Harrisburg Daily Independent from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

VOL. XXVI. NO. 128. THURSDAY EVENING.

OCTOBER 31. 1880. 6 CTS. A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES, 2 CTS.

NEWPORT. FIRED REVOLVER ON A TRAIN FIDELITY, VALOR, HONOR." EXAGGERATION ABOUT WANT. DYNAMITER POUNDERS. The Independent. HALLOWE'EN.

CRAZED BY HUNGER. A Woman Frantically Strives to Kill Her Mother and Her Child. Work Frogresslncon the River Bridge micro veuients Correspondence ef the Indki'Bndkkt. Nkwport, Oct. 31.

Contractor Keefur has taken the trestllng from under tne nrst span of the river bridge. at this place, and put It up between the nrst and second piers. The second span will be up in a few days, if the weather continues fair. The firm cf Flekos of this place, have a new grain warehouse in process of erection on their ground west of town. Tills is the fourth oue of its kind erected on the samo ground, The heavy rains of Saturday and Sun day caused the Juniata river to raise several feet, reuderlng ferrying difficult at tins point, but It was successfully done.

On Monday nlsht. while bunting. James Gardner, of this place, shot a coon weighing twenty seven and one naa poands. Ou Tuesday morning workmen begau tearing out tha front of Mr, George Flelahcr's brick dwelling, on South Second street, and before the cold weather commences a new and hand some front will be put in instead. iiie dwelling house of Justice of the reaje li.

V. Wingert, on North Second street, is receivlug a coat of paint, miking it look bright and cheerful. Ground bas been broken for the erec tion of a new warehouse bv Jones Bro. on the site of the building destroyed by fire on June 1. Xhe new brick building in course of erection on the tannery lot of Mr.

H. II. Bechtel, on North Front street, is nearing completion as fast as can be expected. The leaves are about all off the shade trees in this town, and the smell of burning leaves will greet the nostrils of sensitive citizens no more this season. AN EARLY MORNING CHASE.

A Gang of Tramps Create Considerable excitement a. Kockvllle XMIs Morning At an early hour this morning a tele gram was received at the Pennsylvania depot announcing the fact that a gang of tramps, with consideiable plunder, were on a freight tiatn at tne ltocKvme bridge, and when tho trainmen made au effort to capture them they showed fight. The train was run ou the bridge and kept there for some time in the middle of the river. A "dinky" was at once despatched to the tcene with Sergeant Block aud Oflicer Frowert, of the depot force, on board. When the orlicers arrived the train had been run off the bridge, and the tramps threw their plunder in different directions and made their escape, starting out, it is said by an eye witness, in the direction of Har risburg.

The officers made a diligent search of. the surroundings and succeeded in finding several webs of different kind of fine cloth, wrapped up in heavy paper. The goods were evidently stolen from a freight car. It Is said that the gang, which was composed of three burly tramps and a boy about 18 years old, had in their possession much more goods, shoes, than that found by the officers. A man named William J.

Martin, a character who had suspicious loolr, was found in the vicinity and arrested. He was very impudent, and when brought to the Mavcr's office and searched, $4.68, a pocket knife and a bottle of whisky was found on his person At te Mayor' Office. James Dutton. the tramp arrested by Officer Carberry yesterday begging and using insulting language to ladies in South Harrisburg, was sent to jail for ninety days. James Dugan was sent to tail ior sixty days for indecent exposure.

Georze Bradv was arrested oy umcer Towler this morning, on suspicion of being acquainted with some of the robberies which have been perpetrated in this city. nnA in laint AT. posure, was given Bixty days, wnen searched James bad on his person, a hraai. nnA nmmH weicht. evidentlv be longing to some druggist.

The weight 18 ai me mayors omce a waning iuuu-fication. Sergeant Block at noon to day arrested two tough-looking individuals. They gave their names as Frank Hughes and John Smith. Both men were under the influence of liquor, and were held on suspicion oi oeing participants in the fra as at Rockville this morning. Depot Notes.

Th RaarH nf T)irtnr nf the Penn sylvania Railroad Company will meet on Friday for the purpose of declaring the November dividend. The annual inspection of the Cumberland Valley railroad and branches was rtttnrt lot Ail aat orH H.TT. Tl.n inmection party included President Kennedy, Su perintendent Boyd, uniei engineer ives, Assistant nuwin juucubh, MnnrnViAad Kennedy. Messrs. Lvnam, Kincb, Rodgers, Doebler, Smith and A.

T. Dice, of the Pennsylvania railroad. Supervisors Howard and Rodgers and the section foremen. The party expressed entire satisfaction at the con dition of the road. Marriage Licenses.

Tha fnlinninff marriaee licenses were granted since our last report: Millar, of Chambersburg, and Carrie Miller, of i ar burg. Milliard r. enmn anu nstiiMuuuw of Harrisburg. A TROUBLED NATIONAL BANK. The Defalcation of the Cashier Closes Its Doors at Coiishohocken To-daj.

DEPOSITORS WILL ROT SUFFER LOSS- Norbibtowh. Oct. 31. The following notice was posted on the door of the Tradesmen's National of Conshohocken, this morning: To whom it may concern This bank Is closed in consequence ot the defalcation of the cashier. Depositors will suffer no loss.

(Signed) John A. Bighter. Jawood Lnken, George W. Wood, George Sarson, directors, a 1 1 The casnier reierreu to is nuam Henry Cresson. United States Bank Examiner Robert E.

James, who made the discovery of the defalcation, says the amount is not less than (50,000, and may exceed $75,000. The Directors were informed of the defalcation yesterday. Cresson was charged and he questioned the correctness of Examiner James' figures. Cresson has disappear Ml. His securities are responsible men.

Ine defalcation was in cash. There Is no explanation yet known for Cressxm'i conduct. He stood high in social and church circles of Conshohocken. It is said a warrant for his arrwt has been issued. Th Ksonpade of Two Young; Paterson Qtrla and Attempted Murder.

A special from Newark, JN. says that two exceedingly pretty and well dressed young women were among the prisoners in the Second Precinct Police Court yesterday. They were Jennie Pierce and Margaret Walsh, of Pater son. Tuesday a target company from Newark went to Paterson and spent trie day. several ot tne members formed the acquaintance of the two girls on the street, and when the coin pany boarded a train to return to Newark the girls accompanied their admirers.

While the train was under way some liberties were taken with the girls, and Miss Walsh, considering herself insulted, suddenly drew a revolver from her skirt pocket and fired at a man who was leaning over companion. The shot missed its object and shattered a car window. Miss Walsh was im mediately seized and disarmed and pretty roughly handled, her screams blending with those of her companion, who was held in the clu ch of two men When the train reached Newark another violent scene transpired and a couple of policeman arrested the women. They were released upon paying a Due oi so eacn. A YOL'THFl HAIL ROBBER.

Mlehael Welsh, of Seranton. Steal a Letter With a Five Dollar BUI In It. A special dispatch from Seranton, says that Deputy United States Marshal Baring, of Pittsburg, on Tues day, arrested Michael Welsh, 13 years of age, upon the charge of robbing the mails. A few days ago Welsh, who is employed as an office boy by a firm in this city, was sent to the post office to get the mail, and while there he saw a man direct a letter aud place in It. After it had been dropped into the box the boy went to the clerk and asked that the letter be given to him, and the clerk, after getting a description of the marks and the address, thoughtlessly banded it out.

When the letter was not received by the person to whom it was addressed the post office authorities were nolinnd aud they discovered that Welsh had obtained it aud spent the five dollars. He was given a bear ing before a United States Commissioner, who held him in (1,000 bail for bis appearance at the next term of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in Pittsburg. STILL TIGHTENING THE COILS. nteresting Testimony Bearing on Dr. Cronin 'i Murder and the Clan-na-Bael.

ATTACHMENTS ISSUED FOR WITNESSES. Chicago, Oct. 31. The next witness following Dennis O'Connor, late yesterday afternoon, was Henry Owen O'Connor, also a member of Camp 20, whose testimony created much interest, as it was given with peculiar bold' ness of demeanor In Its delivery. He Jescribed the proceeding at the meetings of February 8 and 22, without bringing out any new points.

At a subsequent meeting, however, he said, Dan Coughlin came up to him and said that information had been received in Chicago to the effect that a confederate of LeCaron was in the organization, and the indications pointed to Dr. Cronin as -he man. Tfle witness stopped him at that point. Police Officer John M. Collins was then called to the witness chair.

He testified that he had been a member of Camp 20. He said that at the reunion meeting, February speeches denouncing the triangle. Then Beggs said that this tirade against the triangle and Alexander Sullivan must cease, or there would be war; that Sul livan had many friends there, Collins description of the meeting of February 8 failed to biing out anyttiing new. Patrick McGary, Senior Guardian of the Clan-na-Gael Camp in Lake View, instituted by Dr. Cronin and of which Dr.

Cronin was a member, was the nest witness. He told the story of the reunion meeting of February 22 without adding any material information, and then told of a visit he made to the bouse of O'Sullivan on the Sunday following Dr. Cronin' i death. He there questioned O'Sullivan very closely about his contract with Dr. Cronin to treat bis men in case of accident, and described the twitching of o'Suliivan's mustache.

It is now well understood by the prosecution that efforts are being made to induce important witnesses for the State to absent themselves andaid will be afforded them in doing so by the friends of the prisoners. Yesterday State's Attorney Longenecker asked for an attachment for Edward Spellman, of Peoria, 111., the district officer of the Clan na-Ga-1. Mr. Longenecker said that Spellman had been served with a subpoena and had agreed to come when called for. Two telegrams had been sent to him, but he had not responded.

The attachment was ordered issued. TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Patrick Gerry's Strong; Testimony of Yesterday Continued I hi Morning Chicago, Oct. 31. Judge McDonnell's court in which the Cronin trial is in progress was called to order nearly half hour later than usual this morning.

Patrick McGarry, who occupied the chair at tha time of adjournment last night was still a witness. Mr. Donaboe, of the counsel of the defense, moved to strike out all of that part of McGarry's evidauee given yesterday, in which McGarry describes his visit to the house of defendant O'Sullivan, after Dr. Cro-nin's murder, and at which time he questioned O'Sullivan closely about his contract with Cronin. A long argument followed.

It was finally decided to postpone a decision on this point until later in the day, in order to allow the counsel time to present authorities, pending that, the crossexamination of McGarrr was also postponed and George Reilly, a bar-keeper, was called to the witness chair. He testified that in the latter, part of March, Coughlin, Sullivan and others were in a saloon and were talking poll-tics, when Coughlin said that a certain North Side Catholic was talking too much and that if he did not keep his month shut he would get the worst of it. la the Fruit Trade Interest. Philadelphia, Oct, 31. A new steamship line is about to be established between this port and theMedlterranean, in tfao fruit interest.

Knights of tho Golden Eagle Entertain Their Friend JL-att croning. Harmony Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and a large number of their friends met in their hall on Broad street last evening and celebrated the anniversary of the introduction of the order into Pennsylvania. The hall was comfortably filled and the exercise were of the most interesting character, The Kuights were careful that their visitors should receive every comfort aud convenience that their hne quarters afforded, and every arrangemeut looking towards that end was faithfully carried out. The exercises were opened shortly before eight o'clock by the singing of the ode of the otder by members of the castle. Sir Knight I.

11. Red mond delivered a pleasing address on the history of the order, in which he alluded to the numerous excellent aual- ties contained in its by-laws, and its rapid growth since introduced into the Keystone State. A quartette, composed of Messrs. Rudy and Harfleigh and Messrs. Saltzman and Seheffer, sang a splendid selection, which was followed by an oration by District At torney George Knnkle, a Sir Knight of the order.

His subject was the Knights of Golden Eagle Motto, Fidelity, alor, Honor," which he handled in a masterly manner. The eloquent attorney never appeared to a belter advantage, and hit oration was a treat for those who had assembled to help celebrate the anniversary. Mr. Kunkle is an able speaker, and throughout bis oration he com manded the closest attention from the audience. The members of the Castle then gave an officers drill, and Master frank Seal and Miss Florence followed in a song dialogue.

After another vocal quartette, Kev. Leroy F. Baker made an Address. Kemarks were also made by Past Noble Chief Graham, and the entertainment came to an end by the members singing the closing ode. To Stimulate New Industrie.

As a stimulous to getting nianufas- urers to establish new iudustrial enter prises in Heading, an ordinance will be introduced at the next meeting of Coun cils creating a Committee on Manufactures. It will be made the duty of the committee to furnish all necessary information to parties desiriug to locate there, and to do whatever else is possible to advance the material interests and prosperity of the city. A movement has also been commenced to grant all manufacturing establishments the use of city water for steam purposes free of charge. It would be a good idea if Harrisburg would adopt a similar plan. Committee Meet-Last evening the Finance and Build ing committees of the Bord of Control held an important meeting.

The sub ject of the necessity of a "ew High School building was discussed. That some other arrangements will be neces sary in the near future is apparent to almost every member of tie School Board. The schools throughout the city are crowded. Several suggestions were made by members of the committees, and they finally adjourned to meet November 15 to decide upon some plau to obviate the existing difficulty. How to Tell Connterfeit BUI.

Take a United States bill of any de nomination and hold it up to the light, and you will see two lines running across it lengthwise. Upon examination you will hud these to consist of a silk thread, a red one and a blue one. Every genuine bill has this mark of genuineness. Without these marks a bill may be put down as counterfeit, no matter how good the engraving on it. No paper mill dare make that sort of paper, and that is the government's my protection on its currency.

Teacher' Institute. The teachers of Lebanon county will meet in annual convention in the Court house in Lebanon, commencing Novem ber 18th and continue in session one week. The lecturers for the differeLt evenings have been selected as follows: Menday, Lee L. Grumbme, Tuesday, Hon. Geo.

R. Wendling; Wednesday, Kev. Chas. T. Steck: Thursday, John DeWitt Miller; Friday.

Boston Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar club. NAVAL DEFENCES. Thirty Monster Torpedo Gunboats to be Con structed and Sold to Anj Bujer. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN THE WORK. From the Philadelphia Record of to day we learn that contracts will be given out in a few weeks for the con struction of thirty twin-screw sea-going gun torpedo boats, a company having been formed here of New Haven, New Tork and Philadelphia capitalists, with a capital of $6,000,000, to build and sell these boats to all nations.

Dr. Gatling, of gun fame, bas been selected to take charge of the construction of both vessels and guns, and he has selected the shipyards on the Delaware river as the place for the construction of the vessels. BOATS FOB SPKKB AND WORK. Each boat will be 180 feet long, sev enteen feet beam, five feet on the water line, with a displacement of loO tons and will be built of steel throughout, and will accord with the provisions of the circular of July 22, issued by the United States Navy. There will be accommodations for a crew of twenty-three men on each boat, and the builders must show over 2.UJ0 horse power, with a guaranteed speed of twenty knots per hour.

FORMIDABLE A KM AM EXT. The offensive armament will be the most formidable ever placed on a boat of this type and sice, and will consist of one spar torpedo, one torpedo gun opening in the stem just above the water line, as well as Gatling and Hotcbkisa rapid firing guns. There will be in addition two dynamite guns on the deck, which are provided with trunnions at the breech and machinery to elevate the guns instead of rentaining fast, as on the Vesuvius. Any elevation can be made in a minute to reach any distinct object by working the machinery in the conning tower. Machinery will be used to manufacture compressed air, which will be stored in reservoirs in the bottom of the vessel for the use of the run.

The vessels will be armored with heavy plates of steel. Thursday, October 31. 1889. The price of iron continues to crease in Glasgow, Scotland. in Enormous amount of American capital are now going into foreign rail.

road, Efforts to build homes for ex-rebel soldiers are now become general in all parts of the South. It is estimated that the field sports of the year cost the peopU of the United States, in money spent and time lost, $3,000,000. Postmaster Field, of Philadelphia, will not be in haste to make changes in that office merely to fulfill the promises ol local political leaders. i resident Harkisox continues to devote much of each day's lime to consultation with hi Cabinet officers to the exclusion ot visiting office hunters aj)d plotting politicians. Important county officers are to be Toted for next Tuesday.

It is the duty as well as the privilege of every voter to have his vote recorded. Dauphin county should get out its usual vote. Thi delegates to the Three Americas Congress are still in the Northwest, looking at the wonderful property of the region and experiencing its rigors of climatic conditions at this season of the year. Hallow E'eh to-night is the recurrence of a time honored occasion of hilarity, which, when divested of its tendency to malicious mischief, can be made an enjoyment without grave offence to any one. Is finding men charged with crime the American detective, as a rule, is much more successful than the European officer in the same line, as is shown in the detection and arrest of Alexander Harris, the head of the bankrupt Chicago Fruit Canning Com-Pny.

There is evidently a disposition among some of the members of the Clin-na Gael, who are witnesses in the trial of the suspected murderers of Dr. Cronin, to squeal. It is the only way to assure the conviction of the guilty perpetrators of that diabolical affair. It seems almost incredible t'vat such acts as those charged on some Polan-ders at Plymouth, near Pittsburg, are perpetrated in our country, and if the guilty in this instance can be defected and convicted no punishment could be made toe severe to fit the crime. Sous of life's wretchedness in a great city, as told in a dispatch from "ew Tork given elsewhere, narrating the frantic appeals of a disheartened mother, who attempted to kill her mother and her child this morning, while her husban is dying in a hospital in that city.

It was anticipated at first that there would be great confusion in the new States and recently organized Terrtories owing to eutlaws and other ruffians, which Is not being realized owing to the great amount of poverty among the settlers, which leaves little, if anything, for ruffians to prey upon. Two more months left of 1J9, a year full of the record of awful disasters and terrible crime, and high above them the aeeount of creditable business achievement, magnificent personal acts and general prosperity. Under all the conditions of lite the good outweighs the evil, the right excaeds the wrong. At PiUsDurgli. is stated that the Weslinghouse Electric Light Company has just secured the contract to erect a central station for a very large electric light plant in Pekin, China.

The machinery for the plant was shipped by the company yesterday. Pekin is to be lit up throughout with incandescent lamps. If the request of the Civil Service Commissioners is complied with, the U. S. District Attorney will prosecute all parties now engaged in collecting funds from Federal Government employee, but it is very doubtful if any such prosecutions will ever be had, especially as the bulk of these contributions are voluntarily made.

AecoBDiso to a statement in the Philadelphia Record of to-day, capitalist in that and other cities contemplate the organization of a company with a capital of 5,000,000 to engage in the building and sale of torpedo boats. It is a new and novel enterprise, and if properly managed can be made very profitable, as the important wars of the near future will be on water and not land. As the year draws steadily to a close every man and woman who followed the counsel of the Lsdepesdest and became a member of a building asso ciation at iU beginning, enjoy a quiet gratification and sel'-approral which will render the coming Thanksgiving day one of peculiar pleasure. The first year's accumulation in a building association's savings is the reward which confirms habits of economy in every man and woman. It is only the thrifty who understand this fact.

Soma of tbi Cystous Which Charac- terizt Its Obstmoce. TICK-TACK OBSERVE!) LAST NIGHT, How thi Young People and the Old Will Amuse Themsaltet To-night A VERY GOOD TIME FOR MERRY MAKING "Tick-tack," a sort of a prologue to the comedy of Hallowe'en, was rendered in good style last night by the enthusiasts to the sport. The small boy and girl, assisted by larger ones, en joyed themselves immensely last night, and cave the population an idea of what they may expect to-night. The season is enjoyed by both old and young eo long as the sport is confined to reasonable limits, but, unfortunately for those who are honest in their efforts for "fun," there are some who go further and resort to ma ncious and wutui destruction or property. Several instances of this kind were noticed last night.

A young man at Third and State streets deliberately threw a stone through one of the street lamps, completely shattering it. Throw ing of stones, is carrying innocent amusement into nothing less than disorderly conduct, and the police should be on their guard to-night, and make an example of those who they catch wil fully destroying property. hallo we'e. Following the example set by their predecessors for many generations, chil dren in this city, and, in fact, in dif ferent parts of the world, will to-nieht observe Hallowe'en or All Hallow's Eve a time for making merry and a night when, according to ancient traditions, supernatural influences are supposed to prevail. When, where and how the custom of observing the last night in OcUber as Hallowe'en originated are questions which appear to be wrapped in an impenetrable mist.

It is not thought to have any connection with the festival of All Saints, which occurs on the day follow ing, and vet its observance, particularly by tne young, is almost universal. In some instances older people become aiders and abettors of boys and girls in carrying out the peculiar practices men characterize the celebration, but the superstitious features which in olden times attached to it have, to a great extent, passed into obscurity. In keeping Hallowe'en to-nigkt there will be a large consumption of apples, shellbarks, walnuts and chestnuts, of which great quantities were sold in the markets yesterday. Other accessories nichcooie into play are salt, water, tubs and strings, and this simple paraphernalia, when properly used, is warranted to produce side-splitting laughter. One of the customs which has come down the ages, and which never fails to produce a wave of merriment, consists in "ducking for apples." A rosy pippin is placed in a tub or other ves- hlled with water, and children take turns "ducking" for it with their mouths.

Sometimes a more ventursome boy or girl will force the apple suddenly to the bo ton of the vessel, and then quickly bury the incisorf into the fruit, carry it off triumphantly while the room rings with shouts of laughter. this city is for a young woman to run arcuud a block or a building with two hands full of salt and a mouth full of water. If she makes the journey still holding the salt and water, and hears a man's name pronounced, the is sup posed to believe it as that of her future husband. A mischievous youth, how ever, can upset all her calculations by running alcng and provoking her to laughter. bull another custom consists in care fully paring an apple and taking the long peeling and twirling it three times around the head, when it is allowed to fall.

If, after it has fallen, it assumes the shape of a letter, then the letter de notes the initial of the gentleman to whom the lady is to be wedded. Imagination goes a great way in forming a letter out of the shape assumed by the apple peeling. then, too, chestnuts play an import ant part in divining futurity of young people. 1 be chestnuts are placed on a stove or range, and, according as they jump, they mean one thing or another. In fact, there is no end to the ways in which young people observe Hallowe'en, and, as most the sports are held indoors, they tffotd the means of driving away dull care, and of substituting, for an hour or two, a season of merriment.

TfM Meet In November. On Wednesday, November 20, the commission appointed by authority of tne last Legislature to go to asning-ton and endeavor to secure from Congress action farorable to the payment of claims for extraordinary losses sustained by citizens of the border counties during the late war, wiil meet in Chambersourg for the purpose of or ganization and the formation I some plan of action. The commission is composed of Governor Beaver, Attorney General Kirkpa'rick, Auditor General McCamant, President of the Senate Penrose, Speaker of the House Boyer, Senators W. McK. Williamson, Huntingdon, and William A.

Martin, Adams; Representatives Captain Geo. W. Skinner, Fulton; Harry Hall, Mercer, and Thomas H. Capp, Lebanon, and Special Commissioners Thad M. Mahen, Chambersburg, and Benjamin M.

Harrisburg. To RevlM th. Poor Uitl. The commission appointed to revise the poor laws of the State, met yester day-afternoon and effected a permanent organization. rugn, oi acranion, was elected permanent chairman.

A general plan of work was mapped out and the commission adjourned to meet again on the 20th of November. rami of Kibm Bretx. The funeral of Miss Maggie E. Bretz, the young girl who committed suicide on Tuesday afternoon, will be held on Friday morning at nine o'clock from her parents' residence on Benton road, ma tne remains win interred in the The Real Suffering In the West Caused bj Mortgage Sharks. A SCHEME FOR POPULAR RELIEF.

Suits to Recoier Lands of Which the Pottawato mle Indians Were Defrauded- HELD FOR STEALING POSTAGE STAMPS Minneapolis, Oct. SI. At a joint meeting of the committees from Minneapolis and St. Paul Boards of Trvle last evonins George A. Brackett, of the Associated Charities of this city, who has just re turned from an extended trip in Hani' soy county, South Dakota, said he had looktd over the ground carefully and that stories of destitution were exaggerated.

He failed te find a family that was really in need of the necessaries of life. Mr. Brackett be lieves that the people in that section are suffering more from mortgage sharks than from the failure of crops, lie says that they are compelled to pay from eighty to 100 per cent, per annum for loans. lie has a scheme for organization of a trust company to loan money to Dakotaus for 10 per cent, per annum. He says the twin cities can do more for the people of Dakota in this direction thau in any other way.

Dr. attire, of Brookings, S. said he believed the people of South Dakota were abundantly able to take care or thsirown affairs. SWINDLED INDIANS. A PottawatomleChlef Begin Suit to Re cover Land oi lilun be was Cheated.

Leavenworth, Oct. 30. Suit has been begun here by a Pottawatomie Chief representing his tribe, for the recovery of large tracts of land out of which tho Indians claim to have been swindled. As soon as it was learned that the Indians were to have their lands in severalty a number of men came on the reservation and, working on the ignorance of the Fottawatoniies, induced them to sell for $10 an acre land worth $300, the ludians signing the p.tpers under the impression that they had something to go with the severalty matter. Depo sitions of General McCook and others bring out these facts.

The suit was brought through the General's efforts. A Will Made During Delirium Tremens. Frazee Lee, an eccentric man, living near Plaiuliekl, New Jersey, died several months age, leaving by will $200,000 in personal and real estate to the Scotch lains Baptist church. The heirs-at-law fought the probate of the will, but Chancellor McGill issued a de cree sustaining the win. rne contestants brought an ejectment suit against the church for the recovery of real estate estimated to be worth $100,000.

The trial closed yesterday, and the jury found a verdict for the contestants, holdiug that Lee was not competent to make a will, being ill with delirium tremens. The property is in Plainlield, Scotch Plains and vicinity. The church holds $30,000 in cash, undisturbed by the verdict. A Memorial Aroh. Bbooklyn, N.

Oct. 31. The corner stone of the memorial arch in honor of the soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for the Union was laid yesterday on the Prospect Park plaza ia this city. The arch is to cost Yesterday's ceremonies included a parade of 10,000 National Guardsmen, Grand Army men nd war veterans, which was reviewed by General Sherman, who subsequently laid the corner stone. Rev.

Dr. A. J. F. Behrends delivered the oration.

Anticipated Challenging at the Poll. Philadelphia, Oct. 81. A circular marked "private" has been issued from the Democratic City Committee Headquarters stating that "if Republicans shall attempt to interfere with Democrats by improper challenges or othei-wise, then Domocrats should challenge every vote attempted to be cast by Republicans on the strength of poll tax receipts purchased by the Republican City Committee or by Republican Ward Committees." Murdered bj PBoan. Londox, Oct.

31. Advices from Brisbane state that the natives Southwest New Guinea have massacred the Rev. Mr. Savage, who was sent out by the Ixndon Missionary Society, a number of native teachers and the crew of the cutter Mary, belonging to the society- The steamer Albatross, belonging to the Queensland government, has been despatched to the scene ot the murders. A Clerk Charged Wltb Larceny.

Washington, Oct. 31. Lawrence Percy Dawson, son of ex-Commissioner Dawson, cf the Bureau of Education, was arrested last night on a warrant charging him with larceny of $01 worth of postage stamps from the Bureau, where he had been employed. The friends of the young man assert that he will be able upon examination to establish his innocence. Visitor at the White House.

Washington, Oct. 3L The delegation from the American Baptist National Convention called at the White House to-day and paid their respects to the President. They were presented by Rev. William Gray, Chairman of the convention. The President's only prominent callers this morning were First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson and Representative Dalzell.

Del grate Leaving (or Heme. The delegates here during the past few days in attendance at the convention of the Christian Endeavor Societies of Pennsylvania held in the Market Square Presbyterian church, left on the afternoon trains for their homes in various parts of tne Estate. They speak flatteringly of Harrisburg as a convention city, and of the treatment received during their sojourn in the capital city. Special Meeting ol Council. There will be aspeclal meeting of Common Council held in the Council chamber on next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock.

It is called for the purpose of passing finally the ordinance appropriating certain unexpended balances in the City Treasury to the use of the highway and sanitary departments. Dwelling Houses Perforated to be Loaded With the ExploslYe. LUDICROUS BLUNDER OF A BURGLAR. Harris, the Head of the Bankrupt Chicago Fruit Canning Comaanr, Caught A MURDERER'S EFFORT AT DEFENSE. Plymouth, Oct.

St. Much excite ment was created here yesterday, and which increased as night came on, by the discovery that an attempt had been made to blow up a large double block of dwelling houses owned by Father Warnegris, the discharged priest of the t'oiisn catholic union. He was sus pended from his pastorate by Bishop O'Hara because of some questionable financial proceedings The Polish mew hers of the congregation, the same faction that are now holding the parsonage with an armed garrison, also claimed that he had robbed the congregation of large sums of money. Shortly before his suspension he purchased a large double frame block ou mow street, which is occupied by three families those of John Miles, William R. Jones and William O.

Jones. About 1 o'clock yesterday morning some of she inmates of the building heard a noise eutslde, and looking out saw eight or ten men in the yard doing something with the foundation walls. They roused the other tenants of the building and raised an alarm, when the men decamped. On axing an examination yesterday morning it was discovered that four holes had been drilled in the foundation walls, evidently to receive dynamite cartridges. Two were eighteen Inches deep and two twelve inches.

Burgess Martin was notified and he and Chief of Police Lodsrick made an examina tion. They plugged up the holes and to-night will have the building watched. The situation at the Polish church re mains unchanged. The parsonase is still occupied by the armed garrison and the church is locked and the keys in possession of Bislioy O'Hara' The bishop has finally decided not to at tempt to oust the revolters by force. ue nas provided another home for Father Burba, and the Lithnarian portion of the congregation will use the basement of St.

Vincent's church for holding services. ELOPER HARRIS CAUGHT. Chicago Detectives Find the Han wanted in Milford. Del. Chicago, Oct.

31. J. Alexander Harris, the head of the Harris Fruit Company, at Milford, is in the city. He arrived quietly and without ostentation, accompanied by a young woman, and registered at a hotel. Lieutenant Elliott received a telegram from- Milford.

It was signed W. Causey, Chairman of Meeting of Creditors!" and in a pithy style stated that Mr. Harris left Milford Saturday morning, accompanied by Miss May Kills, the daughter of Professor D. T. Ellis, principal of North Milford high school.

He left behind him a wife and four children and a set of account books which, it is alleged, show that he a attauiter to the sxtent of $3,060. As soon as the dispatch was received Lieutenant Elliott sent out his detectives and located the couple, in a short time, Harris could not be found at the hotel, but was discovered that he had deposited $1,500 in certsln ni bd 't wnrml rooms in which he intended to take up his quarteis yesterday Officers were stationed at the three places the hotel, the bank and the rooms and Harris was captured yesterday afternoon and taken to the Central Station, where he now awaits the orders of the Delaware authorities. SCARED AT HIS OWN SHADOW. The Ludlcrou Blunder of Burglar In inicazo. Chicago, Oct 3L A burglar secured an entrance to the residence of George M.

High, No. 06 Bellevue place, on Monday night, and, seeing his image in a large plate-glass mirror, became so badly rattled that he drew his revolver. The man in the mirror did likewise, and in a moment the pair were blazin? awav at each other with a precision that was hard on the mirror. Mr. High and his family were at dinner on the floor be low, and when the shooting was heard together with the noise of breaking glass, Mr.

High grabbed a poker, headed procession up the stairway, and when the large rar bedroom on the second floor was reached, nothing was found but the broken mirror and an open rear window, with a ladder reaching to the yard. Bartholomew's Effort at Defense. EAiTOX, Oct. 31. W.

Bar tholomew, convicted of the murder of A. W. Dilliard, yesterday declared that be was innocent and said that the real murderer resides in Mercer county; that he his something to say that will astonish people, and that after completing his story he will prepare to die. He admitted having been criminally intimate with Mrs. Dilliard; that the Mercer county man had been on the same terms with her, and that the Mercer county man committed the murder in the way it was done in order to get rid of Dilliard and himself.

Philadelphia's Mew Postmaster. Philadelphia, Oct. 31. Senator Cameron came quietly to the city last evening to ascertain how his friends in the Custom House, the Mint and the post office could be best served. But few politicians were aware of the senior Senator's arrival.

His bond being satisfactory, John Field will receive bis commission as postmaster to day, and to-morrow he will begin fork. His present commission will expire with the next session of Congress, and when Congress shall meet again Field will be at once nominated, and there is no doubt but that the nomination will be confirmed. The Fire Record. Chicago, Oct. 31.

About 9.30 this morning fire broke oat in the coal sheds of the W. E. Johnson Coal Company, on Harrison street. The sheds and hoisting apparatus belonging to the Lehigh Valley Railway Coal Company will be a total loss. The daaag is estimated in the neighborhood of $30,000.

WEARY STRUGGLING FOR A LIVING, Death of a Onoe Famous Iron Master and Joint Owner of Cornwall Ore Bank, HE DIED WITH A BROKEN SKULL. New Yokk, Oct. SI. While crazed by hunger, Mrs. Mary Birn, aged 27 years, tried to kill hor mothor and her 6-yerr old son in their miserable apartments, in the rear of 130 West Thirty-eighth street, about daybreak this morning.

Mrs. Boru's husband is lying sick in Bellevue hospital. She had three children and their grand mot her to provide for. She refrained from taking food in order that the others would have enough to sustain them. She became suddenly crazed this morning aud seizing the youngest child by the throat choked it until it almost ceased to breathe, when her mother grappled with hor and the crazed woman then grasped the old lady by tho throat.

A violent struggle then ensued and when the woman released her grasp, the old lady was a'most past human aid. The neighbors attracted by the children's shrieks, rushed in and the crazed woman was taken in an ambulance to tho hospital. The surgeon tliero says Mrs. "join was driven lnsaue through sheer lack of THK gUPlTSED A SCOTT. What Wa Iev loped at the Beating in Philadelphia To-UuJ.

Philadelphia, Oct. 31. Albert Sutherland, the young criminal who bas recently gained considerable notoriety because his supposed' resemblance to Tascolt, tho murderer Millionaire Snoll, ol Chicago, was given another hearing in a Magistrate's Court to-day, on a charge of passing forged checks for va rious amounts on tradesmen in this city, J. lv. Wood, General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was the principal witness against him, four checks bearing that gentleman's name having been passed by Sutherland.

The court room was packed to suffocation with curiosity seekers eager to catch a glimpse of the notorious prisoner. The magistrate hold Suther- and in the sum of $3,800 bail on nve charges, and as no one offered to put up that amount he was taken to Moyamensing prison to await his trial, which will proba bly take place in a week or so. Wtrl as received herefrom Buffalo.to-day that Southerland is wanted in Buffalo for passing forged cnecKs, and Chief Detective Wood says that Information in his possession leads him to believe that the man is wanted in many other cities on the same charge. CAPTURED RIOTKKS. Sixty-fonr ot the Participant In the jjitoraer at navaasa.

Baltimore, Oct. 31. A dispatch from Cape Henry says: Passed in at 0 o'clock this morning brig Alice, Captain Bowling, from Na-vassa for Baltimore, with sixty-four of the rioters who were in the massacre at Kavassa October 14th. The brig also has the crew, except the mate who was lost overboard of the schooner Tom Williams, from Fernan-dina to New wnfh was wrecked during the late storm. The crew was four days in open boats without food.

A later dispatch says: The brig Romance, Captain Brown, from Navassa for Baltimore, with some of the rioters on board, passed in about noon. Wreck on the Heading" Reading, Oct. 81. Near Armingo station, eearly this morning, one Reading railroad coal train crashed into another which had come to a stand still. The locomotive was upset and the firemen, Albert Lord, of this city, was buried in the wreck three hours.

He sus'ained a broken leg and other serious injuries. Eighteen loaded coal cars were wrecked and both of the main tracks blocked. Buffalo express, due here at 1.30 a. did not arrive until 6.00 a. m.

A Hector' Rsbnke Cause Paralysis. Newbubg, N. Y.j Oct. 31. Mr.

Greening, of New Windsor, presented herself at an Episcopal church and partook of communion. The rector being told that she was a Methodist, but partook of communion at the Episcopal church, owing to the distance of her home from a Methodist church, informed her that by the churh rules she could not have communion there again. This so worked upon her nervous system that it resulted in a paralytic stroke. She is now unable to speak. Death of an Old Iron Maaer.

Lalcasteb, Oct. 31. Clement B. Grubb, at one time the largest iron maker in Pennsylvania, and a great grandson of the discoverer of the great Cornwall iron hills, died here this morning, aged 74 years. He still retained at the time of his death an interest in the Cornwall ore bills, and owned St.

Charles and Henry Clay furnaces at Columbia. He leaves a large estate. He Died With Broken Sknll. Pittsburg, Oct. 31.

Hon. Jesse M. Bowell, whose skull was crushed by a boulder thrown by Captain Decatur Abrams at Bellevernon, Monday evening.died at 3 o'clock this morning. Captain Abrams, who is Kali trrown as a steamboat man, is joJail at Union-town and will be hekr Tor murder. zr MlaVJVJaS1MM rrVUUDV nU0 lnrr.ArBTT.vsTT a rtnf 51 Flnur rlu11 aan n.ifsjaiwie weax; open.

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