Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1884, Page 1

s R / DR et & 5N i THIRTEENTH YEAR. THE NOOSE OF THE DAY It Serves as a Lariat for a Couple of Kentacky Fiends. The Victims Resigned to Their Fate and Die Game. One of Them Claiming He was Going '‘Straight to Heaven.” The Story of Their Brutal and Unprovoked Crime. The Two Men Giants in Strength and Dwarfs in Intellect. How One Swallowed a Mouse on a Bet —An Appetite for Candy, A DOUBLE DROP] A PATR OF MURDERERS BANGED, Louisvitig, March 21.—Rudolph an d Champ Fitzpatrick were hung this after- noon at Columbus, Kentucky, a place 20 miles Qistant from a telegraph station, for the bratal murder of Miller Brewster, at Neatsvillo, Adair county, August 6, 1883. The execution was public, 5,000 people being present. The condemned men were resigned to their fate, and died game. Chumpion claimed that he was GOING STRAIGT TO HEAVEN. The scaftfold was a double one, arranged 30 that both the drops fell at once. Tho execution passed off quietly. The murderers hanged to-day and their victim were personages of low order of intellect and were withal illiterate and devoid of intelligence. Between the murderers and their victim there was a striking contrast of character, in that Miller Brewster was a peaceable, timid, inoffensive man, while the Fritzpatricks, when enraged, were savagely dangerous. On the Tth day of August, during the eloction ia Neatsville, Adair county, about twenty miles east of Columbia, Champ Fitzpatrick met Miller Brewster, and, approaching him, said: *Miller, you've lied about me, and by G—d you've got to take your lies back.” Brewster stammered out timidly, *“Why, Champ, I never lied about you and 1 never said anything bad about you, but if 1 ever did, I take it all back, but I'm sure I This tameness seemed to enrage Chawp. He closed upon Brews- ter, who shrank away, implor.ng for mercy, and slapped him in the face till he brought him to his knees. Then, drawing a pocket knife, Champ slashed Brewster across the face till the blood spurted out, covering both of them. Then, to wind up THE BLOODY he drew his revolver and shot Brewster. All this time the affair had been in a measure private, as there were no wit- nesses on the ssene of the action. Drawn by the report of the revolver, Rudolph Fitzpatrick came running up, and, sceing Champ covered with blood, thought he had been badly handled. With this thought in his mind he drew his revolver and shot Brewster in the head. This was the mortal wound. Brewster would have recovered from the cuts and gashes from Champ’s knife and from the flesh wound in his arm from Champ’s pistol. ‘The Fitzpatricks then fled to the home of relatives near here, where they were captured the next day. Miller Brewster lived only long enough to make his dying statement. Ho was 45 years old, came from Tennessee to Adair county fifteen ears ago, and worked here as afarm aud near Neatsville. He leaves a wife and family, Champ Fitzpatrick was a farm hand, born pear Neatsville, and was 23 years old, Hunger, rage, vanity, ignorance and all the brutish qualitics of the sav- age were his characteristics, and to these were superadded an intellect low almost to foebleness and the physical strength of a giant. The incidents of his life are of a contse description, It is related of him that to win a bet that he could not SWALLOW A MOUSE ALIVE, he actually performed the feat. He was a stolid prisoner, He said he helped kill Browster, and he did not show any signs of remorse., He soid if he could only get his fill of pickled beets the day he was hanged he would be content, Randolph Fitzpatrick is 30 years old, a gant in physical strength, but ignorant, stupid and illiterate in tho extreme, He has been in broils frequently, and when in anger has always been considered dan- gerous. He has said all along that in never did.” AFFAIR, " shooting Brewster he thought he was do- ing his brother a service, and that he . would do the same thing again if he had it to do over. He did not show any dread of death, and pretended to be in- different_except for the sake of his chil- dren, But to his wife, who came to see him a few days ago, he was brutal. He seized her hand, which she had extended to him, drew it through the grating and , wrenched it as if he meant to break her . arm, which he almost succeeded in doing. He had AN APPETITE FOR CANDY, ~ and said if he could get all the candy he - could eat the day he was hung, he would . be satisfied to die. . In the September term of court last year Champ and Rudolph Fitzpatrick + were found guilty of murder in the first . degree, and setenced to be hanged, and * the Tth day of December, 1883, was set * for the execution of the sentence. The case was appealed but the higher courts . sustained the findings of the lowe courts. " Thiarehearing on appeal postponed the | day of execution to February 29, 1884, 21 to allow a potition to the governor for ' 4 commutation of their sentence to be considered. This petition the governor rofused to grant. The feeling in tho neighborhood of Neatsville is that tho country has been rid of two fierce youny brutish desperadoes who were fated to death by thegallows, and that it is wel! ‘% and this date was again changed to March ¥ for the community that they have met this fato before their capacity for murder had fully developed itself. — PECULIAR PILKE ING. A Couple of Pinkerton's Detectives Caught in a Scheme to Rob Trank- Line Vining of' His Books, Special Dispateh to The Ber, Cutcavo, March 21.—There was a stir in the armory of the police court to-day. Mr. Robertson, Pinkerton's chief hench man, and the Munn agency's attorney wore active and mysterious. Four of Pinkerton's inexporienced young de- tectives were under arrest on a charge of larceny. Before court opened, Col Munn appreached Justice Foote and whispered: **When Mooney's larceny case comes up I don’t want it developed. 1 want the thing kept quiet; do you un- derstand?” and then departed. About a woek ago Murdock (or Murtha, as he gave his name) approached the janitor of The Railway Age building and proposed a plan by which the jamtor could make £50. 1t was to assist him in entering the room of E. P. Vining, of the Western Trunk Line association, in order that he could secure copies of some books and papers in that gentleman’s desk. Aftor a day or 8), during which time the jani- tor had told Mr. Vining, and Mooney & Boland’s detective agency had been em- ployed, the offer was accepted. Last night the four men named above entered the place and were arrested The case was continued until this afternoon, the men each being held in $1,000 b Warrants have also been taken out in a justice of the peaco office for the arrest of these men as soon as this charge is disposed of. Justice Foote this after- noon discharged the prisoners, holding that the books were in the janitor's charge; that he gave them to the prison- ers, and that therefore the charge of lar- ceny ugainst the prisoners could not be sustained. The affair is causing some aasty rumors and suspicions to be set afloat. The presumption is that it was an effort to find out the secrets of tho pool, and to see if any road is cutting rates, | —— SLANDERING Libelous Pablication on the Mormons by the Salt Lake Tribune —-An Intended Massacre and As- sassination Predicted. Special Dispatch to THE Dk, Sae Lake Ciry, March 21.—The Tribune of Sunday contained a long arti- cle purporting to be a stenographic re- port of a discourse delivered at Juab, by Bishop West, on Sunday, the 9th inst., and an editorial endorsing and emphasiz- ing the main features of the report, namely, that the Biskop had received a revelation ordering the assassination of Governor Murray, and a general attack upon the gentiles on Wednesday evening. The Deseret News contained a complete refutation of the story, showing that there is no such person in the Mormon charch as Bishop West; that there is no bishop at all at Juab; that on March 9th, in consequence of the washout of the Utah Central railway, so many persons from that small village were engaged in repairing the break that no meeting was held there at all that day. This morning the Tribune acknowled that the reported address was bogus, and claims to have been imposed on. Great indignation is expressed by gentiles and Mormons alike over the publication. The latter charge that the article was concocted for use in the east by Governor Murray, who start- ed cast a fow days ago. ——— OVER IN 10WA, Legislative Doings — Various Blue Laws Defeated. me Good ssed, Des Moixes, la, March 21,—The house to-day passed a bill giving addi- tional compensation to county surveyors, allowing boards of supervisors to give them a salary of not more than §100 and their foes. Tho bill to prohibit tho hunting of prairie chickens with dogs was defeated. The bill to provide a fund from which to pay tor sheep or other do- mestic aniwals killed or injured by dogs, and for the relief of county agrisultural societies was passed. A bill to appropri- ate $1,425 to reimburse parties at Waver- ly 1or means expended in the capture of John Cook (a hog thief) was defeated. A bill was passed providing that actions to foreclose mortgages on real estate must be brought in the county where the property is situated. Mr Culbert- son’s bill for the protection of stallions, jacks and bulis was defeated, as was also the bill for the semi-annual collection of taxes. The senate bill to provide for selling, leasing and patenting the lands belonging to the State Agricultural col- lege was passed, and also to lovy an addi- tional tax of half a mill for state pur- poses, In the senate, Hall introduced a joint resolution to have oil portraits of General A, C, Dodge and ex-Governor Lowe exe- cuted and placed in the capitol. Hall spoke in support of the resolution, and delivered a splendid eulogy on (ieneral Dodge. The resolution was amended to include the purtraits of the deceased ex- governors of Iowa, and adopted by unani- wous vote. Most of the session was oc- cupied in the consideration of the bill to convey to the United States the un- earned portion of lands granted to the state to aid in the construction of the Sioux City & St Paul railroad. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 32 to 13, C ——— Orazed by the Crouch Case. Jackson, Mich,, March 21.—Lorenzo D, Bean, an old citizen and prosperous farmer of Spring Arbor, has been paying a great deal of attention to the Crouch case, and to-day appeared in the strects with & rope around his neck, sitting in buggy, and the horse galloping through the streets. He has become insane over the case. He was secured and taken to a place of safety. . — Bu s 1 New York, March 21.—The business failures of the past week throughout the cr)urln‘try were 2135 as against 216 of last week, SLUGGER'S SLOCAN. Thompson’s Challenge, He Will Fight According to Lon= don Prize Ring Rules. In Six Weeks or 'I'wo Months, He Doesn’t Care Which, Sheedy Claims Ross is Only Work= ing Up an Advertisement, And Will Wager Various Sums on Various Propositions, He Says Thompson Can't Stand Four tounds Before Sullivan Even With Gloves, SAN Fraxeisco, March 21.—John L Sullivan telegraphs the following from Tucson, Ariz., to the Associated Press: “I read in the Associated Press die- patches that Sheedy has matched me for £5,000 a side to tight Thompson, and had put up a forfeit of §500. Smith aud myself immediately telographed Sheedy, saying to go on with the match, that 1 would fight; not to get a bluff. from Sheedy. with any 1 have never received any answor This is all I know of the matter, If t match has not been made, let Mr. bmpson put up a forfeit of $2,600 with The New York Clipper; 1 will cover it immediatel It is pretty hard to make a match 3,000 miles apart., [ will fight him London prize ring rules. 1 will fight in six weeks or two months from to-day, and toss for a choico of grounds,” NOW SHEEDY TALKS, Special Dispatch to Trie Ber., Cuicaco, March 21 —In reply to Dun- can C. Ross’ articles of agreement, sent by associated press to-night, Pat Sheedy, who represents John L. Sullivan, said to your correspondent to-night that Ross evident'y has no intention to make a fight for Thompson; that he evidently wants to boom Thompson for a tour around the country, while alleged to be getting ready for the fight; that Ross’ paper forfeit sent to Fox is of no ac- count; that he has three unpaid paper forfeits in this city; that he proposes for Richard K. Fox to name the final stake- holder, knowing Fox is Sullivan's bitter- est enemy, and that he sent Billy Md- den across the ocean to get a man to whip Sullivan; that the propesition to fight out of doors with six men on a side is ridiculous. Sheedy adds that he will give Thompson §3,000 if he can stand before § llvan four rounds, Quecnsbury rules, with the gloves, and will bet him another §3,000 he can't. If he shows any ability by winning this $G00, Sheedy says he will bet him from £5,000 to $20,- 000 a side for a fight with bare fists. If these terms are accopted, he will deposit the entire $11,000 in any bank, or with any responsible man. He to-night put $2,500 in the hands of John Dowling, of this city, to show that he means busi- ness, NOW DUNCAN, Creverasn, March 21,—Duncan C. Ross to-duy sent $2,600 to Richard K. Fox, with articles of agreement for a fight drawn to suit Sullivan’s wishes, the contest to be within three months of the signing of the articles and the grounds to be tossed for, - | m— THE SWELLUING MISSOURI, The Warning Note of Danger Comes from Sioux City. Sioux Crry, March 21, —The fears of a lod from the Missouri river are beginning to bo realized. Already a gorge below Yankton is flooding tho lowlands, and a hoavy riso will soon reach thero from above. Tho ico hero commenced going out this evening, and itis now running hard. A 16.foot rise has reached Yankton, and a 12 foot rise is follywing this. Tne destruction has commenced in the Dakota bottoms above here, and the people are removing to the highlands. Green Island, a town opposite Yank- ton, which was washed away by the flood of 1881, is already overflowed, and nothing can save it. The ice is very heavy and the gorges will surely form, and 1t is from this source that the great- est trouble arises, Sioux City can stand aflood as high as that of 1881 without werious inconvenience, though a fow feet more would cause & stoppage of the pork packing establishments, the plow works, the gas works and other manu- facturing industries, The business part of the town and most of the railroads entering here will not suffor to any great extent on account of any flood. Inthis immediate vicinity there is great appre- hension, however, and a deluging ramn to-night increases the fears, Yaxkrow, D, T., March 21,-—The river opened here yesterday evening at mid- night. The ice gorge formed ten miles below the city still remains intact. The gorge is about twenty miles long, of heavy ice. The river rose in a few hours fifteen feet, and ran over the lowlands; still rising. Telegrams from above state gorges at Springtield, Fort Randall and Chamberlain. No serious damage done yet. There are fears that the Yankten gorge will hold until after the upper gorges break, in which event the de struction will bo great. Farmers are all leaving the lowlauds add moving their goods, cattle and lumber to high ground. Ihe elevators along the leves have been emptied. The weather is cold, Thu holds the gorge tight. The utmost anxiety prevails, —— The Free Trade Wing of Democracy. New York, March 21,—Congressmen Dorsheimerand Belmont and Geo. H Fos- ter addressed a westing at Tamwmany hall to-night, at the meeting of the Tammany general committeo. Letters of regret wore road from Congressmen S. 5 lowa, Cox, Hurd, Herbert and O, B. Potter and August Belmont and Benator Bay OMAHA, NEB. Sullivan Makes Definite Reply to oy ¢ PN o 3 oA R AR . 7t 7402 DALy BEE — ety & Bayard said: “If the democratic B4y has any plain duty, it is to take an honeat,straightforward unmistakable step in_the direction of reducing and simpli- fying the present unequal complicated and obscure tarid system.” Resolutions favoring a reduction of the tarifl and approving of the Morrison tarifi bill were unanimously adopted. — FOOTI AN MoUTH, The Kansas Legislature Discussing the Ways and Means (0 Suppress the Cow Contagion, Torkxa, K., March 21.—The house in committeo of tho wholo consumed all the mornjng discussing the clause in the cat- tlo dijense bill, roferring to the compen- satiofgof owners for conderned animals, This is the chief question, and all sorts of propositions are made, from paying the full value of the animals as it health to be the actual value at the time of the appraisement, with a provision that no incurably diseased, or worthless, or crip pled animals shall be included in the in- ventory of appraisal. Thoso bost able to judge give the opinion that not more than 100 cattlo need be condemned or killed to efliciently stamp out tho disease, but assert that more roliance must be placed on u perfect system of «uarantine, These consideration are gaining ground, and there's now no doubt that a law will be passed which will effectually stop the diecase before the time comes for turn- ing out the cattle on the ranges. In the senato a bill for the protection of domes- tic animals, which was reported from the committee on agriculture two days ago, was placed on its third reading for amendment. A debate and discussion followed the reading of the hill which provides for the appointment by tho gov- ernor of & live stock sanitary commis- sion, e — THE BOUNTIFUL BEAUTIFUL, Cheyenne Under 16 Inches of Snow— Drifts 20 Feet Deep — How Cattle are Affected — Trains Delayed, Cuevesne, March 21.—The snow is sixteen inches deep here on the level and about twenty foet deep in places whero it has drifted. Business on the streets is generally suspended. The weather is not cold and there is little suflering for cattle except for calves just born. The sheep are nearly all corralled and safe. The Denver trains came in to-day all right. The trains on the Union Pacific are very unreliable. Train No. 1 is about sixty miles east of here in two sections, and i3 expeoted i behind the snow plows about midnight, Train No. 4 is immovably stuck in the snow drifts at Granite canon, twenty-five miles west, and will not get in to-night. When the two sections of No. 1 get here they will probably stop until the road is cleared to-morrow. Threatened Collapse of the Whisky Yool. Special Dispatch to The bk, Cuioaco, March 21.—The meeting of the Western Export association yester- day is understood to have been a very stormy one. ond that it was only by most strenuous exertions that the association was kept together. A number of repre- sentatives are dissatisfied with the capacity allowed and threateved to over the traces” beforo the expirati of tho agreement, September lst. It was finally agreed to hold together till April first, anyhow. The opinion ex- | pressed here is that the association is on its last legs. One thing which added to the trouble was the information that drafts sent out at the lust meeting, a fow weeks ago, to the amount of about £40,000, to pay the Cincinnati distillers for unueed capacity during the flood, had not been honored —— The Mississippi Sanitarians, Mesrius, Tenn,, March 21.—The san- itary council of the Mississippi valley met in annual session this morning, Doi- egates from Illinois, Minnesota, Michi- gan, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkaasas, Mississippi and Lowsiana were in atten- dance. Vice-President David H. Had- den, of Tennessee, on behalf of the citi- zons of Memphis, welcomed the delo- gates to the city. Dr. J. H. Rouch, of Lllinois, secrotary of the council, read a report showing the work performed dur- ing the past yoar,which was received and ordercd printed. One from each state represented was appointed a committee on resolutions, to which all resolutions offered will be sent without debate. cous, Re- A Collision and a Pool. Cuicaco, 111, March 21, -One ot the cable cars on the State street line, while crossing the track of the Illinois Contral railroad at Sixteenth street at two o'clock this afternc was run into by a loco- motive, Two street car passengers were injured, but it is not believed seriously. The locomotive struck the grip or leading car, which contained only the boy and a driver, neither of whom were seriously injured. The car itself was badly demolished. The rear cars, filled with passengers, were stopped on the edge of the railway track, URDAY MORNING, MARCII 29 NEWS OF THE NATION, A General Bélier that the Bonded Whisky Bill is Dead. The Commerce Committee Prepar= ing Retaliation for Our Hog. 1884, The Senate Continues Considera~ tion of the Education Bill. Full Toxt of the Proposed Postal Telegraph Bill, Bliss Unbosoms Himself as to His Star-Route Knowledge. Some Startling Stare Secrets, e portant if True, BOURBON BILL. IT IS READY FOR IS GRAVE, Special Dispateh to Tk Bre. Wasiinaron, March 21.—The general boliof is oxprossod here this afternoon that the whisky bill is dead and past res- urrection. No effort will be made to di cuss it to-day, but a voto will probably be reached to-morrow. Reports of the uso of momey in behalf of the bill are tlying thick and fast, and it is stated to-day that the incroased voto in taking up the bill on Wednoesday was so- cured by this process. All this, whether truo or not, is injurions to tho chancos of the bill, and even its frionds admit that they have very little hope. WASH NGTON TOP1CS, PAVIN D WAV FOR OTR VLG, Special Dispatch to Tie Bre. Wasuisaron, March 21.—The com- merce committee of the house held a meoting this morning to insure a votter roception of the American hog abroad. Bills providing for retaliatory action by the exclusion of Gierman and French wines, and others for the appointment of inspectors to see that only healthy meats go abroad, were discussed. No conclu- sion was reached, but it is very ovident from tho spirit manifested by the com- mitteo that retaliatory measures are not likely to bo popular, and if adopted will be only in connection with a system of inspection, NOMINATED, Regular Press Dispatches, Wm J. Brown has been nominated postmaster for Emmettsburg, Towa. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS, Representative S. S, Cox, chairman of the house democratic caucus, has issued a call for a catcus of the democratic rop- resentatives for Tuesday evening, at the request of a considerable numberof mom- bers. UHE STATE OF TACOMA, T'he bill introduced in the senate for the admission of the state of I'acoma, provides for the erection of the present territory of Washington and part of Idaho into a state, and its admission to the union; subsqeuent to its formation into a state government, and the adontion of a constitution by a convention of del- egates representing tho electors, it is proposed that a state convention bo held at Walla Walla, and a ratification of that convention by the electors residing with- in the limits of the proposed state. 1t provides, however, that the admission shall not take place until after March 4, 1885, FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, 2 BENATE, Bills were introduced and roforred as follows: By Mr. Cullom (rep., I1L.), to empower the sccretary of war to permit the establishment of a horse rond upon the island of Rock Island and for con- necting the cities of Davenport and Rock Island therewith: By Mr. Platt (rop., Conn.), to provide for the admission to the union of the state of Tacoma, By Mr. Logan (rep., Til.), to granta pension of $60 per month to the widow of Gen, Ord, By Mr. Call (dem., Fla,), to authorize the mvestigation of the issue of fraudu- lent warrants and to protect soldiers and sailors from loss thereon. The deficiency appropriation bill was passed. The education bill was taken up and discussed, Mr. Sherman (rep. la) offered an amendment that the money be applied to the education of children without du tinction of race or color, and bo distribu- ted to counties or school distrivts in the proportion which the number of illiteral children in such county or district bear to the whole number of illitorate chil- dren in the state, and that assent vo this provision shall bo had before the money can be given to it by the United States. After executive session adjourned till Monday. HOUSE, The general managers of the North- western Toads held another session this afternoon to complete some details of the new northwestern pool. George M, Bogue was chosen arbitrator and George L. Corman commissioner, ivice Murderer, Cu1caco, March 21.- The Daily News' Waukegan (IL) special says: In the trial of the conviet Mooney for the mur- der of his cell mate Aunderson to day, most of the session was occupied in hear- ing expert testimony to show that the wounds, of which there were thirty-one, were of such character that it would be impossible for the dead man to have in- flicted them himself. Then followed the testimony of a couple of fellow-convicts, showing ill-will on the part of Mooney t)ward Auderson, The defense will be gin LO-IMOrruw. — The Fox and Gorse, Creveraxo, O,, March 21,—Duncan C, Rows to day sent Richad K. York, articles of agreement for sj of Jno. L Sullivan and Vervine Thomp- son to fight under prize ring rules, Accompanying this was §2000 guarante. ing Thompson's signature, No attempt was made this morning to call up the bonded extension bill, The speaker proceeded to call for com- mittee reports on bills of a private char- acter, At the conclusion of the call, the house went into committeo of the whole on the private calendar. After consid- ering two bills the committee rose. E. H. Fanston appeared and took the oath of office of the Second district of ;((.li“-' to succeed the late D. C. Has. ell. The committee then resumed session. The session was consumed in the con- sideration of private bills, 8 number of which were pas journed, What He Knows ot the Star-loute Prinle, WasminGroy, March 21, —In the star- route inquiry to-day, in reviewing the history of the first stir-route trisl, Bliss said he learned ex-Senstor Spencer, of Alabama, could gve testimouy of an im- portant naturs, of the payment of money by Dorsey to lirady. When Spencer came to Washington, near the close of tho sec- NO. 335, ———— — —_—_— ond trials, ho made statoments denying that hie knew anyting abont it ALLEGED PAYMENTS T0 RRADY, Bliss statod that he refused to see or talk with Sponcer for the reason that *I would have to tell him I did not believe him.” Bliss rolated the efforts to got Spencer to testify and the search for him. “1 can say,” continued Bl “‘that Spencer’s intorest in the star-route oases passed from the government side to thoe other side, as early as December, 1881." Witness oxpressed a lack of confidence 1n Cook and Gibson, and said: “At some time or other Tilden became so far inter- osted that he furnished money to be quickly used in the investigation. At a certain stage of matters Tilden sent C. ¥, MecLain to Washington. MeLain s a gontloman and _lawyer, it these things can be combined. He camo to Washing- ton and wont back and reported things woro proporly managed. Ho was a law partner of H, E, Knox. Knox was A CHUM OF JAS. A, GARFIELD, Tildon obtained thls information, and if ho had been nominated ho would have mado A campnign on the star-routo frauds, as he did in New York on the canal frauds. 1€ ho had, thore wouldn't have beon any need for an eloctoral com- mission: but Tilden did not run, and did not give his informstion to Hancock. Lato in the Fobruary after tho eloction, Knox communicated the star-routo frauds to Garfield, | think that is why Dorsey's influence with him ended.” " Bliss con- tinued, 1 attonded the famous Dorsey dinner. HE WANTED A MAN IN THE CARINET, and I wanted & man in tho samo posi- tion.” ““What was the gentleman’s name ! asked Springer. ST toll you. Tt was Charles J, Fol- gor. Wo wantod him for secrotary of the troasury, but he was not put in Garfield’s cabinet, He was offerad the attorney goneralship and dechined.” Bliss said that during the trial of the star-route cases, it was discovered that the dofondants were in _possossion of in- formation supposed to belong exclusively to the government counsel. Blisg saia it was a groat relief to him when Cook was_disctarged from the government servico—*‘such a relief to mo that I went off and broke two bottles of champagne.” Adjourned until Monday. C — Bogus Butter in New York, Aunany, N, Y., March 21.—The sen- ato committes on' publio health, which has been investigating the adulteration of food, roported to-day. ‘They say they have discovered wholesale alarming adul- teration dangerous to consumers and de- preciating property in the rural districts The adulteration of butter by tallow oil, bone oil and lurd oil, was found in almost every town and city in the state and in amount equal to half the production of natural butter. The imitation had been so disguised that it was discov- erable only by chemical analysis, Out of thirty samples of butter purchased by the committee in Now York, only ten were genuine, No labels to distinguish the pure from thoe bogus butter are displayed as required by existing laws, Bogus but- tor was largely purchased by saloons, boarding houses and second class hotels, The wvoorer qualities of bogus but- ter solls for from 20 to 30 cents to laboring men; the better grades sell for 40 to 45 cents. The cost to man- ufacturer ranges from 12 to 18 cents; average, 14 conts. Several Newport and Brooklyn concerns manufacture over three million pounds each out of fats brought from the west, and from France and Italy, The bulk of bogus] butter was manufactured wost and sold in New York to the detriment of the state’s dairy in- terosts. Many dairy farmers have been driven out of the busi- ness, and the consequent loss to the state is estimated at $5,000,000 to £7,000,000 yearly, The committee esti- mate 40,000,000 pouuds of the product was sold annually in the state and the illegitimato business ‘s breaking our export butter trade. Butterine can be sold for 18 cents less than the natural butter. Accompanying the report was a bill prohibiting, under & penalty of $200 or six months imprisonment, the salo of adulterated milk, the keeping of cows for the production of milk in an un- healthy condition and diluting milk with water. It provides that overy manu- facturer of butter shall brand his name and the weight of the butter on each ruclmgn. Cans for the sale of milk shall ho stamped with the name of the county where the milk was prodused, except when sold exclusively in the county. A penalty of 8500 to $1,000 and imprison- ment for one year is imposed on the sale or manufacture of bogus butter or cheese. The State Dairymen's association is anthorized to enforce the provisions of the bill, and §30,000 is appropriated for TRE CRAIN CORCE Which Has Has Been Gathering at Chi- 04g0 Appears to be Broken, The Reduction in Freights Cause o Brisk Shipping Movement, Four Thousand Cars Said to Have Been Contrasted For, And Loaded With Wheat, Oats and Corn For the East, A Fair Business in Provisions, With Increased Prices. Light Cattle Advancing, but Large Cattle i atu Quo, CHICAGO'S MARKETS, AN IMPROVED FEELING IN CERRATS, Special Dispatch to Tie Brx, Curcaco, March 21.—The day was marked by a fair activity in cereal trad- ing, attended by a certain degree of nervousness as to the possible offect of the reduction of rail rates to the sea- board. Values have beon so unusually dopresscd the past fow weoks as to make- speculative traders more conservative in the apparent bolief that a heavy shipping movement or incrensed export demand would oceasion a sudden rally in prices. The “short” interest flooded the early whoat market with heavy offorings, and oceasioned a depression of {{¢:%¢ from the closing prices of yesterday, but the war- ket rallied and sold up to 95ic for the May option, but broke off again ¢, and closed steady at about o over the closing of yesterday. For the firet time for many weeks there appeared to be unde- niable evidence of a shipping movement caused by tho last reduction in freight rates, and it was reported that some very heavy shipping contracts had been entered intc. It was reported at noon that FOUR THOUSAND CARS had been contracted for to carry wheat, corn and oats alone, and that a large number wero being loaded. On call board two million bushels of wheat sold at 961c to 95}e for May, closing at $5lc; June closed at 90 fc. The feeling in corn was unsettled, the trading not being large, but still an aggregate business was transacted. There was a good shipping demand for lower grades owing to the further reduction in freights. The market opened firmar, de- clined 4 to [ under free speculative offer- ings, than rallied {, fluctuated and closed 4 under yesterday. The cash market for oats was firmer; options easy. On call there were sales of 280,000 bushels, May advanced !, July declined }. PROVISIONS, A fair business was reported in mess pork The market opened firmer, and about 10c higher, receded 15 to 20¢, ral- lied to 10c, und ruled steady to the close. On call, sales were 4,750 barrels; unchanged. Lard was moderately active and firmer. On call, sales were 4,000 tierces; unchanged. CATTLE, Under remarkably light receipts, prices advanced 10 to 160 on fair to good ship- ping and dressed beef cattle, making an advance of 20 to 40c since Tuesday. The advance is principally on light "~ cattle, from 1,000 to 1,200. Big cattle havo not made any adyunce worth mentioning. Butchers’ stock was scarce and sold high, Stockers and feed- ors are scarce and have nearly recovered the loss of 25 to H0c of last week, and the week before; 1,350 1,500 1bs, export grades, $610 to 6 vod to choice shipping, 1,200 to 1,350 Ibs., 85 70 to 6 00; common to medium, 1,000 o 1,200 Ibs., 5 00 to b (b; good Nebraska and western sheep, $5 00 to b 50, Lowisiana's Disast 5 Overtlow. New Onieans, March 21,—Tho Da- vis crevasso is now 1560 feet wide and vory deep. All efforts to close it have been abandoned. No progress is made ir closing the Mulatto Point crevasse, The water is gradually spreading over the country botween the Mississippi and tol the purpose. — THI K OAPITAL, The Oase Agalnst Parrott for Embes- zlement--Found Drowned and Shot---Other Items, Special Dispatch to Tie Bex, Lincoln, March 21,—The case of the State va. R. C. Parrott, for embezzling of B. & M, funds, which has excited the deepest interest in upper-tendom, went to the jury to-night. No agreement so far, but it is probable there will be an acquittal or divided panel. Judge Ma- son, the counsel for the defense, made an -monopoly speech. *‘Jumbo” before s jury shows a different set of ivories than when ventilating for Valentine. The court room was crowded for four days. The Pleasant Hour club side of society endeavored to smile an acquittal out of the jory. It was a clear case of booty va, beauty. The evidence plainly showed that Parrott got the booty. His letters to Commissioner McFarland vir- tually admitted taking the funds An inguest on the body of an old Ger- man found in Oak creak last night, de- veloped some evidence of foul play, as a bullet was found in his head. No evi- dence was produced to show cause for the homicide. Probably suicide. The U, P, trams from Omaha came here over the b & M. track to-day, the high water rendering its track im- passible. Quin NUNCE. Bishop Hennessy Dangerously Dusvgue, March 21.—Right Rev. Bishop Hennesty of the Catholic diocese of Dubuue, is lying dangerously ill in thia city, His conditiongls critical, alay Rivers, Joskrn, La., March 21.-—Buck Ridge levee has broke; also Ships Bayou levee, the former running through tem feet deep, the latter fifteen feet. Point Pleasant and Huvin Gap both broke last night. The water reached the '82 foot. guage last night. These breaks, with Hard Scabble already open, will cause a general and disastrous overflow of Ten~ sas Parish and on south, No hopes of a. crop this year. NEew Onrreans, March 21 —There are ten crevasscs in the levees on the west side of the Mississippi river between Vicksburg and New {)rleans, all pouring reat volumes of water into the couutry. 'he great Morganza crevasse is now nearly a mile wide, with an average depth of ten feet. Twelve parishes, embracing the most productive sections of the state, are more or less inundated. The loss will be immense. e — New York Couunty's BadiShemfr, New York, March 21,—Phe speciall grand jury of the court of Oyer and Terminér to-day handed in a present- ment against Sheriff Davidson. - They say an investigation ot his office has dis- closed evils and abuses of a public na~ ture, which, though not made the sub-- ject of indictment against the sheriff, are 8o serious as to demand the presenta- tion of an order. It is rumosed that several sealed indictmenis acoompanying the report are sgainst Sheiiff Davidson, Warden Bowe, and four deputy sherifls and warde e —— Fatal Boller Explosion, Newrort, Ark March 21, —The boiler of Ratman's saw mill, six miles from Augusta, exploded yesterday, kill- ing the fireman and threo sawyer was blown forty fest and -ligitly hurt,