Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1895, Page 1

| — — THE OMAHA ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAMA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12 = 1895. “ LE COPY FIVE ADRY HAYWARD ON THESTAND Brothers Gave Each Other Scant Recogni- tion When They Met. TRIANGULAR FAMILY DUEL IN COURT Dr. Thaddeus T, the Third Brothor, Break Down Adria’s Evidence Agalnst Harry by Proving His losunity ~The Prisoner's Life, I to MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 11.—Adry Hayward, the brother of the man accused of murder- ing Catherine Ging, was in court this morn- ing beforo the trial began. His wife sat beside him with traces of recent tears upon her cheeks, but Adry maintained a mask of wmiles and Joviality. When Harry was brought in by the deputies the two brothers met, but there was no sign of recognition other than a smile of commiseration on the face of Harry. Dr. Thaddeus T. Hayward, the third brother, was present and' was visibly more cordial to Harry than to Adry. It is understood that he will go on the stand and swear that his brother Adry is mentally in- capable and, in fact, insane. *When asked this morning whether he would be a wit- ness he refused to either afirm or deny it, and when further questioned as to whether Adry is Insane he replied: “If he is not he's been very near it In the past.” The direct examination of ex-Mayor Fustis was resumed at the opening of the court with the story of his Interview in the Onelda bullding with Harry Hayward about the loans he had made Miss Ging. Mr. Hrwin interposed an objection that the in- formation had been obtained under duress, but this Was overruled. The ex-mayor re- peated the now familiar story. Cross-examination developed nothing but objections from the state, which were sus- tained and exceptions noted by the defense. Adry Hayward was then called to the stand and a buzz of subdued interest went around the court room. He stated that he was 83 and Harry was 20 years of age. He had come to Minneapolis twenty-five years ago from Macoupin county, Illinois, where ho was born. He was married and had two children, Ho was employed In his father's offics, where he transacted most of the loan and rental business. Harry was not em- ployed there, but often came there. Harry had told him that last summer and fall he was engaged in loaning money on diamonds. Harry had also told him that he gambled some. He had told him of having loaned money for Miss Ging and of having gambled with her money. ERWIN CURTLY SHUT OFF. At this point Mr. Erwin arose and sald: “I wish to enter an objection here. This witness has an illusion on this subject and is, in fact, insane.” “I don't see,” sald the court, “that he's any more insane than some of the attorneys in_this caso.” “I take an exception to the court's ruling,” retorted Erwin, With that remark he sat down and the examination proceeded. “He told me,” continued Adry, “that she held some notes secured by a mortgage on a flour mill at Hamel and he asked me to go out with him to Hamel and see about it. We drove out, and though I advised him against the loan he made it. Three weeks later he came in and sald he had Been very lucky, as the mill bad burned and he would probably get the money to handle. About the middle of September he asked me ff I wanted to make good money. I sald yes and he said I could get about $2,000 if I was not too particular. He asked me if I was willing to kill a woman for $2,000. I gald T was not willing to kill anybody. He id it was easy to do it and nobody would be suspicious of me, as they only looked up a set of criminals who had been convicted of crimes before. After that he said he knew a hackman that would do anything for him. He said it would be easy to kill her in a hack, and If necessary the hack- man_could be killed, too. I asked him if the hackman had a family, and he said he aid, I then sald it would be an awful thing to kill a woman, let alone the hack- man. After that he suggested getting her drowned in a lake, but that looked too much like suicide and he gave it up. Then he wondered how she would fall if he took her riding in a buggy and they should strike a boulder, whether she would fall in or out. After that ho talked about getting her tangled in the lines and letting the horse run away. ‘On the morning of November 6 Harry came to my flat. He took out a package of money and asked me If my vault was open. 1 said no, as it was election day. I went with him to breakfast and he said to say nothing of the money as he was sup- posed to be busted. He also showed me. a pawn ticket and three diamond rings. Then he sald he was through with me and that I had not any nerve. He had found a m: however, who bad nerve, an ex-policeman named C. A. Blixt. the bills again and I made a play to grab them. One of them looked like a red $100 Bill. A1l of the rest looked like $1 bills. Later in the day he told Albert Johnson that he was going into the millinery and dress- making business with a little woman who was smart and knew all about it. Johnson advised him not to, as sooner or later the woman would do him up.' Turning to the question of life Insurance, the witness sald: “He sald the dressmaker had been up in the New York Life and had passed the examination all right, but there ‘was some mistake about the papers and they She made a mistake had to be sent back. in getting a §5,000 instead of a $7,000 policy. “Then Harry suld: ‘I'll get Jack for one witness then and Blist for the other. It you don't want to sign you'd better get out of here.' 1 then left to do some collecting ad went home to Junchicon. He told me on Morcay street and the notes were signed.” HARRY'S OTHER CRIMES. “On Tuesday he wanted me to have a large bill for some $1 bills, 1 gave him a §20 and a §50 bill. The next day he wanted me (0 take fifty $1 bills to the bauk, let him gel a draft, and then change my mind and get other money in their place. He offered me §1 to do it, but I refused. and used it from time to time. The next time Harry came into the office and asked me If it was not time to sacrifice the dress- maker. I sald: Kill' the dressmaker, “Yes we time!’ I said are you?" ‘Harry, you .austn't do it, its awfult’ He replled: ‘She's got to go this time? 1 said: ‘Harry, you mustn't do this If you do this T will report you, were clutching s I sald that, and he looked wild. 1 am not naturally afrald of anybody, but I was afraid of him then, I moved slowly to where my coat and hat were hang- ing, and was just making for the door, when Harry came after me. 1 told him T was golug for a walk until he cooled off. 1 went out to my rooms and got my revolver, and finally_ went back to the office, still there, but was cooler. I repeated to Harry that he wustn't think of such a (hing. He sald it was nothing to kil people. He had caused the death of three persons. *“We moye to have that struck out,” put - in Brwin, “Denied,” said the court promptly. “Ho #ald," the witness continued, *“that he had killed two persons in the east and he had Xilled a third, but he stopped there and would say nothing more. He also sad he had caused u fire where the loss was $450,000 He sald he got §2 for doing it. He sald there was nothing in haunting pacple. I had told Bim that if he killed her she would haunt Bim. He sald, ‘People dream of such things, but If you had any out and kil zomebedy. It make any dilference who, 50 you kill some one, Kill a cripp) than to live anyway. Go out and kill rume one and I will give you $100." how he would know that I had depe it and ke said he could see It in the papers. 1 said moment of the trial today. ‘Then he showed me He was quite angry, and finally I took the money myself ‘Harry, yow're not going to He gaid: She'll have to be a vietim this His hands Harry was nerve you would go don't | it's better for them to die | lat 1 asked him | | hix with him—I don’t want to say anything about | it, but T went and told Elder Stewart."” “Hold on there,” sa'd Brwin, “we object as immaterial. The objecticn was sustained, but Adry was allowed to state that he made a communica- tion to Mr. Stewart. “On the Saturday following Harry walked along with me as I was making some col- lections. He sald, 'You'd better be a little careful whero you are for the mext hree or four days. Something may happen.’ “I talked to him and told him that he must not think of such a thing. That even- ing he came to my flat and satd 1 had bet- ter take my wife and go to the theater. T told him 1 would do as T d—-d pleased. He | said something might happen and that my’ wifa's evidence as to my whereabouts would be no good. I stayed at home all the even- ing. The next morning Harry saw me look ing for a paper. He smiled and asked me If 1 thought something had happened. “SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED.” “Shortly after 7:30 on the night of the murder Harry came to my flat and asked me for $5. 1 gave it to him and then he said: ‘You'd better go to the theater tonight. Take your wife and go, something Is going to happen.” He seemed a little excited—it was one of the few times I ever saw him excited. I teok him by the arm and tried to detain him, He shoved himself loose and said: ‘I've no time to fool now, I'm in a hurry.’ My wife sat there rocking the baby. Then he asked me o go into his room about 9:30 and see if his revolver was under his pillow. I refused and then he asked me to raise the curtain in my room so that he could see the light about 10 o'clock. 1 refused to do that too. Then he went away. 1 asked my wife if she did not want to go up and make a visit to her father. At first she sald she was too tired, but we finally went. When we got home, or shortly afterward, I heard a quick step in the hallyay and then saw a light in Harry's room. 1 heard noth- ing more until § in the morning, when Harry came to the door and sald: ‘Some- thing has happened. Miss Ging has been murdered. She was found stone dead in the road near Lake Calhoun’ He asked me to come into his flat and I did xo. He got out his Colt's revolver and cleaned it. There was very little dirt on it. As he was doing this he said: ‘It's just like picking up money.” Then he lay cown on the couch with his overcoat over him. I went back to | my flat. We got up early next morning to get a paper.” There was a dramatic scene after court had adjourned. The mother of the two boys, one the accuser, and the other the accused, was in the court room, and had heard the story that fell from the lips of her eldest born. She was torn by conflicting emotions, appar- ently not knowing to which of her two sons to turn. Finally, she put an arm about the neck of each and attempted to draw them together, the tears streaming down her seamed face. But Adry would not thus be reconciled. He tore himself away from the motherly embrace with a gasping sob and went out of the court room when the deputy put the handeuffs on Harry and led him back to the jail. “ LOOK HIM IN THE EYE." “Look him in the eye, Harry; look him in the eye.” The words came in an excited whis- per from the knot of pecple around the pris- oner, and were spoken by the mother of Harry Hayward during the most exciting Never had there been such a crowd. The court room was packed to suffocation and everything was repressed. There was an air almost of terror in the atmosphere. The faces of the vast concourse of people bore an expression as if their minds were laboring under great mental disturbance. Gradually from the time W. W. Erwin had taken Adry Hayward for cross- examination this feeling had been growing. It reached its height when Mr. Erwin asked Adry to explain how his brother had acted when he had told him he would hang if he persisted in following h's scheme. Adry explained how his brother had turned black in the face with passion; how he had bent toward him and passed his fingers around his neck and over his face. In order to explain it more fully and make the wit- ness appear more ridiculous before the ex- perts, Mr. Erwin asked him to fllustrate the action. The witness stepped easily from his chair to the table at which Mr. Erwin and the prisoner sat. He went over the story and explained his brother's actions. As he bent over his face was only a few feet from that of his brother, and facing him. Harry sat somewhat limp in h's chalr, leaning back, the scens about him much like the corner of a ring in which a pugilistic cham- pion has received a blow. Every eye in that room was bent upon the scene. Bvery form was half raised from its seat. There was a rustle of excitement about Harry. 0ok him in the eye; look him * cried the mother. Harry did not move. His mother shook him and he roused himself, and, leaning far over the table towards his brother, his head on his hands,. tried to catch his brother's cye. Adry was talking so rapidly and ex- citedly that he did not see him, and Harry could not catch his glance. He slid back in his chair and looked at his mother, as if to say that he was not equal to it. If that eye could have controlled the elder brother in the past, it had grown powerless. STILL LOVED HIS BROTHER. The day was filled with exciting incidents Once when Mr. Erwin asked if he had any affection for his brother, he replied that he had. Then he asked, knowing Mr. Erwin's intention, if Mr. Erwin would have gone and told anybody if he had been in his pos! tion, Mr. Erwin was a trifie excited and asked the court if he might answer, and, to his surprise, the court answered that he might. Then, for a moment, all his pent-up feelings burst forth 4n a short, scathing sen- tence, in which he gave Adry' to understand that i he thought his broiher was crazy or intending guilt he would have moved heaven and earth to prevent it. It was a startling scene for a moment. The cross-examination of Adry was virulent and exhaustive, At times Adry grew vexed and flung retorts at the attorney, at no time, how- ever, showing himself lacking mentally. He did show some animus against Harry, how- ever, at various times, but in all the long examination he d1d not contradict his original story told in the morning. The attorney put obtusa and complex questions in efforts to obtain results for his experts, but he appar- ently failed. Adry, however, made hardly as good a witness as Blixt, for the reason that ho talked foo much. He repeated his story on cross-examination almost word for word like his morning testimony. In fact, he please] the state, and as far as could be seon..when - the Iast question was asked he was unshaken and his story was intact. Mr. Erwin tried to make him’ state that Harry had a gang of which the witness was afraid, but Adry scouted the idea and said he thought the gang was a fabrication of Harry's. Tho most dramatic and affecting scene oc- curred on adjournment. Hardly had the ecrowd began to move toward the doors than Adry Hayward pushed his way to his mother's side. Mrs, Hayward turned and the tears sprung to her eyes as she leaned forward into Adry's arms. Tenderly the son kissed his mother, who sobbed out; **Adry, Adry, how could you? How could you do it? referring to the testimony he had just placed on record ugainst his brother's iife. Adry was visibly offected, and placing his hand to his eyes, his other arm encircling his mother's form, replied: I had to, mother; it was my duty.” Then placing his hand carelessly upon her shoulder he endeavored to comfort her. Harry, who had stood by during this affecting scene, stepped forward and pushed Adry's hand from his mother's shoulder, exclaiming: “Don't, Adry; ean't 2 seo you are exciting her?' Adry fell back and Mrs. Hayward stood sobbing for a time in Harry's arme. This time her sister vanced and led her from the room, A Hawalimn Keown in BORDENTOWN, N, J, Feb 11 AE 3 Gulick, who s ¥entenced to be exeeuted, together with W. R Kard, V Sew- and and R. W. Wilcox, at Honolulu, for | alleged complicity in the ¢ volt, married Mry, John Thompson, form evly’ Miss Sercpta Duncan, daughter of the Cuptaln Duncan, whose widow, =il Duncan, vesides at ' Bordentown. —Gulick wieh @ purtuer with ‘Phompson in Honolulu. The lattey died some vears ago, while on way back to Honcluly, afier having ald @ visit to the fomily of his mother. in the I would do it The last couversation I bad |law, and Culick married the widow. VOTED DOWN DISSOLUTION Liberal Majority Still Intact in the House of Commons, PARNELLITE MIMBERS MAKE THE MOVE Redmond Assalls the Liberals for Abandon- and Supplanting that Ith One Against the Lords. LONDON, Feb. 11.—In the Houte of Com- mons today John Redmond, the Parnellite leader, resumed the debate on the address in reply to the queen's speech. He sub- mitted the following amendment: “We humbly represent to your majesty that the time has come when it Is the duty of the ministers to advise your majesty to dissolve the present Parliament and to submit the question of home rule to the electors.” Mr. Redmond said the liberals during the last three years had made a gradual change of policy—they had kept home rule as the first item on the Newcastle program; but they went steadily on with other projects, quietly shelving Ireland. Lord Rosebery's recent speeches at Bradford showed the next election would be fought on the question of the House of Lords. This was a complete reversal of the policy announced and he called upon the government to fulfill its pledges to Irish members, dissolve Parlia- ment and submit the question of lome rule for Ireland to the electorate of the kingdom. John Morley, replyiug, denied. Lord Rose- bery had given up home rule, and aid that no more mischievous blow Was ever struck against home rule than Mr. Redmond's amendment. Mr. Redmond had committed himself to the most absurd political para- dox. He was trying in the name of home rule by an alliance with a party which as- serted home rule menaced the constitution and was dangerous to the empire, to eject a government which had passed the home rule bill in the House of Commons. Mr. Balfour sald he would amendment for dissolution, as that was what he wanted. He was convinced the govern- ment also wanted dissolution. The amend- ment was rejected by a vote of 236 to 236. vote for the MISS BOECKER VISITED THE QUEEN. Told Her Story of the Sinking of the Elbe and of the Rescue. LONDON, Feb. 11.—Miss Annie Boecker, the only woman saved from the Elbe, had an audience today with Queen Victoria and the queen’s eldest daughter, Empress Fred- erick of Germany, who is visiting her mother at the Osborne house, the royal resi dence on the Isle of Wight. Her majesty and Empress Frederick were deeply inter- ested in the story told by Miss Boecker and expressed a desire to see her. This was equal to a command and today Miss Boecker started for Osborne house to visit their majesties. The royal ®yacht was placed at tho disposal of Miss Boecker for the purpose of the visit. Miss Boecker was given a most gracious reception by their majesties, who listened with interest to her graphic story of the disaster and the rescue of the surviv- ors by the English fishing smack Wildflower. The queen invited Miss Boecker to place her signature in the birthday book and Empress Frederick gave her a souvenir., Both ex- pressed the deepest sympathy with her. Upon the conclusion of the audience Miss Boecker was taken to Cowes ‘in the royal carriage and embarked for England in the royal yacht. ONLY THE TOPMASTS SHOWED. Incoming Steamship Passes Two Wrecks Outside the Delaware Capes. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—A telegram re- ceived here today by the Clyde Steamship company from the captain of steamship Algonquin, which has Jjust arrived from Jucksonville, reports passing the topmasts of two three-masted schooners sunk just out- side the Delaware capes. One of these ves- sels s supposed to be the James Ives, which foundered off that place two weeks ago, but the identity of the second craft is a mystery. Judging from the fact that both vessels were under sail when they went down, the locality has, no doubt, been the scene of a recent shipwreck and loss of life. There were no signs of life about the vicinity. Neither were there any boats adrift near by Misa Roecker Will Visit the Queen, LONDON, Feb. 11.—Messrs. Keller, Wallis & Co,, agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship company, state the body landed at Harwich yesterday is unquestionably that of Herman Gehrls, the doctor of the lbe. Miss Anna Boecker, the only woman of the Elbe who was saved, today received a command from the queen to visit her at Osborne house, the royal residence on the Isle of Wight. The roval yacht has been placed at her disposal for ‘the purpose of the visit. Empress Frederick of Gérmany, the queen’s eldest daughter, Is visiting her mother at Osborne house, and Miss Boecker will be given an audience by both the queen and Empress Frederick. Documenta $tolen from the Oloak Room. BERLIN, Feb. {L—During the debate on the estimate for the parliumentary build- ing today Baron von Manteuffel declared n letter, which was printed in yesterday's Lelpsiger Volks Zeltung, was stolen from the cloak room of the Relehstag building, and ‘demanded that Herr Schoenlank, who i the editor of the Lelpsiger Volks Zeitung, furnish an explanation to the houss, of which he is a member. Schoenlank re- plied, saying the “copy” was sent to him unonymously. This caused an uproa®, and many cries of incredulity, Manten(fel' then demanded that the letter be returne 10 him, in order that he might criminaliy prosecute the person who taok It from the cloak room. A Buying Gold. VIENNA, Feb. 1L—Continuing to establish a gold standard, the minister of finance today issued 4 per cent gold rentes o the amount of 50,000,000 florins. Half of this amount was taken by one firm, and the balance will be taken at the option of a syndicate, composed of the Kreeditanstalt. the Boden-Creditanstalt and the Rothschilds. The price was 10-12. Willlam Honors ¥l BERLIN, Feb, 11,—The National Zeitung says the emperor has ordered . memorial tablet to be placed on the Bismarck tower, now building at Goettingen, to bear the in- seription: “To the Great: Chancellor, Wil- lam 11, 1894, Rl nson Killed " ock Rob! LONDON, Feb, 1L.—At Central hall, Hol- burn, tonight, C. Johnson, an American, knocked out Robingon, alias “Cock Rob in seven rounds. The fight was for £500, and the ten-stone six-pound champlonship of the world Armenian Leader ( onde to Death, LONDON, Feb. 11.—A special from Moosh says it is rumored the popular Armenian leader, Hadji Vallost, has been condemned to death and will shortly be executed. the plan nrel. Greek ¢ hamber (o Ve Disso ved ATHENS, Peb. 11.—A decree dissolving the Chamber will be published in two weeks, The election for members of the new Chamber will be held on April 28, Enrthquakes in Jtaly. ROME, Feb. 11.—Earthquake shocks wers felt_yesterday evening_at Regglo and Mil- lazzion and Messina, Slcily. A s Killed Bk | rother une Himsei. SALT LAKE, Feb. 1l.—John Burke. ing mear Alinersville, Utah stabbed brother-in-law, Charles Grossman, fatally today, then borrowed & gun from, u nelgh- hor wnd blew out his own brams. The tra ey ‘was the result of & family quarrel. liv- his recired Ony Notei rnd Mortguges. PITTSBURG, Kun, Feb. 1l.~The of the Long-H:ll Lumber company in city was entercd by burglars carly fice this this { them morning, the safe blown open. and $15,000 in notes and mortgages stelen, There was no money in the safe. Tha woek bore evi- dence of heing done by professionals. ] NIGHT SESSIONS IN PROSPECT. Wyoming Legisiature Will Not Be Able to Finish the W 1n Hapad.* CHEYENNE, Feb. We~(Special.)—The ses- sion of third state legitlature of Wyoming expires by constitutional limitation next Sat- urday night, Qut therd ¥ more work now on hand than can possily be disposed of in two weeks, Two hundered and sixty bills have been Introduced, 177 in the house, and elghty-three in the sénate. Less than 100 bills have been finally disposed of. There ‘will, no doubt, be twenty-five more measures introduced before the close of the session. 1t will therefore be scen that the two houses will have to act on some %0 measures if the legislature finishes its work before the hour of adjournment, There s considerable talk of an extra ses- sion being called by thé governor imme- diately after the adjournnient of the regular session. The special session will probably last two weeks, The call will be lssued the latter part of this week If it is found that it will be impossible to reach some of the important bills now being considered by the committees before the time for adjournment of the present sessidn. The bill for the ac- ceptance of the million aere land grant un- der the proyisions of the Carey b, which oassed the house n_week @go, has not yet heen reported upon “f the genate committee on irrigation. ‘his {8 the most important plece of legislation presented to this legisla- ture, and it is absolutely necessary that fomé action te taken. Many other important measuzrs are pending in both houses. The lower branch, which has the largest amount of work before it, will prabably hold night sessions every evening this week. The house this afternoon reconsidered the vote by which the bill making an appro- priation to bulld the State Agricultural col- lege at Lander fedled to pass Saturday, and the bill was passed, receiving just enough votes to carry ft through. The amount of the appropriation was reduced one-half, however. South Dakota Sotons Do a_Job Lot. PIERRE, §. D., Feb. 1L—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Both houses held quiet sessions to- day, yet both transacted a large amount of business. The senate 'repealed the law authorizing a state surveyor, who also ap- points deputies. The senate passed Olson's Dbill prohibiting hauling on -highways bodies of domestic animals which have dled from contagious diseases, and a bill granting druggist's license to’ students of sharmacy in the State Agricultural college he senate also passed the following house bills: Repealing the law allowing extra compensation to commissioners of certain counties; providing eight years free educa- tion for the blind; to extend until Ogtober next the time for payment of taxes for 1894; for granting to incorporated towns the right to levy and collect a road tax. Tn the house, after a warm debate, the Dill establishing an asylum for the blind at Gary passed. Gary donates the old court house building and square, hut does not ask an appropriation. Considerable feeling was caused by the vote, which 8tood 49 to 22. Both houses had quite .a discussion over the Russlan thistle problem. ~The discus- sion grew out of a bill allowing townships to bond for building barb’ wire. fences along public highways for the purpose of stopping the movement of the thistles. The bill passed, algo the bill allowing the township boards to ald in building court houses, and the bill repealing the law giving morikages to building and loan sicietibs priority” over mechanic's llens. Idaho Candidates Holding Thelr Own. BOMSE, Idaho, Feb. 1l.—Another week of balloting. for United Stafes senator began without change, The result of today's vote was: Shoup, 19; Sweet, 18; Claggett, 16. By a vote of 19 to 15 the house today passed o memorial to congress asking for the appointment of a sole government re- celver for the Union Pagific railroad. flends Wil Fall Nowr. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 1 ton has signed the pow remioval bl which, gives Mayor Strong fhe pow; ‘hlfl‘ e e e afls 67 departmeits of (he New York City government, No Senatorinl Klectiin Yet-in Delaware. DOVER, Del, Feb: 11.—Two more ballots were taken In the joint session today for United States senator. without result. {7 SR iy 'CAUGHT ON ALL RIGHT. - John Cranstoun Accomplished His Purpose in Going to Hawail. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb, 11.—John Crans- toun, the man who threafens to enter a claim for damages against the Hawallan government for banishment from the coun- try, is well known In:this city, having worked for about five years for the Seattle Transfer company as foreman of the dray teams, and has also been in the draying business for himeelf, in which he failed. He was discharged from the employ of the {ransfer company on Aj dl 1, 1894, “After Delng dlschirged he remadned in the city untl the latter part of May. He was in hard straits financially when' he left and Darely had enough money, to take him to Honoluly. _ He informed , several friends shortly before leaving (m& he_was going fo the Islands to “catch on to something.” His friends were not at‘all surprised when they heard that he had taken part in the rebellion, and say he is just the kind of a man to get Into such affairs. Many pre- dicted that he would get into some Kin {rouble when he went to.the islands. Cranstoun is an Englishman, having been vorn and raised near Londom, and (s be- leved only to have declared his intentions and not {o have been fully naturallzed as un American. He Is desoribed as being in- {ensely English in all his thoughts and actions. FIVE FIREMEN INJURED. Three of the Number Likely to Olo as a Reault. KANSAS CITY, Feb. #.—Five firemen were serlously, three of! them perhaps fatally, injured in a fire that raged in the west bottoms this aftermoon. They are: Fred Ricketts, member of hook and ladder company, who was internally injured by being struck by a revolving crank; James Hauren and Sam Cox, who were precipi- tated fifty feet by fallin . Ko Gaff- ney, who had his arm broken, ‘and Con O'Hearn, who was frozen' almost stiff. Houren, Cox and O'Heaph are in a serious condition’ tonight, and the chances are against their recovery., The fire started i the building occupled by the Creamery Bupply company. ts stock was entirely sumed, and the building, owned by Messervy of Boston, valued at about $15,000, was gutted, ves & O manufacturers of straw pa the Camp: bell Paint company and two or|three other firms In adjoining butidings had their stock slightly damaged by water. The fire started at 1 o'clock apd for a time threat- encd to wipe out the emtire block, being beyond control for fi hours, The total loss aggregates §100, ingurance, about half. | STEAMER nvnmul{ DISA LED. Wil Be Three Weeks. Before it Can coed on Ttd douracy. TACOMA, Wash., #eh. i1,.—The Northern Paclfic Steamship company has received a cablegram from Nagasak| apnouncng that the steamer Victoria, dye h February , was damaged by a collision on January 28 at Shimonisikl, Japas, and proceeded to Kobe for repaivs. Further details are not given, except that the wigmmer will be deluyed three weeks. THls aill bring ner here March 14. The forwanding of United States mail will be sumewhat interfered v Postoffice depantment on Sat- all Origntal mails arriving at San Francisco aftes the saiMng of the Qceanje to be sent herg for dispatch on he Vietoria, scheduled go sall February It é8 poisible the ogmpany will send bick the ' steamer Tacoma, which arrived at Ygkohama from. Tacoma a fiw days ago. A good share ‘of the Victorla cargo has arrived, including #-ven carloads of cotton from Cairo, I, No one was injured by the collision. Pro- urday b R H L cnts of Seago ng Vessel’, Fe New York—Arrived--La Havre; Maasdam, from La Normandie, from Hayre; from Hremen; Francise from '“1 Glasgow--Arrved -(irgcian, York At Bremen timore. At Liverpool—Arrived—Columbia, Boston; Nomadic, frisn New York. Mov At from . 1L Gascogn! Rotterdam; Wittekind, Hull, from New Arrived-Stuttgart, from Bal- from txilos Wikl Sue th VANCOUVER, B. ©, Feb. of Hawaiian ex le) hov? retaind Wilson & Cawpbell, a local Mgal firm, f0 bring an action for damages agal st the Casadian- Australian steameh'p * lne for carrying off agalost thelr will, vals until dayl‘ght. { rough trip. CAUGHT ON A CORAL REEF Ward Line Steamer Added to the Ocean Graveyard Off the Bahamas, CIENFUEGOS WENT DOWN QUCKLY Her OMcers and Crew Eseaped In Doats and Were Pieked by n Sister Vessel of the One Lost—Storm Echoes. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—The Ward steamer Santiago, Captain Leighton, arrived from Nassau today, bringing First Assistant Engineer Underwood and thirty-nine members of the crew of the steamer Clenfuegos, stranded at Plerre island, oft Harbor island, in the Bahamas. The officers of the stranded steamer and a few of the crew were standing by the vessel saving cargo. From cne the crew of the steamer it was learned that on Monday, February 4, at § a. m., during a fresh northwest wind and high sea, the weather being somewhat hazy, the steamer stranded on a reef about fifteen miles north of Harbor island and some forty-five miles north of Nassau. In less than five minutes after the vessel struck the reef fires were put out and In twenty minutes she became full of water. Immediately on the vessel striking the captain ordered the ship's boats to be got ready to launch. The work was accompliehed, the boats swung out and every preparation made. 1In the meantime the usual coffee for the passengers was made and served. During this time not the slightest confusion prevailed, the crew being under perfect control. At'7 a. m. the little fishing scheoner Goodwlll bore down to the steamer, launched her boat and her captain boarded the Clenfuegos. The steamer's passengers and baggage were transferred to the Goodwill and safely landed. At 10 a. m. the com- pany's steamer Santiago hove in sight and stood as close as possible to her disabled sister ship. She lay by for scme hours, but could do nothing to assist the stranded ves- sel. The crew of the Cienfuegos lost nearly all their personal effects, When the Cienfuegos went on the reef she scems to have been going at full speed, for she slid up on the structure until the greater draught of her afterbody stcpped her prog- ress, and the jagged edges of the coral cut great holes in her after compartments. She flled with water aft, and, although most of her cargo was soon taken out of her by the wrecking schooners which flocked around, was nearly all so badly damaged as to be of little value. The vessel will be a total loss. The Cienfuegos ran cn the short route of the Ward lirte, going from here to Nassau and thence to Santiago de Cuba and Clenfuegos, after which port she was named, The Cien- fuegos was bullt in 1883 in the yards of John Roach, at Chester, Pa. She registers 2,065 tons and was rated as “AL” She was re- cently repaired and fitted with new boilers. The vessel is Insured. BLEIGHING IN GEORGIA, ¥rom Two to Four Inches of Snow Re- ported Throughout the State. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 11.—The sunny south woke up this morning to find itself coy- ergd with a heavy blanket of snow. Snow bes an falling. at-12:30 and continued at inter- It s now three and-a half ‘inches deep on the level. Street car trafiic is practically abandoned for the time. Speciafs to the Journal from all cver the state show today’s storm to be general. At Sparte the snowfall s four inches. at Waynes- boro two inches and at Athens two inches. Sleet is now falling and sleighs are showing themselves in the streets—a rare sight for this section. Bd Lynn, colored, was frozen to death wh!le on his way to Augusta from his home in the country this morning. All trains arriving here are delayed by the snow. The southern fast mail came in at 10 c'clock with two car loads of New York mail, the first to come through in two daye.s The train had to plow through a thirty-foot drift near Manassas, Va. fiaa Not Conl Enough to Tow Her. LONDON, Feb. 11.—The British steamer Maryland, from Philadelphia on January 22 for this port, arrived at Valencla, Ireland, last evening, having damaged her bows in towing a disabled steamer, which she was obliged to abandon owing to the fact that her supply cf coal was exhausted, The steamer which the Maryland way obliged to abandon was the British steamer Lochmaree, Captain Allison, from Charleston January 15, for Bremen. The British steamer Glenochlel, Captain Harrison, from New Or- leans January 7, via Newport News January 15, for London, arrived at Queenstown on Februarys8 and rep-rted that on February 6, when 138 miles southwest of Kinsale head, she spoke to the Lochmaree. The latter had run out of coal and had been obliged ta burn all her available woodwork. She was proceed- ing under sail. Ono Dead Sallor Washod Ashore. EASTPORT, L. L, Feb. 11.—The body of an unknown man was fcund in the surf near the shore at this place last night by one of the crew of the Forge river life saving station. It is supposed to be that of one of the sailors lost from the schooner Lewis V. Place. The schoner is going to pleces. A sharp lookoux is being kept for the bodies of Captain Squires and the members of his crew wno perished with him. The two survivors, William Ste- vens and William J. Nelson, who were res. cued by the members of the life saying erew after being in the rigging forty-eight hours, are at the life saving station and doing as well as can be expected. They were badly frozen from their long exp:sure, Attended His Own loguest. LOWESTOFT, Feb. 11.—A man who at- tended the inquest on the body of one of the passengers cf the Elbe, supposed to be that of Edward Mushkowitz, declared himself to be the real Edward Musikowitz and said that the body was that of a man named Guttmann, his brother-in-law, who had absconded from Buda-Pesth, taking the witness' passports, cards, etc.,, securing a second cabin passage to New York. Guttmann lost 300,000 guilders in bourse speculation and made gotd his es cape. Guttmann's sister had booked as Estelle Golder and she had 16,000 guilders when drowned. The coroner’s jury expressed them selves as satisfied with the Mushkowitz evi- dence, Hands and Feet Frozen ln the Toat. GALVESTON, Feb. 11.—A messenger from Rollover, a hamlet on the gulf shore, re- ports the arrival there of David and Almond Berwick, who constituted the crey of the sloop Scandinavian, before reported capsized while enroute from Orange to Galveston Drew Pender, a passenger, was frozen to death. The survivors drifted fifty miles in an open skift and landed at Rollover with hands and feet frozen. They state that th sloop capsized last Wednesday, sixty miles off abine. Storm is Not Abiting. 0SWEGO, N. Y., Feb. 11.—The big storm which has been raging for a week past shows no signs of abatement. For prolonged sever- ity it Is the worst expericnced here in_twenty years, The thermometer has averaged 10 de grees bel'w zero, with the wind blowing thirty or forty miles an hour, for several days, Rallway traffic bas been abandoned since Thursday. The rotary plows are unable to force their way through the drifts, all break- ing down in the attempt Did Not Va » Near sable Is'and. HALIFAX, 8., Feb. 11.—The steamer St. Plerre has arrived from Newfoundland. She encountered cold weather and had a The steamer did not pass near Sable island, Captain Apgrove had seen noth- line | of | ing Cf any steamer that would answer the de. seription of La Gascogne. Instracted to Visit Sable Island, ST. JOHNSVILLE, N. F., Feb. 11.—The regular mail steamer Grand Lake will leave here tomorrow for Halifax. She has been instructed to go as far south as Sable Island to ascertain if the missing French steamer La Gascogne Is or has been in that vieinity. Walting at Quecnstown for the Malla QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 11.—The Cunard line steamer Servia, Captain Ferguson, which salled from Liverpool on Saturday last and which arrived here yesterday on her way to New York, is still waiting here for t which have been snowed DENVER, Febh, 11.—~A speclal to the News from Palmer Lake, Colo, says: Today has been the coldest day of the season, the thermometer registering at 6:30 m. 10 deg below zero, and gt noon zero, To- night promises to be exceedingly cold, it being 17 degrees below at 10 p. m. LYON [ Feb, teacher of the district hool three miles rorth of this village, was found this morn- ing frozen to death in a snow bank, where she had lain since Friday. She left school when the blizzard was well under way, and was overcome on her way home. to Death. 11.—Mrs. Davls, the Sawn Large Steamer Golng West, ST. PIERRE, Miquelin, Feb, 11.—An American schooner has arrived here and re ports that cn Saturday last, about forty-five miles from this place, a large steamer wax sighted going west very slowly. Thirty Inches of Snow in Colorado, RIFLE, Colc,, Feb, 11.—Thirty inches of snow has fallen here. The oldest Inhabitants never saw anything like it before. It is feared there will be great loss of cattle on the range. Servia Delnyed Twenty-Six Hours. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 11.—The Servia salled from here at § p. m. today, twenty- six hours behind her usual time, having been delayed while waiting for the mails which were blocked by tho snow drifts. MOSAIC LAV Divorce Pructice Prevalent in Does Not Go )i SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, A South Dakota ju Moses, to whom Franziska Mittler came to South Dakota two years ago, and while living in the best hotel in the city, has also been trying to secure a divorce from her husband, Ar- nold Mittler, who is a bank cashiér in Vienna, Austria. The case has been bit- terly fought, and has taken on many culiar complications, but finally won and Mrs, Mittler tried se trin to secure a divorce that the courts there divorce to a Jew under the circumstances. She finally set out for America with her mother and came to Sloux Falls, leaving behind with the husband one child whom he would not glve up. Mrs. Mittler began her suit here in December of 1803, She charged cruelty, but the defense. claimed that the case having been tried in Austria it could not be heard again upon the same statement of facts. This necessitated the securing a_transcript of the Austrian trial and a copy of the divorce law of that country. These were obtained, and it is seen that the divorce law as in force in Austria $s practically the same as was iven out by Moses to the children of srael over 4,00 years ago, viz: The courts will_grant no divorce to Jews, but when the wife is known to be guilty of adultery the husband may of his own motion write her 4 bill of divorcement. In other cases when both the husband wife desire the di- vorce the husband may write her a divorce after he has complied with the reguire- ments. of ~the church in those Cases; i. e, the husband must notify the rabbi of the 'desire for a divorce. The latter then endeavors to bring about a reconciliation. In the meantime the couple must appear before the clvil court upon three stated occasions, and if the rabbi has not heen able to patch matters up, then the husband may write the bill of divorcement, Judge Jones decided that inasmuch as a Jewish woman cannot secure a divorce in Austria unless her husband is willing, the ‘case brought there by Mrs. Mittler was a mere nullity, and_consequently no bar to the present action. The eu tody of the child was not considered, as this court has no Jurigdiction in that ‘matter. el MORE TROUBLE FOR RAY. ent Juden s, (Speclal) reversed the law has given 1ge was first Aus- but at last found would not grant a Acting Indian Agent for the Shoshones Charged with Fraud. LANDER, Wyo., Feb. 11.—(Specal Tele- gram.)—Captain Patrick Henry Ray, act- ing Indian agent for the Shoshone agency, who has been indicted for stealing cattle, s again ¢n trouble. He Is charged with fraudulently proving up a ranch on_Blg Wind rver, A year ago, on January 6, he made proof In the local land office on one of the finest pleces of land in central Wyoming and parties here believing there was fraud in the transaciion reported it to the department a year later. The land commissioner acted promptly and has or- dered the land held for cancellation. Chandler's Companions Arrested. CHEYENNE, Feb, 11.—(Special.)—Privates James L. Bwing, Crocket Hounchell, John Grambrel and Walter D. Walker of the Blghth. infantry at Fort Russell, have been arrested on warrants charging them with belng accessories after the fact to the as- sault ~to murder Policeman _ Ingalls of this city by Private Ike Chandler It is claimed that these soldiers assisted Chandler to escape from the garrizon after the crime had been committed, Chandler's companions have contributed about $100 to employ counsel to defend him when his trial is held in the district court. Kook Agent In Deep Wate: CHEYENNE, Feb, 1L—(Spectal)—A book agent named O'Callahan, who claimed to represent the Cassell publishing house, was arrested here yesterday on a’'charge of ob- taining money und-r false pretenses at Gree- ey. 1t s alleged that O'Callahan secured a larige number of orders from Gre ladies, cach purchaser signing for $§6, paya- ble in monthly installments. ‘The notes were afterward sold tg It is said that the books delivered A very in- ferior quality and could be duplicated for $160 a set. O'Callahan was taken back to ALL A NEW JURY. Nickness of a Juror Te porarily Suspends the Debs Tria', Feb. 11.—The Debs congpiracy ase was again delayed today by the ili- ness of Juror Coe. Judge Grosscup and & physician visited the juror at his hotel, and at the opening of court the judge an- nounced that Coe could not be in court for at least two weeks, After a lengthy con- sultation With the attorneys the court sald that at 2 o'clock he would announce u de- clsion as to what action would be taken, The attorneys for the defense this aft noon declared It the judge decided to call another jury they would accept the eleven Jurors now serving, would read the evidence to the new man, This su stion struck Judge Grosscup fayorably, and he asked all the defendants if they were will ing to accept this cours: All agreed, with the exception of Hannaha who W not in court. If his consent is obtalned (his plan will be followed. Sl Large cery Establishment Burned. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, F 11-At o'clock this afternoon fire originated in the wholesale grocery establishment of George W. Stout, in South Meridan street, and for a ‘timd (he entire wholesale district was threatened, and a repetition of the great fire of sevén years ago in the same district was feared. The flames were confined to the Btout stablishment, which was en- tirely destroyed. The loss will reach about $115,000, on Wwhich there 5 55,000 insur- ance. The drug house of A. Kiefer & Co. suffered conslderably by smoke and water, ie loss 15 also covered by insurance, d to Get Back Home CLEVELAND, O, ¥eb, 11.-County (om- missioner John Yevera, one of the few survivors of the Elbe disaster, arrived home today. The meeting with his family was most pathetic. “America s the gieatest country on earth, said Vevera, “and I don't want to leave it again. I would not take nother trip across the Atlantic for all the money in the world."” e Glatn Mutter BELGIN, 1, Feb 1 sales, 9,600 Ibs., at 4,600 105, at Hige, CHICAGO, and arket RBUTTIN 13,000 dbs., ut rm; M4 GASCOGNE IN PORT Sighted from Fire Island Lookout Late in the Afternoon, PROCEEDING UNDER HER OWN STEAM Had Poen in No Danger at Any Time During the Passage. DELAYED BY A BRCK.N PSTON RCD Acsident Happon:d on the Third Day After Bailing, HOVE TO DURING A VIOLENT HU3R CANE All on Board Re Py to Arri Re, but Verp Tugs with nt Out to Meet in Port orters § QUARANTINE, Feb. 11.—La Gascogne, the long overdue French steamship, limped into port last night with three red lights hanging from her mizzenmast as a signal that she was disabled. Her passengers were all on deck, some of them singing and most of them cheering, as persons are wont to do when thelr minds are suddenly relleved of a heavy strain. For thirteen days of a voyage last- ing sixteen days the ship had been disabled, one of her main piston rods having been broken on her third day out from Havre. F teen hours on that fateful third day the vessel lay to while the break was being repaired. - It was comparatively good weather when the break occurred, but the steamer was doomed to run into some of the nastiest of her voyage. When the break had been repaired the steamer proceeded on her way, but under greatly reduced speed. When near the banks of Newfoundland the Gascogne ran into a gale that increased to a hurricane force. While <ff Sable Island on February 5, the ma. chinery broke down again and the steamer was again hove to, this time for forty-one hours. During all this period the engine did not make a single revolution. When the sece ond repairs had been made the steamer started ahead once more under still further reduced power and headed toward the Leng Island coast. It Is a remarkable fact that during the entire voyage across the Atlantic La Gascogne did not sight a steamer until the passed one bound for Philadelphia on Sunday. Late this evening the French steamer signaled Fire Island and then pro- ceeded to the Sandy Hook lightship. While the passengers were considerably worried on account of the delay there was never a panic among them. They knew thelr ship was a staunch one and they had confi- dence in their captain. And besides, they knew that the ship was nct totally disabled. But they were nervous and apprehensive at times and they halled the conclusion of thelr voyage with Joy. They cheered the captain and they cheered the crew and they cheered the World tug. The following Isa copy of the ofclal log of La Gascogne, copled by one of the pasiengers and thrown overboard to the World tug in a bottle. It shows the vessel's position from day to day and the number of miles reeled off every twenty-four hours: Jenuary 27—Long. 13.47, miles, January 28—Long. 24.10, miles. January 29—Long. miles. January 30—Long. miles. Junuary 31—Long. miles, February 1 miles. February miles. February 3—Long. 57.02, mile: February 4—Long. 61.41, miles, February 5—Long. —, lat. —. February 6—Long. —, lat. —. February 7—Long. . 63.07, lat. milez. February 8—Long. mile: February 9—Long. miles, February 10—Long. miles. February 11--Long. miles, lat. 49.47, 449 lat. 49.41, 40T 2.48, lat. 48.34, 380 85.21, lat. 48.25, 68 40.24, lat. 41.17, 216 Long. 45.40, 255 —Long. 52.16, lat. 43.59, 280 lat, .09, 213 lat. 42,11, 40 41.34, 103 66,56, lat. 40,65, 169 69.35, lat. 39.45, 11 10.14, 79 74,15, lat. 40.27, 18 NEWS IN THE CITY. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—~Not since the Um- bria was reported, two years ago, after a pers ilous voyage across the Atlantie, with a broken shaft, has there been such excitement in this city as this evening. When the news was flashed across the wires that a steamer resembling the long-mlssing La Gascogne had been sighted off Fire Island, the inference that the French line steamer was safe did not for some time reassure the generally ins credulous publie. It was too good to be true, and it was only when the bulletin announced that La Gascogne was slowly making her way to her port of destination that the long pent-up felings of those who had anxionsly, walted day by day for tidings of the missing craft broke out, In every hotel, fn every club, in almost every home In the city the sole tople of con= versation was the arrival of the ship, the hope of whose rescue from the terrific storms which have caused such terrible disasters in the maratime world had almost deserted the hearts of the most sanguine. In the offices of the French line the scene when the tele- gram was received announcing the safety of the big liner was a striking one. The news spread quickly through the eity, Hul dreds of persons begciged the pler of the coms pany as though they expected that La Gage cogne would in an hour or two be moored at her dock. This crowd was reinforced every moment. Friends of French passengers fired query after query at Mr. West, the superin- tendent of the line. The only Information vouchsafed by them was that the ship was safe. They shook hands witn each other and laughed and wept with joy. Over 1,000 peo~ le decided upon staying on the dock until Gascogne arrived, and It was only when a consplcuous announcement was posted on the outside of the company’s pler that she would not leave quarantine until tomorrow morning that the anxlous watchers slowly went to thelr homes. The rejolcing was naturally, greatest in the French quarter. LAUDED MHE CAPTAL The heroism of La Gascogne's captain was iauded, the sufferings of Ler passeugers, the probabllities of numercus aceidents were all enumerated over and over again, but the one great feeling was that of joy at what was cousidered by all as uothing less than & wiracle. At the Hotel Martin, the wells