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TTTTC PITTSBURG. DISPATCH. MONDAY. DECEMBER 28, .. 1891
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WILL HAYE A LEAGUE.
George Macpherson Talks About the
Xeiv Cricket Scheme.
CLUBS THAT ARE KEADI KUOIN IT
Baseball .Magnates Figure on Mating Lots
of Monej Kext Season.
INDOOR SrORTS AT THE EAST END
George Jracpherson, who is taking an ex
tremely active part in trying to organize a
cricket league for Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio, will call a meeting to
discuss the matter next week. It is ex
pected that teven or eight clubs will be
represented and that an organization will
be effected.
During 3 conversation yesterday Mr.
Macpherson said: "The proposed league is
a Mire go, as already I have heard from a
sufficient number of clubs to form a good
organization. Tiiere arc three or four teams
in and about Pittsburg, and there are also
teams at Jeannctte, Sew Castle, Youngs
town. Eat Liverpool and one or two more
nearby places. I think all these clubs will
be willing to join the league.
"The came": will be arranged to sui the
players who have to work every day, and I
think a pleudid trophy will be offered to
be competed for by the teams. Of course, it
would be premature on rav part to say what
the conditions of the contest will be. Very
likely they will be the same as the condi
tions in the English cricket competitions.
Hut I cannot sav. Cricket playinz will re
ceive a greater boom in and about Pittsburg
nest t-eaon than it has ever done oeiore.
"When the new league is organized tiiere
will be an increased interest in the game in
seven or eight towns.
"Our great idea will be to have the
various teams equalized in strength as much
as possible. In Pittsburg we could get
together a verv strong team, but it is our
intention to place a few of our good men
on weak teams and we can fill their places
with stron; player Wilkinsburg will
have a good team, I think, and I won't be
surprised if the Sonthside gets ogcther a
good team. Of course, the league will not
preient our having an all-Pittsburg team.
will have the latter next season, and
we intend to tackle the best teams in the
country."
"When the league is organized it is ex
pected that Mr. J. E. Schwartz will be
made President of it, as he has been for
years the most enthusiastic patron of the
game in Pittsburg. It is also likely that
Jlr. Macpherson will be appointed Secre
tary, a there is not an abler or more ener
getic worker in the State. Altogether the
indications for a cricket league are execed-
lnglv bright.
J0HKS0N EXPLAINS 2IATTEES.
The Backer of Jehu I. Sullivan Wil.
to
Make a Match.
Charles Johnson, Sullivan's backer, writes
ae follows regal ding matchiug the champion
against Slavin:
"I read yesterday an alleged interview
with John L. Sullivan's business in.inaj:cr,
J.-ck Barnitt, in which the latter states that
Arthur I.nmlcy has no anthority to act for
fu'livan in regard to the champion's pro
posed match with Frank P. Slavin.
'Now, I have full power to arrange this
affair a1- 1 deem proper, but having been
confined to my home for some time by sick-nc-i
I requested Mr. Lumley to meet Slavin
and Mitchell and ace for me. I did not want
to ee thee people get away with any bluffs,
nnd anything Mr. Lumley agreed to icznrd
insthiMiiatch of Sullivan and Slavin at that
meeting I will stand by.
"I wih pIso to t-tate that I am John L.
Sullivan's backer, and the $2,500 forfeit
po-ted for the champion in mv uioncv and
wa put up by me, not bv Jlr. Barnitt. In
lact, Karnitt and others said I was foolish
for posting money. They thought I should
have waited until Slavin put up first, but I
might ha e been waiting until doomsday. I
expect 10 be able to meet Mr. Slavin at the
Herald office on Tucdav nest at the jin.
pointed hour, and I hope lip will have his
S2 300 1 eady to do buslnc-s. There should be
no mrther nonsense about this match."
THHIH FINANCIAL PE0SPECTS.
w League Magnate;. Kipect to 3Iak3 Lots
of Monoycxr Yrar.
New Yonn. Dec 27. Sp'rial As to the
financial miccc of tho new League there
-ecm- to lie little doubt, and pl.ni hato
been arranged by w Inch the 1 clubs hope to
w :pc out in two years the debt of $120,030 in
curred by the recent deal. It is estimated
tl.at 10 per cent of tho National League's
cimincs lat season amounted to $30000.
With 12 clubs and no opposition it U esti
mated that the M per cent will amount to
$123,001) next season. The "eaon of 1SU2 will
lie much easier on the clubs owing to the re
duction in player-' alarie, mid it is esti
mated that ihu dineicnt club will make a
little money.
Instead "if collectins the hundred odd
thousand dollai-involved 111 the consolida
tion, President Younir is authorized to dniv
on each club lor 10 per cent of the ;ros
receipt- until the full amount has been raid.
By this method it will be seen, tho 'club
draw in? the largest crowds on their home
grounds will be compelled to pav the larger
part or the amount and the poorer clubs
w ill not be taxed out of existence by assess
ments. The Xew York, Chicago and Boston clubs
fouprht -trenuou-lvnsainst an equal division
.f the receipts. Under the 53 per cent divis
ion. Boston. N'ew York, Chicago and Phila
delphia w ill have to nay the big end of tho
liioncv claimed and their expen-es all
around will Le much heavier than the other
clubs.
A TEAK EOS HILWATJKEE.
Tresident Ivernon ays His Club Will Be
in Line Next Sprinc-
MiLwArsrr, Dec. 27. President Iverron
of the Milwaukee Baseball Club, has
re-
tnrncd from Chicago, w heie ho had been to I
iooKupmeouwooKior -uuwauKee lor next (
sca-orl.
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-inereneea 00 no worry, "-aid h?, "but
that we will have a club
the field net
ear. 11:0 circuit, ot course, has not vet
been decided upon, but whatever it may be
Milwaukee cannot be overlooked. Itwill
consist perhaps of this city, St. Paul and
Minneapolis Omaha, Grand Itapids, Detroit,
olumbus, Kansas City and om other
lnnrecit. Tnere have been 250sood ball
p!aers thiown out of employment bv the
late Idianapol:s deal. They can b ob
tained lor reasonable amiic. I desire that
the club may be need from al! indehtedi'csj
befoie next season, and then with u lew
thousind dollars we can put a club in Mil
waukee solidly on its f-'et. lam in favor of
putting Krauthoft, of Kansas City, at the
head ot it. lie is .1 shrewd business man, a
good lawj-ei, and if he had been in ulG
American Association none of this trouble
would have occui red."
C0TJ3TY LEAGUE AFFAI23.
Fomt Very Important Onpstions to He Dis
cussed at tlin Next Mecling.
A meeting of the County Biscball League
will be held this week and it will beavery
inmortantone. The question of admitting
the Kast Liverpool club to ihe'Leasuc will
lie discussed and unite an animated talk Is
expected to Inkculace on this matter. There
is a strouir leelinir sgains-t extending the
I.aire beyond the limits of Allegheny
county, on "the one hand, and on the other
1' is deemed necessary to admit anv good
ciub iuiti the organization.
Questions 2elattii'r to the proposed per
-enta;re system and the falaries. w ill also bo
dealt with: 111 short, every question to be
'liscussed is ot the utmost gravity. Mr. Bar
liorr, of the Kast Knd Gyms, is'out for the
presidency of the League, and it is likelv
'hat Mr. Miner, the present president, will
be a candidate.
v7AKIS SCIENTIFIC B0XISG.
A Patron of the Kast End Gyms Says a Few
Words.
The liist Knd Gyms are r.rrnntjing some
more indoor athletic contests, "which will be
held shortly. The contf sts are expected to
be ol a more interesting and exciting kind
than have heretofore taken place in the
club's building. One of the principal events
will be a fenc'ng competition, open to all
amateurs in Western Pennsylvania. It is
expected that there will be a xood entry -for
tue. contest.
A patron of the club last cvenlmr stated
tliatboxlnc competitions ought to be held.
Ho said: "We have had nothinglmt boxing
exhibitions, while wo have had oontcsti in
other branches of snort. I think, if we had
boxinc contests for points onlv, wherein
slusginar would not be permitted, we would
have a great success."
ABfeESTED THE FIGHTERS.
Police Capture Mike Dngitn and Farraher
in tlio Bin: at Tonncstown.
Yoo-gstowx, Dec. 27. Special. Mike Dn
jran, of Xew Castle, Pa., and Mike Farraher,
a pupil of Jack Bates, lesiding, bore, met
this afternoon in a ring jmt ontsideof tho
city limits, with a crowds of 200 sports in
attendance. The ring was pitched in an
open fleldfand though thero was lreezlng
air each jumped into the ring attired only
in trunks and shoes and wore skin-tight
jjiuvcs. no principals were evenly mmuucu,
each w cighinr under 140 pounds.
Farraher drew flrst blood and ftom the
openinsr round haul tho best of the Oght,
cr.ttiiiji Puiin badly about the face without
receiving a scratch in return. Just as timo
was called for the Seventh round the police
appeared "and the crowd scnttered in all
directions. Several young clerks vaulted
over u high rail fence to avoid the clutches
of the coppers. Dugan and Farraher bi oko
for a swamp and attempted to reach a strip
of woods, but were collared by the officers,
brought to the city and placed in the polico
station.
jack Bates, the trainer, was also captured,
but no arrests were made of the snectators.
'Farraher fought In the trunks worn bv Rilly
liempseyw lien lie was killed at nock-away
Ueach in his fight with "Swipes the News
boy." p
BOWEN VERSUS GIBBONS.
A Battling Fight Looked for Between Two
VI ell-Known Pugilists.
Xew Or.LEAis, Dec 27. The glove contest
between Andy Bowen, of this city, and
Austin Gibbons, the Jersey boy, which lias
been arranged by the Metropolitan Club for
December 29, is the talk of the town from
the Tact that it is both Gibbons and Bowen's
first fiiht since their unsatisfactory goes
with McAuliffe and Myqr. Andy Bowen
has fonght both Carroll and Mvers and Is in
the best of condition. Austin Gibbons, who
is in training at Bay St. Louis, reports that
lie is in tho best of condition, and that if lie
loses it will nor be from lack of training?.
The purse is $2,500,of which $500 goes to the
loser. .Timmy Carroll will second Gibbons,
while Billy ilyers will perform a like offlco
for Bowen.
Turf Notes.
II. S. Brooks is drivine bis trotter Ken
wood, 2:17, over the Chicago roads. Ilei3a
model road horse too.
C. Post, the one steeplechase rider who
has become a racing owner, will soon add
largely to his stable.
It is said that some of William Easton's
recent purchases of thoroughbreds in'Eng
land were lor William Astor.
Amoso the Brown lot at Memphis is a full
brother to Huron, a fast and massive colt,
and a full broken to Tulla Blackburn, who
promises well.
Jivmie LAMm-EV is likely to be reinstated
on Xew Year's Day. Father ftJiil Daly is
praying for such a dispensation from the
Board of Control.
The Serof"-nns are working 16 Bnchanan
yearlings in Kentucky, and a few days ago
iburorthem-are said to have run half asnille
in a bunch, with stake weights up, in 49 sec
onds. The once champion 3-vear-old trotter,
Blackwood, whose 431 in 1S69 surprised the
trotting world, recentlv died in Kentucky
aged 25 years. He was. by Norman and bis
lastest get was 1'ioteine, 2:18.
Elmira. is agitating the subject of laying
out a kite-shaped trotting track. This town
was tho scene of American Girl's sudden
death a decade ago, and her owner, William
Lovell, erected a monument there to the
lamons old mare.
Next Satuiday, January 3, many rich
stakes of the Brooklyn, New York and Long
Island Jockey Clubs will close. But thc3" are
almost certain to show a marked falling off
of entries, due to the late resolution of the
Board of Control about the winter tracks.
St. Locis has entered the list to conflict
with Latonia in the spring. LatonLi can
ccnainly stand it if St. Louis can. The La
tonia neoplo tried to bring about an equit
able division ot time, but St. Louis has
played :'tlio whole animal" and tossed down
the gantlet.
iTlooks now as if professional drivers of
trottlngnnd pacing horses will be licensed,
just as jockeys aie now licensed by the
Board of Control. This will be done Tri-
marilv as a means or preventing "ringing,"
now the curse of the trotting turf. All of
the prominent drivers favor the scheme.
The real reason why Charles Marvin, the
most -uccesslul trainer of trotters of the
day. left Governor Stan foid'semplo vat Pall
Alto, Cal.. does not seem to be aenerally
known. It is said to have been caused
through a disagreement between Marvin
and Ariel Latlirop, Governor Staulord's
relative.
The Lonjrfe'Iow-Bello Knight 2-ydarold
entered as Long Knight in the American
Derby, Drexel, and Sheridan stakes of 1892 at
Washington Park by Frank Harper, is Ed
Corngan's Cicero. His aged brother. Long
Knight, is still alive and racing in Charles
Littli'field'i colors. For that reason Corri
gun changed the colt's "name.
Easeball Notes.
Thfke may be a meeting of the new League
next week.
It will be at least one year before big sala
ries are completely downed.
Philadelphia wants Mute Hoy for center
field 111 place ot Delehanty.
Joitx Claiiksox will bejin to coach tho
Harvard College team In January.
IKLTiMonE claims to be strong in tho field,
but may show up weak at the bat.
Maxy of tho "assignments" of Messrs.
Youn;? and Phelps will be very unsatisfac
tory. It would be qnitp a good stroke if wo
could get Pitcher Knell in exchange for
Mack.
Clakksox's three-year contract with Bos
ton runs out next "season. He draws $8,S00
for his season's work.
Ttir. fact that players are now "assigned"
to clubs roes to show that the magnates are
now having their inning.
There is alreadv a prodigious kick against
S0-ccnt ball in Philadelphia. In 1SJ8 both
the clubs in that town were boycotted until
llicv reduced tho admission fee to 25 cents.
One thine is settled. Mike Kcllv will re-
main in liostrn. but Nash will captain the
i.iiii. lU'llv sutiiiiraubUUIMiil i.wu:i vcir.
iIc will iceeive a small percenter all the
club makes over $20,000.
1 Baseuall natrons will this season have an
onportnnitvof judgins whether President
Von der Abe owes the success of the St.
Louis club to Captain Comiskey, or to his
own business principles and "enterprise.
The popular captain will also bavc to hustle
to prove thai he is worthy of the reputation
he sained before he took charge of the Clii-c-ijjo
Ilrotherhood Club. He has a stiong
team in Cincinnati and ought to make a
ttreat. record in the League race for tho
pennant.
General porMng Notes.
AValtfu CAMrBKLL and Mike Cusbing fight
four rounds at Philadelphia to-night.
The local billiard tournament will be re
sumed at Davis' rooms this morning.
New Youk tnkesno more kindly to the tug-of-wargame
than did Chicago and the tour
nament there is a "frost."
McCLtLLAxn has taken down his forfeit
left at this office. He is still willing to run
or skate anybody in a rink.
Tut California Athletic -Club has ratified
the Charlej- Kemmic-Mctnnn match, and
fixed the date for January 15.
ItoLnIIniKES met "Uncle Anse's" Nemesis,
V. P. Mnssev. at Chicaeo, and defeated him
in a 59 live-bird match 45 to ti
The Occidental Athletic Club, o' San Fran
cisco, has matched the middle-weichts,
Chailev Turner, of Stockton, and Harris
Martin, the "Black Pearl." The men sUned
to fir'it on January 2G for $1,003 and to weigh
in at 1V1 pounds or less.
IlAanv Muxeoe called at tlio Spaflina-lXfe
office, London, recentlv In company w ith
Messrs. Jlcarne and HIsh and requested it to
statu that he would walkanvone in the w orld
30 miles, 12 hours or 24 hours, for jCS'.O a side,
the winner of the two races to take the
bullion. This will give the Australians and
Americans a. chance.
August Belmoxt was racing at. Pimlico a
nntnbcr of years ago and on a very muddy
track. Ono of tho horses, a gray, won away
off before his field, but was overlooked by
the Jud-jres, who placed the next three
horses flint, second, and third. An ordinary
blunder. would have irritated the banker,
but the stupidity of the decision was so
glaring that he was more amused than
aKiy. Tney can't see a gray horse, cli?
Well, I'll try them with a black one to
morrow. I've got all kinds," was all he had
to say about it.
GARRISON IS RIGHT.
Several Members of Harvard's Fac
ulty Agree With Wm. Lloyd.
THE COLLEGE SOCIETY BRANDING
Denounced as a Barbarity That Might" and
Should Be Stopped.
STUDENTS ALLOWED TOO MUCH MONEY
Cambisidok, Mass., Dec. 27. Harvard
collegians, both graduates and undergradu
ates, are greatly agitated gver the exposures
of the D. K. E. Club's initiation cere
monies, and there is more talk about the
matter than was heard 3 year ago when the
police made so many liquor seizures in the
rooms of the swell Harvard clubs. There
'is, ot course, a great difference of opinion as
to tho serious nature of the charges brought
to the attention of the President and faculty
by Mr. William Lloyd Garrison.
However indifferently President Eliot
may regard Mr. Garrison's protest against
the branding initiation into the D. 1C E.
Society, and against the bar which is main
tained at other of the college clubs, several
of the faculty are outspoken in support of
Mr. Garrison's grievance. They said they
did not care to have lheir names mentioned,
but incase of need they are perfectly will
ing to stand back ol their words.
7 lie Singular Attempts at Defense.
"Why," said one, "look at the attempts of
defense of the 'Dickey' made by some of its
members. Mr. Bangs thinks that if students
have such convivial meetings in Cambridge,
they can enjoy themselves and then go
quietly to bed. But if they are forced to co
to town to get anything to drink,
all sorts of pitfalis await them.
Think of a man ' assuming that a
college student must get drunk anyway.
Mr. Bangs should be ashamed of himself.
Even my fellow instructor Mr. Wendell,
has made a blunder in rushing his 'Dickey'
sympathies into print. In what purports
to be a defenscbf the club, ho acknowledges
that the recklessness and jollity of the
D. K. E. have sometimes taken a form that
might justly lead an enthusiastic or priori
reasoner to believe the society radically an'd
permanently demoralizing to its members.
The branding tot' 'Dickey' men might, I
fully believe, be done away with, if tho
President and faculty should take an open
stand against it. I think a good deal could
be done toward stopping the club bar."
Students With Too Much Money.
Another professor, though admitting the
evils which Mr. Garrison protests against,
believed that the only cure lay in rich
parents limiting their sons' allowance
more than they now do.
"I mean," said Jie, "limit them so much
that they can't join so many clubs. A
good manv of our rich students spend irom
$1,500 to 52,500 a year, and some evn more
Mr. Palmer was "righ when he said that if
a Harvard student lives with full regard to
all that is required he may do so on no more
than 800. He admitted, very properly,
that 51,000 was, not excessive for the right
kind of bnv, and that, if he would be sure
that all he laid out would be laid out wisely,
200 more might be added for the purpose
of books aud other appliances of culture.
But, as he said further, I should be sure
that every dollar I gave over 51.200 would
be a dollar of danger."
Mr. Garrl sou's Bight to Protest.
Mr. Garrison was heartily supported by
one member of the faculty, who said: "Mr.
Garrison cannot be called a priori reasoner.
He had a son in the class of '88, who was,
lor misconduct, suspended from the college,
and now he has another son, who has been
having blood poisoning as an effect of the
'Diccey' brand. Hasn't he good reason to
express a protest?"
As to the general club initiation at Har
vard, the fellows who are "running" for
this or that club are made to do all sorts of
nonsensical things, such as making calls on
some Chinamen, riding on a car to Boston
with their coats turned inside out, and call
ing the names of the stredts to passengers.
The final night of the initiation is the hard
est, and it generally means a good drunk,
among other things that are never told.
GIDDY GIRLS IN TROUBLE.
A ETJNAWAY TLOT IN CHICAGO ONLY
HALF SUCCESSFUL.
Tne Yonnsr. Ladies Ulanace to Get Away to
New York, but Their Lovers Are Locked
Up ISefore They Can Follow A Confab
Overheard.
Chicago, Dec. 27. No tidings have
been received by Mrs. William Van
Schoick of her adopted daughter Dora and
granddaughter,,Altce Parker, who disap
peared Monday night and went to Xew
York. A. F. Parker, father of Alice,
started for that city last night to find the
girls. About two weeks ago the servant
was sweeping the hall near George Cortis'
room on the first floor when little Dora
slipped in and began talking to
him. He was still in bed, not yet having
recovered from his illness.
"Well, I have made up my mind to go,"
she began, "and just as soon as you can
arranged I will start."
"lam glad of that," answered George.
"I am nearly well now, and'you can go in a
few days. "
The scheme waste send Mrs. Van Schoick
to the theater Tuesday evening, leaving the
girls at home-sothat it would be easy to
slip out unobserved. Mrs. Van Schoick
did not go to the theater, however, but
pave the tickets to the girls, who went to
the play. Hawley, the other actor
in the plot, came to the house os
tensibly to see his friend Cortis, and find
ing that they could not remove the trunks
without attracting attention they" stealthily
transferred the girls', clothing to "two valises,
slipped out of the house, and drove "in a
cab to the theater. When the girls failed.
to return Irom the theater search was made
in vainjor them.
In the nfeantime Mrs. Van Schoick had
discovered the loss of 5350 w hich she had
concealed Sn her room. She decided to
have the men arrested, and they are now
locked up. Mrs. Van Schoick said the real
motive of Hawley and Cortis was to fol
low them in a couple of weeks.
T0EN FBOM HIS BBIDE'S SIDE.
An
Escaped Penitentiary Bird Has His
Wings Clipped Close.
Ciscixnati, Dec. 01. Special. A
letter from Vicksburg to relatives here of
Mrs. M. E. Boyd, of Crowley township,
near Paragould, Ark., tells a romantic story.
A year ago a dashing fellow named J. T.
Howells arrived there. He appeared to
have plenty of money and was admitted to
the best society. He became acquainted
with Mrs. Boyd, a widow, young and hand
some. Howells'paid assiduous court and
soon won her affection. The engagement
was announced and all appeared rose-hued,
when suddenly the Sheriff of the county ap
peared and arrested Howells, charging him
with being an escaped convict from the
Mississippi Penitentiary. Howells asserted
his innocence so vehemently that the widow
believed him. though the Sheriff carried
htm off In a few weeks he was back again
and claimed there was a plot to get rid "of
him to secure a fortune hei was about to'in
lierit. Two weeks ago Howells went to Para
gould. secured a license, and next day mar
ried Mrs. Boyd. On Monday morning,
while Howells was out looking over his
wife's plantation, the officers surrounded
and captured him, and without informing
his bride, started with him to Greenville,"
Miss. Durinj; the day the new wife was
put in possession of "evidence that proved
that her husband is a notorious horse thief
who bad been in the penitentiary on three
sentences and bad escaped six times. He
carried off with him about 1,000 of bis new
wife's money and her first husband's re
volver. "With these facts in her possession
Mrs. Howells at once began divorce proceedings.
HELD UP BY MASKED MEN.
FOOK BURGLARS TIE A. WATCHMAN
AND JlOB A SAfE.
Bold Sfafe-Cracklns at a West Mansyunk
Paper Mill Four Thousand Dollars'
Worth of Commercial Paper Secured
Only n Xittla Beady Cash Obtained.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27. Special.
Four masked burglars committed a bold
robbery this mornyiz, in the office of the
Ashland Paper Mills, West Manayunk,
blowing open the safe and carrying off its
contents, after Watchman George Day had
been seriously assaulted, bound and gauged.
The building where the robbery occurred is
the private office of S. A. Eudolph,-pro-prietor,
one of the most conspicuous points
in the locality. 1
A few minutes before the robbery the
watchman left the office with the door open
and went to a coal bin, a few yards distant,
for a hod of coal. While there four masked
men entered the office, two. of them secret
ing'themselves behind the safe and the others
behind the door. When Dav entered he
was forcibly seized from behind, and in a
gruffand" insolent tone, commanded to re
main standing. An attempt was made to
throw a rope about his neck, but the watch-
JS ! J !l J-11 .l.
uiau uiaue a quiCK move anu it leu w tue
floor. He was struck a powerful blow on
the head and fell bleeding to the floor. He
was rendered insensible, and when he re
gained consciousness he was bound hand
and foot to a chair, and the burglars were
operating on the safe.
Two of the gang did the boring and drillr
ing of the safe from the top. A third rifled
the drawers on the second floor and the
fourth stood with a loaded pistol pointed at
Watchman Day's head. He was ordered
not to open his mouth on penalty of his Hie.
After the hole had been drilled in the safe
w ith a rotary ratchet, giant powder was
dropped in and a fuse inserted.
The thoughts of death preyed -so upon
Day that he fainted, and when he recovered
he had been removed to a corner, and the
fuse, which was connected with the powder,
was burning slowly. In a few seconds a
terrible crash ensued. The outer doors of
the.safe were blown from their hinges to
the opposite side of the room, while one of
the inner doors struck a cylinder stove and
broke it in two. The hotcoals set fire to
the floor, and soon a flame'was shooting up
ward. The burglars were apparently not
disturbed by' the noise of the explosion,
and the flames were soon extinguished. The
windows were battered to pieces. The safe
contained only ?70 in cash and commercial
paper valued at about 54,000.
USABLY HALF A MILLION IN' ASHES.
Boston's Biggest Blaze Sinco ttie Thanks
giving Day of 1889.
Boston, Dec. 27. The most disastrous
fire which has raged in this city since the
Thanksgiving Day fire of 1889 occurred to
night. It was of somewhat extended area,
and for a time threatened millions of dol
lars' worth of property. The structure
burned was the brick building, Kos. 133,
135 and 141 Federal street, owned by
the "Itcverc heirs. The building
was damaced to the extent of
from ?100,000 to ?125,000, fully
insured. Parker, Holmes & Co., boot and
shoe jobbers, occupied 141 Federal street,
and their loss is estimated at ?150,000; fully
insured. Hosmer, Codding & Co., boots,
shoes and rubbers, occupied Nos. 133 and
135. Their loss is estimated at from ?200,
000 to $225,000; partly insured.
N. S. Houghland, a fireman, fell through
an opening in the floor a distance of two
stories, and sustained fractures of both legs
and internal injuries from which it is ex
pected that he will die: Several other fire
men were slightly injured. The; cause of
the fire is unknown.
A BAILB0AS TIED HP.
All the Employes of a Southern Line Go
Ont on a Strike.
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 27. At 5:30
o'clock to-morrow morning all the employes
of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Rail
way Company's operating department will
strike, tying up the entire system of GOO
miles of road. The trouble dates back to
the discharge of Conductor O'Brien by
Superintendent Sands for an alleged 'viola
tion of orders. The men are acting under
instructions from the Chairman of the
Labor Federation Board.
Receiver Yokum has issued a telegraphic
circular, saying that hois unwilling to be
lieve that the employes of the road have
taken this action of their own volition.
BIG ELECTRIC BOAS FB0JECX.
The Proposed Lino Kxtends From Chicago
to Aurora. With Branches.
AunouA, III., Dec. 27. The Aurora and
Chicago Interurbau Railway has been in
corporated here with a capital stock of
51,000,000. The proposed enterprise is the
building ol an electric railway to operate
between Aurora and Chicago, running mid
way between the Chicago arid Northwestern
and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv
Railroads, entering Chicago over the
Northern Pacific right of wav.
Branches are to be built to Batavia,
Napcrville and other suburban villiagcs on
the line of the above named roads. The
projectors expect to have the system in
operation in time for the Worlds'Fair.
THE SAN FBAKCISCO'S MISSION.
She Has Not Been Sighted, and Is Proba
bly Steaming for Acapulco.
Sau Francisco, Dec. 27. It was ru
mored " that the cruiser San Francisio,
which left here at 1 o'clock yesterday with
sealed orders, would stop at Monterey,Cal.,
only a few hours from here, for target prac
tice. A dispatch from there says she has not
been sighted, and it is now believed she has
gone direct to Acapulco.
Doting Young Field With Whisky.
New York, Dec 27. E. M. Field still
persists in refusing to eat. He drank three
glasses of whisky to-day. Warden Dunlap
is alarmed at his prisoner's actions, and
has -asked the physicians1 advice. They
advised him to dose Field with whisky.
A Grip Victim's Suicide.
Cincinnati, Dec, 27. Mrs." Thomas
London, wife of a private policeman in
Covington, Ky., committed suicide this
afternoon by shooting herself. She was
crazed by the grip.
ALWAYS GAINING.
The Cent-a-Word columns beep growing.
The latest comparative exhibit gives tho
following fluttering figures:
A.dletfor two weeks ending December It. 3,245
For same txco week's last year 1,040
Increase ZHie to Cent-a-Word IjOoU
The largest two weeks'
viousli reported was...
mctease pre- I OQ "J
No better evidence of the real popularity
of these columns could be produced. Do
not falLto read them. It will amply repay
you to use and peruin them.
TIEONE ALL TORN UP
Over a Coming Meeting of Creditors
of the Broken Bank.
THE SYSTEM THAT WKECKED IT
Enrnishcs a Topic For Disclosures That
ire Sensational.
WILDCAT BANKING IX PESNSTLTANrA
rSPECI KU TELEGRAM TO TnE DISPATCIT.I
Tyrone, Dec. 27. Affairs with the stock
holders of the wrecked Tyrone Bank are
cording to a head, and suits are being en
tered against the officers of the defunct in
stitution daily. To-dav a notice, posted on
the doors of the institution, reads as fol
lows: "A meeting of the creditors of the
defunct Tyrone Bank will be held in the
Nans Opera House Monday, December 28,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to take in the
situation. Let there be a rally of everyone
interested, as matters of the first import
ance will come up for consideration." At
tached to the notice were the signatures of
a committee consisting of 10 business men
and firms, all leading depositors.
The Stockholders Want to Know.
At the meeting to-morrow afternoon the
depositors propose to inquire closely into
the 'disposition of the Tyrone Gas and
Water stock, which was supposed to hi in
the bi-nk at the time of the closing, but was
not accounted for in the statement issued.
This stock was worth fully 5100,000. Then
the matter of the transfers of properties by
Messrs. Hooper and Guyer, stockholders,
will receive attention, and it is plainly
stated that there will be objections filed to
ihis way of disposing of the assets of the
bankers. It is reported 'to-night that At
torney A. A. Stevens has been named as
assignee of the bank, and strong objections
will be made to this choice, owing to the
close relations hs bears with the principal
stockholders.
Anotherimportant matter that will come
np for consideration at the meeting to-morrow
is "the report that Guyer conveyed his
residence in this city to his brother-in-law
in Baltimore in a deed dated about one year
ago: also that the brother-in-law conveyed
the property back to. his sister, Mrs. Guyer,
recently.
Stockholder A B. Hoover, of the sus
pended bank, has recovered all his,property
and has turned it over as personal assets
for the benefit of the depositors, who are
greatly encouraged nnd stiil hope to receive
their deposits in full. No doubt the real
situation will be developed at the meeting
of the depositors to be held Monday after
noon. The Stota's Wildcat Bank.
A Harrisburg special to the New York
Situ, says: The failure of the Tyrone Bank,
one of the 200 or more private banking in
stitutions doing business in Pennsylvania
uncurbed by any law, is the fourth concern
of the kind that has gone under within
the past four months. It is the
natural result of the irresponsible
wildcat banking system of the State
which the Legislature has persistently
refused to place under legal restraint. It
is as easy to start a bank in Pennsylvania
as it is to start a grocery. All that it is
necessary to do is to hire a room and put up
a sign that there is a bank within, and there
you"' are. The only law relating to these
banks is one requiring them to make an
annual report to the Auditor-General and
pay to the State ajax ot 3 per cent on their
net earnings, which must be declared under
oath.
Many of the banks are located in small
towns, remote from nny national or reg
ularly incorporated State banks, and are the
sole depositories of the savings of the com
munities by which they are supported. To
establish them no authority from the State
is required. They liat 0 no capital stock,
and are; not required to; register make
returns to the State of the amount
of capital invested, or furnish state
ments to any person of their assets
and liabilities. There are no means ot
knowing tho amount of money these banks
hold on deposit in the aggregate, but 11 of
them that failed in the course of a few years
past lost' for their depositors ?1,500,000, and
from that it may he inferred that the total
amount of credulous persons' money held
bv the lot is very large certainly not less
thau 510,000,001) at a very conservative esti
mate. No Law to Itcach Them.
The only department that has any sur
veillance over the wildcat banks, is the
Auditor General's, and, in the absence of
any restrictive law, that is only passive.
The only Auditor General who fiver brought
to the attention of the Legislature the dan
gerous privileges of the system under which
these institutions exist, aud urged the im
portance of immediate action in the interest
of sound financial principles, Mas Jerome
B. Niles. who, in fact, began his efforts in
that direction nhile a member of the
State Senate, aud before he became the
head of the Auditing Department. His
hist annual report exposed the absurdity,
danger, and iniquity of the system by quot
ing largely from the reports'of the private
bankers made to Jiim. Beside being re
quired to report -their earnings, the banks
must also report their expenses.' Auditor
General Niles' quotations from the reports
showed that a regular and very comprehen
sive item in all these reports of expenses was
"loss in exchange," and that either nearly
one-half of the enterprising bankers per
jured themselves to save tax on their net
earnings or that these institutions were in a
condition' of bankruptcy. While no
detailed statements of this kind have been
placed before the Legislature in such perti
nent and convincing shape by either of
the Auditor Generals who have 'handled
the subject since General Niles, there is no
Teasonto suppose that the situation is in
aiiy way changed. In that report 29 of the
baiik were quoted as returning a net loss
for the fiscal year; -14 made affidavit that
their income was less than 5500, and 23
swore that they had made lesi than 51,000.
That the Returns Show.
By the returns they made of interest paid
all showed that they must have had many
thousands 01 dollars of other people's
money in their custody. One of these
banks reported that it had paid nearly ?22,
000 in interest for the year, hut that the net
profits on its business was only 5105 87,
making its State tax ?3 15. A Tioga county
bauker swore gravely that his gross earnings
and expenses tallied to a cent, each being
$2,220 13. A York county bank made the
businesslike statement that, while its gross
income was only ?26,000, it lost dur
ing the year $11,300 by exchange
ttuu uisuuuiiiuig uuies, nearly us mucii as it
paid out in iuterest on deposit. By the
srforu statement of a Columbia county bank
the interest paid" on deposits during the
year lacked only a few dollars of the amount
reported on the gross earnings. Another of
the conscientious private bankers reported
exceptionally good fortune with its ex
change business, having met with no loss at
all in that branch, but, although it onlv car
ried $5,098, it required $5,835 to ' pay
clerks for the year's work. A Craw
ford county bank reported gross
earnings of $1,702 and cle'rk hire
$1,702, which.iwitu incidental expenses, en
tailed a loss of over $1,000 on the bank for
the year. "Loss in exchanee" reDorted by
a Clarion county bank exceeded by ?9.the
total yearly income, it was lelt to a But
ler county bank to cap the climax in re
porting its expenses to offset the earnings
and save the 3 per cent tax. Tho, bank's
gross income was- 52,315 3G. It reported
ordinary expenses at $012 and frankly cred
ited itself with the sum of $3,579 35 lost in
oil speculation,
The Keports Utterly Unreliable.
As showing the utter unreliability of the
reports made, Mr. Niles referred to one
who, in a previous report, had returned
$300,000 on deposit, and a net income of $68.
That banker the ncxt.year reported an in
creased amount of deposits, but no income.
Sir. Niles' report made prominent the sig
nificant fact that that banker had made no
report to him because, since his last return,
he had closed his doors, promising to pay at
some time 20 cents on the dollar to his de
ceived depositors.
It was believed that'this palpable exposi
tion of the danger of the private banking
system of the State would be quickly fol
lowed at that session of the Legislature bv
the passage of necessary laws governing ft
and throwing some safecuard around deposi
tors. Auditor-General Niles drafted a bill
to that effect, and made a personal fight in
the Legislature of 1887 for its passage. His
idea was to have a bank examiner,
with authority to obtain full state
ments of the business of these individual
banks, so that their true condition could be
known and made public in the interest of
the depositors and the revennes of the
State. The bill was defeated, and no friend
of it hesitated to allege that the interested
private banker had not been sitting idle
while the matter was pending. Since then
there have been many failures involving a
loss of something like 2,000,000 to deposit
ors, but there is nothing to prevent others
from springing up whenever it may suit the I
lancy 01 men witn amDiuon 10 Decome
"bankers" to start them.
'TIRARD'S QUEER VIEWS.
Am to Protection, What's Sauce for the
French Goose Isn't Sauce for the Amerl
can(Gander V Xew Expedition to Lake
Tchad In Africa.
Pakis, Dec 27. M Tirard. formerly
French Minister of Finance, in an interview
on the subject of the negotiations for a com
mercial treaty between France nnd the
United States, said: "Treaties of this kind
are useful as a modus Vivendi between coun
tries where tariffs are so high that they par
alyze trade. A treaty with the United
States will be extremely opportune and will
go a long way to secure our enthusiastic par-
ttcipation in the Chicago Fair. The Mc
Kinley law has so much harmed our trade
that I would favor going to the United States
for staples only when' it is impossible to ob
tain what we need elsewhcse.
"The McKinley administrative bill is a
barhorous piece of legislation and has
caused great ill-feeling in France. The
whole McKinley law is due to an error of
jndgment. The Americans argued that as
their exports are natural products,
other nations must have they would be sure
to find buyers, and so they could shut their
ports to foreign manufacturers. This rea
soning is fallacious. In France, where it is
impossible to develop resources any further,
tiiere may oe some excuse tor protection,
but not so in America, where the possibili
ties of development are unbounded.
3fajor Brackett and his colleague, Mr.
Jamieson, 'members of the Chicago Fair
Commission, are about to start in a tour of
the commercial centers of France, Spain
and Portugal to stimulate interest in the
Chicago Fair.
The Eclair states that Mr. De Brazza, at
the head of the expedition of 1,200 persons,
GOO being Senegal troops, and 60 .Europeans,
with plenty of provisions and firearms, left
Libreville, in the French Congo Colony
November 7, for the purpose of marching to
Lake Tchad.
The Bovalist Committc of the Depart
ment of Finisterre intend to ask the Arch
bishop of Aix to be a candidate for the seat
in the Chamber of Deputies made vacant by
the death of Bishop Freppel.
THE LAEGEST OCEAN HAIL.
A Hishap to the Germanic. Which Tarns
Over Her Matter to the Hothnia.
London, Dec 27. The steamer,Bothnia
sailed from Queenstown for New York to
day. The Bothnia's mails, which include
those of the steamer Germanic, amount to
1,757 sacks, the largest quantity of mail
matter that has ever crossed the Atlantic.
The Germanic broke her crank shaft
while coming to anchor at Queenstown, on
the 24th, and has been towed back to Liver
pool and docked.
Belgians Kicking Against ihe Treaty.
Brussels, Dee. 27. Agitation here
against Belgium's entering into a treaty
of commerce with Germany is extending.
The journal La lieforme declares, however,
that despite the opposition of certain fac
tions in the Chamber of Representatives,
the treaty bill will be adopted.
A Calamity to a Welsh Family.
LONDON', Dec. 27. A Cardiff watchman
named Smith is bereft by a terrible calam
ity. On returning home recently, he found
tlfat the house in which he had lived had
been burned, and that his wife and only
child had perished in the flames.
The Queen's Wounded Son-in-Lair.
London, Dec. 27. Prince Christian, of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, so-in-law
of Queen Victoria, who sustained an injury
to one of his eyes while out shooting re
cently, is now progressing favorably toward
recovery.
No Tobacco Jilonopoly for Persia.
Tehehen, Persia, Dec. 27. The Shah
has issued a proclamation ratifying the
abolition ofthe tobacco monopoly.
THIETEEN BADLY INJURED.
A Santa Fe Vestihnled Train Derailed From
an Unknown Cause.
Kansas Cit-, Dee. 27. The Santa Fe
vestibuled limited, which left Chicago at 6
o'clock Saturday evening,'' was derailed at
Bear Creek, near Newcombe, 75 miles east
of this city, at 6 A. 51. to-day. No one was
killed, though several were very seriously
injured. The engine, baggage and express
cars passed over the small bridge safely,
but the two chair cars, two Pullman sleep
ers and the dining car were derailed, go
ing down a steep embankment. The injured
are:
Conductor Woodworth? radly hurt, may
die; William Kaston, Head cook in 'dining
car, Cliicairo, scalded; Charles Dempsoy, sec
ond cook in dining car, Mansfield, O., scald
ed; Mrs. Eliza Toomey, Maiiou, Kan., scalp
wound and sprained ankle; C. W. Scott, Chi
cago, scalp wound: J. It. WhitofordrTopeka,
sculp wound; William Decker, Toneka, scalp
wonnd; Mrs. William Decker. Topeka, scalp
wound; two children of Mr. Decker's, scalp'
wounds; W. .1. Cress, Pullman conductor,
back sprained; Mrs. Xeliie A. Watson, To
peka, badly bruised; D. D. Smith, Chicago,
slightly injured.
The cause of the acciden cannot now be
definitely determined, as the track seems to
have been in good condition. A heavy
freight train passed safely over a short time
before It is thought, however, that the
drawbar of the front chair car may have
fallen and caught the truck ofthe same car,
thus causing the derailment. The fact that
the train was solidly vestibuled probably
averted loss of life.
SAWTELXE HOT A SUICIDE.
The Autopsy Proves That the First Diag
nosis Was Correct.
Concord, N. H., Dec. 27. An autopsy
was made on the body of Isaac B. Sawtelle,
the murderer, at the State prison this after
noon. The head only was examined, and
when the bone was removed the duramter
was found largely disturbed with fluid con
sisting of bloody serum. Carefully remov
ing the brain it was found that the blood
came from a small branch ofthe middle cer
ebral arterv, forming a clot iri"such a posi
tion that the pressure was primarily upon
the covering of the cerebellum, causing
paralysis nearly eaual on both sides, and
the diagnosis made before death took place
is thereby sustained.
This effectually disposes of the suicide
theory and substantiated the opinion ofthe
prison officials that apoplexy caused Saw
tellc's death.
Ocean Stcamthlp Arrivals.
Stcmicr. Where From. Destination.
Ohio Philadelphia Queenstown.
Vandam Baltimore BeschyHead.
RhaetU New York. Hamburir.
-Fulda ....Genoa New York.
FLORIDA HAS A Yr'AK.
A Cowardly Murder Precipitates a
Bad Race Knclion.
A BLACK SHOOTS A WHITE MAX
And a Sheriff's Posso Are After Dim With
Guns and Bloodhounds.
NEGROES SIDING WITH THE MURDERER
Leesbueg, Fla., Dec 27. Special
Just before daylight this morning J. D.
Parramore, a well-known and popular con
ductor on the Florida Central and Penin
sular Ivailroad, was shot and instantly
killed while on his train not far from here,
by Thomas E. Mike, a negro who keeps a
colored barber shop in this city. It was
one of the most unprovoked, brutal and
cowardly murdcra ever committed in this
State.
Parramore runs the night express from
Wildwood to Orlando. VMike got on ths
train at Leesbnrg station, and took a seat
in the white passengers' car. The conductor
took up his ticket and then ordered him
forward into the colored or "jim crow" car.
Mike oDeyed sullenly, and used some in
sulting language as he passed out through
the door. Passengers in tho colored car
who were near when Mike came in, say
that he appeared much excited about some
thing and, as he took a seat, growled "
him, I'll kill him when he comes back here."
Morder In Cold Blocd.
He kept looking around nervously to
ward the door, at which the conductor was
expected to cuter, and to those nearest him
began to relate what had happeued. He
had hardly begun, however, and had not
been in the car over four or' five minutes,
when the door suddenly opened and Con
ductor Parramore walked in.
When the conductor was about five fee
in front of his seat Mike suddenly jumped
to his feet. - pulled a revolver from his
pocket, rushed into the aisle, took a step or
two toward Parramore and then took de
liberate aim and fired at him. He could
not have been more than three feet behind
his victim, and his aim was good.
The ball entered Parramore's head, just
behind his rightar, and he fell forward in
the aisle dead. Not a word, not even a
groan, escaped his lips. Mike then jumped
from the train and disappeared in the woods.
The train was backed up to Leesbnrg with
the dead conductor, where the wildest ex
citement soon prevailed.
Hunting a Murderer With Bloodhounds.
Nearly 1,000 white men, mounted and
afoot, and armed with rifles, have started
to find the murderer. They are led by
Sheriff Galloway with six bloodhonnds. If
the negro is caught he will surely be
lynched.
Nearly as many colored men have shoul
dered their Winchesters and are parading
through the town. Thev say they will pro
tect Mike from barm if the posse brings
him. The wildest excitement prevails, and
nobody in the whole town will go to bed to
night. Governor Fleming has been asked to call
out the State troops, and has wired the
Leesbnrg I'.ines to assemble at their arm
ory and await orders.. They number
CO men, all well-drilled soldiers. Up to 12
o'clock to-night nothing had been heard of
the searching party. About 175 armed ne
groes have just started out to follow up the
Sheriff' posse, as there was a rumor that
Mike had been captured. The situation is
very alarming; Nothing but a failure to
capture the murderer can prevent an armed
conflict, and it is almost certain that he will
be caught, as he went in the wroug direc
tion to escape easily.
PIYE LOST IN THE MOUNTAIN.
The Probable Fate or Men Who Tempted
the Fury of a Western Storm.
Carsok, Xev., Dec. 27.-J'o3eph Klein,
son of Jake Klein, of the Bullion Exchange
Bank, and George Bosworth left Placerville
two weeks ago to walk to Carson over the
mountnius. They were met by a man, who
advised them to turn back, but they de
cided to push on to the next station, 11
miles distant. Since then nothing has been
heard of them. Three other men started
over the summit on the Sunday previous.
One of them was found dead 12 miles from
Lake Tahoe. Further search on snow shoes
showed nothing of the others All the sta
tions have been visited by searchers, but
none of the wanderers have been found.
The storms in the mountains for the last
week have been terribla, and the nights cold
enough to freeze one to death. It seem3
certain that all of the five men perished.
Another' searching party is about to start
out.
SHOULD HAV2 BEEN 71BST.
Uncle Sain the Last of Eighteen to Agree
. to n General Convention.
Washington, D. CL, Dec 27. Mr. Le
Chait, the Belgian Minister, has received a
cablegram announcing that the Brussels
Anti-Slave Trade Convention was ratified
by the French Senate' yesterday. The
Chamber of Deputies took similar action on
the 24th inst. Eighteen powers were repre
sented in the Brussels conference, and tho
adhesion of all of them is requisite to render
this "Acte Generale" effective.
r France makes the seventh nation that has
ratified the convention, leaving only the
United States to 'determine whetfier it
shall become operative. The latest date
for the exchange of ratifications is February
2, 1892. and the exchange must be made at
Brusels. The question will therefore be
brought again before the United States
Senate next month.
THE WOTJHDED SUfiVIVOES
Of the Hastings WrecTc Are Improving,
and the Jlrakeman Is Still at Lirse.
Yoxkers, N"."'., Dec. 27. There are
now only three persons in the hospital in
this city who were taken from tiie wreck
at Hastings on Christmas Eve. They are
Mrs. Homer P. Baldwin and Editor John
Bagnall, at St. John's Hospital, and Miss
Annie Ford, at St. Joseph's. Lawyer Den
nis Murphy died at 10 o'clock last night
This moriiing Mr. Baldwin was allowed
to see hi3 wife for the. first time since the
accident, and the meeting between them
was verv alTectimr.
Up to 0 o'clock to-nicht nothing has been
heard of Brakcman Herrick.who is charged
with causing the wieck by his negligence.
The warrarit for his arrest is stili in Detec
tive Humphrey's hands.
Speaker Crisp Slighfy Improved.
AVashinoton, D. C, Dec. 27. Speaker
Crisp was fairly comfortable to-day, and it
is reported that lie is slightly improved to
night. Dr. Walsh, his physician, said to
night that the Speaker is convalescing from
his attack of the grip, and he hopes to have
him sitting up in a fe' days. The doctor
feels certain that his patient will be able to
rcume his duties in the House when that
body again meets after the holidays.
A Bra7lilin State Rebellion Spreading. .
KIO Janeiko, Dec 27. The revolt in
Desterro, the capital of the Province of
Santa Catliarina, aiming at the deposition
of the Governor, has alreadv extended to
several other parts ofthe province.
Marriage by capture is a very old and
very widely spread custom. It prevails
among the Hindoos, the Kalmucks and'cir
cassians, and the primitive races of Aus
tralia, Xow Zealand and America, but in
stead of abduction beifig considered an out
raze, by thpso half-civilized peoples, it is
looked upon as a preliminary marriage rite,
and, as a general rule, the c'oy damsel is by
no means averse to the mild violence
THE TVEATHEB. '
For
Western PennsyU
vania, Wctt Virginia and
Ohio Fair, Warmer, South .
Wndx. Warmer and Prob'
aUij Fair Tuesday.
TEMPEItATCEE XSO nAIXFAIX.
PIIT5BIJRO. Dec.27. The Ualted States Weather
Bureau officer In this city lurnislies the following: '
8 A. 31................. ZHMailmum temp....... XI
13 m :sl Minimum temp Zi
Jr.M. 30Mcan temp M
or. jr soiitange li
8F.3I '. ffljl'rec 0
RIVER NEWS AND NOTES.
Louisville Items The Stae or IVater and
the Movements ot Bouts.
rSPXCTAI. TELIORA3ISTO TUX mSFATCIt. 1
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 2T.-"Ueather clear and cold.
River Jalllntr. "ith 0 feel 1 Inch In the canal, 8 feet
S Inches on the falls and 17 feet 1 Inch below. The
Tell City got In with a rood trip from Evansrllla.
The Grace Morris came In from the Lower Ohio.
The Ilnckeyp State Is due Irom Cincinnati to Mem
pnl. The John K. Speed H due from Memphis to)
Cincinnati. Departed Fleetwood, lor Cincin
nati. Another Good Boating Stage.
McKEEsroitT. Dec. 17. The Jlononsrahcla river
Is rising slowly, andifthe present coalsnapdoes
not shut down too soon Into n severe freeze the pros
pect9 are that there will ajraln be a eood coal boat
ttajte. All of the coal In the pooW which had been
loaded was sent ont. and there Is little for ship
ment, hut the coal ontlook Is jcood. and It will not
be lona nhtll several ofthe largest coal plants
along the river will be In active operation.
What Upper Gauges Show.
Moan axtowx-River 11 feet 6 inches and fall
ing. Clear. Thermometer ? at r. m.
Bbowxsville lllver 15 feet and rising. Clear,
Thermometer 27 atsr. ai.
Waeren KIver5fe'et. Fair and cold.
The News From Below.
WrrEELrxo River l. feet ft inches and rising .
Departed Keystone State, nttsbnrg; Ben Har.
nttsbiirg; Lizzie Bay. IMttsburg: Congo. Cincin
nati; Courier, ParkersDnrg. Clondy and cool.
Cairo Arrived W. P. Shenck. New Orleans;
Guiding Mar. Cincinnati. Departed 1". M.
Schcnct. Cincinnati; Jo Long. New Orleans.
Elver 13 feet and rising. Clear and pleasant.
Memfhis Arrived Kate Adams. Arkansas City.
Departed Osceola, Greenville; transfer steamer.
Rcncral I'ierson. I'aducah. 1'assed np Ferd
llerold. Natchez to Cairo. River 10 feet and rising.
Clarand crlp.
CiscIXXATt River 15 feet 4 Inches and falling.
Fair and cold. Departed- C. W. Batchcllor.ntt.
barg.
ST. LOCI Arrived 11. G. Wright. Memphis.
No departures. Klver stationary; 5.6 feet. Clear
and cool.
THE ITBE EECOBD.
At an early hour yesterday morning a
slight fire broke out in the kitchen of a
house on Observatory Hill. The damage
was trifling.
At Long Island Ctty. the old Wolsey home
stead, including valuable paintings and an.
tique fnrniture. Lost. $100,000; partly in-"
snred. Origin incendiary.
AT St. Louis 1.6C0 bales of cotton burned in
the railroad yards at foot ofEutgart street.
Loss estimated at $30,000. The cotton wag
the property of the George Tavlor Commis
sion company. Insurance not known.
A lot of old paper and boxes in the cellar
of John JIcMahon's clothing store, at 1010
Liberty street, caught Are about 9 o'clocsc
last night and threatened to do considerable
damage. An alarm was sent in from box 31
and the incipient blaze wa3 soon put out.
Some of the goods In the store were slightly
soiled with water, but not mora than $100
worth. The fire Is thought to have caught
from the heat in the cellar, occasioned by'
drying fruit.
At Heading tho ruins of tho Carpenter
Steel Works continued burning until early
yesterday morning. w Two of the buildings
besides tho offices were saved, and not as
much of the machinery was damaged as as
flrst supposed. The work of rebuildinc on
a larger scale will bo commenced at once in
order to fill Government contracts for steel
firojectiles for heavy ordnance. The total
oss -is estimated at $90,000 to $100,000; in
sured. At Erie the dry kilns of Jacob Weachler
& Sons' malt house, with over 10,000 bushels
ol barley. The burned building had just
been completed at a cost of $10,000, covered
byrinsnrance. The business is transferred;
tn vtTO Tiinltsters. Joseph Weschler.
' the junior brother, who arrived at the scene)
at tne most critical penou,was so uiscracsea
that he made a determined effort to rush
into tho burning building and perish with
his fortnnes, and was restrained with greaB
difficulty.
At Chattanooga the full extent of Satur
day's big fire was mado apparent yesterday.
The bnrnt district is 250 feet square. Work
has been begun to recover tho safes from tho
ruins. The whole space is to be rebuilt with
handsome structures. It is reported that
two young women lost their lives in the
flames. The Are originated in the boiler
room in the basement ofLoveinan's build
ing. Twenty women' woro taken one of the
building by means of ladders. Miss John
ston, injumpinz from the third story, was
canght on a ladder, which broke, and she
was thrown through a large plate glass.
Mrs. Hurst was thrown to the stone pave
ment. Little Washington's Judicial Candidate,
Washington, Dec 27. Special. Tho
members of the Washington county bar
have determined to press vigorously tha
candidacy of Hon. Boyd Crumrine for
the United States District Judge. A strong
letter to President Harrison has been pre
pared, and every member of the bar has
signified his intention of signing it, A.
committee of five prominent members of tho
bar will go to Washington to present thi3
letter to the President and Attorney Gen
eral. Great
Chicago
Testimony
FIND the
Royal Bak
ing Powder
superior to
others -in all
7 y
respects. It is en
tirely free from all
adulteration and
unwholesome im-'
purity- It .is -the
purest and strong
est powder with
which I am ac
quainted. W.S. Haines, M.D.
Consulting Chemist Chicago
Board of Health, Prof, of
Chemistry Rush Medicri
College, etc.
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