Show GENERAL NEWS IT W V to alit NEW YOUK augle tho election of maclian yesterday as temporary president of the board is sig ant because maclean is a no personal friend arid dei pendent of tilden and was one of bia trusted clerks during the dennial campaign the considers the new move to control tho police board equivalent to tilden hoisting alie buck flag tilden and his friends recognize that a defeat in tho coming state convention would be fatal to liis hopes of controlling the new york delegation t the national coir next year hence tha unseemly and factious wrangle with tammasy about city offices and tho desperate moves to obtain control of tho ballot boxes roush he power of selecting alie inspectors both with the ulterior view of re nominating and re electing gov cartor robinson move list night informally resolving hat under no circumstances cart the S ew york democracy vote for rob non again without ft sacrifice of lo norand looks much as faliero will be a certain bolt if robinsons nomination is forced with out new york city the democrats cant possibly win bilden and his arienda rienda are evidently greatly alarmed at the danger eliat chief justice church may be nominated which would finally extinguish hildena Til dena hopes church would unite his party and give it a largo victory alie republican advises advices from ohio continue to anticipate the overwhelming triumph ot foster ewings friends are evidently despondent pon dent though they dont give up the fichu indian SAN 12 phoenix arizona dispatch the heralds tucson special says that out of alie many reports of the so called indian facts anre that the raiding party was composed of americans mexicans and indians the latter were long ecsi dents of nearly two li undred animals were stolen tho raiders were followed to alie south mule pass and three of alie americana and two germans were killed tho troops are continuing tho pursuit iier Ks aug 12 captain jno mail contractor on the route from vinita indian territory was faund some fifteen miles west of vinita a day or two ago murdered lie left vanita a few days bo too with a considerable sum of money for the purpose of paying olf his mail it is supposed aljo e igo are tho parties who committed the crime As tho united states district court which diction over alie territory is now powerless owing to alie lick of appropriation by congress to meet the expenses aff marshals it is thought tho ight these acts are but the beginning of a reign of crime and in ane ten lory the NEW YORK an 12 alie boru says correspondents of lie york and narragansett give our rc dd ere this morning means of forming something like u rational opinion as to the nature of lie unfortunate collision which occurred friday last between two conspicuous public men at the last named place it appears from our washington dispatch to have been alie result of an old misunderstanding which originated in lusinoa Lu sinos matters of an private nature and there really goeins to be not reason to doubt but that it might have oft without attracting public attention at ablhad not some boolish and indiscreet persons invented alie preposterous glory about it introducing into it directly alie name of a german professor who obviously from his own account had nothing under the wn to do with it and indirectly the name of a lady who wa unfortunate enough to be present when tho collision occurred NEW au 12 the times which lias been silent on the whole matter until this morning publishes sonio frenn special correspond onta yesterday the atory of alie bieno at the house i substantially reproduced and alie following version is given of the cene at the restaurant when he reached Billing tons conkling according the etory of the bright boy who on him went inide tho door and stood there fora few moments while lie stood there had jumped into art old open wagon ariit was driving furiously down the road over which conkling Conk fing biad juat passed A trade man who saw him as ho turned into tho street leading to Billing tons said he looked very excited and was driving furiously and carelessly lie drew up directly in front of the cafe and conkling at that time stood on alie troop in front of it As lie reined up accordini iii to one account he shook fi mahand in a threatening manner ut conkling and talked excitedly then conkling danly over to the op corner m if to go away sprague quickly followed wheeling ins horse suddenly and jumping out by Con klings side so impetuously that ho carried the seat of the wagon out with him mr wood of the cafe was dozing in the upper room of lio building at the time above up lie was aroused by tie sound of voice ard up looked out and As lie put Ms head out of the window lie bieard prague say you I want you to pet out of thin place if you dont go ill hott you dont cross my path again if you do want you to bo armed for ill hoot you c koon at I meet you conkling made some reply and then spi adire was heard to respond no ill accept no want you to go out of this placa instantly sprague then drove awny biar conk liapi who had started air toward the depot returned to billiris tona and fat down it inside tho door the conversation alluded to waa heard indistinctly by perron and aali of tho ro lalora sive n littly liht ly different ver Monor the toiv although all fags that vows very excited tha boy who tho guesto of he bafo says that waa not excite and blat ho bowl ad ate alid arh ckon after a the team that was said to have come from spragues brov up and a lady of medium height rather stout and very well drowsed conversed with conkling Con klins as lie stood on tho porch this carriage came back the beconi time to give the occupant an opportunity to talk with Conkling prof figured so conspicuously ih this matter returned to his boarding aliouse a place called lake side about a mile back of iab pier here ho until night mrs armstrong proprietor of the house said today to day that to make so much of linck in aliis aal hiir was a mistake to bo sure the governor dian didn t like him arid he was determined that hh eife should not incur alie expense of a tutor but its somebody else besides linck this boarding place had been to linck by mrs sprague and she had engaged it for him la the evening linck received a telegram which mrs armstrong says came from conkling who was in providence icya it WAS a request for the professor to join him and that linck wen to providence to see conkling on saturday morning sprague also went to providence saturday and appeared before the wallace committee accounts of the scenes at Con anchel and Billing tons had not beeh published at that time the first dispatch that was sent out was a very brief one relating to how sprague had gone home very because the tutor was in the aliouse and that Conkli rig had endeavored to uso his influence ini luence to quiet sprague ahn dispatch was I am informed prepared by or with the approval of Con klings friends in providence he certainly visited some of them and talked on the subject and final ly they agreed with him upon his solemn asseveration that there had been no altercation between liim self and sprague to send outtie account eliat was first published it was understood der stood yesterday that sprague would make a statement for publication giving his version of alie whole adair it has bean looked for with deep has not and probably will not be made mrs sprague expressed a fisli to some providence friends that she should be an opportunity to give lier version of alie matte and it is said they have consented to let her do so in caise makes any statement about the matter sprague lio wever positively refuses to be approached pro ached by newspaper representatives who ask to talk with him on the subject the ron litre ST loci aug 12 potter who has been trundling a wheelbarrow across the continent from san francisco for some months past has ar liere lie will remain for several dayland day sand then pursue his journey to new york via pittsburg burg Birn nin ahr CHICAGO aug 12 tho attorneys I I dollar suit against P T barnum to daiy diy received directions from cli als to dismiss the suit owing to the failure of a mizilar case in cincinnati brought by the same parties against in the courts of that citti citter cincinnati aug 12 about ono this afternoon parties entered alie banking office of G II 11 bushing A co and while one engaged iho attention of the person in charge the confederate f a package of five thousand dollars and de camped the whole anair was so quietly per formed eliat the attention of the people ori alie street was not drawn to alie bank and the robbers escaped acton aug 12 the members of the union square company now playing an engagement at boarding at the grand pacific hotel have been for the last few days robbed of jewelry and diamondi to a considerable amount maude II arrison and diaries thorne being the heaviest lowers the proprietor of tho pacific set ft detective at work and two colored bill boys were discovered to bo the guilty ones and their residences being searched yielded up a large part of tho plunder |