Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1880, Page 10

wagons will be provided and experienced men 10 x 33te- 9} professional mer a Dusin in | of way, and the Burlington simply asks the ‘ : CRIMINAL NEWS. his counsel, who moved that all of the in- | as experts, and the tial attracted et a POLICE ALARMS. PTE MERGANTIS pusTaien "| Signi to cross certain, streets ait lay tracks | COStexPress,12:06p.m.; Kansas City, Leaven. : dictments against his client be quashed on | 2000, or known in this city, and. involved bounded north and west by the Chicago River, | 0 its own property. The Burlington pro- | Pern accommodation, 8 Eicon pte the strength of the Court of Appeals’ | J yottyinuch the whole range of medical south by Hurrison atrect, and east by Like Mich poste he doa fila seat Ho other a to bail | Right express, 10 p. m-; Kansas City, Tet, decision. Judge Barker granted the motion. | fnowledge, especially in obstetrics, rhe 2 ign, can protect themselves against fire and | has yet agreed to do. as offered to build | worth, and Atchison, night express, 100 Ed d kb Colored, H ed | Assoon ashe had, District-Attorney Titus | reasonable doubt was produced, and the iury {| Proposed Extension of the System criminals y placing the combined police and | a viaduct across the tracks at Polk street, | There'will be no changes in the tine > a lwart ong, Colored, Hang ae Foned. ve new ‘ ‘ity this evening. ahs . fire alarm cals in their stores and offices, which | when the city would be required in any | parture of the Blue 1. me of de. a moved that Bark be arraigned on returued a verdict of not guilty this evening, |” “i “4 ue Island S for Murder at Jackson, -indictments. ‘This| announcement, rather to the Business Section. cai be done at ance, und Its Tor the purpose of event to, build #: vaduet at that poiub | trains. accommodation startled the ex-City Treasurer and his coun- BLACKMAILED. . : lar is lagued. - | whether the Burl mn crosses’ the stree! a, Tenn., Yesterday. sel. but he finally pleaded not guilty, to, ai Spectat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune” : If a eulic‘ent number indicate a desire to bo | OF ROL, Italso proposes to build approaches BASE-BALL NOTES, of them, and was let to bail in_ $30, GALERA, IIL, Dec. 18—Charles L. Giled, Workings of the New Method conneetod with the Central Station. horses and | $5 J 0iy crossing the tracks now there, and | Peters has signed with the Buffalos, The Crime for Which He For- feited His Life a Most Brutal One. Arrest of Three Members of a Gang of Murderers Near Quincy, Il. A Deputy Sheriff in St. Louis Detected in Robbing a Store in His j Charge. Te Abbott, the Murderer of Mrs. Crue, in Boston, Convicted of the A Dronken Ruffian in Richmond, Va, Badly Whipped by Bedouin Arabs. Buffalo’s Detaulting City Treasurer Up for Trial the Fifth Time. HANGED TILL DEAD. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Nasnvinte, Tenn, Dec, 18.—Edward Long (colored) was executed at Jackson to- day forthe murder of Titus Rogers (col- ored). The prisoner, accompanied by Sheriff Biackard and guards, press representatives, and two ministers, left the jail at 11 o’clock _ and arrived at the gallows at 11:15. The drop fell at 11:17. The body was cnt down at 12:16. His neck was broken, and. he died without a struggle. Three thousand persons were present, The doomed man made a full confession, and said he would die without regret. He said one witness swore falsely, buthe would forgive him. He was bap- tized yesterlay by the Rev. EW. Mosely, end recelyed tha Lord’s ‘Supper. He ate a hearty breakfast, and’ smoked a cigar while passing to his doom. THE CRIME. Long was 23 years of age, unmarried, of 8 dark copper color, welghed 150 pounds, and measured five feet ten inches. For an ex- tended period prior to the commission of the crime for which he was executed he resided near Pinson, Madison County, livingin the same house with Mollie Rogers, wife of his victim, he and the woman being employed on samefarm. Rogers worked on a farm one mile distant, and very often remained away from his home. A criminal intimacy sprang up between Long and Mrs. Rogers, deepened) to such an _ extent that the murder of the unsuspecting hushand was determined upon, Mrs. Rogers agreeing to leave the country with Long as soon as tht deed was accomplished. On the night of the 30th of last June, Long entered the house with the intention of mur- dering Rogers, and fouud him seated ona bench in front of the fire, alone. Taking a chair, Long entered into a conversation with him, and once picked upa shovel with the determination of killing Rogers, but, failing to summon enough courage to do the bloody deed, laid it down. Rising, Long walked be- hind Rogers, thinking he would cut his throat with a knife he had, but con- cluded _ wait for a _ better opportunityy What followed is best given in the words‘of the murderer to your corre- spondent: “I got out of the notion of kill- ing him, and got up and said, ‘Well, this won’t do me; I must go out,’ and got as far as the door when Rogers said if I would . Wait awhilé he would go with me. His wife was at ner house, and he was going for her. Iturned around and walked back, and waited for him. In a few minutes he was Teady, and we Started over to the house, As ‘we passed a pile of rails where I had hid an iron bolt I had intended to kill him with, I picked up the bolt and walked in front until we came a fence about a quarter of a mile from the house. Then he got before me, and walked to abridge. Just ashe stepped on the bridge I started to strike him on the head, but was afraid. After he got on the bridge I drew back again to nim, but hesitated. But final- jy, when he was half-way across the stract- ure, I hit him on the back of the head. He eried, ‘Oh, Lord!’ and fell on his face. I didn’t look at_him until I walked across the bridge, when I turned and saw him rising to his knees. I walked back to him ana struck him twice more. He fell from the bridge into the creek, where the body was found. I went home and staid there all night.” When the body of the murdered man was discovered suspicion fell on Long, and he was at oncearrested. He was tried by mag- istrates, committed to jail, made a full con- fession, was tried in the Criminal Court, con- Victed, and sentenced to be hanged to-day. He did not endeavor to secure a new trial, as he thought it would be useless. Resigning himself to his fate, he embraced religion an prepared for his untimely end, He expressed mself to-day as perfectly willing to die, ad not called to see ur} im- prisonment, “A THIEVING DEPUTY-SHERIFF. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Sr. Lovis, Dec, 18—An order was issued in one 6f the Circuit Courts last Monday commanding Sheriff Mason to close’ the clothing-house of Adolph Frey, of No. 723 ¥ranklin avenue, and to proceed to advertise and sell the property to satisfy an unpaid judgment. Sheriff Mason, in obedience to this order, closed the place and appointed Frank Brown, a colored man, Deputy to guard the premises. Brown took charge of the store and sauntered majestically up and down the pavement day after day, telling every one who ventured to look into the “show-windows that he was Deputy-Sheriff and -in_charge of the preu- ises. Last evening Brown was_ detected leaving the store with a suit of clothes, a hat, handkerchiefs, and other articles belonging to the stock he waswatching. He was locked upatthe Third District Station. The affair a agood dealof talk among the ne- gee! for the reasats that Brown ras one of g men _ever Office of Deputy-Sherift ere. es ihe BARK’S LEGAL EXPERIENCES, Special Dispatch to The Chicaoo Tribune. Burra, N. Y., Dec. 18—Tue TrrBuxe has from time to timz contained accounts of movements in the litigation in the case of Joseph Bark, ex-City Treasurer of Buffalo, who fled from the city in 1876 a defaulter to the amount of $350,000. Soon after he re- turned he turned over his property to the city, and since then bas been fighting off con- viction in the court. Originally ten indict- ments were found against him, and in 1877 he was convicted on one of them. His counsel appealed from the verdict to the general term of the Supreme Court in April, 1878 That Court reversed the conviction. The grounds for this decision were that the indictments were defective, Inasmuch as they did not give the valuation and description of the money em- bezzled, and that certain evidence:admitted was illegal. District-Attorney Titus then carried the case to the Court of Appeals in September, 1879, and the latter judicial body dismissed the appeal on the ground that the people conid not maintain a writ ‘of error ‘froin the decision of the general term. A law was then framed,and presented to and passed by the Legislature Iast winter to sustain the writ of error in cases where it had not previously existed. In November, 1879, District-Attorney Titus moved in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Bark’s arraign- ment on another indictment. Judge Barker quashed this indictment on the same ground thatthe general term had reversed the con- Viction. Appeal was taken to the General Term at Rochester in April, 1890. They aflirmed Judge Barker’s decision. Then the District Attorney again appeared before the Court of Appeals, and on Tuesday Jast the latter Court sustained the opinion of the general term. This morning Bark came into court with : |. bouncing new indictments on which Bark was ar- raigned were obtained in December, 1877, when it, became known that the first ones were defective on the subject-of valua- tion and description of the money taken. They were very carefully worded, and District-Attorney Titus feels confident that Bark will be held on them if he is brought to trial. Some time ago he was ar- raigned on one of those Indictments, which charges him with having embezzled $2,000 on dune 6, 1874. One of the last six charges him with having appropriated 100 city: bonds, yalued at $100,000, while the others are as follows: For taking $500, May 15, 1875; $1,000, July 20, 1875; $2,200, Sept. 14, 1875; $800, Dec. 26, 1875. MURDERERS CAPTURED. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Quincy, HL, Dee, 18.—The police of this city have arrested a gang of murderers, of whose operations the Whig to-day has the following particulars: On the 8th of July last a murder was per- petrated near Lake City, Wabashaw County, Minn., a farmer named Haverish, a Swede, being killed by four men and robbed of a considerable sum of money. A iarge reward was offered for the capture of the murderers, who had escaped, and the Sheriff of the county and the police of Lake City setout in search of them. In-their effurts to overhaul them they traced them from town to town down the river, Officer H. W. Banks and a companion arriving here last week on the Mission, where they lost all track of the fugitives, and finaily started back up the river." Whijle in the city, how- ever, they conferred with Chief-of-Police McGraw, and he undertook to assist the offi- cers. The day after the Minnesota police left Quincy Capt. McGraw got information ofthe whereabouts of one of the parties wanted, and had him arrested on a flatboat which is ice-bound in the bay. Detect- Sliney and Ryan kept hard at besides the first man, who, raised in ives work, and it seems, was born and :this county, arrested here another one named Niel Haines, he being detected by means of a tintype in the hands of the officers, They also traced a third member of the gang and the worst one of the Jot Hoses, Devoll—to Louisiana, 3fo., where it was learned they had another flatboat on the Illinois side of the river. Detectives Sliney and Ryan were last night sent down there by Capt. McGraw, who gave them a close description of Devoll, and “directed them that they would find him on a boat, where there was a Jarge black dog. At noon to-day a dispatch from Louisiana to the Chief of Police announced the arrest of the fellow, and he will arrive here this evening in custody. This made the third one of the pnartet captured. The fourth, named Bob Morgan, has been at work on the Government river improvementat Hannibal, but he hasskipped, and will probably not be overhauled. The name of the first man is suppressed for rudential reasons. The four men have een operating as river pirates for a long time. the summer they go up the river, following the harvest, and return in the fallon. a flatpoat, stopping at different cities to. rob and steal. In June last they reached Lake City, Minn., hired out as harvest hands to Mr. Haverish, and on the night of the Sth of July murdered him and robbed his house. Officers from Minnesota are expected in the city by Monday to take the trio to Lake City for trial, a dispatch from George L. Matchan, District-Attorney of Wabashaw County, an- that steps will be immediately tak- en for that purpose. —. CONVICTED OF MURDER. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Bosrow, Dec. 18.—Aftera trial occupying five days, Stearns Kendall Abbott was to-day found guilty of the murder of Maria L. Crue at Groton. The crime was an atrocious one. The murdered woman, who was 27 years old, was found on the evening of the 18th of Jan- uary last lying dead upon the floor of a bedroom at her home with four wounds, caused by pistol bullets——one upon her fore- head, two upon the right and left sides of her head, and one upon her breast, either one of which was sufficieut to produce death. ‘The discovery was made by Joseph Crue, the husband of the murdered woman, who had left his home in the morning and been absent all day. A man called at tne house of Crue the same day, and had atalk with his wife about purchasing the estate, and how Jong he remained is not known. In the afternoon a neighbor, Miss Jennie Carr, called at the house, and a man having the appearance of a tramp came to the door with his hands behind him and stated that Mrs. Crue was not at home, and Miss Carr went away. That man was the risoner, Who was chased all over New ngland for ten days and was then arrested in New Hampshire. Be called fifty witnesses to prove an alibi, but the jury after an hour and three-quarters’ deliberation brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first de- Bree, To the Western, Associated Press. Bosrtoy, Dec. 18.—Abbott was found guilty to-day of the murder of Mrs. Crue. Excep- tions were filed by his counscl, and will be heard before the full Bench in January. When Abbott was asked by the Judge if he had anything to say before the case was ven to the jury, he replied, hesitatingly: * [don’t think there is anything I need tosay,” sat down, leaned back in his chair, folded his arms complacently, and alternately fixed his eyes on the Court and jury. bbott was being led away atter the verdict was rendered, a Deputy-Sheriff remarked that this was the end of this case. Abbott quickly remarked: “It 28 Dok the end of me, and don’t you for- get A MERITED CASTIGATION. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. RicuMonD, Va., Dec. 18.—Last night ata late hour, after the performance at the thea- tre, as Mr. Pond, Miss Rebecca Rosedale, and the troupe of Palestine Bedouins and Arabs were returning from the theatre, a drunken oysterman by the name of Murden jumped from behind the corner and struck Miss Rosedale a: blow in the face. The man drew back to repeat the blow when the lady dodged and he missed her. The Arabs and Bedouins, seeing this cowardly assault upon a lady, rushed forward and literally lifted Murden from the ground. Sheik Mohammed Suleiman, the whirling der- vish from:Bagdad, displayed his remarkable activity by whirling the assailant until the demoratized man fell almost lifeless to the ground. Sheik Abor Dauch, the Bedouin Chief, and Youseph Awdy, the Moabite, then caine upon the oysterman as he was getting to his feet, and beat him unmercifully, at the same time uttering their strange cries. Prof, Rosedale, the manager of the troupe, and Pond, by vigorous efforts, saved Murden’s life. The Arabs were infuriated. It is stated that this is thefirst time that they have displayed their rage since their visit to the United States. ‘The police, hearin the com- motion, came and arrested Murden, To-day he was fined $50 and sent to jail for thirty days. His face presents a black and blue ap- pearance from the effects of his eastigation. “NOT GUILTY.” Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Granp Rarms, Mich., Dec. 18.—For three Weeks past, in the Supreme Court in this city, Charles L. Huyge and his wife Eliza- beth have been on trial on the charge of murder. In November, 1879, they were mar- ried. On the 28th day of the next March a daughter was born to them. Two weeks later it was discovered inaswamp with what appeared to be marks of fatal violence on its head. It was the theory of the prosecution that the child was unwelcome, wi not his, was hated, and murdered, eee proved that the mother said harsh things about it after its birth, and that she begged her husband’s forgiveness forthe birth of the child. It was not attempted to prove with what weapon the injurieson the head were inflicted, or which of the respondents did the deed. It was shown that, so far as could be found, no one but the parents and doctor saw the child alive, and the parents lied in asse it to be alive and weil after it was dead. The prosecution insisted that the condition of the head at the autopsy proved violence, which produced extreme exchymosis. The defense insisted that the appearances resulted from natural causes, — from the severe labor of the mother at its birth, and from hypostasis. About a dozen ot the best physicians in the city were called an old and highly esteemed resident of War-. ren, an insurance agent by profession, ina ease now being tried before Judge W. R. Rowley, testified to-day that he had- been blackmailed by W.C. De Long, a hardware merchant of that village, out of $3,600; that aChicago detective and the former had put upajob-on him while he was temporarily clerking in De Long’s store, and had forcibly , conveyea him to a room ‘in the upper part of . the building, and having first charged him with robbing the cash- drawer of the establishment, compelled him by menaces and threats of exposure to sign a note for $3,000, which hesubsequently paid; that after he had giyen the said note, and on another day, a further sum of $606 was extorted from him py De Long, and $300 by the Chicago detective. The testimony ‘was brought out in asuit against De Long to compel him to make a report in an estate of which he is co-executor, and has created a profound sensation on account of the busi- ness standing of the parties principally con- cerned. De Long admits that he received from Giles the sum of $3,000, but claims that he had caught the former stealing, and that Giles had paid him the mohey to keep still about it. A PETLY SWINDLER. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 18.—Some time during last fall there came to this towna man calling himselt Dr. William Anderson. It was not long before he succeeded in working into the good graces of many of the citizens, and in this he had a purpose. As soon as he would form an acquaintance that suited him he would ask the !oan of some article, such as a shotgun, an overcoat, or any piece of merchandise that was easil: dis- posed of. These he would take to a loun- office and get money for them, and ever after- wards dodge the person he borrowed them of. One day a man passing the pawn- broker’s office saw his shotgun, which he immediately claimed and recovered. A warrant was issued for the arrest of An- derson, but he had skipped the country, and till last evening he made good his escape. Constable Simon Roberta, hearing that An- derson was at Indianapolis, went there yes- terday noon, and last evening he returned, bringing his prisoner with him. Anderson was lodged in jail charged with grand Jar- ceny. A THIEF SHOT. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Sr. Louis, Mo., Dec, 18.—Ferdinand Bison had an adventure last night that resulted in the wounding of an East St. Louisan, whom he refused to expose. About 13 o’clock he heard @ suspicious sound at the back-door of his grocery, opposit the Post-Oflice, and pro- ceeded to make an investigation. Taking hisshotgun he went into his cellar, and quietly opened the cellar-door leading into his back yard. From this place he saw a man on all-fours creeping up the back steps, and took aim at his lower extremities, The gun went off with a bang, and lodged its comprehensive load of bird-shot in the in- truder’s body. He made his escape, but Bison is satisfied he will have more trouble from that quarter. BOUND, GAGGED, AND ROBBED. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune Sr. Louis, Mo., Dec. 18—Upon the very same spot in which Dr. Goodell was waylaid and robbed a week ago, another robbery took place at 6 o’clock this afternoon. G. W. Flagg, a well-known citizen, is the victim this time. He was walking along Tenth street, near Pine, when he was pinfoned from behind, a cloak thrown over his head, and he was bound and gagged so that he could not speak, While he was in this fix the thieves robbed him of $80 in money, his gold watch and chain, some diamonds, and other jewelry. ACQUITTED. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Crivrox, 1, Dec. 18—Edmund “and Robert Wilis, wko have been on trial here for the Jast four days for killing Joseph F. Cooley in November, 1879, were to-day ac- quitted by the jury after deliberating some five hours, to the satisfaction of nearly every person, It will be remembered that Cooley entered the barnyard of the Wills poys and attempted, as alleged, to shoot them, when the boys defended themselves, the boy shoot- ing him five times in the body. The affair was caused from a note that Ed Wills wrote to Cooley’s wife. — ELOPEMENT IN KENTUCRY. Fatasours, Ky., Dec. 18.—On Wednesday night Miss Artemis Fields, daughter of Laven, Fields, living six miles from Fal- mouth, attempted to elope with Robert Thornberg, but was overtaken by her father and whipped home. The night before last she eloped again. Fields pursued her to one Joseph Elliott’s house, where Thornberg and Hiss Fields Re He red, at Billets, ac. cusl him 0) aiding le elopement only shot that’ took’ effect was one that grazed his daughter’s cheek. The fugitives escapet ATTEMPTED BRIBERY. New Orveans, Dec. 18.—The Judges of the Civil District Court, in response to the call of Judge Lazarus, sentenced Lucien De Buys, of the firm of De Buys & Ogden, to pay a fine of $10 and ten days in the parish prison. De Buys’ offense was in. making overtures to Judge Lazarus in reference to the consolidated bond cases now pending in his court. DEATH SENTENCE. Aveusra, Ga., Dec. 17.—Mose and Frank Twiggs, colored, convicted in the Burke County Superior Court of the murder of Wiliam Driscoll, white, in November last, are sentenced to be hanged Jan. 28, C. B. CHASE. The Mystery Surrounding His Life Deepening. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Sr. Pav, Minn., Dec. 18.—The mystery deepens in the matter of C. B. Chase, the Minneapolis photographer, whose death from heart disease at Rockford, LL, has been reported. Before his death he would give no account of his relatives to those who were with him in his last hours. Investign- tion among his acquaintances in Minneapolis and St. Panl disclosed the fact that he never confided to anybody any facts about his re- lationship. He was employed in the gallery of Huntington & Finne, in t. Paul, up to the time of its de- struction by fire six or seven years ago, and subsequently went to. Minneapolis, where Mr. Huntington and himself opened a ery. Between four and five years ago ey sold out the gallery, and Bfr. Hunting- ton went to Puget Sound with his family. About one year ago Huntington dropped dead from his chair while seated at his hotel, the result of heart disease, Mr. Chase, how- ever, remained in the vicinity, and for the Past four summers conducted a small gallery at Minnehaha Falls. Ha was a single man, between 45 and 50 years of age, genial and companionable with those who knew him well, but maintained a singular reticence as to his former life or his lineage. Hespent last winter at the Ber- inuda Islands, and when he returned to Min- neapolis or Minnehaha last spring it was ob- served that his health had been seriously im- Paired, and he appeared to grow worse as the sumer advanced, being but a shadow of his former self physically. When he left Min- hesota about six weeks or two months ago, his secretness about his family, and the fac! that he died from the same disease as his partner, renders the case of general as well aslocal interest, _ a LUCKY MEN. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Forr Warne, Ind., Dec. 18,—Messrs. Wilder and Boitz, who struck a $20,000 prize in the Jast drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery, have received official word of a.de- posit waiting their call. ‘There is not a corporation on the round globe whose specific gravity Is ‘than eof the ola Ama Life of Hartford. It is solid as granit, and as true as gold.—Weekly dtem, Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 1880, | §plendid Sy . owthe West Side. What It Will Cost, and What It Will Ac- complish. Following is the letter of Superintendent ‘McGarigle to the public outlining the scheme for the extension of the police and fire-alarm system to the business part of the South Di- vision, and ultimately over the entire city. The system is to be in the hands of Capt. John Bonfield, whose successful experience at the West Twelfth Street Station makes vilm the man for the place: Cmicaco, Dec. 18,.--Tv the Public: Thé Chicago Poltce Department, in an experimental manner, as endeavored to demonstrate the use of cleotricity in the trangaction of police business, and, after a triul of sixty days iu the West Twelfth Street District, is enabled to announce the most gratifying success. : Last August, Mr. AustinJ. Doylo, Secretary of tho Department, in a conversation with Mayor Harrison, suggested the idea of estublishing police alarms throughout the city and having the Police Department respond to calla with the same rapidity asthe Fire Department and In- surance Patrol. The matter was discussed nt length as to its feasibility, and Prof. John P. Barrett, of the Firo Alarm Telegraph, whose knowledge of electricity and electro-mechanical devices is admitted by all, studied out the mechanical appliances, and a scheme was elaborated which bus been in successful opera- ton in the West Tweifth Street District, under the immediate supervision of Capt, John Bon- field, since the 20th day of Uctober last. ‘There was no appropriution for this specific uurpose, and many doubted its success. Mayor arrigou, however, consented to the expendi- ture of savings from other appropriations innde for police puroaee totry the experiment upon the ground that, if suecessful, the con- stunt demand for extra taxation to increase tho police force might be avoided. IN THE ABSENCE OF THE NEW SYSTEM, when the services of a policeman are required, it would be necessary for some person to seck an otticer, and, in caso the officer be engaged in making an arrest, attonding 4 fire, or uny other duty thin traveling his post, the person needing bis services would find it necessary to go to tae stution, perhaps a mile distant, to procure the required service, and when it is considered that there are only 190 patrolinen available for night duty and seventy-six for day duty as regular putroiinen, and that this small number have the care ot ab immense territory, lke the City of Chicago, it is not surprising that ‘ky, “ Where ore the police?” is often heard. An officer may perform his duties falthflly, and travel bis post industriously, and yet lar- cenies and burglaries be committed upon hia post. It wouldbe unfair to hold an officer re- sponsible for ocvasiunal crimes upon hia post because of tho immense territory he is obliged tocover. Chicago has a smaller police force than it had fiveyears ago, notwithstanding the fact that the population bas largely increased, ana tho furtherfact that the arca of business and residence property has greatly extended. - In the West Twelfth street district (which comprises the territory bounded on the east and south by the Chicago River, on the north by Wost Harrison street, and on the west by Centre avenue) thirty public alarm-houses were built and placed upon Canal, Jefferson, Halsted, and Morgan streets, and Centre, Blue Island, and Cunulport avenues, These houses are built of wood, are two feet six inches square and seven feet high, and each is large enough to admit a good-sized mau. The houses are placed upon the sidewalk, as near to streot cor- ners 83 practicable, and securely fastened either to telegraph poles or corner stores. The keys to such houses ure uniform; they are fur- nished to respectable citizens upon application at the station, and a record keptof the numesof key-holders. ‘4 mechanical alarm, to register the location of the complaint, is inclosed ina small box attached to the side of the house, Which box alsc incloses a telephone for the use of the officer traveling that particular post, and which places tke officer in direct communication with his commanaer at the station. THE CITIZEN WHO POSSESSES A KEY can, by pulling down a lever which protrudes through a elit outside the box, procure the at- tendance of thrée policemen and a horse and wagon in from one to four minutes after enter- ing tho alarm-hause. ie Wagon carries a stretcher, blankets, shackles, handcuffs, ctc., ‘and can be used either as an ambulance or con- veyance for prisozers. The alarm-houses are furnished with pateat locks which, after opening, retain the key until an officer arrives ‘with a master-key, which he inserts in the reverse side of the lock, and releases the original; this precaution is taken to prevent false wlarms, and to keep the complainant at the alarm-house un- til the officers arrive to hear the complaint and apply the remedy. A Irrge bell will be procured and erected upon each station, and at a given signal each otlicor in the district will be required to report immediately at the ularm-house upon his post, 80 that if any serious crime com- mitted in the district the officer in command at the station can summon each man on post-duty, and telephone to bis whole command at once, giving information tohis men of the nature of the erime committed, and, if known, a descrip- tion of the criminals, thua putting each patrol- mun on the alert to arrest the suspected parties. Following this last statement to its logical con- clusiou, inasmuch as all stations aro connected with the Central by private telephone lines, if this system be thoroughly introduced in all dis- tricts, every man upon duty in the elty .can learn the particulars of serious crimes in a few moments after their perpetration, s0 that the escape of criminals may be rendered extremely difficult. In orderto show the inadequacy of the police force for duty under the ordinary pa- trol system in vogue In every city in the world ag applied to Chicago, I append a list of the STATIONS, TERRITORY, AND POPULATION, with the number of men available for night and day(duty in euch district, as foliows: Harrison Street Stadion—Area. one and onc- fourth square miles; 30,000 ec ee night sts, twenty-one; day posts, ten. Pirwenty-sccond Street Station—Area, two and three-fourths square miles; 60,000 inhabitants; night posts, twenty-one; day posts, nine. Cottage Grove Avenue Station—Area, two uare miles; 60,000 inhabitants; night posts, fifteen; duy posts, six. Weat Twelfth Street Station—Area, two square Bess ink elas night posts, twenty- four; dny posts, four. ‘Hinman Strect Station—Area, six and one- baig square miles; 25,000 inhabitants; night posts, fourteen; day posts, four. Deertug Street Station—Area, two and three- fourths square miles; 15,000 inhubitants; night posts, ten; day posta, four. West Madison Street Station—Area one and one-half square miles; 60,000 inhabitants; night oste, twenty-tive; day posts, twelve. West Luke Street Stution—Area four and one- sixteenth square miles: 45,000 inhabitants; night sts, thirteen; day posts. thirteen. ‘West Chicago Avenue Station—Area, two and fifteen-sixteenths square miles; 45,000 inbabit- unta; night posts, ten; day posts, five. East Chicago Avenue Station—Area, one and one-fourth square miles; 44,000 inhabitants; night posts, fifteen; day posts, seven. arrabee Street Statiun—Area, one and three- twentieths Piney miles; Py inhabitants; night posts, nine; day posts. four. Webster Avenue Station—Aren, one and one- tenth Sauare, miles) ‘30,000 inhabitants; night posts, seven; day posts, ‘two. Rawson Street Station—Ares, three and three- sixteenths square miles; a inhabitants; night posts, six; day posts, three. + Fe aboatd be borne in mind by the taxpayer that, taking the general expensesof running the Departineut into account, each person upon the pay-roll of the Depurtment averages anexpense to the city of 31,000 per annum. With tho new system introduced generally throughout the city, our present Police Department could PERFORM THE SAME DUTY AS TWO THOU- SAND PATROLMEN ae forming duty under the ordinary pai syB- peer maine reason that citizens could procure the services of officers when necessary. Very slight extra expense will be entailed fur the care of apprratus and feed of horses should the new system be generally introduced. ‘The efficacy of our Fire Department, admit- tedly the finest in the world, depends in a large measure upon tho rapidity with which the alarin isgiven. Why should not this new alarm make our Department as efficient, valuable, and fully appreciated as the Fire Department? THE WEST LAKE STREET DISTRICE a includes the territory lying west of Loomis an Sheldon streets to Central Park, and between Harrison and Indiana streets in the West Divis- jon, comprising an area of three miles east and west, by one and a quarter miles north and south. ‘This district isa fruitful field for burg- lars, and is guarded nightly by only thirteen pa- trolmen, and it seemed proper and necessary to establish the new alarm system therein with the savings frum other appropriations tor police pury 8. Accordingly, the district was divided at Hoyne avenue, and a temporary Site established in the rear of-and ou the same lot cecupicd by Engine No. 2 un West Madison sircet about 600 feet west of Western avenue. ‘Vhirty public alarm-bouses are now being con- structed for each of these new districts, to af- ford protection to the people residing therein. RESPECTABLE CHES sats can, at his‘own expense, bare a_ police an alarm call pluced in any room of his sture or dweitling, xnd can call, instantaneously, either the police or tire service Into requisition. The police stations will be connected by wire with the Fire Department; or, if 2 citizen discavee: fire in bis own house, bo can immediately call the Fire Department without the trouble of looking for a public alurm-box, thus saving time, which is an essential matter in either po- tite service. see cits ‘Council will be asked to appropriat eo money for public alarm-boxes throughout the Ctr, when tho ‘next appropriation bill is being considered. it scems to me, however, that the businessand in readiness night and day to attend all ealls. ‘The eapense of these private boxes is esti- mated as $V cach, which will purchase the ap- paratus. As these call-boxes aro self-windin, and altogether mechanical, no expense nee ever be inourred for maintenance or rental, but, in caso of getting out of order, they will be repaired by the proper officers of the city in tho Police and Fire Departments. Sankers, merchants, hotel-proprietors, jewel- ers, and other business and professional men in the mercantile district are constantly at tho mercy of forgers, sneak-thieves, swindlers, shop-lifters, pickpockets, and pennyweighters. These boxes are so small that they can be set fo a wall, behind a desk, or under a Counter, and a noiseless alarm given, which will not disturb the thief or swindler until the officers arrive to mako their arrest. Fire-alarms can be given in the same manner and registered at the headquarters of the Fire Department in one second after the alarm is turned in, ‘The territory last mentioned comprises more wealth than nny like amount of territory west of New York City, and is so compact that an alarm-wagon, manned with experienced offi- cers, can reach its remotest part in three min- utes after the alarm is given. Business or professional men whose stores or offices Ife in the mercantile district, and who de- sire to be connected with these headquarters, will address communications to Wu. J. MCGARIGLE, Central Superintendent Police, Police Head- jarters. laving been impressed with the success of the new police and tire alarm system from its in- ception, and having watched its progress with keen interest, 1 commend the above communi- cation to the citizens of Chicago, believing that ite general introduction throughout the city will prove as beneficial to the public as the fire- alarm system, and prove a valuable auxiliary thereto. Carter H. HanRison, Mayor. THE RAILROADS. EAST-BOUND FREIGHT BUSINESS. Although the freight blockade on some of the Eastern roads is still claimed to be quite serious, yet the lines leading East from this city have done a good business during the week, and contrary to expectations have transported more freight than for the week previous. The Vanderbilt roads seem to be best off as regards transportation facilities, as both the Michigan Centraland Lake Shore took out during the week a very large amount of grain, flour, and provisions. The Pennsylvania Company’s roads—the Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, and the Pitts- burgh, Cimcinnati& St. Lonis—have also done a very Jarge business, but principally in provisions, having refused to take any- thing but perishable freight during the early part of the week. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Chicago & Grand Trunk Roads have done very little. The latter is said to be badly blockaded, and the former was pre- vented from faking much freight on account of its difficulties with the Pennsylvania Company about the substitu- tion of the Bound-Brook route as its outlet to New York in place of the Pennsylvania line. The Baltimore & Ohio has now estab- lished a line of steamers between Baltimore and New York, which it expects will enable it to compete fully with the Pennsylvania and other Eastern lines for Western business to New York, and it will probably show on this account an immense increase in east- bound shipments from this point this week. As the Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania lines expect to be able during the next few days to dispose of all the business now on transit, the scarcity of cars is expected to cease at this point in a few days, and the roads will be able again to take all the freight that offers. An advance in east- bound freight rates would now be in order were it not for the trouble between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. The establishment by the Baltimore & Ohio ofa line of steamers between Baltimore and New York to carry its freight business between the two points is likely, however, to prevent an advance at present, and inay result even in a reduction of rates. As railand water routes cannot get business at the same rates as all-rail, the - Baltimore & Ohio will be compelled to charge less than tariff-rates on its New York business, and the Pennsylvania seems to be determined to allow no such advan- tage to the Baltimore & Ohio, hence a fight, and consequently a reduction in rates, can hardly be avoided. The total amount of grain. flour, and provisions, shipped by tho six Eastern lives from this city during the week ending Dec. 18 amounted to 45,667 tons, against 42,034 tons the week previous, an increase of 3,633 tons. The following statement shows the amount of business done during the week by each of the six Eastern lines froin this city: Grain, | Prov’s,| Ftour, |tons ris. {2000 of|tons of| Total tb.|2000 W.| tone, Michigan Central.. 3 Lake Shore. 6, 1 10,739 Fort Wayn 2,452) B287} 11,282 Pan-Handle. J 4,816} 6,831 Baltimore & 1,184} 1,107} 2,530 Grand Trunk ,... 1,243} 1,234} 2 16,935} 16,929] 45,667 NOTHING LIKE FAME, The following from the San Francisco Bul- letin of Dec. 1 will, no doubt, prove inter- esting to Mr. W. B. Strong, the energetic Vice-President and General Manager of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad, and | he will undoubtedly feel under obligations to the paper that so readily provides a new position for him: Information comes from San Diego that ratl- rond operations there are exceedingly active. Aresident of that place writes to a well-known citizen of San Francisco as follows: “ Prospects have been done away with, and wo baye at last arrived at that poiut_ which we have go long cherished—a certainty. Engineers have been and are still in the field.. The Company has organized and located its main ollices at this place. Invostments In land to the amount of $250,000 have been made. Contracts for the con- struction of the first twenty miles of the road will probably be lot some time during the com- ing week, as the Company is obliged to have that: number of miles under contract by Jan. L_ Rail- road-iron is on the way from Europe. Lively: times are anticipated.” The Company to which reference is made is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, or at least an organization representing that intorest. A road from San Diego Intersecting theSoutl rn ! goilic at Yuma will give the Atchison, Topeku & sunta Fé a short route to the Pacific seaboard, but the tratlic will, of course, pass over the Southern Pactfle until the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Road reaches the Colorado itiver. ‘There is every indication of increased activity in railrond, circles on this coast. The new line across the ‘eontinent through Arizona and New Mexico will be upened for through travel in a few weeks. ‘fhe munager of the Union Pacilic, perceiving that competition will soon exiss for assenger business trom Asia and this coast to New York, appointed D. W. Hitchcock, one of tho best railroad meu in the Union. to represent that rord in San Francisco. The announcement of his selection was made by press telegrams about one week ayo. It may be inferred that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Company will not be idle. They will select a representative of equal ‘skill to reside in San Francisco. It may be that W.B.Strong, x well known raflroad man of superior quulifications, who hus been connected with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Road for many years, will come here and see that the Company's interests are properly cured for. THE BURLINGTON ORDINANCE. The Burlington officials criticise the cor- rectness of the statements made by Mr. Durphey, Secretary of the Chicago Dock Company, in yesterday’s TrmoNe regard- ing the ordinance now pending before the Council granting permission to the Burling- ton to cross the streets along the South Branch, between Twelfth and Van Buren. They claim that the opposition of certain property-holders is simply for the purpose of forcing the Raflroad Company to pay them exorbitant damages or buy thelr prop- erty 96 unreasonable figures. They have agreed to give Schuttler and the other prop- erty-holders on Sebor and other streets an- other outlet, but are not willing to pay them for damages that have no existence in fact. The Dock Company wants more than an outlet. It wants heavy damages, or to make the Railroad Company buy its. property’ at unreasonable figures, and this they are not willing todo. The property on the streets which the Burlington proposes to cross will not only not be damaged, but will rather be increased. in value. There are tracks crossing those streets already, and the additional tracks which the Burlington proposes to put down will make the obstruction no greater than it already is. The roads that now come in on the West Side were donated the entire right itis only a question of time when viaducts will have to be built over all those streets. The Burlington, they say, would never have made arrangements to get in on the West Side, and vacate its present route on the South Side, but for the clamor made by the people of the South Side that the tracks now obstructing State street,’ Wabash and Michigan avenues, should be vacated. Com- plaints have been made daily during the last few years by the people living on the South Side over the delays caused by passing trains on State street and Wabash and. Michigan avenues, and this has caused tne Railroad Gombenr to believe that the people would hail with joy its intention” to vacate the St. Charles Air-Line and come in on a route along the river_ already taken up for railroad purposes. For years past the papers nad urged the vacation of the St. Charles Air-Line on the South Side, and suggested that all the roads should come in along the river banks on the West Side. But now, when the Company is ready and will- ing ata great expense to make the change, every possible obstacle is thrown in its way by designing and selfish parties. The Burlington is not compelled to come in on the West Side, but can continue to run in on the St. Charles Air-Line to the Centra! De- jot, and the other companies on the Lake- front will only be too glad to keep the Bur- lington there. And this it will have to do if the Council does not pass the ordinance, The Burlington people say they do not pro? pose to be fleeced by anybody, and that its new move is far more in the interest of the city and the taxpayers than of the Company itsel BALTIMORE & OHTO. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Baxrione, Dec. 18.—The railroad troubles ‘still continue unchanged between the Balti- more & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the Phil- adelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Com- panies. Excellent arrangements, however, have been effected by the Baltimore & Ohio Company for the transportation of their through freight from New York to the West by water, and the difference in time will only be about twelve hours. They have completed an arrangement with the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company of this city by which freight from New York West. via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will be brought from New York to this city on the. steamers of the _Transporta- tion Company, of which Mr. George N. Appoid is President. Through the courtesy of the New Jersey Central Kail- road Company freitht via the Baltimore & Ohio will be received at the pier of the former, No. 14 North River, and be placed on a steamship ‘which will bring it to Baltimore, where it will be transferred at Locust Point to the freight-cars of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and sent to its destina- tion. Mr. William Plummer, New York agent of the Merchants’ & Miners’ Line, was yesterday given power to contract. in the name of his Company with Boston parties for the charter of thesteamship United States, ot the White Star Line, out_of Boston to ‘Savannah, and with New York parties for we charter of the steamship Knickerbocker, ff New York. Other steamships will be chartered to meet the exigency of the case as soon as found necessary. President Hinckly, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Road, promises that within vinety days the difficulty will be amicably settled, and the Baltimore & Ohio accorded the same privileges: as the Pennsylvania Company. If this is not-done there is no doubt but that a rival line will be started. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasnineton, D. C., Dec. 18.—The Balti- more & Ohio Road has assumed a position towards the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal- timore Company, which has been obstruct- ing it, that will probably bring the Wilming- ton road to terms within a few weeks. The Baltimore & Ohio Company has given notice, and a very vigorous notice, that, unless the Wilmington Road lives up to its agreement and transmits the passengers and freight of the Baltimore & Ohio Road, as well as of the Pennsylvania Road, the Baltimore & Ohio will construct a competing line between Bal- timore and Philadelphia, The commercial interests of this city and the South and West very much desire that the Baltimore & Ohio carry out its threat, To the Western Assoctated Press, New York. Dec. 18.—Freight over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is being received regularly after the loss of une day. Tho completed arrangements are that freight destined for the West will be transported by steamers to Locust Point, opposit Baltimore. Perfect security against marine disasters is Fuaranteed by the Company. An inciease of business is expected, as there was always a detention at Philadelphia Junction when freight was sent over the Pennsylvania Road. The difference in time by the marine over the all-rail route is nut great. ANOTHER GOULD RUMOR. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 18—And now comes the report that Jay Gould is about to buy the St. Louis & San Francisco Road. When his purchase of the Iron Mountain was added to that of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, people thought that the St. Louis & San Francisco, somewhat of a rival of the two, would becrushed between the upper and nether millstones. ‘But the fact is thata week ago the Frisco line stock began to ad- vance. -Then it was quoted for first preferred at 8 and 8&3. Yester- day it had advanced to -8i¢ and 91. Whether this advance is due to negotia- tions of Gould for its purchase, or because the attention of capitalists and speculators is being drawn to Southwestern roads by Mr. Gould’s operations, is the question. Gen. E. F. Winslow, President of the road, lives in New York.. Some of the Directors are also New Yorkers; three live in Boston, and two inSt. Louis, A reporter called upon Mr. Frederickson, chief clerk to the General Manager, and Mr. Douglass, the Auditor, this morning. Mr. Frederickson sald he had no information of auy intended sale, and knew of no one bere who would know if there should beany truth in it He thought, however, that something was going on by ‘the move- ment in the stock market, Mr. Douglass said he had heard nothing that indicated that. negotiations were on foot to sell to Mr. Gould or anybody else. He thought the condition Morrissey, late of the Nati third-base with the Buffalo Club neat pay Kelly, of the Chicagos, is s winter.in Paterson, N. J., + Peete, the tends twenty ania 5 + Where he superin. The Buffalo Directors nave doned the idea of securin; acne ze Sth gago fropped him in a and Cleveland in 8 Was, stl Buffalo wants him in ia ‘he bat, and ‘The meeting to arran Ty. iS propos his ti Eastern clubs come West first” to ave the The Buffalo Express says: « signing in Cleveland, has got just Clapp, by wanted in Buffalo in 1879, and that is tocateh fpr pleConaleks He held when he ane uffalo firs pitcher in the count ee was the best that man- be ‘The change in the rule proyid' agers shall make contracts Witenes and Jiable to penalties and punishment, the sam as players, for any violation of the Drovisio; “4 of fhe same. is sald to, have been the out. wth of the icul rt Birectors and Mr. ‘Bancrott. eee: the Bats ‘The Princeton nine, the college chi intend going Into ‘active trait bata gymnasium after the Christmas ie A first-class professional pitcher will te en- gaged to coach the team during the winter, ‘The refusal of the League to admit Wash- and prospects of the road were good, and that its showing for this year had caused the advance in stock. <A’ reporter chancing to meet Col. John O'Day, of Spring- field, Mo.. attorney for the St. Louis & San Francisco’ Road, asked him: Colonel, is there any ‘truth. in the rumor that Gould is about to purchase the San Francisco Road?” Not in the least: and there is no foundation for it whatever,” he promptly responded. A heavy capitalist of this city, and one who has considerabie rail- road interests, suid: “Gould can’t buy that road, He hasn’t got money enough,” “ Why hasn’t he?” the reporter asked.“ Because of the Vanderbilt combination with the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé connecting with the Southern Pacific, or Huntington Road. At The recent purchase of the suuri, Kansas & Mexas and Iron = ain “Roads jindleate that. ( ee In February the Vanderbilt roads wil athrough Southern line to Gslitornta te Huntington Road is now complete froin Sun Francisco to New Mexico, via Tucson, and by the Ist of February the Atehlson, Topeka & Santa Fé connection with it will’ be com- pleted. No, Gould bxs not money enough to get Hele of the St. Louis & San Francisco eer A DAKOTA BROAD. Deanwoop, D. T., Dec. 18.—Work on the Central City, Deadwood & Eastern Railréad begins Monday, with Archibald MeArthur, of. Chicago, as the contractor. The road is under contract to be completed Aug. e road connects Deadwood, Central, a ian Cities with the coai-tields’ and foothills. Its course is down White .Wood Cation, with a tunnel through the mountain of 1,500 feet. ITEMS, The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- road took three car-loads of United States soldiers, Capt. J. M. Ingalls in command, over its line yesterday. They are going 4 the Yellowstone country: A new time-card on the Rock Island Raik Toad. goes into. effect. to-day. Trains will hereatter leave the depot in this city - Jows: Davenport, 10a, m.; Council” Biaits ington practically kills base-ball in ‘The team of last season is all brake Derby has signed to goto Detroit, and Lynch and Morrissey to Buifalo. Snyder goes to Boston and McClellan to Providence - - CincINNATI,-Dec. 15.—Col. Len farris has just returned from Washington, pied he has had an interview with representatives of the. base-ball clubs, he representing the Cinzinnati Base-Ball Club in its movement for an independent ne, formation of a League a foregone certainty. The Detroit Free Press says: “ About the Detroit team not much ean be prophesied, ag they have uever been seen together, ran is not known whether they will work harmon ously. Bennett is good’ behind. the bat, but is easily battered up; but changing Positions with Reilly, as he will, may possibly do even and good work. Fulmer is not much of a batter, but is a first-class fielder. Say was, during the first half of last season, one of the best at ‘short. but when he went, later, to Cincinnati, he didn’t play even a little bit. It is thought, however, that he will astonish the boys next summer. 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