Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1881, Page 8

THI vlitAaww 'LALLIBBUINRGS. MUNDAY, THE CITY IN GENERAL. 1% A, SACKPOLY, 0f osto, 18 nt tho Tremont, wan, A, CoyvesTiy, of Paris, France, is at the Pacifie. e . G,Dr MAvier, of Lyons, Franco, ia nt tho . Palmer. ¢ * Dit. BLMENDORF, of Rucine Colloge, fa nt the; Palmer. L WntaAM B, BAntN, of Now York, {s at tho' rémont. - i y 5 \" @ I8 By, of Providonee, 1t 1, 18 nt tho Sherman, . Braone AYDEN, of Penfioldy Til, fs at the "Bherman, ! ‘b £, 1. McOALy, of Winnipeg, Manitoln, 18 at! tho Palmer. 4% . v "o o 11 MARTINDALR, Of Ttoclester, N. Y, 18 nt the Pacltie. : Fuenritiok R, Isvron, of San Franclaco, s at +tho Tromont, 3 MaJL.-GrY, Gronar W. Sciortrny, Ul 8, Ay, fe «at the Palmor, ] ' J, M. BrARrDsLRY, Postmnster ntTlock Island, , 1L, s at tha Pacitie, ~ ' B.J. Bynox and Frank R Little, of Minneaps olls, ura At thol'remont, + R Buernoand wife, nnd A, P, Town, of \Jacksonville, [IL, uro nt tho Tremont. * : J. D, Browy; Insuranco ‘Comlsslonor, of Hurtford, Conn,, 18 at tho Pacific. . .+ Joitx T Craszuw, cditor of tho Milwaukeo Wisconxin, ta at the Pucitie, .o ¢ Auios HaniisoN und the memters of the «% Photo™ combination are at the Tremont. T Jdonx A, Davig, . W. Curran and wife, ‘and Miss L Hodsden, of Suh- Franetaco, are at tho Pahuer. J. D. Errotia, Genorat Purchasing Agent of the Caotlnental Itallroad, New York, I8 utthe “Tucifie. i following membors of the Board of Edu- s eatlon, District No. 8, Town 38, Ranigo 14, wero - efected on Saturduy aftor o bawd tignt:* Charles W. Hardvy Willinm . Rand, Honry 1, Goolrich, Woodbury M. Tuylor, Willlmu Larkington and John R, Hodson. < Pite geventh anniversary dance and suppor. Lof the Tiyons rost No. 1, G A, 16, will take plico, o-night, nt Klnros Huti, No, 30 Noreh Clurk! street. Exiensive preparutions have buon s faor n most %woynmn e, which 18 sure to be necorded to®il who uttond. A nun nawed Willlam Russctt waa found yess .terday mornlng 1ylug dead und horribly manicted « luponthe track of tho Wabush, St, Louls & Pa- citle Hallroud, nbout one-halt umile from the town of Warth. The remnins wore takin to Worth etutlon, and the Coronor was notified. A MARITAGE notlce nppearait In tho ndvertis- iny cohtnns of iy THRIBUNE yestorday which “stated thut Mr, "L‘ill’{ Fitzibbons had been Jolyed In wedioele 1o Miss Mury 31, Netttobuah, e 5t. Mury’s Chureh, and uow coines tho ludy in *tho cnse and testities that, so far as she kKuows ahie hus not been nnreled touny.one, ‘lhe priest ‘of 8t, Mury's corroboriics Lhis stuteinent, and says that no such murrlige bag tuken plico, It ‘wiig avidontly a joke, and u very slily one, ' J. W. IEN Bronig, s colored buy 14 yoirs of ago, resling with his paronts nt No, 1080 Bouth Dearborn street, was ‘thrown from a bucking ‘hurso yesterduy uftornoon near tho core ner of Desplulnes und Depuyster streots and sustalned o Cracture “of tho right arw, The boy wis removed to his awn bomo. ‘Itnppears that o boy mounted tho steed ut the ‘sullcitation of ‘n tnan who was leading 1t slong, and whot the youngstor dld not know. 1f thut wnn mlflnny conselence ho should pay the dou- tor's bills. . e Irish-American Club met at_tho Sherman 'Houso yeaterduy utternoon, Wl Hynes (n tho chalr., 'The resignution ut W, K, Siilivan trom .the EXceutive Comsuitice was presented und see cepted, and ¥ nigh was elected to Bl thy yavaney, Inrkham was cleeted Cor- responding Beorotary, und w resvlution wis “pussed to strike the numes of ull membors from she roll who fail to pny the fultintion fee on or Defore the May meeting. Alter the ndoption of a ctl)‘null.uuuu‘ the Ciub adjourned tor on¢ week, Di. TUCKER, tho Asalatnnt County l’hgu!clun. hns i very satisfactory expinnition of thu story of Mrs, Curoling Kindus, who ulleied thut he charged hor u tes for sending her husbund to Elgin ofter ho lett delforsou, 1t appenars Crom tho Doctor’s sintement that Mrs. Kiudus dosired 10 buvo ber husbapd truusferred to Elgln, but 1ot 48 ane of the pauper insune, 8nho upplicd to DOr, 'Cucker as to wuy athoe physlulun, wad be ‘chnrgod ber the very moderute fea'nt 51, na sho wus 100 _poor to pay more. Subscquently he Jearncd that tho costof tho transfer woulil by $:5, and e so informed_hor, 1o thoreupon re« funded the doflur, All this luppened ovar w . month ago, and Mra. Kludug' charges probably Bpring from ber lmporfect comprohunsion of the .Jl:uu-u lunguoge. . * Az Furwoll Hull lnst eventug Mra, O, B. Schuy- Jer, d ludy of pleasing speeoh and good clocit- + tlonnry powers, gave n prolubition wddross to 4 anaudience of nbont 500 people. 'Fhe locture, which was un nble exhiblt of the thoma tn bund, recolved ndditonal attenctiveness and volumg of intorest in tho singng of Lwa Lenutitul’ solug Uy Biss Arabelln 1toot, of Nuw York, with orgnn uecempanfiont by Mlss Urave Fuller, Misg Ttuot's cluar-cut and melodiously sweet voleo Dushed the nudicney Into u profoundt stilluess of entruncewent, particularly during the rendition of the touching sony, * Papa, o't Drink Any More! ™ ‘Che tnst locture in tho present winter's courae will bo delivered noxt Suuday ovening. Ty Michacl Davitt Lund-Lengue Club of tho Tweltth Waed met laat evoulug in Temperauco 3iall, with . O'Sullivan fu the chalr, It wis decided to hold the mestings fn the hall fivat vee cupled_ by the Club, which scemed to be better loeated lor sccuring un sudience than tho pres- ent onv. The constitution of the Club wis compured with the onue prepured for tho organiztion of tho auxillury clubs un- der: tho American brutich of tho Irish Land Jeaguo, and found uot to dilfer cssentiilly Trom the latter. A poem. und quotations from the Lible, and from diktinguished writors, among them Joflorson, Purneld, Ruskin, Adum Suwith, Curlyle, J, Stuurt Mill, and othiors, on tho lund question, wers ulso latoned to. A committes wid uppointed to soctire anothor bull, The Presidont epoko on tho atute of ¢ affairs In tho *OMd Couutry," and'urged thy ' members. present to do what they coula towird Sucreasing the membership and nduciug more peoplo to joln in the meatiuga, SUBURBAN, g X EXOLEWOOD. ;m ", The election for threo momboraof the Board of Educution ot District No. 2, which was hutd Baturdny. resnlteid in the cholco of Dr, A. 01, <./ Chumplin, Joliy Farron, and J, W. Clurk, About B0 votes were potlud, tho opposition to the ro- + elestion of the old members belng very elight. At the spring oleotion it wis pradleted that If thore was no opposition mudo to the clgpotion of . e Stock-Yurds tloket for towd oficors _tho old members thoreof ' would /soon i out unlong o thomselves and o public would guin moro by thelr dis- < ecluared than they wuuld by vpposing tholr ro- election, Thu first chuptor uf the rove- Juttons was onucted lust Thursduy, whon tho now Hourd were swurn in-oand o prosiding officer seluoted® fur the ensuing yeur 3 plaes of Rudulpn dlestor, whose woan of of- fiee bud expirad. U, 8. ftediivld wus olected DPrealdunt, much to tho disgust of utrick Nuo- 1an, who snys o tind been proastsed the pusition by Mz, Mutrheud und Mr, #editeld. — Alr, Nolun wie 1ol slow in muking his disappolutinent knowa, aud threatons to rovenl sonio of the in- wiid woekings of tho Bourd whioh tho public are only too unxlotts to kuow, 3r, Nolan hus Rinted for some 1hae that ho was fis pussvasion ot fucts whalcn, it wady known, woukl verity somo of the predivtions mudo in regird fu tho corruapt dmugs of the oid ourd, Wucther Mr, Noluw will fulilll bis promise yemains (o bo sern, Tho dead body of a an about 45 yoars of ago was found vl Baturduy in the swatup just south ef Bixty-third styoet, botweel Iudim * and Fruiriv avenues, 1t 18 suppused to have lam there fur soing thue, belng covered with: duow, The Corouer beld ut Inquust, but the Lody wus Bot fdent! dres; Tho U perous condition of tho Enulowood - Union Voterun Club is sumothlog vemurkuble, Alter an orgunizution ot luss thun two yeurs they hove W wemborship of nearly” W, snd are about to oreot a Sunoriul fuit, ~which ~wil Le @ — credit - to the village. 1t {s proposcd to luy thoe cornors tone, which huy been ordered from Luokout ountaiu, on the 4th ot July, aud It fy con- wmplated to muke it un ovont that witl draw togeltor voteruus froin kil puris of tho country, The rekulir meoting of the Club will bo beid ls evenlng, when the prolimiuury arrauges weats wlil be mude. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yok, April 17.—Acrived—Tho Bwitzor- mad, from Antworp; Lrlsto), trom Bristol; City of Bortin, from Livorpool, . Bauridong, Aprll 1T.—~Arrived—The Frauk- .lort, from Hrdinen. 4 , Loxvox, April 17.—Tho Ohle, from Philudels pulu. snd. Folyneslun, tyom lvston, have s rivpd out. ltaur.u. April T.—=Arrived~Tho Circasslnn, {trum Livecpoul, + 2 —— o v SMALL-POX ON A STEAMER, » Bax FuaNcisco, April 17,~Tho Orlental & Oo- + sldental Company's stoguer Oceanlo, whioh ure nived frow Hong Kung thlsmorning, Is quarans $ined. Bhe hus ton cases of swall-pox on bourd, amuug tie Chluges stecrugo passvugers. Tho 2 fl:lrl: huve been, fumiguted wud brought on / e = e recomwend Eldredgesewing-machines DELIBERATE SUICIDE. J. W. Humble, a Young English- man, Cuts’ His Throat. W. F. 8rAunoing, of Doston, Is at the Shers Despondenoy Drives Him .to Shufile OFf This Mortal Cofl. Jordlson Whito Humble, a yoting man of _venlthy and rospectable Engliah parentage, committed suichio by eutting hla throat with n ritzor while lying in bed at his room in the Lo- land Iouse, southwest cornor nf Snckson streot Tho hour ut which tho deed was cogmitted I unknown, but from tho nppoarines of the Lody It is Aupposed that it touk place nlnost imumesdiately after ho retived, ut 1l v'elock Satuvday night. his dond body wi ~ufternvon by and Michigan avenue. ‘I'ne dscovery of mado ut b o'olock yesterday Lorgan, o youny Boglisumuan roomluyg with Ilumble’s chum, W, M. Lawele, In the outer room of wsulte whith tho trlo have vecupled for 4 couplenl months past, The party bnd iaused thomselves tho night beforo by playing Willards and drinking in the billinrd- and were woll' tieed they went up to tholr yooms for tho night, As Humble dld not put in un ap- pearahes yestorday, Mr, Morgan thought sotnes niust huve gone wrony concinded to gall upon bim, “Falling to_reeolve 1y response to repe sepiirnting iho £40 npartafénts of tho suite, bo turued the knob, and the door, being unlaokol, opened ut the toueh, Humblo was Ising upon tito bed, uncovered sava by W8 nigntah 1he bedding benenth bim was compiletely deluged with blood. . Without waiting - room of the hotel, with bim, and he ovklugs it tho door to seu \hetior 1ite was compiotely oxtinct, Mr. dorgan notitied the hotel fulks of whitt had oceurred, und thoy. sont at onea to the Grand Pacile Hotel for Dr. U, W, Purdy, The Dactor, upon arriviug, exame- inerl the body, aud ut once gave 1t ng his vpinlon e d been extimet for iifteen to The +muscles wero atd rigld, and almost every drop ef* blood man's system hi out ntawound In the thront, hundled rzor was found unbedded in tho con- godlod bloud Just beside the corpse, and plalnly cuutigh was the wedpon used, A white bone- Tho lingers of the left hand wero cramped upin such & way s to Indicato that the razor hud Leen ‘used o this pod_out of tho gruep whei Tho gash on the thruat, tholikh 1iot nn uxtensive one, ippeured to bu quite doup. Ttwns on the rlene afde, .and und tho Jugular bid Deen sovered ut onvo,: From tho pool of blood und the condition of tho bedding 1t would appear that the sulclle bad turined down tha covering, undressed us if to re-" tire, and hndd thon thrown hlmself upon the bed, razor in kand, uud - 1LAD INFLIOT whito hid head was “resting The right forenrm und bune nenth tho body, which was Iying partinlly on ita side, aud werdermmped up 1 o very unedtnforts Doctor earcfully ‘nuted all thosu polats, Itwas bis opliion that denth must hayvo ousued withlu g very faw moments. The police wero notitled vory early I the evening, and Otticer Florenco Donohiue was sent to the hotel ta look ufter the Deputy-Covaner. THansen . urrived shortly aftor ¥ o'clock and took chuvge uf the, Lody and all the proporty contatned In the rodm. It wus concluded to ndjourn tho Inguest until orflng, but, In order to Luve the body removed 10 un undertaker's, n jury was fupuneled to view tho body a8 it lny. “Their foremau; Gool by moet Tor tho o tho hotol lobby, - I'hu Deputy Coroner Insisted upan thoroughly exmnining all tho cffests of tho deveased, and aftor looking through some bouks upon n tably, uo note vr letter, turned his attens nrgo writing-cose. The dend man's chum, Mr, Lawrle, whnwns standing by, begged w10 pormit tho oasd 1o ¥o undisturoed, but Mr, Hunsen wald that was not tho way ho did upa paie of pautnloons Iying on a chalr went through tho pockets uutil 1o found u Lunch of keys, une key of which wis In une of tho larger innur compartnents were found 4 muuber of letters, Lilis, und uthor dociments, whioh, s tho; produced one by une, haud, and had drg, duitl ensued, both the carotid THE FATAL WOUND upon the bitlaws, projected from by- Able pualtion, The quest at Y o'clock this morning in buslness, and pleking fitted to tho cnse. Luwrle was very golieltous nbout until Mr. Hungen ussured hiin that the contonts of the papers would bo held Inviolate Ly bim. Mr, Lawrie betrayed his familinrity romplly pointing out lot- 8 fnunolul ngents in New und when weetled envelope, such us aro n tho hotel, wis broukht forth from its hidiug plieo, he, without reading tho supersorip- ton, suid, *That is for bis brothor. will furnish sume explunution of the act. ing nothing elsp of interost, Mr. Huanson opened this letter, und ngaln promised Mr, Lowrlo that the contonts were for himselfy and whothey waore ready to Lold the Inquest. e kopt hig word, and the letter, which wasquite briof, und written in . firm hand, was pluced ki1 the enso, 1ts contents mny Lo inforred from statoments which M, Hans 1 ntly wndo, to the effeet that de- y the stendy draln 4 and hig tera from_Mr, Hum ney, brought nboiit upon bis iinunelnl-res FAILURE TO GET EMPLOYMENT or Nnd uny business in this country which he ulng fnto, was wiiat uppoared to bu tho enuse, 'Tho ouly slynaturo attuched wa this suyrgeativo phrnsy, * 0F unsound mind," Hesides the writing-case, the D Co! touk ehargo ulso uf s wotd wittch and cbain, not very viluable, o Binuil und inexpensive dinmond searL-pin, 1 plain kold ring, which Mr, Lt pronounced tho purting gitt of the motbor of tho decoused, 6 silvor snnke-coll rin trunka und u small valise, und all the bulonging to tho deconsed.” Shugularly enough, thoro was not u singlo nfckel ju tho ulathing nor iu any receptaclu in tho room, ouly threo pen~ 1 The deceasnd was nbout 30 murknbiy well and niuscularly pale complexiou, und n decldedly English couns- tenanco,r Concerning * his antecedunts but little can be ascortalued, owing o tho extreme rotl- conte or ignorince of his chua, Mr, Luwrle, hia country in Humble's 808 to know nothing cons iEeits are wonltby felt warnintod In cars of ngo, ro- wiit, of o clenr, Though he cumo to niy, yot he profd ing him, save that his caple of tho attecesstul business clugs, wnd that 10 was buce In buainesa {n London, but what bo to - whom his will ba notifled at once of Jordisow eablegrum which wus dispatched yesterdny nf- r. Lawrlo, who 18 vory reluctant to onter futo particulurs regarding his deud friend aod himaolf, professes to huve bucomo ncquatnt- ed with Humble not lon, bufora thoy sot vut for Amerlen i lust July, oy sullod trom Liver- ool duly 19, nud ufter romntutng a stiort time in Nuw York entng on tu this elty, und took lody. inga at the Grand Vacitio Hotel, wheneo thoy w0 Or three months ago moved to tho Leland. rter, nll unbicknows to Mr, with that gontlemnan lato lnst nignt nftor the st rush of exoltement over thie unfortunuto attulr had somowhat subsided, In reply to thoreporter's queationsnstowhether or not tho doceased budl not beun driven to thls tulug by lnanclul reverses, e did apecutute and lose fu * Westorn Unlous,’ 1 bellove you enll thom,"” 111 luas tho interviowud couldt not give any fu- furmntlon, Lgeauso ho bad A THIBUNE Y0 Lawrie, hud a tul Mr. Luwrlo suld; AB to the extont of not been ius ) man,had i'llly thing " for somo g bean despondent for soveral dnys, pur- 3 but hlu‘rlund\'llmm X uunm?\plnllnz “this tioulnrly muorosa lnst Frid, never droamed thut his despunduney would lead to self-destruction, suld 3r, Lnwrlo, ** and hag personal property in rding to the speakers account, Humble lived *in cnambers™ in L MOSL youny men of moenns did, DId you ever observe, “aoything In . 1w pose thitt ho was of unsound ment" whatever," replied + gxcopt that ho ofton apposred to be * dumpy ' '-l{uu.l' ho beon Ju good hoalth up to last nig “ Apparently it tho best of health, Wo worn walkiug out on the walk Ins,night onjoying tho Iuke breoze and all that sort of thing, wid ho did il-feellng.” flo further wriakon frovly plunty of wmono] sked the roparter, 4 you 10 sup- mplufu of nn dod v Jbefore retiring L pped Into - the denth-chnmber; Iving ocoupanis . nude 1o come plaints of lossea nor of sloknoss, o partal trum his friend about 11 o'olock, It wus his opjuion that tho % 3 GHASTLY DEED WAS COMMITTED Immediutely. after rotiring, ut which thine ho must hive been selzed with u it of despondency which ho could pot resist, Tho following vopy of tho letter whioh Jordie son wddressed to hiw brother was aléo obtained; il 188L—DRAR DAWNONT urbaw Ho, will ho gavome coup do gras. Eberhurdt's yours, Duar Nally&Aml:t Mlfi‘thn anything thoy miuy ko, Pin i" of unsound mind, Iave plittlo botter than 81,000 with Emuong &3l oaton, and fl.(w ‘about &l by Peroy Fuluco Gurdons, i Durbum Houso, u ploce of roperty owued by the doceased, atuliess of the hoiir at which tha lutter was ob. gbiuined, no vxplanativy kruou for which it i supposed Lo refur nute speonlutions, . The 18 ulso unexptained. The thin ¥ din Citioaao, Lk, Mt A Donr Mothor's Rin for precious baby, il my Hubilitios, ‘thank Blmpson wl gon of), Kunslogton, thunks Bimpson Terouce to Bberburdt h Il:l Ll undnullum‘lll 0] 0 woro in his 0 to $1,000 at tho hotel Is by 3r, Lelund, th houto. Boino duys uxo Mr. Humble Hquldited n 1 10, s ho'owod the houso, b over for colleotion a drafe for $1,000, 0 @y bas not yot been recolved, e , Au Indjan Squuw Sacrificed, L R e ey, that e 3 U (kg T0Tti, Wt 108 LUPLAL OF b matmbor OF "shs searf, Tholrofi explulned thus tribe, in the Harmony Motntains, some night ot nine miles from towm actunlly sserificed Ayiaw on the grave of tho dead hirave. The Ine dinns nre very retleent régarding the matter, but admit that tho squasy wna a witeh, and hid, by her influcnee with tho evil splrit, enused tho donth of four or five men of the l.rHuNmnllxll whom sha entertnined smno grudun, Thoy boe lloyo thnt the wamnn, who wus n Buanock, was In longuo with tho ovil pue, and by her apells and ineantatlons coulil bring sickness and denth to those with whoin whe camo I eontaet, The Indluns say.It hns hieon the custom of tholr trlle from time Imimemorinl to put sueh persons to tlenth nt the grave of vuo of thele vielme, und thoy condldar thomeclves whaliy Justitied in dofitg 80, Tho woman, wo lenrn, walked to the bursingsground perfectly recondled to hor fato, and mitde no Altempt to et tway, A fow yeirs ARO I .\‘nnu‘uuunw Known us Simlo Jane was R witeh by tho Iwulnu‘ mon ot tho denth, On tho ln'fl!lllllllcfl ribe, and rontenced to he put to Wiy to tha phieo of excention she nade hor- es- eape, wind loft tho town for & wiille. As no In- thuns diod within o givon time after her eseape, It wie thought that tho ovil spirit hod beon frightencd nway, and she was purdoned god pers niftted to return ¢ CASUALITES. | A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, . Tho Green Bny tradn of tho Chicago & North- wostern Raflway, whieh left Mitwankee for Chi- eagn nt B:10 0. me yesterduy, met with a serious necldent about two miles nurth of the Milwankes Cornty line. In-acut at that polnt the train encountered an obstruction, chused by aland- slide, which throw tho onglnw off tho trick, The engine thon ran for u distance of abotit twenty fent un the ties, and finally ran {ugo the banke' tearing tho tracks from under (t and eapsizg: ‘thto boller and enb Into tho diteh, It fell with stich forco ns to bury itself alinost out of sight. The: oxpress enr following the englne left tho, trick and wns pitehed pguinst tho bank, nlmost ountlroly clenr of ‘tho track, nud was cume< pletoly, wreoked. 'fhe bugguge car .ulso loft the track and danded on the tander, the position of which had not been ro- versed by the aceldent, Tho readof thisenr wus budly broken up, The pnssonger earsdid not -lenvo the truck, ind thie prssengers, hesldes a shock and ine detny, suifervd no inconvenienco or dumage. Fortunately but two pursons on the train wore {njured. Philip Gaind, nn cxpress messonger, wis thrown through the side door by tho foreo of the collision, and_found himsel un- dor tha déhris of the wreek. His: nrmsand legs -wert badly bruised, und boalsu recoived some internal injurles, The lireman also was consii= erubly bruised, The others on the ongine nud wreeked ears esciped without Injury, Aftern dolny of several howrs - a train from Kenosha onwie to the reliel of tho people on tho wreck and touk themn to Chicigo, A wrecklug tealn ~was nt unee digpatobed to tho scena of | the dis- astor to clonr tho tracks. i BENEADED. ' , . Bpectnl Dispateh to The Chieagn Tribune,* Dusvque, In, Aprll 1n—=Thomus Guy,'n frolght conductor on tho Chicago, Milwinkeo & St Paul Roud, met with n frighttal aod rutal nccldent lnst ovemng, which cost bim hislife, ‘Whilo pussing over thoBabulabridge be ellmbed to the top of a Lox car, And, while standing uy, ‘was caught under the chin by a guy-rope. s head was ent elenn from his body, and was hold only by afow tough muscles. In o Lleeding and senscless condition be fell from tho eur to tha track, only to undergo still more torture by bAy- Atz tho teafn of heavy-hiden curs piss over his body, When pleked up he: presented: n hurrible spretaclo,—~licudlesy, leys inceely hanging, bronse wut through und throuyh, while his clothes were ono muss of blood, The rope which cuused the aceldont had been used for holsting rils to the track, and It was through the ncgligence aof gume ono that b was allowed (o rewin, The Milwaukee Compauy, It 1s thought, will have to pay doarly for the icodent If it s proven that the rope should hive been removed. Tho ro- muing wero Lrought to the city thi and will Le sent to Louvenworth, Kus., fur burial, nccompnnled by bis fumily and Conduets or Phllston, The decensed wis 5 yeurs of w8 Mason, and 1 womber of tho A, —— DROWNED. MILWAUKKE, Avril 17,~Tho body of Jomes I, Wulluee, a contractor. was found drowned In the river to-nlght. e find conslderable money on his persou, The esso Is somewhat myste- rlous, o * YouNGsTOWN, 0., April 17.—Thomns Stacy, a farm-luborer, TU yeara old, fell from n bridgo at Lowellville lnst night while Intoxieated, and was drowned. Branroup, Pa., April 17.~Desmond Donahue, aged 9, slippad from u lok In the 'Purn Creek this evuntug und wus drowned, Tho budy bas not been recovered. iy INSTANTLY KILLED. Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicayo Tribuns. DAvexTORT, 1, April 1T.~Albert Patratz, son of Willlein Pateatz, residing near Washington, this State, wis thrown from his horse yesterday and lnstantly kilted. 1io wus erosaing a erooked creck when tho bunk, softoned by the recent freshots, gavo Wiy, buryiise hio in the mud, SERIOUSLY INJURED, ~ .Bpecial Dispateh ta ‘the Chicago Tribune. MILWAUKEE, April 17.—A sun of W, 8. Candoe, Cushlor of the Mauufucturers' Bank,' wus serlously injured this morning by bolng thrown &u‘inln curriuge, -He wos out ubodt the head fuce, g BODIES RECOVERED. CraTiiAy, Muss,, Aprid 17,—Flve bodles from tho wrecked schooner J. G. Huntington buve boen pleked "P by the erew of tho lfo stutipn, Oue was identlfied ns R, Ho Amos, A NARROW ESCAPE, . Two Flromon fn lm Being Cremintod, Tho alarm from Box M, lueated ut tho corner of - Hulsted and Van Buron streets, ut 8:65 o'clovk yesterduy mornlog,.was given for the discovery of firo in the two-stury frame bulidiog No. 17 DPierco street, uvcuupled 08 a realdonce Ly 'Chomus Farrell on the first floor * and Josoph Petrle on tho second flooy, The ilro orlpinated from un- kuown causes in anunocoupled swinmor kitochen \on tho sccond floor, and wus contined almost on- tlrely to thut and anudjoining npurtimont, which 18 nt present bolug used for kitchon purposes. The dunugo to thy hnlldlu{. which 18 uwied by Juseph Dussold, of No. 12i7 Wodt Uunyress Biroot, will not excoed $76. Mr. Potrle’s luss upon fure miure Is ubout 31w, Bmull aud tostguilicant ns the firo was, two nrumon, Wiltinm: Duloy, of Truck No. 2, ad Junies Pumphroy, of tho suwe company, mam- aued to gut suverely Injurcd, A numboer of peo- plo about: tho Hre scented 10 think tho su- perlor officers wore to blme for this, but this {5 denfod by those who augat to know. Hoth 'men went upho front stalrway, und, muking thelr wiy to'tho rear of the buifding, wpened tho door lending to the summer-kitchen. whilo tho Hiru was at 11s hight, and weroe iinmedle ately overcome by the tremeadous voluue of “smoke and "flmne which shot out futo . the -room which -thuy wero- ini iy some misiap ' the door beliad ‘thewm bud been closud, Daley groped his way buok to a window, and, jumplug out, sustuinud -u very puinful frauture und dislocation of tho rigut nukle, A hedvy fireman’s shirt wins burnied complately t0 A orisp, but tortupately bo bud seversl vther shirts Lououth this. 1hs hands, tnuul‘ and neck were badly scorshued i the bair singed closu to his-hond, Pumphruy wus losd fortunute, With tho instinct of i firée man ho dropped to the Huor to edcapo tho dunyo #woke, und groped bis Wiy on bis hands and knues to tho dour which bad been closed bohind him, Yhose ou tho otber slde heard him, and oputied it, when he toll prostiate on the floor complotely exbaustod, tlo wus very severely seorched ‘mbout the ux'mtml pordons of thy budy, and wus budiy Injured intornaily by tha smoko and tlawe bo bud elijor swullowed orinbled, lloth men wore borne to the rosi- denco of Firc-Murshal Bwunlo, nunrl, oppodlt, where lhu{ were uttended by Dr, U, J, Price. Thoneo Daloy was tukent to his hone, No, 214 Weat Mourde streot, uud LPumpliry to his bome nt No, I . West Juoksun stroot Lust ovoniug Dr. Prico, ufter visiting both patlunts, guvo it we his opinlon that both would rucover, Pumpbry was suifuring sovorely from his duternul injurivs, nud wus aluoat shucchloss, and both woro ouduring exeruclating ugony trom thelr buraa, : 5 e — e A tadical Cure for Drunkenncss, ' Umlor thohouding, **A lndical Curo tor Drunk- onness,” a Hungarinn papor tolls the followiug Rusalun story: A wurkiaan brought o om= platnt ugaiust four of bis fellows thut thoy bad glveu bin twonty-tive blows with n stiok,” Tho accused an boing 1 g1d fur thoir dufenso pru- duged un ugreemei > writhyn, one clauso of which pxprossly stipuiniod thut i€ one of thelir aumber drunk to such #E extent us uot o Lo ablo 1o attend to his work, tho othors wera tu meusure out to bl twonty-tive biows, and that thoy bad merely carried out the uurcowent. Upon this tho nkgltrute dischorged thom, yo- warklug that qu wure 1ot descrving of blumoe for whut they hud done, Lut rather of prilse.’! —————— The Sunday Law 1u New York, . New York Latter, Atriend of mino sout u scrvant out forn pltchor of luger ono Bunday, and ot hor return Bl0 juet 8 policeman, * LO0K horel 1've o noe tion to arrest you,” said ho, **What fory" sald o frightoned servaut, *For ruuln‘ beor on Suuday in o gluss pitchor. 11 fet i'ou ulf this thwe, bug the soxt time you do it 1'M bave you up, - You outt kut It fu u vhinu pltoher or wtin atl, {F you wuut to, for thon I cun say I thought t wud wilk, But boorin u gluss plicher could novor Lo tuok fur mitk, We must dvaw the liuy somewhere,”” - ‘I'bat furred tongue, budtasting tmouth aad s ably Teoling Suys you noed Hop LItkers. nent Danger of AVRiL 18, 155 HE RAILROADS. An Advancé of Five Cents in Grain Rates to the Sea= _board, ‘Narrow~Gnugo Raflronds and' Their Progross During tho Past e Year, TIIE ADVANCE IN GRAIN RATES. * "Tho Prealiunts of the trink lines, it thelr’ meoting I Now York Saturiday, decliled to ad- vanco wrili etos nendn to the basls of ) conts, Chilengo to New York, the now rato to wo Into olfeet tostay, Asstated in Ui TIIBUNE yostors duy, thoro hns been so much dlesatistietion nmyng provislon shlpnors, Lecnuse the provis- fon rates were not reduced nt the anma timo tho grain rutes were, thit somo netion on tho part O tho trunk lines wns necessary o mako tho dliference butween gealn and provision rates fivo conts, us hid boen the general rule. ‘To “bring nbout this candition, olther tho provision ra108 had to bo reduced five cents or tho grain tarlt ndvanced flvo cents, It wns’ generally belloved that they would pursuo the former course, bit, contrary to general oxpectation, thoy doelded to tnke tho lntter. ‘Thero is but one opinlon regurdiog tfls _action,. and that 8 that .tho: trunk-llue: Preskicnts, throtikh thoir _ shortsighted nvarieo, mmlo a - serl oua . blunder, 1t wis shown i yesterdas’s Turnuxn that tho reduction In grain rates to 25 centsper 100 had thoeifeot of nlmost doubling the Bhipmunts, whily provislon-shipments showod n Tulifn off list weuk becauso similne reduotot was ot made nt tho snna thne.,'Thero enn bobut lttlo doubt thut the provision shipmenta would hnvo been much lurgor had tho tarlt been mmlo 10 correspord with tho erain rates. Yet, In spito of the fuct that the rillronds made more by in- oreased sulpments thun tho reduction In Futes nmounted. to, the trunk llnes wo to work ‘and equallzo things by ndvinolng the rates. Hud tho Prosldents: instend of advanuingsruin rates, mnade o roduction I provision riles, they would not ounly have ade noney - for tho ratlroads, but thoy woitld huve avolded tho wrangling and quarrcling among tho Bustorn< poal lines which for some tlinc past has thront- ened tho destriction of the Bastern pool. A 26- cont rte left the rords & faly murgln: of profit, and still was low onough to prevent the ronds from any furthor eutting of tates, for none would have beoy very anxious to mikoe losing rate. - A8 1t 18, the old quurrels will bu renewed .with Incrensed vigor, and *outting ** will ngnin Do Jndulged in, - Mang of the lurger roads anva mnde eonteacts nt the 26-cent rate that will lnst thom forsume time to tome, 'Tho suuller ronds that hive mide no siieh conteaets ain bardly nf- ford 1o allow the pawerful trunk lines tw take nil tho business, ond for this regson thoy will Induige™ In clandesting cutting, which, If found out, will ercate another disturbruec and may forco rates still lowgr down than tney hive been diring the last weck, Destdos thiy, the Urosidents have onco more shown tholr Inconsistency and insincerity townrds the shippers. Ever sinee tho formutton of the pool the rule to give ten duys' notlce of anadvance 80 us to prepura shippers and proe vent them from loss on account of o tow sudden advanice. hius boon well observed, But in this Instunce they mnko tho advatcs go Into effcat at once, which will prove a serfous loss to such Bhlppors that based thelr contructs on the 2 contrato, Consldering ull the circumstunces, 18 certaln that o serious mistake hus been mudo and that the ndvance it graln rates cunnot Lo malntatned many doys. NARROW-GAUGE ROADS, Tho present number of the Rathray Age con= tains un elnborato artlels on’ mirrow-gntge rallronds ,and tholr progress during the last two yenrs, Tho Ays suys: Although tho enthusinsm in regrd to builds log |mrmw-{mmu rallways which pervuded solie parts of the couniry threo vr four years ago hus diminished, and “the oxtromista” who wors elafming - that tho atandurd gnuge system of !'50 country would be. . super- seded Ly the? norrow gauge, and wero in- dulging " in othor extruvagunt clalms for thoir favorit system, huve beuu sllenceds still 1t I8 by menns tho cuse that the coustruction of nurruwegutige rallways bas cnded, On thy eon- trury, it continues, but the extruvagunt cluing, put Torth by sue Of J18 over zetlous ndvowites, of_extriordinury economy i _construotion und operution, havae been proved orroncous; and now tho Gystem 18 genernily lookod upon, o8 It should . bave hoen ut: tho sturt, aw shuply furming n cheap and leds oxpensivo motlind of “sceuring ‘- rallway truusportation where thu greatest earrying eapueity Is nut needed. As u genoral thing, tho mrrow finlmo roads construeted In this country hnve et short Hnes Intended for local service nnd to chuply cuhneet communities with standund guuge dies, Recoutly, howover, tho ldes of vopstructiug trank. lines of threo feet gauge, witicl was tho - fuverit schieme of muny of o onrly narrow-guugo advocates, hns boen rovived, and'constitutes u now hbuse of the situntion ut present. On the other hand, another result of rullway dovelopment In tho last two yenrs orso has been the absorpton of quite u intmber of short nrrrow-gunge rouds by lurger compayles und thelr conversion 1o the standard gunge, while 1 some other cases narrow gaugo roids fuve boen widened by tha orlgloel owners, In the lust two yenra tho mileigo of narrow= ganuge ronds in tho United States las ncrensed rrom 4,088 to 5,002 miles, it gain of 1,774 miles; but It 8 nigo 10 bo noted thut in that ue purs row-gutigo rouds, huving n milonue of 1o less thun 667 mtles, have been clther chunged to standnrd-gnuge or purchnged by standunl-gange compnnles which aro abuut to chungo thow, or hive beon taken up witogothor, the Intter, how- m."(ln; befug tho cuso only to tho extent of 2163 wiled, OF tho 4,188 miles of nnrrow-gauge ronds in ox- 1stence two years ngo no less thun 16 per cont of thio mileuge has bean or is nbout to bo chinnged to standard or taken up. This added to the presout existing milenko woulil make tho nure row=guuge wllowge thus far constructed In the United States 6,00 mlles, or nbout 7 por ecnt of the total ruu\w\{ mileagae of tho country dui'1, Tho number of dilforent nurrow-gnugo ronds two years ugo nppourcd to be 18, whilo tho num- ber In oxistence to-duy 18 10, sliowing n net ln- erenge of only one read In two yenrs, AL present tho warrow-gnuge dovelopment s In progress nninly I conneotion with two tys tems, The Denvor & Rio Grands Compuny hng pushed it Unes with wondortful vigor i various diroutions in Colorado and Now Mexico, huvlnfi morg thin doubled ita mileago in tvo yeurs, si 18 atill bullding raplaly in that reelon, whilo it 1s also moving sauthward to old Muxica (o oot n‘rreut sysiem belng bullt In the samo intorest ram the City of Muoxlco northward, he Come uny expeets to luy 500 inlles of track this yenr, n 4 voery short time another sfnmm Lus sprang up, which shows remairkuble vigor—namely: the oledo, Delphos & Burlington, ‘This compuny, by eanstruction and nbwr[;uuu. hns now ncxlrl‘y 400 milea 1n operntion in Ohio and Indiane, any 18 stoadity extending southward In tho tormor State nnd westwird throlgh the utter towirds 8t, Lonis, ore tho intentlon I8 to conncot with the Calro & 8t, Louts nureow-gauge, which in turn {8 to meet o loug link yot to bo con- structod to give connection with the narrow- m\%n syatom of Toxns, niready inoluding nenr- 1y 60U milos. This achome nlso contemplntes nn oveontunl connection with Mexico and the Pulin- or-Bulllvan eystorn, to which tho Denver & Itio Grando systom s nliled, With thexo oxtonsivo schomes complotod, tho narrow-gauge will have o fuir test by tho aldo of tho standird guuge, and while {18 probublo that {ts more onthual- _usilo mivooates will bo somawhut disappointud In thelr chilns of oxtruordinury cconny and eiliplenoy, ut tho samo time, consldering tho rapld growth of tho country and tho inoreasing demand for transportution, thoro scoms to bu no ronson why these entorprises shoull not be remsonnbly reninerative. ‘Che nnrrow gaugo I8 especinlly udapted to the dovelopment of u new country ke Moxico, whore dietances ure great, natural diflicultles arve numerous, aid trailie has to bo worked up en- tiroly now, requiving naturally mauy yours -for davelopmont, ‘Thore 18 110 doubt that the threo. foot gaugo will bu sulliclont for the dumandas of thoso liuea for somo time to come, und it their construction and eperation aro Jmllumuuly [ rled on, and the drenm of u line of thres-foet Kuugo from the City of Mexivo northwiard into Colorudy wnd Utih, and_northegsterly through ‘Toxu, Arkansus, Missouri, Hinols, Indling, and Ohfo to Lnko Frio i reallzed, the Nnanclul re- sulta may be grutlfying. ‘I'hia Is on tho vuppusis tion thut tho munugerd of theso systems pursyuo 1 wise course nnd do 1ot _provoko u war of exs terminution on tho part of tho standard-gauge systoin, Tho blatory of the numgrous littlo narraw-gauge roads” thut have alrdudy beon Wibud out us lnfurlunn compotitors or nn{lmlll- uble foedurs will, no doubt, be kept in mind by the projuotors of theso lurgor sysiems, RUMORED SALE, - Bpecial Disvateh ta The Chicago Tribune, Rurrano, N Y, April 17.—For sonie months pust negotlations have been peuding Letwoun porsons holding a congrolling {ntorest In tho Butfalo, Now York & Phitudelphin Raliway Com= pany and o party of gontlemon o Noew York City,af whom J, W, Soligman, the well-known banker, §8 the hoad, for tho sule to tho latter of the road of tho former, For tho purposce, If pos- slble, of Lringlng the master t0 a conclusion, Mr, Bhermun Jewott, Presldent of tho roud, armed with power of attornoy, represonting with hlm,nl@ $1,600,000, and accompanted by Mr, Fraukiin' 0, Locke, ntiornoyjor tho Compnny, wont to Now York, City st the bogluniug ot lust weok,and en Sutunday succocded In consummating the Lusiness, The ters of the salo ure thut' u ltile over $2W0.000 sbull vo takon ut pur, That 48, that all tho stockholdors, including the City uf Buttulo, shull buve tho ups ton ot lllllmllnf Of thoir stock at the suina price os {sto bu puld for thoe fntereat ropresented by Blr. Jewett, so_that evory stucknoldor is pru- tooted nllke, I¢ tho kulo I8 complotod, and thera i Jlttio quostion about it, the reunlt wiil nuturally be of great benefit to this clty, us tho interence {4 ut tho youd would ulti- mately fall nto the bauda of ous ol tho great trupk lines. 1t i not &t Ewwul known whother N York partles " huve eatered Into coutruot for thumselves oaly, or aa agents for any onv of the ronda. Ttia nt the present momont tieelers to conloetitre ns to whut Inty Lo tha ultiinato destination of tho property.en far ds ita ownership is concorned, "“il tiino only will solve whntls now a porfect enlwian. » Itlo Jnnciro, aud long ovorduc. Hoth veasels woro spoken Off tho coust n month ugu, but not heard of aince. ot s AMUSEMENTS. § GERMAN DRAMA, o % The Gormnn performanco at MaViclkor's Inat . cvoning wis ono of the bost of the senson, and tho largo andlonce present tostitiod §ts approval by frequont nppliuke. Sardou’s dramn, ** For- rool," which was produced lnat ovontui, s too well known to meed iauch of an introdic- tlon. Liko most of. Sandou's plays, It 8 unintoresting wntll tho end of tha secaid net, whon tho plotuexing to devolop, But aftor that it becomes highly oifective. Bnr- don's pluya nre only accoptntilo when in the hinda of emnpotent iotora, 'he east lust avens {nye waa 8o uniformly gomd, that it s _to wonrder thint tho pluy'Pm\-ml ngreat sueeess und gavo genornl putiefnotion. Whe part of. Gillerte could not hinve been In better hands thun Miss I vort Trautimul, who commenced anothor stue engageuiont with Collmer & Isenatoln's Campuny lust evoning, Shofs one of the most talented Gormun lendiug ludles In tho country, aiml comlines with hor taleats aa n brillinat actresa n plenalng faco nnd fine figure.. When st rluyml u short stwr onrnm_-muut at this theatro nt tho beginning of tho fenson sho Leeamo suoh o favorit that thore was W genoral deslro to have Lher appenr hore again, and tho manwgors of tho German thentrg desorve oredit for wralifying tho wishes of tholr patrons in ehgoging her n second timeo, Although it subleets them 10 o heavy oxpense. The part of Gliberte Inst ovoning guve her an opportunity to show her talent for emotional nctitg In tho buest light. Even If tho support ———— VIRGINTA MIDLAND, . Special Dispatch to The Chlcago Tridime. IAtTIong, M, April 17.~At n moeeting of the Directors of thio Virginia Midland Rallrond and oflicials of the Dalthmore & Ohlo Rallrdad holl hero yosterday, It was declded to extend tho fortier rond from Dunvitlo, Vi, vin Mooreviilo, N, C, to Spartanburg, 8 O, Tho estimated cost of this new project wiil ho about $300,000, to which the Ralthnore & Uhio Company will sub- serftfo a- fnrgo® sim. Tho' now rond will, of _eoitrse, have very importnat conncotlons, bl seeting ‘na it will tho rolirond aystom “of North Carollnn,. But mnny of thoso lnos nro umder, tho control of tho . hostito Riehmond and Danvillo system, ad (L 18 woll wleratood by the Direntors of the Vikginin Midinnd that” nithnntoly the oxtension muat cruate a systein of ita own In order to reache) Atlanta, Augusin, Charleston, sud othor points in tha South and compote for thelr tradn. That tha formntion uf Buck u systant will follow s n natieal result from the bidlding of this rond 13 mlntitted by thoso who are most Intimntely cone eerned In the project, tut nt present it wonll Bo premnturs to indleate tho nuture of tho plany thut nre belng formed with o view towards acoumplishings thut purpose. ¢ DENVER | DeSVER, Colo, April 17.—Notwithatanding tho totegram from Pusblo, the Denvor & Now Or- “lenns lond seems to be pushing ahend. Tho stock niloted to Donver was rubscribed somo 1ime nizo and the first instnilinent pald wp, The Prosidont of tha rond 18 now East” placing tho -romnluder, . THE WEATHER. T111% SIGNAL SERVICE. OFFICE OF THE CH1LK BIGNAL OFFIORT, WASH- 1xaroN, D. G, April 18—=1q, m,—For tho Ohlo Valloy nnd Tennrssoe, fulling fotlowed by tising ‘Uarometer, soutuorly veering to northorly or westorly winds, rislng followed by follng tomperature, partly cloudy or cloudy wentbor and occasfonnl raln. For the Lower Luke reglon, falling followed Ly rising ‘burometor, stationary or louwer, tom- peraturo, southorly shiftiug to northerly winds, clondy wenther, with rain or snow, For the Upoper Laka reglon, higher barometer, winds shifting to cooler northerly, clowiy wuu:rlllgr. with ralnor snow, followod by elearing wen! T For the Upper Mississippl and Lower Missourt ‘Valleys, higher burometer, slightly covler north- clrly vi'lm}n. partly cloudy “wenthor, nnd occu- siunel raln. Cittioniey signnls continio at Milwaukee, 8eetlon 1, Grang uven, Scotlun 3, and nro or- deced Tor Porg Huron, Scotion 4, Toledo, San- dusky, Cloveland, Seatfon 6, and Erlo. _Tho indientions nro that tho atorm now cons tral i1 the Missiasipn] Valloy will move eastwnrd over tho Lake reglop, enusiug rain {n tho Mid- dte, Atluntic, nnd Now England States, * b2 g LOUAL OTSERTATIONS, L111cA00, Anril 17-10:19 p. tn, et = s S LA ANED S D Toar, | Ther,| L | Ware | Vel | 100, ] iVedtnar 8. Baoe] 8|00 Rate, M 8 Kl alono would have redeemed the porfurmnnee. Iut overy part was in tho hands of compelent airtiats, anid it 18 doubtful whothor Miss ‘I'raut- man_over recelved 8o gond naupport beforo. Mr, Lenhnrd us Marguis Hoger nctod the pert with_stieh dignity and noble bearing na bofits the Presidont of n Hoynl Court, and in tho Inst mot gave evidences of | consklerably dramutic power. It wus this gentles man's nrat appedrahco hore, and bo mado n gooll Impression. Mr, Rodenborg ns Ferreol wua powertul and {mpressive, thongh ho would have made n 8till better fruprossion bad ho been less impulsive. A little toning down woulil greatly Improve his acting, Vun Lavardin, tho State's ittorney, wus finely repres sonted by Mr, Richard, 'Chis gentleman s such u consumimato artist that nothing but wood work onn be expected trom him. Mr. Meyer as Perr(- ol tho Juryman, agnin gave evidonce of his great versatllity, Me supplied tho fun for the luy, and did it with Judgmont. . Miss Kuse- owakn as Thereee d'Eyremont played with more fire than s her wont, aund proved quito g~ coptable fn tho part. Ar. mkil mida n hit in the rdle af Martial tho Forcater, Hls nct- ing in tho last seono, when ho §8 mndo to reluotantly admit thut bo 18 o myrdarer, was ns finlshed aid effcotivd a ploce of nctlng as hns been secn bere for somu thine, and ho wils de- servedly ealled out in open scone. ‘This youn i hus been on the stuge but 1 short tino an be nlrendy plves ovidences of hecaming one of tho best Gorman charactor actors in tho coun- ey He bos tho tutont und tho will, ' MAVERLY'’S. . At this bouse yesterday thoro wore two por- for tho benefit of Mr. Bliss Whitaker, the Trengurer of tho thontre, .and . his ns- alstant, Mr, Trea Wallaco, Finanelally tho affple wus n complote snccess, a8 ight have been oxpected, for Mr. Whitnker §s one of tha oldest und most popular gentlemen who oflichites In the box oflico of n all'the varioty peaplo in tow, AT TITE THEATRES, : Certalnly the wnost {nteresting event of the ek will bo the uppearauce thls eveniug of Mr. 'W. E, Sberldan, a new star whose advent s mndo in n refrestingly modest way, Mr. Sherldan hns nlways been looked upou a8 an actor ‘of morit; his thentrical * tralning hus been thorough, for In his oxperlence he has played a great varlety of parts, and ho has Monn bArometor, - Joun tonporatugd, i1 Moun humidity, Bt Mualiutiin tamporaturo, Al, Minlmum towpernturd, 15 . UBNERAT OUSERTATIONS. Cnt0ano, Avril 171048 p. m. —_— e Ther Thery Stattons. 2:08 | tor Dy T ik [ 4; ronched nn ngo entithiug him to sorlous con- u.p.x siderntion fn his clalm to bo considered n star, R .;b‘| 1118 firat effort will o Loufs X1, n part In which & Henry Trving mado a success some Yoars ngo, 48 | and in which DionjBocutenult madondire fatturo w6y when ho had his Inst fly ub managoment in Now l!?_l b Yark Ul Mr, Bhorldan bns been pretionlarly Pavanp g|. well recetved by Billndelphin fn i this rolo,whore Beydtgimaass| 9| & o g8 & focal favorl. Ho wiil have. tho U b | & support of Edmund Collier, Tinrry A, I Langdon, ohn A, Lanp, J. fL° Shewsll, g'l‘ » Miss Knto Forsyth, Mra, Auguatn Foster, and Wwla Miss Mittens Willott. ‘I'hore wlll bo no chnnga W | m of blll at clther Hooley's or MeVioker's. At the bl I 1 former Robson and Cinne In tholr turrible besh @ | 6t w0 wilt on,. and at tho latter * T'ha AT o4 Logionof Hanor * will Lo roponted. Bnelbaker's o | varioty ‘shiow will ta-night open at the Olymplo. o A strong bitl fntroduo g molodrana and vario- T ty 18 offored nt tho Acndminy, and nt tho Lycomn W “The Conviot's Daughter uud tho usunl olio Fid Wil be presented, . # DRAMATIC NOTES. A k14 Misa Dora Btunrt {s-shortly to be marrled to B v, Hudson Liston, 3 o “Bllly " Counor, the manager of John McCul- Jlustund [ lough, 18 niso handling tho affuirs of Bherldan. frort laros H P, Curran, business mannger of “My Ger- snn.dl.n:h»ul w nldine,” Is In town, Tho plece will bo scon at RAn Fiais o Hooloy's on Sunday, April 24, SL’F&WGHI E Misa Itosc Wood nnd Lowla Morrlson aro P ] booked at tho Grand for May. ‘Thoy will play in B 14 n‘.; “Camllle,” * Frou-Frou,'” and “ Agnes," 5 John Haoloy, Jr., we understand, roes with B Keend to California for I, M. Hooluy, wiio Is fn- terested In tho Hnanclul results of tho trip, The Harrlsons were In tho city yesterday, This tnorning thoy lenve for Michigin, \vheryo tuoy fiutter uround one-night stunds for a timo, On Sunday night noxt Mosars, Snm Plercy Louls Morrison, wid Miss Annfo Grahniu will'np- fl;. In *The Ticket-of-Leave-Man® ut tho SANDWICIH, ILL. Bpeclal Disaleh to The Chicago Tridune. Saxnwien, Ill, Aprit 17,—The recont warm weather bas melted the huge banks I the northwestern part of tho town and the water suddealy overflowed all rostraint, Hooding ' n Inrgoportionof the town, nnd tho stock-bouso und wolding-roomof the Sandwich Manufactur- Ing Company, doing gorlous dumago. This oven- ing n irgo fore of men are dikgiig a ditoh to draln otf tho water, which Is ateudily ristig. IPRECAUTIONARY. Br, Lous, Mo, Apell 17.—Quite n number of, owners of proporty unlong the river bunk uppo- slt thia city, In view of a possible overfiow by high water, have determined to organize and raiso monoy to repulr the existing levee from Venlee northward, und mako tho whole shure- lino scenre, If possble, uguinat- furthor cus croachment by tluods. Mr, Joseph Whoelack I3 going_to play In n frosh nxhupmnflnn ot nclul?: '?Bmurulu);l of Parls,” Tho flrest production will_ocour in Phil- adolphia, Y i Hearth * will bo auted by n cotmpany of amns teurs at the West Bnd Opera-louse ‘on Thurse duy und Fridsy eveniogs. g Tho aeenlo urtists ut MoVicker's are busily employed on tho fortheoming roproduotion of #*0no Hundred Wives ™ nt thnt house, Malmahu s dovoting himsalf to tho rulch sconc. The fin:ll«:ar‘%r&u bus mot with 1nuch sucoess during To atop certnin’'“inquirles wo mny say that thore I8 no truth in tho report that Prof, Snnuel Kuyzer, tho woll-known feacher of elucution fn this city, was nbout to becomo u momber of ono of tho prominent legitimute dramutic com- punies, ‘The wannger of tho troupe, we undor- stand, offered tho Profossor i prominent plice in hlunn‘nnlnnt(un. but bls businuss horo pro- ventod his neeoptunce of thv oifor, Tho Feitflleton tulls ua that Mr. Dan Iarkins n{vvmlm to bu making **n most successsul pro- vlnoinl tour Inn Great Sreitinn, Tlo has upkeurud in SBhakspoarean mies in Liverpool, Munchestor, Diranugion, BEdinburg, Dublin, Nowenstic, Brise 1, Leeds, and othor citios, und bas boen well recolved iy all of thou. Mr. Harkius has worltod very bird durine bl tour abroad, nnd a London corrospondent, Who was fumiliir with hia notine in Amoriea, tells us ho s {mproved 8o mich In aevoral of his Shaksponronn rolea that hie trlomds in this country will hardly rovugnizo his old style. lloéxmnuscsm play In Lundon before the close of tho souson, and to roturn hore In Soptembor,"” In an_articlo headed “Annw Diokinson's Funk,” tho Feullletun hns this to sy of that ludy's recent nutiun: * Like imost women of hor olus# whoso intuilects huve unsexed theie sensl- billties, sho know nothiug of the public moud, Bho looked ut tho wholo thlufi ranl un futets lgutunl standpolnt, aud notnwlly buljoved that §f abo rend and oted tho purt of Hamlet or Claude with lumlllfmmu and good tuste, thodn qualitics would win frrespeotivo of bor sox, Thia is tho mistika thut » woms only of Mlss Dickinsun's nuturo could make, Eho begun to percelvo when tou lute thiut she wus going ta sacriilos here solf Inan exporfiuont that uundor no possiblo CALIFORNIA. BAY Freaxctsco, Col,, April 17.—TLast night and to-day {t rained from Yrukn ut tho north to Snnta Barbara In the southorn part of tho Biato. ainfull s hoavy, especinlly in tho centrul and :csm:)um pars of tho Binte, whore ITis modt BURGLARS ARRESTED, o Teteotives Rold wid Stunton, of tho West Mudison Btreot Statlon, ut 8 o'clock yostorday, ftternoou came upon n susplelous-looking chars agter who was.standing guar outstde of Mur- iy & Baker's awuing cetablishment ni: Nos, I8 nnd 40 Canal stroct. Just ns they determlued to arrest him thoy discavered that the follow's part- nor tad broken # window out of tho storo frout and wns Insldo ransicking tho placo for plunder. Reld took aftor tho **lookout,"” who, ‘whon ho perceived tho oflicors making towards thom, appeared ta renlize at once that they wore policomon, thubgh Loth wore in civillan dross, and started south to Madisun stroot on u run, ‘The ehnse continued until tho earner of Madlson wiid Vedplaines streot wis reashod nud, thorotho thief, baving complotely lost his wind, was compolied (o uive up, Dobtootive Btuntm.casily cuptured the man who . wae insido the factory, At the station the prisoners guave thelr numes is Barney Wililams ntid Tlrlmll Willuns, but tho luttor was Idontilud uf a notorious burglar named Dantel Flyns, who s only a short timo out of ‘tho “Toenitontlury, “whither © ha wis sont somo threo or four yonrs ngo for tho hurnlnr{ of a outlory store in the South Division, - Harney Willuus has not yot boen Identitied, but b, t0o, is likely to prove tobo u conviot, whogo Y mug™ hus beon for- fotten by the police during hissolonrn at Jolint, ‘That ho {8 an nx\wrl burgiar was proven by his partiul _idontitication = yostorduy for & snosk on West Wushington ‘strect. During the present nonth sovorl “tricks have Ueen turned a’ - chut thoroughfure botweon Halsteed street and thoe river. A fue yorit method of the thief wus tu sneak In at tho Litek donr of w house while the vocupants or BUTVANLS Woro busy ut the front wnd yelaway ‘with whatever ho could fny hands upon during n hasty searob. Willinine wig soen while umprnc from No. 130 Wushlugton street after come mittiye suoch 0 rnhburfi. and thoso who thon suw ' him think tho grlmnur tho tmut, Gthora will bo uaked ta look ut him to-duy, Bomo o after tho arrest a citizen whos0 Do was not uscortained cattod “at the siation to entor compluing, Ho hud atiempted 10. wion Flynn ug ® was endoavoring o vseape from tho olticer, aud waus slightly ~cut by him on the lett chovk with n pockotknlte, which was found upan Flynn when searched ut the atatlon, Tho pulico sity that sboulil thio prisoners prove'to be tho thloves who. havo recontly boon working Weat Washington street, a number of ciases, sumv for good-sized amounts, can be worked-up agaluat thow, i bl e BELATED SHIPS, Bazrions, April 17,~The Gorman bark Tigor, spokon somo timo ago, 134 duys out from Liverpool, with kier crew in o starving vondition and suppiled with stores by the stonmer Nube, has arrived within tho Capes, but bas not comu up to the vity, 3 oo o skl eoasy Witia 0 sond i revouu ol » David Bruart and bark Hutteabura, bojh frum. us o burleaque Iu spite of bor sincerity; that her manager eared nova fig whether It wero bur- osquu or trugedy—a great trivmph or i guy—so joni n# tho public pald to scu it. Thea sho buuked out at tho last momont, In wll hor caveer Miss Dickingon nover did ml{lhlnr BO womanish us when she locked horself In hor room and sulked, aud refusod to kvep hor word or to give uny reasun for breuking it."” MUSIOAL NOTES, been enguged 08 o solulst at our Juue Slnger- fedt, The orchestra of the DBoauplan troupve—forty In nuiber—-will romain in this country turing the summor and wi'l pluy at sonio of thosuburbe un pluces of redort, ‘Wo bavo rceolved from Mossra. Lyon & Hoaly a new musleal volumo, called * A llook of ithymes und Tunes," bolng # compllntion from v.:u ngfimg"cgfm}mu:hjld umnpot lufl,ms:f chul o8 lon, by, Margaret Penrmulu: goud, ’Hm work hias buoi admirably doue, ~ A solréo musloule Wil bo given this eventng at tho Woodrull House b hligl.blllnu B, Sylgfnu. usalated by Mr, Loacovits, planist; Mr. Holmone dulil, violinists Mr. Grimeley, tenor, and Mr. , baritone, The program ls an unusually at- tractivo ono, B - Lucy Huoper writea that Verd], lu his new work, " Ii " Wis ubly scconded Ly his wifg, who wasa celobrated ‘priwn donnu, Slgaoring Struponl. Bue, with Tudolnt and - Frezzolinl, o widely noted in 1bo musleul world in bygono )'eun., 1er (ntluence {s sald Lo ba llrlklm{l;wu;- ceptible In the luter works of her llusirlous huyband.'* : The dedication of the new Chickering Musio all, ovor tho warerouns of Polton, PumumK & Crosa, 18] State strooty Wil taky pluce ou Friduy Tho affale s unier F. Evana, n render, -fl'.'.' slsted by Euill Harrls, Mrd. ©,. f ¢ \osoph Biugor, * Tho Du.Benuplan Freuch opern gemont on e Sath inat, at ¢ adomy of Musio, he I o faunnd's new tin) 1 lny..i‘lml nguenots Carl Bentz {s tealning in Acadamy of Musle, @ number :,h[“m Istora for opera. At i rohenran), the tho first nut. of Balfo’s * Bohemlan purta of tho second nid thied ncts wi ‘Tho clnss I8 composed of younyr toen and women, and the D) pear plonged with the progress the s fuada sineo Soptomber, 1850, begun regulur work, The ony nuthentlo portraltot 7 2 wator-solor drwing by tho painl Just been sbld by nugtlon 1t Vien: (nlf()fi ll;\fl;l!' nbont §500) o yeur 182, threo yonra bieforo t dentt, ani Wpon. 16011 xiat i ros of his aro.based. The poriraiz, wi artistio polnt of view, Is” sald ‘1o Indifferent morit, nmatenr, Dr. Oravitsc! There I8 talk once moro of the * Rimin" of Ambross Thomas Fnr l:r with Mme. Albanl na.the borolua. | tho negotintions with that groat urt; most voncluded; In fiuet, tho pap alrendy deawn up and_ready for havl hoen lnmfnml thais It wae, her fine auting | when a very eurlous dificulty put 1 wholo mutter. Mmo. Albrul natur, to know whit mauner of mua| hefurd sho, pledged hersolf ¢ 10 sco the acure. by @lbunnd’s’ oxperlonco iropus of * Polycoute,” rofused to Iy nto nny one'a keeping sive his tho nuwotiutlons fell throughs be ;(‘:I.In mx:}nlns ""l’r. Ildunl tp'lu 2 s0r's drenms, s ot fmpro! und no other mily Y called u on l':)m cliuractor noxt wintor at tho TIRES, CIIICAGO. * Thonlarm from Box 913at 8:%0 night was caused by tho burning hay (n g boet at the rear of No, 37 Juthins IHenrlck, ed 18 0 mystery. ‘The nlarm trom wu';‘bnuzht by Viey, o i1 a8t due. to tho Izniting of tho root, n{'“k framo . dwelling, No, 120 North Marked owned und ocouplod ns s resiience b Flood, Bparks trown u chlnney caused (] The alnrm from Nox of Twelfth and Halstes csterdny afternoon was n 1 by samne would-bo p bear in mind that n deteotion fi's wilt bring thom disagreenbla resuits, 120, loonted at the , sounded .‘i"n'x"&' rietionl foker: AT WILKESBARRE, PJA, ‘WILRRSBARRE, Pa., April 17.—1. s dwalllng and boot and 8hoo fuctory my 5 Irym't of tho Wyoming Vulloy Hotel buraed 15 ——— EXCOMMUNICATED, Bpectas Dispatch o The Chicago Tribuns, . IND1ANATOL1S; Ind., April 17.—Blshop Frany ity thontre, ‘Tho performers comprised nearly | Chatard, of the Dioceso of Vineenucs, to-ds i1 this city oxcommunlonted from all the Tights, priviloges, and Christinn burlal of tho Catboyy rlost nnmed_ Dony sobedience of ords & charge in Iendricka County, this Stuto, ———— forninnces—1n tho nfternoon nud evening—givon'| beck' nis O'Donnnvan for Tn tho House of Cominons recently. Mr., mend Hartlett gave notice of his &(unnn':'nz nak whother It wns the purpose of the Gover ment to issue modalsin commenoration of thele thrag great martinl achlevement: rullef of Capt, Boycott, tho Husee and tho recent promunnde to tho Capo und back by tho net stenmer of -a British roluforcumonts, —_— oppn‘rl:mlty Lost. Hoston Pogt, . BJrnatierna I3j8rndon, the Norwegl; h to gafl for home noxt week, TR not # baby ks been named for this distingult geutlomun sinee bis urrival in the United Staies. — e MARRBRIAGIS. SAVLES_ARMNFIONG—AC the 0 Twoniy-thint-a, tho [tuy. Charles Tinl! Hutylos, OT(NILNTIG COnro, 1a., uod A BLrOIK, NO cards, DEATES. e hoious s or Had e peaan ! 3 g i : Robice 0F Taner oronTior Ko T 'mmlnlm Mary, boloved vify 6 yoars, oudity, nt 1U 3. h i thaieo by carringes'ta itoxehili Conetery, CUNROl—Sunduy, April 17, Pateick Connorud 5) wnen. ‘Futoral from his lato rosldonce, 148 North Mayate Ht. Stophen's Church, wher colobruted, thenco by earelsges nolery, Frivada aro respecttully lavi nttond, 4 Plfi:flluo—l«pru'ln Sru. Hattlo By wito of KL oira. Flnorat “Tocsdny, April 19.nt 11 n. ., D OurBoTiY, nnd Olila-#iy WEBER~Sunday moral P, Wobar, aced il J0urs iin ‘Futiom{ frum ot rosidance, o, by flldll‘{.i IF,;IB.. 10 Gracetund, e CHIRE-Aprll 17, Haymond Fuoli, youuts S X dOTass h bt TR Weahichuré.waedd T Funurul from tho resldence of his parents, 455 Weit uron-st., "l Uesduy, the Jth, ut 10 v'clock u.m. IUK—=3lra. Empn 15, Clarks born Marchzl, 1S il 17, 1581, uied o7 oral ut 1 uouiny, ot gh I8t Migs il o the 17th Inat, Chare vars und 1 uontL. v'clock towldy from ro LA R=AL 1245 Mich]) lenry Y. Furrur, in the 0th year of 16, 1831 My Loaks A dramatization ot “The Crlcket on tho n}fl luto Ulive briet Funeral nt the residonco, i ApRL 15, ot 150 u'clook, by errrlugon t Grace 27 BL. Alunns (VE.) pupons plouse cops IKYDOCK—Bundny mourning, Mitlé . ll‘.‘ ll:mt{_“-fl onrs, RRUMSHY~Suturday, A oy o lamiol 1., Juni yrars. oral from hor late home, tho residence ot 33 Rhodes-uv., Luvsdiy, Apcll 15 R. EDMUND I. DUNNE WiLL m;«; Doarborn snd Adnuts-sis., I'ugsday evon! KERR B, TUPY i e ppnadm MIE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A% suclation tukos ploasire In_nnnuuneing W rungomunts huve been mado witlh nncky A, 3., Profossor of thetos tiie Nurthwaostern University, untertainmient (n fin nombors’ 1, in Farwoll Hail, s city, and I8 tine rendor. By ELISON, FLERSHEIN & COy Auctonoers, 81 und & Randoiph-st. 1346 Michigan-av. AT AUCTION. DOXDAY, April 18, at 10 a. m, THE ENTIRE FURNITURE T'artlos loaying the city. e tian wors that e womla bo vesiieany | Carpals, Parlor and Chamber Sets, Dlg % oom and Kitcheh Furniture, &2, &6 ELISON, PLERSHELY & (0 116 Dlne Iskand-av, TUESDAY, Aprll 19, at 10 & m, Mr, Mugo Linduy, tho Clnelnnat! tenor, bas Efllh‘fl sluc]( of Bardware and Hnflse-?mfllfih‘ {ng Gaods of dealer declining business. nd Cook Stoyes, Reval re, wg? Cloth, Bird Cagety fRtore Fixturaos fur sule, oL B e HLION, FLERSHPIME = tygra and Cutles L ensuEIM & 00 et Grauds. 131 Eastar &