A WORD
-Fmall Ads for Two Weeks
Ending
Aufr. 31, 1890 1.GD7
Ad;. 31, 1S91 8,117
Increase, 420.
Tho Idea lias Caught On
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FORTY-SIXTH TEAR
li
A Host of Applicants for the
Circuit Judgeships at Har
rison's Disposal.
MASY CABINET CHANGES.
General Lew Wallace Slated for Sec
retary's f roctor's Place.
PATEOXAGE TO BE USED FOR 1892.
The Census Bureau's Statistics Upon t.he
Kansas Mortgages.
BIG KO.N'Er TO PAT SUGAR BOUNTIES
rsrxcxAx, telegram to the dispatch.1
Washington, Sept. 1L There are on
file in the Department ot Justice the appli
cations of about 250 more or less eminent
lawyers from all sections of the country for
appointment on the bench of the new Cir
cuit Court. Attorney General Miller has
liad the privilege and pleasure of examin
ing the papers of all these gentlemen, some
of whom are old-time Indiana friends of
his own and President Harrison.
Sir. Miller's indorsement on some of these
applications will, of course, haw great
v, eight when the time for making the ap
pointment arrives. It is not at all improb
able, howei er, that the Attorney General
will fail to indorse any of his Hoosier
friends, but will instead make an applica
tion in his own name, indorse it and then
make out a commission for the circuit in
which the State ot Indiana is included in
the name of "William Henry Harrison Mil
ler. TO RETIRE FEOSI THE CABINET.
Indeed, it is stated with much positive-
ness here to-day that it has already been
determined between the President and the
Attorney General that the latter shall take
the judgeship, thus permitting the Presi
dent to avoid the embarrassment of choosing
a judge from among the list of Indiana
applicants, several of whom feel that the
President is nnder deep obligation to them
for various favors extended at a time when
Ue needed them.
In connection with the statement that the
Attorney General will become a judge it is
mid that a general reorganization of the
Cabinet will take place in November by
sending Secretarv Noble to the Department
of Justice, John S. Clarkson to the Interior
Department, and making General Lew
"Wallace or some other equally good In
diana Harrison Republican the successor of
Secretary Proctor. Secretary Noble, it is
well known, wrote to the President early in
the summer notifying him of his desire to
resign.
WANTS ANOTHER TLACE.
The President persuaded the Secretary to
hold the matter up for awhile, and in the
meantime take a protracted vacation. Gen
tiil Noble went to Hot Sprii'gs, Ark.,
and afterward to Richfield Springs, and
when he returned he determined to remain
in oflice at lea until he could have a chance
to secure an appointment more to his liking
than that ot Secretary of the Interior. He
would much prefer to be Attorney General,
and would probably consent to an arrange
ment that would make him Mr. Miller's
successor, especially as he would then still
be in a way to realize the ambition of his
office holding year by eventually reaching
a place on the bench of the Supreme Court.
Hut whether Mr. Miller or Mr. Noble
gets the desired Judgeship or not, the fact
remains that there are 250 eager applicants
for judicial appointments and that this
state of tilings gies President Harrison an
unusually fine opportunity to "play poli
ties" during the next few months. In addi
tion to tiic nine places on the bench of the
new Circuit Court he has at his disposal one
or two Cabinet places, one Judgeship of the
Court of Claims, generally regarded as a
jwrticularly desirable oflice, and two inter
S.ate Commerce Commissionerships, not to
mention various minor places.
PLENTY OF rATEONAGE.
This is a most unusual amount of high
class patronage for a President to have un-
ler his thumb just as he is entering upon
the contest for a renomination and Presi
dent Harrison probably now feels more
than ever justified in believing what he is
tatd to have stated at the beginning of his
administration that Providence is on his
side.
A member of the Cabinet, speaking a few
days ago about this wonderful luck of Har
lison's, said: "Any man but President Har
rison could use valuable patronage in a per
fectly legitimate way to draw to his support
the influential friends of the hundreds of
applicants and make everyone of the ap
poin ments count for several votes in the
National Convention. Harrison, however,
I am sorry to say, generally plays politics
at the wrong time and in the wrong way,
and I will be surprised if he does not do so
now and utterly fritter away his great op
portunity." KANSAS MORTGAGES.
TOE DEBT TWENTY-SEVEN" PEE CENT
OF REAL "VALUES.
A Census Offlce Bulletin Give omo Inter
esting Figures From the Alliance State
The Heaviest Liabilities Aro in the More
Prosperous Sections.
"Washington, Sept. 1L The Census
Oflice lias issued a bulletin which givcB the
mortgage indebtedness of the State of Kan
sas by counties. The total assessed valua
tion of real and personal property in 1890,
not includingthe value of railroad propertv,
which is placed at 557,806,233, was f 290,
504,711. The estimated value is between $800,000,
tKJO aud ?900,000,000. It is found that Kan
sas has a mortgage debt of 235,485,108,
which does not include a State and railroad
land contract debt of 7,GG1,718. This debt
is 27 er cent of the estimated true value of
all the taxed real estate. The average
amount of debt per mortgaged acre is placed
at JO G5.
Of the total mortgage debt, 5167,145,039
is upon acres and 68,340,069 upon lots.
Thirty-four per cent ot the total debt in
force against acres is on real estate in the
western half of the State, where it is said
values are low and where settlement was
A .W!i or all kinds are quiukly answered
through THE DESPATCH. Investors, a.-tl-tnns
bargain hunters, buyers and sellers
closely scan Us Classified Advertising Col
umns, -largest Circulation.
HUNDREDS
w uc
DID IT:
made but a few years ago. It is proposed
to prepare a map showing the exact locali
ties in the State of the debt
Superintendent Porter says the largest
debt exists in the sections where there is
the greatest prosperity and where there has
been an advancement in improvements. The
counties carrying the heaviest mortgage
debt are: Sedgewick, 516,584,035; Wyan
dotte, 512,629,936; Shawene, $11.9S2,090;
Cowley, 57,527,418: Reno, 57,429,589; Sum
ner, 55,560,042, and McPherson, 55,040,949.
HIGH SUGAR' BOUNTIES.
SOME OF THE BEST GRADE OF SORG
HUM PRODUCED IN KANSAS.
The Tint Under the New Law An Esti
mate Says the Crop 'Will Exceed Half a
Billion Pounds The Amount to Be
Taken From the Treasury.
"Washington, Sept. 11. Special The
Internal Revenue Bureau has received a Ire
port giving an account of the first actual
work done under the sugar bounty clause of
the McKinley bill. That bill gives a bounty
of from lj"j to 2 cents per pound
on sugar manufactured in this coun
try, the difference in the bounty being reg
ulated by the grade of the sugar. The re
port is from the inspector at Fort Scott,
Kan. It states that 9,000 pounds of sugar
have been tested by him and fonnd up to
the grade entitling its producer to a 2-cent
bounty.
The sugar is from sorghum, and in a short
time the inspectors in Kansas and Missouri
will be busy inspecting the sugar product
from sorghum which is grown in those
States. The next field that will engage the
attention of the revenue officers, and which
will be entered upon before the sorghum
sugar crop is handled, will be the beet
region. The principal sugar beet crop will
be in Nebraska, Utah and California.
Following it will come the sugar cane
crop. Louisiana, Texas and Florida produce
nearly all of that crop. Inspectors are
already in the field in those States examin
ing the sugar houses to see that none of the
old crop is run in in order to secure the
bounty. By the time that the cane sugar is
handled, which work will commence in Oc
tober, the Internal Eevenne Bureau will
have to turn its attention to the maple sugar
product ""
For the convenience of work, the sugar
producing portions of the country have
been mapped out in four divisions. One is
the sorghum region, including Kansas
Missouri and some parts of contiguous
States. The second is the beet region, in
cluding Nebraska, Utah and the beet grow
ing portions of the country aronnd them.
California has such an immense beet crop
that it is constituted a division by itself.
The fourth division comprises the cane
sugar States.
It is estimated by the officials of the In
ternal Revenue that the entire coining crop
of sugar in this country will be 607,374,200
pounds, and that the amount of bounty that
the Government will be called upon to pay
on it will be about 510,000,000. The crop,
it is estimated, will be divided as follows:
Cane sugar, 566,654,200 pounds; beet sugar,
29,210,000 pounds; sorghum sugar, 2,510,000
pounds; maple sugar, 9,000,000 pounds.
OKLAHOMA STILL BOOMING.
Twenty Thousand People Beady to Move
Into the Territory Next Week.
"Washington, Sept. 1L Special
"Twenty thousand people are ready to
move in on the land which is to be opened
in Oklahoma next week," said Hon War
ren G. Sayre, a Cherokee Commissioner, to
day. "Five thousand quarter sections
means 5,000 families, and average four to n,
family. That gives us 20,00 people. We
get this land from the Iowas, Sacks, Foxes,
absentees, Shawnees and Pottawatomies.
Contracts with them have been ratified by
Congress, and the land will be thrown open
in a few days. A contract w ith the Chey
ennes and Arapahoes has been ratified, but
as those Indians have not yet taken the
allotments due them, there can be no im
migration. The Indians must have first
choice. When they have been allotted,
there will be a surplus of at least 352,000
acres 22,000 home6tea'ds.
"When Congress meets there will be pre
sented to it an agreement with the Kicka
poos by which an additional tract of 182,
000 acres can be turned into public land.
Altogether the soil we have purehased will
provide homes for 120,000 people. Each
purchase, by the provisions ot the existing
Jaw, adds so much to the territory of Okla
homa and when the desired ratificationsnnd
allotments have been made Oklahoma will
be three times its present size. No portion
of the United States has made a better
showing than Oklahoma, and within a year
we will have a population of at least 150,
000. '
A BIG DEMAND FOB HONEY.
The SmallerDenomination&Xeeded to Move
the Northwestern Crops,
Washington, Sept. 11 Special Act
ing Treasurer Whelpley said to-day that
never in the history of the country was
there such a demand upon the United States
Treasury for money with wliich to move the
crops. The Treasury is doing its best to
meet the demand. What is most wanted
are notes of the smaller denominations. The
call for money so far is chiefly from the
Northwest, but the South will soon be
heard from when she begins to move her
immense cotton product. The distributing
points which are calling most strenuously
lor money just now are Omaha, St. Paul,
Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit,
Toledo and Milwaukee.
At the sub-Treasury the Government is
keeping as much money in small denomina
tions as possible, and is making change for
the crop movers to the best of its ability.
In order to accommodate people not in
touch with the sub-Treasury, it allows the
correspondents in New York of banks
throughout the regions where small money
is needed to make deposits at the sub-Treasury
there. The kind of money desired is
then shipped directly from the Treasury
here by express, the Government deducting
from the amount shipped the transportation
charges of the express company. There is
also an increased demand for standard silver
dollars.
BONDS CONTINUED AND REDEEMED.
Up to Date There Have Been Over Twenty
Fonr Million Continued.
Washington, Sept. 1L The 4 per
cent bonds at the Treasury Department to
day for continuance at 2 per cent amounted
to 5134,950, making the total to date 524,
394,300. The 4 per cent bonds presented
at the department to-day for redemption
amounted to 5133;600.
The redemptions of 4J per cents at New
York on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week aggregated Sl,008,750, mak
ing the total redemptions of these bonds to
date 511,880,850.
RANDALL Ex-Chler Clerk Clinton
Llojd's letter for THE D IS PATCn to-morrow
treats or Samuel J. Randall. Mr. Lloyd
had exceptional advantages for seeing the
man as he really was.
Fitzgerald's, Health Improved.
Lincoln, Nek., Sept. 1L The Lincoln
branch of the Irish National League this
evening elected ten delegates to the Chi
cago convention of October L Resolutions
of regret over the illness of President Fitz
gerald were adopted. Mr. Fitzgerald's
physicians report aim somewhat improved
to-day.
WW
MISS AVA IS FOUND,
And Tells a Most Sensational Story of
Alleged Abduction.
NOW BELIEYED TO BE DISS DEBAR.
A Great Commotion Created in Chicago by
Her Disappearance.
LOCKED UP IN A CINCINNATI CELL
fSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE MSrATCn.
Cincinnati, Sept 11. If Madam Diss
de Bar is still on earth she is at the present
moment reposing her 240 pounds of adipose
tissue on a cane bottomed couch in the
Third district police station. The Madam
says she is Miss Ava, late of Chicago, and
is a victim of a diabolical outrage conieived
in hades and executed in Chicago and this
city. There are somethings that corrobor
ate part of her story. It was almost 9
o'clock to-night when a big-white headed
woman, with gigantic form, shoeless and
hatless, plunged from a hack into the
Gibson House parlors and asked for the
best suite of rooms in the house.
Her nakedness she was without skirts
and wore only a part of a dress gave the
impression that the woman was either
drunk or crazy, and she was sent to the Cen
tral police station. She identified herself
as Miss Ava, the missing Chicago mis
sionary. WITHOUT MONEY AND "WITHOUT PRICE.
She had neither money nor valuables, but
a large packet of miscellaneous newspaper
clippings, church statistics, original poetry,
a book on fortune-telling bearing the trade
stamp of a St Louis stationer, a large cruci
fix and a few other things. Her feet were
wet and her light silk stockings almost
footless and dripping with mud and water.
She dramatically told a sensational story.
She said that on Wednesday night sha
called at the Catholic Church on Twelfth
street with Mrs. Bolton, wife of the
Methodist minister with whose church she
had just united. She had a large sum of
money with her, and her visit was in con
nection with a scandalous affair of great mo
ment to the Catholic Church. That almost
as soon as she entered she was attacked by
Fathers Fitzgerald and Kelly, knocked
down, gagged and blindfolded.
She remembers nothing more until, faint
and aching in every limb, she found herself
on the cars, but was soon taken off, still
blindfolded, and driven to some point, as it
now transpires, in this city.
FLOORED HEK CAPTOES AND ESCATED.
She remained there some hours and was
then transferred to another point, which she
accurately describes as Central avenue and
Eighth street, which is the location of the
cathedral and archepiscopal residence of
this city. With her were two men and a
woman. This evening she was left alone
with the men, who removed the bandage
from her eyes.
Instantly Miss Ava attacked the men,
knocked them senseless and escaped, run
ning madly through the streets to Ninth
and Elm streets, where, from a drugstore,
she telephoned for a cab and went to the
Uioson.
She claims to have been beaten and
robbed. Her bo'dy is black and blue from
blows, and her countenance is haggard in
the extreme. She is a fine conversa
tionalist and doe3 not show the slightest
sign of lunacy in -her talk. She denies that
she is Diss de Bar, but it is certain that that
is who she is. She is about five feet in
height, very heavy, of enormous girth, full
round face, blue or light gray eyes, almost
white hair cut short and curly, round, well
shaptd head and t a three-cornered scar is
below and a little back of the left eye. She
wants to return to Chicago.
THE SEARCH IN CHICAGO.
SEVERAL OF THE MISSING WOMAN'S
DECEPTIONS REVEALED.
Her Friend, the Minister's Wife, Gives Her
Reasons for Believing Miss Ava Was
Murdered The Detectives Throw Up the
Case Feared Cronln's Fate.
Chicago, Sept. 11. On the day of the
disappearance of Miss Ava, or Diss Debar,
as the case may be, the alleged Miss Ava
called upon and had an interview with
Archbishop Feehan. She gave Mrs. Bol
ton, with whom she drove to the Archiepis
copal residence, to understand that she was
going to see about getting some property
which was in the possession of the Catholio
Church in England. She was formerly a
member of that church, she said, and it is
said was once a nun. She evidently de
ceived Mrs. Bolton, as the Archbishop says
his talk with her was exclusively in regard
to her work among tho vicious classes in
this city, and was not of a personal charac
ter at all. She did not mention to the
Archbishop the fact that she was an apos
tate from the Church, or make overtures
looking to her return.
It appears that she also called on Arch
bishop Feehan yesterday. The cabman who
drove there to-day identified Miss Ava's
picture as that of the woman in question.
He said that after she entered the cab he
saw her take off a blonde wig and arrange
her hair.
TOLD A STORY TO A CONSUL.
About a week ago she visited Mr. Sadler,
the British Consul here, and, under the seal
of secrecy, told him a remarkable and mys
tifying story; but he declined 'to give the
tenor of it She was very captivating, with
a full blonde wig frizzed and banged, and
and she told Mr. Sadler she had lived in
Chicago ten years, whereas she has not
been here as many weeks. Mr. Sadler says
he does not believe her to be an English
woman. She spoke with a Faench accent
and spoke French like a native.
Mrs. Bolton, wife of Rev. Dr. Bolton, of
the Centenary Methodist Church, with
which Miss Ava became connected a short
time ago, said in an interview to-day: "Be
fore you can fully enter into my reasons for
believing that Miss Ava has met with foul
play, you should understand what manner
of person she was. Miss Ava was a highly
educated woman from the English upper
middle classes. She spoke tour languages
fluently. She has been an extensive
traveler. She has arecord for distinguished
bravery during the Franco-Prussian War,
and has seen net ire service with the am
bulances on the field of battle. She was
unmistakably a lady. Her charities were
unquestionably genuine.
A WELL FILLED PURSE.
"On Wednesday evening, when I accom
panied her in her carriage to the Church of
the Holy Family, she showed me her wallet
just before she alighted. It was literally
crammed with 520 gold pieces. In addition,
she showed me about 54,000 worth of dia
monds. "Swear," she said, raising her right hand
in a somewhat dramatic, manner, "that if
ever I disappear you will not rest until you
have found me, even if -you have to ask all
Chicago to join you in the search." X did
ptttaj
PITTSBURG, ' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1891-TWELVE
not swear, of course, but I promised her
most earnestly that I would.
"A few days after we came to be ac
quainted she told me something of her
family affairs. She said that shehad ene
mies, and that her mother had been mur
dered. She seemed apprehensive that some
such fate would overtake herself. She
never said a word against the Catholic re
ligion, frojn which she was a convert She
said Bhe had spent many happy days as a re
ligieuse, but desired a broader field for
charitable work than the seclusion of the
cloister afforded her. During her connec
tion witli that church she was sent twice to
England on ecclesiastical business. She was
an excellent writer upon theological and
economic subjects.
ONE OF MISS AVA'S DECEPTIONS.
-Luc BLiaiigeab luing auuub una km
said Lieutenant Shea to-night "is that this
Miss Ava, who is written up as a fakir, has
refused money from those she interested in
her charitable work. At the station to-day
a minister whose name J. promised not to
divulge told me that a charitably inclined
church offered her 51,000, but she refused it,
saying she had plenty of money."
The woman had often stated that the
goods she shipped from England had been
lost and that she had applied for duplicate
freight certificates. Officers visited the
Custom House to-day and were told by Dep
uty Collector Jewett that no such woman
ha'd been at the oflice or applied for dupli
cate receipts.
A curious feature of the mystery Is that
Miss Ava feared she would meet a fate Im-.
ilar to that of Dr. Cronin, Father Kelly,
upon whom she called at the Holy Family
1OT11. A X 11.! 1 I l.: .neA -
uurcii just prior 10 ner uisappeurauue, is
the same clergyman the arrest of whose
brother in St Louis as a Cronin suspect
caused a sensation. The brother was brought
to this 'city in custody, but speedily re
leased, there being no proof against him.
It has been discovered that a woman who
answers Miss Ava's description called 3t
one of the medical colleges yesterday, if
this were she it proves that she was not
made away with Wednesday night. The
police have become convinced that the
woman is merely in hiding, and the de
tectives who were detailed on the case have
been withdrawn.
ON SUICIDE INTENT.
Circumstances Under Which tho Spook
Priestess Left Jersey City.
New York, Sept. 10. Several months,
ago a number of prominent newspaper men
received letters from Ann O'Delia Diss
Debar, annonncing that she was about to
commit suicide. The letters were dated
Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City, but when
the reporters reached that place the priest
ess had departed. She had left her baggage
(not valuable) behind her and also an un
paid board bill.
Dilligent inqniry has since failed to bring
to light any trace of her. She had not
jumped oft of any ferryboat, and if she de
parted "this life by any other route what she
did with her 300-pound body is still an un
solved problem. At one time it was re
ported that she was living in a Catholic in'
stitution in Boston, but the report was
never verified.
THE WRONG LAW SIGNED.
AN
AMENDMENT WHICn PASSED
HAD NOT BEEN INSERTED.
The Anthracite Coal Laws Now in a Mud
dlesenator Hlnes Demands That 'His
Amendment Becomo a Part of the
Act
Harrisbubg, Sept 11. Special Sen
ator Jlines, of Luzerne county; called oil-
the Attorney General this afternoon rela
tive to contemplated prpqeedings to test the
legality of an act which the Legislature
passed on a form different from what was in
tended. On the final passage of the hill
prepared by the commission appointed to
revise the anthracite mining and ventila
tion laws Senator Hines had stricken from
the measure the feature that gave the Mine
Examining Board the right to certify to the
Governor tho name of only one man for a
mine inspector's vacancy and made the bill
provide that the board 'certify the names of
all the candidates to the Governor to enable
him to make his selections from the list
He also had removed the provision that
every applicant answer at least 90 per cent
of the questions of the board. The clerks
of the House' failed to Incorporate these
amendments in the bill, and it went to the
Governor in the shape in which it was
transcribed.
The Mine Examining Board, appointed
previous to the passage of the act, held a
meeting and Certified to the Governor but
one name tor each of the inspection dis
tricts, and Senator Hines' visit to the At
torney General to-day was for the pnrpose
of having action taken looking to the exe
cution of the act as it passed the Legisla
ture and not as it was approved by the
Governor. The Senator froni Luzerne also
called on the Governor in relation to tho
matter in dispute. .
A protest will soon be filed with the
Governor against the issuing of commissions
to the men who have been certified to him
for appointment as mine inspectors, and this
action will be followed by an application
for a mandamus to compel the Examining
Board to have all the names of candidates
for mine inspectors submitted for his con
sideration. The Luzerne County Court will
probably soon be asked to decide the ques
tion at issue.
SEASHORE A charming letter from
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop In THE DI5
PATCU to-morrow will eloso the series on
notablo summer resorts by eminent Amer
ican authoresses. Don't miss the last one.
10 DUX? THE CABINET.
Premier Mcrcier of Quebec Will Probably
Be Officially Decapitated.
Otta-WA, Sept 11. Special In the
Senate to-day Premier Abbott announced
that correspondence had taken place between
the Governor General and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Anger with reference to the charges
of boodling which have been laid before the
Parliamentary Investigating Committee,
now sitting at Ottawa, against Premier
Mercier, ot Quebec.
This makes it apparent that Lieutenant
Governor Anger has in contemplation the
dismissal of Premier Mercier and his Cab
inet, which power for cause is vested in the
Lieutenant Governor. This preroga
tive, it will be remembered, was exercised
by Lieutenant Governor Letellier, cf Que
bec, who dismissed his Cabinet, but who
himself suffered decapitation at the hands of
the then Governor General of the Domin
lon; Lord Lome, on the ground that his
action was unconstitutional
HAZING IS SABBED.
Freshmen at Lafayette Canght In the Act
Now Under Suspension.
Easton, Sept 11. Special. The fac
ulty of Lafayette college has acted in the
cases of the sophomores apprehended ThurS
davin hazing freshmen and has approved
of President Warfield's idea on the subject.
Nine sophomores were suspended indefi
nitely; Their recall depends on the good
behavior of their class men.
If the sophs- continue to haze the men
suspended now will not be taken back, and
all others caught will be sent home. Two
of the men canght hazing were freshmen
last year, but did not return to college as
students this year. Their case will be re
ferred to the trustees.
A COMEDIAN'S- CRIME.
Sam'l of Posen in a San Francisco
Jail for Killing an Officer.
MYSTEBY INVOLVED IN THE CASE.
Tho Shooting Occurred After the Intoxi
cated Actor Was Ironed,
f
ALMOST AT THE STATION HOUSE DOOR
San Feancisco, Sept 11. Late last
night the policemen in the Southern police
station were startled by a pistol shot just
outside the door. Bunning out they found
Officer Grant lying dead on the pavement
with a bullet wound in his head. A man
was seen running away, and on being caught
was found to have Grant's handcuffs on his
wrists. On the pavement near the dead
policeman was found a discharged pistol.
The man gave his name as Maurice Curtis,
a well-known comedian, otherwise known
as "Sam'l of Posen," and denied shooting
Grant. '
Curtis had been drinking all the evening
with some friends. Why he was arrested is
not known, but it is supposed he had been
creating a disturbanoe. Two men saw Cur
tis and the officer struggling in front of the
police station, and then saw the flash of a
pistol. Curtis was under the influence of
liquor.
CUETI3' OWN STOBY.
Curtis tells the following story of the
affair: "I was at the Grand Opera House
last night with my wife to see Bernhardt in
"Camille." I left the theater about 10
o'clock to go to the Tivoli Theater with
William Kreling, one of the proprietors.
We had a drink together and I left him to
return t'o the opera house for my wife.
When I reached the corner of Third and
Mission streets I was suddenly tumbled to
the gutter, and after that I remember noth
ing, only somebody pulling and jerking me
about, until I found myselt in a wagon with
handcuffs on my wrists."
When Curtis was taken to jail last night
he appeared to be under the influence of
liquor, and incoherently told of his doings
during the night, protesting that he had no
weapon and that he was innocent of murder.
The place where the officer arrested Curtis
is some blocks from the station house, but the
shooting occurred within half a block of the
station and within the hearing of a number
of policemen. Grant was .killed imme
diately, the bullet entering the middle of
the forehead near the hair and penetrating
the brain.
CURTIS' RECENT niSTORY.
Curtis, who is known throughout the
United States from the character of "Sam'l
of Pcen" in the play which was created for
him, has lived for the past two- or three
years at Berkely, Cal. He had acquired
considerable property through profits accru
ing from his success as an actor, and had
erected a large hotel at Berkely, which has
since been converted into a seminary. He
began life as a call boy at the old Calfornia
Theater in this city, gradually working his
way up through minor roles to the position
of a recognized actor in comedy parts.
The pistol with which Curtis shot the
police officer was found in the street a short
distance from where the tragedy occurred.
The arrested comedian, booked for mur
der, was a pitiable object as he sat in the
Southern police station, wringing his hands
in despjjir, running from one officer to an
other . protesfais innocence and telling
in an incoherent way his doings of the
night. He was intoxicated, and as he stag
gered up from his seat some one would push
him tmck again. Time and again he started
to his feet "
HE COULD NOR ItESIEMBER.
"My God," he cried, "if I could only re
call the last four hours of my life. I'm no
murderer, gentlemen. I had no pistoL I
shot nobody. I have not an enemy in the
wrm. vainly he protested his innocence
of any offense, and wanted to go home to
his wife.
In a rambling way he told tho story of
his business and his affairs. He came to
the city from his home in Berkeley, across
the bay, on the 7:30 o'clock boat, with his
wife and Dr. Cook and his family, of Berke
ley. He had purchased a box for the Bern
hardt performance and left his wife with
those with her at the Grand Opera House.
Then he went to the Tivoli, where he met
William Kreling and a person whose name
he could not recollect, but who spoke
French and represented himself to be a
drummer for a liquor house. The trio re
mained in the Tivoli until the end of the
performance.
After leaving the Tivoli he went to the
Grand Opera House to meet his wife.
While on Mission street he was caught in a
crowd. Someone struck him in the back of
the neck and he fought his way out to the
street There he found himself in the
hands of Officer Grant. Why he was ar
rested he did not know, but he protested
that he went with the officer without
making any opposition.
SAID HE HAD NO WEAPON.
"Why did you draw your pistol on him?"
was asked,
"I had no pistol," he exclaimed, "and I
did not shoot anyone. I am sorry it hap
pened. I wanted to have a good time and
never harmed, a man in my life. I'm no
train robber, gentlemen." Over and over
again he reiterated his ignorance of the af
fair until he was handcuffed and taKen ofl to
the Central station.
The only known witnesses of the shooting
were two young men, Thomas Muller and
E. Toomey, who stood directly across the
street and heard the policeman say, "Come
along now." There was no reply, but al
most at the same instant the young men saw
a flash. A pistol shot rang out in the quiet
street, followed in quick succession by two
more reports. The officer fell to the side
walk without a groan, and Curtis, who a
moment before had been his prisoner,
turned and fled up Folsom street
The scene of the shooting was not more
than 250 feet from the station doors. Just
inside a number of police officers were sit
ting. Hearing the pistol shots, Officers
Allen and Bodie ran out and found a crowd
gathered about the prostrate form of the
dead policeman. He was lying face down
ward an a pool of blood, and life was already
extinct
THE TELL-TALE HANDCUFFS.
Curtis had not yet gained the corner of
Folsom and Fifth streets. The officers gave
chase, accompanied by half a dozen men
who had been attractedjo the spot Curtis
ran around the cornerof Fifth strect,closely
pursued, and was not overtaken until ho
had turned down Shipley street. There
the two policemen seized and handcuffed
him and walked him back past the place
where the shooting had been done.
The nippers which Policeman Grant'had
twisted on Curtis' wrist were still there to
prove that he was the man who had been in
custody. Tho weapon with which Officer
Grant was . killed was not in the shooter's
possession, but was found shortly after
ward near the comer ofFifth street
William Kreling, proprietor of the Tivoli
Theater, says that Curtis visited the Tivoli
shortly after 10 o'clock last night Curtis
had several glasses of liquor in . Kreling's
company, and when he lettthe theater about
11:30 was showing excitement in his speech.
The case of Cnrtis was called before Police
Judge Worley this forenoon. Curtis looked
pale and troubled, and evidently had not
slept much since the time of the shooting.
By consent the case was postponed until
Monday next, to await the action of the
Coroner's jury and allow attorneys to Dre-
y?are their cases.
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RETURNING FROM
Both, Blaine and Harrison TF53 Soon Be
ABADIANFKOMPERU.
He Deliberately Attempts to Blow
up an Express Train by
PUTTING DYNAMITE ON THE TRACK
He Has a Mania for Wrecking- Steamboats
and Can bj Explosives.
CAPTDEED WITH BOMBS IN HIS TRUNK
Easton, Pa, Sept lL The man from
Peru turned up again this afternoon, and
he is now enjoying free lodging in the
Easton jail. His last crime was the attempt
to blow up a locomotive on the Lehigh Val
ley Road, five miles east of here yesterday
afternoon, and tc-day Detective Simpn
arrested him in front of police headquarters.
The man from Peru is one of the most dan
gerous criminals this country has known tor
a dozen years, for his forte was blowing up
railroad trains and wrecking steamboats by
exploding dynamite.
He first gained notoriety in this city in
1879, at which time through his brilliant
powers as a conversationalist, his great
knowledge of mining- and machinery, and
his pleasant address, he managed to ingra
tiate himsolf into the confidences of Presi
dent Cattell, of Lafayette; Dr. T. M. Drown,
Prof. Coffin and other members of the col
lege faculty. He left one day with Prof.
Coffin's overcoat, forgetting also to pay his
board bilk He was caught at Beading,
brought back, and sent to jail for six months.
His tall from favor was a most humiliating
one for a good many prominent citizens, for
he held the highest testimonials from those
he had duped.
SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON.
It was not long after, early in the year
1880, that a tremendous explosion on the
steamer Drew on the Hudson river awoke
passengers at midnight and caused a panic
Fortunately no one was hurt, but the boat
was very badly wrecked. Officers at once
instituted a search among the passengers
for the perpetrator of the crime, and a
stranger was arrested, for suspicious action.
He gave the name of Oscar Itemel, and he
proved to be the man lrom Peru. His guilt
was proven, and he went to Auburn prison
for seven years.
One night in 1886 the midnight express on
the Delaware and Hudson road was wrecked
by a terrific explosion near Plattsbnrg, and
a number of people were killed. The wreck
was caused by dynamite being placed on the
track. The railroad men noticed a man sit
ting on the track and offering no assistance
to tne wrecked passengers. They took him
in hand, and he proved to be the man from
Peru. His record and his conduct were
sufficient to send him to jail again, and six
years was the sentence. He was liberated
last spring.
HD3 LATEST ATTEMPT.
Last night the Lehigh "Valley Fast Line
from Chicago to New York was 40 minutes
late. An engine, which was wanted at Pat
tenburg, N. J., was sent out on this train's
time. Five miles east of here the engineer
was startled by a InghUul explosion, and
the fireman was hurled from the cab. The
engine was not materially injured, but the
track was broken. The Lehigh Valley offi
cials telegraphed for a Pinkerton detective
this morning to work up the case, and there
was not the least doubt among railroad men
that an attempt had been made to wreck the
Fast line. That it was saved was due to its
being 40 minutes late.
Deteotire Simons, of this city, noticed a
Seculiar looking stranger on the street
letective Johnson was also standing near
police headquarters, and when the stranger
was between the two, Simons tapped him
on the shoulder. ,
"Hello, Bemell" what brings you here?"
he said, "Come in here," and Simons and
Johnson put Kernel in the station house.
That the man from Peru had wrecked the
Lehigh Valley engines, the detectives were
confident of, as soon as they knew who their
prisoner was. They notified the Lehigh
Valley officials, and then went to Bethle
hem, as papers found on Kernel showed that
he was in the good grace of the Lehigh
Valley Eailroad officials, and had been
stopping'there for several weeks.
DYNAMITE IN HIS TRUNK.
The detectives went to the Eagle Hotel,
and In Kernel's trunk found several cans ot
dynamite, two dynamite cartridges, a box
of caps and some fuses. The detectives had
all the evidence they wanted. A clincher
was found in the fact that two cartridges
picked up at the scene of the wreck were of
the exact size as those in Kernel's trunk.
Just as the detectives finished their work in
searching the room, the Pinkerton detec
tive arrived from Philadelphia in response
to the company's request, and the three de
tectives came back to-night at 0 o'clock
with the cartridges and other evidence
against Kernel.
Superintendent Donnelly, of the New
Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley road,
is greatly elated over the early capture of
the fiend. The peculiar part of Kernel's
conduct is that his plot was directed against
the men who had been his most intimate
friends the past three weeks. He gave his
name to them as A. L. Barran. Among his
effects is a. declaration filed in New York 20
years ago to become a citizen of the United
States The name there is Louis D. Bar-,
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THE SEASHORE.
Back at Washington With the Fruits of Their
randiij'f nf A -ned that the
prisoner haaJUfotf-, ,'f'7 ,
FOUGHT FOR HIS"IJHT.
IWn u.j0
A YOUNG MAN DISINHERITED TEARS
HIS FATHER'S WILL.
He Declared the Instrument a Fraud and
Downed the Justice Who Wrote It
Arrested bat Released After the Paper
Was Fonnd.
Churchtown, Pa, Sept. 11. Special
Justice of the Peace William McGowan
was in Sadeburyville on Wednesday to read
a will to the heirs of George Hagee, of
Atglen, Hagee owned a nickel mine, 30
acres of ground and other valuable property.
Mr. McGowan, who wrote the will, got to
the house at 7 o'clock In the evening, a few
hours after the funeral procession had re
turned from the cemetery. All the mourn
ers were congregated in the large room of
the house where the father died.
The Justice got a chair to read the wilL
Near him were a Bible on a stand and a
lighted lamp. He slowly read the will un
til he got to the lost clause, which be
queathed "$5 to my son, Howard N.
Hagee." Suddenly a hand was thrust up
from behind Mr. McGowan and under his
arms. It grabbed the will with a deter
mined clutch. A young man cried out:
"This is not my father's wilL It is a
fraud."
Mr. .McGownn turned quickly, grabbed
for the will, failed to get it, and a violent
struggle followed. The young man who
grabbed thfe will was the' disinherited son.
He seized McGowan and threw him to the
floor. McGowan got up and dealtHagee a
blow in the stomach which sent him to the
floor.
In the excitement the will had been
passed from one to another and McGowan
found it outside on the floor of the porch.
The signature to the will had been torn off.
McGowan ran a mile to the office of Justice
Baer, where a search warrant was issued.
Before this was served one of the mourners
produced the missing piece of the will, say
ing that he had found it The mutilated
will was then put together and found to be
all right Hagee, later, was also released
'from custody During the excitement sev
eral women screamed and fainted, and the
preacher hurried away.
THE ANSWEB TO THE ITATA LIBEL.
A Breach of International Law on the Part
of the Charleston Charged.
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept 11. Attorney
William Goodrich, of New York, as proc
tor for the South American Steamship
Company, a new claimant for the Chilean
steamer Itata, has filed an answer to the in
formation for libel against that vessel, in
which he contends that no lawful seizure of
the vessel has ever been made; that the
seizure at Iqniqne in June was without the
territorial limits of the United States, and
the surrender of the Itata was compelled by
violence bv the United States cruiser"
Charleston and was a breach of international
law and the law of nations; furthermore,
that complainant's company, which built
the Itata, for traffic purposes, had no par
ticipation in the use of the steamship for
the alleged unlawful purposes which caused
the-seizure, and onght not, therefore, be de
prived of its property. The answer prays
that the vessel he released, and that the
claimant be allowed costs and damages for
detention.
TO CHANGE THE BOND BILL.
Controller Morrow Preparing an Amend
ment Statins Time and Percentage.
The ordinance providing for a popular
vote on the question of increasing the city's
bonded indebtedness will probably be sent
back to the Finance Committee at Monday's
Council. When that committee affirma
tively recommended the ordinance, Mr.
Binder objeoted because the time and inter
est of the bonds were not specified. Other
committeemen thought differently and the
ordinance went through.
Since then Committeeman Binder's ob
jection has made several converts, and
when the measure comes before Councils,
an amendment will be offered covering the
lacking features. Controller Morrow
stated yesterday that he would prepare
such an amendment, though he has not de
cided what time and percentage to provide
for.
A WAB WITHIN A TBUST.
New Orleans Biscolt Manufacturers En
croaching Upon St. Louis Territory.
St. Louis, Sept 1L There is a lively
war among tie members of the American
Biscuit and Manufacturing Company (the
cracker trust). Tho American Biscuit
Company was organized in May, 1880, and
is composed of 34 different companies.
,The cause of the difficulty is said to be the
way which tho New Orleans factories are
encroaching upon St. Louis territory. It
is believed by a local jobber that while St
Louis jobbers can get their supplies from
local factories at only 10 per cent ofl, the
New Orleans jobbers get 30 and 46 per cent
off and come right in to St Louis cheaper
than the St Louis jobbers. It is reported
that orders have been issued from trust
headquarters for the local factories to meet
any rttes made by those who sell to local
jobbers.
THREE CENTS. I
1 1 MOCKED THEM COLD. I ,
The Pleasant Valley Wins the En
trance to the Brighton Eoad.
MANCHESTER PEOPLE NOT IN IT,
Tet They Are Given the Woods' Run loop
and a llillvale Franchise.
HELD Df USE BT CHAIRMAN KENNEDY
The Pleasant Valley Company won. The
right of way to the Brighton road is theirs,
and the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manches
ter were easy victims. The Corporations
Committee of Allegheny met last night to
consider the ordinance! introduced by the
rival street railway companies, and that was
the result
The Manchester Company wa3 granted
the right of way over East Ohio and other
streets for the Millvale line, the Pleasant
Valley people having withdrawn their peti
tion for the franchise over that route. The
ordinance granting the extension of the
Union line was also approved.
But the hottest fight was for the right of
way to the entrance of the Brighton Boad.
The Bellevue and Pittsburg Passenger
Kailway Company, the Jackson Street Bail
way Company and the Tremont Street Kail
way Company, all feeders of the Manchester
line, and all tapping the territory of the
Pleasant Valley Company, were frozen out
There were more people crowded into
Common Council Chamber than ever be
fore, and hundreds more clamored about the
doors, so great was the interest excited in
the public mind by the impending action.
All of the members of the committee
were present, excepting Lowe and Stock
man. Chairman Kennedy called the meet
ing to order at 8 o'clock and there at once
began one of the liveliest meetings ever
held in Allegheny.
KENNEDr LED THE WAY.
Colonel W. A. Stone and Chairman
Arthur Kennedy championed the cause of
the Pleasant Valley company against tha
combined attacks of Secretary A. M.
Neeper, of the P., A. &M., and Council
men Pauline, Parke, Simen and Commodore)
Kountz.
The first paper presented was the ordi
nance granting the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester Traction Company the right
to extend its line irom the terminus of the
Troy Hill line to Millvale.
Colonel Stone was given the floor at this
point and said that there was another ordi
nance introduced by the Millvale Passenger
Kailway Company, allied to the Pleasant
Valley system, which covered a part of the
ronte asked for by the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester Company, and that, asit
was the desire of the people of that district
that the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man
chester Company be granted the right of
way, as they already have their tracks on a
portion of the route, he was authorized by
the projectors of the Millvale road to with
draw the petition, provided that the Man
chester Company would grant to the Pleas
ant Valley people certain rights on the
Brighton road.
An amendment was also offered that tha
Pittsburg, Allegheny and 3Ianchester Com
pany allow the Millvale Company to lay
tracks beside theirs on Ohio street from
Cedar avenue to Sandusky street This was
to allow the people of Troy Hill a shorter
route to the city.
Mr. Pauline I would ask the gentleman
if his company wonld allow the Man
chester line to lay tracks on Fremont
street?
Colonel Stone Most certainly not
Would the Manchester people permit our
company to lay tracks on Ohio street an-l
Western avenue from Federal street to the
Ohio river?
The amendment was then carried with one
dissenting vote, Mr. Koehler, and tho
ordinance affirmatively returned to Coun
cils. Colonel Stone, through a member,
then offered an ordinance granting the Mill
vale Company the right to occupy Cedar
avenue, Second street and others connecting
with the Perry Street Railway.
KOUNTZ HOWLED FRAUD.
Commodore Kountz rose in the rear of
the hall and requested the privilege of tha
floor.
Chairman Kennedy Go ahead, but mako
it short
Kountz No, sir, I'll not be short I'll
talk till I'm through. 1 represent tha
minority stockholders of the P. A. & M.
Co., and I denounce this move against
that company. There are too many
tracks on the streets of this town now.
There are a lot of bogus companies formed
for the purpose of securing franchises and
then selling out He then severely scored
the Pleasant Valley Company and its cor
rupt methods.
He w as called down by the Chairman, but
continued amid wild applause to hurl de
nunciations at the officers of the company
and "their minions in Councils." After
some more discussion the ordinance was
affirmatively recommended by the following
vote:
Ayes Staving, Cansich, Hax, Neeb,
Born, Bader, Smith, Lindsay, Kennedy 9."
Noes Pauline, Frasher, Kowbottom,
Koehler, Goettman, Cruikshank, Parke 7
Chairman Kennedy was kept very busy
answering and parrying some very pointed
questions about the Pleasant Valley and the
Millvale companies. Mr. Pauline asked
why the amendments to the ordinances
granting rights over certain streets and
shortening the route of the East street and
Mount Troy cars, were not made in the
name of the Pleasant Valley Company.
The answer from the chair was that "no
ordinances were introduced by the Pleasant
Valley, and consequently the amendments
had to be made on tne Millvale ordinances."
TEIED TO RULE OUT STOCKHOLDERS.
A very neat piece of work was concealed
just here, which was made evident later on
when Mr. Koehler said: "I claim that no
member of this committee holding stock in
the Pleasant VaUey has a right to vote on,
questions concerning that company."
Mr. Kennedy These ordinances and
amendments concern the Millvale Passenger
Kailway Company, and no member of this
committee holds any stock in that company.
The ordinance granting the Pittsburg;
Union Passenger Kailway Company the
right to construct a loop on Woods Kun
avenue was passed without discussion.
When the ordinance granting to tha
North End Railway Company the right
over the New Brighton road from Wash
ington avenue to the city line was
read, then came tho tug of
war. This is a Pleasant Valley
feeder and asks for the same route as
the Bellevue and Pittsburg, a Manchester
feeder.
After a lengthy discussion the ordinanca
was affirmatively returned by precisely tha
same vote as the preceding orainance--9 to
7, after being amended that the work begin
within three months and be finished within
one year.
The Bellevue and Pittsburg ordinance
was then read, and after being amended to
read that the road start from Woods' Run
avenue instead of Washington avenue, was
affirmatively recommended.
The ordinances for the Fremont street and
the Jackson street railways, which were to
be branches of the P. A. & M., were de
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