the Sectional School Board has put in charge." "Yes," added Chairman Lewis, "this com mittee on Wednesday ordered a man to clean and disinfect the wells, but Chief Inspector Mar tin, ot tne conra oi Health, ordered him away." DROPPING TO PIECES. It was explained that the man was ordered away because his apparatus was defective and then the committee and tho visitors and tho lookers on began exchanging remarks with one another and without taking a recess the meeting broke up into littlo groups ot earnest talkers.

Chairman Lewis, with a plan of the proposed changes In the location of tho wells before him, was arguing lu lavor of a few feet to tho west on one side and to the cast on the other and Mr. Sheppard was stoutly defending his committee as a buslness liko body. Said Mr. Shopaard In oratorical stvle to Air Huhbert: "Your Sectional Hoard is the cause of tne whole trouble, lou have never asked us to build the wells and you go to the newspapers and bring down abuse upon us. Why, we are the hardest worked of all the city's servants and we arc oftcnest condemned.

We don't hold the purse strings, and the best we can do is to make the money Councils give us go nslar as possible." By dint of talking to the committee In detail the membersof the Sectional Board got them to agree to adopt plans for the new wells and hasten their construction as much as possible. In the mcanllme the place is to be thoroughly dlsln. fected and the Board of Health asked to permit the reassembling of tho pupils. As the visitors were leuvlng another notice from the Hoard of Health came In. It required that tho wells at the school house on Twentieth and Filbert streets should bo filled up and latreens substituted.

Chairman Lewis was greatly Incensed at this new notice. "Tho Board of Health," ho said, "has no right to dictalo to this board what It hall do and how It shall do it. We arc created by tho Legislature of the Slutc of Pennsylvania." Tho notice was Ignored. A LONG GAME OF POKER. Pluy Among Tlirre Peddlers, Olio of Whom is Dissatisfied With the Result.

Bpeclal Dispatch to The Timka. New York, April 3. In the Essex Market Police Court to day little plnched faccd man, tn a faded suit of black, through an interpreter told this story! "Iam David Rowltz, a peddler. On Tuesday of last week Jacob Laznrwlts and Jacob Duvldowlts in. vltcd me to their homo and proposed a gntno of draw poker.

They arc peddlers, too. I am a good player. Wo began playing about noon and played all through thai afternoon and night and far Into Wednesday. Wo began with a 60 ccnt limit and raised it to li. Fran Lazarwllz and Frau Davidowlls brought us our meals to the table.

First I lost until 1 was out 1180. Then my luck changed and 1 won most of it back again. 1 began losing ugaln toward midnight on Tuesday and keptou losing till we slopped at noon on Wednesday, Just beforo we stopped Lunar wit hit my leg under the latilo with his boot. After that I watched them. They wero working together to beat nie.

Beforo that I had seen signs pass between them, but I thought nothing Of them. I lost Slim." Lnsurwits and Dnvlilowltz are each 22 years old and Itowlts Is lid. The young men nay they won Rowlts's money fairly. They did not want to play with him, but as he boastfully declared that lie could win all tho money that they could put up they gavo him a chatico. They were at pluy twenty five hours.

The caso was dismissed. Death Following a Dug Bite. Sped! Dispatch to Tub Tn its. New York, April 3. Two month bro Willie Moddus, a 6 year old boy, living In Wll llainsburgl).

was bitten by a spits dog on the hand and leg. The wounds were cauterised. On Monday Inst tho child was stricken wllh fever and convulsions. The sight of wuter made him very violent. Kven If ha henrd tlia sound ot water trickling from the water fnnoet he would bo thrown Into terrible convulsions.

Nothing that was done for him gave III in Hie slightest relief, and on Tuesday morning he died. THE VICTIM OF AN APRIL FOOL JOKE. Bnried Under an Avalanche of Letters Begging for His Autograph The Conspiracy Said to Have Been Hatched by George W. Cable, the Louisiana NoveUsU Special Dispatch to The Times. Hartford, April 3.

Mark Twain, ot this city, has been made the victim of a practical Joke and is fairly crazy. Tuesday morning, April Fools' Day, he was surprised to receive a bundle of over one hundred letters by mail and later on that day received three hundred more, and up to last night had over a bushel of them scattered on a billiard table at his home. Every letter asked the humorist for his autograph. It seems that the Joke originated In the brain of George W. Cable, the novelist.

Knowing that the particular abhorrence of Mr. Clemens was the autograph collector and that of all things detestable in tills world the great humorist most detested being pestered for his signature, Mr. Cable conceived the Idea of a simultaneous attack on Mark and sent to one hun drcd and fifty of the Hartford joker's friends a circular requesting each of them to forward to the eminent wit on the 31st or March the most supplicatory request for bis autograph they could concoct. ALT. HUNGRY FOB MARK'S AUTOGRAPH.

In addition to the communications of T. B. Aldrich nnd H. C. Bunncr letters of a similar sort were forwarded by Richard W.

Gilder, of the Century, George Cary Eggleston, Lawrence Hut ton, Julian Hawthorne, Robert M. Johnson, James R. Osgood, M. W. Drake and scores of other well known men of letters.

To say that Twain was wild is putting it mildly. The story was too good to be kept, however, and to day It was on the Hps of everyone. Some even went so far as to positively afTirm that Mr. Clemens had actually challenged Mr. Cable to a duel and also several of the others, but such is not fact.

The victim has taken a more cold blooded view of the matter and now proposes to have a number of the letters published, hoping thereby to bring ridicule on the heads ol the Jokers. SOME SPECIMEN LETTERS. The following are a few of specimens received. John Hay writes Irom Cleveland. Ho wants Mark Twain to take a leisure hour or two and copy for him a few hundred lines of "Young's Night Thoughts" and an equal amount from pollock's Course of Time." Clara Louise Kel logg sends a dainty note from the Clarendon Hotel, New Y'ork, asking for nn autograph, and Clara's mother writes that she is really suftering for one.

Henry Irving sends a typical letter from the Brevoort House, saying; "The possession of nn autograph of my dear Mark Twain is a matter of life and death wllh me. while Ellen Terry's application is brief and to the point. She asks: "Will yon write your name forme?" Napoleon Sarony writes over the dash of the pen that he calls his trade mark. Modjeska dropped Into reminlscenceand her ultra fashionable sheet of paper Is covered with daring strides ot the Den She begins her application of her letter, which is in Polish, is believed to be her address, for it starts on with the words, Wielmorina Helena Chlapowske Br. Modrejewska." She signs herself, Your great admirer." STEDMAN'S MODEST REQUEST.

Edmund Clarence Stcdman's letter Is a good burlesque of the average school girl who fills In her spare time in writing to noted people for their autographs. Many of the words are underscored and sugars Mr. Clemens with such sentences as: "My favorite American author" and "your well known kindness." Mr. Stedtnan not only solicits both kinds of Mr. Clemens' signature, but wants a sentiment in his handwriting or a few pages from "Roughing It," "The Prince Abroad," or "The Innocents and the Pauper." H.

C. Bunner, of Pack, wants nn autograph for his two weeks old granddaughter, adding: "Tho little Innocent abroad in this strango world of ours will value your gift when she is old enough to appreciate it." Joe Howard, recalls meeting Mr. Clemens twenty four years ago In front of the New York City Hall and then makes nn appeal for the autograph. Thomas W. Knox's request comes from the Lotos Club.

Ho has a royal commission from the King of Slam for autographs for the King's two hundred and fifty eight children. Colonel Knox suggests that the order had better be tilled for three hundred, as the King's family is increasing. Stephen Flske wants a Mark iwain autograph for a friend who is going abroad who wishes to take It along as a mascot, and Mrs. Flske modestly spells the name "Clements" and solicits one hundred and sixty autographs for a church fair booth. Lawrence Hatton wants to complete his collection of MSS.

by adding the original of Mr. Clemens' latest and most charming works, Jean. As Jean is the youngest child in the Twain household she will probably not be forwarded. UEEOIIER'S GILT EDGED REQUEST. Henry Ward Beecher starts his missive by mentioning that ho Is a very curmudgeon about answering autograph letters.

Mr. Beecher sends a gilt edged card with a formal demand for an autograph. Joseph Hatton's scrawl is deciphered to mean a request for another autograph, one to carry about with him. C.C. Bucl, of the OL ntur Magazine, wants a humorous article for publication with Mr.

Clemens' signature attached to every paragraph, so that the "copy" could be sold to advantage, while R. W. Johnson, of the Century, applies by postal card as follows: "Could you let me have an autograph for a lame bjy whoso mother has interested him things spiritual by encouraging him to make an autograph collection to be rallied for nt a fair, tho proceeds to go to the Society for the Suppression of the Toy Pistol M. S. Beach, writing from Brooklyn, alludes to the prominence Mr.

Clemens has acquired through his relations with Captain Duucan. Dr. J. S. Billings, of Washington, wants a photograph authenticated by Twain's signature.

Brander Matthews, of New York, would consider a Mark Twain autograph a priceless boom. ACCUSED OF WRITING "GABRIEL CONROY." T. B. Aldrich wants tho autograph because It would bo that of tho mail who wrote "Gabriel Conroy," and falls Into line for a signature. Mrs.

Aldrich forgets herself nnd sends a stamp. It is a revenue stamp, however. Colonel George E. Waring keeps up with the procession by having his reqnost properly tiled. Tho city editor of tho Commercial Advert iter telegraphs for a Twain autograph for tho tilth edition of that Journal, and Henry Peters, of New Y'ork, wires Mr.

Clemens for two car loads of his heaviest water proof autographs. Bloodgood II. Cutter, the Long Island farmer poet, makes his request in very poor rhyme nnd Henry F. Glllig, of tho American Exchange In Europo, telegraphs to have Mr. Clem ens be sure and save him a signature.

Frank Jenkins, writing on University Club paper, wants to secure enough Clemens autographs to stnrt out seven daughters as autograph fiends. Noah Hrooks, of Now Y'ork, wants a dozen nnd United States Marshal Kinney, of Hartford, wants ono at the bottom of a check. There are hundreds of letters not mentioned, mainly from eminent people, formulated without any effort at wit, Ono says Us writer wants Mark Twain's signature to put in a corner stone nnd another applicant lauds Mr. Clemens as tho author of "Tho Bread Winners." A Canada Hank's Troubles. Montreal, April 3.

The Philadelphia and Rending Coal and Iron Company have taken ac tion against tho liquidators of the Exchange Hank lor sii.oto, Hint being tho balance ol the amount guuruntced to tho company by Craig, late president of the Hank, for tons of coal sold to a coal merchant named Heard, of Montreal, who failed rceontly. The liquidators of the Exchange Hank have taken action against James McShaw, for Siiyioo, and against C. II. Wnlters for 810,000, for alleged unpaid notes and overdrawn accounts. Bhonttng a Woman's Head Off.

Gi.kn's Falls, N. April 3. There was a brutal murder at Stony Creek, Warren county, Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Edson Swears, who was alone In tho house, was shot, the charge entering bnck of tho right car, blowing off tho top of nor ncna.

ioccs or nor sunn and brains wero thrown over a room sixteen feet square. Tho Imi.u I. nini.il laiuui ii. nca Ill in 1 1 IHgC, IS secluded. She was last seen alive on Tuesday afternoon.

The murderer Is unknown. The weaon is a shot gun. Ihe Coroner is investigating tho case. Tho Proposed Mexican Exposition. ClTY OP Mkxico.

Anril 3 At fliirrl meeting to discuss tho prntlcnblllty of holding a universal exposition ncre it wns resolved to defer rtrorcfwltnira until nnA to Immediately com mission somo ono to go to tho United States to ascertain what amount the American nmronu ana sicamsnip companies will subscribe, 'i ho attendance was smaller than at tho last meeting. Asking for Greater Tariff on Wool. Special Dispatch to Tillt Times. i Washington, April 3. A petition signed by 87 citizens of Washington county, was prnsontea to tne Houso by Mr.

Lawrence this morning, asking for the restoration of the tariff on wool as levied by Ihe act of IKH7. Colonel Morrison says the tarllfon wool must tako still another tumble. Prlf.e Flghtrrs Held for Trial. Vlt.KKNliAltnts, April 3. Willinm Kccso nnd David Edwards, pugilists, residing nt Plymouth.

who recently engaged In a prlso flght, wero arrested by a county detective this afternoon. They wero hold In 1,000 hall. Tho caso will ho sent to the grand Jury, now In session, to morrow. I OUTRAGES PLOTTED IN AMERICA. The Austrian Government Asking England to) Join in a Bequest to This Country to Take Measures Against the Conspira tors General Foreign News.

Special Cable Telegram. London', April 3, Another appeal is to be made to America for help to enable the monarchs of Europe to avert the explosion of the Socialistic volcanoes over which they are reposing. This time It is Austria which is in trouble, and she is appealing to England to make common cause against the terrible Anarchists, who she thinks are supplied with brains and leadership from tho United Stales. A diplomatic note has just been received by Earl Granville, the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, from Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Minister, in which the latter declares that tho police of Vienna have become convinced of tho American origin of the recent murders and outrages in that capital, the most startling of which have been the murder ol Police Commissary Klubeck on December 17, of Detective Bochon January 25 and of the broker, Hcrr Eisert, on January 10; the robbery from tho latter of 3,009 florins and the robbery from the Vienna Post Office, on February of 210,000 florins. Count Kalnoky points out that thisoutbreak of terrorism began immediately after Hie publication In the seditious papers of Vienna of the proceedings of the Socialistic Congress which waa held at Pittsburg last November, which was controlled and directed by John Most, the incendiary writer, against whom England had already taken action, and which distinctly advocated assassination and the destruction of publia and personal property to avenge the so called wrongBof the people; that among the papers found in thepossession of the Anarchists Kennel.

Schultz, Falk and Llssa, lately expelled from Switzerland, were letters and instructions from Most; that the money stolen from Herr Eisert had been forwarded to Most, and that Peukert, the Socialist editor of the recently suppressed paper, Zukunft (The Future), was about to sail from London to join Most In New York. These and other facts In the possession of the Austrian Government, Count Kalnoky says, furnish incontestable proofs that the murderous operations In Vienna aro instigated and directed by the Central Anarchist Committee, which has its moetlngs in New Y'ork city and of which the leading officers aro the so called Socialists, Most and Karl. Count Kalnoky therefore proposes that England and Austria, as Joint suflcrersfrom revolutionary crimes plotted in Hie United States, should unite in a Joint complaint to the American Government and demand that the Federal and municipal laws should be so amended and enforced that America should no longer be used by European outlaws as a base of operations against governments with which the United States are at peace. There Is no indication of the reply thatlsllkely to be made by England to this request of the Austrian Government, but it Is understood that this subject is to be considered at a special meeting of the Cabinet to be held next Wednesday. RUSSIANIZING TURKEY.

The Alarmed Sultan Prohibiting tho Importation of Russian Pictures and Tracts. Special Cable Telegram. London April 3. Abdul ITamil, the Sultan ot Turkey, has issued nn edict prohibiting, under severe penalties, the importation Into Turkey or the circulation among the Turkish people of likenesses to. any form of the Czar of Russia or of Russian general officers.

Russian diplomacy has been secretly engaged ever since the assassination of Alexander II. In sowing disloyalty among the Turks by every means likely to cultivate among them a pro Russian tendency. Recently the Empire has been literally flooded with prints and photographs of the Czar and the more successful and popular ltnssinn generals and with tracts giving the history of these celebrities and containing glowing promises of the relorms that will accompany the ascendancy of Russia, which is described as Inevitable. By such means the Turks have beeome so dangerously liberalized towards the Sultan's implacable enemy ns to seriously disturb the Porto, which has now attempted by this insulting edict to stem the tide of popular tendency. The Situation in the Soudan.

London, April 3. General Graham discredits the report of the spies that Osman DIgna is mustering a fresh force. He deems it altogether unlikely that Osman will attack tho friendly tribes. Reports are current that General Gordon has had another reverse. The explorer Schivciiifurth has received a letter from General Gordon In which the latter says that the demeanor of the people has much changed since ho was last in the Soudan.

Russian Officials Charged With Nihilism. St. Petersiiuro, April 3. Prince Androni koff and M. Seighrif, overseer of St.

Petersburg powder mills, have been arrested on the charge ol Nihilism. The Nihilists have killed a police spy atl'etrokoli; Poland. An American Girl Weds a Prince. Paris, April 3. Miss Goddard, an American, was married to day to Prince PonintowskL The register was signed by Mr.

Mortou, the United Slates Minister. Four Men Killed by a Train. Scranton, April 3. Seven Austro Poland crs, looking for work, while walkingon the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad truck, nt lour o'clock this afternoon, three miles from this city, near No. Plane, were struck byaback ing engine.

Four were killed, one was fatally Injured, ono lost an arm and one escaped unhurt. The bodies of the killed were horribly mutilated and the dismembered heads and limbs wero scattered over the road for many rods around. The dead wero placed in the Coroner's charge. The Injured are nt tho I.iickawnnna hospltui. None know a word of English.

A Nephew's eailly ltlow. Michael Connor, the weaver who was struck by his nephew, John Barlow, in a quarrel at his house, 101) HiKllne street, a week ugo Wednesday, died at St. Mary's Hospital last night. Connor's nose was broken by the blow and hemorrhages killed li 1 in. Barlow Is in Jul I.

Able ltodled Police Cuptiiins. Dr. M. S. French last night made a physical examination of the four captains of police selected by Mayor elect Smith, namely: John Emory, Harry Quirk, Joseph M.

Schooley nnd Thomas Brown. They will be reported sound lu all respects. Hold for "THl Tapplng." Damon Tioyer, a young colored man, was arrested on Wednesday In tho act or robbing the till of Iioulsa Wlm mel's store, at 1427 South street, and yesterday held In j(J0 bail for court by Magistrate Pole. Indications for To Day. For the Middle Atlantic Stale, fair weather.

westerly winds, sliyht rise in temperature, higher uaromeier. Temperature nt the Signal Oflleo yesterday: Highest, lu; lowest, 3.1.3 moan, 40.8. CITY XEWSIN BHIKF. The colored caterers gave a ball at Natalorium Hall last night. Morris Samson, twenty one years old, of C40 Curpi nter street, disappeared from Hie i fiUo of Captain Henry Vlrdon last 1'rluny and has not been heard from since.

Mayor elect Smith Is In Chicago, with General Stewart, the coming Chief of Police. Tlicy aro llisiect lug tlio police systi ni of that city and will return on Saturday. The Rev. J. Newton Spear, of Reading, will de liver nn address on "National Clirlstlun I ution," la the lecture room of the Church of Hie tomorrow evening.

An apron bnznr was held yesterday afternoon ami evening at tho city Institute Hall, Eighteenth anil Chestnut streets, for the benefit of the Wmneu's hlbio Iteuuers Hoclety. At tho meeting of Councils' committee on prisons yesterday Rlti rnoon Chairman Met'nrnilck, by Uiianlinoil vote, was tlmnkcd lor bis conduct of the coniinltlee's aflairs during the past scesloll. Tho gas comnillteo of Councils yesterday ap proved llm report of the siih commlttee ou Accounts autlim lElii the payment ol to the Northsra Liberties Ou Works and tOJ7.f0 to the 1'eniiMylvuula Globe Uiksllitht Compuny. It has been decided by tho Rundiiy llreakfnsl Assik'IhiIou to continue Ihe bmutfiwlsilurhig April. Tho assui'lulloii will given supper, with eiilcnulnineiit snd InlilrHiit, at Mercantile Hall oil April 4, lioiisllons for Ihe supper may he sent to the hi.ll.

Eleventh suit oi a streets, or to tho treasurer, laiio Vim street. Francis King Carey, well known member of the llultlliHire bur, will lecture Hits evrnluiial Mercantile Library Hull on "Women of the 'twentieth tn Mr. Carey Is a srholarly and rlisiiieni lieliirer and well to lorcrast tho gend Im nine of tlio women ef the next century for tho eutortnliiuitut of tho good people of Ibis. The following returns for March linvo boon inndc to the Cltv Treasurer hy Police Maglntrutiv: John F. Pole.

SP.YAA It. It. Hiollh. r.rj.4r; Humi Collins, (il7sno; T. Thompson, ltXl.li; John Mel Hit tock, Sllltir.oi John K.

0.1: II, Myers, 7N.llls AO. Severn, (THO; J. jull OU. Tho last d.iy lor returns Is nest Monday. A nioollng wns held In thaHuiiday iteliool room of Hi.

Jiule's Kplsmpiil Church, franklin mrcet, obovo lirnwn, Inst eventim, to perfect the orgaiilnit'oii of a brncMehtl HMoclallmi. About thirty aientlx ntol of whom iH loug In ths cliurca, have alrvmlv lolncfl ttto aMoclHilun, hich alms to lake In worktiiKinfn ol all kh ih Ui rveiitng a eonauiatlea was wloplcil tot aoaio usw uiouibors rvcilTwL Claiming to Have No Fear of the Gallows and Anticipating Bevenge Over His Enemies in Heaven The Curious Decorations of Bis Cell. Special Correspondence of The Times. Gettysburg, April 2. Nearly three years ago the community in nnd around York was thrown into excitement by the cruel murder of Emma Myers by John Coyle, who, impelled by love and frenzied by his rejection, shot the woman and then al tempted suicide, which only amounted to a scar on his bead and a slight wound on his body.

He was given a trial In York county and found guilty. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court and a new trial ordered. On account of the prevalent feeling against the prisoner in his own county a change of venue was granted and the whole matter transferred to Adams county, where the new trial took place. Coyle's defense was Insanity. A second conviction was the result.

Again the Supreme Court was apealed to, but this time the decision of the court below was sustained and execution ordered, which the death warrant of the Governor fixed for the 22d of this month. No one could be more regardless of his end than Coyle. When his death warrant was read to him It seemed to tire him to listen to Hand he remarked when through that It was about as long as the Declaration of Independence." He is hardened and depraved, though professing conversion to religion, and to every inquiry as to his end seems utterly indifferent, claiming for himself the hardiness to meet his fate and to help to make the duties of the Sheriff aslightas possible. He says: "1 experience no horror at the thought of hanging; but I don't think of it or worry myself about It. It's no use." But when he adds, "I wish it was over," he expresses the only apparent fear.

EMPLOYMENT IN THE JAIL. Until recently he has occupied himself In knitting mats nnd tidies and hammocks and has acquired some skill in their manufacture during his imprisonment. These be offered to his visitors for sale, to supply himself with the necessary funds for some delicacies. But since his death warrant has been received he has been denied such things and has been deprived ot his possessions and is kept in solitary confinement. This annoys him and he contends that he should be allowed a general good time before he dies.

Coyle is quite a young man, having passed his 20th birthday on the 15th nf March. He is well built, inclined to be robust, of good form, pleas ing face, which he generally keeps cleanly shaved with the exception of a moustache. He Is what may be said to be a handsome man. His conceit is great and he frequently tells his listeners that "people talk of him as John Coyle, the handsome man," and prides him self greatly on the fact. His sense of humor or brnggadoeio Is at all times great.

His cell is a variety show of funny pictures, cheap chromos, advertisement cards and valentines; but chief among these are his own original at tempts at depicting certain comic events of liis life and trials. By trade he was a ferryman, and one of his pictures is a boatman in a leaky flat boat, with this inscription, "John Coyle's last row to hell," a phrase used by one ot the witnesses on his trial, as he says. Another Is a black bass which once jumped Into his boat as ho was crossing the river. Still another is a picture of himself, with this underneath: "John Coyle, the murderer of the molasses bread." This constituted his meals before the County Commis sioners decided to order for him the best the Jail afforded. He is much pleased now with his change ordiet.

He has read many of the things said about him in the papers and says "with all these publications he guessed he is the biggest man in the state." COYLE'S ECCENTRICITIES. His sanity Is entirely apparent to any one who would listen to his talk. Ho converses pleas antly; at times, however, wildly and extrava gantly, home of his eccentricities are peculiar. no began some time ago to solicit money from those who visited the Jail to see him, stating as his object the purchase of a watch, which he now proudly wears and displays, and he has expressed tne wish that itsiiould be wound ud and hung in his coffin. His hatred of and vituperation against his enemies Is at all times violent.

He acknowl edges the killing of the girl and asserts that he loved and still loves her, atone time Implying that he is sorry and again that ho feels no re morse at the deed, but that tho way he was treated by her was enough to drive any one crazy, lie had been encouraged, he says, and it was always "Johnny here and Johnny there with her and waving ot handkerchiefs when he rowed away on his trips and kissing of hands to mm. it drove nun mad, ho says, when she refused to be his wife and he committed the deed in a fit of temporary insanity, and he ever produces what he considers au unanswerable argument to that effect that ho then shot him self, which ho thinks no sane man would have done, but would have tried to make good his escape. Ho seems particularly violent against those "bloodhounds," as ho calls his enemies. whosworo away his llfeon his trial, and he looks to Provldeuco to avenge his wrongs. He gives ins ineory oi tne brilliant red sunsets of the winter as the Deity's wrath at the wickedness and false swearing on his trials, and says this was nil a special dispensation for his own private benefit aim mat ho would not be surprised to see the same power avenge the Injustice done him by a miraculous opening of his prison doors.

This seems to bo his only hope, for lie anticipates noiiung irom tne uoara ol Pardons, to whom ho will not apply. WHAT UPHOLDS HIM. Of course this criminal, like many others, not wiuisianuing all his boastful recitals of the shocking murder, his seeming lack of remorse, his hatred of his enemies and his utter hardiness to his end, professes to bo a converted and devout Christian and reiterates that that constitutes tho strength that upholds him. He believes not that ho needs forgiveness, but that heaven would hardly be complete without him Hint he Is going there to fill a mansion long prepared for him that the coming launch Into eternity will be but tho sailing into a port of a happier and heavenly home, from which eminence ho will look down on his enemies und enjoy his sweet revenge of Bcelng them In torment. In this way he gabbles on lor noun, ins description of how lie begins his days are I get up In the morning, open my window and whistle, then take asmoke, after which," this ho emphasizes, I sing some psalms and say my prayers." And again, the way they end, he snys In saying my prayers and going to bed." He lakes pains to Inform his visitors that he spends most ol his tlmo lu reading his mine una ucrives much comfort and consolation from It.

Professor P. M. Illkle, of the Pennsylvania College, Is his spiritual advisor. He has been especially kind to the prisoner nnd won his ad miration and respect and wns chosen by him to administer to his religious welfare. STRATEGIC MR.

S1CIIEL. He Outwits Mr. l'liihclro and Is Sent to a Dungeon. When Levi Sichcl, nn upholsterer, of 1225 South Second street, who worked some time ago for Solomon l'liihclro, a furnlturo dculcr of 1512 North Ninth street, ho had a claim for moncv due him which his employer would not pay. Slchol concluded to get some furniture out of Mr.

l'liihclro and refuse to pay for It, Tho latter would not, as Hlchol knew, trust him lor Hie goods, but he thought ho might trust somoono else. On February a he sent his wire, undor the name of Mrs. Josephs, to buy worth of furniture from I'lnholro. Sho did so on credit and Mr. Slcbcl got the goods.

"Now, Mr. l'lulielro, I am even," mid Mr. Hlchol. Ho PXnInlm Ills little Mlrntnirem tn MafHaf Ijcnuon. whon brought bpforo hltn vcMicrdnv afternoon on a warrant for obtaining goods under false pretences.

To his astonishment lis was greeted with the sternest Magisterial disapproval. "I had no other way to got my money," plended Slohcl. You ought to have sued him, Flvo hundred dollars ball," was the reply. Come on. boss." said a noncnhnlnnt stable.

Where loT" asked the strategist. "Central Station." There was no ball at hand and he went. What Shall He Done With the Babies At the office of the Hoard of Guardians of tho Poor yosterday a conference wns held for the purposo ot considering what disposition could be made of the Infants and children now In tho nurseries and obstetrical wards of the Almshouse. Philip C. Onrrott and Dr.

Herbert M. Howe represented the Hlnlo Board of Charities. Mrs. Charles G. Ames, Mrs.

Halllwcll and Mrs. Wharton appeared for the Indies nnnolntcd hv tho Hoard of Visitors of tho Charitable Institutions of Philadelphia and Wlllliun McAlcer, James Stewart and Thomas H. Keyser Were present from the Poor Guardians' committee on children's asylum and outwards. Various plans wore discussed for alleviating the condition of tho ninety six children now In the Almshouse, but the conference ndiourued without comma to any conclusion. Free Trade In Minnesota.

Sr. April 3. Members of all Hie political parties In tho State met Inst evening to organise a "Minnesota Htnte Free Trade League." Tho constitution declares In favor of nbsolittn free trade and pledges tho members nniiner mj support nor vote lor any candidate Tor Congress or lor member of the licilnlnlnra who la not pledged tn free trade. The membership In. eludes some of tho most proinlnout men of both political partus.

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