Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1882, Page 3

sean HiGhT, Seb DN] c ‘ASHING 3, BLE Gongresstonal ‘Notes. Representative-elect Chalmers, of Mississipp!, has prepared a bill, which he is seeking to have CITY AND DISTRICT. TRE JEANNESTE Experiences with the Detectives. MR. BAUMER'S STOLEN WATCH—THE POLICE DE- TECTIVES, THE PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND TILK Affairs In Alexan(¢ria. Reported for Tur Evesine Stan, Tue City Covycit.—The two boards ot the Chopping His Own Leg Off. THE CURIOUS FREAK OF AN INSANE YOUNG MAN A CONTUMACTOUN WiThESS, Ex-Senator Spencer Heard From at Last. quiny. Conclusion of the ENQU 6 IN RHODE ISLAND. ity il were in session last night, both introduced into Congress, to discourage gam- Murder Case. THIEVI 1s TH COLLUSION? crotsente bette in thelr voaricctive chatte, ‘and a —=s bling in stocks, grain, cotton, and provisions. A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Press a Statement of Scaman Neros. The following communication gives the ex- | quorum in the seats; and in the yes a HE LEADS THE OFFICERS A WILD-GOOSE CHASE By pe cent gn en naar coe speculators each a Westerly, R. L., December 12, says: Seiets DEFENSE OF THE PRISONERR. = periences of a victim of the swell mob in his | SB. Thompson, esq.. mem i-clect from the | ynom NeW YORK TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK | 2° : Srery sale made. laylight yesterday morning Cyrus Barber, be- ie board yrning, and tes t he joined | 4 Biss aol m. | Mministered to him by Presidet Douglas. The ses ator In New Hampshire, does not apply, “as has | of the window4n his night dress, and running isc te onthe ist of June, 1879, at San | /! @! the sufferers in this way would com- | application of 8. J. Reed. lessee ofthe fish wharf, Sepcial to the New York Times been reported, to ihe election of Mr Rollins suc. heseiea atk wae "saa scene ; RUSSELS, Dec. 11, 1889. sega patents ; municate their experiences to the eltizens’ com- | for a deduction ot $360, in rent on account of the | “Wisi org. Dea 4a The red rance of | cessor. It ts intended to provide for the el to the wood pile, seized an axe, and chopy The evidence In the trial of Leon and Armand , and his duties were those of @ 8€9-} Litto or to the press, a mass of information | failure of the tity to sustain him in his claim to Gn Geers Eh aa fone ork | of Sevator Blair's succescor, Mr. Rollins lus own lez nearly off. He has shown signs of | Peltrer for the murder of M. Bernays was fine might be gained that would lead to important | the fish offal, last season, was referred to the | ¢X-Senator George E. Spencer fn New York | successor will be elect ‘d at the regular time w Insanity for some time and has been closely | ished with depositions by Leon's former em- Quest a any statement to lay | cuits for the protection of the alia coms te on Sinance. The auditor was ores et state revives interest ‘a Ws sees ye out the need ae eid cidedatio eee fori | watched, He managed, however, to escape the ployers in New York saying that they had such as a t sults for t 3 ‘o issue his warrant for the erection of a pump | the ing st rial. Mr. Spencer has x! r a . as . ae: . s y Refore t fo the Sting of the | Counirréx on 71 at the intersection of Patrick and Oroncko rd Soe haben dalarraped to | Senator Gartand, of tue judiciary committes, | Vigilance of his parents last night. His father | faith in his innocence of the crime that they Jeannett Wises streets. The special commitice on the Cameron | fio City 4, bl It is sid that hes | S898 he cons’ the recommittal of the bank- | entered the room just as he jumped from | would gladly receive him back in their employ. J. We -Thennpeon : and Union street improvements reported that AE ota en een a i. | Tuptey Dill to that committee as virtually aninde-|the window, and started for the back sik ieeadibe Gems ear Sir: In compilance with your request 1| Under the order ot the board of health the su- | now at Champion, a town th Jefferson county, Anite postponement of tie meacure. Hesayshe| door so as to intercept him. As he] | Was eitdians he tha ene poetres< F the men or the Fe- | hay” the nonor to respectfully subialt for sour in- | perintendent of police had expended a greater | where he was born. The important part of his | Will mske no further attempt to tet i reached the door he heard a sound of | ¢ apap ecmmbg ae nae” e within, de = the robvery of my | sum than allowed by law, without th statement is the assertion that he did not ran MR. KELLOGG'S RIVER FLATS RESOLUTI chopping at the weodpile andnaturally aseumed | /HoWed the lines of the indictment. The eve t o i hes been done by me to | council, and that under an order to haye a away from the star route trial Iast summer, but | 4 STAR reporter saw Senator i that his son was chopping wood. Coming , “enee for the defense has followed those of the a qnestion recardin te |ter, curbstone had been lad. Fadl Bice as lla ts pamamers OU |and asked im to explain hls resolution he baked Eee pote bom uae “Sew asom |feinokend interremberion. Th i | was referred, t te the power of|that-Mr. George Bliss told him to go. xo nearer he heard the young man It's most | Prise interrogator: hese interrogates ee isan oe eae x : vant saan ae introduced yesterday calling for estimates for | of” repeating the words several tim ries conclude the case. They are as follows: -|the board of health in such mattters. | There are some errors in the telegraphed state- | tha Potomac flits. He replied: “I am on | pigased that he had nearly accompllshed his u: shyrey | It was ordered that the gutters be paved and | ment, which may have been made by the person | tr co.nmnerce committee and als9 on the spoctal | y et ae tad nearly accomplished his un- | Leon Peitzer. being eXamined by the court, tk. arriving ere crivece on Hoyal cece hear Wilkes, ‘provided | whiov wrote it) For example, Mr Spencer 8 | cornmitice on thesis 1 walle the’ HAtorr Eton, over the prostrated boy he found that the young | “tultted that in 1873 he was in partnership with s went with Just thet sidewaiks be laid there he supe inten- | quoted as having taid that he remained In this | ang when it comes, will have it referred to the | man had fainted, but inthe darkness could not | b's brother James at Antwerp, and that he was, dent of police was directed to make necessary | city throughout the first trial, and that it was | ° cial committee, so that if we have no river and | see how he had injured himself, Taking him | after trial, acquitted of fraudulent bankrupt opie to Ch aun elivers strveu Iti ien: ot duct alter, the coal of thal WIAlstine Ne, was | targa Guts eee gy uate enemas Nye aut ene HOW IS het injored Bisel but found guilty of exce: a | Pitt and Royal streets. A resolution for the | told he could go. It is not probable that Mr. | uiilto make appropriation for carrying an the | eee ON EBGGC HK ound guilty of excessive personal expendle repair of Friendship alley was laid over. The | Spencer said anything of the kind, for everybedy | flats Improvement. 1 think it ought 40 =| rts belag Held ture. ‘He afterward was unfortanate in bust mayor was authorized to transfer the canal | knows he d peared betore the government | rate bill, anyhow, thouch, for my part, I Ee ‘ Barter has been driven in- | ness at Manchester, and went in IS78 to Ruenos: stock to the Secretary of the Treasury. It | had put in ail of its evidence. When the gov- | {pg to attach it to'the M ‘pp! river appropria- ind to dwell too much | Ares, wher in partnership with his red that the superintendent of ernment wanted his testimony it could not find | $02. Weare looking out tor the fl:ts tmpro s. Inhis detirium to-day | brother, he again failed in. busin Hi give notice to tie owners of lot, on Pitt be- | him. He disappeared before the defense had | ™@&26 and don’t intend thet Itshak suifer. able ime. A ted with a certain Dp tween Queen and Priac treets, and at the | begun to put in its case. The assertion that Mr. REPRESENTATIVE SHELLEY'S CLAIM. JA to eomiait eniciae by holihay a check be- prner of Duke and Tayne streets, to | Bliss told him to go has been made in this city b: Representative C. M. Shelley, of Alabama, has his breath, claiming that it was wicked to Lhimself ina desperate position, | eve the nuisances exi-ting on said lots | other persons since he departed. It is an asser- | filed with the First Controller of the Treasury | breathe." i: " wry to his. pos jee He ee oe April 188s. ee eenation avn ich i ne rere Mr. | statement of. his claim for compensation as a _—— ee brother Robert. Ic rn en, utider the of the Jaco eirs for red a 1ss is the govern cr and because z vet 0 2 J name of ¢ Albert, town ler to Mr. referred to the committee on nance. ‘The ap- | Mr. Biiss tiled with the court the affidavit upon | ZePFesentative in Congress, for an opinion as to Fe eet eleorren sora ov a | Falkenbe York. Tn 1061 be lott Haak plication of Win. Mills for payment of $20 for | which process was issued for Mr. Spencer's | Tights in the premises. Mr. Shelley's claim is, : gist m sid | in ¢ Moyer—because he had on contract to rebuild hay scales was re- | arrest asan absconding witness. Mr. George | that as the successor of Mr. Smith to fill the DECEIVED Gin | made the acquaintan Murray, the myste- ooo Hes on man propel 7 aun Bie GATES ee ee it | cancy caused by the latter's death, he is entitled pcre _ Philadelphia Press | rious and ishiman tmen- -+ aid for its rettir as. Entwisle for 162 prescriptions fur- | he asserts that he (Bliss) told him he could go. 5 AMEE <e of Rep! ford, Ky., December 12, says: Wm. | tioned all through t . who di Jos BAENEES [ished the poor, was ordered to be pald. An | Mtr. Bliss sail to the Ties’ correspondent to- Sear Paid ss ooucinten oh ate anes 00 1 Gucee ina) was’ tetoe «| boston ti colton: and ap iim by eh iran . inte order to pa + Clifford $15 for packing fire | day that Mr. Spencer never had any conyersa- eot Mr. Si "3 pi thes sidor at wife apy 5: » Sending hi Europe to organize a line of tecalhed Coaee aa ace Fy Hiinderss | pings was laid over. ‘The board didnot adjourn | tion with him sbout woine away, bat eneee fad been pait Hee tatensny aithough the amount | widower, his last wife having see ae, Be iantic steamer, “He explained that the , attcrwarts nt tie ee until a late hour. | person approached him, coming, as he believed, i ite ame was apparently in search of wife number three, is which he told to his employer at — Dstrt here I Pomp ReMoy, from Mr. Spencer, and asked that the govern- Rivet tumploves tor Amend and he had for some time laid siege to the hand | New York and. his subsequent chat went to Matye pat asad string that the ment should let him go. Mr. Bilss says that he | prom gue thtatchine teeed oth of Miss Pauline East, a pretty young girl of owlng to a wish. in consequ ts Of my W T | southwest cor declined to do anything of the kind. He had ee er signed “Emploges: hter of a well-to-do and respectable | Prose: ainst him in Eurepe, to sto its full. description, noved, has been active for several | reason to believe, a8 he afterward set forth in| AD anonymous letter, signed “Employes,’ | dauzh {Teatorsville. Her family was areatly | Ui for On. the Sth scout oF eee tae ee ‘ avoring to. bring about that re- | his affidavit, that Mr. Spencer could give vaiua- | Was sent from the Philadelphia mint during the | farmer of Teatorsville. Her family was grea | be dal m Armand re 1 to stop wh 1 the other | oval. Some years ago he offered to pay the | ble and he could not give | last campaign to the New York Civil Ser opposed t sand lad moro than once oF- | ine him with not renewing his corresput Bee ee known | cost of putting up the pump at another place a | htm to leave the city. | Reform association, in which complaint w: awa | with their mot ing lim to xive news They Tmade an appotat- | block below, but nothing done. Last night | Eyen Spencer had asserted that with the | that he was we aphing the words of May. The omice on 9th street; called | he offe ay the expen of removing the | hi puld not give such testimony, he could not fi litical | week he ii er, Under promise of mar- | “Robert Fulton.” the PA eee teaan, | bump to in the center of a square near | have let him go, for It would then have been | CeAt for political purpos riage, to with him. They were gone rieiits: . si had been offer devia | BY, and the resolution was agreed to by the | said that he hud been instrumental In suppress: | same to John L. McGinnis, chief several day saturday with his! 76 tet on the ast of N ion tienda ot ta SDE r aldermen but the common council did not con-| ing evidence. After that application had been | mint. The letter was Sent to the Civil-Service | prom i rhing, when avon pa ; ss seg - mehe care oft eo of the Wh cur. ‘The water of this pump is very cool in| made he heard no more about Mr. Spencer until | Reform association in this city, whence it was | Owen F: the Casey, he | Arizona under the name of Prelat, remalned a ably n of the watch mmer, and a thing unusual here, potable | he learned that he had gone. “I afterward | referred to Superintendent Snowden. who, in| 8¢cused him o: ning his sister, and, after a short time tn London, and went to Varis r him t | and on hot nights crowds go there as | discovered,” said Mr. Bilss, “‘that Spencer went | Téferred to Super ent | Swed an as. | Words, knocked him down witha clab, | where he alighted at the Hotel Latavetta and isi d me that | 10 10 the noted Louisiana avenue pump in | to New York and then to Omaha. I heard ot | #uswer. eald that he had never allowed an as- | Ing bls eaull, and caustn death during | assumed for diversion the name Louie Mati DULL Te TCGOE the G08 Lon ekee aton. | This isa subject of great annoy- | him as being at Omaha, His friends here as- | sessment to be levied upon the employes, nor | last nijiit. East ‘has not been arrested yet, | Aedptenerlceioreg agg oye jared to give him Uret sum le to Alderman Smoot, and it id that un- | sured me that he would return and testi paid any assessment assumed to be levied on | though he has made no effort to escape. a n intimate with a girl om rive any Information H complied with he will retire | telegram were sent for him. I telegrat himself. One or two of the foremen had asked see —— mer. Ond@he 16th of November 4 iis, where he has served effie- | saying that process had been tseued for him. | nim whether the aalaag. i aby Meerschaum Statistics. at the Hotel da Commerce, N was made a pres- | jently for a and that the process would not be served If |) tyoitnesring ieaey em tS, se ae Gee, | From the London Times. and assumed the name of e any Intrinsic value ft | Raines T CUANGED.—The con- | news should come that within a specified time red to cite sada Randing the amount to |. The place most productive of this mineral is Henry Vauzhan, because he had taken at Ni 1 Ee oe eee 8 | trol of the Wash ‘Western reiiroad has, | he had statted to return to this city. Ireceived | the agenorined mount Of tie etete cooeertes | Known to be near the town of Eaki-achelr. In a " lenithinertinmesnaectiern ae oe rae ea SPOR pecans WE Oren mie Drocens was sent and attattempt |e “ited ng Mt thainen Go aaitetee, hone | Anatolia, Asia Bilnor, A sesent aosoant’ un | ee SLY. aed been ee in soliciting the kindly atd of your committee in | Edward Quintard, of New York, succeeding W. | was made to serve It. From that time until | He rep Ninabcome PAE have: basal : ers ° Y | tials “HV.” and desired tasavold suspicion at its T have the on s : ent. A keneral change inthe | about two montisago we heard nothing of Mr. jome one might have een Herr Adler states that the preparation of one | the hotel.’ He had no evil intention in tal ng ‘ond is expected, Spencer, althouzh officers of the law were | eee ad to thee dencudent ordered all’ hundred boxes of meerschaum there takes | these false nau es. He asked Armand to come Dist. of COL i INSPECTION.—A proposal was | searching for him. Then we heard that he was | t that late hour ther were at periest lite | twelve to fifteen persons two months and costs | 8"d see him in Paris, firet on the 14th of Noveme ome time ago to have an anal at Osceola, where he has mines, not far from see cive et Tike . ‘tho DE kee > | about £120. In Bski-scheir the average price ot ber and two or three times subsequ ntly at Receivers of Stolen Goods. made of the pump water used in certain sec-.| Cherry Creek, Ney. We also heard of him in | ity to sive or declitie, as they thought best. Sere aa | the Hotel du Commerce. On the 2ist of No= sande = Seoe, | at etnone or the cee iy-ehiere: the waing oF An officer of the Post Office depart. | What Roney was afterward paid lad to be | the box of mercantile ware has varied since 1S73 | vember Murray paid Inn a viele He occapled CEE ENSODSES VS PESTS ROE eaten wale 0 Jo nogextend. Last r Spencer In Leadville, but he did not | Sven direct to the agent of the state com-| yetween about £6 to £10 (last year it was about | first a room on the thitd floor of the hotels 10 LET THEM OFF EASILY. eee th epeand of aldermen appropriated 250 | know that the government wanted him. Spen- | (uvtver, Semretars Wood received a corrobora- | the former.) Refuse ware can be had ut abort | aud then he took two rooms on the fitst floor, peat ape Thomas W. Sutton, a colored oyster dealer in | for this purpose, but the matter was laid on the | eer then sgld he was going to Denver. The de- | Who, it was alleged, had been aseeeeed ih oad | an eighth oft . There are ten qualities, | because he wished to Murray convens 1 4 fou the West End, was put on trial in the Police | table as soon as it reached the common council. | partment eficer afterward heard that @ brocess | 1157 aid tat ameane to te erict cess ad in four sizes, there belng | eptly and to talk seriously on atfatrs of business. : beh nef it his pe 1) Court this morning for being connected with of Sickness reported as proceeding | was ont tor Spencer, and he tried to find him in | "#4 Pald that amount to the cliief engineer, sc the frst size per’ box, and 450 hha nrpiea lyk took the name Vibert eens were placed | the robbery of the shoe store of M Walker of the pumps. ; Denver, but in vain. Agents of the govern- i BEG the fourth (the box is thirty | *ien buying the pis ee in the tomb t ne way they were before they | Toker, of ie ae ae ee fee feu: oD Move.—The foremen and pipemen of | ment have been looking for him as far away Louis Olsen’s Baggage. inches leis, elpht- Inclies broad aad 1b%g irene, | ie the wize he a . Fee ee ee» Cntesa yan ie avenue, re fire engines here will hereafter be | at San Dieo, Cal. Spencer came east from | THE MAYOR OF MIN deep.) In’ the last two decades the ex- | fused one wig and too wiz from the ceivin ne of the stolen property from the the ‘elty authorities with rubber | Chicago about tro weeks azo, and we have been port of —meerschaum — has considerably | Mairdresser Daumouche, because Murray advis “ party who robbed the store. Sutton is the last nd boots for use at fires. These firemen | told that he came on the same tratn with one of | From the New York Sun to-dsy. Increased; from three thousand boxes in| hin todo so. The president. however, proved e where the | man charzed with being connected with the | Tecelve no pay, the only paid tiremen being two | the most prominent of the coueel for the les Mayor A. A. Ames, of Minneapolis, who came | 1855, it has risen to 11,100 in 1881. In Constan- | tt, according to Leon's declarations, Murray i no books or papers were | robbery, Geo. Fi engineers and tw: fendants in this case. Since that time he has then at Bordeaux. then declared that nd John J, Johnson having been convicted and sentenced to three years | ach in jail for the same offense. was charged with receiving a pair of shoes from John knowing them to be stolen. Mr. Tucker identified a pair of shoes, that were re- covered from the defendant by Lieut. Guy's n removed, as fara was found in 4 to New York to secure from the papers of the deceased immigration agent, Louis Olsen, proofs of the frauds by which it is claimed W. D. Washburn defeated Mr. Ames for Congress, remains at the Gilsey House. To a Sun reporter he said: “Olsen was prominent among - the Germans and Scandinavians. He used lar; pout 15 firms — k, Armentan and Turk- cho bring th into the Vienna market. The large importation into Vienna may be said to date from between 1850 and 1850, when the production of pips. bows and cigar- tips was greatly increased for export to En, Rerorren’s Ne © years | Good Templars g The defendant tinople the trade is managed by been in New York. We haye seen persons who | Austrian, Bulgarian. have talked with him, but we have been unable | to get hold of him. One person reports that he w him in this city on Sunday last. Unfortu- | nately for Mr. Spencer there is a letter in exist- ence written by him to a friend in this elty from | Omaha. Neb., soon after he absconded, in which his own statement of the reasons which Daumouche had advised bourkt t him. He owned hav- e pistols at Paris, but net having | shown them to Armand, whom he saw last om j the 18th, He effaced the marks on the new | clothes which he had bought because they were | French and he was to represent an E | He arrived at Brussels on the 27th. ve a pleasant entertainment last night at thelr hall.—The will of the late | Simon Waterman was probated In. the eorpora- tion court yesterday aud Caroline Waterman qualifled as executrix.——The steamer Mystic loating ice near the mouth ot vay creek yesterday.——A warrant for % e |. France and North America. [n 1860 ae 3 4 He believed that a waiter at the Hotel Britan= 2 appe siderable export of pipes to San Franciseo. was : ers, as his property. quit the deacons of the church of | led him to zo. | That letter does not agree with | sums of money in the recent election in buying | frst develojed. walle large quantities of eine | nique, where he took up is quarters, who former. HOY ROBBED IMIS EMPLOYER. THe ee ones cour uuitinee Justioes of an tion | Totes for Washburn. He wasa poor man, but | tips were sent to America and Australia via | i cmey {im at Antwerp, recognized kim. ss ‘i saaee iq the peace y y and dismnissed. The war- received during this conversation |-he tft. sev fi kets. | Hamburg. * Since then the conditions of the Aitactcasiti ana . anley, a Iad 15 years of age, stated | E16, Peace Aan iter Ohuie! ; f si roverament {2° lit several hundred dollars in his pockets. | Hambu x S 5th of March to surrender himself to justice. eA A pote e was employed in Mr. Tucker's store, | ein eneN eae Fan date ee toe ened at from cMicers of the goverament |p, hers among his effects will probably throw | trade hase altered much, chiefly In consequence J erything that men could | y B ‘ E evuda for the purpose of finding These reports abounded in details, stole this pair of shoes (which were worth 25) and suid them to Sutton for 75 cents. The boy was questioned by Mr. Campbell Carring- ton, counsel for the defendant, as to how he get away with so many pairs of shoes as he had admitted he took from the store of his employer. high duties imposed in America. . With the aid of emigrant turners ria, a_home indastry, which has suc- fully competed with the Vienna pipe manu- facture (for the products of which America was the best customer.) With France and the United States obtains the raw pro- In that IN. BRUSSELS. |. In answer to an observation of the prestden’ jhe asserted that the non-existencs of Murray! | could not be proved. His purpose in the jour-) | ney to Amsterdam and Hamburg was to consult’ lawyers respecting Marray's enterprise. He) matter, if no one has had | the access to his effects. Charles Johnson, Wash- | burt manager, came to New York as soon as the news of Olsen's death was received, I have reason to bell e that Olsen's effects were tam- pered with. In any event I know that amone his papers, now in the possession of Elbridge T. inia house, opposite tie Alexandria fair grounds, some Nght on t Spencer. and indicated that the missing witness, by the | aid of his friends, has led the government's agents on a wild goose chase from one territory to another, and from Calitornia to New York. Mr. Bliss says Spencer will be found if trust- CROSS-EXAMINED AS TO THE DE BLES. LONG-COLLINS Deeds in fee have Cady to U. 8. B. Dod to 500. € Rea Estate Tra heen recorded as follov Holloran, lot 28, sq. 3 Mary Silverberg, lot 18, sq. 4 ‘Xaimined the worthy, and intelligent agents can find him onwith him. Before ad us by the hand, Mr. Collins came up he said, «¢ Femember me when you xet to Qe—“Did you hear Mr. Collins request De Long to «1 ee im the right to zo?” at | know of Q.—"Did Mr. M retura in et us at Belun he was _mak- to go north. I volunteered to et sufficient @lothing v oras, it would a aid.” during the retreat that order a start at 5 a.m. is tent until 2 o'clock physical condi- tof the party, t them?” As far asl know, it was about the ated since return that Mr. rand Alexy were the strongest ty, and Collins was as well able to get you were?” e the ques feared. Wi] swered. the room ours were sir, } did not zht some of the people gotten throwzh as well as I did.” a re_to sand the fol- asked by the court. sen have found they could. ‘omb less secure after the A The; to ger the secure afterwards. te the pyramid. COLLINS’ TREATMENT. Q.—“How was Mr. Collins treated by the com- and other officer A.—‘‘I never saw him treated any other way than as an officer of th By Witness did not know how Mr. Collins treated the office he crew always treated Collins as an officer, and he treated the crew as any other officer of the expedition. Have you any personal knowledge of difficulty’ between Mr. Collins and any to cut one of the cross-pieces ¥ Wf the box, so It was not so The cross-piece was a frame el. @ any sir. Ihave not = Was there any unn retred Melville deciined to take you with in the search, were you not ill with dysen- - es, sir.” The court here adjourned until 10-30 to-mor- Yow, when Mr. Newcomb will be examined. oe Land Frauds in Dakota. A telegram from Grand Forks, Dakota, Dec. 2, says: ®. Palmer returned Jo-day from an investigation of irregularities in the holding of lands at Devil's Lake. He says there has been a system- atic shantying of lands by speculators, and con- intimidation of men who have gone Near the end of the railroad 1,000 acres have been shan- tied. but there are no settlers. A special agent of the government wiil come here to guard the interests of settlers. ——___—_+e-_____ How Joux G: Lee Lost His Watcn.—John E. Smith, a young man who has been before the eourts on various charges, was before Judge again to-day, charged with the larceny of @ watch and chain from another young man “pamed John G. Lee, a stranger in the city. Lee and several other young men stated Assistant United States Attorney C. | | holes to be fed at lunch time. He replied that he would conceal them in bun- dies that he had to take out to deliver, and she would take shoes out to the alley nd leave them there at night and carry re was locked up. Mr. art to dissolve the at- 1 against the defendant and set aside the forfeiture of his coliateral, which was done. The boy stated that since the warrant was issucd azainst the defendant he met witness and tried to persuade hin: to state In the trial that he (Sutton) paid him 2 for the shoes. Fi SAID a man should not deal with boys. and he will hold people responsible for doing so. The court imposed a fine of #50 or 90 days. Counsel for the defense said he thought this was pret- ty severe punishment. In answer to this re- mark from the attorney, Judge Snell said: “We are having a pe gate them off when the Carri rrington asked th in regard to cases of receivers of stolen got and the and I am not golng to let up on them ea: The Episcopal Churches. SEMI-ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE WASIINGTON CONVOCATION. A service preliminary to the semi-annual meeting of the Washington conyocation of the Protestant Episcopal chureh was held last even- ing at Christ church, Navy Yard. Rey. Dr. Ad- dison, of Trinity P. E. church, preached the sermon, repeating, by request, an address he y delivered at a missionary congress at position to the church were never more defiant than at present. Yet the church towered above them supreme, and yet where are the tokens of victory for the church? Human eloquen no quickel vy unless the spirit panies it. Men pass from the sane nary moved. Churches are scattered ell over the land, but no common enthusiasm inspires them. Dr. Addison said to increase the power of the church the force must be applied by the church itself, and to do this money is needed. And when the collection plate ts passed around it is Christ himselt_ who Is stretehing out his pierced hands to receive the donations. Among those who sat in the chancel during the service were Bishop Pinkney, RK D. Andrews, rector of Christ church; Rey. Dr. Lewts, Rev. Dr. Forrest, Rey. Mr. Buck, and Rev. Mr. Perry. See Ss Where the Rat Welcomed. From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. Old miners have a great respect for rats of the y nelther kill the rats nor suf- fer them to be killed by green hands. In the first place, were there no other reason, a dead rat left underground would scent up a whole level; and, in the second place, the liviag rats devour any bones, ccraps of meat or fragments of other food left in the mines, which would, by their deca unpleasant at best. Rats also give warning when acave Is about to occur. They feel the pressure of the settling ground even before the cracking of the timbers Is heard, and come forth upon the floors and scamper uneasily about by scores. For these and other reasons the miners have a friendly feeling towards the rats, feeding and protecting them. In nearly every mine the men have one or more of the little animals as pets, and these are quite tame, coming out of their When rats come into anew drift or crosscut it is considered a good sign—is thought to mean that the men will strike ore. The other day, while the men were at work in the face of the new west crosscut on the 2,700 level of the Slerra Nevada mine, a rat came in to them, traveling along the line of the compressed air-pipe. Some of the new hands wanted to kill it, but the old miners would not allow it to be hurt. They said it would bring luck to the crosseut. So they fixed up in the roof of the drift a box as a house for the rat and | placed food near at hand, in order that it might find its new quarters profitable as well as com- fortable. There is much talk among the miners about the coming of this rat, and the men on the New York. He remarked the clements of op- | . Vitiate the air, generally hot and | r, trustee, to Valentine i sq. #8; 2. H. F. Daly to George W. C. Francis, lots 184 and 186, Montello; 8500. 3. P. Callan, trustee to J. D. Free, lot 4, sq. north of 1049; = —. J. F. Wollard to Elvira F.Adams, lot 50. §q. 448: & Elvira F. Adams, execu- . lot 50, sq. 448; 10, eq. . 1118; 17, 18, 2t and 23, 11, sq. 1070: sq. 1048 and part —' Mannisce Licenses.—Marriage licenses have been issued to the following couples: John Leyham to Cordelia Huddiester, of Montgomery co.; Patrick R. Darley to Lottie M. Stone; Beverly D. Williams to Jane R. Brown; Andrew L. Fant. of Farquier co., Va., to Ida F. Cross; George W. Kidwell, of Fairfax co., Va., to Annie E. McKenney, of Farquier co., Va; G. W. Palmer and Lavinia’ Mosdey; Thos. A. Hodgson, of Atkins, Ga., to Mary E. Johnston. London Letter to San Francisco Argonaut. I will picture to you an English girl living in one of the couthern counties of England. She is one of the prettiest girls in England, has $5,000 a year in her own right, is just 28, and the daugh- ter of arace whose pedigree goes back to the Conquest, and whose country house is the show- place of the county. To look at her you would think her the quietest of the quiet, and that she hadn't an idea beyond crochet and weak tea. But she hunts, has her own stable, keeps four hunters and now and then rides a steeple-chase, buys and sells her own horses without help from any one; lias her own wine reerchant, wine cel- lar and tobacconist; fences, boxes, skates and rows; has her boudoir decorated with foils, gloves, whips, horseshoes and hunting trophies: smokes cigarettes during the day and cigars uf- | ter dinner, is a capital judge of claret and port, and can tell Amontillado from Marsala with it: Is a first-rate shot with shotgun draws her own charges and pays her own bills. She has never been known to flirt: has refused more offers than the quiet ones ever dreamed of receiving, and once, it is rela- ted, taught the Prince of Wales a lesson by stop- jing in the middle of a valse with him at a state ball at Buckingham Palace, and refusing to go on, because he held her tighter than she con- sidered proper. You can’t calla girl like that fast. But she knows enouzh to take care of her- self, and if her companionship with the young swells of the day, and her imitation of their talk and ways has taught her to prefer their friend- ship to their love, it is not unlikely she is nearer right in her estimate of her fellow-beings than ure the dragonesses of propriety who regard her with abhorence, but are willing to sell their bashful maidens to the first scapegrace whose establishment and rent-roll make him in their eyes a desirable parti. — The Fashion iu Flowers. From a New York Letter. The decrees of fashion in flowers are almost as inexorable as those respecting dress—particu- larly in the manner of wearing them. A young man who should now appear in wide trousers, instead of those which clung to the leg, would be subject to ridicule; so would he be frowned on if he worea red rose when it was the proper thing to wear a white one. Just now men wear large white rose buds in their button-holes on evening occasions. This fashion lacks original- ity. The men are wearing large white rose buds in London. Last season the man of fashion here got the smallest, white flower he could find. Th flower most in use at present is the rose, either of a delicate pink shade or white. When a bride does not wear the traditional orange blossoms she adorns herself with white roses und half-opened buds. The bridesmaids carry colored roses, most of a pink tint. The “room wears a white rose bud when the bride carries white roses, and the groomamen have flowers in their coats corresponding to the bou- quets carried by the ladies they escort. Corsage bouquets for evening parties or street wear con- sist simply of pink or white roses tied in a loose bunch. If more than one kind of buds are used those of the same color are grouped together. should be long. .At dinners, instead ot bouquets All flowers must have their own stems, which |. that he will be given an opportunity, not only to answer to the court for his contempt, but also to tell what he knows upon the witness stand. Bearing in mind Mr. Spencer's course in this matter, Mr. Bliss thinks that what he will say upon the witness stand may not be of any service to the government, but it will be shown that he told se prominent men about the circumstances, which it was believed he would relate in court. If he has now for- gotten those stories, the prominent men to whom he told them have not forgotten them. a News Briefs. Ex-Mayor Horatio Kimball was elected mayor of Keene, N. H., yesterday, on the citizens’ ticket by 253 plurality. Both branches of the city government are republican. The subscriptions to the pedestal for the Bartholdi statue of Liberty, which is to be placed on Bedloe’s island, in New York harbor, now amount to $36,500. Silas R. Kenyon, aged 7% years, a lawyer, of Newark, N. J., was killed ata crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad, at Elizabeth, N. J., yes- terday. It was a case of suicide. A report has reached San Antonio that the new iron and steel bridge on the Mexican Pacific extension fell while over ahundred work- men were engaged on it, seven of whom were killed. ‘The jewelry establishment of J. A. Ephraim, Chestnut street, Philadelphia, was yesterday closed by the sheriff upon an attachment tor $7,047, obtained by Morgan & Headley,diamond merchants. Matt Simmerman, the murderer of Sheriff Woods and two others, reached Kearney, Neb.. Tuesday night with two officers who captured him in Kansas recently. Fifty men have sworn to lynch him on Thursday when he goes to Min- den for trial. At the games of the Manhattan Athletic club last night, in Madison Square garden, George, the English runner, was beaten by Thomas De- laney, of the Grammercy Athletic club, who beat the best American record. Anthony Barnard, colored, was put on trial at Camden, N.J., yesterday for the murder of Cath- erine Diamond, 12 years ago, but the testimony of the state’s witnesses was so much at variance with the story told the prosecuting attorney that he asked the court to disiniss the case, and the prisoner was accordingly discharged. The funeral of M. Louis Blanc took place in Paris yesterday, and was an imposing affair. There were occasional cries of ‘Live the Repub- lic,” but otherwise there were no demonstr tions. A special from Atlanta, Ga., says: ‘Last night the house ot Singleton James, on a plan- tation near Stockbridge, was burned to the ground. Thomas Knight and two children were burned to death. Knight was lying drunk in the house when the fire occurred.” ‘wo tactions of the old and new city councils at Opelika, Ala., engaged in a riot last Sunday Guns, pistols and rifles were freely used. The mayor and police took part in the battle. Ten men were shot down. It Is believed that eight will die. Surrey Williams whipped his sixteen-year-old daughter until she fell to the ground insensible, near Shady Dale, Jasper county, Ga., Monday. She died within an hour. Ina recent performance at Savoy Theater, London, the head-dress of a fairy shone with an electric’star, the light being furnished by an accumulator carried upon the fairy’s back. Maurice Burgen, of Monroe, La., had so strong a presentiment that his earthly course was al- most run that several months ago he made a bet with a friend of a suit of clothes against a fin that he would be dead before December He won the bet, and was handsomely buried fortnight ago. Isaac Newton Savage, a precocious youth of fifteen years, in Fayette county, Pa., one even- ing last week met Ellen Barnhouse Knox, @ sus- ceptible maiden of fourteen, and, it being with both a case of love at first sight, the courtship was a brief one. The next morning at daylight thcy started out to find a ministef, and, en- countering one on the road, they were made one. ane par completed their wedding tour, as they had begun it, on foot. _ Sno A FarMer {xsreap or a RABBIT.—A young man named Zachariah Butler, was Gerry, of the Society for the Prevention of Crueity to Children, Is a note tor $300 signed by this man Johnson.” J. 5. Wheaton, proprietor of the Vanderbilt hotel, said last evening that it was impossiple that ‘anybody could have secured access to Olsen's baggage at the hotel. Superintendent Jenkins said that nobody had obtained access to the baggage, and that nobody could get at it until the administrator removed his seals and examined the articles himself, which he would probably do at an early day. —___—+. | Mir. Spencer Explain? From the New York Post. Now the question is In order, if Mr. Spencer did not know anything about the star route matter, why did he keep himself so carefully out of the reach of the court when he was wanted as a witness? An answer to this question would interest a curious and sympathetic pub- lic. —————— New York PIcKPockeTs ARRESTED IN Battie MORE.—Thomas Bigelow, alias Ward, and his wife, Louisa Bigelow, alias Jordan, alias Aaron, alias English Louise. notorious pickpockets from. New York, were arrested in Baltimore yesterday afternoon, on the charge of having picked the pockets of three persons yesterday. The vis- ited the Savings Bank of Baltimore, from which they followed parties who received money. — AN EDITOR ARRESTED FoR I.IBEL.—A few days ago the papers from Boston to Chicago were ringing with alleged blackmailing operations at Buftalo and Bolivar, N. bya Mrs. Richard Gross, described as a bewitching and seductive siren, who had been bleeding blue-blood victims to an enormous amount. The Erie, Pa., Morn- ing Dispatch copied some of the specials trom Buffalo. Yesterday the dashing young lady ap- peared in Erie with a written proposition fur the editor of the Dispatch to meet her in an office and amicably arrange her grievances, to wit, the copying of the specials concerning her. ° Mr. James R. Willard declined the proposition and was subsequently arrested for criminal libel. The chief of police recognized the woman as being involved in a transaction by which a local Jeweler lost the value of two gold chains, and the case is continued until December 27. A Turrty MILLION DoLiar Fire.—A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, says: “The business quarter of Kingston was burned Monday. The loss is £6,000,000 sterling. Hundreds are home- less. Wharves, warehouses, stores, banks and supplies are gone. Food supplies are needed. Charitable relief should be sent to W.K. Azbiil, secretary Kingston charity organization.”’ —__—_-o-_____ A VIRGINIAN MURDERRD IN A BaGNio.—A telegram from Georgetown, Ky., Dec. 12th, says: Lee Wilson, grade foreman on the Cincin- nati Southern road, was found dead on Sunday night ina house of ill-fame. occupled by Sarah Taylor. The woman gives an unsatisfactory ac- count of the affair, saying he shot himself while she was not looking. A puir of half-worn blood- stained boots were under a bed, and Wilson's boots being gone, indicates a murder. Wilson's home was in Virginia. eS Hazleton and the Star Route Thieves, From the New York Times. Mr. George C. Hazelton, of the 3d district of Wisconsin, is serving the third term in the House of Representatives, though a grateful constituency has not seen fit to re-elect him. Mr. Hazleton is chairman of the committee on Pacific railroads, and, whether from the demo- ralising influences of that position or because of acertain native callousness to public criticism, has somewhat ostentatiously put himself tor- ward as the champion of the star route con- spirators. The other day counsel for these worthies presented an extraordinary affidavit setting forth that because of the invincible pre- judice against them entertained by Judge Wylie they could not safely go to trial before hi In the House yesterday Mr. Hazleton introduced an equally extraordinary bill providing that any toa cause in any term of the Supreme Court duct mainly from Austria. ee A Mleartiess Mother. From the New York Herald. 12th. Coroner W. H. Hyler, of Portchester, appeared at the district attorney's office in White Plains yesterday to Jay before the grand jury the result of an inquest in the matter of the death of James P. Merritt, an infant son of Mrs. Hellena Merritt, of Rye Neck. On Sunday, while Mrs. Merritt. who is a widow, was absent from the | house, her little daughter, aged 4 years, under- took to light a kerosene lamp. and in so doing burned her fingers. In her frenzy she threw a lighted piece of paper into the cradle where her | infant brother was sleeping, burning him to | death and setting the house on fire. The jury rendered a verdict saying that the mother was not a proper person to have charge of children, it having been proven at the inquest that she had on several occasions remained away from home all night, leaving the two children alone in the house. Tne grand jury will act in the case. ———_+o-+ —_____ Two Wives Claiming Him, From the New York Sun, to-day. Two young women, a brunette and a blonde, both in tears, complained last night to Sergeant Kitzer of the Stagg street police station, Wil- liamsburgh, that they werethe wives of William G. Russell, of 97 south 4th street, whom they wanted to have arrested for bigamy. The brunette, who said her maiden name was Ellen Gidney, and that she resided at 72 Metropolitan avenue, showed a utarriage certificate from the Rev. F. Murray, of St Cecilia’s church, which showed that she and William G. Russell were married Novy. 18, 1881. The blonde said her maiden name was Hen- rika Rupp of 562 Grand street. Russell mar- ried her, she 5 st Wednesday. A police- man found Russell in Grand street. He denied that he was the husband of the first complain- ant, but said that he had a dancing acquaint- ance with her. He admitted that he married Miss Rupp. On the complaints of both women. he was locked up. He is ashipping clerk, and is 24 years of age. ———— stING A Piantom CLam.—The Philadel- phia Times of to-day says: The old story that the heirs ot an apparently mythical personage called Jacob Becker are al Philadelphia has been revived. In 1877 the Times first published the Becker story, and Daniel M. Fox says it has cropped up annual; since. The property claimed is known as the Peggy Wycke tract, and lies between Callowhill and Poplar streets. In 1846 a man named Becker, who is believed to have been demented, claimed the tract, but had nothing to sustain hisc'aim. The name of Becker does not among the names of property-holders on the original plot made after the Wycke tract was divided and sold, 2 —$——_$—$—<<-—____ Witnessixe His Frrenn’s Svicipe. — Mr. Joseph A. Hawley, a retired bachelor, who has been lying ill in the Notre Dame hospital, in Montreal, for some time, threw himselt ont of the window Monday and died from the effects of his injuries Monday night. Mr. Doutre, Queen’s counsel, who is a friend of Mr. Hawley while hastening tothe hospital to see the sick man, saw falling from the upper window what seemed to be a bundle of clothes. He found it was Hawley, who, at the vi moment Mr, Doutre arrived within sight of the hospital, had leaped from the second-story window head fore- most, striking the stone steps. oo Boston's CHURCH QuARREL.—A’ special dis- ee to the a Press from Boston, mber 11, says: A lively church quarrel, in which an alleged cor *y to obtain ot an Episcopal involved, will : ndacwnaer court to-morrow morning. the action in Question ap) in the form of a ut to bring suit to | recover a big block of real estate in the heart of | i z z i bought the pisto? at the gunsinith’s (Baker's) in London to practise shooting before-going to @! distant country, and denied that he was already a good shot and selected that pistol because it | made but little noise. He sent M. Bernays @' | check for 500f because he thought him very | competent to advise him. He denies hav sent the telegram signed * Marie” to Armand. When M. Bernays, after entering the house in the Rue de la Loi, sald suddenly in French, “But I must have seen you betore,” forgetting the part of Englishman which played, he answered in French, “* mistaken,” and turned away his head to conceal his confusion. M. Bernays touched his hair; vhereupon, seeing his disguise useless, he ! his wig. “It is you, Leon,” exclaimed M. Ber- nays, angrily. He tried to quiet M. Bernays, but the latter threatened to denounce him as ® bankrupt and forger. M. Bernays then wanted to leave the room, but he, (Leon,) irritated by the insults of the other, seized the pistol a threatened him. Bernays making an invol- untary movement, the arm went off. He never intended to attempt the life of M. Bernays. He! placed the body in an arm chair and wrote @\ etter to the coroner. M. Bernays bled from the ) neck ; he saw no blood flow from the nose. » WHAT ARMAND SaYs. Armand Peltzer, being interrogated, saysthat he came back from Buenos Ayres to help his brothers, accused of fraudulent bankraptey. He became a iriend of the Bernays in 1876. There were then already troubles between husband’ and wife. In 1877 a modus vin di was estab- | lished, and he endeavored to reconcile them.* | He did hot zo twige a day to visit the Bernays, | family, but dined once a week with them. He! Was very Intimate with both husband and wife, | but did not visit the wife clandestine He was ening called to Madame Bernays,who had! severe attack of nervousness, but the girl ter Ww the next room and the door open, Madame supped with him in his roomeat Creaz- ach, in the presence of a child; at Antwerp Madame went to his house only when bi was there, and helped to arrange it, but she did not pay anything for him. He had never, thought of marrying Madame, and was not_ responsible for the words in his brother Rob- ert’s letter, “Expel from your mind the phan- tom of that woman.” On the 17th of September M. Bernays asked him to leave the house. Madame Pecher told him of the scene between M and his wife in consequence of the ryant. Next day he received a cow- ardly I from M. Bernays,who refused hin am’ interview. The purpose of obtaining a divorce was abandoned, as M. Bernaye recognized that his suspicions were unfounded. His letters to Madame gave her news of the state of health of her sister. He always had a great but honorable ; affection for Madame, whom his daughter very often visited—a proof of the Innocence of their relations. He left Paris on the 19th, and saw Leon last on the 18th. Leon did not show him any wigs or pistols. It was by his advice that the death of M. Bernays was made known. He = ees weet ge he ohegt revolver, ut knew nothing about the Goupillot cartridges tound in the drain there. Leon had cartri i for all his pistols. He told his servants that he | had fired shots to tri@hiten the workmen at work in the neighborhood. The telegram signed | * Marie” was from a woman whom he met once | at Antwerp, and whom he agreed to meet again. at the terminus in The woman was _ talk of a The prisoner ing he receiv ot M. Bern: i a i i that on the night of the 18th of last month they were drinking together, and in their rounds they drank with Smith severaktimes. The tes- mony showed that Lee got very drunk, and ‘waa taken by his friends to Godfrey's restaurant put to bed, and his watch and chain were off and put under his pillow. Witnesses to seeing Smith prowling around the leep just previous to Hi at each plate, small baskets of flowersare pl charged by an elderly farmer named Jno. Hess, in front of each guest. At Inncheon parties | before Judge Snell this morning, with having there is usuaily a bunch of roses for each guest, | assaulted him. by shooting him, He stated which is fastened to the -corsage after luncheon | that the defendant came on his tarm on the is over and worn on the street. conduit road in the county, about 10 o'clock oo yesterday, and discharged his gun, one of the A compete joke of the Harvard students, | shot taking effect in witness’ head. The de- parporting o beacircular from a ‘Society for | fendant stated that he was in hot pursuit of a Reform of the Social Habits of Fot "| rabbit, which ran on the old gentleman’s " and almed especially at the consumption of | and witness followed and fired, and a Limburger cheese and sauerkraut, receives | struck Mr. Hess. The court imposed a of | for sober and condemnatory treatment several | $10 or 80 days, and cautioned: the young man English periodicals. to be pore careful with his gun in the fature. ot the District of Columbia who shall set forth reasons for postponing a trial similar to those alleged by Dorsey and his associates shall have reer com! aa wee To attem; eae the ion of law toa vo) omega] brilliant con- toa new crosscut are very proud of it, and have high hopes on account of its presence. Woe unto the man hg shall intentionally kill that Sierra Ne- vada fat. i Es ton are involyed in quarrel, likely to be a spicy time in court. i A judge of the Nantwich county court (Eng- land) has decided that an editor may alter an advertisement to avoid libel. The Guardian had sued for a small account, pay- ment of which was refused because the editor six a “machinations” to “doings” in an