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to THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE SATURDAY MORISTIG JITiSTE 5 1897 RECEIVER FOR A BIG FIRM GUESTS FROM MANY LANDS SOME TOPICS OF THE TOWN DEATH OF WATSON RUDDY court and the bill to foreclose is still pending The American Trust and Savings bank a cotrustee holds that there is no such diversity of citizenship as to place the case in the federal jurisdiction The decision of Judge Grosscup rom which the appeal heard yesterday was taken on this issue was to the effect that the American Trust and Savings bank was to all intents a friendly party with the railroad company and that the Loan and Trust Company practically stood alone as the complainant BUILDING LOAN CASE In the litigation of the International Building Loan and Investment union yesterday Judge Horton entered an order by agreement setting aside the order of Judge Payne dissolving the corporation This order was entered when the attorney general intervened in the superior court case Judge Horton announced he would take up other phases of the case Wednesday next SUPERIOR AND CIRCUIT COURTS TiUffi MEAT T-LAMUE OF AUGUST 1896 Mrs Explanation of the Unusual Number of Deaths and Prostrations Among Women The great heat plague of August 1896 was not without its lesson One could not fail to notice in the long lists of the dead throughout this country that so many of the victims were women in their thirties and women between forty-five and fifty The women who succumbed to the protracted heat were women whose energies were exhausted by sufferings peculiar to their sex women who taking no thought of themselves or who attaching no importance to symptoms allowed their female system to become run down Constipation capricious appetite restlessness forebodings of evil vertigo languor and weakness especially in the morning an itching sensation which suddenly attacks one at night or whenever the blood becomes overheated are all warnings Don't wait too long to build up your strength that is now a positive necessity! Lydia Vegetable Compound has specific curative powers ou cannot do better than to commence a course of this grand medicine By the neglect of first symptoms you will see hv the following letter what terrible suffering came to Mrs Craig and how she was cured have taken Lydia Vegetable Compound and think it is the best medicine for women in the world I was so weak and nervous that I thought I could not live from one day to the next I had prolapsus uteri and leucorrhcea and thought I was going into consumption 1 would get so faint I thought I would die I had dragging pains in my back burning sensation down to my feet and so many miserable feelings People said that I looked like a dead woman Doctors tried to cure me but failed I had -y "ZS's giyen UP when I heard of the Pinkham medicine I got a bottle I did not have much faith in it but thought I would try it and it made a new woman of me I wish I could get every lady in the land to try it for it did for me what doctors could not Mrs Satlie Craig Landing Pa GOOD SHOOTING AT TRAPS Big Sweepstake Events Contested by Experts at Burnside Park The annual tournament of the Illinois State association was finished yesterday There were not enough shooters on the grounds at Burnside to fill up the fifteen-bird event $10 entrance The weather was the finest of the week and those present thoroughly enjoyed the day Sweepstake shooting was the order $2 entrance and each man to pay for his own birds Nearly 600 birds were killed and at no time were there more than fourteen shooters entered Nearly if not all the shooters left the city last night Charlie Budd will stay over for his match at 100 birds for the Dupont trophy with George Beck of Indianapolis The match takes place at park on Monday Budd holds the trophy and this shoot is to defend it against Beck who is the challenger and puts up $100 The scores Sweepstakes $2 miss and out birds qxtra: Money 1 I) Powers 2 Willard 1 2 Bunnell 0 Bingham 0 Budd 2 0 A Kleinman 1 2 Gilbert 2 1 Willard and Kleinman divide Second sweepstakes same conditions Money 2 i Powers 2 0 Willard 2 1 1 Budd 2 1 0 Bingham Gilbert 2 2 2 A Kleinman 2 1 Willard and Gilbert divide Third event same conditions Money 2 Powers Budd 2 Frothingham 2 Abbott 2 Willard Klbbey Gilbert 2 Dvnnell 2 Kcianezki 2 A Kleinman 2 Budd and Kibbey divide Fourth event same conditions Powers 0 Money 0 FYothingham 2 Budd 1 Kolanczki 2 Gilbert 2 Palmer 2 Willard 1 Kibbey 2 Abbott 2 0 Dunnell 0 Shaw 2 2 Kleinman 1 2 Kolanczki Gilbert and Kleinman divide Fifth event same conditions: 2 2 2 0 The windows of the hat stores have been filled with straw hats for weeks but the weather has forbidden the use of these summery articles of dress A hatter said the other day the sale of straw hats this season would be sadly curtailed if the weather did not become warm soon After the Fourth of July he said few men invested in straw hats The police department is supplied with four inspectors They have equal rank and equal authority They are all entitled to wear a uniform but only one is ever seen in brass buttons That one is the inspector usually designated as the burgomaster of the north side Inspector Sehaack always appears in braid and brass Inspector Shea dresses like a dry goods merchant Inspector Hunt is always appareled after the manner of a professional man a doctor for instance Inspector Hartnett dresses like a Bord of Trade man Assistant Chief Lewis dresses like a real estate dealer and Inspector Fitzpatrick that was dressed always like a railway superintendent Schaaek however is ever caparisoned as near like the grand duke of Luxemburg on dress parade as the police regulations will permit Most of the witnesses who testified in the examination of Adolph Luetgert before Justice Kersten required an interpreter who translated to and from the German Attorney Vincent was cross-examining a thickheaded witness did you asked the attorney in the vernacular gehen translated the interpreter into the vernacular said the witness translated the interpreter thus making it clear to everybody where the witness went Brigadier Brewer of the Salvation Army and his friend Dr Hulburt of the fashionable Congregational church of Oak Park were walking in Lake street the other evening and the brigadier was doing the talking He was expatiating on the puritanism of the people of Evanston who were prosecuting his soldiers for praying in the streets Brewer is a large man with long arms and he was gesticulating with both arms as he talked He was not paying much attention to anything except his theme and his auditor until his strong right arm struck something and then there was a yell He stopped startled and there stood a man with both hands up In the dark evening shadows thrown by the elevated road the brigadier was easily mistaken for a highwayman when he brought his clenched fist down on the head of the stranger The Salvation Army commander apologized and restored the frightened man to a state of composure The north side cable cars are the first to rest for the night People who live on the west side may stay downtown twenty minutes later and still have opportunity for riding home This is not the only grievance of the north siders Besides complaining of the discrimination of twenty minutes they have a perennial grievance against the owl car system A car and a Lincoln avenue car make explorations of the north side at intervals of forty minutes They do not divide the time to enhance the convenience to patrons living south of Center street but one trails the other After the cable cars stop a line of weary pedestrians may be seen in Clark street until the cable cars start again A west side citizen had a severe trouble with his throat recently which reduced his voice from its usual stentorian depth and volume to a whisper He withdrew from his work for a week while doctors worked on his larynx He was going home one evening after a visit to the clinic and while he was seated in a street cay he thought hewould try his voice to see if it was returning in its old-time strength well well hb said to himself in what would have beeiu a whisper that morning It was no whisper then It was like the voice of the fog siren People in the car were startled well well well The big man was evidently pleased with the sound of a voice he thought he would never hear again and was giving himsfelf a vocal entertainment An old man wjtjo sat in front of him bristled up and asked: do you mean sir by addressing me like The man with the rescued voice looked up guiltily as if he were suddenly awakened to the fact that there were others present He apologized to the old man and waited until he got home td finish the test Bicycles come thick and fast for the park policeman at Jackson and Ashland boulevards who is responsible for the public welfare in that highway intersection From the four cardinal points of the compass bicycles impelled by all sorts of riders pour down toward the policeman He is supposed to prevent scorching at that point and see that every wheeler keeps to the right of the road He is also supposed to see that drivers of horses do not violate the laws of park highways These duties keep him busy particularly of Sundays At the end of his work last Sunday he was covered with dust and his gray uniform was torn in several places and two red scratches marked his face He had been knocked down seven times during the day by reckless riders as he stood in the middle of the crossing trying to do his duty Strawbberries are a drug on the market at 50 cents a crate big luscious berries that ordinarily in this season are at least $1 and sometimes as high as $2 a crate The cold weather has kept out the Michigan berry but has not retarded in the least the field about Centralia and the frigidity hereabouts has lessened the demand There have been no sweltering days to destroy the berries and they could not be better In consequence while the supply has not been overlarge the quality this year has never been finer But the residents of Chicago have not called for them as usual and the price has fallen The fruit growers about Centralia have quit picking owing to the situation in the Chicago market and the fruit commission men of South Water street say that as a result the price will probably advance A cessation of picking for one -lay at the fields in Marion county the commission men say is sufficient to affect the daily supply here materially BILL OF FARE FOR SUNDAY Temptations to Appetite Provided for the Guidance of Housekeepers menu may safely be arranged on the following plan: BREAKFAST Stewed rhubarb Samp Mutton chops fried Saratoga chips Parker house rolls Coffee LUNCHEON Veal loaf sliced Radishes Bread and butter Preserved pears Tea DINNER Onion soup "Pbt roast Mashed potatoes Lettuce Lady fingers cake Fruit Coffee Parker house One pint of milk boiled and cooled a piece of butter half a cupful of fresh yeast one tifctlesjjcKmful of sugar pinch of salt and two quarts of sifted flour Melt the butter in waFm milk then add the sugar salt and flour and let it rise over night mix rather softA In -the morning add half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a spoonful of water Mix in enough flour to make the same stiffrjess1 as any biscuit dough roll out not more than a quarter of an inch thick Cut with a large cutter and butter on top place in a pan and set before the fire fifteen minutes before baking Bake in a quick oven cake Beat well together one cup of butter and three of sugar add the yolks of six eggs and one cup of milk and two teaspoonfuls of vanilla mix thoroughly To four cups of flour add two heaping teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar Mix all together and add one teaspoonful of soda Stir in gently the whites of six eggs Bake slowly Special Excursions to California Thursday July 1 two personally conducted parties having Through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars will leave Chicago via Chicago and Alton Railroad one at 11:08 a by way of St Louis Fort Worth El Paso and Los Angeles the other at 6:00 via the Denver and Rio Grande Route and Salt Lake City where a stop of twenty-four hours will made to enable the party to visit the Mormon Tabernacle etc Cost of Railroad and Sleeping Car Ticket $3100 less than half the usual rate For further particulars write or call on Judson Co 193 Clark Street Chicago 111 Distinguished oreign Visitors Are Coining to Chicago Delegates to Universal Postal Congress to Be Here Monday Party Includes Statesmen and Officers of All Civilized Countries United States Originated the Union Now Covering the World The universal postal congress which convened at Washington May 5 and the members of which will Monday visit Chicago is the most cosmopolitan body of distinguished representatives that has ever been brought together in this country Among its membership are eight of the ministers plenipotentiary of foreign nations duly accredited to the government of the United States seventeen postmasters general and more than fifty officers of high rank in the postal administrations of their respective countries The conception of an international postal union which called into being the universal postal congress belongs to the United States of America Aug 4 1862 Postmaster General Blair in a letter addressed to Secretary Seward proposed an international conference with a view to the revision simplification and unification of the postal arrangements of the various civilized nations A proposition embodying these views was submitted by the state department to the governments of Great Britain France Prussia Sweden Belgium Italy Ecuador and the Netherlands They were favorably received by all these governments and in May of the following year the first International postal conference met in Paris From the idea of an international conference sprang the project of a permanent postal union governed by international treaties formulated by a congress of plenipotentiaries of the countries composing the universal postal union The function of the postal congress is to discuss and regulate the affairs which concern the various countries-in their postal intercourse and to introduce such improvements in the international postal service as are deemed necessary or desirable The postal congress of Washington is In reality the first truly universal congress Sixty-one countries comprising virtually the whole civilized world represented by ninety-one delegates and over twenty attacheshave for the past month been deliberating over proposed improvements and extensions of the postal facilities The following countries and delegates are now represented in the universal postal congress: Great Britain Spencer Walpole secretary of posts and telegraphs Buxton Forman assistant secretary of posts and comptroller of the service of ships A King inspector and chief of the pay department of posts and telegraphs delegates A Walkley attache British Colonies of South Africa Somerset French postmaster general of the Cape of Good Hope Spencer Todd delegates British Hermann Michael Klsch postmaster general of Bengal delegate Edward Anthony Doran subdireclor of British India posts attache Aifstralasia John Gavan DufH minister of posts and telegraphs of Victoria delegate James Smi-bert formerly deputy postmaster general of Victoria attache France Mr Ansault administrator of posts and telegraphs Mr Recoing chief of bureau of foreign correspondence and maritime service delegates Mr Herman subchief of central service delegate attache French colonies Mr Dalmas subdirectcr ministry of colonies delegate Tunis regency Ugene Thiebaut first secretary of the embassy of France at Washington Relegate Russia Mr SevastianofC counselor of state attached to the director general of posts and telegraphs delegate Mr Evanoff counselor of state chief of the first section of the general direction of pests and telegraphs Mr Roudanowski honorary counselor secretary of the general direction of posts and telegraphs attaches Germany Mr Fritsch director of the department of rosls of the German empire Mr New-mann private counselor of posts delegates Mr Rot he inspector of posts attache Emidio Chiaradia member of the chamber of deputies Count Giulio Cesare Vinci secretary of the embassy of Italy Dr Eugene Delmati inspector at the ministry of posts and telegraphs delegates Count Max Mitchlel Count Brazza De Savorgnan attaches Ausiria Dr Rudolph Neubauer director general of posts and telegraphs Theodore Habber-ger ministerial counselor at the ministry of commerce Chevalier Albert De Stibral subsecretary ministerial at the ministry of commerce delegates Count De Lichterveld envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Belgium at Washington Mr Sterpin director general of posts Mr Lambin inspector of the direction at the central administration of railways of the state of Belgium delegates Mr Neven chief of the bureau at the general direction of posts attache Ado'pho Rosabaly Rovira inspector in chief of movable bureaus delegate Spanish colonies Carlos Flores chief of the bureau international service delegate Turkey Mustapha Bey envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his imperial majesty the sultan at Washington Fahri Bey- member of the council of administration of posts and telegraphs delegates Seiffedden Bey attache Egypt Yussuf Saba Pasha director general of rosts delegate Greece Mr Hohn chief of international bureau postal union delegate Canada Lieutenant Colonel William White subminister of pests of Canada delegate Ramon Luis Irarrazaval director general of posts delegate: Carlos Larrain attache Dr Climaco Calderon consul general of the Republic of Colombia at New York delegate Pierre De Sxaley director general of posts and telegraphs Dr Guillaume De Hennyey postal counselor delegates Svendsen director general of posts delegate Costa Joaquin Bernardo Calvo minister resident of Costa Rica at Washington delegate Independent state of Congo Represented by the Belgian delegates Guatemala Julio Novella delegate Komatsu counselor and secretary to the ministry of ccmmunications of Japan Yukawa secretary to the ministry of communications of Japan delegates Aral secretary of postal telegraphs attache Augustin Chavez director general of telegraphs Manuel Zapata-Vera chief of the consular bureau at the ministry of foreign affairs of Mexico Ignatio Garfias director general of posts delegates Captain John Stewart consul general of Paraguay to the United States delegate Viscount de Sant-Thyrso envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington delegate Schlytern director general cf posts ad interim deiegate Dr Gronwall attache Jean-Baptiste Pioda envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Switzerland at Washington Antoine Stager chief of the principal section of the general direction of posts of Switzerland Camille Delessert director of posts of the district of Lausanne delegates Alejandro Santos consul general of Bolivia at New York delegate Chevalier Dr Henri De Kamler subsecretary ministerial to the ministrv of war delegate Brazil A Fontoura Xavier consul general of Brazil at New York deiegate Bulgaria Ivan Stoyanovitch director general of posts and telegraphs delegate Argentine Dr Martin Garcia Merou envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington delegate Luis Felipe Carbo envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Washington delegate Represented by Mr Havelaar delegate of the Pays-Bas Havelaar director general of posts and telegraphs Mr an der Veen Inspector of posts delegates Colony Neerlandaises Perk director at the ministry of colonies of the Pays-Bas delegate Alberto Falcon delegate Represented by the delegates of Austria Mirza Allinaghi Khan field marshal delegate: Major Nevdon Boyajian Mirza Mo-hammed-Ali Khan attaches The Greater Republic of Central General Nicanor Boiet-Peraza consul general of the Greater Republic of Central America at New York delegate Passengers for Buffalo and points east may secure space in sleeping cars for any future date on the new train over the Nickel Plate Road leaving Chicago 3:05 daily commencing Sunday May 30th Arrive at Buffalo 8:00 a This will be a favorite train for all points in the state of New York Northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey Three through Express trains daily Rates lower than via other lines Dolese Shepard Stone Partners Go to the WaU they Disagree and Appeal to Law for an Accounting Judge Gibbons Decides a Land Case in Pavor of Lincoln Park Eoard Lake Street Litigation Comes Other Sews From the Courts BIG FIRM COES UNDER DOLESE SHEPARD FAIL After passing through varied litigation the stone firm of Dolese Shepard went into the hands of a receiver yesterday Thomas Phillips president of the Chicago and Naperville Stone Company was appointed to take charge of the assets of the firm upon the application of John Dolese one of the partners to Judge Hanecy of the circuit court An injunction was also issued restraining Jason Shepard the remaining partner from collecting or receiving any of the debts due the firm According to the bill- the present troubles of the firm arise largely from the fact that Shepard has lately collected a large sum of money which it is said should have been applied on partnership debts and also that the firm has been involved in litigation and other difficulties of a pecuniary nature lately The partnership was formed between John Dolese and Jason Shepard in 1872 under a verbal agreement the business entered into being that of crushed stone macadamizing and doing street work where crushed stone was used It is represented that as the business grew a great deal- of machinery was purchased for use of the firm It is asserted that for the last eight or nine years the business has amounted to $500000 a year and that the profits have been on an average of $70000 a year The bill says that the partnership has now transferred to Thomas Phillips by bill of sale the land and quarries of seventy-three acres and the personal property of the concern The transfer was made according to the bill in anticipation of a reorganization of the business which both the parties to this suit expected to incorporate and consolidate with the business of the Chicago and Naperville Stone Company but it is averred that this scheme became impracticable and has been abandoned During the existence of the partnership Dolese declares his partner has drawn from the concern about $150000 in excess of the amount taken out by him It is also averred that Shepard has indorsed a number of notes with the firm name without the consent of his partner which are now outstanding The bill recites that the partnership has still property in its name consisting of real estate horses cars bonds and accounts valued at about $1000000 The outstanding debts of the firm are $730000 a large proportion of which are secured by mortgages on chattel property and real estate LAKE SHORE CASE DECIDED- LINCOLN PARK BOARD WINS The suit of the attorney general of Illinois against Alexander Revell which involved the right of lake shore propei-ty owners to reclaim submerged lands was decided against Revell yesterday by Judge Gibbons The decision sustained the legislative act of 1S95 giving control of such lands to the Lincoln park commissioners for park purposes The lot over which the suit arose is on the lake shore south of Belmont avenue Revell built a pier into the lake for the purpose of making accretions and to protect his property from loss by erosion Attorney General Moloney filed an information in chancery asking the- court to enjoin him from making land and to order the removal of the piers Revel! ffied an answer denying that he had built piers for the purpose of reclaiming lands from the lake and alleged that the information of the attorney general was filed in reality on behalf of the Lincoln park commissioners who were interested in obtaining from the courts a rule by which they could acquire lands for a driveway The property-owners contended that every man who owns land on Lake Michigan is entitledto compensation for his riparian rights efore the park commissioners can extend the park system as authorized by the statute of 1895 The court in giving his decision said in substance: admit that there are decisions which appear to support the principle claimed to be established but when interpreted in the light of their peculiar facts they do not decide that a man who simply owns a naked lot bounded by navigable water is entitled to compensation for being deprived of access thereto should the government see fit to utilize the water bed up to his shore line one buys a lot whose boundaries are certain and defined it is his privilege to permit it to remain barren uncultivated and unproductive as long as he pleases Until he improves it the owner of the adjoining lot has an implied license to pass over it to enjoy the benefit of the light and air and other incidental advantages which it affords him but the former may cut off these advantages by building upon his lot without being liable to damages to the person who hitherto enjoyed them Why should one rule of law apply to the property of a private individual and another quite different rule apply to the property of the government There is no place in the reason or philosophy of the law for any such differnce or distinction Will it be contended that because the legislature made provision in the law whereby the park commissioners might acquire by purchase or condemnation riparian rights that therefore every man who owned a foot of barren shore property was entitled to damages should the commissioners undertake improvements? If so we have here a fruitful field for The court gave the defendant all the land up to the water's edge at the time the state sees fit to reclaim it or make use of the submerged lands and said an injunction would be issued restraining the defendant from further trespassing upon the submerged lands of the lake and restraining him from interfering with the state or park commissioners in taking possession of the lands up to the line of his lot for park purposes under the act of 1895 The structure found in the lake below the edge is to be removed if necessary The attorney general began a similar proceeding against Ralph Greenlee the owner of property at Byron street and the lake shore The Greenlee case and the Revell case were heard together and Judge Gibbons rendered a similar decision in the Greenlee case Both cases will be appealed to the higher courts for final action OTHER COURT NEWS CHINESE ARE SUED A bill against three Chinamen was filed in the circuit court yesterday The defendants are Moy Chene better known as Hip Lung Sam Moy and Chow Tai The complainant in the case is Thomas Johnston who has failed to obtain by execution a judgment of $3404 against the defendants which was rendered in the circuit court March 12 1896 The judgment was given upon a transaction involving the Chinese theater which was erected on Stony Island avenue during the fair Johnston says that he would like to reach some of the property of the defendants which he avers has been concealed by them He represents that he believes that they have money deposited in either the First National bank Illinois Trust and Savings or Fort Dearborn National banks The court is asked to aid the complainant in search of funds of the defendants to satisfy his judgment against the celestials LAKE STREET APPEAL The United States circuit court of appeals yesterday heard and took under advisement the question of the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the Lake Street Elevated foreclosure proceedings Judge Payne in the superior court removed the Loan and Trust Company from being a trustee of the mortgage and gave a decree against foreclosure The Loan and Trust Company came Into the federal Millionaire Horseman and Property Owner Passes Away For Many Years a Prominent Business Man on North Side Decedent Married the Widow of Thomas Mackin the Eich Contractor Funeral Services of Mrs Theresa Don-ahoe Other Mortuary Matters WATSON RUDDY IS DEAD LEAVES A LARGE ESTATE Watson Ruddy died at his home in Wells street yesterday morning after an illness of several duration His health began to fail some months ago and diabetes was the immediate cause of his death His wife who was at his bedside when he passed away was the widow of the late Thomas Mackin the wealthy north side contractor Her litigation over the Mackin estate was a conspicuous contest in the courts for several years Mr Ruddy was a native of County Tyrone Ireland where he was born fifty-two years ago He came to this country in 1872 with Eliza Quinn for his bride Soon after his arrival in America he settled in Chicago and engaged in the saloon business in Wells streeet with his brother During all of these years the business interests of the brothers have never been divided They engaged in dealing in horses and in contracting and grew wealthy and continued to hold their possessions in common The first wife of Mr Ruddy died in 1887 and a few years after he married the young widow of Thomas Mackin She was the second wife of Mackin having married him in Ireland a few years before his death One child 2 years old survives Mr Ruddy Mr Ruddy was a warm-hearted man was conspicuous for his generosity and for his brusqueness and plain ways He leaves an estate estimated at over $1000000 He was not a member of any society but was a communicant of the Holy Name parish from which church his funeral will take' place OTHER MORTUARY MATTERS MRS TERESA DONAHOE Funeral services were held yesterday at St church over the remains of Mrs Teresa Donahoe wife of Attorney Daniel Donahoe and the body was taken to Huntley 111 for interment Father Cash-man of St church assisted by Fathers Cox and Cotter celebrated requiem high mass The services were held at and a large number of Mrs friends and relatives attended The following acted as pallbearers: Robert Walsh James Clinnin James Strain Judge Gibbons Dr McDonald and David Hayes Mrs Donahue was 36 years old and was a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters She had for a long time been a sufferer from heart disease MAJOR MILLER ROPES Salem Mass June 4 Major Miller Ropes A (retired) dropped dead here this afternoon He was 64 years of age Death was due to a shock of paralysis Major Ropes served through the civil war in a California regiment At the close of the war he entered the regular army serving in the cavalry and rose to the rank of captain He was retired a few years ago with the rank of major and has since lived in this city WILLIAM CLARK SR Indianapolis Ind June William Clark Sr is dead He was supposed to be the newspaper worker and editor of longest continuous service in the country With the exception of three years he had been identified with the press since his fourteenth year and was 88 years old His house at Mercer Pa was formerly a station on tfcV "underground that took negroes to Canada The funeral of Henry Van Newkirk took place yesterday at his late residence in River Forest Large floral pieces were sent by the employes of the Bermudez Asphalt Paving Company of which the dead man was general superintendent Mr Van Newkirk was one of the foremost constructors of asphalt paving in the United States At the Holy Family church yesterday funeral services were held over the remains of Patrick Ponsonby who died Wednesday at his home 338 Laflin street Requiem mass was celebrated by Rev Messrs Meyer Reel and Paul Six members of the Married Sodality of which Mr Ponsonby was a member acted at pallbearers The interment was at Calvary cemetery Mr Ponsonby was SO years of age and came to Chicago from Limerick Ireland in 1849 IMPROVED TRAIN SERVICE ON THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD Effective Sunday May 30 1897 No Nickel Plate Express for Ft Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York and Boston leaves Chicago at 10:35 a daily with Buffet Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars for Boston New York and intermediate points Arrives at Boston following day 5:50 New York 3:30 Dining Car No Ft Wayne Cleveland Erie and Eastern Express leaves Chicago at 3:05 daily with Buffet Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars for Buffalo Rochester Syracuse Utica Troy and intermediate points Parlor Car Buffalo to New York via West Shore Railroad also Parlor Car from Buffalo via Arrive at New York 10:15 No Standard Express for Ft Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York and Boston leaves Chicago at 10:15 daily with Buffet Drawing-Room Sleeping Cars for Buffalo New York Boston and intermediate points Arrives at Boston second morning 10:15 New York 7:30 Arrives at Cleveland 9:45 a Breakfast in Dining Car No excess fares will be charged on any train Rates lower than via other lines Sleeping car space may be reserved on any train for any future dates Call on or address FI Thorne City Ticket Agent 111 Adams street Telephone Main 3389 WILL STAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Seattle Wash June The state central committee of the populist party of this state has issued a manifesto to the effect that hereafter the party will stand by itself and fight its own battles Great Sale of Uncalled For Custom Pants Will sell at wonderful low price $250 a pair If out of city send waist and leg meaure will send samples of pants on hand to fit Apollo Custom Pants Mfrs 161 5th avenue Chicago Judgments: Judge Ewing 15106 Leo Raimon et al vs Ellen Fiynn by dfit 568395 Judge Hutchinson 9797 William Bender vs North Chicago St Co on findg $26225 and sat 12667 Helen Hawes vs Frank A White by dflt $945 Judge Dunne 5527 Chicago Title and Trust Co vs Jacob Magill onver $26525 ex parte Decrees: Judge Freeman 4890 Toung Assn vs Burger dec sale- 5802 Illinois Club vs Rawson dec 161323 Howard vs Kraus dec sale 4404 Zentner vs Bremer same 6400 Dean et al vs Morgan same 4006 Trego vs Bromberg same 3136 Nash vs Aresin def dec 3594 Mosconesotes vs Patent Telephone Indicator Co dec 5963 Jurgens vs Kesler dec Judge 121876 Alexander vs Waldron dec 178727 Johnson vs Birnnan dec sale Judge Tuley 7013 Kingon vs Richardson dec sale 7222 Carmichael vs Block dec Judge Horton 6376 Crozer vs Gougar def dec 6377 Same vs Same same 6699 Same vs Same same 6700 Same vs Same same 6701 Same vs Same same 6702 Same vs Same same 6913 Lord vs Minnick dec sale 3086 Young vs Choan same: divorces 170377 Maria from Melville Wood desertion 163757 Margrethe from Lars Hansen drunkenness 167756 Bell from Harmon cruelty Judge Gibbons 159583 Simon from Mary Porbaugh div desertion Judge 6822 Koker vs Oling dec COURT CALLS FOR TODAY Judge Hanecy Default divorces Judge Tuley No court Judge Horton Default divorces Judge Default divorces Judge Sears No 3791 Judge Ewing Motions for new trials and contested motions Judge Stein 9:30 a Motions for new trials and contested motions Judge Gibbons In chambers Judge Hutchinson Motions for new trials and contested motions i Judge Motions for new trials and contested motions Judge Clifford Motions of course Judge Neely Motion for new trial in No 5254 Decision in No 16067 Judge Adams No 1S6461 on trial Judge Baker Motions of course Judge Windes 9:30 a Contested motions Judge Tuthill No 8223 on trial Judge Dunne 9:30 a Motions for new trials and contested motions Judge Carter (county court) 1 0 a Motions of course 10:30 am: No 16126 Judges Woods Jenkins and Showalter (United States circuit court of No 400 on trial Judge Grosscup (United States circuit court) No announcement Judge Chetlain Motions for new trials in Nos 5764 3389 11445 15672 8196 16302 Contested motions in Nos 16690 15114 10976 Judge Brentano Motions for new trials in Nos 3691 5725 7289 7357 73S0 Contested motions in Nos 9704 5468 6377 Judge Goggin Branch No 4 Call not extended Judge Branch No 5 Motions for new trials in Nos 3460 3426 727 Judge Smith Branch No 6 Call not extended Judge Payne Branch No 7 Call not extended GUARD AGAINST A DZATH TRAP in the In Clark Street Will Be Made Less Dangerous hole in the whieh separates Clark street from the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific tracks between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets will either have a guard hereafter or will be widened so that it will be less of a death trap than it has been hole in the is what its name im- THE "HOLE IN THE AT FOURTEENTH AND CLARK STREETS plies being just wide enough for a team to pass through It is only less dangerous than the railroad crossing at Clark street just beyond it because there is less traffic at the than there is at the crossing Patrick Erlick who was badly hurt by an electric car which runs as close to the wall on one side as the railway tracks do on the other seemed better yesterday and it is now believed he will recover Conductor Fred Benedict who was dragged from his car by a jutting tooth of the wall is lying at his home with a broken collarbone Edward Cassidy who was driving grocery wagon at the time the latter was injured ig not as seriously injured as was at first supposed and will soon be about again These latter accidents have hastened the determination to either widen the or to station a guard at the place to give warning of the approach of either railway trains or the electric cars FIXING EXCURSION RATES One and One-Third Fare Recommended by Joint Traffic Managers New York June 4 The board of managers of the Joint Traffic association has recommended a number of special Fourth of July excursions and has also fixed a rate of one and one-third first-class fare per capita for the national meeting of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Minneapolis Minn July 6 to 10 Commissioner Blanchard has recommended a one-fare rate for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Buffalo in August and he meeting of the Army of the Potomac at Troy Aug 20 and 21 As a basis for east-bound rates on grain and grain products from Madison Ind (he managers recommend 95 per cent of Chicago-New York rates The board of arbitrators of the association has sustained the appeal of certain Michigan lines in the matter of passenger fares from interior points in that state The arbitrators decide that the differential fares should be used- as the basis for the construction of through fares from interior points in Michigan to eastern cities The appeal was taken against an interpretation of passenger circular No 3S0 announced by the managers on the application of the Chicago and Grand Trunk HALF RATES TO PITTSBURG PA Via June 12 13 and 14 the Baltimore and Ohio will sell excursion tickets to Pittsburg Pa at rate of $11 for the round trip account Junior Order United American Mechanics National Council Tickets good for return until June 21 For tickets and sleeping car 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