Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1881, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBU TIIURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881 -TWELVE PAGES pany, represen Dee, 81, 1875, clatms for transportation of Is had been adjnsted upon torms pre- boid by the PostO-lee Department, which m e compansntionto the company consfderably less thas the amoemit chavged to pid paid by private persons for like serv- lee during tho samo perlod, Tha petition aiso ofted [ ditall othor Aerviges Fandered, fur whieh proper eomponsation tid not been revéived by tho company. ‘The ngeregnie amount due the ruilrond, necording to the petition, was 81,140,720, Tho eise ws argzued botore tho Castrt of Clainia to-duy. The £asa of tha petitioner was restod upon 1o sixily reetionof tho net of Congress npproved July 1, 2, which net constitutes the uhartur of tho campany, THE BECTION = ns follows: Rie, o Awd Dbe it further cnneted, that the grranis afaresaid npe made iponcomdition that Faid company shall pay sabil bandy ot pnturity, and shath keep eaid rattrond and telegeaph fine i repadr nna uee, ond shall at all thines tromsmit (i!lpmchc!u\'urs:\ldh-h-urupllllln,'. and trans. part nulls, troops, atud nupmitions of wir, sipe pliea, and publte stores upon sahl rallrond for he Government whenever requilred to do so by any Department thoveof, anid that tho Governs ment rhall at all thnes inve preference ntho wso of tho sama for wll purposes wioreankd {at fuir and reasonablo rates of compenaation, ot Lo oxceed tha anounts paid by private partles for the famo kind of serviee), and nll comperssi tlon for services rendersd for tho Government stndt bo applicd to the payment of maid bonds Snd interest untit the whole amount 8 fully id, L thought by tho Court ofilolaly that tho tasv-will e doelded within the nuxt lao Weeks., 'NORTHERN P ACIF PREPARATIONS 0 JuMe CHOW's CLAINMS, Waginxatoy, I, C, May il.—In the de- cislon of the Scerotary of tha Interlor reln- tlve to the construction of tho Northern Un- citte Rallrond throngh - the Crow Indlan reservatlon, the Sceretary lickd that, while no unnecessary opposition to the contemplated surveys fn sald sald roservation should be Interposed by the Department, yet, {porder to avold any hostile acts or unfriendly feol- fngs on the part of safil Indinns toward agents or employés of the Company, ho deemed it advisable that the Indian Agent at the salil Crow Agency should make known 1o tho Indians tho purposo fur which tho suid prelimiunry enrveys areto be made, and shonld assuro the udinns that the lands niccessary for tho right-of-way granted by Congress will not Vo taken wntll nfter an_ngreement - thorefor has heen entered futo between the 1ndiang and the Unlted States and the Indluns fulrl pensated for the same. The Sceretary gave di= rectlons to bave tho views expressd in tho decisfon earried {nto operstion. o recognizes at present mmEly the right of tho Haliroad Compnny to muke the prelhininnry survoys, in order to determinn whethor (¢ will consteuot 'fts line youth of the Yellowstono through sald reserbation, PROCEEDINGS IN TIE SENATE, Wasmxaroy, 1), C., May 11.—Mr, Kellogg catled up the resolution offored by him somo dnys ago calliug on tho heads of executive departments for the names of clorks and employés employed In thelr respeetive de- purtments, ete. Mr. Brown offored an amendment enfling for additional Information as to whetherauch clerks or employés nre whits or eolored. ‘The resolutlon nml amendment were Jaid over for future nctlon, Mr. MeDill offered o vesolution that here- after tho ‘“oftielal rezister of tho Uniled Btafea " shall contaln, in addition to tho statis- tics requived by Sco, 510, Revised Statutos, iu- formation ng 10 tho Congressional district trom which each officer, clork, and employG in_tho service of the United States Is nppolated and the (Inaa of his appumtinent, Laid over for futuro action, A The Sonato thon went Into oxccutive scssion, ?nu w‘l}lg‘n the doors reopeued tho Souate ade jQura: SIS TELEGRAPIIS. UNDERGROUND CABLES IN GERMANY. Spectal Dlaateh, to The Chicags Tribune. ‘WasmisaTon, D. €, Moy 1L~In view of tho ‘propoaition to compel'tho tolegeaph companies in Chicago to pluce tholr wires undorground aftera certaln date, tho followlng report on tha subject of uudorground telegruphd in Germany, Just recelvod by the Stato Lepartment, wmay prove of Interest, Mr. Tree, writing from Fragkfort-on-tho-Maln, says: *Th first oxporfment in undorground telo- graph conductors [n Prusain was mude durlng tho yenri 151840 Owing chlotly to defeuts in to menns of insulation, tho nttemnpts made dur- ing thnt period wore not successful. Tho ine dluences of tho ground upbvy tho guttae porehn coverin in - which the “wires Wwore envoloped had not been suf- lciently studled. The cubles wero not Inid deop enough, und the provislong nzalnst aceldent hud not been waken with suflicient care. Tho sul- phur with which the insulating gutwn-porcha ‘was mixed had nlso, {n n ghort time, o dumaging coffect upon the wires, Owing to these viarions olrcumstunced, o line which hnd boen projected from lorlin to this olty wus built no farthor thun Eisonnch. ** It 1662 tho experiment wns mado of Inclos- }:‘lfl llho wires in leaden pipes, but this also lod. * Meanwhllo tho mnttor was taken up In Ene gland, und nlso In Franee, and caroful solontilio investication was applied to tho discovery of mouus - of overcomiug tho various difll- culties which had ~ boon encountored. Tho qunlities of tho guttn-perchn were studied, tho vulcanization of tho same wis deeted, tho proper fnsubiting composition wis tscovered, and suitablo muchines for eome pressing this materinl with uniform density nround the wire were contrived, iy tho your 870 thoso processes and experiments had 5o far progrossed that 8 German Commission of * Ine 9 Il|r{‘ dispatehod In the suminer of thitt year to ngland und Franeo, reported ulrunrly m favor of & publie nppropriaton for building nn ex- pevimental Tino with tho now tmprovements, At tho request of Dr, Stephan, Chicf of the Bureau of Postd and "Telegraplis, the approprin- ton was granted by tho Helehstag, und within threo months’ tima the proposed line wus bullt from Herlin to Halle. ““U'hls line, 130 kilometres 1 length, envo such sutisfactory rosults that s extounion west~ wurd to ° Cassel, Frankfort, and Moy once, and northward to Hambury, Altonn, und Kiel, was immedlately resolvol upon, This extonsfon wus begun on tho lat diy of March, 1877, and on the 24 of July folluwing the wosts orn conunoction as fur us Mayuuco wae cowms . prete, < P R S'TII SYSTEM OF UNDERGHOUND TELE- anaris cconstructed sinco the year 1470, and now comploto and in operution, comprises ' an uegregtto of 5,210 kilometres of enble and 86,53 kilometry condueting wires, Somo of tho eabies huvoe our, but most of them havu seven comluctors. Tho system inclides, up to this time, the 1ollows ing cumylumd lines: 1. Borlin-lulle Cassoly 2 Franktort Matnz: 3, Hullo-Leipzlgs 4. Nerline Hombury: 5, Huwburg-Kiel; 6, BerlineMngdo- bura - grunswick - Hunover- Munich - Miinstors Wesel - Ditssolddorir - Cologna - Etborfeld - Bar- 10003 7. Frankfort-Uarmstudi-Munohoine-Carls. rubic-Rustati- Kohl-Birnsbours; 8, Hombirge Cuxbaven; 9. Hambirg-Bremon-Emdon-Tires merhafen-Wilholmshafon: 10, ColognesCobe Jentz Droves-Motz; 11, Motz-Stenshourgs 12, Borlin-Dresden 13, KOulgsberg-Duntzlz-Brote tng 16 Dunezig-Thorn; 16, Thora-lerling l'um threo Inst Hies wero built Herlin-Breslan, during the year 1K) _ " Lines dre now projected from Herin to Btettin, und from Coloiis 10 Alx-ln-Chapuile, and wiil probuhly ‘Do comploted during the resont year, It [a nlso proposed 1o construot Iuus from Konlgsberg to tho Russian Lonidary* newr Bydtkubmen, wid from HBresluu 1o tho Austriun boundnry near Oderberg, A complote systens of underground tele rn‘ms for the cutiro cnplro will be fluished, it 18 bulleved, bofore the yoar 15, . “The cablos cuployed are wnnufictuarod partly in Germuay und partly in Bugland. Tho principal contructors (Foltoin & Quilienting, of Colagno) obiain the raw cable from Buglund, and tinlsh the sume by enveloping it In n conlago covering at thelr extenslve establbment ut Milheini-on-tho-Rthiue. The Berlin coutractors, Mcssrs, Blowens & Malske, formerly obtacd their cables also from England, but thoy now manufacturo thoin at thelr own' establlshmont, *THE EXPEIIENCL IAD IN GERMANY Tesultod in the uuu}lllull sulstuntinlly of the couciusfous of u sclontitio culniniyeion, ups pointed to 1 tuty 1ho subject, 18 o the munuor of cunstructing tho cublod, Thils come wilwslou recommended thut cuch conductor cons Blst of Beyen copper wires, oach six-tunths of & mlliimotro In diametor, twlstd Jata on cord. Tho eublo ahwuld contuln seven such cone ductors, lusuluted by double layera of - guttue Lercnu, and onveloped In two layers of Chat- crton compotind, tho it Juyor of the com= pound belui next 1o und coveioplug the wired, aud tho second Inturvening betwosn the two. * layers of guttu-porchi. ‘The thickness of tho singlo insulated conductons was fixel at five witlimotors, und the thickuess of the coverings of tarred bomp o1 sevenwon milllmotres. Tho Proteetive cuvelopu of the cablo wus to conslat of slxteen galvinlzed fron wires, cuch four willmetres in diwmeter, formlug’ togother u cowploty encomnpussment of the cable ut cuch £5 or 24) centitnetres of fts extension, and fitsing Ittirmly. Quinds of all, the onble’ should bo couted witiuspissuted conletur, frev from oroe ©s8ote, and should roceive & covertug of the sume subatance ufter boing latd fn thy trench.” Tho Bluglo cabls condy were 1o bo wmude (n stetions OF B0 metros, but us now supblied und used thoy Buve u lougth of 1.000 motres, “Tho process of Illrlllu the cables hns been sutlicicutly deseribed In tho ketch sceompany- dug iy No. 47, Fbo tanner in which thuy are cutstructed s (uetratod by the samplo séahion of & cable reudy for use forwurded with tuy No, 1 S “lg expericnco It bus bevy foupd thas- the proper soldering togethor of the differont Roetons {n tho Inying is of tho llhfllv!t importance, Soldering which has not been dono with the utmost “care loses, {n thne, tho bawor af fzotution, nud 18 n rourea ol continuul neonvenienee in tho working of the lne. * When interruptions of the commumnleation oceur, thelr .I'n'fl!n location {8 not ditienit of tetectlon. This fact renders repuirs and nitora- tlons mach less ditioult and exponsive than might bo supposed. *The adopuion of the undorground u(rqmm wna hmui;m. about In_ Qermany partly by the aceldentnl Interruptions ta which overgronnd {Inea ary subifoet, and l_mrtly Ly miitnry conslde, eritions. The cost of constrirotion of tho une dergeound Tines s 700 murks ($1%0.89 per kilo- metre, or more than fonr times thatof the over- wround wires, whieh cost bt 150 marks (20, ity per kilomotre, On Aho other hrud, the expense {report for tha yenr 185) of keeping tho unilor- seround Hnes 1 repale s been only 45 marks (&L ver kllowetro, whilo tho repaira of the overrronnd linea havo cost W50 inarks (2,15 per kitometre, 1t s enleulatesd that i€ the sube s 1ines lnst fifey=1ive yenrs thelr argres Ll ve beon' no groater than that of 0 Hhtes nbove geowml, *The codt of operating the two ryatems s Rubstuttially thosarge for both, nnd 1t 18 clntmod thnt tho eibles lald In tho ground are tow apertted with tho same fneility e the wires hune In the afr. Tho dltfcrenees botween tho systoms consist mlnly in the cost of constrie. tion -and 1ho obvioualy granter security of the underground les nxatnat intereuption;™ NOTES. QAUFIELD, Special Dispaleh o ‘Tre Chicagn Tribune WaswiNaroN, D, C.. Moy 11.—% Why do peoplo talk of e now In connectlon with the Presidentinl election ot 1884 queried the President recently, Inconversntion with u ealler, #The peopls elected me President in 1841, and wy dutles are with the present and not with tho future, I shall meet the issues as they arlso now.as best I ean, Those of 1881 must be submitted to the people be- fore any P'resident enn nct upon then,” THE § PER CENT NONDS ‘counteld for extension to-lay amount to £13,000,000, bringing the total amount in hand up to E167.000,000, - ‘This s oxelusive of those of which notiey to extan been recolved, und f thoso held in Europe, CONFIRMED, 70 the Wealern Assoetated Press, WASHINGTON, 1. C,y May 1L—~Thg Sonnto, in ?lx;fimlvc sesston, confirnied tho following uotne- hntions: Michuet J. Kramor, of Kentuoky, now Chnrué @' ARaires at Demnark, to be Chnrgd o' Alutres o Switzorland, vieo Nicholus Fish, rosicued, Qeorge P, Pomeroy, of New Jorsey, to bo Sce- rotary of 1ho United States Legatlon at Paris, Thomas A, M. Morrls, af Colorudo, to bo a momber of Uto Commission, vieo Johu 1) Ruowtnau, Agnml. Atkinson, United States Marshat Qrorgze W, of West Virgiuit, 3 John I, Sticknoy, United States Attorney for tlw Northorn District of Florlda, (gmrlcs M. Wider, Tostmastor at Columbin, A Nowton Kimbal, Rocolver of PublicMon, at Juckson, Miss, i , CHAND) The Sennte Judiclary Committeo discussed Chandier’s nomination Tor over an hour to-day, but took no netlon, ay the Ropubllenns wantad to lay jtover until after the Rolertson cuso (s deelded. Chandier §s- bittorly oppoded, and to put bis nomination beforn” the Sotnto now would, it {a thought, bring on o contest over htin that might furcior complicata the Kobert- 50U cusy, TIE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, The Sennte Judiclary Committes hud a long sosslon to-duy. BIIORT SESSION. The Senate wns in upon seaslon but a fow min- ntes, and then went Into sxooutlve sossion, it Was tnderstood, to tnko up tho nomiustion of Stunley Mntthows. b SENATOR DAVIS WILL NOT RESIGN. o report was rovived and gonorally elreus Intad Lo tht idgo Dicin o Tiors o realgn his seat in tho Sonnte. Tho Western Ase #ocliatud Press roporter obtained un Interview with Senntor Davis, who pronounced tho report entirely groumdless, sud snkd ho had no {dea of reslgning, and bud not thought of such u thing. CASUALTIES, % DROWNED, Special Mapateh to Tha Chicago Triburne. Rocugste, Minn, May 1L—"T'wo children of Charles Lafover, n boy and n girl, nged 4 and 8.years respectively, were found at 0:30 Instnight drowned in the race leading to the Alexander Mills, Spectat Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, CnvsTAL LAKE, 1iL, May 11.—The body of William Stownrt wns found this afternoon abont one uille below tha raftrond bridge on Wis own farny, attached to somo willows, I3 wateh was In hils pocket, which stopped at10:50, 11Is pursa and money were in his pocket, No doubt e walked over the bridge. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. BEAVER DAx, Wis., May 1l.—Joha Denning, aged 18, while duck-hunting on tho tuke nenr here, overturnod his bont and was drowaed, Bearch Is betug made for his body. UNDER TIIE WIHEELS. Quixey, 1L, Mny 11.—A young mannamed Short, nged 16, attempted to got off a finnni- bal & St Josoph box-car, on Bay bridge, this morning, when he fell under the wheels and lind an arm cut off close to the shoulder and Uls collar-bone mashed, 1o snowed wondurful werve, walklng soveral hundrod yurdd after bolng hurt. 1o was taken to Bless- Inje Hogpiua, 16 wll probabiy dig. T, 10018, Mo, May 11.—J. V. Stokes, frelght commduotor of the Missourf Facific Railrow), was knocked down and killod by o moviog car neur I'wenty-socond steeet Into Jast night. EXPLOSION, LEADVILLE, May 11.—At 10 o'clock lnst night a building at the L. M, Mine on lron ‘110 took fire, 'The flames communicated to the magnzine and o terrific vxplosion oceur- red, which shovk m'url" bulkling in Lendvillo, threo miles dintant, t\nuunufi tho mine wis not being worked Just nixht, .mf wia cdusortold when the explosion occurred, Soven men wera standing near tho buildlog, G, 31, Jones, B, M, Btony, und Dun Callahin were badly injured, 'l:'lll‘l‘ u?]flmm hurled u Jong distance. . Nobody wus KILLED BY LIGITNING, Hpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns Avoca, In,, May tL—Frank Wall, a tarmer Intely romoved from Illinols to Iarlan, In., twolve miles north of this place, was struck by likhtning about 7 p. 10, last evening aud lo- stantly klled, 1Js wife, voplng to Join bim, srelved whout one hour aftor the accldent only 1o find hor busbund dend. Tho remains are to bo taken to linols for burial, — COLLISION BETWEEN ENGINES, Spectal Dapateh to The Chicago Tridune, Dururn, Minw, May 11,—~Two Northorn Taéific engines collided this morning during ndonso fog, broaking both logs of u man an d causing tho amputation of oue foot. ‘I'h mhun‘worn lllklxnly Injured. e A BROKEN RATL, Hlousrtox, Tox,, Muy 11.—~T'he south-hound frelght truln on the Toxas Central was wrocked this wmorning, striking o broken it a fow miloa south of ilockley, No ono was injured, Soww sixty fout of track was torn up by the acoldent, . DI'TCIED, Daxvirre, 11, May 11,—~Tho sccommoda- {lon train on the Indisnapolis, Bloomington & Wostorn Road was ditched last night, two wllos cast of hore, The cnglner and the fire- mun wero badly hurt and scaldod, —— TIE ELGIN HORROR, .- Bpecial Dispateh to Ths Chicage Trisuns, Eraw, 1L, Moy 11.~The body of Elmer Foster, the soventh viotin of the ferry eatus- wflm,wu fouud bere to-duy, ‘I'ho search hus SODA-FOUNTAIN, NasuvirLe, Tenn, May 1L.—As James R Turney’ wans charging o soda-fountaln by cnumm-lhfm to-night tho fountain exploded. l\‘allgwfo?r.m {ustautly, The top of bis huad wad ———m— MATRIMONIAL, Bpecial Dispaleh (o The Chicugo Tribune, CoLvwaTsl, Mich., May 1l,—~Danlel B, Ele dridgo,- station-ugont of tho Luke Shure & Michigun Bouthorn Railway at Ligouior, Ind., uml MBiss Ada Lounsburry, of Qulnoy, wero mar- ricd ut tho rusidunco of the Lride’s parnts thls evening. RS . THE UNCOMPAHGRE UTES. Spéciat Dispatch (0 The Chicaso Triduns. Lxavaswonsi, Kus, May IL—A numbor of ofticors ut Fort fuavenworth th(ukuflwfll will ba more serious troublo with ncompahyro ey than 18 unuan‘ily believed. E 2 TOM SCOTT. PriLADRLYMIA, Muy 10.~Col, Tom Boott was much fmproved to-day, and this oveutng was sitting up. The physicluos hope ho will bo strous euough Inadiy or two 10 udwit bis ro- woval to tho senshore. CRIMINAL NEWS, Aaron Scott Left Arkansas Eighteen Months Ago for Texas, 1lis Letters Censed, and Rumors of His Murder Took Their Place. A Qlergyman Finds a Note in a Bottle on the Bra- zos River. It Delails Scotl's Capture and Robhery by Outlaws, and Expecle ed Death. A Woman on Ifer Denth-Bed Confesses to n Murder TLightoen Yenrs Ago. Hor Son Assisted Her, and Two Ne- groes Buffered the Death Pen- alty for It. Altempts to Unravel tho Mystery of the Murder of an Towa Miller. Poonlinr Mothods of Dotroit Rhiarper to Awindle Workingmen of Other Oitlen, A MYSTERY SOLVED, Bpeeral Dispateh to The Chieago Tribunes Larrue Rlock, Ark, May 11.—Eighteen months ngo Anron: Scott left this county, golng overland to Texas. His wite and fam- ily remained here, recelving lotters an- nouncing his progress from point to polnt, Suddenly theso censed, the last being dated at Wellburn, and wero followod by rimnors that Scott had been murdered. Tho wife of the, missing wman, knowing he had a lnrge sum of money with him, beeame almost erazy with grief, owing to tho mystery sur- rowiding hia disappearanco. Sho lett no means unturned to ravel it, - but it cfforts proved frultless and were at Iensth abandoned, and the - une happy women - joined .her . relatives in unother State. This morning a cluo to tho fute Of the missiug man was brought to light 1n tho shapo of a letter which wns found on a bar of Bruzos River, Texus, by tho Rev. Mr. Lud- wick und forwarded to Mrs. Scott or Chief ot Polfeo nt this place. Tho letter {s in the hand- writing of Scott, und says in substante that he find fullen fnto the hunds of 0 gang of despem- doed, who have robbod him, and that his murder {3 omly s question of thme, \Vuluhlnr bis_op- portunlty, he bad Recurod - muterinf, writton thoso lines, put them fn ' bottlo, and whils “being conveyed across Thruzos Rivor by his eaptors, had thrown the vottlo into the water unseen, with tho hopo that it would be found and thus toll tho story of his tdoom to bly wife, childron, nnd friends, Tho letter closes with an aifeeting farowoll, Your corro- spondent futorviows relutives of tho Scotts to- duy, and thoy nearly all necept tho strauge ovi~ dence as conelusive of the fute of the missing fl‘m‘ Alrs, Scott 18 now living ln Darry County, 0. A DEATI-BED CONTFESSION, Bpeetal Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tridune. BarTivons, Md., May 11,—Tho littlo town of Crislield, In the lower part of this State, 13 ot prosent exereised over o singular sensne tlon, which proves only too terribly the old axlom that the innecent are ofttimes mado to sutfer for tho erimes of tho gulity. ‘I'he starlling story Is the death-bed confesslon to- day of a dying woman, that she and her son, tho intter recently decensed, were the mur- derers ot o well-known morchaut near Cris- fleld nbout elghteen years ngo, for which crimetwonegroes woreconvicted and hnged, The wounn who Is alleged te have mude the confession, the authorities for the presont keeplng the matter quiet, Is ong T'atty A. Ward, iiving n foyw miles from Crls- fleld, Sho Is dying with o enncer, and Is said to o In great terror of mceting her Maker with so nwful a erlmo upon her soul. It 1s undorstood thul she has frecly confessed the full dutalls of the horrlbto affuir, In which sho discloses the faot that sho, togother with her san, murdered Azariah Dougherty, who wns found lylug dead In his store in the latter purt of the yonr 1862 Whon her son died o fow months ngo, In his Jasc niomonts ho gusped to his frionds surrounding his bodsldo that ho wishod Lo roveal something, but u gesture from his inother provented hiui, Tho objeet of the murder wns plunder, At tho tme tno tragedy wus commitied susplolon rested upon two colared mesl, Who were arrostod and suffored tho denth-peuaity for the orime, ne tbove stated. It wuskknown that Mr. Donuherty had conslderablo money, but nono of ft was found after tho murder, cither In tho houso or i tho possession of tho colored mon, A penknifo was, howover, found in tho pockat of ane of the imon which had elonged to Mr, D., and that was tho strongest Imlm of circumstantinl ovidence, On tho seaf- old buth mon protested tholr Innacenco to tho Inst, und one of thom doclired In o speech mudo from tho gullows that tho roal perpoeteitors of tho orlmo woulil Lo somo thno dlscovered, Al though tho story of the crime and the excoution of tlin two calored mon bad lang heon forgotien, it 18 now rovivud with groat oxoltemont In- tho country town and In this city, further dovelop- ments belng anxlously nwaitod, TLEECING WORKINGMEN, Hpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Bartistong, Md, May, 1L—A fow days ago an ndvertisement, of which tho tollows Ing {8 0 copy, appeared In soveral of the daily papors of this city: * Wanted—Soventy-live good mechanies nud forty laborers. Freo fure and good wages pald, Address, with stamp, tho Columbin Manufactory, Detrolt, Mieh.” Tho Inducements offered were great, nnd a nunber of Balthnoreans responded, recelving In reply @ clroulay whieh, after stating that the Company had a caplial of 850,000, and was making all kinds of mn- chinery, such as gns mnchines and Hght ma- chinery generally, and wers ngonts for tho TParls Eleetrle Lamp Company, says that any aho who deslros freo passago to Detrolt must send 83 10 cush ns security that bo would come, sald nmount to o eredited to him, Tho olrcular furthor stated that wagkes fn Dotrolt wero from Zto W per cont bigher, than n the East, and Hving was much choapor, All applicauts for positlons wero alsp ussured that nftor tho re- ceipt of the monuy tickots would bo sent thom for thelr pussoge to Detrolt, and at the sume Hmo thoy wera advised to nll go togothar, Ad wak staterd ore, & nuwber oL Maltimoroans swnt tholr manoy wnd did not receive the tiekot, Ouoof the number sjowed 8 clronlar to Col, Fred Ruine, of theGore wmun Correspondent, of this city, und e (nmedi- atuly wroto to 3r, Markbausen, editor of tho Dotrolt Abend Hust, who ruplicd that bia yoport. ors hud visited tho promised and found u gl sbuunty oceupled by u man nuwed Horafold, who in thoclroutar valld himself ©, ¥, Hurttield, Tho vl-’h‘ (‘)lmllho:‘ :!Pl‘lrwfl l;‘I lll'lr‘l lfnua hlua mulo Yanishe e ohahly nisba, Culy !hn'nu nlio nmmnfi'm'iv Doat-Ouioy authoritios in Salthinore, and was avaured that n closo wateh Wouid bo Xopt on tho Rllegud bugus concern, OUT SEVEN DAYVS, Bpuctal Dispateh to The Chicago Triduns, KArauazoo, Mich,, May 11.—A counter- feiter wus arrested.in the Michigan Central train near New Buffulo. The naug of the ac- cused is Jacab Conklin, oltas E.J. 1lualn, Hle wus at Ushtewo, lu this county, yestor- duy, aud pussed §23,1n silver counterfelt upon the ticket agent there, ‘The spuriousness of the colu was uat dlscavered until the traln pulled out, und theun the agent telegraphod the conductor the facts. ‘Fhe conductor, ns- suing his logal oftice, arpested him while starting Lo jump from the traly at New Buf- falo, and with tho belp of the brake- mon held bim and at Michigan City turned bim over to tho olllcers there, who bad been no- Utled by telvgraph, Sberl Bumwor, who bad 0 notified of tho fa t, went o fehignan 1;. and roturned nlicht with the }\rl«)lmr. Fifteen connterfoltstivordollars sworo oind on hix person, which he attempted to throw away, hut falled, o was discharged from tho Michigun City State’s Prison but seven days ago, Under our statufes he fs puntabalio Ly fmirlsonment 1y 8tato’s Prison tor lite, or any term of soar, for inving In his goescasion, with attempt to utter. more than - live il of counteefeit_coli, nnd nlso to ten yoa Imprisonment for passine counterfeit coins, hut, on nivico of the Prosecuting Attore ney of this county mut Tor othor obvious gond reasons, he will ‘ho tarned o o the United Htates nuthorlties to be prosecnted unider tho United Stntes atatites. Tho United Slll"tbs = thorities wern tosduy niotitied of his arrest, unil he will ket to Gramd Rapids to-morrow, Tha money is stamped aceuratoly, but the metal 18 pour stutf, CITARLES I, MERRILT. Special Dispaten ta The Chicags Tribune, Avousra, Me, May tl—Great crowds have attemded the murder trial of Charles K. Merritl to<dny, The Government rested its ensu nbiowt 4 o'clock, nfter produeing wit- nesses whe testified that Morrill confessed having commitled the erbme; also, that he had been arinking on the afternoon of tho murder. A strong appeal for the defenso wns mnde by Loring Tare. The howmleide was not denled, but the purpose, menns, and subsequent events were not known. Mr, Tare “defined the meaning of the word - mnlle6; as Inld dgwn In o7 Mulne, _in the ensa of tho Slate Vi, Neal e wotrhd attempt to prove that the enso was one of mansinughter, the ponnlty for which s ten years' fmprison- ment or 81,000 ine, o thon told the story of tho imurder ns confessed by Meredll, ‘Fhe tronbio hotweon his mothor und hhself wis about butfalo robes that ho wanted to nsy, His mother struck him with a pitehfork, nnd in o moment of presion bo struek her baek with a hasumer on thwe head twice, Sho fell baek dend. The net nenrly deovo him inaane, and he fn that condi= Uon uttompted to birn the arins, lews, iid hoad, hidmng tho bady In the snow. Merrill will bo put on tho stund 10-morros THE SACKRIDEIR IORROR. elal Disoatch to The Chicago Tribunes CLEVELAND, O, May 11.—An Assoclated Tress dispateh Inst night from tho City of Mexleo nunounced n shooting affray between engineers of Palmer & Sulllvan’s surveying party, Sackrider, who, In a fit of insanity, killed two of his companions, and way 1n turn kitied by ¥illey; chief of the party, Is well known here, having formerly been Ilenlth Omticer of the eclty. lle went from Clevelnnd ns attending physiclan to the sur- veying party. When the news spread throughout the city, n sensation wns caused. Tho frlends of Sackrider lave heard wmothing - from hin for threo weeks, and know nothing nbout his doath tilt tho newapapers uunounced it. Filloy wus formerly In the Gity Engincor's office ut Toledo, and Martin {8 propably from Now York Clty, Jones s tho sonof Duvid Jones, of Titusvilte, Pu., an old BEnlish ongincer, und fornerly cone neeted with the Noew York, Penusylvani & Oblo and tho Ponnsylvanla Petroloum Iiatiways, As tho news of tho afTale 18 80 ncigre, excliement amony the friendsof tho desd moen fa Iutense, and telegrams hiave heon gent to overy polng, in hope of obtaining fucthor purticulurs, but uli W 10 Durpost, A TRAGIC MYSTERY, Bptesal Dispaich to The Chicago Tribune, LowgLr, Mass,, May IL—A tragle mystery has just Leen discovered in this city. ‘I'he facts, as fur ns know, arc us follews: Lor- g Laker, employed to relieve an ncenmuli- tlon of nshies, ote., In o vault In the rear of Appleton street, which had not been in use for nbout two years, exhwmmned the partinlly decayed body of o womun entiru but for the loas of consldornble flesh and with hor long huie disconnectod from tho skull, Tho voult is at- tiched to tho dwelling of two prominent eftfe #ana, both of whom huve held numncrous phiblie oflices, but whose. names ira ns vet withheld, As tho vault can only b oponesd frott & turrow alloy running hotweon AEmewn and Wintor streeta, it is thoupht that thoe body wne brought there surreptitiously aud deposited thorein to conceal a erlne, — . A PAL OF THE JAMES BOYS, Bpectal Duspatch 1o Tha Chicago Tribune. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, May 11,—Information -was recelved here to-day that “Chomns 1111l recently urrested in ‘Fennessco for the robe bery of Mussel §hionls of §5,000, !sno other than $31lly Ryan, a palof the notorlous James boys, undone of ithe gane-who robbed tho Chleago & Alton Ruflway train at Glondale, Mo, . during tho fall of 187, Ryan fled tho country nfter that ovent, and has boen mukiug hla hend- quartors neur Cynthinng, Ky., whera tho wifa of eng James lives, ovor alice, At the time of tho Shouls robbory ftyan, nllas L, lnd two compnanions, who' are now supposed to havo Yeen Jessy and Frank James, both of whoin, Plukorton’s deteatives believe, aro yot allve. ¢ POISONING CASE. Lk Roek, Ark,, May 1l.—Informatton from Encla, Franklin County, In this Stato, says n remarkablo case of poisuning ve- curred in the family of Willinm Reynolds on Sundoy lust. 'The supposed poison was in tha flour used for dinner that day, Mr. Rey~ noldg’ wite and daughter, Mrs. John Trum, Dr. Brown, a Gorman laborer, and ane person waore all polsoned. Physlclong summoned pro- nounced tho caked arsonte pofsonfug. Al wero takun gick fu tho samo munner sud about tho s time, Doubts ure entortnined of the roe covery of Reynolds, Brown, and the Gormnn. The birend oaten at diunor will bo nunlyzed, Tio outlry atfair is wrapped in mystory. COLD-BLOODED MURDER, Bpectal Duspateh to Tha Chicago Tridune, DunuQue, In., May 11—, P, Rico, n man of family, about 70 years of age, was killed two miles enst of Rockville, Grant County, Wisconsin, at 8:30 yestorday by N, B, Gam- mous, a singlo man, 23 years old. "They had heen on bad torms for yoars. Gammons had felled n treo on his land neross a disputed roud, Itico, on his vmr to infll, was chopplig on enid treo to remove it, whom Gammon eitio up and ordered 1im 1o dosist, whioh ho-refused to do, ‘Then Gammon rested his rovolver on o log and shat Rice twico through the heart, Thoshots Wore within oue nch of oach other, SIOT TIIROUGIT TIIE ITRANRT, 8pecial Dispatch to The Chicaoo Trilune, GALENA, I, May 11.—An afiray ocenrred yesterday ovenlng in the Town of Rockville, Grant County, Wis., between two farmers numed Willinm Gatemon and C, 1% Ruco, which was torminated by tho formor shooting ltace through the bourt with s revolver. Tho troulle Letweon tho two mon, who wero near nolghbors, grow out of tho falling ot n treo noross n high- Wiy louding to Ruce's houss by Gammon, Tho fatter wad arreated by tho Bhoriff of Grant County at midnight last night, and §s now in Jail Wt Laneastor. 4 : A FRIGIITFUL ATFRAY, ' 8pectal Dispateh to The Ohicago Tridund, farrny Roci, Ark, May 1L—A terrible affray took piaco yesterday while thestemner Pleayune wng en routo to 1leloun, botweun two colored mon named Solomon Moore and Wesley Frankling who quarreted about some trivinl uattor and engaged in q torrifo dusl with knives. Whon both hud been badly ontup Moore ondad the ‘contest by velzing a rnmp-hnmllc and atriking Frunklin o tho hoad, nilicting {fujurivd frow which hoonnnot recover. Moore fs uuder urrest, BORDIER OUTLAWS, 81, Louts, Mo., May 11.~A dlspateh from Texus says; Tho Toxas & Pacltio Rallrond managemont have asked that & company of United Statos troops Lo sent to tho westorn torminug of thelr roud to Protect workmon and Pml rty froul tho depredutions by & gavg of uwless men who have congroguted thare, A IIUNG JURY, WViNcnesTEw, Ky, Muy 11~The trial of Cast Halsoy, tor killiug Edward Baxter sov- oral yeurs ago, resulted in s huug jury, This 18 tho sécond triul, His Lrothor, accessary to tho ly"u‘.'.fi?" Was scat up st youar fur twenty-ouo ——— WISCONSIN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Bpectat Dispatch (o Tha Chicago Tribuns, DeAvEn DAX, Wis,, May 1L.—Col. J. 4, Wat- rous, Prealdont of tho Wisconsin P'ress Assocla- tion, bas called tho twenty-fourth sunual mneot-. lug of tho Assucintion for, Monduy ovening, Juue 20, at Oconomowoo. . ‘Phere will be morne lng, uftornoon, wnd ovenlng scesions Tuosduy, and ut tho closo of tho ovealng session all mewm- burs witl Joln u an excurilon to Wushington, Mouut Vurnon, Butl Run, Antiotdm, Gottyse ury, and Frodorjexsbary. '1‘50 annuol widruss liranele, b olor will read original poonn Othior addruescs will bo nmw.“ ——————— MRS, GARFIELD, Wasiixgron, . 0, May 1L.—Mri. Garficld Wus wuch Lwproved this ovonlog, LAB_O]?T D CAPITAL. The Strikers at Milwaukee Throw a Bomb at a Yard Foreman, Desoription of ‘the Dreadful Missilo— Roasons of Its Failure to Xill, The Grand Trunk Road Cone« cedes the Advance of Wages Demanded. Switchmen of the Chicago & Allon at DBloomington Receive Fifty Cents Advance. Indian Pilots on tho Lachine Rapids Re= fuso to Work with White Mon. MILWAUKEH. 8peelal Dispateh to The Chicaoo Tribune, MirwAuvrsr, May 11,—The strike of the switehimen on the Chieago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ralvond hins, at Inst, nssumed an ugly shape. - AL2 o'clock this morning there was great exeltomont In the Company's yards on the South Side over an attenipt (o assasinate one of the night foremen by means of o nitro-glycering homb., At the howr mentloned o detonation In effect liko that of the discharge of & cannon startled the residents In tho vicinity of whore the dnstardly outrage wns porpetrated. The sliock was so great that the glass in the win- dows for squares aronnd wns shuttered. T'eople who were awakened rushed to the seene, and found thal bombs hed been thrown at Michaet Kelser, n yard foreman, who was riding town tho track on . switeh- enghiewithithe engineer and fireinan, Kelser has mado himself obnoxious to the strikers hy refusing to reccivo ovortures from thain. Fortunately, theee was a diteh filled with mud nlong tho track, ond tho Nihitistic homb stuck Init, instend of falling In front of tho engine, ns was intonded, As it was, only nsmall frig- ment of the deadly -nlzsive struck the cngine, and {t did no other. harm than to dumago it allghtly, Tho cecapo of tha three men on tho enging seoms mlmcul%u’l. most, The gronnd for yurds aronud was torn 1p, and the mud way scidtered n distanec of W teet, On wnruhlnr. anuther bomb was dlscovered that had stuck In tho mud and falled to explode. 1tis a crude affalr, slx inchos long and sovernl inches in dinmetor, filied with . nitro-glycoring aud flugs, 1t Is weapped in - eanvas - and hound with heavy cord, aod us unsighte Iy na It Is dreadful | to contemplato. 1t 18 generally conceded that the uttempt to ussasinate the furemun grow out of the present strike troublus, Bvery eifort has beon made 1o fApprehend the porpetrators, but no clow of any tungible shupo can Do gottem Tosdny vod tos nluit all of tho bridges and much of the rail= way track jn the city I8 hoavily gusrdod, Othor- “tlfi thare are no” now developmunts In tho strike, - . ———— MONTREAL. . Speclal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, MoxtieEAL, May 11.—The labor troubles In the Graud 'runk workshop are In o fair wny of being softled. A conforenco was hetd with the hewd of tho mechanical de- parenient this afternoon, when the men ngreed to return to work and nwalt the de- clslon of the authorlties on tholr case. ‘Tho hefpers In the bincksmithshop also put i a clnlm for higher wages, but disclalmed any intention of striking, The Buperiutendent con- sidered the clnfut and promptly neeeded to lh:) ' 5 per cent, KRR At L Sieved that o gonoral advanco of 15 per cent will bo wiven to ull helpors in the oxtonsivo shops ot tho Company, . The employés of tho Oceldontal Ruflway nra demnnding an udvance of wagcs, but bave not Ll Tk, DETROIT, MICIT. Drrrorr, Mich,, May 11.—The strike of the printers at the Posp end Tribunc oflice res sulted disnstrously for the printers, ‘The cnses are filled with now mon, aud both tho morning pupors of this eity ure now non-Unlon aflices, ‘Tho Printors’ Unlon wow hns only s small afternoon paper and u few job oflices in the city, and s powerless to fix and walntain any scalo of prices. BLOOMINGTON, ILL, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, BroovxiNaroy, May 11.~The wages of the switchmen of the Chicago & Aiton In the Bloomingion yards wore ralsed to-dny about 50 conts per diew In nocordanco with a request made by the, - o GALION. O, GarioN, O., May 11.—The scction men on the Indinnapolis Division of tha Columbus, Cinatnnat) & Indinnapolls Railrond strpok fornn advanes of 26 conts n day, They buve boun gets tiug 3115, 5 DES MOINES, TA. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, Des Moixes, In, May 1L.—A car-lond of nien were sent from tho Chieago & Rock Isl- and yard here to-day to Chleago to work In umm’nr tho atrikors, z o TIIIE INDIAN PILOTS. MoNTREAL, May 1L—Caughnawnga In- dinns have struck for $2.50 por day for pilot- ing rafts down the Luchino rapfds. Thoy'niso donrnd that no whito man be employod. DOCTORS IN COUNCIL. Annual Meoting of the Military Tract Modleal Ansoclation of Old«Schoot Fhyslclana, - 2 Special Dispateh to The Chitago Tribune, Gaursuuna, LI, May 11.—The Military Track Mudienl Associntion of Old-Schoal Thyslclnus have Just mot in this city, The attendance Is quite Inrgo and . ropresents the Jbest element In the professfon, Dr. lorbert Judd, of Gnlesburg, presided, and Dr. 13, S, Peck, of Galva, ncted a8 Secrotary, Drs, A. L. Crulg of Aledn, M, Reeco of Abingdon, and IL 8, 1urd of Galesburg, woreappolnted to net nan Board of Consors, "Tho following pursons whre reported for membership and unanimously clected: E. L, Ewerson, -of Now Windsor; ‘I'homns Temple, of Cameron; Witlard G, Penrsoll, of Ilerman; and R, F, lenry, of Galesburg, The ofiicers elected for tho current year are: Iresident, Dr, A €. Babeock, of Galva; Viee-President, Dr, M, Reeee, of Abingdon; Secrctary and T'rons- urer, Dr, B, S.P’eck, of Galva,Dr,C, A, Coop~ ernmemberof the Associntion, wasexpélied from the Socloty for Irrogular practiees and unprofosatonal conduct, Dr. Penarsall mnde an able roport on tho practice of modiclno, Dr. Plorco road u paper on_ompyeina, which was highly upPra\'tELwl)r. Coruornn prosentod o Puper on lishotomy aud lithatrlsy, * Dr. Hopper rend an able puper ou urinalysls, chomical und microscople,” Ur, i, 8. Hund read u paper on tnperforato hymen vetnlning the mienstrunl cola, Thomas Palne: d eonsort, ton nod harges, Pisinouth and barges, Forest Clty and_oonsort, ' Ontoungon and barges, ‘L. Htewart and consort ; sehivoners Frank D, farker, Jnua, Narth Cope, Seotin, Willilam 1, Nonnds; [ 'nllmumm.l-. 1), Tockes steamors Flora and own—Propellers Convstoga, Ohln, Miehlszin and harges, Dswi g o i barged, 'y Clly nid Daewos, Spnetaand argess achoond e Pathe lIKullcr nmues C, Hutrison, Avgus Smiths steamer owepnuw, Wind southwest, light: wenther foggys —ca— FLOODS. TIE LOWER MISSISSIPDPT, Spectal Disputeh to The Chicago Tridune, NEw OunieaNs, L, May 11.—The steamer Thompson Dean, arrlved to-night at Vieks- burg, reports the break at Alsatin lovee, fn Carvoll Pavish, 200 yards whle, and increas- g rapldly, There 18 no prospect of o closure, nud great damage must resuit, The Htute nuthorities are entiroly {mbeclle, and sny they can do nothing, and have no money. Mal, Havrod, of tho Misaissippl Comanlssion, has just arelved, but hnd no ety and wo oplniona, Tho brenk will reantt In tho Inuktatlon of some of the best nluntations i the Stute, 0 nnjority of which uro now owned by Nurthorn capliniista, DUBUQUE, TA. Dunvque, In, May 11,—~The flood in the river camu to n hiead yestorday, this morn- ing's record showing n (all of one and one- half tnches, The stugo of wnter veaohod twn and ong=hulf feor below tho hl.ih-wnmr mnrk of Inst vear, . Sovoral anw-milly have been forcod taston operntions, but business geuerally goes o unluterruptedly. b MONTRBEATL. MoNTREAL, Moy 11—\ sovere hnil awd ralnstorm to-night enused considerable dumnago, TIIE SIGNAL SERVICE, ‘OFrick or Tk CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasmxoroy, D. G, May 1l—Indlentions: For tho Ollo Valley and ‘T'ennesseo fair weather, sontherly veering to westérly winds, rishiir preceded In the edstern portion Ly falling barvmeter, sintlonary fotlowed by lowor temperature, For the Lowur Lake roglon, fair wenther, westerly winds, falling followed by rising baromeler, ond stationary o lower temperi- ture, o g For the Upper-Lake reglon, partly clondy wenther, occastonnl rain, southerly veering toslightly cooler. westerly winds, rlsing pree ceded In tho eastorn purtion by falllng Larom- oter, i +, Fur tho Unpor Misstasippl nud Lower Missonr! Valley, wirtly clowdy wonther, ocenstunal rain, windd shifting Lo cooler north or wost in the former and to northy n the latter distrlet, and higher baromoter, "Tho. Chlef Sigunl Ollicor furnlshes the follow- fng bulleting I'ho burometor highest in the South Atlantle Stated, Tho aren of low haromcter, which ot Y afternoon’s veport wna centeal fn Minne- sot, by moved und 8 now eentral over Luke Supcrlor, ‘The temperaturs hng risen eliehtly It tho Middle Atiantio Stutes, the Ollo Vuiioy, Tennessee, the Loke region, snd New England. Tt g fadlon 8 1o 20 degrees in the ox- treme Northwest, Light vndn s fallen sinee st report In New Eneland and the extrome Nogthwest. Elsowhera fair wonthar bns pros vatled, Iinst of the Misalssippl und In the West auir Stales tho provailing winds ura sontherly. Iho Arkansns has risen fuurteen juchics at Lit- tlo Rock, ¥ Tho Mississlpp! hRs risen nino Inches at Davenport und olght Inches at Keokuk, and fal hirteon Inclics at St Loula. It fs two feot fnches nhove tho danger-line and falliug rapldly at Cairo, 1t {3 threo fevt soven inches aboveut Helena, seven inches Vicksbury, four inches below &t Mo ut tho danger-line and falling at Now The Ohlo has fallen cleven” Inehes_ut Cincin- fal, und tho Cummberland olghtucl fuches ut ushville. e Temnessce hag risen thirty-five fnchesnt Chuttanoogn. - Tudications are that fnir weathor will prevail 1 the Middle, South Atlantie, und Eust f Btates to-day, aicl in the Intter two districts tos morrow, and Wit the aren of baroeler now central over Lukw Superior will move enstward, causing local rains in the Northwest to-day, fot= lowed I:f' cooler olenring weathor, The Mississippi will continue to fall nboyve La Ctafro and ut St, Lonls and Calro, and will cone tinuo to riso at Lo Clalre, Lavenport, aud Keoltuk, 4 LOCAL ONSERVATIONS. v CHICAGO, May 11-10:19 p, m, . SIEar | Ther,| {11 | Wind.| Vel | 70,1 1Weather " 8purk 8 suppesod ‘ta bive bi U1 Highest tomporatuco, K50, Lowost tenpisruturo, Wit QENENAL OUSERVATIONR CiigAUY, May 11-10:19 p, m. her, ('Lier, TG wana. Ien| 1y, leay Cincinnatl Cloyelund... Nkl R g SEEES Al nir, EERESECCNS PESEER! ZEeZREERZTEAT! URNSEILIIZTE CUEAREENELE: U a3 OROP PROSPECTS. MICHIGAN, Speciat Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, LanaiNg, dich,, Moy 11—In complianco Wwith o elreulur sont out by the Seerotary of State to tho Supervisorsof ‘Lownships In re- snrd to the wheat.crop, that ofiice is In ro- celpt of hundreds of replies from all pnrts of Miculgan, not one of which makes a favor- able report. ‘Through the courtesy of I, W, King, of that ofllce, your corrcspondent has beun furnished the following, tuken at ran- dom fropn tho reports, angd oy surely indl- eato'n discournging prospect: i i Assvaia, Durey County,.—In complinnco with your clrculnr will say that in tho timbor-land lmrllnn Of thig town, which 18 about onesthird of ho township, 1 think thore will Lo an avorngo OF nbont 4 por ¢cent of 10 AVOrUgo cro; e Dulanee, two-thirds of the_townabip, onk opone fuga and sandy somowhnt, I think wlil not ave Urugry o pxeoad i por vent of Ak avorage oro J0 lnet thero nro n grent muny fields eatlrel *worthiess, wid havo booh sowu to outs, flow iptothe uge of 20, o ulso reported u cnsg, of & woman iuged 50 who had nover manstruated. r. B0t roported A slogular caso of & womun dyiog from u complioation of diseusvs, A post- mortem examinuton showed nnabnormal nLnru-. whoro thure wos no treoo of o pavity, ‘Tho uvarica woro partly ossified, Tho loft kid ney was totaily uuunn(cd by cancer, belog vno melnustio iuse, Dr, Hopper oxhibited the por- fect cuncer celld undur tho mivrascope, tken from tho kiduey, Dr. Uralg prosonted a smadl sirl who hud swailowed a rlug, followgd by lods of volee. Thero was also a woneral discussfon on various objecta porteiniy; the moeung Was uie of grout interost. soclation udj to niediuino, and Tho As ouraed to mvat in Unlva In 1853, e SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS. | SANFRANOLCO, May 11.~Stodks-cloted us fol- Few =X E_§-=‘-. f—‘f" . (= PORT HURON, Pour Jiorox, Mich., Muy 1L.—Passod up~Sane flag, Arably, Chiny, Jawes Duvidsvn, Colorado, | Judge W. C. Gran JriAca, Greatiot County.~Wheat dumaged ono« third to onu-hulr, s Atmion, Calhoun County.—Onc-fourth of- tho Wwheat sown lust fall hus "beon plowed up and tho remdfuder cauuot bu nearone-half tho usunl erop. :Kxang, Tonla County.—Inmy opinlon 50 por. lkumluof tho whoat in' this lu\vulhrp 18 wlut‘:u-- ed, Dexren, Washtonaw Cnumfin-'rhu orop will ::f- ‘nyl:fl_u._ one, not over two-thirds as wmuch as JoNgAVILLE, Hiilsdnle County.~Tbo wheat is 0 bud)y killed that with tho wost favorablo scas sou it wifl nut oxceocd two-thirds of o crop, and Wilt probably full shart of that. llickony Couneis, larry County.~One-halt at the wheat on tho fmnuxx winter-killod, Mauy of ihe furmors plowlg up wheat and planting 0 cor. : "‘f;wmu. Van Ruron County,—~Think whoat In tawn Will b about one-hult of 8 vrop, com- Barod with lnst yoar, - Y a5 H Livingston L‘nunl{.—’fllb this tawn 18 looking very bad, the Worst¥T evor- suw Ity Prom present Jidlcations I-dou't think thera will hu over one-fourth of worop, - ° Foay, Oceans County.—About ouosthied of $¢ budly winter-kiiled, and is_entirely worthless, OntON, Oakland County.<From tho most eyras ful obsosvation, 1 considuer 2 per cont worthe | fowsz HifLy por ceut may -yleld half & crop, and tho buluuce tnay yicld an average orop with Tavorublo season, . Lapogr County,—T'we huae red aerel QWO P .- & BUMNER, l‘l)rmltn"" Coynty,~Whéab in the township fouks Lad, Will uot yiold tnore than or tight bushols por nore. o FAWN River, St Josoph Counly—Should Judio frum the prusont appearaines of the erop that it ugay with suvorsblo weathur uutil baryest eat in | About onosthird of o compm, o ol BEAR TAKE, Charloyol 0 The' wiimnt tnrs. jy Tpo00L, Ing Aamntiered Erom Hie wront ey on gy Cano, Tiseols Coumty, g O o, bat e recelved Iy reant G i iy that perhaps = - b b 1 P8 One-third uf 1hy erp b:":‘ VEoxa »nm.-l Huren Congy, = ¢rop 18 whiter-kitle niut =T wpy —— il g O T Aren, ur - pog i i e ey, " spectat DL LINOIS, at Dispateh to The (py Dwien, 1L, May n.—'rnfi'f..?"""" Lever saw for plnnting cory, 'ri‘ 4 the cora-nlnuter and tho rayj, of LU0 TOW Bo Nontd on oy ey b oy E0rn Wil o o ryLodY NaYS, Lt ling gyt S TIRE RECO RD, AT NIAGARA Foy, ¢ Spectat Dipateh 1o n/c:JJ:.,' R Nraasna Farvs, Ont, Mny “'"‘\ mddutght n e was dlseavory| o by ous straw-stnek belonging 1o lho“"— i Falls Taper My, nnd Nlagy stuek was fiv full blaze, Infgl Jli:« Hery lmmulu ta Wileh wers soon i the iy flend, T ot windows find roofy, Rgrand speetnele, Thy rrging, notwithatnnding the ke, Ningnra Falts Flee Departing moth hnzane was_ threstennd, datigor. The paper-miil com started running, with e Just put In-at n eost of ovey nd Wlack will b S0 Insuran Lo Ltrowyn ont of - emplo; AT SOUTIT Bhvp, Epectal Dispateh fo The Chic, Snv‘rukll b Il May gy, axlesworks lere, for thy bl \\'nimu-nxlcs. toole firo this e\l'."hr‘z;;!&m i Daaclly bairnied, “Tho bitltding i 5 s St m,m Cramo steucture, 1t woy Aamagad ""‘ Aty ¥ ¥ 4 Hietfo atook fu'tho busiaing, ©°" 190 vung 2 CHICAGO, The alarm from 1lox 27 0t 0:30 st exe ng was caused by n fire Dreaking out Inu‘ three-story brick Umilbing, owney wwct Plod by Bornnrd & Mlohardsas n foundy, gt g 50,58, undk ) Cllntan street, T i s, 1'tha edpala 0it the it Hoor, ung werted Ly an overbieated furnsce, Damuge, §23, el or click o he eopy, ey dyy fire {5 o ol Tole offrgy ufllbl,: \Iuby'vmm- ! 3 0w cuinany onlygited 1 g IND, 0 Tri The tobyyy .ow AT DENVER, oI IDllz:fvmt, Colo., May t Ahe Roek: SIOWETY Wiy complete 1y destroyed by fire, Loss on Ilulhllng»l:;:l Stock eatimitod t something over §l0,5), ™ insurance, disteibitted ninonz awut forsy soe pitniles, covers about two-tiinls of thg oy, AL BENTON TLARROR, Ml Spectal Dispatch to The Chicagy Tribune Nuxros Ilapsot, Mich, May 1,—The Toale donee of Mrs. Julius Fisher tum nqo. Tuatirance on house und f . 0'ho Turaltiteg was partly sy 4 nfternoon s Lxlrse 00 A i Ik - oo Window from i o neur the uiidige " %% MISSOURI PENITENTIARY. 8m, Louts, Muy 1.—Tho loss by the fire [y the Missourl Penltentiary nleht before lost will probnbly reach $60.000, of which Sallivan 'y Co, 103e &0.00, Brlesmyer & Co, 310 R Ay ) Bricsmyer & Co. $100), and it / 'OBITUARY. ‘MRS, AMELIA FISK, "The funcrnl of the lute Mrs. Amclia A, I Fisk took mlnee at the resbdence, No, 5 ‘West Adnms street, at 3 g'eloe afternoon. Deeensed was o line of the grent New Englamd mission Ellot, wife' of Jrof, I Professor ol the Cong: Somnaey, and o sister of Mr, Henry Guwen, ot tha Neio York Independent, who, with 15, wilo, was present, and_necolnpnied thy Tomning to their final resting placa at Pt Conn. Nrs. Fisk horn Tn Woad: , Connt - Was 59 years of nze, anl a jeatber of Unlon Tark Congrewstioml Clinreh, whoso cholr present gad nsdste .ed In the limnrossive serviees, Heted the servie Let not yout he "l priver, n very foe atructiveo sketch of the life and charneter of tha deeonsed wis rend, Hoer teuo womanly aftributes and Clirlstian selfdentul, ber zeal for tho eauss Of tho Master aud her attuchment o the inter- cata of the Seminary—she having founded ta -Austin Scholurship In_commenoration of her Bum, who diod when tinishing bis course~wer all betitingly rofereed to, Sumereus flowers wero pragented by Mes, Fisk's Sundapsehool eluss and the sesslon of tie Presbyterian Charck, yhliesg ifts aud tho very iney wttendunee of Heteads would attest, if uny such ovhlence wens tincessnry, - how highly tho dvcensed wad re Apoeted. > Tho pall=heirors were Proft, liyle - Hourdman, Wilcax, Deneon Btoughton, Rov, e “Huvage, aud Mr. Blatebford. 3 . Clh\:“LES 1ILCIICOCK, A mioéting of tho mombers of tho far was held g tha Law Institute yesterday momlog to taka netlon with refercnco to tho death of Charles 1Mitehcock, Among those present wera M. W, Fuller, Judge Willinws, I, W Jackson, D, L. Shovey, John \l\'otrlbxmm N, B. Judah, A, M, I'ence, Charles Giregors, Uiimes Frakd, Biviy Fulos, Clinries A, Dupee; & doveumtuy Lown(og Cho gatheriyr wus cnlied to onlel ) Hliwuy.‘nnu ,Juufi’u«.- Willinms chosen Chalrmsa and A, M, Pénos Searetury, - Mr..8horpy moved the appolntmont of ncoglu thoy redort at somo ) g o inotion wad nygreod tond Messes. 8borer, Hupne, Graut, \\'ujlnrx.m-, i Juckson wero deshenuted, . i\\Ir. l"ullurfinul tho m}(lk;lo; I Adeguate o there would hav Tondunco, tieaidus, to pice was objecional On s motion the meothy ndjourned unl(} i b w1, Butinduy, to reassembly in the Unl tatos Cireuit Gourt-room, ! tieen quito fn ol I At ¢ " POLITICAL. ALBERT WOOBCOCUK. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunk Daxv 15, May, 11.~Tho nmuln‘filkt by tho President yestorduy of Albert “m:m cock, of Oglo County, to bo Collector ?l > Phird Distrlet, viee A. M. Jones, lr:uxnsfclrn to United" States Marshalship, Wi o surprise to many umbitlous mil:; publicans In that portion of ,\o: o linoly, yot it Is mn appolutue vouleock 144 eminently fit to bo mulo, Mr \\um‘ ; Ina Of abolit 80 yours of ke, bas beed CUEEE Treasurer, County Clerk, and If n:l‘ o Wat Judio of Oglo County. Mo sorved '\'mun 0l of tho Ttobollion” as Major lu Gun. SCL, 0 Atklus old roglinent, the Nincty-seesy try, and has w-splendid uriny e onrcsse b Jonoa wna appointod Cullecior LOTE man Howk and othora stronsly b rid June Woodcoek, but Senator Lot ¢0C throueh, . Wiale Mal. Woodcucl 8 Wrds B o, out of his Conireasionnl distri ‘)‘o‘uwn tou 18 thut ho will wike o fulinu Piocio% 2.\ NTA DEMOCRACY: Tucusionn, Viw, May 11.—1The bh:‘ T tral Conitalttoo of the Democrtio 1 'flmn lora ta<day and_determined not 10 €HEH the timo of lolding the State (,aru\\lumm. which lins beon fised for the 4|hul e As the Mahone Remdjusters \\Hl'n::“ it State Conventlon In Juny, it \\':Lw.l ul ml‘ Ao of sumo of tho Dewocratle leaderd ¢l ek Convontion should be Lield lu M ur. h:l ml‘; for= that 4t would or e g oelen amd.loE the Roatjusiers e 00 hund ffeet, ANl indications polat yaiguin thi 1o this Ui, e e - ANG IRISIMEN. it [ ang."l.‘,l‘ryfifil.'—ll s trampired ":’l;::;‘ i fhat thuro fs a sorioud mpm“;“""'l"_m eres {tio Fiiborntan Conventln unwmum i, Nas It is safd that Thaddens LR g tionat Bocrotargs Buernand Dosie TG o Treusurers uud , Futriek MEEE oy Nutjonu] Dolegnte, who BRS¢ 04 ozt with Totor _Kleaun, r{f*::“"“",, d who icoruf the (0! cr fewatisfiod with tho maune Ehivondon e being conducted, v mon of groat lntiuence, J¢ aulitwof u spiit In the Luln guuization urnuumpr Ly, “LARYNGOLOGICAL: o PrriLapRivira, Sy =100 150 0, and Assuchation olected B2 Jo Kttt B0 grer, Tirs. &, L Ehirig, of Dateutt,und WDy o Bt Louty, Vieg-desidots: e Juae, 19%% -