Daily globe., 1879-04-05

companying His Clients to Jail-Other
Criminal Matters = Disastrous Fire at
st. Louis.
SHOWERS OF THE QUEER.
LOUISVILLE, April 4.-Pending the recent
trial of q large number of counterfeiters in the
United States circuit court here, considerable
excitement was created by the issuing of a
motion OF District Attorney Rure against Col.
Sam. Mckee, one of the counsel for a number
OF the accused men, requiring him to deliver to
the court certain steel dies used by the coun-
to Rurs stated that he could prove that Nj. G.
Bower, Marion Van Horn and II. B. Jones,
United States secret service agents,
had themselves both manufactured and sold
the spurious coin, and that they had
brought the dies in question into the country
them. nor did they belong to them. Judge Bal
lard lntimated strongly an intention to send
Mckee to Jail for contempt Of court. but as the
dies were delivered to the court this was not
done. The trials proceeded, and though every
effort was made in behalf of the accused, hav-
ing the ablest counsel of the State, q convic-
ton followed In every case, and the prisoners
were sentenced to terms varying from one year
to ten years in the Joliet Qllinois)
penitentiary, it being conclusively shown that
the counterfeiters had owned the dies for years.
during all of which time they had been en-
gagged in the manufacture of spurious coin and
currency, and the treasury agents deemed the
conviction and breaking up of the gang their
highest duty, and paid no attention to attacks
on them. Messrs. Bower and Van Horn and
Jones have done efficient service in breaking up
gang of thirty-two members. The convicted
persons will be taken to Joliet at once. E2s
JUMPED THE TRACK.
NEW ORLEANS, April 4.-The engine and three
cars of the northern bound passenger train on
the New Orleans, Chicago & St. Louis railroad.
jumped the track near Hazelhurst. Andy
Caldwell, engineer, was killed, and Baggage
Master Belts seriously wounded.
THE NATHAN SHOOTING.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Mrs. Barret alias Birdie
Bell, woman well known in some circles of
this city, was the person who shot Washington
Nathan. Mrs. Marion Ward, wife of the actor,
| now in California, can only account for her
| name being associated with the shooting from
| the circumstance that she knew Nathan some
| years ago. No arrests.
| BRIB1NG A JURY.
DEADwooD, D. T., April 4.-The jury in the
case involving the titles of Rose and Rhoderick
Dhu quartz mines, very valuable property.
entered the court last evening, and the fore
man reported that attempts had been made to
bribe the jury by one Of their number, Henry
| Robinson. Robinson on examination to-day
stated in open court that Nicholas Vader had
| offered him large sums of muney to influence
tho jury in favor of the Rhoderick Dhu, and
said Vader represented himself as being in the
employ of Daniel Boyle, one of the owners Of
the Dhu, who could afford to put up for fa-
vorable verdict.
KILLED BY THE CARS.
WHEELING, W. Va, April A man, named
1s-s
Newbury, was instantly killed, this morning
ing coal on the track and did not see the train.
He leaves wife and six children in destitute
circumstances.
SPORT MURDERED.
GREENvnLE, Miss, April 4.-Yesterdsy
morning Matt Chrismore, well known sport
ing character, was murdered in his bed, his
head crushed with an iron bolt, throat cut and
body ripped open the entire length. Suspicion
points to an associate, now in Jail.
FIRE AT ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, April "A fire broke out at half
past tonight in the building 504 and 506
North Fifth street, occupied byS. NJ. Hamilton
& Co., dry goods and groceries, on the ground
floor, and Mack Il Co., wholesale clothiers, on
, the other floors. This building, an ell OF
which extends around to st. Charles street, is g
: complete wreck, and the stocks totally de-
stroyed. The Two upper stories of 500 an0
Q 5O2, on the corner of St. Charles and Fifth
0 streets, lately occupied by Appleton, Noyes
: to the rear of Althiemer & Whites wholesale
: hat and cap house, 418 Washington avenue, anc
adjoining the clothing house of Myers Bros.
J and is still burning fercely.
|, LATER-The fire now. midnight, is under
f CONTROL and has not extended beyond the blocl
Z | in which tcfar tod A1thioroor 4 c%o
q is Quilted, and Meyers Bros adjoining, dam
: aged good deal by water. The Fourth stree
:, stores in Verandah row are all injured more O
less by water, particularly Miller, Grant Co.
= laces and fancy dry goods, and b. Probas
Il Co., fancy candies. The American Express
J, company's Office also received thorough wet
"a ting.
+ The losses cannot even be Appropriated to
night but Mack & Co., Hamilton & Co. an
! Altheimer q White carried large stocks an
% quite total. Dodd. Brown & Co. had abou
u $1,000 worth Of goods in cases stored in Han
" ilton q Co.'s houses, all Of which were probabl
O. destroyed. The insurance cannot be given t,
,e night or even estimated. The fire started
a. one of the upper floors of Mack Co., an
- burned SO rapidly that nearly the whole built
. ing was in flames before the fire engines a
rived.
THROUGH THE TREsTLE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 4.-This afternoon II
n incoming freight train on the Louisville roa
ran through trestle this side of Brownsville
= Tenn, and precipitated the engine and sever
p cars, killing the engineer, Frank Riley, an
Ill wounding the fireman and brakeman.
be DAYTON FIRE.
y: DAYTON, Ohio, April "A fire broke out tn
e evening in the machine shop and factory
nd ]. K. Johnson, a four-story brick building
ns Wayne street. The two upper floors were occ
W OF pied by ]. L.. Baker, sealing-wax factory, whe
9 20 the FIRE originated. In half an hour the enti
M au building was burned and all its contents tot
~ loss. Loss, $50 600. Bakers loss, $40, 1000; i
y - sured for 1000. Johnsons loss is $4,000
mns m insured for $13, 600.
NJ. FATALLY SHOT.
p- LOUISVILLE, April "A special dispat
1t. from Paris, KY, to the Courie,.-you,aaz say
ef 1 at Millersburg, Bourbon county, to-day, Milt
OF Wadington, while attempting to release b
brother from the custody of the constable, "
fatally shot.
SHIP BURNED.
On GALVESTON, April 4.-The ship Lancas.
'er burned to the waters edge with 1900 bales
to cotton.
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~, Railroad Superintendent Change