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4 A e b ¥ “mo ono wus hurt. " rosolution was adopted: B . THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: 'TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 18Bl-TWL & LVE PAGES. ahout ta recelve nttention from the City Sealer, atul those whose weightsand mensires aro fousnd short will bo prosceuted. Toruonixa {crmlts wore granted yesterdny to the Chicngo & Pueilie Bievator Company to en- Inruo its presont bullding to 10 fout by 200 tect deep at the North lieanch and laines streot, tho fmprovoment to cost El.00: and to Poter Tabbo for n iwaestory brick dwelling, 214 by 40 foet, No, 76 Frank street, to cost $1,800, - THE deaft of u lnw han been forwarded to tho Togislature for its ndoption, empoweriug - nicipal corporations, through tholr City Conn- clls, toregnlnte the labor in -~ faatorlos and ottior rluccsn( chlldeen under 13 yenrs of age. This nw s regarded as cesontinl,” s many children, eapeeinlly cash-boys and cash-girls, In nany storea nro compeliuid to work twelvo hours adny with littlo Intermission, SUNDAY thore was no ico to apeak of around tho erib, and the inko appeared clear s far ns tho eyo could discern from tho structure. To- wardit night the wind begnn to blow a gale, nnd yastiloes enme townrds g erlb, erashing agiiust it and compollmg nll hands to be un wateh to keep the inlet vlcar. Tho thickuess is about two feet, and somio of tho Hoey which passed by were in vist hllls twonty-fivo or thirty feot high, o frlm'l.rt sight to all but the mon who guard the nlet, THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. ‘PyoxAs Tlonasox, of Buffalo, s at the Bhore wan. W. I1. Bcupurn, of 8t Louls, fs at the Shor- wnn. P 11, N. McK1xNEY, of I'hlladclphia, is at the Palmer, J. 1. Boiroy, of Gray's Inn, London, 1a at the Pacific, D, B M. MCAFEEE, of Clinton, In., Isatthe Bherman. Jonn J. ANnergox, of Chinn, is registerod at’ tho I'almer. Ex-MAvor WintiAs Oris, of Cloveland, fs at 1ho Eherinan. HEsny D, Destesr, of Dixon, 1ll, Beerotary of Sinte, Is al tho Pacific, Janrs F. Day7os and family, of London, Ene gland, ave nt tho Tremont. C. K. REIFSXIDER, of tho St, Louls Journal of Conuneree, 18 nt the Tremuont. M. C. urcir, United States Distriot Attornoy, Brand lapids, Mich., {8 at tho 'Freniont, M, Fruzprasoem, M, Welll, 11 Hehreutt, and A. Bon, of Snu Franefsco, are at the Palimor. M. AND Mas, SciuyLen Corrax and Miss Whade, of South Tlond, Ind., are at tha Pacille, Junar Juns M. DaMosT, of Colorado, ana lrmhmv J. M. Batléy, of Freoport, 1L, are at the acific. 'Tor death-rato. In Chicago last weck was 215, agalnst 227 tho preceding weok,, Diphtherin and eroup were noteo fatul, but the former earried off 1L and tho latter 10; scarlot-Tever took uway 73 smali-pox hud 4 vietins, 2 whomn diad in the hosgl und 2 i tho clty: consumption took awny 18 poeumontn, 203 convulsions, 16; and bronehitls, 12, Of “ilio decedents, 153 ‘woro natives of the United States, 51 boing born it Chicagos mities, 1013 females, 1143 married, 43 witows, 11; and widowers, 3. ‘FuEns havo been but four cases of small-pox Carr. W. T. Nouaneiiv, U. 8 Awi8at tho | reppriud since Snturday, the milil wenthor ovi- Pacitic, on his way homo to Crow Creek Awenesy | dontiy ncting ns o sort of n choek. Thecases re- Dakotn. ported were from 1205 IHug and _avenue, 4 North Eangamon, K7 North lated, and 104 West Thirteenth streets scarlet-fevor from 3744 Arnol, 9 North_falsted, Ltoom 7 Everett Touse, Peorin and Muidison streeta; redr of 3057 Emerald avanue; measles, 08 Sedgwick street: diphthoria, nt 10 and 21 Hope strest, n cse in cuch houso. I7is pretty certain that the olty will have to py Tor the dnmagye done by the wnauthorlzed raislng of the Van Buren stroct gride butween the viaduct and tho bridge. It is vors evident thut some ofliclal blundered In allowlng this work to procoed, and_the eity will hnve to pay for tho amuscment. The Fort Wuyno Hailroad Company, tor its own convenlence, whiened and leagthioned tho viaduct, and vulsed it, 1t ulso rlsed the street wrade an uverngoof cleven inehes, nd paved tho appronchics. Tho erown of tho streetds not [n tho contre, und hence Tie Board of West Park Commissloncrs held another informnl conforencee st evening on tho apportlamnent of the West WnahRigton atreet tmprovement nsseasment, Ollicial nctlon will probably bo tnken on the watter Monday next. T wns stated the othor day that the Firat Nn- tionnl Bank hnd offered a bonus to Mr, linverly gor tho lnst two munths of his lonso of the old Post-Ofice. The wmount 18 §12000, and Mr, Haverly has accepted the offor, aud will finish als senson Muy 1. N, CABLY, Vice-Presidont, and A, Ki Scueral Supenntendent of the Chica Isluna & Pacitie Railrond: John Allen, sldont f the Peorin, Pekin & Jacksonvilie Ruilrond: and Willintm Cutting, President of the Peru & Indianapolts Hallroud, are ut the Puctlic, ALBERT }\'mmms‘ 70 years of uge, living at Now 638 Clybourn avenue, while getting ont of his | property 18 tiooded. The Commissiuner of Pube wigon ot 3:80 yosterduy nftornoot, ou the cor- [ He Works was niixious to place it timberon tho ner of Blston svenue snd Ciybourn pince, ncel- | edge ot the strect 1o provent the downflow ot dentally fell and Dbroko his rleht leg. 1o Was taken liome and attended by Dr, Landlg, Tie Corauer yesterduy held an Inquest at No. B96 North Wells sireot upon Mrs, Thorean Rteinpe, 25 years of nge, who died sukdenly ut W00 yess terday forcnoon of rheunatisin of tho heart, 8he loft n family of threo smnll children, 4\Isng at No. 67 8igel street u)mu Joseph Rdiger, days old, wha dled of Infanille convulsions: and &t No. 10 Weed street upon Muria Sube, 2months aold, who died of inanition. Anorr hntf-past 8 o'clock Inst evening ong of Parmeleo's omnibuses was passing along the car-truck on Madison street, and, whea i front of MeVicker's Thentre, tho wheels stenck switch and swune tho omaibus henvily ugninse Madsson-strect ear No, i, which was traveling wtlong on_the other track. One of the whiile- trces ot tha omnlbus was broken in two, and tho #ide of tne car was split. ‘The passongers in both vohlclefii wero bndly seared, but fortunately waiter, the guuplu to rulse thelr sidewalks to grinte. Nothing has thus far been dbne in tho mntter, The Judiclary Committco cousiders it ugnin Saturday. A TEAPOT TEMPEST, 1 have nothing to do with thoappointments,” enid Mayor Harrlson yuqlonlu{ nfternovn, Just 18 n TN reporter hroke In on him, * and gt thowo nowspapor fellows will sy Lun ro- sponsible for nll the nppointinents, woich ire made, in reallty, by tho heads of tho Depart- ments,” Controiler Gtrney sat on one slde sud [ nene him- was Ald, Suuders, In the middle of tho room snt Ald. Lawler, near him st C. J, Cooney, who hnid. been the Suverintendent of Construetion, and up to yesterday had charge of the Fullerto cnuo condult, After that re- murk by tho yor there wnsn full. Mr. Hare rizon Insisted thnt he had nothing ta do with the appointients i tho City Bogincer's Doparts ment—that they wero all mado by Mr, Crogler. s by n fhort ° . time Bluce tho Fullerton-avenus condult wus finally turned over to tho city, and u tempest In o teipot has arisen. Robert Farran, who wus (lvrmnrli‘ an enginewr at the West Sile Puniping ‘Works, hus had charge of the Fullerton-avenuc pumps, but e was dropped somy time ugo, and Cooney hus huen in chnrgo ever since, He reps resented tho bullaers, and his thme explred Inst night, ond ho was offered a position by Mr. Cregler at $100 per month, which he refused to neeept, nmd he leaves: tho elty's service, Will- nm J. Turnbull Is an employe of the Clty En- gineer's Department, in the lite of promotion,n competent mnn, and would make an clivient Hupurintendont, _His nisfortunce, however, I8 that he 18 fndorsed and advocated by both Ald, Sunders and Al Lawler, ana if thero are two mmen in the Councll whom the Moyor don’t curo tu yeatify moro than is nbsolniely necessury, tlicse nro the two, Controflor Gurney and Mr. Creglor aro back- Ing up Mr. Juines 13, Carlisle, and ho will with- out doubit be the Superintendent nnd Enginoer of the Fallerton-nvenuo condult, thu satury for which ottice wlll bo ilxed at $180) per apuum by the Council, ns it is a responsible place. Mr Conney nileges that {t I8 Musonle b co which will put Mz, Carlisle I, Mr, Gurney suys that I er gpoke but oneo nbout tho man to Cregier, but he hns known hlm twonty yoars 1t eompetent meehunde and ono of the hest ma- chinists hu wver sow. -The Muyor sald thut he hued about coneluded that hu would not bo ncane ditute agealn, but Ald. Luwlor suys: **‘Chat's nll Dbloady tulry, und 18 no good, The old man wunts 10 be Muyor ngin bal,” Tax annunl meoting of tho Trusteca of tho Foundilngs' Homoe was lield P’enlcn)ny afternoun ut 5. A. Kenn's Bintk, M. (1101 1, of Flibbnrd & spencor, was refleoted T'resident of tho Board of Trustecs, Dy, Shipmun Supetintondent, ind Mr. Kenu Tressurer, and Me, I M. Hooker was elocted Auditor. Dr, Shipmun reported that tho mortgage on the Home was cleared off, the money to do it with—8500—having beon con- tribuielt tho other day by Mrs, Muncol Taleott, The Home 1s now free from debt, Tre High Court of tho Independent Oriler of Foresters, of tha Stute of Illinvis, will meet 1n annual session ut Klare's Hall, Nu. 7 North Clark streot, at 10 o'clock thls morning., An open seaainn will be held at2 o'elock this nfter- nooit. ‘The annual report of theSeeretnry Aliows . n8 follows: ‘Total membership in the Stfe, 286 nmount_of rellef pajd to aick membovs of the Order, $5 umount pald to widows and orpbuns, ¥ pald Indenth logses, $10,000, This Ia regurded us an excecdingly fine showluz in point of benetits, Tk establishinent of a Freo Workingwomun's Tlome on the West Side was thy object o it neets Ing ealled at No. Vest Madlson street lust ovenlug. Mrs, O, G, feh stated that tho de- sign 1% 10 found u home for widows, orphuns, and women ont of work, where they ¢t e given fomething to do and ke applieation for ems ployment,. It wos expected ISt eveng thut the oiicor would be sworn (i and the arranzenients mafle for obtabing n ehnrter, it owing to the ntd weather very 1w peaple wire present, and tho princlpnl buginess of tho meels i:ur will'probubly be aeted upon at sume future time. . M8, ANASTARIA FoLEY, wife of Thomns Foe ley, thu well-ksown bitlinrd-player, died nt No, b Superior street ?’I:sll:rlh\y morning, Abontn week o her nose begnn o biced, und the blood flowed stendlly for twenty-foir Rours, tho phy= led 11 botug unshin t stop tho hemur- oley wis greatly weuks uttll sho dlud whilo nsk n THE COUNTY-BUILDING. Jamen Forz was at tho jall yesterday, having partiully recovered trom his {liness. Di. Wanp witl tako Ellns Shipmun's placo as Minute Clurk of tho County Court. THOMAS SHANNANAN, found Insane Thursdny, was tuken 1o Llgin, by Deputy-Sherlft Kelsey. 1lo Is tho mun who shot at pooply on Mudison- stroet Lridge, Tue follow Ing Collectors filed tholr bonds with tho County Clerk yestorduy: Willium Johunson, Jefforson,” 180,000 iuenke, liremen, £15,000; Fred Precht, Blk Grove, Lrust Huhe, Schaumberg, $12,000; Honr, $15,600; llenry C. Welnle, Cleoro, $218, vonds huve bieen approved by the town ollicers. AL {LEINKE waa tnken bofore Justice Kauf- wann yesterday morniog, E. G. Asny nppeiring a8 lils covnsel, but, ut the roquest ot the prose- eution, tho cusy wits put_over untll Suturday, 113 bult yns fhxed at £1,00,and 13 ho was tunblo to give it at the timo ho wus taken back to tha Armory. Hostlli rofuses to say anything, iny ing beon ndvised that his only sulvadon is fa kaoplug what ho knows to himself. iy Gounty ofiielnls were yesterday In receipt of uclreultr” slgned by Mrs, 8. 8. Beatt, Ottawi, 1L, asklng contributions to tho proposod **Batitn Hunelng und Autograph Albuin,™ o seated 1o Mrs, Presiilent Lnyes, Feb, testimonind to ier m;ih morulworth and coungo in banlshlne tho wing-cup from tho. Honse.” Tho clrenlr ngks ' the antograph uf thuse recelving it, which must.be nceompuniod by neontribution of 7!. and provides thut the vroposed albwm shall eontuin all_ such unto- graphs; “u presentation poem, written by n distinghlstied poct™s und tiat b shall bo kus- pended by rods wnd yings inado of wood tiken rom tho_homesteall ot tho late President Lin- coln, nt Springliold, 11l So far ns Is known tho clreular hns not recelved nny rosponses, the oflleinly repnrding 1t ns rathor dingerons at this time to be inakiig n record for thomsclves on tho temperanes quostion, OFFICIAL BONDS, Judgo Loomis, In aecordanco with the statu- tory requircinents, went mm"'i“ tho furce yes- .terduy of cxuminlng tho bonds of wil otiichils whodro required to fllo tholr bonds with the County Clork, {lu hud the bonda before him, fncluding tnoso of tho Sherlit and his Deputios, the Clurks of tho severnl courts, and the Con= stables, ete., but could do no more than pnes uponthelr sulliclency in the absonce of obe- Jeetors, it belng Iinpossibio foe bim 1o know ull of tho hondsine, or to bo vequuiuted with thely respousibility, Ile expected any amount of objeutions, but, strunzoe to suy, only one wis presentod, and this wis by an attornoy of tha ty ugiust July Noounn, o Constable in the Town of Cleero, tho chnrge bolng thut his bonds- l'hu‘({u. M :ued, ard eunk gradiul p Sho wae Lorh on Stuten Islond in 1882, nod was mnr- rled fn 156L Hee thren ehlidron and hustand bave the symputhy of many frionds, who loved Ber for hoe many virtues and sinecrely regret her death, *Tho funernl will e at 1. . to= murrow from tho residence to the Cuthailral of tho Holy Name, and theneo to Culvury, attenton of n TRINUNE reporter was cutled yesterday to o furnace in the hasement of the building No. 16} Stute street, and unless ox- traordinary preeautions are taken to provent it thera will bo some work for the tiremon and o ocssation of huaitieas Iu that particulor uilding at lenst. Thero 18 n godly quantity of combus- tiblo rubblsh udl around tho furnuce, which wus red-hot yesterday afternoon and stifl n-hentlng, ‘with prospects furn binze outside of it The no- oupaits ot the store nbove stated that tho fuv- nute'hnd been lntely repaleed, having been in i miore dilapidated condition thun nt present, and care i3 sudd to be taken to let the fire go down ‘bclum tho placo ia closed up early n tho oven- oy, = 3 WILLIAM LATOLAW, B luborer living at the corner of Taughton und Leaviie strects, loat hla 1o ot 1:30 yosterday nfternoon while fuolisily attempthne to stop il Futaway teant of horses by Jinuping In front of them I tho roadway, Tho tewm wos nttiched to u buker's wigon be- longing to Peter Faxon, of No. &+ Bhie 1sland avenue. At the corner of Wool street und Bluo Istana aveune Laldlaw Jumped In front of them whllo thoey were running at full forco und valnly tried to stop theom. Ho was struck on the hrad by the pale of the wagon and almost fustuntly kidled.” Dr. Mullen, of No. 522 Rlue Istund pveny ns on thu spot shortly nfter, but Laidinw's Iife wie nlrendy oxtinet, The de- censed was of Bcoteh bieth, 38 yeurs of age, and lofta wite and four children in poor clreum- Bstunees, BiowTLY bofore 8 o'clock Inst ovuning J.C, Duvls, oncof tho boarders at tho Merchauts' Exchange, No, 12 South Wuter strect, was golug U to hls room, when ho discoverdl flnmes 1 the huliway on the thicd tioor, - Returning quietly te the offico ho infarmed the elerk, who turned in an olarm from Boz 1. The Depsrtment ro- sponded promptly, and sus ded i oxtinguishe lig thg Hro, which had buen coused by an oy heated ktove ngainst i wooden partition, - Tho boardors ut the huuso wero budly frighitencd, uind wany of them hurried thelr goods nto the street, Me, Potllp Dicter was i b, nursing n broken feg, and remulned thuro during all of the excitcment, Thoere was not moro thin &2 warth of damage done, Tl tho fire attnined any headwny there would Dave beon serioud res Buits, ws tho bullding stunds n u thickly-settied busdness quarter, und Lhere was a very high wind off the lnke. ANEETING of the new Board of Directors af tho Newsboys' Homa wis held at Hobert Luw's oitice yesteriday alternoon, The following ol eurs were elected tor tho ensiing years Preste dont, Willinm 11, Hand: Vice-Presidont, Chnrles D. Hunmond; Beerctury, 4. G, l.nuo, Trensurer, 4. K, stenros; Awditor, B, N, Higlgbotham, ‘Tha followiiyg tadles wero elected on the Bourd of Munagers: M. Henry Duoth, Mes. T, Buxter, Mra. J. L. Lomburd, Mes. A, 1 Moore, Mrs. L. L. Bond, Mes, Rtobert A, Willlams, Mrs, dutas Erako, Mru. M, E. Clark, Miss 8. . Gar- vin, Miss B, Cherrle, Tho appoliitiuent of other maeimbors of the Bonrd of Managers wisdefesred untll Wednesday wficenoon ut 8 o'clock, when 3 mon were dend. Upon the represontations mado In tho easo an order wis_entored caling upo Mr. Noutun o renow bis bond onor L= tore . 13, il If ho falls to obey tho arder his o will bo dectured vaewnt, Tho uetion of the Court, however, must nat be constried ns aunce tlonjng the bonds of tho county oilicluls, for nb« Juctions 1o the bonds will be heard at any time, Judgo Loomis slmply passed upon tho objue- tions presented, —— U, 8. A, BixTy thousand dollars for ponalons was dis- bursed yesterdny, » Five thousand dolinrs In gold nnd $2,000 In sliver was dishursed at the Bub-Treasury yos- terfay, Boven thousaud dollars fu silver was i tneetiuge will e eld ot tho Nowsbusa® o, | 1gyiveq Tho President was authorized 1o employ o cal- | Feeeived. lector tor the Humo, niter which the Board ad- The Internal-revanue receipts yesterdny Journed. A rarny meoting of peuplo Interested in tho ruction of a vinducs ut the erossig of the Chtgo & Northwestern Hallrord over Chlongo ., Bvenue i utsted street was lield bt ovening “in Auvora Tuencr Hull, with 11, Ackhotf In the ehair, nnd Charles Willlamg s SBecietary, Comwltieo at Bve, conslsting of August Meyer, Johu Buumgarton, Heemun Tressalt, B Avke + ull, aud 4, Bacher, was appainted to attend tho meotlug of the Finunce Comtuitteo of the City Conneil, und urge tho uppropriation lor the cots struotion of the vinduct, A Comniitteo consiste Aug of W was nppainted to aiend the meeting y Couucil wheu the approprintion 1P for consld fon. Tho fllowlng entticsd, ThUt Wy tuxpayers und clifzens In musd-meeting ussems Dled, pledgo ourselves to oppose the redlecton of uny meinber of tho City Councll, nt the coms ~ g wleeton, who doos g vole for #n dppros . printion tor the construction of o vinduct core . mor ol Chican avenue, [lalsted street, aud the Chicagw & Northwestern Ruflrond.” "It wue sy nounced that i masganecting would by bold (n 1 tho North 8ide Turner-Hull, on Clark strect, ' ¥riduy eveuing. THE CITY-HALIn . Tue police and firemcn will bo paid 76 peroent 5 of thelr Junuury sularles Wweday out of the bale ance of the General Fund, © @'ne complaints keep pourlog in, thick and fayt ubout the short welghte andmeasures given by the strect-peddiors, All these wortbivs are amaunted (o $34,701, 0f which 820,450 was for spirits, F4635 for tobacco aud clgurs, and $1,2x for beur. z 'k fullowling I8 tho llst of dutinble goexls ro- celved ut tho Custom-Huouse yesterday s Fowler Brow, 100 sucks wnlt; A, B, Meeker & Co, 12 tons plu-lrans Rhodes & radley, 48 tons plg- froug Burloy rrell, §) puckuges earthonware; Fo & B, Jucger & Co, 23 puckages curtbonwares H. Chunnon & Lo, b eo'ls wive mrn; J. B, Kirk & 2 enskd soda wsh; Fowler Bivos, Buckd et B & He dnewer & Co., 18 pucknges curths enware. Collectivng, 32,561, Pengans who havo oceuslon to vislt or reinain In the dovermmoent Buliding ufter & o’clock in tho afteenoan should bear §1 mind tho fuet that the pulatinl ulevators are run by Governuiont cimployés, 1L tollows that, as these gentlemen nrwomen of jolsure, they leave teir palatin mchines ut that bour, und the wWeary tuxpnyor can counit the jnjuld stops of tho Loty vtalre vydvd, Many of the clorks aro detained until 4 u'elock, und wany uf the publio dusire to visit 1bo nitices o Governmont business up to that hour, but the elovuiors ure nut for Lhow, PTIIE COUNTY BOARD, NOIE MONEY TO BE PAID OUT. Comwlssloner Wood, in the sbience of the regulur Chalrminn, presided at the weekly meotr ing of tho County Loard beld yesterduy aftor- noon, Architcet Egan sent fn an estimnto favoring the payment of §4,143 to tho Minsdale Granitw Compauy, Neferred to tho Commitieo on Buildings, To tho samo Commitico was refetred an estimato for vanlt-work, amounting to §3,400, in favor of J. M, ‘lorwililger. Estimates in favor of I .1, Sexton for carpon- try work nnd for inclosing lron stnirways, amounting to $25,423, weru also refuorred, A communication was read from I’ J. Sexton fn roply to certaln charges rocently mudae In n report by Commissioner O'Nelll, Every chargo was donied by Mr, Sexton, with the oxception of tho chargo that nsh had been substituted for cherry wood In the finishing. Ttofersed to tho Committeo on Judlelary, A brothereln-law of Commissionor Clark, n Mr. James Wright, was appointed turnkoy In the Jull. Salary, £i5 per month, CONTRACTS AWANDED. The cantract for vault furniahing in the now {Jm{‘rt-lll‘mls? was, aftorsomodiscussion, awarded o Mr. Harrls. “Ifio_contract for work 1o he dono undor tho direction of the Committeo on Printing and Sta- tlonery waus awarded to J, M, W, Joues, The tontract and bond of F, W. Hippor for tho supply of meat to the county institutions weto read,” A fruitless effort was made by Commise sioner Knopf to pive tho cuntract toJohn Foed, per’s bomil and contract wero referred to tho elary Comumitive. Measrs, tiriifen & Conloy were awarded tho contract for tho supply of fee to tho county. Commissioner Woud Trepsurer be instructed to open an account in his bouks to be known us “TIE POOI-IIOUSE WUILDING FUND," 10 which ho shnll gredit nill mmmf'u appropri- ated Ly the Honrd for tho bulldle house, and nay out of said fund nll orders drnwn ngninst sald fund by order of this Loard, 0 Commiasionor offered tho following: Hesolved, 'Lhut tho County Tronsurer bo and he hiereby Is dirscted to apportlon tho amounta received from eounty tnxes now belig collected for tho yeat 1880, na well as for former yenrs, to tho soveral funds in proportlon to the mmounts o approprintion ear 1EO—t0-wits cen Tudebtedne: Fun d s, 1087 per conts to the Court-llouse Fund, 115 o tho Poor-House llulldlu){ Fund, Provided that the amount to be plne ar-flonge Bullding Fund shmlf 1ot exceed $50,000, and that when tont suim shall have been placed to tha credit of sald tund the remuinder of theilol per cent of tha tnxes of 1880 and former yonrs, if any, shall be credited to the General Fund.” This resolution was carrled. 3 Aujourncd untt this afternoon at 2 o'clook. SUBURBAN. EVANBTON. Thy tax-books for personnl property are now in the hands of Colicctor Kiine, who Is rendy to recefve tho taxes, The real-catate books will bo on hund the Ist of the month, Mr. 'I'. A. Coygrove has just sold tho house noxt south of tho Presbytorian Church to Mr. B. F. ), J. 11 Kedzie aod H, B. Hurd will cach 3 0 howee to cost about $.0000n the Ash- bury street front of thalr redidences, It 18 ex- pected that tho bullidings will bu ready for oceu. puncy by early spring. TAX FRAUDS, Tho County Clerk IRines to Explaln. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CouxTy CLERK'S OFFICE, CiigAGo, Jan. Sl— Bulng fully aware that you would not inten- tonally publish anything which would unjustly retleet upon the administration of any publie office, I deem It duc to truth to advlse you cone cerning certain facts Iu retation to the *dropped forteltures™ discussed. fn your {ssue of this tiio eredit of tho_ Po ‘The fucts arc, that, ubout tho time the taxoes were being extonded In 1878, it was discovered that some of the forfeltures of formor years hud not been carried forward into tho warranta of 1877 und provious yonrs, Thescomissions had occurred i tho guversl warrants oxtending bilek to tho thme of the great fire, und possibly before that time, and thorough exumination of all the previous tax- warrnnts thon {n the oflico us soon as the then presshug work wus accompllshed. In complls unce with this purpose, two oxperts wero sot ut work to glean up these dropped forfeitures, and in tho course of three or four months' knbor, dlscovered over 870,000 of such taxes, which wern cireicd forwurd fn tho warrants of 1850 innil tho city books, wheru niost of them ocourreds but awing to a deelslon of the Supreme Court of tho State, requiring the Interest to bo computed for ench yeur separately,—that is, nnt com- pounded,—Iit was tound to bo impossible to get them all computed for the country towns. in ive the Colleetors thetr books without consuming- thy whole thne allowed by law.to them for innking colloctions, - . After consultation with the County Attorney; Coumy Treusurer, nndn Committes ty Board, It was dotermined to deliver tis wiir- runts to tho tountry town Colleotors for that year, and to ada the droppod forfeitures tn such towns to the warrantd for the tuxes of 18%), and which Is now ubout completed. Large amounts of these forfeitures huve been pald within the last yoar, and ull will be tinally collected, which wera not uttached to proporty uxempt by bLut by wmistake, overzeal, or “Incompetenco of Assedsurs bl heen embraced In tholr returns, Clerk shoulil have erodit for of censure, in this matter of I'hus the Count; dillgence, histesn 1t {s duie, In Justico to bis predecessors, to Aoy that the droppiug of such forfoltures are not neeessarlly ctiwrgenble to nny eriminagl neglls Konee, but were lnrgoly owling to undechied ap- penls from the County” Court, nnd other cqunlly cuntrolling eircumstances, and possibly in soma instances to the incompeteénce or negligence of some of tho many clorks engaged i oxtouding thy taxes fi tho warrants, . You und the public well know that in tho best- munred commerciul house lices lusscs iro sometliutos mide through tho delinguency ot ono or more of their trusted om- yés, but I do not believe that tho public will 030 n dollar by abything which bus wrongfully accurred in tho rovenue depurtinent of this oflico durlug the present asmlnlstration of it3 AtTadrs: but, on tho contrary, that lnegoly redireod with {ncrensed” revenuc has been itst tingo, Hatover, 5000, Tho {Purpmn to condomn any just ite oflices or oflicers by tho news- puper press, bocanss 1 think that ft exertsn powerful lutluence in proserving tho Integrity of both; but it shoula not bo forgotten thut 1 thoir praisoworthy zeal reporters frequontly drnw unjust coucluslons from imperfectly un- deratand frets not unirequontly linparted to them by otlicious but il-Intormei! subordinntes, Ongo of the misfortunes of the nverugo bumnn ‘mind [8 that It selzes upon u theory often formed upsnt & very fow or impericefly understood fiiets, and soeks to sustain that thooryby torturs Ing evory new discovery 10 corraba waurens “the true scientlst will only baso n theory upon i lurgo accmnulatign of facts, and oven then with a modest reservo that new foeta wny urun}l)‘lllnmnry. if not unllsal anbyert, his criticlat of pu e — . A SUIT FOR DAMAGES. Spectal Liapateh to The Chicago Tribune, Keoguk, In, Jon, #l.—~Great Intorest hns prevailed In the Umted States Clrenit Court for tho pnst week over n dumnga suit to-tha amount of $20,000 brought against the Chi- cugo, Hurlington & Quiney Rullroad by one Mrx, Ponl, whoso hushand was killed while the ubove road In 1870, Messry, Jlagerman, MeCrenry & llmiurmnn of this city, nppeared for umé)lnlnll AMr, Blythé, attorney for the Chiengo, Bur- Quiney, and Judge T for “tho Company, ‘The argu- ments wera length; sldes, nud Judgo Lov ablo chiwge to the jury, Saturdny morning, in tho employ ot In the afterncon the brought'in o verdiet for defendant, which crented mueh excitement, as it was generally supposed they wonld disngree. ‘The court- rooi was thronged when the verdict was ——— A-LUCKY CAPTURE, i Ofcara Jones nnd Enwright, of the Doering Btreet Station, whilo nour the Honflold stroot crossing of the Alton & Bt Louls Haliroad atf o'elock lnst evemn, snw u nun In tho flouso of Correction * yray and black stripes'’ Jump from tho tralt and run rapidly towarus n huies near Uy on Hickory street, ‘Phey pursued and capt- ured the votuges, and looked bim up, The fole lgw proved to bo u mon named Rottelle, who escaped but ehortly before while at work with one of the outside guim at the Houe of Core o wis sentouced for ninoty. duys y8 ugo, nt South Chicago, tpon o churge of attcmptod mpe, which charge wis changed to disoracrly conduct, Upon making his eseapo Kettelte mide his wiy to the trucks and bunrded tho traln whilo in motion, An om- ployd who know him bufrinded biny, and 1t was o hits houso that the convict was hoatenleg to chnigo his garb, when ho was caught, The ralls rouder wha was uiding him to eseapo munaged ttelle will be ‘roturned to to uvold wrrest, the lustitution to-du, ———————— THAT ST, LOUIS MURDER, : Andy McUinniss, tho younk mau hold at Cons tral Stution upon suspiclonof having bad o hund n the wurder of o policeumun ut Bt, Louls, has confessed to Detective MeDopuld that bo, In with onu Willio Kennody, along about November burglarized o talior-shon in Luthiu yut wushure of tho plundee, Boon cast blneadritt beeauso Tho poilcoman was killod o wmonth later, and in & ditferont locality of the yohthero ls no reason for supposlog that McGlnniss dous not know somethiog ubout tho e Bt 1ouly police ura very sluw in an« swering the dispatencs sont them sbout tho fellow, and, oven thoigh bo should prove blm- self lunocent of all complicity in the wurder, be confesses to having commitiod a §100 biv wus * too slow," e — We recoutmend Eldredgosewlng-machines, Legislature to Change Im- pom\nt Laws. minernl essenee bolis at n Bills Affecting the City of Sto Paul. The Indiann Tnvestigators Continue Thoir Laobors—Matters at Harrisburg, Pa,~—Missourl, ored womun, was burne WISCONSIN. fug, She lved with | Special Dispateh to The Chieago Tribunes MAnison, Wis,, Jat $1.—DBoth houses had | 1T loft s honsy early ng, lirst, nn approprintion for cultlvating | must have upset the si nmberecanos second, that the Wisconsin Leg- | set firo (o the building, moved that tho County ng of n poor- Pwo petitions were presented asking the | stood aronnd, watching Iuminating olls, ! I'his nftérnoon thore was filed in the oftice LOf the Secretary of State nrtleles of nssocin- thon of a rallrond from n point on the Mississ- ippt River, opposit the City of agonizing shouts rent respectivel, for ] To tho General Fund, to _the [ntcrest 2. conty now Indebtedness, fncorporator Countys E. E. Chapi and two gentlemen of Stillwater, Minn, To-night Mr, Kingston introd celia | tho now rond mentioned above, ‘This is o very mmportant neasure, in which se Chieago gentlemen are lnrgely interesied, > MIN. OT AL Epectal Dispatch to The Chicagn Tribunes mabming for life of here to-ilny the bills authorlzing the City of company are erecting n St. Pavl to lssue bonds to purchase the Whater-Works, establish a workhouse, in- creaso the sewerge fund, repiir and bulld bridges, were passed. A resolution empowering the Committeg nppolnted to investigate the charges against the management of the St, Clond Norma! School to send for persons and papers and employ a stenographer was adopted, the gearing broke and Richard Howe, smashi on-top the dorrick, and teo on Congresslonal Auportionment to pre- | fatal Injuries. pire o bill dividing the State Into five Con- gressional distrlets was adopted, Fow when INDIANA. - Spectat Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune. i *IxpraNAvorss, Ind, Jan. 5L—Tho Com- | Wtll nbout dusk, when mitteo to investigate the Female Reform- {f{,sfg'.l:.fil:llll‘:::cly& Hiy atory held n short session to-night, mul ex- | and he expired Sunday, amined two witnesses, hut elleited nothing of Interest, ‘The_examination will be con- tinued Wednesday nights Sourn By, Ind., Ju Pli.\'I;VSYI.VAN % Ihisteill T Annisnuna, Pa., Jan. 31, —The thirtcenth o ballol for United States Senator was taken | py Lalroaditrans nts to-day., There was not 8 majority of all the members present. The tollowing Is tho vote: Ofllver, 425 Wallace, 375 Grow, 23 MacVeagh, @3 Phillips, 23 Buird, 13 ewltt, 1 ‘Adjourned until to-morrow. t waa declded to huvo i license, slipped and fell MIS;OURI. minutes, but made n w JreFrEnsox Ciry, Mo, been Introduced fn the House to-dny provid- and salo under an execution emnunting from a judgment for wages for any munual labor, e —— PENSION-AGENT HARPIES. sfoner Bentley’s' Blll=Threo Curlouy Lottorn, Gt * "' Ny Telegraoh o New York Tribune, CINCINNATYL, Ja WASHINGTON, Jutt, ‘;’;J.-Tho l’mimln;u Amvrn{ subedriver for the € printion bill is upon tho Senato enlendar and will A probubly b calicd up noxt week. An under- roud Company, was ¢ standiug was reached In the Appropristions of tho Coltite ¥ fnw, | tho Penslons Comunittee, shuuld movo ta ndd to ho was thrown agaliy Tverything possible was bill,* providing n reorganization of tho mu- chinery for tho adjudication of ponsion eliims. The pension clalm agonts are, as might bo ox- pected, notiug fn concert and vigorously In op- position. For sovoral wecks they buvoe. beon ) . s sending clrculars to’ pensioners und peusion | Who wore employed. in SAN Fraxcisco, Cnl huuky, and publio ent of the Zrihunc. - Tho first I8 sfuned by “The Natlonal Tribune Cotmpany.” The Nattonal Tribunc I8 tho ndver- ;ml;ux n“:ut "\rx o Inrgo \leubLnxl?I‘ filuln: xmnuuf’. f i \ ¢ describes tho measure ws caleulnted merely | Ing of a traln golng nort] to furnish ndditional positions for elerks, nnd to ¥ hindor aud delay o sottlement of chaims, ¢ | tertown & Omtlensburg suys: * Proouro as rapldly ns possible tho sig- | fiveman, conductor, and nitures of l)llrlll:s Interested. Lot tho petitions sont herowlth bo signed in duplicnte, and ns 10 your Senitor aud oo to your Representativo | DY S10W. In Congress.” A 'The second _clrenlar boars tho lithographod slgnatieo of Geargo 5, Lomon, ane uf tho lnget | TIOLLAND LANDLSG, oxtensivo operaturs (n pension clwms in the 3 Worlil, * Ho chaructorlzos the miesiiro nis | W-exbress ou tho North granted, Ho quotes o resolution pagsed by % tho State Encampmont of .,' u“mfl the tratn and wns smoth 1870, prononnelog the recommendations of tho o 1y, Commissionor of Tengions uracicablos bug.| SeroUsss bo fuils to udd that this resolutlon wus gotien up by elaim ngonts, and that the kiane orzanl ooy vone lnter il o tusotution honrilly . nxam)\' ng tho elforts of Conmissloner lonttes, | glsting of soventeen ot tho” nrgest possiblo st of simutures of ; o Tt ox-soldiors and sullors,” Mr. Lemon suys in his | bissenger-couch loft the cireulur, * and let_cach ono 8titu tho arganlza- | nlght, tion ta which ho belanged: 16 wll ineand work |yl Ffeeman Tlarding, ruplily, so that tho petitions eun lio sent by you, 5 Ol S tomboR Of Comirons, i e to.gng | IR Englncer Murphy. of yonr United Stuta Sunwtors, before the S5tk ¢ of Janunry, 1831, If possible, but If not, ns soun thereufter us practicublo,” Tho third clrculur §s still more ingenious and IrAto - Ity ALLOWAY. which penstoners and pension elafimnnts will ho e T o s, OF LHtA. Mttty | 1iros: dn Unton, burnoil Prevent 8o great o catanity na foltows: First—All clnlmants who have not pald any purtlon of onr fee should send by registorod let- teror Post-Ollice mynvy-order” the entlve fee, £10, or as much of it us they cun possinly spare. "I'hose who huve slreidy puld @ purt o “tho feo aro rcru'u‘cuwd to send us the bulunco or u por- on o y A nd_foreible on both after delivering an guva themn the case following letter (If 1t 18 correct), sixn the satv, ani nfld;t-ua 0no_to Yo Benitor und tho uthot 0 your Washington at onces | **The “Hon, . Washington, D, C—Dean | 1, o Sixt L am an appliciut for i pobsion, and live lect by the Overscers was concluded to-dny, :llyol;lllll;'. lnrfsnuro l‘l;' \‘vfll }:l:xulilumfilulhs rorkmu n"fl.fi 0 got my witnosses beforo 'onslon Court, 18 | shnethe grentost, neglee I couhlint puy thelr vxponses. [ beyg you lodo i 3 . At Foh ens 1o doFens that bt and ull niors ko | Of - water, und thoy Hples or doteotives como duwi h[I‘Il I Mr, llt'nlle)"sql)lll b titled to. Only n porson with woney could provo | viding o watelman dnd money don't noed u ponsion, Please don't let respectiully, 0 In copylig tho above write the Souator's or Representutlve's uume aftor tho word o, and #iso i1} in your post-ottice hddress alter the word *ut,” ign youe nuue below tho cwords “yory reapeetfully,” Dleuso don't detuy. Writa im Jotter lmmedlately, and comply with our uurm.:klon- llll!llwu w»'s‘|' o -#l In uur_ ,lm\‘v[urlqz membors and friends of udvance your tome Y vAna & Cur ! | thls eity wus held at th Postago for roply shguin bo {nclosed with ot | evening, Seventy-ong ters of linulry, ¢ of members were obtain Jury ucknowledges, Houn, cun hurdly fail to huve un influenco { o » ity upon thy minds of Sonators und Represcatativos ,luh‘i “‘;“' Latrlck Gibbol in Congress, Ponslon legisiatlon bithorto hus | Ale LEW Leen shaped to w uwn‘ ugonts The result ls found In tho 80,000,000 marg, Trensurer, 1.d, mulatod In the -Poywion Ollice, Bonutor Withors und bis eight ussoclates of tho Souato Commnlttes on Ponslony think it s time foru chango, . A ival to Kerasene, « M, Kordig,a Hungirian, has been !ntoly por- formiug sotne uxperimonts, at scient. lugs 1o Purls, with o volutite combust arsunged oi tho table soveral lnmps, in whie tho Huld buens with 8 besutiful brigbt lamo, M, Kordig stutcs that (e substunco prescnts no ;murur of tiro or expldslon, und be gives tho fol- low! on Lis hat and lghts it, whereupon t long Numo | out rats, mice, bed-bi Is starting from the shor burglury, 3 Al #prings yp to tik celling. 1o pits his hint on bin bTATE AFI‘ AIRS' Il‘mul'l‘\nd[\’runn tHi tho tlame Emu out, and tho hat Is thon shown to bo Intact. Noxt ho pours ?‘mn“fllho Ilh‘““! :mdlu:lllnormul on 8 hande crchluf, and Tiehts ity Grangers Memorializo the Wisconsin | kirchiof aro no' wass dnmnged. Somo drons mny bo put in. the hollow of one's hand_and buent without producing . appreciublo pain. Thoso mots aro |'x,'m!lly oxplnined, M. Knr‘(‘lla‘fl tho tonslon of Its vapor is considernble. 8o that 3 it I8 not the Jiquil that buras, but its vapor, Tho PTassage by the DMinncsofn Iouso of | new ifquid Is sald to bo obtained from naturnl ml=heds recontly disenvered in ffungary. 1thas a slight sinell of potroleum, and produces on hio hiands a colil scnsition ko ethor. CASUALTIES. ROASTED 1'0 A CRISI’ Special Dispaleh to The Ghicago Tritunes Lows, Jan, 8L,—Aunty Mintle, n col- Camnbell, In-n shianty near the falr-grounds, an evening sesston to-night. Connhunien- | soon after his wife mud children left, leaving tions from the Stata Grange were rend ngk- | the house in charge of the old woman. Sha islaturo momorinllze Congress to vpass the | departure the fire started, ‘Che unelghbors Itengan bill; third, that tho Leglsiature pass | saw tho house ablaze, and some- a law making tho passenger aud freight tarlt | body ran down to the ‘box « and of rallronds unitorm nud equal, turned on the alarm. Tho crowd repeal of the law for tho Inspection of [1- | looked, pitiful eres wera plainly heard, and was hearl walling: “ My Godl O God Al mightyl” Tho firemen soon vxpinguished Walastia, | the fire; which had burned so flercely that all Minn, to Superior, on Luke Superior, the | attempts to rescie nnybody from the honso elng .. T, hl‘nuhuul0I"J|uwnll «were futile, When tho blaze had subsided i, of Columblz County ; | the firemon van n among the ruins, and just et bill | nstde the door, near tho stoxe, lay o crisped tho Assombly killing the grant of land made | mass, which was bately rechgnizable, Iix- n 1858 to the Chicago & Luke Superlor Itall- | mination proved 1t to e the body of the old road Company, and conferving thu' same on [ 1§dy ;who had been caught in the flames. ernl FRIGI'FUL FALLS, Bpeclal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, Moxtiesnip, Ind, Jan. #l—A frightful neeldent ocenrred liero Sauturday, resulting ST PAUL, Miitn,, Jan. Sl.—In tho Hotse In tho instant denth of one man and ‘tho peeanoe Rlver at this point. While holsting o hieavy thinbor to 1ts position some part of unrecognizable muss ang causing Instant death, Ezra Evans, another workman, was him to lgse his balance, and he fotl a distanco A Jolnt resolition requesting the Commite | of about sixty feet, Inflleting, 1t Is feared, Sprelal Dispaleh to The Chicagn Tribune. re: 1, Ind., Jan, 31.—A fatnl aceldent There wus no hmportant legislation per- | oceurred here yesterdny, llenry Bonebrako feeted In the Senate to-day. was nu‘mflnlmullm:smuu repitirs to his houso ho fell off, “Asnearus ean le nscer- tuined, this oceurred nbout 2 o'clock In the afternoon, but the discovery wis not mnde niz_beslie the house on his RUN OVER AND KILLED: wag run over and [nstantly killed while crossing tho Lake Shore & Michigan South- by a passenger-train, 1o was an unmarried man, about 45 years old. Cixcixyarn M. $l,~Iliram 11, Seaver, whilo In L'iflin, O., to procurs his mnrriage- both legs were cut off. e died Inn few Jan, 3t.—A bill has | his property to his afiianced, Ricnyoxn, Vo, Sk 8L—Willlam Brown, ing that no property be excupt from seizure | a colored train-haid on the Richmond & Petersburg Rablrond, was run over by o train on that rond this worning, In Manchester, amt alinost Instantiyskllled. ‘Che nectdent is believed to have bagiueaused by the coat of 4 = deeensed becoming crlangled in the siep of a Working for Mare IRobhbery of tho, | enr from which he Jjumped to the ground, e ‘Treasury—Efforts to NDefent Commine | way thrown under the ear nud run over, A FATAL SLED, ! Ylidnted Street Rail- =ending First avenuo on o sted about 9 - ] : 101, Committco that Senntor Withors, Chirman of | With Frank Foos ag? ghomas Matloy, when e Appropriation bill, i nn nmendinent, tho rible gasli in his gsenlp and erushing his skull, mensuro 8tiil kuown ns tho “Bixty Surgeons | y4 qyall, Ife died g 10330 Inst night. o AvaAxcin. 1 from Santa Cruz siys: El clnimants iu nll parts of the country, Lesceching “"m compauy on tho Hne B tho South Paclfic fn Italics and * small caps * thut husto bo mado | Coast Ruflrond, fourteen miles from Sunta in getting signatures to funlosed potitions | Cruz, were burled alive on Saturday by hinlt agningt the measure. Threo of these ctreulars { & mile of mountain sliding down, “Elghteen huvo come finto the possesslon of u correspond- | wore employed, and ten escaped. RATILROAD ACCIDENT, Synracuse, N, Y., Jan, 31,—By the derail- gers wero badly hurt, 'The wrecked conchies Bovn 18 nossiulo 1ot thom. bo SCAL by mnalls ono eaught fire, but the flnmes were extingulshed OFYF THT TRACK. ,monatrosity which would unsettio tho sceurity the track nenr horoe this forencon:, A man of cach oud overy pension herotofore | named Fulford, a cattle-drover, jumped off the 3 Ariny of tho Republlo of Pennsylvanly in [ Several other passengers wore injured, nono i ‘BAD DERATLMENT. GinsoxviLLE, N. C., Jan, 81.—A train con- nstuntly killing Conductor Ilalsoy TIIREE PEOPLE BURNED, HAnrrony, Coun,, Jun, 3,—The shoeshop Inferesting, 1t fivst sefs forth the lmr-xshllm to | nnd tenement-house belonging to- Marey murks out tha stops necessury tu he tuken to | (e0rke Stone, & duughtor of Sand son of 3 4 yeurs, perishod in the flames, e e ———C CENSURED BY A JURY, Special Dispateh {o The Chicago Tribune. loston, Jan. SL—The Investigation into % the burning of the almshouse at Dover, N, Secoml—You should write two coples of the | 11, Jan, 7, by which thirteon lives were lost, lepresontative, and mail both letters to | censuro of the authoritics by the Coroner's ' Jury, The evhience showetd n culpable neg- L ——=y I your disibiat, If the Sonito biil No, [ 08 tho ofticors” In_chargo. -The Jury fiud 406 beeomes'n lw 1 sbult not bu uble to pruveup | that tho fire was caused by ono of the fur- which was known to be out of repair, X Tk ;: Hon't e W the county representullvo delégation for Ity il b Just, g o e nnaty | ot providing u bountitul suppiy, whieh es n duw L will | eould ensily hive heen done, "Fliey’ ulso cen- buve to give it up and jose the penston §am one | surs the County Coimissioners far not pro- up 6 eintne under fho law, und o porson with [ apparatus in ropir, After the fire was ds- # 4 covored overything possible was dope tg snvo tha il puse wud L will:always thunk you, Very | g jives of iy lfil!mlfl. and his gt tho — —et——— KEOKUK LAND LEAGUE. 8pecial Disvateh to The Chicago Triduns Kroxuxk, In., Jan, SL—Another meoting of ‘Yho touchivie tudividuality of tho lutler to tho | 4 purimunont organtzation aro os follows: and Juh Mekivitt, Vice-Presidonts; extent, by penslon-cinim | Jobn Flunurty, ‘Seerotary: John B. ,‘:luN:— prospectiva_expoudipure for arrearuies alune, | Namars, and Joln J, Powers wers elocted to the twoll'y or thirtven years' work uiroudy | compose tho Exeoutive Committee, e e—— —— {CE AT GRAND HAVEN, MICH, Speclal Dispateh 10 Tha Chicago Tribus GuaNn HAvey, Mich,, Jan, 81.—TheUood- rich Line steamor City of Ludington Is wow about ten miles off this'shore, working In o moeets blo liquid | the lce. 'The Depere and Menowlinee are which 18 olfered for ighting l"urlmm‘ Hu\'iu}fl liere yot, ‘The wind Is northeast, 'L'hie lce e e———— Don't Die ou the Prow ug tegta: 1o pours o quantity of tho liquid Ask flrugflh‘l for *Rough on Rats, I-bugy, roaches, 150, boxos. AN ILLICIT STILL. o (loor and tho haml- The Revenue dlficera Break Up a Gang- of Amateur Distillers. boutis degrees C., and and Most of the Mon. d to death thismorn- ter son-in-law, Ben this morning, and tove, und in that way for soon after their | )\ ic Agits atao usunl, tho rovonuo officers pro- ntouce organlzad. About 4 o'clock Oen. Kin- tho Are, and, s ey Bpringer and Bedgwlck, and - D, Lusk, of the Revenuc Department, the air. Somebody, OPERATION 8 » Aftor making n ? seeired the scrvices of Ofticers Bronnin and Mu.‘(ull# who hitd been dotalled by Cipt. 0'Don- noll, With this posso David F, Dodley, Patrick Kirbg, ani Jacol Thonipaon, nling Johi Wilson, snloon kept by Dooley nt No. (0 Throup treot, neae Twelkth, “Here thoentire gang were found. buck door and locked himself in Kirby's houso, whigh was in the rear of the paloon. Oflicer Bronnan, ufter somo trouble, Uattered in the door and arrestedt his man, Dooluy showed fight and fingored bis revolver with many threats, untjl brought to thine by the ‘warwhcnnlnu furce. ‘I'he men wers tukon to ho West Twelfth Streot Siutlon, where thoy wero dodged lust night, In tho ealoon wero found three Jugs of molaases rum und nenrly n barrel of molusses mash. ‘Uhe whisky propured was of good proof, and, except for tiio fnct that it_is about 125 per cont stronger than ordinnry whisky, {8 reatly u good articlo. wother, The rallrond bridga over the 'Fip- Kirby at No. 26 Aberdeon streot, Aftor somo the tog fell, striking '“‘"g“ ngz s fuco Into an THE APPARATUS SOUGHT FOR was discovered under the bay fn o barn In_the rear of tho house, nlso owned by Kirby, Two s8tllls, of forty und fifteon gallons eapneity, and the breaking enused | two woruis i good rondition were discovercd nad carted over to tho stution, The nen wero tho smaller atill for redistiiling. the mnsh and finishing the work, The Informution sceured by the revenuo olticers IS that tho still nad beon in setling tho stutf over tho counter at rotall Propurations had beon mudo for enrrying on menbers of the fam- | Wasdone at a place in the viclnity which tho skull was fractured, omploy of MeLaughiln & Co., tho splco innnu- littla farm on Forty-first atreet. The combina- tlon was . powerful one, As the wmatter s u derstoad, Jake Thompson was the operator and chomlst, Kirby furnished tho houses, Dooley gold tue Milelt flquor at retail und in bulk, Mc- Nulty bought tho inaterinls and furnlshed tho monoy, while Bam ‘bompson s nl- leged to” hp the uhief of the whote enterprise.. " The partics had glven out that thoy were manufncturing essential olls for the ndulteration or knprovemont of splrits, After theraid bud been completed the re- rter for® Tug Cuinuns visitod the Twelfth trect Statlon and bad * A TALK WITH THE THREE MEN who were arrested, Thoy all strennously de- nled any gullty knowledgo of tho llieit uperas tins, “Deoley stated that the molugses had beon stored with him by a friend whose namao hail eseaped his memory. ‘The whisky hnd been bought, not where ho bought his *regulnr sup- pllesof liguor, but of o peddler, concerning whogo naumo his memory ngiin proved treacher- ous, Ho claimed thnt ~—he know nothe ing of distilling, which s perbaps true, and ~denles - w knowledgo of any crooked operations. Kirby clalmed that he rented ' tho born to ‘Thompsun, whilch Thompson, who was in tho same cell, - medintoly denled, Kirby statod that ho wis om- pluyed in the gns=Uttink business, and honee it s more than probablo that he superintended the mukinyg of the nparatus, us ono of the worms s of caminan piplng, and might easily bo mndo by any gas-fitter, ~ All tho mon, of course, onrnostly protested thole {nnocence, but mude 80 muny contradictory statements that, in connection n. 31,—Snmusl Mortz o'clock this morning I under the cars and il leaving a portof “I'homns Koenig, o iock Saturdny night n tree, cutting a tor- f P “te “castly proved.. dho appuratis e in- e snccted by the r«.-&norlcr proved tobe {n execl- lent condition, aud showed that the men were oxports ut the business. They will have & hear- ing beforv Cammmissionor Hoyno to-day. RUN DOWN BY A TRAIN. Willle Armuler, 12 yenrs of nge, living with done for him, but of Jan, £ cutting timber for & the rallrond tracks just north of his homont 0:40 Inst evening, was run down by o frelght- train on tho Milwaukee & 8t Paul Rond, and had’ bis right leg 80 budly ornstiod that Drs. Stone, Leo, Murphy, and Gardnor, who attendod bim, amputated 1t ———— Musie 1 Montul Discanso. Dr. Oscar Jennings, n physician of standing in Parle, writes to tho London Lancet that in tho treatent of montal disease ho has cnuslnnll{ used musie,'which calms and soothos tho mind, and is too procions an agent to bo negleoted, Conoerts form o part of tho regular treatment in many nsylumns. It will be romombered that Haul found satisfaction in music, e e—— snn{»xo in construction, ensy to run, nover out of ordery und the best wowing-muchine in the world, 'Tho new No. 8. . Wheeler & Wilson Man- ufacturing Co., No, 155 Stato street, e ————— h on the Rome, Wa- Rond the engineer, a number of passons Ont,, Jart. 31—Tho hern Hallway ran off Indigestion, dyspepsin, norvous prostration, andall forms of general debllity relleved by ered 1 snowbank. only prepuration of beef contafulug it vntire nutritious propertics. 1t 8 not n imere atimu- Innt llke the oxtracts of beef, but contains Uload-making, force-gonernting, and lifo-sus- taining propurtles; 8 invatuuble tn all enfee- Dbilced sonditions, whothor tho result of exhuis- tion, norvoua proatration, overwork, or acute discnsus, particulariy if rosulting from pulmo- nary complainta, Caswell, Huzanl & Co., pro- priotors, Now York, For sale by druggists. —— e ——— MARRIAGI; LICENSES., A A A A AN AN AANANANNNARAR, The following marcringe-liconses wora lssuod yes- torday: N e Otlo ¥, Schult....., Barmh B, Ahron.. Willam J. A, Woif. ‘l!l(llhl I(GW b Jobi “Annlo Ko trelght-cars gnd o track near hero lnst and serlowsly Injur- Age, Tlealdence, 2. Chileago, 20,.,.Chicagy Friday night, Mrs, Carl Millor.... Jinnle Hupke.. i Angolo Nevigata Chicais Carmella l'eiral Chicago, Ghicaro, 1’22 Chieaga: nd resulted in the 40! of the Poor ns well fl""‘"'" son et {¥yed 1, Atlon Liaslo 13, Moy, "Thomns Laj tatll John Baring. Vdasto Zolor.,sre i Robart J. Logan, arrut K, Connoi I0hn K10k euenrs o ‘AnnaJ, Kisdorion, ¥rank K, Nall Alma Hlcko Jahn Lo Mary Slorach. Louls Kram., Mury Vogel,, v MARRIAGES, LA Y= KON 7~ Friday, dno. B ot Waukeusn, TiL, by Fi nel:Kn.uhg oy s, “Lau iy B Gy und Aias I B, Kutta, bt of Chicyo. DEATIS, “PATRICK-0f ca I Wism Tat Fikk, gm‘mmn&'}m}" Botta e W . Funeral (rom bis fate residence, 19 East Woshing- 'uasday, Pul.: ll‘nnu'uhun ¥rivnds of tho t wag in the want suvorely censuro keoping the lieating- ... Chicago. 4 1.41.: % Chicago. e the Lund League of e Court-llouse lnst signatures to the list ed, Tho oftieurs for ns, Presldent; Wells Fallon, John B, M Temhyinvitad i atton DUNOVAN=Jan, 2, bolovad daugh- or of Florunce and A D, agud 1V yours uontbs snu Z daym. tav. Tuvs. Funeral from fi on v. 1 rum fior Tesl AT ds 163 Canalj day, Fob. |, W Bscred livarl Chureh st Bhor, by ears 10 Calvary Cometery, o HAWLIGAN=AL bor residence, 253 Wallaco-st. Jan. I, Kllon, boloved wife of Joba Hartiga, sked 3 yours, = 1 Wudnusday, Fob. 3, 81 10 o’clock, frum All- s}tfil‘.fl'flnmé'u s ro o &N WSO opeity cars (v Calvary Comotory. ¥ UAWLEY-Ino funerai of Mary Barkor, wite or B L At ermyo by ‘Carriagea 16 fE00BMAE A% Hoisnda wre Thvitad tb atlond YBON—Jun, ), at his rosidonco, 13 North Hal- 141 11, 8uad &) years. D naral W othesday, Pob. 4, frou his residonce, at (0 P m, LY CAr 10 Gracolund Cemelory. lodta bf'tid tuimily ase 1avAwd 10 aHuDd. nes o & title, It clears Capture of the Apparatus, the Goods, Tho rovenue officers yesterduy succeeded in capturing and breaking up a dnugerous gang of moonshiners, who, It lot alone, would have chentod Uncle 8am out of conalderable money, and Incrensed Intemporanco by making whisky unnaturaily chonp and powerful, Tho capturo of yosterdny was tho first one in nearly two yenrs, and, an cventa showed, It was mnde ot n thme whon it nipped in the bud operationg of an catensivo charncter. Tho information was, ns ia generally the ecaso, conveyed to-the rovenuo ngents by o squenler who falled to got his due sharo ot the proceeds, and who “gave the plant away” for rovengo, and not from a, scnso of tect this man, and ovon rofudo to givo his Aume, During tho day the Informer réiated his taleto Deputy-Collector 8pringer, and A movoment was noy,” tho ltovenne sAgent, chmy-cullucloru PHOCEEDED TO THE 8CENE OF THE ILLICIT roliminary cxamination, they were sccured. Tho first polnt visited was tho Thompson munde his eseape through n The next point visited was i houso owned by ovidantly making n good urticlo, ns thoy used running to # good business turing the monty ot dnnuary, snda doubio protit wus mide by Dunle{ thio business ou u large seule, but the mon wore frightoned a fow days nngn and hid tho still at tho place where It wag found, Tho distilling rovontio offlicers olthor aro Iznorant of or don't want to tell. They nre also hot on the seent of Eamuel R, Thompson, who 18 sald to be In tho facturers, and John McNulty, who lives on with thoir ncl{;m when tho rald wus made, tholr his paronts ut No. 12 Arbor place, while crossiog tnklng Mensmun's Poptunized Biof Tonie, tho. 1 . Ulnra V., saconq s of Carl . o i 3 ‘““5‘1','(3” witd Corn 16 KEinmian, niiod 3 Seuns ot okuk (In.) papara plensa copy, COULSON=AL Poncho, Colu, Jan, 21, Coulsan, agod 3T yours.. " 1 William g, Homniha in tranait,_ Notico of funert heroatrey, AN O i RO ULLT ( ard Republican Ciub witl b o vuning nt o) MHLwAuKA-AY. "Amona bihar say Wil b0 THO IEPUINLING 0F AR EXEEULIYN committptd 110 clty und 1own Sleationy AT clond AL and, gait thorouth omanizution In vesy necessnry, nij Jonod Ticana of Lo wnrd nrs retiented to attonit, PO e T T i o RECEPTION WILL BE GIVE tho mudical stitdonts of Chiengo by ".;-“.-;50 Bion's Chirhating. Ansacintion, THaradny evennooi d.ower Farwoll Hail, usio, drensas, and s pagys will Constitity tho roramimo, 'Ticknia Iksapg oo <cummitico of invitntlon in the varuus eollegex 27 & e M., m‘ibl(ill[‘ WILL CONDycp Ay’r»"l‘-?v'u‘;:l’-“ tomporance meeting this evening, T T T T — TUULTILWARD LAND LEAGUE WL, it Weat'l'wollth-at, I 1 JOSPEL MEETING AT THE S Kind Iteading-1toom, 84 Cotiags flrgv‘g:{;}.. aflernoun at 4 p.m. + B e e e e EETING OF TIIE BIOLOGICAI, S0 VA "ioty ‘at” the Tromont Jonse Wadnesdny aey 1 AR DT LD EIaI A st Lome e KoFm Uoorys D, GRadl Wil Tnags " i rormtlioagy, DEUEtE Wil iasey " ROF, GEORGE J.. FOSTER, OF Tyg Univorsity of Now Dronawick, mill ¥neak on teme puranice In 1o bl of the Firat fted fibbon Clab, 1y ' ivanty-seconi-t., at 743 b, 1. to-night, NMLERE WILL BE AMEETING OF THE Yeighteentls Ward,Land Loskuo Club this avege 171 In Lowor MeCoemick 11nll. " A furec nttendancals dealred ns specinl Hisineas wiil cutio up far consiiere ation.” Tha Hon. W, d. 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