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A A A A A A A A A A A The Times The Times NUMBER 5158. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1, 1889. ONE CENT. ROBBED BY THE CASHIER TRADESMAN'S NATIONAL BANK OF CONSHOHOCKEN CLOSED.

THE THIEF IS A FUGITIVE. William Henry Cresson Cleans Out the Vaults of the Bank of Which He Was a Trusted Officer and Absconds. The not-long-since busy borough of Conhocken, with its foundries, rolling mills, blast furnaces, silk factories and woolen mills: its tributary ore banks and limestone quarries; its canal and three lines of railroad, has been hit some pretty hard blows within a twelvemonth. The Plymouth foundry closed and WAS sold out, the Bullock woolen mills stopped with the death of their owner, the recent death of J. B.

Moorhead suspended the working of his big blast furnaces across the Schuylkill, and yesterday the Tradesman's National Bank closed its doors because of a defaulting cashier, who bas in the twinkling or an eye, as it were, disappeared from sight and knowledge. Just before the usual hour of opening yesterday the following placard, signed by four directors, was posted on the door of the bank: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THis bank is closed in consequence of the defalcation of the cashier, The depositors will suffer no loss. EXCITEMENT IN THE TOWN. The posting of this notice on the closed doors of the bank at once created great excitement. A crowd immediately began to gather on the wide sidewalk of the bank, increasing as the news flew like wildfire through the town, until the entire police force, four in number, were called out, and their presence and the counsel of some wise heads restrained what about 11 o'clock threatened to be an outbreak of violence.

The depositors of the bank number some five hundred, the majority of whose accounts are small, and these were necessarily the most concerned. But it was toward noon made known to the anxious and frightened people that the assets would more than pay the depositors and that the only sufferers would be the stockholders. THE DISCOVERY OF THE THEFT. The defaulting cashier is William Henry Cresson. He was also vice president of the bank.

Beside himself there were employed a teller, a book-keeper and a messenger. The bank building is a one-story brick structure of no architectural beauty, and of limited size, on the main street, a block above the depot. The bank was started in 1882 with $100,000 paid up capital and has since paid regular dividends, averaging five per cent. per annum. There appears to have been no suspicion of the cashier's stealings until this discovery, the credit of which belongs entirely to Robert E.

James, of Easton, a United States National Bank Examiner, who on Wednesday of last week began an investigation that has resulted in finding that Cashier Cresson has made away with over $60,000 of the assets of the bank and that the institution is insolvent by nearly that amount. Mr. James said yesterday that he found on Wednesday morning last, shortly after he began his examination, that instead of there being $8,000 in the safe, as the cash settlement of the evening before exhibited, there was only $4,000, and he detected, shortly after, 8 substitution of the missing amount by Oresson, for which a messenger had been sent to the Montgomery National Bank, at Norristown. Upon an investigation of the books, lasting until Monday, Examiner James found false entries, false additions and false balances and an apparent deficit of about $50,000. TAXED WITH HIS RASCALITY.

Cresson meanwhile remained in the bank, the business of which continued without interruption, No action was taken by the examiner until Monday, when, after receiving a statement of the bank's exchanges from the National Bank of the Republic, its Philadelphia correspondent, which first gave him the means of arriving at a fair estimate of the amount of the embezzlement, be consulted with United States District Attorney Read, acting upon whose advice he, on Wednesday, called the directors together and informed them of the insolvency of the bank and the embezzlement by the cashier. The latter was called before the board and was taxed with his rascality. He, however, made no admisalong and shortly before 3 P. M. left the bank and has not been seen since.

Immediately after Examiner James swore out a warrant for his arrest before 'Squire Hayward, of Conshohocken. The warrant is now in the hands of the United States Deputy Marshal here, but there seems to be little doubt that Cresson has by this time joined the Canadian colony of crooked cashiers. Examiner James yesterday estimated the defalcation at $60,000, with a possible not very material increase. The investigation ordered by the Board of Directors which began on Wednesday morning and was not concluded until near daylight yesterday resulted in approximating nearly the examiner's figures. FORGERIES SUSPECTED.

Among the assets of the bank two promissory notes have been found, one for $3,250 and one for $8,850, which are suspected to be forgeries, and it is said that there are other obligations of the same nature which if determined to be forgeries will be laid to the cashier's record of crime. Casbler William Henry Cresson is about 48 years of age and a native of Consbohocken. He was a clerk in the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, of this city, until bis marriage with a daughter of John Wood, presldent of the J. Wood Brother Iron Works, by whom he has two children. It has been the common belief in Conshobocken that the Tradesmen's Bank was started by the Woods to give Cresson a position, His salary as vice president and cashier was $1,800 a year.

He seems, however, to have had the use of the bank funds for a considerable time, as be has been largely engaged in building and was an investor to a considerable amount in the stock of the Conshobocken Gas and Electric Companies, of both of which be WAS president. His habits are said to have been excellent, and, although it was known that he was living beyond his salary, his investments in stocks and real estate were believed to furnish him with abundant means. He is a vestryman of the Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, and recently contributed $500 to its building fund. It is not believed even by Examiner James that the missing man has taken any of the bank's money with him in his flight. His peculations have not extended over nine months and the detection came upon him too suddenly and he was too well watched by the examiner for him to abstract any of the cash to help him in his flight.

Unless, therefore, he has had some other way of raising money or has been assisted by friends there is good reason to believe that he has left Conshohocken almost penniless. STOCK HELD BY THE DIRECTORS. The stock of the bank is almost entirely held by the directors, the principal owners being the Woods and J. A. Wood Lukens.

The directors are John Wood, J. A. Wood Lukens, John Wood, and George W. Wood, of Conshobocken; John A. Righter, of Spring Mill; B.

Brook Adams, of Upper Merion; George Corson, of Plymouth, and Dr. Lewis Royer and William R. Pechin, of Norristown. The cashier's bond for $20,000, signed by his father-In-law, John Wood, is good. The directors were in session yesterday discussing a plan of reorganization by the subscription of $85,000 which will put the bank on a sound footing, but no decision was arrived at.

That this amount was talked of seems to indicate that the cashier's defalcation is larger than has yet been announced. Indeed Examiner James told THE TIMES representative that there was a possibility that the sum total of the embezzlement might be augmented upon further investigation. President Wood, who isover 80 years of age, is confined to bis house by sickness and neither of the Wood brothers or Mr. Lukens, the other resident director, would talk for publication. Mr.

James was of the opinion that unless some such arrangement for resumption as was discussed by the directors was determined upon there was no other course than for the government to appoint a receiver. He was positive that the depositors would be paid in full. The morning's excitement and alarm seemed to be entirely quieted by 8 o'clock in the afternoon, the neighborhood being nearly deserted. JUDGMENTS ENTERED UP. Director George Corson yesterday entered up two Judgments aggregating $4,450 against Cresson.

It is currently rumored that the cashier has carried lite insurance to the amount of over $50,000, the payment of the premiums upon which must have been a heavy tax upon him. In spite of the bank officials knowing on Wednesday that the institution WA8 in trouble deposits were received up to 3 o'clock, two of $1.000 each being taken from one depositor. Mr. Stevens, the first vice president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, says that Cresson was largely Interested in real estate and in a patent gas manufacture and electric light plant. He is Inclined to belleve that Cresson used the bank's money in this way and that he did not appropriate it to his own uses.

He was a man, so far as is known, of good moral character. CLEMENT B. GRUBB DEAD. The Milionaire Ironmaster Expires at His Summer Residence. Special Telegram to THE TIMES LANCASTER, October 31.

Clement B. Grubb, the widely-known fronmaker and mine-owner, died this morning at his summer residence, in this city, aged 74 years. He bad been ill for a long time and for several weeks bad been totally blind. His widow, one son and four daughters survive bim. General E.

Burd Grubb, Republican candidate for the Governorship of New Jersey, is a nephew. Mr. Grubb was born at Mount Hope, Lancaster county, and was of Welsh extraction. His father was an ironmaster, and after his death the business was carried on by his widow until her two sons reached their madority, when the firm E. and C.

B. Grubb was formed. They rebuilt the old furnaces, erected new works and soon took place among the heaviest iron manufacturers in Pennsylvania. The brothers continued torether until 1851, when Clement B. Grubb established the St.

Charles furnace above Columbia and afterwards the Henry Clay and Cadorus furnaces. He beld a large interest in the famous Cornwall Iron mines and was connected with several extensive business enterprises, out of which he accumulated a large fortune. His residence here is the handsomest in the city. The family usually spent the winter at their Walnut street house in Philadelphia, but have been detained here by Mr. Grubb's illness.

SEARCHING FOR A ROBBER MRS. WALDECK'S DETERMINED EFFORTS TO REGAIN HER WEALTH. The Mystery of the Manayunk Bakery and the Unsatisfactory Investigations of the Police, Since the mysterious robbery of the bakery of Mrs. W. A.

Waldeck, at 183 Green lane, Manayunk, on August 31, when $3,600 was stolen from a desk in the second story bedroom, not a trace of the missing money bas been found. When the robbery was first reported to Lieutenant Allison he thought it too big a job for his specials to work up and placed it in the hands of Chief Wood, who detailed Detective Geyer on the case. Geyer after going over the ground arrested Frederick Waldener, a baker in Mrs. Waldeck's employ. He was given a bearing, but as none of the money was found or any evidence produced against him, he was charged.

After two days' search Detective Geyer was taken off the case and it was said that the burglary was a "fake." Mrs. Waldeok then called in a special detective, who informed her that he could not find any clue to the robbery. A REWARD FOR THE 1 ROBBER. Mrs. Waldeck yesterday inserted the followIng notice in a morning paper: Five hundred dollars reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who entered the residence of the undersigned at 183 Green lane, Manayunk, on the evening of the 31st of August, 1889, and stole $3,600.

Mrs. W. A. Waldeck." This notice caught the eye of the police, During the day Mrs. Waldeok was in the city in consultation with some of the detective agencies.

Her son, William Waldeck, a clerk in the Tax Office, said that the police made but a slight attempt to discover the robber. A CLEAN JOB. "The robbery was the cleanest and best piece of work I ever heard of," he said. "Not a lock was broken in securing the money, The rear shutter of the bouse was forced open and the keys to the desk taken from the bureau. There was no one in the house at the time of the robbery but my mother, the hired girl, a little child and Waldener.

Of course we suspect someone, but cannot prove the person guilty. There was in cash and it was placed in the desk only a few hours before the robbery, which was discovered by the little girl, who was going to bed and saw the desk open and the things scattered about the room." It is understood that the money stolen had been drawn from bank to pay off a mortgage on Mrs. Waldeck's property, THROWN FROM TRE TRACK. A Western Train Deralled and Many People Severely Injured. Kansas CITY, October daybreak this morning a rail gave way under the Westbound vestibule passenger train on the Chicago, Santa Fe and California.

The engine passed over in safety, but all the cars were derailed except the dining cars and sleepers. The baggage car was thrown on its side across the track, the smoking car was overturned and the chair car was stood almost on Its end. There were not many passengers in the latter cars, but they all received injuries more or less serious. W. D.

Campbell, of Chicago, an expressman in the baggage car, was crusbed by the safe; he will die. Thomas Beck, a live stock dealer, of this city, had bis ribs broken and was injured internally. He cannot recover. Others seriously injured are George enmayer, of this city, left leg broken; F. W.

Mason, of Iona, Kansas, badly crushed about the body; Mrs. C. H. Goodwin, of Independence, Kansas, Newhouse, bruised about the body; Charles of Peoria, cut about the neck and hands. Ten or twelve others were slightly Injured.

The seriously injured are being cared for in this city, whither they were brought by the Wabash. QUESTIONS OF EXPEDIENCY. The German View of Protection and Free Trade. BERLIN, October budget passed the first reading in the Reichstag to-day. Herr Von Maltzahn, Secretary of State for the Imperial Treasury, replying to attacks on the sugar tax, held that protection and free trade were merely questions of expediency.

For the present, he said, a return to tree trade was impossible. Herr Von Boetticher, Secretary of State for the Interior, spoke of the continued increase of exports. Alluding to the prohibition of imports of swine, he said that the restriction was imposed solely for sanitary reasons. The advance in prices did not arise merely from this prohibition. Prices in neighboring countries showed a similar advance and there had been a concurrent general rise of wages.

JOEL B. MOORHEAD'S ESTATE. Over $893,000 Left to His Family by WIll. The will of Joel Barlow Moorhead, the iron manufacturer, who died last Saturday at his country residence on Chestnut Hill, was admitted to probate yesterday. The Instrument is very voluminous and includes five codicils.

A petition filed with the will places the personal estate at over $100,000 and the real estate at over $50,000, but the instrument bequeathes over $893,000 to his widow, children and grandchildren. This amount does not include annuities ranging from $2,000 to $12.000 per annum. The testator gave $1,000 each to the Children's Hospital, Twenty-second and Walnut streets, and the Pennsylvania Hospital for Children. Yale Outkicks Stevens. Special Telegram to THE TIMES.

NEW YORK, October Yale's football team lined up against that of Stevens this afternoon at Berkeley Oval, there loomed up the familiar forms of Beecher, Terry and Corbin, who bad helped to win the reputation for the team in their undergraduate days. The team bad no difficulty In downing Stevens by a score of 30 to 0. The game lasted but thirty minutes, or one-third the time of regular games, and was too one-sided to be interesting. STATE NOTES The Winola Hotel at Lake Winola was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. Loss on building and furniture, $10,000.

Governor Beaver, with Rev. Dr. Chambers, of Harrisburg, and a dozen or more ladies, made a tour of the Gettysburg battle-field yesterday. A. H.

and the H. Kretz, Pottstown of Reading, yesterday purchased Brewery of Joseph Selinger, for $15,000, and will take possession. at once. James C. Syivis, a prominent labor advocate, died at Bloomsburg yesterday, aged 57 years.

He was a writer and worker in the labor movement. Furnace No. 1, of the Reading Iron Company, at Reading, after an idleness of eight months, was placed in operation yesterday. The torch was applied by Miss Marion Baer, daughter of George F. Baer, president of the company.

William Boston and William McCreary, neighbors residing near Homesville, Chester county, had an altercation Wednesday night, during which McCreary was stabbed in several places. He will die. Boston was arrested and taken to the Chester county jail. A REPUBLICAN SCARE CHAIRMAN ANDREWS ON HIS KNEES FOR A PALTRY $2,000. NO BOODLE, NO VICTORY City Chairman Rorke Threatens Derelict Democrats With Arrest and the County Prison.

The Republican managers -State and localare in the fight to their armpits. State Chairman Andrews enters a most earnest appeal for cash with which to make the campaign a success. At no time within the history of Republican politics in this State has any chairman within a week of election begged for so small a sum as $2,000. City Chairman Rorke does not ask for money, but, following the old and time-worn scheme of intimidation, be directs circulars to Democrats not to vote unless they have paid taxes, accompanied by the construction of the law as set forth by District Attorney Graham at previous elections. The circular which has been issued from State headquarters is unique in its character and is as follows: WILLIAM H.

ANDREWS, Chairman. FRANK WILLING LEACH, Secretary. Headquarters Republican State Committee, Continental Hotel. PHILADELPHIA, October 30, 1889. MY DEAR SIR: We have come to the cross-roads in the present campaign, and cannot afford to loiter or hesitate an hour.

We must continue our work to the end -to the closing of the polls on November 5, less than one week off. The Democratic State organization, while apparently Inactive, has been carrying ous the most effective still hunt" known to polltics since the shrewdly managed Tilden campaign of 1876. We are not safe without a full vote. This is impossible it our organization goes to pieces at critical stage of the campaign, like the present. Unfortunately, our treasury is empty-absolutely so.

Our plans for getting out a full vote are nearing pertection, but are not complete. We must have financial assistance, and at once, or three months' preliminary work be thrown away. Here's the truth In nutshell: We must have $2,000 at once. Will you be one of two hundred to contribute $10 If so, kindly send your check at an early day to, yours very truly, WILLIAM H. ANDREWS.

AFTER THE DEMOCRATS. The following is the circular letter which is to be sent out to the Democratic voters who have not paid their taxes: HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN CITY COMMITTEE, 1205 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, November 4, 1889. "Those who can vote and those who cannot, SIR: After a careful examination of the records in the office of the Receiver of Taxes we And your name does not appear among those who have paid a poll tax of fifty cents in the division within the past two years, Unless you have paid a real estate tax within two yeare, you are not entitled to vote. A list of all persons not qualified to vote has been placed in the hands of the Republican election officers of this division, and this committee has retained Christian Kneass, and Francis Lincoln Wayland, attorneys at law, and will prosecute to the fullest extent all persons voting or attempting to vote knowing they have no right to vote, unless they possess the legal qualifications. By order of the committee.

ALLEN B. RORKE, Chairman. SoL. W. MAY, C.

HARRY FLETCHER, Secretaries. THE CIRCULAR ANSWERED. The Republican city campaign committee, in answer to the circular sent out by the Democratic city committee, is having a statement prepared, which will be sent to the Republican election officers of the several divisions of the city. The answer will call attention to an opinion of Judge Briggs on July 6, 1878, in the contested election case of Gillen VS. Armstrong, in which the Judge, referring to the payment of poll-taxes, said: "I indorse the views so clearly expressed by Mr.

Justice Pearson in the contested election case of District Attorney of Dauphin county (82 Legal Intelligencer, 59), thatja citizen may vote upon the payment by another of the proper tax for him. "If the official of the law receives the tax for the voter's account, it is of no importance whose hand or whose money pays it. The payment discharges the tax and qualifies the voter." The opinion of City Solicitor Charles F. Warwick, on September 29, 1886, to John Hunter, Receiver of Taxes, is cited, in which the City Solicitor, among other things, said: "I am constrained to say that the practice of issuing poll-tax receipts in large numbers to political parties is authorized by law." A number of other opinions are cited, all of which are intended to convey the information (as if warranted by law) that the payment of the tax, by no matter whom, qualifles the voter who accepts the receipt, thereby ratifying the purchase. QUAY IN TOWN.

United States Senator Quay arrived in the city yesterday morning at seven o'clock. He was met at Broad Street Station by Chairman Andrews, of the Republican State committee, and Collector of Internal Revenue David Martin, both of whom had been apprised of his coming. They were accompanied by Jacob Wildemore and the quartette, after a short hand-shaking, walked to the Lafayette Hotel, where none of the party registered, but went direct to Parlor A. The party remained in conference without any disturbing callers until the noon hour, when Senator Quay arranged to leave for Washington on the 12.35 train, at which time be left for the Capital City. The situation in the State was thoroughly talked over and the junior Senator expressed himself as satisfled with the outlook.

He reiterated big desire to have the Democrats turned out of office and insisted that the active party workers should receive proper recognition. He was glad to know that a Republican would soon be in charge of the Post Office in this city and intimated that the day was not far distant wHen the remaining offices in the hands of the Democrats would be in possession of the Republicans. Senator Quay inquired particularly after the local situation and seemed anxious regarding the campaign work in this city. After he had left for Washington the opinion was freely expressed that there would soon be "good news for the boys from the other end of the line." GENERAL POLITICS. City Treasurer John Bardsley did not, as expected, meet with Auditor General MoCamant, because the latter had to attend the funeral of his chief clerk.

They were to talk over the matter of the reappointment of the present Board of Mercantile Appraisers. Mr. Bardsley said yesterday that there were a number of applications for the places to be filled. He added that the old Board bas been very efficient, and, while he did not positively say that its members would be reappointed, yet such was the impression left by him. He said he expected the appointments will be nounced on Saturday.

The Democratic candidates last night visited a meeting of the Second ward executive committee, where George McGowen presided. In addition to the candidates, speeches were made by C. Oscar Beasley, John J. Moloney, Thomas A. Fahy and others.

The Young Republicans will to-night entertain by a reception the Republican local candidates. Senator Delamater and other distinguished Republicans will be present. Senator Cameron remained in the city yesterday. During the day he called at the office of Wayne MacVeagh, who is bis brother-inlaw and one of the administrators of the estate of the late Simon Cameron. He did not have an opportunity to see Senator Quay.

A MAN-OF-WAR RUNS AGROUND. The Galena Sticks for Nine Hours in the Mud, But Is Unhurt. NEW YORK, October United States man-of-war Galena, inward bound, went aground, shortly after 2 o'olock this morning, on Romer Shoal, In the Swash Channel. She had no pilot aboard and was in a bad position, rolling heavily. The government tug Catalpa was sent from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and at high tide the Galena was hauled off into deep water.

She then steamed up, to her pier at the Navy Yard. The vessel is said by her officers to have sustained no damage. There will be an official investigation into the causes of the accident. Major General Crook Upon Desertions WASHINGTON, October General George Crook, commanding the Division of the Missouri, in his annual report treats at some length the subject of desertions. He goes over the many reasons assigned as the cause of men leaving the ranks and suggests that the effect could be remedied if, before a man was allowed to enlist, some examination be made regarding bis character and family connections.

He also thinks the term of enlistment should be shortened. CHARGES AGAINST A SEA CAPTAIN. Implicated in the Loss ofthe Schooner Clara Pickens, The crew of the shipwrecked schooner Clara Pickens, who arrived here on Tuesday on the schooner Anna L. Mulford, have given such an account of the foundering of their vessel seriously implicate the captain. John steward of the Pickens, said yesterday: "We left New York, bound for Savannah, on Monday a week ago.

We were loaded with coal and cement. On Tuesday a strong northeast gale sprang up, and, although it was a favorable wind for us, that night the captain ordered us to heave to. "The wind began to blow a gale, but we lost nothing aloft but a few rotten old sails that anyone could have pulled apart. The canvas that was kept on the ship was insufficient to keep her bead up. I know that there were more sails on board, but the Captain gave no orders to bend them, and the ship plunged heavily in the sea.

The cargo shifted to starboard, but not enough to have interfered with the sailing of the schooner. On Wednesday Captain Eddy went below Into his cabin, and with the exception of a few minutes, when the main-boom broke and fell upon a water-cask that lay on top of the cabin, he did not come on deck again until within a few minutes of our taking to the boat. We had been compelled to pump constantly all this time, but no one had any idea that she WAS taking water as fast A9 she was. I and several of the crew asked the first mate, Mr. Donobue, how much water was in her and he replied.

in 8 jovial sort of a way, 'Oh, she has got 8 pretty good jag in All this time the sounding rod, which lay in the galley, was not used, and when on Friday the mate went forward and removed the fore hatch he discovered that the water was up between decks. We attempted to use the forward pump, but it was out of order and could not be used. The order was given to launch and provision the life-boat, and we left the ship the same morning. The captain came on deck a few minutes before we left and got into the boat. Before leaving the ship he put a lot of oakum under the kerosene tank and set it on fire.

Twenty-five minutes after leaving she sunk. When we got into the boat Captain Eddy, instead of seeming to be sorry for the loss of his ship, was in a very jovial mood, and seemed to be more pleased than otherwise. "We were picked up the same day by the Mulford and brought to this city. The tain and first mate left us as soon as they set foot upon the dock and we have not seen or heard from them since." The crew of the schooner consists of eight men, who were: Captain Eddy; first mate, John Donobue: second mate, Nelson; steward, John McGovern; seamen, Charles Havens, George Livingstone, Tom Scanion and 3 man known only as George. HARD ON DEPARTMENT CLERKS.

Washington Pawn Shops Can Exist No Longer. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE TIMES. Times Bureau, Corcoran Building. WASHINGTON, October 31. The accommodating "uncle" who keeps the poor clerk by advancing him money on his jewelry or clothing ceases to exist in Washington after twelve o'clock to-night.

The new law passed by Congress during Its last days goes into effect on November 1, and from that date all pawnbrokers are to be classed as "second hand" dealers. Under the new law pawnbrokers are not allowed to advance money on any article. They will be obliged to buy it outright, and those who go to them for assistance will be compelled to part with their goods for all time. The new law was passed by Congress at the instance of some well-meaning persons, who wished to aid the police in preventing stolen goods being pawned. In this they made a mistake.

Under the old regulation pawnbrokers were forced to retain pledged goods for four months and the police had ample time to trace them. Now they only have to keep them twenty-four hours and they may sell or dispose of them as they like. Neither the police nor the pawnbrokers take kindly to the new law. TWO FOR JIM FOGARTY. The Centre Fielder Gets a Gold Watch and $150.

One of the pleasantest little suppers that has been had this season was that of last night given to James G. Fogarty, the centre fielder of the Philadelphia Base Ball Club. The affair was the outcome of Mr. Fogayty's superb base-running, through which he gained a gold watch offered by the Howard Company and $150 by the Adams Chewing Gum Company. The gathering was a representative one, Including as it did: Lewis G.

Young, Magistrates Durham, Lennon and Ahern; John Forepaugh, Theodore B. Stulb, S. Hoxle Godwin, Edward W. Patton, Left Fielder Wood, Third Baseman Mulvey, City Solicitor Charles F. Warwick and many other prominent men.

John 8. McKinlay made the presentation speech and did it nicely and neatly. Mr. Warwick, in behalf of Mr. Fogarty, accepted the gifts with words well and modestly chosen.

In response to a unanimous call Mr. Fogarty said a few words of gratification at the kindly feelings expressed. A NEGRO DOCTOR IN TROUBLE. One of His Patients Dies and He 1s to be Arrested. Special Telegram to THE TIMES.

TRENTON, October 81. There is some excitement here to-night over the death of Charles Stepbons, son of Adolph Stephens, a German farmer. living near Pennington, six miles above this city, caused by the medicine of Dr. Thompson, of East Hanover street. Thompson is a colored man and has been practicing medicine for some time without a diploma.

Stephens' child was suffering from a cold and Thompson was called in on the recommendation of a friend. After giving it three doses of medicine the child died. Coroner Bower immediately took charge of the case. The matter is being kept very quiet, but Thompson will be arrested early to-morrow morning. The doctor has been in trouble before.

IN BEHALF OF THE LADIES. Matinee Performances Arranged for at the Central Theatre. It has been found that the Central Theatre will not hold the people who desire to see the performances of the Howard Athensum Company within the announcements for the single week of the engagement. To meet the pressure Manager Gallagher has arranged for matinee performances this afternoon and to-morrow, Saturday. These matinees have been set aside for ladies in a great measure, as many have pressed a desire to witness the clover acts and pleasing specialties of what is conceded to be the best vaudeville company ever gathered together in America.

A Third Wife a Failure. 'Every man should be satisfled with one wife" was the opinion handed down in the Central Station yesterday by Magistrate Smith. The Magistrate referred to J. Martin Dego, a storekeeper at Twenty-ninth and Diamond streets, whose present wife, his third, testified that her husband spent all the profits of the store in drink. Dego explained that she didn't cook his meals and that be was compelled to drink beer for food.

Magistrate Smith fixed the unhappy husband's bail at $500, remarking that such was his punishment for marrying three times. The Rational Act of a Crazy Man. "I carry it so that I will not inhale the odor which arises from the dirty streets and broken sewers" was the explanation given by a supposed insane man in the Ninteenth district station house yesterday when asked by Police Surgeon Andrews why his pockets were filled with He was Lewis K. Brown, 60 years old, of Elk Mills, Chester county, and he WAS known as "The Dancing He was locked up and a sister was notified of his predicament. An Embezzler's Remorse.

Joseph Walkden walked into the Twentieth district station house yesterdey and asked to be locked up, saying he bad embezzled $80 from J. McArthur brush manufacturer, 202 and 204 Fulton street, New York, by whom he was employed. He was accommodated and he will be held until the firm can be heard from. The Crystal Wave Found. LEWES, October The captain of the steamer J.

and D. Jones reports that he found 5 the steamboat Crystal Wave, seven miles south of the lightship, in seventeen fathoms of water. He found no trace of the steamer Cleopatra. ELEOTRIO BREVITIES Lewis Martin, a well-known lumber chant and politician, shot himself in his office at Chicago yesterday. L.

J. Newald, who absconded from Chippewa Falls, Wis, several months Ago with about $100,000, bas been located in Brazil. Fire yesterday morning caused $30,000 damAge to the coal sheds and hoisting apparatus of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Chicago. The commissioners appointed to determine the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia on the Potomac river met yesterday, but were unable to come to an agreement. The boiler of a steam threshing engine exploded yesterday morning sixteen miles east of Grafton, Dak.

Israel Sheppard, owner, was instantly killed; Engineer Crittenden, his fireman and another man badly wounded. All may die. ONLY A LOVER'S QUARREL. Belief That the Caldwell-Murat Wedding Will Yet Take Place, SPECIAL CABLE TELEGRAN TO THE TIMES. 1889, by N.

Y. PARIS, October reference to the breaking off of the marriage of Miss Caldwell to Prince Joachim Murat the general opinion is that the difficulty is but a lovers' quarrel and that the marriage has only been postponed for a few weeks. One trouble arises from the tact that there has been a general misunderstanding about the contract. The Prince desired that it should be made after the French form and Miss Caldwell insisted that it should be drawn upon the American plan, as that would give her more privileges. THE TIMES correspondent called at the Caldwell residence to-day and was told that the lady was ill, but he was courteously received by Mrs.

Donnelly, guardian of Miss Caldwell, and her sister-in-law. Mrs. Donnelly did not enter into any details of the aftair, but quietly stated: "The marrlage has been postponed owing to some difficulties about the contract." The correspondent next saw Mr. Cachard, lawyer for Miss Caldwell, who declined to be interviewed, but said he saw no reason why the marriage should not take place and he thought that there would be a reconciliation before long. Miss Caldwell's income is estimated at 000 a year, but by the will of her father, William H.

Caldwell, of Fredericksburg, the property was left in trust, so that his heirs are limited as to the use of their income. The conditions of the will would prohibit a marriage contract after the French form. It was the intention of the parties to sall for America on Saturday after the marriage, but the Caldwell family now intend to remain in Paris a while longer. MISS HALTON'S SAMMY. The Runaway Actress Leaves a Son.

Not a Brother, Behind, Marie Halton, the soubrette of the New York Casino Company, who left Manager Aronson on Wednesday without a word of warning. Marie is on the sea but Sammy has not reached Philadelphia nor bas his auntie been found. Theatrical people do not know auntie, but from persistent inquiry it was found that Sammy is an old-timer. Sammy is well known. Sammy is not Marie's brother.

He is her son. Sammy is 14 years of age, and has bourded with his mother, Marie Halton, at the Continental Hotel and many other places where theatrical people stop at intervals. Marie Halton is known among the professionals as a sharp woman, who attends to her own business and has very little to say of her private concerns. The general impression seems to be that Miss Halton took a sudden notion to run off with Diamond Broker Lewis, and as he did not furnish her with any cash, she gave her son Sammy the last $20 left from her week's salary with the Casino Company. Sammy's auntie is presumed to mean remittance from Mr.

Lewis' exchequer when the eloping couple safely land abroad. A NEW CITY LOAN. Money for the Benefit of Building Operations. Chairman Thompson, of the finance committee, introduced an ordinance in Common Council yesterday which was referred to the finance committee authorizing the City Treasurer to borrow on the credit of the city from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund 000; also an ordinance appropriating that amount for gas and water pipes and paving intersections. Other ordinances were introduced to appropriate $850 to remove the Washington Gray's Monument at Girard avenue and Broad street and re-erect it in Washington Square.

A communication was received from Director Wagner requesting that. builders, plumbere and others be prohibited from slaking lime and building fires on the aspbalt paving laid on certain streets. A motion to adjourn was carried shortly before six o'clock while an ordinance permitting William Eglin to erect from 500 to 1,000 retiring houses on the public highways and squares was being discussed. Mr. James, had moved to postpone indefinitely consideration of the ordinance, which would practically kill the bill.

LIQUOR CASES IN COURT. Violators of the High Lloense Law Before Judge Bregy. Francis Rafferty, whose dwelling, 1787 Fitler street, was raided last Sunday at the instance of Law and Order Agent Hunter, yesterday pleaded guilty to selling liquor without license and on Sunday, and Judge Arnold Aned bim $550 and sentenced him to an imprisonment of four months. In the old Court House Judge Bregy refused to hear testimony on the rule to revoke the license of Alexander McElwee, of 8301 Market street, on the ground that a criminal proceeding bad been begun against him for selling to minors, and be did not want big decision to influence the jury. In the case of John T.

Mulvehill, 2977 Richmond street, the usual testimony of neighbors and policemen was offered in evidence for the defense. Andrew Farschon, 1801 South Sixth street, was also under fire for selling to persons visibly affected by liquor. The evidence on both sides was almost similar to the other cases. and Judge Bregy held the whole question under consideration until this morning, when he will announce his decisions. HIS TITLE DID NOT HELP HIM.

A Count Goes to Prison for Five Years for Forgery, NEW YORK, October Count" William C. Teemer pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery in the second degree to-day and was sentenced by Judge Martine to five years in State Prison. Teemer was a clever swindler and had forged numberless checks in the names of well-known people, among them Sarah Bernhardt when she visited this try last. At the opening of his examination he presented a letter to the Court asking for mercy and showing proofs that he was the Count de Vermont and that his brother, who was 8 member of the French Chamber of Deputies would lose his seat if a relative was sent to prison. His father, grandfather and uncle hold high positions under the French Government.

JAMES EDWARD CALHOUN DEAD Brother-In-Law of John C. Calhoun and a Rich Planter, CHARLESTON, October Edward Calhoun, of Abbeville, cousin and brot law of John C. Calboun, died to-day, aged 93. Mr. Calhoun entered the United States navy in 1816 and resigned in 1833, being the wealthiest officer in the service.

At his death he was the largest landowner in the State, with a homestead of 25,000 acres of rich Savannah lands and 165,000 acres of mountain land in Pickens and Oconee counties. For the last fifty years he has led the life of a hermit, devoting himself exclusively to the increase of his estate. AN INFURIATED FATHER. He Attempts to Kill His Daughter's Assallant. There was a scene in Magistrate Baird's office yesterday afternoon when John Morgan, of 2632 Callowhill street.

an outraged father, drew a knife and attempted to kill John Downey, a middle-aged cobbler, who had assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter. But for the intervention of the Magistrate he would have suceeeded. Downey lives at Twenty-Afth and Callowhill streets. He has a shop in Mr. Morgan's house, and the assault is alleged to bave been committed there on Wednesday.

He WAS committed for trial. No Famine in Dakota. MINNEAPOLIS, October a Joint meeting of the committees from Minneapolis and St. Paul Boards of Trade, last evening, George A. Brackett, of the Associated Charities of this city, who has just returned from an tended trip in Ramsey county, Dakota, said he had looked over the ground carefully, and that the stories of destitution were exaggerated.

He failed to find a family that was really in need of the necessaries of life. Mr. Brackett believes that people in that section are suffering more from mortgage sharks than from any failure of crops. He says that they are compelled to pay from 80 to 100 per cent. per annum for loans.

Collector Fridy Installed. Special Telegram to THE TIMES LANCASTER, October Sewell, one of the oldest and most experienced Internal Revenue Agents, came here to-day and transferred the control of the Ninth district from Collector flensel to the new Collector, Sam Matt Frid3. Every thing was in perfect condition and the new Collector not being ready to name his deputies the old ones were recommissioned and gave new bonds. After the transfer the ex-Collector was presented by his former appointees with a splendid solid silver dessert set. The Favorite Oyster Scarce.

The Maurice river cove oyster, the favorite bivalve of this city, is very scarce, and retail dealers and restaurant keepers are compelled to do some lively skirmishing in order to secure their supplies. The prices have advanced until to-day primes cost $8 per thousand and cullens $3.50. The late stormy weather, which made dredging difficult, and the great demand for the coves from Baltimore and New York are the causes. BOOM IN SCOTCH IRON THE PRICES HIGHER NOW THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FOR TEN YEARS. LOOKING FOR SPECULATORS A Large Number of Americans in London Trying to Form Syndicates to Gain Control of Yankee Enterprises.

SPECIAL CABLE TELEGRAM TO THE TIMES. 1880, by N. Y. LONDON, October time to time in the last few weeks I have cabled the excited condition of the Scotch Iron market. The movement of prices is still upward and the excitement in the market greater just now than it has been for ten years.

The rise has not come suddenly, as some English papers have it, unless a period of weeks 18 considered sudden. Six months ago Scotch warrants were forty shillings and sixpence. They have advanced to sixty shillings. Hematite iron has jumped to seventy-two shillings threepence during the present excitement. Export trade in Scotch pig iron has been entirely neglected, home consumption and speculation occupying attention.

Some merchants have made enormous profits, one Glasgow firm being credited with a profit of a quarter to a half miliion in a few months. Glasgow steel-makers refuse orders generally and any new work is booked at 8 rise of fifteen shillings per ton. Clyde shipbuilders are clamoring for material. Gas and boiler tube-makers have advanced prices, as they are paying £9 10s. for strips which not long ago were quoted at £6 4s.

A FEVERISH WEEK. It has been a feverish week at Newcastle-onthe-Tyne. Shipbuilders, in order to protect themselves, are buying large quantities of manufactured iron and steel. A few months ago common bars sold for they are now bringing nearly £8. Iron ship plates are nearly £8 per ton, the highest price since the inflated period of 1871 to 1873.

This time last year iron ship plates sold at less than £5 per ton. Some holders now ask £9 for steel ship plates. Ship-builders on the Tyne are very busy and must have material. The great works of Sir William Armstrong, at Elgwick, were never busier. The company makes its own iron and has a large stock.

Wolverhampton is also greatly excited over the condition of the market, which seems still on the rise. SELLING AMERICAN PROPERTY. Not long ago, Chauncey M. Depew said to me, "London is the centre of the world." Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, said to me last night: "London is the heart of the world." Both of these men are Americans, from head to heels, and both were in earnest. Their opinions coincide with those of a small army of other Americans and who are here each one of this army has something to sell.

I met one American to-day who wishes to dispose of property in the United States valued at $50,000,000. It is of various kinds and situated in different parts of the Union. The chances are that he will place it. CHICAGO GRAIN ELEVATOR PROSPECTUS. The prospectus of the Chicago Grain Elevator Company will be issued a week bence.

The property consists of elght elevators in Chicago, around the termini of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, owned by Munger Wheeler Company. The capacity is onefourth of all the elevators in Chicago. The capital of the company will be £450,000 and Arst mortgage debentures £500,000, bearing six per issued here in the nature of a loan to the founders, who are Americans and who will control the property, as they will hold a majority of the securities, which have been more than underwritten. The original owners of Schoenhoefen Brewery, Chicago, recently placed on the market here, found it necessary to subscribe for a large majority of the securities. Englishmen are asked to invest in a Virginia Development Company, organized under a charter of the Virginia Steel Company, capital, five mittion dollars.

The majority of the directors of the company are interested in Norfolk and Western and the prospectus issued to-day states that the purpose of the company is to promote and encourage the establishment of mining and manufacturing interests in a section tributary to the Norfolk and Western and Shenandoah Valley Railroads in Virginia and West Virginia. MRS. MACKAY'S LIBEL SUIT. The action for libel brought by Mrs. John John W.

Mackay against the Manchester Eraminer came up for a hearing in the Court of Queen's Bench to-day. The libel plained of alleged that the plaintiff was a poor widow with two children, and that she WAS employed AS 8 wasberwoman by Nevada miners when Mr. Mackay WAS first attracted towards her and fell in love with her and married her. The plaintiff contends that the words of the article suggested that she was not a lady of birth or education and that she was not accustomed to associating with persons of good position. The defendants admit the first innuendo, but deny the second, The defendants had paid £10 into Court.

The question before the Court to-day was whether the payment applied to the whole libel or the innuendo admitted. The Court ruled that it applied only to the part of the libel admitted. DAVITT CONCLUDES HIS DEFENSE He Declares That the "Times" Has Not Proved Its Assertions. LONDON, October Davitt continued his speech before the Parnell Commission to-day. He said that Farragher, who had been a clerk of the Land League, but who had turned an informer and testified for the Times, bad been unable to prove the assertion made by Attorney General Webster that the League had advanced money for the committal of outrages and crimes.

Mr. Davitt regretted that all the Land League books had not been found. They had disappeared, he said, during the confusion consequent upon the suppression of the League, but the National League books which had been produced revealed nothing unconstitutional. He denounced the publication of the alleged fac-simile letters by the Times as an attempt at the moral assassination of the political character of a public man which was unparalleled by the action of any political party in the history of any country. Mr.

Davitt concluded his speech by appealing to the court to say that the Times had not proved its charges against the men who were striving to end the Anglo-Irish question. When Mr. Davitt had fluished Presiding Justice Hannen complimented him upon the ability displayed in his speech, and thanked him for the assistance he bad given the court. Sir Henry James then began his speech in behalf of the Times. THE FATHER OF NIHILISM DEAD.

Death of Nicholas Tschernischevsky After Years of Suffering. ST. PETERSBURG, October Techernischevsky died at Sartoff to-day. The dead man was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of Russian Nihilism. He was a son of a priest and highly educated.

In 1853 he joined the staff of the Sovremiennik (Contemporary) Review, which, under his direction, acquired considerable influence. He wrote first upon literary subjects and afterwards upon economical questions and the emancipation of the serfs. He was accused of editing one of the secret revolutionary prints which in 1802 first made their appearance in Russia, charged with high treason, and sentenced to capital punishment. The sentence was afterward commuted to deportation for life. Tschernischevsky was banished for writing the romance, "Schto Djelatj." The hardships of a prison life weighed on his mind and body, and feeble and half crazy he was pardoned not long ago by the Czar.

WANTS TO MARRY ANOTHER MAN A Philadelphia Woman Trying to Convict Her Husband of Bigamy. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. NEWBURGH, N. October 81. Eli Senior, aged sixty, of Oswego, came to Newburgh to work in August last and shortly after was married to Rebecca Whitely, of this city, by 'Squire Fowler.

She was fifty-six years old, a widow and the mother of three children. Senior represented himself as a single man, but now a Mrs. Senior by a previous marriage bas appeared and is seeking evidence to prove that Senior is a bigamist. She resides in Philadelphia and, it is said, does not desire to punish Senior, but to secure a divorce so that she can marry anotper man. A Professorship Endowed.

Special Telegram to THE TIMES. GETTYSBURG, October Graff, of Worthington, has announced the gift of $25,000 out of the estate of his son, Charles H. Graff, M. who died recently In Duluth, to endow a professorship in Pennsylvanta College at Gettysburg, to be known as "The Dr. Charles H.

Graft Professorship of Hygiene and Physical Culture." Dr. George D. Staley, of Lebanon, formerly of Harrisburg, has been chosen to fill the chair. THE FORGER AT THE CENTRAL. The Prisoner's Gratitude to the Local Authorities.

The young forger who calls himself Albert Sutherland was yesterday identified by the warden of the Ohio Penitentiary. Hie name is not Sutherland or Bowman, but plain Brown, a Chicago thief, who was released last April after serving a a sentence for burglary. The wound on the prisoner's knee was received while he was at work in the foundry. No reference to the Tascott affair was made at the bearing given the prisoner in the Central Station yesterday afternoon. His bail was reduced from 830,000 to $3,800.

The testimony showed that the prisoner had obtained $60 from Charles Lewis, of Kidge avenue and Noble street, and $30 from Tyndale, Mitchell 1217 Chestnut street, on hogus checks. When asked what he had to say he replied, "I'm guilty." He was sent to prison in default of bail. Before being taken to prison he said: "If all prisoners are treated here as well as I have been it is an inducement to do wrong just for the purpose of being Chief.Wood and Detectives Bond, Murray and Kurtz treated me Ag If I was a perfect gentleman. Tascott and I were companions for years. We played together and traveled together, but I never heard any one say until I struck this town that there was the least resemblance between us, I told Chief Wood this, and also gave him more information about Tascott than is known outside of the Chicago police," BURIED UNDER FALLEN WALLS SEVEN WORKMEN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A COLLAPSED BUILDING.

The Accident Believed to Have Resulted from Defective Masonry Work and Poor Mortar, Special Telegram to THE TIMES. PASSAIC, N. October 31. A large double brick house in course of erection on Monroe street collapsed this afternoon, burying seven workmen in the ruins. A great crowd gathered and the work of rescue was begun amid intense excitement.

The entombed men were rapidly unearthed and all were found to be more or less sericusly injured. The following is a list of the unfortunates: Richard Carmick, bricklayer, of Washington, back broken; John E. Ellison, head cut and hand crushed; Lewis Goodridge, of Washington, skull fractured; William Johnson, of Baltimore, severe Internal injuries; John Nash, two ribs broken; Samuel J. Taylor, of Baltimore, leg fractured; Simon Watts, of Baltimore, shoulder crushed. THREE LIKELY TO DIE.

The wounded men were carried to a cottage near by, which bad been temporarily converted into a hospital. It is believed that Carmick will die and but slight hopes are entertained for the recovery of Goodridge and Johnson. The building was owned by Charles C. Barnard, a prominent resident of Burlington, and had been finished as far as the second story. Barnard is a member of the Burlington City Council and Board of Freeholders and is a well-known politician and speculator.

DEFECTIVE MASONRY WORK. The building which toppled over was constructed of Philadelphia pressed brick, and from the outside the structure looked substantial. The masonry work in the cellar wall and foundation was, bowever, defective, and to this and poor mortar is attributed its fall. The construction was in charge of 8 superintendent, employed by Mr. Barnard, and both these men are coming in for a large amount of condemnation from Passaic citi- zens.

THEY BLAME EACH OTHER. The Captains of the Cleopatra and Crystal Wave Report. NEW YORK, October United States Steamboat Inspectors to-day received the report. of Captain Dole, of the steamer Cleopatra, which was sunk by collision with the Crystal Wave, in which the captain claims that the Crystal Wave changed her course Just when the two vessels were about to pass each other and when it was too late for the Cleopatra to get out of the way. Captain Samuel Martin, of the Crystal Wave, also made his report of the collision, in which he says that when he first made the Cleopatra's green light the Cleopatra was so far to leeward of him that he did not consider it necessary to blow two whistles.

While 1 was observing a vessel on our port bow I informed that the steamer was showing her red light, and on turning saw she was coming into us. Immediately I rang for the engines to back at full speed, but she struck us at our forward starboard, sinking us in ten minutes. THE NEW RESERVOIR. Controller Dechert Hears Charges of Violation of Contract. The East Park reservoir contract work was given another airing in the City Controller's office yesterday.

Controller Dechert had called a hearing for the purpose of investigating the charges of illegally-conducted work preferred by Daniel Gibbons against Contractors Charles Porter and Dr. Filbert. Mr. Gibbons testifled that the brick had not been bedded with cement; that other materials than those authorized had been used, and that the embankment had been lowered, in violation of contract, in order to make an easier incline for the transportation of materials. To support his charges he called upon Lowis E.

Levy, a civil engineer, who said that the cutting of the embankment had the effect of weakening it. Chief of the Water Bureau Ogden testified that the work had been done according to contract. Superintendent Hand testified that there had been no leakage in the reservoir. No action was taken by the Controller. A New Trust Company Chartered.

HARRISBURG, October charter WAS issued to-day at the State Department to the Citizens' Trust, Tax Indemnity and Surety Company of Philadelphia, with a capital of $250,000. The stockholders are George W. Hancock, John J. Alter, Emanuel Strauss, John F. Hillman, Simon Pfaelzer, W.

W. Ker, Duncan L. Buzby, Edward J. Collins, Caleb J. Brinton, Eugene C.

Sherman, John L. Trester. Women Interested in Missions. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. WEST CHESTER, October Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society nected with the Presbytery of Chester met here this afternoon to remain in session two days.

The meeting, which is held annually, is largely attended by representatives from Chester and Delaware counties. Reports were read, new work outlined and officers elected. A Bold Daylight Robbery. POTTSTOWN, October daring robbery took place this afternoon at the residence of Isaac Fegely, Democratic candidate for Treasurer. A stranger called at the house and told a servant girl he would like to see Mr.

Fegely about getting him a number of votes. While the girl went to call her employer the stranger decamped with several hundred dollars' worth of silverware. Fatal Quarrel About Money. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. SCRANTON, October a quarrel over a request for money to-day Martin Schultze first stabbed Patrick Hughes with a pocket knife and then sent his daughter for his double-barreled gun, with which be twice shot his victim, once in the leg and once in the side.

Hughes will die. Schultze gave himself up to the police. Directors' Day at Gettysburg. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. GETTYSBURG.

October Day at the Teachers' Institute attracted a large number of visitors to-day. The discussion of questions pertaining to the duties of the directors was given special attention by Superintendent Shelly, Professor S. S. Netf, Professor 9. B.

Heiges, Professor G. M. D. Eckles and Dr. E.

0. Lyte. To Abolish Slavery in the Congo. BRUSSELS, October representative of Belgium at the Anti-Slavery Conference will submit a proposal to levy a duty of five per cent. on all merchandise imported into the Congo State, the proceeds to be devoted to procuring the extinction of slavery.

A Yale Student Dies of Typhoid Fever HARTFORD, October E. Brainard, of the junior class at Yale, a son of Leverett Brainard, of this city, died of typhoid fever to-day at his home here. He came home with the disease two weeks ago. Assignment of a Dyers' Firm, William Carlisle Greaves and James Boone, trading as Greaves Boone, dyers, at Trenton avenue and East Clearfield streets, made an assignment yesterday to H. Reeves Lukens, a conveyancer, at Sumac street.

Street Cars In Collision. Cable car No. 61 crashed into car No. 7 of the Spruce and Streets Railway at Ninth and Spruce streets last evening. No one was injured, but the cars were smashed.

A Fireman Drowned. Harry Blakely, 38 years of age, a fireman on the steamsbip Gillsland, fell overboard last night at Bainbridge street wharf and WAS drowned. WEAVING STRONG WEB DAMAGING TESTIMONY AGAINST THE ACCUSED CRONIN MURDERERS. ASKED TO "SLUG" THE DOCTOR The Carison Cottage Furniture Identified, and a Tells of a Proposition Made to Him by Coughlin. CHICAGO, October 31.

George Reilly, a barkeeper, testifled in the Cronin trial to-day that in the latter part of March Coughlin, O'Sullivan and others were in the saloon and were talking politics when Coughlin said that a certain North Side Catholic was talking too much, and that if he did not keep his mouth shut he would get the worst of it. Then the State's Attorney sought to introduce the correspondence between Beggs and Spellman. Mr. Foster, attorney for Beggs, said he was ready to admit anything that Beggs ever wrote, but that he could say nothing about letters written by anyone else. So the matter went over pending the appearance of Spellman.

W. P. Hatfield, salesman for Revelle was then called, and told of selling to a man calling himself J. B. Simonds the bill of furniture which was taken to the flat at No.

117 Clark street, and was subsequently conveyed to the Carlson cottage, the scene of the murder. The only new point developed was the fact that Simonds said the furniture was "for temporary use." THE BLOOD-STAINED TRUNK. After Hatfield had identified the furniture sold to Simonds as that subsequently seen by him in the Carlson cottage, the trunk in which Dr. Cronin's body was carried away was brought into court. Hatfield, after examining it, testified that it was identical with the one sold to Simonds.

On cross-examination he said that he could not swear that it was the identical trunk, because the firm kept such on hand always, and perhaps other dealers did also. It came out that Mr. Forrest, of counsel for the defense, had bought just guch a trunk from the witness. It could not be sworn to positively that the furniture in the Carlson cottage was the same furniture sold to Simonds; it was precisely like it, however. ASKED TO "SLUG" ORONIN.

John W. Sampson, generally known as Major" Sampson, was next called and testifled that about two years ago Coughlin tried to hire him to "slug" Dr. Cronin. The witness, in his examination, stated that Coughlia had arrested him three or four times, once for robbery; that he had been convicted for passing counterfeit money, that he was a gambler by profession, but denied that he followed Mr. Blaine through Michigan when be was making speeches there last fall, or Governor Hill or Senator Thurman, for the purpose of picking pockets.

He said he went to some of these places for the purpose of securing sportIng privileges. He naively explained that he was "playing de shells," which is a variation of what is known as three-card monte. William Lynn, who was with Sampson when he met Coughlin and was asked to "slug" Cronin, testifled to the fact that the two men had a conversation, the purport of which he did not hear. CRONIN'S TAILOR'S STORY. Joseph C.

O'Keefe, Dr. Cronin'g tailor, said that he attended a meeting of Camp 20, in September, 1888. After the meeting he had a conversation with defendant Beggs about Dr. Cronin and Alexander Sullivan. Said the witness: "We were speaking first in regard to the union of the two rival sections of the order, and John F.

Bergs said be did not have much confidence in the new executive that was elected. Then the trial committee came under discussion, and be said that Dr. Cronin was not the proper man to put on the trial committee to try Alexander Sullivan. I said Dr. Cronin did not have as unsavory a record as James Rodgers, of Brooklyn, another one of the trial committee.

John F. Bezgs then told me that Cronin had admitted Coughlin as a member of Camp 96 without a formal initiation and had furnished him with passwords. I told him I did not believe it; I told him that Cronin was too sincere a patriot to do anything of that kind. I told him, furthermore, that I would ask Cronin in reference to it and give the authority, and then he said Cronin was not a fit man to belong to Irish societies." On cross-examination it was brought out that Beggs objected to Cronin being on the committee to try the triangle because he was an enemy of Alexander Sullivan's. Cornelius Flynn, who was with Beggs and O' Keefe when they had the conversation, corroborated O'Keefe's testimony.

An Ashland Wedding. Special Telegram to THE TIMES. ASHLAND, October Waldner, son of Adam Waldner, a prominent lumber merchant of this place, and Miss Licelia Maurer were married in the German Reformed Church this evening by Rev. R. Duenger, assisted by Rev.

J. Weber, pastor of the German Lutheran Church. At Lincoln's Tomb. SPRINGFIELD, October International American excursionists spent to-day in visiting the various points of interest in this city, the most interesting being the tomb of Abrabam Lincoln, at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Here speeches were made by Ex-Governor Oglesby and others.

Forecast for Friday. FAIR, slightly warmer, southerly winds. CLEAR TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY. 8 A.M......... 55 P.M.........

54, Lowest. 45 CITY NOTES The first musical entertainment of the Utoplan Club this fall was given last evening at the club's rooms, at 1417 Locust street. Isaiah Kenderdine and John Briggs, of the Prothonotary's office, left yesterday for 8 shooting trip through Montgomery county. The Reading Railroad carried ninety thousand excursionists on its main line last summer, exclusive of the business out of Philadelphia. The young men of Philadelphia are invited to attend a meeting at the Mercantile Library to-morrow evening, to discuss the Belt Line Railroad.

Charged with assault and battery on Charles Boyle, a boy, of 803 Bucknell street, William Lautenback, of 2321 Brown street, was yesterday held tor trial. For the theft of a number of door mats from Daniel Egan, 15 East Canal street, John McKinley, of 16 Richmond street, was yesterday held for court. Captain John H. Weeks, William Moland and a number of other business men are organizing a company to construct and operate a cold storage warehouse. The Board of Managers of the Penn Asylum for Indigent Widows and Single Women, at Belgrade and Otis streets, gave their annual tea party last evening.

The institution has forty-seven inmates, the youngest of whom is sixty years old, and the oldest, Mrs. Margaret Taylor, ninety-seven. "You are no good to yourself or the community," said Magistrate Smith, in the Central Station yesterday, to Theodore Schofield, who was charged by his wife, from whom he is separated, with following her to her place of employment, 302 North Fifteenth street, and annoying her. He was sent to prison in default of $600 bail. BROTHERS PIANOS WM.

1221 G. Chestnut FISCHER St. Candies, Extra Quality, for wholesale trade. George Miller Son have removed to new bullding, 255 and 257 South THIRD Street, TEN DOLLARS. Men's Black Cheviot Suits, strictly pure Wool, and worth $15.00.

Come to-day or to-morrow and take one for $10, at the GUARANTEEONEPRICE CLOTHING 508 MARKET Street, Philadelphia, KEEP THIS IN YOUR MIND. It will be poor policy on your part to buy your winter overcoat without first looking at what we have to offer. Ours are by far the handsomest in the city. This is not mere talk, But is a fact Attested to every day by customers who buy from us, after looking everywhere else beforehand. Every kind of overcoats are here, At prices that are lower than any other house asks for same qualities of goods.

Remember this. If you appreciate first-class work, good style and a perfect fit You can get them from us Actually for less money than you pay elsewhera for ordinary and Inferior work. PERRY 1520 CHESTNUT STREET..