THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1895. 3 THE MAN FOR A WHILE He Probably Will Be Secretary of State for Thirty Days. President Cleveland in No Haste to Name Gresham's Successor. Gray, Carlisle, Bayard, Dickinson and Whitney Among Those Talked Ambassador Eustis Considered Barred Out Because He Lives South. WASHINGTON, May one In Washington can offer anything but idle speculation as to whom the president will choose to fill the place rendered vacant by the death of Secretary State Gresham.
Assistant Secretary Uhl, Senator Gray of Delaware, Secretary Carlisle, Ambassador Bayard, Don M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary Whitney, and Postmaster General Wilson are all talked of for the position, and talk is about all there is in it yet. The president has thirty days in which to make his choice, and he is likely to take the fullest advantage of the time limit. He has expressed himself once or twice pretty strongly on the subject of those who want to fill dead men's shoes before their owners are buried, and the prospective candidates probably will keep remarkably quiet. OBJECTIONS TO EACH.
There are objections of one kind and another to each of the men so far mentioned for the place. Uhl is not considered strong enough. Senator Gray would like it, but if he leaves the senate his place would be filled promptly by a republican. Carlisle is more of a financier than a diplomat. Ambassador Bayard is more useful where he is.
Ambassador Eustis is a likely man, but he comes from the south, and that part of the country already has all the patronage to which it is entitled. Don M. Dickinson stands particularly well with the president, but he is counted a great hand at kicking over the presidential traces. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney probably stands as good a show as anyone. Whitney 1s the man who after it was seen that Hill stood no earthly show in convention, set to work to conciliate the Tammany crowd and swung them into line for Cleveland.
His aid would be just as valuable now, and the knowing ones declare if President Cleveland should appoint Whitney it would mean he intended himself to run for a third term. HE SUGGESTS WILSON. Representative William A. Stone of Pennsylvania dropped into the city today with a plan which he says is strictly republican. He says he thinks the best thing the president could do would be to appoint Postmaster General Wilson secretary of state and put Harrity of Pennsylvania into Wilson's place.
He thinks Mr. Wilson is the Lest man for the place and that the president is bound to honor Pennsylvania with the postmaster generalship. While all these more or less idle speculations are going on the president probably will appoint Assistant Secretary Uhl to fill the place of Secretary Gresham for thirty days. This is just what President Harrison did when Mr. Blaine resigned.
Foster was not appointed until the last of the thirty days came around and President Cleveland probably will take the same course. CENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS. DOESN'T BELIEVE IT. WASHINGTON, May Mitchell of Oregon says it does not necessarily follow because the state republican clubs in their silver resolution that the republicans of meeting at Portland refused to adopt a free the state are not in favor of the white metal. He is strongly of the opinion that a great majority of the republican voters of Oregon are today favorable to the unlimited coinage of silver at the existing rate.
TO HONOR HANco*ck. The Second Army Corps association of this city is trying to have the body of Major General Winfield Scott Hanco*ck removed to Arlington for interment. The body is at present buried at Norristown, and it is said the tomb has been allowed to fall into ruin. Ever since the body was buried in 1886 there have been plans innumerable for the erection of a shaft to his memory at Norristown. None of them come to anyThe association the approval has of the late general's brother, but is meeting determined 1 opposition from the authorities at Norristown.
POLICE HUNT FOR VOODOOS. Indianapolis Officials Endeavor to Stamp Out a Superstition. INDIANAPOLIS, May police of this city have had their attention called to a numebr of cases of "voodooism' within the past few days and the better class of citizens are urging officials to take active means to prevent the credulous negro population from being imposed upon by "voodoo" doctors and others who seem to be preying upon the superstitions and credulity of that class to a degree that necessitates police interference for their protection. Some of the cases reported are extremely ludicrous, but the more unnatural the means employed the more easily the victim seems to be ensnared. Several days ago, a colored servant in the family of a physician reported that the infant child of her neighbor was seriously ill.
That morning the lady sent her husband see the child and he stopped on his way to his office at the home of the mother. He found the infant so enfeebled by fever that he felt no hope for its recovery. The mother told him that the doctor had left a bottle of medicine, but the child was only to look at it and not take it. The physician found that it was nothing but rain water. The infant died that night, but the doctor who treated has not since been seen.
Another case, but, happily, with better results, occurred in the same locality. A colored boy was taken sick and a stranger who happened in went to the back yard, built a fire and sprinkled a powder on it. He gave some of the ashes to the boy. The doctor was paid $2 and the mother believes that he prevented her son from having a serious spell of illness. A number of years ago a family that failed to pay its rent lost three children in succession and moved out.
The family that came in also failed to pay its rent, lost two children and moved out. This happened a third time. The tenants connected the fallure to pay rent with the deaths and since then no one ever owes the landlord a cent. NEW HOSPITAL AT JOLIET. Will Be Dedicated in June and Be a Marvel of Convenience and Comfort.
JOLIET, May Silver Cross hospital in this city 1s about completed and will be dedicated in Juue. The hospital is a stone structure and cost $40,000. It stands on a hill in a fine group of trees known as Hickory Hill. This magnificent building has been built by donations, and the largest gift was $10,000, from H. N.
Higinbotham, ex- president of the world's fair, Chicago, who now has a handsome country home that cost $90,000 within a mile of the Silver Cross hospital. The officers of the Silver Cross hospital are: Charles A. Noble, president; J. D. Paige, vice president; Charles Talcot, secretary: Charles Pettigrew, treasurer.
The building, now so near completion, is a splendid one, architecturally. The site selected is admirably suited to the best possible results of the good work started. The elevation is so great that from the basem*nt window the sky line is level with the eye. The air is pure and fresh and cool, out of reach of the contaminating influence of river and oanal. Counting the basem*nt, the building is four stories high, has of 150 feet and is 50 feet wide in the broadest part.
The main entrance is on the north, an arch supported by stone pillars, with beautifully carved caps and bases, through which one is ushered into broad hall. On the right 8 door leads into the receptionroom; on the left are the consulting-rooms. The Erst floor is designed for men patients, the second for women, and in the top of the bnilding are situated the kitchen, laundry and main diningroom. The whole building is equipped with the most improved sanitary devices procurable and is constructed throughout on the most scientific principles. The building is heated and ventilated by the hot blast system and considered to be the most perfect method in use for the heating and ventilation of hospitals, it being warranted that the entire air of the whole building is absolutely renewed every ten minutes.
It is estimated that eighty patients can easily be accommodated and many more on a pinch. In the basem*nt, which will be completed with as much care and any part of the building, is the operating a large room with many which will be Atted up with not less than twenty electric lights to secure all the light necessary for any work. The elevator and dumb waiter carry from top to bottom of the building. The water is pumped by a windmill into a gigantic tank in the top of the building and it is proposed to dig a great cistern in the course of a short time in addition. The kitchen will not be found wanting in any of the re requirements of scientific cookery.
The building is finished throughout in Georgia pine. The staircases are in short flights and of easy ascent. Ample quarters are provided for the nurses and the help. The private wards are airy commodious, and the whole design execution is to and make this hospital second in advantage and service to none in the land. The Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and other organizations are going to furnish a suite of rooms which will be given to the members of the respective lodges when taken sick.
Many life membership departments have bi been purchased by local citizens. ARRESTED AT A MURDER INQUEST. Michael O'Mara Walks Into the Room Where His Wife Was Killed. Michael O' Mara, who killed his wife Monday night at their home, 3807 Archer avenue, is locked up at the Stanton avenue police station. He appeared at the house yesterday afternoon, while the inquest over the body of the dead woman was in progress.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he be held without bail. O'Mara, who 1s a laborer employed at the Ashland docks, returned to his home early day evening. He seemed to be under the infuence of liquor, and upbraided his wife because she was delayed in preparing supper. Words were exchanged and, it is claimed, O'Mara struck the woman, following the blow with several others. When Mrs.
O'Mara and her five children returned her husband remained in the front room. Four hours later a 11-year-old daughter, Nora, was awakened by the cries of her younger brother, and entering her mother's room saw her lying dead on the bed. Blood was flowing from a bullet wound in the left temple. Messages were sent to every station in the city, instructing the police to look for O'Mara. The inquest was set for 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and O'Mara surprised everyone as he entered the house.
He refused to answer the many ere questions that we were put to him. NeigLbors who have witnessed the numerous quarrels between him and his wife express the belief that he is insane. Two weeks ago, they say, the couple had a fight, and that after O'Mara had choked the woman he seized her by the hair and dragged her out of the house. CONGRESS OF SCIENTISTS. National 1 Conference at the First Methodist Church.
"The Truth" is being discussed this week by the second international congress of scientists, which met yesterday morning at the First Methodist church. The congress is held under the auspices of the International Divine Science association. The opening address was delivered by the president, Mrs. Cramer. Moore Louis sang a solo.
Then came a After the. president's address Prof. LeRoy general introduction of all the speakers of the congress and the recess. At the afternoon session a large audience pastor of the Truth Students' congregation, gathered. Mrs.
Anna do W. Mills of Chicago, which meets weekly in the Masonic temple, delivered the formal address welcome. Professor George B. Charles of Chicago assured the audience that Miss Susie C. Clark of Cambridge, was present in spirit, as he read her paper on "Divine Baptism." Mrs.
Ada Hill, Peoria, read a paper on "Man's Freedom, Now." Mrs. Sarah Wilder Pratt Chicago closed the session with a paper entitled "God's Controversy with the Nations," SOUTH PARK BOARD BETWEEN TWO FIRES. Residents in Grand Boulevard and Horseback Riders Hold Different Opinions. The residents in Grand boulevard will make a strong remonstrance against the destruction of the trees in that thoroughfare for the purpose of constructing a double bridle path as ordered at the last meeting of the South park board last Wednesday. Every day inquiries are being made of the secretary as to the intention of the board, and the meeting of June 12 promises to be full of interest and spirit.
On the other hand, the equestrians who are urging the immediate construction of the two bridle paths are not satisfied because the resolution reads the be safe to transplant the trees. This the work shall be commenced as soon on as it shall board says cannot be done before fall. Those urging the immediate construction favor the destruction of the trees. The secretary of the board says this would mean the cutting out of nearly $50,000 worth of elms and other shade trees that have taken years to grow. The cyclists also have a request to make in regard to Michigan avenue.
They want the gutters so paved on either side that they can be used by them. SALVATION ARMY IN WISCONSIN. MILWAUKEE, May northwestern division of the Salvation army is planning a big campaign this year, and the movement is expected to add greatly to the membership. Wisconsin will have an organization in the shape of a string orchestra, composed entirely of young women, under the command of Captain Miss Inga Peterson, a graduate of the Milwaukee corps during the year 1891. There will be twenty-five young women comprising the band, and they have been selected from corps in various parts of the northwest.
The departure will be taken from Evanston Friday or Saturday of this week. The first town where the band will camp will be Waukegan. An advance agent will precede the band and erect tents and otherwise provide for their reception upon arrival. Memorial day the northwestern division will hold a fleld day at Evanston. STIVERS' FEELINGS HURT.
Widower Sues a School Teacher for Breach of Promise. LANCASTER, May for $5,000 was brought in the circuit court here today by W. C. Stivers, a tobacco raiser, against Miss Catherine West for breach of promise of marriage. Mr.
Stivers is a widower and Miss West 1s a handsome school teacher, 23 years old. The petition avers rs that the defendant had she had since declined become his wife. promised to wed him on Feb. be 27, 1895, but that Mr. Stivers claims to have been greatly worried, annoyed, humiliated, and damaged in the sum named.
THIRTY -TWO MURDERED. Terrible Punishment for Negro Colonists in Mexico. NEW ORLEANS, May special from San Antonio, Texas, says Jim Crowley and two negroes arrived from the negro colony in Mexico that went Georgia and report the murder of thirty-two their number recently from. near Monclova, because they tried to escapet the United States from their prison-like colony TO PAY COUNTY EMPLOYES. The employes of the various county offices and institutions will be paid by Comptroller Monaghan to-day.
The pay-rolls for the month of May amount to $72,675, and the payment of the salaries is made today in order that the clerks and employes of the county may have greater reason for the enjoyment of their holiday tomorrow. DEATH OF H. G. GRAY, SWINDLER. Information was received at police headquarters yesterday of the death at Philadelphia of H.
Granville Gray, widely known swindler and forger. Ho gained distinction in Chicago during the exposition by marrying a well young woman, although he had a wife in the east. He managed to escape punishment fo this. SCOTTISH ASSEMBLY'S BIG PICNIC. Arrangements have been completed by the Scottish assembly for the annual picnic at Burlington park on Saturday, Aug.
8. Four hundred cars have been chartered from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and the leaders of the organization predict an immense crowd will attend. The drama "Rob Roy" is being rehearsed for the occasion, and it is thought that this attraction will insure the success of the picnic. The following organizations will take part: First regiment, I. N.
Aurora zouaves, mour cadets and Highlanders and Scottish cadets. Excursions to the park will run from Chicago, Aurora, Joliet and Elgin. IN THE LABOR WORLD. Trouble Threatened in the Molders' Strike at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, May contest between the union and nonunion molders at the Indianapolis car works assumed a dangerous phase today and a conflict between the two is regarded as imminent.
There nave been several encounters between the strikers and the new men, and today the company demanded protection from the city. Officers were sent to the scene and a regular guard was established. The strikers congregate on the outside of the shops and trouble may occur at any time. WHEELING, W. May result of the mine workers' convention, which mects in Columbus tomorrow, will be watched with special interest by West Virginia.
An official stated tonight that the miners in West Virginia and some portions of Ohio had refused to consider a strike. true that the miners in this state have utterly refused to strike if the convention does call one. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May Amalgamated association in session in this city adopted resolutions this afternoon censuring the supreme court for its decision in the Debs case. The association, officials and manufacturers will confer tomorrow regarding the scale. LEBANON, May of Police Harry Cones shot and fatally wounded Earl Harrison in this city last night.
LOGANSPORT, May entered the home of A. W. Stevens this morning and secured $1,000 worth of diamonds. INDIANAPOLIS, May from Chicago arrived here today to arrest David C. Bryan, who is under indictment at Chicago for defrauding a resident of that city in a real estate deal.
Bryan is under arrest here. THREE MEN INJURED AT A FIRE. Blaze in Milwaukee Avenue Restaurant Does Considerable Damage. Fire at 265 and 267 Milwaukee avenue last night resulted in the painful injury of three persons, and entailing a loss to property and building in the sum of $3,100. The injured are: JAMES MORTENSEN, 265 Milwaukee avenue.
Badly burned on the face and hands. WILLIAM TIERNEY, fireman of truck No. 19. Face badly burned. JERRY DALY, fireman of cart No.
3. Hand and arm cut by falling glass. The fire originated in a storeroom in the basem*nt, in the rear of No. 265, which is occupied by Mortensen Rasmussen, restaurant and wholesale bakery. Mr.
Mortensen discovered the fire, and while opening a door between the bakeshop and storeroom was thrown several feet and burned by the rush fire and smoke. He was taken out of the basem*nt and carried to his room, where medical attention was given him. The fire spread rapidly, and soon the restaurant was a mass of flames. A 2-11 alarm was turned in, and the department soon had the fire under control. Officer Reordan of the central detail saw smoke coming from the seventh story windows of the Union League club last night and turned in 1 an alarm of fire.
The a department responded, but found that only a chimney was burning. There was no damage. TOLEDO, May knitting factory of Roth Friedman was totally destroyed by fire tonight with its contents. The loss on the building is estimated at $40,000 and on stock at $100,000. The factory employed 300 hands.
The adjoining buildings of Works, Kirk, and Bigelow, and the Ketcham estate were damaged to the extent of $5,000. CINCINNATI, May H. Rover Co's hominy mills, near Sixth and Hornet streets, were guttted by fire tonight. The loss will reach $60,000, fuliy insured. TAMMANY TO BE REORGANIZED.
"One-Man Power" No Longer to Be a Feature. NEW YORK, May Grant is expected to return from Europe between June 15 and 20. Very soon thereafter, according to a Tammany hall leader, the work of reorganizing the Tammany hall political machine will be begun. This leader said it is the purpose to put into effect the plan for reorganization proposed by the ex-mayorthe appointment of one hundred prominent democrats, Tammany men, democrats of no organization, and even state democracy men, if any such will consent to serve. This committee will supervise the work of reorganization under that plan which contemplates "riddance of the one-man power." It is proposed to form an organization which will be so liberal in its character that there will be no excuse left for the maintenance of any other democratic organization independent of it in the city.
REFORM FOR MILWAUKEE. Ministers Preparing to Move Along a New Line. MILWAUKEE, May newly organized Society for the Prevention of Crime has decided to make an attack upon Chief Jansen, Inspector Riemer, and Detectives McManus, Sullivan, and Broderick. It is not likely that these charges will be filed with the board of fire and police commissioners. The ministers want a grand jury, and inasmuch as Judge Walber won't call a grand jury there has been talk of invoking Governor Upham's aid.
"Chief of Police Janssen had better read the handwriting on the wall," said a member of the executive committee this morning. The society has decided to invite Dr. Martin, president of the Chicago Civic Federation, to speak at a meeting of the Milwaukee organization, and it was stated that it was the desire of all to have the Catholic and Lutheran churches unite in the work. CEMETERY IS ENJOINED. Cumberland Grand Army Ceremonies to Be Uninterrupted.
CUMBERLAND, May Grand Army post ladies' auxiliary of this city erected a handsome soldiers' monument in Rose Hill cemetery, which is to be unveiled and dedicated on Decoration day. The cemetery superintedent, who is hostile to the Grand Army, refused to permit the committee to erect a speakers' platform on the lot, or to admit organizations. The committee tonight obtained an injunction restraining the carrying out the programme advertised. Great indignation is felt at the action of the superintendent. DEBS IS READY FOR JAIL.
Eugene V. Debs, the American Railway union leader, against whom the United States supreme court on Monday handed down.an opinion, called upon United States Marshal Arnold at noon yesterday and said that he was ready to give himself up and serve the unexpired jail sentence pronounced upon him by Judge Woods. The marshal informed him that the mandate was not expected from Washington for a week or more. Mr. Debs then left his addresses for the next two weeks and departed, It is the intention of Debs, Howard and the others to go to the Woodstock jail in a body.
GENERAL ALLEN DIVORCED. FARGO, N. May Harrison Allen was granted a divorce today from his wife, residing in Warren, Pa. This is a case out of the usual order. The couple had a handsome home at Fargo, furnished at an expense of $6,000.
One day when the general a was absent his wife packed the furniture and sent it to Warren. The general secured the divorce on the ground of desertion. LOCAL NEWS NOTES. The starters in the Chicago road race will meet at the Sherman house this evening. Rowell, a well-known character in Arlington Heights, was found dead yesterday morning in Al Crook's saloon.
Justice Foster held Ruby Thomas, James Jennings, and Thomas Dougherty to the criminal court yesterday for breaking Into Gillesple's grocery, 90 Twenty-second street, Saturday right. Harry Wilson, Charles Dunbar, and Charles Dewes are under arrest at a Park police station pending an investigation. They were arrested while carrying a valise filled with burglars' tools. While walking on the Illinots Central tracks at Randolph street yesterday afternoon Charles Hill was struck by a train, receiving fatal injuries. He lives in the Pullman building, Madison avenue and Fiftieth street.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES. Marvelous Sale of the First Issue of "The Chronicle." Chicago and the Whole Northwest Welcomes the New Paper. THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE was welcome. Its presses ran until 8 o'clock yesterday morning. As the papers came from the presses at that late hour they were tossed into bundles and hurried away to the clamorous newsdealers, already sold out and anxiously inquiring why their orders were not filled and when they might expect another batch.
At 9 o'clock the supply was exhausted so far as the filling of heavy orders was concerned and the complaints from newsdealers continued to come in. The edition of 103,800 was too small, and all day delegations of newsdealerg and carriers came to the Chronicle building with demands for an increased supply for the next day. Sometimes they doubled, sometimes trebled, not infrequently quadrupled their orders. in the morning newsdealers from Illinois, Waite consin and northern Indiana came in person to insist that their orders should be increased all the way from one to fourfold. A Wisconsin dealer, who had taken fifty copies of the first issued of THE CHRONICLE, demanded that his order be increased to 150.
Another dealer went from fifty to 200. These men came in person in order that they might make sure, they said, of getting their orders increased to that would supply the demands of eager customers, MUST HAVE THE PAPER. Newsdealers from more distant cities tele. graphed their demands and in an hour would back up the first peremptory order with another couched in no less terse and vigorous language. At 10 o'clock telegrams had come from dealers in Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan and they were full of complaints, congratulations and demands.
The city was no less royal in its greeting. At 8 o'clock the people who had been unable to get THE CHRONICLE at the street newstands came to the counting-rooms of the Chronicle building and went away disappointed. The supply had given out there, too, and the people went away grumbling. And so all these thing having come to pass THE CHRONICLE rather thinks it is welcome to Chicago and to the northwest generally. As early as 4 o'clock yesterday morning there ceased to be the least hint of doubt about THE CHRONICLE's welcome.
When the presses began to revolve and the first sheets of Chicago's new democratic daily began to flutter into the mailing rooms THE CHRONICLE'S friends were there to greet it. Some of those democrats who have been weeks without a paper they wanted to read stayed up well into the morning that they night be the first to scan the pages which they believe carry a message to Chicago and the vast extent ofterritory that looks to Chicago. These men took the damp sheets eagerly from the pressmen's hands, sat themselves down on bales of paper and read THE CHRONICLE'S greeting to the town and to the future. They glanced through its crowded news columns, saw with something of personal satisfaction that there was column after column of advertising and, folding up their early copies of the first issue, went home, leaving their cordial and best wishes for the future. Prompted by motives of sentiment they had fulfilled the office of godfather to the child inst born and said they felt a decided pleasure at having been in at the birth.
SENT THROUGH THE TOWN. Soon after their departure the news wagons standing in the front and rear of the Chronicle building began loading, and THE CHRONICLE started on its first journey to the railway stations, the newsdealers and the residence districts north, south and west. The late travelers on the elevated trains and the owl cars bought THE CHRONICLE, The news stands each took hundreds of copies, and an hour later were sending in for more. In the best as well as "in the most modest residence districts the heads of families found THE CHRONICLE, beside their coffee-cups. The late risers at clubs and hotels demanded THE CHRONICLE, and scolded when they couldn't get it.
The thousands who came in on the suburban trains were reading THE CHRONICLE, and when they had commented favorably on the originality of its typographical appearance and the condensed yet adequate summaries of the day's doings they passed the paper on to others who were waiting eagerly for a glance at it yet could not buy it. As a result of the enormous sales of yesterday the mechanical force of THE CHRONICLE was promptly doubled. Another comp was added yesterday. twenty -Ave additional compositors were engaged, and THE CHRONICLE will make every effort to fill the enormous demand for its fast mail edltion. So that this morning THE CHRONICLE makes its greetings to nearly twice as many people as it did yesterday.
LYONS FORFEITS HIS BONDS. Montreal Druggist, Charged With Smuggling, Fails to Appear. NEW YORK, May T. Lyons, the Montreal druggist who is charged with smuggling sulphonal into the United States from Canada, failed to appear for examination before United States Commissioner Shields today and consequently forfeited his bond of $5,000. Lyons is a wholesale and retail druggist of Montreal.
He is said to be one of a gang that has been smuggling large quantities of phenacetin and suplphonal into this country for some time. Special agents have been detailed from Washington to get evidence against the smugglers. MORRELL DIES A PAUPER. At One Time He Was Brooklyn's Wealthiest Grocer. NEW YORK, May: B.
Morrell, at one time prominent in political and business circles in Brooklyn, and reported to be worth $500,000 was buried today in a paupers grave. He was born 76 years ago in Brooklyn, and early in life opened a grocery store in Fulton street, near the ferry. Thirty years ago he was supposed to be the richest grocer in the city. He owned blocks of houses and railroad and ferry stock. In an unlucky moment he became fascinated with speculation in Wall street, and it only required a few years to swap off his entire wealth.
POSED AS BUILDING INSPECTORS. Lewis Ernst was arrested yesterday on two warrants charging him with obtaining money by false pretenses. Ernst is said to be one of several men who have been going around the city representing themselves to be building inspectors. In this guise, it is said, they would go to the owner of a building in process of erection and order the work stopped on the ground that one of the building ordinances was being violated. They would then accept money to allow the work to proceed.
WISCONSIN ARBITRATORS NAMED. MADISON, May Upham today appointed R. H. Edwards, an Oshkosh manufacturer. and Richard Jeardeau of Milroad, to serve on arbitration board created waukee, a trusted icon (conductor on the St.
Paul under statute of the last legislative session. They are to select 'a third member. Jeardeau has been a lobbyist in the interest of the railway corporations during the last two sessions in the guise of an employe. INJURED IN A FROLIC. Johnny Perkins and Charles Holcomb were playing with an ax head rady afternoon 553 Thirty-seventh street.
On the stairs leading to, the flat below stood Alice Kavanaugh, 12 years old. The ax slipped from the boys', hands and struck her on the head, fracturing her skull. The two boys were locked up. at' the Thirty-fifth street police station. RESPITE FOR A MAN-CHOPPER.
SAN FRANCISCO, May Cleveland today respited for the fourth time Thomas St. Clair, one of the three sailors of the American bark Hesper, who chopped Mate Fitzgerald to pieces with an ax and threw the remains into the sea about two years ago. St. Clair's execution was set for Friday next. CRUMBACH FEARED INSANITY.
CRUMBACH FEARED INSANITY. PHILADELPHI, May ill health and the fear of insanity led George N. Crumbach to shoot and kill himself today at his home. Mr. Crumbach was 46 years old, and was president of the Crown Smelting Company of Chester, Pa.
SWINDLER WILSON PLEADS GUILTY. NEW YORK, May F. Wilson, who opened a big shoe store in Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, about a year ago and disappeared after swindling his creditors out of $20,000, today pleaded guilty to two indictments for conspiracy and two for removing goods with intention of defrauding his creditors in the court of sessions and was remanded for sentence. Wilson was leader of a group of swindlers who placed the shoe store scheme in most of the large cities of the country. DEATH OF JOHN W.
GARVY. Demise of the Well do Known Contractor and Park Commissioner. John W. Garvy, ex-park commissioner and former member of the board of education, died yesterday morning at 110' clock, at his home at 60 Lytle street. He was ill for three weeks, the immediate cause of his death being gastric fever and heart trouble, resulting from an attack of the grip.
Mr. Garvy was a member of the board of education from 1882 to 1888, serving as chairman of the building and grounds committee. He was also a west park commissioner for two vears and held the office of president until he resigned a year ago. He was born in Canada and came here in 1864. He worked as a carpenter on the Reynolds block, which stood on the present site of the Hartford building.
As a contractor he built several prominent business structures, among them the State street side of the Fair, and many panorama buildings throughout the country. Seven years ago he overworked himself and was taken with brain fever which shattered his system. His illness was a gradual decline, and he was conscious up to an hour before death. He was 53 years of age. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 10:30.
High mass will be celebrated at the Holy Family church and the interment will be at Calvary. William P. Beem, a nephew of the late General Beem of California, and a promising young attorney, died at the county hospital recently after a short illness. The remains were forwarded to California for interment. Members of the bar and the many friends of the family expressed regrets yesterday when the facts became known.
Mr. Beem was 29 years of age, and had been connected with some of the leading law firms in the city. He was active in business and political affairs, his hard work during the spring campaign having undermined his health. He had no known relatives in Chicago. LOST HIS LIFE IN THE FLAMES.
Patrick MeGeary, Burned to Death at Iron Mich. SUPERIOR, May this morning a two-story boarding house at Iron River was destroyed by fire. Patrick McGeary attempted to descend the stairs and was overcome by smoke. His charred remains were found under a heap of debris. KNOXVILLE, May this afternoon caused $8,000 damage to the wholesale hardware house of S.
B. Luttrell Co. The building contained much dynamite, oil and powder and in preventing explosion firemen Schneck and McLure were badly hurt. GALESBURG, May Powers and James Wilson were suffocated by gas in a coal mine north of here today. LEBANON, May Johnson and Samuel Wilson were walking along the Midland Railroad tracks when a switch engine ran them down and decapitated both men.
Both were under the influence of liquor. WEST SUPERIOR, May Small and John Tucker were hunting near here when Tucker accidentally shot and killed his companion. BOULDER, May P. McFadden and son, Howard, aged 12, were drowned in the St. Vrain river near Lyons today while building a bridge over a swollen stream.
Howard slipped and fell and the father sprang in after him. FLORIDA'S GOVERNOR DEFIED. Jacksonville Judge Ignores a Pardon Granted by the Executive. JACKSONVILLE, May Cromwell Gibbons of the city criminal court today defied Governor Mitchell and ignored a which the latter granted to John L. Marvin, president of the Merchants' National bank.
Some weeks ago Marvin shot at City Attorney Barrs three times, none of the shots taking effect. Barrs and Marvin belong to opposing democratic factions, and Barrs claims the shooting without provocation. Marvin was tried before Judge Gibbons and sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or serve six months in jail. The banker appealed and was released on bond. While the appeal was pending in the higher court Marvin's friends worked on Governor Mitchell, and the latter issued an order setting aside the sentence imposed by Judge Gibbons.
The order reached here today and the judge resolved to disregard it holding that the governor, under the constitution, had no jurisdiction. At Gibbons' order, Marvin was arrested and hustled off to jail, but before he could be locked up his friends secured a writ of habeas corpus and he was released for the present. Judge Gibbons talks of asking the legislature to impeach the governor for his course in the matter. Public sentiment sustains Judge Gibbons, as there are a number of men now in jail here serving similar sentences to that imposed on Marvin for like offenses. TROUBLE FOR SABBATH DAY CYCLISTS.
Conduct of Y. M. C. A. Members Will Be Duly Investigated.
Members of the Ravenswood Young Men's Christian association, who took part in the bicycle parade last Sunday, will be asked to explain their conduct to the offers of that institution. A. H. Jackson has already confessed his share in the affair, and many others, it is said, will beg forgiueness for the same offense. Until a late hour last night, however, not another of the Christian young men who rode behind Jackson on Sunday had suffered sufficiently in conscience to report.
Department Secretary Sloan said yesterday that "the utmost charity will be extended to the guilty," but he also intimated that Christian discipline must be maintained in the ranks of the association's members. Suspension from the Athletic union of the association may' be added to words of spiritual advice, and therefore suspension from membership in the association must consistently follow. Beyond this ominous statement the secretary refused to be interviewed, but wished it to be distinctly understood by the public that SO far it has not appeared that any member of the tral department of the association participated in the Sunday parade. It was also hinted by an active member of the Central association that there is great danger of a split in the ranks of the athletic memhers on the ethics of last Sunday's breach of discipline. ROBBED BY COLORED WOMEN.
Louis. Labonso of 534 West Van Buren street was passing Clark street yesterday when Dollie Farrell, Melvinia Johnson and Millie Longster, all colored women, rushed from the doorway and seized him by the arms. They then dragged him into a hallway and, despite his struggles, robbed him of $600. Dollie Farrell was captured at Thirtieth street with $258 of the money in her possession. The police hope to recover the remainder of the sum.
INJURED BY A RUNAWAY TEAM. Policeman William Stein, of the West North avenue station, received serious injuries last night while stopping a runaway team. The officer was dragged over 100 feet. The right side of his face was badly bruised and there were many bad contusions on the right side of his body. CHAMPIONS OF SUN AND MOON.
PITTSBURG, May the dense fog this morning two men engaged in a fight on the streets over whether it was the sun or moon which was breaking through the fog. A crowd and ring soon formed, but the police broke through. The fog, however, enabled all to escape. TO IMPROVE ITS PLANTS. JOLIET, May extensive im provements are to be made at the Fox Solid Pressed Steel Company in this city which manufactures steel frames for cars.
It is now the largest institution of the kind in the United States and is controlled by English capitalists. WANTS PAY FOR STAYING IN JAIL. SEATTLE, May A. WilCOX, who in the opinion of one jury killed Charlotte Felting, an aged lady, for her money, and in opinion of later jury did not, has asked the county to him for the pale time he spent in jail. GUARD PUNISHED FOR BIGAMY.
John Schimanski, alias John A. Lane, was convicted of bigamy 'in Judge Stein's court yes- terday. receiving a sentence of three years in the penitentiary. Schimanski was a Columbian guard at the world's on fair, and married Millie Robinson 9, 1892. Last February he married Ada Gregg under the name of John A.
Lane. He deceived both women for several weeks, and was arrested one day as he was preparing to marry a third woman. His two wives and the latter testified against him. NO ONE TO TELL THE TALE. Origin of the Greates, Known Explosion of Gunpowder.
McClure's The greatest explosion of gunpowder the world has ever known took place at the Du Ponts' works on the 7th of October, 1890. With their usual cautious policy the Du Ponts have never stated just how great a quantity of powder exploded at this time, but it is certain that three magazines and three mills in the upper yard were blown up, one after another, and a. safe estimate will put the quantity of powder exploded at 150 tons. In this explosion thirteen men and one woman were instantly killed, while twenty-two men and nine women were injured, some fatally. The explosion occurred a little after 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
It began in the magazine for hexagonal powder, the kind used in large guns, and the most dangerous, being made not in grains, but in reddish, six-sided cakes about an inch and a half in diameter, and an inch thick, with a hole running through the center. These cakes look like nothing so much as the nuts on a wagon wheel. At the time of the explosion cakes of powder were being packed into large wooden boxes, lined with tin, each box being about three feet square. The tin linings projected above the tops of the boxes about two inches, and, when a box packed, were folded down over a tin cover fitted closely upon the cakes of powder. It was the duty of one of the workmen, William Green.
to soder these tin edges down upon the tin cover, a hot iron being used for this purpose. On the day in question what he feared came to pass. A fellow workman, William McGarvey, was bringing him the hot irons from a charcoal brazier about twenty-five yards distant. Green stood just at the door of the open magazine, and all around him were uncovered boxes filled with the hexagonal powder, ready a to be sealed and stowed away. There were also dozens of boxes that had been sealed.
ust what happened will never be known, for neither Green nor McGarvey were left to tell the story. But the probability is one of the soldering irons was a. little too hot and by touching a particle of dirt on the tin cover produced the deadly spark. BLUE AND GRAY TO FRATERNIZE. Confederate Veteran to Address Wheeling G.
A. R. Men Memorial Day. WHEELING, W. May leading Grand Army of the Republic posts of this city have taken step in connection with their Memorial day exercises never before attempted by a post in the country.
They have secured the consent of Colonel W. W. Arnett, an ex-confederate officer, to deliver the principal address next Thursday at one of the cemeteries. When committee called upon the colonel he was considerably taken aback, but he consented to serve and, with tears starting from his eyes, expressed his gratification that he had seen the day when factional differences had been buried so deeply. The matter is attracting attention all over the country among the Grand Army of the Republic.
SHOWS A GAIN IN MEMBERSHIP. TERRE HAUTE, May to twenty-third annual convention today of the Catholic Total Abstinence union of Indiana showed an increased membership in the state. Vicar General Bessonies said he hoped sentiment would sustain the Nicholson law which goes into effect next month and Father Cooney of Notre Dame university said all saloonkeepers should be excluded from Catholic societies. BARBER ROBS A CUSTOMER. The man whose diamond pin was stolen in Wosfair's barber shop, 553 Halsted street, can secure the same by calling at the Maxwell street police station.
A stranger entered this shop Monday and was left with his face lathered while the barber, E. H. Navert, left the shop. He was followed, and the stone, which was a valuable one, recovered. INTERSTATE CASE DECIDED.
DES MOINES, Iowa, May the case of Isaac Golton versus the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, decided today, the supreme court holds that plaintiff cannot recover for discriminating overcharges on freight from Iowa points to Chicago made before the interstate commerce law was passed. HARRISON AT WEST POINT. WEST POINT, N. May Harrison, Mrs. Dimmick, "Baby" McKee, and Judge Finley of Baltimore arrived here this morning and are the guests of Colonel Ernest.
This afternoon the distinguished visitors enjoyed a carriage ride. The party will remain until tomorrow. There was no unusual demonstration. ASSAULTED WITH A HEAT CLEAVER. Arthur Lee and Peter Johnson last night at 167 Halsted street.
quarreled said, struck Johnson three times on the head with a cleaver, inflicting three scalp wounds. He was arrested and Johnson was taken to the county hospital. CINCINNATI MAY BE DARK. CINCINNATI, May was ortonight a branch of the Electrical brotherhood. The Edison people have threatened to discharge every man who should join the organization.
Tonight's action may resuit in the city being dark for a few days. ALTGELD RESTORES CITIZENSHIP. SPRINGFIELD, May Altgeld today granted papers restoring the rights of citizenship upon Charles Burgoyne of St. Paul, who served two and oneo half years at the Joliet state prison from Cook county for burglary and larceny. SHADE ROLLER COMPANY FAILS.
PROVIDENCE, R. May Providence Shade Roller Company, with works at Bristol, has assigned. Assets about $60,000, exclusive of stock on hand, and liabilities $100,000. NORTH EVANSTON SCHOOLS CLOSED. On account of the prevailance of measles among the children of North Evanston the four lower grades of the Central st Street school have been dismissed for the remainder of the week.
WISCONSIN CONVICT PARDONED. BOSCOBEL, May Jones of Fenimore, sentenced to state prison at Waupun last July for two years and a half for adultery, received a pardon from Governor Upham today. MOOBERRY HINSHAW JURY SECURED. BLOOMINGTON, May selection of the jury in the Mooberry-Hinshaw murder case was completed today. JUDGE JOHNSON DEAD.
VALPARAISO, May Jesse Johnston, aged 88, died today. He was the oldest resident. VON ANTWERP DYING. CINCINNATI, May Lewis Von Antwerp, the millionaire school book trust man, is dying. Bismarck's Blunt Reply.
There is no better instance of the trenchant, if scarcely diplomatic, way Bismarck had of cutting the knot of a difficulty than his conversation with Baron Prokesch, the Austrian plenipotentiary and president of the diet in the early days of Frankfort. The Austrians were much in the habit of bullying, and of assuming as a basis of negotiation things which were not facts. One evening, when at a large social gathering, Bismarck and Prokesch, surrounded by a brilliant group of diplomats. were discussing a protocol based on certain equivocations. Prokesch said, looking straight at Bismarck: "If that were not true, then in the name of my imperial should have been guilty of lying! Returning his gaze without a symptom of faltering, "Precisely so, your excellency!" slowly said Bismarck.
Good Effect of Pure Water. Since the garrisons Paris have been restricted to the use of pure spring water the annual number of cases of typhoid fever has decreased from 1,200 to 300. OPPOSITION TO WHISKY TRUST. New Corporation to Be Organized, With W. N.
Hobart at Its Head. Elias Block Sons' and the Hoff heimer Plant Acquired. CINCINNATI, May new whisky corporation, with W.N. Hobart, treasurer of the Cattle Feeding and Distilling Company, as its founder and leading spirit, it is said will be organized at once with Cincinnati as its headquartrs. It has developed that Levy Mayer, who came here Sunday from Chicago, wag unsuccessful in his settlement with Elias Block Sons and with Hoffheimer Brothers, and that these two firms owning valuable distilleries will form the nucleus of the new corporation.
the head of the Kentucky river, near Carrollton, and is considered one of the best in the country, notwithstanding its output is exclusively bourbon whisky. Elias Block Sons deny the story, but said the matter most discussed was the rebates claimed by the Block people. They refused to say how much these amounted to, but it is understood that they do will reach up into tens of thousands of dollars. Further questioning elicited the information that the purchase of distillery will be made just as soon as the value of a broken elevator can be agreed upon and the damage it has done to the business is assessed and agreed upon. Mr.
Mayer purchased $85,000 worth of whisky trust bonds for $42,500 and allowed 6 per cent interest on the price originally paid them. The holders of the bonds, it is said, were L. O. Maddox, W. N.
Hobart, and other person, who is believed to have been 1 H. Green. This clears Cincinnati of bonds, as Walter Freiberg sold his $50,000 worth last week. STRIKERS WIN A LEGAL POINT. Their Right to Maintain a Picket Force Upheld by the Courts.
BOSTON, May 28. A decision of Judge Holmes of the Massachusetts supreme court in the labor case of F. O. Vegelahn VS. George M.
Gunter and Upholsterers' Union No. 53, rendered today, affirms the right of strikers to patrol in front of former employer's premises, provided they use lawful methods. Judge Holmes holds that they have the right of free competition, which carries with it free combination in a commercial fight, subject to fair play rules. COLORED MEN FIGHT WITH KNIVES. William Simpson and Scott Payne, colored, quarreled in a saloon at 19 North Green street yesterday afternoon.
During the affray Simpson received a cut three inches long on the left side of the neck. He was taken to the county hospital and Payne was arrested. AMUsem*nTS. HAMMOND FAIR ASSOCIATION. FIVE OR MORE RACING Rain or shine, at 2 DAILY, p.m.
ADMISSION, 50 CENTS. SPECIAL RACE TRAINS DIRECT TO TRACK. P. and F. W.
R. R. (Union depot), stopping at and Englewood at 12:40, 1:00, 1:20, 1:30. Regular train at 2:00 m. Laks Shore R.
R. (Van Buren-st. depot), stopping at and Englewood. Regular train at 12:05 p. m.
Special trains at 12:40 and 1:20 p. m. Returning trains leave at 4:20 p. m. and immediately after the races.
Fare, round trip, on special trains, 25 cents. MASONIC TEMPLE ROOF GARDEN. GEO. A. Manager.
Observatory "ALL KINDS OF WEATHER." and Grand Evenings at 8:15 and Saturday Matinee. Promenade Open from Refined Vaudeville. 10 to 6 p. m. THE DELTORELLIS, TH- TORTAJADAS, ADMISSION, 25c LINCOLN ELWOOD, WM.
CAMERON, Hungarian Laura MacCorkle. Mirzl Meister, Orchestra Meta Stanley, Alois Fenz and othere. Every ADMISSION. 50c. Afternoon.
Special Matinee Decoration Day. Sunday Matinee -Brooks' 2d Regiment Band. COR. COTTAGE GROVE AV. 63d ST.
The 2d A Annual Season of the Unrivaled Popular Attraction, THE CHUTES Will Be Inaugurated TOMORROW, MAY 30. OPEN DA DAILY-2 TO 11 P. M. MILITARY BAND EVERY DAY. New Boats with spring cushions.
New machinery. Newly beautified grounds. Excellent refreshments. Other attractions. A ADMISSION, INCLUDING RIDE, 25 CENTS.
MAY FESTIVAL Under Auspices of the COOK COUNTY S. S. ASSOCIATION. Friday Evening, May 31, AT THE AUDITORIUM. Grand Chorus 1,000 Young Ladies.
Reserved Seats 75c, 50c and 25c. Tickets Now on Sale at Auditorium Box Office HOPKINS' -State near Congress. TO To-Morrow (Decoration Day), Six Extra Vaudeville Acts -Commence at Noon Sharp. Best Show in Town and Coolest Theater. CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P.M.
12-VAUDEVILLE ACIS-12 BEST IN THE WORLD. Bartley Campbell's Masterpiece, VAN THE VIRGINIAN. Hopkins' Stock Company. Splendidly Staged 10, 20. 30 Cents.
HALL'S (ASINO ever given in And Variety Theater, Wabash near Jackson-st. The Koster Bial's of New York. The leading vaudeville theater of the city. Continuous stage performances. 11 a m.
to 11 p.m. This Week Great Bill Solid Refined Variety. Velasques, Electric Quartet 80 Artists. The greatest Variety Show Chicago. Prices 10, 15, 25, 35 50c.
61ST AND COTTAGE GROVE AV. THE '49 MINING CAMP Pioneer Reflex of Days Formal Opening DECORATION DAY, May 30. Placer Mining in Full Blast. Furious Fandango. The Dead Giant of Tuolumne Grove.
Panoramio View of Mount Shasta and Yosemite Valley. Admission 25c, children 10c. Take Cottage Grove Cable, Alley or transfer at Sixty-First from State st. line. Sam T.
Jack's Opera House. Madison st. near State. Tel. Main 2198-2 Shows Every Day.
ADAM AND EVE. March of the Altogether in the Garden of Eden. Smith and Campbell Hunn and Bohee. Mile. Diana.
25c-Highest Price-25c All Seats Reserved. CHICAGO OPERA- TODAY. Mr. David Henderson, Sole Mgr. INTERESTING SPECIALTIES.
ALADDIN ENCHANTING MUSIC. GORGEOUS BALLETS. JR. 417th and Matinee Prices, 25c to $1.00. 419th Times.
Monday Next- Vesta Tilley. BUILDING PERMITS. THE to FOLLOWING cost $1,000 or BUILDING more were PERMITS issued FOR buildings yesterday: J. Slocum, 2-story basem*nt building, 7606 Monroe 4,000 F. A.
Dolin, 3-story and basem*nt brick store and flats, 8934 Commercial 7,200 National Tube Works, 1-story and basem*nt brick freight house, 462 to 480 Clark 17,000 Corse Jeffrey, 3-story and basem*nt brick flats. 4710 Calumet 12,000 J. M. Hills. 3-story and basem*nt brick dwelling.
327 Belden av 5,000 Theo. Fibrand. 2-story and basem*nt brick flats, 650 Melrose 4,000 Mrs. H. Schroeter, 2-story frame flats, 219 Belle Plaine av.
2,200 J. B. Proesei, 2-story basem*nt and brick flats. 287 Lawrence 3,500 Josepl: Man, 2-story frame flats, 326 Irving st 3,000 P. Mullally.
2-story and basem*nt brick dwelling, 4538-40 Vincennes 6,000 The George A. Fuller Company, 10-story and basem*nt brick store and office building, 134-36 Clark .275,000 H. S. Palmer, two 1-story frame cottages, 9758 Sixth 3,000 P. Mangan, 3-story and basem*nt brick flats, 4520 diana 5,500 Catholic bishop of Chicago, 1-story brick church, 2084 Washington 14,000 R.
Dettmann. 2-story and basem*nt brick flats and barn. 1654 West Fifteenth 5.000 Mrs. Mollie Lundahl, 3-story and basem*nt brick flats, 888 Fairfield 2,200 H. Anderson.
3-story and basem*nt brick flat, 265 Hirsch 8,200 H. C. Van Harlingen, 2-story frame dwell1ng. 2602 North Forty-second 2,500 D. Baumeister.
3-story and basem*nt brick flats, 165 Potomac 3,500.
