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Show V number to become McBrides agent, gave him sufficient money to pay for MILLIONS VANISHED. the plant, and then proceeded to destroy LAWLliR-MBRlD- E the whole outfit. The committee is now THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILfeud in the SOUTH DAKOTA. hunting for McBride to. impress ROAD IN THE COURTS. his mind that his stay in Mitchell upon must be brief. jjlall Ha I Abuie.1 John D. Law! er The History of. the Koad Reads Dike a Died Heart-Tyk- e of I?roken He Romance The First Railroad In the l'ntll A QUEER CHARACTER. Old Story jof an Cu happy Marriage United) States Criminal Manage-me- rylTTER REVENGE. er, Vreo. oted rit- - Alai iGo 11 Colony whose legs were tinder the mahogany, did not drink. He was of the tribe referred to. He excused himself about 10 p, m., pleaded a pressing engage- n(j br a inighted-DifeJ- Driven from His Hessian Home, He Has Kept His Boyhood Promise. One of the queerest of, New Yorks HE entire outfit. 61 thje weekly Mail, a queer characters is found on Fulton Tang- - established street. He Is Hermann Walters, a Hes- ; fafeiK j ;ordin t( iron, is ion'S a, is Well ,Pay stop Sew Yog r Is Alleged ; in the sian the blackest sheep, as he himself declares, of all the Hessians.,- - Somewhere near Darmstadt his father Is the by an ' indignant master of a fine old feudal castle. It v. populace the? other has been so rnanv years since he left tr day. Paper, press- the paternal roof that he has forgotten OUBCL iSn,y Mt LakV es, type and other exactly where it it. Besides he left in Lotte be--, the night one paraphernalia night when his father ipal point i n n to yor ticb. g p gs the ordered him to go and never come hack. newspaper plant were taken into the He was a' boy, then, and the father 'Jfflce, fii 437. did not mean what he said. , But the 6treet anud publicly' jburned by a body was men. The melted.' boy did when he obeyed, and he has type j,f business went up in smoke and meant it ever since. When he was tliP woodwork und Tlia& were smashed) into banished from his fathers house he presses it?" iron of pieces, This act is an- drifted around on the continent for bund re dp Figaro1 other link in the tragedy of the Mails awhile, but the old fatherland was a editor, It. H. McBride. A story of,blast-e- d frigid host, and finally he shipped behopes, ruined lives and the display. fore the mast, and in a year or two i nqr It is said, of the malignant efforts to drifted into a permanent haven in New ruin business is mixed up in. the case, York. He took the name of Hermann and John.D. Lawler, president Walters then, and he has borne It ever jlcfiride health o ifthe First National bank, were a since. The first week after his arrival Lre cut of dumber of years agb op friendly terms, he wandered into Fulton street. Every 'ears tha the former being editor of the only dem- one knows him 'there. He shuffles dety. i,; ocratic paper in thht section, and the through the street at all times of the t beyon, and night. The blue .blouse is alday ds Sarsa ways open and exposes a breast that Is ahty massive and as hairy as his face. thus gv When Garibaldi was running his soap mg letter factory over on Staten island in the about m day time and his unification of Italy as com plot in a little saloon in Fulton street (Ubattirc at night Walters washis body serwould nc vant He knew the secrets of the Italbad a ba ians, but he guarded them as well as he has kept the promise made to his father. - newspaper hap-pinessI- -- j , aDy good is Saraapa f From th get better was com as been ti o tfia Pece N. Y. ler has uc words as ! , Sarsapariil now well t. ise 5 DIRK FOR A SWEETHEART. -a A Disappointed Hartford Dover Commits a Terrible Crime. Lioulse Trebbe, 28 years old, a single Woman, daughter of the late Hermann Trtjbbe, was murdered at her home in South Manchester, Conn., the other morning by Caspar Hartlein, a farm hand, employed to do chores about the JOHN D. LAWLER. latter prominent in the councils of the place, Hartlein had been in love with ls victim an4 had importuned her to democratic party. jNine years ago Lawler married Miss Ella Sturgis, daughter marry him. She did not reciprocate of General Sturgis of the United States his affection and had repeatedly told f army, and. ye went tp Mitchell to reside. First Nahank and continued in that posit- became president of the He tional ion to the present) time. Mrs. Lawlers widowed sister, Mrs. Dousman of Prairie du Chien, visited the Lawler in a social I Mrs. Dousnden became attracted way. to McBride, he being a man of more druggists, f ty, and married him. Lowell, Mi character, however, vegetable, it is stated, was riot of the best. Previous to McjBrides marriage to Lazier was requested Its El! byMrsJDousman, one' of the nearest relatives of Mrs. 7atenr:: Dousman to inform her of the private character of McBride, andt he did so. cd This was all Lawler did in opposition ia tha to the marriage, according io relatives. WORLD! Many happy social gatherings, trips to the, seashore and winter residences in New York, followed, until McBride, tiring of domestic dife, went after other more exciting) pleasures. A detectlIhIh and ive' soon reported the matter of vioarrantedws lated' marriage vows and other acts. dest storm. Mrs. Dousman separated from McBride riding cost, iltatiooB. and secured a diyprce. McBride then on it. ' returned to Mitchell and commenced systematic attacks upon Lawler, his family and the First National bank. Farmers who deposited in the bank known to McBride, and those who were not known, were hunted ui and given ilui a "tip that they bad better take their money out of the hank, and in conseFi quence the banks support among farmers has steadily decreased for the past three years, Every weeks issue contained some allusion to the bank and its president, based on falsehood, hut appearing in 'such. a manner that no action a law could be taken against family and met McBride la him so. She did not fear him and whenever she could escape from his attentions did so. At about 6:30koclockhat morning she was combing her hair In the kitchen when Hartlein came up behind her, looked over her shoulder and said: She Louise, will you marry me? Get from away replied, impatiently: ! me, dont bother me. Hartlein turned away with a groan, went into the pan- - i li- n, ( j f t him. - This career of McBrides w&s idly CASPAR HARTLEIN. came hack with a vicious looking try, dirk knife about eight Inches long, and without a word plunged the knife into her breast. Just above the heart. Miss Trebbe, sank to the floor and died In fifteen minutes. There was no witness to .the fatal deed, and Miss Trebbe was discovered a few minutes later by he? widowed sister, Mrs. Thomas Ward, with whom she lived. The murderer Is under arrest. the people until the came the other day, that John D. looked upon by news Say - He Can Explain a Crime. Wilden has written to the Peter Lawler had suddenly died in Soux City at Bristol, Ind.j from Los Angeles, cials cf on 'bad apoplexy, whither he railroad nine miles In length as his source of Income. He becomes prosperous. Then the vulture puts in an As we peruse the story appearance. further we see fabulous Incomea of officers, marble mansions, a crop of heiresses, deadly English syndicates, wine, until we wind up with poor, old Uncle Sam as receiver. He suffers for the sins of the corporations. He officiates at their birth and death, but fruits he gathers not. The Baltimore & Ohio is the oldest steam railroad In this country. The first stone of its roadbed was laid in Baltimore on the Fourth of July, 1828, Over the with elaborate ceremony. original length of nine miles mules dragged its cars. Then Peter Cooper, a manufacturer of New York, took-tBaltimore a steam engine a curious concern, something like a boiler with a stovepipe in it.' And Coopers engine broke down and the horse express beat it. Then came the grasshopper engines that were exhibited at the Worlds Fair the embryonic germs of the treSo, mendous locomotives of & Ohio is historically, the Baltimore extremely interesting. The road grew. It was the first to cross the Allegheny mountains and tap the great west. It grew, and, thanks to the energy, the executive capacity, the untiriifg labor of John W. Garrett, it thrived in time. Garrett was of the type of Commodore Vanderbilt, who created the New York Central, and of Thomas A. Scott, the father of the Pennsylvania. Garrett knew everything about a railroad from the ties to the -- presidents desk. Under his management the road arose to a prosperity that even he had not dreamed of. The Baltimore & Ohio became the city of Baltimore and the state of Ohio and controlled both. John W. Garrett died in 1884, and his son, Robert Garrett, succeeded him as president of the Baltimore & Ohio. Robert Garrett suffered the disadvantage of having a great father. Robert Garrett was a luxurious millionaire. The Garrett holding was then 57,000 shares of the 150,000. But back of Robert Garrettj too, were the shares owned by the city of Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins estate, and others, 114,500 in all. Robert Garrett was the center of the social system of Baltimore. He wished, besides, to rival his great father as a railroad man. There was one railroad between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Robert Garrett wanted it for the Baltimore & Ohio. Thomas A. Scott wanted it for the Pennsylvania railroad. That railroad was the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore. Just at that time it was naturally the most desirable thing in the world to the Baltimore & Ohio and to the Pennsylvania. Robert Garrett generally got anythe Philathing he wanted. Wanting & he Baltimore, delphia, Wilmington see he could how to looked around get it. He learned that several of the largest owners of the stock lived in Boston. They owned almost half the stock, and with that in his possession Robert Garrett could easily get control of the majority. His negotiaSo he went to Boston successful. His were tions eminently was Robstock offer for the accepted. ert Garrett went to New York. Already in his minds eye he saw the Baltimore & Ohio trains rolling into the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore depot at Broad and Prime streets. offi?, - o to-da- y. wn ed aqa iv.NV telpJe R. CL'V'v utl!r H. McBRIDB. &llized into a meeting of the foremost citizens a short time ago, and, as a result, a committee called upon Mc-ride and informed him that they had to buy his outfit, with the Tur-ikproviso that he would have to leave town. McBride assented to the deposition, and stated that he would the plant Monday morning to the er , sUf r, and records were oDen, hut only papers has found. Since that time the safe which placard, been left open was Information, bore the following Mr. Burglar-T- his hung on the knob: waste powder. cafe Is open. No use to t turn O. knob.' The burglar that night evientered the place Thursday read, for the safe was dently could not and nothing of value again wrecked found. . 11 appointed time the ideas' called on McBride, but In the dntime he had been bolstered up by dma cr nra friends, and he purposely U cut cf the reach of the committee, the latter appointed one cf their ens. At the ROBERT GARRETT. a secret that cost the revealed jWho Baltimore &.Ohio railroad EX-PRESIDE- NT f y $8,000,000. i self-contain- ed - i escape made difficult. An Elaborate DeVlc to Put o Dad to Jail Deltvert. One of the neatest inventions have .been made recently is the that out planned by F. V. Simms. Mr. Simms was greatly interested in the delivery, and Immediately after the jail prisoners escaped he set to work to devise a to prevent any similar occurrence, plan the Louisville Evening Post. -says Mr. Simms proposes to surround each cell with an compartment. This will be filled with carbon dioxide under a pressure much higher than that of air. In each compartment there will be a small retort, containing lumps of marble, covered with diluted sulphurlo acid. This will fill the tank with the gas. In another part of the compartment a small rubber balloon, filled with the air or other gas. Ispartly held in place by a wire frame. Fastened to the top of the balloon Is a thin metar plate connected to an electric wire. Directly over the plate Is the point of a screw, to which the other wire fa fastened. This screw is turned until it almost toriches the plate and the'wlrea are connected with a bell and a battery. When a prisoner bores a hole through the wall of his cell, the carbon-oxld- s fills the room and he is asphyxiated. In the meantime the pressure belng.re-duce- d in the compartment, the balloon will expand and the plate will come in contact witlT the screw. When the circuit Is closed the bell will ring and arouse the turnkeys. M?v Simms did not explain about ventilation and this seems to he the chief drawback to the plan. It would be a simple matter for the prisoner to open his windows and allow the gas to escape. This might b prevented, however, by connecting two sets of wires with the plate and screw, and-th- e second current will cause an outside shutter to fall and cover th window. This would hardly bs necessary, as the sound of the bell would b sufficient to prevent a prisoners escape. The. wires to the hell are inside of the walls, so that they cannot be cut by a deceitful trusty. air-tig- ht (Who Represented English Syn- dicate) They made other agreements that would have profited the Baltimore & Ohio, and Robert Garrett decided not to build the road.! He estimated that the project had already cost $2,000,000. The Pennsylvania was ready to pay OLD BILL BENNETT. ' ties., This man is "Sure thkt the riches are buried on the farm. As a blend of the Blue Beard and the Shylock old Bill was an object of curiosity. He clung to life as he did his money, and when he died he was 85 years old. His life was that. one long bout With privaIt had really cost $8,000,000. The tion and wives. Pennsylvania withdrew from the agreeHe took three wives unto himself ment. The game was not worth the and he hated each one worse than her candle to them. Robert Garrett built predecessor, and neglected her with his road. It proved a fearful drain keener relish. After ten years the first The road wife obtained a divorce from'Old Bill. on the Baltimore & Ohio. floated $17,000,000 of securities on the His second wife died after six years of strength of that Load between Philadel- dieting on hop aqd salt pork. But Old phia and Baltimore. But a large part Bill lived on to see a sight that Is rarely of that money was 'diverted to other granted even to much married men. parts of the Baltimore & Ohio system, He saw his first wife laid to rest and and was dissipated by peculiar finan- his third wife acting as one of the prin- delphia. . self-impos- ed . ciering. ' The Baltimore & Ohio found itself on the brink of insolvency in October, 1887. Drexel, Morgan & Co. whieh Is to say, J. Pierpont Morgan advanced the money that delayed the day of reckonBut, before lending a cent, Mr. ing. Morgan demanded that Robert Garrett resign the presidency. 1 Co. nt . ; course, her from inherited a great fortune father, old John W., put her hand in her pocket She loyally paid off a large part of the roads obligations to Drexel,! Morgan& Co. Then Samuel Spencer Then came Charles F.j had to Mayer as. president. .The road continued to goiown. Bad, aye criminal, bookkeeping was resorted to to keep up the price of stock for gambling pur-- i Miss Mary Garrett, who, Of poses. j The stockholiersof the road have been for years deluded by false reports of the companys profits by a peculiar system of bookkeeping. . And it Is said Stephen Little, the expert accountant, who went to Baltimore to examine the Baltimore & Ohios books, found the books doctored. There are hints of journal entries that bear the Initials of the officer requiring them to be made, thus to relieve the accountant of the responsibility. Enhancement of the market prices of securities is made on the books to appear as income, and no change was made when the value of the securities It is understood, too, again declined. 150 engines laid Mr. Little found that of want for repairs. up, useless, John K. Gowan who resigned his seat In congress to become the Baltimore & Ohios president one week ago, is now made a receiver of the property for the United States courts. He will continue to operate the railroad much as though nothing had happened, but the creditors of the company will be told when they press their claims: You can do nothing. The company Is in the hand3 of the courts. Wiped Out the Family. 22 years old, of John Mackin, t Jersey City, Thursday night shot and instantly killed Lizzie, his wife, 21 years old, and Mrs. Bridget Connors, aged 54, her mother, and mortally wounded Morris Connors, aged 56, his cipal mourpers. Tilted back in a chair on his porch, with his feet resting on the rail, and an old pipe between his teeth, he formally viewed the funeral procession as a governor would review a parade. When his third wife passed p by in the hearse he raised his hat as .a to would the chief governor tly, of his staff. Then he leaned back and wondered what the procession cost. The ruling passion of old Bill's life was money. It dwarfed every other sentiment and killed his wives, one by one His farm was one of the most fertile and productive in the county, hut it yielded Its Increase only to fill Billis hidden coffers. He built a handsome house on his farm. He furnished one part of it, and ,then refused to let his Twice his third wife enter that(parLwife tried to commit suicide, and twice she was fished out of the little Brum-fox- it river, which flows through the village. A year ago pneumonia came to her rescue &bd succeeded where the river had failed. ' For his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Grimes, old Bill cherished hatred. After his third wife died she was his only near relative, but he has disinherited her, and has driven her from his home gal-da- Samuel Spencer, who was of the Baltimore & Ohio, became president in Mr. Garretts stead. Mr. Spencer is of the firm of Drexel, Morgan vice-preside- Bade Awakening of a Girl rled in Haste. Hayes, of Trevorton, ; Mrs. Edward Pa., who was married two, weeks ago, entered suit for a divorce in the eburts at Sunbury, a day or two age, as she , , Philadelphia, for all that remained was . to sign some papers. Now, be it remembered, Robert' Garman. rett was never a He drank deep. in New Arrived, to a went dinner he York, party with some of his old friends. Some members of that odorous tribe known as corporation lawyers jvere among them. ' At that dinner the bottle of champagne that cost millions was opened. Suicide at One Hundred. Garrett drank it. Flushed, he Robert 1 00, committed aged Maher; not could keep his triumphant secret. Tlenry Bell in home his at suicide "Congratulate me, he cried. Drink a the other day. He had70 to the B.& O. and her outlet to PhiladelBaptist preacher for more than years. phia. In two days I will control the size p., W. & B Silk worm eggs are about,, tho But one man," More corks popped. of mustard seeds. fn il, '' Morgan. j. pierpont the came. a Safa Blower Wastes His Time. About a year ago .a safe in the buildEagle Refining ing occupied by the Ohio, was blown In Cleveland, company, v.mU to-da- surrounding recalled that several murders were committed number of years ago. -Wilden named the alleged murderer- whose Identity will he suppressed until better evidence is forthcoming. , toads. Ilia canning waa keener than nl 1x1 the eplrlt old Bill itill laughs last and best. MARRIED For six months endingDec, 31 last the company reported net earnings $4,116,220, but on Saturday it was unable to borrow the $400,000 needed tp and the crass. pay interest due y, gone he is in possession of evidence business. The full force of McBrides Cal., that to convict a well-knosufficient abuse then came home Goshen, Ind., citizen of murder. He to the citizens, and they resolved to near committed was crime rid the town of the editor. This crys- - says the He Middlebury about 20 years ago. at offered was asks whether a reward evithe time and is still in effect for dence that would convict the murderer, to promising, if a reward will be paid, come to Indiana and solve the mystery a dark crime. It is now long-continu- ) of-the- ir A S 1 th - j -- a mule 1 I ! HE story- of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which has just gone into the hands of a receiver, reads like a romance. In the first chapter we see an humble American citizen engaged in the pursuit of toWn of Mitchell, S. D was destroyed HIS MONEY. OLD BILL BENNETT WOULD NOT ment, and left the table. He took the MAKE A WILL. first train he could catch to Philadelphia. There he was driven to the house ' . Had Thre Wlve and Starved Them Ail of Thomas A. Scott 2 Sat on 111 Porch and Watched By oclock the next day the papers were signed and that gave the Pennsyl- ' Their Funeral Go By Death Wear, He vania control of the Philadelphia, WilHid HU Gold. mington & Baltimore. The stock was to be delivered In New York that night beOMEWHERE Inexpressibly mortified, chagrined neath the fertile, beyond measure, Robert Garrett deterrolling kcres of Old mined in June, 1885, to build a line of Bill Bennetts farm, his own to Philadelphia. First, it was on the southern necessary to get legislative permission outskirts of the litto enter Philadelphia. That seemed tle village of Cadifficult Th6 Pennsylvania had the naan, Conn., a. forpull of all its locomotives with the legtune in gold, silver islature of Pennsylvania and with the and government Philadelphia city councils. The Pennbonds lies burled. sylvania foughtGarrett with all its Old Bill alone knew strength. But Robert Garrett on his mettle, got iwhere the hidden treasure lay, and old Bill is dead. He ended his miserable permission for his road to enter Phila- life one week, and his parting It cost him shot was:day Ilast delphia in forty days. take It with me, but cant He paid his secret agents $500,000. I can hide it tere she will never get well; he advertised liberally; he exit My daughter will never live to pended large sums in fees to counsel. No one else shall that money. There were those1 that insisted that spend spend Jteither, unless they are smarter should be spelled The Pennsylvania road, finding that than I ever gave them credit for," It Robert Garrett could get into Philadel- is thought that the riches are buried somewhere in the orchard or grain field. phia, determined to , patch up a truce A few thousand dollars were - found with him. They agreed to pay him all the liabilitltes he had incurred looking stowed away in the closets and under to the construction of the road to Phila- - the carpets, but the baBof his property was nowhere to be seen It was known that he possessed at least $100,000 in cash and government bonds. All his life he had tolled and hoarded and scrimped his household. There was only one man whom he trusted. He was A neighbor. To that man he had often shown his bonds and securl- - &t - BURIED - has learned that her husband is a burglar. The womans maiden name was r Annie Zeigler, and she wedded Hayes after a short acquaintance, he having represented that he was worth considerable money, and, therefore, was not compelled to work. Hayes took his wife to Milton, where they were living, happily until Monday, when he was ar- rested on three separate charges of burglarly. Clarence Ludwlck, hlscom- panion, was also taken Into custody, and they are now behind the bars at" Sunbury. Burglaries have been num- - -erous around Milton the past month, and on Saturday last a quantity of coal -- -- Mm,, iim r MRS. EDWARD HAYES, was stolen from the yard of E. W. Johnson.- - The fuel had been carried away in bags, and as there was a hole ' In the bag the thieves were easily triced ' by small pieces that had dropped to the ground. The trail lead to. a building In Milton that was occupied in part by the police department and on the upper floor they found Hayes and Ludwig' looking over a quantity of miscellaneous plunder that was afterward identi- 5 fied nby several victims of the burglars. -- TO THE ICE SHE CLUNG. Tsnrlbl Fat of Harriet Ford' ia th Frozen Scioto Birer. Mrs. Harriet Ford, of Columbus, Ohio, was found dead in Scioto river a few While mentally deranged days ago. Evishe wanderd away from home. dently she had attempted to cross the river on the ice, and had stepped into an air hole. She had broken through the ice and then made' an. effort to extricate herself. Her arms were thrown out over the edges of the Kble, arid her head and shoulders remained above the surface. In this position she had frozen to death. The freezing had rendered her arms so stiff that in death they clung to the ice and prevented the corpse from sinking Into the stream. The water In the hole soon froze around the womans body and held it In an upthus presented a right position. Itdiscovered by Harry MRS. MARY GRIMES. ghastly sight when H swore that she should never get a Blair, a fishrmn. Mrs. Ford was colcent of Ills money. He declared he ored, and 60 years old. would see It burn before his eyes sooner than let her have IL His favorA Practical Joker Fatally Shot. Orlando Deweese, of Marion, Ohio, . ite retreat was his big orchard, back of the house. There he spent most of his was escorting a young woman from Eberly and time, walking up and down between the church Sunday night, Virgil a tree. behind rows of trees and muttering to himself. two friends stepped from Just before he died he, made midnight Drawing a revolver, Eberly cried: then pilgrimages to the orchard, and it is "Hold np your hands.Y.Deweese and the he u find the to lungs shot Eberly through where the searchers hope were . his friends and of the will die. Eberly treasure. When the frost Is out to be him. will frighten simply trying ground a systematic search made. But though every inch of the Ten years ago all Europe manufactground has been gone over, notaoneif i ured 32,000,000 pounds of silk, valued at has been found which looks and 64,000,000 pounda might conceal geld and silver " "" j |