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laindtalcr I, WW SLYKE, CtMsr an* PSMMMT. McHENKY, ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. NKAB Utica, N. Y., a man boarded a Lake Shore train, shot Express Messenger Lake, then gagged him, rifled the safe, and escaped. It is not known how badly the messenger is injured, or the amount of money carried off. PATRICK WHITE adopted the Hebrew faith at Buffalo, was circumcised a few houis later, and on the ensuing day mar­ ried Lena Levi, a young Jewess. READINGS in aid of the Longfellow me­ morial were given in the Boston Museum at Boston, by Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Bailey Al- drich, Colonel T. W. Higginson, W. D. Howells, George William Curtis, and James Russell Lowell. The entertain­ ments realized between $4,000 and $5,000. ... .John 6. Saxe, the poet, died at Alba­ ny. He was born in Vermont in 1816. fw many years he has been a mental and physical wreck from injuries received in a railway disaster. His remains were placed in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn At New York Edward M. Newman, em­ ployed by Michael Levinson, wholesale clothier, was arrested for defrauding the firm of over $75,000 by false entries and misuse of checks... .The New York Court of Appeals has confirmed the judgment of the general term convicting Lipman Arens- burg of selling oleomargarine in violation of the statute. THEWEST. ANOTHER batch of indictments against county "boodiers" was returned by the special Grand Jury at Chicago on Thurs­ day last. "It was the field day of the special Grand Jury" says a Chicago dis­ patch. "It marshaled into open court a full round score and a half of indictments, freighted with the names of some of the best-known men of this city and county, both in business and political life." The indictments returned are against the fol­ lowing-named parties: Commissioner George C. Klehm, Commission­ er Chris Geils, Commissioner R. S. McClaughry, Commissioner Chris Casselman, Commissioner K. M. Oliver, Commissioner Daniel J. Wren, Commissioner J. J. McCarthy; Commissioner F. A. McDonald, ex-Commissioner M. 11. Ley den, ex-Commissioner John H&nnigon, ex-Commis­ sioner Adam Ochs, ex-Commissioner C. F. Lynn, ex-Commist>ioner John E. Van Polt, ox-Commis­ sioner Michael Wasserman, ex-Commissioner Patrick McCarthy, Warden \Vm, J. McGarigle of the hospital, Warden Harry Varnell of the insane asylum. Warden Charles L. Frey of the infirm­ ary, F. W. Bipper, contractor for meats ; Charles Hokup, contractor for hardware; L. Wind mai­ ler, contractor for green groceries; N. Barsaloox, contractor for furniture; Chris Kelling, con­ tractor for the poor houae kitchen ; Philip Kel­ ly, contractor for sewers; Nic Schneider, con­ tractor for repairs to boilers, etc.; R. J. Hipwell, Clothing dealer; Frederick Faber, architect; Charles Pick, crockery; Gabriel Gnndersen, janitor contracts ; William Swissler, dealer in paints; Fj G. Xellis, C. C. Smith. The two latter compose the firm of Nel­ lie, Smith & Co., who supplied the connty with produce. There were also indict­ ments against a few other contractors who will be used as witnesses. The charge in most of the indictments is conspiracy, but some of the Commissioners and ex-Com­ missioners are also indicted for bribery. Some of those indicted will be used as witnesses. LORD WILLIAM SCULLY has purchased, for $45,000, 1,500 acres of land near Cay­ uga, Livingston Connty, Illinois A tract of land Beven miles from Denver, proffered by a committee cf citizens, has been ac­ cepted by General Sheridan for a military post At the session of the National Builders' Convention, in Chicago, resolu­ tions were adopted favoring a better system of apprenticeship in the trades, uniformity of building contracts, and the insurance of employes against injury from accident. The weal Builders' Exchange entertained tbe visiting delegates at a sumptions ban­ quet at the Grand Pacific Hotel. THESOITH. I* plowing in a field about three miles from Atlanta, Ga., $1,100 was plowed np in $5 gold pieces. The treasure is sup­ posed to have been buried there before tbe war, by some person who has since died. A Cincinnati syndicate, headed by E. Zimmerman, has invested $1,000,000 in the Soddy mines, near Chattanooga, and in­ tends to spend $500,000 in improvements. BETSY COOK, colored, living near Brook- haven, Miss., went to a field to work,'leav­ ing her three small children to take care of the house. On her return she found the house in ashes and her three ehildren burned to death. ^ , THE region around San Antonid^Texas, is seriously afflicted by drouth. The cattle are dying, and a general famine is threatened. ... .Quarantine has been instituted at El Paso, Texas, against cholera, which is trav­ eling northward from South America and Panama. ?:r ish coercive legislation for Ireland was adopted by the Pennsylvania House Charles G. Hubbard has been appointed Collector of Customs at Hartford, Ct., and Albert H. Mowry Postmaster at Charleston, S. C Hon. James G. Blaine visited the MerchantV Exchange, at St. Louis, andfor an hour received in the Directors' room, shaking hands with several hundred men. He was escorted to the floor of the Ex­ change and introduced to the audience of nearly two thousand people who crowded tbe immense room. He was greeted with great applause, and made a five-minute speech, in which he alluded favorably to the Mississippi River as a means of trans­ portation, the magnitude and great com­ mercial importance of the Louisiana pur­ chase by Thomas Jefferson, and said the merchants ought to erect a statue in St. Louis of that great statesman. Mr. Blaine was then escorted to his hotel. JAMES G. BLAINE was called from his private car by several hundred citizens of Terre Haute, to whom he briefly expressed his thanks. He also appeared on the plat­ form at Effingham, 111., and shook the hands of all who came forward The New York Sun is authority for the state­ ment' that Mr. Blaine will sail in June for a tour abroad. , ' IXDUSTBIAI* IN the coal combination case at Harris- burg, Pa., being an action to enjoin the companies from combining in the matter of output, all of the evidence has been heard, and the court reserves its decision. .... The Pittsburgh coal operators met and declared they will not accept the railroad coal rates to the lakes, which have been raised from 85 to 95 cents a ton. PITTSBURGH iron men do not believe that another advance will be ordered, lest it should let in foreign product. Business is not reported as good as it was a few years ago. In the past month pig iron fell off fifty cents a ton, and muck bar $1.50.... American millers annually supply the West Indies with 400.0(H) barrels of flour,^shipped principally from New York C. M. Hen­ derson & Co., of Chicago, have contracted to locate their shoe factory at Dixon, III. The buildings will cost $50,000. i THE trouble between the two labor or-, ganizations, tbe Knights of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Miners and Mine Laborers, was adjusted at a confer­ ence of the leaders in Pittsburgh. MR. PHILIP* D. ARMOUR, who has just returned to Chicago from an extended trip through the South and far West, says there is a boom in everything and every­ where throughout these sections. The ear­ marks of prosperity and enterprise oould be seen above the ground in all directions. The South was alive with the signs of vigor, advancement, and development, and on the Pacific coast the outlook was even more promising. WASHIKCTOW. ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has de­ cided that the interstate commerce act does not apply to the postal service, but is a regulation of commerce only, and that the Postoffice Department is 'authorized by law to send officers, agents, and clerks of the Government to take charge of, pro­ tect, and distribute the mails, and to search for and investigate errors, frauds, or crimes relating to them, and such persons axe unaffected by the terms of the act. SECRETARY WHITNEY is considering the plans submitted by the board appointed to ascertain the amount of plant required to equip the "Washington navy-yard as an ordnance foundry. He has been in con­ sultation with ordnance officers, and it is probable that the plans ultimately decided upon will be made public in a short time. Wlule the report of the board will form the basis of the scheme of reconstruction of the yard, yet a considerable reduction will be made in the expenditure proposed by it, mainly in the direction of utilizing many of the buildings now standing, instead of tearing them down and building new ones, as recommended by the board. As soon as the plans are decided upon work will be begun on the machinery and plant. COMMISSIONER SPARKS has issued an order creating a contest board, to consist of 1ire members from tbe general land office, to which all contest cases in the pre-emp­ tion and public lands decisions shall be referred for examination and decision. After action is taken by this board upon a contest case it will go to the Board of Re view. PyLWCAL. to the Wisconsin Senate the bill making lies' maximum passenger fare in the State cents per mile was killed A resolu Hon protesting againBt England's proposed coercive legislation for Ireland was adopted Tuesday in the Illinois House--103 to 1. ....The resolution appointing a commit- tee to confer with foreign bond-holders on the question of the State debt has passed the Virginia Legislature Ellis B. Usher, of La Crosse, has been elected Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Wisconsin... Both hoiues of the Nebraska Legislature unani­ mously passed resolutions denouncing the Irish policy of Lord Salisbury and his Cab­ inet as unjust and inhuman, and extending sympathy and encouragement to Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell and their co-labor­ ers in their gallant struggle. . A XMOiitmoii protesting against M> THE BAIL WAYS. ' joint executive committee of the trunk lines and the Central Traffic Associ­ ation at a meeting in New York agreed to abolish all commissions on sales of tickets, not only to professional ticket brokers, but to regular agents, who have been allowed commissions on their sales of tickets over lines connecting with those in whose em­ ployment they have been. In accordance with this action a circular has been issued at Chicago announcing the fact. The roads bound by this action comprise all those be­ longing to the Central Traffic Association, the Southern Passenger Association, and the New England Association. These roads also agree not to act as agent for connecting lines who con­ tinue the payment of commissions The Pennsylvania Railroad has arranged new freight rates and classification tables to fit the interstate law. This classification will, be used by all lines north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers. Under the new rates the same tariffs apply to ship* ments in either direction of the same dis­ tance. The rate on grain is reduced from 30 to 25 cents. Live-stock from the West will remain the same. In a majority of cases the rates will show marked decrease as compared with some of the old ones.... At the annual meeting of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Boston a proposition was adopted for the settlement of the Gov­ ernment debt. A CONTRACT has been entered into be­ tween the Santa Fe Road and the Chicago and Western Indiana Road whereby the former will enter Chicago over the tracks of the latter. The contract is for 1)X> years. .. .Passes on the Pennsylvania Company's lines expired at midnight, of March 31, and through trains during the day were crowded with dead-heads. Nine-tenths of the travel- ClEKEILAft. THE Hon. John Fitzgerald, of the Irish National League, has received the follow­ ing cablegram from Mr. Parnell: The coercion bill proposed in the Hcuie of Commons is the eighty-seventh sin JO the act of union, eighty-seven years a^o. It is also tha most stringent, tyrannical, and uncalled for by the state of affairs in Ireland. Never before has a coercion bill been proposed when crime was so rapidly decreasing as compared with previous years. The measure is aimed againnt all open agitation, and appears to be expresxlv designed for driving discontent beneath the surface. It places all public speakers, writers, and conductors of newspapers abso­ lutely at the mercy of stipendiary magistrates holding their office at the pleasure of the crown. It condemns the Irish-speaking peasant of rack- rented Kerry to the teuder mercies of a packed jury of Orangemen or landlords, or to a jury of Englishmen at the Old Bailey in London. The Liberal party, headed by Gladstone, stands aa one man against this iniquitous measure, and will light shoulder to shoulder wi h us in op­ posing it to the last. It seeing impossible to be­ lieve that even the present House of Commons will continue to follow the Tory Government in its mad course, and good judges consider that the measure will break and ruin the Cabinet. We must, however, prepare for the worat, and I confidently appeal to the American people for that sympathy and support which they have never withheld from a people struggling for liberty. IT is reported at St. Johns, N. F., that the whaling steamer Eagle was wrecked, owing to an explosion, and that its crew of 200 men perished. AT Ottawa, Ont., the thermometer regis­ tered 10 degrees below zero March 30, and there was from four to five feet of snow the ground The Captain of the yacht Dauntless attributes his defeat in the recent race to the interference of the owner, Mr. Colt, who was on board....The will of Captain James B. Eads was pro­ bated at New York. The bulk of his property is bequeathed to his wife and five daughters. DURING the last three months there were 3,007 failures, with liabilities of $32,161,- 000, as compared with 3,203 failures and $29,681,000 liabilities for the same period in 1886... .Wreckage discovered in Buena Vista Bay, Newfoundland, serves to con­ firm the rumored loss of the sealing steam­ er Eagle with A crew of 250 men. rage--a oonditton long unknown. Why was thtsf Because the Irish people knew a lane, though insufficiently large, body of legislators rep­ resented their interests and would abide by them to the last. If the Liberals acceded to the appeal of the Government the result would DO retrogression. The Irish people would return to a state of things which Liberal efforts had already partly remedied. As long as Ireland continued in her present course of moderation, so long would the Liberals be bound to persevere in endeavors to assist har. The time would soon come when to the many now supporting the cause of Ireland would be added many more; when deplorable proposals such as those of the Government would no more be associated with the name of Ireland, and when it would be seen that in doing what they could now to serve the Irish cause they were serving the cause of the wide empire of Great Britain. BISMARCK is said to have told a Belgian guest at Berlin that be had abandoned tha idea of neutralizing Alsace-Lorraine, be* cause the fortresses of those provinces are a strong bulwark against France.... A fresh attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia was made at the Gatschina Palace, but ha was uninjured.... A wealthy wholesale mer­ chant of St. Petersburg has been killed for refusing to give 80,000 rabies to the Nihil­ ist fund. IN the British House of Lords Earl Cardigan (Conservative) presented a bill providing for tbe purchase of Irish hold­ ings--or, in other words, for the abolition of the system of dual ownership created by the act of 1881. MR. FOBEIG1. GLADSTONE spoke with marked ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE following is a recapitulation of tafl debt statement, issued on the 1st inst.: INTEREST-BEAJUNG DEBT. Bonds at 4lv par cent f 359,003,000 Bonds at 4 percent 737,792,150 Bonds at 8 per cent ....... 85,970,530 Kef unking certificates at 4 per cent, 181,1)90. Navy pension fu-id at 3 per cent.... Pacific Kailroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512' Principal....... Interest Total .$1,114,234,253 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS GEAG£D SINCE MATURITY. Principal <•|(i,923,273 Interest 198,717 Total $7,124,90 J DEBT BEARITFO NO INTFCHKST. Old demand and legal-tender notes WIG,733,206 7,l;J>,0Jtf 94,040,1)11 6,948,197 Certificates ot deposit.... Gold certificates Silver certiiicates Fractional currency (less $8,17>,934 estimated us lost or destroyed;... Principal. $586,798,287 TOTAT, DKBT. Principal....'. *1,093,295,651 Interest 11.911,S59 Total .. .$1,708,237,513 Casb items available for reduction of th«» debt ; $ 203,123,971 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 10J,000,000 Total.. $ 368.lAi.971 Total debt less available cash items. Net casii in the Treasury. ...31,340,093,542 *1,8.>tf,983 Debt lesj cash in Treasury April 1, 108/ Debt 1«B« cash in Treasury tauten 1, 188/ .$1,318,223, >58 1,331,032,026 Decrease of debt during the uiontn $ 1?,803,*167 CASH IN THE TKEASURY AVAILABLE FOB KKDCC- TIUN OP PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding $04,049,015 Silver held for silver certificates ac­ tually outstanding 131,930,489 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,135,000 Cash hel l for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 18,838,131 Cash held tor bonds called not ma­ tured and balance ot interest.16,172,123 Fractional currency 1 z,210 Total available $$>8,12:1,971 HESEBVK FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, a-ts January 14, 1875, and July 1»« $ 100,000,030 Unavailable for rod action of debt: Fractional silver coin... .$26,UU1,613 Minor coin 151,059 Total Certiiicates held as cash... Net cash balance on hand Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account. .$ 478,117.036 THE members of the Interstate Com­ merce Commission assembled at Washing­ ton, called upon and had a talk with the President, repaired to the Interior Depart­ ment, were by Secretary Lamar sworn into office, and then proceeded to organize for business by unanimously choosing J udge Ccoley President. A Washington telegram says: The commission was in session Friday and Saturday. What was done was informal, as it is not the purpose to anticipate the working of the law. There are a good many Southern rail­ road men in the city, and to them was given the first informal hearing on the questions sub­ mitted by M. H. Smith, Vice President of the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad, and Virgil Powers, General Commissioner of Pool Rates for the Southern Railway and Steamship Com­ pany. These questions relate to the long and short haul provision of the interstate commerce act as it applies to the railroads east of the Mis­ sissippi Kiver, south of the Ohio and west of the Potomac. The question asked by the South­ ern railroads is a ruling by the commission which will enable them to meet water com­ petition. THE cotton factors and buyers of New Orleans have resolved to employ no' mem­ bers of the labor unions... .The railroad coal operators of the Pittsburgh District who ship to Western points have formed an association for the maintenance of a uniform selling price of coal. Eighty per ceut. of the firms shipping West, and rep­ resenting $12,000,000 capital, have joined the pool. WHILE the Czar was exercising in the park connected with the Gatschina Palace he was fired upon by an officer of the army, the ball passing close to his person. , The officer wan immediately seized by attend­ ants and imprisoned. TgE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVZS $ 4.50 Hoos. 5.75 WHEAT--No. l White.... 92 No. 2 Bed 92 CORN--No. 2 .48 OATS--White 38 PORK--New Mess 16.00 CHICAGO, BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers 5.03 Good Shipping 4.50 Common 3.75 Hoos--Shipping Grades......... 5.50 FLOUR--Red Winter 8.75 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 2 OATB--No. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. Full Cream, new Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu POIIK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash. COB.*--No. 3 OATS-NO. 2 White BYE--No. 1 PORK--Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--Cash.. CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 DETROIT. BEEF CATTLE.. Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--Michigan Red COBN--No. 2. .80^ .87*# ,86& < .29 @ •22 1354 » .11 .58 0 CS 6.00 @ 6.25 .9iMt <& .93 & .49 & .42 @16.50 <3. 5.73 & 5.00 (S 4.50 @ 6.00 & 4.00 .81*4 .38»$ .27)6 .31 HADDOCK'S SLATES. Testimony of Two of the Men J^io Witnessed th9 Affe ; saesination. IrenilarS Strong Evidence, Araiust "Who It Act used of Jtelug ih , . f €lii«f i'lotier. , , j- >• ,-Vi. The Wife of tha Koiduod Preachrr Cre­ ates a Sensation by Fainting ' th* O 'urfc £ om# - m CITY COKBBSPONB^S^ft.l Interest in the trial «f 'he slayers of tLo Rev. Dr. Haddock h*s been so great here in Sioux City that for 'he past week it has dwarfed all otber themes. Scarcely any­ thing else is discussed or talked of in the store, the workshop, the drawing-room, or at the dining-tablo. The introduction of evidence began on Friday of last week. Physicians aud oth­ ers testified as to hearing the shot, finding the tee the nature of the wouod,..ap4|jb& 12 .58 20.SO @21.00 .77)4® .38 .80 56 15.75 .78 m .38JJ (ft .31 <!* 58 <e 16.25 , -30 4.0) 4.00 4.0) .82* .40 .91 ST. LOUIS. power and eloquence in the House of Com mons againBt the coercion measure of the Salisbury Government. In closing he said: Among its most insulting and exasperating proposals--the worst ever submitted to Parlia­ ment--was the provision that Iriuh trials be held in London. He had never known such blow at the national feeling of Ireland. The Government could have devised nothing more likely to aggravate every existing event. As to the permanent duration of this bill, the proposal makes one's blood boil, To establinh what was formerly only a temporary remedy as a permanent rule of existence of society in Ireland would put a brand of inferiority upon Ireland forever, rec >g- nizing as a fixed principle that force was a remedy The lesson of many years showed that force was no remedy. Since tbe election of 1885, since the bulk of the Liberals Jhad judged it both tight and safe to grant home mle, Inland had be«a free bomorioM aadHtf* OATS--Whita .. WHEAT--No. 2. C Jim--Mixed OATS--HIXED PORK--Mess _ CINCINNATI. ' WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ....,! PORK--Mess LIVK HOOS BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--No. 2 Yellow CATTLE INDIANAPOLIS. BEEF CATTLE HOGS SHEEP ..." WHEAT--No. 2 Bed ........ CORN--No. 2 OATB EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best Fair Common. .8 .10 4* .81)43. <& 5.00 0 5.50 c'> 5.25 .83 <4 .40 .32 .80>£!$ .27}«$ .81 .86 .28)4 16.75 <<$17.25 .82 & .83 .40)4 .80 <fi .31 17.00 @17.50 6.75 & 6.00 .91 & .91* .45)4«9 .46)4 4.50 ® 5.25 S.75 4.50 8.50 .81 & 6.25 6.75 (9 4.75 .81)4 .00 ® .37 .27)4«» .28 Hoos.. . SHEXP. • 5.00 & 5.25 .. 4.50 ($ 4.75 .. 4.00 «£ 4.25 .. 6 00 & 6.23 f*5 _ , 5 : MB. MABSH, XUE PKOSECUTINO ATTORN**. flight of the conspirators, among whom Leavitt, the State witness, was identified. On Monday Leavitt was plafeed upon the witness stand and told his story. It was identical with his original confession, or statement, and very damaging to Arens- dorf's chances of acquittal. Condensed into a narrative, Leavitt's testimony is as follows: In the latter part of December, 1883, he came to Sioux City, but went away and re­ turned in the first week of January, 1886. He opened bis variety theater on Pearl street in February. In June he went EaBt and came bnck to this place a few days be­ fore the killing of Dr. Haddock'. There was a saloon connected with the theater. There was a b&r up-stairs and another down-stairs. "Doc" Darling and a brother of witness were bartenders. Dan Moriarty was doorkeeper and Billy Dorsam treas­ urer. Witness knew John Arensdorf; he became acquainted with him in January, 1886, and bought beer of the Franz Brew­ ing Company to the extent of $50 or $75 a week. Arensdorf was seen at the theater and about town frequently by the witness. Leavitt proceeded to describe in detail his return to Sioux City from Mount Clemens, Mich., late in July; how the plan of hav­ ing him join the Saloonkeepers' Union was proposed; how the meeting mentioned by Witness Adelsheim was held and | Leavitt made a member of the organization. After he joined, several persons, anion? them Arensdorf, the defendant, agreed to the proposal tha: something should be done to rid the town of temperance workers. Arensdorf said there was $7(10 or $S00 in Junk's safe, which he thought sufficient to effect ttte pbspose. Arensdorf said that something must be done, and suggested that Haddock'G or Turner's house be blown up or burned down. The next day witness went down to the St. Paul Iiailroad yards to see Dan Moriarty and try to get him to whip Dr. Haddock. They were willing to give him $100 for the job, and witness thought him to be the proper person for the work. Moriarty re- iused to whip anybody. Witness testified to seeing Dr. Haddock on the stand as a witness in the injunction cas s then on trial. The day before the saloon-keepers' meeting, on the evening of Aug. 3, Leavitt met by chance Plath, Trei- ber, Fred Munchrath, Jr., and two Ger­ mans, whom he afterward knew to be Granda and Koschnitzki. They were stand­ ing on the Sioux City National Bank Cor­ ner, on Fourth street, talking about Had­ dock's trip to Greenville. Leavitt joined in the conversation. Witness described the hack ride to Greenville "to see how the preacher got his evidence in the whisky cases." On returning from "Greenville," which is near the eastern limits of town and is a local designation, the party was driven directly to Junk's saloon. The four men went into the saloon. Treiber tot money and paid the driver, Adams. Leavitt treat­ ed the crowd to cigars and remained three or four minutes. Arensdorf, ,Grady, Scol- lard and Junk were there. Then all seemed to start for their homes; at least witness did so. As they reached tho street "Bis­ marck" came up and said the buggy had turned. Arensdorf said: "Let's go up and see." Arensdorf, Peters, Treiber, Plath and Leavitt went toward the stable on Water street, Arensdorf and Peters lead­ ing. Sherman walked with Leavitt. , This was the first time witness saw Sherman. Leavitt saw John Evan on the street and spoke to him. The party stopped by the board fence, corner Fourth and Water streets. Munchrath was seen there by wit­ ness and heard to say: "If you lick Had­ dock, just give him a black eye or some­ thing that won't hurt him or get any of us in any trouble." Witness heard Arensdorf say something about "a drunken Dutch­ man." Leavitt remained calm, and Arensdorf did not move a muscle during this portion of. the evidence. As Leavitt continued to explain the manner of the killing the audi­ ence was breathless with interest. The witness described how Haddock came from the stable. mov6d north on West Water street to the corner of Fourth, turned east­ ward, and midway on the crossing was met by Arensdorf, who had .walked out from the fence to encounter him. "They met, and Arensdorf looked into Haddock's face; Haddock raised his hand; the hand came down; Arensdorf passed; then came the shot." Tbe remainder of Leavitt's direct exam­ ination pertained to his own conduct. He went to Ryan's house into the roomB occu­ pied by Mr. Reilly and Mr. aud Mrs. Dor­ sam, where he tooK oil' his hat and his two coats -a rubber overcoat and a dark Prince Albert. The hat was of straw. He talked with the Dorsams about what had occurred. The hat he wore was Plath's, for which he had exchanged his own while going toward Water street. Witness wore Domain's hat away from Ryan's house. Witness saw John Arensdorf the next day before the latter appeared at the coroner's tinquest. "I said," he continued, " 'HeHo, John,' and asked how he felt. He said lie did not feel any too well. He asked me if I had seen it.' I said: 'Yes, John. It is a bad thing for yon. Yon ought never to have done that.' " 'I know it,' he said; 'but everybody h&8 got to keep still. Did anybody see it be­ sides you?' "I says, 'Tea; everybody on the spot there must have seen it, John, because they all stopped dumb when it happened.' "He said: 'Can I depend on yon as a brotherV "1 said: 'You can. I* am a Knight of Pythias.' "After the ceroner'a inqneat I asked him: 'What did you know, John?' He said nothing and kind of laughed. He said he couldn't fix Henry Peters for any evidence, - 4pd thought about sending him over to Nebraska for a few days, and from there to Germany." Leavitt was subjected to a rigorous cross- examination by the defense without in the least shaking his testimony. Mrs. Leavitt was called to the stand, and corroborated her husband's testimony in regard to the conversation which he had with Arensdorf upon the sidewalk in front of their rooms on Fonrth street, soon after the murder of Haddock, in which Arens­ dorf spoke of sending Peters away to Nebraska or Germany because he could not be fixed for evidence. Attorney Argo conducted the cross-examination. Con­ siderable amusement was created when the attorney asked the witness whether she had ever drank beer with any men there. She replied: "Yes; I drank beer with you, Mr. Argo." Albert Koschnitzi, or "Bismarck," was next placed upon the stand. He strongly corroborated Leavitt. His evidence, sum­ marized, was substantially as follows: The morning of the day of the murder of Mr. Haddock, he went to Fourth street and met George Treiber. He went with him into Trieber's saloon and was given a glass of beer. The two then went together to the court house, where they remained until noon. The injunction cases were be­ ing tried. Mr. Haddock was a witness in the cases, and after the court adjourned they went out together and went up the street in front of the court house to Seventh streeth, then east on Seventh street. They walked by Haddock's house. Treiber, pointing at it, as they strolled by, told him (witness) that Haddock lived there, and that Treiber would give $500 to have tLe preacher whipped. Treiber asked if he knew Fritz lolger and Sylvester Granda. Witaess said he did. Treiber told him to see Granda and tell him about the $500 offer. The witness saw Granda that forenoon and told him. Granda agreed to go to Treiber's saloon that night. On Tuesday morning witness went to Treiber's saloon. Treiber said that Granda had not been there as he had promised. Witness then sought cut Granda and again talked about the money and the whipping. Granda said he went to the saloon and that Treiber was not there. Witness went back to Treiber with that message. Treiber told him to be sure and bring Granda up that evening. Witness on the day of the murder went with Treiber to the court-house and saw Haddock there. The whisky trial was in progress. He re­ mained in court about an hour and a half. In the evening witness went once to Trei­ ber's saloon. Granda had not been there, and Treiber wanted witnesB to go and fetch him, giving him five cents to pay street-car fare. Witness went to Granda's house, but did not find him, and returned to the saloon. On starting to go, witness met Treiber, Granda, Piatt, Munchrath, and Paul Leader int. ARGO, or COUN8 Ti FOB THE DEPENSS. on the corner of Fourth and Pierce streets. Treiber told "Bismarck" to go and show Granda where Dr. Haddock lived. The two men started on that errand, but "Bismarck" said he could not find the houBe, and Granda declared he would not do the whip­ ping, anyway. So many knew of the offer he was afraid to do it. "Bismarck" pro­ posed that they go back to the saloon and make Treiber give them a few drinks. The two men then went back to Fourth street, aud on the corner of Pierce again met the crowd. Leavitt and Henry Peters were with the others. At this encounter Plath gave Granda twenty-five cents. Witness and Granda went to Um bier's saloou and took a drink. They returned to the corner. Treiber sent them down to the Columbia House to see if Haddock had returned from Greenville. Witness found Eberhardt at the Columbia House playing cards and called to him to come out. In response to Bismarck's request Eberhardt sent a man to the stable next door to make the inquiry about the buggy. Fitzsim- mous was the man. About an hour later witness saw the horse and buggy come back. He was watching for it in the rain at the corner of Fourth and Water streets. Granda was with him. The two men went east on Fourth street and told the crowd near Junk's saloon that the buggy had, re­ turned. The crowd met by witness consisted of Arensdorf, Peters, Leader, Munchrath, Leavitt, Granda and others. They pro­ ceeded west until they reached the corner of Water street, Paul Leader walking with "Bismarck." Dr. Haddock oame along Water street to the crossing ol Fourth. Johu Arensdorf went out to meet him, passed a step or two by the minister, then turned and fired at his head. In the midst' of "Bismarck's" cross-ex­ amination Mrs. Haddock, who had borne the nervous strain of the direct narrative by force of will without evincing distress, was unable longer to endure the excitement of the trial. A moan startled the audience, causing hundreds to spring to their feet. Judge Lewis instantly perceived both the cause and tho perils of the alarm. He commanded all to resume their seats and observe quiet. Sheriff McDonald hast­ ened to Mrs. Haddock's side, and, aided by friends, bore her, insensible, toithe Judge's libra y, immediately behind tbe judicial desk. The large opaque windows at the rear of the bench, which had been raised to improve the ventilation of the court­ room were ratiled down and the doors closed. Meanwhile Judge Lewis, prompt to appreciate the legal as well as the phys­ ical emergency, abruptly dismissed the jury from the court-room with but a word or two of instructions that none of them should speak of the case while absent. Order was soon restored in the audience, the jury was recalled, And the business of the session resumed. The Judge's conduct illustrates his instinctive fairness. He per­ ceived that the sympathies of the jury might be aroused by this scene of a heart­ broken wife's anguish. Mrs. Koschnitzki and her daughter were placed on the stand and corroborated "Bis­ marck's" statement relative to the conduct of the defendant after the crime. As it now looks, the prosecution has made a stronger case than many of its warmest friends believed was possible. The daughter of "Bismarck," Minnie Koschnitzki, a little 12-year-old girl, was placed on the stauri, and testified in regard to her father's movements immediately preceding and following the murder, and to the paying of money to her mother by Arensdorf. At this point the State rested its case, and the defense began by attack­ ing the character of the principal witnesses for the State--"JJismarck" and the Leav- itts. Several witnesses swore that the for­ mer was beastly drunk on the night of Au­ gust 3, and that his character was bad. Testimony was introduced to the effect that the Leavitts had denounced the murdered preacher, and expressed the hope that he would be killed. Several witnesses swore positively that an hour before the murder they saw Leavitt on Fourth street, wearing light Eants. Other witnesses testified to his aving made remarks about killing Had­ dock the day^t^thp murder. The defense are evidently laying the foundation of a plot charging Leavitt with the act of mnroMr* IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE President Fitzgerald's AMreu to tbe People of the United States. , ,, LxAotral „ or AMERICA, V . Uncoil. Neb., March 28. f Toi the^American public ana the Irishmen of Ameriea: The corporation of Dublin, tbe metro­ politan city of Ireland, has appealed to the Christian world for the protests of human­ ity against the further persecution of the Irish peoplo by the British Government. A time has come in the relations of Ireland and England when the laws of God and the dictates of humanity become superior to every rule of international etiqnette, ana demand from the morality of the world a stern denunciation of the course about to be pursued by the Tory (government against the Irish. The voice of America should not be silent when additional outrages are about to be inflicted on a robbed and persecuted nation. Brit­ ish statesmen who now champion a policy of jus. ice to Ireland, and condemn coercion by the Tory Gov­ ernment as alike cruel and impolitic, did not hesitate to denounce oppression by tbe Turks in Bulgaria. Are the Irish less to America than the Bulgarians were to Eng­ land, that Amer ca should hesitate to in­ terfere in Ireland's behali against tbe cru­ elties of the British Government? The Irish have exhausted every means of moral and constitutional agitation to recover their just and leeitimate social and political rights. The voice of Scotland and of Wales and of the mass of the British democracy has sanctioned the efforts of Ireland, and proclaimed the justice of her cause. Gladstone, Morley, Labouchere, and every English leader worthy the name of statesman have proclaimed themselves ad­ vocates of Ireland's claim to legislative in­ dependence. It is no longer the English people who oppose the restoration of Ire­ land's liberties, but the aristocratic robbers who have throttled alike both Britain and Ireland, and have fattened for generations oa public plunder with the proceeds of which they can use the lever of corruption to lift them into power and maintain them­ selves there. The cause of Ireland is the cause of the British democracy, and to thia fact may we attribute the bitter and unre­ lenting opposition of the British Tories. The Irish do not pretend to fight against the English, but against the oppressors of both. In this struggle the Irish have done all morality can demand from an oppressed nation, and now as a last effort they ask the interference of the Christian world to pre­ vent their destruction. As President of the Irish National League of America, the representative body of the Irish race on this continent, I | re-echo that appeal. I ask the American press and people to pass their verdict on the treatment now being meted out to the Irish people by a heartless and venom- , blunted Tory Government. Let them say boldly if the Irish have not displayed all the forbearance that human nature is capa- £ ble of in their passive resistance to such > inhuman laws as the British Government would force them to submit to. There is no law, human or divine, that compels a nation to passively accept annihilation, and if these British Tories are permitted to heap additional wrongs on the Irish people, despair will nerve the Irish to active resistance and wild retaliation. The very deer turn on their pursuers when driven to bay, and if nothing will satisfy the British Government but the destruc­ tion of the Irish people, Ireland will be justified before God and man in selling her life at the heaviest price she can obtain, and in using every weapon the ingenuity of man can place within her reach. I ask the justice ot freedom-loving people of America to prevent this terrible consummation of British crime and mis- government. Let the condemnation of the British Government's policy in Ireland ring from every community on this continent. I ask the honest and fearless press of America to sustain the efforts of Mr. Par­ nell and Mr. Gladstone to inaugurate a policy of justice and liberty in opposition to the tyranny of Lord Salisbury. 1 ap­ peal most lorcibly to the Irish race in America to arouse themselves to immediate action. In an especial manner I address myself to those of our blood whom God has blessed with abundance to come forward and share in the burdens and sacrifices of their people. No rank or power can justi­ fy any man in refusing to identify himself with the race to which he belongs, and the man who thus shirks his duty deserves the contempt of his fellow men. With the fullest confidence in their never-failing fidelity to Ireland, I call again upon the masses of the Irish race in America to repeat the splendid generosity they have so often extended toward their struggling brethren in Ireland. Mr. Parnell says the immediate future will be a time of suffering for the IVish people. With God's help the time will not be long; but, long or short, no Irishman must perish for want of Irish-American support, and no Irish- American is so poor that by self-sacrifice he cannot contribute his mite to the Irish cause. I advise the officers of the League to make redoubled efforts to increase its membership. Every man of Irish blood in the United States and Canada Bhonld be enrolled in the League wherever it is pos­ sible, and steps should be taken to reor­ ganize disbanded branches and establish new ones. To those of our people liv­ ing on tarms too remote from each other to form branches of the league, I will say that the Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Detroit, Mich., will receive their subscriptons and promptly acknowledge the same in the pub­ lic press. They have every opportunity, therefore, to share in Ireland's struggle, and should lose no time in sending in their name and such contributions as their means will permit. In this crisis I also earnestly nsK the assistance and support of the Irish- American press for the Irish Land League. Let us have one grand effective organiza­ tion, with one heart and one voice pledged to sustain Mr. Parnell and his Irish associ­ ates with all our strength and influence in their efforts to recover the legislative inde­ pendence of Ireland, aided by Mr. Glad­ stone and the British democracy, who strive to replace Tory oppression with the broad principles of human liberty and inter­ national justice. Yours faithfully, JOHN FITZGERALD, President I. N. L. A. Tbe Peclhg In Mew York. [New York special.] Sinee the time when the members of the National Irish League at Boston issued the announcement that $1,000 reward would be paid if an informer could be found to tell who assassinated Lord Caven­ dish and Mr. Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dub­ lin, nothing has occurred in this country that has created such a sensation among the Irish-American element as the procla­ mation of President Fitzgerald of the Na­ tional League. Ostensibly an appeal for money to help along the Parnellite mode of warfare, it is thought by many to be really a call to arms, and a distinct threat that preparations will be made on a large scale to carry out the work of dynamite explo­ sions which was the order of the day two years ago in London aud other large cen­ ters of English population. If Irish sentiment, both here and in Brooklyn, is to be believed, there will soon be a beginning of a time of "cloud and thunder" in England shonld the coercion act be passed by Parliament. Prominent Irish-American citizens in all parts of this city, Brooklyn, and Jersey City were talk­ ing about it, but while unwilling to give their names in connection with what they thought of Parliamentary warfare, they did not want to have anything to say about such an ugly topic as dynamite explosions; but one man expressed the general sentiment when he said that desperation had made dynamiters of moderate men. Several Irish Nationalists from this and adjoining cities said that dynamite and gunpowder were now required to bring England to her •MiaeiS?' •W!'. • .* Kobbery of IB the Koflk YMr'jg#- 13M Murderers of Mag* Kichole (forgoing Trisl far Their' . ; \ I d t w . - ~ % (ILL.) COBBBSPOKSBN CE. ] The trial of Schwartz and Watt, charged with the murder of Kellogg Nichols, the Book Island express messenger, in March,: f J 886, has been in progress here for- more than a week. Nothing was done the first week of the trial beyond securing a jury. * On Monday the opening speeches of coun­ sel were made, and on Tuesday the intra- , duction of evidence began. A large nnat- ' ! ber of witnesses are on hand. Among them are Conductors Danforth, Wagner and Newcomber, Engineer Woods, Fire­ man Briggs, Baggageman Ramsey, Depot- • master Wheeler, and Brakemen Johnson, ^ Thomas and Mulligan, all employes of the ' Rock Island Road. W. A. Pinkerton i» also here to testify. Qnite a number of other witnesses are on hand, among them the express employes. The court-room seats about 300. The ̂ Hon. Dorrance Debell, the presiding Judge, sits at the north end. He is perhaps 45 years old, has a finely shaped head, and ^ very intelligent countenance. At his left sit the twelve "good men and true" who constitute the jury. Nearly all of them are middle-aged men, and seven of them are,, farmers. Between the Judge and jury is aT' table at which sit State's Attorney Carter and his associates in the prosecution, Judge Wing and Mr. Stough. In front of the Judge a long table ex- f tends nearly across the room. At one end are eight or ten reporters, and at the other sit counsel for the defense--Col. Bowman of Philadelphia, Judge Baker and Messrs. Case and Hogan of Chicago, and Judge Jordan of Morris. Between counsel on one side of the table are the two young men wlo are on trial for their lives, Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt. Directly back ^ of them two brothers of Watt and Schwartz's father occupy chairs. A, State's Attorney O. *N. Carter, in hiS- opening address in behalf of the prosecu­ tion, said that tbe extreme care taken in selecting the jury indicated the great importance of the case. He spent considerable time in explaining the law in its application to the case, dwelling particularly on the nature and force to be allowed circumstantial evidence, much of , which, .it is understood, wi4l figure in this case. Next -he spoke of reasonable doubt, and cited authorities and decisions to make clear what and only what the jury was warranted in considering such when it should come to make up its verdict. Mr. Carter then briefly summarized the' killing of Express Messenger Kellogg Nichols and the circumstances immediately connected with the crime. j The ill-fated train upon which the mur- «, der was committed left Chicago at 11 o'clock on the night of March 12, a year ato. Wagner was conductor, Woods, en­ gineer; Briggs, fireman; Nichols, the mur­ dered man, expressman; Watt, one of the defendants, baggageman; Schwartz, the other defendant, front brakeman; and Johnson, rear brakeman. Watt, whose position was that of front brakeman, had on that night taken the place of the regular baggageman, Rumsey, who was sick. Schwartz, the rear brakeman, took Watt's place as front brakeman, and Johnson, a substitute, took Schwartz's usual place. After explaining how Nichols was killed between the time the train left Joliet and its arrival at Morris, he said that the next morning the world was ask!ng who com­ mitted the horrible crime. "We of the prosecution," he said, con­ tinuing, "have ceased to ask that question. We believe we shall show you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants be­ fore you were the men whose minds planned and whose hands committed that murder." Watt's story, he stud, about being cov­ ered by a revolver in the hands of a man on the roof of the car would be shown im­ probable if not impossible. In the express package of raonev stolen were a number of $50 bills. It would be showu that Schwartz had subsequently spent a great deal of money in bills of that denomination. It would be shown that Watt was a close friend of Schwartz; that Watt had had a number of private interviews with Schwartz, in which he talked with him about the money be was spending, and that be told Watt that he "was all right" and "had the matter fixed;" that he was well fixed, and wished Watt was as well off; that Watt re- ^ plied that he would be before long, and also that Schwartz subsequently gave Watt a package containing $3,000, and that Watt admitted it. The defense would • doubtless claim that it would be impossible for either one of the defendants to have committed the crime without getting cov- erered with blood, but the State proposed to show how it could have been done, and desired to have the jurors await tbe evi­ dence before making up their minds on that point. Mr Carter spoke for an hour. He was interrupted frequently by Attorney Case, of the defense, who objected to many of the statements made. The Court over­ ruled nearly all of his objections, and inti­ mated that he ought not to interrupt with argument, as he seemed determined to do. Some thought that Mr. Case's main pur­ pose was to annoy Mr. Carter and break the force of what he was saying. Attorney Hogan made the opening state­ ment in behalf of Schwartz, and Judge Baker in behalf of Watt. Mr. Case said the whole case against the defendants was summed up in this: Messenger Nichols was killed on a train on which tbey were. Schwartz returned to Chicago on a train on which were found a sachel and a piece of paper supposed to have some connection with the robbed safe, and Schwartz had been spending some money in $50 bills. That was the whole case, Mr. Hogan said. The case was.called The People against Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt, but that was a misnomer. It should be the Chicago, Rock Island Jk Pacific Railroad Company against Schwartz and Watt. The ltock Island Company was one of the greatest corpora­ tions iu this country, and in this case had resorted to all manner of deceit and fals% Sractice in order to convict the defendants. :ecurring to Mr. Carter's assertion that Watt had admitted receiving the $3,000 package from Schwartz and to other admis­ sions cli.Vned by the prosecution, Mr. Ho­ gan said admissions and confessions were often made under circumstances of com­ pulsion or browbeating, and that they were I rightly looked upou aa very suspicions evi- ' dence. Judge Baker, in behalf of Watt, replied j to Mr. Carter's opening speech, saying that j he did not think the defense had been I treated fairly. The State had furnished • I list of witnesses by name simply, but badl not furnished addresses or intimated what f they expected to prove by them. Tbe jury J would find that the State would not be able] to prove that the defendants or either of I them actually killed Kellogg Nichols. The] State had not intimated that it expected to] show that they were accessories before the] fact. If it had any snch expectations it I should have announced it. Judge BakerI then went on to explain what constitutes I an accessory before the fact and also after! the fact. The defendants could not underl the indictment be convicted and punished! as accessories after the fact, and the 8tatet| he presumed, would make no such claim.I Judge Baker gave a long explanation of| the past life of Watt, and to some extent < his parents and brothers, in order to shov that he had been well brought up and 1 led an exemplary life. He made a pi and telling plea to the jury to give the evi­ dence impartial oonsideration and to allow to the defendants the benefit of all donbts.1 li..