Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1881, Page 7

THE RAILROADS. Important Meeting. of the Man- agers of the Southwestern Pool. The Question of Territory One of -the Stumbling-Blocks in the Way of Settlement. Annual. Mecting ‘of tho Directors of ' the Baltimore & Ohio 7 Railway. Ve frobert Garrett Elected to Fiit Vice-President Keyser’s "Place. Reorganization of tho Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Company. . SOUTIWESTERN ASSOCTATION. » Another attempt is bethg mute to harmon- ‘aq the contileting Interests of the varlous rods forming tho Southwestern Railway Asxéeintion, The inecting of General Mune agers and General Freight Agents, which as- sembled at Commissioner Midmley’s ollie In tho Lakeside Bullding yesterday morning at 0o'clack, Is not yet through with its work, and, although nothing of # decisive nature has yet been accomplished, mitch better headway lins been miade, and tho procced- ings wero much more harmontous than was generally utletpnted, While It. is not by any means ‘curtain that “the Misgourl River poo! will be reorganized, or an arrange- gene frelglit fhe prospucts Jost evening were auite flattoring thut a truce of some kind would be reached before the The feeling whieh, pre- ailed was much more harmontous than was palette, the General Managers of the va- riots roads seaming better Inclined to make coiicessions than wt any of the previous con- ferences held. for the sume purpose. ‘They fully comprehend the danger of the situ i to some unt mous vithout having come to e Haarding the Missouri River alfairs, a very disastrous war will be the Inevitable result. About a year ago, when the pool troubles t becanie serious, such p war would have ut little aifected the various Missourl River by, which a perfected. River war :.on Missouri avoided, nient eral rates ca be meeting Adjourns. tion, and know that if this meetin, rouds,-- as business. was, unusually heavy, and — consegitently.. ‘the — ronds woul not have found® tt necessary to make any serious cuts in tates. But since then the boon bas ceased and business has greatly fallen off on nearly all the tines. The earnitizs of ost of the ruads havo steaillly ‘and a bad prove. «lsnse trous to soine of ‘the weaker Ines and inflict great damage tipon the stronger ones. It Is for these rensons that the General Managers of the Missouri, River roads are no longer as decreased sinco Inst January, break in the rates now syould - belligerent ns they were, and they are now pulling forth thelr best efforts to prevent a collapse.of the paul at this time. ‘There were nit “at. day's meeting J.C. Med fine Hie Glinppell und daines Smith, C o'@ Alton; ty Jp Potter, HP. Paul Morton, Burlington: Re R. Cavle iT. Sautord, Rock Island;-J. 3, Carson and W.it MeDoe!, Hannibal & St. : Jo ie: J. EB. Suilth, Kansaa City, St. Joe & Connell Blufis; ‘A. Tal 1, sy AA, Imadze, and J. A. Hill » Liye: ks Missourl-Pueltics John C. Gault and aA, C, Bird, Wabasn. After the meeting liad been cniled to order and Its object stated, the Com. mittee of. General, Managers which was. In- airucted at tho Iast meeting to pre} are withi= with ff the Hsnnlbal & seral dis= he - General rs of tho various ronds fully set forth. the vexed ‘complica. one“ had a ditlerent idea and propdsed a different plan, but the remarks were moretumperate than usual, and no siteh acrimonious spirit was evinced ns cat previons mectings. After all had thoir say, Mr.Cable, of tho tock Island, announced that he hud been inspired with a pian which . ble to all the Je moved'that three Commissioners should be appolated, of which the Commis. sluner of the Association, Mr. Midgley, shall heone, to decide what business shall: be tho number of divisions Into which, vided; what ronds shalt comprise each chvision; the percentage ivision; the percent axe to bo allotted to ench Iing tn’ tho various divisions, It being provided that any business* shall be cooled by all Hnes, or itshall not be pooled Jan: for-~ the’ settlement of: the - Western troubles went Into session, Mrd. B. Carson, 0 St. Joe, in the: chair. A cussion -followed, In whieh Mana their ldens regarding tions, Of course Gye! he thought would prove acceptal roads, oled; he Association shall be to by nllotted to each passing toor from it conn poln’ y any; the traffic passing to or from a co: mon point shall be treated alike by whatev ~The decision of th slon shall be binding and should be In torce froim Aug, 1, 1881; and therenfter, itarond finds the arraugemont unsatlatac- , tory, Ibshall ba required -to -give forty-five days! notice before it can be withdrawn,— is plan to include all freight traffic oxcept thi fumber, Upon niotion, it, war decided to take up the resohition section by section, Each sectiun wllalted considerable debate, but all were unanimously adopted with exception of See, 8, which provides ‘tl dvelde the numt the Association shouldbe divided. ‘This was 6 lines objecting to, intrust the Conmniigsion with ouch power, . It + voled down, several | will bo remembered that atthe last meetin; of-the Association a plan: wns subiultte which provided that the Association shguid consist of but two divisions, the Chicago and is. The, Association at present irée divisions, the Chicage,, the f- course the 4 Ste dae aint a iminediate con- a ,,tO- such. ‘an arrange- and contended that the divisions should 5 inability to + arrangé this matter regarding the division of mush. to do with. the fallure of ‘the last meating cotiie toan Lidarstandin g. The St. J i 8 8t, Lou! consists of th St. Louls, and.the Hunnib Hanniba! nections ol ment Tumaby:as-:; they ful, ee are. The territory had. i¢ Hannibal joe, aud the ronds bac: it, still inatst that no change should be mada lathe divialous, aud, they feur that by a Com le this matter night be decided adversely to thelr Inter- esis, and In’ sual an ‘event they would have DO eras until f Rfor sett nan «8 halt ave expired, a resolution pro- 4 ides that the ‘dvelsion. of the Commission shall stuna. for .six months, and after that forty-ive days’ notice shall be given before hdraw, ‘The failure to.adopt carries with !t all others, 16 the resolutions cannot be carried out until it has been duelded how to divide the territory, The Avsodlation meets ugaln at 10 o'clock ueKtiOn Of Het- allowing mission to decid Yoad can wit! this one section this morning to take-up. the loys the territorial dispute. Lf the meetin tan by which this matter enn bo gi Asfactorily arranged, nilsston, In the. tua Cable, add the ALisson ; Mother lease. of lif and a half months. ner ri we Fauld end the M fompltcation prove success! Will orsbabty Bo anade stata’ wuger rates THE PASSENGER WAI. tal Ltapateh to Tas Chicacd Tribunk | New Yonu, July 13,—Furthor, reductions st passonyer rates to the West were inade dere to-day, “Tickets were sold by brokers ‘rom here to St. -Louls at 81725, while ® Chicago rates Rae) Were $14, sveilroads chargl $15, To Cincinnati the agente: ask Bld, the regular rate being $18, Hrokers ‘send bassengers through for $12 and In fact; in vwone Instances, have knogked | off “another lollar, The man who wants to go West can’ ‘The. = rallroads’ will {ckets i r ee bi ‘ota to any polnt, As far os can be jearned hey have up to this time ved up to thelr. profession, but {t can't last, Some “of the rokera say that before’ a week they :will be ticketa for. half the ~ sobeiiales even Jess than * 610,- and they - will bassengers to Bt Louis for. $12 _ Ab the irexular ticket-ofices of tha various tha agenta of make is own rate, aro now” declaring ' that not out. more ‘than / they’ 85; selling Yates, Rates” ‘to Chicago ‘~ will’ send Ce os “) said, the at the Commission established. under Sec, 1 shall ber of: divisions jute which then the other troubles of itis Association will be settled by the Cum y proposed. by Dir, 4 River pool Will hava ‘Shout ‘however ‘the Meeting fall ta come to an-uiderstanding re- ‘arding the division of territory, nathing ean, done exept to adjourn site die, which issourt River pool. Should AK ENN settle the Southwestern freight nice ew the troulles regarding the Southwestern pas Be : ats _ THE CIICAGO TRIBU. trunk fines an tinprecedented rush wns re- ported. Mr, Charles Craig, General Ensteri Passenger Agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad, wos aware of no change In the out- look. “Shopping is stlll all the rage,’ he sal, “At our offices ticket-sellers ara kept busy. They are not allowed to maka any rate beluw the regitar $f reduction” Virtually the sanio assertions were made by tho New"York Central & Hudson River Ratl- road oficurs nt tha ofice No, 418 Brontl- way. “Wo have only one rate’? the nagont. “When on man nsks the faratu Chicago wo promptly tell him 815. Wo don’ try “te, beat hin out of Sl or S3-extra, and if he were to buy a hundred . tickets. we, couldn't ent. below that sane rate.’ ‘This, ‘tou, Was In sithstance the statement made by Mr. Samuel Carpenter, the Geueral Enstern Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania It road, widing’ that there had notappearer any ‘new. developments dn the rate, war, though it was fmpossibla to predict ns to. futures wits, ‘The oflicers: uf the Now York, -inke- Erle & West: ern Rallroad sald: “*'This entting of rites Is not hurting tis, Onr passenger trafic qvest Is by no: means as: large us that of the other roads. 1b would not. ba Blextunerte tion to estinnts that the Now Yurk Co: tral. carries at. least pusseigers 8 our Ine, consequently wwe any to our competitors: gent stand this suTehit ofrates just about ag tong as anys batly else, for overy dollar we lose’ you lose three? It was eelarent ". further that the. Inerense of custom since began owas moro tlinn o war sufficient to olfsut «the reduction: made, At the depots tho ugents stil! demand the old schedule rates, ‘To-day at the Broadway of- flees tho agents are inueht anhoyed by the fashlon of “ huckstering ” that-ins suddeniy developed Into big Pkbportions, Half of tho persons who ask selves with making memoranda of the rites and blanitly Tamarichi that, if thoy can't do better elsewhere, thoy will voing back, “There are some men,” -sald: one agent wrathfally last evening, “who really think we olight to pay tham a bonus. to take a tieket and furnish them with board through- out the trip.” |“ Have you always kept the regulur rates’ tp, tl this outbreak?” was asked ‘an agent. “Ohl indeed, we have pever cit rates except as now, when wo do open opinion fom this, howerer, was expressutt by other gentiemen eialming to know whereof they spoke, “Mr. 1. D. Brooks, at the ticket oftice No. 86 Broadway, who ave prevailed for more than a year past, There has not been a single: ling out of New York ata discount of from 1 This outbreak means nothing, When itis over and the ald rates are yenrs. be obtalnuble at just as Jow rates ns at pres- formation cottld he obtained said ho had nothing to sity, resentatives to-day he gave the same auswer, those who would be supposed to take part in rates, It was claimed by rallway ugents schedule, concerned, = BALTIMORE & ONTO. Special Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune ofiicers. Manager of tho trans-Uhlo Divisions. to the Western Associated Pret, <: Vice-President,and Witla Vice- tween Barrow and DB: pany fn tho Virginia Midland; R: erally. REORGANIZATION, ization were left for 8 future meeting, the Pennsylvania Railroad, et, ee SOU SEBS Eight hundred hinmigrants ari Baltimore & Ohlo yesterday," |. * Nav! Portland, vue, 5, wrecking some tn. cars an was hurt. dally: trains between “St, Lo by threo diferent routes, by way. of Keokuk, Burlington, ibang nt EO way ‘Ot Monmouth, Burlington, and Al hath 4; after next Wabaat w et ween BI nn thraugh sleepers Southern from ‘Toledo, aud vin the ner sleepers will bo run alternat Tier au hat the relation er] ry uilly, and that the new Bu uote lend aut Westar of Canada Ww - Bluits Ine will be Seeker excepting o t- end.- There « tee tine directly Into Councll Blutfs, {uate thres tines ns inany, for rates content them and above bonrd.? A ‘different fins forten years been engaged in selling rallrond tickets, suid: “ It may surprise some people to know that the present ‘low rates ny with In that time when a ticket could mache pure chased to uy Western point aver any trouk 0 $7. : Whut the railroads are now doing publicly they have been doing seeretly for Again declared to bo In force, tlekets Weat will still ent”? ‘At Commisstoner Fink's ‘offica nu in- as Mr. Tink When asked If there had been s meeting vf the railway rep and no information could be obtalned from such a mnostliiee With regard to freight aint that there had beer no cutting ttder the et Uie-close calcutntions mute by the ofiictals of tho fast-freight lines before “giving a rate” indicate that the schedule is not quite correct so far as current prices aro BAntistone, Md., duly 1.—At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of. Directors of the Baltimore & Oho Railroad Company, held to-day at Camden Station, tha res- ignattons of Messrs, King and. Keyser of tha positions of Firet and Second Vice-Presl- dents of the Company were presented and accepted, complimentary resolutions being passed by the Board in favor. of both these Mr. Robert Garrett. the present ‘Third Vice-President of the Company, was unantmously elected as Vice-President, vice Mr. King, reshned. . ‘The position of Second Vice-President remains still’ unfilled, Mr. Samuel Spencer, nt present assistant to’ tha President, was unanimously clected Third Vice-President in ‘plnce of Mr. Robert Gat- Tutt, promoted,” Mr. B..Dunham was unant- mously elected to the position of-General BAuristony, July 18,—At the rezular meet ing of. the Board of : Directors of the Baltl- tnore & Ohlo. Railroad, John W. Garrett, President, presented the résignations, which were accepted, of John King, Jr., a3 First -Pgesident, to take effect Aug. 1. Robert Garrett, ‘Third Vice-President, was: elected Firat Vice-Prestdent. ‘The position of Sec- ond Vice-President, was not filled. Samuel Spencer, In the employ of the Company since 1873,- was elected Third . Vice-President. Bradford Dunham, formorly of the Louls- ville & Nashville Rond, was appointed Gen- eral Manager of the trans-Ohio Division, em- bracing the Central Olifo, Lake Erle, Straits- ville, and’ Chicago Divisions. .A committes was. appointed to-prepare an. expression of the regret of tho’ Company at: the retire- mont. of Vicé-Presidents. King and Keyser, Preidsent Garrett stated that tha third great elevator at Locust Polnt would be coinpletod about the 20th of August; also that in addi- tion to ten Important lines of steamships now plying between Baltiniore and foreign ports, it was expected anew Ine of auverior tron steamships .bullelug. at Barrow-on-Furness would begin regular trips October next be- jaltimore, Mr, Garrett spoke of the large interest-heid by the Com. allroad, and euilled at pone length tho measures and operations: now In- progress to connect that Toad with the raitronds in North and South |* Carolina. and Georgls, and the South gen- Plate, 0 efearmalcer, committed suicide this PHILADEDPUIA, July 13.—The Directors of tho Phitadelphin, Wilmington & “Baltimore Rwlroad. Comvany met for reorganlzatlon this afternoon, tho road having passed Into the hands of the Pennsylvania Rallrond Com- pany.» George B.: Roberts, Edmund Smith, A.J. Cnssatt, J. Dubarry, John’ P. “Green, Henry M, Phillips, and Wistar ‘Morrig were elucted Directors, to fitl tho retiring Direct- ora’ places,” A, J. Cassatt was‘ elected Vico- President, ‘The remaining detalis of organ- Tt ls | tee stated that Isaac Hinckley will be retained | SfeCall was a8 President and Robert Craven will be Sec retary and Treasurer, Uha frela@ht and pas sangor systems will be continued in charge of John S.Wilson and George A, Davidson, respectively, subject to the suporylalon ol the present heads: of thos dopartinents of by the Mr, J. M, Bickley. hasbeen appointed faclstnat Manager of ihe Gregon Hallway &' Mon Company, with’ headquar it faa, ‘The Pappéutinent Maken eoot : A froight-traty on tho ‘Mtlehigan was ditched yesterday tori ae ao >slolayln worming trols about four hotirs, ONG one ho Burlington will’ héreatter run‘ thre avand St Paul =One in “runs “Cedar way.of Rock Isi La Crosse, xd in tle ty i bert @ CoA ments have just been perfected ‘by Wht y i! ex dandy hee Now York vit ‘the Lak shored sllehiean Ww York Central from’ Bultalo, Pullman Bnd " ng botweon Vane aid the Wabush. peaply ara Fetting da wil not get all of the Wabash’s passonxer trattic, Tha west thirty wiles of the Milwaukee's graded in three only a mile or two at the Iu some talk of bringing ‘ound tho town to Spoon Lake depot. ahs Iswhy no work has yet been done on the west. two miles, If the roa ts braught (lreetly luto town, a cut of seventy fect with be needed through one divide. The Vincent contract of Blaty miles atthe westend will be finished withiti alx weeks. “A heavy force fs working and new teamg ary arriving cally, ‘Thy going wares are $3.50 far teams and S175 for shoveling, ‘Thu bridging on the west chd fs well along. Track-Inying 13 to begin | the present week at Neola, where tho track of the Rock Isiant Roa ty crossed, twenty- five iniles from Council Bhuts, ‘The StL Louls Republican says: “The Hannlhal & St. Joseph Rattroad Company, having palit to the State Treasurer $3,000,000, the antount of the prineiyal of the bonds loan el that. corporation tn 1873 and 1455, and the July interest, amounting to 80),009, the attore ney of the Company, George W. Ensley, Esq fins mace at formal deniand of Gov, Chitten: den thnt he shall’ release the Stats fen on the rond and franchises, ‘This demand is baged on the vrovisions of the statute of 1805, whieh ting been published in these col unas, Our Jefferson City dlspateties ves- terday morning informed: our readers tint the Governor deellued to release th the statute does not, fin dts Jur pel hitiite do so. An agreed ¢ submitted to tho Supremo Court or to tie Judges-of that trbanal ti chambers, Of course, Whatever the Interpretation of the Taw may be by this Cont will be necepted by the Governor, and will control his netion. Goy. Chittenden. is acting with judzment and caution in this important dnauctal trans: notion, lint the rights of the State nay be maintained in all respucta,”? ‘WASHINGTON NEWS. POSTAL STATISTICS, Wasmnaros, D.C, July 13.—Gen lnzen, ‘Third Assistant Postmaster-General, has prepared n comparative statement showing the Inerease in tho, Jasuc of postage-stamps, stained. envelopes, nuwspaper-wrappers, and postal-cards, including issues for oficial use, for the yer ending June 30, 1831, over those of the preceding year. The mumber of ordinary postage-stamps Issued in 1880 was 875,087,070; valtte, $22,414,023. In June, | 1881, the mumber was .051,123,440, and: the yaluo $24,010,643, the Increase In number be- ing 78, HOA hand tn value $1,025,715; per cent of inerense $0 In numberand 7.2 in yalue, The total number of postage-slamps, newspaper and periodieal stamps, stanped envelopes, iuwspnper-wrappers, postage-die stamps and postal-cards issued for silo to the public for the vear ending Junc 30, 1580, jas 1,303,424.502, Valuo, $31,092,518, and for the year ending June 30, 1881, 1,409, 779,503, yalue $4,183,519; Inereaso in number 16, 39,456, valuc $2,551,000; Incrensy per cent In number, 10; In value, 7, ‘The total of all is sues, including . oficial stamvs, — offlelal stamped ‘envelopes and .wrappers, was, in 1880! 1,367,807,087; value, 882,097,142; In 18st, 1,40 311,552; ‘value, $34,025,441. The Increase ig ewsiqper and porlodical stamps and neyspapet Wrappers ‘over ‘last year ts 12,7 } per dent ir number and 11.6 and 12.0 por cent Tuspectlvely in-value,..which is the largest percent of inerense, with the exception of postal-cards, which 1s 18.2 per cent. fe ( ALA a Wasitatoy, D. ©., July 13,—Commander Henry Glass, commanding tho United States steamer Jamestown at Sitka, Alaska, has forwarded to the Navy Department his loz and an Interesting report upon the condition of affairs In thut Territory. He says the In- dians are everywhere. quiet. “An indus- triat school for boys has been established at Sitka under the auspices of the Presbyterian Board of Missions of Now York. ‘Twenty Indinn boys, selected for their intelligence and good conduct, ara Inattendance. ‘Tho number will bo.Increased from tine to tine from boys of the other tribes of Alaska, | 1! {s Intended to tench the boys trades, that they may in time become teachers among tho different tribes. Commanter Glass says: “Pho establishment of, this school at Sitka, where' Indians can be taught trades at the game time that they fecelve instruction in the English branches, will, in my opinion, be of more service to the tribes at Inrge than If even a greater number of boys were sent out of the Territory for the same Instruction, as here their improvement from day to tay will be seen and anpreciated by those older than themselves, ‘and will mora tinmediately affect the habits and cristoms of the Indinns.”? Coin- mander Glnss fined and imprisoned one of the Indian Chiefs . to. stop, 1£ possible, the burning of Indians denounced as witches, and prevented what might have provenn protracted fend between two tribes growing out of an act of adultery and suicide, MISSOURL RIVER INDIANS, : Wasurnatox, D, C., July 18.—A confer- once was held at tho Interlor Department to- day with a view to arriving at some conclit- ston ns to Little Chief and his band of North- ern Cheyennes. ‘Secrutarles Kirkwood and Linculn, Gene Sherman, and; Little Chict wore present. It was dectded that a delega- tion of Missouri. River Indians, including Spotted Tall, Red Claud, Standing Ber, arid others, shonid be invited to Washington early in September to discuss various vexed ques- tlons. with the authoritics here. Tho North ern Cheyennes are very much aissatistied with thelr: present -locatlon in the Indian country, and want to fo north to the Mis- souri River country, They would prefer to focnte at Fort Keogh, but there {sno Indian reservation there. _ SUICIDAL, _Bpetial Dispatch (a Ths Chicago Tribune. Lavayerte, Ind., July 19.—Mrs, Grandy, residing south uf the city, becaine discour- aged with this Nfe.—with its tolls and cares, ‘and, without bidding farewell to her hus band, gulped down a Jargo quantity of mor- vhitie, and was soon’ in a fair way to paas over Jordan. - Friends Hastened after a doc- tor, and his prompt arrival and vigorous ac- tlon{s all that snyed the Coroner a -job, and she ts tuxliy out of danger. No cauco fs ns- signed by her for her attempted sult-destruc- tlon, ‘thotigh ‘the present hot, weather is engtigh to drive one to do sontothing rash. Spectut Misvatch to Tue Chicag Trivunes Inptanavonts, Lid, duly 13,—Tlenry inornlag by taking morphine, Me had been drinking for sumy time. and’ was despondent from the effects of his dissipation, Ile wasa widower, und Ieayes four children between the axes of Gand 15... A + Petry, LL, duly .18—Samuel Scarrett, a well-known farmer, residing about tivo nlles south of Forest oly huhg himself Sunday afternoon in lls orchard, and when discov~ ered was dead, [tis supposed to be caused by. temporary inganity, catised by overheat- ing himself in the harvestlicid.. : Special Muavaten to The Chicago ‘Tribune, To.eno,’U., July.t3.—Harry McCall, a varloly notor, sulclded to-night with wore phing, which fie tank at 11 o'clook, and from he elects of which ho dad wtinidnight, Big jones old. and considered a Rout! actor, but futely he had bec oie mitch disalpated, and had trouble with his'‘alleged wife: ' 2 Sa oi : ‘ —— Bieta - LABOR AND CAPITAL: sons Bpectal Dispatch (o The Chicago Trtounts Sour Erg, HL, duly,18.—Thara is trou- bloat. ‘the South Elkin ‘Steel & Malteable Iron: Works. Nearly <all of. thé employes want an dnerenso 1 thelr. wages, and the ces do not yet sedi inolined to grant ft, Boma have already. na@lt work, and the alance will work awhile Jonger und give air ainployers a chance to fly. consider ability of grunting thelr de eos PAINFUL DEST.TUTION, | :* At the instigation of the Hurnane Booloty, the West Twelfth street, police patrol wéut yoater- day afternoon tu a: hovol-at the corner of Elghtecnth and Canal streets and took chargo of toreo burribly fltby and destitute children. The two older ones sre twins, ayod 8 yoars, Rosle and dtonio Quintero,and the third ts choir little water, a pt ee cach babo of |8months. The the ad) and, tmother die months ago, ard tho fathor ie d to be of Ungoutid tind.w¢ loust at thee Ho wus at work yesterday when the children wore tnkeq ‘into custody, aud it wae the inten. Hon of the authoritios to lock Lim Up us enon As ‘ho pressntéd nppeurarioe. “But frhey bo abowed pat tho station last night they did vot have the t to du It, He sovms Wor, fond of ols Vitle ones, And thoy of 1» but -ho 6 6d tinted face faa ete beheurly Py 3 7 G weada: -durig Gly aheenoo at work. bie. @ d ront. ot tho night upon the prairie, and slong al utd o'clock “in tHe ‘moron i" were directed by a polioutnun to the abandoned hovel In which the ohiidren-wero found yenterduy, Batranvo was etfucted by tuaring # board from of a barricaded dour, - 1 is the futention of ihe Battos io have the children sunt to some Institue lon where the futher oan ribute to their IEE Tiad betta "RES eat Oe 2 ent ie i creally proimising cbildron, =. ee AR oi 3 ning oh THURSDAY, JULY 14, CRIMIN AL. NEWS Neat Capture in Toledo of a Coun- terfeiter of Silver Coin, | A Galena Man Claims to Have Been Robbed of-a Large ; Sum.” ‘ een et oe Omray, tho Hungartan ‘Embezstor, Will Bo Surrondered to the Anstrian Authorttips. Kring, at St. Gouls, and. Four Negro In- condiaries in South Oarolina, Must Hang. : ITHE COLEMAN TRAGEDY, Speetat Disvateh to The Cdteago Tribune, Sr. Pavt, Minn, July &.—A spectal from Menomines says that the party in pursult of the Williams murderers are! stil on the tratt, and think they havetreed them in the woods, which will be thoronghly. searched, 1s the party fs now sthnulated by $1,700 reward, nud people from other States ave joluing In the chase. All consider {6 very Important that the ofllcers In Minnesota aud Wisconsin along the Mcstssippt be on the immediate and constant outlook. It is belteved that one ofthe men Is, wounded, and they “may he identified by a bandaged head or marks of viulence on his person. Speclat Correspondence af The Chicago Tritune, Macoun, ML, July 12—Hdward and Alonzo Maxwell, allas Williams, who shot the Sheriffs. of. Pepin -and Dunn Conntles, Wisconsin, yesterday, once tived In Me Donongh Connty, Ullnots, ‘They and thelr father caine to Mier Township, McDonough County, from Ohio, in 1869. Eilward’s frat, crime was-preaking Into Dines Bros.’ store in Blandenyille, McDonough County, Ul, aud he was sent to Penitentiary for two poate. AS sont as his tine wat out he Te: county, his younger brother to reak in} Sherlt® he and wont The And Alonzo KONE into iy forsee, rhe of McDonough County arreste Alonzo on the Llinojs River, near Bards+ town, and he wag sent to the Penitentia for two years. Edward was arrested in Stille water, Minn, and was brought here in 1875, and he pleaded guilty. and wns sent tothe Penitentiary, and served, out lls (ull ting of six years. ‘They are desperadves of | the Dinckest dye. ‘Thetr father was called a law- ablding man, and is now lying in Nebraska. KRING MUST GO. \ Spestat Diavateh to ‘tha Chicago Tribune, Sr. Louis, Mo, July 1%—The Court of Appeals declines to interfere with the judg? ment of the Criminal Court inthe Kring case. A large gathering in tho Appellate Chamber this morning attested the Interest felt on all sides touching the attitue of the Court upon the appllention for a stay of .excention, The grenter portion of yesterday was given up by the Bench to hearing argument in the mat- tor, and Judge Lewis anounced, when the Court adjourned, that the deciston would be rendered this morning, Af that time a pain- ful silence prevailed as the clerk flulshed the reading of the minutes, and every eye In the court-room was turned on Judge Lewls” when he slowly and deliberately uttered the words which ‘sealed Kring’s fate, “The Judgment of. the lower’ Conrt was affirmed,” said’ your correspondent to Kring. ‘Will you apply to the Governor for mercy ora “No, Twill not, and my attomey will not do it with my consent. Ido not vant mercy, IfLeannot be cleared by the Jaw thon d will not be cleared at all, 1 would sooner die than go to the Penitentiary fer life, any- how.” ie — OMRAY, “THE HUNGARIAN EM- BEZZLER; p Spectat Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tribune” « > Bosron, duly 13.—In~ tho “United~States District Court to-day the,'cnsa of Stefan Omray, the Hungarian embezzler, came up for final xettlement on the question of extra- dition. Judge Nelson ruled that/as he un- derstood the mutver, at the timo of the treaty made with Atistria fn 1856 Hungary-was a dependency thereof. The evldeis showed defendont to be an officer nppolnted by the Mayor of Buda Pesth, and wasn public offl- cerin recordauce with the popular defini- tlon of that term.” The hospitn! was under tha ntispices ot the city, aud the monuys re- colverl by that lustitution were returnable at the City Treasury, ‘The ovidence all tended to show that the money embezzled by Oiray was poblic money within the meaning of the treaty. ‘Che defendant was a public officer, who recelyed the money and re- tained It in his possession wntil turned over by him to the partic ented td recelve it. ‘The Judge held that the evidence was ad- inissivle and sufficient to satisty the Court that ha slowtd be tried in his own country. Omray was ordered to the custody of the Marshal until the necessary papers shall ar- rive from the Secretary of State to. warrant hissurrender to the Atstrian authoritles, A HEAVY RORBERY." Speclat Diavatch to The Cateugo Tribune GALENA, Ill, July 13.—Christoph Bil mann, of Elizabeth, came to Galena yeste! day, Induleud pretty freely in “beer, and it the evening he wont to sleep a a the sldewalk fronting the market square; When he awoke, whigh was abont 9 o’clac! inthe evening, he,clalined to have been robbed of the snum little sitin of $2,800, If sinted that he was making arrangement: to, commence :busincss in Dubuque at inanufacturing - spruce-beer, and — that he.-.drew the: above: sum out o: onvof.the Galena banks’ to invest in tie: business, ‘The police force have been touk-| ing in.o the nffair, but ean tind. no: evidence, ofthe robbery Sxcout Biligmann's atate-; ment. ‘The story of fishy, and sti} it muy be true, as Billigmann is possessed of means, and often carries Inrga stuns In his pockets, - He wis seer this morn- ing In the company ofa well-known Galena character, who, would not hesitate to rob hiw Mf opportunity altered, CAPTURE OF A COUNTERFEITER, Aptelal Dtibateh to The Chteago Tribune, ToLEDo, 0.,‘July 18—A neat capture was maile last night of Ienry’ Russell, who has uyldently ‘Loen engaged extensively In the mantifacture and distribution of counterfelt silver coin, ‘The case was worked up in the usual way after the; police officers had once got wind of It, n Government: Secret-Servico detectlve- having also beet called In to assist, A young wan -{rou a. neighboring Mich! gan town, whp’ had) got. acquainted with’ Ruggell, {and of hom | he 1 if . ‘who had mado conti ant, Kota police Sietectlve, and the. two were|to go inte partnership in the operation, when. the :olticurs suddenly dropped on them.|-A lot of edin, diss, acids, etc. were found of Russell's louse when he Ki his wife werelarrested, Russell wits to- bound over) to the'-noxt term of te Ulilted States Court and fils wife discharged, Boma of his aun pat confodérates are alle racked up, while others wn aro alreat Ty the Penitentiary, 5 ® : . c é SENTENCED. Bpedtat Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tribune Miuwauxer, ‘July 18-10 the Criminal Court today the folloving convicted prison- ors were sentenced by. Judge Mallory; Ed- ward Downey, burglay;:.two yeara in Wau- puny George Bunt, te Lolli ropbdty, three years in Waupiny and Jakob Daily, ong of he plokpagkes who followed Pally, show, two yeara also ji tha State Prison, wd CASIIER'S HOWE PURGLARIZED, Bpectat Dapateh to Ne Guleago.. ite Ecoyy, Il, July 13,7 Khe residence of Mr. ©, Town, Cashlor uf Ue Frat Natloual Bank, was vntered by burg}rs,Jast night and the. pookutbuoks of. Mr. ‘Tewjrand hig son-in-law, Ns Ws Sherwin, taken:,/Phey contained tne jor $50. ‘Khe thiot ws soared: away, with- out other pluyder, : Pag here A OIGAR+WINDLER.: |” . Srectal Dispatch to "ap Chicano Tribune, Sanatoo4s, 'N, '¥,,July -18—diynemann Bros, aid Bousemany Bros., elgardoalerp, tie ede 6 robvery luoks a little! 1.981I—TWELVE PAGES. Ba ston, Mass., liaye been swindled out of ove, $1,400 worth of elgars by a.iman who cannt here and gave the nameof “4. Swine nick,” THe reentvel thecizars here and then disap eared, teaving the empty boxes as ns- nein ‘The 'Swantiek referred to wag re- ported, zood for the amount, but the name given U,V the sharper was evidently. inistaken for that’ pf Arthur Stvannick, a well-to-do grocer, The swindler is thought to hal) from Bos ‘ol. A NEW WAY TO RAINE! MONEY, Tork, Kas, July 18—-A-ense of frail ‘| was unearthed in this elty to-day, outs N. Koreh, a Frenchiuan, a resident of Law- rence, is pretending to have authority from the United Staves Governoient and the State of Kansas to ottroll 1,090 inen as detectives, to be subject to! orders nt any moment, and when on duty to receive 81,50 per day, Me anys he is authorized by Gen, Pope to ab onee select forty of hts best men fo detect those who are stealing tlinber from Government Tanits, hurges his dupes $6.0 when he enrolls them, and gives them a comendssion whieh he claims s from = the: Government, but whichis fratdulent. Te elutins that he ling to pay the United States Government $2, the State Government $3 ned to pay 31 for a stir, which he furnisies cach one, ant pays W& mrcisteate for aduinistering the onth, Jn hix he pretends: to accounl: for the $5.50 le hingecollected. Me jtas extrotied tn this elt between 100 and 200 wer, and It ls supposed that he lins done the sume thing in other Kauisas cities, tis divpessnre genaraily cate Died men, but he has raped in some white Hens ARRESTED FOR SULLING POOR OIL, Speetat Dupateh (a The Chicago ‘Tribune. Kaxsag' Ciry, Mo., J'aly 13—Considera- Die exeltement has been ‘caused here by the arrest of J. W, Swain, mrunager of the Cone solidated ‘funk-Line Cam pany, on complaint of FA. Tutt; Coal-Oil Inspector for Kansas City. ‘The charges are selling untinspeeted all not, He to the legal standard, and of hay- ing adulterated off after It had been in- spected. Swuln was released on bond, and } case: istocome upfor trial om the 10th inst. INCENDIARIES TO BE KMANGED, Ciragnestox, & ©, July 15.—William Woodson, Pleasant Adams, Richard Bates, aid Joe Minton, colored men, convicted of burning the Academy of Music at Greenville In December, 1879, have been sentenced tobe hanged Sept. 9. fe KILLED WITH A CLUB. Pasttox, 0. July 18—Sam West, col- ored, 2 buteler, was arrested to-night for the murder of David Campbell, who lived in the same house with hin. The fo had n trivial quarrel, when West struck Oampbell on the head with a club. —_ MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE. CLEVELAND, O., July 18,—A__ special from Canton stutes that Josepp A. Kline was to- day convicted of murder in the second: de- gree, The indictment charged him with polsoning his father, NORRIBLE CRIME, Rockrout, Me,, July 13.—Wiillle Cain, aged 10, was drowned by ‘Ratph &. Richards and Edward L. Gross, nged 14 and 11 years, to whom he refused to give up 2 cents, ————__ CASUALTIES. KICKED BY A HORSE, Spectal Ditpateh to The Chicago Tribune, Heunos,. Ind., July 13.—Andrew Heron, who Hved on a farm owed by Ed Bryant half a mile east of this place, had. his skull broken by a kick from a horse, yesterday morning. He went out to do his chores, and nfter belug absent two hours, search wis made for him, and he was found lying in- sensibla behind the horse, the eurrycomb and brush lying muder the lorse’s feet. It is thonght that recovery ts Impossible. Le has a wife and three children, . SNOT BY A PLAYMATE, Special Dirmatch to The Chicago Tribune, SPrING¥IELD, IL, July 1%—A 15-year-old white boy ‘named Woods was accidentally shot in the brain this evening by a colored boy named Hodges, of the same age, aud will die, ‘Lhe buys were pluying with a pistol. . A FATAL RUNAWAY, Sr Pau, Minn, July 13.—A Dakota County. farmer named Markham, aged 64, was killed by a runaway tua here this aftt- ernoon, He was oné of the nluneers of the county, and in affluent circumstances, > POISONED. .. Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Minwaukere, Wis, July 138—Mrs, Cart Traemer accidentally poisoned on infant daughter to-<lay by administering a dose ‘nf ailver-polish in place of her medicine, Death resulted very quickly. z A FRIGHTFUL FALL, —_; . LEADVILtE, Colo, July 13,—John D, J. Jones, s miner, fell down nt %2Loot-shaft In the Danver City mine to-day, resulting tu In- stant death, i ‘ $< A TUNNEL DISASTFR, Cincinnati, July 18.—Tho tunnel on tho Cineinnatl Northern Railroad under Crown street, Walnut Hills, about two miles from the central part of the clty, fell In at 10:80 to- night.on a party of thirty workmen. Et. forts are making to extricate them.’ It {s not yot known what's the condition. It was not’ the caving of the tunnel proper that caused the . disaster, but o- landslide near the mouth of the tunnel, whore twelve men wore engaged In preparing for arching, One of tha, Frauk Burns, the forenun, was on the timbers and the others were below In the bottom of the tunnel, ‘Tho slide knocked Burns off and threw down tho timbors ou the men. Burns and David Hunter, colored, nie let Four others were more or luss injured, > ———__—_ DEATH FROM EXPOSURE AND OLD AGE. Breet-1 Disvateh to The Chicago Tribuns, Buntinartos, Ia., July 18.—This afternoon, while a boy was out hunting upsome cows north uf this city, he came upon the dend body of an old man in an advanced state of decomposition Iying In the grass, An ine quest ¥as held, the verdict of the jury being death from exposure and uld age, ‘Ihe body was. ae as that of #8 man aboutso years of agé: who had for several weeks passed his tine in-tishing In the sloughs north of Mis tye ‘lis name could not bo learned, The eld man had not been seen fora week ormere, All that could be learned of him was Chat he had told persons that he came froin North Carolina, . ———_—__—_ PERILS OF UPPER RIVER NAVIGATION. | Brectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, . Bovx Cry, In, July 13.—A private tele’ gram from Blsmarck ‘saya tho steamer Batehelor, with a load for Fort Custer, was gaught in the Big Horn River by the sudden subsidence of tho river, and the steamer ‘Terry, just ahead ‘of the Batchelor, barely got out into the Yellowatone, A groot part of the finmense number of buffalo hides taken last winter along the Yellowstone are spoiling along. tle bank of the river, unable to geb steamers to carry them to Blamarok it ff estiinnted that, of thy 200,000 hides taken in the Yellowstone, but have. yet beon Bent out to market, ? SHALL-POX: : Spectal Correspondance af The Chicago Tribund. , BATTLE Creek, Mich, July 12—A sick man was put off a pvestward bound emigrant traln last Monday, And It now transpires that he has the amall-pox, 1a bas therefore boon removed to a tent just outsiue tho clty limits, Great exchtementand indignation exist over the case, as several persons have been ex- pouedtol,.. 43) j ———— ’ OFE-OF THEIR RESERVATION. . Fort McKinney, : Wyoy, duly 1&—The atookmen on Tongue River and viclulty, are making pomplainta that the Crow Indians are olf their Reseryation, killing cattis and bury- Bified end ort pole Say oa ie Ki bored about 450 Indians camped on Tongue River, CROP-PROSPECTS. Statistics of the Wheat Acreage and. Product in Michigan. eral result obtained trom tho report fs that the harvest, as a whole, will be by no means equal to the splahdld harvests of 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1830, bitt‘will be supctlor to that of 1816, The wheat ctop 4s the only cereal Ir which ‘any: deflclenoy/ts “threatened. -Fall wheat 12 por cent below the avorago crop; spring wheat isin inuch better condition than : Kansas. Wheat Turning Out Half | fall, but ts 8 per cent less than the average. a Crop, but Farmers Satisfied. Tho Ariny-Worm Makes Its Appenr- ance in Warren County, “Iinois, MICHIGANS Sptctal Disvateh ta The Chteaco Tribune. Laxstise, Mets, July 18.—'The following statistle, compiled by Mr. Robert £. Howitt, of the Secretary of State's office, show the uereiige, the total sleld, and the average yletd ver nete of wheat In Michigan in 1850, and the number of acres in wheat at the time the Supereisors touk the assessment last spring. The etatisties of 1,086 townships are Included in tis table, or 08 per centof all in the State, Of 4,001 of these Lownslilvs “tho statistics inves been obtained ‘from the returns nitufe tu this Department tke presont year by the Supervisors, It 1s asstimed that of the thirty-two townships that have made no ree furns the acreage hintvested In 1890, and the number of acres of whent in May, 1881, were each equal to the nuaber of aeres in May, 1450, ng returned Jast year, and the yleld In each township has been calculated npon this acreage, and the average-yleld per aere tn the townships of the snins county: from which reports have been received fn 1831, were 1,055 acres, which — ylelded 30,5%,267 bushels; average yleld ht acres, 1720-100, ‘The acreage In May, {ssl, was 1,731,865,—an Increase over 1860 of 16,220 reres, ‘Thirty-eight of; the poorest wheut- growing townships are not represented {1 the table, no returns having been received from any of them, and there ein no date in the office from which e¢ thnates could be tate, In addition to the nvove, the Departinent has recelved returns’ dated July 2 from 77 Supervisors, giving eistimates of the averaze yleld of: wheat per’ acre in their. respective townships, The estlinate in each case 13 ex pressed {1 per cent of the average yield per fere in 1831, Of these returns, 431 are from, the southers four tlei's of conntles, thus Te; resenting 85 per cent of nll the townships in that section of the Stute, where nearly nine- tenths of the entire wheatcrop is grown, “The totlowlnu)s asummary of the estimates: The esthuated average -ylald of wheat per. acre In 1931, expressed fin per cent of the av- 2 yield per nere tn 12380, is for thirty-five 25 per cent or I bss; for titteen town ships. $0 per cent; for Ghirty townslilps 35 per cent; for sixty-two telwnships,42 per cents for eight townships, 45! per cent: for 16L townships, 60 per cent: flor ten townships, 55 per aent; Sorel rity seven townships, 00 per q thirty-nine: townships, for. thirty-three townships, for 110 townships, 75 per cent; elt township, 80 per cent: fur fourteen townships, 8 ‘per cent; for forty townships, 9 per cent; for ten townships, Si per cent; for thirty-one townships, 100 per cent; and for fifty-three townships, more tian 100 per vent of lasts year’s yield. Ac- cording to these estimats, the avernge yleld per acre for the whole State will be but a trifle more than nine bushels, ie ARETE gate product 16,200,000 bushels, NEBIASKA. Spectat Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Lixcoty, Neb., duly.11,—In different parts of the State consideruble.alarm has been ex- perlenced on account of chincli-bugs, but it ig asettied fact now that; the damaxe accrit- ing from their ravages will not be seriously noticed, Some flelds of ' wheat, it is true, have been almost entlrely destroved by tho ravages of these little Wests, but such in- stances.nre few. There ‘naver was such o promising outlook for earn and small grain In the history of the Stute, and the ,fariners are consequently Jubtlant and happy. Men of judgment ae matters claim that the crops of 81 will excead: 50 per. than 7, which will be, fomuebenet i 4 unnetally proiific year in all manner of smult ‘ait. sf Hamilton County, though dismal for a thne, hos recovered, and the crops could not possibly took tiner. York County has an unusual large acreage of crain.: Rye and barley have been har- Septal, and the general harvest will begin this week, Adams County shows “of wonderfully well, The counts is a vast sea of waving rain, with the rfehest promises that could Duwi the Republican Valicy th ww the Republican Valley the crops look- exceedingly well, ‘although there are ocenslontl siint localities, Cass County more than holds her awn, Saunders County is among the finest in tha State, with,a very large acreage of whent above “tormet years, Butler County ts preparing for the most abundant harvest ever garnered within her precincts, ° ‘The State never advanced‘ with such rapid strides befora., Not only are the crops good and the agricnltural prospects, of the Stato encouraging, butall else ls tpurlshing. There scems to be a sortof mania tor fnprovement and the extensive harvests of this year will erpetuate such enterprise and Jay no bounds 'o Sis extension, KANSAS. Sprclal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Leavenwonty, Kns,, July 13,—The wheat and rye crop of Kansas belng nearly all now in shock and stack, an approximnte estimate may be made of the yleld, The best Infor mation 1 can gather lends me to bellave that the yield on wheat will aggregate over 20,- 000,000 bushels, and that tho grade fs excel- Jent. In niany portions of the State’ there ave fields that will vroduce twenty-five, and In 9 few Instances tirty and thirty-five bushels to the sore, .Some will go ns Jom “ ore mi *. the aver- a yleld | o! 8 Whole acren; Iinre Vested will be nt. least twelve Mushels. ‘This of course fy not more than halla crop, but Kansas. farmera have not had thatot several years, and nre generally swell sutis- fied. ‘Travelers from the «contrat branch eounley report thet wheatis not turning out as well as was expected, the chinch bugs hiy- ing been intel more numerous and destruct- {ye than reported, ‘Fhe farmers have con- eluded that ln future thoy will pay morp atten- tiontecorn and hogs anc cattle. Corn is looking mepntiiesnt everywhere, It Is naw clalmed that several fletds of wheat near Enst Ateliison which: were covered with water over n foot egy last spring have been har yeated, and will yleld from fifteen to elghteon busnels per acre, a ILLINOIS. Bpeciat Correspondence of The Orleago Tribune, Craytos, I, July 13—One hundred and threw and 108 is what the mercury bus de- note in the Inst twelve days In this city, aid the farailng classé have suffered overythlug Iu order to harvest thelr. crops before the sun burned then up, Oats aresuffering from the excessive heat and chinch-bugs. During the Just few duyx a good many farmers have suspended day-work in the harvestticlds and are working ul, while there Is plenty o1 moonlight. It 8 hottest weather ever Kuows Mure * Gaitly, horees, all kinds of Monsourit, Hl, July 18,—The army worm has nady Its appearance here within the last two days, “fhe worm has worked constler able diinage tu ftelds of vats, . Severn! telds Gre to-day reported as having been colmplutes Wy destroyed Jast night: ‘The worn was ovk- ently hatched here, as majus..y of them areonty halt grown, It fs thouwit that, os goon a8 the worm Jes attalned Its growth, It will start for some other part of the couns try, = iowa. ET og Special Correspondence af The Crlcapo Tribune, Wayne, Mitchell Co,, 1a, July 1b—-Heavy rains last night. Crops of all kinds good ex- cept- wheat, That ta"belng’ destroyed ‘by chincl-bugs. ‘Te crop. ts aboue “quarter one, One Week moro of such savages 2s fie Ioat two days will, fins \ the :wheat crop Hcioast Pibite'ar aan aa 01 MOU. . srowt a and the ground is covered with them. Ll ——— THE OROPS IN CANADA, Toxonto, July 18—Tho Globe to-day pub lshes crop reporta from all parts of the Do- ininion, which tt sums as follows; ‘The gem ee INDt ‘Bpectal Dtepdich: to’ The Chteaoo' Tone, LAFAvette, Ind. July 13.--This‘ section was visited about miitnight' by “a <ntost. re- fresMing rain, cooling the attnosphere asttle, And making fe tessa burden, [t proved ‘te be a blessing to the growing corn as well ae to aweltering humanity, as'the leaves andthe stalks had already began to curl up consid: erably and farmers were ‘already complaine nig. ‘ NOBODY'S CHILD. An Early Chapter tn. a Possible Sonsas thonal Novel. ‘Tho first ovidenco of the existence of what may some day, undor tho manipulation of a skiliful and indefatigable seokor for sensational stories, be developed intonn interesting romance from real llte was found at2 o'clock yostortuy morning on the steps of tho Cathedral of the Holy Name, North State and Superior strocts, fu the shape of a ‘lnugbing, crowing, coolog, beautiful, chubby, healthy girl baby: of appar+ ently 3monthsof nye. It Iny tn a, basket, care~ fully covered with a blanket, and was dressod in Ano garments, which In ‘thomselves told that the person tu whom tho child belunged was not merely woll versed in tho inteleacles of fancy necdlowork and embroldery, but fMnancially able to provide the best of inaterlal for tho use of.the child... Around tho little one's neck wat found on fino gold chain, to which wasnttachod a amnail heart-shaped locket, inclosing a lock of silky-brown hair, By thustdoof the baskerin | whieh tho infant iny was a bundie of child's clothing of a quality equnl to that upon the per fon of the unfortunate welt, The bundle was wripped jn coarse brown Bane. upon which the namo “V, 2, MeDowell" was written In a futl nd’ froo businoss band, and pinned thereto was @ Hote tnclosed jn un cuvelpe nddressel “To the Finder," and readings “Tata Mune K. Plonso preserve this. and ull marks o€iny Identity." The ehtid was hestied tenderly In the arms of the sytupathetlo Olicer Langdon, and by him carried to the Chi- ongo Avenue Sintion, “Yesterday forenoon 1¢ was sent to the Hume far tho. Friendless. ‘The Identity of the ebild is ut present an Insoluble mystery, Whethor same unco woll-to-le and now puverty-stricken tuther thought thus to secure for Jt care such as sho could not now afford, or whether some young womna thought by consigning the child to tho enve of charity = to“ remove the evigence of her own iniiscretion, 18 something which but few will ever know, A reporter sought from Mr. McDowell, who proves to bet deuggiet at the corner of North Clark and Chestnut strects, some explanation or the preabnes nt Ais nue Upon the paper In wolch ho clothes were wrapped. The gentleman said that the paper tight have been pleked up near his place, ug all bls packages trom wholeulo druguists came in just such papers, one of whieh might bave beet thrown {nto the streot. He remembered, however, that on Tuesday a sinall bos about 12 years of nze bad called aud asked fora sheet of wrapping-paper. He was Ivenone benring tha name * V7. Ps McDowell *” in the chirsrapby ofa cleric in a whulesalo drug-house. Who the boy was, or whnt be wanted todo with the papor, the druggiat did not Inquire, THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY. Interview with Friedrich von Doden- atedt Concerning the College to Ho Founded in the Wostern States. Correapondence New York Herald, Wresuapes, June %8,—I have had an tne terview with Prof, Friedrich von Boden- stedt, the celebrated poet, In regard to the plan of establishing German university in one of the Western States of the Union. He ia a member of the Central Comnulttee which hag been formed for working out this scheme, It was originally intended to Jsgue # public address to the German nation on the 16th of June, the tenth anniversary of tho triumphal return of the troops to Berlin, asking for a general coOperation in this groat wattonal undertaking. However, the unfin- ished state of ‘the necessary preliminary work did not allow this plan to be carried out, The meeting of the General Comuit- fee for. the clectlon of officers, adoption of . by-laws, ete. will now take” place early next month, Meanwhile a central bureau has been established at Frankfort on-the-Main for the transaction of current and general business matters. The follow- ing celebrated names appear on the commit- tee list: Prof, Adolph Bastian, of Bortin, raveler and ethnologist; Prof. Eaward unustarck, of the Greilswalde University; L. C, Beek, of Stuttgart; Prof. you Boden: stedt, of Wlesbaden; Prof. Esmarch, of Kiel, Su Teeon-Gencral of the Prussian army; ir Hubbe-Schielden, - of Uamburg, a writer on colonization; Prof. Kirchhott, ofthe Halle University; Gustay: von Kldden, the author of the well-known ** Handbook : 0: Geography”; Feodor Lowe, Director of the Royal Theatre at Stuttgart; Baldwin Moll hnusen, the Western trapper and hunter and author ‘of many American novels, now Royal Librariau at Potsdam; Prot. Nach- fen, the African ‘explorer, now, Presl- deut of tho Geoxraphical Sovléty. at Berlin; Dr. Nulin, of Cassel; Prof, Friedrick Ratzel, of Munich, traveler and author of several works on the United States; Prof. J. Rein, of Murburg,, author on Japan; Dr. Gerhard obits, tha veteran of African trave elers, who hing just returned from Abyssinia to his home at Weimar; Prof. Herman Sehanfhausen, 0 jonn, the anthronolo- gist and prehistorian;” Dr, Johannes: Scheer, the author, -of Zurich; Hans Wachenhusen, the novelist, of Wiesbaden; Meyer von Waldeck, of Heldeloerg, member of Parliament; Dr. Weddlng, of Berling and Edmund yon Zoller, the author, of Stuttgart, New names are still belng added to the iss and a number of: prominent barking estabe lishments have undertaken’ the financlat uarantees of the plan, among which may ja invnationad the German Vereinsbank, at Frankfort; Beruberg, Gussler & Co, Hame burg; the [imoverint Bank, at Hanover; the Bavarian, Monk, at ‘Munich, ute, e. where tn Germany an earnest sympath: being shown fur the scheme. Its chief ob- Ject Is to preserve and inaintain the German affection fu Aierica for the oll fatherland, \ the * propagation of German culture und educating, and tu strengthen the: respect and consiteration for Gorman seience and civil- {zation in a country where all nations may find new homes, At the same tine the proposed untvorelty fs to serve as an expres- sion of gratitude on the partot the German nation for the many avis of kindness and enerosity which its emigrated countrymor lave shown on numerous occasions. precisa location of the bulldings is still under consideration, but it will probably xed In one of the urge German cities uf the West, —Milwankee, Ciaginnntl, or: St, Lous, pamphlet with full details of the plan will soon be published, - a New York Brewing Post. King Georgo of Greoco has recently signed a concession giving pormisslon to Gen. ‘Ldrr to cut acunul ibrough the Isthinus: of Corinth. ~The work will bo undertuken by a company estabe lished under thy patronage of the indefatigable M, de Lesseps, who, it seems, bas long bad bis oye upon the Isthmus of Corinth as agording hit another opportunity ot gratifying bis pas- sion for grout cunul onterprises, Tho company will begin work upon tho cunul in the spring of 1883, and expecta to ulsb it in flve yours. Bl. Violut d’ Avust, who took part in the pouition of 18% which wis sent to asalar in exe ie lbrablia Pasha Crom the Mores during ho Greok wir of indopendence, and who bu- came at that tlme very much interested in this cunal project, has just read a paper before the Geoxraphical Soolety of Paris giving aa scoount of the provious aticinpts to muke the canal. A canal xeross the Isthmus of Corinth wasa pet achoma cat Demons: peolloroateas, Jullua ry Callgula, an Gertako it, Ih tho Middle Ages the Vono- tluns hoped by plercing the lethmus to socure 8 quicker pissugy to Syria und the ast. Tho canal fa, in conception at least, an old one, but It hus remained for modorn, onginest~ lug to make It uu accomplished fact, a Hhuus of Corlath is about nive wiles in width, and the expense or building tho vanal ts eatl> mated at about $12.00,0u, The question is, where the ships, whioh by pussing through the canal ure golug to make it a profitable uaders taking, are couing from, Ships plylog betweon the Adriatio and the Eastern purts situated north of Smyrna would sive from wt ERE Rau tte art of the ng belwoun other port Grecian Penlasula and the shored of Asia Aigor would not save coough thie tu make it worth thoir woile tusubuit to the canal toll. It te therofurs, extromely linprobable that the Core iothian Canalcan be made a peaittauie enters pitee, However this nity es he Undertaking will be watehed with cousiderable interest, bot! from the bigtorical character of the ground an: from the fagt that {nterest in the caval questo: bas been mroused of late In cousoquence of th Success of the Suds Canat’and tho scheiae fa Cutting the Lidkmus of Panama, 2 | 4 t }