Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1889-12-25

              ' - A MERRY VOL.L. NO. 308. COLUMBUS. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 25. 1889. ESTABLISHED 1811. 0 THAT DAY OF DAYS. Tie Preparations Completed for the Celebration of Christmas by the Administration. Secretary Windom Advertises for the Sale of the Privilege of Catching Seals. Ohio Patents Issned and a Few Buckeye Postmasters. Washisgtoh, " Dec 24. Arrangements are all completed for the celebration of Christmas in the good old orthodox style. TR.h AfnTCna had his stocking up alongside "j-thit of tis presidential grandpa ionight, and tomorrow morning, tney -win ram dance around the first Christmas tree that has been in the White-house in twenty years. The tree has been placed in the blue chamber upstairs and gorgeously decorated. The president and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. WcKee and children. Dr. Scott, Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Dimmick will form the limited family circle about the Christmas dinner table. Vice President and Mrs. Morton will celebrate Christmas in their new home. The feast will be a pleasant family dinner. Secretary and Mrs. Blaine will hare a family party to break bread with them. Miss Margaret Blaine and her nance, Mr. Walter Dainroseh, are expected to spend a Sart of tde Christmas-tide here, and Lies Hattie is just home from school. Major and Mrs. Coppingerand their children, Mr. and Mrs. Emmons Blaine and James O. Blaine, jr., will complete the family.group. Secretary Wmdom s wife and daughters tie here, and the pleasant family circio on Christmas day will be filled out by the presence of bis married son and wife, who will reside here for the present. Secretary Proctor will hare his family about him.tas the continued mildness of the weather need not hasten his wife's and little son's departure to the South. His eldest son and his wife, Mrs. Proctor, and Mrs. Carey, his niece, will enjoy the holiday cheer with him. Secretary Tracy has still an unfinished house, but there is enough of it in a habit- HIJ1S I.UU IUUUU V iw mm w; , ... - Mrs. Tracy. Mrs. Wilmerdmg and her lit- . ' in 1 T.1 1 f tie daughter, miss .irauy buu r i an. x. Tracy will come here for Christmas dinner. Secretary .Nobis has not a large family and it is made up of grown folks, but Mrs. Noble has, besides her sisters, the Misses Halstead, Mr. and Mrs. Henry I Strong, who have young sons, to join her at her Christmas feast. Postmaster General Wanamaker wiil forsake Washington for the joys of his country home. - Attorney General Miller has his witeand three children to buy Christmas gifts for. They will spend the "day here and at dinner will be joined by a few Indianapolis friends. Secretary Busk goes in for a good time with his family at the holiday season. Mrs. Busk gives her personal attention to the arrangement of the dinner. Chief Justice Fuller will have his eldest daughter. Miss Grace, to preside ever his Christmas dinner. Mrs. Fuller will -spend the holidays in Chicago with her married daughter. Miss Maud Fuller is South and does not intend to be in Washington this winter. Fire daughters will be here with their father and the much-petted small brother. Speaker Reed will enjoy a genuine New England dinner in the bosom of his family in Portland, Me. Proposals for Seal Catching. ,Washihgtoi, Dec. 24. Secretary Win- ""flom this afternoon issued the following advertisement, inviting proposals for the privilege of taking fur seals upon the islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska: . Washlsgtoh, D. C, Dec. 24, 1889. The secretary of the treasury will receive sealed proposals until 12 o'clock noon on January 23, latX), for the exclusive ri-ht to take fur seals upon Jhe islands of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, for the term of twenty years from May 1, 1S90, agreeably to the provisions of the statutes of the United States. In addition to the specific requirements of said statutes the success-. f d1 Didder will be required to provide a suitable building for a public school on eack island, and to pay the expense of maintaining schools therein during a period of not less than eight (8) months in each year, as may be required by the secretary of the treasury. Also to pay the inhabitants of said islands for labor performed, by them, such just and proner compensation as may be prescribed by the secretary of the treasury. The number of seals to be taken for their skins upon said islands during the year ending May 1, 1891, will be limited to 60,-000, and for the succeeding years the number will be determined by the secretary of the treasury ,in accordance with the provisions of law. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals, not deemed to be in accordance with the best interests of the United States, and of the inhabitants of aid islands. - - As a guarantee of good faith, each proposal must be accompanied by a properly certified check drawn on a United States national bank, payable to the order of the secretary of the" treasury, in the sum of $100,000. The check of the successful bidder will be retained and forfeited to the United States uniess he execute the lease and bond required by law. Proposals ' Bhould be addressed to the secretary of the treasury, Washington, D. C, and indorsed "Proposals for leasing seal islands." William Wixnoai, Secretary of the Treasury, The above form of advertisement was determined upon by the president, the secretary of Btate, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general after a thorough consideration of ail the interests involved. It differs from the present lease with the Alaska Commercial company in reducing the catch during the first year from 100,000 to 60,000 seals. The requirement of a certified check in the sum of $100,000 from each bidder as a guarantee of good faith is a feature of the advertisement that did not appear in the advertisement dated July 8. 1870, upon which the previous lease is based. Kew-Tesr Keceptions. Washington, Dec. 24. The following program has been agreed upon for the presidential reception at the White-house on New-year's day : At 11 a,, m. the president will receive the vice president, the members of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the members of the international American conference, the members of the international marine conference, and toe-members of the Venezuela claims com-Siission.At 11:15 a. m. the chief justice, the asset-ciate justices of the supreme court of the United States, the judges of the Uniieif States court of claims, and the judges of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.At 11 :23 a.m. senators and representatives in congress, the commissioners of the District of Columbia, the judicial officers of the District of Columbia, and members of the cabinet and ex-ministers of the United States. At 11 :40 a. m. the officers of the army, the navy and the marine corps. At 12 m. the regents and the secretary of the Smithsonian institution, thecivil-service commissioners, the inter state commerce commission, the assistant secretaries of the departments, the assistant postmasters general, the solicitor general, the assistant attoruies general, the commissioner of labor, the heads of the bureaus of the Mveral departments, aud the president and officers of the Columbian Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. At 12:15 p. m. The Associated Veterans of the War of 154ft, the Grand Army of the Kepnblic, the Loyal Legion and the members of the Inhabitants' association of the District of Columbia. At 12:35 p. m. Kecepticn of citizens, which will terminate at 2 p. m. Carriages will approach tne executive mansion by the eastern gate and leave by the western. Pedestrians, wiil approach the mansion by the western gate and leave by the eastern. The president will be assisted by Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Morton and the ladies of the cabinet. Ohio Postmasters. Washington, Dec. 24. The following fourth-class postmasters for Ohio were appointed today: J. Deitsch, Chattanooga, Mercer county, vice William Fender, removed; J. B. Snyder, Osnaburg, Stark county, vice G. Leibtag. removed ; Mrs. S. A. Crosby, Trumbull, Ashtabula county, vice Sarah A. Honse, married. New Martian Minister. Washington, Dec. 24. Mr. Annibal Price, the new Haytian minister to the United States, was today presented to the president by Secretary Blaine. The usual complimentary addresses were made. Ohio Patents. Washington, Dec. 24. Special.- The following Ohio patents have been allowed : Edward C. Boyer, Dayton, disk harrow; S. A. Collins, Troy, suspender buckle; George M. Con-over, Cleveland, gauge knife: F. P. Copper and A. Blair. Tiffin, signal lantern: H. E. Bulon IiaviB, Cleveland, wick raiser (reissue): William R. Fee, Cincinnati, assignor to Edinbu'g Pulley company, Edinburg, And., oil press, heating and crushing rolls for the presses; James W. Fredle, Cleveland. camera box; Charles C. Gale, Glenviile, device for darning stockings: Peter Gendron assignor to Gendron Iron Wheel company, Toledo, trycile: James W. Gill, Fairview, feed rack; Chaster K. Flann, Columbus, window screen; H. Janes, Cleveland, assignor to H. Janes, Erie, Pa., sash fastener; Jared Maris, Columbus, vehicle hub band: Charles W. Kay-mond, Dayton, brick pressing machine; Elmore W. Boss, 8pring8eld, feed cutter; Longley L. Sagendorf, Cincinnati, metal roofing, roofing tongs and metallic ceiling cornice; biduev H. Ehort. Cleveland, device for J suspending electric conductors; Cassiut C. fragile cooking vessels; Julian Tinker, Mentor, forming machine for manufacturing wooden trays; E. J. Youne.- Wadsworth, machine for making matches; John L. Seesiger, machine for dishing wheels and cooling tires; Charles Schuler, Cleveland, Schuler's mole and wart remover; Kelley Island Lime and Transport coniDany, Cleveland, lime for building purposes; Kerr, Walton & Co., Salem, chewing gum. Capital Notes. The comptroller of the currency has authorized the First National bank of Marion, Ind., to begin business with a capital of JIOO.OOO. Tuesday's bond offerings were as follows: Conpon 4s, $4300; registered 4s, $15,000 at 127; , registered 4as, 2OU0 at 104. All accepted. The attorney general has received the resignations of C. P. Black, attorney for the Eastern district of Michigan, and of L. L. McArthur, attorney fox the district of Oregon. The following arrests have been reported to Chief Postoffice Inspector Rath bone: Joseph Woodward, mailing clerk in the Denver, Col., postoffice, for robbing letters containing money amounting to $1200; James A. Shay, letter-carrier at Philadelphia, for rifling and embezzling contents of letters. CALLAGHAN IS FURIOUS. He Wants Powderly Arrested or Desires to Enow the lleason Whj -His letter to Alderman Fuller. Scbanton, Pa., Dec. 24. Edward Cal-laghan, who ha achieved much notoriety through his efforts to have General Master Workman T. V. Powderly arrested, evinces a disposition to turn the vials of his wrath upon the heads of the judiciary of this section. The dispatches from Callaghan which were published this morning were followed by a letter today bearing on the same subject. The" missive was directed to "Judge Archbald. P. J.," but the contents were addressed to Alderman Fuller. The commnnication was written on letter-heads bearing the imprint of the house of representatives at Harris-burg, aud was further emphasized by the affixing of a special-delivery stamp to the envelope. It reads as follows : "Scottdalb. Pa., Dec. 23. 1389. "Alderman F. Fuller, Scranton, Pa.: Mi Deab Sir Your failure to indorse the warrant for the arrest of T. V. Powderly is a flagrant violation of your oath of office. The charge of conspiracy is specific and is clearly and distinctly set forth in the information made before 'Squire Kener of Greensburgh, Pa. This is the charge in substance: I charge T. V. Powderly, John R. Byrne and Peter Wise of falsely, willfully and maliciously conspiring to injure me in my repuiation and business. Can you make the crime of conspiracy more specific than that? I can prove the charge and as for Mr. Powderly bringing countercharges against me, tell him I will be only too glad to confront a scoundrel like him. If the warrant for the arrest is not issued in accord with my sworn information, I shall hold you and Judge Robert W. Archbald responsible for obstructing an officer in the discharge of his sworn duties. Yours, etc, EnwARD Callaghan. I inclose a newspaper clipping containing an account of your decision, also J udge Archibald's. It is shameful to both, if it is true. CHARGED WITH FBACD. John Williams in an Asylum and Wanted For Theft. New York, Dec. 24. John Williams, secretary of the Bamel-Conley Iron and Steel company, and also representing the United States Sealed Postal-card company at 290 Broadway, has not been seen at his office in three weeks, and business men who know him say he is confined in an insane asylum. Edniunsl Huerstel, treasurer of the "Ramel-Conley company, had obtained an attachment against Williams for $4000 money loaned.' In his affidavit Mr. Huerstel alleges that Williams, as secretary of the Ramel-Conley company, willfully and fraudulently altered checks and appropriated the money to his own use. GOINS ACQCXTTKD. Complete Overthrow of theCopper-Flip-- ping Verdict. Lima, O., Dec. 24. Special At midnight the jury in the case of the State of Ohio y. William Goins, indicted as an aider and abettor in the murder of Patrick Hughes in the election night riot, returned a verdict of "not guilty." It will be remembered that Goins was tried at the last term of common pleas court and found guilty. The jury arrived at a verdict by flipping coppers. The case was appealed to supreme court and judgment was reversed and case remanded back for a new trial. The verdict gives general satisfaction. Alleged Columbus Burglar in Boo. YorNGsnowx, O., Dec. 24. Special. Robert Clark, who claims to reside in Columbus and Robert Keiley of Marion were arrested here today charged with burglarizing the clothing-house of B. Heskins at Newton Falls, O.Jast night. The stolen clothing and jewelry were found in their possession. They were attempting to pawn it here when arrested. The Whole Party Killed. Wilmette, III., Dec 24. Three persons lost their lives in a railroad accident here tonight. They are J.- D. Revell, formerly station agent at Wilmette, and his wife and child. While crossing the tracks the three were struck bv a Dasaunr train. NO HOPE OF RESCUE. Sixteen Miners Entombed Alive at the Angels Mine at San Andreas. All of the Unfortunate Men Supposed to be Crushed by the Fall- , iug Eock. Two Dead Bodies Recovered by Work-ins: Parties. San Anubeas, Cala., Dec. 21. A disastrous cave occurred Sunday evening in the Lane mine, owned by Howard & Ho-bart, located on the west edge of the Angels, by which sixteen men were buried. They are supposed to be dead. Nineteen men were sent into the drift on the 400-foot level to repair the timbering, which had become loosened. They had not worked over an hour when the supports of the upper timbers suddenly swerved to the right and the rooting, earth and rocks fell, burying sixteen men underneath the debris. Thomas Corwin and two Italians were working near the mouth of the drift and managed to escape, although Corwin was badly injured. Corwin said the partitions were leaning badly when he went into the drift but no one suspected there was danger of a cave. When it came they were all unprepared. He and tbe Italians escaped as soon as they heard the timbers crack. Tbe others ANNUAL HE FLIES HIGH, also started to run, but were too far in the drift to be able to reach a place of safety. Immediately after the accident men were lowered down tbe shaft and entering the mouth of the drift commenced digging into the debris. They found the attempt almost useless, as the timbers seemed to have been woven together as though tbe sides of the drift bad fallen toward each other and had been covered by the roofing. By last evening the rescuing partv had succeeded in getting eight feet into the nile of earth and timber and none of the victims had been reached. There is,no prospect of getting the men out alive. There is no bope of rescuing the sixteen miners who were buried by a cave-in in the Utica mine at Angels on Sunday. Working parties have found two dead bodies, but will not be able to reach some of the victims for several weeks. It is believed that all sixteen men were crushed to death by falling rock. Three of the victims Thomas Knusky, George Williams and J. Braky leave wives and children. The names of the others are : Knick Enoch. B. Segals, Peter Pernio, C. Bertro, Paul Owsovitch. John Buioletto, John To-boco, C. A. Pollard, Joseph Curnow, John Martin, Mitchell Broadwick, James Casey and William Vincent. Information reached here this afternoon that the surface of the mine at Angel Camp in which the disaster occurred Sunday has caved down to a depth of forty feet, and the cave extends along the vein, from the north shaft to the youth shrift, a width of thirty feet. This makes it necessary to stop all work of recovering the bodies. There is little doubt that the hoists have been drawn into the cave. STAUVINO TO DEATH. A Horrible Picture for This Happy Christmas Morning. Pittsburg, Dec. 24. A special from Con-nellsville. Pa., says: A very distressing sight was witnessed here this evening. A family of eiirlit persons, consisting of mother and lather and six children, were discovered in a starvin; condition near Moyer and were brought here to be sent to tbe county home. All of the family were in a . dying condition. The gaunt faces of the elder people and the hollow eyes and hunery looks of tue little ones elicited much sympathy from the spectators, but little money or assistance. The father and mother had gggp f JL! Hll, been taken ill from fever, and as they lived in an isolated place the children could procure no aid. Their condition was accidentally discovered by a farmer who chanced to visit the house. The family have reached such a stage that it is thought none can recover. A VICTOK1 Til 1 B3USH. Judge Greshsm Makes An Important Decision.Indianapolis, Dec. 24. Judge Gresham today decided a case of general interest, especially to those connected with electrical matters. It was a suit Drought by the Brush Electric company of Cleveland, O. , against the Fort Wayne Electric-light company for infringing tbe Brush patent npon the so-called double carbon lamp. Tiie case has been vigorously prosecuted and defended, and has been pending about three years. All of the claims of the Brush patent are sustained, six in all, and declared to be infringed. The claims cover the all-night electric lamps used for street lighting where two or more pairs of carbons are employed, one pair being first bnrned and then another automatically consumed. The patent was attacked by the defense mainly upon the grounds that its claims were too broad and sweeping, but this defense did not avail. Eieciric lamps controlled by this patent are in use throughout this country, and, in fact, the world over, whereever street lighting by electricity is had. NEWARK. Big Issue of Bonds Ordered Wants His Children Xotes. Newark, O., Dec. 24. Special. The habeas corpus case of Captain John Webb against bis wife was heard by Judge Reese of the probate court today. It was to re- TOUR SAME OLD SANTA CLAUS. BUT GETS THERE ALL TIIE SAME. cover the possession cf Lis three children by a former wife, -whu a mi b.s present wife, from whom he is separated. The case went by default, as the defendant did not appear. An alarm of fire last night called the department to the borne of Lieutenant of Police James Overturf. where a lamp exploded and caused a slight blaze. Miss Eury Rathbun, one of the best-known and highly esteemed young ladies of this city, died last night. All of the employes oi the Xs'ewark Street railway were each presented with a fine Christmas turkey this evening by Superintendent C. V. Lark. An ordinance passed the city council last nieht ordering the issue of 190 bonds of $1000 each, for the purpose of street paving. CORN FOR FCtL. An Immense Crop Used for Fire br Kansas Farmers. Kansas City. Mo., Dec. 24. A special to tbe Star from Topeka. Kas., says : A state official who returned from a trip throughout northwest Kansas says that thousands of bushels of corn are being burnen for fuel. In some counties the market price of corn is less tnan 15 cents per bushel, whiiecoal is from 25 to 35 cents per bushel. The corn makes excellent luel. The corn crop on hand is immense. In all the principal corn producing counties it is stacked up in great racks without protection of any sort, it having been impossible for the last thirty days to obtain cars to move it in. Tbe railroads have been unable to supply the extraordinary means of transportation. Every railroad is short from 500 to 2uuu cars. A Newspaper in Court. Chicago. Dec. 24. Tbe Chicago Trust and Savings bank sued the Chicago Globe company in the supreme court today to recover 12500 on promissory notes. At the same time it brought suit against A. S. Patterson, the business manager, and H. V. Reed, for $4000 each, claimed to be due on notes. Death of Jack Sanders. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 24. Jack Sanders, a pugilist and trainer, one well known in England, died here today. He came here from England twenty-live years aso. CULVER CRUCIFIED. The Obstinate Cronin Juror Offers His Chicago Property for Sale. He is Unable to Stand the Almost Daily Roasts of His Old Xeighbors. Comments on His Becent Course by Fel 1 o w-To wii smen. Chicago, Dec. 24. "For Sale" a warped and weather-worn old sign-board, but people stared at it and stared again to make sure, as if pine forests had not been despoiled in furnishing its duplicates. It was nailed up in front of John Culver's house in Evanston. "About lifteen years ago," said Marshall M. Kirkraan, president of the Evanston club, "Evanston was swooped down on by quite a colony of cranks cranks who wanted to re-enact here the old New England blue laws, prohibition cranks who wanted to prohibit everything, religious cranks wbo wanted everybody to go about with a Bible ' in one hand and a scourge in the other. John Culver is one of the two or three survivors of that crowd. I dislike to see his name coupled with Evanston. A more cultivate 1 and liberal societv than Evanston now possesses can not be found, and naturally it annoys us that one of the few narrow-minded men in the place should be brought nto such notoriety as one of our citizens." "To put my opinion of Mr. Culver into buliet form," said Volney W. Foster, the presiding genius of the great Sheridan road enterprise, "I shall have to quote from one of our papers yesterday : 'AH arguments in defense of Mr. Culver's honesty are made at the expense of his intelligence.' How can one estimate tbe character of a person of this sort? Certain essential parts in the makeup of a man are lacking in him. To try to analyze him would be like trying to make a Geneva watch run right with a balance wheel and two or three springs gone. Although he has lived here since 1873 he has no social position." "I went to school with John Cnlver thirty-one years ago," said Holmes Hoee. "We were in the Chicago High school class which graduated in ISol. John was a hard, digging student, who had to spend about three times as much labor to learn a thing as anyone else. But he stood among the first three of the class. He was all right at school. Since then, however, he has become a fanatic. And what is more, I believe he is an inconsistent .fanatic. An apparent paradox? I admit it. But I have a peculiar idea of consistency. Let me explain. Culver voted the first ballot to acquit the five prisoners. 'Not guilty' was his verdict. The last ballot he voted to convict four. 'Guilty' was his verdict. Now, a fanatic wbo can shift his conscience around in that way is to my mind an inconsistent fanatic." "I believe John is honest," said George M. Sargent, one of the trustees of the village corporation, "but that he has a screw loose I admit. I have nothing but condemnation lor the course in tbe jury-room into which, this loose screw turned him. And we are all of one and tbe same opinion about that." "Culver has been acrank since be moved out here after the fire," said D. B. Dewey, president of tbe American Exchange National bank. "He used to belong to a gang of rabid prohibitionists who went around peeping into the dining-room tvindows of private residences and talking with the servants to learn what families used wines and liquors and thus gather evidence for prosecution. I don't say that Culver did this sort of thing himself. But he trained with those who did. State's Attorney Longe-necker was informed that Culver might make trouble on the jury, but the information reached him too late to be acted ou." Mr. Dewey was one of the special grand jurors who "found the indictment in tbe Cronin case. "We are not merely indignant over the verdict, but indignant that a man hailing from Evanston should have been responsible for it,'' said A. N. Young, president of the school board. "We feel like taking Mr. Culver by tbe ears and giving him a sound shaking. A man who will set his judgment against that of eleven men of at least equal sense, under the circumstances presented by this case, is not fitted for any public position." CUItlY WITHOUT CRIME. The Pathetic separation of a Husband from Wife No. t. St. Louis. Dec. 24. One of the most pathetic separations that have ever been legally ordained occurred here yesterday when Mariah Miller received a divorce from Louis Miller. The latter is a Russian and was exiled for political reasons. He left a wife and child in Russia, whom he supported for live years afier coming to America. Then came the Russo-Turkish war and the wife and child were lost. Miller was notified that they were dead and he mourned them as lost. He made a success in business here and in 1&S4 married tbe woman who secured the divorce today. They lived happily. Meanwhile Mrs. Miller, the original, and her boy, now grown to manhood, arrived in this coun-tr3', and through some mysterious influence came to St. Louis. Ihe same influence brought father and son together, and though neither suspected the otlier'B identity tor several months, mutual friends spoke of tbe likeness, and suddenly the boy told his story and there was a denoue-ment. .Miller visited his Russian wife and there was a reconciliation. When wife No. 2 learned the story, she quietly sued for divorce and the happy union was broken. She bade Miller an aiiectionate farewell today and he installed Ins. first wife and son iu the old home. A ltOMANCK OF THE WAR. A Colored Woman Learns of Her Freedom for the First lime. Kansas City, Mo.. Dee. 24. An unique case was decided in the probate court of Cooper county today. Itwas that of a colored woman who has just discovered that she is a free woman and not a slave, and who brought suit against her late master's estate for $1400 wages. At the commencement of the war Joseph Hickham. one of the wealthiest and most influential farmers in the county, bought a negress slave in the market and took her to the farm as a sewing maid. Since that time she has never been allowed to go beyond the bounds of the farm, and in her petition she alleaed tnat she had been permitted to hold conversation with none of her race, and none of the family were ever permitted to tell her the results of the war. When her oid master died three weeks ago she ran away to Booneville and while there learned that tbe slaves had been emancipated and that she was a free woman. She told her story to the lawyer and he brought suit to rccover$14U0 (wages at $5 a month for twenty-five years) from Hickham's estate. Thecourt decided for the plaintiff today and allowed one-half of the amount claimed. TO MKS. GKADV, Action of the New fork Southern Society on the Head. Tiw YokK, Dec. 24. A special meeting of the executive, committee of the-Southern society was held tonight to take action on the death of Henry W. Grady. A subcommittee was appointed to draw np suitable resolutions and before tbe meeting adjourned the following telegram was sent to Mrs. Gradv : New York, Dec, 24. 18S9. Mrs. Henry W. Grady, Atlanta, Ga. : The New York Southern society, profoundly affected by a sense of the public loss sustained in the death of your dis-guished husband, oiler you their heartfelt sympathy iu the great affliction you have suffered. J. H. Parker, Vice Pres't. A RUNAWAY MATCH. The Daughter of a t. ongressmao Creates a eensation. Kaksas City, Mo., Dec. 24. A special to the Star from St. Joseph announces the elopement and marriage of Miss Lilly Reed, a prominent young society lady of that city, and Arthur liarleit, Willsviile, Mo., son of Congressman Harlett. The couple started out Sunday evening for a bugy ride, and were not heard of until this morn ng, when the young lady's parents received a telephone message from Leavenworth stating that they bad been married. Miss Reed was engaged to be married to a prominent wholesale dry-goods man of St. Joseph, and her runaway marriage has caused general surprise. 1 RACKING SIL.COTT. The Fugitive Said to Have Been In Montreal Ofllcers Notified. Montreal, Dec. 24. Tbe police authorities here have discovered Silcott, the absconding treasurer of the United States house of representatives. Accompanied by his paramour, lierminie Thebault, be arrived in Montreal on Saturday, the 7th inst. iierminie went to the house of her married sister, Mrs. Lemoiue. on Bangui-net (street, where she remained until Friday last, when she left lor New York on an early morning train. Mrs. Lemoina when tte'en denied all knowledge of Silcott, but her husband admitted that he had been a frequent visitor at bis house. The New York police have been notified of Herniin-ie's return to that city. How Could He Do It T Walpoi.e. Mass., Dec. 24. About a year ago Charles Metcalf came to this town from California, and subsequently became engaged to Miss Sarah Nickerson of Lynn, who was tbe guest of a wealthy resident ot the town. He interested her in a mining scheme and induced her to entrust him with $1000, with which to purchase the stock in Chicago. The stock failing to materialize, an investigation followed, which is said to have proven the falsity of Met-calf's representations and he has been arrested. Drowned in the JBajr. Vallejo, Cala.. Dec. 24. A boat containing eight sailors from the U nited States iish commission steamer Albatross and a crippled newsboy left the Albatross at Mare Island navy-yard last night and started for Vallejo. The night was aark and the tide running strong, and the boat upset when the new steamer Thetis came along. A boat was lowered from the Thetis and five men rescued. W. W. Lee (colored) and the newsboy were drowned. None of the bodies have been recovered. Increase of Wages. Scrastos. Pa., Dec. 24. Notice wa given today to tbe steel and blast-mill employes that on Jannary 1 an increase of wages of from 5 to 10 per cent, would go into eti'ect. This aflects over 30O0 msi and is justified by the increased price of steel rails. South Dakota's First Court. St. Paul, Dec. 24. A Globe special from Frankunton, S. D.. says: J. H.Young of the South Dakota supreme court announced that the first term of that court wiil be held at Pierre on the first Tuesday In February, D. Corsow presiding. Alleged Horse-Thief Killed. Wikslow, Ariz,., Dec. 24. Asa Upton was shot and killed this morning at Sunset Pass bv Deputy Sheriff John Francis, while resisting arrest on the charge ofhorse-Leaiiu. ATCI1! ATCH ! CHEW! The Dreaded Influenza Spreading; All Over Russia, Austria aud Belgium. In Many Places It Has a Typhoid Character and After Effects are l!ud. Inflammation of the Lungs Followi Numerous Attacks. Washihgton, Dec. 24. George W. Wurts, charge d'aflairs at the United States legation at St. Petersburg, has sent to the State department au account of the prevalence of "la grippe" in Russia with soiae interesting comments of his own. He states that about the middle of November public attention was called to the lurga number of persons failing ill with much the same symptoms fever, sever pains in the head, back and limbs. "For lack of a better name," he states, "the malady has been called influenza,' but it shows signs of a typhoid character, though not ot a malignant nature; and up to the date of writ ng, December 5, no fatal case has been reported. The illness in most cases is very light and lasts but a few days, seldom longer than two weeks. It leaves, however, all persons who have been touched by it, in great debility and great depression of spirits. In fact, the after effects arc rather "more uuleasaut than the complaint itself. "The cause of the epidemic has been satisfactorily explained. Most persons ascribe ii to the abnormally warm weather of tbe past month, but that would cot account tor its appearance in Siberia, where it has burst out in several places, the weather there having been as cold as usual at this reason. Now that winter seems to have fairly set in here, it is expected that the malady will disappear, but meanwhile nearly every one is aflecled. There is no exaggeration in priming the number of the sick at lully two-thirds of the population of St. Petersburg. Certainly hot a house has escaped its visits, tion. The emperor was very ill with it lor several days and scarcely a member of the imperial family has been tree from it. More than 41 wu cases have been medically authenticated, but these represent a small portion of the autl'erers. It lteigns and Itages. Paris, Dec. 24. The epidemic reigns and rages. The conference of lawyers which was to have convened yesterday did not because the majority of ihe speakers were ill. Reports from Berlin are to the effect that there is no abatement of the disease. At Frankfort the epidemic is increasing. Mannheim has been very severely visited. At Munich the cases increase and the transaction of business is ninth interfered with. The theaters announce that the programs of the play are not to be depended upon, as the illness of actors may make it necessary to change the names at any moment, or even to cnanre the piece. At Antwerp the disease iw increasing, but it is diminishing among botu tbe garrison and tbe people at Amsterdam. It has appeared at Doroorecht anionic the soldiers and sailors and in the factories. It is very serious in the barracks at Brussels aud half the carbineers and grei,aaic; 3 pi .tUe Corps des tiuiaes are ilL ; . " r-preadiiiff i" Brusntfls. Brussels, Dec, 24. The influenza is rapidly spreading in this cily. Thirty per cent, oi the scnool children uf the city uia sultering frpm the disease and the scuuols have been closed in consequence ot the epidemic. The disease has spread to all the government o dices and a number of oflicia's are prostrated. inflammation oi the Lungs Follows. Viknsa, Dec. 24. A frequent sequel to cases of influenza here is an attack of inflammation of the lungs. A number of ue sons in the hospital who had been tul-fering from inliuenza were stricken with inflammation of the lungs and several of them have died. Influenza has made its appearance in a Jesuit school at Kalksburg, the pupils of which are the children of conservative aristocrats. Sixty-eight of the scholars have been attacked by the disease. The Warhburn Mills Not sold. Boston, Dec. 24. The published state mem in yesterday's papers that the C. C. Washburn tlouring-mills of Minneapolis had been sold to an English syndicate is this inorninif contradicted by a telegram from the C. C. Washburn-Crosby company of Minneapolis, proprietor of tne mills, to their Eastern agent. The telegram says: C. C. G. Thornton, Boston : You can contradict the statement. The mills are not sold, no one bidding on them at present. Washburn-Crosby Comfakt. A Fortrait for West Point. Kewbcro, N. Y., Dec. 24. An oil-painted portrait of the late Major General Gou-veneur Kemble Warren was Drescnted some days ago to the United States Military academy by friends of the oeceased, and was today placed in position in Grant ball as a Christmas gift to tne corps of cadets. The donors were James C. Carter, Joseph H. C boaie. Judge Henry E. How-land and others of New York and Colonel bam 11. Houlcy and others of Newport. General Warren was a graduate of West Point and was a brave Union officer in the late war. Sale of the St. Louis Gas-Light Property. St. Loris, Dec. 24. The franchises, privileges and property of the St. Louis Gaslight company were today sold at auction to the Laclede Gas-light company for 4,-OdO.000. President McMillan of the Laclede Gas-light company was the only bidder and the sale was at once ratified by President Thompson of the St. Louis Gaslight company. This means that the Hal-lins syndicate secured the prize without competition. Froposcd Mission Couference. Minneapolis, Dec 24. A conference upon foreign missions is to be held in First Baptist church of Minneapolis, January 1 to 3. About 68,000 Baptists in the five States of Minnesota, Iowa. Wisconsin and South end North Dakota will be represented. This is the first meeting of the kind in the West. Tbe conference will include laymen. Dr. Tolman of Chicago and Dr. McKenzie of Boston are to be present. Sioux Indians at Hampton. Fort Mohroe, Va., Dec. 24. The delegation of Sioux chiefs who hare been in Washington for some lime arrived here this morning and passed the day at Hampton school, where many children of theirs, or from the agencies, are pupils. They were welcomed by Indian Commissioner Morgan and General Armstrong, and expressed hearty appreciation and approbation of the school. Made an Aesfgnmeut. New York, Dec. 24. John Q. J'reble mid Walter E. Preble (J. y. Pre bio A t . . ), wholesale stationers at lo and 12 i mm.., street, made a general assignment l'!;:f to Thomas S. Baseford, without preference.-). Assignment of a Grocer. Loqab. O., Dec. 24. ISpeclal.1 Christ Hall, tbe East-end groccrvman, ma-Je :in assignment last night to Carl H. Buer-haus. Liabilities and assets not known at this time. loo Warm for Cloaks. New York. Dec. 24. 11. L. SIuller& Co- cloak importers, M Greene street, and at Berlin, assigned today to v eicome o. J 1 3 H .4 V. 1 I if i i