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Mro FAT PKSSIOX I’TniS.
SENATE VOTES $2,000 A
■K YEAR TO TWO WIDOWS.
Lokrii and Mrs, fila r Ilia I.ucky
Women—The Claim for Indemnity for
rapt, Crnwforrt'it Heirs t> be Pressed
Moee Vigorously - Lively Speeches on
K 'he Interstate Commerce I*lll.
Washington, Jan.*;.-.-In the -enatc to
||Hlay Mr. Maml rsnn brought n tin- St 11-
|Ktc the case of the claim against Mexico
the killing or (.'apt. Emmett Crawford
oommand of the Uuiied Mates troops
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magnifleent railroad corporation
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to the telegraph .business ot the
ITS EI’VKCtI
Morgan stated tile reasons which
influence his vote against the bill.
whb not content with it in tespect of
■fits practical efleot oo the people ot his
■ own State. Alabama was at the farther
Southern margin of tho United States.
■ The markets in which her people bought
■ - their dry goods and a larve part of tneir
■ ■ groceries were at the far North and East,
P and there was a broad intervening aiea
Kb tietween them. The markets in
It' which they bought their looil
Brfvsupplies Chicago, St. Louis and Cincin-
Hniati, were also far distant irmn A I alia in a.
ninrkels in whicn they sold tlieir ]iro-
were all distant. ) hey had a vast
ot country to cross In getting either
lie market of purchase nr the market
so that be thnuirht that any t ill
forced ttic railri ad companies to
tbeir charges on freight for long
H hauls would be necessarily inimical to
II the best iniercsts of hm Mate. T iiat prnc
ticaf statement ot tno reasons wliv he op.
■ posed the bill would Ite quite sufficient,
B is said, to justify him in the course bo
■S felt compelled to take toward it.
IV states’ rights and poavkrs.
W But he had oUior reasons, lie then
I pßcceded to argue that the States were
■ competent to deal with this
and that tlm inlerf.-ionce of ibo
governti'eiit w.mfd lead lo Mill
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•'oitgress. ling the ex
of its power', bad nod such
and proiecuor. on the pail, ot
Slates, and in doing so lihil 1 tossed the
by its inaction. Tin, principle of
is bill would end in making rum eban
■■ 4Of liollties, Millie It mil and and ruined
■■ .(Aesa. lie admit ted ail tnat had been
tma to the sufferings ami wioncs of
Hfll ilnpli' thronga the grei and of rmlroa I
•and. '■ WBiiieH, but in finding a i emedv tor
j 'l he neither wished to find lor llto
I hlanow master (remote from them
'.heir ii.fluence) ;r, < ongress, nor to
ttie hands of lliut master a
their aid
which was so uncertain that every one
had to interpretit for himself) it necessi
tated an increase of rates on long hauls
in all cases where roads could not sacri
fice a large part of their income. He was
convinced that the roads to the coal and
iron lields of Alabama could not do that,
and the burden would fall heavily on j
those new industries of Alabama, and |
would probably destroy them.
Mr. C'ullom said he was very anxious
to have the bill disposed of as soon as
possible, consistent with fair discussion,
and he, therefore, gave notice that on
Tuesday or Wednesday next he wou'd
ask the Senate to remain in session until
the subject was disposed ot.
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House consumed the morning hour
in committee of tho whole considering the
bill for the permanent improvement ot the
Erie and Oswego canals and to secure
their freedom to the commerce of the Uni
ted States, A desire was expressed to
reach a vote on the bill, as it did not seem
likely to pass and should be gotten out of
the way of otner legislation.
Mr. Weaver, of lowa, said that the biU
would fail unless the Uenneptu canal ap
was attached to it.
■BBIBuse then went into committee of
the whole on the pension appropriation
bill, which appropriates $70,247,600, being
only $6,000 below' the estimates, the re
duction being in the item for the rent of
offices for peusiou agencies. Without
amendment or discussion the bill was
read, reported and passed.
NAVAL REORGANIZATION.
The House then by a vote of lilit yeas to
77 nays went into cummittee ot the whole
on the naval reorganization bill.
Mr. Sayers, ot Texas, declared that
there was no political object sought to be
acoinpiislied by the measure, lthad lor
Its object reform in the administration ot
naval affairs iu order to insure harmony,
promote efficiency, produce economy aiiu
secure responsibility. He said that we
had no fleet worthy of the name; our navy
yards and stations, notwithstanding the
immense sums spent on them, were in a
wsrtniess and deplorable condition, and
it this lamentable condition ot affairs was
due, as he thought it was, to the
organization of the navy as it now ex
isted, an imperative duty devolved upon
Congress to give the reliel wnieh was ex
tended by the pending bill. He proceeded
to draw a deplorable picture of the navy
as too weak to fight and too slow to tun
away, aDd of the navy yards, as useless
and worn out and utterly incapable of
constructing first class war vsssels, and
in traoing the causes of tnis worthless
ness and decay to the cumbersome organi
zation ot the navy. He fortified his po
sition with extracts trout tue expressed
opinions ot Secretaries Whitney and
Chandler.
Messrs. Reed and Boutelle, of Maine, in
political speeohes, opposed tne bill.
Mr. McAdoo of New Jersey favored it
as a purely nusiness proposition. Pend
ing debate the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
REVENUE EhGI'tiATION.
Ah Unimportant Conference at Ilan
(luli’s IScsid *nce.
Washington, Jan. 6. —A meeting was
held to-night at the house of Samuel J.
Randall to discuss the question as to
wnether rovenue matters are to be taken
up in the House this session. Not more
than nine or ten Representatives were
present. A general talk took place on
the subject oi the tarifl, but nothing was
agreed upon further than that they were
in favor of a bill on the line of that intro
duced by Mr. Randall last session to
repeal the tobacoo tax, the tax on
alcohol used in the arts, and certain
special liquor license taxes and adding
certain articles to the free list. No con
clusion was reached as to when an at
tempt should be made to secure consider
ation for such a bill, nor indeed whether
an attempt should be made at all. Those
present were very reticent as lo who at
tended tho meeting, but it can be stated
that no members were present from Vir
ginia or North Carolina—the States gen
erally spoken of as most interested in
total or partial abolition of the internal
revenue taxes.
THE OUTCOME.
It was resolved that either Mr. Randall
or one of his lieutenants should move
within a lew days to go into committee ot
the whole to consider revenue hills with a
view to setting aside Mr. Morrison’s bill
and all other revenue bills until Mr. Kun
dail’s apple jack tariff bill is reached,
when it is to be amended so as to repeal
the tobacoo tax and the taxes on distilled
spirits used in the arts and fruit brandies
and to provide at the same time for a short
free list, upon which lumber will be the
only important item.
POORLY REPAID.
This is the result of all the efforts Mr.
Randall has been making to devise some
plan for setting himself and his Demo
cratic followers right, bofore the country.
Mr. Randall’s hope is that the bill tie
has determined upon will catch
votes from both sides—that the Republi
cans will support it on account of the
internal revt nue reductions, and some of
the Democrats on account of both
the inieniul* revenue and the
tariff reductions. But to-night’s meeting
was rendered a failure by the fact that
the lieutenants were not able to report
toe majority which Mr. Randall desires.
Another meeting is to lie hold, at which
Mr. Randall hopes to reo“ive*assurances
ot a majority. Meanwhile his present
plans may be recast. He is counting on
UO Democrats ana lid Republicans.
•JiiilgA T 1 tuning Nominated.
W AsaiNGTON. J an. o.—President Cleve
land sent tbu loliowing nominations to
tint Somite to-day: Thomas C. Manning,
of Louisiana, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to M xieo;
Hugh A. Duisuiou', of Arkansas, Mi ulster
| Resident and Consul General to Corea.
Teimi'e of Office Doomed.
Washington. Jan. o—The House
Comiuitleaou Civil Service Reform to-day
; instructed Chairman Cox of North Caro
lina to report favorably to the House the
Senate bill to repeal the tenure of office
act.
Mrs. bogau's Pension.
Washington, Jan. o.—The Illinois
men in the House will try to rush the bill
granting Mrs. Logun a pstislon ol $2,OlH> a
year through the House to-morrow, it
will pass, but not without debate.
Thirty Months lor Stealing* $1(0,000.
Philapbi.phia, Jan. o.—William P.
Person, who plead guilty recently to
the embezzlement of about $30,000, the
property ot the American Baptist Publi
cation Society, by whom ho had been em
ployed as cashier and chief bookkeeper,
was this afternoon sentenced to lbs East
ern penitentiary for two years and six
months, to ' ake effeol from the
t' red ttif pI"H. Tue ttb'uilnn< IjBH
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SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1887.
NICARAGUA’S SHIPWAY.
THE MARITIME CAN YLi COMPA
NY GAINS A POINT.
Senator Edmunds on r.chair of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs Reports In
Favor of Graining the Proposed Com
pany Incorporation—Some of the Ad
vantages Pointed Out.
Washington, Jan. 6.— Senator Ed
munds, bv direction of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, to day reported favor
ably the bill to incorporate the Maritime
Canal Company of Nicaragua. The bill
creates Frederick Killings, Charles P.
Daly, H. L. Hotchkiss, Fiancis A. Stout,
W. B. Franklin. Daniel Emmetts, Wm. L.
Mery, Charles Davis, Edward F. Beale,
James F. McMullen, Shepard Homans
and their associates and successors a
body corporate, under tne name of “The
Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua,”
for the purpose of enjoying all the rights
contained in any canal concession made
to them by Nicaragua or Costa Rica.
THE CAPITALIZATION.
The bill further provides that the capi
tal stock shall consist ot not less than
600,000 nor more than 1,000,000 shares of
SIOO each, of which 10 per cent, shall be
payable at the time of subscription; that
the company's affairs shall be managed
by eleven directors, citizens of the United
States and N icaragtta, of whom one may be
appointed by each of the two countries;
that tolls tor passage through the canal
snail be reasonable, and not in excess of
$2 50 per ton of freight; that the United
States may exercise suchoontrol over the
canal as is not inconsistent with treaty
obligations; that the privileges granted
shall expire unless $10,000,000 of the capi
tal stpok is subscribed for within two
years, and work actually commenced
within four years, and that power to alter,
amend, or repeal tho act shall be reserved
to Congress.
THE REPORT.
The report acoompanviog the bill says:
The committee ts of the opinion that in
stances must be rare and exceptional when it
should recommend Congress to pass any act
of incorporation, other than for local pur
poses, within the District of Columbia or in
the same Territory but it thinks that for
great national objects and for specific pur
poses affecting the welfare of the people of
all the States, that Congress may rightfully
and properly create a corporation to i fluctu
ate the same public objects that Congress might
by law provide for bciug done by the; uovern
muut itself. The committee believes th e
is a cae within tics priuctnle. Means
of water transit between the Atlantic, and
Pacific oceans at or near the Isthmus of Pan
ama is obviously a matter of the greatest in
terest to the Industrial, commercial amt po
litical welfare of the people of the Uniteu
States, and it is. the committee thinks, equally
clear that it is in the highest degree desirable,
so far as may be done consistently with their
obligations to other persons, that this transit
shou and be uuder the influence, if it cannot be
under the control, of tho trailed Stales.
CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFILIATION.
it is well understood that the Republic of
Nicaragua and her sister Central American
republics have a strong disposition to alliiiale
their interests with those of onr republic, in
asmuch as their political institutions are
hr sell upon the same theory as our otvu, and
from geographical proximity we are. or
should be, their natural friends and allies,
desiring to promote in the largest degree their
safety, independence and welfare, which
must’necessariiy oe in every respect consi-t
--ent and in harmony wii h our own. it is well
known that for a long time past the Republic
of Nicaragua has been willing and desirous
that a ship canal should tie built between tho
two oceans through her territory, and in such
away and under such condilions as should
promote the common prosperity of all the
American republics.
LONGER PELAT DANGEROUS.
From one cause or another the accomplish
ment of this tiesire has been continually post
poned, until at last it seems clear to the com
mittee that it can hardly.be expected that our
sister republic will much longer refrain from
doing what she can toward the building of
this canal by seeking aid from nations or
other people whose commercial and political
interests are not altogether in accord with
ours. It seems to the committee, therefore,
mat the least tho United btates can do ts to
authorize a corporation composed of highly
respectable and responsib e citizens of the
United States to be a corporation for the pur
pose of building this canal under any conces
sions or authority that the republic of Ntca
raugua may concede to them.
SAFEGUARDS AGAINST CORRUPTION.
It will be noticed that the bill provides
rigorous security for due administration of
the affairs of the corpora ton and for Ihe pre
vention of the diversion of its funds to other
purposes than those Intended bv the act, and
that it also provides for cumplete authority
of Congress to amend or repeal it as the
public good may require. It will also he ob
served that the’ bill does not draw ihto ques
tion the existence or extent of any supposed
treaty ob igatioa of the Uuited States with
auy power. Looking, therefore, to the large
benefits, not only to the United Stales
and tho republic of Nicaragua and
her sister republics, but also to
the commerce aud intercommunication of
the whole sisterhood of civilized governments
on the -globe, the committee recommends
the passage of the bill in the hope that the re
sources and enterprise of the private citizens
of our country may lie enabled to accomplish
this greut work, n if our government itself
ts not yot ready (Undertake It,
CARDED It I’Elt CENTS.
$3,008,450 Worth on Deposit to
* Secure Circulation.
Washington, Jan. o.—Thera is still
on deposit in tho United States Treasury,
to secure tbs circulation of national
hanks. $3,998,450 in called 3 per cent,
bonds wnieh have matured. These bonds
are held by 19t> banks, and are all in
cluded in the calls from the 132d, which
matured Feb. 1, 1880, to ami including
the 144th, which matured Dec. 1, 1880
in view Ootioral’s
merest bearing
be used ns the basis for
national bank circulation, considerable
interest is felt as to the probable course
of the Treasury Deuartinant toward
banks holding tbe bonds in question. Mr.
Trenbolm, Comptroller ot the Currency,
was this afternoon questioned as to what
steps he proposed to take in this matter,
and he said lie would probably ask the
Attorney General for advice before taking
any radical action.
making a list.
He was now engaged, he said, in
making a list of banks and tho amount of
matured bonds held by each, and he
wanted to consult with the law officers of
tho government as to what it is his duty
to do next under the circumstances. Ho
was disposed lo be lenient with the hanks,
but be leit that be could no longer delay
enlorcing strict compliance with the laws
bearing on the subject of national bank
securities. He did not, how
ever, apprehend any trouble
wltb tbe banks, as be thought
! they would do their duty in tho promises
as soon as It was made clear to thStn.
From other sources It was learned that
the banks will be allowed a week or u n
days more within whicu to replace the
[ matured bonds, after which
-fault In re-pool
iwUnmit t ■
EXPLOSIONS OF G AS.
A Costly New Block at Youngstown
Burned to t lie Ground.
Youngstown, 0., Jau. 6.—AtSo’olock
this morning Jack Semple, the watch
man in the scarcely completed Andrews
block on South Market street, opened a
window to secure ventilation. Instantly
an explosion occurred and Semple ran
into the street with, his clothes
aflame and rolled in the snow. Flames
burst from tbe building, which burned
with extraordinary rapidity and as
totally consumed. The block was ot brick
and stone and just completed at a cost of
SOO COU. Several business enterprises had
r cent'y b in established in the building.
The iota! loss will reach considerably
over SIOO,OOO, with probably $75,000 insur
ance. Semple was badly bunt'd
and was removed fto the city
hospital. Another watchman, Thomas
Brannigan, aged 19 years. Is missing, and
is supposed to be in tlio ruins. Assistant
Gbief Davis, of tbe fire department, was
painfully burned. Two lines of natural
gas mains run past the Andrews build
ing, and it is supposed the fluid leaked
ami was carried into the building through
the drain trench and was ignited when
Semnle opened the window and created u
draught.
A FLARE UP IN A FACTORY.
Chicago, Jan.fi.—A gas explosion oc
curred at Walker’s carriage factory, cor
ner of Wabash avenue and Harrison street
this morning. Gas bad escaped iu a
small receptacle uuder the sidewalk, and
when the firemen went to extinguish tne
blaze seveu of the latter were overcome
by gas. The injured firemen were taken
into a drag store opposite the factory and
alter considerable labor were restored to
consciousness. It was atone time feared
that four of the firemen would not re
cover.
IN A COAL MINE.
Shamokin, Ua., Jan. o.—The chamber
in the Peerless slope portion of the Henry
Clay colliery, owned by the Philadelphia
and Reading Company, was discovered
burning this morning. The fire is in
creasing rapidly and defies all efforts to
get it under control. Frequent explos
ions of gas aro occurring and four men
have been severely burned. The Henry
Giay is the most extensive mineowned by
the Reading Company aud employed 1,500
men.
MACHINE WORKS BURNED.
Milwaukee, Jau. o.— The Reliance
Machine Works ol E. P. Allis fc Cos.,
caught fire to-night in the corp room of
tue foundry department. Tho fire blazed
fiercely for two hours, but was confined
to the foundry building. Its progress being
stayed by afire wall. E. P. Allis, Jr., a
member of.tbe firm, estimates the loss at
$250,000. The works are covered bv a
blanket Insurance policy of $400,000.
Three hundred and fifty men are thrown
out ofemploymont.
FIRE IN A NEWSPAPER RUILDtNG.
Philadelphia, Jau. 7, 2 a. m.—About
12:45 o’clock this morning flames were
discovered in the basement and first floor
of the Evening Teiograph building and
tne one adjoining Nos. 106, 108 and ill)
South Third street, and before the fire de
partment could reach the place the flames
had shot up through an elevator used tor
hauling the stereotype forms of the Teie
gruph from tho upper to tbe lower
floors. When the engines arrived numer
ous streams were thrown on the building
from Doth sides, and while the fire Itself
was extinguished, everything in the Tele
graph bunding was thoroughly drenched
with water aud the paper will lose lully
$25,000 on its contents. The building at
110 South Third street is comparatively
slightly damaged, as the flames were soon
put out. Tbe buildings are owned by tho
Girard estate and they are probably well
covered by insurance, although they
aro very old. Nothing can be learn
ed to-night ns U> the insurance
on the contents of the Telegraph building.
The composition, editorial and city de
partments of the paper are entirely ruined
by the severe drenching, and as they con
tained probably the most valuable and
complete collection of biographical, his
torical and scientific data iu tbe United
States the l*ss will be a severe one. The
four-cylinder Hoe press will also be a
total wreck. The origin of tbe lire has
not been definitely settled upon, but it is
believed that it caught from an overheated
heater iu the basement of the Telegraph
office. Building No. Ill) was occupied oil
the ground floor by Howard, Ball & Go.,
bankers.
TIIAINS CRASH TOGETHER.
Two Cars Wrecked But Nobody
Aboard Dangerously Injured.
Chicago, Jan. o.—As the special New
York aud Boston express on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad,
winch leaves at 8:50 o’clock, reached the
railway crossing at Sixteenth street this
morning, a passenger train on tue Louis
ville, New Albany ai.d Chicago railioail
crashed into it. The engine ot the Louis
ville train struck the baggage car of the
Lake Shore train and lilted ibo car com
' pletely off Us trucks. The smoking ca*.
w hich was crowded witu DusKt-nger*, was
next overturned and, although both ol
these cars were badly wrecked, no one
was killed or even badly injured. It was
with ii£ greatest difficulty, however, that
the mjlviizors who were imprisoned be-
wreck were exirlcutod and tbe
wilrtcst excitement prevailed at the
I c"ssiog. The roads were still blocked
ami immense crowds gathered at the
scene of the accident.
THROWN INTO THE SNOW.
Two men on the platform ware thrown
quite a distance, but landed in the snow
ami were unhurt. The Louisville and New
Albany engineer rao away after tbe col*
Psion and has not been seen since. Jti
thought be leared 1} neliing and was of the
Impression that a number of lives were
lost. When nearing the scene of the dis
aster he was noticed to shut down and re
verse, but the impetus which bad already
been obtained was too great to bo checked.
Both trains soon alter relumed to the
1 yards, made up anew and two hours later
proceeded on their journeys. A good
many cuts and bruises resulted, but no
body was hurt badly enough to be laid up,
Texans Quako Before a (juuke,
Paige, Tex.. Jan. B.—A slight shock of
earthquake occurred here at u o’clock
yesterday morning, which lasted two or
three seconds. The colored servants at
tho Williams House were greatly alarmed
at the rattling Of the dishes ami pans in
the kitchen. Tinware and stove pipes
rattled, and water pipes around the eaves
of houses ware shaken down. Several
clocks shock was felt for
several miles figs' I and passed from
south to northr. tew say they beard a
rumbling noise. No serious damage was
done. .
(jnallfled Indorsement.
New York, Jan. tt.— fho Chamber of
Commerce to-day adopted resolutions ap
proving tne Interstate oommeroe bill, cx-
ciausMA|Mig to long and short
LEXINGTON S MANKILLER
AN APOLLO- KAUBI) BOY COD
MAN’S M E HOI LESS MUTILATOB.
Tbe Crime Confessed After Arrest—The
Corpse Chopped to Fiec-s With an Ax
Hint til a Ilesit Mill's Money isunie
quentiy Obtained troui Ills L mil ally
—O; tier Ilemcu Deeds.
Boston, Jan. o.—The dismembered and
scattered remains found in Lexington
yesterday have been identified as those of
George A. Codman, a milkman, .lames
Edward Nowlin, one of a cumber of per
sons arrested ou suspicion, has confessed
that he alone was guilty. He had
planned the murder for some time, and
was prompted to it by cupidity excitod
by Codman’s boastful exhibition on differ
ent occasions of considerable sums of
money. Codman was killed at his stable
about 2 o’clock Monday morning. Dur
ing the following day Nowlin went to his
lodgings, and representing that he had
been seut by Codman, gained entrance to
his room and secured $275 in money and
some valuables.
CUTTING UP THE RODY.
That afternoon be cut the body up with
an ax for convenience of handling, loaded
tne lraginents Into his ebqgli and drove
off toward Lexington. While thinking
over the deed as he drove along he be
came panic stricken with fear, and llirew
pieces over the walls and into the bushes
in secluded spots, and hurried away to
Boston by another route from that wnieh
he had come. The police found iu Cod
man’s stable ample evidence that Now
lin’s story was true. Nowlin is a hand
some young fellow, a little over 17 years
old, and is very intelligent looking. He
is one of four brothers who reside In
Somerville. While nothing really bad is
known of the brothers, they have the
reputation ot being hot-blooded and wild.
The lather of tho family, it is stated,
hanged himself in a penitentiary.
DYNAMITE ON THE KAILS.
A Cable Company’s Line at Han
Francisco Badly Damaged.
San Francisco, Jan. fi. —Late last
night a dynamite cartridge was exploded
in the cable slot on tho Larkin street
branch of the Sutter Streot railroad. The
rocks on either side of the slot were loos
ened and the masonry work was badiy
shattered. Tho pullets upon which the
cable runs were also broken and the
Inundation of tho tunnel was cracked.
Window panes in the vicinity were rat
tled violently and in many cases sliatt r
ed. In a saloon two blocks away a light
ed lamp was thrown to the floor and near
ly caused a conflagration.
Tho iron plat.es on the man holes of the
track were found 200 toet away. A lady
who lives in tbe neighborhood said that a
few minutes before the explosion she saw
two men go to the trap. One of them
lifted the trap and the other took a pack
age front his pocket, applied a match lo
it and lowered it into tbe tunnel. Tbe
men then secreted themselves, the ex
plosion followed, and the lud.v saw the
cable and machinery of the trap flying in
all ways.
LAURA VAULEY’S DEATH.
The Story off ile Dog Gives Place to
a More Horrible One.
St. Louis, Jan. C.-r-Tfie Coroner’s jury
wbloh has been
stances under which I :u iraf,'jC*j2j’*9B
to her death," returned a
afternoon lo tho effect that her dffid
suited from injuries received by being
burned by Are, caused by her coming in
contact with a red-hot store in the room
of Henry Marshall, a colored coachman,
while she was attempting to es
cape trom him, be being at
the time trying to make a
criminal assault upon her. Henry Mar
shall was held responsible for her death.
Lena Stump, who was promised $1 by the
coachman lor every girl whom she should
bring to his room, and who brought tbe
deceased to the stable on the day of her
death, was held as accessory to the fact.
The story was told when her death was
first anuouncod, that a large dog, in play
ful antics, pushed the girl against the
stove.
KEV. HADDOCK’S MUBDER.
One of flic Men Uuder Arrest. Vir
tually Tells Who Fired tho Shot.
Sioux Uity, 1a , Jan. fi.—Paul Leader,
one of the parties under indictment lor
the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock,
made an oral statement to a reporter lust
evening, being the first time ho has been
induced to say anything about the crime.
He eavs irankly he was present at the
time of the murder aud knows tne names
of all the parties there. Ho relused lo
give the name of tbe man who did the
shooting, but describ 'd ibo act and the
murdeier’s dress and appearance in such
a manner as to identity u man named
Leavitt. He declares that the statement
of Otto Ureibar, also under arrest,is (also,
and that Gretber was not In the vicinity
at tho time.
Mioiiln fr' iiuwcli oil it i rain,
VoMtBKM, N. V., tlmj. An tbe Hud.
sou ItiVer railroad train, due here at 12
o’clock, reached the Youkera depot Hie
report of u pistol was heard, aiul It was
louiid that Geor.e f>. Hcbelling, ol
Tremont, had shot himself through the
rignt temple, ficlielliii/, in charge of
Ofliour Bradley of Westchester, anil
George C. Lay of No. 102 Broadway, Now
York, had been brought across the coun.
trylndu Westchester to lake a train lo
Poughkeepsie. Tuey bud papers for
hoballing’s confinement as an insane per
son. lie was taken t > itie't. John’# lUver
sldt Hospital, Where he IS dying. %
Wyandotte's Tra.ii kV.
WYANDOTTE, KiS., Jan. fl.—The
deuce was closed in ilaiuiiton’s trial to
day and the argument will begin to-tnor
f.ivr, heveial additional witnesses were
called to prove an alibi for tbe prisoner.
Tne wife of Hubert (doers, another of the
accused, corroborated the statement that
Geois sat tip with a young man tunned
Sparks on toe night of the wreck. Mrs.
McMillan. Sparks’ landlady, testified to
tbe same etf cl. In tne alternoou tbs
State introduced - several witnesses iu re
buttal. The case will go to the jury on
Saturday. _____
Murder at a Prayer Meeting.
Ei.dokado SPIUNUB, Mo., Jau.fi.— A
horrible murder was committed at the
Cherokee valley school bouse, near this
city, Tuesday night. While a prayer
meeting was being held a man nam'd
i lakes raised a disturbance, aud upon be
ing requested to desist by n farmer named
Clark urew a knife aud cut the latter’s
throat from myuJp ear. . Oakes was
arrested
bearing
GLADSTONK CONCILIATORY.
Modification of tho Home Kulo 1 111 1
Possible iu Behalf of Harmony.
London, Jan. fi.— The St. Jam is
Gazette this afternoon declares that Lord j
Randolph Churchill was responsible for j
what it calls the Anglo-American mail |
contracts blunder.
Edward Stanhope, at present Colonial j
Secretary, has accepted the office of Sec
retary for War.
Lord Iddealelgh has not yet decided to
accept the suggestion to relinquish the
foreign Secretaryship in favor of Lord
Salisbury, if Lord Iddesleigh decides to
resign office he will probably take Lord j
Stanhope’s place as Colonial Secretary.
The Marquis of Lansdowne’s decline- .
tion of office proffered by Lord Salisbury
has been received by the latter.
T. O’Connor, presiding at a home rule
demonstration at Bradford to-day, advo
rated fairness in the carrying out of the
plan of campaign, and advised the ap
pointment ol a judge to act as a medium
between landlord aud tenant.
TO STICK TO CONSERVATIVES.
It Is expected that Lord Salisbury will
make no further effort to complete bin
Cabinet with Whigs, but. will fill the
vacant offices with Conservatives.
The Conservative Counoil of Liverpool
has invited Mr. (loschen to contest tho
vacant Parliamentary seat there, and it
is thought he will consent.
TO MOVE CENSURE.
Pubi.in, Jan. o.—The Express (Tory)
publishes a statement that Mr. Parnell
intends to move a vote of censure In the
House of Commons against the govern
ment for Its oonduot toward the Wood
lord tenants, who were yesterday sen
tenced to long terms of Imprisonment for
resisting eviction on the Clanrioarde es
tates.
United Ireland pronounces the sen
tences against the Woodford tenants bar
barous.
Freeman's Journal says: “The Irish
executive is now in this dilemma: It
must either accept Judge l’atle’s law and
abandon Gen. Buller’s pacific policy,
which lias been defended bv the Marquis
of Londonderry, or adhere to the ia< ter.”
Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Gen.
Bullor will both bo examined as witnesses
to-morrow In the hearing of the con
spiracy ease against Messrs. Dillon,
O’Brien, Redmond, Harris, Crllly and
Sheehy.
t ho National, commenting on the bru
tality ol the sentences of the Woodford
prisoners, says justice can he done to
It eland only in dulinnoe of the law. In
justice is embodied In the Irish statute
bonk. Heartlessness is enthroned on the
iustuut, bsuevolenou and
charity languish is prison.
GLADSTONE CONCILIATORY.
London, Jan. 7. 6 a. m.—The Standard
says Mr. Gladstone is prepared to modify
his home rule scheme with a view to the
conciliation of the Uissident Liberals.
According to tbe Standard he is willing
to confine the powers of tbe proposed Irish
legislative body to questions exclusively
Irish which may bo delegated to It,
CRASH A FTF.It CRASH.
An Advertising Agent Forced to
Make an Assignment.
New York, Jan. 6.—The failure of E.
Duncan Sniffin, an advertisingagent, wan
announced to-day. His liabilities amount
to about SIOO,OOO, but bis assets cannot
yet be ascertained. Tbe principal cause
Mwmiin lailuu^^^Ub c assignment
; . i. ■ j^Hpih
nt
was failure
he had hopes dT making
with the holders ol the Duffy notes for an
extension of time, but yesterday Georg id
W. Laird <fe Cos., manufacturers of l.alrd’B
Bloom of Youth, failed. As Mr. Bniflin
held $20,000 of the firm’s paper he found
the ouly thing be could do was to assign
and appoint his manager, Madison J. H
Fares, assignee. The business will be
continued. It is thought that the Duffy
notes will pay about 40 per cent.
INSUfiANCE COMPANIES GO TO THE WALL.
Mobile, Ala., Jan, fi.—Tne Alabama
Insurance Company and the Citizens’ In
surance Company made a general assign
ment to day. B ith companies were or
ganizf and about two years ago with 10 per
j cent, capital paid in. They were very
| siicansHlul at first ami gained large assets,
| all of which were gobbled up by Presi
dent Goelet last year. Hince that time
the companies have struggled to retrieve
llieir fortunes, doing a rather wild foreign
business until the inevitable end came to
day. The (allure has been expected here
for some time. But few policies were
held tie r e, as the condition of affairs was
known to the public.
A CLOTHIER. ASSIGNS.
AT I ANOOGA, Jan. fi.—-I. j^BHB
. i; I if "/011.1 111 tO-lluHra|
HIS use
000.
ODD DOMINION LINK TROUBLES.
Longshoremen on Oilier Wharves
Kef use lo Handle Its Freight.
New York. -lan. <!.—Freight fs being
piled Up on tne Old Dominion Steamship
Company’s wharf. Tberoaresix lighters
lying at Brooklyn, three at Hoboken, antU
one at ths National dock In tbisoity fillerl
with freight which the longshoremen r*M
I in-" to handle. A lighter lull of tobaeffl
was sunt lo the Bremen line in
Imt was sent Pack lo ihe Dominion
here. The tobacco was than
trucks and sent over end ngi^Ve
med. Ibe Muster Workman i>rßi>.
Hint Assembly .No. 19 said
llie whole sl'cngth of the district
used to win the strike. To-otfint
shoremens’ Union No. 3 met and iffl(ij;td
resolutions protesting against the waves
ottered by the O and Domiuion lino To its
employes, indorsing the demand <!f the
men for union wage* and Jthfifirtng
their united support to tbe Sinkers,
uqjfe guaranteeing that they will
!!>■ bundle any Ireight delivered
by Hbe Old Dominion Company at any
dock In New York, Brooklyn or Jersey
City until the meidg demands are con
ceded. Tne met at Tem
perauce Hall, JrmiiUo avenue, Brooklyn,
to-night and also resolved not to handle
any Old Dominion freight. All ware
houses receiving any such Ireight will be
reaueoted lo send ft back.
Deatli of a Living Skeleton.
Chicago, Jan. (i.T-lsaac Sprague, “the
living skeleton,” died here yesterday.
He was born In Bridgewater, Mass., and
was quit* healthy until bis 12th year,
when ■>“ “ cramp while In swim,
m i,” tWLik ajiflßHt flesh until lie
tPKICK #lO A VICAR.)
I 0 I k,MS A COPY. <
OGLESBY ON THE MILITIA
CLEAKKK DEFINITION OF IIIS
I'OWKUS UHGED.
y 1
I’ll* KfllciPiipy of Ihfl Bolder? of
11liiiutil Praised -Lively Times Ahesfl
In Indiana's LlHileunnt fsovernorahi.i
Muddi*—K„iuian a Candidate lor thi*
I'nlled .States Sei.alorshty.
SriiiNUKiKLD, 111., Jan. 6. Gov.
Oglesby, tu bis annual message to tl.o
Legislature, devotes ■+ large portion of it
to the laoor troubles of the past two
years, and speaks ol the necessity whies
oompollod him to send bodies of Btat.
troops to L.atuont, Hast St. Louisaud Chi
cago. He urges upon the Legislature u*
so amend the statute bearing upon the
employment of Stale troops to quell 1 -
surrection as to dearly deflne the poweta
of the executive, and em
ployment shall depejpl
or a reque* rrom a Sheriff or indeper. ■
dently of any such appeal. The Governor
oomraends the.troops for their high stale
of discipline and eflioienoy, and urgik
that tile Legislature provide liberally for
their education and equipment.
INDIANA f*M(jDI>LK.
Indianapolis, Jan. 6.— The two houses
of the Legislature met and organized this
morning. Interest centred in the Senui j
in winch there was a large orowd. Green
Smith appeared aud took the chair, with
the Auditor of State acting as Clerk. The
Kepuhlioans endeavored to protest, b i
they were not permitted to be heard, and
without the Hepublioans voting at all,
but being counted as present, the Deniu
erntio caucus nominees were elected, ami
a set of rules adopted that gave the mn
jority all the power, in the House the
Republican nominees were ebeted. Hon.
W. G. Sayre is Speaker, lleyond the
formal organization no business wa*
transacted.
Congressman W. S. Holman reached
this city to-night and made lormal an
nouncement t bis inteution to enter tLo
Democratic Senatorial contest, it is un
derstood that neither party will caucus
lor Sonator until the Lieutenant Gover
norship question is settled. A caucus
will probably not be held before Thurs
day next.
CONNECTICUT'S OFFICERS.
Hartford, Conn., Jan. A joint
convention of the State Legislature
assembled this morning to elect State
officers, owing to the tsllure of the popu
lar vole to give any candidate a majority.
The result of the balloting was the elec
tion el the Republican candidates. The
Republican candidates received Irom lot!
to inti voles and the Democratic candi
dates from 112 to 118. There were three
Democratic members absent. Toe Legis.
laturu reassembled la joint convention at
‘2o’clock to inaugurate the State officers
and hear the message of Gov. Lounsbury.
MINNESOTA'S SENATOR.
St. Haul, Jan. 6.—Ninety-tour mem
bers of lue Legislature attended the Re
publican joint caucus for United States
Senator 10-duy. Just before taking the
first ballot a letter from Senator Mc-
Millan was read announcing bis with
drawal irom the contest. On the ffret
ballot ex-Gov. Cushman li. Davis re
ceived ud votes and Gordon K. Cole 1. Tbs
nomination was made unanimous. This
secures the election of Mr. Davis on Jan,
18.
COCKRELL HkNOMINATED.
St. Louis, Jan. 6.—The Democratic
members of the Legislature in caucus to
night at City nominated Mr.
■toktt-ll e Unit'd
Unites
iHTohl. VIRGINIA.
P*t Sent lot he Green
Mountniu Boys.
Ya., Jan. 'The City
and .Mayor of Winchester, In re
to the resolutions passed by the
Vermont Legislature thanking the citi
zens of Winchester for aiding in the
dedication of monuments to their fallen
sons on the battlefields of Cedar Creek
and Opequon Sept. 19, 1885, says: “The
citizens of appreciate
highly vour confi
dence and good and they
reiterate the pledge that thPßponumcnls
which tho citizens ot Vermont have
erected on the fields of civil strife at
Opequon and Cedar Creek to the no mory
ol their dead shall be as faithfully pre
served and as scrupulously protected a
il they stood upon the battlefields of Ver
mont, where Starke’s courage Illumined
the patriotic hearts of Virginians and
New Englanders alike in times that tried
men's souls, and when Washington anil
Putnuni stood shoulder to shoulder in
their common detcueo of the freedom o/
the colonies.”
Akiri-el islb'il.
YoßiGJn^^^-It Is predicted
Vat a tie up will occur in Brooklyn
Ivltbin lortv-elght hours on the lines of
■he Brooklyn City Company and the
rßroiidway Company, should Presidents
’ Lewis and Beers not recede from the po-
Mil loti they have taken. The timetables
issued by both these officials are ob
nodjious to the men. Meetings of all the
interested were hold to-night, aud
wi re adopted that unless the
1 wc-e agreed to an lm
tie-up should lake place.
i imiiiiingh” Gang Jailed
is, -lan. —The Adams Ex.
* Kredenok Wltrock, W. W.
HUgbt and Thomas Weaver were taken
Kit;e penitentiary to-dsv. As the train
IMliedoul a number of United States Kk
pe-HH employes joined in giving three
cheers for ••Jim Cummings.”
Marquis of (Jasensberry Rule#.
Edinburg, Jan. 6.— The Marchioness
rlwuiieensuerry has Instituted an aotlon
loWivoree a/ainst ner biisband, the Mar
quis of (jueensbi rrv. The aotlon will be
tried here and will begin next week. The
Marquis Is 42 yorrs ol age. He was mar
ried Feb. 26, 180(1, to Svbil, daughter of
Alfred Montgomery, Esq., by whom he
has had four sons and one daughter.
An Epidemic or Typhoid Fever.
Paris, Jan. o.—An eplderoloof typhoid
fever is raging at Clermont-Ferrand.
Eighteen hundred persons, out or a popu
lation or 40,000, have been attacked.
Them arc 4(H) oases in the barracks. It
is supposed that thoepldemio was started
by impure water.
France’s Population.
Paris, Jan. o.—The census of France
for 18-sii shows a total population of 88.-
'218.D00. against
population of Pari* increased only 75,000,
■ gainst au increase 0f‘280,000 reaorded la
1881.
Killed liy a Hippopotamus.
Paris, Jan. The hippopoßoiut at
Zoological killed one of Us
oo a