Show FAIR WOMEN AND UI18WJ J MOV A CirnntI EMI held at New York LoI Sight XKWvYoitir Jnn 2e 15000 bail Is in progress tonightatthe Metropolitan p ropolitan I 01cm House and the i chief executive f fpltit is Ward Mc Allister to whom Is credited the statement that > cw Yorks best society so-ciety consist of only 403 lost April cA1 terwa rendered very unhappy because Mr Fish ousttd him from the management of the great centennial ball Then MeAl lister mid he would get up a ball of his own seIne time and demonstrate what a really perfect ball I would b and tonightsalTalr Is the demon stration The money was raised by subscriptions from the Astors Vau derbllts Deposes Morgans Lorll lords Ueolets Hewitts Coopers Clews orblea and many others of the 400 McAllisters Ideas were being worked out smoothly when suddenly sudden-ly I there camelliu horrible Intimation Intima-tion that he would b threatened with a Hood of policemen In the supper room to prevent the use of wino after 1 a m Argument was brought to bear however aud as a result the corporation counsel today notified the malice that Uie ball was a private affair and the guests had aright a-right to DIIUCK VISE ALL JilCIIT if they wanttd to whereupon the police beard ordered the ollceto keep hands off and permit the 500 quarts of chanipigue which had been purchased to be drunk at le sure Invitations were Issued to each ImHlllon lue of the subscribers a permission to invltezeven frluii Consequently the number enabled to be present was ITS The Oj era House was decorated 1 in a most elaborate manner with cabrnte 1lnner WiI ricli hangings silks and a lloral dls i play It Is the handsomest decoration decora-tion the Metropolitan Opera House has ever seen All through the corridors aud staircase were trees of tropical growth shrub of rare culture cul-ture ohm blooming flowers while Incandescent lights were present everywhere Save in the dim dark vault above the suspended 1 canopy of green IVrfumcd fountains scented Limo air and music floated lenlc fonle from fcotirceSjlhe orchestra frm unexpected 1ftll Orhl Lea being hidden TiE PATRON ESSES of the boll included Mx r William Astor Ir Delaney Kane r Elliott JtoooeveltMr hilipScliuy ler and Mrs George Peabody They arrived at 10 oelock and were received re-ceived by Cornelius Vanderbilt Uyron lv Stevens nnd War Me Allister and escorted to the position where they should recelxo the uecta guAt 12 oclock the dancing floor was atlr with promeuaders and soon after tlio danciug began with the quadrille dehonncur Supjier was served In a room where tin twelve hundred might sit The lady nutreneM < were atone at-one table presided over by MeSh later 11 who IA had 11r n William PI Astor laud was seated t McAllisters i left o At the foot of tho table was r nelius Vanderbilt with Mrs Elliott Iloosevelt Others at this table were Count DArco German Mln iter Secretory of the Xavy Tracy C M Ucpew with Mn1 Taran Stevensanil Grover Cleveland with Mrs W C Whitney After supper dancing was resumed and ended with the largest cotillion ever danced In Ametica There were In I 150 I couples otello CIo Jan 2Verdis opera of 0 ello was produced tonight for the first time iu America at the Auditorium The stage setting was magnificent to a degree rarely equaled The production of this opera has been postponed twice on account of the illness of the great tenor Tamagno but he was on hand tonight having finally triumphed in the struggle with la anpr Madame Albaui apjicared ns Des demon JkiltcUl JIunlrr ALEQIAII I T Jan 2tn the Cherokee Nation in 1ESG Dr Pile anti Mrs William Kerr were found murdered lln thclr honH one morning ing John Stephcmon toward whom suspicion pointed was tried convicted and hanged Xowcomes tbe startling revelation that on the evening of December 27th a colored col-ored gambler named Rogers was fatally injured by a railroad train at Illinois station Itefuro dying Rogers confesFed he hind committed the murder for which Stephenson was hanged Horrible ted PHILADELPHIA Jan 2itahi Kelly aged SI and Ann Kelly aged TO staten had their throats cut last night by some one unknown un-known The women lived llu a little frame dwelling at Xo 258 Wistcr street and wereawakened by an intruder In-truder utter they had gone to ld last I night The mau demanded money and when they declared thtereseas none In thehouse slashed each of them across the throat with a kulfc Tho women were removed today to the hospital and may recover re-cover Rmtlt or Jralony WACSAU WIs Jan 2Tn the town of Stettin this afternoon Herman Her-man Fiiedrlchs aged 21 shot Itertha Eldman aged 20 and then himself because she refused t marry mar-ry him lOath will die Tlir MisarTrmt NEW YOKK Jan 2oUco of action in the Supreme Court for a dissolution of the Sugar Trust and asking for the appointment of a receiver re-ceiver woo filed in Jlrooklyn late on Tuesday afternoon by the North Iilver Sugar lUfiuing Company a member of the trust through Henry Hen-ry Wlnthrop Grey receiver The document says partnership trust was entered into August 1 1SST eter Augst The appointment of a receiver 1 asked for to take possession of all the property of the trust many millions in value The court is asked to restrain re-strain defendants from disposing of any of the property of the trust and from paying out any further moneys mon-eys or otherwise disposing of the assets png Till U Too Hurli FIIAXKKOKT Jan2 The Journal has news from LIeutenant Justwho has arrived at Aden He tate that while on the way to join Peter he was seized with a severe Illness All of his followers deserted him except one personal attendant Subsequently one of the deserters returned and told Rust that at a Intoned9y distant he had seen the murdered bodies of Peters and Tildeman The Tern Inn Jlormrek Slrnntlrd IVtDOX Jan 2The British steamer tTtian JonorcA from New York December 15 stranded at Woolwich Tuesday evening after sinking a coal laden barge and breaking adrift and damaging tho big I Au Editor Gee to 1rUou DruMX Jan 2 Mclnery editor of the Limerick I Trader on trial for iutliulditiaii was found gulltj 1 and sntouc Ullt 10 six months imprison |