Chicago Man 'Tells 'Story of Murder and Robbery. that Recalls Jesse James' Days. , Chicago, Nov. 28.--Chained wrist to wrist, their hair matted with dried blood, their clothing covered with 'dust and dirt, two beardless boys, Peter Niedermeier and Harvey Van Dine, sat to-night in the presence of Mayor Har- rison and Chief of Police O'Neil calm- ly confessing to their share in a three- months career of crime which had in- cluded nine murders, the wounding of five other men and a Jong series of fobberies. The two young bandits, neither of whom is over twenty-one years of age, together with their com-. panion, Emil Roeski, who is no older, ~ were captured near Liverpool, Ind., to- day aiter a fight in which they bat- tives, railroad laborers ne man was killed, another fatally wounded, and all three of the young bandits were wounded, but not serious- The dead--A. J. Sovea, brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Wounded--James Driscoll, detective on the Chicago police force, shot through abdomen, and can live but a short time. Matthew Zimmer, detective on Chi- cago police force, shot in head and ar m. Neidermeier was wounded in the hand by bird shot ; Van Dine was simi- farly injured and sustained in addition a flesh wound in the left thigh. Roeski was shot in the right hip. His wound is the most serious of any inflicted upon the three men, but was not sui- ficiently serious to prevent him from ee a long distance after receiv- it The three men were wanted by the police for complicity in the murders at the car barns of the Chicago City Rail- toad Company on August 30; when two men were killed, a third badly wound- ed and $2,250 stolen from the company. Gustav Marx, who last Saturday night murdered Officer John Quinn when the policeman endeavored to place him under arrest, confessed after his cap- ture that he, in company with the three men, had commit ted the crinies at the barns. The hunt for Van Dine Niedermeic er and ossbl had been hot @ver since. Although the entire po- liee force w2s looking for fleets three men remained in the city until Wednesday morning. Wo was brought to the police last night by T. Reichers, a school teacher near Clark Station, Ind., that three men answering the description of those wanted for the car barn murders, were living i in a dug-out. @ men were at once handeuffed, placed upon a train and hurried to Chicago, and taken into the office of Chief of Police O'Neill, and there, in the presence of Mayor Harrison and a throng of officers, they discussed the events of the day as calmly as though jt had been nothing unu sual for them. None of the prisoners showed any bra- wado, and did no boasting. They show ed not the sliehtest hesitation in con- fessing to their crimes. Van Dine sat upright, and talked freely, showing in word and bearing the courage that he thas revealed throughout. Niedermeier sat, with his head on his hands. When Van Dine said, "Pete, here, shot Dris- col," Niedermeier looked up, smiled slightly, and remarked, "Yes, I shot 'Driscoll and the brakeman" and then sank back to listen to Van Dine. Following fresh footprints in the snow from the scene of the capture of Niedermeier and Van Dine, residents of East Tolleston, Ind.,captured Roeski sitting on a bench in. the Wabash sta- tion at Aetna, Ind., a town four miles northeast of Liverpool , Ind. The arrest was made at 4.15 o'clock, short- ci after Ross had missed a train to hica He was unarmed. The identified by Hugo Kony, a hunter, who engaged the des- perado in a fight for life at a sand pit in East Tolleston, when the fugi- tives pressed a locomotive into service to escape the police. Both men admitted that Marx had told essentially the truth in connecting fhem with the various crimes charged up agairrst them, and said that thicy did the killing at the car barns. ¢ record of the trio captured to- day, together with that - of Gustav Marx, their companion in crime, whose confession led to their arrest, is eight @r nine murders and many attempts at murder, and five persons seriously wounded. With only a short Bride- well sentence representing their crim- anal court record up to six months ago, the exploits of thes: youths s%ice last July have had the police department of Chicago in a state of bewilderment. The list of the four boys' victims kill- ed ane wounded in the last half-year fol Killed_--Otto Bauder, murdered dur- the murdered in a Angust 2 James B. Johnson, motorman, killed in robbery of Chicago City Railroad car barns, August 30. Johnson was sateen on 2 bench in the outer office and was awakened by the shooting. and rex and killed before he could rise te feet. Francis W. Stewart, shot down with- Poe warning during the car barn rob- Ty. B. C. La Brot murdered in his saloon, Augus oats an John Quinn, 'killed Now x ° sph Driscoll, Sabian now w dying in a hospital. Boy Murderer Says He Started in Chicago, Nov. 30.--Previous to his career as a hold-up man and murderer in Chicago, Peter Neidermeier, one of the boy ban-'ts, was already a murder- er, accorcing to a story he told in the Harrison St-eet Police Station on Friday. According to his story, his first victim was a trainman in Canada. To the police officers and railroad detsc- tives who were questioning-him he re- aie ed circumstances as follows :-- 5 I was beating my way west on : freight train loaded with coal bound from Portage, Ont.' When. rid- ing on top of the train I was ordere:! to get off by a man whom they called 'Captain,' but whose name I nevet learned, I heard afterwards he was 2 railroad detective. He ordered me from the train, and when I refused to go off egy threw coal at me. I threw back at him, and one of the Iumps struck him on the head. Then he drew a revolver and fired twice at me. Both times he missed me, and then I drew- I fired six. shots, an I shot him in the head, in the abdomen and in the side. He ran a few feet, and fell dead on top of the car. I searched him and found no money. Later the train crew came along, and I heard they found $40 in his pockets. I was sore when I learned what I had missed. I was only a boy then, but I did not intend to be run over by any officer, and when he tried to make me get off the train I decided it would be my life or his. Af- ter shooting him I got off the train and went from there to Wininpeg, and heard no more about the case Winnipeg, Nov. 29. 29.--(Special.) --_ None of the police or railway officials here or at Rat Portage know anything of the story told by one of the Chicago boy bandits, that he had in 1895 killed a man while riding on a freight train between Winnipeg and Rat Portage. RUSSIA'S DEMAND. A Battleship and Torpedo Boat Sent to Back it Up. London, Nov. 30.--The correspond: ent at Tokio of The London Daily Mail says thar Admiral Alexieff, Rus- sian Viceroy of the far east, has sent the battleship Poltava and three torpe- do destroyers to Chemulpo to support Russia's demands for redress in con- nection with the recent affray between Russian and Japanese sailors, regard- ing which the Russian Minister 0 Seoul maintains an unyielding' attitude SS A LUCKY CANADIAN. Frank Hall Falls] Heir to a Notting- ham Estate. Hamilton, Nov. 29.--Mr. Frank Hall of Guelph, a brother-in-law of Mr. Fred- erick Hamilton and Dr. George 8. Rennie ef this city, has fallen heir to a big es- tate.in Nottingham, England. On the estate, which consists of 8,000 acres, is the ancient and famous Sherwood For- est. where Robin Hood and his merry men held sway in the old days of his- toric romance. It is said to be a very valuable property. A brother of Mr. Frank Hall, Dr. Hall. who died on October 14 last from an internal in- received by being thrown from h unard uria, a eeraria about - hu tinghara estate. of the heirship o months' residence on it each year, | MR. ALCORN NOMINATED. Prince' Edward Conservatives En- dorse Their Present Member. Picton, Nov. 28.--A large meeting of the Conservative Association for the county was' held in the opera house this afternoon for the purpose of selecting a candidate for the Commons. Mr. James Gibson, the President, occupied the chair, atid Mr. R. H. Hubbs, barrister, was secre- tary of the meeting. Mr. Geo. O. Al- corn, , M.P., was ee the al- most unanimous vote of the meeting. Messrs. Alcorn and Blain, M.P., of Peel addressed the meeting. Cheers for the King, Messrs. aa and Alcorn, R. L. Borden, J. P. V ney and the Chairman, closed the jeer ceedings. TELEGRAPH BREVITIES. Albert Myers of Uffington was asphyxi- ated. President Patton of Princeton preached the University sermon. There is an unusuai prevalence of smali- pox throughout the State of New York. Jules Levy, a world famous cornetist. an Englishman by birth. died at Chicago. Thomas McQuillan was elected Presi- dent of 'the Commercial Travellers' Asso- clation of Canada. Prince Edward county Conservatives nominated Mr. George O. Alcorn, M.P., for the Commoos.. 'amount of money. Actions Also Entered 'Against Mr. " Gamey and Mr. Alex. Wright, Conservacive Organizer -- Dam- ges $10,000 Claimed in Each Case. | m Lontion, Ont., Nov. 30--Mr. John : LVOY, barrister, of tihis city, who was one of the counsel of the Govern- ment in the Gamey investigation, is the plaintiff i in three libel suits for damages arising out of the famous case, and the amount claimed in each instance is 10,000. "The London Free Press Printing Company is named as defend- ant in one of the actions, notice of which has been served. It is alleged that The Free Press of a recent date contained a telegraphic report throw- ing suspicion on Mr. McEvoy in con- nection with the disappearance of the leaves of the 'Crossin cash book at the time of the investigation. R. R. Gamey, M.P.P., is the defend- ant in another of the cases, and Alex. tight, the organizer for the Conser- vative party in the Province, is the de- fendant in the third. The actions against these parties are based on statements made by them implicating Mr. McEvoy in the mutilation of the ash book. See ee A LIFE FOR FIVE CENTS. Restaurant Keeper in Chicago Killed a Man. Chicago, Nov. 30. -- Because he was short five cents in settling for his breakfast, Marcus Sheehan, a guard on the South Side Elevated road, was shot and. killed yesterday by James Berganus, proprietor of a State street restaurant. aving but fifteen cents in his pockets, Sheehan ordered a meal which he thought called for that en he came to pay for the meal, however, he was je <Y Berganus that he owed 20 said give the other nickel ce "That is all the money I have," Sheehan. "I'll this afternoon.' "You'll pay now or you will never leave this house," said Scenmuns. heehan laughed and turned toward the door, but before he could reach it Berganus drew a revolver and with- out a word of warning fired. Sheehan was shot in the head arid killed. Throwing Sheehan's body out upon the sidewalk, Berganus locked up the place and fled. He is still at large. VICTIMS OF THE SEA. Over One Hundred Drowned in Re- cent North Sea Storms. Berlin, Nov. 30.--It is estimated that 102 persons lost their lives in the re- cent storms on the North Sea. All vessels arriving in the Weser and Elbe report seeing much wreckage and many corpses drifting about. They were un- able, however, to pick up any of the bodies rie 9 to the high seas which were runnin MR, FOSTER CRITICIZED. An English M.P. Asks for His Cre- dentials. London, Nov. j0.--Alired Emmott, M.P., speaking at Oldham and refer- ring to Mr. Foster's visit, said he thought it would be gross impertin- ence on the part of any politician of this country to go to Canada and tell her what she ought to do. Ti Mr. Fos- ter was a man of importance, Mr. Em- mott said, he wouid strongly resent his coming to Oldham to take any part in party politics. Mr. Foster, a Tory pro- tectionist to the backbone, came here and posed as the friend of preferen- tial treatment to Britain. When a man like Foster, not only out of office, but out of Parliament, who had fought two bye-elections and failed in both, came here to instruct us he was inclined to inquire for his credentials and ask whom he represented. . ANOTHER HUNTER KILLED Albert Coates Shot Beside a Moose He Had Jus: Slain. Winnipeg, Nov. 29.--While moose hunting yesterday in Portage la Prairie district, a young farmer named Albert Coates received fatal injuries -- a bullet fired by hi Moffatt. Coates moose, and Moffatt coming up shortly afterwards saw Coates beside the ani- mal and fired. THOUSANDS WERE DROWNED. Result.of a Typhoon Off South Coast China. Victoria, Nov. 30.--Advices were received 'from South China by the Athenian of the loss of thousands- of lives as a result of the destruction of several hundred fishin Looe i = Ped phoon off Swatow. ong Government tender Steele ac F sev- eral jBritish torpedo and gun boats towed a number of the junks, which -- the typhoon, to places Ov. 30. Z of Fourth 'Aszistant' Postmaster-Gen- eral J. L. Bristow, upon his inves- | . tigation into the postal frauds, was submitted to the Post Office Depart- ment. It will be submitted to Con- were ee it asks for the docu- Mr. Bristow says in part :-- The eentem of organized corruption that has been disclosed began in 1893 and continued. until stopped by this investigation. The amount of money secured by the corrupt officials their confederates is small as compar- ed to the tone ios to the Goyern- ment. To i rate : Barrett oectined but '$6,000 from the Arnold Company, yet that company bcos the people out of over Machen probably did not receive more than $26,000 from the Groff fast- mer. Yet the Pocerinicnt has_ paid approximately $130,000 for that device, which represents a net loss, since the department continued, by the terms of the contract for letter boxes, to pay for the original fastner. Beavers and his associates received less than pe ff the automatic cashier, Yet department ex- pended $74,725 ioe this wholly unnec- essary mac Asa result of the investigation four. officers and employees of the depart- ment have resigned, and thirteen have have been removed. Forty-four in- dictments have been found, R gadis Mo irty-one persons, ten of whom have hig connected with the postal ser- --_-------------- DO BUSINESS IN ONTARIO. New Companies that Were Granted Incorporation, Toronto, Nov. 30.-- A num- r of Toronto' investors are interested in a new one hundred thou- sand dollar company, the Toronto Coral & Mycenian Marble Co., Lim- ited. The provisional directors are : 7 3 Moyes, . Manager Metropolitan Railway Company ;4 - P. Page, Manager of the Sun & Hastings Savings & Loan Co.; Wm. Maguire and E. H. Hilborn, pen) estate agent, Toronto, and Wil- liam Dynes of the village of Grainger. The Credit Forks Vitrified Stone- ware Sewer Pipe Company, Limited, has been incorporated, with a capital of $200,000. The head office will be in Toronto. The following companies have re- ceived incorporation : Damascus Gold Mining Company, Limited, $250,000, village of Bridgeburg; Valley Seating Company of Dundas, Limited, $73,000; Hamilton Sanitarium Company, Lim- ited, $50,000; Redpath Motor Vehicle Company of Berlin, Limited, $50,000 ; Ontario Pipe Line -Gom PALLY, Limit ed, $40,000; Toronto Iron & Steel Co., | Limited, $40,000 ; Arbuihnot & Mar millan, Limited, printers, $40,000, T= ronto; The Hamilton Bros. Company, Limited, merchants and millers, $25,- 000, Glen Huron; Riverdale Club, Lim- itrd, $10,000, the New York Lake Erie Oil & Gas Co., Limited, is authorized to increase se capital from one to two million dol- a TO CURE BASHFULNESS: London Ladies Have Found a Cure for Blushes. New York,. Nov. 29.--The Sun to- day has the following special from London :--Shyness is not generally re- garded as a prominent characteristic of the modern woman, but the distress- ing malady is, apparently, sufficiently prevalent for it to be seriously tak- en in hand at the Jopling School of Art at Earl's Court. ere, during the coming season, bashful women are in- vited to come and be cured by Miss Elsa Desterre. . One mecting has al- ready been held, and the roseate blushes which suffused the~ checks of bashful blondes and brunettes rivalled nature's finest efforts in the shape of a tropical sunset. Never, it is said, has a murky afternoon of London in the autumn been relieved by such a warm, glowing piece of color. The lecturer at this meeting did not spare her quailing hearers as she told them that shyness was merely a form of conceit, the result of beli¢ving them- selves greater than they really are. The cure is to be effected by means of a series of debates, in the course of which th disease will be considered in ail its aspects. The shyest women will take the chair in turn. Papers will be read by the shyest and will be replied to by the next in order of shyness. After a course of this treatment urtder Miss Desterre's unblushing guardian- ship it is confidently expected that a blush will never again be seen in a Lo- don drawing-room save on a mas- culine cheek. A DOUBLE FATALITY. Lorne McAllister's Death at Owen Sound. : Owen Sound, Nov. 28--One day about four weeks ag6<Finlay McLeod and Lorne McAllister, two young resi- dents of Sarawak, set out to hunt partridge about eight miles from Owen Sou fhen passing under a log the gun in McAllister's hands was accident ally discharged, the shot logging in McLeod's back near the base of the so After sa tae for several days companion was heart broke, although the affair was The Present State of 'His Health ben "Not Satisfactory. : London, Nov. 30.--Although no pub- lic announcement of the fact has yet been made, it is understood that Lord Roberts is about to resign as Com- mander-in-Chief. He has beet much more ill than generally known, js still abed, and the condition of his health. fequires him to spend. the winter in a southern climate, probably the Riviera. --------eEe--yy BISHOP COURTNEY RESIGNS. To Accept the "Rectorship of St. James', New York. Halifax, Nov. 30--Rt, Rev. Freder- ick Courtney, D.D., of the Church of England, has resigned as Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, and accepted the rectorship of St. James'. Church, New York, one of the largest:and most influential. in the Episcopal Church of the writes States THE MARKET REPORTS. Grain is About the Same--The Live Stock Trade--Latest Quotations. _Saturday Eve., Nov. 28. Toronto St. Lawrence Market. Trade in most lines was apg brisk a eae Law wrence aa eet to-day, and receipts good. was a Hiss poser Yor. "the prods palling: in the jr stalls, and there was a fair a of stuff, hay and grain sold hoe the. 'street. Grain recelpts amounted t bushels. enya og cee hundred pipnete of white red 50 ld at per bushel, ona 500. of goose sel ek Be t 0 78i4c. celp avy. Three iashels. word Se 48c to 49c per (Bight aenares bushels sold at 3lc to ae per Dressed Hoge. Deliveries continue fair, -- res market Is quoted unchanged at ewt. ea choice Hght weights, s. oc w plenty offering. Prices are anonansed at 20c to 2c per Ib. Eges--Continue firm for good farme rs' stocks. Quotations range from 'ic to 40c er Ib. ede coe demand for chickens was c 'to fie on the martest. t 0 oA $1 per ton, ent our loads sold cs 310 to $11 per Cheese Markets. ondon, Gat. Nov. 28.--The las oe Seas wae 8 t s, November Noy. ti rod, YN boxes tu amery butter. Cheese sold at 'whe: chatter: 2ic. Board osed to-day for 'thé season, East Buffalo Cattle Markets. East Buffalo, Nov. 2. Peta iene rhe 10,200 Pag eu ad; aci iv ° ind steady; $1.00 65 0 $4.0 pis, .000 ; yearlings Fre] 0 44.25; ew weihers, iu 35 A; $h75; iumbs 'closing sheep, mixed, ° $1.50 to eauice. Chicago Live Stock. hicago, mov, 23.-- pieboaetpetscnad a F oth ' to Dee eee au ramps mtaady, good t 3.1 75 to $4.25; fair to Naas $3.76; native lambs, $4 t Leading Ween Waksts Closing previous day. To-day. Nov. May, Novy. eeee ween ees Chicago New Yo er ee British Markets, erpool, Nov. 28.--Close--Wheat, spot Walla, 2 winter, 68 orth ern Manitoba, Live -- if to American, old, per cental, ah ig to 48 value; futures dull; Decem ber, 48 value: January, 3s Misa value. Flour, Min- neapolis, on t ang O 228 28. --Clos a er tee es orn, Corn, oureona r.t., stea ig corn. "pe reels American mix- ed. . 188 $a; American gates December, 18s 94; American mixe 18s 104d. nglish ountry heat ets of yesterday steady. Weather in Engiand rain; forecast, Monda ay's imports to nites sf rg ee wheat 2,504,000 bushels, 2,200,000 bush- els, flour 267,000 ba ral Spatorasy" 8 ome lish farmers' deliveries of wheat 55,08 quarters; average price, s ¥ Antwerp, Nov. %.---Close--Wheat, No. 2 red winter. isyt. Jorn, spot erican mixed, 19f 9c. Flour, spot Minne- apolis, 26f 9%c. aris, NG v. 28. = Opeeing Where Sune. 20h 28f. French country markets quiet Pa ris--Close--Wheat, tone quiet: Novem- March a ber, 40c; fe 2 ete y rin feat Flour, t ulet; ideo -4 tone a f %5c. Weather in France, north, Lov yf & iat south, rain. Forecast, north an Died in California. "Winnipeg, Nov. 29--(S Har vy. Mekittsicle, proprietor roa the National Hotel, aie died yester" day in California. pecial.)--