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BDBKE IS A BAD MAN.
Believed to Have Been Ensaged in
"Wore Than the Cronin Murder.
AKOTHER BDSPECTKOW ARRESTED
V
He Was a Constant Boon Companion of the
Winnipeg Prisoner.
ANEW WITNESS APPEAUS IN THE FIELD
With His Sifteth'art. He Saw Ue trio That Carted
Awaj the Body.
The coils are tightening around Martin
Burke, now in jail at Winnipeg for alleged
complicity in the Cronin tragedy. The
authorities assert that his connection with
the crime will be shown beyond the shadow
of doubt. One orb.it companions was ar
rested last evening, and the police have a
clew to the other suspect, Cooney. A new
witness has volunteered important testi
mony. .
Chicago, June 22. A new arrest was
made this afternoon in the Cronin case.
The i risoner is Michael "Walsh, a plumber,
who has been working at Joliet. He knew
Martin Burke, the Winnipeg suspect, in
Chicago. Burke, it is reported, turned up
in Joliet the day alter the Cronin tragedy,
and remained with "Walsh practically penni
less, until June 9 when it is thought a
money order came to the "Winnipeg man
from Chicago. The natural inference would
be that Walsh's arrest was due to a desire
on the part ot the police to elicit anything
of value he may know regarding Martin
Burke.
The statement is made that the police
have recovered the lost clue to the move
menu of Patrick Cooney. Cooney Jis the
man who is supposed to be the man who
passed underthe name of J. B. Simonds,
and bought the furniture which was put
into the fiat opposite Dr. Cronin's office,
and which was subsequently taken to the
Carlson cottage in which Dr. Cronin was
murdered.
CHASING COOJfEV.
It is given out that the police expect to
capture Cooney, possibly within a few
hours. From the day Burke's name was
mentioned in the case Lieutenant Elliott
has been working industriously on Burke's
record.
"I have found that he will probably have
to account Tor more than the crime of mur
dering Dr. Cronin," said the Lieutenant.
"Do you think that he has committed
murder before?"
"From what I have discovered I should
say that he had. But I can give you more
particulars in a few clays."
This afternoon Frank "Woodruff com
menced in the Circuit Court a suit for 519,
00 damages for libel against the proprietor
of a dime museum who has on exhibition a
wax "figger" ol the horse thief as one of the
accomplices in the murder.
A man who claims to be an important
witness in the Cronin cae turned up lust
night. He is George . Brooks, a newi
agent running on oneof the rjnro.ids coming
in at the Union depot. Brooks, who is a
small man about 23 years old, is intelligent
looking and a good talker.
OUT WITH HIS GIRL.
The story is to the effect that the night of
May 4 he was driving in Lakeview with his
sweetheart, and that Happening along Ash
land avenue he saw three men loading the
trnnk into the wagon at the Carlson cottage,
and that about half an ,hoar later he saw
trie same men dumping the contents of the
trunk into the catch basin, in which the
body of Dr. Cronin was found. He alto
says that he saw them yesterday, and he
will be able to identify them; and that his
companion also saw them, and that she, ton,
will be able to identify them. He is ready
to produce the young woman as soon as the
authorities want her.
Brooks' explanation of his lailnre to tell
his story before, is that he was alraid of
losing bis life, as he believed the men con
cerned in the murder were so desperate they
would kill anyone who they thought might
turn up as a witness against them. He said
the knowledge he possessed had so weighed
on his miud that he could not keep it to
himself any longer, and believing it was a
duty he owed himself and the community,
he had at last decided to tell all he had seen.
He first stipulated that he be given pro
tection. This was promised him.
CLOSING 12 OX BURKE.
Brooks told his story to Chief Hubbard,
with whom he was closeted for over two
hours late last night. He described the
three men whom he saw, and his description
o one iS said to fit Burke, the Winnipeg
prisoner.
A special dispatch from "Winnipeg says:
"There is no doubt in my mind," said
Chief McEae, "that Burke was used as a
tool by the gang which planned the Cronin
murder, and that he is really the one who
committed the foul deed. I don't think
from what I have been able to judge of him
that he would be likely to have concocted
the conspiracy or have" committed the act
on his own behalf. He is an ignnrtut man
and doubtless an Irish enthusiast, who
fancied that in committing such a deed he
was aiding in righting the wrongs of
Ireland."
"Did you caution Burke when you ar
rested him that anything he said would be
Used against him in evidence?"
VERY BADLY SCARED.
"I did," said the Chiet, "hut the prisoner
was so thoroughly scared that I verily be
lieve that if I had chosen to pump him I
could have got a complete confession."
"I snpp6se he did tell you something im
portant," was suggested.
"I don't wish to answer that question,"
Slid the Chief. "I will doubtless be called
upon to give my evidence in Court."
"Are all the necessary witnesses here?"
"Two others are coming from Chicago, as
well as the indictment against Burke, and
some papers The Chicago police know ex
actly what is wanted and they will take the
precaution of sending all the evidence re
quired." "Then you have no doubt about Burke's
extradition?"
"None whatever."
Wnnti the Cronin Evidence.
CHICAGO, June 22. A cable from the
solicitor of the London Times was received
at the office of Attorney Frank Collier this
morning. It requested him to procure, as
soon as possible, a certified copy of the
evidence taken by the Coroner in the Cro
ain inquest. The evidence makes 1,100
pages in typewriter print, and the copy,
which will be made next week, will cost
5200. For what purpose the Times wauts
the evidence is not known.
Enpidly Craning to n Close.
1ST CABLE TO TH DISPATCH. J
LONDON, June 22. People in a position
to know are confident the case for the Irish
members before the Commission will be
completed within a fortnight The Com
missionerb may be able to present a report
to Pailiauicnt belore the prorogation, unless
the Timet insists on calling rebutting evi
dence, Pnri n Very Wicked Cliy.
iBT CABLE TO'tHI DISPATCH.
ostDoir, June 22. The Bishop of Mar
. ?5llles has arrived' at the conclusion that
f a"s " a dreadful place and the exhibition
UaO &S haA L TT- 1 k. .
bidden tn n..a r k;d ;...... -..:
.a either.
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CKAZED JI GEIEF,
A Famous Acrobat Fatally Stabbed by the
Father or n Little Girl Who Had
Died From the Effect of
. RonaU rrennnent While
Apprenticed to the t '
Tumbler.
"BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
London, June 22. Copyrighted.
George Letine is chief of a
famous acrobatic troupe well-known
in the music halls of Australia and
America, as well as in this country. " At
Cardiff, last October, he was rharged with
cruelly ill treating Beatrice Currah, the 13-year-old
child of Nathaniel Currah, fore
man of the Craylord Water Works, in
Kent. The child, when apprenticed to
Letine, was robust and active, but the com
bined effects of ill treatment and hard work
soon ruined herconstitution. Several times
she lailed to perform her part on the stage,
through sheer physical weakness, but Letine
kept her poor little nose to the grindstone.
The charge against Letine failed, through
legal technicalities, and Beatrice returned
to her home, here the following December
she died ol consumption. Currah had a
drawing made of her grave and tombstone,
on which were cut the words: "Our Little
Que."
A MIND riTLLY "WRECKED.
The drawing was placed on the parlor
mantelpiece, and Currah used to spend
hours at a time looking at it and whisper
ing: "My poor murdered darling." At
night he would start up in bed and scream
out the same words.
From a frank, genial man, Currah be
came a morose brooder over his wrongs.
Ere long he took to studying the advertise
ment columns of the newspapers, and made
hi nisei I acquainted with the movements of
Letiue's troupe. Then he bought a revolver
and practiced firing it. He next invested in
a huge batcher's knife, which he sharpen
ed like a razor, and in the handle of wbich
he made notches to afford a firm grip.
The sorrowing father had now become a
dangerous madman, but there was no one to
warn Letine. Friday morning Currah sud
denly le t the pleasant Kentish village and
came to London. At 11 o'clock the same
night Letine drove up to the Canterburv
Music Hall, Lambeth, iu a brough.im, with
his wi.e, to give his customary performance,
which was one of the last on the programme.
He had done turns at several other balls the
same evening, and only an overcoat covered
his stage costume.
THE CRAZED FATHER'S REVENGE.
Currah h.id been waiting hours for his
victim in the shadow ot the stage door. As
Letine stepped lrom the brougham he threw
his coat open, the night be.ing very warm.
Currah stepping forward, said quietly, "I
have been looking and waiting tor you."
and plunged the big knife into the acrobat's
abdomen. Letine, disemboweled, tell to
the ground, and was dead ere a pistol shot
from the other side of the street showed that
the murderer was taking his own life. Cur
rah put the revolver right in his mouth be
fore pulling the trigger, but the bullet sim
ply lodged in the root of his mouth, and
the present indications are that be wili live.
Letine was rich and widely known. He
had heaps of Iriends in the theatrical world,
who s.iv that the treatment which Currah
m.ignined into deadly cruelty was nothing
more than ordinary discipline, hut it was
enough for Currah that his child Ielt him
strong and cheer ul, and returned to the
home nest a mental and physical wreck.
MRS. F0STEE TO THE RESCUE.
The Repnblienn Parry Not to Blame for
I'robiblion's Defeat in I'cnn-Tlvnnln.
Chicago, June 22. Mrs. J. Ellen Fos
ter, of Iowa, Chairman of the "Woman's
National Bepubliran Committee, and well
known as a Republican prohibitionist,
was in Chicago to-day on her way
home from Rhode Island, where
she was actively engaged in the
amendment campaign". Speaking of tbe
deteats in the East, she said: "It is a new
evidence ol the power and extent to which
the liquor traffic has depraved the people of
this country." Mrs. Foster denied that
there had been a genuine test in Rhode
Inland and New Hampshire, but added:
"iu Massachusetts and Pennsylvania the
contest was Iree and fair. The Bepublican
party in both States declared for submission
and redeemed its pledget. The attempt to
place the responsibility of thedefeatin these
two States on the Bepublican partv is
wholly unwarranted. The campaigns from
their inception were openly and necessa
rily non-partisan. Party aid, as
sti"h, would under these conditions
have been impertinent assumption. It is
not strange that heartsick reformers seek to
evade the crushing logic of these results,
namely, that a majority of the people arc
still under the dominance of appetite,
ave i -e or cowardice, or that they are insuf
ficiently acquainted with the conditions of
practical temperance legislation.
EOSE ON IIER MUSCLE.
The Actress Seizes a 230-Pound Thief Bad
Makes Her Restore llie Dooly.
ISFECIAL TLrailAHTO THE DISPATCH.!
New York, June 22. Eose Coghlan did
an act of high tragedy when she seized a
250-pound woman, who had secreted $12 be
longing to her employer and Hose's dress
maker under her hat, and recovered the
mocey. Mrs. Michaelis, the modiste,
paid a high tribute to her patron's histrionic
art and detective abi'ity in her graphic
description of the scene. The money had
been paid to her by the actress, and the al
leged thief, Mrs. S. W. Lynch, contends
that her hiding of it was in pursuance of a
plot to defraud Mrs. Coghlan. That charge
caused Mrs. Michaelis to have the womau
arretted, and the story of Bose's prowress
to come nut.
'res," s.iid Mme. Michaelis, in telling
the stoiy, "Coghlan just took her bv the
throat with her right hand, and before
Lvnch knew what had happened to her
Coghlan had seized the end of that hand
kerchief with her left hand and pulled it
out from under her hat. Well, it was the
right handkerchief", and when we opened it
sure enough there was the money."
NO TE0CBLE THERE.
The Quarrel Between Germany nnd .(Switz
erland Dm Blown Over.
Berlin, June 22. The declarations of
the Swiss Government in relation to
the Wohlgemuth affair are regarded
here as putting an end to
the differences between Germany and
Switzerland. The 2tTorth Qerman Gazette
to-day withdraws all countenance from
"Wohlgemuth, whom it describes as surpris
ingly wanting in sagacity and indiscreetly
confiding in his dealings with a political
swindler who wa unknown to him.
This uuexptcted ending l the matter by
the disavowal oi Wohlgemuth is largely dne
to Lord Salisbury's steady relusal to address
any remonstrance to Switzerland. It is
alio a concession to publio opinion, which
stmuglv opposes the i Jed o any measures
of reprisal .against Switzerland as unworthy
of Germany.
AN UNKNOWN" MAN MURDERED.
A Printer Hurls a f-tranger From nn"Excur
slon Boal, Killing- Him Instantly.
JFKECIAL TELLOBAM TO THE DISFATCU. 1
New York, June 23. tn the course of a
iree fight on the steamer Blackbird, return
ing with excursionists from a trip up the
Sound this evening, a deliberate murder
was committed. -The victim was an un
known young man of IB years. He was
picked up bodily by William Sailer, a
printer aged 2C years, of No. 426 East
Twenty-fourth street, and hurled against
the paddle-boxes of the steamer. From
there he bounded into the water.
The body has not yet been recovered. All
the excursionists were employes of the
American Bank Note Company.
-THE
SWlHH
A MOTHER'S MADNESS.
Crazed by Continued III Health She Kills
Her Little Child nnd Commits Sol
v clde Her Lnst 1'niliellts Let
ter to Her Husband.
Sterling, Kan.-, June 22. A horrible
case of child murder and suicide occurred
here at an early hour this morning or late
last night Mr. O. B. Beckham went to
Hutchinson yesterday on business and re
turhed late in the evening. He retired
without disturbing his wife, whom he sup
posed had retired, and who had on former
occasions asked him not to disturb her
when he came home late. Mr. Beckham
is not a sound sleeper, but this morning
he overslept himself, and on going to bis
wife's room he tried to open the door for the
purpose of calling her, but found it locked.
He called her by name several times, but
receiving no answer, he broke open the door.
The first sight that met his gaze was his
little 2-year-old daughter lying across the
foot of the bed, cold in death, and his wife
lying on the floor in .the agonies oi death,
with a frightful wound in her right temple
nnd a 32-calibre revolver lying beside her.
Medical aid was summoned, but the victim
was beyond medical skill and breathed her
last aboutl2 o'clock. In the case of the
child, the Coroner's jury found that it came
to its death at the hands ot its mother, either
by poisoning or smothering. She lelt the
following letter: ,
Mr Dear Husband These are tho last
lines I will ever write to yon. May God In
beaven forgive me for what I am about to do,
for life has become Intolerable to me on ac
count of 111 health. I have not seen a well day
since Bessie was bom, and 1 cannot longer bear
with the burden of life. Let those live who
enjoy life and feel that life is a blessing
and worth living for. I thank you for
your invariable kindness "to me, and may
ilea' e is choicest blessing rest on you. I can't
bear .o leave little Bessie without the care of a
mother, so I wilt take her with me. Be good
to Anna, and try and find her a good home.
Lovingly, ALICE Beckham.
A postscript says: "Give all my clothes
to the poor and needy." The bodies were
shipped to Canal Dover, O., for interment,
where the parents of the unfortunate
woman reside.
TURNERS OUT IN FORCE.
They Hnve Swarmed Into Clnclnnntl From
Every Point of the L'oinpnss An Exten
sive Pragrnmrao of Athletic Games
Banquets in Grent Profusion.
Cincinnati, June 22. The Turners
have been pouring into this city from all
parts of the country since early this morn
ing. Every incoming train brings hun
dreds ol Turners to join the already im
mense multitude that throng the streets. To
day was spent in assigning new arrivals
to quarters and in sight-seeing.
The number present is variously estimated
at from 10,000 to 12.000. The first meeting
was held in Musio Hall to-day, where
Colonel Gus Staiel welcomed the visitors on
behalf of the local Turners, and Mayor
Mosby spoke briefly, extending the hospi
tality of the city.
Those listed for the athletic contests to
morrow mil re lied to the Cincinnati campus,
which will tie used. The campus includes
about ten acres strongly inclosed, and it the
property o. the Order of Cincinnatus. The
stage, which is about 100 feet in breadth,
remains and will be used. Behind the
stage are over 200 tents, which were taken
possession of by the 1,000 perlormers entered
for the contests and will he occupied by
them until the close of the meeting.
Theeutries are said to be the largest ever
known at nny such meeting. In'iront of
the stage there is a great variety of gym
nastic apparatus to be used to-morrow. The
grand stand will seat about 12,000 people.
Besides the regular exercises there will be
20 or more banquets in various parts of the
city. At an overground cellar of a brewery
up town a banquet will be held, at which
1.500 invited guests are expected to be pres
ent. The railroad rates lrom all parts oi
the country have been lower than ever
before.
GEN. GRANT, A PISH, A RING.
A Remarkable Story of Greenwood Lake,
nnd It la Folly Verified.
The following remarkable story of a gold
ring shows that General Grant before his
death, had the fishing fevr, says the New
lork jtrentng" Sun. The General was very
fond of fishing at Greenwood Lake, and
stories of his fishing exploits are still told
at the Fuller House. Here is one of them.
"One afternoon the General was fishing for
pickerel on the lake when he honked a large
eel. The slimy creature knotted itself with
the leader, and in removing it a beautiful
horse shoe ring slipped from the General's
finger and fell overboard. Banker J.
Khtnelandcr Dillon visited the lake two
weeks alterward and killed a large'pickerel.
The idea occurred to him that he would like
to taste a fish just out of the water, so his
guide cleaned it, and they were about to
row to shore to cook it when the guide
picked up the entrails, preparing to throw
them overheard. To his surprise he dis
covered the very ring which General-Qraut
had lost two weeks before."
To verify the story a reporter called on
Mr. Dillon. Thisgentleman not only said the
story was true, but he also exhibited the
ring in question.
Said he: "I believe it was either 74 or
'75 that the affair occurred. I rarely eat
fish, but that particular pickerel looked so
tempting that I was seized with a strong
desire to eat it. Under ordin..rv circum
stances I should have giren the fish away.
I told the story of my find on my arrival at
the Fuller House, and then learned that
General Grant had lost the ring. I .wrote
to his son Colonel Fred Grant, and ex
plained how the ring came into my posses
sion. I actually believe that Fred thought
I was telling a fish sory, or he would n t
have told me to keep th"e ring."
Mr. Dillon now wears the ring on the lit
tle finger oi his right hand.
Once Enough.
Tram the New York Weekly.
Conductor (alter a collision in which
everybody got bounced half way across the
car, but no one was hurt) Gentlemen, I
find that no great harm has been done. "We
ran into the rear end of a freight train, and
if some o! you will come out and help clear
the track we can proceed on our journey.
Fat Passenger Conductor, are there any
more freight trains on ahead?
"Oh, I suppose so."
"Well, let's stay where we are."
The Grent Northwest fllnatc Festival.
Minneapolis, June 22. The great
musical festival, under the auspices of. the
Northwest Sxngerfest Association,
which has been in progress
here for the past three
days, gave its final concert this evening.
The weather has been delightfnl during the
entire festival and the attendance has been
unpreceaently large. About $25,000 was
raised from the five concerts.
Danger of lllsh Taxes.
From the Nw Xork Weekly.
Illinois Farmer Say, Mariab, I'veagbod
notion to build a couple of houses close to
ours, for the hoys to live in when they get
married.
Well-posted Wife Don't you do it; don't
you da it. As quick as them Chicago folks
find out we've got three houses here, they'll
come down and annex as.
Low llntes or no Go.
Lincoln, Neb., June 22. At a meeting
of Faragut Post 23, G. A B., held here to
night, a resolution-Was passed recommend
ing that unless the rate ot 1 cent per mile
could he secured no national reunion
will be held at Milwaukee in August, but
that delegates only meet to transact neces
sary business.
PITTSBURa .DISPATCH,
LIFE STILL LINGERS.
General Simon Cameron Calmly Sink
ing Into His Last Sleep.
UNABLE TO SPEAK OB EAT,
He let Manages to Make Known His Wants
to Ilis Anxious Relatives.
HE HAT WE BEFORE MORNING
According to His Physician, or Suffer for I wo or Three
Says Lon;er.
General Simon Cameron is still alive.
His faithful family physician says he may
live for two or three days yet, but his rela
tives look for the end at any moment His
daughters, his son-in-law and his grand
children are anxious watchers at his bed
side. He is unable to speak, but still con
scious. terrciAL telegram to the disfatcii.i
Mounx Joy, Pa., June 22. General
Cameron is sinking steadily. Dr. Durnott,
his Harrisburg physician, says that he can
hardly live over night. His old family
physician, Dr. Bachman,.of Maytown, two
miles from Donegal Springs, the General's
old country place where he now lives, is
also with him. Dr. Bachman, who has at
tended him faithfully these many years,
says that the old statesman may die at any
time, and yet may cling on to life for two or
three days yet. The members of the Gen
eral's household look for his death momen
tarily, and even the most hoperul scarcely
dares think of his outlasting Monday.
"With the exception of a few spoonfuls of
milk he has taken no nourishment since bis
right arm and side were stricken with par
alysis on Thursday. This is regarded as an
ominous sign, and in the opinion of his
physician, the circumstances alone would
place the life of one as aged as he in ex
treme jeopardy. Unless there is a change
in this respect the end will be hastened rap
idly. WEAK, BUT STILL CONSCIOUS.
The little milk that he took did not ap
parently show any sign of disagreeing with
him; yet when more was offered him he
pushed it away with a movement of his left
hand. A spoonful of brandy was tendered
him, but he motioned that he did not wish
that ether.
To-day he indicated that he desired water.
Some was placed to his lips in a glass. He
was too weak, however, to take it in that wav.
A little was offered him in a spoon, but he
would not have it then why, no one can
say, but some of those about him thought
perhaps the circumstance showed so strong
ly that his heart was touched, and he could
not lor depth of Reeling bring himself to
take it. Since that titne;he has not ex
pressed a desire for anything, and when
anything has been offered him he has sim
ply moved his left hand or shaken his head
to signify that he would not have it.
SURROUNDED BY ANXIOUS BELATIYES.
His son-in-law, ex-Attorney General
"Wayne MacVeagh, who was summoned here
upon the first appearance of paralysis, and
was constantly in or near the sick chamber,
went to Philadelphia last night to dlspote
of some important and pressing law matters
to-day. He returned this evening, and
will remain until the end. Mrs. MacVeagh
and Mrs. Haldeman, the General's daugh
ters, are with him constantly in the
day and evening, sometimes reliev
ing each other in the watch at the bedside,
but neither going further away than ad
joining rooms. Simon B. Cameron, the
General's grandson, who lives two miles
away on a farm presented to him by the old
statesman on the occasion of his marriage
with Dr. Bachman's daughter watches
through the night.
Another grandson, James Cameron, and a
granddaughter, Mrs. "Watts, and Simon B.
Cameron's wife are also at the old house at
Donegal Springs, ministering as far aa they
are able, to the wants of the patient. But
their ministrations alter all are little
heeded. They are rather obliged to wait in
silent patience for the change to come,
either for the better or the worse.
CALMLY AWAITING THE END.
Mr. Cameron is wonderfully calm, and
although he neither eats nor drinks he
sleeps quite well, generally in little naps,
and is not especially restless in the daytime
or at night. "When he wakes he appears re
freshed and those who attend him say he is
always quietly cheerful. He has not at any
time, they say, been unconscious. Though
he cannot speak he can hear and see well
and he knows what is going on around
about him.
He olten told his close friends that from
the human point of view he had two or
three clearly defined wishes respecting his
own death. He was pleased with this earth,
and was desirous of remaining here as long
as might be while in reasonable health.
But he hoped that when his end should
come, it might not be preceded by a long and
serious illness. Above all, he trnsted that
while any trace of the fire o "life should be
in him, his mind might remain clear until
the very last. It is gratifying to those
around him that, so far, though the end may
he near, his dearest wishes have been real
ized. BWEPT OYER THE RAPIDS.
Wind nnd Current Cnnae n Fatal Accident On
the' St. Maurice River.
ISPXCIAL TELEr.RAM To THS DISPATCH.
.Three Eivebs, Quebec, June 22.
"While the Satteau," which conveys passen
gers and freight across the St.
Maurice river at Grand Piles, was
attempting to cross the river at
noon to-day the strong wind and current
got the best of the chains which hold it,
about half way across, and snapped them as
if they were threads. The current is deep
and runs witi a fearful velocity, as'jnst be
low the Grand Piles Bailway station are the
Grand Piles Falls and rapids. There were ten
passengers, two horses, -a quantity ot freight
and the boatmen on board. As the fasten
ings snapped and the current seized the
batteau, whirling it toward the rapids, the
batteau struck a rock, careened and com
menced to fill.
Many of the passengers jumped over
board and two succeeded in reachingasmall
canoe, but the others, Joseph Bivard, his
son and daughter, George Humilton, ot
St Ftienne, Biiptiste Bellerlne nnd his sis
ter, Atuelie Bellerine, none of whom could
swim, stuck to the batteau and were swept
over the raDids.
ATTACKED BY HYDROPHOBIA.
An Old Man Seized Willi Spasms Five Weeks
After Bring llllten.
Cincinnati, June 22. About five weeks
ago Eberhardt Teucher, a bricklayer 60
years old, residing in Corryville, was bitten
by a mad dog. Thursday spasms set in and
he was unable to swallow. The old man at
the slightest touch of the attendant snaps
like a dog and turns black in lhe face.
The patient has been twice sent to the
Longview Insane Asylum, being subject to
melancholia. Dr. Witte, who was called,
refused to pronounce this a case of hydro
phobia, but lrom the attending circum
stances it is believed to be such.
,
Evll of Dual Inhalation.
The evil effects of an atmosphere sur
charged with dust in factories have been at
tracting so much attention in England that
the factory acts are to be amended, and a
bill is to be brought before the House of
Commons compassing an effectual means of
preventing injury lrom the inhalation or
dust
SUNDAY, JUNE 23,
Jb'WELS THAT ARE GLASS.
'
How Imitation Penrla Are Manufactured
The Att of Binning True Genu.
Harper's Magazine. "I
Most of the world's beads ara Venetian.
In the Island of Murano a thousand work
men are devoted to this branch. The first
process is to draw the glass into tubes of the
diameter of the proposed bead. For this
purpose the glasshouse at Murano has a
kind of ropewalk gallery 150 feet long. By
gathering various colors from the different
pots aud twisting them into one mass many
combinations of color are made, The tubes
are carefully sorted by diameters, and chip
ped into fragments ofuniiorm size. These
pieces are stirred in a mixture of sand
and ashes, which fills the holes, and pre
vents the sides from closing together when
they are heatel. They are next placed in a
kind of frying pan, and constantly stirred
into a globular lorm. "When cool they are
shaken in one set of sieves until the ashes
are f eparated, and in anotherseries of sieves
until they are perfectly sorted by sizes.
Then they are threaded by children, tied in
bundles and exported to the ends of the
earth.
France has long" produced the "pearl
beads" which in the finer forms arc close
imitations ol pearls. They are said' to have
been invented by M. Jaquw, in 1656. The
common variety threaded for ornament is
blown from glass tubes. An expert work;
man can blow five or six thousand globules
in a day. They are lined with powdered
fih scales and filled with wax. It takes
16,000 fish to make a pound of the scaly
essence of pearl. "Until recently the heirs
of Jaquin still carried on a large factory of
these mock pearls. The best ol. them are
blown irregular to counterfeit nature, some
in pear shape, others like olives, and they
easily pass tor genuine.
Imitation gems formerly emploved the
chief attention of the highest artificers in
glass. They are still the chief idea of orna
mental glass in China. In the ancient and
middle ages they circulated everywhere
without much danger of discovery, and
their formulas were held as precious secrets.
Blancnurt first published their composition
in 1606. Now they are common property;
and with the growth of science in the past
century an expert knowledge has become
widely disseminated which easily detects
the paste from the real jewel, particularly
as the modern false stones are less successful
copies than the old glassmakers produced.
More study is now given to artificial gems,
which are true gems, being composed ol the
same materials as the genuine ones, but
manufactured.
POSSIBILITIES IN GLASS.
How We May Live In Transparent Houses
nnd Cook by the Son's Heat.
Legend tells of the lost Invention of "mal
leable glass." Tiberius is said to have dis
couraged a genius who found the secret by
beheading him, fearing the innovation
would reduce the value of gold. It is also
recorded, says a writer in Harper's Maga
zine, that Cardinal Bichelieu was presented
with a bust of malleable glass by a chemist,
who purposely let it fall into fragments, and
mended it belore his eyes with a hammer.
The inventor was promptly rewarded by
perpetual imprisonment, lest his in
genuity should ruin the "vested
interests" of French manufacturers.
But if glass may not ape the metals in
malleabilitv, it mav imitate them in an
other respect just as important. A more
fortunate Frenchman (M. de la Bastie) has
within a few years introduced into Europe a
transmuted glass which, he claims, may
displace cast iron. If it fulfills his expecta
tions it will mark a new era in glass, and
the old adage "as brittle as glass" will be
succeeded hy a new one, "as tough as glass."
By his process railway sleepers, fence posts,
drain pipes, tanks, etc., are cast in molds,
and so toughened by a bath in oils as to be
stronger than iron, though much lighter,
and costing one-third as much. But it is
questioned whether his results reach what is
claimed for tho process.
These undeveloped toughening processes
augur astounding changes in the future of
glass "Glass houses" may become the
fashion, and we would have to reverse our
proverb about them, for they would be bomb
proof. Already transparent glass bricks are
made. Extending the possibilities of glass
a little lurther, why may we not' build the
entire structure ot glass? The walls might
be cemented blocks cast' like hewn stone,
but translucent, and of any color. One
could thus inhabit a huge pile of amber or
of gigantic gems. The windows conld be
multiform, some of them telescopic, bring
ing distant things near, some with lenses or
mirrors guiding the focussed snn's heat for
culinary and comfortable purposes, others
stra nlng out the light or cheniic rays.
Tapestries, furniture and utemils might be
made of the universal material. The whole
would be more endurable than granite. No
fire could harm it; lightning would shun it.
Such a dream, blossoming from this miracu
lous substance, may be realized by an Alad
din whose lamp is of glass.
A LITE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
Be v. A. T. Hnyaooil Discusses the Education
of the Slasses in tho South.
Harper's Magazine.)
The subject of education, especially the
education of the masses, is everywhere a
matter of earnest discussion. Teachers, edi
tors, candidates for office, preachers, far
mers, mechanics, white and black people,
all classes, are discussing" the subject How
widespread this awakening has been is
illustrated bv the luterest shown in the sub
ject by the country press.
"When a Southern coupty town weekly,
depending for life chiefly on county adver
tising, takes an abiding interest in a matter
of general concern, it is proof that the peo
ple are beginning to be aroused. The South
is beginning to awake to the perils that .lie
but partially concealed in the ignorant
classes, both white and black, that make up
so large a part of the population. It is
time to awake; there is reason to be alarmed,
when the tenth census reports in the twelve
States under consideration in this paper
332,733 white voters and 886.903 negro voters
as "unable to write." If in a. union of
States like ours, which binds all into one.
this alarm should not extend to States more
fortunate than these 12 Southern States,
it would indicate an indifference to common
interests and common dangers more alarm
ing than ignorani e itself.
THE SMALLEST feCKEWS MADE.
They Ara Card In Watches and Almost la
vjslble to the Nnked Eye.
New York Evsnlng World.
"Yes, sir; those are the smallest screws
in the world," said a jeweler who was at
work repairing a watch to a reporter.
He relerred to the fourth jewel wheel
screw, which is almost invisible and to the
naked eye looked like a speck of dust
"But, here, just take this glass and look
at it," said the jeweler.
The reporter did so, and saw that the
SDeck that bad been referred to by the
watchmaker, was a regular screw. The
jeweler said that the screw was 260 threads
to the inch, and with a very fine glass the
threads may bo seen very distinctly,
"It has been estimated than an ordinary
thimble will hold 100,000 ot these screws."
"Nobody ever attempted to count them.
The method employed in determining the
number is to place 100 of them on a fine
scale and aetermine the number of the
whole lot by the weight ot 'those on the
scale. The manafacture of these screws is
a fine piece of work. After they are cut,
tbey are hardened and put in Irames and
polished by an automatic machine. The
whole process Is wonderful, and only serves
to show what can be dnue by man.".
DIED.
CBI8S Of scarlet fever, on Baturday, June
22, at 8:-M P. iL. ADIA LAVINA. rmly daughter
oi Dr. J. D. andSjUteL. Cnss, aged 3 years 6
months 21 das.
' Funeral at residence of parents, Washington
avenue. Thirty-first ward, on SUNDAY it t P.
it Interment private at a latef hour.
1889. - :
MERCY WAS-REFPSED
By.Jndge Stowe in lhe Case .of H. ft
" Yoight, the Bank Wrecker.
A SENTENCE OF SIX YEARS IMPOSED
Odd Stipulation in the Agreement Between
Business firms.
GENEEAL NEWS IN C0UET BUILDINGS
Henry F. "Voight, the ex-cashier of the
defunct Farmers and Mechanics' Bank,
Southside, was sentenced yesterday to six
years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.
When he was brought into court yesterday
J. L. .Ferguson, Esq., "Voight's attorney,
made a long statement in regard to the case,
asking for leniency. To this Judge Stowe
replied:
"I can conceive of no excuse under
heaven, except starvation, for a man who
will take and use the funds of other people
as you have done. I have no patience with
the way men convicted of the crimes yon
have been come into court and ask to be excused.
It has become almost a oarody on justice when
a man convicted of embezzlement comes to be
sentenced. He usually gets a lighter sentence
than a man who steals some trilling sum, al
though in my mind there are few crimes more
deserving of severe punishment than the ones
of which you have been convicted.
"You have been convicted ot embezzling over
$133,000, and I feel that the sentence should be
a severe one, and I will make it as severe as I
ran under the circumstances. The sentence of
the Court is that you pay a tine of 6 cents, pay
-the costs of tbe prosecution, and undergo an
imprisonment In the Western Penitentiary for
a period of six years."
Mr. Voight started slightly upon hearing this,
but there was no sensational scene.
Assignee Berg, of the bank, stated In regard
to the cae: I am surprised now since Voight
entered his plea of nolle contendere, that he
did not leave the country before his arrest;
but I am glad be entered that plea. It not only
saved an immense amount ot work in going
over and comparing accounts in court, but it
relieved the directors and myself of any sus
picion wbich may have, been placed npon "ns nf
I aving anything to do with tbe cause of the
bank's failure. I had hoped the Court would
be lenient with Mr. Voight, and hoped that by
a short sentence the law would be vindicated in
his case. I do not think he meant to do wrong
when he Srst misappropriated the funds. He
bad sustained losses, no doubt, by speculation,
anil by going in tbe same I ath others had gone
before him, lie got away beyond his depth and
could not save himself.
"I am not sure whether or not any others will
be arretted. I have been aware of the cionkrd
ness of Mr. McMasrers' accounts forsome time.
It any more arrests were contemplated I think
the person upon whom suspicion rests is now In
Canada. The person referred to was al-o a
speculator, and he and ex-Cashier Voight losta
great deal of money in various deals which has
resulted fo disastrously to them."
George L. Cake, the Secretary of the Window
Glass Workers' Association, made an entirely
new statement In regard to the developments of
the cise when he said yesterday: "The arrest
of McMasters is a scheme for the purpose of In
ducing him to divulge the place where Voight
is supposed to have bidden some nf the money.
Mcllasters' case will bring out a great deal con
cerning the operations of the bank while Voight
was ca-hier.'f
A BUSINESS PENALTY.
One Firm Tries to Make Another Firm Fay
Over Considerable.
An argument was heard In Common Fleas
No. 2 yesterday in the equity case of Thomas
M. Latimer against Edward Groetzlnger and
Constable William Billings. Latimer states in
his bill that he purchased at Sheriff's sale the
goods of J. R. Anderson at No. 133 Federal
street and No. 18 South Diamond street The
store had formerly been occupied by Groet
zlnger, who had leased it from the late John
Dean. Groetzlnger in turn leased it to Ander
son. The rent was $5,000 a year, and tbe lease
contained a proviso tbat no carpets or oil
cloths were to be sold on the premises under a
penalty of S10.000.
When Latimer obtained the store he com
menced tosellcarpttsandollcloths. Hecontend
ed tbat he had not purchased tbe lease and that
the penalty did not apply to him. Groetzlnger,
however, brought suit for$2,500 for two months'
rent, and a landlord's warrant was issued and
placed In the hands nf Constable Billings, who
levied on Latimer's goods. The penalty was to
m recovereu as rant. .Latimer men tne Din in
equity, yesterday, asking for an injunction to
restrain tho defendants from'levylng on or sell
ing bis goods and to prevent Groetziuger from
collecting the 510,000 penalty.
The Court heard the case and refused to issue
the injunction. It was held that to do so would
produce a multiplicity of suits, as a landlord's
warrant conld be Issued every month. It is
Erobable that a new lorm of action will be
rought
A FIGHT BREWING.
The City Authorities nnd People's Gas Com
pany Lock ITorns.
A hill in equity was filed yesterday by the
city of Pittsburg against the People's Natural
Gas Company and a preliminary injunction ob
tained restraining the gas company from tear
ing up Forbes street It was stated that the
company has given notice to Chief Bigelow,-of
the Department of Public Works, of Its inten
tion to tear up Forbes street, between Boyd
and Brady streets. Tbe company has its main
along the north side of Forbes street, and it
was uesirea to make connections with tbe houses
of proposed consumers on the south side of the
street.
As this will necessitate opening the street
clear across. Chief Bigelow advised them to lay
another main along the south side of tbe street
This tbey declined to U", and a permit for open
ing the street was refused them. They signi
fied their intention of going on without It, and
the injunction was asked for to restrain them.
A preliminary injunction was granted, and to
morrow morning fixed fora hearing in the case.
The Illah Street Case.
An argument was had In Common Pleas Ko.
2, yesterday, on a bill in equity flled by B. F.
IUfferty and others, residents of High street,
against the Central Traction Company. Messrs.
C. C. Dickey and George Shlras HI. appeared
or tha plaintiffs and J. H. Heed represented
tbe Traction Company. It was held by tbe
plaintiffs that to lay tbe rail wav along the
street would injure the property: f nrtber. that
the Traction Company has no right to occupy
High street. Mr. Keed showed tbat the com
pany has a legal right to occupy the street.
The Court refused tbe injunction asked for to
restrain tbe company from continuing with the
work.
Severn! Divorce Cases.
Decrees of divorce were granted yesterday In
the cases of George Malseed against Ida Mai
Beed, and Harriet W. Thompson against Will
lam L. Thompson. A. L. Pearson, Esq., Was
appointed commissioner in the divorce case of
Ell-iMortli Massey against Martha J. Massey.
Richard O'Hara, Esq., was appointed commis
sioner in the case of Robert J. Davis ajrain.st
Helen F. R. Davis. In the divorce case of
Pauline Knoblock agaigst George Knoblock,
W. J. Brennan, Esq., was appointed commis
sioner, s
Itlondny's Trial List.
Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Caroline
Davis alias Palmer, William Desmond. J. P.
Smith. Joseph Hlrscb. Thomas Mooney, James
Wells Cyrus Pryor, George Schwebfe, John
Kestelmever, Robert Ray, Marr Montagne,
Hannah Taylor, Sophie Freeze (2). Emma Mil
ler,J'sb Evans, James McNally, John Robin
son, Eva Reynolds.
Monday's Andlt List.
Estate of Accountant
Annie Snowden C. Berihger et at
Elisabeth Uiitf W. d. Kuhn.
Mrs. C. Kreikbaum H. Mejer.
James H. Hays H. C. Bughman.
James Larkins W. J. Curron.
W. S. Cassedy Wm. Montgomery.
J. D. Kreikebauin Henrey Meyer.
Legal Tender.
GEonQE and Harry Alexander, for larceny,
each raceived four months to tha workhouse
yesterday.
E. LAVELli, for selling liquor without license,
was yesterday fined $500 and sent six montbs to
the workhouse.
A new trial was refused by Judge Ewing in
the shot-tower case of George Grantz against
W. G. Price & Co., the foundrymen.
Peter B. Botes yesterday resigned as As
sessor of Bethel township, and the Court ap
pointed Wm, Woods Jr., in bis stead.
TnoMAS BEiTTArN, John MoKeever and
Martin Lally were sent six montbs to tbe work
bouse for aggravated assault and battery.
Thomas M. Beowu, John D. Brown, Christo
pher Magee, Jr., Franklin J. Gosser and H. L.
Ueohrlng were yesterday admitted to the Bar.
CHARES E. AllEN, colored, was sentenced
ten years to the penitentiary for the killing of
"Bud" Lee. Allen was .told by the Judge that
he bad made a narrow escape.
Etna? WOLT yesterday filed a petition to
have a commission in lunacy appointed for her
sister, Mrs. Catharine Cook, who, it is alleged,
has been Insane for fonr years.
Ijf the United States District Court, yester
day, George Thompson and Pennock & Little
Were allowed to intervene with their claims
against tbe steamboat Seven Sons.
Judge Ewino yesterday dismissed the ap
peals taken In the cases nf the oleomargarine,
tellers fined by Alili rman Carlisle, allowing the
judgment of the Alderman to stand.
Mes. Caholike Davis alias Palmer, will be
.placed on trial Monday on the charge of having
killed her husband, Albert Davis, a restaurant
keeper In East Liberty. The parties are col
ored. The application for an injunction against
the Prets was withdrawn yesterday because
the newspaper proprietors said they would not
exhibit tbe objectionable baseball oulletin any
more.
Police Officer Patrick Farkell yester
day filed an appeal from tbe decision at Alder
man Casslday, who had fined him $23 and costs
on the charge of disorderly conduct brough
by Dan Sailor. . "
Charters were granted yesterday for the
Shady Avenue Congregation of the Cumber
land Presbyterian Church, of Pittshurg; the
fcirst Swedish M. E. Church, of McKeesport,
and tbe Musical Association of Allegheny.
The commissioners to resurvey the line be
tween Allegheny and Washington counties
were appointed by the Quarter Sessions Court
yesterday. The commissioners appointed are:
Prof. D. J. McAdams, of Washington countv;
Charles Davis, Conntv Engineer of Allegheny
county, and A. J. Gifmore, a surveyor of Fay
ette county.
VACANCIES IN THE ARMY.
Secretary Proctor's Plan to Provide Places
for West Point Graduates.
Washington; June 22. In order to make as
many vacancies as possible for ther recent grad
uates of West Point, and at tbe same time
keep tbe limited retired list up to its full
quota, Secretary Proctor to-day authorized the
retirance on account of disability of Captains
Charles Wheaton. Twenty-third Infantry; Ran
dolph Norwood, Second Infantrv, and Thomas
G. Troxell, Seventeenth Infantry.
In making the-e retirements the Secretary
had 50 disabled officers to select from. There
was considerable pressure from officers eager
for promotions to have others selected, bnt the
Secretary refused to deviate from the rule re
cently adopted of retiring those who would
give promotion to the senior by length of ser
vice. There was an additional reason, too. for
the retirance of Captain Norwood, ol the Sec
ond Cavalry. This regiment has three disabled
captains, thereby leaving thiee companies with
lieutenants In charge.
Tbe fact that General Schofleld's brother
stands number three on the list of first lieu
tenants in this regiment for promotion has
caused certain officers to think that the retire
ment was made in his interest but this is un
just, as tbe selection was made in accordance
with a well defined policy which is generally
popular with army officers.
EOCEETS PtlK THE NATT.
A New Device for Carrying a Life Line to n
Vessel In Distress.
Washington, June 2Z A life-saving rock
et for use on board naval vessels and vessels ot
the merchant marine was exhibited at tho
navy yard this morning in the presence of Sec
retary Tracy, Commodore Schley, Commodore
Meade and a number of naval officers. No
regular board was present to witness tbe test.
The invention Is In the shape of an ordinary
rocket, only tbat instead ot the stick its place
is supplied with a very light metal tube uherein
tho line is coiled. About seven or eight pounds
ofpowder are used in the rocket.
There were three trials to-day, and in each
cae a line was carried between 900 and 1,000
yards, and In the exact direction desired.
While the proceedings were entlrelv of an In
formal nature, the success of tbe 'invention
was so pronounced tbat the Navy Department
will early next week order a board of officers
to give the invention a thorough practical te3t
with a view of introducing It in the navy.
Commodore Schley. Chief of the Bureau of
Equipment and Recruiting, said the success of
the plan of sending a line was perfect, and if
further official tests should sustain the impres
sion made to-day, all human Ingenuity conld
devise to save life and property on naval ships
had been supplied to our vessels.
IMPORTANT EVIDENCE TO COME.
Michael Davitt Proposes to Prove the Gov
, ernment Guilty of Dynamiting.
London. June 22L Mr. Timothy Harrington.
M. P., and Mr. Thomas Sexton, Lord Mayor of
Dublin, will testify before tbe Parnell Commis
sion next week. At the request of Sir. Parnell,
Mr. Michael Davitt will not give bis testimony
until the defense closes. Sir Charles Russell
will ask ibe Court topermit Mr. Davitt to make
an address in bis own behalf before he gives his
testimony. Mr. Davitt proposes to show that
Government employes planned dynamite out
rages and put tbem into effect.
James JIcDermott, who is residing at Ham
burg, has offered to appear before the commis
sion and disclose intrigues nf Government
agents and give proofs of their connivance at
outrages. Mr. Parnell, however, is averse to
treating with JIcDermott, Counsel for, the
Times will recall Mr. Parnell, and will alo re
examine Le Caron, in rebuttal. Tbe closing
speech for the defense has been assigned to
Mr. Aasquitb.
BEER KILLS A BoT.
no Kan Errands for Drinks and Got One
Too Mnny.
New York. Jane 22. Alexander McKenna,
a bo. 11 years old. of No. ill Hamilton avenue,
Brooklyn, was found near the Hamilton ave
nue bridge late on Thursday night suffering
from alcoholism. He was removed to tho
Brooklyn Citv Hospital in an unconscious con
dition and died In tbat in tltntlon last nighr.
Captain Murphy, of the Fifth Avenue Police
Station, made an Inquiry in the matter and
learned that young McKenna. with other boys
about bi age, had been carrying beer for the
workingmen along tbe docks near tbe bridge.
All the boys were in tbe babit ot taklt s a
drink in pavment for their running after the
beer, and it is supposed that MeKenna drank a
number of glassefof beer. The police have as
yet not been able tn find tbe saloon keeper who
sold the beer to McKenna, but all tbe dealers
in that neighborhood, have sold to the boys
during the last n eek.
BOSTON SHOULD BE PROUD.
Tuonan. Long Ignorant of the Fact, She Is
the Owner of Banker Hill.
Boston, June 22. Tbe surprising fact leaked
out to-night that tbe city of Boston Is tha
owner of the land on which the Bunker Hill
Monument stands. When tbe trouble arose
over the tablets which the city authorities
wished to erect to commemorate tho slain,
the Monument Association refused peimisnon,
because the lists of names were incomplete,
and because one of the tablets bore the names
of tbe Aldermen and Councilmen who origin
ated tbe S'-heme.
The city's tablets have therefore been placed
in Winthrop square. In the meantime the
Corporation counsel was asked to look np the
ownerships of the sacred hill, and be finds h.it
It is not tho property of the association, as has
always been supposed, but is public cround.
What action. If any, the offended City Fathers
will now take is a subject of curious comment
Il'sNow Parnell nnd Dnvill Paper.
DtTBLIN, June 22, When Patrick Egan was
appointed by President Harrison to be'TJnlted
States Minister to Chill he transferred to
Michael Davitt his shares in the newspaper
United Ireland. Mr, Parnell and Mr. Davitt
are now, therefore, the sole owners of the
paper.
A Fnnd for Pnxtrar Patients.
London. Jnne 22. The Prince of Wals has
sentto tbe Lord Mayor of London 100 toward
a fund to be Used for the expenses nf English
patients who are treated by M. Pasteur at
Paris.
CONDENSED (.'ABLEGRA3IS.
Emperor William, of Germany, will in
spect tbe British fleet off Spithead on August 3.
THE King sent one of bis carriages from
Brussels for the Shah's use while in Antwerp.
Seventy miners are entombed in a pit at
New Ca.t!e N. 8. W.. and It Is doubtful
whetherthey can bo rescued alive.
A F.rtEMAN on the;Cunard line steamer
rjmlirla, a' Liverpool, committed suicide yes
terdav. He first cut his throat and then
jumped into tbe Mersey.
Advices from Samoa say that Lieutenant
Thurston h Inquiring into the charges made
by Germany that tbe British consul at Apia
has been giving assistence to Mataafa.
THE Amerlcin hark Brazos. Captain Edgett
from N. ew Castle. N. S. W., for Hong Kong,
has been wrecked 500 mile from SandyC'ape,
Queensland. Part r tbe crew was saved. The
remainder are mining.
It Is probable tbat tbe trial of Mr. Maybnck,
who is charged with poisoning her husband,
will be transferred to London; owing to the
feeling of prejm'tce which exists against her
In Liverpool. Sir Charles Russell has been en
gaged to defend Mrs. May brick.
f.
BUTLER'S LAST SEOfc
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The Donshty General Has a Parting
Word for Admiral Porter.
HE REITERATES HIS CHARGES,'
Declarin-- That the Coifijdore.Did Etta
Away After Farragnt flad '1 J
PASSED THE NEW ORLEANS F0RTJ. --Ji
He lakes Occasion to King In a Page or So af His
, 1'irthcoming Boot
I
General Butler gives a parting shot at
Admiral Porter. Like all of his charges in
this newspaper duel, the General declares
Commodore Porter showed that he was
neither brave nor cool during times of
great danger.
ISPXCIAL TZI.IORAM TO TOT DISPATCH. J
Boston, June-22. General Butler Hres
bis last shot at Admiral Porter in a long
letter which will be published to-morrow. -In
answer to Porter's denial that he ran
away after Farragnt had passed the forts
below New Orleans, General Butler quote
from "Wisner, the correspondent of the New
Tork Times, whose letter was dated "Unit
ed States Schooner Dan Smith, off Pilot
Town, Mississippi river, April 25, 1862."
Wisner wtote as follows:
Wben I closed my letter to-day I had no Idea
that I should be down here at Pilot Town, In
my old quarters, more than 20 miles from the '
scene ot the bombardment. But such is the
fact. The mortar Flotilla, with which I have
been more especially connected, was ordered
suddenly, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, to
get undrr way and repair to this place. Here
most of tbe vessels are now at anchor.
His second letter, giving an account of
what took place on the 21th and 25thf says:
MAD AT BELNG SEMT AWAY.
Unexpectedly at that hour. 5 p. M. of tha
21tb, Captain Porter ordered tha firing on our
side to cease and the entire flotilla to get under
way for Pilot Town, near the mouth of the
Southwest Pass. I was compelled to drop
down the river without the mortar vessels, and
the next afternoon fouud myself at PilotTown,
in no pleasant frame of mind at being so un
expectedly sent from the sources of informa
tion. As to what Porter and his officers said
when they ran down past the soldiers at the
head of the passes, General Butler gives tha
following:
We, the undersigned, were on board trans
sport below Fort Jackson and St, Philip, In
tbe Mississippi river, on the morning of tbe
passage of the forts by Admiral Farragnt.
While anchored, and after the passage of Ad
miral Farragnt, a number of steam gunboats
and morter boats came in confusion down tha
river, and upon passing us shouted to us to
leave, as the rebel ram Lonlsiana was coming;
down and would sink us. Tbe gunboats and
mortar boats did not stop to protect us, hat
kept on down the river.
This is attested 21 officers of "Massachu
setts regiments. Hundreds of other wit- "
nesses, the General says, can be had to the ,
same lacts, if they are still desired.
"To show you," says General Butler,
"that I have had no occasion to change my
account ot these transactions from the time
I first gave it, and thus
A2TSWER THOSE CRITICS
Who may say: 'Why didn't General Butler
report all this belore?' I insert here a page
ormy official report to the Secretary of War,
made on the 1st day of Jane1862, after I
had read your romances, and I have bad no
occasion to either add to tbat report or take
from it a word:
I have reaa Commander Porter's official re
port or the surrender of the fort.. and here
permit me. for tbe sakn .of my brave and en-'
during soldiers of the Twenty-sixth Massachu
setts and Fourth Winconsin Regiments, wbo,K
waded In the swamps in the rear of Fort bt.
Philip up to their armnits In water in order to
cut off its garrison and get ready to assault the
enemy's work-, to put the truth of history right "
before the War Department and the country
by the simple enunciation of the fact tbat it
was due to their efforts and thacot their com-)-rade-.
and to those alone, that Forts Jackson
and St. Philip surrendered when tbey did. No
naval vessel or one of the mortarflVet had fired
a shot at the forts for three days before the sur
render, and not one of the mortar boat was
within 23 miles at tbat time, they having sailed
out of ibe river from prudent consideration of
the prowess of the ram Louisiana, which was
supposed to be "lively" near the forts.
A majority of the garrison at Fort Jackson
had surrendered to my pickets the night before
the officers made a surrender to Commodore
Porter and obtained from btm better terms
tban has been or ought to be given, during tho
war. to a rebel officer or soldier, and under '
those terms the rebel General Duncan claims a
right to be and is in tbe army of Beauregard,
giving aid and comfort, and only holding him
self not tn serve in arm,which are the terms of
hit parole. I send a copy of the terms of capit
ulation. "WHAT BEN" BELIEVES.
I do not wish to take from the well-earned
and well-desired consideration due to tbe navy
for their brilliant exploit In rnnning past Forts
St. Philip and Jackson. I have borne and shall
ever bear testimony to their courage and gal
lantry on tbat occasion, but after that no shot
was fired until the surrender, and tbe forts
could bave been held for weeks, if not months,
so far as the bombardment was concerned, for'
In the judgment of the best engineering skill
they were then as defensible as before the
bombardment. I will not permit too great
meed ot praise on the part ot anybody to take
away the merit fairly due my brave soldiers,
who endured so much hardship and showed as
much bravery as the most gallant tar of tbem
all, lor we landed within five miles above the
forts and 'lively ram.' protected by only two
gunboats, while tbe mortar boats, protected by
seven gunboats, retreated 25 miles below tho
forts and out of tbe river."
BEL1GI0US 80HMARY.
The magnificent Catholic cathedral at Hong
Kong holds 4,000 people.
A rnix blooded negro girl is about to ba
sent to Africa as a missionary by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
Ohio has 6,753 Sabbath schools, but there
are still in that State a half million of youth
outside of such schools with which to form an
other 8.000.
Me. Moody's College Conference opens at
Northfield, Mass., Jnne 29, and will close July
10. It wUl be followed by a general conference
for Christian workers, to commence August L
The Cumberland Presbyterians propose to
raise $50,000 lor missions this year. This de
nomination will make an effort tn establish a
scbool for colored people at Bowling Green,
Ky.
It is estimated tbat in Paris 0,000 persons
who were formerly free-thinkers and Indiffer
ent tn their religions interests are under Gospel
influence through tbe M'All Mission. CAurcA
o To-Day.
FttAAoosTnto continues to draw immense
crowds In Rome. It is said thai no preacher
since Savonarola has so stirred tbe Italian
mind. He is not acceptable eitherto the priest
barer?, with whm Rome abounds, or to sup
porters of tho Vacticau.
Twelve yotngmen were graduated from,
the Luthern Theological Seminary, Gettysburg,
Pa- J une i. The institution was attended dur
ing tbe year by 60 students. Enlarged and
improved accomodations have become neces
sary, and are contemplated.
A movement has been started In England to
fouud a memorial of the self sacrificing heroism
of the late Father Damlen. It Is proposed to
establish a hospital at Molokai. where alt the
aid nf modern medical science may be brought
to bear to eradicate the disease of leprosy
among the people for whom Father Damlen
gave his life.CafAoffe Review.
The United Presbyterian Church has 7S3
ministers, 903 congregations, 101.858 members,
and contributed for all purposes , 1KLS38 last
year. Nearly one-third of tbe ministers of this
denomination are without, charges. This Is
probably not a grea er proportion ot unem
ployed mlnWiers than the Presbyterian Church,
can thatr. Christian Advocate, iVVur York.
Bishop Grafto.v. of Fond-du-Lacj.has re
ceived from clerical and lay friends in Massa
chnsettsSfllO, which, together with the collec-
tioii at tbe farewell service to the bUhup elect
In the Church of the Advent, Boston, makes
about Si,200 which- has been placid in
the bishop's bands at the beginning ot
bis work," tn be distributed at bis dis
cretion: among the feebler parishes and
mis-ions of his diocex. Tne Spirit of Millions.
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