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<. VMSLYKC, C«tor«Ml MMir THE HCW8 CONDENSED AUMianmbtt of arrests tan b«M iaadt at Ptttsborg and along Che line of FTT PIB Handle Railroad of freight-train employes who have for two years been -*-•»"[> from the oars, the property taken being valued at $600,000. The finest «jpait, silks, hosiery, musical instruments, wines, liqnors, In fact all kinds of portable •enhaoabe had been jpnrioined, sold to fenoea," or pawned. The affair caused a neat sensation at Pittsbnrp. It ia said that over 900 warrants have been issued. Hiss SHAFER, the possessor of a lux­ uriant head of hair, was seized at her home Ja Pittsburg by a peddler, who compelled bar to inhale chloroform, and while she was nhoanscious eat off her tresses close to her head. Tn Bethlehem Iron Works Company of Pennsylvania has been awarded the con­ tracts for famishing to the Navy Depart­ ment 1,400 tons of steel gun forgings and 4,600 tons of steel armor plates, at a total eost of $4,512,938. MRS. SARAH E. HOWE, the Boston fe­ male of Woman's Bank fame, has ab- soonded with $50,000 belonging to, •k * ; \ C' TBE WEST. - R: GBEKHSBURG is the most sotitherly fohit in Indiana where natural gas wells have been developed. Several great wells aie flowing at Muncie, where real estate to the amount of $1,000,000 changed hands 'Wednesday. The people of SonthBend have organized to bore for oil and gas • Fort Gibson dispatch of the 14th inst. "Mr. Blaine is gaining strength rap* THE body of President Lincoln, which has been secreted for eight years, was on Hie 14th inst. removed to the main cham­ ber in the monument, together with the body of Mrs. Lincoln, and deposited in a grave excavated for that purpose near the stone sarcophagus, which is supposed to have held the body of the martyred Presi­ dent. A dispatch from Springfield, 111., •ays: Since tbe attempt to steal the body made •qm« years ago it haa been concealed in a oor- lito reached < only by traversing i then" winding passage to which them was no apparent aoeess, aa toe antraaee to it was sealed. When the fnsml at Mrs. Lincoln was held her body was plaeed in a receiving vault, and public atten­ tion waa not attracted to the subsequent dispo­ sition of it Only the members of the Lincoln Qnaid at Honor knew where the bodies were deposited, although the popular impression haa been that the body of the Presi­ dent was in view of the visitor to the monument. The vault in it has been placed was bnilt for that > underneath the floor. It ia walled with j arched over, and leveled to conform to tbe floor in the central w ing of the monument. The grave in which the body was Becreted was excavated by members of the guard of honor in toe stillness of night. Tbe atmosphere St that point was stifling. The members of the guard bound themselves to secrecy with an oath. Before Mr. Lincoln's body was rinuliy en­ tombed the eoStn waa opened and the body identified. The hair and whiskers have fallen off and the faee is very black. The contour is, Si. vf'ij nw, perfect, and the faoe is said to strong­ ly resemble that of the bronze statue on the monument. Six HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR crop reports from 747 townships in Michigan report the wheat fields looking "bare and tncown," but express the hope that the roots have not been hart by the unfavorable Match weather Messrs. Clapp t Davies, jewelers, of Chicago, failed for some­ thing near* half a million dolhps. The immediate cause of the failoltf was the urgent demand made upon the firm for money by creditors, mainly William B. flipp, to whom they owed $65,000 George Werner, teacher of a Bchool near Milwaukee, punished a refractory pupil named Henry Sengbnsch by applying a ruler sharply to his wrists, and the latter fell back in his seat unconscious. Sup­ posing that the boy had fainted, he threw two pails of water over him, but the pupil w dead. Werner fled, but tamed and gave himself up. THEWVTHi IT is stated by the Atlanta Constitution that President Cleveland has promised to attend the Piedmont exposition in that city next October The St. Augustine Hotel, Edwards House, the old cathedral, Yedder's Museum, the court house, Welter's Hotel, •nd a number of smaller buildings at St. Augustine, Fla., were destroyed by fire. The loss is plaeed at $250,000, with very small insurance. Coriocs rains have at last fallen for a distance of three hundred mil-- along the Texas and Pacific Road. ON the Louisville race track Charles Taylor, a jockey, while exercising the bay dolt Asphaltas, struck him on the head with the ba-t of his whip. The colt fell to his knees, breaking one of his legs, and also crashing the jockey, who is danger- «»ly hurt Asphaltus was shot. AL£ the prisoners in the Charleston (W. Ta.) jail escaped by tunneling oat The Attorney General of Louisiana, in behalf of that State, has entered suit against the Cotton-seed Oil Trust, which owns every mill in the State, asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of its property and M it never has been incorporated. WASHlNCiTON. penditnre in this oountry per annum for malt and spirituous liquors and beer at re­ tail is 1700,000,000. The drinking Defolia­ tion is estimated to be (III 1886)14,985,417, making the average expenditure per capita $46490. James A. Webb, of Maw York, famishes a statement to the effect that only ton per oent. of distilled spirits oonsnmed by this country are Qsed for medicine and manufacturing purposes, ninety cent, being used as a beverage. POLITICAL. MICHIGAN Prohibitionists olaim that their recent defeat at the polls was accom­ plished by fraud. A Detroit telegram says: The prohibitionists are working vicoroaaiy to establish their claims of fraud at the polls. A new taok was taken this morning in the matter of accumulating evidence of (rand. The follow­ ing sign posted on the front of, headquarters ex­ plains itself: "Wanted--The names and ad­ dressee of all' yes' voters on the amendment" It is proposed to take the names of all persons In Detroit who voted "yes" and oompare the number with toe official returns. It is be­ lieved that this method will reveal a large dis­ crepancy. THE Legislature of Rhode Island com­ prises fifty-six democrats and forty-six Re­ publicans. A Providence telegram says: The Democrats oarried the new elections for Senators and Representatives in Newport and East Greenwich Saturday, and the Uepnblicana secured one member ia Warwick. The Legis­ lature now stands: Senate--Republicans, 19; Democrats, IS; no election, 2. House --Republi­ cans, 28; Democrats, 41; no election. 3. On joint ballot--Republicans, 47 ; Democrats, 56; no election, 5. The Democrats have already one more than enough members to elect their can­ didates for liieutennnt-Oovornor, Seorettuy of State, Sheriffs, State Auditor, District Judges, etc. THH Anti-Prohibitionists of Texas will hold a State convection at Dallas on May 4, and John Hancock will state his views. Three months later the people will vote on the temperance amendment... .The Gov­ ernor of New York vetoed the high-license bitl for New York and Brooklyn. The Pennsylvania House passed the Brooks high-license bill. AT an election in California on the adop­ tion of three proposed amendments to the State Constitution, the result was adverse to all of the propositions....A committee of the ^Republican caucus of the Michigan Legislature has been appointed to report a high-license bill, ranging from $300 to $700... .The Pennsylvania Senate passed the joint resolution proposing a woman- suffrage constitutional amendment by a vote of 27 to 1(1. The ladies' gallery was crowded during the vote, and upon the an­ nouncement that the resolution had passed its occupants arose and waved their hand­ kerchiefs. IXDlISTmLIVOTEB. THE complications caused by the inter­ state commerce act are already having an injurious effect upon 6ome of the Pittsbnrg iron mills. One firm had a large contract for sheet iron to be shipped to California, but freight rates have been so increased as to interfere with its fulfillment. Other mills with Western contracts will suspend unless they can get better rates. DROUGHT in Wabash County, Indiana, is killing the whoat plant, and the meadows are reported brown and bare. In Central Hlinois the absence of rain is alarming the farmers. The stock wells and streams are drying up. THE Sam Mitchell iron mine at Negau- nee, Mich., has been sold for $225,000 to the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company of New York. The ore will be shipped to Erie for smelting... .The Btrike of jour­ neymen tailors in Chicago has proven id- most a failure. The master carpenters have proposed to the strikers a settlement based upon 30 cents per hour as the minimum, and the right to employ non-union men. ^POSTMASTER OIXIBAL VILAS, and Gen­ eral Superintendent Nash, of the railway mail service, left Washington on the 12th inst. on a tour of inspection of the fast mail service between New York, Chicago and St. Paul. It is probable that a depot Will be established in Chicago for the <us- mbution of postal cards and stamped en velopes. SINCE the interstate commerce act went ttfo effect the number of personal appli Mnts for appointments under the adminis­ tration at Washington has diminished very materially. There has been a masked fall­ ing off in the number of callers from the various States and territories. An officer in the Interior Department said to a news J»per correspondent the other day: "The withdrawal of railway passes has pretty ef factually stopped the coming of delegates and of individuals to nrge appointments and press claims. Before the interstate law went into effect there wasn't a day passed that we did not have delegations and individuals here for one purpose or another. They would eome from the Pa-- i coast and the far Northwest. Bat now, i free passes have been canceled, we n't have many Buch callers." , TWENTY or more pages of the quarterly teport of the Chief of the Bureau of Sta­ tistics are devoted to the consumption of dfstHled and malt liquors and wines, and Mliliialus made by recognized authorities are given upon various features of this •abject. In round numbers, the consump­ tion of distilled spirits, domestic and im­ ported, in this country, is shown to have imnteaaed from 43,000,000 gallons in 1840 to 72,000,000 in 1886; of wines from 4,800,- 000 gallons to 22,000,000, and of malt liquors from 23,000,000 to 642,000,01(0. The consumption per capita during the fame period decreased as regards dis­ tilled spirits from about two and a half gallons to about one and a quarter is, and increased as regards wines ferenty-niae hundredths to thirty- handredihs gallons, and malt liquors from leas than -One and a half to more-than aleven gallons. The present average ex- W.V GSRXAKY has purchased tor $850,000 a balloon-steering invention....A servant discharged by Count Andrassjr, of Hungary, administered arsenic to a large number of his horses, five of which died....Dr. Jo­ seph Parker, pastor of City Temple, Lon­ don, will visit America in Jane and prob­ ably deliver the Beeeher eulogy The paoket steamer Yi -toria went ashore on the rocks near Dieppe in a dense fog. Twenty of the passeneers and crew were drowned. Emigrants are coming to America in droves. A cable dispatch from Qneens- town says: "The arrivals here of emigrant* on their way to the United States are at present enormous. The railways are run­ ning special trains to accommodate this class of travel. The number of emigrants now awaiting steamers to carry them to their destinations is already greater than can be hoased in the hotels and lodging- hoases, and many are camping in the ,s BROWN POTTER'S as a% actress hi said to have estranged her from her husband's family, BO that her fail- are is pleasing them more than success wonld. It is also said that Mr. Potter strongly opposed his wife's going on the stage, and then, in consequence of her per­ sistence, the ties between them, if not quite ruptured, are very badly strained. LARGELY attended meetings, called by Irish-American citizens to express sympa­ thy for Ireland and protest against the co­ ercion bill now before the British Parlia­ ment, were held in various cities of the United States on the 14th inst. In Washington City Congressman Springer presided over a gathering that filled Ma­ sonic Temple. Speeches were made by Congressmen Springer, Crain of Texas, and Snively of Indiana. Gen. Bosecrans, Gen. Broderick of Virginia, Gen. George A. Sheridan, ex-Senator Van Wyck, and others. Letters expressing sympathy with the object of the meeting were read from Senators Sherman and Sabinand Congress­ man Cox. Strong resolutions were adopted. Gov. McGill presided at a mass meeting in St. Paul. Speeches were made by Con­ gressmen Wilson and McDonald, State's Attorney Gen. Piatt and others. Sympa­ thetic letters were read from Senator C. K. Davis and Congressman Knute Nelson, and resolutions were passed which strongly condemn coercion. There were similar meetings in New York, Baltimore and other cities, at which the usual resolutions were passed and sent to Mr. Gladstone. THE Governor General of Canada, at the opening of Parliament, expressed the belie'f that the fishery negotiations will end in an arrangement honorable and satisfac­ tory to both nations, but stated that provis­ ion had been made to protect inshore fish- erics. FOKEMUV* THE Vatican will thoroughly investigate the Irish question... .A friendly treaty has been arranged between China mid Portu­ gal. A JUDGMENT of the Supreme Court of Justice in Germany has been sent to the Ministry of the Interior defining the scope of the American treaty regarding natural­ ized citizens. It affirms that the acquisi­ tion of citizenship in the United States, with an unbroken residence there of five years, causes loss of citizenship in Ger­ many. Such persons returning will be liable to expulsion from Germany nnHI they recognize German rights. THE anti-coercion meeting in London on the 11th instant was the largest ever held in that oity. Mrs. Gladstone, watching the procession from a window in Piccadilly, received an ovation from the men in line. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was offered simultaneously from four­ teen platforms, and was enthusiastically earriea. The greatest throng gath- erd at the platform from which Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin and Messrs. Conybeare and William Redmond, members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in tbe course of a most effective speech, asked: "Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the honest, hard-working tenantry of Ireland should be forever crushed down?" A tre­ mendous responsive "No!" resounded throughout the park. Tbe mention of the Queen as about to celebrate her jubilee by signing away the liberties of the people of Ireland, brought forth a tor­ rent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain's name aroused a tempest of groans and hisses, with cries of "Traitor." Michael Davitt was one of the speakers. He said that on the day on which the crimes act should become a law they would either have to give up the struggle that had been waged for centuries and lie down as sla^s, or render the sys­ tem impossible of duration. They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in the past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; the people would pull it down and erect a bridge of love between the toilers of Ireland and the honest work- em of England. MR. PABNKLII and ether Irish leaders are endeavoring to form at Dublin a woolen manufacturing and exporting company, with a capital of $500,000. SENTIMENTS uttered by Joseph Cham­ berlain in a speech at Ayr have called oat numerous letters warning him that he will not leave Scotland alive. It is understood that he will hereafter be attended by a pri­ vate guard. . •, ADDITIONAL MEWS. WLLIIIAM KISSANE, according to a pri­ vate dispatch received in New York from San Francisco, has fled to Victoria, B. C., in order lo be beyond the reach of the law in case the indictments held over him are not dismissed.... A premature blast killed six men and wounded seven at the camp of Kyner, Higbee & Bernard, near Buena Vista, Col. While working in a sixty- foot cat on midland grade, a twenty- foot hole had been put down to blow off the face of the cut, and sprung with twenty kegs of black giant powder. The foreman was loading the charge, and when he had filled the ten kegs the charge prematurely exploded, throwing masses of rock into the cut where thirteen men were working, instantly killing six and wounding seven. The wounded in- eluded Mr. Barnard, one of the firm. The names of the killed are: Tim Sulli- van, William Conway, W. S. Corcoran, William O'Neil, William Kopes, and an unknown man. THE first genuine cyclone ever witnessed in the immediate vicinity of Wheeling, W. Va., Bays a dispatch from that city, oc­ curred on Friday afternoon. It wrought devastation over a section of country ex­ tending from St. Clairsville, Ohio, ten miles west, to a point as far east as Wheeling. At St. CiairRville many houses were demolished, and horses hitched in the street were blown about like chaff, and the vehicles demolished. A ncantling sailed through the air for a mile, and cut as clean a hole in the two walls of a brick house as a cannon ball would. Shingles were driven through weather- boarding like arrows. The damage to property in St. Clairsville is placed at $200,000. Martin's Ferry suffered even more severely, and other towns in the neighborhood felt the effects of the blow. "When the storm struck the Ohio River the water shot up in a perpendicular wall about twenty feet, and then fell back in frothy, seething foam; and simultaneously a shower of fence-boards, Bhingles, posts, and timbers, with some large, sections of houses, fell In a sheet on the turbulent water. The river for miles is strewn with wreckage. The total damage wrought by the tornado is estimated at $1,#00,000. Fortunately no lives were lost, though many narrow escapes from death are re­ ported. THE Bureau of Statistics reports the ex­ ports of wheat for nine months at 73,000,- 000 bushels, against 34,000,000 during the same time last year., Flour, 8,000,000 bar­ rels, against 5,000,000 last year. HENRY IHMEII, the oldest locomotive engineer in the United States, has just -died in Whistler, Ala. He ran the first en­ gine over the Charleston and Hamburg Railroad, the third railroad built in this country. The drivers of the engine were of hardwood. IN tbe Dominion Parliament, Mr. Wei- don said the Canadians relied not npon their military strength for n settlement of tbe fishery dispute, but upon the good judgment of the people of the United States. Mr. Blake, leader of the opposi­ tion, censured the governnment-for keep­ ing the country in the dark as to negotia­ tions in progress. * THE month of March, says Bradstreet's, shows an inorease in tbe number of strikes taking place throughout the country as compared with February, but a material decrease in the number of striken involved. THE House resolutions for a protective tariff were adopted by the Connecticut Son- ate, 12 to 7, bat one Democrat voting iu the affirmative. A HOTEL in tine central portion of Am­ sterdam, crowded with strangers witness­ ing the festivities connected with the King's birthday, took fire daring Thursday night and was wholly burned. Four lives were lost, and many persons sustained serious injuries. . IT ia no shame for a man to learn what he knows not, whatever age he may be. No ORBAT man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biogra­ phy of great men. THE MABKET& GEBORIMO'S BANS. How Tliey Pass Their Time ta Fin* Ma--Mangos an Intractable • ttovage. £ * tmrnwrnz ... I Fort Ptoktas (Fla.) cor. New York Tribune. Natchez, the true hereditary chief, is a fine specimen of Indian manhood, over six met high, erect, well-proportioned, grave, and dignified under his weight of 36 yeam. The rest of the band treat him with pronounced respect. His words are few, and his dislike of that fierce light which beats npon royalty of all grades is ' emphatic. . .. NEW YORK. » 4.75 © 5.75 6.50 <» tt.OJ BSBVES.... HOGS WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Bed. CORN--No. a.-..:.. OATS--White... PORK--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping........ Common HOGS--Shipping Grade* FLOCB--Ktd Winter WHEAT--No. 3 Spring. COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTEB-- Choice Creamery...... Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, Cheddar. Full Cream, new...... Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu......'. POBK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. 3 . OATS--No. 2 White ' BYE--No. 1 POBK--Mess " TOLEDO. 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Fair .7.7.. • Common. j ™ o o e # i » . # . » . . . . 4 . . . . * • .83 .42 .31 ....*10.50 & .83# & .42^ & M t? 17.03 5.00 0.00 .90 .45 4.50 > .91 .40 5.23 9.50 & 5.25 5.2? (5$ 5.75 *.75 & 4.50 .81 <* .82 .36)*. 3 .87 .27*4 .28 5.03 0 5,2; 4.53 #5.00 4.00 @ 4.25 5.75 0*21 *19 * M0 CHIEF MANO08. Mangus is an intractable savage. His arm is still in bandages from the effects of injury received while on his way to Pensa- cola. When nearing that city at the rate of forty miles an hour, Mangus suddenly sprang through the car window, and was stunned by sudden collision with the ground. Regaining consciousness simulta­ neously with recapture, he was put in irons nntil the final destination was reached. Two dingy old casements in the interior of the fort, each containing a large open fireplace, furnish comfortable accommoda­ tions to these uncomfortable nomads. Here provisions, consisting of tbe regular army rations, are prepared by an Indian cook assigned to that duty. Olad to be beyond the reach of Arizona justice, every member of the band is quiet, submissive,* tractable and industrious. Shovel, rake, saw and ax have already be­ come familiar tools. The wheelbarrow proved to be as intractable at firsi in the hands of Geronimo as a bucking bronoho in those of a metropolitan dude. But he is said to have achieved complete triumph over the singular implement. The dex­ terous grace with which he swings the sounding ax is not exceeded by that with which he was wont to fling the tomahawk. Work as yet is simply amusement. No more fan­ tastic toilers than these willing Apache warriors can be found in all the sunny South. One of the undistinguished braves evinces considerable artistio ability, and delights in making colored sketches of the sergeant of tbe guard. Observers find it difficult to regard the prisoners as criminals worthy of death. Visitors cordially shake them by the hand, and wish to possess photographs of the group. Bribery is often necessary to over­ come objections to the camera. Mangus is the only "Barkis" among the number. The happy possessor of an old blouse with Captain s shoulder-straps, he is more than "willin" at every opportunity. The Man Who Captured Chief Mangus. Chief Mangus fas captured by Gaptain Charles L. Cooper, in the fall of 1886, after having resorted to every strategy which his /*q4ustrious brain conld invent, defying afowwrit# alter his capture and ex­ erting himself in every way for a means of escape. It was a most daring exploit. CAPTAIN COOPEB. Captain Cooper left Fort Apache, Arizo­ na, on the 14th of October, 1886, and sighted the Indians on the evening of the 17th, they being on the top of a mountain and he at its foot. He at once gave pur­ suit, chasing the redskins over five moun­ tains and fifteen miles distance. The In­ dians in their flight abandoned their stock and sought refuge in various places. All were hunted out and surrendered. Cap­ tain Cooper was born in New York in March, 1845. Upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Seventy-first New York Regiment, being then but sixteen years of an. After his dis­ charge he re-enlisted. At the age of twenty he became First Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regi­ ment, United States colored troops, and soon afterward was given a position on Gen. Birney's staff. At Petersburg he re­ sumed the command of his men, however, and participated in the closing battles of the war. At the close of the war, through the instrumentality of John A. Dix, Thur- low Weed, A. A. Low, and other prom­ inent men, he was made .Second Lieuten­ ant in the United States regular army, and assigned to duty in the Thirty-ninth Regi­ ment, United States Infantry. He was promoted Oct. 5, 1867, to be' First Lieu­ tenant, and in January, 1871, was assigned to theWenth United States Cavalry, and shortly afterward was promoted to a cap­ taincy. • CKOP PROSPECTS. Illinois. [Springfield special.] The reports coming to the Illinois De­ partment of Agriculture from nearly every townsbip in the State indicate that the area of the growing crop is not quite as large as that harvested last season. The best pros­ pects for winter wheat are reported from the central counties, in which nearly an average (96 per cent.) yield is expected. In the northern counties the condition gives encouragement for 92 per cent, of an average yield per acre. The condition of wheat in the great wheat belt of the State is such as to give hope for but little over three-fourths of an average yield per acre. Ohio. *• ' * [Columbus special.] The State Board of Agriculture is re­ ceiving very discouraging reports of the condition of winter wheat from nearly all parts of the Btate. The present indications are such as to justify the statement that the full average will fall off twenty-five per cent. In the wheat-growing counties in the central portion of the State. The plant is badly winter-killed in the northwestern part of Ohio. Where there was good snow protection there promises to be a fair crop. The same may be said of the indications m the southeastern section of the State. In the central portion much of the plant is rained, and most of the land will have to ha plowed np and used for other crops. 1 Tbe Martyr President's Bemtlnt Be- . awed from Their ,.f - Grave. yt> •• - 4>""" •»» Tbe faee Easily Recognised--Xrs. Lin­ coln's Remains Laid by Her ' Btubanrs SHU. v fStttWuFiSLn (IlX.1 COBBBSPOSUKSrOS.1 For some years--in fact, ever since the attempt was made to steal the remain of Abraham Lincoln--there has been a mys­ tery as to the exact place where the ashes of the martyr President are lying. That mystery has at last been removed. On Thursday last, the anniversary of his death, the remains were brought out from tbe quiet and f-ecreey which they have so long occu- 8led, and deposited finally and forever by le side of those of Mrs. Lincoln at a point In the monument which can be made known to everybody. The work of removal was in charge of the Lincoln Guard of Honor. This organization was formed soon after the attempt to steal the remains of Lincoln, and the du6t of the martyr was turned over to its charge by the Lincoln Monument Association in November of that year, the Guard of Honor binding itself to keep the trust with all care and diligence. Tnere were present at the monument on Thursday morninp O. M. Hatch, George N. Black, Lincoln Dubois, John W. Bunn, C. C. Brown, Jacob Bunn, and James C. Conkling, representing .the Lincoln Monu­ ment Association, and the following repre­ senting the Lincoln Guard of Honor: General Jasper N. Beese, J. Carroll Power, J. P. Lindley, Colonel N. B. Wigginf, E. S. Johnson, Horace Copitt, and Clinton L. Conkling. The gentlemen mentioned met promptly in tbe memorial hall of the monument preparatory to the work be­ fore them. The - trust papers given by the guard to the monument association at the time the former took charge of the remains were spread out on the glass cases in Memorial Hall and exam- inedt)y all present. While this was going on Wash Irwin, one of the men having the contract for doing the masonry work preparatory to the reburial, came into the nail carrying with him a pair of mason's chisels and a hammer. He was closely followed by half a dozen men carrying workmen's tools. A brief consultation fol­ lowed and Custodian Power then an­ nounced that it was time to begin the work. The masons opened the entrance leading to the dark crypt in the very center of the monument, immediately under the obelisk, and began to cut and chisel away at the cement which held in place the stones barring the way to the secret resting-place of the remains of Abraham ijincoln. As one after another of the workmen became tired from working in the cramped and narrow recess they came out and gave plaoe to others, who pressed on with the work. The labor was continued for more than an hour, at the end of which time the coffin, with the sacred remains of Lincoln, was handed out by the workmen and received in the hands of eight men belonging to the two associa­ tions, who laid it upon two rests prepared for the purpose a little to the right of the center of the hall, placing the head to the north and the feet toward tbe door. The casket consisted first of a large pine box inclosing a red cedar box. Within the latter was a walnut coffin lined air tight with lead an eighth of an inch thick, and this inclosed all that re­ mains to the world bat the great name and fame of Abraham Lincoln. The encase­ ments were opened, and here, twenty-two years from the day of his death, was his body clearly recognizable as such by the gentlemen standing about; all of wliom, but one or two, had known him intimately in life. The silver plate on the coffin lid was perfectly bright, as was the lettering: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH FBKBIDENT OF THE UNITED 8TATK8, Born February 12, 1809; died April 15, 180i. Everything about the casket and the re- mainb was in an almost surprisingly perfect state of preservation. It was now made clear that the marble sarcophagus had not for years contained Lincoln's body, as the public supposed. When the guard took charge of the body in 1878 three whole nights were consumed in properly disposing of them in this secure place under the base of the obelisk. Next the casket containing Mrs. Lincoln's body was brought out. Her body was inclosed in cases almost exactly similar to those inclosing Mr. Lincoln's. Then papers were? passed between the two associations aB follows:. The Lincoln Guard of Honor gave to the Lincoln Monument Association a certificate signed by all its members setting forth that it here and now turned over to the latter associa­ tion the casket and contents precisely as received in trust in November, 1878; and the Lincoln Monument Association gave to the Lincoln Guard of Honor a certificate ••igned in full setting forth that the former this day received from the latter the re­ mains of Abraham Lincoln, unmistakably recognized to be such, and that the guard is now and hereafter relieved from all fur­ ther trust and responsibility in the prem­ ises. Both these documents arie directed to be spread at large on the records of the two associations. The coffin was then sealed up and car­ ried to its final resting-place in the vault in the "north hall of the monument. Imme­ diately in front of the entrance to this north hall, and in the very center of its floor a tomb had been sunk five feet deep, six feet wide, and eight feet long. This is lined. with stone securely laid in cement, and this stone casing similarly lined with brick. Ins.de of this casing the dimen­ sions are as given above. Into this tomb the coffin containing the dust of Lincoln was lowered, being placed on the west side--that is, to the right as the visitor enters the door of the north hall. The head lies towaTd the door. The cof­ fin with the remains of Mrs. Lincoln was then brought around from the south ball and lowered into the tomb by the side of her husband's body. Tiie masons imme­ diately went to work, and a low brick arch was sprung over the caskets. This was covered with hydraulic cement, and above this rulble and slag mingled with cement were filled in, bringing the surface of the tomb up to the floor. The stones of the floor were then replaced, and the work waa ended. At the memorial exercises held by the Lincoln Guard of Honor on Friday, the guard presented in full the history of its relations to the keeping of the President's remains, Retailing the reasons for its or­ ganization and what its entire action in the matter has been. There was very little in the history, however, bevond what is oat- lined above, that woald be of any special public' interest..,, The Plot to Steal the l{emains. The night of Nov, 7, 187G, Mullind and Hnghes, two Chicago thieves, made an unsuccessful attempt to steal the body of the late President Lincoln. The marble sarcophagus in which it was inclosed, and which was exposed to the view of visitors through the iron grating on the north side of the monument, was taken out; but at this point the robbers were interfered with by certain persons secreted in the monu­ ment, who had received information that the lobbery was to be attempted, and aban­ doned their strange booty. Some weeks afterward Mull ins and Hughes were ar­ rested in Chicago, taken to Springfield, tried, convicted, and ^sentenced to short terms in the penitentiary for larceny, there being in Illinois no law against body- snatching. t As a result Of this attempt the Lincoln Guard of Honor was in a few years organ­ ized. One night six of the guard went to the vault, removed the casket from tbe sarcophagus, and buried it in one of the narrow pa sages underneath the monu­ ment to prevent another attempt of a like character proviug successful. The mem­ bers bound themselves by the solemnity of an oath not to reveal what had been dona nntil the proper time Should arrive to do so. iisl STBttK tTMr OF CRIME. Another BenirkiHe Chapter ta the Talked ef <"«««•* Rovers Case. " ' " " i -- % * * * His Fsoape from Justice One ol fbe Romances of tbe nineteenth , .Sv %% (Jsntuy. r> ^ • It is now atxmt sixty-two years since "Billy" Kissane was born to increase the distress of a poor Irish family. Exactly how or when he crossed the Atlantic has not yet been made pnblie, hat somewhere in the '30s he tarned np in Canada. He did not stay there long, for within the next dec­ ade Le made his appearance in Cincinnati. It was at the latter place that "Billy " Kis­ sane engaged in the plot to burn tbe steam­ er Maltha Washington and collect an enor­ mous insurance npon a fictitious cargo of lard and other freight shipped in barrels as brandy. The steamer, bound from Cin­ cinnati to New Orleans, was burned near Helena, Ark., on the night of January 14, 1852. There were eighteen lives lost, but enough of the cargo was thrown overboard and saved to expose the plot that had caused such a horrible loss of life, and Kissane and Hnbbard, the clerk of the boat, were arrested and tried in Ohio for the murder. The Ohio courts declined to jurnume jurisdiction over a crime committed in Arkansas, and Kissane was carried to Helena. There the prosecution fell through for want of funds after several attempts had been made to kill Sidney C. Burton, the principal witness against the prisoners. Kissane was next heard of in New York, where in August, 1854, he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced lo Sing Sing for forgeries on the Chemical Bank of that city. Between his escape from the clutches of the law in Helena and falling into them a^ain in New York he must have visited Cleveland, Ohio, where thirty-four years ago he married a lady, who is still living. The couple lived together five months, when he left her, and after his departure plates of $1 and $5 bank notes were all that she could find among his effects to re­ member him by. The deserted wife pro­ cured a divorce and secured $1,000 ali­ mony, which she may collect now if Rogers Sroves to be her long-lost husband. A aughter of Kissane still lives in Cleveland. She has never seen her father, but if the wealthy Californian should be he she will be an heiress in f-pite of all his wander­ ings and his wife and children in the Sonoma valley. Before the expiration of his sentenoe Kissane was pardoned ont of Sing Sing npon condition that he woald testify in the insurance cases growing out of the burn­ ing of the Martha Washington. He made a written confession of his Bhare in that horror, but upon his release he violated his promise to the insurance companies and fled to Nicaragua, where under an as­ sumed name it was reported he was shot. The efforts of Burton to bring the Kissane gang to justice provoked its deadly hatred. He was said to have spent $50,000 and traveled 150,000 miles in his task of hunt­ ing down the Kissane conspirators, but ac­ cording to the report they finally got the best of him by poison. Every movement of Burton in the United States and Can­ ada was dogged by the emissaries of Kis­ sane until in the fall of 1855 they succeed­ ed in smuggling a subtle poison into his food that ate away one of his lungs, so that he died in terrible agony in December of that year. Thirty-two years ago Billy Kissane dis­ appeared from view. Whether he had gone to Brazil or to Nicaragua or the north pole no one appeared to know. The insurance companies could not find him; his associ­ ates did not want to find him. The less known about his whereabouts the better it was tor them. They covered his disap­ pearance completely. It was in the year 1855 that the black sombrero of the "famoufl filibuster chief," the "gray-eyed man of destiny," Walker, led his troop of dark-browed, bearded ad­ venturers upon his wonderful, daring, and cruel ride through Nicaragua. With Walker in that band rode one Col. W. K. Rogers. He was one of the bravest. Of him D. B. Wolf, a well-known Califor­ nian, says: "I have known him intimately for thirty-one years. We were together with Walker in Nicaragua, and he stood like a lion where bullets flew thickest. He beoame the Minister of the Interior under W alker, and was one of the men chosen by our chief to accompany him on the United States vessel when the fates went against the United States." Thirty years ago "Col." Rogers parted company with his chief, " whose heart was blao; and whose hands were red," at Pana­ ma, and sailed for California, where he ar- ived in due time, and where he began a new life. According to his friend Wolf, he had not a cent when be landed. But it is scarcely to be credited that " Col." Rogers, who subsequently developed such financial shrewdness, wasted all his oppor­ tunities as Walker's minister of haciendas, and left Nicaragua empty-handed. At all events, he began his career on the Pacific slope as a merchant in Sacra­ mento, subsequently turned his attention to the Comstock mines, and now lives in pros­ per ous ease on a rich Sonoma ranch. About twenty years ago "Col," Rogers married a beautiful young lady, twenty years his junior, who is tne sister-in-law of Lloyd Tevis, once a partner of Haggin, the mill­ ionaire horse-breeder. He is also a half- brother of lieuben Lloyd, one of the most prominent lawyers in San Francisco. All these facts and their attendant infer­ ences have come to light through what ap­ peared to be an innocent motion of a San Francisco lawyer before Recorder Smyth in New York to have a nolle prosequi en'tered on the indictment against William Kissane for forging a check for $12,000 upon (he Chemical Bank in 1854. There are features about the pioceedings that.make it appear not at all incredible that "Colonel" Roger; is none other than "Billy" Kissane, andtliat he wished to have tbe old cloud removed from his life before venturing to join the colony of California millionaires ia New York. If so, he is probably now sorry that he was not content to die honored and un­ suspected amid the beautifnl surroundings of his Sonoma home. Electrical Searches for Bullets. When President Garfield was slowly dying at Elberon, And the attending surgeons were locating the fatal bullet in spots clear away from where, after death, it w.as discovered, an electrical apparatus was constructed by Prof. Graham Bell for the purpose of finding the bit of lead. The failure was ridi­ culed, much to the chagrin of Bell and the doctors. The discovery has since been made that Garfield lay on a metal­ lic mattress, which frustrated the elec­ tricity. Now, under the sanction of the New York Academy of Medicine, a machine has been constructed and tested. The machine consisted of a battery, coils, and other familiar tele­ graphic devices, but principally of a thin steel probe connected with the wires in a manner invented by Fell. The surface of the patient over an im­ bedded bullet was cocained, so as to deprive it of feeling. Then the probe was thrust in. As the end of the steel- came within six inches of the bullet, * the surgeon with his e ir to a telephonic cup heard s\ humming sound, which grew louder as the metal was ap­ proached. The flesh was jabbed a number of times, and the trial was re* garded as a success. Later, a war veteran submitted to a search for a bullet that had entered his chest and remained somewhere in him for twenty years. The needle hummed its way to the lead's hiding place, and it was re­ moved. Dr. ,)ohn H. Girdner, who operated the instrument, said that its use would have saved Garfield's life in all probabi ity.--ATeio For Ac .Sun.' AHD WATT. Fearth Week ef Their TMal ftr tke ef Klefcela, Stories of Deteetfree! Pinkerton and Frank V- Wiad. v.**; ' ' "J*; it 00M111 ^ The Bcbmita-Wttt trial ia now ia Ms fourth week, and Is believed to be neatiag the «»* The prosecution rested its oeee sevwal dare ago, and the defense haa been introducing teetl ̂ mony for nearly a week. A number of witneeeeev have been called for the purpose of impeeehinc , some of the prosecution's witnesses and estab- llshing tbe good character of the two de- fendants. Among the witnesses examined during the . week DV the prosecution was Frank ̂ Wind, a Pinkerton detective, who has been braking on the Book Island Road since August v-* last, and who was placed on the road to shadow Schwarts and Watt. He told an interesting story of bis experience. He roomed m|! Schwjuts in'Davenport, slept with Bob Watt in Chicago, and sometimes with Newt. He said he came to Chicago from Philadelphia to con­ tinue in the employ of Pinkerton. The first de­ velopment he made was a conversation be heard between the prisoners at Davenport. Behwarts called Watt aside and told him he conld not make it. Watt said: "When can yon y-m make it?" and Sehwarta replied: "I will try it, : '" next trip." Behwarts, at a subsequent time,'}•£ paid that unless the company raised his wages he would start in business for ^ himself, and added that his father •£ had offered hi in >8,000 for that pur- / ^ pose. About this time Watt told the witness fi that his father-in-law was going Co receive B Sl,8()0 on back pension, and that it would be di- Tided equally between his (Watt'B) wife and her' sister. When they afterwards bee am-) better acquainted Watt told him that some day, when r'J§ he felt better, he would tell him all about talk that was being circulated; he also told him he would be better fixed in the spring. Later in ; ̂ the month, in Chicago, Schwartz said that be in­ tended to go to Kansas in the apring and buy a V < stock ranoh. About Oct, 11, in a Chicago saloon, just before Schwartz started for ' . Philadelphia, he and Watt withdrew to the, rear of the saloon and told witness to "keep away" when he came near them. While they>\> were talking witness stepped behind aboard. , partition which set off a portion of the room and ̂ heard a part of their conversation. Watt said to Schwartz, "I want you to be very careful of yourself when you go East; don't give np any-: thing." Schwartz exclaimed: "My Ged, Newt, • I thought you knew me better than to think that; I would not even tell my wife." Schwartz said he understood all the detectives were still after them ; that the company had hired new ' men, and that Pinkerton'a forces had been withdrawn ; he said he could take care of him- self and that they could not trump up any < charges against him. Schwartz afterward tola " witness that when he went to Philadelphia he wonld have plenty or "stuff," and when be oame back they would all have a night in Chicago and Davenport, he didn't care what it cost. William J. Gallagher, now serving a sentence in the Joliet Penitentiary, testified to conver­ sations he had with Schwartz while the two were prisoners in the jail at Chicago. Schwartz told witness about the ¥53 notes that he won playing faro at a gambling house at No. 135 1 Clark street, and that he got the bills changed by buying meals at restaurants and ammuni- tion at Spalding's. One day, while they were playing casino Sc.hwartz stopped playing and t; asked him what $1,000 of American money "J would be worth in England. At another time Schwartz told him that when he got out of jail he was going to Kansas, buy land, and settle down. In January last Gallagher had a con­ versation in the jail with Schwartz, who asked him if he could get 93,000 in large bills changed into S5, $10 and bftO bills. Gallagher said to him, "Where did this money come from? is it con­ nected with the Bock Island robbery Schwartz, ; said it was not, and then said that a brake man • on the fore part of the train going out to< S Davenport saw a Jew get on a "Pullman car witn a sachel, which he placed under the seat; this sachel, Schwartz said, contained a large- amount of money. When the train arrived at ' Davenport the brakeman took the sachel Mid , left the train, and the Jew continued on to>1 'j§ Kansas City without missing his sachel. Detective William A. Pinkerton was ex-; '.^3 amined at great length concerning con versa- * tions he had with Schwartz and Watt. Witness told Schwartz he talked with his wife, and she' had said he had found a package containing over $7,000 in the baggage-car coming from Davenport, and that he had brought the money home without counting it. Witness said he knew it was a portion of this money he had : been spending. Witness said Schwartz ap­ parently disbelieved what he said about his. wife's confession, and doubted her pres­ ence in the city. Witness then sent for her, and when she arrived defendant said: "Slla, I understand you have been talking, with Pinkerton about this matter." She-an­ swered in the affirmative, and he said he did not want to talk about it. (Then ensued the scene as related by witness when examined by counsel for the defense, as stated above.) Wit- < ness then told the defendant he knew he had sent a box weighing about a pound by the Bal- . ~.s ttmore and Ohio Express to Philadelphia di- rwete4 to Harry Mayhew, in care of J. S. * Schwartz. Defendant denied that there waa • -* money in this package, which he claimed con- v tained meerschaum pipes. Schwartz said if he : ? were to tell anything about the money it would f not agree with what Ella had said, as she had made several mistakes. Witness then asked for his version, and defendant replied he did not find it in the express car; that if he had he would have known whose it was. He did not find $7,000, and did not know how muoh he found. He found it the night he left Davenport with < Mulligan; found it under a seat in the : smoker. There was a brown wrapper around the package, on which was marxed "5,000." Schwartz reached Philadelphia ahead of the box he had shipped, and on ui-covering that he- was being shadowed he burned the money up except 8150. Witness then asked Sohwartz where the balance of the money was, and de­ fendant said he would get it for him, but that he did not want to get tV.e party in trouble who * had it, as he was entirely innocent. After muoh questioning he finally admitted that be had given it to Watt Witness said he saw Watt at witness' office in Chicago the following day and asked him 1 where the package was. He did not reply for j some time, and then said Schwartz .was a^l liar if he said he had given him any package. ' 'I Mrs. Schwartz was present at the in- " terview and called Watt's attention to the fact, that she went down town the day he received the package, and he must recollect that. The following day Watt and witness camo to Morris ' and went to the jail. Witness told Schwartz the result of his interview, and Schwartz langhed and said; "Give me a chance to talk with him, and I will get him around all right. Watt was then brought into the presenoe of Schwartz, and the latter said, "Newt, don't you recollect the package I gave you wrapped in brown paper?" Watt replied, "No." j Watt said, "Harry, don't try to mix me k up in this thing; you know I am innocent." Schwartz replied: "Newt, if you looked in the parcel and found that it contained money, and, becoming alarmed, destroyed it, say so, and X will have to make the amount good." Newt an­ swered : "I don't know where it is." Witness ? told Watt it was in his house Deo. 11, 1886. Schwartz replied: "Don't you see he knows.* i;a more about it than we thought, or I over told v S him?" Witness said:'•Why can't you get it?" ,>3 to which Watt replied that he could not if he» * 1 was hung, Witness said that Schwartz said the' ; package conta ned 150 and ¥100 bills. For the defense Jonas D. Mead, of Pax- ton, 111., father-in-law of the prisoner Watt, was the first witness called to the stand. He testified to receiving back* pension of' Sl,007 in June, 1886, and deposited it, less com­ missions, in the ford County Bank at that place. November 11 he sent a draft for to Watt. He identified Watt's indorse­ ment on the back of the draft. a Charles Northrup, fireman on the train which ^ left Chicago just before the departure of Nich­ ols' train, testified that when he passed the coal chutes he saw three men stand ing about ten feet from the track, ap­ parently loafing around. They did not ap­ pear to be trainmen. He could not sav whether or not they got on the train on which he was. The hair cut from Nichols' head after death was identified for tho State by A. I«. Lapete, an undertaker's assistant. Walker 8. Turner, and Mrs.. Nichols. The hair and that found in the dead hand of Nichols were then admitted in evidence. Quite an array of witnesses, many of them from Philadelphia. Chicago, and other points, testified to the good character of Schwartz and. Watt. * CHICKEN FBE1V , THE golden mean--a miser. FIGHTING chants--War songs. IN at the breech--The cartridge. LETTERS of credit--I. O. U. A. V. EXPENSIVE habits--Toper's tights. MEN of mor-bid tastes--Auctioneers. | THINGS to be pushed--Wheelbarrows. As old soar--The first balloon asoencion^ ^ BOUND in Morocco--The Saltan's pris- oner. A GBATE agitation--Shaking down a ooal stove. 4 KID gloves of some kind are always ' sheep. THE man who eats peas in the shell is a try-pod. ̂* THK ambition of the produce dealer is to ' egg sell. A TIE-UP--The one that insists on riding ^ f| your collar. : " ' -x. THE ideal wife is the woman Oat never "J gelB married. ....... ^ / XM THBBE are no two weighs slwaf an Jta*, # est ton of coaL - -/4 , APM