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Show 'jgj THE SALT --LAKE T TIMES, mm. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1890. NO 1G9. pearaueo this afternoon is said to have left Portland with tho naughty old niau and she Is thought also to lo a wife. Tho plot deepens. Tho two young wives were sym-pathizing with each other Into this afternoon. The grand jury's examination will probably b cconcludcd this evcuing. IS DH. VVKST INSANE? The Alleged Bigamist Talks Very Inco-herently Regarding His Kecent Escapade. HE SATS WIFE NO. 1 IS A SPOST. All People Want His Medicines and Cannot Do Without Hiin-- He Goes to the Grand Jury. The preliminary heaving of the big-amy case against Dr. J. j. West, did not come up before United States Com-missioner (ireenmau this morning as expected. A large crowd of scandal mongers w as on hand at the appointed hour, but the case was taken before the star chamber session of tho grand jury much to the disappointment of those who desired to hear the evidence, lr. West is a relined looking old gentleman of perhaps ,V years of age. Ho appeared in a black Prineo Albert coat w ith other clothing to correspond. Ho wore a silk tile, ami save little dnd-is-gray burnsido lilacs his face was smoothly shaven. Both of his w ives were around tho courthouse with their respective rela-tives and friends. Wifo No. 1 is an ex-ceedingly charming young woman of 22 summers. She lived with the doctor live or six months iu Portland, Oregon. Wifo No. 2, who was Miss Jane Kverell. is also an attractive young woman of 20 years. She is prettier, if anything, than wifo No. 1. She has a beautiful ami symmetrial figure, and Is on tho order of the brunette, She was In tears anil a plush cloak when she was escorted Into the courtroom by her mother and some kind gentleman, who had hold of her arm. Evidently her heart was almost broken, and her sobs were not Infrequent. After remaining in the little court room a short time the prosecuting attorney ami the commissioner decided to let the grand jury hear the evidence and Indict the Son of Aesculapius If the charges of wife No. 1 can lie sustained. When the mother of Miss Jano Kverell was told that the case w ould go before the secret session of tho grand jury so that the appetites of tho scandal lovers could not bo gratified, she joyfully remarked: "You gentlemen are very considerate, because my young child hail had al-ready enough newspaper notoriety," The case was accordingly turned over to tho grand jury. Tho physician and alleged bigamist was seen in the marshal's olliee, in cus-tody of a deputy marshal. To a re-porter for Tun Times the doctor said that his first wile was trying to black-mail him. "Then do you admit that the prose-cuting witness was ever your wife!" was asked Dr. West. " Yes, but I thought she was dead. You see, I lived with her about five months in Portland. Her name is or was Catherine Clabby. I went to Ogden seven or eight months ago, and 1 had some patients there. Afterwards I came to Salt Lake. One of those patients came after some of my medicine mid told me that she was dead. I wrote to her several times and not being able to hear from her I naturally presumed she had jumped Into the great unknown. I be-came acquainted with my second wife and married her, thinking that death had divorced me ami Catherine. If I had known she was still alive I could have procured a legal divorce for ..M). She is a blackmailer, and I have lately learned that she is an 'old sport.' I'll never get justice here, I know it. I ought to havo a lawyer. I don't know anything about this court business, but I'll tell you that lit stay in jail twenty-liv- years before I'll be blackmailed, and when I am released I'll have everybody iu this lown fol-lowing me across the mountains after my medicines." "Are you a specialtist, Doc?" "My dear fir, I have medicines that will cure anything, and the people can't get along without them. They may shut me up In prison but they will bo glad to get me out for they have got to have my medicines. I have a tremendous practice, everywhere. Let in" go on the uninhabited plains and you will see that people follow trie." "Did you say that your first wife is an old sport!" "No, not exactly. I say she is a most charming woman for other people. I don't say she is an old sport for you to print coming from my lips, but other people have told me she was. She Is here now to blackmail me." "What's the name of your second wife?" "Jane" and that is as far as he got. lie hesitated in a meditating sort of way and rubbed his head as though the world was all a blank. Those who have seen Dr. West and heard him talking, and he is very talk-ative, believe that his mind Ls unbal-anced. The doctor's statement In regard to having heard that wife No. 1 was a "sport" is not credited. She is but Ti years of age, and has the fresh apiwar-itne- e of a lady. In fact both of the young women arc innocent, and person knowing anything a!out tho case say that he is an old reprobate. The grand jury i still examin-ing witnesses while the doctor ls in the marshal's office. Another woman put in an appearance this afternoon and has been continually with hiin. It is said that she is wife No. 3. but to a Time reporter the doctor made the assertion that the woman was hi housckccjier and had been with he and his young wife No. 2, living iu the Kimball block on West First South tdreet. Other claim that the "housekeeper" is wife No, 8, while Mis Jane Even 11 is now wife No. 3. The one that just jut itt an ap-- CAN III V II A IT, Canada Will Permit American r'Miermen to Ijitiit. Halifax. April 21. Newfoundland advices .state that the government has decided, for this season only, to present n bait net hieh Is to lie carried out un-der licenses, by which all foreigners will be permitted to purchase one barrel of bait per ton of their register on pay-ment of tonnage dues. PARNELL SPEAKS.1 icoBes Balfour to the Banks of the Irish Land Ea- -, formers. -- g COUGBESSIONAL SEWS. ver Question Being Considered World's lair BiU-Ar- tifi-' cial Limbs for Soldiers. x April 21 Iu tho house of today, Parnell moved tho purchase bill bo rejected. Ho incisure justified tho claims of ionilists made nine years ago. ,.0nicd BtilfuMi as tli latest re-- o tins ranks of land reformers e accepting tho government rei-n of the principle of the land ,,eoiU rai-nel- declared ho could ,'it the bill was a satisfactory the land question. The n was how far the British would go iu lending credit to ,i landlord. The experience l,v the discussion of tho Glad-im- l bill in 181. showed that would not go far enough to attle the land difficulty. The bill was meant simply to enfuble, thof the owners of land in Ire-hes- c being tho larger absentee ,s, to sells out at exorbitant leaving their poorer resident uhi the lurch. A COWARDLY Ml KDKK. A Scrap or paper Leads to the Mur-derer. Chicago, April 21. On September 18, Farmer Reich of Calumet, while looking for wild grapes in a lonely wood south of Lake Calumet, stumbled over the dead body of a man who had been shot twice in tho body and once in tho head. His faco was battered out of shape, and everythingapparcntly which could possibly lead to the identity of the body taken from it. But the murderer overlooked a little scrap of paper bearing the address of a women iu Mauslield, Ohio, and two days later W. E. l'urdy was arrested in that town for murder, aud the dead man was identi tied as Samuel Kcinuiger, of Johns-town, Pa. l'urdy is now on trial before Judge (Srinnell. The evidence against him is purely circumstantial, l'urdy and Beu-nige-both young men, met iu Maus-lield about tho last of August. They mado tho acquantaitee of Kilith Kyrcr, and it was her naiuu written ou an old euvelopo which 'furnished tho first clue to tho identity of the deail man. Tho two men hail left together for Chicago early in September, and Turdy had returned to Mauslield alouo tho day after the body was found, lie was arrested aud tho evidence against him piled up rap-idly. He was wearing a ring Rcnuiger had worn while in Mauslield, but claimed ho hail bought it of him, aud denied having auythiug else of his. In his trunk, however, were found various articles of cloth-ing and a watch aud chain which had belonged to Ronniger, and on the latter was a drop of blood, ft was learned that iu Chicago they had stopped at the Wiley house, UIH) State street, aud twice wcut hunting, tho second timo on Monday, Sept., 14. L'urdy roturnod alouo that day and left the next morning, telling the proprietor that Kenninger had gone to St. Elmo. Ills., to visit a brother. Yesterday noon eight witnesses arrived from Mauslield. The mother and a younger brother of tho dead man arrived at the same time from Johnstown, l'a.. Rob- - bery was tho motive of tho murder, which was, beyond doubt, premedi-tated. Reuninger was known to have about $200 when he came to Chicago. Adventnrea of a Deputy United Statet-Marsha- l in a Starch for Cattle TLievw. HE EASILY CAPTURES ONE MAK. But the Other Eesista and the OfEcef-Tire- a a Load of Buckshot Into Hiin. - Deputy I'nited States Marshal J. It. , Hush arrived in Salt Lake Sunday from ' an extremely perilous trip In the south-- . eastern corner of I'tah. where he was looking tip cattle thieves. Mr. Bush says that the tielghliorhood from which he has just returned Is on of the worst and most dangerous in the western., country. Mug tho resort of all soils of' criminals which makes It a perfect nest of outlaws. A Tot til! RKoIOX. The objective point of Mr. Bmh': raid w as Blue Island, I'lah. which Is situated in the HI tut mountain' where San Juan county, Colorado, Situ Juan county, New Mellon,) and Yellow Pine county. ArUona. Join t on to I'tah on three sides. Here Is also j loeateil Bluff City, which Is approached only by mountain trails, and the dep-- J uty's Uit h im to both places. At Bluff I City he came upon his game and ran to ) of them to earth after a dceperato rc atstaiice. He captured ' A MOTItl Msl'tltAIMt named Bowen, the terror of all wellJ disposed citlens, brought hint to Salt Lake yesterday and lodged him In the penitentiary. . The other desperado, a man namt (iibson, was not o easily disposed of He took refuge In a house and hid be-- 1 hind a cloth partition. Buahrl Mas clout upon him, however, aud lr.M iNUKft ins srKHr.Mpr.a. To this Gibson rrplieil with ai' oath that no deputy could arrest t him, and when Mr. Bush raUadst the cloth partition (ilheoti quickly pulled a gun and attempted to drawr it down tut him ; but he waa not( quite quick enough. Ifc'puty Bush was. armed with a shotgun, loaded wlthj buckshot, and seeing thai there waa rr time to lose, , riitMt iMnnur;L, phoiti!oiwm Two shots entered tho desperado' a right arm ami seven other penetrated, his body just below the arm and ram' out underneath tin. shoulder bladtu,.. Owing to the bad reputation of thf place, no reputable physician baa set up In business there, and after an ama-teur dressing of his wnands, Gilmin waa left to his fain under guard. A hn wa spitting blood quite freely when Mr., Hush last saw him, the chances are that lit) is fr.t r this Tittr. The outlaw Boweii Is tho captain of the gang aud planner of all the out-- t rage committed. His capture la matter for congratulation. , opera nmm. Chicago to be Kegaled With the German Songs We Used to Sing, etc ANOTHER APEICAN EXPLORATION. Forepaugh's Show opens in Philadelphia this Afternoon Other Special News. Chicago, April St. Special. The German opera season which will bo inaugurated tonight at tho Auditorium will differ iu many respects from that of last spring. While then tho opera was exclusively Wagnerian, the reper-toire this time embraces tho greatest works of tho composers representing the German, Italian and French schools. As regards the organization itself, it is virtually the same as that which ap-peared with so much success at the New York Metropolitan Opera house this winter. Tho exception is Herr Vogel who had been engaged solely for Wag-ner's "Trilogy" aud "Tristan and Iso-loe- ," which operas will not bo per-formed this season. It is true he ap-peared, in New York in "Tannhauser" and "Lohengrin" but proved a failure in These parts and another tenor was substituted for the following perform-ances of these operas. While many of the artists of last season are several celebrities will bo heard on this occasion, namely, Perrotto, who will challenge comparison with Tainngno; Reichman, who is considered the great-est baritone in Germany, and also tho excellent basso, Behrcns. The operas to be given are fourteen in number. It is promised that tho operas will be placed on tho stage iu a stylo heretofore unknown to Chicago by reason of tho magnilieence of tho costumes, proper-ties, and armor, a largo chorus aud a ballet with three solo dancers. TKX IIMIK.AIlr l. Tlie French Itrlallnte I Min the Women itt llahume)-- , Pakis, April St. (Sunlols says the Dahoinians have made two tlgorotis as saults upon the French positions in Da-homey. Four French pickets were captured by the lahomians ami be-headed. The French retaliated by be. beading live of tho foinalu warriors of tho king. Kelcaaril front ITUon. Kelsy Hi id, an old man of Benjamin, who has just served a six months' sen-tence In the penitentiary for tiulaw fill cohabitation, w as released this morning; bis term expiring. A tine of faotlwits imposed at the time of the sentence, and its he is a poor man he took the pauper oath before Commissioner (ireenmau. MORNING TELEGRAMS CONDENSED. o,?S8Vlsh- - eomPany has assumed the debt. Stanley last evening attended a ban-quet in the lown hall, given by the Burgomaster of Brussels. A New York World man has completed the task just of going across the continent at a cost of 60 cents. The Russian grand duke Constantino has declared with the people aud tho czar is more worried than ever. Alight recently occured iu a Chicago church in which one preacher and his adherents were throwu out doors: Constance Kent, the handsome gir who killed her half brother twenty years ago, near London, has been par- doned. Miss Liiev AVanyor, a plucky young woman of New York City, on Saturday publicly horsewhipped her father for ill treating her invalid mother. Ed. Brown, a Cheyenne cowboy, wanted to marry a school teacher. She refused and ho stood in front of a look-ing glass and blew out his brains. Lust night Charles Goorgo of New York was quarraling with his wife, when his mother-in-law- , Mrs. Riley seized an axe and fractured his skull, inflicting a fatal injury. Tho Pope yesterday received 3.000 Italian pilgrims. He made a forcible speech in which he indicted the govern- ment. The audience cheered and shouted, "Long Lite tho l'opo!" John Rhodes, a well-know- n farmer living near Greencastle, shot and killed his uephew, William Rhodes, last even-ing during a quarrel. Tho uncle taunted the nephew about tho latter's crippled son, and the young man threat-ened to shoot him. Rhodes then got his gun and fired. Tho killing is reported iu West Vir-ginia, near Pigeon Creek last Friday, of Smith Baisden, John Baisden and William Baisden, three brothers, noted desperadoes. Deputy Sheriff Brewer and posse attempted 'to arrest them aud were tired noon. A battle ensued and the desperadoes were killed. A fire started in one of tho coal shafts at Spring Valley, 111., yesterday morn-ing. Five men went down to subdue it. Iu a few minutes three of them were overcome by smoke and gas and suffo-cated. Tho other two managed to get to the cage and were brought up. When tho unfortunate trio were taken out they were beyond human aid. All have large families. John Taylor of St. Louis, and Burke, a Pittsburg pugilist, fought to a finish with three:ouneo gloves for $100 a side, a purse of $250 and gate money, near Chicago yesterday. Daly knocked his antagonist out completely in ten rounds although fifteen pounds lighter. Daly is a game light-weig- tighter, although not yet 21 years of age. Ho knocked Burko out with appareet ease. Sixteen-year-ol- Mary Stewart, of McKeesport, Pa., is under arrest, charged with poisoning her brother. Friday she made soup for dinner, of which all but herself partook heartily. Soon all were taken violently ill and the physician pronounced it ar-senical poisoning. Tho boy is dead and three others are seriously ill. , Mary asserts her innocence. . John H. Griffin of New York yester-day afternoon began a flirtation with some young women on the roof of 63 Mott street. They beckoned him over, and he went up stairs to 61 Molt street, but finding the women on tho adjoining roof, tried to climb across a picket fence over the shaft between the houses. The railing broke, and ho fell down the shaft six stories. He was instantly killed. Last month, Steve Jacobs, colored, was placed in jail atFayctteville, Tcnn., charged with arson." Lynching was threatened, but this was finally aban-doned. Last week another barn was burned and the attention of tho fanners was thereby again directed to Jacobs. Early yesterday morning 100 man marched to the jail, and on the refusal of tho sheriff to open it, battered ill the doors. Jacobs was taken out and hanged to a tree. Take Notice. The ndnuriied meeting of the Salt Lake Real Kstato Exchange of April '.'1st at 7 i!0 o'clock p. in., Is hereby contin-ued to Tuesday evening at, the same hour. By order of 11. C. Lett. President. John MoNTtitoiKuv, jr., Secretary. Heath of ( iiit. t ouch. Gi tiiihk, linl. Ty., April 81. Cnpt. Conch, widely known as tho organl.er of the Oklahoma movement, died this morning, the result of a bullet wound inllictedby J. C. Adams In a quarrel April 4. Adams was taken to ichlta to prevent lynching. A NleamerNeUeri. New Yobk, April St. Tho Ionian Linn steamship City of Berlin unloaded a part of Its cargo this morning without having entered at the custom house. The custom authorities sel.ed tho ves-sel. The attendance at the Liberal hand concert alGartiold beach yesterday wus limited, owing to the bad weather, Twenty-on- e of the boya turned out and prepared to havo a good time, and would but for the rain, which prevented what was intended for a " Dry Sun-day." The til tendance was small. The baiid will try It again on Sunday next w hen it is to lie hoped tho weather will bo better. ANOTHER EXPEDITION. 4 Africa to Be Explored by a Tarty From London. London, April 21. Special. Ar-rangement arc in a forward state for a new expedition to tho dark continent. It will start from here early next mouth. Though much of tho equip-ments of the party have been arranged for in London tho expedition had its birth in Sweden and will bo named by Swedes. Tho leader of the new cru-sade is Nils Joham Zachrissen. His plan is to proceed from Mozambique to to the northeast of lake Tangauqika in the neighborhood of Uppi aud thence to tho Victoria Nyanza, erecting on the way a series of stations as a means of suppressing the slave trade. Zachris-sen has engaged a body of a hundred Swedish artisans, who have bound them-selves to accompany him on a three-year- s' expedition. In addition to the Swedes, some 1,500 native carriers will be required. The stations which they will erect will bo placed in a state of de-fense, garrisoned by natives under com-mand of Europeans, and ready as places of refuge for tribes in case of raids made upon them by the slavers. Every sta-tion will also be made a center of com-merce with the natives. It is estimated that a sum of $200,000 will be required to finance tho undertaking. The quar-ter part of this amount has been already subscribed and tho balance, when re-quired, will be forthcoming. a CONUKESSIONAL. HENATK. iisciTON, April 21. Among the lacpil ou the calendar was the .ill to provide an additional of the supremo court of in introduced a bill to repeal s fertile retirement of army and Hiccrs from active service ou ii introduced a concurrent g tho secretary of tho t to increase the purchase and of silver dollars to the maximum authorized by the act of F'eb- - h. 1878. ive notice that ho would ask for leraliou eiiate then took tip the House Fair bill. nly amendment reported by the iminiittee is tho insertion of a :tion providing for a naval re-- i Sew York harbor in April, il unveiling the statue of Col-i- t Washington. IIOL'SU. i.vuroN, April 21. Dorsey, of .1, introduced a joint resolution Iiat tho secretary of the treas-Iirecte- d to increase the, treasury i' of silver bullion to the niaxi-iiou-authorized by an act to ce the coinage of standard silver and restored its legal tender or was passed over a veto of the nt and became a law Febrbary Referred. passed providing that soldiers t their limbs during tho late war entitled to receive an artificial cry three years. Tho present raits him to receive one every vs. sentafive Vandever of Califor-leare- d before the house commit-urcifj- n affairs this morning to u tlio adoption of his joint tho president to gotiations with Mexico for the "ti of commercial and friendly and for tho adjustment of He described tho uusot-o- f affairs in Zona Libre and out the. 'necessity for a speedy it of the boundary question, referred to the number of illegal "f Chinese across tho border, e might be satisfactorily settled stations with the Mexican gov--t through tho medium of a com-- t be appointed by tho presi his commission could also as-an- rt construe the meaning of "tig treaties and. make the for reforming them. The Hank C'learlnf. The clearinus of the associated banks today were ti'il, 4lHt, with a balance of tt0.'ll. ItOB JOHNMKVK RECORD. What His Old Employer at I'ueblo .Hay About Him. Dknver, April 21. A Denver News reporter met Georgo Jordan, of I'ueblo, and asked him for some information concerning Bob Johnson, the gambler who suicided in Salt Lake, Jordan, wus tho last man for whom Johnson worked before going to Salt Lake. "Ho worked for iio some time In Pueblo," said Jordan, ."and about five mouths ago ho went to Salt Lake, He came to this country during tho Lcadville excitement, and for a long time was a miner there aud around Aspen, where he is well known. He was a wholo-soule- d fellow aud when ho had money everybody had money for he was liberal in tho extreme. He left mining and went to gambling, and for some years made his living that way. It was reported in Pueblo that he went to California and got into some trouble there, and was sent up for twenty years, but that was not so, for some of my friends havo received letters from him right along from Salt Lake. He was reported to be crooked while living in this city, but that was a mis-take for he was as sipiare as could be. Ho has often been busted, as all gam-blers get frequently, and when broke would get despondent. Ho was painted blacker thau ho was, and I have known him a good many years, but always found him square. I supposo he got broke in Salt Lake, and being a stranger in the place, became despondent and committed suicide. Ho was easily worried and would often lake his hard luck to heart. When drinking bo was considered a pretty hard man, but be never would bother anyone unless be had occasion. He was, when making money or broke, everybody's friend and always had a good word for those he knew." J. I,. Bunks, a prominent mining man of Klleiibiirgh, Washington, is a guent at the Walker house. www t , AT TIIK IIOTriJt. Arrivals registered during the twe!V hours ending at 3 p. m. Imlay: Msraoeoi.lM C W Hurst. Man f"rn ir,i i r'miik Jwlsoii. linh; Win Datnlge and , Mrs A Hultim, New Vor. CotrrissST kir--1 T !!. New Y'tai Mrs M ! II White, I'srli t'ltr: H t: He.! and wl(e, iihh.i A Hat an and wlte. Ml J.ibn. Mirk; M IMinmlr and lfe, Denver: T'Htt Aiutetuna, ami William DeHhellef, Nw Yorti: t Herman, rtt I'anl, Ceil. Ilocsa- - W reran. Ml. Jnpk. Hot VA rnrey, I'ara Cllv; 'rNt Hnth. New Vor; Itnr M. Whltelr. rramiaros William l New York; HhffH"id I'heUw. I'ulrdi Henna": Jhn M Ti. Aurr. lil t t; II llev h. Il.wt.in; J ft l""!! ami rraiik W Ilea ii'. lii!ideliij;,: X W hite, Wrraln. Wai.kkn llof rred W flardiwr. fhlcanroj t. A Doiihuin, tttirar iol:UW 'ob. leiatunj J y, Atsl and all". Mra II M Alvmt MiM Hum. 'miiertlrat, K A IT"0. New Y" i W A Irwin. KdKar A t'oiwn awl wife. n f"raninr: Hleh"n WsicrroiO ami wire. ; !e H hrt.wtt: II M Manm. .n M tjeff. Virginia. S'-r- ; Wm A lTl. Klm-- , II I' t; II A Mraorfc, J I llz.Ard, t'hu ; T Hemml. Kan Jm: J ft limit, l.tw-'dn- . Neb. ! K Kl!r.t, ter. N Y; A t. lenl, Adam Hotr. 'Itttut !! and, N b. innKH Horn M M Kalllner. Nw .John M '' ftrnal a if", Af.ili. l'a; link, tfmalia; t W fatten. I.anin. Micas t V, liautm. iniuha; tm.nt W hn-- i hie rttf ; t Arthur l''t.,.n.l i": W i.iMxsh, Ml.nu 'Ur; r'f'arliiia snd wife. tt-- .rtn, Wyit; T A llrr tni.Jha; John D MsiiHm, I, A Wt, l".atell.; Jton Waft., Nw Y'irs ; IWt 'refna, Stalin, K.m; J'lUn yiilrm. twner, O W too-- r and danaster. Ir"m, "hl.; tA ' wile, Ttar'. r; II H Jatk- - i m n. f.rreu-tr- r.,l: Mrs I. M Klrwf and Mr (i W m-v- I'oeifir". Seo, ( hrt I llurlinirloa. Iiwa; W a I'KSer, ( 'ul.atfo; ! Y Hn Jua. C A HV-.- . CI.4ma.NM.KT White, New Zaaland. W Hrnllh and wife. I'r!td. Ir, C firr, W tw, awl John lun-Ull- . ! !; Ar! LiT, wife and rhlid N Y'rk. J A ktrjnaa. I'ort-uni- l. lr; M ivndertturt. SUM ri; Pt Hrult and I. H naums-H-- i, HI; LD t. Tvxrt. ilut Tiler and fraaa rr Tel. I II TH AMI CONDENaEII The Delaware, Lackawanna A West-ern railway company will furnish its employes III the neighborhood of He ran ton with free coal and remit their rents this month. The Dillon Pacllle railroad, It Is ru-mored, will cut Its day for. c liopmcn to nine and a half hours on May I, w ithout reducing wages. Senator Plumb Is trying to establish the liiiaiicial value of a scalp, He wants the senate to appropriate "HMKl to re-lieve a man Iu Leavenworth county, Kan,, who was scalped by the Indians iu lWit, During last year F.mperor William conferred IS. UW decorations and medals, and S.iitil were given awav In is, as compared with 4.30N in H?. il.77r In 1HHI .iitxl :t,4 A ill IWS, The red eagle was given last year to no fewer than J'.'.Os'l udividiials, the crown order to l.lmi, li tnl the Hoheii.olleru order to 2V4, but only fourteen new knight of the black eagle were created, fifteen of the female order f Louise, and one of the famous order Pour b; Merite. The last official statistics of Home show thai the city must have lost a large percentage of Its Miiuluiion since the last census. Allliongh only twenty houses have been built there ill the last three years, 4000 houses with living room for 20,(KCl persons are now vacant. The transient population U thought to have fallen off also. Hardly six thou-san-slruligers went there to see tltu big carnival this year, while in former years the iiiimlicr was little short of one bun-die-thousand. Somebody grubbing anion if the Cana-dian slate papers in the bulMinif of the dominion parliament has eoine upon letters whieh amount to an important historical discovery. Il seems that at that eventful period In r colonial when Coi iittalli was beleaguered at Yorktown by French and American armies and a French licet. jut In ore the capitulation which struck the death blow of the F.nglish cause in the l'nite. Stales, Vermont, the union state which bordered the Canadian frontier, was on the very point of joining Canada. M. Llieieu Dewaves, th author of the I look ".Hou Off." in which scanda-lous exposure were made as to the condition and customs of the privates and pcttv officer of the French army, ha been acquitted of the charges brought against him by the government haed upon these atories. He waa In the army for four years, quitting it with the rank of sergeant-major- , and to have giten in hi book what he had himself seen. It out Zolaed Zola. The government ha been driven to begin a formal investigation on the subject. l'ecullar Suit. Laramie, April 21. Quite a sensa-tion has been created here in the trans-fer of the property interest of tho Hum-bo- lt hotel, $10,000 being the considera-tion of the transfer. It seems, and the record so shows, that Henry Bath transferred to his wifo his own prop-erty interest to tho Hunibolt house. The equitable interest involved is that of the husband, after a transfer to John Kane involving this same prop-erty. There is little doubt but that thero will bo litigation over the matter, for the reason that Henry Bath was ar- - rested y in opposing an officer to oust him of his equitable interest in tho property. Henry Bath is now in jail and John Kane is iu full possession of tho Humboldt house. The question dis-cussed by lawyers is : " Does tho arrest of Henry Bath deprive him of his equit-able interest in the property involved, and how can ho while in jail assert his rights ?" This apparently is a new question iu legal parlance and so far as known now is without a precedent. A STRIKE IMMINENT. Hart ford Carpet Weavers Disannulled and Will (io Out. Haetfokd, Conn., April 21. Special. A strike is imminent at tho mills of the Hartford Carpet company which are located as Tliomsonville and employ 2000 operatives. The mills have been running up to the present on a winter schedule of fifty-fou- r hours per week. Today the mills began run-ning on the sixty-fou- r hour schedule, but instead of increased earnings the operatives were forced to work at three per cent under the winter figures, which practically makes a two per cent reduction in their wages. The com-pany claims that the depression in the carpet trade and injury to business by tho duty on carpet wools necessitate the reduction. The operatives will not accept the company's terms and the mills will therefore bo closed at least temporarily. WEDDED A ML'KDKKKK. Mrs. George Gould Marries Her llunl.iind'l Mayer. Monti'ELIEK, Vt., April 21. Spec-ial. At the state prison Saturday Mrs. George Gould was married to Sherman J. Caswell, the murderer of her hus-band. Caswell is a prisoner for life, and the strange couple clasped hands through the grated door of his cell, w hile the clergyman pronounced the words that made them man and wife. The story of tho murder and of this marriage are close-ly interwoven, for Caswell killed the woman's first husband through jealousy. Caswell went to work as a hired man on the farm of Willard Cutter, near here. Laura was a well developed girl of fifteen, and was tho only child of the Cutters. With this young girl Caswell liecame enamored. The young lady did not seem to be averse to bis attentions, but owing to the strenuous op-position of her parents to a union with Caswell she married George J. Gould. When the couple re-turned home, after tho marriage, Cas-well shot Gould dead. Caswell at once gave himself up. He was tried three week ago and found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Within a week after the murder Mrs. Gould visited him in his cell. Her old love for him seemed to return, and she testified in his at the trial. She has now become his wife, although she will lie able to see him only a few time a year. HERE IT IS AGAIN. "'"ant story of John Wilkes Hootli. ';(). April 21. Special from ilai, Ala., says Loniso Worcos-i- ( mistress and confident of J. assasin of President Lin-- 1 ''arcs that Booth is not dead, " received a letter from two cr his alleged death. 4n In'Hctment Dlmuisied. April 21. The indictment jTjink Woodruff, alias Black, with complicity in tho of P. H. Cronin, was y by the consent of the 'ndietment for horse steal-EK"U,,- S against him. Grand Charity Bazaar. Pakis, April 21. Special. The Grand Charity Bazaar which is an an-nual society event,. opened today iu the Rue La Boetic, close to the Champs Elysees The principal pavilion has been' erected on the ground, but by Court do Keinach. The gifts this year are unusually numerous and costly. i FOREPAl'GH SHOW. It Opens the Season In Plilladeliihiu this Afternoon. Philadelphia, April 21. Special. The Forepaugh circus opened its season The show is now controlled by James E.Cooper, the veteran tented show manager, who recently purchased it. Mr. Cooper has been in the circus busi-ness for a quarter of a century. He was formerly a partner of James A. Bailey, now of the Barnum & Bailey show. He was the first American manager to issue a distinctively American circus in a foreign country. Iu company with Bailey, he took a circus to Australia, New Zealand, British India and through the South American countries. The tour began at San Francisco iu the lat-ter part of 1876, and closed three years later at Kio do Janeiro. In Arreataw. While a free concert was In progr this afternoon In the saloon aext to tha potof!ice, a drunken man who was cr ating a row w considered a fit ab-ject for arret. A friend of the drunk interfered but the copper drew hi lit-tle popper aud marched the twain to the station. Democratic Caucus. s . :03r. April 21.- -A caucus of 10 so,'alors was held this morn solution was adopted to t(J take charge of the UIlt.v in the matter of registra- - - m A Horse Show. Boston, April 21. Special. The horse show whieh opened iu the Me-chanics' building today shows among its patrons many names that are prom-inent in Boston's social calendar. The entries are very numerous and to the prizes offered is due the great exhibi tion of horse flesh. A Horseman Suicides. ' 'April 21. Coneil Brace, a ' jn'H-'- of the turf aud the Gatrene, the winner of .n'."H committed suicide today himself. STUAKT KOHSON. lie Makes His First Appearance In New York Tonight. New York, April 21. Special. Stuart Robson will make his first ap-pearance iu this city as a lit e star to-night at Proctor's Twenty-Thir- d street theater, presenting fer the first time j here Steele Mackaye's new play, "An Arrant Knave." This play is described as a comedy illuminated w ith fifteenth century costumes and nineteenth cen-tury humor. Republicans in Session. ' Viexxa, 111.. April 21.-Sp- co-.r i - The republicans of this county ceil a mass convention today and appointed delegates to the state, congressional and senatorial conventions. " i 4 SteameP Lost.. ,;s' April 21. The steamer rom Grimsby was lots in the yesterday. Fifteen were AaaiTearf aat Hall. Provo Lodg No- - II. I. . O. Y., will celebrate iu usoal anniversary on Sal. unlay next by exercise aad a ball in the I'roTu opera home. The commit, tee are a follow i: Arrangement lieurge W. Shore. F.phraim Homer, Joaeph D. Jones, Kbhard II. Podd and David T. I lark. Invitation Alexander Gillespie, jr.. A S ixey, B. Bacbmaa, Jr . Iou ii. Coray. W. C. Stooe and J. . M.sl'Jcllan. Heception Mr. and Mr. J. D. June. Mr. and Mr. K. II. Dodd. Mr. and Mr. I). T. Clark. Floor mart, ager . W. bhore and Uoutefv1 The Crows Prince Injured. Kkme, April 21. The crown prince, who Ls now traveling in southern Rus--! sia, met with a railroad accident today. As tho train was leaving Vladikarkas, it was thrown from "the track by the breaking of a whed of one of the cars aud the prince severely Injured. Waatad. Twentv-fiv- solicitor for city work. Call atTlifc TlMr office. Every city of eooaequcni-- in V'w Jersey and Nw Vork are holdinf weekly ma meeting to agiute the eJajtouxByAW A milk-whit- e deer was shot recently j J near Mount Katahdin, iu Maine. I A Town Wiped Out. Lciisville, April 21 -The little town of Harrodsburg, Ky., was almost completely wiped out by fired last night. The damage Ls estimated at $130,000. "Tenter, 8trike. Ml April 21. All the car-- . struck for niue hours per --id of tea. |